This is a mafia, this health care, what the fuck is that? For profit health care?
While millennial and Gen Z workers consistently rank work-life balance as their No. 1 priority, Iñaki Ereño, the chief executive of one of the world’s largest health care companies, says if you’re obsessing over balance, your problem isn’t the hours. It’s the job.
Bupa’s CEO says if you’re obsessing over work-life balance, your problem isn’t the hours—it’s the job. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Barack Obama agree.
May Fucking Day.
On May 1, 1886, a movement was born that changed the lives of working people forever.
Across the country, unions organized massive strikes demanding a basic and just principle: an eight-hour workday. Before then, it was common for workers, including children, to labor 10, 12, or even 16 hours a day in unsafe conditions for little pay.
The sacrifices made by those brave workers laid the foundation for many of the rights we have today — including the standard 8-hour workday and the right to overtime pay (“time and a half”) for working beyond 8 hours in a day.
Their courage reminds us that every workplace protection we enjoy was fought for, not given.
As Union members, we honor their legacy by continuing to stand together for fair wages, safe working conditions, and respect on the job.
Solidarity is timeless. The fight for dignity at work continues.
These fucking people, all of them, should be shot.
Palantir’s Manifesto Promises a Dystopian Future
The tech company’s CEO Alex Karp delivers a self-serving broadside that’s steeped in oligarchic hubris and authoritarian nihilism.
Once upon a time, we lived in a society where the innermost thoughts of the one percent were largely confined to their own brains and the inner circles of their social and professional relationships. Then came the Internet, which gave anyone with a wireless connection or a smartphone the ability to broadcast their good and bad ideas to millions of people at once. Among the most aggressive adopters: Silicon Valley billionaires. When Marc Andressen wrote a 5,000-plus-word post titled “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto” in 2023, it went viral, and became something of a template for kindred grandiose edicts from various CEOs and founders in the tech industry. At the time, I wrote that Andreessen’s manifesto had the pathos of the Unabomber manifesto but lacked its ideological coherence. Now another sort of manifesto has been produced by Palantir CEO Alex Karp in the form of a summary on X of his book, The Technological Republic. It shares the same intellectual lapses endemic to the genre Andreessen helped launch, but it’s bleaker, more antidemocratic, and nihilistic in its worldview.
And so, millionaire and dirty Kennedy addict sails off into his own dystopian world: RFK Jr. draws backlash for ripping Medicaid programs that pay people to care for relatives
Advocates for disabled people and those who care for them said they were insulted by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s allegations that the programs are “rife with fraud.”
THEY — TRUMP LLC, 319 Jewish Billionaires and the other 2,900 “other” billionaires, ALL NEED TO BE SHOT, these politocs and dirty LLC POTUS chumpbs.
“That’s insulting,” said Kim Musheno, senior director of Medicaid policy at The Arc of the United States, a national disability rights organization. “It’s insulting to the families, and it’s insulting to the work that direct support professionals do for people.”
That work, advocates say, is far more complex than shuttling loved ones to doctor appointments.
For many families, it involves constant, hands-on care for relatives who are unable to live independently — from managing medications and medical equipment to providing continuous supervision for those with significant physical or behavioral needs. The work can be physically and emotionally demanding, advocates say.
Demons, man, at will work, scum, worthless, throwaways.
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to thousands of longtime US employees
Microsoft is offering one-time buyouts to long-serving employees in the US, according to an email obtained by Business Insider.
The move could affect up to 7% of its US workforce of 125,000 people, or about 8,750 people, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The tech giant says it’ll provide buyouts to people who want to retire and whose years of service, plus their age, add up to 70 or more. For example, a 58-year-old who has worked 12 years at Microsoft would qualify.
The buyouts allow the company to trim its workforce without needing to conduct high-profile layoffs. Microsoft has undergone several rounds of layoffs in recent years.
The screwing of us working people is on all fucking levels:
The I-Team continues to get reactions to our ongoing investigation into former chancellor Terrence Cheng. Now professors are calling out what they say is a stark contrast to their own pay structure.
Terrence Cheng is a special advisor to the board of regents. The I-Team has uncovered he isn’t attending board meetings, and in the month of December he sent 48 emails.
For 26 years, Ruth MacDonald has been a professor at Charter Oak State College. The college started as an online school to help adults finish degrees, but it has grown into a standalone college. By design, sometimes there is only one student in a class.
“You wouldn’t want to stand in their way because they need one course and there’s only one student. We want them to graduate and go on to be successful in Connecticut,” said MacDonald.
Right now, if a professor teaches a class with only one student, for the entire course the professor is paid $596. The union that represents the professors argues that when you calculate the time it takes to prep and teach the class, professors end up getting paid less than minimum wage.
“The problem is we’ve had two raises in the last 18 years,” said MacDonald.
The union is currently trying to negotiate a new contract with the CSCU Board of Regents. It’s the same Board of Regents paying former chancellor Terrence Cheng more than $400,000 a year to be a special advisor to the board. The I-Team uncovered that for the month of December Cheng sent 48 emails, and 40% of those emails were him reaching out about finding a new teaching position.
The I-Team asked MacDonald how many emails she sends in a month.
“While I’m teaching, I’m probably doing, let’s do this by the week, because that’s really how we conceptualize teaching. It’s sort of by the week. I’m doing 20 or 30, and that’s if I’m only teaching one course.”
That would be two to three times the number of emails Cheng sent, getting paid as low as $596 dollars. MacDonald thinks Cheng’s salary of more than $400,000 shows there is room to negotiate.
“Certainly, it suggests that there is money in the system to put towards Charter Oak faculty and to value the kind of work that we do,” said MacDonald.
FREE FUCKING SPEECH? Not in fascist AmeriKKKa, even at the so-called white man’s house, correspondents bash… read below….
The American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington, DC, chapter sued the National Park Service on April 23, alleging that the agency violated the First Amendment by threatening to revoke a protest permit over signs critical of President Donald Trump.
The ACLU is representing Accountability NOW USA, a group described in the federal lawsuit as an “unincorporated association that demands accountability for the Trump administration’s efforts to undermine the United States Constitution.”
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Kevin Griess, the superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, are listed as defendants in the complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Accountability NOW USA maintains an ongoing demonstration against the Trump administration on public property in Washington, DC. In response to an NPR report in February that the Justice Department withheld from the Epstein files certain records related to Trump and sexual misconduct, the group began displaying signs referencing the alleged actions, according to the complaint.
Racist as it always has been: Florida, NFL, Trump LLC..
The NFL draft may dominate sports headlines this week, but another matter has the league ready to play defense: Florida’s move to pressure the league’s minority hiring practices in an attempt to get its “Rooney Rule” sacked.
State Attorney General James Uthmeier gave NFL officials until May 1 to repeal policies meant to bolster opportunities for minority coaches and top executives in the league, threatening a civil rights lawsuit if they don’t. With time ticking down, it doesn’t appear the NFL has officially responded yet to Florida’s warning, meaning the Rooney Rule will likely remain enforced beyond the deadline.
“I told them that they could get back to me by May 1,” Uthmeier said Tuesday at an event in Tampa. “I don’t think it’s May 1 yet, so we’ll see what they say.”
A civil rights lawsuit, as Uthmeier is threatening, would mount an unprecedented challenge for the NFL, enmeshing the nation’s most popular sports league in a new legal battle that advances Florida’s fight against “woke” policies. The efforts by Uthmeier, who is endorsed by President Donald Trump, align with a White House effort to boost scrutiny of programs they classify as diversity, equity and inclusion, making now a prime time to pursue changes to the Rooney Rule.
The NFL is currently embroiled in a Rooney Rule lawsuit brought by top coordinator and former head coach Brian Flores, who is Black and suing the NFL for alleged racial discrimination, claiming, among other things, that teams are conducting “sham” interviews to comply. But Florida’s move would go a different route by attempting to leverage a state law and spur the NFL into making a major policy change.
Animal Farm is a classic hand-drawn animated film that was the first feature-length animation ever made in Britain.
Historical Context: It is famous for being partially funded by the CIA as anti-communist propaganda during the Cold War.
Key Feature: To better serve its propaganda purpose, the film’s ending was changed from the book’s bleak conclusion to a more hopeful animal counter-revolution.
Epstein Country a la Charlotte’s Web and Animal Farm
Hundreds trying to storm Wisconsin beagle research facility met with rubber bullets, pepper spray
Ben-Hur (1925): Reportedly resulted in the deaths of approximately 100 horses during the filming of its climactic chariot race.
The 1959 epic Ben-Hur is one of the biggest films in Hollywood history, so it makes sense that it has generated its share of outsized urban legends: A stuntman’s actual death can be seen in the film; a red Ferrari zooms through one frame of the chariot race; a screenwriter added a gay romance without star Charlton Heston’s knowledge. Of those rumors, only the last appears to be true (read more about it here). But none of these legends are as crazy as what actually happened on the set of the original Ben-Hur, a wildly expensive and unsafe 1925 production that killed at least one cast member and more than a hundred horses. In the end, the studio didn’t care because the adaptation of the 1880 Lew Wallace novel about ancient Rome was a hit. With the third Ben-Hur feature film opening in theaters today (that’s not counting the one-reel short from 1907), let’s look back at the mind-boggling events that made the first one possible.
Under replacement director Fred Niblo, filming resumed in Rome, which had been under the control of Mussolini’s National Fascist Party for about a year. Political tensions leaked onto the set during the filming of the first big action sequence, a sea fight between a Roman war galley and a pirate ship (both life-sized, seaworthy boats built especially to be destroyed for the film.) The casting director hired dozens of Italian peasants to play the ships’ crews, and decided to add some realism to the conflict by placing the fascist extras in one crew and the anti-fascist extras in another. Niblo intervened, which is when he discovered that the ships were equipped with real, sharpened swords. The weapons were removed from set before anyone could be stabbed.
Nevertheless, things got gory. At the climax of the scene, the Roman ship was supposed to catch fire. While Niblo was shooting the effect, a wind fanned the flames and caused the fire to spread rapidly. The extras began leaping overboard. Some were wearing heavy armor; many couldn’t swim. Francis X. Bushman, one of the film’s stars, said that he pleaded with the director to help the drowning men, to which Niblo replied, “I can’t help it! Those ships cost me $40,000 apiece.” Three extras were recorded as missing after the scene was filmed. Some production members claim that either two or three men re-appeared days later, having been rescued by a fishing boat; others are certain they drowned. In Brownlow’s chilling words, “Opinions differ as to the casualty rate.”
Which brings us to the chariot race. Filming for the big action sequence — the centerpiece of all Ben-Hur adaptations — began in Italy on a custom-built Coliseum set, under the guidance of second-unit director B. Reeves Eason. The set looked real, but the surface of the track hadn’t been adequately prepared to handle horses and chariots. After a few laps, ruts formed in the ground, with deadly consequences. “During one take, we went around the curve and the wheel broke on the other fellow’s chariot,” said Bushman, who played Ben-Hur’s rival charioteer Messala. “The hub hit the ground and the guy shot up in the air about 30 feet. … It was like a slow-motion film. He fell on a pile of lumber and died of internal injuries.”
Dozens of horses were also killed, either during chariot crashes (one of which nearly took out the film’s leading man, Ramon Novarro) or because Eason ordered them to be shot. “They never had a vet attend any horse,” Bushman told Brownlow. “The moment it limped, they shot it.” The equine death toll was estimated at about a hundred.
Thugs, ICE et al ACAB . . . . The Department of Homeland Security is quietly rolling back some of its controversial immigration enforcement policies, according to two senior DHS officials and two immigration attorneys who have seen the changes firsthand.
Dirty, dirty Americans. They even pay for fucking tours of this mercenary camp:
To create a just and sustainable food system, our elected officials must prioritize:
An immediate, national ban on new factory farms and on the expansion of existing ones, with research and funding to help current factory farm operators transition to smaller, more sustainable crop and/or livestock systems;
Investment to expand local and regional food markets and to build the infrastructure needed to help farmers bring their products to market;
Reestablishing supply management controls, including the national grain reserve and price floors;
Expanding crop insurance and other subsidies to cover more crops that directly feed people;
Closing loopholes — like guaranteed loans and conservation payments — that allow factory farms to hijack public funds;
Enforcing Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act regulations with respect to livestock operations;
Enforcing antitrust legislation with respect to agribusinesses; and
Rejecting false solutions like factory farm gas (greenwashed as biogas).
Ending factory farms will shift our food economy to embrace more regional, diverse food choices. Consumers who choose to eat meat can embrace a “less-is-better” approach, choosing high-quality meat, dairy, and eggs from local producers — a win-win-win for consumers, farmers, and the planet. However, we cannot shop our way out of this problem. We need to vote for candidates who share this vision of a more just and sustainable food system — and who are willing to take on the agribusiness giants that are only out to promote their corporate interests.
FACTORY NEWS (sic) FARMS:
If someone you knew kept threatening you and your friends with torture and rape in jail – and if that someone kept doing it with a grin – would you invite them to a dinner party?
You wouldn’t. Some lines need to be drawn in the sand.
And yet we are now years into Donald Trump making precisely that threat, over and over, at political journalists who piss him off, and now he has the power of the federal government to help him try to do it.
“We’re going to go to the media company… and we’re going to say, ‘National security. Give it up or go to jail,’” the president said this month.
Trump has adopted the idea of imprisoning journalists so they get raped as an applause line – musing that once a reporter “learns he’s going to be married to a certain prisoner who’s extremely strong, tough, and mean, he will say, ‘You know, I think I’m going to give you the information.’”
And yet, for some reason, a large number of journalists have dry-cleaned their cocktail attire so that they may attend a glitzy dinner party starring Mr. Trump in Washington, DC, this weekend.
Of note: Even without Trump’s attendance last year, headliner Amber Ruffin’s appearance was canceled due to comments she made about the president.
Wolf stunned the black-tie crowd with a barrage of harsh barbs at White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Vice President Mike Pence, the mainstream media, and many others.
“I wouldn’t change a single word that I said. I’m very happy with what I said, and I’m glad I stuck to my guns,” she told NPR’s “Fresh Air.”
“I knew what I was doing going in. I wanted to do something different. I didn’t want to cater to the room. I wanted to cater to the outside audience, and not betray my brand of comedy.”
The harshest criticism came over her wisecracks about Sanders.
Wolf talked about her “smokey eye” look and compared her to “Aunt Lydia”– the homely taskmaster from the dystopian novel-turned-TV show “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
“I think one of the things about being a comic is getting to actually, as a woman, I have access to hit women in a way that men might not be able to hit them with jokes,” Wolf said.
Ahh, fucking Saudi headchoppers giving/not giving money to the Jew York Met Opera?
Met Opera’s Multimillion-Dollar Deal With Saudis Falls Through
The arrangement would have brought up to $200 million to the Metropolitan Opera, which has suffered a series of financial setbacks.
Jared Kushner has been involved in ‘negotiations’ with Iran. Here is a photo of Jared Kushner, Josh Kushner, Michael Bloomberg and Ghislaine Maxwell hanging out together.
I’ll just leave this here.
Oh, fuck Japan: The Empire of Japan is estimated to have killed between 20 and 30 million civilians and prisoners of war in Asia from 1937 to 1945. That is more than twice as many people as in the Holocaust. Yet while Nazi crimes are condemned worldwide, Japan’s mass atrocities to this day are scarcely addressed in the West—neither legally nor socially.
‘I carry with me a photo of a Muslim child who,during the visit to Lebanon,was waiting there with a sign saying ‘Welcome Pope Leo’ He has been killed in this final phase of the war. There are many human situations and I think we must be able to think in these terms’
So the millionaire says he has eight homes, owns an electric service company, and tells the lumber yard kid that he just spent $6000.00 to fly out to get a special dog. Tells me about all his snowboarding trips. Tells me his wife is a nurse. Tells me he leans right and wants to protect his inheritance for his offspring. Tells me Oregon is the worst place to be a business owner. Tells me he’s hoping a new right-wing, Republican governor gets in. Tells me he and his wife go scuba diving all the time. Tells the lumber yard young man all of his big bucks, big ticket items, and trips.
The guy in the lumberyard was wondering where I was — 30 minutes this big shot was with me yakking. “Oh, now I see. You were talking to HIM. Every time he comes here, he has to tell us his big trips, all these adventures and hunting trips, skiing and snowboarding shit his family does. Yep, every time he comes to the yard, it’s a half hour of this guy talking.”
Now, Maynard from South Dakota is on the spectrum, but never diagnosed. He is smart, articulate, works from 8 am to 8 pm trying to get funds. And, of course, the charity he works for, now that I did my little search, is, well, called the worst charity i the USA:
Autism Spectrum Disorder Foundation ranks as one of the worst charities in the United States after it was discovered they only spent 10 percent of their funds to actually help the cause, according to an investigative report.
The Tampa Bay Times and the Center for Investigative Reporting are reporting that the charity, which says it aims to educate the public about autism and provide financial assistance for those with the disease- is now the worst charity in terms of putting their funds towards their stated goal.
According to the report, IRS tax documents show that over the past three years, the charity raised $7.6 million through its solicitors. Over 90 percent of the funds were used for for-profit solicitation companies hired by the charity.
The charity- which also goes by the Autism Awareness Program and Autistic Children of America- writes on their website that the “funds donated to ASDF will be used to address any and all kinds of issues in assisting children with autism and their families.”
The new totals provide a shameful look into the Schererville, Indiana-based charity’s operations.
According to their 2009 to 2011 IRS 990 filings, the charity raised a total of $7.8million.
The Times and CIR asked the charity for samples of fundraising material that includes educational messages. Charity officials did not provide examples, and Slutsky said the charity is trying to reduce its fundraising costs.
The report by the St. Louis Better Business Bureau found ties between Autism Spectrum and two other charities that rely heavily on professional solicitors: Veterans Relief Network of Dyer, Ind., and National Cancer Assistance Foundation of Sarasota, Fla.
Mission
Founded in 2007, ASDF helps meet the needs of children and families affected by autism. The cost of services, treatment and care for a child affected by autism take a heavy toll on a family’s budget. Families make great sacrifices and often compromise and prioritize basic family needs to provide their children with the therapies, schooling and medical treatment necessary to improve their quality of life. There are an abundance of resources on autism trends, treatments and research available, but the financial burdens autism families face tend to get overlooked. ASDF works with families and autism-specific organizations to take some of the financial burden off their shoulders. By providing funding for various programs that benefit an autistic child’s specific needs, ASDF lets families know they are not alone in their efforts and gives them hope for the future.
Vision
To support children and families affected by autism by providing autism awareness information where ASDF has distributed 5 million autism awareness bookmarks to new parents in hospitals in all fifty states. ASDF also provides direct support to children and families via direct funding for the Autism Services Scholarship Program, iPad’s for Kids Program, and/or the Holiday Gift Card program.
Goals
1.Autism Awareness Project – These ASDF bookmarks help to identify children at risk for an autism spectrum disorder and assist in empowering families to get an early diagnosis.
2.The iPad For Kids Program revolutionized and unlocked the communication barrier for children on the spectrum. The iPad gives a voice to the voiceless.
3.Holiday Gift Card Program – ASDF partners with autism organizations across the country to provide funds to the families on the spectrum who have the greatest need for financial assistance.
What is #AsdfActivism?
It’s a simple, powerful way to make an impact. All month long, supporters of the Autism Spectrum Disorder Foundation (ASDF) use their social platforms to share positive, respectful posts that promote inclusion, accurate understanding of autism, and listening to autistic people directly.
Every post helps shift the conversation toward compassion and empowerment.
Every Tuesday, ASDF will send you a new weekly challenge and other fresh, bold and fun ways to accept the challenge to raise autism awareness this month. Pick one. Take photos. Tag. Post. You got this!
How to Join the Challenge
Starting April 1, post on your favorite social platforms as often as you’d like – daily, weekly, or whenever you’re inspired. You can use your own photos, or the ASDF “I joined the challenge badge”.
Main hashtag:
#AsdfActivism
Additional tags:
#Neurodiversity
#AutismAcceptance
#ListeningNotLabeling
#AutismAwarenessMonth
So, I will get Mason on my radio show, not to talk about his charity gig with another person outside the grocery store, but about being raised in South Dakota and his quite informed self talking to me. What is it like to be in 2026 America just starting out as an adult?
He saw my keffiyeh and yelled out to me. I was snarky, told him, “Well, you don’t need to thank me for wearing it. This is a reminder to myself that I am walking in the dirtiest big country in the world. Killing every single fucking day.”
I did see the ASDF table set up, so I went over and had another 30-minute conversation. It seems like a magazine subscription deal, you know, door-to-door, telling people the subscriptions will help them get a scholarship to a university.
A scam? Well, they pay the solicitors, so it’s a paycheck, man, not some fucking dude with a $127,000 picup truck:
The 2026 or 2025 Ford F-150 Raptor R is one of the most expensive and high-performance pickup trucks available, often retailing well over $110,000, particularly in Rapid Red Metallic or Ruby Red. This supercharged V8 truck is designed for high-speed off-roading, with 37-inch tires, aggressive styling, and optional specialized red paint.
Blue-collar millionaires dropping like MAGGOT flies a la MAGA? RIght! They’ll e voting these two fucking freaks in:
Those blue-collar millionaires will run you over with their cattle-guard outfitted 110,000 dollar trucks, seeing this: Columbus.
As of April 2026, the following states have passed legislation that provides specific legal shields for drivers:
Oklahoma: Grants both civil and criminal immunity to motorists who unintentionally injure or kill someone while “fleeing from a riot”. The law requires that the driver feel in imminent danger of death or serious bodily harm.
Iowa: Provides civil immunity to drivers who injure protesters blocking traffic, provided the driver is exercising “due care”.
Florida: Includes provisions in its 2021 “anti-riot” law that offer an affirmative defense in civil lawsuits for drivers who injure protesters while fleeing a riot, though it does not explicitly grant immunity from criminal charges.
States with Recently Proposed or Pending Legislation
Other states have introduced bills to similar effect, though their status as law can vary by legislative session:
Alabama: Proposed legislation (HB411) seeks to establish an affirmative defense against civil actions for injury or death resulting from a motorist hitting someone obstructing traffic.
Louisiana: Has considered legislation to provide civil immunity for drivers who injure people blocking roadways.
Tennessee, Texas, and North Carolina: Lawmakers in these states have previously introduced bills to protect drivers from liability, though many of these focused on increased penalties for protesters rather than broad driver immunity.
THESE are Tucker Carlson’s and Charlie Kirk’s and Trump’s blue collar people:
Oh yeah, that millionaire snowboarding dude with eight houses, sure: Will defend the republicans til their cold, dead hands are locked and loaded.
Forget about talking trash about Is-RAW-HELL. From Gilad Atzmon, quoting him, and I got banned over at another Substack for, well, quoting the former Jew and IDF who was born in Israel:
Aletheia vs. Emet and the Jerusalemisation of the American Sphere
The fact that Trump is a pathological liar is well established. What is most fascinating about his pathology is that this abnormal human behaviour is a carbon copy of the Jerusalemite path in general and Dershowitz’s pathology in particular.
As some of you may remember, Epstein’s pal Chomsky referred to Dershowitz as a ‘remarkable liar’. What is remarkable about Dershowitz is the shamelessness, the total lack of human dignity. Trump is contaminated with the exact same disease. It is that shamelessness while lying compulsively. What we see in Trump is total removal from the notion of truthfulness as we believe we know it.
Of course, there is a possible philosophical interpretation of this similarity between these two horrid beings. What we see in Trump is the corrosive impact of Jerusalem. It is practically the tragic Western departure from the Athenian ethos.
Let me brief you on the distinction between the Athenian and Jerusalemite in regard to the very specific perceptions of truth.
The Greek word for truth, Aletheia (ἀλήθεια), literally means “the state of not being hidden.” Truth in Ancient Greek is the aim at unconcealment or disclosure. This contrasts with the Hebrew (Judaic) concept of truth (Emet), which implies acceptance, adherence, and faithfulness.
For the Greeks, truth was primarily about revealing what is. For the Jerusalemite, truth (Emet) means obedience. For the Greek, the act of searching for truth is defined by its seeking. In Jerusalem, truth is defined by Revelation: the act of obeying a given truth. Emet as such is defined by observance and practice (of the 613 Mitzvoth).
