This is Trump donor and Mar-a-Lago neighbor John Cafaro who got the no-bid contract to install a water purification system for the reflecting pool. He has 2 prior convictions, one for bribing a member of Congress and another for an illegal loan that violated campaign finance laws.
Hereo:
The Israeli soldier who responsible for the killing of Palestinian child Hind Rajab with 335 bullets was killed in Lebanon
Jews
Hedges gets it right!
The buffoons who orchestrate fascism, with its quack science, idiocy, penchant for violence and grotesque hypermasculinity, are ripe for satire. It is easy, as late-night comics do — and as the cabarets did for the Nazis in Berlin — to pillory the goons, misfits and mediocrities who hold power and spew fascist bile. But this form of satire blinds opponents to its destructive power and murderous core. It ignores the real centers of power. It does not engender resistance. It engenders disdain and cynicism. It furthers the social and political divide between us, the “enlightened” and “educated” elite, and them, the despised and ridiculed “basket of deplorables.”
There are two forms of satire. That of the educated elites, which dominates the commercial media, ridicules the foibles and pretensions of Trump and his hapless followers. This satire does not attack corporations or the war industry. It ignores the decay and rot within our political institutions, including the Democratic Party, which created Trump. It pretends we live in a democracy. It breeds cynicism, not resistance. It is characterized by a repugnant moral and intellectual superiority and heartless demeaning of the underclass. It fosters the social divisions and alienation that feeds fascism.
Antonio Gramsci warned that elitist satire is counterproductive. He called for a “passionate sarcasm,” which targets the machinery of power. Satire, he wrote, must excoriate the dominant myths and ideologies which buttress capitalism and fascism. It must expose not only the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of fascism, but acknowledge the legitimate grievances of those under its spell. It must focus on the institutions that perpetuate injustice and social inequality.
“Trump has also been necessary to expose the plastic progressives, the liberal anti-Trump imperialists who, in their opposition to Trump’s deal with Iran, can only look like warmongering imperial psychopaths,” writes Nate Bear. “From all those sharing memes on social media about surrender, from the Democrats and CNN talking heads decrying the deal, to Jimmy Fallon dragging Trump for giving Iran back the money the US stole, there is no articulation of an alternative to endlessly bombing Iran. There’s no anger from liberals over dead Iranians, or at the imperial state, at Zionism or the embedded death machinery that made this violence possible. No, they’re just embarrassed for empire. And they don’t want to recognise the limits of that empire.”
It begins with a movement that divides society into two: the ‘real people’ versus the ‘corrupt elite’, and with a leader who insists they alone embody the ‘real’ people. The next step is the dissolution of truth and the prioritisation of loyalty above decency. Then shame is dismantled. The leader breaks the long-standing political and moral consensus with unprecedented relentlessness. The longer they remain in power, the boundaries of what is acceptable begin to stretch. What once felt unthinkable or despicable gradually becomes normal. As the institutions that hold democracy together are quietly hollowed out and the very definition of democracy is rewritten as being simply majority rule, universal values — human dignity and the rule of law — are replaced with a fierce nationalism, a proud victimhood, and a rewriting of history. Cruelty and ruthlessness are deemed just, not only in the highest echelons of politics but also trickling down to daily life. The circle of who counts as ‘us’ grows smaller, while millions of fellow citizens are recast as permanent suspects.
As Temelkuran warns, Americans, like those in other nations that have been down this path, “…soothe their fears by repeating the same illusionary line, ‘The institutions will hold.’ They do not yet dare to recognize their future country, and soon, they will not be recognized as citizens unless they follow the new rules in Trump’s America.”
What is Ho Chi Minh Thought In Vietnam?
Ho Chi Minh Thought isn’t a watered-down nationalist gloss on Marxism-Leninism. It’s the most fully worked-out version of Vietnamese communism there is
And no, the label “Vietnamese communism” doesn’t explain itself.
Versus . . .
He’s been catholic, Mormon, Baptist, anti-Trump, pro-Trump, pro-immigrant, anti-immigrant, anti-Iran war, pro-Iran war…
The man has no identity outside of opportunism.
There’s a saying passed down from earlier generations of Black Texans who were there for the first Juneteenth: “It was not a piece of paper that freed the slaves, but the men with the guns.”
In Libya, black men are captured and sold in an open air market like vegetables.
Dr. Walter Edmondson taking a blood sample from an unidentified and unknowing participant in the Tuskegee Syphilis study, 1932.
The study existed from 1932 to 1972 and was designed to observe how syphilis would destroy their bodies and eventually kill black patients.
American President Ronald Reagan hosted a dinner at the White House in 1987 after becoming President of the United States.
During the reception, the First Lady circulated among the guests to greet them. Her attention was drawn to a Black man, dressed modestly. Among the white guests, she hadn’t recognized him.
She approached him, with a politeness tinged with condescension, and said to him:
“Sir, may I know what you did to deserve this invitation to the dinner?”
He replied to her:
“I changed the course of music five or six times… And you, what have you done to become First Lady, other than marrying the president?”
The man was Miles Davis, one of the greatest jazz musicians in United States history.
He was a composer, trumpeter, bandleader, arranger, autobiographer, jazz musician, actor, songwriter, and film score composer, and he neither accepted nor tolerated humiliation for the color of his skin.
Did you know the Soviet Union was brought down by an NED Color Revolution?
Jew Jab:
PFIZER HAS PUBLISHED THE LIST OF SIDE EFFECTS FROM COVID VACCINE
1) Blood clot,
2) Acute kidney injury,
3) Acute flaccid myelitis,
4) Positive anti-sperm antibodies,
5) Brainstem embolism,
6) Brainstem thrombosis,
7) Cardiac arrest (hundreds of cases),
8) Heart failure,
9) Cardiac ventricular thrombosis…
10) Cardiogenic shock,
11) Central nervous system vasculitis,
12) Neonatal death,
13) Deep vein thrombosis,
14) Brainstem encephalitis,
15) Hemorrhagic encephalitis,
16) Frontal lobe epilepsy,
17) Epileptic psychosis,
18) Facial paralysis,
19) Fetal distress syndrome,
20) Gastrointestinal amyloidosis,
21) Generalized tonic-clonic seizure,
22) Hashimoto’s encephalopathy,
23) Hepatic vascular thrombosis,
24) Shingles reactivation,
25) Cancer reactivation…
26) Turbo cancers,
27) Immune-mediated hepatitis,
28) Interstitial lung disease,
29) Jugular vein embolism,
30) Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy,
31) Liver damage,
32) Low birth weight,
34) Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children,
35) Myocarditis,
36) Neonatal seizure,
37) Pancreatitis,
38) Pneumonia,
39) Stillbirth,
40) Tachycardia,
41) Temporal lobe epilepsy,
43) Testicular autoimmunity,
44) Thrombotic stroke,
45) Type 1 diabetes mellitus,
46) Neonatal vein thrombosis,
47) Vertebral artery thrombosis,
48) Pericarditis,
Oh fuck you. There is no way the guy who got the no-bid contract for using bottom shelf Home Depot sealant on the reflecting pool looks like this. Come the fuck on.
On June 19, 1953, the couple Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed in the electric chair for being communists in the USA, during the paranoid anticommunist persecution of McCarthyism.
It was the first public execution of communists after Hitler’s fall in 1945 and it took place in the country of the “Statue of Liberty,” under a campaign of mass persecution against professors, scientists, actors… devised by the anticommunist senator McCarthy.
The arrest of Ethel and Julius came about due to the “confession” of Ethel’s brother, the American sergeant David Greenglass, who accused his own sister and his brother-in-law of being “Soviet spies” out of pure hatred toward her… in 2001, David confessed that he had made it all up and had murdered his sister by lying to the FBI.
After learning of the death sentence, Ethel said: “I die with honor and dignity, knowing that my husband and I will be vindicated by history.”
Happy Juneteenth!!
Anal penetration: Trump struggles to clasp the Medal of Honor to Major Nicholas Dockery — and then ties it?
It’s a single snap…
While the World Cup is being played in the US, Trump’s Gestapo, ICE, gases civilians in the face for protesting against the kidnapping of immigrants and the repression against the American people who are fighting to prevent it.
The World Cup of shame, if this happened in Cuba or another enemy country of the West, it would be a scandal.
United States…
Bombs schools in Iran, supports the genocidal Israeli, backs the continuation of the war in Ukraine with weapons, carries out summary executions in the Caribbean, turned Argentina and Venezuela into 1950s-style Sub-Saharan extractivist colonies, wields…
I opened up a retired Air Force Colonel’s Substack, and I what do I get? Deja vu, as he waxes orgasmic over space exploration and the great photos of earth from Artemis
But without a healthy Earth, none of it matters. Artemis II astronaut Victor Glover captured this beautifully in his viral message. From deep space, he said:
“You are special, in all this emptiness. This is a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we call the universe. You have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together.”
Fucking 1,000 words later, and the rationale is typical of the closed mind:
On July 21, 2021, billionaire Jeff Bezos rocketed about 65 miles above the Earth’s crust. Another billionaire, Sir Richard Branson, did the same nine days before, but his vehicle could only climb to 53 miles—some do not consider that a space flight, really.
Clearly, this was not the first time man ventured into space. However, in all earlier cases, explorers pursued a publicly defined mission and were paid from the public purse. Whereas Bezos and Branson were motived by private interest. Although Bezos thanked his company’s workers and customers for “paying for his trip,” it was, nonetheless, a privately financed venture. These two aspects, private interest and private financing, make these billionaires the world’s first space barons.
There is more to both sides of this argument than meets the eye, and further inquiry is warranted. For starters, I shall rule out an otherwise interesting, but notoriously complex, dimension that gave economists a headache for decades. That is the problem of interpersonal comparison of utility. In this case, can we really compare the utility gained by Bezos from his $5.5 billion trip with that of 37 million people had the money been used to end their hunger? The question may seem rhetorical, but it is not.
The problem remains an interesting one even after Bezos, and thus the need to compare his well-being with that of others, is taken out of the picture. Let us look exclusively from the viewpoint of potential beneficiaries in the developing world. Would a transfer of cash to them be better than using the money on space tourism? Surprisingly, the answer is not necessarily affirmative.
Conspicuous consumption or an incubator for innovation?
Nobel laureate economist Angus Deaton suggests that technological innovations like antibiotics, pest control, and vaccines have been the primary drivers of humanity’s escape from destitution, including in developing countries, far surpassing development aid in impact. By this logic, space tourism could muster moral support, in addition to cash, if it also facilitates significant technological advances (in addition to conspicuous consumption).
So far, blasting billionaires off to the edge of space has not exactly been earth-shattering, technically. Mankind had previously stepped onto the moon on six separate occasions; astronauts and cosmonauts have visited space routinely, often without such commotion; and Mars is already inhabited by robots. The NASA Voyager, built half a century ago, has become the first man-made object to exit our solar system—currently drifting at 14.2 billion miles away from us—that is about 21 hours of light-travel time from Earth (solar light reaches us in about eight minutes).
Previous research on space technology has undoubtedly improved life on earth. Modern water filtration systems, solar cells, firefighting equipment, insulin pumps, and artificial limbs are all reported to have been initiated by space research. It is too soon to see such impact from the new billionaire-driven space race. However, Bezos’ company Blue Origin is reported to hold at least 19 patents, whereas Elon Musk’s SpaceX has followed a different path: The company has not submitted any patent applications to avoid technological disclosure. Yet, there are some obvious advances including reusable rockets, which have reduced the cost of space flight dramatically.
Jew-oogle this: “space programs are not helping the poor” And this is what you get from the Satan of Google et al =
The debate regarding space funding versus alleviating poverty involves specific arguments and benefits:
Terrestrial Technology Transfer: Space research yields practical spinoffs that improve global living standards. Innovations like water purification systems, advanced telemedicine, and portable solar energy were all developed to support space missions but are now widely used in impoverished and remote regions. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Earth Observation & Agriculture: Agencies use Earth science satellites to monitor droughts, optimize crop yields, and track water resources. For example, the NASA Earth Applied Sciences program directly partners with organizations globally to improve food security and manage natural disasters. [1, 2, 3]
Budget Proportions: Space exploration represents a very small fraction of national expenditures (for instance, NASA receives around 0.5% of the US federal budget). Experts argue that diverting this funding would not resolve systemic poverty because the problem lies primarily in resource allocation and political priorities, rather than a lack of capital. [1, 2, 3]
Socioeconomic Mobility: The aerospace sector drives significant job creation and technological development, acting as a powerful engine for economic growth. Some economists suggest that space-based innovations, like internet constellations, offer better long-term improvements in developing nations than hypothetical cash transfers of equivalent size
And just down the road, we see at U of Oregon, more attacks: Community to Corporate — The University of Oregon is consolidating department offices and the Department of Earth Sciences says it could harm students
Faculty members say the University of Oregon is closing the Department of Earth Sciences office in Cascade Hall, a space they describe as a hub where undergraduate and graduate students meet with advisors, build community and manage internal administrative tasks with ease.
The office is being closed in line with a “shared services” model across the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) that some describe as impersonal and filled with unnecessary corporate bureaucracy.
Faculty such as Earth Sciences professor Marli Miller tell Eugene Weekly that the office closure will erode the department’s sense of community and ability to support students. She says the shared services model is causing the loss of “institutional knowledge,” as staff members who’ve been working within one specific department for years are being moved into roles where they work with several departments at once, or they’ve left entirely.
How will it impact the already diminished populations of phytoplankton which provide up to 70% of the oxygen in the atmosphere? How will it impact the already diminished populations of krill, the foundation of the food pyramid in the sea? How will deep sea mining influence the climate, the movement of currents, and the migration and viability of sea life? The industry has not answered these questions because there is no answer that they will acknowledge—because such answers will expose them as harbingers of global destruction.
Scholars estimate that a vast majority (up to 95%) of modern space tech has both civilian and defense applications. For example, a synthetic aperture radar used to monitor deforestation and climate change can also be used for military reconnaissance and espionage.
Double Dual-Use Dilemma: Private space companies are increasingly integrated into national security efforts, leading to debates around how commercial infrastructure like satellite internet constellations become military targets in times of conflict. [1]
I. Space X: an emblematic example
No single example better illustrates the problem than SpaceX. Holding approximately $22 billion in U.S. government contracts, its satellite internet service Starlink is described by analysts as “an indispensable asset throughout the entire government sector, from U.S. embassies to the battlefield.” Starlink accounts for 97% of Space Force program task orders, and its military variant, Starshield—a hardened, government-controlled version of Starlink offering encrypted communications and intelligence capabilities—is built on the same underlying technology to support national security operations. As the California Coastal Commissionhas noted, for many U.S. Government users, the two are indistinguishable. SpaceX thus exemplifies a private company whose technology simultaneously underpins consumer internet, battlefield communications, and classified intelligence programs—a convergence that existing legal frameworks were never designed to govern.
Union of Concerned Scientists? Bulletin of Atomic Scientists!
Unlike the traditional military-industrial complex, space companies fluidly shift between civilian and military roles. Their expertise in launch systems, satellites, and surveillance infrastructure allows them to serve both markets, often without clear regulatory oversight. Companies like Walchandnagar Industries in India, SpaceX in the United States, and the private Chinese firms that operate under a national strategy of the Chinese Communist Party called Military-Civil Fusion exemplify this trend, maintaining commercial identities while actively supporting defense programs. This blurring of roles, including the possibility that private space companies may develop their own weapons, raises concerns over unchecked militarization and calls for stronger oversight to preserve space as a neutral domain.
