One day, March 8, International Women’s Day just doesn’t do justice for most girls on planet earth in the global south who will not reach womanhood.
Example:
The Israeli-American strike on a school that killed at least 180 children, most of them girls aged between 7 and 12, on the first day of the illegal war on Iran was deliberate.
The Shajereh Tayyebeh (The Good Tree) school in the city of Minab, in Hormozgan province of Iran, near the Strait of Hormuz, started as an institution primarily to serve the children of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy personnel.
These children were killed in a “double tap” strike, with the second missile fired killing sheltering survivors, two first responders, and the parent of a child killed.
“When the first bomb hit the school, one of the teachers and the principal moved a group of students to the prayer hall to protect them,” a Red Crescent medic said. “The principal called the parents and told them to come and pick up their children. But the second bomb hit that area as well. Only a small number of those who had taken shelter survived.”
Do you want a new vocabulary dredged from the genocide in Gaza? “Educide” is the systematic destruction of education during genocide.
Planned bombing of not just colleges but primary and high schools by the Israeli apartheid state are designed to create a chilling reality: (1) disruption of schooling; (2) illiteracy and educational decline; (3) lack of resources for learning; (4) decline in academic motivation; (5) psychological and emotional impact; (6) makeshift learning attempts; (7) generational implications of lost education.
How about celebrating this powerful woman who stuck her neck out more than 100 years ago.
The founder of Save the Children, Eglantyne Jebb, understood that wars are wars against children . . . against motherhood . . . against sisterhood . . . against aunthood. In 1919, following the atrocities toward children in the First World War, she created Save the Children. Her aim was to recognize and protect the rights of all children worldwide. For her time, her views were far from mainstream.
Jebb also knew that children are significantly at risk during violent conflicts. She once said, “All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.”
In 1919, the 35-year-old Eglantyne Jebb began handing out leaflets in Trafalgar Square after seeing horrifying newspaper photos of starving children in Europe. Although a ceasefire was declared on November 11, 1918, Allied troops continued to impose a blockade against enemy ports, restricting their access to essential supplies. As a result, famine threatened more than three million children in Europe.
“The child must be the first to receive relief in times of distress.”
What do we get now in this upside-down world of the US arming and facilitating Israel in their carpet bombing of Tehran and in Gaza?
The Israeli general who headed military intelligence on October 7, 2023, said 50 Palestinians must die for every person killed that day, and “it does not matter now if they are children.” This is what Israelis hear broadcast by Israel’s Channel 12 TV station.
Aharon Haliva said the toll in Gaza, which he put at more than 70,000 dead, was “necessary” as a “message to future generations” of Palestinians.
“They need a Nakba every now and then to feel the price,” he added, referring to the mass expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians from their homes and lands after the creation of Israel in 1948. Nakba means catastrophe in Arabic.
You want another word for your genocide crossword puzzle? Gaza is in ruins. So is its education system. Scholasticide. The Israeli Occupation Forces have destroyed or damaged all schools and education facilities in Gaza.
Today, instead of going back to school, like most children around the world, 660,000 girls and boys in Gaza will be sifting through the rubble, desperate, hungry, traumatized, and mostly bereaved.
As noted above, the longer they stay out of school with their trauma, the higher the risk they become a “lost generation,” sowing the seeds for more hatred and violence.
Even finding solace from religious leaders is impossible. Here, another word for this deadly crime of genocide: epistemicide. This is what I study and read: Epistemicide is being carried out on a vast scale, designed to erase all knowledge originating in Palestine or relating to it, any alternative knowledge to the official war narrative.
This term was coined by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, a Portuguese sociologist, as he focused on the annihilation of alternate knowledge forms by dominant, usually Western, paradigms. It is a tool of colonialism that erases culture and erodes the legitimacy of marginalized voices.
Modern science is based on a practice of professional and social technical division of labour and on the infinite technological development of the productive forces, of which capitalism is today the only example. Alternative social practices generate alternative forms of knowledge. Not to recognise these forms of knowledge implies delegitimising the social practices that support them and, in this sense, promoting the social exclusion of those who promote them. The genocide that so often characterises European expansion was also epistemicide: strange peoples were eliminated because they also had strange forms of knowledge, and these strange forms of knowledge were eliminated because they were based on strange social practices and strange peoples. But epistemicide has been much more widespread than genocide because it has always claimed to subalternise, subordinate, marginalise or illegalise social practices and groups that might pose a threat to capitalist expansion, or for much of our century to communist expansion (in this respect as modern as capitalism), and also because it happened in the peripheral and extra-North American space of the world system as well as in the central European and North American space, against workers, indigenous people, black people, women and minorities in general (ethnic, religious, sexual).
The new paradigm considers epistemicide as one of the great crimes against humanity.
Women heroes: League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is leading campaigns for an immediate ceasefire and a halt to military support for Israel, with a focus on documenting testimonies from Gaza.
Francesca Albanese is the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, who has consistently called for a “suspension of all ties with Israel” until the “Gaza genocide” ends. She has accused the UK and other Western nations of enabling the situation through military and diplomatic support.
This might not be pretty reading, but for the-now-past International Women’s Day, I encourage you all to study: “Femi-genocide,” which is what experts have highlighted based on reports of sexual assault and humiliation of Palestinian women in detention.
And, finally, we have “Reproductive Genocide”: Activists have drawn attention to the specific targeting of pregnant women, the destruction of hospitals, and the lack of access to medical care.
Mothers, sisters, aunts, grandmothers, daughters, and BFF’s stand strong and join in teaching your boys and men in your lives to respect women, to learn about your contributions to humankind, and to respect your vitality as birth-givers. It is a matter of life and death for the planet.
This is what I get on the coast, art gallery, the lady upfront, wanting me to tell her why I rail and why if ACAB and FBI/SS are watching me I expect anyone to follow me, to fight on the streets!
Nah, interesting times? Any different than Hitler, than Bush, than LBJ, JFK, GWB, RR, Bubbha, Oh-Bomber, Genocide Joe, or Holocaust Congress/Senate?
Snake charmers and speaking in tongues, interesting times?
Why aren’t people on the streets, piling high pallets and old tires, dragging junkers into the road and firebombing the homes of the dirty snakes of America, one and all?
Cuz it’s on the Podcast, the answers to our frustrations:
Oh, time is on their side?
Is it time on their FUCKING SIDE?
The Israeli-American strike on a school that killed at least 165 children, most of them girls aged between 7 and 12, on the first day of the illegal war on Iran was deliberate, an investigation by Al Jazeera has revealed.
The Shajereh Tayyebeh (The Good Tree) school in the city of Minab, in Hormozgan province of Iran, near the Strait of Hormuz, started as an institution primarily to serve the children of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy personnel. It initially formed part of a larger military complex.
Here’s where all, or most, the hippies went:
In today’s world, culture is increasingly influenced by commercialization, visual noise, and consumerist behavior. We face a paradox: there has never been so much content, yet such a lack of meaning. In this context, the noospheric concept offers not only a philosophical reevaluation of culture but also a practical path toward its renewal.
The noosphere, as a space of collective intelligence, suggests that culture is not entertainment, but a means of shaping consciousness, transmitting meaning, and uniting humanity around shared values. In the noospheric paradigm, art, literature, music, and theatre are tools for human and societal development—not just commodities for the market.
This mindset also transforms the role of the artist. The creator is no longer simply a producer of “images,” but a guide of deeper ideas that resonate with collective ethics, planetary challenges, and the quest for harmony between technological progress and the human soul. Creativity in the noospheric dimension becomes a form of responsibility for the future.
The noospheric approach also reshapes cultural policy: instead of focusing on “mass appeal,” it emphasizes the support of meaningful, innovative, and integrative projects. Rather than isolated festivals or grants, it envisions the creation of sustainable cultural ecosystems where everyone can be a creator—not just a consumer.
Digital culture represents a particularly vital area of noospheric transformation. The internet is not just a technology—it is a new “noosphere,” a space where contemporary consciousness is formed. And it is here that the key question is being decided: will digital culture become a tool for development—or another instrument of manipulation?
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Ahh, those interesting times!
Yeah, fucking interesting game theorists giving us a fucking lesson with Chinese accent from his Canadian pedestal?
Faggotry: How Iran can CRIPPLE the West in One Move – Prof. Jiang Xueqin. So, he’s telling us with glee that food will triple and gasoline will be gone. Yeah, nobody in the streets, now those are interesting TIMES.
Real INTERESTING. Israel expands its war into Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Iran reach an understanding, and Europe’s role grows as U.S. brutality clashes with Iranian mettle. Here’s a recap of the news from the last day.
Hillard writes that China is the final piece in the jigsaw puzzle of globalist control. [36]
He describes its notorious use of facial recognition technology linked to a social credit system, which rewards or punishes behaviour as the state sees fit.
“China is a dream model for the global oligarchy eager to roll out these methods across the planet… officially, for our security”. [37]
Just to ram home the real and serious role played by China in the globalists’ bid for worldwide tyranny, I would refer readers to a talk given in Beijing at the Chinese state’s Lanting Forum by foreign minister H.E. Wang Yi, who is a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee, on October 27, 2025.
Featured on the website of the CPIFA, China’s Chatham House, it is entitled “Implementing the Global Governance Initiative for a Community with a Shared Future for Humanity”.
Wang Yi claims that “over the past 80 years, the international system with the UN at its core has been standing as a bedrock of world peace and development”.
He says that in the face of obstacles, President Xi Jinping “solemnly put forth the Global Governance Initiative (GGI), offering the Chinese answer to this question of our times”.
This was obviously drawn up by the same networks that are behind similar efforts in “The West” because we hear all the same sickening language!
It is all about “international rule of law for a just and orderly global governance system”, “a people-centred approach for universally beneficial and inclusive outcomes of global governance” and “real results for a pragmatic and efficient global governance process”.
Lying through his teeth, Wang Yi declares: “The GGI responds to the needs of the world and wishes of the people.
“Together with the Global Development Initiative (GDI), the Global Security Initiative (GSI) and the Global Civilization Initiative (GCI), it promises much needed stability and provides certainty for this volatile world, and has received swift and clear support from more than 140 countries and international organizations”.
Here he is confusing the vile aims of globalist-controlled states and entities with “the needs of the world and wishes of the people”.
Iran’s Decentralized Mosaic Defense – the official denomination – keeps being tweaked 24/7: that’s the IRGC’s long-term strategy of a death by a thousand cuts designed to bleed the Empire of Chaos dry.
Let’s wade through the interconnected canals permeating the unconstitutional, unwinnable, strategically catastrophic Empire of Chaos-built swamp.
Iran’s mosaic resilience and long-term strategy; the temptation for that ghastly death cult in West Asia to go nuclear; the approaching, inexorable Interceptor Hell; China’s relentless drive to ditch the old order (hoarding gold, dumping dollars); the BRICS’s progress in creating a parallel financial system; the collapse of American vassals, in several latitudes: all that is accelerating a radical system reset.
And then, there’s Vladimir Putin, just casually, almost like an afterthought, annoncing there may not be any Russian gas to be sold to the EU after all:
“Maybe it would make more sense for us to stop supplying gas to the EU ourselves and move to those new markets, and establish ourselves there (…) Again, I want to stress: there’s no political motive here. But if they’re going to close the market to us in a month or two anyway, maybe it’s better to leave now and focus on countries that are reliable partners. That said, this isn’t a decision. I’m just thinking out loud. I’ll ask the government to look into it together with our companies.”
Nearly 90% of deaths from wars in the first decade of the 21st century included civilians, a significant number of whom were children.
Game Motherfuckng Theory MY ASS:
Up to 2016! NOW? Oh my fucking game theory living in interesting fucking TIMES.
Reem’s Story, 13-year-old Yemen.
“An airstrike hit my village when I was at home doing my homework. Suddenly part of the ceiling fell, and the bomb came through a hole in the ceiling and exploded in the room. I could not breathe because of gas and smoke. I was injured in my thigh, head and back, and most of my family members were injured too.
“I walked to the hospital while I was bleeding. The doctor gave me medicine for one month only, and asked us to go back home because there was no space. They asked us to pay money to provide us with a room in the hospital which we didn’t have. So, I left.
“When I arrived home I could not see any of the damage because of the darkness. I went to bed but I could not sleep because of the pain in my body. The next morning, I saw shrapnel everywhere in the walls and furniture.
“Since that airstrike, I don’t go to school and I feel worried about missing a year of education. Our life before was wonderful – but the war and airstrikes make me feel sad and scared. I still feel the pain in my thigh and back and I wish the war would stop.”
* Not her real name.
The Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (SVAC)26 database, which includes rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, forced sterilisation/abortion, sexual mutilation and sexual torture, shows that globally roughly 35 percent of conflicts involved some forms of sexual violence against children between 1989 and 2009 – but the real numbers are likely to be much higher.
They tied my mother to a tree and eventually shot her. When they had killed everyone else they told me to come with them.
HAD ENOUGH of game theory and these cunts on Podcasts, and the minute-by-minute war porn, another drone shot down, another building razed? Enough of these fucking COCKSUCKING interesting TIMES?
NO??????????????
[A view of destruction after the Israeli military launches airstrikes on the Dahiyeh district in Beirut, Lebanon on March 5, 2026.]
Paris of the Middle East?
Digging the fucking war PORN?
Attacks on Lebanon
Casualty counts: The death toll from Israel’s assault on Lebanon has risen to at least 217, with 798 wounded, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.
Israeli strikes hit southern Lebanon and Beirut suburbs: Israeli warplanes bombed Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, on Friday, with the Israeli military saying it conducted 26 rounds of attack on the area. Israel also bombed towns in southern and eastern Lebanon, including the southern coastal city of Sidon where five people were killed and seven wounded, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. It marked the second day of heavy airstrikes on Dahiyeh, with strikes also reported in the towns of Ghobeiry and Haret Hreik on Thursday, according to Al Jazeera. Across Lebanon, at least 10 people were killed on Thursday, including a family of four in southern Lebanon and a village mayor and his wife.
Southern suburbs of Beirut forcibly evacuated as Israel threatens destruction: In the wake of intensifying strikes, and forced displacement orders issued by the Israeli military, residents of Beirut’s southern suburbs have begun to flee.This includes residents of the Dahiyeh area, home to roughly 400,000 people. Israel also issued an evacuation order for residents in the Baalbek region, which could affect up to 80,000 people. Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the far-right National Religious Party, said on Thursday that “Dahiyeh will look like Khan Younis,” the city in Gaza that Israel has burned to the ground. Yair Lapid, the centrist leader of the Israeli opposition, said that Israel should “depopulate and destroy every village in southern Lebanon, with the Yellow Line in Gaza as the model.” “It may not be pleasant,” he said, “to scrape off two or three Lebanese villages, but they brought this upon themselves.” For a sense of what Lebanese people are expecting, listen to a voice message sent to journalist Jeremy Loffredo in the Dahiyeh area, describing fears of imminent carpet-bombing.
ICRC: Hundreds of thousands displaced in Lebanon: Hundreds of thousands of people in Lebanon have been displaced since Monday, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), said Hachem Osseiran, ICRC spokesperson for the Middle East, according to AP. “The intensification of hostilities, coupled with evacuation orders covering entire districts in Beirut, southern Lebanon, and the Bekaa Valley, has sown panic and confusion. Many people have fled, some on foot, with nothing but the clothes on their backs and no clear sense of where to go.”
BASMA’S STORY
Basma* is an 8-year-old girl from Syria:
“I am from a town near Damascus city; my home was there and my school too. I really loved my school back home, it was pretty, my teacher loved me and I had a lot of friends. I was in class when my school was hit. We ran out of the school right away and I went back home, but I later found out that many children had been injured. I have never seen my school or my friends again; I miss them a lot.
“We moved to different places and began to rent a house in a new town. I never once stopped going to school but in this new town my school was hit, and this time 20 children died.
“After this, my family decided to move further to the north because at the time it was safer. But the first school we went to was so bad, and the teachers used to hit us even for little things like if I forgot my homework. The teachers used to leave us most of the time alone in the class doing nothing. I hated it.
“Now I am in this new school and I feel much better. I love the drawings and the colours on the walls. I love the English teacher the most, he is so kind and he teaches us so well.”
U.S. and Israeli airstrikes pound Iran for a seventh day. Over 3,600 civilian sites damaged in U.S.-Israeli strikes. U.S. and Israeli officials hint at escalation in coming days. Evidence grows that the U.S. is responsible for deadly strike on elementary school. President Donald Trump demands Iran’s “unconditional surrender.” Iranian strikes hit Bahrain. Iran launches attacks on Kuwait, where U.S. suspends embassy operations. Fighter jet appears to crash in Iraq. U.S. and Qatar discuss acquiring Ukrainian interceptor drones. U.S. continues to eye Kurdistan for help in war on Iran. Israeli strikes hit Beirut suburbs as bombardment intensifies across Lebanon. Mass displacement in southern suburbs of Beirut as Israeli leadership threatens destruction. IDF says two soldiers wounded in fighting in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah deploys elite Radwan fighters to southern Lebanon. Trump again calls for a Netanyahu pardon. Trump dumps Noem. House blocks resolution that would have limited Trump’s war on Iran. Stephen Miller calls for military campaign against drug cartels. Trump says U.S. action against Cuba could follow Iran war. Afghans rally in border provinces as fighting with Pakistan displaces tens of thousands. Sudanese army retakes strategic city, shelling continues in Kordofan. Islamist militants kill at least 14 Nigerian soldiers in attacks on army bases. Landslide at Rubaya coltan mine in eastern Congo kills more than 200. Iran war postpones new round of Russia-Ukraine peace talks.
[Children, like this Rohingyagirl in Bangladesh, are incredibly resilient. With the right support they can recover from their experiences, but this becomes less likely when communities and services are crippled by conflict.]
– U.S. and Israeli airstrikes pound Iran for a seventh day: Intense U.S. and Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran and cities across Iran on Friday as the war entered its seventh day. Huge explosions were reported in residential areas of the capital and in the vicinity of Tehran University. Witnesses in Tehran told the AP the airstrikes were particularly intense, shaking homes in the area. Blasts were also reported in Shiraz, Qom, Isfahan, and Kermanshah. At least 20 civilians were killed and 30 injured after U.S.-Israeli strikes hit the Zibashahr residential district in the city of Shiraz, according to ISNA. Two paramedics are among the dead, according to the Tasnim news agency.