While everything precious about the West originates in Athens—the truth-seeking and the method of seeking this truth (philosophy, science, art, ethics etc.), everything disastrous about the West and the way it is spiralling down has a lot to do with Jerusalem and its notion of Emet. For Emet is not subject to verification or substantiation. Political correctness, for instance, is, of course, an exemplary case of Emet: it is that thing which you are demanded to observe blindly, it is politics that cannot be questioned. The Holocaust and the laws that protect it constitute another kind of ‘Emet.’ Emet is defined by blind observance. The fantasy stories about 7 October: the ‘400 beheaded babies’, and ‘Hamas rape’ are classic Emet; they demand obedience, they deny verification.
When Trump spreads astonishing lies that are literally counterfactual, he is practically following the Jerusalemite core tradition.
Trump is, in this respect, the first American Jewish President. And unless removed soon, he may as well be the last one.
Yeah, those former MAGA muts turning away, where oh where will they go? VD Vance? Rubio? Hegseth for VP?
Genocide survivors in the Gaza Strip are not only evading bombs and sniper fire — which have not stopped despite a supposed ceasefire since last October — but also fighting many other battles. The utter devastation wrought by the Israelis has obliterated the besieged enclave’s sewage infrastructure and left thousands of bodies rotting under the rubble of destroyed homes, creating a haven for a rodent infestation.
The survivors, who still do not get sufficient food and fuel due to the tight siege the Israelis have maintained on what enters the enclave, are left fending for themselves against aggressive rats that bite children and the elderly, spoil their food, and ruin their belongings.
Aggressive rats
Samah al-Dabla, dwelling in a makeshift tent beside a mountain of rubble with her two children — three-year-old Mayaseen and four-year-old Asaad — tries her best every day to keep her tent clean to discourage rat infestation. But her efforts fail.
“A week ago, she was woken up in the middle of the night by Mayaseen screaming, ‘Thief, thief,’” Al Jazeera reported. “At first, Samah did not understand what was happening, but when she picked up her daughter, she noticed blood on her hand.”
“Her father turned on a flashlight, and we saw the rat running inside the tent … it was very large, like a rabbit.”
Although Mayaseen received treatment at Al-Shifa Hospital, she remains terrified. “She has become very afraid,” Samah told Al Jazeera. “Every night she wants to sleep in my arms. She wakes up terrified, afraid of hearing the sounds of rats near us.”
Samah, who herself fears a repeat of the incidents, told the outlet that the rats have become aggressive as they “have become used to eating human bodies under the rubble.” More than 10,000 bodies are believed to have been buried under the rubble since the start of the genocide. Due to the Israelis preventing the entry of heavy machinery and specialised equipment into Gaza, municipal workers have been forced to work with their bare hands and primitive tools to retrieve bodies rotting under tonnes of rubble. Many such bodies have been devoured by dogs, rats, and other creatures.
“The situation is very frightening … rats and mice are everywhere,” Samah told Al Jazeera, pointing to a pile of rubble in front of her filled with holes that the rodents use as shelters. “Every day, when evening comes, I feel terror because the rats spread in a horrifying way,” she added.
“Yesterday, I returned to my tent at night and found them all over that hill … a terrifying scene no human can imagine.”
Rats?
Yes, Judge Mindy S. Glazer is of Jewish descent. She has been recognized in Miami for her active participation in local Jewish community groups.
A Florida college student is behind bars and facing up to 15 years in prison after a joke about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a private WhatsApp group led to her arrest on charges of making written threats to kill or do bodily harm.
Gabriela Saldana, a 23-year-old student at Florida International University, was taken into custody on April 17. The case stems from messages she sent in a 215-member class group chat where students were discussing an upcoming capstone presentation at the university’s Ocean Bank Convocation Center.
According to screenshots obtained by local media, Saldana, who indicated she wanted the event postponed, wrote: “Netanyahu, if you can hear me, drop some bonbons for us Capstone students in Ocean Bank Convocation Center.” Authorities allege “bonbons” was a coded reference to bombs. A second message read, “There is going to be a bomb in the Ocean Bank convocation center, and it was going to be Jonathan’s fault.”
After classmates did not take the messages as jokes, Saldana clarified in the chat, calling the remarks “a dumb joke that should not have been made.” The university, however, deemed the statements a credible threat of violence to an “objective person.”
Judge Mindy Glazer agreed there was enough for probable cause. “I’m not saying it’s enough for beyond a reasonable doubt,” Glazer said, noting the higher standard required at trial. “But for purposes of this hearing, I believe there is enough for probable cause.” Bail was set at $5,000.
Yeah, blue collar millionaire snowboarders hate the USPS and hate Medicaid and hate all those entitlements. No word on the red white and blue wars.
That two-party system:
Yeah, those blue-collar millionaires:
YEAH………………
A real fucking blue collar, on Trump, as in bent over so he can take a blue dildo up the ass while the blue penis ring swells?
This large U.S. study of over 6 million pregnancies found that commonly prescribed medications that interfere with cholesterol synthesis during pregnancy were associated with a roughly 47 percent increased risk of autism in offspring.
Roughly 11 percent of pregnant women were prescribed at least one of these drugs found to be linked to Autism.
Autism was diagnosed in 3.8 percent of children overall
That rate rose to about 5 percent in exposed pregnancies
Use of these medications increased from 4.6 percent of pregnancies in 2014 to 16.8 percent in 2023
And importantly, this is not a niche exposure.
The drugs involved are among the most commonly prescribed in medicine:
Roughly 11 percent of pregnant women were prescribed at least one of these drugs. Different purposes. Different specialties. Same underlying biochemical effect. They interfere with cholesterol synthesis.
And so the insanity grows:
A new memo at Texas Tech University establishes a sweeping and draconian censorship policy toward LGBTQ+ people, creating a campus equivalent of “Don’t Say Gay” in one of the most extreme anti-speech policies ever imposed at a public university. The memo bars professors from discussing LGBTQ+ topics in core and lower-level courses and eliminates entire fields of study across the five-university system. It even requires that if an industry-standard textbook includes content on sexual orientation or gender identity, instructors must skip over it and avoid discussion around it. Most troubling, however, is that the censorship regime extends beyond professors to students themselves: the memo states that “no degree-culminating student research within the TTU System will be permitted to center on SOGI topics,” a total ban on LGBTQ+ mentions in dissertations or graduate thesis work.
[these fuckers need to be shot like rapid dogs on a dirty street….]
The memorandum, which was issued by Chancellor Brandon Creighton—a former Republican state senator who authored Texas’s ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at public universities and a campus protest restriction law that a federal judge blocked as unconstitutional—went out to the presidents of all five universities in the Texas Tech University System this month. The system serves approximately …
64,000 students across Texas Tech University, Angelo State University, Midwestern State University, and two Health Sciences Centers.
Under the new policy, all majors, minors, certificates, and graduate degrees “centered on” sexual orientation or gender identity will be eliminated. Provosts at each university must identify every affected program and submit finalized lists to the chancellor’s office by June 15, 2026, at which point an immediate admissions freeze will take effect—no new students will be allowed to enroll in or declare any of the targeted programs. Currently enrolled students will be allowed to finish their degrees through a teach-out process, but once the last of them graduates, the fields will cease to exist at Texas Tech entirely.
The implications are profound—and at times border on absurd. In core and lower-level courses, there are no exceptions at all. A history professor course could not allocate instructional time to the Stonewall riots or the gay rights movement. If a U.S. history textbook includes a chapter on the AIDS crisis, the professor must skip it. An English professor assigning Oscar Wilde cannot lead a discussion of the trial and imprisonment that defined his later work and legacy. A professor teaching Virginia Woolf’s Orlando—a novel whose entire premise is gender fluidity—would appear to be in direct violation of the policy. A core literature class reading Walt Whitman’s “Calamus” poems could not explore their homoerotic themes. Sappho—the ancient Greek poet from whom the word “lesbian” derives—could not be taught with any meaningful analysis of her work’s content. A professor teaching Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night or As You Like It could not discuss the cross-dressing that is central to the plot, nor the long theatrical tradition of male actors performing female roles—because analyzing gender performance in Shakespeare would constitute allocating “instructional time” to gender identity themes. A political science class could not examine the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges as anything other than a passing reference. A psychology professor in a core course could not discuss why homosexuality was removed from the DSM. Even a music appreciation course discussing Tchaikovsky or Freddie Mercury would need to avoid any sustained discussion of how their identities shaped their art.
Yeah, I think I am done with this fucking Substack. The pain grows as the cancer in this country morphs into our guts! Well, then we have the InBred UnUnited Queendumb and Netflix, soon to be streaming! More shit Holly-Dirt feces.
Forget about greenwashing. Google and a plethora of fascist companies are Green Porn beyond all pornography, a la War Porn:
Google has a significant, long-term presence in Israel, including R&D centers in Tel Aviv and Haifa and a “Campus Tel Aviv” for startups. It is deeply involved in a $1.2 billion “Project Nimbus” contract, providing cloud and AI services to the Israeli government and military, which has sparked employee protests and controversy
RIVERS OF EARTH DAY SHIT:
Israel has yet again carried out a targeted assassination of a journalist reporting on it’s war crimes, this time by targeting and killing journalist Amal Khalil, who worked for Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar and was at the forefront of covering the Israeli ethnic cleansing campaign in Southern Lebanon.
Not on Google today, just more green porn a la Google. In response to her killing, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said, “Israel’s targeting of media professionals in the South while they are performing their professional duties can no longer be viewed as a series of isolated incidents. Rather, it has become a proven pattern – one that we condemn and reject, just as it is condemned and rejected by all international laws and norms,” and Lebanon’s Press Club called the murder part of Israel’s “deliberate campaign targeting journalists and media workers”.
Here it is. Every fucking one of them should be, well, blown up like the dirty Jews did to the civilians throughout Palestine, including that King David Hotel and now, USS Liberty. g
Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders
Blow it up, this terrorist organization, Google.
Based on the documents and descriptions of the contract by Israeli officials, the investigation reveals how the companies bowed to a series of stringent and unorthodox “controls” contained within the 2021 deal, known as Project Nimbus. Both Google and Amazon’s cloud businesses have denied evading any legal obligations.
The strict controls include measures that prohibit the US companies from restricting how an array of Israeli government agencies, security services and military units use their cloud services. According to the deal’s terms, the companies cannot suspend or withdraw Israel’s access to its technology, even if it’s found to have violated their terms of service.
Israeli officials inserted the controls to counter a series of anticipated threats. They feared Google or Amazon might bow to employee or shareholder pressure and withdraw Israel’s access to its products and services if linked to human rights abuses in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Employment: Hundreds of former Unit 8200 agents hold positions at Google and other major tech firms. As of 2022, LinkedIn records showed over 99 former unit members working at Google, including senior leaders like the Head of Strategy and Operations.
“The Ivy League of Cyber”: Unit 8200 is often described as a top-tier training ground for tech entrepreneurs; nearly 50% of Israeli founders of companies acquired for over $100 million in the last decade are alumni of the unit.
Controversies and Concerns
Project Nimbus: Google (alongside Amazon) holds a $1.2 billion contract to provide cloud and AI services to the Israeli government and military. This has led to internal protests by Google employees under the No Tech for Apartheid campaign.
Ethical Scrutiny: Human rights groups and some employees have raised concerns that technologies developed by former intelligence officers could be used for mass surveillance or military operations.
Data Security: Critics have questioned whether having former foreign intelligence personnel in charge of global cloud infrastructure creates potential risks for user data privacy.
KARP? Jewish and Israel One-Two Punc.
JEWS:
Background: Raised in a Jewish family, Warsh was educated at Stanford University and Harvard Law School.
Family & Community: He is married to Jane Lauder, and his father-in-law is Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress.
Career: He served on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (2006–2011) and was nominated to lead the Fed in 2026
At a Senate hearing, Trump’s pick for Federal Reserve chair, Kevin Warsh, was asked a very direct question:
Do you have investments tied to Jeffrey Epstein or President Trump?
He refused to answer.
Not “no.”
Not “absolutely not.”
Not even a clarification.
Just: I will sell the assets if confirmed.
That is it.
This is not normal.
According to reporting, Warsh has over $100 million in undisclosed investments that have not been fully explained to the public or even to ethics officials.
When pressed, Senator Elizabeth Warren specifically asked whether those investments could include:
• Trump affiliated entities
• Money laundering vehicles
• Chinese controlled companies
• Or financial structures tied to Epstein
He still would not answer.
And this is not coming out of nowhere.
Warsh’s name (and his wife’s) has appeared in Epstein related documents before, including a Christmas Party in St. Barth’s with Maxwell and Epstein. That does not prove wrongdoing. But it does show how tightly connected elite financial and social circles can be.
Now zoom out for a second.
A man with massive undisclosed wealth…
…being considered for one of the most powerful financial roles on the planet…
…refuses to answer whether any of that wealth is tied to Epstein linked financial vehicles.
And the response is basically:
Trust me, I will deal with it later.
No different than, trust me, I’ll stop drinking when I get the job.
This is the Federal Reserve. The institution that influences interest rates, markets, housing, jobs, and the financial lives of millions of people.
And we are supposed to be comfortable with that level of opacity?
Because here is the pattern that keeps showing up:
connections surface
names appear in documents
questions get asked
answers never fully come
And somehow it always stops just short of real transparency.
At the same time, markets are swinging hard on geopolitical headlines, massive trades appear perfectly timed, and the biggest players always seem positioned ahead of major moves.
Maybe that is just how modern finance works.
Or maybe it is a system where access, information, and networks matter more than anything else.
Either way, the gap between what the public is told and what actually happens keeps getting wider.
At some point this stops feeling like coincidence,
and starts feeling like a closed system designed to benefit a select few.
It’s worth mentioning that Warsh’s father in law is Ronald Lauder, the Jewish billionaire behind Trump’s push to violently seize Greenland. Lauder is the heir to the Estee Lauder fortune.
Multiple outlets have confirmed that Ronald Lauder, billionaire heir to the Estée Lauder fortune, staunch supporter of Israel, and a longtime Trump confidant, encouraged Trump to pursue purchasing Greenland.
Ronald Lauder was born on February 26, 1944, and is a Jewish-American businessman. He is the sole heir to The Estée Lauder Companies, with a net worth of nearly $5 billion.
Lauder was elected President of the World Jewish Congress in 2007. In December of 2025 he gave a speech at the World Jewish Congress boasting about the steps his organization has taken to push governments and social media platforms to “fight antisemitism”.
Like many of those around the Trump administration, Lauder’s policy ‘suggestions’ appear to intersect directly with his business interests.
Lauder himself publicly acknowledged his real motivation behind pushing Trump to acquire Greenland:
“Beneath its ice and rock lies a treasure trove of rare-earth elements essential for AI, advanced weaponry and modern technology. As ice recedes, new maritime routes are emerging, reshaping global trade and security.”
Earth Fucking Google War Porn DAY:
Fucking JEWS:
FUCKING JEWS:
JEWISH Clean Air Act for Iran, Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon:
Jews worldwide have orgasms…. Daily, this scene is repeated over and over!
The question should never have been whether the region can accommodate it.
The question is why the region is expected to accept it at all.
Why millions of people are expected to live without peace, without stability, without the ability to build a future, because one state insists on imposing control over their land and politics.
A system built on repeated strikes, territorial incursions, and unchecked force does not produce stability. It produces continuous conflict. And where that system operates, conflict is not an exception. It is the baseline.
If Israel truly believes it cannot exist without projecting force across the region, then it cannot claim coexistence. And if it cannot coexist with its neighbours, then it cannot expect to remain among them.
In solidarity with humanity, Liz
In the skies above the Middle East, the rules of war are changing, not through missiles or tanks, but through advanced observational systems orbiting the Earth. For decades, American military dominance relied on unrivaled intelligence and orbital surveillance, a quiet monopoly that allowed the United States to see without being seen. Today, that monopoly is gradually eroding as states previously constrained by sanctions, embargoes, and technological isolation, most notably Iran, acquire near-parity capabilities through partnerships with China and Russia, challenging the foundations of unipolar power. As noted by a 2023 Financial Times investigation, Iranian military planners reportedly leveraged the Chinese-built TEE-01B satellite during regional strikes on American military infrastructure, allowing them to identify runways, parked aircraft, and critical facility layouts with unprecedented precision.
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Dying of the trees, are we next? The highly toxic fallout from the ongoing geoengineering programs is devastating forests along with the entire web of life on our once thriving world. Do you object?
All are needed in the critical battle to wake populations to what is coming, we must make every day count. Share credible data from a credible source, make your voice heard. Dane Wigington
Yep, Earth DAY!
Thousands of migrant workers have been forced to leave the industrial city of Surat, located in India’s western state of Gujarat, since March this year, following the energy crisis provoked by the US-Israeli war on Iran.
On Sunday, 19 April, reports circulated that there was a stampede-like situation at one of the railway stations in the city as thousands of the workers gathered to board trains to their hometowns located mostly in the eastern parts of the country.
Workers have stated that they have been forced to leave because they were unable to afford the rising prices of cooking gas or cannot afford to buy food from the market.
According to various reports, the price of a cooking gas cylinder, which was previously available for around 1,000 rupee (around USD 11) shot up to over 2,500 rupee (around 27 USD) or more within days in March.
Several workers have also complained about a lack of work due to Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) shortages and other reasons, as several textile and other factories have reduced work hours or completely shut down work since the beginning of the war on Iran on 28 February.
An unusually frank description of the role AI will play in the future comes from former Joint Special Operations Command chief Gen. Stanley McChrystal (ret.), who compared AI to “infant Hercules,” invoking the Greek god’s own role as a killer even in infancy.
McChrystal says:
“And like the infant Hercules who strangled two snakes sent by Hera to kill him in his crib, AI will grow to be strong — and a part of almost everything we do going forward.”
What McChrystal doesn’t mention is what happened when Hercules grew up. He spent his life carrying out killings on the orders of Eurystheus — a weak, cowardly king who hid in a jar and never had to understand anything. Hercules’s overwhelming power substituted for strategy.
In the most famous of his myths, Hercules fought the Hydra, a monster that grew two heads for every one he cut off. He was strong enough to keep swinging, but sheer power alone only multiplied the problem. He had to change his approach entirely to win. It’s a useful parable for a military that has spent two decades perfecting decapitation strikes only to watch the threats multiply.
Welcome to the era of CombatGPT. The Pentagon has since 2022 used AI in quarterly exercises for “target detection” involving personnel from all six military service branches. The computers pull together the ocean of information pieces that are collected every day — every minute — and extract the most important, according to the AI program, aggregating and geolocating the blips and dots into a potential target.
Ahh, the earth is trembling with 319 Jew Billionaires, millions of Jew millionaires, and a whole lotta rich Goy, planet and people destroyers.
Living in the United States is a daily dose of trauma. Our nation is philosophically and pragmatically built on injustice, coercion, lies, oppression, exploitation, violence, dehumanization, and planetary destruction. Do we ever stop to think about how messed up the world is? The answer, of course, is an overwhelming no. We are living in what theologian John Dominic Crossan called a domination system—shorthand for a way of organizing society in a hierarchical, patriarchal, power-driven arrangement where the masses are politically oppressed, economically exploited, and socially marginalized. This same system has an almost demonic disregard for the environment. Worse yet, the largest Christian movement in the United States (white evangelicals) can be counted on to support it all. It’s madness writ large dressed in drag as the “American Dream.” We don’t seem to realize it, but most of us are suffering from Complex PTSD simply for existing in this dirty, rotten system.
Worse, we live in a culture of lies. As today’s podcast guest, Derrick Jensen writes,
“In order for us to maintain this way of life, we must tell lies to each other and to tell lies to ourselves. Truth must be avoided at all costs.”
The truth about our economy, about our dying planet, about violence and domination at the family and cultural level; truth about the daily injustices that rule our lives in this decaying empire. Life doesn’t have to be this way. We can work together to create a more just and equitable world. We can carve out subversive spaces even if we will never be able to leave these shores for a different home. But, how do we do it? How do we speak truth to power? How do we challenge a culture that silences the least of these? How do we push back on the religious, political, economic, and social domination systems that rule our lives and malform our bodies and our planet? How do we confront evil and injustice without losing our souls? How, as Christians, can we resist the dominant culture and live into what Dr. Martin Luther King called “the beloved community?” As theologian Marcus Borg writes, “Jesus wasn’t talking about how to be good within the framework of a domination system. He was a critic of the domination system itself.”
‘Things don’t have to be the way they are.’ I think this is the most profound conversation we’ve had to date on the show. I hope you enjoy!
Dirtiest of dirty, the drone and AI cunts!
Cacique Ninawa is a prominent Indigenous leader from the Amazon rainforest, fiercely dedicated to protecting his people’s rights and the vital ecosystem they call home. As a respected voice within his community and on the global stage, he tirelessly advocates for the preservation of ancestral lands, traditional knowledge, and the biodiversity of the Amazon.
Cacique Ninawa actively campaigns against deforestation, illegal mining, and other destructive practices that threaten the rainforest and the Indigenous way of life. He works to build bridges between Indigenous communities, governments, and international organizations, striving for recognition, respect, and sustainable solutions that honor both people and planet. His unwavering commitment makes him a crucial figure in the ongoing fight to safeguard the Amazon for future generations.
The scale of the problem
Globally, building and running new data centres uses about the same amount of electricity as France or Germany.
Data centres today are responsible for at least 0.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
According to the International Energy Agency, in five years, data centres are likely to account for 1.4% of global emissions – a footprint the size of Japan.
The largest “hyperscale” data centres use 3-5m gallons of water per day – about the same daily consumption as a town of 40,000 people (a hyperscale centre would be at least 10,000 square feet, consuming 20-50 MW of power. Only the largest companies, like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google, are likely to be able to afford the costs of building at this scale).
“Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich—that is the democracy of capitalist society.”
— V. I. Lenin
Again!!!!
These are the defenders of the world?
this was during Obama…
Happy Earth Day:
The only hope for humanity—for the earth itself—is a communism which recenters the planet as the core sustaining factor of biotic existence; abolishing forever the profit logic of production enacted by a small class of world-eaters and profiteers.
Lenin showed us the way.
And we are here:
Fucking cunts, those bull fight torture collisiums: The face of pain, of suffering, and of humiliation.
Happy fucking white psychotic Earth Day: Colton Bolf, Texas sat in a blind waiting for this leopard to come and feed on bait and then killed him. Bloody coward.
Americanism:
The day we lost our land, dignity, spirituality and minerals.
~ Chief Seattle, Duwamish and Suquamish, (1786-1866)
Earth DAY: Children of the EARTH!
An Israeli shot and martyred a little girl. Her older brother is sitting beside her body.
This little girl had only gone to fetch water. Her water-fetching container can also be seen nearby.
This vile Israel was being praised with delight by Trump just two days ago. Should we trust this Trump?
EARTH DAY 2026!!!!!!!!
It wasn’t a “military strike,” but a “climatic strike”
When Iran struck the UAE’s secret cloud seeding and cloud pulling center (April 13, 2026), it wasn’t targeting just a “base.”
It was targeting the “heart” of the weather control system that was deliberately drying out Iraq and eastern Iran.
The result was a sudden and rapid climatic transformation:
· Return of rains to Iran and Iraq after years of drought.
· Drop in temperature (difference up to 5 degrees).
· Return of floods that partially saved agriculture.
· Change in wind patterns, and return of clouds to the region.
This is not a “natural change.”
This is the “exposure” of the climatic conspiracy that was being carried out in secret.
The UAE’s secret cloud-seeding and cloud-pulling center was part of a global network for weather control.
Its declared goals
· Increase rains in the UAE (for agricultural and tourism benefits).
· Reduce heat in hot regions.
But its hidden goals
· Pulling clouds from Iraq and eastern Iran toward the Gulf (UAE, Qatar, Bahrain).
· Deliberately drying up rivers and wells in Iraq and Iran.
· Destroying agriculture and livestock to cause famine and a demographic crisis.
· Weakening Iran and Iraq and making them dependent on Gulf states and America.
The mechanism was catalytic
· Spraying chemtrails (aluminum oxide, silver iodide, potassium perchlorate) in the skies over Iraq and Iran. · Directing HAARP waves toward these materials to heat the ionosphere and prevent cloud formation.
· Altering wind paths to pull moisture toward the Gulf, leaving Iran and Iraq dry.
It wasn’t “nature,” but systematic “engineering of destruction.”
When Iran destroyed the center, operations stopped abruptly.
Rains were nearly nonexistent in Iraq and eastern Iran, and now they’ve returned
Temperatures were extremely high (exceeding 50° Celsius), and today they’ve dropped by up to 5° Celsius
Floods were rare, and when they came they were sudden and destructive—now they’ve returned naturally (and saved agriculture)
Winds and humidity were dry, coming from the desert—now humid, coming from the sea
Clouds were being pulled toward the Gulf—now returning to the region
This confirms that the “drought” was not natural.