Dual use of space companies. Countries like the United States and China have already shown a willingness to use commercial space entities for military purposes. China encourages private entities to participate in space activities as part of its Military-Civilian Integration Strategy. Similarly, the 2021 United States Space Priorities Framework outlines how new commercial space capabilities and services can be leveraged to meet national security needs. In a 2021 interview, the then-head of the US Space Force discussed the importance of using the space industry for national security.
Researchers and security analysts are increasingly concerned that the dual use of private space companies is not limited to their space technologies, such as the satellites they launch. In some cases, a company may appear to be a civilian space entity while actually maintaining close links with defense sectors.
For instance, take the example of India, which has seen phenomenal growth in its space sector in recent years. The leading companies of the Indian Space Association have worked closely with the Indian Ministry of Defence on various contracts.
Furthermore, the association’s leadership maintains a close connection with the Indian army and defense organizations. For example, the first chairman, Jayant Patil, was also the senior vice president for defense business at Larsen and Toubro, an Indian company involved in the space industry. The company has collaborated with India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation since the mid-1980s.
The usefulness of space companies goes beyond their existing technologies. Military organizations can use expertise gained through civilian cooperation programs to develop other critical technologies. India’s intercontinental ballistic missile program, based on the SLV-3 vehicle, was initially developed under civilian space cooperation with NASA. India’s Agni-V ICBM, which is capable of carrying multiple warheads and has a range exceeding 5,000 kilometers, has also benefited from technological cooperation with NASA.
Indian private space companies such as Walchandnagar Industries are also defense contractors producing aerospace, defense, missile, and nuclear power technologies. These companies collaborate with India’s Defence Ministry and the Defence Research and Development Organisation to produce strategic articles, tactical missiles, and critical platform-based equipment. The expertise gained from private space launches and technological developments can be leveraged to improve missile technology.
There is a serious risk that civilian companies in India and elsewhere, having gained expertise through cooperation with the military, might start developing their own weapons. The table below shows how specific types of space expertise can be used to develop missiles, drones, precision missiles, hypersonic missiles, and other loitering munitions.
The Outer Space Treaty, which forms the basis of international space law, should be expanded to include specific provisions for the dual use of space technologies. For example, countries could be required to declare the intended uses of their satellites, with periodic inspections to ensure compliance. International space governance must ensure that expertise gained through civil cooperation does not translate into new weapons programs.
the exploration and use of outer space shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries and shall be the province of all mankind;
outer space shall be free for exploration and use by all States;
outer space is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means;
States shall not place nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit or on celestial bodies or station them in outer space in any other manner;
the Moon and other celestial bodies shall be used exclusively for peaceful purposes;
astronauts shall be regarded as the envoys of mankind;
States shall be responsible for national space activities whether carried out by governmental or non-governmental entities;
States shall be liable for damage caused by their space objects; and
States shall avoid harmful contamination of space and celestial bodies.
Furthermore, partnerships between governments and private corporations should be regulated to prevent the misuse of commercial space capabilities. The European Union’s Space Surveillance and Tracking network is an example of regional cooperation to monitor space activities and ensure that space assets are used for their declared purposes. This type of cooperation should be extended globally to include major space-faring nations and emerging space players.
In the United States, the Space Force has already begun leveraging commercial space capabilities for national security purposes. For instance, the National Reconnaissance Office has contracted with commercial satellite companies to provide imagery for intelligence purposes. Such partnerships highlight the need for clear guidelines to differentiate civilian and military applications and to ensure that commercial space activities do not escalate geopolitical tensions.
DUH. So, you do the YouTUbe addiction, the BLack Mirror Screen Addiction, the fucking SLOP of AI, all that time pushing robotics olympics and coding school, and then you watch Silicon Valley and Silicon Wadi suck the life from humanity, and this is what we get:
Universities attempt to justify these cuts as dwindling student numbers make courses less profitable. However, decreasing student numbers often follow drastic cuts in government funding in a vicious positive feedback. In Australia, a 29% reduction in 2020 funding for Earth science courses, equivalent to about AU$10,000 per student per year, necessitated decreases in course size, in turn, triggering further drops in enrolment and profit in 2021. Funding reductions also inevitably lead to lower-quality student experiences amidst lecturer, field-course and lab equipment constraints. Academics found themselves stranded, postgraduates were left without supervisors, and undergraduates faced transfers to other institutions.
Two distinct categories of dual-nature space objects: what are dual-use and dual-purpose objects? Therefore, there are two distinct categories of space objects that States have expressed concerns about: dual-use on the one hand, and dual-purpose on the other hand. This distinction is important as the concerns stemming from the use of these objects are also different. They are perceived as two different threats, which therefore require different approaches.
The terms dual-use and dual-purpose are derived from the distinction established between use and purpose in the law of targeting. Under targeting regulations, only military objectives can be targeted. Military objectives can be identified by their nature, location, purpose or use. Purpose and use are the relevant identifiers in this case. “Use” is concerned with the present function of an object, while “purpose” is concerned with its intended future use. • Dual-use space objects: they can have a military and security function, as well as a civilian or commercial one (either simultaneously or alternating.
Alternate use is sometimes known as dual-capable). They can be operated by the military, even to provide services to civilians (examples include certain GNSS services). And they can also be operated by civilian or commercial actors, even to carry out military functions, as militaries can sometimes outsource certain services, particularly for satellite communications or remote sensing.
These objects are known as “dual-use” precisely because they are intended to serve military and civilian functions. • Dual-purpose space objects: they are designed to fulfil a benign objective (such as debris removal or on-orbit servicing), but they could potentially be repurposed to harm other space objects. They are generally operated by civilian entities, as well as commercial actors. They are generally developed with no military objective in mind, and are not intended to serve any aggressive function. However, their characteristics or capabilities —such as the possession of a robotic arm, for example— have raised concern that these 4 objects could be repurposed to be used against another satellite.
It should be noted, however, that the capabilities themselves are not what make these objects be perceived as a threat. In this sense, the term “capability neutral” has been used by some delegations, accurately reflecting that the capabilities of dual-purpose objects alone pose no danger to space actors.
It is the challenge of discerning an operator’s intent when utilising these assets what has led many to perceive the assets themselves as a threat, even when they are used in a relatively transparent manner. Although dual-use and dual-purpose objects are different, they can share characteristics that could, in theory, cause them to qualify as both dual-use and purpose at the same time. For example, a dual-use satellite with manoeuvring capabilities could be repurposed to act as a counterspace weapon by causing it to manoeuvre so that it collides with another satellite. In practice, however, such situations would be relatively unlikely as it would be impractical and very costly.
War is a racket. Those words were written in 1935 by Major General Smedley Butler, a decorated veteran who had spent his career fighting America’s foreign wars and came to recognise that he had been nothing more than a “muscle-man for the protection of business interests” (1). Butler’s conclusion was simple: war is a deception conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the very many. Nearly a century later, despite all the technological advances and rhetorical shifts, the fundamental mechanism he described remains intact. The weaponry has changed, but the racket persists.
The ongoing buildup of an AI arms race with China and Russia has spurred significant defence investments in artificial intelligence and large-scale infrastructure projects. Tech firms that once maintained an arms-length relationship with the military are now deeply entangled with the US security apparatus.
Notably, a crucial aspect of Eisenhower’s comment appears to have fallen by the wayside in the decades between the two speeches, namely, the military. In this Forum Article, we recenter the focus on the pivotal role of the US military in the formation of today’s tech oligarchy while simultaneously demonstrating how the tech oligarchy is reshaping the defense domain in line with its own beliefs and political-economic interests, accumulating ever more informational, sociotechnical, and political-economic power.
In doing so, we highlight the historical role of the US military in funding the core technologies on which today’s tech oligarchy has built its power, as well as the broader role of military spending in supporting the rise of tech firms. At the same time, we argue that there is an urgency and specificity to the current (re-)entanglements between the US military and Silicon Valley’s tech oligarchy that cannot be fully captured by a historical focus on the state’s role in capitalist accumulation. We are witnessing a moment in which Big Tech firms, such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, complemented by Defense Tech companies like Palantir and Anduril, are becoming prominent military contractors in their own right; in some cases, overtaking the traditional defense primes in competitive bids, and pushing for new regulations for procuring software designed to eliminate restrictions on how the Pentagon can contract with private sector companies (Dunne and Sköns, Citation2021).
Leading tech figures of Palantir, OpenAI and Meta being sworn into the Army’s Executive Innovation Corps.
That the military, as the center of state power and a disciplining force both internally and externally, has become subject to the tech oligarchy’s scaling and expansion efforts should not surprise us. However, it should concern us.
Yah think less science, less Cap’n Crunch Hegseth, Zelensky, Putin, Xi, DoD, DoW, and more LIBERAL FUCKING ARTS? Diplomacy? Political depth? Higher social and empathetic IQ training?
The world is erupting this morning. U.S.-Iran peace talks scheduled for Friday in Switzerland were abruptly postponed after Iran demanded guarantees that Israeli military operations in Lebanon would stop. The delay came as Israel launched a new wave of strikes in southern Lebanon, killing at least 18 people, while four Israeli soldiers were killed in clashes with Hezbollah. Vice President JD Vance canceled his planned trip to Switzerland as diplomats worked behind the scenes to keep negotiations on track. The talks were intended to begin a 60-day process aimed at reaching a permanent end to the conflict that began earlier this year. Officials say the postponement is temporary, but it underscores how fragile the agreement remains.
Vance publicly defended the U.S.-Iran agreement and argued that Israel should respect a peace process he described as beneficial for both Israel and the broader region. He also criticized Israeli officials who have attacked the deal, saying they should not undermine their strongest international ally. Iran, meanwhile, warned that it may not abide by the agreement if Israeli operations in Lebanon continue, raising the stakes for future negotiations.
Former President Barack Obama said the United States may be “worse off” now than before President Donald Trump launched the war with Iran, arguing that billions of dollars were spent, significant lives were lost, and the conflict appears to have ended with little change from the prewar status quo. While welcoming the ceasefire and expressing hope that it holds, Obama questioned the rationale for the war and pointed to the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement negotiated during his administration, arguing that Iran had agreed not to develop nuclear weapons before the U.S. withdrew from the deal. Speaking ahead of the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, he also warned that the country is experiencing a period of political polarization and democratic strain, while urging Americans to remain engaged in civic life and hold elected officials accountable. This is Trump’s response:
“We knowed what was goin’ on in [the war] all the time,” said Felix Haywood, dismissing the notion that his fellow Texas slaves were ignorant of the Emancipation Proclamation.
“Ending slavery was not simply a matter of issuing pronouncements, but of forcing rebels to obey the law.”
One hundred fifty years ago, the U.S. Army took possession of Galveston Island, a barrier island just off the Texas coast that guards the entrance to Galveston Bay, and began a late-arriving, long-lasting war against slavery in Texas. This little-known battle would endure for months after the end of what we normally think of as the Civil War. This struggle, pitting Texas freedpeople and loyalists and the U.S. Army against stubborn defenders of slavery, would become the basis for the increasingly popular celebrations of Juneteenth, a predominantly African-American holiday celebrating emancipation on or about June 19th every year.
The historical origins of Juneteenth are clear. On June 19, 1865, U.S. Major General Gordon Granger, newly arrived with 1,800 men in Texas, ordered that “all slaves are free” in Texas and that there would be an “absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves.” The idea that any such proclamation would still need to be issued in June 1865 – two months after the surrender at Appomattox – forces us to rethink how and when slavery and the Civil War really ended. And in turn it helps us recognize Juneteenth as not just a bookend to the Civil War but as a celebration and commemoration of the epic struggles of emancipation and Reconstruction.
By June 19, 1865, it had been more than two years since President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation, almost five months since Congress passed the 13th Amendment, and more than two months since General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate army at Appomattox Court House. So why did Granger need to act to end slavery?
To answer that question, we have to look back at slavery, the Civil War, and Texas’ peculiar place in both histories. During the Civil War, white planters forcibly moved tens of thousands of slaves to Texas, hoping to keep them in bondage and away from the U.S. Army. Even after Lee surrendered, Confederate Texans dreamed of sustaining the rebel cause there. Only on June 2, 1865, after the state’s rebel governor had already fled to Mexico, did Confederate Lieutenant General Edmund Kirby Smith agree to surrender the state. For more than two weeks, chaos reigned as people looted the state treasury, and no one was certain who was in charge.
“The idea that a proclamation would still need to be issued two months after the surrender at Appomattox forces us to rethink how and when slavery and the Civil War really ended.”
In that chaos, many African-Americans fled, some across the river in Mexico, a less-remembered pathway to freedom in the decades before the Civil War. Others launched strikes or refused to work. But in a state where whites outnumbered slaves more than two-to-one, planters and ranchers did everything in their power to sustain slavery wherever they could.
Granger’s arrival on June 19 marked the first effective intervention of the United States in Texas on the side of ending slavery. So when Granger issued his proclamation in Galveston, it was no abstract or symbolic statement against slavery and rebellion; he was striking a blow against slavery itself in the place where it remained most firmly entrenched in June 1865.
But what did Granger’s proclamation mean? One oft-told myth has it that Texans simply did not know that slavery had ended. What Granger brought, in this telling, was good news. But if we listen to the words of someone like Felix Haywood, a slave in Texas during the Civil War, we see that this was not so. “We knowed what was goin’ on in [the war] all the time,” Haywood later remembered. At emancipation, “We all felt like heroes and nobody had made us that way but ourselves.”
If Haywood and other enslaved people knew about the Emancipation Proclamation, what exactly did the events of June 19, 1865 mean? Here we face a key forgotten reality about the end of the Civil War and slavery that has been shrouded in the mythology of Appomattox. The internecine conflict and the institution of slavery could not and did not end neatly at Appomattox or on Galveston Island. Ending slavery was not simply a matter of issuing pronouncements. It was a matter of forcing rebels to obey the law. To a very real extent, the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment amounted to promissory notes of freedom. The real on-the-ground work of ending slavery and defending the rudiments of liberty was done by the freedpeople in collaboration with and often backed by the force of the US Army.
“The Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment amounted to promissory notes of freedom.”
Granger’s proclamation may not have brought news of emancipation but it did carry this crucial promise of force. Within weeks, fifty thousand U.S. troops flooded into the state in a late-arriving occupation. These soldiers were needed because planters would not give up on slavery. In October 1865, months after the June orders, white Texans in some regions “still claim and control [slaves] as property, and in two or three instances recently bought and sold them,” according to one report. To sustain slavery, some planters systematically murdered rebellious African-Americans to try to frighten the rest into submission. A report by the Texas constitutional convention claimed that between 1865 and 1868, white Texans killed almost 400 black people; black Texans, the report claimed, killed 10 whites. Other planters hoped to hold onto slavery in one form or another until they could overturn the Emancipation Proclamation in court.
Against this resistance, the Army turned to force. In a largely forgotten or misunderstood occupation, the Army spread more than 40 outposts across Texas to teach rebels “the idea of law as an irresistible power to which all must bow.” Freedpeople, as Haywood’s quote reminds us, did not need the Army to teach them about freedom; they needed the Army to teach planters the futility of trying to sustain slavery.
Against that resistance, and in response to freedpeople’s complaints, the Army acted as if the Civil War had not in fact ended. Relying upon its broad war powers to exert control over civilians, the Army attacked slavery by arresting judges and sheriffs, taking control over court cases, running military commissions, and suspending habeas corpus. As Texas’ provisional governor—a white loyalist—tried to build a new state, the Army provided crucial support against a developing insurgency.
Slowly, slavery itself ended. By the winter of 1865-1866, freedpeople, the Army, and white loyalists had extinguished the ‘peculiar institution’ in Texas. Under the threat of continued military occupation, President Andrew Johnson coerced former Confederate states into inscribing this change into the Constitution by ratifying the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery.