– Casualty counts: The death toll in Iran has reached at least 1,332, according to the Iranian Red Crescent Society. Children account for about 30% of those killed in the U.S. and Israeli attacks, government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani said.
– Over 3,600 civilian sites damaged in U.S.-Israeli strikes: The U.S.-Israeli attacks have damaged 3,643 civilian sites, including 3,090 homes, according to the head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, Pir Hossein Kolivand. In addition, 528 commercial and service centers, 14 medical or pharmaceutical facilities and nine Red Crescent facilities, have also been damaged.
– U.S. and Israeli officials hint at escalation in coming days: U.S. and Israeli officials both suggested on Thursday that strikes on Iran would escalate. War Secretary Pete Hegseth said at a press conference Thursday that “the amount of firepower over Iran and over Tehran is about to surge dramatically.” Meanwhile, Israeli army chief of staff Lt. Gen Eyal Zamir said the Israeli military “will intensify the strike on the foundations of the regime and its military capabilities.” The Israeli military also issued a displacement order for residents of an industrial area of Qom, a seminary city south of Tehran.
– Evidence grows that U.S. is responsible for deadly strike on elementary school that killed 180 children: There is growing evidence that the U.S. military carried out Saturday’s strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab that killed around 180 children, including 168 schoolgirls, the majority of them aged between 7 and 12. An investigation by The New York Times using satellite imagery, verified videos, and social media posts, found that U.S. forces were most likely to have carried out the strike as they were attacking Iranian naval targets near the Strait of Hormuz. In a separate report, Reuters, quoting U.S. officials, reported that U.S. military investigators believe it was likely that U.S. forces were responsible for the strike, but had not yet reached a final conclusion. War Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday acknowledged the US military was investigating the attacks, which ranks as one of the deadliest cases of children being killed in a single strike in memory.
– White House posts movie montage glorifying war: As the war continues to escalate, the White House posted a video on Wednesday evening under the words “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY” of what appeared to be footage of real military strikes and statements by War Secretary Pete Hegseth interspersed with a montage of famous movie clips including from including “Gladiator,” “Braveheart,” “Top Gun,” “Tron,” “John Wick,” “Superman,” “Transformers,” and “Deadpool.”
– Trump demands Iran’s “unconditional surrender”: President Donald Trump said on social media that there would be no deal with Iran without “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!”
– Iranian strikes hit Bahrain: Iranian strikes hit state oil facilities in Bahrain, including Bapco Refining’s Sitra refinery, the country’s only refinery and a major regional energy hub, Bahrain’s Interior Ministry confirmed. Another strike hit a high-rise in Manama, the country’s capital, and appeared to be a precision strike, targeting a specific apartment in a luxury tower where expatriates and business travelers often stay.
– Iran launches attacks on Kuwait, where U.S. suspended embassy operations: Iran launched a new wave of missiles and drones toward Kuwait, with the Kuwaiti Army saying its air defenses were responding to hostile projectiles that breached the country’s airspace. Air raid sirens sounded and explosions were heard during interception attempts, while sources said the incoming weapons appeared to target U.S. military installations in the country, according to a statement on X. The U.S. State Department announced it had suspended operations at the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait City and urged U.S. citizens to leave the country if possible or to shelter in place. Kuwait’s Defense Ministry said two Kuwaiti Army personnel have been killed in attacks and 67 people have been injured.
– Fighter jet appears to crash in Iraq: A fighter jet crashed in the southern Basra province of Iraq, according to local police, with the pilot ejecting before impact. Authorities say the pilot had not yet been located. Iranian outlet Fars News described the aircraft as an “aggressor fighter jet,” though it remains unclear whether it was American or Israeli. United States Central Command denied reports that a U.S. jet had been shot down over Basra, calling the claims “baseless and NOT TRUE.”
– IRGC says it has more weapons, U.S. targets missile launchers: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said the country is prepared for a prolonged conflict and has not yet used many of its newest weapons systems, with IRGC spokesman Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naeini saying “the enemy should expect painful blows in every operational wave” and that “new innovations and weapons” have not been used on a wide scale. It was also reported Thursday that the U.S. and Israel are racing to destroy Iran’s missile launchers and drone systems before their own air-defense interceptor stockpiles dwindle, according to The Wall Street Journal. War Secretary Pete Hegseth described the approach as “shooting the archer instead of the arrows,” with U.S. and Israeli aircraft monitoring subterranean bases to strike mobile launchers as they emerge. U.S. Central Command reports that launches have fallen by 86 percent over the first four days of the conflict despite Iran’s use of dispersed “mosaic defense” tactics and modified trucks to conceal its missile launchers.
– U.S. and Qatar discuss acquiring Ukrainian interceptor drones: The United States and Qatar are in early discussions with Kyiv about acquiring Ukrainian interceptor drones to counter Iranian Shahed UAVs, according to Reuters. The talks are reportedly focused on Ukrainian technology capable of detecting incoming drones and disrupting their communications signals. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that Washington had requested assistance in countering Shahed drones and said Kyiv would consider such cooperation only if it does not weaken Ukraine’s defenses against Russia.
– Araghchi discusses Iranian war aims: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi appeared on NBC News once again, where he discussed Iran’s war aims and outlook. He said, categorically, that Tehran is not seeking a ceasefire or talks with the U.S. Aragchi said that Iran sees no reason to negotiate after the second round of negotiations did not prevent an increase in American aggression. Araghchi said that Iran has no intention to strike the U.S. homeland, and is focusing its attacks on the extensive U.S. military presence in the region. He also said that Iran has no plans to close the Strait of Hormuz, which he insists remains open, but that “all scenarios” remain possible if the war continues. “This is not our war,” he emphasized. “This is a war of choice by the United States.”
– Trump touches on Iranian missiles, gas, and leadership: President Donald Trump echoed the claim of his military’s top leadership that the U.S.-Israeli campaign has rapidly degraded Iran’s military capabilities, claiming that “as soon as they set off a missile, within four minutes the launcher gets hit.” He claimed that roughly 60% of Iran’s missiles and 64% of its launchers have been eliminated. When asked about the effect of the war on the U.S. energy market, he told Reuters that he does not “have any concern about” rising gas prices. “They’ll drop very rapidly when this is over, and if they rise, they rise, but this is far more important than having gasoline prices go up a little bit.” In the same interview, Trump said the United States must be involved in selecting Iran’s next leader, saying Washington would “have to choose that person along with Iran.” Trump added that it was too early to determine who might lead Iran next, saying “everybody’s in the mix,” including exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. According to a report from The Washington Post, U.S. intelligence has seen “no signs of uprisings or defections” during the early days of the campaign.
– U.S. continues to eye Kurdistan for help in Iran war: Nearly half of documented U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran’s Kurdish regions have targeted Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps facilities and police command centers, according to a strike map compiled by journalist Evan Hill. The sites are concentrated in West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, Kermanshah, and Ilam provinces. On the topic of the role of the Kurds in the conflict, Trump told Reuters on Thursday that it would be “wonderful” if Iranian Kurdish forces based in Iraq crossed into Iran to attack security forces there. When asked about the possibility of the U.S. providing air cover for Iranian Kurdish forces, Trump responded, “I can’t tell you that,” but added that the goal for the Kurds would be “to win.”
– War drives large-scale displacement across the region: The World Health Organization said the conflict is triggering mass displacement across multiple countries. Around 100,000 people have fled Iran since the fighting began, according to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who said that up to 1 million people in southern Lebanon could be forced to move after recent evacuation orders, with another 700,000 in Beirut’s southern suburbs facing possible displacement. The WHO also said it has verified 13 attacks on healthcare infrastructure in Iran since the start of the U.S.-Israeli military campaign, and has confirmed the deaths of 4 medics, along with injuries to 25 others.
OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla predicts today’s 5-year-olds won’t ever need to get jobs thanks to AI. . . Fucking lunatics are running the continuing criminal enterprise with Kosher Nostra at the helm!
Billionaire investor Vinod Khosla sees an AI-powered labor transformation so massive it will eliminate the need for today’s 5-year-olds to have jobs.
Ahh, those jobs the billionaires are saying will be gone for those 5-year-olds when they grow up/ The Miami real estate market can’t stop making headlines. Billinaires Bunkers.
A rush of tech billionaires and business titans has raised the bar for South Florida prices in only a handful of years. The most recent convert of the Sunshine State is Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who just shelled out $51 million for the Allison Island home of LVMH CEO Michael Burke, the Real Deal first reported.
The deal marks yet another high-profile, waterfront lot purchase within Miami’s ultra-exclusive communities, like Allison Island, Star Island and Indian Creek.
“What just happened was that there was a ringleader, Larry Page, who closed on his property the last days of December, and that sounded the alarm for the others,” Douglas Elliman agent Dina Goldentayer told Business Insider in February.
On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Zuckerberg paid a record-breaking $170 million for a single property on Indian Creek Island, joining a small community that includes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Ivanka Trump.
Danny Hertzberg of the Jills Zeder Group was the listing agent for one of the homes purchased by Page, as well as the $170 million property on Indian Creek Island. In January, he told Business Insider that the wave of Californians toward the end of 2025 and into 2026 was unanticipated, but as more people came started to make sense.
“People want to be around their colleagues,” he said. “They want to be around people in technology and finance. “
That’s according to a federal judge in Tallahassee, who issued an order lambasting DeSantis for “using an executive office to make a political statement at the expense of others’ constitutional rights.”
“Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” wrote U.S. District Judge Mark Walker in a March 4 order granting the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) a preliminary injunction.
USA USA MAGA MAGA:
US and Ecuadorian forces have launched joint operations to combat drug trafficking, the US Southern Command said on Tuesday, but neither side gave more details.
Southern Command, which encompasses 31 countries through South and Central America and the Caribbean, said in a statement on X that the “decisive action” was aimed at combating illicit drug trafficking.
Ecuador’s defense ministry said details of the offensive operations were classified.
The announcement came a day after the South American country said Washington had joined a “new phase” in its so-called “war on drugs”.
Daniel Noboa, Ecuador’s president and a close ally of Donald Trump, said Washington was among “regional allies” taking part in the operation against drug cartels, which use ports to smuggle cocaine to international markets.
Circling the fucking pedophile and rapist wagons: House kills effort to release all congressional sexual misconduct and harassment reports
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., had forced the vote in light of allegations that her Republican colleague Tony Gonzales of Texas sent sexual text messages to a subordinate.
The sinking underscored the scope of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and its spread in the Middle East and beyond. It also ignited a debate in India about maritime security in the Indian Ocean — a region where New Delhi maintains a significant naval presence.
On Wednesday, Sri Lanka’s navy recovered 87 bodies and rescued 32 Iranian sailors from the IRIS Dena, which sank in international waters off the coast of the island nation — a rare instance of a submarine torpedoing a ship since World War II.
Sri Lanka’s navy said it had responded to a distress signal from the IRIS Dena, but by the time it reached the location, there was no sign of the ship, just patches of oil and sailors floating in the water. The rescued mariners were taken to a hospital in the town of Galle, on Sri Lanka’s southern coast.
World War II the most brutal war ever.
Photo above of a German submarine picking up British sailors after they torpedoed their warship. Today, the American submarine sailed away leaving any Iranian survivors to drown. Imagine having less moral standards than the Nazis…
White psychotic fucking “race.” Push to give English same status as Māori and NZ sign languages triggers backlash from opposition parties and linguistic experts
Push to give English same status as Māori and NZ sign languages triggers backlash from opposition parties and linguistic experts
Very few English-speaking countries had made English an official language, the officials said, and where they had, it generally coincided with protecting another language – for example in Canada, where law established both French and English are to be used official contexts.
The bill has prompted backlash from opposition parties and language experts.
“It is scaremongering, it is cynical, and frankly we can do without it in this country,” the Labour MP Kieran McAnulty said during the first reading.
The Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick noted English was “not under threat”. English was “literally beaten” into people, Swarbrick said, referring to the Native Schools Act 1867, which resulted in children being punished for speaking Māori.
“This is a bill which is an answer to a problem that does not exist,” she said. “In English, for all members of this government, this bill is bullshit, and you know it.”
Sharon Harvey, associate professor specialising in educational linguistics at the Auckland University of Technology, told the Guardian the bill was “vexatious” and “unnecessary”.
Goddamn faggotry: The Army hopes to lure civilian tech workers by letting some join as captains
“In this case, the direct commissioning program, we’re really focused on folks coming in at the lieutenant and the captain level to help us in the technical areas in our operational units.”
A face only a machete could LOVE>
Did another bitch/whore get sacked? Pam Bondi rescinds policy banning politically appointed DOJ employees from attending partisan events
No Vaseline, and they bend over easily, those fucking FROGS: France has authorized temporary presence of US aircraft on local bases, official says
“France demanded that the concerned resources not participate in any way in operations conducted by the United States in Iran,” a French official said.
More whores in Pedophile and Rapist in Chief’s working group: It’s all about the Benjamins . . . Susie Wiles sounds the alarm on gas prices
White House aides and Cabinet officials are coming under intense pressure to reverse the spike in energy prices caused by the start of the war in the Middle East.
Iran, send them home in body bags, please:
We pay for these fucking mercenaries, right, US taxpayer: Army launching new merit-based retention bonus program, emphasizing fitness and command evaluation.
Again, Trump and Company are WINNING: America’s new war machines showcased in Iran war,In less than one week, the Iran war has produced a remarkable string of combat firsts that pull back the curtain on an American military boosted by AI and stocked with upgraded weapons.
Why it matters: Some of America’s defense-tech advancements have been on full display during Operation Epic Fury. The Trump administration has been happy to confirm — and flex — the results.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at a Pentagon briefing Wednesday that Washington is “punching” Tehran while it’s down, “which is exactly how it should be.”
Everything MAGA MAGA MAGA gets their hands on is complete fucking fuckery. The new SNAP food restrictions aren’t just confusing — they’re illegal
Food restrictions do not improve how benefits are delivered. Rather, they change what the benefit is. That’s substantive program redesign, which requires congressional authorization.
Yet, Congress has repeatedly rejected food restriction proposals. In 1977, Congress specifically refused to eliminate foods with “negligible nutritional value,” calling it “a cure worse than the disease.”
Critics say administration has overstepped authority in using 1994 law to prosecute protesters and journalists,,,
When dozens of protesters interrupted a church service in St Paul, Minnesota, earlier this year, it revived a fierce yet enduring debate about whether places of worship are appropriate arenas for dissent.
In demanding the resignation of a pastor who leads a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office, demonstrators chanted “ICE out” and “Hands up, don’t shoot!” at Cities church on 18 January. Religious and political leaders condemned the action, fueled by the church’s statement that prote
When dozens of protesters interrupted a church service in St Paul, Minnesota, earlier this year, it revived a fierce yet enduring debate about whether places of worship are appropriate arenas for dissent.
In demanding the resignation of a pastor who leads a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office, demonstrators chanted “ICE out” and “Hands up, don’t shoot!” at Cities church on 18 January. Religious and political leaders condemned the action.
Money money money: My city was filling up with digital nomads, so I converted my family home into a business.
Dumb dumber dumbest: Professionals have taught for generations that succeeding in school and attending an elite university would guarantee a rewarding six-figure career. But within a matter of years, AI has disrupted the world of work, and it’s fast taking over the office roles humans were once promised. Now, venture capitalist Bill Gurley cautions workers against blindly following the career blueprint.
[While Gurley has worked closely with Jewish colleagues—such as former partner Michael Eisenberg, who is an observant Jew—there is no record of Gurley himself identifying with the faith. Similarly, while he was a major investor in Uber, whose co-founder Travis Kalanick has Jewish heritage on his mother’s side, Gurley’s own background does not appear to be Jewish.]
Eat your veggies and fruit, young girl: A sweeping new study reveals that what’s on your plate may directly shape the pesticides circulating in your body. Researchers found that people who eat more fruits and vegetables known to carry higher pesticide residues—such as strawberries, spinach, and bell peppers—also have significantly higher levels of those chemicals in their urine. While produce remains a cornerstone of a healthy diet, the findings highlight how everyday food choices can drive real-world exposure to substances linked to cancer, hormone disruption, and developmental harm.
So fucked up: The U.S. and Venezuela “have agreed to re-establish diplomatic and consular relations,” the State Department announced Thursday.
Why it matters: The historic deal with a former U.S. foe comes as President Trump pushes to apply his actions in Caracas that led to the capture of former leader Nicolás Maduro to Iran, telling Axios Thursday that he must be involved in picking a successor to assassinated Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Boom or bust. Oracle plans thousands of job cuts as data center costs rise, Bloomberg News reports
No, not that Bezos Business: Amazon cuts jobs in robotics unit as layoffs continue
Fucking Laplanders? Finland to lift full ban on hosting nuclear arms, government says
The proposed change will next go to parliament where the right-wing coalition government holds a majority.
Yep, you and I voted on thism right? The Data Centers Have Arrived at the Edge of the Arctic Circle
As AI labs gorge themselves on compute, data center operators have headed north in search of cheap and plentiful energy
Lawsuit after lawsuit! THe fucking MAGA MAGA MAGA way. Portland protester officially files lawsuit against DHS after video showed agent tackling him
Death death death is when gas gas gas goes up up up. The Treasury Department will announce measures to combat rising energy prices amid the U.S.-Israeli strikes against Iran as soon as Thursday, Reuters reported.
As the conflict in the Middle East nears the one-week mark, oil prices have risen and consumers are seeing an impact at the pump. Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz in response to the strikes, choking off a crucial shipping lane.
All smiles:
If you don’t hate AmeriKKKa then you are so lobotomized and so Nurse Ratched-ed up, you might as well be in a cage with rhesus monkeys for more cancer experimental drugs to be test to do humanity SOME good.
Come on now, some of you secretly want to do this to EVERY fucking Jew you meet, and it’s difficult to meet Jews since they are in synagogues getting advice on which security details/ex-Mossad choices to choose from, which military murder weapons stocks to invest in, and which countries to get their third and four passports from.
But then, it’s deeper than kinetic bombs, man, think Eddy Bernays and decades of psychological warfare brought to us by the Talmudists and their offshoots: Secular Jews
The United States dropped upwards of 2.7 million tons of bombs on Cambodia, exceeding the amount it had dropped on Japan during WWII (including Hiroshima and Nagasaki) by almost a million tons. During this time, about 30 per cent of the country’s population was internally displaced.