It was “manufactured”—and the Iranian strike temporarily shut down the factory.
The center wasn’t serving the UAE alone.
It was serving the “New World Order” in:
1. Drying out Iraq—to destroy its marshes (the watery paradise), displace its people, and forcibly exile them.
2. Drying out eastern Iran—to strike agriculture and livestock, and cause famine.
3. Creating a water and food crisis—to drive populations to flee, and unravel the social fabric.
4. Controlling water—as leverage against Iran and Iraq (as they do with the Nile River against Egypt).
Water is not “life,” but a “weapon” in the hands of the shadow.
The UAE and Gulf states are now trying:
· Rebuilding the center (in another secret location, perhaps in the desert).
· Transferring operations to U.S. military bases in Qatar or Bahrain.
· Using drones for spraying instead of ground stations.
Meanwhile, America and Israel are working on:
· Increasing chemtrail operations in the skies over Iran and Iraq via military aircraft.
· Intensifying HAARP waves from their bases in Alaska, Norway, and Australia.
· Developing new weather weapons that don’t require a ground center.
The Iranian strike temporarily restored balance, but the climatic war hasn’t ended.
It has entered a new, more ferocious phase.
May God protect our lands from all evil and spread peace on earth and spare the blood of the innocent everywhere
Happy Earth Day, a world of a new Jesus Pedophile, Adolph Bibi and the Minyans Destroying us ALL.
Israeli officials have boasted about fighting on “seven fronts,” but many of these are, in military terms, largely imaginary rather than sustained battlefields.
Dr. Ramzy Baroud . . .The real wars, however, are entirely of Israel’s making: from the genocide in Gaza to its unprovoked regional wars.
Israelis mostly support the wars but many no longer trust Netanyahu to translate destruction into strategic victory Dr. Ramzy Baroud
Still, that fact should not blind us to another reality: in the lead-up to the war on Iran, and in the escalation against Lebanon, there was near-total consensus among Jewish Israelis. An Israel Democracy Institute survey conducted in early March found that 93 percent of Jewish Israelis supported the joint US-Israeli attack on Iran. Support cut across all political camps.
The same enthusiasm for war accompanied the Gaza genocide and the various wars and escalations in Lebanon.
Even Yair Lapid — so often and so falsely marketed abroad as a “dove” — fully backed these wars, admitting after the Iran ceasefire that Israel had entered them with “rare consensus” and that he supported them “from the very first moment.”
His repeated criticisms, like those of other Israeli politicians, are not of the war but of Netanyahu’s failure to deliver a strategic outcome.
And this is the crucial distinction. Israelis mostly support the wars but many no longer trust Netanyahu to translate destruction into strategic victory. By mid-April, 92 percent of Jewish Israelis gave the army high marks for its management of the Iran war, but only 38 percent gave high ratings to the government.
EARTH DAY a la JEWS.
Today is Earth Day. In 2.5 years of genocide, Israel has completely destroyed the natural environment of Gaza and polluted the earth with hundreds of thousands of tonnes of carbon emissions from its bombs. In the face of Israel’s mass violence and environmental destruction, Palestinians are still tending to and stewarding the land they call home.
Palestinians in Gaza are growing gardens in their refugee camps, letting the earth sustain them as Israel continues to block food and essential supplies from entering Gaza. Palestinians in the West Bank are continuing to harvest from and tend to their land, even as Israel tries to steal it.
Israel will never sever Palestinians’ connection to their homeland.
Yeah, a hard day, $17 an hour, schlepping laundry for a vacation rental joint, you know, age 69, and fuck the two master’s degrees, fuck a couple of undergraduate ones, and, well, fuck the publishing
“The worst thing when I went into government is the sucking sound of how many people try to suck off of the U.S. government. It’s so demoralizing to watch that stuff.”
– Howard Lutnick. Secretary of Commerce
Dressed up at Arabs, these fucking terrorist Jews.
Fifty injured, 91 murdered, and 50 missing. 350 kilos of TNT and other gel explosives.
The Jew Yorker, you heard it, err, here.
Nicolás Maduro, the President of Venezuela, is reportedly being held in a New York City detention-center unit known for housing rappers and tech moguls. We have the latest on his life inside.
Leave it to the JEw Yorker call it abducted. Not kidnapped, illegally, unethically, rotten to the core fucking Trump and Rubio and the LLC.
Four months ago, Nicolás Maduro, the President of Venezuela, was abducted in the middle of the night during a U.S. raid on a military complex in Caracas and brought to New York on charges including narco-terrorism and drug trafficking. (He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.) After being booked at a local D.E.A. office, Maduro was transported to Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, a federal jail in Sunset Park. Since then, little has been revealed about Maduro’s living conditions behind bars. But, in a recent interview, the rapper and former gang member Tekashi 6ix9ine claimed to have been roommates with him. “Maduro slept, like, right across from me,” 6ix9ine told Adin Ross, a manosphere streamer.
During the interview, 6ix9ine described Maduro’s condition after being released from solitary confinement—“he smelled like shit when he first came out the box”—and said that Maduro told him details of the top-secret raid in Caracas. The rapper also posted a video, right after his release, showing off a homemade SpongeBob SquarePants figurine, made out of cardboard by a fellow-inmate, that he claimed Maduro had signed for him.
6ix9ine and Maduro were likely in 4 North, a unit in the M.D.C. Brooklyn where high-profile inmates are often held—previous residents include the rapper Sean (Diddy) Combs, the former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, and the crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried. The unit has tight quarters, with the beds clustered together dormitory-style. Meals are wheeled in, and there is a small room where detainees can work on their legal cases, according to someone who spoke often with an inmate held there. There are no pillows. The V.I.P. clientele are sequestered from the rest of the prison. “They will never encounter inmates from any other part of the facility, and officials will not put any dangerous inmates in there,” Sam Mangel, a federal prison consultant who has advised inmates in the Brooklyn M.D.C., told me.
Maduro’s case is still in preliminary stages. Mangel estimated that Maduro could be at the jail as long as another eighteen months, as his trial proceeds. Meanwhile, back in Caracas, Delcy Rodríguez, Maduro’s former Vice-President, is serving as acting President and has proved willing to work with the U.S. And, a few weeks ago, Trump publicly weighed succeeding Maduro as President himself.
“I’m polling higher than anybody has ever polled in Venezuela,” Trump said. “I will quickly learn Spanish—it won’t take too long, I’m good at language—and I will go to Venezuela, and I am going to run for President.”
Maduro, for his part, has reportedly had trouble sleeping in New York. According to the Spanish newspaper ABC, he’s been heard yelling in the night,
“Tell my country that I have been kidnapped!”
Jews put mines on the roads, man. All Jews who have lived in and done their fucking pilgrimage there, all fucking dead men and women walking. And we can’t hate them? Was Gabor Mate in Israel? Gilad Atzmon? Miko? So this Chabad Trump Jew, perfect distration for the 319 Jew Billionaires, and millions of Jew millionaires FUCKING the world over.
Gilad is the only one, ex-Jew, ex-Israeli, ex- IDF, speaking out.
Sorry, Max and Katie and Aaron, they all must be wiped out: This son of a bitch is named Ibrahim; he prefers to enlist in the genocidal Israeli army to kill even more Muslims—what’s important is that he has been eliminated by the Palestinian resistance.
Bravo!
Fucking 2026, and this is the Jew, Trump.
Jews, fuckers, JEWS.
Jews:
Fucking JEWS: Palantir wants to bring back the draft just as the Selective Service preps for automatic registration
Ask not what your country can do for you—ask if you can get drafted, says Alex Karp.
The book frames Silicon Valley’s move into military technology as the righteous repayment of a “moral debt” owed to the country that built the tech billionaire class. “The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.”
If you read past the post and dig into the book itself, you’ll find that this sentence continues: “the engineering elite must also, Karp said, participate in “the articulation of a national project—what is this country, what are our values, and for what do we stand.”
That is to say: Men like Karp should decide what this country is.
“If a US Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software,” Palantir’s Bill-Ackman-esque digression continued. It asserts that the future of American military dominance will not depend on nuclear deterrence, but on AI weaponry—possibly like the Palantir AI product that is reportedly used to help generate ‘kill lists’ for the Israeli military in Gaza.
For context, Israel has been carrying out a new Nakba in South Lebanon, with the intention of ethnically cleansing its civilian population and setting up Jewish settlements.
After forcing South Lebanon’s population to flee past the Litani River, Israel intended to create a “new northern border” in South Lebanon, as the Likud-connected journalist Amit Segal admitted.
Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said “the new Israeli border must be the Litani,” and Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said, “Israeli forces would control ‘the entire area’ from the border to the Litani River after the offensive had concluded”.
– ?30 incidents of overflights by military and reconnaissance planes, including over Beirut.
Furthermore, the Israeli media has admitted that the IDF has been given the order to fire on displaced civilians attempting to return to their homes in South Lebanon to continue the Israeli occupation.
IT’S IN THEIR FUCKING DNA.
TODAY? Zionist Crimes in Tyre, Last Hours Before Ceasefire
This is what gives most Jews hard-ons. Bodies from their bombs, bullets, missiles, napalm, and white phosphorus.
15 year old he was in the terrorist org.
Oh, Oracle in the old days:
Data, man, what the fuck do you think the Jewish Terrorists like Altman and Ackman and Ellison and Karp and Brin and Page and Dell and you name the rest, what do they want with it all? Complete global control, fucking dumb Goyim.
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and the rest of Big Tech want the public to see data centers as sleek, inevitable infrastructure that makes our lives better. What they really are is a massive corporate resource grab poised to put people out of work.
The scale of electricity they require is so extreme that utilities across the country are racing to build new generation and transmission primarily to serve them. That buildout does not stay on Big Tech’s books. It gets shifted onto the public through higher electric and water rates, new road costs, and long-term utility investments built around corporate demand.
The water toll is alarming.
Data centers require immense volumes of water for cooling, often millions of gallons a day, and companies are siting them in places already facing water stress.That means communities dealing with drought, shrinking aquifers, and climate strain are being asked to sacrifice even more so that tech giants can keep expanding server farms.
Congress is not going to move fast enough to stop this. States can, and Maine already has. Lawmakers there acted because they saw what unchecked data center growth would do to the grid, to climate goals, and to the public interest.
Take Che’s comment and put “Jew and Israel” into it:
“The United States is not the champion of freedom, but rather the perpetrator of exploitation and oppression against the peoples of the world and against a large part of its own population.”
– Che Guevara
And that Jewish Supremacy has the high definition tapes, spy camera and action camera tapes of TRUMP. Donald Trump raped a 13-year-old child. She bit his penis. He punched her in the face. The FBI found the young girl’s story to be credible. Never stop talking about this. Post about it every day. We cannot allow these white supremacists to normalize child rape.
The most wonderful people on the planet:
Look at this fucking JEW: Back in 2014, I warned my fellow plutocrats: “The pitchforks are coming.” Not because people hate wealth—but because they hate being lied to,
Nick Hanauer is a Seattle-based entrepreneur and venture capitalist born to a secular Jewish family. He is known as an outspoken advocate for reducing income inequality, notably supporting a $15 minimum wage. His family has roots in Germany, and he is a prominent progressive voice in American business.
Family Background: Hanauer was raised in a secular Jewish family that had emigrated from Europe, with some family members having been forced out of Germany by the Nazis.
Background: He is the brother of Adrian Hanauer, who is the majority owner of the Seattle Sounders FC.
Business Success: He made his fortune as an early investor in Amazon and later sold an online advertising company to Microsoft in 2007 for $6.4 billion.
Progressive Activism: He often describes himself as a “pro
In the 1990s, Hanauer was the first non-family investor in Amazon.com, serving as an advisor until 2000. He founded gear.com, which eventually merged with Overstock.com, and Avenue A Media, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2007 (under the name aQuantive) for $6.4 billion.[6] He has managed, founded, or financed over 30 companies across a broad range of industries including manufacturing, retailing, e-commerce, digital media and advertising, software, aerospace, healthcare, and finance, including Insitu Group (purchased by Boeing for $400 million) and Market Leader (purchased by Trulia in 2013 for $350 million).
In 2000, Hanauer co-formed the Seattle-based venture capital company Second Avenue Partners, which “looks to invest in promising teams and transformational ideas in a wide range of areas including the internet, consumer and social media, software, and clean energy.”[7] The company advises and funds early-stage companies such as HouseValues,[8]Qliance,[9] and Newsvine.[10]
I’m very excited to share that in this week’s episode of Pitchfork Economics, Goldy and I get to sit down with President Joe Biden. President Biden lays out the transformative middle-out economic vision at the heart of his presidency, from investing in workers and rebuilding infrastructure to empowering unions and revitalizing American industries. He also explains why a thriving middle class isn’t just good for workers—it’s the engine that drives the entire economy. This is a must-listen conversation with the leader who’s successfully broken the failed, trickle-down consensus that’s dominated Washington DC for the past forty-plus years, putting working Americans back at the center of economic policy, where they belong.
Fuck all fucking billionaires. Money for nothing, and the value of NOTHING!
Hey everyone, this is Bisan from Gaza. It’s day #no. I’m still alive…
All those tents and flags are illegal in the InBred UnUnited Queendumb.
“They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
With reference to the French revolution, it was a furore on TikTok, prompted by a model outside the MET gala recently who used the quote from the Marie Antoinette film:
Let them eat cake!
which reminded me of the article. The outrage her tasteless video prompted a movement subsequently called the “digital guillotine” as millions of regular people started to block celebrity and corporation social media accounts they were and were not following. The excess on display at the MET gala was juxtaposed next to a march in support of Palestine, hundreds of metres away and the fury at the video using the sound at the insensitivity and deafness to the suffering of people at the hands of a genocide, where internationally agreed, illegal and barbaric tactics of starving a civilian population are being used.
“The Garden of Time” by J. G. Ballard (1962) is a short story of speculative fiction. It is about an elegant couple living in a beautiful villa. They have a garden of crystal time flowers. When each flower is plucked, it deliquesces (melts) from a solid to a liquid and then disappears. When that happens, time reverses. A mob is coming towards them, and they use the flowers to hold back the mob as long as possible.
On the first Monday in May each year, the rich and famous ascend the grand steps of The Metropolitan Museum of Art to attend Vogue’s annual Met Gala, an exclusive, themed event in support of the Costume Institute’s yearly new exhibit. As guests arrived this past Monday, dressed in accordance with this year’s “gilded glamour” theme, hordes of paparazzi and passersby pressed their bodies against the metal gates and climbed the city’s lampposts to catch a glimpse of the celebrity patrons, leaving some critics disconcerted at the event’s blatant show of economic inequality. Mere hours later, Politico published a story detailing the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion voting to overturn Roe v. Wade, leaving viewers to grapple with the disturbing monetary and ideological chasm between the one percent and American citizenry.
The $35,000 ticket price and required invitation casts the Met Gala as one of the most exclusive and luxurious events of the year. Established in 1948, the gala has long been the focal point of the New York City social calendar. But only in the last decade has the event started to attract worldwide media attention, largely thanks to the decision made by Vogue’s former Editor-in-Chief Diana Vreeland to invite celebrities in the mid-70s. Compounded by the rise of social media, the event has transformed from a stiff, patrician snoozefest into the star-studded fashion show it is today.
This year’s theme, “gilded glamour,” refers to the Gilded Age of the United States. Bookended by the end of the Civil War and the turn of the 20th century, the era has been portrayed by modern media as a period of extraordinary social mobility and extravagance. However, the Gilded Age was also extremely hard on the working class, members of which endured brutal working conditions and extremely low wages while wealthy monopolists got richer and richer. Sound familiar?
As celebrities donned expensive gowns and opulent jewels on this year’s red carpet, onlookers screamed from nearby street corners, waiting with bated breath to catch sight of Kim Kardashian or Blake Lively. As innocuous as red carpet fans may seem, the fact that gala personnel were videoed handing out little pieces of red carpet into the screaming crowd might remind you of the infamous statement often attributed to Marie Antoinette, “Let them eat cake!”
The hypocrisy of the Met Gala has always presented itself to the discerning eye, though in the past few years it has become far more blatant — most memorably, at the 2021 Met Gala when Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wore a dress that read, “Tax The Rich,” in bright red letters to the event while her ticket was paid for in full. This particular incident struck up a debate over whether or not the statement was inappropriate at an event where the representative consorted with those she was targeting in her critique.
While AOC’s controversial dress was certainly not the first look to stir criticism of the Met Gala, it opened the door for a continuing conversation. This year especially, many took notice of how out of touch the event has become; as Americans coped with the reality that abortions will likely become unsafe, expensive, and inaccessible, the unimaginably wealthy partied till dawn with the assurance that their money could protect them from anything.
Given the hypocritical history of the Met Gala, combined with the obvious irony of “gilded glamour,” this year’s Met Gala succeeded only in proving how out of touch it is. Blake Lively may wave a candle of openness and freedom while dressed like the Statue of Liberty, but what does that represent other than the narcissism of the modern celebrity and the blinding reality of wealth inequality in this country?
Modern Jewish Terrorists: (L-R): Marc Benioff, Jan Koum, Michael Dell, Michael Bloomberg, Bill Ackman, Larry Ellison
Percentage of Billionaires: Reports indicate that roughly 9%–10% of the world’s billionaires (as calculated by Forbes Israel) are of Jewish heritage, despite Jewish people making up less than 0.2% of the global population.
As of March 2026, the global billionaire class hit a record high with 3,428 individuals worth a combined $20.1 trillion, driven by AI and rising markets. Elon Musk is the world’s richest person with a net worth surpassing $800 billion, largely from SpaceX and Tesla. The U.S. leads with 989 billionaires, followed by China (610) and India (229).
But it’s the fucking Eichmann Jews, i/e/ millions of Jewish Millionaires.
Egypt’s Taba airport becomes escape route for Israelis fleeing Iran war.
Hundreds queue daily at the Sinai border crossing for onward flights, as airport workers say every departure from the Red Sea town is already full. Jews, the Kosher Nostra bank robbers. Assassination of the UN mediator
IN THEIR FUCKING DNA!
And Adolph Bibi is the worst one? Come on, fucking Jews.
And this Goy bans me cuz he wants to correct the record adnasuem, that Zionists are not Jews?
Sucking sound and pitchforks and let them eat cake! And this guy is running for the Senate. Just a capitalist lite.
QUOTING:
Last week, I discussed an ignorant comment from a multi-millionaire U.S. Senator who was the former CEO of a corporation with the largest Medicare fraud fine in history. From Senator Rick Scott’s position of privilege, he opined on how “government messes up your life,” and “is always the problem.”
In that article, I said I wouldn’t normally waste my time dissecting ignorant comments coming out of Washington because that happens daily. In my defense, I didn’t think another utterly ridiculous comment would alley-oop itself so quickly. So, here we are again.
Demonstrating a total lack of self-awareness, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick—a multi-billionaire—joined the “Washington Big Money Ignorance Club” with his brilliant comments quoted above.
Just who is “sucking off the US government,” Secretary Lutnick? He doesn’t say, but I can assure you who he’s NOT accusing of abusing U.S. taxpayer money.
He’s not accusing Elon Musk, I’m sure, despite $38 billion of U.S. government funding Musk has received to build his business empire.
How about the Trump kids? “Sucking off the U.S. government” doesn’t have to be in the form of direct taxpayer money. It can just as easily mean trading on a name. Jared Kushner became a billionaire in this second Trump term through billions of dollars from countries in the Persian Gulf. The three sons’ net worth has skyrocketed through drone and crypto deals, and Donald Jr. ‘s $500,000 “Executive Branch Club” giving access to decision makers who oversee taxpayer money.
Maybe Lutnick was referring to the 88 corporations who paid zero federal income tax despite earning $105 billion in profits?
Would “sucking off the government” happen to refer to Kristi Noem and her “friend” and de facto Chief of Staff Corey Lewandowski? After all, Kristi’s close friend was the gatekeeper for large Department of Homeland Security (DHS) federal contracts paid for by taxpayers. Lewandowski is under investigation to see if he awarded DHS contracts on a “pay-to-play” scheme.
How about the billionaires who often pay significantly lower effective tax rates than average American families? While the average federal tax rate for the average taxpayer is about 14 percent, the top 400 families have paid as low as 8.2 percent. Those numbers are not recent, so under new tax cuts that help the ultra-rich more than regular taxpayers, I’d wager the disparity is even higher today.
I wonder how much Secretary Lutnick pays in taxes?
Even Secretary Lutnick himself faces allegations that he mixed his campaign position as head of Donald Trump’s transition with his Wall Street finance and crypto businesses while conducting Congressional meetings that could have benefited him financially. Would “Sucking off the government” have anything to do with his and his family’s net worth increasing from around $2-$3.3 billion in 2025 to a net worth of $7.4 billion in 2026? Pretty good for a government worker.
We all know who this multibillionaire thinks is guilty of ripping off the government. Like most other members of the D.C. Country Club, he doesn’t think billionaires and corporate titans are benefiting from U.S. government largesse. We’ve heard it all before: “We deserve the seat at the table we bought, but those ‘others’ don’t.” The folks who don’t have PAC contributions to buy access or a checkbook to buy influence.
In Lutnick’s way of thinking, the person “sucking off the government” is the farmer who participated in the USDA infrastructure program to incorporate solar into his dairy operation. The program DOGE killed.
Or, it’s the senior citizen who relies on Social Security or other federally-funded programs just to eat. It’s those seniors who are demoralizing our concerned, multi-billionaire Secretary of Commerce.
Perhaps it’s the family that participates in the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, allowing them to cut their utility bills so they can put food on the table and gas in their vehicle to get to work.
Nobody wants to see our taxpayer dollars wasted. Nobody. If elected, I will do everything in my power to go after such waste. The idiom “watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves” may be true, but it’s also true that somebody has to watch the dollars.
God forbid federal funding helps get a mother some healthcare for her kids, assistance for a college student, or food for a senior citizen. South Dakota voters understand his Washington game. They understand the reason we can’t have healthcare, education, and rural development lies with the billions going to corporations and billionaires in U.S. government handouts.
Lutnick’s kind of ignorant thinking has gone on way too long in Washington, with willing support from policymakers like my opponent, Senator Mike Rounds. I’m running for the U.S. Senate to give a perspective built by and for regular Americans.
In a roundabout way, Secretary Lutnick is right. There is too much sucking off and sucking up in Washington, and it is demoralizing to see. Every South Dakotan I’ve spoken to about this agrees. The words are right, but where they’re aiming is wrong.
It’s a matter of priorities. It’s time those priorities reflect the interests of average American families. It’s time that things change in Washington. I look forward to that battle.
Major Pro-Israel Group Spending (2024 Election Cycle)
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) & UDP: Combined spending reached approximately $126.9 million. This included over $37.9 million in independent expenditures to support or oppose candidates and $44.8 million in direct contributions to federal candidates and party organizations.
J Street: Reported spending $14.6 million to $15 million in campaign contributions, nearly double its previous cycle’s total.
Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI): Spent approximately $4.8 million to $6.2 million, focusing on supporting pro-Israel Democrats in primary and general elections.
Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC): Its Super PAC received significant backing, including a $5 million donation from Miriam Adelson, totaling over $5.6 million in contributions and independent expenditures.
NORPAC: Increased its election spending to $2.7 million, up from $1.6 million in the 2022 cycle.
Key Spending Trends and Impacts
Targeting Progressives: A primary focus of AIPAC’s record spending was defeating progressive candidates critical of the Israeli government. Notably, the group spent a combined $45.2 million in successful efforts to unseat Representatives Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush in their respective Democratic primaries.
Bipartisan Reach: While AIPAC leans Republican in its direct PAC giving ($1.9M to Republicans vs. $1.1M to Democrats), its overall spending is bipartisan, with significant funds channeled through the United Democracy Project to influence Democratic primaries.
Individual Megadonors: Individual contributions play a massive role. Miriam Adelson reportedly poured more than $215 million into U.S. presidential elections to benefit Donald Trump since 2020 through her Preserve America PAC.
Lobbying Surge: Beyond direct campaign contributions, these groups increased their lobbying expenditures in 2025, with AIPAC reporting nearly $3.8 million and J Street boosting its lobbying budget to $750,000.
Meanwhile, after two years during which big donors and the federal government punished colleges for how they handled pro-Palestinian protests, dialogue and pluralism programs ….
….Meanwhile, after two years during which big donors and the federal government punished colleges for how they handled pro-Palestinian protests, dialogue and pluralism programs and their funders can generate some skepticism on campus: How much are these programs just political ploys aimed at suppressing campus speech?