“Between 1865 and 1868, white Texans killed almost 400 black people; black Texans, the report claimed, killed 10 whites.”
But the victory over slavery was only one in a series of battles to determine the meaning of freedom. Over the next few years, freedpeople’s rights and their power expanded, along with the Army’s authority to protect them. Responding to planters’ efforts to create a hardened racial caste system and to freedpeople’s testimony, the U.S. Congress in 1866 tried to create defensible rights through the 14th Amendment that created birthright citizenship, established equal protection under the law, and guaranteed due process. When rebel states did not accept that amendment, Congress reasserted military control and charged the Army with registering freedpeople to vote. In 1869 Congress also passed a 15th Amendment prohibiting denial of the vote on grounds of race or previous condition of servitude. New biracial governments in the South helped write both amendments into the Constitution, thus remaking basic rights not just for African-Americans but for all Americans.
Reconstruction created a new world in Texas. Almost 40,000 black Texans, mostly former slaves, voted to call the state’s new constitutional convention. The new state government in Texas, as elsewhere, established statewide public schools, protected small homesteads from foreclosure, and created a tri-racial state police. Among the leading black politicians to emerge were freeborn teacher George T. Ruby and the previously enslaved Matthew Gaines. On the ground, freedpeople built vibrant families, constructed churches, opened schools, and elected African-Americans to less-remembered but crucial local offices.
But these gains did not endure. Over the 1870s, as the Army lost its hold on many rebel states, Democrats re-established control. Through a poll tax in 1902 and an all-white primary in 1903, African-American voter turnout in Texas dropped from about 100,000 in the 1890s to fewer than 5,000 by 1906. Along with disenfranchisement came Jim Crow segregation and exclusion from equal access to public services like education, public transportation, and the justice system.
“African-American voter turnout in Texas dropped from about 100,000 in the 1890s to fewer than 5,000 by 1906.”
Texas freedpeople kept alive the memory of emancipation and Reconstruction in ceremonies that eventually became named Juneteenth. Begun in 1866, the year after the proclamation, and growing dramatically after an 1867 parade in Austin, Juneteenth festivals spread to towns and churches across Texas. At Houston’s aptly named Emancipation Park, freedpeople flew flags, sang patriotic songs, paraded in uniform, and defended the memory of Reconstruction. As African-Americans moved north and west, Juneteenth moved with them to hundreds of towns and cities. With other, often regionally based, holidays like Watch Night, Eighth of August, Memorial Day, and Fourth of July, Juneteenth became a way for African-Americans to celebrate their gains, sustain their hopes, assess their defeats, and plan paths forward.
Their efforts should be models for our own, fledgling struggle to remember the gains and promise of Reconstruction. Despite wide-ranging efforts to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Civil War battles, there have been thus far only scattered efforts to mark the approaching anniversaries of Reconstruction.
In part this is because Americans remain confused about the period after the Civil War’s battles ended. Although historians—none more so than Columbia University’s Eric Foner—have shown the extraordinary political, economic, and legal gains of Reconstruction, many Americans either cling to outdated stories of corruption or have virtually no sense at all of what happened once the battles ended. A false story of Reconstruction spread by propagandists for Jim Crow segregation and disseminated in popular culture through Birth of a Nation continues to shape the national imagination.
But this Juneteenth, there is reason to hope that’s changing. Recognizing the importance of the 13th, 14th, and 15th constitutional amendments passed during this era, the U.S. Senate last week termed the period the nation’s “Second Founding,” though without using the word Reconstruction. Recently, the National Park Service commissioned a National Historic Landmark Theme Study on Reconstruction to identify landmarks that capture the dramatic story of the era.
Now, as we approach the 150th anniversary of the events that ended slavery and constructed meaningful rights for all Americans, we should look to Juneteenth as a model for commemorating Reconstruction. By grappling publicly—in parks and in programs—with the accomplishments of ending slavery and constructing equal rights, as well as the overthrow of Reconstruction and equal rights in Jim Crow, we can begin to wrestle with the impact that events like Juneteenth had upon the nation we live in. While the stories that begin with Granger’s proclamation on Galveston Island 150 years ago today may not conclude as neatly as the battlefield stories of the Civil War, they are just as crucial to the story of the nation we are today.
For more information, see:
Sowandé Mustakeem, “Juneteenth,” in Junius P. Rodriguez, ed., Encylopedia of Emancipation and Aboliiton in the Transatlantic World
Randolph B. Campbell, Grass Roots Reconstruction in Texas, 1865-1880
Carl H. Moneyhon, Texas after the Civil War: The Struggle of Reconstruction
William L. Richter, The Army in Texas during Reconstruction, 1865-1870
James Smallwood, Barry A. Crouch, and Larry Peacock, Murder and Mayhem: The War of Reconstruction in Texas
Elizabeth Hayes Turner, “Juneteenth: Emancipation and Memory,” in Gregg Cantrell and Turner, eds., Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas
Gregory P. Downsis a professor of history at the University of California, Davis, and author of After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War and The Second American Revolution: The Civil War-Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic.
[Emancipation Day Celebration, June 19, 1900. Photo from Grace Murray Stephenson. Public domain from the University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, from the Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.]
[Emancipation Day Celebration band, June 19, 1900. Photo from Grace Murray Stephenson. Public domain from the University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, from the Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.]
[Juneteenth celebrated in Emancipation Park, Houston, Texas in 1880] As we approach Juneteenth, Black Agenda Report is republishing this article from 2022, written by our Executive Editor, Margaret Kimberley.
Juneteenth was a people’s holiday with deep meaning for the descendants of enslaved people. But the declaration of an official federal holiday has turned it into an opportunity for corporate exploiters and cynical politicians to show pretend concern for Black people. At best Juneteenth provides a history lesson and an opportunity for much needed political education.
“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.” General Order Number 3, June 19, 1865
The fact that members of the United States Senate voted unanimously to make Juneteenth a federal holiday proved that the commemoration is of no political value. Turning what was a peoples’ celebration into an occasion for opportunism and window dressing has actually damaged the cause of Black liberation and the understanding of history.
On June 19, 1865 Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas and issued General Order Three, a declaration that slavery had ended. The fact that this event occurred two months after the Civil War ended took on an understandably mythic quality, including a belief that the news had been deliberately kept from enslaved people, or that the person carrying the message had been killed.
In reality, enslaved Texans were well aware that the war had ended. But they also knew that the absence of federal troops who could enforce the law made any legalities moot. They knew better than anyone else that the people who forced them to labor without compensation would not end their system unless they were forced to do so.
A drone is photographed in front of a poster depicting portraits of Iran’s late and new Supreme Leaders, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, during a nightly pro-government rally at Enghelab Square in downtown Tehran, on June 5, 2026.
JEWS:
“Regarding Lebanon, we have warned both the mediators and the American side that if the regime fails to comply with the existing agreement, Iran will respond with substantial military measures without prior public notice,” said the Iranian official, who is not authorized to speak publicly. “Should the United States intervene, conditions particularly those related to the Strait of Hormuz could rapidly revert to a wartime environment.”
On Friday, reports emerged that a ceasefire agreement had been reached between Israel and Hezbollah, but an Israeli official said that even with a ceasefire, Israel would not withdraw its forces from Lebanon. Another Israeli official told Channel 12 that Israel retains the right to strike against perceived threats, a common Israeli claim used to systematically violate ceasefire agreements in Gaza and Lebanon.
Over the past week, Israel has continued to relentlessly attack Lebanon, and its forces remain deeply entrenched in the south. In a barrage of more than 20 airstrikes on Thursday night, Israel killed at least 47 people, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry. Since March, when Hezbollah entered the war alongside Iran, Israel has killed more than 3,900 people in Lebanon and displace over 1.2 million. Hezbollah has continued to ferociously retaliate against Israel’s military campaign and has stunned Israel with its ability to inflict losses on its occupation forces. More than 30 Israeli troops have been confirmed killed in action since March 2.
NOTE: The CUNT is using more censorship tools on Substack:
I was six years old when astronauts first walked on the moon. I had a poster on my bedroom wall illustrating the Apollo mission, featuring its orbital trajectories along with diagrams of space suits and similar equipment. That was what inspired me to want to join Air Force Space Command in 1985, not images of satellites being shattered by ASAT missiles. Not violence in or from space. — Air Force Bombing Mercenary, William Astore
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Space? Man in the Can? Satellites in the 60,000 range? Surveillance of all humanity? Space? And how do those overpriced space missions get to the moon? Jesus thrusters? Hmm, the earth sciences are underfunded, and forget about ecology and marine sciences and, well, the deep sea mining schemes are already underway. And what’s under the sea, in Davey Jones’ locker? A million lawyers? Ninety percent of Israelis? Nah, those strategic metals, nodules, for, you know, “peaceful space.”
The space programs have always been dual use (military) and now triple use (for the corporate trillionaires).
And we still have cloth tents for millions on earth, as the dirty Westerners, the Psychosis of Whiteness prevails.
We have big issues on that beautiful photo model you blather about — earth.
The sea is acidifying, heating up, and alas, the abyssal plane, man . . . for those data centers (running the space programs) and the thrusters (Not those of Jesus) and the telemetry.
Ahh, even little things kill earth sciences: The University of Oregon is consolidating department offices and the Department of Earth Sciences says it could harm students
The lie is that technology gained from shooting polluting and strategic, and rare earth metals into space will help planet earth. RIGHT.
It all goes through the Offensive Weapons War Lords’ Fucking Bank Accounts. We are an earth on deep deep war footing, as this extractive taker society is turning the planet into one giant sludge pile and desertification experiment.
the confused masses, the unbearable light of, hmm, Judaism repackaged, reappropriated, retrofitted and reduced to mass goyim circumcision and lobotomies — Comic Books Are Jewish Literature!!!
But I have quickly seen their sort of folly though they get tons of people on their show. Again, they are NOT journalists, and they believe in Judaism as a fine fine religion.
Systems of power built the Dutch, the British, and now the American empire. White supremacy and Zionism are the ideologies forged to sanctify their conquest. Not “the Whites.” Not “the Jews.”
Juliano Mer-Khamis, who identified himself as “100% Palestinian and 100% Jewish,” was born to Arna Mer-Khamis, a Jewish-Israeli human rights activist, and Saliba Khamis, a Palestinian Christian leader of the Israeli Communist Party. He founded the Freedom Theatre in Jenin refugee camp and gave the children of the occupation a stage, a script, a camera, a way of being human that the checkpoints could not confiscate. He was murdered outside its doors in April 2011 by a masked gunman.
Disclaimer: if you are the kind of reader who fires off a comment after the headline, the objection forming in your mind (”but they call themselves Jews!”) is answered below. Read first. Vent second. Or do not vent at all.
The children buried beneath collapsed apartment blocks in Rafah, the mothers shot through the chest while clutching white flags in Khan Younis, the doctors bound and executed in the courtyards of Al-Shifa, the journalists incinerated in their press vests, the infants left to rot in the maternity wards after Israeli soldiers ordered the staff out at gunpoint, the starved boys with their ribs jutting through their skin like the bowed staves of broken instruments, all of them are the harvest of Empire. They are not the harvest of a people. They are the harvest of a system, and the system has a name, and the name is not “the Jews.”
For two years, I have watched a sickness drift into the discourse of the anti-imperialist sphere, a sickness as old as the pogroms of the Pale and as recent as the Islamophobia of the War on Terror. It is the seductive whisper that says the slaughter in Gaza is the work of some occult Hebraic power, that Congress kneels before AIPAC because of the cunning of a tribe (a race, even) rather than the obvious and savage logic of military Keynesianism and American hegemony in the Levant, that the genocide unfolding before our eyes is a Jewish project rather than an imperial one. Karim
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I, of course, have changed my mind about Karim and Peter, for sure . . .
Gilad Atzmonm:
Our AZZ caricature Ian Berman won’t give up. He still tries against all odd to push the insane and irrational old out-of -context quote by Nurit Peled-Elhanan, suggesting that “Israeli evil has nothing to do with Judaism … or Jewishness”..
As a person with some advanced degrees in philosophy, I am still waiting for anyone to point at the ‘deductive logical procedure’ that may lead to that ‘conclusion’.
I actually asked Nurit Peled-Elhanan to explain her position the last time Berman misquoted her. Peled couldn’t, of course, point at the logical procedure because there isn’t one available; what she did instead was refer to the Judaism of Yeshayahu Leibowitz, and indeed she is correct on that.
Leibowitz was a rare philosopher as well as a Jewish scholar. He is the one who coined the notion ‘Judeo-Nazis,’ and he was also the first to grasp that the Holocaust had become the new Jewish religion. Yet, Leibowitz had zero following anywhere except Nurit, myself, and just a few others.
I would point out in support of Peled that even if she held the position stated in the screenshot 15 years ago, she (most likely) wouldn’t repeat it now. I recently read an interview with her delving into Jewish supremacy in Israeli textbooks. Peled surely sees a connection between Judaism, Jewishness and the acts of the Jewish state.
However, by all means, I thank Berman for reminding us about the dedicated AZZ in our midst. AZZ is a Jewish political sect that utilizes the Palestinian suffering to vindicate everything J related to the crimes committed by the Jewish state in consistency with the Judaic holy scriptures.
Ian Berman when she dismissed my narrative? 12 years ago, when she mistakenly thought Judaism had nothing to do with Israeli barbarism..? Since then, she speaks and writes openly about Jewish supremacy in Israel,, it is you who is left behind as a comic statue of Jewish-controlled opposition ..
Ian Berman but Israel IS old Judaism in action! Have you not read your Tanakh? they are fulfilling God’s command to destroy men, women, and children who did not know their “god”’s name.
I can’t believe how poorly read American jews are. Really now, what the heck is Judaism to you anyway if not the Tanakh and Talmud?
OK, people have the right to invent their own religion/culture/whatever – but why do you insist on connecting it with Judaism?
Connect it with something else – like perhaps the barbaric past of humanity – and then you won’t have to have these arguments…
I have always found it bizarre and part of Jewish supremacy that the zionists are the evil creatures, and the jews are wonderful.
Except that many of the zionists claim to be Jewish, and I believe them.
I became an atheist at age 8, so I believe any god-centered religion is simply a cult.
The jews believe in an insane god that believes in collective punishment and genocide
I think I know a country that believes in those things.
And, I remain shocked that many progressive anti-Zionists still have this bizarre love for passover, an incredible faux fantasy where the assembled folks chant for the deaths of Egyptian children.
Gilad: An ex-Israeli friend applied recently for an Israeli birth certificate. He was shocked to find out that it isn’t just his religion that is defined by birth as Jewish, his nationality is also ‘Jewish’, not an Israeli…
I would assume that a person born in Britain to British parents is British, a person born in France to French parents is French. Yet in the Jewish State, despite the Zionist promise to make the Jews a nation like all other nations, all they managed to create was a shtetl like all other shtetls.
Oh, the Jew Max, he just can’t say, the Jewish Israelis . . . . Turning Point is about that Judeo-Christian Marvelous Marvel Comic Book god who gave us . . .
Top Global Killers (Total Number of Deaths)
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are responsible for the vast majority of deaths worldwide.
Ischemic Heart Disease (Coronary Artery Disease): The number one cause of death globally, blocking blood vessels to the heart.
Stroke (Cerebrovascular Disease): Disrupts blood flow to the brain, frequently causing permanent damage or death.
Cancers (Malignant Neoplasms): Leading types include lung, colorectal, pancreatic, and liver cancer.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): Progressive respiratory disease making it difficult to breathe, often linked to smoking.
Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementias: Progressive, fatal neurological diseases that degrade memory, thinking, and bodily functions.