Result
Estimates vary widely on the number of civilian casualites inflicted by the campaign; however,as many as 500,000 people died as a direct result of the bombings while perhaps hundreds of thousands more died from the effects of displacement, disease or starvation during this period.
Global Research is telling like it is: The USA is winning, and that win is facilitated by decades of robotics Olympics and garage computing nerds and the giant sucking sound of servers and fans in Silicon Valley, Silicon Wadi (Tel Aviv) and in the Satan’s Workshop of Unit 8200 and its funny-looking Jews: Zuckerberg, Ellison, Altman, Dell, Karp, Ackman, Brin, Page . . .
My friend, Joe from Merced, California, sends me links and quips daily, and of course, I go to Global Research at the end of the week to get the wrap-up. But, here, again, more proof in the puddin’ head (supposedly) of demented (supposedly) Trump:
Joe: “Oh boy, I can hardly wait. The whole world will think as one. Everyone will be Trump.”
This is the mind is the battlefield, not just a la Eddy Bernays, but literally:
Documented adverse biological effects span:
Biochemical changes
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Metabolic and enzyme alterations
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Reduced cell viability
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Republican Montana Senator Tim Sheehy, a 2008 U.S. Naval Academy graduate and former SEAL commando, wrote an article aimed at addressing the weakened state of the U.S. Navy in a conjuncture where the United States attacked Iran with only 25 percent public support, in the destructive shadow of the Epstein files and under the influence of Israeli geopolitics.
Published in the February 2026 issue of the U.S. Naval Institute’s journal USNI Proceedings, his article titled “A New Framework for Navy Building for the 21st Century” proposes the privatization of the Navy. The main problem, according to Sheehy, is that the Navy is in an extremely disadvantageous quantitative position compared to its closest rival, China. Although the article may initially appear to be a discussion about increasing shipyard capacity, it in fact acknowledges the structural rupture in American naval power. Today, the United States does not possess sufficient shipbuilding, maintenance, and repair capacity for a possible protracted war with China. China’s overwhelming superiority in the shipbuilding sector creates serious fragility in the strategic balance to the detriment of the United States
On February 28, 2026, amidst peace negotiations, “Donald the Terrible” ordered a criminal bombing campaign against Iran largely focussing on the outright killing of civilians.
This Global Research video production was recorded on the day prior to the U.S-Israel bombing raids. (February 27, 2026).
“Donald the Terrible”: His Criminal Agenda is Global Warfare and the Killing of civilians including women and children.
According to President Trump:
“the Iranian regime is …“a vicious group of very hard, terrible people,” … [who] directly endanger the United States, our troops, our bases overseas, and our allies throughout the world.”
What is at stake Worldwide is The Hegemonic Battle for Energy, namely the Acquisition of Oil and Natural Gas Reserves Worldwide.
A War That Reveals the Structure of Global Power
Empires almost never collapse in a sudden crash. They begin by waging wars they present as necessary.
The war launched on February 28, 2026 against Iran by the United States and Israel may belong to that category of events which, at the moment they occur, appear to be merely another regional crisis — but which, in retrospect, reveal themselves as turning points in the architecture of the international system.
Oh, there he is, after banning me — over at Global Research: Emanuel Pastreich
Global Research, March 05, 2026. Yet another person, Pastreich, thinking this is the end, almost the end.
To say that the blitzkrieg attack on Iran has not been as successful as planned is an understatement. Compared with this catastrophe—which anyone could have foreseen, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 was strategic genius. Things will get worse for Washington and Jerusalem, and quite quickly, especially since much of the money in the American inflated military budget was not used to buy weapons at all, but rather as part of an elaborate money laundering scheme. That scam would have put everyone in jail if they did not all have top secret SCI clearance. So, Iran’s clouds of cheap drones and cheap missiles are forcing the United States and Israel to use up their expensive missiles and overpriced drones rapidly. In fact, the United States had to pretend that its fighter planes were downed by friendly fire. To say anything else would have completely undermined the global market for such American weapons.
I ask you, knowing that Netanyahu and his senile Trump the lap poodle (Ben and Don) are psychopaths with a loose grip on reality, men who stay in power by virtue of their will and their insanity, what do you think they are going to do when this whole thing falls apart?
Here ya go — The New Image on the Wheaties box:
Christ, Jonathan Cook, just more and more prognostication or flummoxed analysis:
Rubio stated: “The president made the very wise decision: We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action, we knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties.”
Rubio was using the term “preemptively” in a highly irregular and misleading way.
Cook:
In international law, aggression is an illegal application of force – the “supreme international crime”, according to the 1950 principles set out by the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal. But there is a potential mitigating factor if the attacking state can show it was acting pre-emptively: that is, it was acting to prevent a plausible, immediate, and severe threat of attack.
Rubio, however, was not suggesting that the US acted “preemptively” against a threat from Iran. He meant Washington had acted preemptively to stop its ally, Israel, from setting off a chain of military events that would lead to US soldiers being harmed.
Had the Trump administration really been acting preemptively in these circumstances, the US should have attacked Israel, not Iran.
But Rubio’s comment begged a further question: Why didn’t Washington simply tell Israel it was forbidden from starting a war against Iran without US approval?
After all, Israel would be incapable of mounting any kind of attack on Iran without the critical support provided by the US.
Israel has had to rely on help from US military bases dotted around the region, as well as the Arab states that host those bases.
The attack would have been quite inconceivable without the backup of a massive armada of US warships sent to the region by Trump.
Israel can withstand Iranian retaliation only because it gets a degree of protection from missile interception systems provided and funded by the US.
And on top of all that, Israel is a regional hegemon only because it gets massive subsidies from the US – worth many billions of dollars a year – to preserve it as one of the strongest militaries in the world.
In other words, Israel would have found it impossible to wage war on Iran alone. It is a paper tiger without the US.
Rubio’s comment suggested one of two possibilities: either that the US, with the strongest military in world history, is under the thumb of the tiny state of Israel, or that Trump has made his own military, the strongest-ever, servile to Israel.
Whichever it is, it is hard to square with Trump’s repeated assertion that he is putting America First.
This point is so glaringly obvious it is presumably the reason why Rubio was forced to walk back his comments the next day. Meanwhile, Trump hurriedly suggested it was he who had forced Israel’s hand to attack Iran, not the other way round.
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LOTS of fucking bullshit here, dude. The fucking Spy Cam tapes, suckers. Do you think tapes of Trump sticking his fingers into juvenile girls’ vaginas and getting blow jobs from captured girls and then the golden showers, do you think even MAGA would defend the pedophile with those being released worldwide? Duh, who has who, and who’s on first base? Who the fuck has the tapes? Abbott being the Jew!
Oh no, the videos are viral:
Again, finding these political cunts’ families and vacation spots and shopping hangouts, that’s how we asymetrically take on the MAGA cult, the monsters of the Reap-pubic-can camp.
Moment Marine veteran protesting Iran war suffers broken arm during struggle with GOP senator.
Montana Republican Sen. Tim Sheehy has defended himself after an anti-war protester he was helping remove from a Capitol Hill hearing was injured.
The incident unfolded when Sheehy came to the aid of Capitol Police as they struggled to remove the activist from a committee hearing on Wednesday.
Brian McGinnis, a Marine Corps veteran in dress uniform, disrupted a gathering of the Senate Armed Services Committee to denounce the joint U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran. He clashed with three officers attempting to remove him from the chamber and suffered a broken arm in the process, Reuters reports.
“No one wants to fight for Israel,” McGinnis yelled as the officers shoved him through the door, at which point the protester’s arm became wedged in the door frame.
When Sheehy joined the scrum, an audible snap could be heard and a member of the public, in attendance to witness the hearing, repeatedly cried out: “A sitting U.S. senator just broke the hand of a Marine.”
As Sheehy returned to his seat, the same man called him a “coward” and a “punk,” to which the Republican appeared to respond by saying: “Go f*** yourself.”
As he was finally led away from the scene, McGinnis continued to shout: “Free Palestine, from the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, Palestine will be free”, referring to the first line of the Marine Corps’ official song.
The senator, a former Navy SEAL, later responded to a video of the chaotic episode on X and said: “Capitol Police were attempting to remove an unhinged protester from the Armed Services hearing. He was fighting back. I decided to help out and de-escalate the situation.
“This gentleman came to the Capitol looking for a confrontation, and he got one. I hope he gets the help he needs without causing further violence.”
McGinnis — who, along with the officers, was treated for his injuries — was arrested and faces three counts each of assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, and unlawful demonstration, according to Capitol Police.
They blamed McGinnis for the injury he sustained, saying in their statement that he “got his own arm stuck in a door to resist our officers and force his way back into the hearing room.”
Sheehy’s decision to involve himself in the scuffle also attracted strong criticism, however, with the campaign group Veterans for Responsible Leadership reacting to the senator’s account by saying: “Let’s hope he sues the s*** out of you.”
Paul Rieckhoff, a veterans’ rights activist and podcaster, said: “This is very, very ugly. And no U.S. senator needs to inject himself into this situation. For the safety of everyone, including himself. “Just unnecessary and terrible to watch. This is what an America falling apart looks like.”
A video posted on X earlier in the day appears to show McGinnis, described as a “Green Party candidate for the U.S. Senate”, standing outside the Capitol.
He explained that he is “here in D.C. trying to speak out against the Senate and ask them why they’re going to send our men and women to harm’s way when our elected officials said that there would be no world war.”
“Anyone who feels disillusioned and betrayed by our government, you are not alone,” he says. “Join us in demanding accountability for this betrayal. Free Palestine. Free America.”
Paul Rieckhoff:
Another take. “This is the beginning of the beginning,” and of course, always baseball, mom, and apple pie: ‘spring training,” whoopee, MLB. And, what is deeply un-American? Paul is alluding to a good pro-American value system versus a bad one, un-American? Oxymoron. Shooting people on the streets of America, and kidnapping an elected president after killing 100 Venezuelans? That’s bad, but, history tells us . . .
She wants the troops to get everything they need to kill and murder children!
REALITY.
Two Jews in a pod . . . Podcast: What lies have their forefathers and rabbis told them?
Oh, god, more yammering:
Let’s meet on each other’s Podcasts. There you go Trump!
Iran’s Weapon Of Mass Economic Destruction: Hormuz
“We are fighting the Epstein class that either rapes little girls or bombs little girls.”
Oh no, Philip!
Iran is winning?
Again, follow them, on their breaks, with family, go to their daycares, etc.
That the war is taking place at all is due to Israel’s absolute control over America’s political class, a reality that Netanyahu and his predecessors in office have not been exactly shy about admitting.
The U.S. is a hapless giant that has been corrupted by Jewish billionaire money from within to be totally committed to the expansion of greater Israel, no matter how many have to die in the process.
Do the Israelis care what happens to the American people?
No.
The U.S. is a necessary resource, which they will squeeze dry of money and political support before being discarded like a used diaper.
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FUCKING WHITE MAN’S and WOMAN’s WORLD!
Oh, no, all the fucking Duck Dynasty rubbernecking of the Trump/Truman show? Let’s get a Back Man on . . . Gerald gets it wrong, too, about Iran’s mighty weapons. Dudes, the country is jam-packed with Mossad, honey traps, traitors, man. All pathways, tunnels, underground bunkers, and missile factories are noted.
When it was first displayed in Madrid in 1981, Picasso’s painting “Guernica” was protected by armed Civil Guard officers.
Army National Guard 1st Lt. Paul Rieckhoff discusses how the Bush administration has failed to adquately protect soldiers on the battlefield. Rieckhoff served in Iraq from April 2003 to February 2004. He is also the founder of the group Operation Truth. [includes rush transcript]
19 members of a U.S. Army Reserve platoon were placed under arrest last week for refusing to obey orders to go on what they considered a “suicide mission.”
Stationed at Tallil Air Base south of Nasiriyah, members of the 343rd Quartermaster Company were ordered to drive a fuel supply convoy up to Taji, north of Baghdad. The soldiers had previously only focused on local missions in safer parts of southern Iraq and had never driven through Baghdad more than 200 miles away, where U.S. forces regularly come under fire. One soldier later claimed that the chance of being attacked was “99 percent.”
On average, American soldiers were attacked 87 times a day in August. Over 1,100 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq since the war began.
The platoon refused the order considering their trucks to be extremely unsafe. They said the convoy tankers lacked bullet-resistant armor and were not able to travel faster than 40 miles an hour. Some of the supply trucks were in disrepair and prone to breakdown. And while the armed escort of Humvees and helicopters normally provided, was not available. One the soldiers later described the mission as a “death sentence.”
The platoon’s commanding general, Brig. Gen. James Chambers, admitted yesterday that the unit was one of those whose trucks are still unarmored. In addition, the Washington Post is now reporting that Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, complained to the Pentagon last winter that the lack of key spare parts for gear vital to combat operations, was so poor that it threatened Army troops” ability to fight.
In addition to the high-risk nature of the mission, the objective itself has been called into question. The jet fuel that the platoon was ordered to transport may have been contaminated with diesel and wasn”t even usable–Some of the soldiers” claim the fuel had already been rejected by one base and would be rejected again at Taji.
After refusing the orders, the U.S. Army placed the men and women of the platoon under arrest. They were corralled in a tent and detained at gunpoint for nearly two days. During this time, some of them managed to phone their relatives back home. In Alabama, Teresa Hill woke-up to hear a recorded message on her answering machine from her daughter, Spc. Amber McClenny. On the tape McClenny says “I need you now, Mom. I need you so bad…please help me. They are holding us against our will. We are now prisoners.”
According to the father of one of the soldiers, five members of the platoon were told they would be punished with a general discharge. Chambers said all 18 soldiers have returned to duty. The Army has begun an inquiry, and the soldiers could face disciplinary measures, including possible courts-martial.
Paul Rieckhoff, Executive Director and Founder of * Operation Truth*, a nonprofit organization set up to give voice to troops who served in Iraq. He served a tour of duty in Iraq from April 2003 to February 2004, where he was stationed in central Baghdad.
Transcript
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.
AMY GOODMAN: Paul Rieckhoff is our guest right now. He’s Executive Director and founder of “Operation Truth,” which is a non-profit set up to give voice to troops on the ground in Iraq. He served a tour of duty in Iraq from April 2003 to February of this year, stationed in central Baghdad. Welcome to Democracy Now!
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Thank you very much for having me today.
AMY GOODMAN: It’s great to have you with us. Can you respond to this latest story?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Absolutely. I think it’s a very critical story, and it should be getting the attention it has so far. Not only is it an issue because of the insubordination, but because of the larger problem. Right now, you are hearing about a National Guard unit or reserve unit that is complaining about their equipment. This is one incident that’s really showing how big this problem is throughout the country. I was there for a year. We did not have proper body armor. We did not have uparmored humvees. We did not have ammunition, critical communications equipment, it just wasn’t there. This war was really done on the cheap, and I think you’re starting to see that come out now more and more.
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to go to an excerpt of a documentary that we played a year ago. It was — rather a month ago. It was called Off to War. It tells the story of the Arkansas National Guard’s deployment to Iraq. In April 2004, 57 soldiers from Clarksville, Arkansas, were sent to Iraq as members of the 239 Infantry of the Arkansas National Guard. Embedded with them were the brother filmmaking team Brent and Craig Renault. They’re continuing to make this series of documentaries. This is an excerpt of the documentary of the soldiers on their way into Iraq through Kuwait.
UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER: The convoy we’re getting ready to take to Camp Taji, north of Baghdad, is pretty serious. Some of the equipment is old, so we’re trying to make sure it doesn’t break down.
UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER: I cannot — I have no idea why — you know, the United States Army would make us deploy with this old crap, and I think they’re going to quickly understand that when half of it breaks down on the way to Taji, and it will, that it’s not a good idea to deploy National Guard units with old Vietnam-era equipment.
UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER: This is what an armored vehicle should look like. The vehicle is totally armored completely all the way around, even in the front, the windshield. This is the modern vehicle that the regular army has right now.
UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER: We were promised uparmored kits and we didn’t get them. So we’re going to go ahead and try to fabricate something.
UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER: Hey, sir, do you think we could use some of this stuff?
UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER: We’re trying to use as much of the metal as we can, but we only have a limited supply of it so, you know, we have to resort to these old bullet proof vests. Honestly, I don’t feel too comfortable with doing that, but we’ve got to use what we can.
UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER: The sandbags will act to deflect the blasts from the roadside bombs or deflect bullets if we’re shot at.
AMY GOODMAN: An excerpt of Off to War, which tells the story of the Arkansas National Guard’s deployment to Iraq. Part three of the series runs on Discovery Times on Saturday night. It’s by Brent and Craig Renault, our colleagues at Downtown Community Television, where we broadcast from. Well, it’s quite amazing to listen to this again, Paul Rieckhoff, because in fact they’re talking about having to go to Taji as well.
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Right.
AMY GOODMAN: They’re talking about the difference between how the army is protected, and how National Guard soldiers are protected. Can you talk about that?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Let me give you an example. When I deployed through Ft. Stewart, Georgia, with my infantry platoon. You go through an area called the central issuance facility. It’s where you get all your equipment, your boots, your helmets, your flak jackets. And a transportation company from an active duty unit went ahead of us and got interceptor body armor, the ceramic plates, the top of the line body armor we’ve heard so much about recently in the presidential race. They got it, and as soon as my first guy came through the line, the guy said, “Oh, you guys are National Guard. I’m sorry. You can’t have that. Here’s the old stuff, the Vietnam flak jackets off the shelf.” And I said, “Sir, you’ve got to be kidding me. We are front line infantry units. We need the best stuff you’ve got.” He said, “I’m sorry. We don’t have enough to go around. You’re going to have to deal with what we’ve got.” And that was the inferior Vietnam-era flak jackets that stop next to nothing.
AMY GOODMAN: Right. Repeat the story, and tell us who gets it and who doesn’t.
PAUL RIECKHOFF: At the outset in the first invasion, active duty soldiers received priority on body armor, so my unit, 38 Infantry soldiers and 40,000 other troops went into Iraq without body armor, went into Iraq with the old Vietnam-era flak jackets, 40,000 people of the initial invasion.