Ya think college students can protest their own departments where animal testing goes on or is part and parcel part of the programs?
Almost all of The Chronicle’s interviewees insisted that they didn’t want to eliminate campus protests entirely, but many declined to answer directly what they thought of recent campus pro-Palestinian activism, and what better protest would look like. Murray, the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations’ president, was unusually game.
“What we would like to see is protest accompanied by something else,” he said. For example, protesters and counter-protesters could also come together, in a lower-temperature way, to better understand each other, “rather than just putting up signs that protest the caricature.”
According to CNN, as the U.S. and Iran appeared close to a deal, Donald Trump undercut negotiations by publicly discussing and overstating progress on social media, frustrating both Iranian officials and his own team. U.S. officials privately acknowledged his comments were damaging and showed concern about his inability to stay on message during sensitive talks. Conflicting statements from Trump and his administration further eroded credibility, creating confusion and weakening trust in the U.S. position. As a result, momentum toward a deal stalled, leaving negotiations uncertain. Here is a list of some conflicting statements from the President:
Donald Trump declared the Strait of Hormuz situation “over” but tensions clearly continued right after. Iran has since closed the Strait again. For example, Donald Trump this morning claimed “We totally control the strait, just so you understand. For all the fake news out there,” projecting full U.S. control over a highly contested and volatile waterway.
He claimed Iran agreed to never close the Strait again but Iran shut it down the very next day.
He said JD Vance wouldn’t attend the Pakistan talks but his own officials contradicted him almost immediately. And now, Vance is currently on his way to Pakistan.
He claimed Iran’s military was basically wiped out even though it still has major destructive capabilities. According to reports, Iran has been able to retain a significant portion of its missile capabilities, and is even able to quickly rebuild much of what the United States has bombed.
He falsely said the pope supported Iran having nuclear weapons even though no such statement exists.
[Speaking at a peace meeting in Bamenda, Cameroon, Pope Leo XIV called out leaders who were spending billions on wars and said that the world “is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants”.
The pope has emerged as an outspoken critic of the United States and Israel’s actions in the Middle East in recent weeks, emphasising that “it takes only a moment to destroy, yet a lifetime is often not enough to rebuild”.]
He insisted Iran retaliating against Gulf countries was unexpected, even though it was widely anticipated by officials, according to the Wall Street Journal’s reporting.
He said U.S. plane losses were mostly due to friendly fire, despite previously discussing Iran shooting one down.
Trump this morning claimed: “I would’ve won Vietnam very quickly if I were president. Look at Venezuela. I took it over in 45 minutes.”
Donald Trump is taking part in a nationwide Bible-reading event celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by reading a well-known passage often used by the Christian right. His participation comes at a tense moment, after criticism over a social media post portraying himself as Jesus and ongoing disagreements with the pope. The situation reflects both his outreach to religious supporters and divisions among Christians about his behavior and messaging.
2 Chronicles 7:11-22 records God’s response to Solomon after the Temple dedication, promising to hear prayers and heal the land if the people humble themselves, pray, and turn from wickedness (2 Chron 7:14). God warns that abandonment of his commands will lead to destruction of the Temple and exile, making it a “byword”.
Key highlights of this passage include:
God’s Promise (v. 12-16): God acknowledges Solomon’s prayer, choosing the Temple as a consecrated place of sacrifice and setting his eyes and heart there forever.
The Conditional Promise (v. 13-14): If calamities such as drought, locusts, or plagues occur, God promises to “hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land” if His people humble themselves and turn from their wicked ways.
Conditions for Solomon (v. 17-18): Solomon is commanded to walk in faithfulness like David, with promises to establish his royal throne if he obeys.
Warning of Disobedience (v. 19-22): If Israel turns to other gods, God warns He will “uproot” them from the land and destroy the consecrated Temple, causing it to become an object of scorn.
All fucking free speech censorship, nanny gate bullshit, full of that admin class and deans and provosts culling critical thinking and engaged debate, and, yes, fucking yelling and fucking protest signs!
Among the latest donors to campus efforts, The Chronicle found if not a full spectrum of political beliefs then at least some portion of the middle of it. What the donors shared was frustration at the breakdown in public discourse. Intervening with college students, they believe, can help repair Americans’ ability to debate productively. Examining the work and motivations of a few of these donors offers a glimpse of the kind of future they’re trying to create for higher ed.
The Libertarians
Charles G. Koch is notoriousin higher ed for making gifts to university departments that came with what some saw as unacceptable influence over faculty hiring.
The Alumnus With a Named Center
The Kochs may be loud and proud — or at least have publicly known political stances — but in a field that’s about bridging divides, almost all of the donors The Chronicle spoke with declined to describe their politics.
Tom Woodley was no exception. He and his wife, Nancy, established the Woodley Institute for Civil Engagement and Humanistic Dialogue at Gonzaga University late last year, with a $1-million donation. When asked, Woodley said that the couple had no “political agenda or alignment.” But he spent most of his career as general counsel to a large North American union for emergency workers.
In his and Gonzaga’s telling, the gift went like a dream — the ideal big donation, from a college fundraiser’s point of view. Mia Bertagnolli, the provost, and Jeff Geldien, an assistant vice president in the advancement office, had been wanting to start a civil-dialogue program like the ones they had seen at other universities, but they needed donors’ help, Geldien said. Sometime after the Woodleys gave $1 million to the department of political science, which had been Tom’s major when he went to Gonzaga in the ‘60s, they indicated that they wanted to do more. Geldien saw an opportunity.
The Supporter of the ADL and Food Aid in Gaza
The Tepper Foundation was established in 1996 by David Tepper, a hedge-fund manager and billionaire. Traditionally, it funded poverty- and disaster-relief work. Randi Tepper, David’s daughter, became the foundation’s chief executive in 2020 and, working with the board, expanded the foundation’s purview, she said.
The foundation gave out $87 million in grants in 2024, the latest publicly available figure. The biggest recent donations have gone to antipoverty efforts, Jewish charities, and a donor-advised fund.
A few grantees are known to have been critical of the pro-Palestinian student movement. Since 2021, the foundation has donated annually to the Israel on Campus Coalition, which condemned Students for Justice in Palestine, the club that organized the encampments, for “glorifying terror.” Since 2020, the foundation has given at least $1.5 million a year to the Anti-Defamation League, whose president has said demonstrators in the encampments called for violence against Jewish students. (The protests and individual protesters variedin their views and messaging.)
In addition, between 2022 and 2024, the foundation gave about $3 million to World Central Kitchen, which provides food aid in Gaza, Ukraine, and elsewhere.
The Would-Be Leader
One foundation is positioning itself as a leader and convener of these disparate efforts. The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations host regular meetings with the Lumina Foundation for civil dialogue funders; backed a 15-page guide for college leaders looking to start something at their own campuses; and have Murray talking to the likes of The New YorkerandThe Chronicleon the topic. (The foundations are also sponsoring a series of reports on civil-dialogue work on campuses through the Chronicle Intelligence division, whose reporters work independently of The Chronicle’s newsroom.)
Fucking lowest common denominator education — corporate influence, admin class, and the emptiness of a country based on genocide, the bible, land theft, rape, pollution, reservations, internment, ICE-Gestapo, and the Chlamydia Capitalism in its current Pedophile and Rapist in Chief VERSION.
SJP chapters are holding “National Day of Resistance” rallies celebrating the Hamas jail break as a “historic win.”
SJP marketing materials celebrate the image of a Hamas armed paraglider headed towards a group of Jews at a desert rave –
SJP internal materials say the “total return and liberation to Palestine is near… armed struggle… is legitimate, and all of it is necessary.”
SJP’s toolkits implicitly encourage similar rampages in the United States and Canada, referring to those countries as “occupied Turtle Island” and then saying “necessary struggle against an occupying and colonial state [is] not a “war” or “conflict.” It is a struggle for national liberation.”
SJP’s social media platforms routinely promote calls to violence such as “Long live the Intifada” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
Yeah, fucking Gonzaga, where I was “fired” for disagreeing with the president about the Vagina Monologues he deemed “not on our campus.” I wrote an editorial supporting the Monologues and questioning the veracity of a priesthood with pedophiles and sexual abusers.
Can I as a faculty (I can’t teach no more cuz they Google me) bring in this shit and ask students to research the depth of the depravity of the military on campuses and associated with departments?
Paul,
As a leader focused on advancing next-generation UAS capabilities, we’re delighted to share with you our early 2026 attendee snapshot for IDGA’s Next Generation UAS Summit.
Senior representatives have already confirmed their attendance, including leaders from Echodyne, Joint Air Power Competence Centre (JAPCC), Office of Naval Research, Sykdio, Thales, the U.S Air Force, U.S Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and USSTRATCOM, to name just a few.
To explore the full list of attending organizations, download the early attendee snapshot [here].
Right, think of the dozens of colleges and universities around Arlington that could come out and PROTEST.
On June 23-24, these leaders will gather in Arlington, VA, to discuss the strategies, technologies, and partnerships shaping the future of UAS and operational advantage.
Join newly confirmed keynote speaker, Major General AnnMarie Anthony, Director of the Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Center, at USSTRATCOM, as she explains how the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum is shaping control, telemetry, navigation, and surveillance in contested environments.
You think ANY of the colleges and universities in the Arlington Virginia, arena will go and protest? Be allowed to protest there on campus? This fucking event, which is an event that happens dozens of times a month somewhere, in the U$A, dealing with the weapons of death?
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, there are 60 four-year institutions in Virginia. Among these are some of the best colleges in Virginia, which include many different types of colleges.
14 Colleges and Universities in Washington, D.C.
The District of Columbia, or Washington, DC, is the seat of the United States federal government, the U.S. capitol, and home to 20 colleges and universities. While DC is considered only the 20th most populous city in the nation, hundreds of thousands of commuters flood in from both Virginia and Maryland for work each week to this world political capital. Headquartering 177 foreign embassies, DC hosts the Institute of World Politics, a graduate school of national security and international affairs.
The bulk of the city’s postsecondary institutions fall into two categories, public or private not-for-profit, and are distributed evenly amongst three types: research universities, master’s universities (like the aforementioned Institute of World Politics), or special-focus institutions. The oldest institution in Washington, DC, is Georgetown University, which was founded in 1789, and the same institution also claims the title of the oldest Jesuit and Catholic university in the US.
Civic Fucking Dialogue? Ya think we can teach this on campus without fucking JEWS cancelling the lecture, the course, the faculty? RIGHT!
A report says Israeli soldiers and settlers are using sexual violence and harassment to pressure Palestinians to leave their homes in the Occupied West Bank. Victims have described abuse including invasive searches, threats, and public humiliation, with experts warning these acts are contributing to displacement and disrupting daily life. The report also highlights a lack of accountability, with few prosecutions and growing concerns about a broader culture of impunity.
Oh, shit, can we teach how corrupt the U$A is and throughout its history, and what fucking hell we have unleashed on Mexico since, well, 1800? RIGHT.
Sure, at those dens of CIA-NSA-Legal Thugs, all those universities! Lots of civil discourse on the United Snake$ of Israel…..
Claudia Sheinbaum is demanding a full explanation after two U.S. officials and two Mexican investigators died in a crash following an operation targeting a drug lab in Chihuahua. She said her administration was not informed in advance and warned that any cooperation with U.S. personnel without federal approval could violate Mexican law. Conflicting statements from Mexican officials and the U.S. Embassy about whether Americans were involved in the operation have fueled confusion and suspicion. The incident has intensified tensions over U.S. involvement in Mexico’s anti-cartel efforts, especially as pressure from Donald Trump increases and Mexico pushes to assert its sovereignty.
Civil fucking dialogue on campus my fucking ASS! Anyway we can discuss how broken the USA is, the branches of government, the executive, the Press? RIGHT. Insanity, there you go, Charlie and Erika Turning Point?
“Mainstream media, politicians, and universities are bowing down to the 1%. We’re organizing on college campuses to fight corporate greed and build student power,”
Yeah, PETA on campus? RIGHT. Civil dialogue!
Animal activists swarmed a Wisconsin animal research facility on Saturday in an attempt to free 2,000 beagles from experimentation that continues under the Trump administration.
Justin Goodman, Senior Vice President of the White Coat Waste Project (WCWP), says that since Kennedy took office, more than $126 million in new funding has been awarded to facilities that experiment on dogs and cats.
“Starting over a year ago, at their request, we provided Kennedy and [NIH Director] Bhattacharya’s teams with info on taxpayer-funded grants paying for cat and dog testing, including Fauci-approved experiments on Ridglan beagles,” Goodman wrote. “Instead of shutting down the labs and retiring the survivors, the NIH gave the labs we identified more money. RFK literally lied to Congress about it this week.”
“Since day one of RFK‘s tenure, he has had the authority to cut funding for these grants overnight. He has even admitted this. But instead, he has kept them alive.”
In fact, documents obtained by WCWP show that beagles from Ridglan Farms continue to be used in NIH-funded experiments, including tick bite studies at the University of Missouri (originally approved under Anthony Fauci and continuing under the Trump administration).
Other funding sources include the Department of the Interior, National Science Foundation, and Department of Agriculture.
Involved universities include the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Colorado State University, University of Georgia, Southern Research Institute, Kansas State University, and Texas A&M University.
Unfortunately, as WCWP recently noted, since becoming HHS Secretary, Kennedy’s NIH has “renewed wasteful, deadly tests on dogs, cats, primates, and other animals,” which were first approved and funded by Fauci. To raise awareness of these facts, WCWP recently launched a national “WTF RFK?” ad campaign targeting Kennedy for continuing to fund Fauci-era animal labs.
“I saw compassion met with extreme violence—peaceful protesters met with tear gas, pepper spray, and rubber bullets,” Logan wrote on Instagram. “I saw people show up with courage, love, and nothing but a commitment to peaceful change for the puppies at Ridglan Farms who are criminally abused.”
Not a huge fan of Attenborough, but check this PG-rated documentary. Gorillas have more humanity than, err, Chlamydia Capitalists.
Versus: These fucking animals!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yeah, protests at Wisconsin colleges, allowed? NOPE.
In January 2025, Dane County Circuit Court Judge Rhonda Lanford ordered the appointment of a special prosecutor, noting that the activists had established “probable cause to believe that Ridglan has committed crimes under Wisconsin’s animal cruelty laws, and the district attorney has failed to issue a complaint or commence an investigation into Ridglan’s conduct.”
[More LGBTQ news talking about her partner, that Jewish girl on the left.]
[Key Details About Tim Gruenke:
Role: La Crosse County District Attorney (333 Vine St., La Crosse, WI).
Experience: 25-year prosecutor, 13+ years as DA.
Specialization: Sexual assault and homicide cases.
Recognition: Twice named “Prosecutor of the Year” by Wisconsin prosecutors and the Wisconsin Association of Homicide Investigators; awarded the “Voices of Courage Award”.
Recent Activity: Appointed as a special prosecutor regarding investigation into Ridglan Farms dog breeding facility.
On February 5, 2025, La Crosse County District Attorney Tim Gruenke was appointed special prosecutor to lead the investigation. Gruenke reviewed the documents used in the Dane County evidentiary hearing and information from the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) regarding their investigations into Ridglan Farms.
The special prosecutor’s report identified five potential areas for charges: “cherry-eye” procedures, devocalization procedures, proper shelter and space requirements, sanitation standards, and improper enclosures causing serious injuries.
The report concluded that most claims lacked strong evidence. For example, when it came to devocalization procedures (removal of the vocal cords), the report found that witnesses had credibility issues, and the “only eyewitness evidence of devocalization was from a former employee who left in 2010.” They found no records, witnesses, or inspections that indicated any devocalization procedures were done within the last six years.
However, the report found strong evidence of violations in “cherry-eye” procedures, which involve removing part of a swollen or prolapsed eye gland.
The report concluded (emphasis added):
“Ridglan Farms routinely allowed non-veterinarians to conduct the surgery. They did not use general anesthesia, which resulted in pain to the animals and potential aftercare pain. Unlike other claims, the procedures were done well within the statute of limitations. The Vet Board and DATCP determined that the way Ridglan Farms personnel did the cherry-eye procedure (until recently) did not meet current standards of veterinary care in Wisconsin. The records provided by Ridglan Farms themselves showed proof of the occurrences. Gruenke concluded this procedure was in fact animal mistreatment as defined under the statute and could be charged.“
The report also notes that the Wisconsin Veterinary Licensing Board was investigating veterinarians employed by Ridglan Farms in connection with cherry-eye procedures. In fact, after the board ordered the emergency suspension of the lead veterinarian and facility manager at Ridglan Farms, Dr. Rick Van Domelen, a judge upheld the decision in September 2025.
Gruenke wrote in his report that despite the evidence of violations of Wisconsin state statutes, “Ridglan Farms made clear they would argue that because they conduct research, and all of the dogs being bred would also be for research purposes, the Wisconsin statutes do not apply to them.”
In the end, Gruenke and Ridglan Farms reached a settlement whereby Ridglan agreed to shut down its dog sale and breeding-for-sale operations and surrender its state breeding license by July 1, 2025, in exchange for no prosecution. The facility continued to deny any abuse or neglect.
“the State of Wisconsin agrees… all alleged civil and criminal violations referred to in and contemplated by Judge Rhonda Lanford’s referral… will not be brought against Ridglan Farms and are forever barred from being brought in a criminal or civil action.”
Pushing S.T.E.M. & Israeli Baby Killing Tech and USA-loving trillions for uniformed mercenaries . . we just take it in the rear and listen to Podcasts saying — It’s almost the end of ZioImperialism
You are a fucking fool, really, a Dachua Kapo if you believe there should be NO violence (I call it euthanasia for the fascists) against skinny jeans Gay Guys like Altman or Bennett.
Key takeaways:
Sam Altman’s San Francisco home was targeted twice in 4 days. It was hit by a Molotov cocktail and a drive-by shooting, marking a rapid escalation in threats against the OpenAI CEO.
Amanda Tom, 25, and Muhamad Tarik Hussein, 23, in connection with the shooting, after surveillance cameras captured their vehicle’s license plates.
Daniel Alejandro Moreno-Gama, 20, detained for the Molotov cocktail attack, is facing eight charges.
While no official motive has been confirmed, the Molotov cocktail suspect may have been driven by anti-AI sentiment.
OpenAI’s Leadership Exodus: 9 Key Execs Who Left the A.I. Giant This Year
Monsters, man, Oppen-Monster-Heimers. Einstein Cunts…. On this day in 1939: Albert Einstein, acting at the behest of Leo Szilárd, wrote to President Roosevelt telling him of the possibility of building an atomic bomb. It was the first step in what became the Manhattan Project.
Fifteen minutes after Susan Bourgeois was appointed to lead Louisiana Economic Development, the state agency responsible for strengthening business growth, she got her first data center pitch.
“I was pulled aside in the lobby of the Hilton hotel by the CEO of Entergy Louisiana, who said, ‘We have a project and need to talk,’” Bourgeois said.
It was a proposal from Meta to build one of the largest-ever AI data centers in the world. Bourgeois jumped on it. Data centers, which are large warehouses full of servers that power parts of the internet and increasingly artificial intelligence, infuse massive amounts of capital into communities and are much needed in rural areas where populations are declining, she said.
[A Meta data center in Ashburn, Va., in 2025. Virginia is the state with the most data centers.]
They should all be shot on the street, in coffee houses, on beaches, in their fucking hotels, beds, backyards, wherever their former Delta Force and IDF/Mossad cunts aren’t protecting them. Better Molotovs!, and of course, IED’s!
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More shit from the Jew-Lantic: What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat. “For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.” By Noah Hawley
At the end of Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 movie, There Will Be Blood, Daniel Day-Lewis’s oil-baron character, old now and richer than Croesus, beats Paul Dano’s preacher to death with a bowling pin. Dano’s Eli Sunday, a nemesis of Day-Lewis’s Daniel Plainview during his seminal, wealth-building years, has come to sell Plainview the oil-rich land that he once coveted. But Plainview doesn’t need the land anymore, because—as he explains in one of the most famous monologues in modern cinema—he has sucked out all the oil hidden beneath it from an adjoining property, like a milkshake.
Desperate for money, Eli begs for a loan. Instead, Plainview chases him around a bowling alley and murders him with great enthusiasm. Once it’s over, a butler comes to see what all the noise was about. “I’m finished,” Plainview yells.
No matter how many times I watch that movie, and I watch it a lot, I have never once taken those words to mean I’m done for. There will now be consequences for my actions. Quite the opposite: They mean that Plainview has completed his journey, through the acquisition of wealth and power, to a realm outside the moral universe. He’s finished, in other words, pretending that the rules of human society apply to him.
He and his family and friends and Eichmanns need to be bludgeoned to death. Sorry, Pacificists.
Alex Karp made a strong statement during a 2025 earnings call, saying that working at Palantir is more valuable than holding a degree from top universities like Harvard, Princeton or Yale. Speaking during the earnings call then, Karp said that someone joins Palantir, their educational background becomes largely irrelevant.
“If you did not go to school, or you went to a school that’s not that great, or you went to Harvard or Princeton or Yale, once you come to Palantir, you’re a Palantirian—no one cares about the other stuff,” the Palantir CEO said. He added that the company itself acts as a powerful credential, calling it “by far the best credential in tech.”
“If you did not go to school, or you went to a school that’s not that great, or you went to Harvard or Princeton or Yale, once you come to Palantir, you’re a Palantirian—no one cares about the other stuff,” Karp said. “This is by far the best credential in tech. If you come to Palantir, your career is set,” he added.
With rising student debt and growing concerns about the value of college education, more young people are also questioning whether a degree is always necessary.
Mother:Leah Jaynes Karpis an African American mixed-media artist.
Brother: He has a younger brother namedOliver “Ben” Karp.
Marital Status: Karp is not married and does not have children. He has expressed that the idea of “settling down” to raise a family does not appeal to him, preferring a high degree of privacy and independence in his long-term relationships.
Childhood and Heritage
Mixed Heritage: Karp’s background is a blend of Jewish and African American heritage. He credits his maternal side with a “strong affinity to fighting discrimination” and his paternal side with exposing him to German intellectualism and philosophy.
Early Hardships: During his childhood, his family faced significant financial struggles. He famously recalls a kind landlord who provided them housing during a difficult period, a gesture he has since reciprocated by supporting that landlord in his later years.
Childhood Pet: He was deeply attached to his childhood dog, Rosita, whom he recently had exhumed from his former home in Philadelphia to be reburied closer to his current residence.
As Barnard advances STEM initiatives, humanities professors express enrollment concerns
Faculty members told Spectator that declining student interest has been driven not only by broader cultural and economic factors but also by deliberate administrative strategy.
Still, faculty questioned how the growth of STEM reshapes the balance of disciplines at a liberal arts institution. For some, the concern is less about competition between fields and more about preserving the foundational nature of the humanities.
“When you’re explaining the value of something, you’re using philosophy,” Schor-Haim said. “You’re using critical thinking and you’re using philosophy and you’re using a lot of the skills that we teach in the humanities in the first place.”
Milanich argued that the modern idea of “practicality” often misunderstands what a humanities education provides. Critical reading, philosophy, and interpretive analysis, Schor-Haim suggested, are necessary skills across professions.
They all need to be bludgeoned to death. NSA using Anthropic’s Mythos despite blacklist
The National Security Agency is using Anthropic’s most powerful model yet, Mythos Preview, despite top officials at the Department of Defense — which oversees the NSA — insisting the company is a “supply chain risk,” two sources tell Axios.
Why it matters: The government’s cybersecurity needs appear to be outweighing the Pentagon’s feud with Anthropic.
Duh? Well, well, take those chubby husband-and-wife coders, please.
What’s behind the US Army’s decision to raise enlistment age to 42?
Changes in the US Army’s enlistment standards could be an effort to boost recruitment, as numbers have lagged in recent years.
Jew jew jew
End of Israel? End of Zionism? End of ZIM — Zionist Imperial Mafia?
RIGHT. Nah!!!
The Israel Defense Forces conducted the first operational firing of the new self-propelled Roem howitzer during operations in Lebanon, the IDF announced in a statement.
The new artillery system is fully automatic and capable of firing at a rate of 6-8 rounds per minute, up to 40km in distance. The first deployment of the weapon, which Elbit Systems began developing in 2019, occurred with the IDF’s 282nd Fire Brigade after several years of anticipation.
The unit “activated the new system in recent days in assistance to the forces maneuvering in the north, and used it to attack Hezbollah targets from which fire was fired at our forces,” according to an IDF statement in Hebrew.