Diabetes Mellitus: Chronic metabolic disease that can lead to fatal heart, kidney, nerve, and eye damage.
Lower Respiratory Infections: Highly fatal, encompassing bacterial pneumonia and other acute chest infections.
[Evidence of smallpox has been found as far back as 1570 BCE in Egypt, but as will be seen, the existence of a disease is only one part of what it takes to make an epidemic. The earliest major smallpox epidemic was the Antonine plague, estimated to have killed 5–10 million people, between a quarter and a third of the Roman population.]
These are caused by pathogenic microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, parasites, or fungi, and can be spread directly or indirectly from one person to another.
Tuberculosis (TB): One of the world’s oldest and deadliest infectious killers.
COVID-19: A severe respiratory disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which became a leading global cause of death.
Diarrheal Diseases: Leading global killer of young children. They lead to fatal dehydration and are frequently caused by rotavirus or bacterial infections.
HIV/AIDS: Attacks the body’s immune system and, without treatment, leaves it highly susceptible to fatal opportunistic infections.
Malaria: A life-threatening parasitic disease transmitted through the bite of infected mosquitoes
Rabies: A viral disease that infects the central nervous system, resulting in near 100% fatality once clinical symptoms appear.
Marburg Virus: A viral hemorrhagic fever closely related to Ebola, with mortality rates ranging from 24% to 88%.
Ebola Virus: Causes severe internal and external bleeding, with fatality rates varying widely depending on the strain.
Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis (Naegleria fowleri): A rare but nearly universally fatal infection caused by an amoeba that destroys brain tissue. [1, 2, 3, 4]
[The Plague of Justinian, 541–549 C.E., Bubonic Plague, 15–100 million dead. In 476, the Western Roman Empire would collapse partly due to the expansion of Germanic tribes. However, the Eastern Empire would continue and, later, be known as the Byzantine Empire.]
[Written accounts of smallpox date back to as early as the fourth century in China. Smallpox reached Japan in the sixth century, having been introduced by merchants and Buddhist missionaries from the Korean kingdom of Paekche. Once introduced, it recurred in waves. Increased trade across the Sea of Japan and the Korean Straight resulted in more frequent outbreaks.]
[The Spanish conquest of 16th-century Mexico resulted in one of the most dramatic population collapses in human history. At the time of the Spanish arrival, there were 15 million to 30 million native inhabitants, but the native population would be decimated by the end of the century.]
The third plague pandemic began in Yunnan, China, in the 1840s. Aided by the transition from slower sailing ships to faster steamboats in merchant fleets, the plague reached Europe in 1899 and would quickly go global.
[Often referred to as “Russian influenza,” the first cases of the 1889 flu pandemic were reported out of Turkestan.]
[Known as “The Great Influenza Pandemic,” the first recorded cases of the 1918 influenza pandemic occurred at Fort Riley, Kansas. At the time, the United States was preparing to send thousands of soldiers to fight in World War I. The movements of troops between bases and close quarters helped the first wave of the disease to spread quickly and broadly across the United States.]
[Typhus thrives in unsanitary conditions, and multiple wars allowed the disease to flourish in Russia in the early 20th century. Fueled by the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, World War I, the Russian Civil War, and the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918, there was ample opportunity for typhus to spread.]
[Aided by air, sea, and rail transport, a new virus emerged from China in the winter of 1957 that would be referred to as the “Asian flu.”]
[The third influenza pandemic of the twentieth century began in Hong Kong in 1968. Known as the “Hong Kong flu,” the H3N2 influenza was less deadly than the previous Asian flu but highly contagious.]
As David Quammen notes in Spillover, “We should recognize that [outbreaks] reflect things that we’re doing, not just things that are happening to us.” In other words, it’s foolish to think that epidemics occur randomly and spread without help. Climate change, conflict, and environmental degradation are all contributing factors.
THAT GOD of BIBLICAL WARS, PLAGUES, FAMINES, DEATH.
YHWH: The Kenite God of Metallurgy
The Bible describes YHWH as glowing (kabod), and YHWH’s heat as melting mountains, imagery connected with volcano gods, the divine patrons of metalworkers such as the Kenites, who lived in the Negev region. Indeed, the description of Israel’s encounter with YHWH at Sinai portrays a volcanic eruption, with smoke “as if from a furnace” (Exodus 19:18).
Divine Retribution: Wrath (charon) is most often a reaction to the breaking of the covenant, specifically through idolatry, injustice, or the violation of moral laws. It is meant to call the people back to righteousness.
Earthly Consequences: In the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), God’s anger results in tangible, historical events such as exile, famine, or military defeat.
Metaphorical Language: Rabbis and scholars generally understand descriptions of God’s anger as metaphorical. They are human ways of understanding God’s absolute holiness and the serious consequences of human actions.
The Kenites appear to have been a society of metalworkers. The story of Cain in Genesis 4 describes how one of his descendants, Tubal-Cain “forged all implements of copper and iron” (לֹטֵשׁ כָּל חֹרֵשׁ נְחֹשֶׁת וּבַרְזֶל), i.e., he is described as a smith, the craftsman producing implements from raw metal. Indeed, the Semitic cognates קין (Arabic قين, Syriac ܩܝܢܝܐ, Aramaic קֵינָאָה) suggest that the root ק.י.נ designated activities belonging to the field of metallurgy, smelting (metal production from ore) and smithing (the working of raw metal).[17]
Cain himself, then, rather than his descendant Tubal-Cain, should be understood as once having played the role of the forefather of metallurgy and the South-Levantine society of metalworking Kenites, both smiths and smelters, i.e., producers of the raw metal from ore. This helps explain their connection to YHWH, a deity with volcanic attributes.
In antiquity, volcanoes were typically identified with the gods sponsoring metallurgy. For example, Hephaestus was called the “prince of Etna” in ancient Greece, and the term “volcano” derives from Vulcain, the name of the divine patron of the metallurgists at Rome.[18]
The superhero genre was pioneered in the 1930s by Jewish creators (like Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, and Jack Kirby) who channeled the immigrant experience and the fight against fascism into their work. Consequently, Jewish allegories, religious archetypes, and explicit cultural symbols remain heavily baked into mainstream comic books. [1, 2, 3]
GOYIM, the fucking child of comic books:
Superhero comics are fundamentally Jewish literature. In the 1930s and 1940s Jewish immigrants in New York were kept out of most respectable industries, so publishers, writers and artists created an industry of their own, comics. They also created its proprietary genre, superheroes, which they infused with various levels of Jewish signification.
Less known is that the comic book itself is a Jewish invention. In 1933 an unemployed schoolteacher from the Bronx named Maxwell Gaines (né Ginsburg) came up with the idea of licensing old newspaper strips and reprinting them in a magazine format. (It’s why they’re called “comics,” they were originally all humor strips.) Gradually new content was needed, and five years later, in June 1938, Superman debuted.
The Man of Steel was the first superhero, and the mold from which all others will forever be cast. He’s also a heavily Jewish character. Not canonically but metatextually, as a metaphor and as an avatar of his Jewish creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
He was given the birth name Kal-El, El meaning god in Hebrew, and the same origin story as Moses; a baby whisked to safety in a small vessel, found amidst thick vegetation, renamed and raised by people not his own, who grows to become a great savior. In several versions he travels across the North Pole and learns of his special heritage from the hologram of his father Jor-El, mirroring Moses’s journey across Midian and the burning bush.
Siegel acknowledged being inspired by Samson, the super-strong Israelite judge who fought in the name of truth and justice, whom he regularly references in the early comics. He was also inspired by the golem of Prague — particularly the 1920 film — in creating an indestructible champion of the oppressed. (In 1958 the golem legend was used wholesale for the origin of Bizarro, one of Superman’s most famous adversaries.)
Siegel and Shuster based Superman’s alter-ego, Clark Kent, on themselves. They were both bespectacled, gawky and neurotic, but also cerebral, inventive and wisecracking — a checklist of Jewish stereotypes.
Superman is essentially the story of the Jewish refugee Kal-El who came over from the old country and anglicized his name to Clark Kent. He’s an alien who can pass for human but can only interact freely with society through a disguise, a Jew passing for a non-Jew. His costume is made from the Kryptonian fabrics his mother wrapped him in as a baby, and he wears it under his clothes like a tallit, giving him the ability to change identities at whim.
Other superheroes from the period reflect their Jewish creators’ background and preoccupations as well. Captain America, for example, created in 1941 by Joe (Hymie) Simon and Jack Kirby (Kurtzberg), is about a young weakling of strong resolve who volunteers to become a super-soldier to fight the Nazis, equipped with a star-spangled shield. It echoes the story of King David, a genteel youth of unwavering faith who volunteers to fight the giant enemy of his people, later fashioning a hexagram shield, the Star of David.
The Charlie Kirk Show is now distributed by a federally registered agent of Israel tasked with seeding American media with Zionist propaganda. It is part of a whopping $46 million dollar annual contract between the Israeli government and Brad Parscale, the former chief of staff for Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign. This may be the largest lobbying contract in the history of foreign influence operations in the US.
On September 10, 2025, Kirk was assassinated during the first stop on his American Comeback Tour at Utah Valley State University. Eight days later, Parscale registered as a foreign agent of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, assuming responsibility for a propaganda blitz “tailored to Gen Z audiences across platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, podcasts, and other relevant digital and broadcast outlets.”
Oh, shit, those Jews:
In this startling investigation into the suppressed history of America in the 1800s, Xaviant Haze reveals how the powerful Rothschild banking family and the Central Banking System, now known as the Federal Reserve Bank, provide a continuous thread of connection between the War of 1812, the Civil War, the financial crises of the 1800s, and assassination attempts on Presidents Jackson and Lincoln.
The author reveals how the War of 1812 began after Congress failed to renew a 20-year charter for the Central Bank. After the war, the ensuing debt forced Congress to grant the central banking scheme another 20-year charter. The author explains how this spurred General Andrew Jackson–fed up with the central bank system and Nathan Rothschild’s control of Congress–to enter politics and become president in 1828. Citing the financial crises engineered by the banks, Jackson spent his first term weeding out Rothschild agents from the government. After being re-elected to a 2nd term with the slogan “Jackson and No Bank,” he became the only president to ever pay off the national debt. When the Central Bank’s charter came up for renewal in 1836, he successfully rallied Congress to vote against it.
The author explains how, after failing to regain their power politically, the Rothschilds plunged the country into Civil War. He shows how Lincoln created a system allowing the U.S. to furnish its own money, without need for a Central Bank, and how this led to his assassination by a Rothschild agent. With Lincoln out of the picture, the Rothschilds were able to wipe out his prosperous monetary system, which plunged the country into high unemployment and recession and laid the foundation for the later formation of the Federal Reserve Bank–a banking scheme still in place in America today.
The 1500s (Name Origin): The family name itself traces back to Isaak Elchanan Bacharach, who built a house in the Frankfurt ghetto in 1567 named the zum roten Schild (at the sign of the red shield). Family members took this German phrase as their surname.
“My husband isn’t here to say whether or not we should be at war with Iran,” Erika Kirk said in response to a question at a May 2026 TPUSA event. “I would love for him to be here right now and tell us if we should or should not.”
Blumenthal, the Jew Protector:
On September 6, 2025, an arch-Zionist centi-millionaire named Robert Shillman denounced Kirk from the dais at a private gala in Los Angeles, expressing regret for showering his fortune on TPUSA now that its founder had turned against Israel. As The Grayzone revealed, Shillman had just withdrawn a $2 million donation to TPUSA as punishment for Kirk’s heresy.
Four days later, Kirk was shot through the neck by a sniper in front of thousands of attendees of his so-called American Comeback Tour.
Just over a week after the shocking assassination, the Israeli Foreign Ministry effectively took control over the Charlie Kirk Show through its lobbying contract with Parscale’s Clock Tower X. Given the statements Kirk made both publicly and in private to confidants about Israel in the weeks before his killing, it seems unlikely he would have consented to any agreement that gave a registered lobbyist for Israel responsibility for distributing his show.
Robert Shillman is a Jewish American Zionist tycoon who owns the Cognex Corporation which produces machine vision systems, sensors and industrial ID readers.
The Zionist tycoon uses his wealth and influence to further Zionist interests, with a specific focus on conservative media and talking points.
In 2008, Shillman accompanied George W. Bush to Jerusalem to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Israel.
Shillman, a believer in the Israeli ethno-state, has an effective role in shaping more-or-less mainstream anti-Islamic and anti-immigration movements in the US and Europe. This kind of phony opposition functions as a way to attract support for Israel as an anti-Islamic state among European and Americans who have been disillusioned by Liberal immigration policies.
Shillman is consequently a board member of the conservative anti-Islamic David Horowitz Freedom Centre. He also funds several well-known anti-Islamic or right-wing figures and outlets such as Brigitte Gabriel´s ACT! (which promotes Islamophobia in the US), James O’Keefe‘s Project Veritas, Frontpage magazines (David Horowitz anti-Islamic magazine) and Rebel News (right-wing news outlet owned by Zionist media personality Ezra Levant).234
Shillman has also funded overt Zionist agitators such as the British Tommy Robinson5 (Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon) and Dutch politician Geert Wilders.6 Such figures have had a defining role in promoting pro-Israel sentiment among immigrant-weary communities.
This month, 404 Media — a technology and privacy investigative outlet — obtained and published a product sheet for a surveillance system called ELSAG SignalTrace, built by Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions, the American arm of Italian defense giant Leonardo S.p.A. The report is spreading fast through privacy, civil liberties, and press freedom communities, but has yet to be covered by mainstram US news outlets. What it describes is a terrifying product that is now available for purchase by American law enforcement, in existence for at least two years — built quietly, patented quietly, marketed quietly — while the public had no idea it existed.
On March 26, 2024, Leonardo received US Patent 11,941,716 B2 for “Systems and Methods for Electronic Signature Tracking.” The company issued a press release. Almost nobody noticed. By 2025, the technology had a formal product name — ELSAG SignalTrace — and an active marketing campaign aimed at law enforcement agencies across the country. General Manager Jason Laquatra described the system’s purpose plainly: “The future of LPR [license plate reader] advancements is reliant on enhancing LPR data sets with additional information from various electronic devices to find the individuals police are looking for.”
Translation: It is no longer enough for Big Bro to record your car everywhere it goes. They want to know who is inside that car. Down to your pets.
Leonardo S.p.A. is headquartered in Rome, Italy. The product it is selling to American law enforcement would almost certainly be illegal to deploy in its home country, or anywhere else in Europe.
European law — the General Data Protection Regulation, known as GDPR — requires companies to get your permission before collecting your personal data. It forbids storing that data indefinitely. The EU AI Act, which took effect this year, restricts technology that identifies and tracks people in public spaces.
The United States of America has no such laws and, in fact, has a federal administration trying to make such laws themselves illegal. Totally normal.
‘Is there anything more ethically reprehensible than collaborating with a criminal government that openly violates international law and whose crimes against humanity are blatant and well-known?’
Military Hardware & Exports: Leonardo produces critical components for military aircraft used by the Israeli Air Force. The company supplies technologies for the F-35 (for which Leonardo UK is a key producer) and parts for F-15 fighter jets. It has also historically supplied remote technical assistance and systems for armored bulldozers used by the Israeli military. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Corporate & Legal Pressure: Italian civil society and human rights organizations have filed legal actions attempting to annul Leonardo’s armament contracts with Israel, citing constitutional breaches. Additionally, various Italian labor unions and plant workers have petitioned the company to halt military supplies and agreements. [1, 2]
Corporate Leadership Response: Leonardo’s Chief Executive Officer and General Manager, Roberto Cingolani, stated that the company has not authorized new exports to Israel since the outbreak of the conflict. However, protesters and activists argue that pre-existing export licenses and long-term service agreements have allowed technological and maintenance support to continue. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Past Technology and Startup Partnerships: Prior to the recent escalation in Gaza, Leonardo had active innovation partnerships in Israel. This included agreements with the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) and Tel Aviv University’s Ramot to scout and develop local startups. [1]
Acquisition of Israeli Tech: Leonardo’s U.S. subsidiary, Leonardo DRS, finalized a major merger with Rada Electronic Industries, an Israeli defense company specializing in tactical radars, to expand its global capabilities in force protection and counter-UAS (unmanned aircraft systems). [1]
Then you have this piece of shit in AmeriKKKa.