AMY GOODMAN: Then we see in this clip, the soldiers are putting flak jackets on their trucks. They’re not wearing them, they’re putting them on the trucks to protect them.
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Right. That’s exactly what we did. You have to do the old army adage: improvise, adapt and overcome. Soldiers quickly realize that they’re in this on their own, and they have got to try to come up with innovative ways to protect themselves. One of the things we did is exactly what they did: use sandbags in the floors of vehicles, take flak jackets and duct tape them to the sides of humvees and troop trucks. And that’s the way you protect yourself.
AMY GOODMAN: So what has been the response? And now you’re raising it in Iraq. You have come home to raise it on behalf of soldiers.
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Well, you know, it’s been a constant battle. Somebody asked me on a radio show the other day if this was an urban myth. You’re seeing footage, you have heard the story. This is a fact. The soldiers have been sent into harm’s way with inferior equipment. It’s a fact. And the government has been very slow to respond to these charges and these issues, and it’s only started to respond because there’s been pressure from the press, pressures from the families back home. But it’s still not completely solved. There are reports of soldiers in Iraq without body armor. There are few now. But the armament of the vehicles, the proper firepower and the overall number of troops are a problem in Iraq. The administration right now is refusing to address them.
AMY GOODMAN: We have to break. When we come back, I want to ask you about this letter of Ricardo Sanchez saying last year that the troops were not properly equipped. I want to ask you about your ad, Operation Truth ad, that has just come out and about this letter from the head of the Republican National Committee, Ed Gillespie, threatening legal action against the group, Rock the Vote, for raising the issue of the draft. This is Democracy Now! [break]
AMY GOODMAN: We are continuing on the issue of the troops, 19 of them, held at gunpoint for refusing to go to Taji, saying that they were not protected. Our guest is Paul Rieckhoff. He served in Iraq for almost a year, came back home and set up an organization called Operation Truth. He joins us to talk about these issues. The letter from Ricardo Sanchez
PAUL RIECKHOFF: That’s just ridiculous. The draft is an issue that merits discussion. The letter from Ricardo Sanchez is critical because he’s telling you, he’s raising a flag saying, we don’t have enough of what we need. You’ve heard this time and time again. General Shinseki in the run up to war said that we would need several hundred thousand troops, and he was squashed by The Pentagon. Military leaders throughout the Army, throughout the military raised concerns at the out set and were crushed by people in the civilian administration who thought they knew better. And now these military leaders are proven to be right all along.
AMY GOODMAN: How open is the discussion in the military?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Among the junior soldiers its very open. I mean, we’re well aware of it. Its almost as if its become a consensus. I mean, we know that this situation, that we haven’t been properly equipped. There have been steps made to improve it, but is just an overall denial that the problem really existed and it really undermines the confidence of the soldiers on the ground. When you’re walking a patrol and you don’t have the adequate equipment, you don’t have the proper body armor, its a critical issue that makes you feel vulnerable, and its absolutely unnecessary that a country with this much money and this many resources can forget to take proper care of the boots on the ground, the soldiers in harms way.
AMY GOODMAN: The whole issue of Rock the Vote, of Ed Gillespie, the chair of the Republican National Committee, this has been reported almost nowhere, sending a letter to the organization Rock the Vote, saying they’d better cease and desist talking about the possibility of the draft.
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Right. We’ll I’m expecting a letter from him anytime soon to because at Operation Truth, we’re talking about the draft. And it’s because we were there and we have an understanding of how over extended our military is right now. And the draft may not be a probability but it is a possibility. It’s a contingency that military planners have to consider. Any politician, any party that comes out and tells you, I guarantee there will not be a draft is lying. What do you do if Korea comes across the D.M.Z. tomorrow and Syria and Iran decide to get a cooperation invade Iraq. We’d need troops from somewhere and a draft is a contingency that we should plan for and we should as a country discuss.
AMY GOODMAN: I’m looking at this story in USA Today. Members of the military and their families say the Bush Administration underestimated the number of troops needed in Iraq, and put too much pressure on inadequately trained National Guard and Reserve forces. The Annenburg Election Survey found 62% in the military sample said that the administration didn’t send an adequate number of troops to Iraq.
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Yeah. This is what we have been saying all along. The troops have been saying this all along. The hard part is getting the message out. One of the real downsides of the professional army is that when the soldiers are finished with the tours in Iraq, many of them don’t get out and cannot enter the public discourse. 55% of the troops in Iraq are there for a second time. That’s why it’s important we listen to the troops and amplify the voices of those who come back. That’s why we started the organization, Operation Truth. And our website is the optruth.org. You can find out the stories from the people on the ground who have been there. They have been stifled and have been repressed and really need to get out in order to educate the American Public about the most important issue that is facing our country in November and beyond.
AMY GOODMAN: What repercussions do the 19 soldiers face who said no to going to Taji, saying they were ill-equipped?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Very, very serious repercussions. They could be court-martialed or jailed. It all depends on what the Army wants to do. I think that the Army will probably make an example out of them and really come down on them with the hammer because they want to say that the insubordination is not tolerated.
AMY GOODMAN: Yet they’re back, supposedly we’re getting different reports, on the job.
PAUL RIECKHOFF: I mean, you’re not going to hear much support for them for refusing the direct order. Once you get a direct order in a combat zone, you are obligated to fulfill the direct order unless it’s unlawful. Now they may argue that they were under-equipped trying to take care of their soldiers. In the end they may be sacrificial lambs in this story and may wind up being martyrized by it, but I think that the soldiers were probably trying to do the best they can and trying to bring visibility to an issue that’s bothered us all throughout the military, especially National Guard and Reserve troops.
AMY GOODMAN: Paul Rieckhoff, as head of operation truth, this organization got a lot of attention last week with release of an ad, can you talk about this ad?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Sure, it’s a very powerful ad featuring specialist Robert Acosta. Robert’s 21 years old. He’s from Santa Ana, California, and he lost his right arm in a grenade attack in Baghdad last summer. The ad basically tells Robert’s story. It talks about how he feels about the war and tries to bring visibility to the fact there’s 7,700 casualties, wounded, who have not been heard on T.V., who you haven’t heard from. They have faces. They’re not just pieces on a chessboard or part of a videogame. They’re real people with real lives and real families. I think it’s a human cost of war that we have not seen so far. We are hoping it will wake the country up and provoke discussion and encourage people to check out more about our organization and have a discussion about the war.
AMY GOODMAN: Talk about the issue of the injured. We have been talking with Mark Benjamin at U.P.I. [United Press International], pretty mainstream news media outlet, that his reports hardly get any attention anywhere else, and though he gets awards from the American Legion, for continually covering the casualties of war, those who have died, but specifically those who have been injured. Saying that there were more than 11,000 medical airlifts of soldiers out of Iraq, for example. I’m sure the number is higher right now. This issue of casualties, of people who are wounded, what do you understand at this point? You’re saying now more than 7,000 what? What is the casualty?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: More than 7,000 troops have been wounded as a result of enemy contact. That means they got shot, hit with a mortar, or roadside bomb. And Mark Benjamin has really been at the tip of the spear trying to bring this to light. But there are tens of thousands of soldiers who have been injured not as a result of enemy contact. You fall off a truck. You get run over by a Humvee. There’s a helicopter accident. These are the types of injuries that are really not properly documented. They could be in the tens of thousands. They could be up to 30,000 right now. We don’t know. The Army is not really being honest with the American public about how many soldiers are being injured and wounded and they’re definitely not being publicized if you are not hearing from them. You’re not hearing about their issues. And your certainly not hearing about the V.A. and the under funding of the V.A., which is a critical issue right now facing the 33,000 troops who have come home from Iraq seeking care in the V.A. hospitals.
AMY GOODMAN: What about that?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Well right now it’s under funded. Principi himself who is the head of the V.A. publicly said, I have not had my budget met. I’ve called for a certain amount; the administration has under funded it. I think they’re going to cut $910 million from the 2006 V.A. budget. They’re cutting the budget and under funding it as tens of thousands of troops come home from Iraq and Afghanistan. This administration’s priorities are totally out of whack. And it’s really unconscionable to treat our returning veterans this way.
AMY GOODMAN: When you do an ad like you did where does it fit into the presidential campaign and election?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Well, I hope it causes America to focus on the human cost of war and understanding this is the most critical issue facing our country. It’s not some other pandering, its not the Vietnam War. it’s the Iraq war, its the war where soldiers are dying and fighting in the [jive] right now. We don’t endorse a candidate. We don’t want to endorse a candidate. We don’t even want to go down that route. We just want people to think about the war and educate themselves. Because after November 2nd, regardless of who wins, we’re still going to have troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. We’re still going to have wounded people coming back every day and that needs to stay in the focus of people’s minds, and that attention, that initiative and that focus we have on November needs to carry past November to taking care of our troops and their families.
AMY GOODMAN: Paul Rieckhoff, you are a former Manhattan investment banking analyst. How did you end up in Iraq?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: I volunteered. After 9/11, I was on and off active duty with the National Guard and Reserves pretty much waiting for the call. When the run-up for Iraq came, I knew I would be going sooner or later and I figured I might as well go in the beginning and get it over with and be a part of the tip of the spear. After that initial year on the ground, I have come back and now I’m still in the National Guard in New York. But is was out of a duty to serve. I wanted to give something back to my country. I wanted to lead soldiers in combat and try to give something back and also make a positive impact on the ground in Iraq. I knew that my 38 men would be a reflection of America and I could help mold them and create a positive impression of our country to the civilians in Iraq and any other people we came in contact with.
AMY GOODMAN: The democrats featured you in their weekly radio address. How did that happen?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Well, I approached everybody when I came back, from radio stations to local politicians saying that they need to hear from people like me who had been on the ground in Iraq. You have heard from policy advisers and wonks from the think tanks. But you weren’t really hearing from the soldiers. And the Kerry campaign was one of the groups that took me up on the offer and gave me a national forum to talk about soldier’s issues. I pounced on it. I’m not even a Democrat. I’m an Independent. But I felt like this issue was critical and if they were going to give me a national platform to talk about soldier’s issues and the human cost of war I was going to take it. It really did start the ball rolling for this organization and helped me galvanize other soldiers around the cause and create Operation Truth.
AMY GOODMAN: So this aired, when, right after the — this was on the anniversary of mission accomplished.
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Exactly.
AMY GOODMAN: And for people who don’t know, the Democrats weekly radio address is the response to the President’s weekly radio address. So what did you say?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Well, I was challenging the President. It was a year later. And when he declared, mission accomplished, I was with my infantry platoon in Baghdad getting shot at and the mission was not accomplished. We were not done. And there was a human cost to this war that was not being given adequate attention. And our critical shortages we talked about this way back in May, we had not had enough water, we had not enough communications equipment. We didn’t have the body armor we needed. And this war was done on the cheap and it was unacceptable. It really disappointed me. I was disappointed in the President and the administration. I felt it was an issue that needed to have a greater visibility brought to it immediately. I wanted questions answered. And when he told me at that time that he couldn’t think of any mistakes he made I was outraged. I could think of 20 he had made since breakfast.
AMY GOODMAN: Paul Rieckhoff, you are an Amherst College graduate, your father an army veteran and your late grandfather served in World War II. Many people talk about those who go into the military today, since Ed Gillespie so insistent is saying there is not a draft, an economic draft. What did you find when you were there?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Well, there is a socioeconomic divide in the military. The military is proportionately middle class and a lower class. Kids are not leaving Beverly Hills or places wherever Ed Gillespie lives joining the Marine Corps, joining the army. It’s folks from places like the south side of Chicago. And really — the weight is being disproportionately held by the lower and middle class. I think a draft is an interesting discussion and making people think about what is the cost of war and are you personally interested in sending your kid. I think creating that direct accountability, the visceral response among the public is important, because people need to think about when they support a war, would I send my kid, would I go myself. And there are people banging on the drum and hiding behind desk in Washington.
AMY GOODMAN: Paul Rieckhoff, I want to thank you for being with us, executive director and founder of Operation Truth. Do you have more ads planned?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: If we get more money. We are trying to raise money to air this one right now. People can help support us optruth.org. It’s been a real grassroots battle so far. We are trying to keep it going. We want to crank the conversation up and make people think.
AMY GOODMAN: Well I want to thank very much for being with us.
This is how a banana republic rolls — imagine, just imagine, the fun at $18 an hour, and the commute, since this is a rural coastal area. Imagine $19 to be a teacher. Imagine!
“Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.” —Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?” —Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“Dialogue requires an intense faith in humankind, faith in their power to make and remake, to create and re-create, faith in their vocation to be more fully human.” —Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“To speak a true word is to transform the world.” —Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Gaza had educational justice. Now the genocide has wiped that out, too.
For the first time in many years, education in Gaza is only accessible to the well-to-do.
Jews: Newly surfaced videos show Israeli forces carrying out heavy carpet bombing on Tehran, causing multiple powerful explosions across the Iranian capital.
Look at the fucking comments over at Texas Rachel’s Podcast. They are believing Iran is winning. Fucking A, and then I have a fucking Brit telling me to “sling my hook.” Fucking BRITS.
There is something very very wrong here with this Texas woman:
What a win: “Tehran an ‘apocalypse’ of hospitals in flames and children buried beneath rubble”.
“American and Israeli aircraft bombed hospitals, residential buildings and schools across Tehran on Tuesday in what residents described as ‘an apocalypse’” adding, “Millions of civilians are trapped under relentless bombardment as food and medical supplies dwindle and the death toll mounts.”
Jews are on the job: Goldman CEO Solomon says markets may take a ‘couple of weeks’ to digest Iran war impact
More of the Cuntology of Cunt-ree jumpers. Where was she fucking born?
U.S. first lady Melania Trump presided over a U.N. Security Council meeting on Monday focusing on children in conflict, one of her signature issues, and acknowledged she was doing so in “challenging times” as the United States has joined Israel in attacking Iran.
“The U.S. stands with all of the children throughout the world,” she said, speaking generally and not specifically about the new war in the Middle East. “I hope soon peace will be yours.”
No no no, it can’t be, the first lady, a woman of the night, an escort, a prostitute?
Yeah, trying that when an ACAB comes to your house about a fucking car mirror you accidentally hit while bicycling, and well, just took off.
A face a mother opossum could love.
IRS leader Bisignano declines to answer questions over unlawful taxpayer data disclosures to ICE
Yeah, the end of dams for hydropower:
Studies warn that climate change could slash hydropower generation across the Amazon by up to 40%, with controversial Belo Monte among the most exposed plants in Brazil.
Researchers and regulators say relying on historical river flows is no longer viable as droughts intensify and rainfall patterns drop.
Belo Monte’s operator argues the plant remains strategic for Brazil’s energy security, despite growing climate risks.
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Brazil’s largest Amazon hydropower plants are becoming increasingly vulnerable to climate change, and Belo Monte may be the clearest warning sign yet. Built on the Xingu River after years of debate over its environmental impacts and the reliability of its energy output, the mega-dam is facing a problem its planners could not solve with engineering: less water.
You want fucking good news?
Sea levels around the world have been underestimated due to inaccurate modelling, with research suggesting ocean levels are far higher than previously understood.
The finding could significantly affect assessments of the future impacts of global heating and the effects on coastal settlements.
Globally, the research found ocean levels are an average of 30cm higher than previously believed, but in some areas of the global south, including south-east Asia and the Indo-Pacific, they may be 100-150cm higher than previously thought.
Rising sea levels are a major threat to coastal communities across the world, and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that by 2100, levels may rise by 28-100cm.
Now, where is it I can find stories about MAGA and Trump losing? Appeals Court Clears Path for Trump Administration to Cancel Federal Union Contracts; IRS, Fiscal Service Terminate NTEU Agreements = A federal appeals court cleared the way for the Trump Administration to cancel collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) across a broad segment of the federal government workforce.
Oh yeah, what’s that Rachel and Ritter et al about Russia winning?
The German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, in Washington for talks with Donald Trump, said he stressed that Ukraine should not have to accept further territorial concessions during his conversation with the US president. He said he also underscored the need for continued support for Ukraine, which last week marked the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion. “We all want to see this war coming to an end as soon as possible. But Ukraine has to preserve its territory and their security interests,” Merz said at the start of his third visit to the Oval Office. He told reporters he thought Trump had understood the point after he showed him a map of the war-torn country.
Trump ensured Merz that negotiating a deal to end the war between Russia and Ukraine remained “very high” on his priority list, and said he believed the US had plenty of munitions to fight Iran and sell them to Europe for use in Ukraine.
Merz also urged Trump to put pressure on Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine. “Russia is playing for time here, and in doing so is also acting against the will of the American president. In today’s talks, I called for increasing the pressure on Moscow,” the German chancellor told reporters. The US, Russia and Ukraine are taking part in trilateral talks aimed at securing a peace deal. Merz, however, said only a pact supported by Europe could be lasting. “We are not prepared to accept an agreement that is negotiated over our heads,” he said.
A suspected Russian “shadow fleet” oil tanker seized by Belgium is being held on a €10m ($12m) bond, after inspections revealed infractions, Brussels said on Tuesday. The Ethera, which Belgium alleges is part of a flotilla of ageing vessels Moscow uses to avoid western sanctions, was seized by Belgian special forces in the North Sea on Sunday. Investigations carried out after it was brought to the port of Zeebrugge confirmed it had been sailing under a false Guinean flag, the Belgian government said. In total inspectors found 45 infractions, including technical defects, leading to the ship being impounded, it added. The tanker’s Russian captain and its 20-strong crew were ordered to remain on board. “The ship will only leave the port once it is compliant and the deposit has been paid,” said Belgium’s mobility minister, Jean-Luc Crucke. Russia has previously described the seizure of its tankers and other vessels carrying its cargoes as acts of piracy.
The US has deployed a low-cost combat drone in Iran modelled on the Iranian Shahed, as it pushes to accelerate weapons programmes because the Ukraine war. The Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System (Lucas) drone was deployed just eight months after its Pentagon unveiling. Defence officials said the compressed timeline reflected lessons learned from observing drone warfare in Ukraine, where both sides have employed thousands of low-cost unmanned systems.