“The Roem brings with it a lot of new capabilities compared to the existing cannon,” the IDF’s Lt. Col. B., the head of the Roem branch in the IDF, said in the statement. (The officer’s full name was withheld for security reasons.) He said the new capability was a change in “both mobility, full automation, and the ability to operate as part of a maneuver deep in enemy territory. It shoots farther and more accurately.”
In a statement, Bezhalel Machlis, President and CEO of Elbit Systems, called the deployment a “milestone.” He added that “the Artillery Corps is in the midst of a groundbreaking technological revolution, and for us, as a leading Israeli defense company, we are proud to play a significant role in realizing the commanders’ vision.”
Six weeks and you will soon be off to Tel Aviv:
Happy Happy Happy:
Some are hailing AI training as the hot new version of gig work, yet others have called it a “scheme to misclassify workers. (2)” The very nature of contractor work is independent, meaning employers cannot tell individuals when to work and how that work gets done. Yet there are open cases regarding Mercor exercising the kind of control associated with an employer.
Ironically, the founders, who are in their early 20s, have never had traditional corporate jobs.
The 22-year-old founders who hail from the Bay Area are Thiel Fellows — members of the billionaire investor Peter Thiel’s program that provides $200,000 grants to young people who are skipping or quitting college (3). And they have become the youngest self-made billionaires. CEO Brendan Foody, CTO Adarsh Hiremath and board chairman Surya Midha each have a roughly 22% stake in the company, Forbes estimates (4).
“It’s definitely crazy,” Foody told Forbes. “It feels very surreal. Obviously beyond our wildest imaginations, insofar as anything that we could have anticipated two years ago.”
Mercor did not immediately respond to Moneywise’s request for comment.
AI Adoption in Australia: New Survey Reveals Increased Use & Belief in Potential
Hmm, so how much has Australia thrown at the ukraine nazis and Jewish Nazid?
“Time after time, the race discrimination commissioner has urged this government to act, and every time his pleas have been ignored,” Faruqi told Guardian Australia.
The framework makes 63 recommendations, including establishing a national anti-racism taskforce, creating a standalone Human Rights Act, and implementing a positive duty to eliminate racism across employers and businesses, the health and housing sectors. Labor introduced a similar duty to eliminate sexual harassment in 2022.
In a letter to the minister on 1 September following anti-immigration rallies that targeted the Indian community, Sivaraman wrote, “Until we address the structural roots of racism and reform our systems and institutions, this racist bile will continue to spill onto our streets, making all of us less safe.”
Rowland responded three weeks later that the government was still “carefully considering” the framework recommendations as well as the special envoys’ reports. The royal commission is due to hand down its findings in December.
Some in Labor have been openly frustrated by the government’s lack of response to the framework, including former cabinet minister Ed Husic, who was the first Muslim frontbencher, and has repeatedly called on his party to tackle the issue.
“We have an issue with racism in this country,” he told the Rational Fear podcast in March. “The anti racism framework, we haven’t responded to that, we’ve got to get working on it.”
[“The news of Australian components being legally exported to the United States and then sent on to Israel to be used in their genocide against Palestinians in Gaza is precisely what Amnesty International has been warning the Australian government against.”]
Israel remains a steady trading partner, with two-way trade valued at approximately $1.4 billion in 2023. Major Australian exports include live animals and beef, while imports from Israel are dominated by tech and innovation-related services.
Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Security: Collaborative frameworks established in 2017–2019 for cyber security, national security, and defense industry cooperation remain part of the formal relationship.
Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Tax Treaty: A double taxation agreement entered into force in 2020 to facilitate cross-border investment.
Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Public and Political Sentiment
Domestic attitudes are deeply divided, with polling as of late 2025 reflecting complex views:
General Support: Approximately 60% of Australians continue to support Israel’s right to exist and defend itself.
Call for Sanctions: A October 2025 poll indicated that over half of Australians support sanctions on Israel and its leaders due to the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
Younger Demographics: Sympathy for the Palestinian cause is significantly higher among younger Australians (ages 18–24), whereas older populations tend to remain more sympathetic toward Israel.
Antisemitism Concerns: A spike in antisemitic incidents following the October 7 attacks has created a sense of insecurity within Australia’s Jewish community, which numbers nearly 100,000 people.
Oh, that fucking FORD: Ford’s CEO says Tesla doesn’t have an ‘updated vehicle,’ and now he’s pivoting to catch up with his real competitor: China’s BYD
Duggan is accused of training Chinese military pilots while working as an instructor for the Test Flying Academy of South Africa. Duggan has denied the allegations, contending they were political posturing and that the U.S. was unfairly singling him out.
Federal Court Justice James Stellios ruled in dismissing the appeal that no jurisdiction error was made in 2024 by then Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus in ordering Duggan’s extradition.
Duggan’s wife and mother of his six children, Saffrine Duggan, told reporters outside the court in Canberra that his lawyers would consider a further appeal. Lawyers are also asking Dreyfus’s successor as attorney-general, Michelle Rowland, to reverse the extradition order.
But these cunts, A-Okay?
Dirty Dirty USA USA, Mafia LLC.
Analysis of market data done by BBC shows repeated spikes in trading activity just before major announcements by Donald Trump, raising suspicions of possible insider trading. In several cases, large bets were placed minutes or even nearly an hour before public statements that moved oil prices or stock markets, generating huge profits. Some analysts say the pattern resembles illegal use of non-public information, while others argue traders may simply be anticipating Trump’s actions. Despite concerns and calls for investigation, proving insider trading remains difficult and no charges have been brought.
A company backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump is trying to sell military drone interceptors to Gulf countries facing attacks from Iran, raising ethical concerns about profiting from a conflict tied to their father, Donald Trump. Critics argue the situation creates potential conflicts of interest, suggesting foreign governments may feel pressure to do business with the president’s family. The company says its technology is meant to help defend against drone attacks and strengthen U.S. manufacturing. The move highlights broader concerns about the Trump family expanding business ventures while in political power.
Jared Kushner is seeking to raise billions for his private equity firm while also serving as a key Middle East envoy for Donald Trump. He has reportedly been meeting with foreign investors, including Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, despite previously saying he would avoid fundraising during Trump’s second term. Critics say this blurs the line between public service and private business, raising concerns about potential conflicts of interest. The situation highlights ongoing scrutiny of financial ties between Trump allies and foreign governments.
Dirty dirty Monroe Doctrine Global Mafia, USA USA USA, under Trump, or Reagan or Clinton or Obama or . . . . The USA is the parasite of the world. Happy 250th!
Something has already changed in the way power is organised, though it is rarely put plainly. The pattern of events still looks familiar, which is why it is easy to miss. Military movements in the Middle East are usually explained in terms of local disputes. That explanation no longer fits the facts. These movements bear on the flow of oil and trade beyond the region, and in particular on the routes China relies on. What is being arranged is a position from which those routes can be interfered with, or, if required, cut. There is a fixation on Israel as the central driver of escalation which obscures a more consequential reality: the United States has entered an indirect but material phase of systemic war against China, using geographically dispersed conflicts as instruments of economic strangulation.
In what is perhaps the best book on Hitler, Allan Bullock wrote in Hitler: A Study in Tyranny that Hitler’s philosophy is the natural philosophy of the doss-house, the philosophy of homeless shelters—a philosophy he learned while living in those shelters in Vienna for some time. Of course, Bullock forgot to apologize to the homeless because among them there is more than one philosophy, and above all there are philosophies contrary to the one he identifies. But the one he identifies is no less true for that. As evident in Mein Kampf and Hitler’s subsequent speeches and practices, the main elements of this philosophy are as follows:
1. The idea of struggle is as old as life itself, for life is preserved only because other living beings perish through struggle. In this struggle, the strongest and most capable prevail, while the least capable and the weak lose.
2. In this struggle, any trick or ruse, however unscrupulous, and the use of any weapon or opportunity, however treacherous, are permitted.
3. Any goal humans have achieved is due to their originality combined with their brutality.
4. Astuteness is crucial: the ability to lie, distort, deceive, and flatter.
5. The elimination of sentimentality or loyalty in favor of cruelty. These were the qualities that allowed humans to rise. And, above all, willpower.
6. Never trust anyone, never commit to anyone, never admit any loyalty.
7. A lack of scruples must surprise even those who pride themselves on their lack of scruples.
8. Lie with conviction and dissemble with candor.
9. Distrust must be accompanied by contempt.
10. People are driven by fear, greed, the thirst for power, envy—often for petty and insignificant reasons. Politics is the art of knowing how to use these weaknesses for one’s own ends.
11. Despise the masses: the masses exist to be manipulated by the capable politician.
12. Democrats, particularly social democrats, poison the popular mind and cynically exploit the suffering of the masses for their own ends. The agents of this poisoning are the Jews.
Deceptive Plot: He deemed Zionist goals a façade for “international swindling.”
Propaganda Target: He used Palestine to criticize British policies and promote the “foreign” nature of Jews.
Goal of Expulsion: While opposing a state, Hitler initially preferred expulsion to Palestine over extermination before the Final Solution was fully implemented.
The Haavara Agreement (1933)
This agreement was a pragmatic, albeit controversial, arrangement between the Nazi regime and German Zionist organizations.
Purpose: It allowed German Jews to emigrate to Palestine while preserving some of their assets, which were used to purchase German goods.
Goal: The Nazis wanted a Judenrein (Jew-free) Germany, while Zionists sought to facilitate immigration and rescue assets.
Why did Hayim Greenberg describe American Jewry as “morally bankrupt” in early 1943?
No. Absolutely not. This is the first and most crucial point. This trip had nothing to do with the Mufti. Hajj Amin al-Husseini was, at that time, the primary enemy of both the British and the Zionist movement.
Eichmann’s visit was for one purpose: to negotiate directly with the Zionists.
2. Who did he visit? Who were his “handlers”?
This is the “smoking gun.” Eichmann, along with his superior SS officer Herbert Hagen, traveled to Palestine. Their official “handler,” guide, and host was a man named Feivel Polkes.
Who was Polkes? He was not a fringe figure. He was a high-level, trusted operative in the Haganah, the mainstream, Ben-Gurion-led military arm of the Jewish Agency. Polkes had previously traveled to Berlin to meet with Eichmann, and this trip was the reciprocal visit.
3. Did they visit any kibbutzes?
Yes. Polkes took his SS guests on a guided tour to showcase the success of the Zionist project. They were taken to Kibbutz Givat Haim. Eichmann, the future architect of the Holocaust, stood at a kibbutz, impressed by the “nationalist fervor” and the efficiency of the Zionist settlement.
The visit was cut short. The British, who had been monitoring Polkes, became aware of the SS men’s presence and expelled them after two days. The rest of their “negotiations” took place in Cairo, Egypt.
4. What was the purpose of this visit?
This is the core of the moral crime. The purpose was to formalize a mutually beneficial, cynical, and secret “deal.”
Eichmann’s Goal: At this time (1937), Eichmann’s job was not extermination; it was accelerated, forced emigration (Judenrein). He was the SS “expert” on Jewish affairs. He believed, based on the success of Haavara, that the Zionist organizations were the most effective tool for getting Jews out of Germany. He was there to explore how to strengthen this “partnership.”
Polkes’s Goal (The “Kapo Logic”): Polkes, acting on behalf of the Haganah, made a breathtaking proposal. According to Eichmann’s own reports (and later admissions), Polkes offered a deal:
Intelligence: The Haganah would provide the SS with intelligence on the anti-Nazi (and anti-Zionist) activities of other Jewish groups, particularly in Germany.
Facilitation: In exchange, Polkes wanted the Nazis to prioritize and facilitate “illegal” (Aliyah Bet) immigration to Palestine. He wanted the Nazis to help the Haganah bypass the British White Paper restrictions.
This was not a rescue mission. This was a business negotiation between two intelligence agencies. The Haganah was offering to betray other Jews to the SS in exchange for demographic fuel for their state-building project.
5. What happened to his handlers (Feivel Polkes)?
This is the final proof of the “open secret.” When the British leaked news of the meeting (to embarrass the Jewish Agency), the Haganah and Jewish Agency leadership did what all such organizations do: they denied everything.
They publicly claimed that Polkes was a “rogue agent” who had acted without authorization.
They later created a story that he was a “double agent” who was trying to “feed the Nazis misinformation.”
This is the classic, textbook case of plausible deniability. The idea that a mid-level operative would, on his own, travel to Berlin, meet with the head of the SS Jewish desk, and then host him in Palestine without the knowledge and approval of his superiors (like Reuven Zaslani, later Shiloah, the “father” of Israeli intelligence) is absurd.
The Eichmann-Polkes affair was not a rogue operation. It was the official, secret policy of the Zionist establishment: “We will deal with anyone–even the devil–if it helps us build the state.”
Jews, West Side Story was a collaboration created by four main artists: Arthur Laurents (book/script), Leonard Bernstein (music), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), and Jerome Robbins (conception, direction, and choreography).
I got sucked into a 2018 award-winning (wow) documentary, Hillbilly:
Ashley York, and she’s from these here parts, and she wanted to go down during the election cycle of Trump and Hillary. It is, in the end, more fucking middling fucking documentary making. Ashley is, of course, a Hillary fan.
(Documentary Filmmaker)
This Sally Rubin is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and professor at Chapman University.
Jewish Connection: She has described growing up in a community of middle-class Jewish families in Boston.
Career: Her work focuses on identity and social issues, including documentaries like Hillbilly, Deep Down, and Mama Has a Mustache.
Identity: She identifies as nonbinary and queer, and her films often explore LGBT themes.
The “Deplorables” Context: The film features archival footage of Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment, which is discussed as a phrase that “sealed her fate” with rural voters in Appalachia.
Political Shift: York, a Kentucky native who moved to Los Angeles, returns home to explore why her family and neighbors, who previously voted for Democrats, voted for Donald Trump, with Clinton’s rhetoric and energy policies often cited as reasons.
Family Reaction: In a poignant scene in the documentary, York discusses her own support for Hillary Clinton with her family, who disagree with her, highlighting the political divide in the region.
Critique of Stereotypes: The film explores how both the left and right have perpetuated stereotypes of Appalachians, with the “deplorables” comment serving as a key example of the cultural divide.
York didn’t set out to make a film that so closely reflected her experiences and those she interviewed, including family members.
“But this film, as personal as it is, it’s equally political,” she said.
“Hillbilly” was funded by money that the filmmakers raised as well as funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and its performance in competition at film festivals across the country and its enduring legacy, five years after it was released, is proof of its success, York said.
York said she wished that her film had been picked up and produced by streaming service Netflix. Instead, the streamer invested in Ron Howard’s film version of J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy.” “I thought [that film] was so irresponsible.”
“I wish that our film could have been on Netflix. It would have been a perfect companion to ‘Hillbilly Elegy.’ But corporations are going to do what they do, whether it’s how they treat coal miners in Kentucky or writers in this town [in Hollywood] with a writer’s strike going on.’”
Today, York is working on a pair of projects that are very different from “Hillbilly” and focus on true crime and entertainment, respectively.
“If someone said go make ‘Hillbilly 2,’ it would be a great film,” York said. “Just continue the story. But you’d see a much different Ashley York.”
How so?
“I am so livid,” she said. “The truth of this country and the lies we’ve told since its founding, under the delusion we’re all equal and racism doesn’t exist. We’re at a very vulnerable time for our nation … We have to be vigorous and question everything.”
“I never called myself a hillbilly,” York said. But she said that reclaiming the term in her film is a step toward a goal.
“We really wanted to elevate the perspective of people you don’t think about when you think of Appalachia — Silas House, the young people, my dad and his two sisters who are all progressive.”
Anton agreed on the need to make Appalachia and the word “hillbilly” less about menacing “Others” creeping through the backwoods and more about the diversity of the mountain people.
“My goal is to popularize ‘queerbilly,’” Anton said. “I’m proud to see people use it.” She laughed. “I even got a tattoo: ‘Queerbilly Hellion.’”
“Fab-yoo-la-ch-ian.” “Fabulachian” is generally credited to the Racheal Granger article, “Country Queers in Central Appalachia” for Southern Cultures. “We’re fabulous, and we’re Appalachians, so we’re fabulachians!”
Let’s be real clear, though. These two terms are not synonymous. And no shadetree to Racheal, they just don’t mean the same. One has a clear working-class suggestion, while the other has a distinctly upper middle-class, white, Will and Grace affect. It’s counterfeit. Well, it’s that way, for me. I’m 100% sure there are plenty of fabulachians who’d love to say different.”
You see, Ashley calls herself a progressive and voted for Hillary. Her granny and her uncle and her kid cousin, they all went full MAGA. And the film is just more goofy time, as Ashley really doesn’t confront those relatives, surely, and the innocence back then of “locker room talk . . . we all do it” is the extent of the critique of Trump by the hillbillies or rednecks are whatever you call them.
Hillary or Donald. Now that’s the marketing, and TV spin, and EDWARD Bernays ticket, no?
Basket of deplorables, what that which got the Kentucky MAGA?
Snake oil, smoke and mirrors, three-card Monty, and the lies of America.
We’re #1! We Americans like to see ourselves as better than others. And research indicates that we are #1. In narcissism. People in the United States are more narcissistic than people in other countries. Narcissism includes being:
Americans view themselves as being more narcissistic than people in other countries. And people in other countries agree. The United States is the most narcissistic nation in the world and everyone knows it. We are a nation of narcissists.
Why is narcissism a particularly American trait? Americans are particularly individualistic. They are more narcissistic than people in countries that have a greater other-than self-focus. These include Japan and other Asian countries. Not all Americans are narcissists. But our desire to “stand out from the crowd” may make the United States a breeding ground for narcissism.
Narcissists are likable at first
Narcissists can be attractive. They are often popular because of their confidence and assertiveness. Donald Trump, who some mental health professionals describe as narcissistic, was popular enough to be elected President.
President Trump has been blamed for making narcissism contagious. But is President Trump more narcissistic than other Americans? Some mental health professionals think so. They believe that President Trump has a pathological level of narcissism. Yet, psychiatrist Allen Frances, one of the authors of the manual for diagnosing mental illness, disagrees. This means that President Trump is not any more narcissistic than many other Americans.
Have we really become more narcissistic since Trump was elected? Researchers reviewed studies from 1990 to 2013 using the Narcissistic Personality Inventory. The results indicate that Americans were just as narcissistic in 2013 as we were three decades ago. It is possible that the United States has become more narcissistic since 2013 but unlikely. So, President Trump hasn’t made us any more narcissistic than we already are. President Trump is a product of a narcissistic society rather than a cause of it. Blaming Trump shifts the focus from our national responsibility for narcissism.
Will these Hillbillies listen in?
WHEN Hillary Clinton recently said that she puts half of Donald Trump’s supporters in a “basket of deplorables”, calling such folk “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic—you name it,” her Republican rival gleefully dubbed this outburst “the single biggest mistake of the political season”. Certainly, Mrs Clinton does seem to have broken a cardinal rule of politics: attack those running for office and their policies by all means, but never blame the voters. As Democrats scrambled to defend their nominee, they urged Americans to consider Mrs Clinton’s remarks in context, and to study the kindlier thoughts that she shared next, about how she puts other Trump backers into a second “basket”, unhappily filled with folk who feel the government and the economy has let them down, leaving them “just desperate for change” and deserving of understanding.
York goes to visit her uncle and beloved grandmother, who voted for Trump despite having supported Barack Obama. Her uncle was a lifelong Democrat who switched affiliations specifically for the current president — he simply believed Trump’s talk of an affinity with downtrodden coal workers. Understandably but unfortunately, York won’t go to the next step, interrogating those beliefs on camera with a perspective journalists from the outside rarely offer. (Though the doc doesn’t discuss it, some of York’s other relatives in the area, including her father, are staunchly anti-Trump.)
From bell hooks to local academics, the picture interviews lots of smart people who’ve thought hard about the threats Appalachia faces from without and within. One scholar notes how the region’s rep took a curious and expedient turn: Right after the Civil War, we’re told, most writers spoke of Appalachians as “quirky, colorful” people who enriched America’s tapestry. But when industrialists discovered the region’s resources and started moving in, a new portrait emerged. Now, hillbillies were mysterious, menacing trash-people “who might threaten civilization itself.” Conveniently, thinking of them as subhuman made it easier to extract the land’s riches and move that wealth to cities.
he 2018 documentary Hillbilly, directed by Ashley York and Sally Rubin, features Silas House, a prominent Kentucky-born writer, who is a gay man featured in the film to discuss Appalachian identity, queer life in the region, and to challenge stereotypes.
Silas House: He is a key voice in the documentary, acting as a co-writer and appearing on screen to discuss “code-switching” and his experience as a gay man in Appalachia.
The film focuses on challenging the “hillbilly” stereotype, highlighting diverse voices in the region, including queer and Black individuals.
Critique of JD Vance: Silas House has deemed JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy as inauthentic, offensive, and a vehicle that relies on ugly stereotypes. House has argued that Vance “condescended to his own family” and Appalachian people in his book.
[Eight years ago today we shot an emotional scene at the voting booth for the documentary HILLBILLY, directed by Ashley York and Sally Rubin, which went on to win the Documentary Prize from the LA Film Festival, the Media Award from the Foreign Press Association,and many other honors before being picked up by Hulu, where it was seen by many around the world, and helped expand notions of what it means to be rural. Today we filmed scenes for the sequel, being directed by Ashley York, and filmed by this great crew. Along the way we voted, full of hope and trepidation, and talked to lots of our neighbors under remarkable blue skies.]
Political Disillusionment: House has expressed frustration that, despite Donald Trump and JD Vance (through the “Hillbilly Elegy” narrative) not delivering promised economic benefits like the return of coal or rural revitalization, they continued to receive strong electoral support in Eastern Kentucky.
Finally, York dives deep into the progressive subculture that occupies the same space as the Trump worshipping coal mining families. They are articulate, poignant, and fiercely proud of their heritage and the history of the region. One of the subjects is Silas House, a successful writer and defender of hillbilly culture and the region from whence it’s sprang and who also happens to be gay. He spends a good amount of time explaining his reasons for staying and how important roots and how misunderstood his people are. And then Donald Trump wins, and it’s a difficult thing for him to reckon with. Possibly the most heartbreaking moment of the film is watching Silas and his husband work through this.
Reader, I tried. Per an editor’s helpful column idea, I clicked on Netflix’s “Hillbilly Elegy” and I started to watch J.D. Vance’s life story, but in the first 10 minutes, with the frogs croaking in the creek and little J.D. Vance getting beat up by the creek before he’s rescued by his kin in a pickup truck, I just could not.
More bunk, so so American, defending your neck of the woods and criticizing the others, i.e., ‘those damn callifornians and texans are raising the price of everything when they move to our little or medium sized town.’ Source.
The region is roughly the size of Greece with about 16 million inhabitants. To gauge how it’s doing, we have to look at data, and a decent source is the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), which has been coordinating federal investments in the area for nearly 60 years. In that time, there have been some huge changes.
In 1960, over 30% of people in the area covered by the ARC lived in poverty. By 2018-2022, that figure plummeted to 14.3%, just two points above the national average.
(An important sidebar: The ARC covers some areas outside the Appalachian Mountains, including parts of Mississippi, and omits areas that are part of Appalachia, including Roanoke city, Roanoke County and much of the Shenandoah Valley. The politics behind this is an interesting topic for another day.)
Not surprisingly, the counties that still have sky-high poverty rates are concentrated in east Kentucky, southern West Virginia and far southwest Virginia, where communities are struggling to find their footing as the coal market declines.
In the rest of the region, people don’t earn quite as much as the U.S. average but close. Many are making enough to stay in their homeland rather than move away. That alone is a sea change from two generations ago, when the hillbilly highway ushered a stream of people out of the Appalachians in search of work. Today, populations are growing in the mountains of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. This part of Appalachia is experiencing a boom of sorts.
Just look at the Great Smoky Mountains. They comprise the nation’s most popular national park with 13.3 million visits in 2023. Nearby Asheville, North Carolina, has become a tourism mecca and is showered with accolades, including the coveted Beer City USA title four years in a row. That designation and the town’s charms helped win over Sierra Nevada and New Belgium, which now have East Coast breweries there, and Asheville’s success has rubbed off on other mountain cities. Breweries, cideries and distilleries can be found all over now, including the area around my hometown of Roanoke, which has over a dozen breweries and five distilleries, some of which export products across the eastern U.S.
Many people are tempted to dismiss success in places such as Asheville and Roanoke because they were never beholden to King Coal, but even in the poorest parts of Appalachia, there are signs of hope.
In 2020 the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve was created in southern West Virginia, boosting area visitations by over 510,000 people. Today, the park pulls $96 million into a corner of Appalachia that’s been decimated by coal’s collapse.