A real fucking loser, on my radio station!
When the Trump administration announced the Iran deal, the White House called it historic. Israel is calling it something very different.
David Horovitz, the editor of The Times of Israel, used the phrase “catastrophic capitulation” in a headline. Nir Dvori, an analyst for Channel 12 News in Israel, called it a diplomatic October 7th, referring to Hamas’ killing of roughly 1200 Israelis. Yaakov Amidror, who served as national security adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said the Americans “paid with cash and got, at the maximum, a letter of intent.”
Why is Israel sounding the alarm? Start with Iran’s nuclear program, which Netanyahu has spent decades framing as an existential threat to Israel. It’s the same issue Trump cited when he announced the first strikes against Iran back in February. And under this agreement, it’s been punted to “a later stage” of negotiations. Meaning it’s completely unresolved.
Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal is still intact. Trump even told reporters this week that it would be “unfair” if Iran weren’t allowed to keep “some” ballistic missiles. Let’s also remember this is the same president who promised to “raze their missile industry to the ground.”
Additionally, nothing in the agreement addresses Iran’s support for Hezbollah and the Houthis, though the deal requires Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon. Israeli analysts say this leaves them in a worse position than before the war.
Meanwhile, Iran is expected to get hundreds of billions of dollars in sanctions relief, unfrozen assets, and reconstruction aid, all of which could end up funding the same networks that have spent years attacking Israel.
Chuck Freilich, a former Israeli deputy national security adviser, argued “Iran came out stronger,” having successfully stood up to “the global superpower.” Freilich added that this is simply “an Iranian victory over the U.S. and Israel.”
Iran’s own top negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, agreed, saying on state television that the deal gave Iran “several times more” than they set out to achieve through military action. It’s not hard to see who exactly won here.
Even the Jews state:
The Air Force was carrying out “the Sword of Damocles” operation – a code name only being revealed on Thursday for the first time – to attack many Hamas commanders and their headquarters around 10:30 a.m. on October 7, 2023, just as it was carrying out the “Hannibal Directive” of gunning down anything that moved around the Israel-Gaza border.
The Air Force has been questioned about if the forces it had invested in attacking Hamas commanders deep in Gaza would have been better used to defend the Gaza border and to attack Hamas invaders in Israeli villages.
Air Force sources hoped air power had been used ‘differently’ on October 7
Air Force sources have said that they wish this air power had been used differently on October 7, given that protecting the villages and the border should have been a higher priority than killing top Hamas officials.
One former Israeli officer, Air Force Colonel Nof Erez, told a Haaretz podcast the directive was not specifically ordered but was “apparently applied” by responding aircrews.
Panicked, operating without their normal command structure and unable to coordinate with ground forces, they fired on vehicles returning to Gaza, knowing they were likely carrying hostages.
“This was a mass Hannibal. It was tons and tons of openings in the fence, and thousands of people in every type of vehicle, some with hostages and some without,” Colonel Erez said.
Air force pilots described to Yedioth Ahronot newspaper the firing of “tremendous” amounts of ammunition on October 7 at people attempting to cross the border between Gaza and Israel.
“Twenty-eight fighter helicopters shot over the course of the day all of the ammunition in their bellies, in renewed runs to rearm. We are talking about hundreds of 30-millimetre cannon mortars and Hellfire missiles,” reporter Yoav Zeitoun said.
“The frequency of fire at the thousands of terrorists was enormous at the start, and only at a certain point did the pilots begin to slow their attacks and carefully choose the targets.”
One survivor of Kibbutz Nir Oz, a Gaza border community, described being fired upon by the Israeli military as Hamas members tried to take her and other hostages across the border in an electric wagon.
The IDF review also contradicts testimony from one of the two survivors of Pessi’s house, Yasmin Porat, who told Israel’s Kan radio on October 15 that the Hamas gunmen had not threatened the hostages and had intended to negotiate with police for their safe return to Gaza.
She said an Israeli police special unit had started the gun battle by firing upon the house, catching “five or six” kibbutz residents outside in “very, very heavy crossfire”.
In the interview, she was asked: “So our forces may have shot them?”
“Undoubtedly,” she replied.
“They eliminated everyone [in the house], including the hostages.”
Israeli philosopher Asa Kasher told the ABC the directive did not apply to civilian hostages
“That’s a new situation, and all the considerations are different,” Professor Kasher said.
“Killing the civilian in order to foil the attempted abduction is really … everyone understands that that’s way outside of what is allowed in a democracy.”
Professor Kasher said he was dismayed by reports soldiers had applied the Hannibal Directive on October 7.
“They acted on very low professional standards,” he said.
“That’s insane, it’s not the nature of a democracy, it’s not the nature of the IDF, it’s not the nature of the command.”
This is what the dirty Jews, Ruthie, has to say: Asa Kasher’s unkosher disloyalty
While the Israeli military is conducting a valiant effort to destroy Hamas and rescue the hostages, the “purity of arms” author might have exercised discretion before voicing his extremist positions.
Ruthie Blum [Ruthie Blum, a former adviser at the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is an award-winning columnist and a senior contributing editor at JNS. Co-host with Ambassador Mark Regev of the JNS-TV podcast “Israel Undiplomatic,” she writes on Israeli politics and U.S.-Israel relations. Originally from New York City, she moved to Israel in 1977. She is a regular guest on national and international media outlets, including Fox, Sky News, i24News, Scripps, ILTV, WION and Newsmax.]
“We were born into a state that wanted to be democratic; for decades, we were a democratic country,” he said. “And now they want to turn us into a different sort of a country, which will cease being democratic.”
The new government“will continue to call itself democratic, in the way that communist regimes called themselves ‘popular’ democracies.”
“[O]ur culture is one of lies and pretense [in which people say] whatever they want with no relation to facts. … We won’t be a democracy. We’ll be something else—the kind [of entity] that there’s no moral justification to honor.”
Forked fucking Jewish TONGUES: 2014…..
“Operation Protective Edge,” as Israel calls its 51-day-long assault, killed 2,257 Palestinians. Some seventy percent of them were identified as civilians by the United Nations, including at least 519 children. In stark contrast, actions by or engagements with Palestinian resistance fighters killed 66 Israeli soldiers and seven civilians.
Both Kasher and Halbertal defended the lopsided death toll by stressing that the law of proportionately is not measured by body count.
Kasher explicitly rejected the civilian death count put out by the United Nations, maintaining that the majority of the dead were ”terrorists.” As far as he was concerned, Israel went above and beyond to avoid killing “the neighbors of the terrorists.”
Convened by the liberal Zionist New Israel Fund and moderated by Jane Eisner, editor-in-chief of the liberal The Jewish Daily Forward, the event was advertised as a discussion about “‘moral armies’ and the challenges of defensive wars in today’s new Middle East.”
Kasher and Halbertal co-authored the Israeli military code of ethics, which has guided the army’s conduct during Israel’s increasingly ferocious military assaults against the Palestinians it occupies as well as its neighbors over the last two decades.
The atmosphere was cozy and intimate, with randomly assigned dinner table seating. Each table was decorated with wine bottles and elegant food platters that aimed to foster “a new kind of conversation about Israel,” according to the program.
As the generally Israel-friendly crowd of mostly older New Yorkers sipped on Merlot and munched on pita chips from the comfort and safety of the JCC, they listened to the ethicists doing what they do best: twisting international law to sanctify Israel’s “right” to inflict limitless suffering on the 1.8 million Palestinians, the vast majority refugees, confined to the Gaza Strip solely because they are not Jews.
The ethicists
Appealing to right-wing Zionist sensibilities, Kasher dominated the discussion, arguing that Palestinian civilians—or as he calls them, “the neighbors of the terrorists”— had to die to protect the lives of Israeli combatants.
In an exclusive interview following the panel, Kasher’s extremism reached new heights. He told me that Givati Brigade commander Ofer Winter was right to carpet bomb the southern Gaza City of Rafah to prevent the capture of an Israeli soldier, an order that killed the soldier and 190 Palestinians in a matter of hours, though Kasher insisted that “only forty” were killed.
“Killing forty civilians” is “reasonable,” he told me.
Moshe Halbertal, a law professor at Hebrew University and visiting professor of law at New York University, was less extreme in his rhetoric and allowed for some criticism of Israel’s behavior in Gaza. But he chalked up Israeli atrocities, like the wiping out of dozens of families in Gaza, to “sporadic” mistakes. “War is messy,” he said.
Despite the pretense of ideological disagreement, Kasher and Halbertal were advancing the same agenda. For two hours, they explained why and how the massacre of defenseless Palestinians who have nowhere to flee is ethical, and in Kasher’s case, a moral imperative.
I reminded him that 190 Palestinian civilians were killed in Rafah on Winter’s order.
Shaking his head in disagreement, he said, “Forty. The UN is meaningless. Palestinian reports are meaningless. It was forty.”
“Where did you get that number?” I asked.
“The IDF,” he replied. “Killing forty civilians, where your arguments are that you avoided strategic catastrophe, is reasonable,” he added.
Asked if he was worried he might one day be charged with war crimes for writing the code of conduct that guides the Israeli army’s behavior in Gaza, Kasher scoffed, “I don’t worry at all. Public opinion is meaningless.”
He continued: “What counts is the president of the United States, the prime minister of England and the president of France, the head of Russia and the head of China. They count because they are the five members of the [UN] Security Council. The only thing internationally of importance is the Security Council. Those five have veto power, so they count. Most importantly, the president of the United States, he counts.”
When asked if he was alarmed by the calls for genocide emanating from Israeli lawmakers including Ayelet Shaked and Moshe Feiglin, Kasher said that Shaked was not in the Israeli government (her party, Jewish Home, is part of the ruling coalition) and dismissed Feiglin, who is deputy speaker in the Israeli parliament, as a “marginal” figure.
Kasher went on to excuse Ofer Winter’s declaration of Jewish holy war against Palestinians in Gaza on the eve of the Israel’s ground invasion.
“Colonel Winter was mistaken in expressing himself as if all the troops are as religious as he is. Many of them are not,” said Kasher. “He mistakenly spoke in terms of ‘we’ instead of ‘I.’ But that’s it. Otherwise I don’t see a problem in his speech.”
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The mpost immoral, more PR spinning, biggest lying, most rapist-centered, starving-lusting, maiming-seeking, poisoners of the realm, the Jewish Military!
The Spirit of the IDF
The Spirit of the IDF outlines our values and together with the practical rules derived from it constitutes our ethical code, guiding our soldiers and commanders in their day-to-day and operational activities.
Our 4 Fundamental Values
Defense of the State of Israel and its residents
The purpose of the IDF is to protect Israel and its independence and ensure the security of its residents.
Patriotism and loyalty to Israel:
Patriotism commitment and devotion to the State of Israel and its people are at the very core of service in the IDF.
Human Dignity
The IDF and our soldiers are obligated to protect human dignity. Every individual is of inherent value, regardless of their ethnicity, religion, nationality, gender, or status.
Statehood
The IDF is the people’s army, the State of Israel’s military, subject to the law and government of the State of Israel. IDF soldiers will operate with their mission, the IDF’s values and the security of Israel as their priority. They will operate with integrity, practicality and presentably.
There are ten additional values derived from these fundamental values:
Perseverance in the Mission and Pursuit of Victory
An IDF soldier will act and operate with courage in the face of every danger and challenge presented. The soldier will persevere in their mission with determination and wisdom, even if it means risking their life.
Responsibility
An IDF soldier will see themselves as an active partner in ensuring the security of the State of Israel and its residents. The soldier will show continuous involvement, initiative and diligence and operate within the framework of their authority, and will be willing to accept consequences for their actions if need be.
Reliability and Trustworthiness
An IDF soldier will present things entirely and precisely as they are. They will do so throughout all stages of operation including planning, execution and reporting. The soldier will operate in a manner that will enable their commanders and fellow soldiers to trust them when completing tasks.
Personal Example
An IDF soldier will conduct themselves in the manner that is required of them and in the manner they expect their fellow soldiers to act. They will do so out of recognition of their ability and responsibility as an IDF soldier and outside of it, to be worthy role model to those around them.
Human Life
An IDF soldier will recognize the critical importance of human life and behave in a safe and measured manner at all times. During combat, the soldier will put themselves and their fellow soldiers at risk only to the extent required to fulfill their mission.
Purity of Arms
An IDF soldier will only exercise their power or use their weapon in order to fulfill their mission and only when necessary. They will maintain their humanity during combat and routine times. The soldier will not use their weapon or power to harm uninvolved civilians and prisoners and will do everything in their power to prevent harm to their lives, bodies, dignity and property.
Professionalism
An IDF soldier will aspire to gain the professional knowledge, skills and expertise required to fulfill their position in the IDF. The soldier will implement these while engaging in their role to continuously improve their personal achievements and the achievements of their unit.
Discipline
An IDF soldier will operate to the best of their ability to fulfill what is required of them in a complete and successful manner and in accordance with the orders they were given and the values of the IDF. The soldier will ensure they are only giving out legal orders, and do not follow illegal orders.
Camaraderie
An IDF soldier will operate out of commitment and devotion to their fellow soldiers. The soldier will always extend other servicemembers a helping hand when they are in need of assistance or dependent on it and they will do so despite any difficulty or risk.
A Sense of Mission
An IDF soldier will see their service as a vocation; they will be intent on contributing as much as possible to defend the State of Israel and its residents. They will do so as a representative of the IDF who is operating within the authority given to them according to IDF orders.
Woman plunges 164 feet to death in tragic bungee-jumping accident
Florida beaches turning dangerous into peak spring break.
In 7 days:
• 500+ rescues
• 70 rescues at Fort Lauderdale Beach
• 2 deaths (Pompano Beach and Juno Beach)
A wild melee broke out at a tailgate party just before the Browns’ game Sunday … with several Cleveland fans rockin’ each other in the face with violent punches.
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) reported 3,887 recreational boating incidents nationwide. These accidents resulted in 556 deaths, 2,170 injuries, and approximately $88 million in property damage. The national fatality rate dropped slightly to 4.8 deaths per 100,000 registered vessels, which is the lowest recorded baseline in over 50 years.
Alcohol use is the leading known contributing factor in fatal boating accidents; where the primary cause was known.
As of 2026, the average American pet-owning household spends between $880 and $1,700 annually on their animals, while the total U.S. pet industry has reached a massive $158 billion per year.
Jurisdictions in 84 countries regulate pit bulls and other dangerous dog breeds. In 74 of those countries, the regulation is a national-level law.
Countries Worldwide that Restrict Dangerous Dog Breeds by DogsBite.org, 2025
The big pit was chewing the man’s arm off. It was horrible. I’ve never seen anything like that. Jennifer Walker
federal lawsuit
She suffered the amputation of both legs due to sepsis, endured additional surgeries, including a second amputation above the stump of her left leg, and extensive skin grafts on her arms, which were chewed to the bone.
biological father
I just woke up and my daughter is dead. There’s blood everywhere, I don’t know what happened … My baby is dead. This has got to be a f—ing nightmare.