The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, discussed the Druzhba pipeline, which is at the centre of a dispute with Hungary and Slovakia and has held up approval of a €90bn EU loan to Kyiv. A commission spokesperson said the two leaders had discussed the matter during a call but could not share any details of the conversation. Earlier von der Leyen said on X that they had discussed topics including the loan, sanctions on Russia and “the wider impact of the developments in the Middle East on energy prices, on energy security and on availability of badly needed defence materials”.
Looks like something Pedophile and Rapist in Chief is itching for: Myanmar’s junta announced the launch of a sweeping fuel rationing system for private vehicles on Wednesday, blaming disruptions to the global energy supply chain caused by escalating hostilities in the Middle East.
The country’s National Defence and Security Council (NDSC) said the new regulations, effective March 7, 2026, were a response to “global political situations” and armed conflicts in the Middle East, which have obstructed oil shipments.
Good old Norman Rockwell Days.
Or Happy Days:
Oh, this will work out for the banks, real estate companies and management firms: America has a housing affordability crisis. Building houses for rent can help.
About 7% of new single-family houses hitting the market are now for rent, not sale. More than 10 times as many “build-to-rent” homes were completed in the U.S. in 2024 as compared with a decade earlier.
Many of these are being constructed by firms that specialize in build-to-rent housing, like NexMetro, which develops and owns single-family rental homes in the Sun Belt, a hot market for these properties. That’s where populations are growing and there’s plenty of land. Ohio and Utah have also seen a boom.
When NexMetro CEO Josh Hartmann started building these houses in 2009, in the aftermath of the financial crisis, he expected to get homeowners who had faced foreclosure and could no longer afford owning but still wanted the same home lifestyle.
Instead, Hartmann said most of his residents have been young professionals, who were more likely to be pet owners than parents. Many wanted to live in a single-family home but either were not ready or were uninterested in homeownership.
Ahh, the brainwashing will be persistent: HBO Max and Paramount+ $79B Merger Could Reshape Streaming Wars. Jews Don’t Own the Press and Media and Hollywood.
We are working hard in America —
University of South Florida Optical Oceanography Lab’s Sargassum Watch System (SaWS) is reporting record high levels of sargassum across parts of the Caribbean. This includes areas in the western and eastern Caribbean as well as the western Atlantic and Gulf, including some Florida beaches.
Who needs data centers in space when they can float offshore? The power crunch for AI data centers has gotten so severe that people — not just Elon Musk — are talking about launching servers into space so they can access solar power 24/7.
One startup thinks the ocean is a better place for them. Offshore wind developer Aikido is planning to submerge a 100-kilowatt demonstration data center off the coast of Norway this year. The small unit will live in the submerged pods of a floating offshore wind turbine.
or hopeium, or rope-a-dopeium, or plain old “end of the world as we know it” sing song: No, Iran and Russia and China and Yemen and the rest of the world Are NOT winning: USA USA MAGA MAGA!
It’s so fucking pathetic how fucking wooden the thinking has been of China: Source.
If China it thinks that by “wooing” the business sector and the right-wing governments that hate them, it will gain ground in Latin America and the Caribbean, it confirms that it understands little to nothing about what is happening in the region and what the Monroe Doctrine and the Trump Corollary mean.
The process of containing China’s economic presence in Latin America and the Caribbean is already underway, both openly and more subtly. Beyond the outright rejection of Chinese companies in Venezuela following the armed incursion into that country on January 3rd, other manifestations point to a trend unfolding in the areas of trade, investment, technology, and security. While China has the capacity and is concerned with defending its interests in these spheres, the confrontation is also evident in the geopolitical arena, where Beijing has no intention whatsoever of challenging Washington. To paraphrase the old adage, China isn’t interested in having friends; its desire is to have good partners with whom to conduct—to use a redundant phrase—good business.
Forget about it Danny Haiphong and John Mearshimer and the lot of them!
MAGA MAGA MAGA, man, we are doing so well in this fucking Banana Republic: FLYOVER species, homo consumopethicus: Israel will fucking poison Iran’s water and the USA will bomb its dams.
Speaking of how fucked we are with the water dilemmas:
For decades, the seven Basin states have used more water than the river delivers by drawing their entitlements from surpluses banked in reservoirs during the wet 1980s and ’90s, chiefly in Lake Mead and Lake Powell. Never mind that those entitlements were based on an over-estimate of river flows in 1922, when the Colorado River Compact was established, rendering the “paper” water of the entitlements essentially a fiction, not to mention a source of continual conflict. That savings account has now been drained: Mead and Powell are each below 30% full, and the trend is steadily downward. Global warming has only accelerated the decline: So far this century, the river’s flow has fallen 20% from its long-term annual averages, and scientists forecast more of the same as the climate continues to heat up.
Show drought, snow apocalypse in reverse. You do get it, right, there is no Bruce Willis or Super Jew Man coming to the rescue:
See, we were attacked by Iran. Even more worrisome is what would happen next. At minimum power pool, the penstocks would have to be closed, and the only remaining way to pass water through the dam is the river outlet works, or ROWs: two intakes in the rear face of the dam leading to four 96-inch-diameter steel pipes with a combined maximum discharge capacity of 15,000 cubic feet per second. However, the ROWs, also known as bypass tubes, have a serious design flaw: They are unsafe to use for extended intervals, and start to erode when the reservoir is low.
Fucking PLYWOOD, man, that’s American ingenuity.
Meanwhile, the physical infrastructure that enables Colorado River water management is on the verge of its own real and potentially catastrophic crisis — and yet Reclamation has barely acknowledged this, with the exception of an oblique reference in an unposted technical memorandum from 2024. The falling reservoir levels reveal another, deeper set of problems inside Glen Canyon Dam, which holds back the Colorado and Lake Powell. The 710-foot-tall dam was designed for a Goldilocks world in which water levels would never be too high or too low, despite the well-known fact that the Colorado is by far the most variable river in North America, prone to prodigious floods and extended droughts. But the Bureau, bursting with Cold War confidence — or hubris — chose to downplay the threat. In the record-breaking El Niño winter of 1983, the Bureau almost lost the dam to overtopping, due to both its mismanagement and its design, because the dam lacks sufficient spillway capacity for big floods. Only sheets of plywood installed across its top and cooler temperatures that slowed the melting of that year’s snowpack saved Glen Canyon Dam.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s policy of personally reviewing expenditures of more than $100,000 has held up more than 1,000 contracts, grants and awards at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), according to a new report from Senate Democrats.
The report says that as of Sept. 8, Noem’s policy had delayed approval of or left approval pending for 1,034 contracts, grants or disaster assistance awards.
She sucks Trump and his dildo, and the Jews suck the war porn. Again, this is the Jew/American way — mowing of the grass, proving grounds, testing us, the crash test dummies. US launches Precision Strike Missile for the first time ever in a combat situation during the Iran operation
Additionally, CENTCOM announced that over 20 Iranian navy vessels have been struck or sunk as part of Operation Epic Fury, including a Soleimani-class vessel.
Are you cumming all over your boxers and panties and g-strings and XXL Depends?
Shit, where’s Judge Spumoni and RItter and the Larry Moe and Curly — and Ray McGOvern, and the Minyan of Finkelstein, Aaron, Katie, Illan, Max, Joe Shapiro, McGregor, the Duran, the lot of them when we need a little bit of bullshit about that old time religion how US is about to go belly up and the Jews of Palestine are almost done with Zionism?
We live in the first decade of the 21st century. It is a very exciting period in human history in many ways. Science and technology have advanced to unheard-of heights. Many of the most important advances have been made in the USA. And yet in other respects, human consciousness is lagging far behind the advances of the productive forces, science, and technique.
In the USA today most people believe in God and the devil. Millions are convinced that the first Book of Genesis – and the rest of the Bible – is literally true. They demand that children in American schools should be taught that God created the world in six days, and that the first woman was made out of Adam’s rib. The first American to circle the world in a spaceship, when asked to deliver a message to the people of the world, out of the whole of world literature, chose the Book of Genesis.
This contradiction between the colossal advances of science and the extreme backwardness of human consciousness is a dialectical contradiction. Nowhere is this contradiction so obvious as in the mentality of the right-wing Republican Neo-Conservative clique that is now firmly installed in the White House. If we were able to open the head of George Bush and look into the workings of his brain, we would see there all the accumulated rubbish, prejudices, and superstitions of the last thousand years.
[Pete Hegseth’s Crusade to Turn the Military into a Christian Weapon]
The mentality of those ladies and gentlemen who stand at the head of the world’s most powerful and advanced country is not fundamentally different to the primitive psychology of the Middle Ages. They are steeped in religion, in its crudest and most primitive forms. They talk about the world in terms that could easily have been used by the crusaders: the “axis of Evil” and so on. They betray all the psychological traits of religious fanatics like Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar. The only difference, as they will immediately protest, is that they are right, whereas those who hold contrary views are wrong (Bin Laden also thinks the same).
What? Are Jews losing? WTF? Isaac Herzog held a secret meeting with Asio boss during Australia trip, the intelligence agency confirms
Granting a foreign head of state, such as the Israeli president, access to a domestic intelligence agency is ‘unprecedented’, Senator David Pocock claims
Sure, those 14 eyes are all focused in with Mossad and Jewish Tech. DO NOT BE FOOLED by “this could be the end of zionism” fuckery.
Brown slime, a giant feces pile, this HOME:
Britain said on Tuesday the government would end study visas from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar, and Sudan, and work visas for Afghans, in a major crackdown as anti-immigration sentiment rises in the country.
“An ‘emergency brake’ on visas has been imposed for the first time on nationals from four countries following a surge in asylum claims from legal routes,” the Home Office said in a statement run by Britain’s Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood.
Yet the real shit of the InBred UnUnited Quee/ueer-Dumb is running like gangbusters: Thousands of pollution incidents in England downgraded without site visit, data suggests
Exclusive: Whistleblower figures show a large rise in ‘serious’ to ‘minor’ downgrades based on water company evidence.
Your/Our Shit Cup Runeth Over: Opponents blast CAFO’s plan to expand in Pierce County in contested case hearing
Fears mount over water contamination, but an attorney for Ridge Breeze Dairy says the farm’s owners care about water quality
How’s that war front going? Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, Iran, Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, Yemen, where else? Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan? China?
Oh, shit, that’s who is winning.
The U.S. has mobilized an extensive force comprising more than 50,000 troops, 200 fighter jets, two aircraft carriers and bombers, said Admiral Brad Cooper, Commander of U.S. Central Command.
Within the first 24 hours of the operation, the U.S. nearly doubled the scale of its “shock and awe” strikes from 2003, Cooper said. The U.S. is continuing its 24/7 strikes against Iran, and has hit nearly 2,000 targets within the first 100 hours of the operation.
“We have severely degraded Iran’s air defenses and destroyed hundreds of Iranian ballistic missiles, launchers and drones,” said Cooper. The U.S. also has a goal of sinking Iran’s “entire Navy,” he added. So far, the U.S. reports sinking 17 ships, including the most-operational Iranian submarine.
“Today, there is not a single Iranian ship underway in the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz or Gulf of Oman,” he said. “We will continue to conduct dynamic targeting operations. We’re hunting Iran’s last remaining mobile ballistic missile launchers to eliminate, what I would characterize, as their lingering launch capability.”
The price the world pays for America’s RV-World, Disneyland, TV, Costco, EV cars, muscle automobiles, clothes, paved roads, shitty hospitals, colleges, just about everything we do and say and eat and fuck with or fuck around with, here, in this Chlamydia Capitalism, has been gathered because we have KILLED people, KILLED others’ ecosystems, KILLED cultures, KILLED generation after generation in other parts of the FUCKING World.
Cathie Wood, ARK Shift Defense Holdings
Elsewhere, Cathie Wood and her ARK Invest firm on Tuesday updated their defense and air taxi holdings.
ARK on Tuesday sold 44,655 shares of drone and hypersonics maker Kratos Defense (KTOS), worth $3.97 million based on KTOS stock’s closing price of 88.95.
Kratos Defense is the third-largest holding in the ARK Autonomous Technology & Robotics ETF (ARKQ), representing 7.66% of the fund as of Wednesday.
The firm purchased shares of missile producer AeroVironment (AVAV), as well as loaded up on air taxi manufacturers Archer Aviation (ACHR) and Joby Aviation (JOBY).
Wood purchased 11,205 shares of AeroVironment, worth $2.56 million based on its Tuesday close of 228.30.
ARK bought 720,841 shares of Archer, worth $4.84 million, based on ACHR’s 6.72 closing price Tuesday. The firm added $3.34 million worth of Joby stock, or 342,006 shares, based on its 9.76 closing price Tuesday.
AeroVironment is the eighth-largest ARKQ holding at 3.6% of the fund, while Archer ranks 10th at 3.46%. JOBY is ARKQ’s 25th largest holding at 1.48% of the ETF.
JOBY and ACHR stock rose about 1% Wednesday. Kratos ticked higher after an early retreat. AeroVironment shares eased less than 1%. Defense Stocks Rally
NO FUCKING HEADS are rolling: At least 111 substances of unknown safety have been added to foods, drinks, and supplements sold in the United States without alerting the US Food and Drug Administration, a new investigation found.
[Energy Secretary Chris Wright pumps gas in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Friday.Sheila Dang / Reuters]
Yeah, WE are winning, go USA USA USA: Iran strikes risk more voter frustration on the economy with rising gas prices
Democrats are already pointing to prices at the pump in hitting the administration for its decision to strike Iran
Republicans say they hope the spike will be short-lived.
Shit, man, America the shit concentrator — how many new Gestapo concentration camps for ICE coming online in the next 2 years? 16?
Amid swirling rumors that the federal government is eyeing a Salt Lake City west-side warehouse for an immigration detention center, Mayor Erin Mendenhall sent a letter to the building’s owner warning that it is not up to code to host such a facility. The warehouse in question is allegedly located near 1000 N. 6880 West, according to information shared by local immigration activist TJ Young, who organized a protest outside the building Friday morning. Salt Lake County property records and state business registration information show a Millcreek-based real estate development firm known as The Ritchie Group owns the property. In the letter sent Thursday night and obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune, Mendenhall told Ritchie Group co-founder Ryan Ritchie that the city had concerns that the property is not up to code to host a detention facility and that the municipality’s sewage and water pipes in the area would not be able to handle the rumoured detention facility.
God, more worthless Democrats on worthless Medhi’s fucking Zeteo:
Days after the Trump administration joined forces with Israel to launch an illegal attack on Iran, the White House’s messaging on why they had no choice but to wage this war continues to shift.
But Rep. André Carson (D-Ind.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, says there was one main reason Trump went to war with Iran – and it wasn’t because of an “imminent threat.”
“I have not seen any intelligence that would satisfy that kind of attack,” Carson tells Mehdi. “This was clearly an attack to distract us from the Epstein files.”
Carson says that not only is he deeply concerned about the safety of Americans abroad, but he’s also worried about the possibility of retaliation on US soil.
WTF???? This is how a fucking house negro democrat thinks after years of watching Amazon Prime and Denzel Washington’s “The Equalizer”:
“We could see attacks on our homeland by folks with terrorist organizations seeking to seize upon the moment, as it were, or sleeper cell operations as well,” he warns.
An odd scene was recorded in Bahrain over the weekend, as Bahraini civilians were seen cheering Iranian strikes on US facilities inside the Gulf Arab state. Why would they cheer this on? You’ve got to see this!
Right, a groundswell about to take over the monarchy!1
The White House refuses to call its war in Iran a war, instead labeling it “major combat operations” — a maneuver to keep Congress out of the picture. And believe it or not, Congress is going along with it.
1946: Orwell,
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better. The debased language that I have been discussing is in some ways very convenient. Phrases like a not unjustifiable assumption, leaves much to be desired, would serve no good purpose, a consideration which we should do well to bear in mind, are a continuous temptation, a packet of aspirins always at one’s elbow. Look back through this essay, and for certain you will find that I have again and again committed the very faults I am protesting against. By this morning’s post I have received a pamphlet dealing with conditions in Germany. The author tells me that he ‘felt impelled’ to write it. I open it at random, and here is almost the first sentence that I see: ‘(The Allies) have an opportunity not only of achieving a radical transformation of Germany’s social and political structure in such a way as to avoid a nationalistic reaction in Germany itself, but at the same time of laying the foundations of a co-operative and unified Europe.’ You see, he ‘feels impelled’ to write – feels, presumably, that he has something new to say – and yet his words, like cavalry horses answering the bugle, group themselves automatically into the familiar dreary pattern. This invasion of one’s mind by ready-made phrases (lay the foundations, achieve a radical transformation) can only be prevented if one is constantly on guard against them, and every such phrase anaesthetizes a portion of one’s brain.
Supplemental, uh? Is that SNAP, supplemental nutrition assistance?
Supplemental income for 70 year olds almost on the streets with their fucking meager chump chain social security?
Again, Republicans are fucking MAGA closet cunts, or already outted Semen Drip Rapist and Pedophile in Chief lovers.
Ahh, it looks like a supplemental housing unit in Iran, or is it supplemental missile proving grounds?
The unfolding war in the Middle East has ricocheted across the region, with nearly every country sustaining damage from missile hits or shrapnel, many reporting casualties, and key embassies, economic engines and passageways closing down.
Foreign governments are urging their citizens to leave on any available commercial flight as Gulf airspaces largely close, cruise ships can’t pass through the Strait of Hormuz, and major airlines cancel flights. The U.S. State Department says it has evacuated nonemergency personnel and families in six nations, adding the United Arab Emirates to its list on Tuesday. It also has advised citizens from 14 countries to leave. Governments from Russia to Germany and France also scrambled to run repatriation flights.
Ahh, a Rothschild looking like an Anne Rice character.
No war, right Linda Graham.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday ordered France’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to move from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean to help protect allied assets during the war in the Middle East.
Macron said the Charles de Gaulle carrier will be escorted by frigates and its air wing. In a prerecorded speech on French TV, Macron added that Rafale fighter jets, air-defense systems and airborne radar systems have been deployed over the past few hours in the Middle East.
Fucknig Jews at every goddamned turn:
Tech companies and industrial agriculture are “playing with the food system” by using AI and algorithms to undermine farmers in choosing what the world eats, leading food security experts have warned.
Companies such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM and Alibaba are working with industrial agriculture firms to influence what crops are grown and how, according to a report by the thinktank International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food).
The result, the experts say, is a “top-down” approach to farming systems where large companies tell farmers what to grow, often focusing on the most productive and profitable crops.