Over in the far southwest corner of Virginia, the Crooked Road, a bluegrass and old-time music trail, leads tourists from one coal county to another. Since its inception in 2004, travel expenditures in the area have nearly doubled to $1.2 billion.
And in Pikeville, Kentucky, a little company called BitSource is turning stereotypes on their head by training former coal miners to be coders. Their goal is nothing short of rebranding the area as “silicon holler,” a center for coding, data centers, fulfillment houses, customer service facilities and other tech services that could be situated anywhere but that benefit from our affordable land and labor.
Speaking of computing, try Googling the word “visit” and any of these places — Asheville, Shepherdstown, Chattanooga, Greenville, Roanoke, Knoxville, Galax, Berea or Staunton. The results give a peek at the new Appalachian South. From legal moonshine to bands that merge punk rock and bluegrass, we’re using our heritage to innovate, our ready workforce to attract employers, and our natural resources to draw tourists by the millions.
Sure, inside and outside Appalachia, some people are raised like JD Vance, but his story shouldn’t define a region where he never actually lived. Instead, let’s take back some of his spotlight and shine it on the hillbillies who are truly reviving the Appalachian South.
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In 2003, America watched dramatic footage of a young soldier rescued from captivity in Iraq. The story was everywhere, on every news channel, every front page.
Jessica Lynch was portrayed as a fighter who battled Iraqi forces until her ammunition ran out. A warrior who went down fighting. It was heroic. It was cinematic. It was exactly what America needed during an unpopular war.
And it was not true.
Jessica Lynch was a nineteen-year-old supply clerk from Palestine, West Virginia. She had joined the Army to pay for college, dreaming of becoming a kindergarten teacher. She wasn’t infantry. She wasn’t Special Forces. She was a Private First Class with the 507th Maintenance Company, driving supply trucks.
On March 23, 2003—just days into the Iraq invasion—her convoy took a wrong turn near Nasiriyah and drove straight into enemy territory.
The ambush was brutal and swift. Iraqi forces opened fire. Vehicles crashed. Eleven American soldiers were killed. Jessica’s Humvee crashed violently during the chaos. She suffered catastrophic injuries: broken back, broken legs, dislocated ankle, shattered bones throughout her body.
She never fired her weapon. Her M16 jammed. She was knocked unconscious in the crash.
She woke up in Iraqi custody.
For nine days, Jessica Lynch was a prisoner of war, held at Saddam Hussein Hospital in Nasiriyah. She was terrified, in excruciating pain, and didn’t know if she would survive.
On April 1, 2003, U.S. Special Operations Forces launched a nighttime raid on the hospital. The rescue was filmed. Dramatic footage showed commandos storming the building, securing Lynch, and carrying her to a waiting helicopter.
The video was released immediately. America had its hero.
Within hours, the narrative began: Jessica Lynch had fought back ferociously. She had fired her weapon until she ran out of ammunition. She had been stabbed and shot. She refused to be taken alive. Even wounded, she kept fighting.
The Washington Post ran a front-page story: “She Was Fighting to the Death.”
Television networks replayed the rescue footage endlessly. Comparisons to Rambo followed. A female soldier fighting to her last breath became the symbol of American courage in Iraq.
There was only one problem: none of it was true.
And Jessica Lynch knew it.
For months, she stayed quiet. She was recovering from devastating injuries, undergoing surgery after surgery. She was being celebrated as a national hero. The attention was overwhelming.
But the story being told wasn’t hers.
In 2007, Jessica was asked to testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform—alongside the family of Pat Tillman, an NFL player turned Army Ranger who had also been the subject of false Pentagon narratives after his death by friendly fire.
Jessica could have stayed silent. It would have been safer. Easier. She was already dealing with PTSD, chronic pain, and the trauma of what had actually happened to her in captivity.
Instead, she told the truth.
She testified that she never fired her weapon, that her rifle had jammed, and that she had been knocked unconscious when her vehicle crashed.
She rejected the heroic narrative built around her: “Stories of ‘a little girl Rambo from the hills of West Virginia who went down fighting’ were not true. I’m still confused as to why they chose to lie and try to make me a legend when the real heroics of my fellow soldiers that day were legendary.”
The backlash was immediate.
Criticizing the military narrative during wartime made some people furious. She was accused of being ungrateful, unpatriotic, even disloyal. How dare she diminish her own heroism?
But Jessica understood something her critics didn’t: false heroism dishonors real sacrifice.
Eleven soldiers died in that ambush. Her best friend, Lori Piestewa, was killed. Those soldiers deserved to be remembered for what actually happened—not overshadowed by a fabricated story created for propaganda purposes.
Jessica insisted the real heroes were the soldiers who died protecting others and the Special Operations Forces who risked their lives to rescue her. Not the manufactured story designed to boost public support for a controversial war.
She said: “They used me to symbolize all this stuff. It’s wrong.”
Her honesty was radical because it rejected something powerful: the seduction of being celebrated, even when that celebration is based on lies.
Most people, given the choice between uncomfortable truth and comfortable fiction, choose fiction—especially when fiction makes them look heroic.
Jessica Lynch chose truth.
She could have accepted the medals, the fame, the narrative that made her a symbol. Instead, she stood before Congress and said: that’s not what happened to me. And the truth matters more than making people feel good about this war.
Her courage didn’t come during the ambush—she was unconscious for that. Her courage came afterward, when she refused to let propaganda replace reality.
The Pentagon Inspector General later confirmed the rescue was legitimate but acknowledged the initial reports were inaccurate. Iraqi hospital staff who had treated Jessica said they had cared for her kindly, and that Iraqi military forces had already left the hospital before U.S. troops arrived.
The “daring raid under heavy fire” had faced minimal resistance.
Jessica Lynch is now 41 years old. She lives in West Virginia. She became a teacher, fulfilling the dream that led her to join the military in the first place. She has a daughter named Dakota Ann—named after her best friend Lori who died in the ambush.
She still has nightmares. She’s had over twenty surgeries. She lives with chronic pain and PTSD. The war never really ended for her.
But she has something many people never find: integrity.
She refused to be a symbol when the symbol was a lie. She rejected heroism she didn’t earn. She insisted that truth mattered more than patriotic mythology.
In a war filled with exaggerated stories and manufactured narratives, Jessica Lynch’s real courage came in saying five words that cost her dearly:
“That’s not what happened.”
And standing by the truth anyway.
Those Christians . . .
Paula White’s boobs Trump lingers on:
Billy Redden was a typical local teen living in Georgia, handpicked by director John Boorman for the role of an odd banjo player in the Oscar-nominated classic DELIVERANCE (1972, R). To Boorman, Redden had the exact look of a country boy, the mannerisms, and something different from the usual qualities needed for a part that could be suitable only for someone who wasn’t trained as an actor: a nonspeaking part in one sequence in which he makes a banjo duel against Ronny Cox. The sequence turned out to be one of the highest points of the thriller – and one of the most memorable moments of cinema.
Redden did not know how to play the banjo, so another teenager was his hand double in the song “Dueling Banjos” while in the soundtrack, [JEWS] Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell were the musicians performing the song. The sequence asked for Billy’s character to show a complete state of contempt for Cox’s character (his on-screen rival), but he couldn’t act in such way with the actor because he was very fond of him. On the other hand, he had a complete dislike for Ned Beatty, so the trick the director used for getting the exact reaction in the shot was to put Beatty next to Cox to make Billy react with disgust and dead-on facial expressions toward Beatty. The rest was all accomplished in the editing room.
Despite widespread rumors and the character’s portrayal in the 1972 film Deliverance, actor Billy Redden does not have a developmental disability or mental impairment. Director John Boorman handpicked Redden, who was 15 at the time, specifically for his unique physical appearance—characterized by a thin frame and almond-shaped eyes—to embody the “backwoods” look described in the original novel. To achieve the unsettling, “inbred” appearance seen on screen, the filmmakers used specialized makeup and lighting.
Recently, he was in the hospital and racked up numerous medical bills. Now 68-years-old, over the last few years Redden has been working as a greeter and janitor at the Walmart in Clayton, GA.
Billy Redden is the so-called “Banjo Boy” from the iconic “Dueling Banjos” scene in the movie “Deliverance”.
This scene enriched all who were involved – the movie was a hit and the song itself won a Golden Globe and a Grammy – but it did not enrich Redden.
Redden was not an actor at the time. He was a local 15-year-old in Clayton, Georgia where the film was made. The Director, John Boorman, chose Redden because he appeared to look like a backwoods boy. He filmed the scene and was largely forgotten.
Redden was not paid very much for his work in the iconic scene. Afterward, he sustained himself as a working man, working menial jobs in his local community to make ends meet. Nothing wrong with being a working man, mind you. Billy isn’t complaining, but some believe there might have been some exploitation of this boy.
JEWS: Arthur Smith, left, was the actual composer of “Feudin’ Banjos”, recorded in 1955 with five-string banjo player Don Reno, right.
When the composition was performed in the 1972 film Deliverance, retitled “Dueling Banjos” and performed by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell, Smith was not credited. “Dueling Banjos” became a hit song.
In what was considered a landmark copyright infringement suit, Smith sued Warner Brothers, winning a substantial settlement, including his being awarded songwriting credit and back royalties.
Mossad, Israel’s national intelligence agency, heavily utilizes deception, subterfuge, and strategic planning—often derived from the philosophy “By way of deception, thou shalt do war” (Proverbs 24:6)—to execute intelligence gathering, counter-terrorism, and covert operations, including manufacturing front companies and fake products to infiltrate adversaries.
We create a pretend world. We are a global production company, we are the directors, the producers, the screenplay writers, the main actors, the world is our STAGE. Oh, those Jews — 60 Minutes clip.
Deep Cover and Forgery: Agents (katsas) are trained to create elaborate, fabricated identities, fake businesses, and front companies to infiltrate targets or acquire technology.
The Pager Operation: Mossad fabricated a “pretend world” to sell explosive-laden pagers and walkie-talkies to Hezbollah. They created fake YouTube advertisements and websites for a, fictitious, high-end, premium product to ensure the devices were accepted.
“By Way of Deception”: The famous, often misunderstood, motto—derived from Proverbs 24:6—is widely understood as “Through wise counsel/stratagems you shall make war,” highlighting the use of cunning rather than just brute force.
Psychological Operations and Misinformation: In addition to physical operations, Mossad has been linked to spreading disinformation to confuse enemies and using fake accounts to manage public perception, such as during the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Controversies: Former officer Victor Ostrovsky claimed in his book, By Way of Deception, that the agency has utilized these methods for activities reaching beyond traditional intelligence gathering, sometimes endangering international partnerships.
MAGA MAGA MAGA:
For years, American media fixated relentlessly on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, yet FBI documents reveal a parallel story of Israeli contacts with the Trump campaign that received virtually no scrutiny despite evidence of attempted foreign intervention.
This operation involved high-ranking Israeli officials, secret agents, and a sustained effort to provide Donald Trump’s campaign with what one participant called “critical intel” to defeat Hillary Clinton.
The story only emerged through heavily redacted FBI search warrant documents released in 2020, more than four years after the events occurred. According to these documents, examined extensively by intelligence expert James Bamford in The Nation, Israeli officials conducted a months-long operation attempting to establish covert channels to the Trump campaign, offer foreign intelligence assistance, and secure policy commitments in exchange for intervention in the American electoral process.
Yet despite clear evidence of foreign government officials attempting to influence a U.S. presidential election, this Israeli operation received no congressional hearings, no Justice Department investigations beyond the initial FBI probe, and virtually no sustained media coverage. The contrast with the intense scrutiny applied to Russian activities raises uncomfortable questions about selective enforcement, media priorities, and whether some foreign interference matters more than others.
Rabbi Honored by Israel Lives in Illegal West Bank Home on Private Palestinian Land
[Avraham Zarbiv in Gaza, in December 2023. ‘The Rabbinical Court of Khan Yunis’ is graffitied on the wall behind him.]
An NGO monitoring West Bank construction said Avraham Zarbiv’s home sits on Palestinian land and has been under a demolition order since 2000; the rabbi also boasted of destroying homes in Gaza and called to ‘flatten’ it during his IDF service.
These fucking liars murderers, Nakba neuroperverse cunts, May 13, 2024.
Israel lifts wartime restrictions nationwide, authorizes Independence Day ceremonies
The IDF, Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar, and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced the nationwide lifting of restrictions on Friday, with northern communities seeing them lifted on Saturday.
Brutes, neuroperverse, all of them. Building New Lives in Israel – One Story at a Time. Smiling, profiting from theft, shekel changing, rape, murder. [WATCH: Welcome to Aliyah Stories – Brought to you by The Jerusalem Post and Nefesh B’Nefesh.]
Fucking understatement. They all need to be locked up, starting with 319 Jewish Billionaires and millions of Jewish millionaires. Pope Leo warned the world is in ‘big trouble’ if Elon Musk becomes the first trillionaire.
The sickness of these gamblers: In the final hours of President Biden’s term, a Polymarket trader made around $300,000 correctly betting on Biden’s last-minute pardons, according to new data provided to NPR by an analytics firm that examines cryptocurrency transactions.
As Biden issued a wave of pardons just hours before leaving the White House, the Polymarket trader bet big on four names, with the odds of those pardons occurring rapidly dropping to near zero on the prediction market site.
The trader, whose identity is not publicly known, placed around $64,000 worth of bets that Biden would issue pre-emptive pardons for Jim Biden, the former president’s brother, former Rep Liz Cheney, Sen. Adam Schiff, former Rep. Adam Kinzinger — all prominent critics of President Trump. While none were ever charged with crimes, all four were given pardons to shield them against possible prosecution in Trump’s second term.
“It’s on my desk. I’m going to read it. Read it very carefully,” Mills, a Democrat, said in a wide-ranging interview with NBC News, adding that it doesn’t contain a “carveout” she wanted for a project in the struggling town of Jay in order to boost jobs.
On the Nature of Inverted Totalitarianism (Sheldon Wolin)
“Inverted totalitarianism represents the coming of age of corporate power, where lobbying, political contributions, and the revolving door ensure corporations dominate the government.”
“It works indirectly… encouraging distraction or apathy [and] conditioning an electorate to being aroused for a brief spell.”
“Above all, depoliticization is promoted through society’s being enveloped in an atmosphere of collective fear and of individual powerlessness: fear of terrorists, loss of jobs, the uncertainties of pension plans.”
“We are tolerated as citizens… only as long as we participate in the illusion of a participatory democracy.”
On Economic and Corporate Control (Sheldon Wolin)
“The virtual reality of the advertiser and the ‘good news’ of the evangelist complement each other, a match made in heaven.”
“The proliferation of Washington lobbyists… is indicative of a radical change in the meaning of who and what are being represented, and indicative also of the final defeat of majority rule.”
The U.S. Supreme Court is Much More United Than You Think
Dirty dirty dirty: The Supreme Court hands a win to oil and gas companies fighting environmental lawsuits in Louisiana
They are fascists! Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their datacentres, an investigation has found, with demands to block a database of green metrics from public view written almost word for word into EU rules.
The secrecy provision, which the European Commission added to its proposal almost verbatim after industry lobbying in 2024, hinders scrutiny of the pollution that individual datacentres emit. It leaves researchers with just national-level summaries of their energy footprints.
The rise of AI chatbots has spurred a boom in the construction of chip-filled warehouses with a hunger for power that is being met, in part, by burning fossil gas. Legal scholars warn the blanket confidentiality clause may fall foul of EU transparency rules and the Aarhus convention on public access to environmental information.
Mainstream artificial intelligence safety groups moved quickly to distance themselves after a 20-year-old allegedly attacked the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman last week in what law enforcement officers said appeared to be part of a plot to harm AI executives. But people in some corners of the internet cheered the attack.
One X user compared the attacker to Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in a politically motivated attack, in a post calling the two men “heroes.”
Multiple users on X called the attack “justified.”
WHORES for fascism: Student loan collection expected to target thousands of people this summer
The Trump administration’s move would mark the first step in transferring the student loan portfolio to Treasury and the latest action to dismantle the Education Department.
Provo, Utah — Tyler Robinson, the Utah man accused of fatally shooting Charlie Kirk, appeared in court Friday while his attorneys argued for cameras to be banned from the proceedings moving forward, arguing news coverage of the high-profile case could harm their client’s right to a fair trial.
The defense’s primary argument is media coverage has been largely prejudicial to Robinson, potentially tainting the jury pool. Cameras and audio recording devices should no longer be allowed inside the courtroom or “the defendant’s fair trial rights will be jeopardized,” Robinson’s attorney Michael Burt argued.
Prosecutors, meanwhile, sought to maintain the presence of cameras, saying in part it was the best way to combat misinformation about a case centered on the public assassination of the prominent conservative activist. A coalition of news outlets – which includes CNN – and Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, are also in favor of keeping the proceedings open to cameras.
“Mischief lurks in the dark or in secret,” prosecutor Chad Grunander said in his closing argument. “Conspiracy theories abound, and the antidote is the actual, real proceedings.”
According to FBI affidavits, the operation centered on a mysterious Israeli agent acting under direct orders from someone identified as “PM,” whom the FBI stated refers to “the Prime Minister.” Though the agent’s name was redacted throughout the documents, Bamford’s analysis suggests the profile closely matches Isaac Molho, Benjamin Netanyahu’s top personal aide and confidential envoy.
Israeli newspaper Haaretzdescribed Molho as a “discreet man for sensitive missions”, who operated with “almost complete silence from the media” while undertaking sensitive assignments with Mossad providing logistical support, enjoying what the paper described as extraordinary autonomy on Netanyahu’s most sensitive assignments. The newspaper characterized him as having carried out “the most sensitive missions for Netanyahu,” missions whose full scope, Netanyahu himself wrote, “will not be possible to reveal…for at least several decades.”
The FBI documents describe an agent with authority to direct other high-ranking Israeli officials and who was summoned from the United States to Rome at a moment’s notice to accompany Netanyahu to negotiations with Secretary of State John Kerry over Palestine. This critical role matched Molho’s known responsibilities during this period.
For Netanyahu, the stakes in the 2016 American election could not have been higher. President Obama and Kerry were pressuring Israel on Palestinian statehood, the Middle East Quartet was preparing a report critical of settlement policies, and the Iran nuclear deal represented everything Netanyahu opposed. Trump, by contrast, promised to scrap the Iran agreement, recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s undivided capital, support continued occupation of Palestinian territories, and eventually take direct military action against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Netanyahu’s solution, according to the FBI documents, involved dispatching his trusted aide to establish a back channel to Trump and offer assistance that would prove remarkably prescient about upcoming WikiLeaks releases and hacked Democratic Party emails.
Rapid Growth: The tech sector added 59 new billionaires since 2024, the fastest growth rate of any industry at 17.25%.
AI Boom: Artificial intelligence is the primary catalyst for new wealth, with 86 AI-specific billionaires identified in 2026, collectively worth $2.9 trillion.
Concentration of Wealth: Technology is the wealthiest industry overall, with a collective net worth of approximately $3.2 trillion.
Dominance at the Top: Tech titans represent 8 of the 10 richest people on earth.
Key Statistics on Tech Wealth (2025–2026)
The Billionaire Class: As of April 2026, there are 3,428 billionaires globally, with the technology sector being the fastest-growing source of new wealth. Approximately 401 billionaires (nearly 14% of the global total) come from the tech industry.
Employee Millionaires: Large tech companies are massive “millionaire factories.” For example, roughly 76–78% of Nvidia’s workforce are now millionaires due to the company’s surging stock price, creating an estimated 27,000 millionaires at that single company alone.
AI Surge: The rapid rise of artificial intelligence has created hundreds of new “paper” fortunes. There are now 498 AI unicorns (startups valued at $1 billion+) and over 1,300 AI startups with valuations exceeding $100 million.
Wealth Distribution by Generation
Tech has become the primary path to wealth for younger generations:
Millennials: Roughly one-third of millennial billionaires made their fortunes in tech.
Gen X: About 24.2% of Gen X billionaires—including figures like Elon Musk and Larry Page—derive their wealth from the technology sector.
A good one here: Criticism of Israel, which is Right and Just, was not created in a vacuum. The slaughter based upon lies has been on-going for over 125 years. Israel the land is the creation of the West, and supports it, with blood.
The American right has descended into a bitter dispute over U.S. support for Israel. Does this dispute pose an existential threat to Israel? Dimitri Lascaris
Of course, the US military machine is mean, not-so-lean, and so full of Eichmanns and Faustians, and those jobs, man, not just the missile warehouse and fancy office jobs, cut all the tertiary jobs and majors in universities, that’s why there will be continued fucking death in West Asia. A pause? No, strategy. Proving grounds, crash test dummy exploration, war and Iran and dead children fatigue, and alas, we got fucking the 250 years of lies USA birthday bash, so, DEI these death machine making operations:
Fancy fancy Tucson, Arizona workplace:
Raytheon, a subsidiary of RTX Corp., employs approximately 13,000 people in Tucson as of April 2026. It is the city’s largest private employer, with its operations centered primarily at the Tucson Missile Plant near Tucson International Airport.
Arizona Presence: Across the state, Raytheon employs roughly 15,000 workers, with the vast majority based in the Tucson area.
Expansion Plans: Recent initiatives, such as a $20 million facility expansion announced in late 2025, are expected to add at least 150 new engineering jobs by mid-2026.
Job Types: Approximately half of the workforce consists of engineers. Other roles include technicians, assembly operators, and administrative staff focused on precision weapons like the Tomahawk and AMRAAM missiles.
Wages: The median wage for employees at the Tucson site is estimated at $71,800 per year
Professor Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran, who has close ties to the Iranian government, posted on X Friday that he believes there is a high probability that the U.S. and Israel will renew the war by blaming Iran for not honoring the agreement that Tehran never agreed to in the first place.
He posted on X: “Personally, I believe Trump is probably saying all this nonsense about agreements with Iran so that he can later claim, ‘Iran didn’t keep its promises’ – promises Iran never made. The chances of renewed murderous aggression from Trump and Netanyahu are high.”
Top U.S. cities for military weapons manufacturing are concentrated in Texas, Arizona, and the Northeast, driven by major contractors like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Boeing. Key hubs include Dallas-Fort Worth, TX; Phoenix, AZ; and Washington D.C./Arlington, VA, which anchor large-scale production for aerospace, missile, and defense systems.
Relocation South/West: Gun and defense manufacturers are increasingly moving to Texas, Tennessee, and Florida, citing lower taxes, fewer regulations, and better business climates.
Top States by Contract Spending: Texas (led by Lockheed Martin), Virginia, and California dominate Department of Defense (DoD) spending.
Specialized Manufacturing: Connecticut remains a hub for high-end defense components, including helicopters (Sikorsky) and jet engines (Pratt & Whitney).
Ammunition Production: Missouri (ATK/Vista Outdoor) is a key site for small-caliber ammunition production.
Key missile manufacturing locations include:
Camden, Arkansas (Lockheed Martin): A major hub for producing PAC-3, THAAD, and GMLRS missiles.
Pike County, Alabama (Lockheed Martin): Manufactures Javelin, JASSM, and THAAD missiles.
Huntsville/Redstone Arsenal, Alabama (Raytheon/Boeing/Lockheed Martin):Produces Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) and Standard Missile-6 (SM-6).
Tucson, Arizona (Raytheon): Hub for Tomahawk cruise missiles and other advanced systems.
Courtland, Alabama (Lockheed Martin): A “digital factory” specializing in hypersonic strike production.
Rocket Center, West Virginia (Northrop Grumman): Produces rocket motors and components at the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory.
Louisville, Kentucky (Raytheon): Produces Phalanx, SeaRAM, and Rolling Airframe Missile launchers
Military industrial complex? Uniforms or no uniforms?
Major Wars and Military Interventions
Korean War (1953): Fulfilling a campaign promise, Eisenhower secured an armistice in July 1953, effectively ending the active combat that had begun in 1950 [11, 24].
Suez Crisis (1956): After Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt to regain control of the Suez Canal, Eisenhower used diplomatic and economic pressure to force their withdrawal, avoiding a larger conflict with the Soviet Union [5, 24].
Lebanon Crisis (1958): Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, which promised aid to Middle Eastern nations threatened by communism, Eisenhower deployed 15,000 U.S. Marines to Lebanon to stabilize a pro-Western government during internal strife [24, 28].
Vietnam and Indochina: While he did not commit combat troops, Eisenhower provided massive financial and military aid to the French in the First Indochina War and later supported the new state of South Vietnam with billions in aid and military advisors [24, 33].