911 caller
Caller just received a call from her uncle who was watching her kids at this residence. He thinks her 6-year old son is dead. That the dog ate his face.
search warrant
Soon after the first dog attacked, a second pit bull started attacking [Covil]. There were adults in the area that started to defend [Covil] by using hammers and pickaxes to get the dogs off [Covil].
shauntaye phillips
The dogs bit a pretty big hole out of his arm and tore his artery, so he lost a lot of blood. He is on dialysis. He has to keep getting transfusions. They cut off his right arm.
chief deputy county attorney lori zucco
This is one of the most gruesome homicides that has come through our office.
fort dodge police officer
Pieces of her everywhere. They were eating her. I bet if they did autopsies, she’s in their guts.
shauntaye phillips
The dogs bit a pretty big hole out of his arm and tore his artery, so he lost a lot of blood. He is on dialysis. He has to keep getting transfusions. They cut off his right arm.
captain michael crumley
[Our 911 caller] saw the dogs dragging around an object and turned around and then discovered that that object was a human being.
taylorsville police
All of the dogs had blood on and around their mouths and appeared to be in a frenzy … He also observed that her leg had no flesh on it and only the bone remained.
federal lawsuit
The attack was nothing short of horrific, inflicting excruciating, boneexposing bites and tearing skin and muscle from his arms and other parts of his body.
chuck sutton
No flesh. No muscle. Nothing. No arm left but bone … Have you ever seen what a bear can do to a human body? That’s about the best I can describe it.
sheriff mason bynum
We noticed the injuries were severe trauma to the head so we did think that there was a high powered gunshot wound to the head…
adrian arispe
He was laying there face down, naked — all torn up like a shark ate him. He had his shoes, socks, shirt ripped, and his whole body was just from head to toe diced and sliced. They were tugging him. All five ways.
arrest affidavit
Deputies saw the man lying on the ground with both ears detached, along with his nose and left eye detached.
emma willis
It was like someone skinned him. I’ve never seen anything like that before.
tya lucas
I had six surgeries … been in the hospital for 13 days now … I basically got eaten by our family dog.
gelena kelly
He had her by the neck and was dragging her body into the second room … At that point, he was pretty much eating her alive.
police commissioner patrick ryder
The wife was on the ground, mutilated by the dog … We don’t know what time the attack took place but there was obviously a lot of mutilation on the body and the arm, the face, the legs.
melvina moore
The dogs ate him up to the point where his body was decayed. They can’t show me his body.
yahir martinez
Being a baby and having pampers on, it was jaw-dropping. I guess part of his face was missing, that’s what really got me.
john durand
800 to 1,000 bites around her body. Her ears, nose, upper lip and face, from cheek bone to cheek bone, were pulled off of her face.
victim’s mother
She got attacked by my sister’s pit bull … she has coded twice and has stopped breathing … she is showing signs of severe brain damage.
shannon pingel
She told Shane who found her, “I have no arms, and I’m dying.” She lost so much blood on the way to the hospital her heart stopped.
medical staff
Medical staff described her injuries as severe, noting her calf was “ripped off” and her arms were “barely attached to her body.”
william plyler
He saw that one dog with Jayden shaking her with only her hands and her knees touching the ground by the neck, unconscious.
police officer blake dicello
Those dogs were not defending their property. They were viciously attacking and mauling two defenseless people.
carteret fire department
Do we have an update on the condition? Medic answered: “I have a 3-year old with total evisceration, open to the face, head and thighs.”
matthijs van leeuwen
Right at that moment, the pitbull that held my dog at his neck, turned around came back and lunged at my head biting a large chunk out of my forehead … I felt a portion of skin hanging over my right eye and the wound was bleeding profusely.
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This issue of our societal permissiveness toward dangerous dogs recently came up at work. During his tenure, President Joe Biden has brought two violent dogs into the White House, where thousands of people go to work every day. Last month, a conservative watchdog group released records showing that Biden’s German shepherd Commander attacked Secret Service members 10 times between October 2022 and January. And in 2021, Major Biden, another German shepherd, was exiled to Delaware after his own biting spree. When my colleague Inae Oh surveyed Mother Jones readers about how the Bidens should handle the situation, I was baffled by the responses.
DO YOU GET IT YET?
The Spanish colonizers and slave raiders used war dogs (greyhounds and mastiffs) to terrorize and subjugate the Natives. The use of vicious dogs by the Spaniards in the borderlands helps explain how the Manso Indians from the El Paso del Norte region got their names (See second photo). According to Franciscan priest Alonso de Benavides, the local Natives would try to pacify the slave raider dogs by telling them “manso! manso!” Manso means “tame” or “peaceful” in Spanish. The European invaders started calling the local Natives “Mansos” as a way to mock them. But the local Natives were not at all tame or pacified throughout their history. One of their leaders, Capitan Chiquito, joined the Apaches (Nde people) in the late 1600s and waged guerrilla warfare against the European colonizers for three decades. Today dogs are still being used around the world to terrorize and subjugate indigenous and non-white people.
America is a wasteland of excess, lobotomized thinking (sic), consumerism on freebase, and a dirty dirty country that opened its doors to the kings of marketing and lies, the Jews.
We also claim that students are “held to a higher moral standard,” which suggests zero or low tolerance of wrongdoing. But the current emphasis on reducing attrition means that, as many midshipmen have told me, students get one “freebie,” such as a DUI. Held to a higher moral standard? The students know that’s a joke.
What else justifies our existence? Our most consistent justification is that we teach “leadership.” We even make students take classes in the subject. Midshipmen roll their eyes. Leadership can’t be taught; it can only be modeled.
The central paradox of the service academies is that we attract hard-charging “alpha” types and then make all their decisions for them. Students are told when to study and when to work out, whom they can date (nobody in their company), and when they can wear civilian clothes. All students must attend football games and cheer, and go to evening lectures and cultural events (where many sleep in their seats). The list goes on.
The academies are the ultimate nanny state. “When are they going to let me make some decisions?” one student asked in frustration. “The day I graduate?” This infantilization turns students passive-aggressive, and many of them count the years, months, and days until they can leave.
The U.S. military-service academies—at West Point (Army), Annapolis (Navy), Colorado Springs (Air Force), and New London (Coast Guard)—are at the center of several debates, both military and civilian. The military is downsizing, and the federal budget is under scrutiny: Do the academies deserve to continue?
They’re educational institutions, but do they actually educate, and furthermore, do they produce “leaders” as they claim to? And are they worth the $400,000 or so per graduate (depending on the academy) they cost taxpayers?
After all, we already have a federal program that produces officers—an average of twice as many as those who go to the academies (three times for the Army)—at a quarter of the cost.That program is ROTC, the Reserve Officer Training Corps, which has expanded considerably since World War II, when the academies produced the lion’s share of officers.
No data suggest that ROTC officers are of worse quality than those graduating from the academies, who are frequently perceived by enlisted militaryas arrogant “ring-knockers” (after their massive old-style class rings). The academies evoke their glory days by insisting that many more admirals, say, come from Annapolis than from ROTC. But that is no longer true. Between 1972 and 1990 (these are the latest figures available), the percentage of admirals from ROTC climbed from 5 percent to 41 percent, and a 2006 study indicated that commissioning sources were not heavily weighted in deciding who makes admiral.
Another officer-production pipeline is Officer Candidate School, which is about as large a source of officers as the academies. It gives a six- to 12-week training course for mature enlistees and college graduates who paid for their educations on their own (that is, did not participate in ROTC), and it costs taxpayers almost nothing. It could be expanded by pitching it to college students who might want to become officers when they graduate.
So the service academies are no longer indispensable for producing officers. Their graduates now make up only about 20 percent of the officer corps in any given year.It’s clear that we don’t need the academies in their current form—versions of a kind of military Disneyland. These institutions do produce some fine officers, even some leaders. But the students I respect the most tell me that those who succeed do so despite the institutions, not because of them.
How Fun and Games for Grownups Are Driving the Profitability of Play
Businesses ranging from entertainment and hospitality to toys are leveraging the spending power of this key consumer group.
Adult consumers are spending billions on toys, games, and collectibles each year, and that spending is expected to continue to grow. In 2024, toy purchases by consumers ages 13 and up surpassed toys purchased for 3- to 5-year-olds for the first time.
A recent global survey found that 87% of people believe play can cure isolation and loneliness, and that 79% believe it can bring different groups of people closer together.
Gen Z adults increasingly are seeking out the kinds of in-person, non-digital experiences that games and play provide.
The “Child Races” Narrative: Colonial powers frequently framed African, Asian, and Indigenous populations as “child races” who were emotionally volatile, primitive, and lacking in reason. This pseudo-scientific framing provided a moral excuse for colonialism, known as the “White Man’s Burden”.
The French Maghreb: French colonial doctors and psychiatrists explicitly diagnosed North African populations with “mental infantilism”. They claimed these populations were biologically or culturally incapable of governing themselves, using it to legally justify continuous French control.
The American South: Enslaved Africans were systemically infantilized (e.g., calling grown men “boy”) to maintain the hierarchy of slavery. Slave owners asserted that freed Black people would be “lost” or unable to survive without paternalistic supervision.
Hello everyone. As I write this article on America’s Thanksgiving holiday, I can’t want to note that all colonized groups have been infantilized in some way, shape, or form. This article does not take away from the colonial experiences of others, but instead, focuses on a continent whose diverse people, particularly those categorized as Sub-Saharan, have and continue to be reduced to less than.
Infantilization can appear in many forms, but the result is always the same; the reduction of a group’s status. This is done by discrediting the accomplishments or components of a group, or simplifying them. Evidence of this exists in today’s view of African diasporic languages and dialects (AAVE, Gullah Geechee, Jamaican Patois, Haitian Creole, etc) as well as African traditional and diasporic religions, as when these are not demonized, they are simply reduced to animism and shamanism.
Infantilization has effected every part of Africa and its people, from culture to philosophy and beyond. It is the part of the reason why African Catholics still answer to a white Pope. It is part of why slavers in the American South fought to continue slavery, for “fear” that Africans would…
“Oh my God, that pisses me off. This is public information. This is water.”
We are fucking children, man: Last Year, a Corpus Christi Cryptomine Guzzled over 11 Million Gallons. Now, Its Water Usage Is Being Kept Secret.
Amid its water crisis, the city declined to supply public records on the Bitcoin mine’s usage, citing a state law that allows nondisclosure of an individual customer’s account.
The drought-stricken City of Corpus Christi is withholding how much water a controversial cryptocurrency mine is siphoning away from surrounding residents.
The Texas Observerreported on the facility’s water burden last year in a series examining the cryptomine and artificial intelligence data center boom unfolding across the state. From May to August last year, the Bitcoin mine consumed 11,563,000 gallons, according to water utility records that the Observer previously obtained via a local resident’s public information request.
Together, the records pointed to an average of about 127,500 gallons a day, well over the 100,000-gallons daily rate that the city uses to label a “high-volume user.” Moreover, records obtained last year showed the city already added a new 4-inch water pipe to the site to help the mine cool its computing hardware with a technique known as liquid immersion.
City Council member Roland Barrera, in whose district the mine is located, said city staff told him the mine is still guzzling about 100,000 gallons a day, or about 3 million gallons a month. Other industrial users, like the city’s petrochemical refineries, use as much as 90 million gallons monthly.
But now, as Corpus Christi faces an ever-deepening water crisis, in response to the Observer’s public information request, the city is refusing to release the latest 2026 records of the mine’s water usage. The city is appealing the Observer’s request for those records to the Texas Office of the Attorney General, citing a section of the Texas Utilities Code that allows nondisclosure of an individual customer’s account. That’s a change from just last year, when the city provided water-usage records.
One of my favorite comedy sketches of all time is 2007 bit from The Whitest Kids U’ Know called “It’s Illegal to Say…” If you’ve never seen it, do yourself a favor and watch it before you read the rest of this.
The whole thing is Trevor Moore, sitting on a stool in front of a blank backdrop, delivering the most deadpan public service announcement you’ve ever seen. “Did you know,” he asks, “that it’s illegal to say ‘I want to kill the president of the United States of America’? It’s a federal offense. One of the only sentences you’re not allowed to say.” And then, of course, he spends the next minute saying it, over and over, in increasingly elaborate forms, while insisting the entire time that he’s only informing you that it’s illegal, not actually saying it
By the end he’s talking about mortar launchers and the best vantage point for hitting the White House and an “illustrated diagram,” each one “extremely illegal,” “ridiculously, horribly felonious,” and he’s letting you know all of this purely as a public service. The comedy is in how straight he plays it. He’s not winking. He’s basically your local news anchor warning you about a scam.
WKUK was a great show, and Moore was the engine of it. He died in 2021, at 41, after a fall from his balcony. (Fun fact, and a sad one: Zach Cregger, who made last year’s Weapons, was a founding member of the troupe alongside Moore, and he’s said in interviews that the movie came out of his grief over losing him. There’s a lot of Trevor Moore buried in that film if you know how to look for it.
Owen Jones did the bit on live TV
Which is roughly where things stood when I watched a clip from an episode of Jeremy Vine on Channel 5. The journalist Owen Jones was on the panel, and when Palestine Action came up, he did something I recognized right away.
He started saying the sentence. “You can’t now say, ‘I support Palestine Action,’” Jones said. “That’s an illegal offense. You can’t say, ‘I support Palestine Action with all my heart.’ You can get arrested and sent to prison for 14 years for doing that.” Vine, looking like he wanted to be anywhere else, cut in: “You’re skating around it, aren’t you?” And Jones, who was not skating around anything, kept right on going. “No, I’m not. I’m saying it’s illegal to say, ‘I support Palestine Action, and they are fighting to stop a genocide.’ You can get arrested and sent to prison for 14 years for saying that. And retired vicars are now being arrested and face prosecution for holding a placard saying, ‘I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.’ This is absurd, and everyone knows it.”
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Now now now, we have the right to mention machetes and Molotovs in the same sentence as Jews of Israel, Zionists of the World, Billionaires, Goyim 3,100 pr 320 Jew Billionaires.
Do they need their heads on pikes, chopped off? Billionaires? Trump LLC? Jews? Israelis? The Rich? ICE? ACAB? US Mercenaries?
When Charles II returned to England in 1660, he had a few bones to pick with the folks who had offed his dad. The first thing he did was have all official documents remove the previous decade from the record, amending them so it seemed as if he had immediately succeeded his father in 1649. After the paperwork was in order, Charles II had Cromwell’s body exhumed from Westminster Abbey (where it had been given an official state burial alongside deceased kings and queens). He then publicly executed it on the site where his father had been put to trial – (re)death by hanging. It was then placed on a spike above Westminster Hall, where it would ominously watch over London for the next 25 years.
So, can we say:
“Let’s do what Charles II did with Cromwell to the Murderers of Mitzvah!”
One of your 2014 poems, “Before I Was A Gazan,” reads like it was written this year. What’s the backstory?
It’s not a new poem. It’s 10 years old. At that time, there were some literacy programs out of Gaza that were inviting me and some other writers I know to be with the children, be with the students, and talk about writing and story, and why we need story, and why we need to believe in our own voices. Shortly after one of my sessions with these beautiful, beautiful kids who never ever complained about anything, there was a horrible, genocidal bombing of Gaza. … I just kept picturing these kids and thinking about their names, and what had happened to them, how many were still living, were any still living, were any of them killed, and I kept trying to get through to their teacher and find out if they were. That poem was from a horrible sleepless night.
They were just human beings. They were kids; they were proud—just like the boy in the poem is proud of his math homework. I was just thinking how horrific it is that children have to suffer these disasters, and I felt like I needed to write something in their honor. That’s how that poem came to be—but the weird part about that poem is, it’s not obsolete; it’s continued to be relevant all these years.