“Companies are playing with the food system, and we can’t afford to have that played with,” said Pat Mooney, a Canadian author and expert on agriculture who contributed to the Head in the Cloud report, adding that these companies tend to focus only on five crops: corn, rice, wheat, soya beans and potatoes.
“Their advice is going to be: ‘Well, we don’t know about your using [the grain] teff in Ethiopia – we never heard about teff – but we do know about how to use corn in Ethiopia, so we’ll advise you on the ways you can use corn, and we know how to link corn to pesticides, because that’s our expertise’,” he said.
Jewish Tech:
More Jewish Mossad Unit 8200 FUN. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is losing another key leader who has played a critical role in spearheading government-wide cyber defenses.
Shelly Hartsook, acting associate director in CISA’s cybersecurity division, announced her resignation today, two sources confirmed to Federal News Network. The sources, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said Hartsook’s departure was voluntary, though it comes at an uncertain time for the cyber defense agency.
From fucking CNN:
Here’s the latest
• Strikes target leadership: US President Donald Trump said Iran’s air force and navy had been “knocked out” and that new strikes targeted Iranian leadership. Israel also struck a compound belonging to a group responsible for electing Iran’s next supreme leader, an Israeli source told CNN.
YOU do KNOW that fucking TRUMP is winning and the Jews are running the SHOW. Supplemental income, uh?
Interest on the $38.8 trillion national debt has tripled since 2020, and it already costs taxpayers more than defense and Medicaid
[ Trump in Corpus Christi, Texas, Feb. 27, 2026.]
Not a war, uh, Linda Graham? Hundreds of thousands of passengers remain stranded, with key air hubs in Middle East closed amid fallout from US-Israeli strikes on Iran.
THe other war against humanity: The AI boom is minting startup multimillionaires at an unprecedented speed.
Supplementing income: One of the wildest stories in tech right now is what’s happening at Anthropic. New data from Levels.fyi shows how some employees at this AI startup have effectively become multimillionaires about a year after joining.
One engineer who started in late 2024 got 60,000 stock options at a $13 strike price, when Anthropic was valued around $18 billion. At the time, the equity penciled out to roughly $200,000 a year on paper.
Fast forward to a recent share sale valuing Anthropic near $350 billion. Even after estimated dilution and other factors, this employee probably owns about $4 million to $5 million in vested stock now. The full equity grant, which typically vests in quarters over four years, is likely worth about $18 million to $20 million, according to Levels.fyi estimates.
Go UK UK UK:
A new three-part factual drama, Dirty Business, highlights the murky world of the English water industry. This Channel 4 docudrama follows the lives of two concerned citizens from Oxfordshire in south-east England: a retired police detective called Ash Smith and a retired university professor called Peter Hammond, who is an expert in deciphering patterns in big data sets. Together, they have been investigating sewage discharges into their local river for more than a decade.
The series spotlights their struggles to get information from their water company about releases of untreated sewage, and for the Environment Agency (EA) to take their concerns about pollution seriously. Interwoven with their accounts are tragic stories of several families whose lives have been turned upside down through exposure to contaminated water.
Many water companies have been fined millions of pounds for polluting discharges, failure to maintain infrastructure and withholding evidence from investigative authorities. However, critics have argued that these fines have been built into the business model, as dividends are not related to environmental performance. The water industry is also now lobbying government against further regulation and fines.
Chavez is DEAD: The U.S. oil major will work with the Venezuelan government and if the right investment terms are in place “we will be interested in going back,” Senior Vice President Jack Williams said during a Morgan Stanley conference.
U.S. President Donald Trump has urged oil firms to invest $100 billion in Venezuela and rebuild the energy sector after U.S. forces captured and removed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from office in January.
Born in 1965 in Amman, Jordan, to a family of Palestinian refugees, he rose to prominence as a world-leading chemist. In 2025, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work on Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs).
‘Reimagining matter’: Nobel laureate invents machine that harvests water from dry air. Omar Yaghi’s invention uses ambient thermal energy and can generate up to 1,000 litres of clean water every day
Atoco, a technology company that Yaghi founded, said its units, comparable in size to a 20ft shipping container and powered entirely by ultra-low-grade thermal energy, could be placed in local communities to generate up to 1,000 litres of clean water every day, even if centralised electricity and water sources were interrupted by drought or storm damage.
VERSUS this Jewish Fucking MONSTER:
OpenAI changes deal with US military after backlash
Jews lie: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman unveiled a reworked agreement with the Pentagon on Monday night governing the Defense Department’s use of its AI services, which he says provides stronger guarantees that the military won’t use OpenAI’s systems for domestic surveillance.
The new agreement states that “the AI system shall not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of U.S. persons and nationals,” according to a post on OpenAI’s website. OpenAI had faced some backlashas news of an initial agreement between the leading AI company and the Pentagon emerged Friday. Many observers claimed the original language shared on OpenAI’s website provided ample loopholes for the government to surveil Americans.
Many observers remained unswayed Tuesday, concerned that the snippets of OpenAI’s contract with the Pentagon published by the company remained purposefully vague and provided carve-outs for domestic surveillance by various intelligence agencies within the Defense Department. The full text of the contract has not been released publicly.
“OpenAI has said that the Department of War contractually agreed not to use ChatGPT in agencies that surveil American people,” said Brad Carson, a former congressman and general counsel of the Army who now leads the Washington, D.C., policy group Americans for Responsible Innovation. “They have been happy to show contract language when it benefited them, but they refuse to release to the public this contractual provision.”
“I’ve reluctantly come to the conclusion that this provision doesn’t really exist, and they are just trying to fake it,” Carson told NBC News. Carson recently founded an AI-focused super PAC that has received $20 million from OpenAI rival Anthropic.
“We still need to see the whole contract to say anything with a reasonable level of confidence,” said Brian McGrail, senior counsel at the Center for AI Safety, a nonprofit research and advocacy group. “It’s definitely a step in the right direction, and I do want to give OpenAI some credit.”
Don’t You Want to Verify?: The architecture of total surveillance does not require a dictator. It only requires that no one says no while the pipes are being connected to . . .
Crossing Rubicon’s Warning: This article is about surveillance technologies developed by and for government agencies. Given what we know from this research, Substack is most likely recording your read, sharing your information, perhaps inadvertently, with government agencies and business affiliates chosen by Substack as the easy route to comply with laws. However, Substack has always kept track of every article, Note, podcast that you’ve read, and this information is readily available to authorities and tracking surveillance businesses. For writers, this was meant to evaluate the platform, which Substack continues to claim you own. But the reality is that there are NO safeguards or protections in place for subscriber lists and the data — including no way for the writer to keep encrypted lists and keep lists from being accessed. As of this time, we have been unable to ascertain whether Substack has complied with National Security Letters. But if you want to know what happens with every photo you upload into these systems and more, sit back, take a deep breath, and read carefully.
Yikes!
Nah, not that fucking neuroperverse religious cunt of a flag included?
Intelligence Gathering: Israeli intelligence agencies, like Mossad and the elite military signals intelligence Unit 8200, conduct extensive hacking operations to gather intelligence on adversaries. For example, they spent years hacking nearly every traffic camera in Tehran to monitor Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s movements, aiding in later military strikes.
National Security and Defense: Cyberattacks are used as a strategic tool to counter perceived threats, particularly from Iran and its proxies. This includes efforts to disrupt Iranian nuclear programs (e.g., the Stuxnet worm) and degrade command-and-control capabilities to prevent retaliatory strikes.
Disrupting Infrastructure: Israel has been linked to sophisticated cyberattacks on critical infrastructure in rival nations, such as the attack on an Iranian port facility that caused widespread disarray, reportedly in retaliation for an Iranian attempt to target Israeli water infrastructure.
Commercial Spyware Development: Israeli cybersecurity firms develop advanced, military-grade spyware like Pegasus, which can infiltrate mobile phones to extract data. These products have been sold to governments worldwide, though their use to target activists and journalists has drawn criticism and scrutiny.
Strategic Partnerships: The strong relationship with the United States, including intelligence sharing and advanced technological partnerships, enhances both countries’ cyber capabilities and provides a strategic advantage in the Middle East
Israeli spies spent years hacking every camera in Tehran to monitor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei:
Israeli spies spent years hacking nearly every traffic camera in Tehran so they could monitor Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei before he was eventually wiped out, according to a report.
The cameras, including one directly pointed at Khamenei’s closely guarded compound, allowed Mossad to build highly specific intelligence files that aided Saturday’s deadly strikes, multiple sources told the Financial Times.
“We knew Tehran like we know Jerusalem,” an Israeli intelligence official claimed.
Some of the images obtained from the cameras allowed Mossad operatives to determine “a pattern of life” for Khamenei’s security guards — including exactly where they parked their cars, their addresses and whom they were tasked with protecting, the sources said.
Now now, so this Subterranean Stack is monitored? The email list and all these graphics and my anti-Trump, anti-Israel, anti-America, anti-Jew, anti-military, anti-capitalism words are fed into an algorithm?
Nah, really?
Yeah, well, Plato and Socrates? Nah . . . . Andrews speaks with passion, but also exasperation at the false promise of change in a world that he believes is structurally hostile to Black emancipation. Changes that come after moments of raising awareness, such as Black Lives Matter, are too often hollow diversity, he believes. They may make “the number of Black people in an institution rise”, but do nothing to make those organisations operate in a more equal way. “People ask me all the time: is it terrible that I’m one of just 140 Black professors in the UK? Certainly. But if there were 600 Black professors, would it change anything? No.” Real change, he believes, cannot come from elite, conservative white spaces, no matter how well populated with Black people, because such spaces are fundamentally antagonistic to change.
This also means that, no matter how high you climb, little changes. “You get into these places and it’s terrible. I’m a Black professor. Great. I’m still Black. The last three years of my career, outwardly, have been amazing. Internally, it’s been the worst three years of my life. Universities are some of the whitest institutions that exist and, the further up the hierarchy you go, the worse it gets.” He describes constant battles with management to effect change.
Yet he stresses that it is not just individuals or managers who are to blame. “The nature of these spaces means they can change us, creating toxic environments of competition that lead to the classic ‘barrel of crabs’ scenario, where we are struggling over each other to get to the top.”
His breath quickens. “The battles, the scars. I’ve just had to fight. I’m always fighting. I’ve probably done permanent damage to my mental and physical health establishing this Black studies course. Honestly, since launching the degree, learning to navigate through extreme levels of stress and bouts of depression has become part of the job description.” He believes it is not sustainable or, in the long run, useful. “I would think of it as a failure if, in the next five years, I haven’t left the university,” he says. “In five years, if you find me still here, tell me I’ve sold out.”
He wants to focus his energy on the grassroots, providing “an account of society from a Black radical perspective” – and to include his four children in his work. The first “celebrity” they could name was Malcom X; he takes them to his talks as often as possible and is working with them on a “Choose Your Liberation” children’s book, a choose-your-own-adventure story that explains Black politics. He laughs, remembering himself at that age. “I need to be careful that they don’t rebel against their father and end up joining the Tories!”
A national anti-poverty program offering to pay low-income residents of Lincoln County for information about their lives, is off to a slow start despite trying to recruit people since last fall.
The Family Independence Initiative is seeking 900 participants from Oregon’s Lincoln and Jefferson counties, the only two counties in the state picked for the pilot research program.
The two rural counties were chosen because they consistently fall in the lower third of Oregon counties for most measures of income, education and health.
Family Independence Initiative is an 18-year-old nationally-recognized non-profit based in Oakland, Calif. working to help keep low-income families from cycling in and out of poverty. The effort is supported by the Oregon Department of Human Services.
A representative of the nonprofit is holding meetings throughout Lincoln County, trying to recruit people who can receive $800 over one year if they submit monthly details about their income, housing, medical care and the like.
The goal is to have 450 families sign up in each county. But in Lincoln County just 50 have signed up so far with a goal of another 50 by the end of March, according to recruiter Paul Haeder of Waldport.
Understanding acronyms and skepticism
“Learn how to secure $800 for pilot project Lincoln County,” declared the recent post on the Waldport Library’s Facebook page.
The four adults who turned out for Haeder’s information session late last month were interested but skeptical. Their understanding may have been hampered by the esoteric terms and acronyms that peppered the presentation, like UCF (unlimited cash transfers) and “social capital”.
“What’s the catch?” asked one man.
Instead of the “top-down” approach to social services typically taken by state and federal agencies, the organization partners with families to “learn from them, connect families to each other and unlock dollars” to fund their goals, according to the group’s website.
Paul Haeder
Once enrolled, people get access to an Internet platform called UpTogether. That’s where they submit online journals once a month, and share information with others in their network, Haeder said.
That sharing is what FII means by “social capital” — basically, anything you can get for free from people you know, like a ride to your job, or help moving furniture.
Haeder said on the UpTogether website participants might solicit their network for advice on starting a business, or ride-sharing.
“The goal is to help families rise up,” he said, “to engage with people who go in and out of poverty and give them networking tools to end that cycle.”
“What FII wants is data and stories from the enrolled families or households,” he said. “From there, a hundred data points are recorded … so the heads of DHS can see what social services are missing and what families are really doing to rise out of poverty.”
Haeder says data security and privacy are key concerns he hears at his Lincoln County information sessions. He tries to allay that fear.
“When FII gets the data there are no names; when the state of Oregon gets the report from FII you’re a number, not a name,” he says.
A household can be comprised of a single person, a single parent, a couple with or without children, married or not. However, there are two conditions — enrollees must have an active email address and a banking account or debit card to accept the $800 in payments.
Haeder is conducting information sessions throughout the county. For details, he can be reached at 509-***-****, or paul@fii.org.
FII has established its networking communities in several major U.S. cities, including Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Austin, Albuquerque and Oakland. The group was founded by Mauricio Lim Miller, author of the book “The Alternative: Most of What You Believe About Poverty is Wrong.”
Stand Together is a major philanthropic community and non-profit, founded by Charles Koch in 2003, focused on tackling societal issues like education, poverty, and addiction. It acts as an umbrella organization for a right-leaning, libertarian-oriented network that supports nonprofits, provides fellowships, and funds policy research to foster a free society.
I would have never done this $35 an hour gig if it had been with the Koch Brothers. They got rid of me when the FII went to Koch’s Stand TOgether.
The Impact of the Ruling: The 2010 Citizens United decision removed restrictions on corporate “independent” spending, a key legal shift supported by Koch-backed groups like the Cato Institute and the Center for Competitive Politics.
Massive Political Spending: Following the ruling, the Koch network spent hundreds of millions of dollars to influence elections, including nearly $400 million in the 2012 election cycle alone.
Political Infrastructure: The Kochs built a extensive political and policy “one-stop shop” that included think tanks and non-profits (501(c)(4)s) to influence policy long-term, essentially functioning as a shadow Republican Party.
Focus on Issues and Candidates: Their efforts, primarily through AFP, focused on supporting conservative candidates, opposing environmental regulations, and fighting the Affordable Care Act.
Advocacy for Donor Privacy: The Koch network has been heavily involved in legal battles to protect the anonymity of donors to non-profit groups, arguing that donor disclosure violates First Amendment rights, a position that found success in the Supreme Court.
“First, offenders would be required to wear electronic ankle bracelets that monitor their location and ensure they do not move outside of the geographical areas to which they would be confined. Second, prisoners would be compelled to wear sensors so that unlawful or suspicious activity could be monitored remotely by computers. Third, conducted energy devices would be used remotely to immobilize prisoners who attempt to escape their areas of confinement or commit other crimes.”
The country’s 2nd largest teachers union heavily lobbied the CDC to not reopen schools. While they framed their efforts as health and safety focused, there is more than meets the eye to the union’s push for indefinite remote learning.
Have you ever heard of “Gigabit Society”? Well, fasten your seatbelts and be ready as you will be starting to experience it pretty soon.
Sci-fi had already kind of imagined it (it was back in 1982 with Blade Runner in cinemas – although already in the ‘50s you could read books and watch movies set in a sci-fi environment) but today it looks as if we are almost there: self-driving and driverless cars – almost ready to be released on markets – drones delivering our parcels, AI assistants, real time info sharing and VR surgery – just to mention a couple of examples.
Virtual Reality, for example, has already started to change our lives, completely. The domains in which it will be applied are going to be many and not just gaming. Think about automotive, manufacturing, education, communication and entertainment, design and tourism, sport, commerce and medicine, and many many more.
The experience sits right in the middle of the process, it’s completely immersive and it’s set in an entirely digital environment – created as if it was a real place on earth.
Nowadays, every single industry is involved (at least a tiny bit) with what is known as Digital Transformation: no one can exist or not consider implementing a fast-tracked digitalization process. It is traveling at light speed but it will only be successful if all countries can cope with how fast technologies are changing.
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Abstract
This article identifies adverse effects of non-ionizing non-visible radiation (hereafter called wireless radiation) reported in the premier biomedical literature. It emphasizes that most of the laboratory experiments conducted to date are not designed to identify the more severe adverse effects reflective of the real-life operating environment in which wireless radiation systems operate. Many experiments do not include pulsing and modulation of the carrier signal. The vast majority do not account for synergistic adverse effects of other toxic stimuli (such as chemical and biological) acting in concert with the wireless radiation. This article also presents evidence that the nascent 5G mobile networking technology will affect not only the skin and eyes, as commonly believed, but will have adverse systemic effects as well.
Yesterday, I mentioned almost getting into a fist fight at the cardio rehab at the hospital where I have been working out for two months. Fucking TYPICAL Americans — retired, dudes that are workers, loggers, fishermen, small business owners, and even executives — back our boys and girls in uniform.
So, if you doubt the fucking Pedophile and Rapist Bone Spurs in Chief, if you BACK a country’s right to shoot down F-15s and implode USA mercenary barracks, and if you DO NOT support aircraft carriers and the blathering of both generals and NCOs, the you are a target, unAmerican, suspect, on the list, the Secret Service, FBI, ICE, even the local sheriff department’s list.
Note: My neighbor, from England, a resident “alien,” is a master boat builder and electrician. The neighbor across the road, well, his dog attacked Bob and Lynn’s dog, and he reluctantly paid the $500 vet bill.
Flipping off Lynn while she walks the old dog. Well, well, the Secret Service and FBI visited the house, showed a handwritten letter, with Bob’s PO Box business as a return address, and the four sentences stated that “I am going to Washington and hunt down Trump and shoot him wherever he is not surrounded by his team.”