CIA-Orchestrated Coups and Covert Actions
Eisenhower authorized several covert operations through the CIA to overthrow regimes he perceived as pro-communist or threatening to Western interests:
Iran (1953) – Operation Ajax: The CIA helped overthrow Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh after he nationalized the Iranian oil industry, reinstating the Shah to ensure Western oil interests [13, 16, 31].
Guatemala (1954) – Operation PBSUCCESS: A CIA-sponsored coup ousted democratically elected President Jacobo Árbenz after his land reforms impacted the American-owned United Fruit Company [13, 31].
Cuba: In his final years, Eisenhower authorized the training of Cuban exiles for an invasion to topple Fidel Castro, a plan that eventually became the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion under President Kennedy [5, 24].
Congo(1960): The administration authorized covert operations in the newly independent Congo to counter Soviet influence, which included planning for the assassination of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba [10, 22].
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No school needed, cuz the offensive weapons companies will pay you on the spot:
The average federal student loan balance for a Millennial borrower in 2026 is $40,438.
For borrowers in the 35–44 age bracket — Elder Millennials who took on debt before the 2008 financial crisis and have had less earning time to reduce principal — the average climbs to approximately $43,438.
For comparison, inflation-adjusted tuition and borrowing costs in the 1980s placed the average student debt load for that era’s graduates at roughly $9,000–$12,000 in today’s dollars.
The jump from $9,000–$12,000 to $40,000–$43,000 is where the 430–480% figure comes from.
That range shifts toward 500% when using the upper end of current Millennial averages against the lower end of historical baselines.
The Trump administration is working on a deal that would have Iran surrender its stockpile of enriched uranium in exchange for roughly $20 billion in previously frozen assets.
That’s a significant concession from Trump, who has been looking for a way to end his war as gas prices skyrocket and the November midterms draw ever closer.
Here’s what’s actually on the table. Iran is sitting on nearly 2,000 kilograms of enriched uranium, It’s not weapons-grade, but it’s close. The U.S. wants it shipped out of the country entirely. Iran has pushed back, preferring to “down-blend” it under international monitoring. The current compromise would send some of it to a third country and down-blend the rest.
The moratorium on enrichment is another sticking point. The U.S. started by demanding 20 years. Iran countered with five. They haven’t bridged that gap yet.
After the story broke, Trump posted on Truth Social that “no money will change hands,” though he didn’t specifically address the idea of unfreezing Iranian assets. That’s a pretty notable omission.
There are hawks on both sides who want this to fail. And some in Washington are already comparing any deal to Obama’s 2015 nuclear agreement that only gave Iran $1.7 billion, which Trump spent years attacking.
Something unusual is happening inside Trump’s base. A growing number of MAGA figures, including some who were once among Trump’s most loyal supporters, are starting to publicly entertain the idea that the 2024 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, was staged.
This didn’t come out of nowhere. It started after Trump’s former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent, who resigned over the Iran war, went on Tucker Carlson’s show and suggested that investigations into the shooting had been shut down prematurely.
A Texas delegate from the 2024 Republican National Convention posted on X that Trump “has shown no interest in investigating what really happened.” She noted that Trump rarely mentions it anymore.
Comedian Tim Dillon, who had JD Vance on his podcast, said he thinks “maybe it was staged.” Candace Owens, who has completely broken with Trump, claimed billionaire Republican donor Miriam Adelson was behind the attempt because Trump hadn’t followed through on promises related to Israel. And Ali Alexander, the Stop the Steal architect, wrote on Telegram that the attempt was a sign Trump is the Antichrist, citing the Book of Revelation.
This is what a coalition looks like when it starts to fall apart.
Trump’s decision to enter the Iran war, his attacks on the Catholic Church, and recent remarks that seemed to compare himself to Jesus Christ have all created real cracks. These aren’t just fringe voices anymore. They’re Republican convention delegates and former administration officials.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s Lawyer Expects Trump Pardon
Even though Ghislaine Maxwell is a convicted child sex trafficker serving a 20 year prison sentence, her attorney, David Oscar Markus, is confident that Trump will eventually pardon her.
Markus is playing a central role in Maxwell’s communication with senior Justice Department officials, including acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who is also Trump’s former personal criminal defense lawyer.
Last July, Blanche personally traveled to Tallahassee to meet with Maxwell for two days. She was granted limited immunity for the meeting. Afterward, Maxwell was transferred to a minimum-security facility in Texas, where Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes is also housed. Democratic lawmakers questioned whether that transfer was a reward.
Maxwell has not yet been granted clemency, and Markus says now isn’t the right time to push hard for it given the political firestorm over the Epstein files. Congress is still investigating. Former AG Pam Bondi was pushed out in part because of how badly the administration handled the release of those files.
But Markus doesn’t hide his optimism. Asked about the chances of a pardon, he said: “There’s a good chance and for good reason that she would get a pardon.”
That’s a remarkable statement about someone convicted of sex trafficking a minor.
Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS. A new legal filing indicates he is in discussions with the IRS to try to resolve the case. The talks are intended to avoid a prolonged court battle and will ensure that the President gets likely billions of dollars in his own pockets. The situation underscores the unusual dynamic of Trump negotiating with a federal agency he once oversaw.
The Strait of Hormuz is not fully open in practice, as ships must follow routes controlled or approved by Iran, while a U.S. naval blockade is still in effect. Meanwhile, falling oil prices are driven less by actual changes in conditions and more by market expectations that a U.S.-Iran nuclear deal may happen soon. Those expectations may be overly optimistic given ongoing uncertainties and unresolved tensions. Iran is trolling the President this afternoon.
When the system breaks, what happens to resistance?
A court rules Palestine Action’s proscription unlawful. Arrests should stop. They don’t. Power shifts, reverses, and reasserts itself. This isn’t dysfunction. It’s how power operates—entrenched, unaccountable, and built to resist challenge.
In this episode of The Tea, we sit down with hip-hop legend and political powerhouse Lowkey, one of the UK’s most uncompromising voices. From West London to the world stage, he has spent two decades dismantling empire through music — and challenging the idea that art can ever be neutral.
From Gaza to Grenfell, from direct action targeting arms factories to the widening crackdown on dissent, we dig into what happens when anger meets silence—or repression.
Also in the show:
⚡ Music as resistance to propaganda
⚡ Raucous Records & Rupert Murdoch’s orbit — the business of “conscious rap”
⚡ “Music is not apolitical” — why artists must reflect their times
⚡ Stormzy and the McDonald’s backlash
⚡ Attempts to silence Lowkey — pro-Israel lobbying and censorship
⚡ Universal Music Group & the Israeli lobby—a family affair
⚡ Zionism and the origins of an ethnocratic project
⚡ Israel’s “Unit 8200” — from military tech to private power
⚡ The Grenfell tragedy —a textbook case of corporate impunity
⚡ Tony Blair —a love affair with the Israeli lobbies
⚡ Kanye West and the politics of cancellation
Lowkey argues that real change doesn’t come from within the system — but from applying pressure outside it. And as repression grows, so does resistance. As he puts it, “who doesn’t resist is closer to death.”
Jews, and they are winning:
Key Facts
More than 9,600 Palestinians are currently held in Israeli prisons, according to latest available figures.
At least 350 children and 86 women are among the detainees.
3,532 Palestinians are held under administrative detention without charge or trial.
1,251 detainees are classified as “unlawful combatants,” allowing detention without standard legal protections.
Large numbers of detainees from Gaza remain uncounted and are held in military facilities outside the formal prison system.
Reports document widespread use of solitary confinement, physical and psychological abuse, and medical neglect.
Family visits and communication are frequently restricted or denied, particularly since the escalation of war on Gaza.
The issue of prisoners has remained central to the Palestinian struggle for decades and is commemorated annually on April 17.
Oh, fucking Dennis. There is zero relationship between USA bombing Vietnam and Iran, or anything tied to Iraq. Jews and Israel and 319 Jewish Billionaires, Mister Ohio.
Kucinich draws direct parallels between the current moment and past wars, particularly Vietnam and Iraq. He recalls how the United States entered those conflicts without fully understanding the consequences, only to become trapped in prolonged, costly engagements that failed to achieve their stated aims. The language of “quagmire” and “credibility gap,” once associated with Vietnam, is now resurfacing, signaling a repetition of history rather than a departure from it.
The Iraq War, which Kucinich led the opposition to while in Congress, serves as a particularly stark warning. Built on false premises and sustained by political inertia, it cost trillions of dollars and countless lives. He suggests that the rationale for confronting Iran, including renewed fears around weapons programs, echoes those earlier justifications, raising serious concerns about truth, accountability, and intent.
To accuse the Pope of weakness borders on the ridiculous, especially when such criticism comes from a president who, in recent times, has shown himself completely subservient to the Israeli government.
The instability in the Middle East is today more than ever a matter of pressing relevance: Jerusalem stands at the center of the world. It is precisely there—where Christ himself was born, lived, died, and rose again—that the destiny of all humanity is being shaped.
This instability, partly natural and inherent to the coexistence of different peoples, is also artificially fueled by global powers, with Israel and the United States acting in coalition and at the forefront.
In the face of the immense suffering endured by the countries involved in confrontations with Israel—a constant affecting all neighboring states, which suggests a clear primary responsibility of this state in the painful instability afflicting the region—an authoritative voice rises and echoes across the world: the voice of the Roman Pontiff.
Dennis Kucinich is a lifelong Roman Catholic who describes his faith as a “private practice” that includes attending Mass, though he has noted he does so “not often” in recent years. While his upbringing and education are rooted in the Church, his public identity often blends traditional Catholicism with “deep spirituality” and various New Age influences.
As we know far too well, when Donald Trump doesn’t get his way, he lashes out – and this week was no exception.
Trump and his cronies criticized judges, went after a whistleblower, and ridiculously lectured the… pope. Trump’s Truth Social tirades may seem like toddler-like tantrums, but they have real-world consequences, including hurting what’s left of the US’s standing in the world and harming what’s left of American democracy.
From firing judges for doing their jobs to removing the lead prosecutor from a probe investigating one of Trump’s political enemies to backing the far-right Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, here’s just a taste of what Trump and his allies did this week that undermines the Constitution, hurts democracy, and harms the world:
It is spring 2026. Since February 28, Iran has faced what Washington calls Operation Epic Fury and Tel Aviv Operation Roaring Lion. An American-Israeli military coalition of an amplitude unprecedented since the Second World War. Strikes on the nuclear installations at Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan. Massive cyberattacks on infrastructure. An economic war added to four decades of sanctions. And, in the background, the question that no one in Washington or Tel Aviv wants to formulate aloud: What if Iran resisted—truly?
Iran is winning the strategic war.[1] Not because its missiles are more precise than the adversary’s. But because Iran possesses what we call civilizational endurance: the capacity of an ancient civilization, forged over 5,000 years of history, to absorb blows without dissolving.
Trump and the Self-fulfilling Prophecy
The Trump administration has developed what we have called geopolitical-theological framing, that is, reading Middle Eastern conflicts as the fulfillment of biblical prophecies[4], as a cosmic combat between Good and Evil, in which Israel plays the role of divine instrument and Iran that of the Antichrist. Shariati had precisely analyzed this mechanism—but from the Islamic side. What he denounced in Safavid Shiism, the mobilization of the sacred in service of power and passivity, we see at work today in the so-called Judeo-Christian evangelical discourse that provides the moral and spiritual legitimacy for the bombings. The prophecy, used as a political weapon, transcends religions. It is universally lethal. But beneath the prophecy lies the oldest motive of all: as Michel Chossudovsky formulated it, the true engine of this war is the hegemonic battle for energy, namely the acquisition of oil and natural gas reserves worldwide.[3] Also, during the 2018 Kuala Lumpur Conference, he said, “The ultimate objective is world conquest under the cloak of human rights and Western democracy.”[4] This is not a war against terrorism. It is a war for the control of resources—the same war that colonial powers have always waged, under different names throughout the centuries. Shariati would have recognized the formula without hesitation. It is al-istikbar—the arrogance of the powerful, the pride of the pharaoh—dressed in UN clothing.
What is to be done with Shariati, then? We are not among those who believe a 20th-century thinker can provide ready-made answers to 21st-century problems. History is not an instruction manual. Revolutions cannot be photocopied, and yesterday’s prophets do not govern tomorrow.
But we believe—and it is the conviction of entire lives devoted to the history of oppressed peoples—that great thoughts survive their contexts because they pose universal questions in a particular language. And the questions Shariati posed remain unanswered, urgent, and subversive in their refusal of simplicity:
How does a civilization rise without betraying itself? How does one reconcile faith and freedom of conscience without one suffocating the other? How does one resist the empire—military, economic, cultural, prophetic—without reproducing its methods? And how does one make a revolution without creating a new tyranny that bears the name of the old freedom?
Khomeini did not answer those questions. He evaded them, and post-revolutionary Iran still bears the scars. Trump erases them, reducing all complexity to a tweet while eight million of his own people march in the streets. Netanyahu drowns them in the blood of the innocent while legislating in a bunker and standing trial for the 79th time. Reza Pahlavi sidesteps them elegantly, proposing to replace “theocratic subjugation” with geopolitical subjugation—and calling it freedom.
Shariati posed them. That is all. And that is already enormous—immense. In a world where everyone claims to have prefabricated answers, those who know how to formulate the right questions have become the true revolutionaries.
He died at 43, three weeks after his arrival in exile, under circumstances no one has ever truly elucidated. He is buried in Damascus, near the shrine of Sayyida Zaynab—where rests the memory of refusal, of dignity preserved in defeat, of a word carried to the end even when nothing justifies continuing except truth itself.
We think of him often when we walk through Laghouat in Algeria and pass the house of martyr Ahmed Chatta, abducted in 1958 by French colonial forces during the war of liberation, whose body was never recovered. Disappeared as men were made to disappear in that era: those who refused. We know he was killed, because that was the time when those who refused were killed. But his death has no place, no date, no grave. Only an absence that still inhabits the walls of that house and that we carry with us everywhere I go.
We think of those men who refused. Who said no. Who paid with their lives for that one-syllable word that the powerful cannot bear to hear — because that word, spoken by enough mouths, is capable of toppling thrones.
Shariati also said no. To the tyranny of the Shah. To the opium of Safavid Shiism. To Islam without thought and thought without roots. To colonization from within. And today, from his tomb in Damascus, he would say no to the Shah’s son returning in the baggage train of the bombers; no to the global war dressed as liberation; and no—above all, no—to all those who believe, through cynicism or naivety, that one can liberate a people with foreign bombs bearing the name of humanitarian aid.
And he would say one final thing to Algeria—to this country he loved, whose revolution formed him, whose diplomats may have saved his life, and whose best son died trying to save the peace: Rise. Speak. The world is waiting.
Bombs can destroy Natanz. They cannot destroy ideas. Sanctions can asphyxiate an economy. They cannot asphyxiate a civilization that has decided to live standing upright.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the great philosopher and major figure in the tradition of German idealism, once argued that “History begins with the Persians.” Indeed, “there were three significant Persian empires before people in Britain had got rid of the Romans and started making up stories about King Arthur. The first Persian Empire, from 559 BC to 330 BC, made famous by Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, was the earliest example of universal, imperial rule,” Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook wrote.[9] Darius the Great, the fifth-century BC ruler, said he was Achaemenid by family, Persian by tribe, and Iranian in terms of his people.
All the above should give the presidents of the newest of empires something to think about whenever they interact with the Iranians.
[Children gesture from a vehicle as displaced people make their way to return to their homes after a 10-day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel went into effect, near Tyre, Lebanon, 17 April.]
The deeper question is not simply why Israel continues to strike, but what this reveals about the current state of international order. Is security to be pursued through the reshaping of territory and the displacement of populations? Or can a framework be sustained in which even the most acute threats are addressed within the bounds of law and restraint?
Spying, honey pots, blackmail, extortion, and the basic values of Kosher Nostra from Altman to Ellison, so, just don’t look at the walking hemorrhoid Dershowitz as the only example!
Jews just don’t ask why Jews are so mean. Why they don’t look in the mirror. I mean, look, sort of like me looking in the mirror every time a teacher — K12 or higher ed — is accused of and found guilty of, well, messing around with students.
College teachers (professors, lecturers, TAs) dating students is generally discouraged or banned due to severe power imbalances and conflicts of interest. While rarely illegal if the student is over 18, it is heavily regulated, often requiring disclosure to HR to eliminate supervision, grading, or influence. Such relationships often violate university policy.
“What you should do is have a definitive policy one way or the other, where faculty and administrators decide which way is the best way to go — not start to carve out situations,” Miltenberg said. “What if it’s a dean with no direct academic role for the student, or a professor in a different department, or an adjunct? There are a lot of questions that will arise, with too many anomalies as far as circumstances.”
A sunset provision might work in the future, when colleges and universities “start to offer a fair, transparent and equitable process” to all parties in a Title IX case, Miltenberg said. Just not now. He recalled a case in which a faculty member taught only a core class, meaning there was no chance he would teach his students twice. But a relationship between the professor and one of his former students “didn’t go well,” Miltenberg said. “There was a complaint, and the faculty member lost his job.”
That’s what happened to John Barrett, an assistant professor of developmental studies at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, in 2017. According to court documents, Barrett sent a student of his a Facebook friend request at the end of the spring 2015 semester, when she was in his class. The two corresponded over the summer about the student’s writing. Back on campus in the fall, the student asked to meet Barrett for coffee, and they began dating. Their sexual relationship lasted through the next summer.
The pair remained friendly for a time after breaking up, but the student eventually confronted Barrett about a relationship he was having with a second former student of his. The first student later filed a complaint with the university, alleging that Barrett had touched her genitals while she was sleeping during their relationship. The university investigated and terminated Barrett based on his poor professional judgment and the alleged touching without consent (which he denied, and which the student never brought up during their relationship).
Barrett filed a grievance with his faculty union, and an arbitrator ordered his reinstatement. Bloomsburg fought the decision, but a state appeals court upheld it last week. Bloomsburg doesn’t prohibit student-faculty relationships unless a supervisory relationship exists, and it no longer did in Barrett’s relationships, the court determined.
OF COURSE I think about my colleagues, my profession, when I read stories about that problem in colleges and even fucking k12!
Now now now, the Jewish religion does permit this shit: retribution, blackmail, bilking, raping, murdering, and starving. Oh, it’s just ‘those Jews’ in Israel?
In August of 2024, CCTV footage was leaked from Sde Teiman, Israel’s torture dungeon for detained Palestinians, showing the gang rape of a Palestinian prisoner by IDF militants.
Middle East Eye reported that , “Two suspects were found to have failed polygraph tests when asked whether they had inserted an object into the detainee’s anus or were concealing the identity of the person responsible. They denied both, but the examiner concluded they were being deceptive.”
Yoel Donchin, the doctor who examined the victim at Sde Teiman, said , “doctors found intestinal tears and broken ribs,” and that “We saw that he had a stab wound in the anus,” adding, “I saw how the soldiers there behave. I saw how they bring in the detainees and how they force them to sing songs. I saw a wounded person who had been abused and beaten severely.”
After the IDF rapists were questioned by Israeli military police, “right to rape rallies” took place outside of Sde Teiman, where members of the radicalized Israeli public demanded the IDF militants be freed.
In March of this year, the Israeli army dropped the charges against the five IDF militants , a move that was celebrated by Israel’s genocidal Defense Minister, Israel Katz, who said, “The role of the IDF’s legal system is to defend and protect soldiers who are bravely fighting monsters in war – not the rights of Nukhba terrorists”.
Now, the IDF has sanctioned the use of rape against Palestinians by allowing the five IDF militants to return to service.
This week, two lists were published which outed the biggest Zionist tools in US office: one for Republicans and one for Dems, because here in the US we have a bipartisan array of political suckage.
First the Dems: Bernie Sanders introduced a bill in the Senate that would block the sale of bombs to Israel. It failed, in part because of seven Democrats who betrayed their base to side with the AIPAC lobbyists who own them:
The list includes arch-Zionist / Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, who, as the the plummeting of Israel’s reputation spreads to the Senate, has begun facing calls from his colleagues to resign in shame.
The second list shows, after years of being called a foreign agent in the pocket of Putin by corporate spokespeople at CNN and MSNBC, that Donald Trump really is a foreign agent. It’s just not the Russians who own him.
Of this list of Trump owners, 4 of 5 are Jewish, and all are radical Zionists. This is how Epstein-lawyer Alan Dershowitz has now begun blackmailing the president, saying that Israel will
“fight, even if it means confrontation with President Trump. We will take care of Trump. I met with him…and he was very receptive about Iran…and Miriam Adelson has met with him…”
Join Katie and Aaron for a deep dive into the Zionist lobby’s dealings with Trump and greedy Dems, plus Stephen Miller nearly slips up and calls for a “final solution” carried out by Israel, and Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo uses ChatGPT to get some questionable information.
“I have many jobs as leader… and one is to fight for aid to Israel – all the aid that Israel needs. I will continue to fight for it,” Chuck Schumer told a gathering of Jewish groups at the Park East Synagogue in New York in February.
There’s a piece out from Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng, and the upshot is this: a significant number of senior Trump administration officials are genuinely worried they’re going to end up in prison.
Stephen Miller. Pete Hegseth. Officials spread across multiple departments. According to administration insiders, they’re watching the polling data, they know Democrats are likely to retake the House in 2026, and they’re under no illusions about what that could mean.
They’ve already noticed Democratic politicians making increasingly public calls for aggressive prosecutions of Trump officials. One Trump aide described the trend as, quote, “kind of worrisome.” Many of these officials don’t believe that even presidential pardons will be enough to protect them once the political winds shift.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Trump has promised to sign mass pardons for administration officials before leaving office. But apparently that promise isn’t as reassuring as it sounds. Last year, multiple Trump officials quietly purchased new legal insurance and professional liability coverage in anticipation of future investigations and subpoenas.
The reality is setting in. These people know what they’ve done. And they’re starting to realize that history has a long memory.
Yeah, Katie and Aaron never question their own rabbis, their own upbringing, their own Jewishness when confronted with the hell on earth Jews seem to be unleashing out of proportion to their global total population.
[Based on the 2025 Forbes billionaire data, approximately 276 to 300+ individuals on the list are identified as Jewish or have Jewish heritage, representing about 9.1% of the world’s 3,028 billionaires. The number varies based on definitions of Jewish identity.]
Israel’s economy is rocking! Lots of Jewish American billionaires, too at Oracle, Nvidia, Google, few others. Great time to be Jewish!!
Numbers and tribal loyalties COUNT:
The number of Israeli billionaires on the Forbes list has grown rapidly, reaching 52 in early 2026, a 24% increase in combined wealth, with major representation in technology, shipping, and real estate.
Global Presence: While representing less than 0.2% of the world population, Jewish individuals often make up roughly 20% of the Forbes 400 richest Americans
The initiative is being led by Jewish philanthropists, including Igor Tulchinsky, and is focused on strengthening the work of Chabad representatives on the ground. In Israel, support is going toward families, soldiers, evacuees, and those directly affected by recent events, while globally, additional efforts include sending hundreds of rabbinical students to assist communities in over 300 cities, to make sure Jewish communities everywhere have access to a full and meaningful Passover experience.
Trump declared, “my favourite thing is to take the oil in Iran”. He – or the rational part of his regime – actually wants Iran as a client-state where the US dictates how and where the oil flows.
But this war isn’t just about control over oil. It’s about control over the future – a future that otherwise increasingly looks like one without oil or the US at its centre. It’s a war of transition.
Supremacy
Trump’s illegal war on Iran – one of five oil-rich countries attacked by the US in the past year and a half – forms part of a broader assault on the emerging transition economy, one that includes an assault on green policies and renewable energy investments.
Item 8 on the agenda for Home Depot’s 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders — virtual only, 9 a.m. Eastern — is a shareholder proposal filed by Neil Fisher and Meryl Loonin. They are asking the company’s Board of Directors to produce a report assessing the risks to customers’ data privacy rights that result from Home Depot sharing sensitive data with third parties. The data in question includes gender, race, ethnicity, and geolocation.
The vehicle is Flock Safety’s Automated License Plate Reader cameras — ALPRs, in the business — deployed across Home Depot locations nationwide. According to the proponents’ filing, Flock’s network is accessible to federal law enforcement. The proposal cites what it calls “frequent immigration enforcement raids occurring near its stores” as a source of reputational risk.
That is a careful, lawyerly way of saying something plainly: if ICE wants to know who drove to Home Depot, the infrastructure may already exist to tell them.
The Board of Directors recommends shareholders vote against the proposal. Its position is that existing safeguards and internal risk management programs are sufficient to handle the concern.