As poets, our minds reel and give us images. I just kept thinking, What would it be like to be a child who goes off to school or loses your homework, or something so pedestrian? And then your whole house disappears before you can even get home.
transactional, troubled, terrified — the American mind-scape is like a nightmare in slow motion with all the bells and whistles of the Holly-Dirt chlamydia capitalism a la Mission Impossible
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Key Responsibilities:
Provide strategic college admissions counseling to students applying to top art and design programs (e.g., RISD, Parsons, Pratt, SAIC, CalArts, UCLA).
Guide students in developing a cohesive, competitive portfolio that meets each school’s specific requirements.
Offer detailed critique and mentorship on student artwork across a range of media (e.g., drawing, painting, sculpture, digital art, photography, animation).
Support students in crafting compelling artist statements, resumes, and visual submissions (e.g., SlideRoom).
Help students research and select programs that align with their creative goals and academic aspirations.
Advise on summer programs, art competitions, and extracurricular activities that strengthen student profiles.
Coordinate with PathIvy admissions counselors to align portfolio preparation with the overall college application strategy.
Conduct virtual meetings with students and families to track progress, build rapport, and offer consistent support.
Lead occasional workshops or webinars on portfolio development and applying to creative colleges.
Minimum Qualifications & Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, Design, or a related creative discipline from a competitive school.
Experience supporting students through portfolio-based admissions processes.
Familiarity with application requirements and portfolio platforms used by leading art and design schools.
Strong mentorship skills and the ability to give constructive, inspiring feedback.
Comfortable working with high school students and families in a virtual setting.
Excellent communication and organizational skills.
Preferred Qualifications & Experience:
MFA or advanced degree in a creative field.
Alumni or admissions experience at a top art/design college.
Proven track record of students admitted to competitive creative programs.
Knowledge of diverse artistic practices, including digital media, animation, video, or fashion design.
Experience conducting group workshops or public presentations.
Core Admissions Counseling Packages: Clients and prospective students report being quoted between $5,000 and $6,000 for academic and extracurricular planning packages. [1]
“You are leaving Microsoft – Are you really sure? “This is one of the multiple questions I was asked numerous times last month when I submitted my resignation. Don’t get me wrong, Microsoft is a great company focused on #technology, #innovation, digital transformation, #diversity and employee wellness and growth. I have learned a lot at Microsoft – product management, product marketing, developing vision and strategy, presenting business plans, and building and leading diverse high performing teams.
I have loved working for #Microsoft. I have fond memories of the lunches, the coffees, the Christmas parties as well as Microsoft picnics where I took my kids when they were young. It has been a home for me. I have friends in every single division of Microsoft. Even in this unexpected COVID times, the Microsoft community and my team has provided me with unbreakable support.
In Microsoft, apart from my day job leading global Advocate Experience team, responsible for increasing productivity, security and transforming infrastructure for 30,000 agents who provide customer service for all Microsoft products, I volunteered as a University Recruiting Champion for Microsoft Digital where we hired 500+ fulltime and interns in the last 2 years. As a part of Microsoft Digital Workforce community, we initiated multiple programs so that our interns and newly minted undergrads have a good start and develop confidence and skillset to succeed in the workforce. This experience at Microsoft helped me discover and reinforce my 2 passions:
1. Help younger generation achieve their true potential.
2. Encourage younger women to study and pursue a career in STEM.
In parallel, on personal side, when my kids were in high school, I realized that there is need for personalized college admissions counseling. Each and every kid is different – they have #different strengths, different interests, different personalities and would be interested in exploring different majors and different colleges. Currently in US the counselor to kid ratio is 1:457. So, there is a need to provide the kids with the right, personalized guidance in a nurturing environment. I provided the guidance to my own kids – my older daughter is at #Yale and the younger one is #Stanford. Over the last several years I have been working on weekends and the weekday evenings to help many high schoolers navigate the process of identifying and getting admitted to their dream school. However, my bandwidth constraints put some capacity constraints. Therefore, I had to make a decision.
Resigning was a difficult decision. For last few months, I have been going back and forth. Finally, after postponing the decision several times, I made the decision last month to leave my family at Microsoft to pursue my passion and launch my own company PathIvy.
PathIvy provides personalized guidance to high school students in a nurturing environment to enable them to get into their dream school as well as discover dream careers. The ultimate vision is to build data driven AI platform to streamline and make admissions process easy and streamlined with great user interface and multiple access points enabling high school success.
Follow PathIvy to track our progress and get admission insights.
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Do you get it yet? Do you see the course of how Zombie and Penury and Casino and Usury and For-the-Rich Capitalism works? Pay for an Ivy League coach, to bring to Johnny or Janey all the inside tricks to get into a Poison Ivy School?
Hollywood actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are among 50 people charged in a $25 million college entrance exam cheating scheme, according to court documents unsealed in Boston on Tuesday.
The alleged scam focused on getting students admitted to elite universities as recruited athletes, regardless of their athletic abilities, and helping potential students cheat on their college exams, according to the indictment.
Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, agreed to a pay bribes totaling $500,000 in exchange for having their two daughters designated as recruits to the USC crew team – despite the fact that they were not rowers, the complaint says.
If there’s an illegal scam, find your local Jew:
William “Rick” Singer ran a for-profit college counseling and preparation company called The Key (Edge College & Career Network). He also operated an affiliated fraudulent charity called the Key Worldwide Foundation. [1, 2]
While Singer famously coached a middle school basketball team at a Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Omaha, Nebraska, early in his career (2001), his business itself was not a religious organization. Instead, it served as the front for the massive “Operation Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal.
By 1994, Singer was running a business called Future Stars and was making a living helping high school juniors and seniors navigate the college application process.
“It’s not that school counselors don’t want to help,” Singer told the Bee. “It’s just that they often don’t have the time.”
Evidently, Singer quickly made a name for himself in that business.
“For a long time, he was the go-to person in Sacramento,” a consultant who asked not to be identified told the Bee.
It was not immediately clear when exactly Singer set up shop in Newport Beach, a tony oceanfront community south of Los Angeles, in Orange County. But the Newport Beach-based KWF charity was established in 2012 and Singer was ticketed twice in 2014 for minor traffic offenses in Newport Beach, records show.
Singer, who lives in Sacramento and Newport Beach, California, was arrested after the FBI investigation that was dubbed Operation Varsity Blues exposed a network of well-heeled parents who allegedly paid Singer millions to boost their kids’ chances of getting into elite colleges such as Yale University, Georgetown University and Stanford University.
FUCKING THESE KINDS OD JEWS:
New Business Venture: Singer is working as the “master coach and lead advisor” for ID Future Stars, an admissions consulting company owned by his sister. His consulting work has also expanded to advising organizations on which campuses provide the best environments for Jewish students. [1, 2]
Court-Ordered Disclaimers: Under the terms of his three-year supervised release, Chief District Judge Denise Casper ruled that Singer can consult college hopefuls only if he prominently displays a 270-word criminal disclaimer on his company website and provides it directly to prospective clients. The disclaimer details his role as the mastermind of the “Operation Varsity Blues” scandal, the $25 million he took in bribes, and his resulting prison time. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Jews and their Jew Lawyers and Jew Judges:
The company’s website lists Singer as the “master coach and lead advisor” and includes a note from him saying he “made a mistake (and) took full responsibility.”
Federal prosecutors had “concerns” about Singer’s return to work in college admissions advising, given his criminal history in a case that also netted actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, they said in a filing of their own.
But Singer’s defense attorney argued his work in college admissions advising is “both lawful and entirely consistent with the conditions of his supervised release,” and asked the court to allow him to continue with his work.
“The purely theoretical risk of recidivism does not warrant a prophylactic field-of-employment restriction here,” attorney Aaron Katz said.
Fucking Palestinian Murderers and their Terms of Use:
In March 2019, Rick Singer pled guilty to federal charges-including racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and obstruction of justice-for his role in what was widely-publicized as the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scheme.
Specifically, Mr. Singer admitted to,among other things: bribing standardized test proctors and administrators to engage in cheating on college entrance exams (i.e., the SAT and ACT); falsifying students’ academic transcripts by paying third parties to take classes in their names; falsifying students’ college applications with fake awards, athletic activities, and fabricated essays; and bribing college athletic coaches and administrators, through purported donations to their programs and personal bribes, to designate students as athletic recruits based on falsified athletic credentials.
As part of the scheme, Mr. Singer took in more than $25 million from his clients, from which he made payments to co-conspirators totaling more than $7 million, and transferred, spent, or otherwise used more than $15 million for his own benefit. On January 4, 2023, a federal court in Boston sentenced Mr. Singer to 42 months in prison and three years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay more than $10 million in restitution and to forfeit assets totaling more than $8.7 million.
The U.S. Department of Justices press release announcing Mr. Singers sentence can be found at:
Mr. Singer served his prison sentence and is currently on supervised release. The terms of Mr. Singer’s supervised release require him to provide this disclosure.
To the extent that either party sought other relief regarding this matter, such relief is denied. (LMH)
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“That is insane,” Brian Taylor, the managing partner of Ivy Coach, an elite college counseling firm, told CNN. “This is the equivalent of Bernie Madoff asking to manage your money from prison.”
On The Key website, it says that a decade ago Singer was “one of the nation’s top executives in the Call Center Industry.”
Singer also was a “senior executive” at The Money Store and First Union Bank, the website says. Singer was also the “CEO of one of India’s largest call center companies before selling it to ICICI Bank.”
Marlo Stingson is the sister of William “Rick” Singer who owns the college admissions consulting firm ID Future Stars.
Senator Robert Singer (R-30), former 10-year college board trustee, released the following statement regarding campus safety improvement legislation he is exploring:
“From the violent, anti-Semitic demonstrations, to the recent shooting at Brown University and the assassination of one of our nation’s most outspoken political commentators that spread fear throughout student communities, we’ve seen college campuses become a magnet for dangerous disruptions,” said Sen. Singer. “These institutions of higher education should be places of free expression and open dialogue, but that can only exist when students feel safe. That’s why I’m exploring legislation that would ensure the State, and any college receiving taxpayer funding, conducts meaningful risk assessments to identify vulnerabilities, improve preparedness, and do everything in our power to protect New Jersey’s students.”
JEWS. Current Focus: Rick Singer’s services involve consulting for students, parents, affinity groups, and institutions to assess campus climate, specifically evaluating environments that best support Jewish students. He also assists smaller schools with their Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) collectives, and Jews write up the book:
Whoops, another Singer: In the Jewish tradition, Singer is an occupational surname. The Cantor: It derives from the Yiddish word zinger (meaning “singer”). It was historically given to a cantor (the hazzan or meshorer in Hebrew) who led the musical prayers in the synagogue. History: The name became prominent among Ashkenazi Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe—especially in regions like Germany, Austria, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire (such as Moravia and Bohemia).
Yes, New Jersey State Senator Robert (Bob) Singer is Jewish. He represents the state’s 30th Legislative District and has explicitly identified himself as Jewish, including noting that he previously served as the president of a Conservative Jewish synagogue for several years. [1]
Senator Singer is highly active in Jewish communal and legislative causes. Notable highlights of his work and background include: [1, 2, 3, 4]
Synagogue Leadership: He served as the president of a Conservative synagogue in New Jersey. [1]
Military Representation: He was designated as the National Legislative Officer for the Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America. [1]
Legislative Advocacy: He introduced state legislation to formally adopt a New Jersey definition of antisemitism and recently sponsored a resolution recognizing Judea and Samaria as the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people. [1, 2]
Diplomatic Outreaches: He frequently hosts and meets with Israeli political leaders, including welcoming a official delegation from the Israeli Knesset to the New Jersey State House. [1, 2, 3]
Netflix’s College Admissions Scandal Doc Starring Matthew Modine as Rick Singer to Debut in March . . . “Operation Varsity Blues” comes from “Fyre” director Chris Smith
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Do you see this, the cold dead fish eyes of the Jew, Singer, and his pride in getting one and two over on Goyim, and then a new life helping Jews with their Cry-baby Killer Culture? DO you get it yet, the books, the Netflix shit, and a Goy, Modine, playing the Jew?
Do you get it yet?
Second, third, 9 Lives of the killer Jew?
NO? Charles Kushner, father of Jared Kushner, received a full and unconditional pardon from President Donald Trump on December 23, 2020. [1]
The pardon wiped away his previous 2004 federal convictions for tax evasion, illegal campaign donations, and witness tampering, for which he had served a two-year prison sentence.
Albania’s tourism boom is a boon for Jared Kushner
For many locals it is straining water supplies
The Albanian government has approved Jared Kushner’s plans to turn the uninhabited island of Sazan into a luxury resort. EuroNatur fears considerable negative effects on the nature of the entire coastline.
Until now, only one-day tourists have been allowed to visit the island of Sazan; this will soon change…
If Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has his way, the abandoned island of Sazan off the southern Albanian coast is to be completely transformed into a luxury tourist destination. Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama recently gave green light for the nature-destroying plans. This development fits in with the tourism strategy of the government in Tirana to massively expand luxury tourism on Albania’s coasts with foreign investment.
Sazan was a naval base for a long time. Due to its military use, only soldiers were allowed to stay there; nature was able to develop largely undisturbed. The island is actually a national and international nature reserve. Together with the unspoiled stretch of beach at Zvërnec and the nearby Vjosa delta, this is one of the last unspoiled stretches of coastline in Albania.
Wherever the criminal Jews go, the rot is expedited:
Albania, a small Balkan nation on the Adriatic coast, seldom makes headlines. But protesters waving pink flamingo cutouts on an Albanian island the Trump family wants to turn into a resort have recently attracted international media attention.
The dispute, which largely focuses on the threat the resort would pose to local wildlife, reveals more than meets the eye. Under the surface is an intricate set of problems related to Jared Kushner — President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a close ally and confidante of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — and the presence in Albania of an Iranian exile group opposed to the current government in Tehran. All that comes on top of the news that the Albanian anti-corruption authorities have launched a probe into Kushner’s deal with Tirana, which poses a direct test also for the European Union which Albania seeks to join.
The Vjosa-Narta Delta — home to rare flamingos, pelicans, and turtle hatcheries — became Europe’s first Wild River National Park in 2023. But after Trump’s 2024 reelection, Kushner unveiled plans for a multibillion-dollar resort on the protected island. Prime Minister Edi Rama’s government granted “strategic investor status” to a Kushner-linked firm, reportedly waiving taxes and tenders and bypassing environmental reviews. When construction recently began, a “Flamingo Revolution” erupted.
What’s really important here is the possible geopolitical ramifications of this real estate project. During Trump’s first presidency, Kushner promoted the Abraham Accords – so-called normalization deals between Israel and Arab nations, including the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Netanyahu hailed those agreements as a great diplomatic triumph. Kushner and Netanyahu reportedly remain in close contact, even as Kushner negotiates with Iran on behalf of the Trump administration. Kushner’s investment firm, Affinity Partners, was explicitly created to deepen economic ties between Israel and the Arab world.
To understand the broader context, recall Israel’s classic “periphery strategy.” For decades, Tel Aviv has cultivated ties with non-Arab states on the edges of the Middle East — from the Caucasus to the Balkans to Africa — as a way to break its diplomatic isolation. Today, that strategy is alive and well. Israel has forged close relationships with Azerbaijan (a key energy partner and Israel’s intelligence foothold on Iran’s border), Serbia (which has significantly increased its arms imports from Tel Aviv), Romania (which announced it will move its embassy to Jerusalem), and now Albania.