It was, of course, handwritten, and some of those letters look like the hateful wording on the check the guy gave Bob and Lynn for the vet bill.
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I will be targeted. The SS said they had been following Bob for a few weeks, and they cleared him of the death threats. They said SS and FBI look into 5,000 of these a week.
Former FBI Director James Comey has provoked an outcry from the Trump administration after he briefly posted a photo to Instagram that federal officials alleged was a call for violence against President Trump — a claim Comey pushed back on.
Here we go, the Heritage Foundation:
From Germany and Japan through South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Bosnia, and now Iraq, Americans have sacrificed blood, time, and treasure to resist tyranny, protect freedom, and spread prosperity. Under our security umbrella, several of those countries have become global economic juggernauts.
Our military fought to protect South Korea, and the outcome there highlights the importance of our troops. That country is an Asian tiger, with steadily expanding opportunities for its people. Meanwhile, satellite photos reveal a North Korea that’s literally stuck in the dark ages; while the southern half of the peninsula blazes with electricity every night, the northern half is almost completely dark.
Even when we lost the shooting war, Americans won the war of ideas. Vietnam, for instance, has liberalized its economy and wants to join the World Trade Organization.
In fact, the longer American troops are in a country, the better that country does. In a working paper, Dr. Garett Jones of Southern Illinois University and I found that the presence of 10,000 American troops over many decades leads to a major increase in economic growth every year – after other causal variables are considered.
FROM MERCENARY TO ACAB.
“He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed” (1 Peter 2:24).
We celebrate our eternal reunion, forgiven and clean.
This story from The Christian Herald, 1961, precedes the famous 1970s song “Tie a yellow ribbon ’round the ole oak tree” about a similar story of a man returning home on a bus after three years imprisonment.
Ahh, the real story:
Tie a yellow ribbon ’round the ole oak tree
I’m comin’ home, I’ve done my time Now I’ve got to know what is and isn’t mine If you received my letter telling you I’d soon be free Then you’ll know just what to do If you still want me If you still want me
Whoa, tie a yellow ribbon ’round the ole oak tree It’s been three long years Do ya still want me (still want me) If I don’t see a ribbon ’round the ole oak tree I’ll stay on the bus Forget about us Put the blame on me If I don’t see a yellow ribbon ’round the ole oak tree
Bus driver, please look for me ’cause I couldn’t bear to see what I might see I’m really still in prison And my love, she holds the key A simple yellow ribbon’s what I need to set me free I wrote and told her please
Whoa, tie a yellow ribbon ’round the ole oak tree It’s been three long years Do ya still want me (still want me) If I don’t see a ribbon ’round the ole oak tree I’ll stay on the bus Forget about us Put the blame on me If I don’t see a yellow ribbon ’round the ole oak tree
Now the whole damned bus is cheerin’ And I can’t believe I see A hundred yellow ribbons ’round the ole oak tree
I’m comin’ home, mmm, mmm
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So, after the fistacuffs didn’t actually unfold, I ended up working out, and the proverbial TV was on, no sound, and the rock ‘n’roll was playing while these old fucks, including me, worked on rehabilitation. Unfortunately, the heart valve replacements, the by-passes, the open heart recovery and the huge $250,000 hospital bills (paid by Medicare, insurance advantage) seemed to not shake these people into rehabilitating their minds and learning that the Semen Drip and Racist and Rapist in Chief DOES NOT CARE about FLYOVER America.
Killing schoolgirls and civilians IS the tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree way of the country of MURDERERS.
Israel is jubilant as the Iranian schoolgirl death toll surpasses expectations, with over 148 “liberated.”
He kills, and then:
‘I picked those drapes in my first term. I always liked gold.’
He moves on to talk about Melania.
‘She said, “will the piledrivers ever stop? You know they go from six in the morning till 11.30 in the evening.” Can you imagine? To me that’s a beautiful sound. She doesn’t like it. I love it.’
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Play a stupid game, get a stupid prize. This is true in baseball as with many other contests. March and April have so far been one long, moronic bonanza. It begins with the boogeyman du jour, a once-nebulous acronym imbued with the weight of umpteen other soiled, abandoned words: DEI.
On the morning of March 19, those three letters were added to a URL for an article on the U.S. Department of Defense website about baseball icon Jackie Robinson—and that article was then surreptitiously taken offline. This was done as part of a government-wide purge on all things “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” related, orchestrated by the reinstalled Trump administration. The web post, with its references to the veteran Robinson’s “segregated Army cavalry unit”; his onetime refusal “to move to the back of the bus” while stationed at Fort Cavazos, Texas; and the “hatred” of “fans and other baseball players” during his career, was eventually restored later that day after a wave of criticism online. The department’s initial press response (“DEI is dead at the Defense Department”) softened into a vapid backstep (“Everyone at the Defense Department loves Jackie Robinson …”), followed by an attempt to somehow frame the life and legacy of the man who broke the nation’s most infamous color barrier outside of “the prism of immutable characteristics, such as race.”
TV and now MLB spring games? Another fucked up racist element on display.
The decline of Black baseball players in the MLB—from roughly 18-20% in the 1970s/80s to roughly 6-8% in recent years—is primarily driven by high costs of entry, the rise of, and increased investment in, other sports, and a decline in urban infrastructure. The shift to expensive travel/select teams has priced out many families, while basketball and football are often cheaper and offer faster paths to stardom.
Let it be known that I basically hate white “culture,” white everything, in this country of genocide and enslavement. I hate white movies, hate mostly white music, white banking, white tech, white education, white arts and culture, white thinking, white attitudes, white Chlamydia Capitalism.
Big paintbrush, sure, but come on, not 100 percent of the white hate goes out to all the whites and white things, you know that.
Just how bad it’s gotten was on full display during last year’s World Series when there wasn’t one American-born Black player on either the Astros’ or Phillies’ roster, marking the first time that had happened since 1950.
The question is why?
The reasons seem numerous as Black players from Hispanic nations have all but replaced African American players at the game’s highest level.
Cabell and Bishop James Dixon, who is the pastor of Community Faith Church and the chairman of the Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation, attribute the shrinking numbers to economics. To stay competitive at the Little League and youth baseball levels, families must have the financial ability to cover the costs of travel teams, expensive equipment, and specialized training.
Bats, for instance, can run hundreds of dollars, and most young players now have several bats at their personal disposal.
“When we played baseball, there were a few bats per team,” said Dixon, who was a star quarterback at Waltrip back in his day. “Now, every baseball player on the team has to have his own bats and a bag to put the bats in. And different kinds of shoes based on the ground and gloves for each position.
“So, it’s priced out. That’s the discrimination. It’s economics. Not just skin color. You can’t pay to play then you can’t make it happen.”
Even Astros manager Dusty Baker was surprised at the cost of being in the game when his son was growing up.
“My wife, I didn’t know what she was doing. I said, ‘Baby, what are you doing with all of that money? What do you need all that money for?’” Baker recalled. “She was spending $5,000 or $6,000 to play baseball. She was calling me from Phoenix, Cooperstown, Florida.
So here we go, Responsible Statecraft, that Jewish WAR:
And so each hour the dirty Semen Drip and Hegseth Department of War Crimes plays with death, the more Americans just accept that those boys and girls in uniform are better than sliced bread.
Again, it’s the toilets flushing right and the garbage picked up:
The first speaker, James Early, a cultural heritage policy consultant and former director at the Smithsonian Institution, said he has been traveling to Cuba for 50 years and went there in January in a trip sponsored by Busboys and Poets, a small restaurant chain based in the Washington, D.C., area that hosts community events for social justice groups.
Early said he has never seen Cuba in such dire straits as what he witnessed, with trash everywhere, people begging on the streets like never before, routine blackouts and other symptoms of economic breakdown.[1]
The curtailment of the oil supply from Venezuela, which supplies 20% of Cuban oil, since the U.S. kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on January 3, has been like a hammer blow to an already reeling country, whose economy contracted in 2024 and was described by President Miguel Díaz-Canel as a “war economy.”
You want to go to Havana? Fucking AmeriKKKa is a dirty dirty dirty concept, an idea made in the caldron of hell.
And here is the fucking Galand Nixon and Professor Wolff, just pontificating, prognosticating, and just fucking bullshit Americanizing.
This is the GAZAFICATION of the world, Jewish dude and African American dude. Have a llisten and the nonchalance of how these people talk. Economics?
Quoting: Living under a late-stage empire is like living in a twilight zone. The last few days have been especially trippy.
The US and Israel declared war on Iran with the full support of many European and regional leaders, and when Iran retaliated (as is their legal right under international law) the western political and media class wet the bed.
Every major Western leader, from Albanese, to Carney, to Starmer, Macron, and Merz, rather than condemn an illegal first-strike war, condemned Iran’s response.
The point must be reiterated:
Donald Trump stood in front of a camera, declared illegal war, without Congressional or UN approval, on a sovereign nation that had never attacked the US, and when that country fought back, they were framed by hysterical screeching Western elites as the aggressor.
Mourners dig graves on March 3, 2026, during the funeral for children killed in a reported strike on a primary school in Iran’s Hormozgan province in Minab
And we then go back into the theater of the absurd, American Press and Politics.
Hakeem Jeffries to whip Democratic votes against Iran war: House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) will whip votes in support of the War Powers Resolution this week, multiple Democratic sources told Drop Site News. The decision comes after a group of progressive Democrats urged leadership to break with their recent practice of allowing Democrats freely to back Trump administration policies, which began when 46 Democrats broke ranks to support the Laken Riley Act and set the stage for Trump’s mass deportation project.
Four Democrats openly oppose the WPR: Reps. Greg Landsman (Ohio), Tom Suozzi (N.Y.) Josh Gottheimer (N.J.), and Jared Moskowitz (Fl.), who received a combined $1.7 million in the last election cycle from American Israel Public Affairs Committee according to The Lever. The House is tentatively scheduled to begin debate on Wednesday and vote on Thursday.
Rep. Greg Landsman (OH-01): Jewish. He has frequently spoken about how his Jewish identity and the concept of tikkun olam (repairing the world) inform his work in Congress.
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05): Jewish. He was raised in a Jewish family, was bar mitzvahed in both New Jersey and Israel, and is a member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Jewish fraternity.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (FL-23): Jewish. He has identified as the youngest Jewish member of the 118th Congress and has been a vocal advocate against antisemitism.
Rep. Tom Suozzi (NY-03): Roman Catholic. While he represents a district with a large Jewish population and is a staunch supporter of Israel, he identifies as Catholic. He has previously referred to himself as one of the most reliable “non-Jewish Democratic votes” for Israel
she’s in/with good company but she wimped out years ago, apologizing to the fucking Vietnam War soldiers — those cocksuckers, those killers, those fucking psychos!
So, yep, TMI — At my three times a week cardio rehab, I get into it with regular people, you know, MAGA and others. Today, an old man in a wheelchair and his portly son wanted to throw down on me, at the hospital, outside the waiting room of Cardio Rehab, with 12 people (cardio patients, you know, triple bypass and the like) listening.
I heard Trump on their dumb phone, and then the fucking old cunt said, “He’s right. President Trump’s right. We have to take out the entire IRGC.”
I’m not expecting fucking Quasimodo brains to get smart, to be me, to go left of left, but I had to speak up:
“You want to take on the people of Iran? Murder people? Then get your fucking ass over there and see how you do. You fucking lover of this cunt Trump mass murderer.”
Of course, the wheelchair guy came at me, and the portly guy tried to block the hallway with his Dick Butkus stance.
“You fucking want to fight here at the hospital, you fat fuck.”
Then the fucking old man came at me in the wheelchair. “Listen up, punk, you don’t use that language around me.”
And so it goes . . . .
“Are you a fucking idiot? You want me to say things the nice way while you advocate murdering civilians and others? Kiss my ass, you cunt.”
“Well, you punk, I can say we need to go in there and take them all out.”
Yep, here we are, a place where Max and Aaron and Katie and John and Larry and The Judge and Ray and the list is long on Substack Patreon, YouTube, WHO NEVER go there from the safety of their computer screen and Poscast microphone. America is for this WAR, both sides of the dirty manure aisle.
“Fucking free speech, you fucking idiots, and that’s what it is calling you fucks fucking murdering cunts. You want Iranians dead, and boy, do I want Trump and Company and MAGA maggots like you dead. Dead.”
In the Middle Ages, when the feudal lords… concluded to enlarge their domains, to increase their power, their prestige, and their wealth, they declared war upon one another. But they themselves did not go to war any more than the modern feudal lords, the barons of Wall Street, go to war. — Eugene V. Debs in Canton, Ohio on June 16, 1918.
Eugene Debs made his famous anti-war speech protesting World War I, which was raging in Europe.
The working class has never yet had a voice in declaring war. If war is right, let it be declared by the people – you, who have your lives to lose.
For this speech, he was arrested and convicted in federal court in Cleveland, Ohio under the war-time espionage law.
Americans have consistently opposed anti-war movements throughout history, often driven by intense patriotism, fear of communism, or support for foreign policy, particularly during the World Wars and Vietnam. Counter-protests, government surveillance, and public hostility often target activists, aiming to uphold military efforts and punish dissenters seen as unpatriotic.
EVERY FUCKING WAR this Cunt-TREE has ginned up or proxied or launched, I have fought against.
There is a moral majority and a silent majority at every turn of the four-year cycle of voting for the head War Criminals in the White Man’s House:
World War I (1917–1918): Following entry into the war, the government and public intensely repressed anti-war sentiment. The Espionage and Sedition Acts were used to arrest socialists and labor activists who argued the war was for economic gain, marking a significant suppression of dissent.
World War II (1930s-1940s): While the America First Committee initially championed isolationism, the attack on Pearl Harbor created a strong national consensus, making open opposition to the war rare and socially marginalized.
Vietnam War (1960s-1970s): This era saw the most intense conflict between citizens. Pro-war groups, including some labor unions and conservative citizens, often clashed with demonstrators. The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigated anti-war activists in 1966.
Modern Conflicts (Post-9/11): Following the 2003 Iraq invasion, while anti-war sentiment was high, supporters of the war often characterized protesters as harming troop morale.
The “Silent Majority”: In 1969, PresidentRichard Nixonpopularized the term “silent majority” to describe Americans who did not participate in anti-war demonstrations or counterculture. He framed these “forgotten Americans” as the patriotic core of the country to delegitimize the “vocal minority” of protesters.
Young Americans for Freedom (YAF): This conservative student organization actively advocated for the Vietnam War on campuses. They viewed themselves as a “besieged minority” and used inflammatory satire and physical confrontation to respond to the radicalism of the anti-war New Left.
Citizens Committee for Peace with Freedom in Vietnam: Established in 1967, this group argued that premature U.S. withdrawal would have disastrous global consequences, claiming to represent a “silent center” of Americans.
The Hard Hat Riot is a pivotal example of this divide. Construction workers, many of whom were building the World Trade Center at the time, viewed student protesters as privileged “draft dodgers” who disparaged the country while the sons of the working class were doing the fighting. During the riot, workers used tools and hard hats as weapons, while police were criticized for doing little to stop the violence.
US Invasions Since The End of World War II
This topic of US Invasions spans hundreds of actions since 1945, and casualty figures often vary widely by source and methodology (combatants vs. civilians, direct vs. indirect deaths, time windows, and attribution). Below is a concise, good‑faith overview of major U.S. interventions and regime‑change operations post‑WWII, with dates and commonly cited casualty ranges. It’s not exhaustive. The U.S. has carried out nearly 400 foreign interventions between 1776 and 2023, with half since 1950 and over 25% after the Cold War.
Major wars and large-scale interventions
Korean War (Korea, 1950–1953): Civil war escalated into U.S.-led UN intervention against North Korea and China; armistice in 1953. The estimated total deaths often cited in the 2–3 million range (civilian and military, both sides). Sources note the scale of U.S. interventions post‑1950
Vietnam War (Vietnam, 1955–1975; major U.S. combat 1965–1973): U.S. bombing and ground war supporting South Vietnam against North Vietnam/Viet Cong; Saigon fell in 1975. Widely cited total war deaths 2–3+ million across Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia (see bombing below). U.S. post‑1945 intervention context
Laos and Cambodia bombing (Laos, 1964–1973; Cambodia, 1969–1973): Extensive aerial campaigns (e.g., Operation Barrel Roll, Menu) tied to the Vietnam War; deaths include direct bombing casualties and unexploded ordnance aftermath. Often cited in the hundreds of thousands when combined with war‑related deaths.
Dominican Republic intervention (1965): U.S. troops intervened during the civil conflict; hundreds to thousands were killed in the broader crisis.
Lebanon (1958; 1982–1984): 1958 landing to stabilize government; 1983 Beirut barracks bombing killed 241 U.S. servicemembers; overall civilian/militia casualties varied across the conflict.
Grenada invasion (1983): Short operation to depose a military council; around 100–200 deaths overall.
Panama invasion (1989): Removal of Manuel Noriega; casualty estimates range from several hundred to a few thousand, with substantial debate.
Gulf War (Iraq/Kuwait, 1990–1991): U.S.-led coalition expelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait; tens of thousands of Iraqi military casualties; civilian deaths include wartime and sanctions-era impacts.
Somalia intervention (1992–1993): Humanitarian mission turned into combat; several thousand Somalis died in associated fighting; 18 U.S. fatalities in the Battle of Mogadishu.
Bosnia (1995) and Kosovo (1999): NATO (including U.S.) air campaigns; casualties largely from broader wars, with airstrike deaths in the thousands in Kosovo; Bosnia war overall ~100,000 deaths before Dayton.
Afghanistan war (2001–2021): Overthrow of Taliban, prolonged insurgency; total deaths (all sides) in the hundreds of thousands, including civilians.
Iraq invasion and occupation (2003–2011; operations continued afterward): Regime change against Saddam Hussein; total deaths widely estimated in the hundreds of thousands, including civilians and combatants. Casualty framing by operation scale appears in public rankings.
Libya intervention (2011): NATO air war aiding anti-Gaddafi forces; thousands of combat and civilian deaths in the war period; subsequent instability caused additional fatalities.