That answer will not satisfy everyone who shops at Home Depot.
The company’s customer base includes millions of immigrants — documented and undocumented alike — who buy lumber, pipe fittings, and paint to build and maintain the homes of this country. Those customers have no way of knowing, when they pull off the highway and into the lot, that a networked camera is recording their presence and linking it to a plate that can be queried by federal agents.
The proposal requires a vote because it is considered a non-routine matter under exchange rules. That means banks and brokers holding shares in street name cannot cast a vote on their clients’ behalf without explicit instructions. Shareholders of record as of March 23, are eligible to vote.
Home Depot is not alone in facing this kind of scrutiny. Across corporate America, the question of what data companies collect, who can access it, and under what legal authority is colliding with an immigration enforcement environment that has grown more aggressive by the week. The difference here is that the mechanism — a private surveillance vendor with federal reach embedded in a retail parking lot — has a name: Flock Safety.
Jewish fucking values, dude, Aaron, Katie, Max, et al, Finkelstein:
Larry Ellison, the co-founder of Oracle, advocates for unifying national and personal data primarily to maximize the efficiency of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and enhance societal security. He argues that current data is too “fragmented” across thousands of separate databases, preventing AI from solving complex problems effectively.
His stated reasons for this massive data consolidation include:
Optimizing AI Performance: Ellison believes AI models can only reach their full potential if they are fed unified national datasets rather than isolated silos of information.
Improving Public Services: He claims a central database could transform healthcare by unifying medical records and DNA data to find earlier treatments, as well as improve agriculture and infrastructure.
Preventing Fraud: By using AI to analyze government spending data in one place, he suggests countries could identify “vast amounts of fraud” and waste more effectively.
Enforcing “Best Behavior”: Controversially, Ellison supports 24/7 AI-powered surveillance of both citizens and law enforcement. He suggests that if everyone is constantly being recorded and reported, they will maintain their “best behavior”.
Security and National Defense: He has long maintained that such data collection is “essential” for national security, specifically for identifying and preventing threats like terrorism.
How many fucking apps does the average worker have to have on his or her fucking surveillance phone?
Common Types of Work-Related Apps
Communication & Training: Instant messaging and video training modules (e.g., MindForge, Workday).
Workflow Management: Apps for shift scheduling, time tracking, and digital project plans (e.g., Raken, Procore).
Security & IT: Mobile Device Management (MDM) software that creates a secure “work profile” to separate company data from personal files.
EHS (Environment, Health, and Safety): Safety checklists and incident reporting tools used to build a “culture of safety” on jobsites
What the Law Actually Says
No federal statute prohibits employers from requiring employees to use personal devices for work purposes. Under at-will employment (the standard in all U.S. states except Montana), employers can set conditions of employment including the tools and technology employees must use to do their jobs.
Create a moral panic. Blame it on certain people. Commence monitoring. Deploy droves of security agents. Detain or remove the targets. Sound familiar?
My other fucking hat, a masters in urban and regional planning! Social control through planning and architecture!
Angel, Schlomo (1968). Discouraging Crime through City Planning (working paper no. 68). Berkeley: UC Berkeley Institute of Urban & Regional Development.
One of the earliest works published on crime prevention through urban design, this Jane Jacobs-inspired paper sketches out public space designs that enable mutual surveillance based on increased user density. Angel hypothesized that crime in public space emerged in a “critical intensity zone” between extremely low and high usage. To counter this victimization period, he proposed creating “evening squares” in which an optimally dense user population would prevent crime by mutually monitoring each other’s activities.
This abridged version of Bentham’s design and management plans for the panopticon prison provided the foundations for Foucault’s pioneering analysis of disciplinary spaces.
Blakely, Edward J. and M. G. Snyder (Spring 1998). “Forting Up: Gated Communities in the United States,” Journal of Architectural and Planning Research vol.15, no.1: 61–72.
Adapted from the authors’ influential book on the same topic, this article examines gated community residents’ desire for social status and exclusivity. The authors argue that the gating reflex is on the rise across the social spectrum, and is no longer a status symbol and defensive feature reserved for the elite.
In this brief but imaginative essay, the author explores the postmodern city’s use of borders and edges as ways to control spatial circulation and social interaction. These boundaries are envisaged as extensions of capitalism’s power to direct spatial and social relations towards consumption.
Boyne, Roy (May 2000). “Post-Panopticon,” Economy and Society vol. 29, no. 2: 285–307.
The author reconsiders the concept of panopticism in the wake of increasing surveillance of public and private life. The author reviews arguments that the panopticon model of centralized surveillance is outdated in a world dominated by the decentralization of knowledge. Acknowledging that the diagram of surveillance has changed, he concludes that new forms of surveillance still adhere to a panoptical impulse.
Bring, Mitchell (May 1978). “TV Surveillance: the Not-So-Hidden Dimension of Public Space,” Landscape Architecture vol. 68: 189–90, 231–2.
This early article discusses what was, at that time, an emerging trend of using closed circuit television surveillance in public space design. The author warned that video surveillance threatens democratic use of public space.
Originally published as a pamphlet manifesto, this concise article calls for staging guerilla performances in front of surveillance cameras as acts of resistance. The article is considered a founding document for the growing performance-based surveillance resistance movement.
Crowe, Timothy (1991). Crime Prevention through Environmental Design: Applications of Architectural Design and Space Management Concepts. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann.
One of the most often-cited sources on Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, the manual outlines CPTED’s origins, principles, and applications. Written in textbook like prose and complete with several diagrams, maps, and appendices, the book is a helpful desk reference for CPTED-minded planners.
Cuff, Dana (September 2003). “Immanent Domain: Pervasive Computing in the Public Realm,” Journal of Architectural Education vol. 57, no. 1: 43–49.
The author examines how expanding and networked computer technologies are changing the way people experience public space. The author’s take on pervasive computing posits a “double view, utopian and dystopian.” On one hand, pervasive computing facilitates expanded communication and technological innovation; on the other, it increases surveillance capabilities and hastens the loss of privacy. Cuff contends that the future of the public realm is inevitably intertwined with the growth of pervasive computing.
Davis, Mike (2003). “Scanscape,” Quaderns vol. 237: 52–57.
In this brief essay, the author describes how increasing surveillance technologies and the LAPD’s expansion into city planning decision-making have turned downtown LA into a “scanscape,” a heavily surveilled space in which white-collar office workers and tourists are made to feel safe.
Davis, Mike (1992). City of Quartz: Excavating the Future of Los Angeles. New York: Vintage.
In this groundbreaking exposé of a dystopic postmodern Los Angeles, Davis describes and critiques elements of the built environment that make up what he calls “Security-Obsessed Urbanism”: gated properties, surveillance cameras, ‘bum-proof’ benches, panopticon-inspired architecture, privatized security services and militarized police forces.
In this brief essay, the author reviews a range of military surveillance technologies, including satellites, spy planes, x-rays, radio waves, infrared systems, multispectral scanning, and night vision systems. Citing their increasing use on civilians and in cities, DeLanda posits that we are transitioning from a panopticon to a wider panspectron model.
DeLanda, Manuel (1986). “Policing the Spectrum,” in Michel Feher & Sanford Kwinter (eds), Zone 1/2: City, New York: Urzone/Johns Hopkins University Press: 177–87.
DeLanda reviews the US military surveillance system’s attempt to police abstract spaces. His review covers crypotology, the covert mapping of Tibet, NSA and CIA surveillance operations, early forms of computer hacking, cellular automata, and the abstraction/extraction of bodily knowledge for the purposes of discipline and control. He envisions a resistance movement in which theorists expand their analyses to identify ways out of this surveillance system.
De Lint, Willem (2000). “Arresting the Eye: Surveillance, Social Control and Resistance,” Space and Culture vol. 9, no. 9: 21–49.
The author opens up the discourse on surveillance by suggesting surveillance technologies are not merely instruments of social control. The article highlights benevolent uses of surveillance technologies that enable governments to understand the needs of a population. Ultimately, De Lint contends that surveillance and social control are not synonymous.
Ellin, Nan (ed) (1997). Architecture of Fear. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
The comprehensive volume includes twenty essays that examine how fear, insecurity, and social anxiety shape contemporary urban space. The Security City, rife with surveillance systems, gated communities, privatized public spaces, defensible houses, etc., developed in response to these fears, and ironically perpetuates insecurity. The authors represent a cross-section of perspectives making for a well-balanced analysis that is, on balance, rooted in architectural criticism.
Fabijancic, Tony (September 2001). “The Prison in the Arcade: A Carceral Diagram of Consumer Space,” Mosaic vol. 34, no. 2: 141–157.
The author synthesizes the writings of Foucault and Walter Benjamin in this examination of the emergence of a carceral diagram in 19th century shopping arcades. The author situates this development in an era of disciplinary transformation that saw Haussmann’s restructuring of boulevards and the birth of crowd psychology.
Farrar, Margaret E. (Fall 2000). “Health and Beauty in the Body Politic: Subjectivity and Urban Space,” Polity vol. 33, no. 1: 1–23.
The author, a political scientist, synthesizes the work of Foucault, Lefebvre, and Kristeva to explain how power and spatial subjectivity informed early 20th century American open space and housing reform policies. The author argues that such spatial planning practices enabled power to be manifested in cities and in the citizenry. The article represents a rare instance in which a political scientist successfully deals with the topic of space, power, and city planning.
Finn, Mary A. and S. Muirhead-Steves (June 2002). “The Effectiveness of Electronic Monitoring with Violent Male Parolees,” Justice Quarterly vol. 19, no.2: 293–312.
The authors assert that electronic monitoring of violent male offenders is an effective deterrent to recidivism. They base their position on a study that showed electronic monitoring reduced return to prison rates and parolee substance abuse rates. The authors maintain that expanded electronic monitoring of high risk offenders should be explored.
Flusty, Steven (September 2001). “The Banality of Interdiction: Surveillance, Control and the Displacement of Diversity,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research vol. 25, no. 3: 658–664.
In this follow-up to his book Building Paranoia, Flusty describes how surveillance, strict codes of conduct, and enclavism have become normalized in Los Angeles. Consequently, says Flusty, the critical literature has diminished and increasing social control seems to be an acceptable, routine function of social and spatial relations.
Flusty, Steven (April 2000). “Thrashing Downtown: Play as Resistance to the Spatial and Representational Regulation of Los Angeles,” Cities vol. 17, no. 2: 149–58.
The article describes the privatization and corporatization of downtown public space and forms of resistance centered on “play.” Recounting his walking tour of downtown LA’s Bunker Hill, Flusty identifies the playful acts of resistance he observed: skateboarding, public poetry reading, and performative “bubble-blowing.”
Flusty, Steven (1994). Building Paranoia: The Proliferation of Interdictory Space and the Erosion of Spatial Justice. West Hollywood, CA: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.
The author categorizes various spatial and architectural typologies that convey insecurity in the built environment, including varying examples of interdictory spaces and models of “paranoid architecture.” Unlike other writers on the critical left, Flusty’s descriptive analysis is less inflammatory, as he is more concerned with situating these typologies in broader public discourse.
Foucault, Michel (1975). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage.
In this pioneering study, Foucault traces modern society’s development into a panopticon-like dystopia characterized by diffuse and pervasive surveillance and spatial control practices. Virtually all criticism of surveillance-centered dystopias stem from Foucault’s lyrical critique of disciplinary urban spaces.
Haggerty, Kevin D. and R. V. Ericson (December 2000). “The Surveillant Assemblage,” British Journal of Sociology vol. 51, no. 4: 605–622.
In this excellent essay, the authors augment the dominant Foucauldian-Orwellian discourse on surveillance society with an analysis of expanding and abstracted systems of surveillance. Citing Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of rhizomatic flows, the authors contend that technological surveillance has become a “surveillant assemblage” of decentralized gazes in real and virtual space.
Heavy Trash (2005). “(internet website).” Available online:
This website is the virtual headquarters for an anonymous group of architects, artists, and planners who erect large, disposable art objects around fortified city spaces in order to call attention to these exclusive areas. Their resistance art has included a bridge spanning a gate at a public park and viewing platforms erected outside several gated communities.
Howeler, Eric (2002). “Anxious Architectures: The Aesthetics of Surveillance,” Archis no. 3: 9–18, 20–3.
The author describes the assortment of security technologies being incorporated into architectural design, including CPTED and defensible space techniques, remote alarm and surveillance systems, and global positioning devices.
Incirlioglu, Emine O. and Z. Tandogan. (April 1999). “Cultural Diversity, Public Space, Aesthetics and Power,” European Journal of Intercultural Studies vol. 10, no. 1: 51–61.
The authors argue that inclusion and exclusion in public space can be studied through aesthetic criteria. Put bluntly: aesthetically pleasing, civilized and desirable persons are allowed in public spaces; aesthetically undesirable persons, such as the homeless or certain “visible foreigners”, are excluded. The use of such an aesthetic criteria precludes the democratic use of public spaces and mutual coexistence.
Jacobs, Jane (1961). The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Vintage.
This groundbreaking opus vilifies modernist city planning for killing pedestrian life at the street level. In response, Jacobs calls for a return to dense, diversified urban environments reminiscent of 19th century cities, where additional “eyes on the street” permit informal surveillance of public space.
Jeffrey, C. Ray (1971). Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.
The book title is somewhat misleading since Jeffrey devotes only one chapter to crime prevention through environmental design in which he talks little about physical security elements and more about socio-psychological factors relating to crime prevention. Nevertheless, in this book Jeffrey coins the term CPTED and establishes the ideological basis for design-based crime prevention which gives rise to the dystopian security city.
Jencks, Charles (March/April 1995). “Aphorisms on Power?” Architectural Design vol. 65: 20–3.
This brief essay by the noted architectural theorist and historian explores architects’ ability to wield positive creative power and negative coercive power. Although coercive power enables a stronger degree of spatial control, it is paradoxically more fragile. Consequently, the author says, coercive power gives way to creative power.
Jones, Peter (1999). “Building the Empire of the Gaze: The Modern Movement and the Surveillance Society,” Architectural Theory Review vol. 4, no. 2: 1–14.
Retracing the trajectory of the modern movement starting from its origins in ocularcentrism, Jones illustrates how modernist architecture’s salient features — glass, the interior, the house, and the factory — contributed to the rise of what Foucault called surveillance society. Jones’ critique is effective but could benefit from more in-depth analysis, including additional evidence and elaboration.
Katyal, Neal K. (March 2002). “Architecture as Crime Control,” 111 Yale Law Journal no. 1039.
This law review article is extraordinary in that it focuses little on law and instead outlines crime prevention through environmental design and its sociopolitical implications for the built environment. Written primarily for law professionals with limited knowledge of the topic, Katyal’s article is thorough, comprehensive, and filled with painstaking detail characteristic of law reviews.
Kawash, Samira (Winter 1998). “The Homeless Body,” Public Culture vol. 10, no. 2: 319–339.
The author analyses the construction of the homeless body as a public discourse and a deviant counterpart to the abstract public body. The placelessness and uncertainty of the homeless body is compared to the fixity and certainty of the public spaces they inhabit. The author catalogs strategies to control the homeless’s use of public space which result in the exclusion of homeless bodies.
Koskela, Hille (2000). “The Gaze Without Eyes: Video Surveillance and the Changing Nature of Urban Space,” Progress in Human Geography vol. 24, no. 2: 243–265.
The article refutes the argument that urban space has become oppressive, dystopic and prison-like through the proliferation of video surveillance cameras. Although Koskela agrees that a surveillance camera’s “gaze” represents a form of invisible power and that cameras create asymmetries of power in space, she ultimately concludes that cities, which are publicly accessible, democratic spaces, cannot reasonably be compared to prisons.
Leman-Langlois, Stéphane (2002). “The Myopic Panopticon: The Social Consequences of Policing through the Lens,” Policing and Society vol. 13, no. 1: 43–58.
The author argues that the police’s reliance on video surveillance technologies is ineffective and inadvisable because surveillance cameras have a “myopic” purview. Monitoring surveilled spaces channels police attention into fixed spatial parameters. Policing, says the author, becomes a reactive activity dependent on observing crimes in progress.
Leong, Sze Tsung (1998). “Readings of the Attenuated Landscape,” in Bell, M. and S. T. Leong. (eds) Slow Space. New York: Monacelli Press.
The author uses Foucault’s tripartite of sovereign power, disciplinary power, and bio-power as well his concept of heterotopia to explain the contours of America’s “attenuated landscape,” that is, postindustrial cityscapes characterized by disorientation and absence. Leong effectively employs Detroit and Houston as models of attenuation.
Levin, Thomas Y. et al. (2002). Ctrl [space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother. Karlsruhe, Germany: ZKM Center for Art and Media; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
The anthology is a collection of scholarly essays, interview transcripts, images, and performance art synopses relating to technology and surveillance. The individual works are informative, humorous, creative, and provocative, and provide evocative counterpoints to arguments favoring increased public surveillance. This critical anthology can be read as a catalog of resistance efforts against surveillance.
Litz, Stefan A. (2000). “The Fortified Society: Social Exclusion as a Result of Privatization and Fortification of Space,” Berlin Journal of Sociology vol. 10, no. 4: 535–554.
Focusing on the US, the author discusses the causes, typologies, and implications of exclusionary and fortified urban space. The article includes a thorough discussion of elements of the built environment that enable exclusivity: walls, gated entries, surveillance systems, privatized public spaces, and private police forces. The author contends that, in an advanced capitalist society like the US, the purpose of architectural fortification and social exclusion is to distance oneself from “undesirable persons and social groups.”
Lynch, Mona (October 2001). “From the Punitive City to the Gated Community: Security and Segregation across the Social and Penal Landscape,” University of Miami Law Review vol. 56, no. 1: 89–111.
The law review article examines how society has taken on the characteristics of prisons. The author compares the partitioned-off spaces of gated communities to prisons, attributing this synthesis to cultural, political, economic and structural changes and psychological anxieties in the Security City.
Markus, Thomas A. (March/April 1995). “What Do Buildings Have to Do With Power?” Architectural Design vol. 65: 8–19.
The writer examines how power manifests in buildings. His analysis begins with a discussion of language as a system of explaining and understanding form. He says buildings are constructed using formal architectural languages that communicate operative power constructs such as structure, control, and surveillance.
Nellis, Mike (May 2005). “Out of this World: The Advent of the Satellite Tracking of Offenders in England and Wales,” Howard Journal of Criminal Justice vol. 44, no. 2: 125–150.
This recently published article examines emerging satellite tracking and electronic monitoring technologies in the United Kingdom. The author praises satellite tracking for enabling police authorities to monitor individual offenders’ movements and contends that electronic monitoring will open up avenues to more humanistic approaches to offender supervision.
Newman, Oscar (1973). Architectural Design for Crime Prevention. Washington: National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice.
One of the earliest comprehensive studies on design-based crime prevention, the book outlines Newman’s theory of Defensible Space and describes its application in cities. Defensible Space entails four basic tenets: Territoriality increases residents’ control of public space, Natural Surveillance enables visibility, Strategic Juxtapositions create safe zones, and distinctive Building Images create a sense of spatial and architectural order.
Newman, Oscar (1975). Design Guidelines for Creating Defensible Space. Washington: National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, U.S. Department of Justice.
The book updates Newman’s theory, incorporating socioeconomic and demographic factors absent from his original work. Using less hyperbole, Newman provides several Defensible Space design guidelines for architects, planners, and policy makers. A cynical reading might infer that this work is a “how-to” guide for creating legitimated dystopian security cities.
Nieto, Marcus (June 1997). “Public Video Surveillance: Is it an Effective Crime Prevention Tool,” California Research Bureau, CRB-97–005. Available online: http://www.library.ca.gov/CRB/97/05/index.html/.
This extensive government report assesses the effectiveness of video surveillance as a crime deterrence method and reviews legal and constitutional issues relating to surveillance of public spaces.
The art review essay explains artist Nancy Nisbet’s installations commenting on surveillance through bodily microchip implantation and recounts how surveillance technologies are influencing identity and subjectivity.
Outtes, Joel (April 2003). “Disciplining Society through the City: The Genesis of City Planning in Brazil and Argentina (1894–1945),” Bulletin of Latin American Research vol. 22, no. 2: 137–164.
The author traces the evolution of city planning in Argentina and Brazil between the years 1894 and 1945. Employing a Foucauldian lens, Outtes interprets planning as a mechanism through which the state achieves spatial and social discipline from the production of orderly and hygienic cityscapes and the promotion of industrial culture. The author also examines how the pursuit of racist eugenics in Brazil ultimately “poisoned the planner’s discourse.”
Reynolds, Bryan and J. Fitzpatrick (Fall 1999). “The Transversality of Michel de Certeau: Foucault’s Panoptic and the Cartographic Impulse,” Diacritics vol. 29, no. 3: 63–80.
The authors synthesize Foucault’s theory of panopticism and de Certeau’s writings on everyday spatial practices to produce a complex and often times confusing framework for challenging spatialized power and subjectivity by undertaking transversal movements across cityspace. In short, transversality is the ability to cut across different spaces, disrupting existing power structures within them.
Rosenberg, Richard S. (1999). “The Workplace on the Verge of the 21st century,” Journal of Business Ethics vol. 22, no. 1: 3–14.
The article discusses how internet tracking, e-mail monitoring, background checks, drug screening, and video surveillance are bringing the Security City into the private realm of the workplace.
Schmidt, Annesley K. (1998). “Electronic Monitoring: What Does the Literature Tell Us?” Federal Probation vol. 62, no. 2: 10–19.
The literature review assesses several corrections programs using electronic devices to monitor the whereabouts and movements of offenders participating in home-based incarceration.
Schneider, Richard and T. Kitchen (2002). Planning for Crime Prevention: A Transatlantic Perspective. London; New York: Routledge.
This comprehensive study reviews design-based crime prevention strategies in the US and the UK. The authors outline the history of defensible urban design, provide thorough reviews of design-based crime prevention methods, and offer several recommendations to advance the general field of planning for crime prevention. Most noteworthy, the authors criticize the general neglect of crime as a planning issue and challenge city planners to take on more active roles in crime prevention.
Sipes, James L. (September 2002). “A New Kind of Scrutiny,” Landscape Architecture vol. 92, no. 9: 58–63.
The article reviews design-based technologies landscape architects are using to achieve spatial control in the Security City. These measures include: traffic bollards and circulation barriers, surveillance cameras, and biometric scanning devices such as facial recognition systems, hand readers, retinal scanners, and voice recognition systems.
Sniffen, Michael (7 July 2003). “US Develops Urban Surveillance System,” Akron Beacon Journal.
The newspaper article explains the Pentagon’s plans to create an urban surveillance system comprised of a network of cameras and satellites that will allow military authorities to monitor activities in non-US cities. The surveillance system will be capable of reading license plates and identifying individual faces in cities. Although the program is being developed for war zones, the author notes that the technology can be modified for homeland use.
Soja, Edward W. (2000). Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions. Oxford; Malden, MA: Blackwell.
The book’s chapter on the Carceral Archipelago synthesizes several critical perspectives on what Soja describes as the “incarceration of cityspace.” Soja argues that globalization and economic restructuring have produced significant sociopolitical and economic imbalances that have created volatility in the contemporary metropolis. According to Soja, this volatility produced the need for security-obsessed urbanism as a means to keep the city from collapsing into chaos.
Sorkin, Michael (March 2003). “Can Architects and Planners use Security Concerns to Create more Humane Cities?” Architectural Record vol. 191, no. 3: 73–4, 76.
The author contends that security-centered urbanism devalues the notion of “the good city” and engenders urban anxiety, paranoia, and a fortress mentality. In the post-9/11 era and with violent crime primarily manifesting in cities, this fear is not completely unwarranted. The author proposes an approach to urban design that tries to balance the need for secure and comfortable spaces.
Surveillance Camera Players (November 1999). “Time in the Shadows of Anonymity: Against Surveillance, Transparency and Global Capitalism.” Available online: https://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html.
This position paper authored by a performance-based surveillance resistance movement advances a theory of surveillance predicated on increasing transparency in political, economic, and social relations. Their take on transparency as a political construct augments the literature on architectural transparency as a surveillant quality.
Whitely, Nigel (May 2003). “Intensity of Scrutiny and a Good Eyeful: Architecture and Transparency,” Journal of Architectural Education vol. 56, no. 4: 8–16.
The article traces the meaning of transparency in modernist architecture. Transparency has been alternately conceived as an emblem of open democracy, a symbol of technological progress, and a motif of capitalist urbanism. In the security centered 21st century, transparency in society and architecture is enabling pervasive surveillance.