Syria (from 2014): U.S.-led coalition airstrikes against ISIS and limited support to opposition forces; casualties from the broader civil war exceed hundreds of thousands; coalition strikes caused thousands of civilian deaths over the years.
Yemen (from 2015): U.S. support to Saudi-led coalition (arms, refueling early on, intelligence) and direct strikes against AQAP/ISIS; war-related deaths (direct and indirect) in the hundreds of thousands; airstrike civilian casualties in the tens of thousands.
Sources indicate the U.S. has undertaken numerous post‑Cold War interventions and large operations; casualty rankings by operation are commonly compiled, though methods differ.
Regime-change operations and covert interventions
Iran, 1953 (Operation Ajax): Overthrow of PM Mohammad Mossadegh; casualties during coup estimated in the hundreds; long‑term political repression followed.
Guatemala, 1954: CIA-backed coup ousted President Jacobo Árbenz; immediate deaths in the coup were limited relative to the subsequent decades of conflict, which resulted in over 100,000 deaths.
Congo (DRC), 1960–1961: Covert involvement following independence; Patrice Lumumba’s removal and assassination amid broader UN and regional conflict; casualty counts reflect wider war.
Brazil, 1964: Support for the military coup against President João Goulart; deaths relate to the ensuing dictatorship’s repression over the years.
Indonesia, 1965–1966: Support for anti‑communist forces; mass killings claimed hundreds of thousands to over a million; U.S. role remains debated.
Chile, 1973: Support for coup against President Salvador Allende; hundreds killed in the coup; thousands tortured/killed during the Pinochet era.
Argentina, 1976 (Operation Condor context): Coordination among dictatorships; widespread repression and deaths; U.S. knowledge/support debated.
Nicaragua, 1980s (Contras): Support for insurgency against Sandinistas; tens of thousands killed across the conflict.
El Salvador, 1980–1992: Support to government during civil war; ~75,000 deaths.
Honduras, 1980s: Base/support state for regional operations; casualties tied to broader conflicts.
Afghanistan, 1979–1989: Support to mujahideen post‑Soviet invasion; casualties in the war measured in the hundreds of thousands.
Haiti, 1994; 2004: 1994 intervention restored elected president; 2004 international involvement after Aristide’s ouster; casualties centered on civil conflict episodes.
Ukraine, various (since 2014): Support to government after annexation of Crimea and war in Donbas; casualties are primarily from the Russo‑Ukrainian conflict, not a U.S. regime change.
Broad catalogs document the scale and frequency of U.S. interventions, including covert and regime‑change operations, especially in Latin America during the Cold War
Selected bombing campaigns
Korea (1950–1953): Heavy air campaigns across North Korea; vast destruction; civilian deaths were significant.
Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia (1964–1973): Intensive bombing (Rolling Thunder, Linebacker; Barrel Roll; Menu). Civilian casualties from bombing and unexploded ordnance are substantial, adding to war totals.
Iraq (1991; 1998; 2003 onward): Air campaigns during the Gulf War, Desert Fox, and invasion/insurgency periods; thousands of civilian casualties across phases.
Yugoslavia (1999): NATO air war over Kosovo; civilian deaths from airstrikes in the hundreds to low thousands, amid larger conflict deaths.
Libya (2011): NATO air campaign; airstrike casualties in the hundreds to low thousands; broader war deaths higher.
Syria and Iraq (2014–present): Coalition airstrikes against ISIS; thousands of reported civilian deaths across both theaters.
Public sources compile “major operations since 1945” by casualty scale, covering many of these campaigns
Why casualty figures diverge
Definitions: Whether counting only direct violence or including indirect deaths (disease, displacement, famine).
Time windows: Immediate combat vs. years of aftermath.
Attribution: Multi‑actor conflicts make assigning responsibility complex.
Data quality: War zones impede consistent reporting; later estimates revise earlier counts.
The dudes in the cardio rehab gym laughed, said, “Man, you already got a workout. I thought for sure you were going to get into it.”
Ahh, I see these Americans, not just the MAGA deplorables, but the Democrat deplorables. They are all supporting these fucking mercenaries, these fucking self-drafting cunts in the various soldier of fortune outfits.
EVEN JANE, man:
Jane Fonda has once again expressed regret over the infamous ‘Hanoi Jane’ picture taken of her during the Vietnam War.
“It hurts me and it will to my grave that I made a huge, huge mistake that made a lot of people think I was against the soldiers,” she said at a personal speaking engagement in Frederick, Maryland. Protestors had massed outside the event with copies of the photo and signs reading “Forgive? Maybe. Forget? Never.”
The series of photos was taken during Fonda’s visit to Hanoi, where she met with North Vietnamese troops, and was pictured sitting on an anti-aircraft gun being used to target American planes. There was outrage at the pictures, and Fonda was branded a traitor, but she has frequently expressed regret for them.
One protestor told the Frederick News Post, “She got Americans killed … and she went to Vietnam to advance her husband’s career.” Fonda added that she understood this anger, and that she often met with veterans to discuss it: “I’m a lightning rod. This famous person goes and does something that looks like I’m against the troops, which wasn’t true, but it looked that way, and I’m a convenient target.”
Exhausted South Vietnamese soldiers sleep on a US Navy troop carrier taking them back to the provincial capital of Ca Mau in August 1962. The infantry unit had been on a four-day operation against the Viet Cong in swamplands at the southern tip of the country. Photograph: Horst Faas/AP
In the first of a series of fiery suicides by monks, Thich Quang Duc burns himself to death on a Saigon street to protest persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government on 11 June 1963. The photograph aroused worldwide outrage and hastened the end of the Diem government. With the photo on his Oval Office desk, President Kennedy reportedly remarked to his ambassador, ‘We’re going to have to do something about that regime. ’ Photograph: Malcom Browne/AP
Sunlight breaks through dense foliage around the town of Binh Gia as South Vietnamese troops, joined by US advisers, rest after a cold, damp, and tense night of waiting in an ambush position for a Viet Cong attack that did not come in January 1965. One hour later, the troops would move out for another long, hot day hunting the guerrillas in the jungles forty miles southeast of Saigon. Photograph: Horst Faas/AP
A US paratrooper wounded in the battle for Hamburger Hill grimaces in pain as he awaits medical evacuation at base camp near the Laotian border on 19 May 19 1969Photograph: Hugh Van Es/AP
An unidentified American soldier wears a hand-lettered slogan on his helmet in June 1965. The soldier was serving with the 173rd Airborne Brigade on defense duty at the Phuoc Vinh airfield. Photograph: Horst Faas/APView image in fullscreen
Women and children crouch in a muddy canal as they take cover from intense Viet Cong fire on 1 January 1966. Paratroopers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade (background) escorted the civilians through a series of firefights during the US assault on a Viet Cong stronghold at Bao Trai, about twenty miles west of Saigon. Photograph: Horst Faas/AP
Caught in a sudden monsoon rain, part of a company of about 130 South Vietnamese soldiers moves downriver in sampans during a dawn attack on a Viet Cong camp on 10 January 1966. Several guerrillas were reported killed or wounded in the action thirteen miles northeast of Can Tho, in the flooded Mekong Delta. Photograph: Horst Faas/AP
Medic Thomas Cole looks up with his one unbandaged eye as he continues to treat wounded Staff Sergeant Harrison Pell during a firefight on 30 January 1966. The men belonged to the 1st Cavalry Division, which was engaged in a battle at An Thi, in the Central Highlands, against combined Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces. This photo appeared on the cover of Life magazine on 11 February 1966, and photographer Henri Huet’s coverage of An Thi received the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club. Photograph: Henri Huet/APThe body of a US paratrooper killed in action in the jungle near the Cambodian border is lifted up to an evacuation helicopter in War Zone C on 14 May 1966. The zone, encompassing the city of Tay Ninh and the surrounding area north of Saigon, was the site of the Viet Cong’s headquarters in South Vietnam. Photograph: Henri Huet/APView image in fullscreen
General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnamese chief of the national police, fires his pistol into the head of suspected Viet Cong official Nguyen Van Lem on a Saigon street early in the Tet Offensive on 1 February 1968. Photographer Eddie Adams reported that after the shooting, Loan approached him and said, ‘They killed many of my people, and yours too,’ then walked away. This photo won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography. Photograph: Eddie Adams/AP
A woman mourns over the body of her husband after identifying him by his teeth and covering his head with her conical hat. The man’s body was found with 47 others in a mass grave near Hue on 11 April 1969. The victims were believed killed during the insurgent occupation of Hue as part of the Tet Offensive. Photograph: Horst Faas/AP
Severely burned in an aerial napalm attack, children run screaming for help down Route 1 near Trang Bang, followed by soldiers of the South Vietnamese army’s 25th Division, on 8 June 8 1972. A South Vietnamese plane seeking Viet Cong hiding places accidentally dropped its flaming napalm on civilians and government troops instead. Nine-year-old Kim Phuc (centre) had ripped off her burning clothes while fleeing. The other children (from left) are her brothers Phan Thanh Tam, who lost an eye, and Phan Thanh Phouc, and her cousins Ho Van Bon and Ho Thi Ting. This photo won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography. Photograph: Nick Ut/AP
Marines move through a landing zone, December 1969. Photograph: AP
A military source cited by Tasnim News Agency said the attack carried out earlier on Monday against Saudi Aramco oil facilities was conducted by Israel and constitutes a so-called “false flag” operation.
According to the source, the operation was intended to mislead regional countries and divert attention from Israel’s attacks on civilian locations inside Iran.
Iran Says Aramco Was Not Among Its Targets
The source noted that Iran has publicly and unequivocally stated it will target American and Israeli interests, facilities, and assets across the region, and that many such targets have already been struck.
However, the source stressed that Aramco facilities have not been among Iran’s targets to date, rejecting any linkage between Tehran and the attack.
Look at these people in their eyes:
Key factors contributing to this support include:
Media and Cultural Conditioning: Themes of patriotism and militarism are frequently embedded in public life, with media often presenting foreign interventions as necessary or heroic.
Fear and Security Concerns: The government often emphasizes imminent threats from foreign enemies, which rallies public opinion in favor of intervention.
Economic Interests: The military-industrial complex and major defense contractors benefit from ongoing conflicts, creating a financial incentive for sustained military presence.
Isolation from Costs: Because of the lack of a military draft and the use of drones or specialized forces, the general public often feels detached from the human, financial, and physical devastation caused by these wars.
Ideology: A belief in American exceptionalism and the duty to project power, often phrased as spreading democracy or fighting tyranny.
The “Enemy” Narrative: The perception of a “nasty” threat makes it easier for political leaders to gain support for using force
It’s always a psychological operation, with the power of the media, of The Press, or businesses, of Colleges and K12, football games, daily daily, daily, the fucking crocodile tears for the killers.
Three months ago: And of course, gets September 11 wrong, you know, “the terrorists.” Sure, not the Mossad and Neo-Cons.
Throughout its 250-year existence, the United States has almost always been at war. From its beginnings right through to the present day, the country’s armed forces have shaped both American identity and the political decisions of its leaders.
The United States of America has been at war throughout most of its 250-year existence. From the War of Independence right through to contemporary armed conflicts, the nation’s armed forces have not only shaped American identity but also influenced the political decisions of its leaders. The documentary takes a deep dive into this complex history and analyzes the “hot” and “cold” wars that have shaped US history to draw important lessons for the future.
The film explores how successive generations of US Americans viewed and experienced each conflict. It also examines the enduring impact of these wars on American society and reveals how military engagement was utilized to hone the image and the role of the US on the global stage. Around 30 high-profile experts, military personnel, and politicians examine the military history of the United States, explaining its successes and failures, as well as its impact on the world and the everyday lives of Americans.
The film looks to the past to gain a keener understanding of how today’s military decisions will affect tomorrow’s world — as well as their far-reaching impact on democracy and society. And with US President Donald Trump now in office for a second term, it asks what role the army plays in Trump’s worldview.
Above — fucking human stain, fake monarchs, Arab fucking ZIONISTS. Versus.
The day Notre Dame burned, a meme began to circulate. It had a picture of Quasimodo and said something like: investigators don’t know how the fire started, but I have my ideas. Besides being a joke that was too soon, the meme was grossly inaccurate. It implied that the titular hunchback from Victor Hugo’s classic Gothic novel would want the cathedral to burn. This is far from the reality of the character. Quasimodo would’ve been horrified by the fire. The cathedral was his home. He fought off a mob to protect it. The meme also showed how Quasimodo is viewed by the general public as a monster.
Of all the classic monsters I remember enjoying in my childhood, Quasimodo is the one that I was wrong about. Most people are wrong about him. We mistake his horrid appearance for his being a monstrous person. Even after reading The Hunchback of Notre Dame in high school, I missed how tragic the character actually is. Quasimodo is a victim of circumstance. He is a victim of how the nurturing we receive as children develops us into the adults we are.
Quasimodo never had a chance in life. His disfigured appearance caused people to recoil from him in horror. He was abandoned at the cathedral and raised by the priests. The only person he felt loved him was the real monster, who manipulated the hunchback to do horrible things for him. When Quasimodo fails to carry out one of Frollo’s plans, the hunchback’s only “loved one”, allows him to be punished for his failure.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame has been a cultural figure since Victor Hugo wrote the novel of the same name. But could he have existed in real life?
Memoirs uncovered by the Tate Archive in the U.K. may give clues to a real Quasimodo, the Telegraph reports. In his writings, sculptor Henry Sibson describes a stonemason working at Notre Dame who had a hunched back. Sibson worked at Notre Dame in the 19th century, around the same time Hugo wrote his novel. Researchers found records of men with similar names to those stated in Sibson’s accounts living in Paris at the time.
[In the English-speaking world, we like to call the novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which is a marvelous title, given how marvelous is Quasimodo the Hunchback, born of a Jew and a sow (according to a nasty old lady in Book IV), who has got to be the most heartbreaking brokenhearted lover in the history of literature—Quasimodo, whose deformed and decayed skeleton turns up on the final page, entwined in posthumous and pathetic embrace around the skeleton of the hanged “Egyptian,” La Esmerelda, the “bohemian”]
The writing mentions a man with a hump on his back:
“Trajan, a most worthy, fatherly and amiable man as ever existed – he was the carver under the Government sculptor whose name I forget as I had no intercourse with him, all that I know is that he was humpbacked and he did not like to mix with carvers […] Mon Le Bossu (the Hunchback) a nickname given to him and I scarcely ever heard any other.”
Hugo had publicly opposed the way the cathedral was being designed, and the publishing of his book is said to have prompted its Gothic restoration in 1844. Whatever his inspiration, Hugo’s depiction of Quasimodo made him one of the most acclaimed authors in France.
So, no, the Jews of Israel are not Quasimodo, for sure . . . Just last year: Two years into the live-streamed Holocaust in Gaza, the Israelis are still escalating — and in ways that defy belief. Tel Aviv’s latest act of brazen criminality took place more than 2,000 kilometres away, in Doha, Qatar, where it attempted to assassinate the Hamas leadership, which had convened to discuss the latest Trump-backed proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza.
The Israelis, however, failed in their criminal objective, as all the leaders of the Palestinian resistance movement survived the attack. In a statement, Hamas announced the martyrdom of five of its members, including the son of its chief, Khalil al-Hayya, as well as the director of his office. Three of his companions were also martyred. However, all the leaders came out of it alive.
The Israelis took full credit for their crimes. Netanyahu wrote on Twitter: “Today’s action against the top terrorist chieftains of Hamas was a wholly independent Israeli operation. Israel initiated it, Israel conducted it, and Israel takes full responsibility.”
Fucking Jews:
As of March 2, 2026, there are no widespread reports of Israelis protesting to stop the current military campaign against Iran. Instead, domestic public activity in Israel has largely focused on seeking safety from retaliatory strikes or supporting the downfall of the Iranian regime.
Current Context (March 2026)
Support for the Campaign: Many Israelis have historically viewed the Iranian government as an existential threat. Following the launch of “Operation Epic Fury” on February 28, 2026—which resulted in the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei—reports indicate that many Israelis would cheer the potential collapse of the Iranian clerical leadership.
Civilian Reaction: The immediate priority for many Israeli citizens has been seeking shelter as Iran launched retaliatory missile strikes against cities like Tel Aviv and Beit Shemesh.
Support for Iranian Protesters: In the weeks leading up to the current conflict, some Israelis held rallies in solidarity with internal Iranian protesters (e.g., in Tel Aviv in January 2026), framing their support as opposition to the Iranian regime rather than opposition to Israeli military action.
Months after proclaiming a ‘historic victory,’ Israel embarks on another offensive against Iran — and the ritual erasure of political dissent begins anew. by Orly Noy
The familiar chorus
But the rhetoric of solidarity dissolved almost as quickly as it appeared. Once reports began to emerge of civilian casualties — especially from the girls’ elementary school in Minab, where some 150 children were killed in an apparent Israeli airstrike — the supposed concern for the Iranian people revealed itself to be paper-thin.
Shocked, I shared the videos from the school on my Facebook page. I confess I did not expect the torrent of hatred that followed.
I already know that, aside from a very narrow fringe, one cannot expect empathetic reactions to the mass killing of Palestinians; that the overwhelming majority of the Jewish public in Israel not only does not mourn but openly rejoices at every Palestinian death, under any circumstances. But I did not imagine that similar bloodlust would accompany the bombing to death of little girls in school uniforms, particularly after somanyIsraelis rushed to declare that it wasn’t the Iranian people who are our enemy, but the regime.
Within five hours, my post had accumulated hundreds of hateful comments, and the usual wave of threats and abuse had started bombarding my inbox. Some denied the incident had taken place at all, or claimed that the Iranian regime bombed its own school. A larger portion rejoiced at the fate of the murdered girls.
“Too bad they don’t close schools on Shabbat!” someone wrote, adding five laughing emojis to underline his delight.
“Excellent, excellent, excellent, joyful and heartwarming. May there be many more cases like this, and soon among the leftists,” wrote another.
No less depressing and predictable, was how Jewish opposition leaders eagerly and reflexively rallied behind Netanyahu in support of the war. “I want to remind us all: The people of Israel are strong. The IDF and the Air Force are strong. The strongest power in the world stands with us,” tweeted Yair Lapid. “In moments like these we stand together — and we win together. There is no coalition and no opposition, only one people and one IDF, with all of us behind them.”
Paul Haeder, Author 