Albania fits perfectly into this picture. Strategically located in the Balkans, it is a Muslim-majority but secular state, a staunchly pro-American NATO member, and an eager actor looking to prove its value to Western allies. Crucially, it is also a European Union candidate country. Having another friendly nation inside the EU — or at its doorstep — would be immensely helpful to Israel as public sentiment across Europe turns increasingly critical of Israeli policies.
With EU member states debating sanctions, the potential suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, or bans on trade with the Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, any sympathetic voice in the EU can be very helpful. Tirana is not yet a member, but its trajectory matters; and Prime Minister Rama has proved himself a strong ally.
One example after a million examples of this dirty cult, these fucking money changers and country killers. And it starts in the morning with a fucking LinkedIn solicitation and here it is, with the Killer Inside All Hasbara and those Big Lies:
“The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities…to mold the mind of the masses that they will throw their newly gained strength in the desired direction…this practice is inevitable…propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government,” Bernays wrote.
Bernays worked with the CPI in its Bureau of Latin-American Affairs and, after the war, parlayed his experience in changing people’s minds into the field of public relations, of which many consider him the “father.”
The nephew of Sigmund Freud, Bernays frequently cited Freud and other psychologists’ work in explaining how to use psychoanalysis and emotional techniques to control the human “herd.”
With language reminiscent of war, Bernays writes in Propaganda:
“The important thing is that [propaganda] is universal and continuous…its sum total regimenting the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments the bodies of its soldiers…small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please on a given subject.”
Bernays, who was born in Austria to Jewish parents, knew that his teachings on molding the public mind were formative for Nazi propaganda, even before WWII broke out. He was informed that Goebbels studied his book at a dinner party with foreign correspondent Kurt von Wiegand in 1933.
American WWI propaganda vs. Nazi WWII propaganda, which reads “The NSDAP protects the people. Your fellow comrades need your advice and help, so join the local party organization.”
But Bernays didn’t reveal this knowledge until writing his 1965 biography, saying that it “shocked” him,
“…but I knew any human activity can be used for social purposes or misued for antisocial ones. Obviously the attack on the Jews of Germany was no emotional outburst of the Nazis, but a deliberate, planned campaign.”
Two years after Bernays learned that Hitler was using his ideas on propaganda to build a cult of personality in Nazi Germany, Bernays continued to advocate for these exact methods when giving a speech to the Financial Advertisers Association in 1935, saying:
“[The world needs] an entire new set of outstanding human living symbols that will hold public confidence…Publicists, economists, leaders in research, the heads of great educational institutions can and should be made the human symbols to bring new faith and strength.”
Writes historian Larry Tye in The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays & The Birth of Public Relations:
“Bernays was savvy enough not to retell the Goebbels tale in the 1930s and 1940s, when it could have tarnished his image, and to dwell instead on how his propaganda techniques had aided America in the two world wars.”
Bernays was more concerned with promoting his own brand and convincing big business of the usefulness of public relations for industry and commerce than the horrors that propaganda wrought.
And his retelling of how he learned that his ideas were being used to build the Nazi party, occupies only a page and a half of his 849 page biography, which focuses almost entirely of how he used propaganda to expand American capitalism.
(One of today’s top marketers, Russell Brunson, founder of the popular ClickFunnels software, isn’t as shy about connecting his brand to Hitler. Brunson wrote a whole book, Expert Secrets, about how he studied Nazi propaganda to learn how to build a cult movement of followers who will do anything you ask. Listen to Episode 11 for more on that.)
In his biography, Bernays describes the company:
“United Fruit was a way of life; the company was conducted like a private government. It had its own behavior patterns and loyalties. Individual lives were merged with the company’s life, for the company decided who was to live where, and how long. United Fruit employees in the tropics were thrown among other members of the company in all their activities. The company plantation in the jungle town was a settlement of American people, houses, and folkways…the native agricultural workers were treated as human machines rather than human beings and without regard to their folkways or culture patterns.”
Reading this horrifying description now, it’s hard to believe that Bernays thought this company deserved rescuing through public relations, but his book recounts how — despite seeing the ways United Fruit dehumanized its workers and bought up huge swathes of lands from farmers, forcing locals to become dependent on its corporate rule — he helped wage a decades-long war in Central America to secure United Fruit’s power and profits.
When Jacobo Árbenz took office, he began nationalizing the land controlled by United Fruit and returning it to the Guatemalan people. Bernays launched a public relations campaign to position Árbenz, not as a nationalist trying to secure his peoples’ ability to survive, but a communist under Soviet influence, who was working with the USSR to sabotage American capitalism and imperialism.
Thanks to Bernays’ relentless propaganda, he convinced President Dwight D. Eisenhower that Guatemala would soon fall to communist rule, which led to Operation PBSuccess. The CIA paid and trained Honduran militias to invade Guatemala and overthrow Árbenz.
The leader of the Honduran militia, Carlos Castillo Armas, replaced Árbenz and became the first in a series of military dictators that controlled Guatemala until the 1990s — all backed by the CIA. Armas returned the nationalized land to United Fruit and ensured that the American company received preferential treatment in Guatemalan commerce.
… human being willing to sacrifice life and limb to eradicate the bloody blood suckers under Yahweh’s Watchful 320 Jewish Billionaires’ Eyes in the Sky and inside the Bath/Bed Rooms
Donald Trump’s recent declaration at the G7 summit unmasks a dangerous shifting strategy by Washington and Tel Aviv, revealing a desperate blueprint to ignite a devastating sectarian war across the Middle East.
By openly stating that “if Israel can’t do the job without killing everyone else… Syria will do the job,” Trump delivered a glaring, inadvertent confession of monumental strategic failure. It is a direct admission that Israel’s army, the region’s most advanced conventional military machine, has completely failed to achieve its strategic objectives in Lebanon.
Having effectively lost the broader geopolitical war against Iran and realizing that direct military force cannot crush the resistance, the United States and Israel are pivoting from direct confrontation to a strategy of manufactured internal conflict.
The core of this strategy relies on weaponizing historical fractures to plunge Lebanon and the wider region into a bloody Sunni-Shia proxy war.
By publicly urging a newly reshaped Syrian leadership under Ahmed al-Sharaa to cross borders and “take care of” the resistance, Trump is trying to force Damascus into a destructive role as Washington’s local subcontractor. This is a calculated attempt to exploit regional wounds and drag neighboring states into a localized, grinding conflict.
The true objective of the Western alliance is no longer a clean military victory, which has proven impossible on the battlefield. Instead, the plan is to manufacture an endless cycle of civil strife, turning neighbors against one another to weaken the resistance from within.
Ultimately, Trump’s statements expose a policy built entirely on the deliberate instigation of regional chaos. Unable to secure their goals through outright warfare, the US and Israel are attempting to expand a sectarian fault line that starts in Lebanon and threatens to consume the entire Middle East.
As over 1.3 million Palestinians live in tents and makeshift shelters due to Israel’s mass bombings, destroying at least 92 percent of Gaza’s residential infrastructure, New York Democrats who voted to supply those same bombs smiled and waved down Fifth Avenue, with blue-and-white sashes around their torsos proclaiming them honorary grand marshals of the Israel Day Parade.
On Sunday, May 31, they marched in the largest annual display of US solidarity with the Israeli government alongside self-proclaimed fascists and architects of the genocide in Gaza. The politicians’ choice, amid expanding regional wars in Lebanon and Iran, highlights their disconnect from the American public who overwhelmingly oppose Israel’s war crimes.
Beforehand, Mayor Zohran Mamdani chose to act on his principles in boycotting the affair. In direct retaliation, the Israeli government sent the highest-ranking delegation since the parade’s inception in 1965.
Speaker of the Knesset Amir Ohana, who refused Palestinian prisoners vaccinations at the outbreak of the pandemic and espouses full Israeli annexation of the West Bank, led the parade. He was joined by Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich, a self-described “fascist homophobe” who has bragged about presiding over a genocide, proclaiming “Gaza will be completely destroyed” and that it would be “moral” to starve Gaza’s citizens.
Not to be outdone, Gov. Kathy Hochul began the day of the parade signing legislation deliberately overriding Mamdani’s veto of the controversial “buffer zone” bill, which restricts protest outside houses of worship. The new statewide law will crack down on demonstrators who oppose illegal sales of land stolen from Palestinians in the West Bank happening in New York synagogues.
With the ink still wet on this attack on New Yorkers’ right to protest, she announced, “Today, we march in defiance.” Marching in defiance to injustice is a storied tradition, but this is not what the governor had in mind. She seemed to be referring instead to marching in defiance of the mayor’s act honoring the sanctity of Palestinian life, disregarded by those the governor chose to march alongside.
Top New York Democratic officials, including Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, Attorney General Letitia James, New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, New York City Comptroller Mark Levine, Representative Dan Goldman, and New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin joined Hochul in literally marching in lockstep with senior ultranationalist Israeli officials — including Smotrich, who allegedly has a warrant from the International Criminal Court for his arrest.
Those fucking Bandera Zio Nazi Ukrainian eyes.
[Smotrich was born in Haspin, a religious Israeli settlement in the Israeli-occupiedGolan Heights, and grew up in the Beit Elsettlement, deemed illegal under international law, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. His last name is derived from the Ukrainian town of Smotrych, where he says his ancestors lived.[7] His grandfather Yaakov immigrated to Mandatory Palestine before World War II, and subsequently lost his parents, who drowned on an Aliyah Bet ship trying to reach Palestine, while his grandmother Bruria survived the Holocaust before immigrating to Israel. His other grandfather Shimon was a 13th-generation native of Jerusalem, and his grandmother Sara was born in Metula to a family of Zionist pioneers.]
Knesset votes 71-13 for a non-binding motion calling to annex West Bank
Over the weekend, I saw the new documentary “American1 Doctor” which I highly recommend.
AMERICAN DOCTOR is a vérité non-fiction film following three prominent physicians–Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian—friends who couldn’t be more different but are bound by their shared oath to save lives. Dr. Thaer Ahmad is measured and strategic, Dr. Mark Perlmutter is blunt and wears his heart on his sleeve, and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa is media-savvy and prolific. Filmed in unfolding, on-the-ground scenes, the story follows them from a Gazan hospital under siege, to the halls of Congress. Together, they fight to keep a promise to their Palestinian colleagues and patients, to continue the struggle where it matters most: the United States.
During the discussion period, a woman asked what people could do. The director, Poh Si Teng, said, ” Call your congressional representative,” which I found to be a frustratingly limited response. For one, the showing was in Washington, D.C. and people who live there don’t have real voting representation in Congress. What they do have is physical proximity to many of the people pulling the triggers for genocide — the subject of my piece “Protests beyond the Performative: Ideas for D.C.”
More broadly, a moving, challenging answer comes in the form of another documentary, which has largely been taken down last I checked — it’s illegal in Britain — but I posted here:
HOW THE FUCK is Iran getting stronger? Water, dudes, and thousands and tens of thousands of Mossad and Jew Loving citizens?
SUBSTACK hell!!!
What is the MoU about?
Ultimately, the US cannot afford to fight . There is economics to consider.
Not a “dismal science”
Not a science at all. Just dismal.
Iran continues to grow stronger and the US’s GCC allies are desperate for the war to end. The UAE has reportedly offered Iran a bribe of billions – which, of course, it denies — to negotiate. The rest of the GCC is willing to pay up too.
So there is talk that the while the US can’t afford to pay $300 billion of reconstruction, the GCC countries will. All good right?
Nope, if the US pays, markets crash. If the GCC divests their holdings to pay, the market crashes.
WAR CRIMES —
Four young people—Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, and Fatema Rajwani—were sentenced as terrorists this week for the crime of criminal damage. They broke into an Elbit Systems factory in Filton, near Bristol, and caused approximately £1.2 million worth of damage. They livestreamed the whole thing wearing their, now iconic, red jumpsuits and they acted in the open.
A jury of their peers, that is, Brits, convicted them of criminal damage. Not terrorism or any kind of violent disorder. Simple criminal damage.
But here is where the really nightmarish situation begins. The judge, Mr Justice Johnson, had already decided that he would add a ‘terrorist connection’ to their sentences. He did this secretly, before the verdict and the jury was never told this was being considered. The defence was never given the opportunity to address it. The conviction came down on criminal damage charges. And then the judge, alone, unilaterally, declared that these young people are terrorists.
Jew-Landia UnUnited Queer-ueen-Dumb will suck the life out of all heroes and revolutionaries.
This Cunt of a cUNtree..
Two days after the Filton Activists’ sentencing, the Court of Appeal delivered its verdict on the government’s appeal against the earlier High Court ruling that the proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful. Five senior judges, led by Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr, overturned the High Court’s decision meaning the ban is now lawful.
The Lady Chief Justice said:
It is not a sustainable proposition to portray Palestine Action as a non-violent protest group. Palestine Action overly promotes unlawful violence that amounts to terrorism’
And then came the comparison that will define her legacy: she compared them unfavourably to the suffragettes.
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A scene on the frontiers as practiced by the “humane” British and their “worthy” allies
And if you shudder at the idea of taking good old machetes to these fucking cunts’ necks, and all the Jews in Britain, then you are sick sick sick!
Hero: As a British court convicts two men of beheading a British soldier, The Daily Beast catches up with the man most people are blaming for radicalizing the killers.
Correlated norms of racial qualities. Individuals who present an interrelation between the color of the hair and that of the eyes are considered typical representatives of their race. In the blond races, fair hair is generally accompanied by blue eyes; in brunette races, brown or black hair is generally accompanied by dark eyes. The former are considered anthropologically blond types; the latter, brunette types. Individuals who do not exhibit such an interrelation of the color of the hair and eyes, having dark hair with blue eyes and vice versa, are called mixed types. Owing to the preponderance of dark hair and eyes among the Jews (see Eye; Hair), anthropologists have counted them among the races of a brunette type.
From extensive investigations of the color of the hair and eyes of the school-children in Germany, Virchow has shown that the Jews have not maintained their type in as pure a state as has been generally supposed. Of 75,377 Jewish children examined, only 46.83 per cent were brunettes having both dark hair and dark eyes; 11.17 per cent were blonds having light hair and light-colored eyes; and 42 per cent were of the mixed type having either dark hair with fair eyes, or vice versa. In Austria, according to Schimmer, 32 to 47 per cent (according to the province) of the Jewish children are pure brunettes, and 8 to 14 per cent are pure blonds. In Bulgaria, Wateff has found that only 49.57 per cent of Jewish children are brunettes, while 8.71 per cent are blonds and 41.72 are of mixed type; and even in North Africa, where the dark type predominates among the Jews, 76.40 per cent are brunettes, 4.62 per cent are blonds, and 18.98 per cent are of mixed type.
THEY ARE THE LEVELERS, and we all Soylent Green for Data Centers!
In this episode of Fronts + Faultlines, hosts Jeanine and Nihal are joined by Hossam El-Hamalawy, journalist, scholar, and one of the organisers of the 2011 Egyptian uprising. His new book Counterrevolution in Egypt: Sisi’s New Republic, published by Verso this year, is a comprehensive account of how Egypt’s military, police and intelligence services forged an unprecedented alliance against the Egyptian people’s revolutionary aspirations, and built the system that governs Egypt today.
They discuss what Egypt lost in 1967 and what was foreclosed at Camp David; how the 2011 revolution and the 2013 coup connect to that longer history; how Egypt’s accommodation with Israel set the parameters for the entire region’s relationship to Palestinian liberation; and where there are still possibilities for positive change.
Rob Eshman repeats a litany of false Israeli claims combined with ad hominem attacks on people he dislikes. It’s odd that Eshman, presumably a US citizen, favors the claims made by a foreign country over the statements by American eye witnesses on board the ship. Here are the facts he ignores.
Read more The Forward, which claims to be “America’s leading voice in Jewish journalism,” has just published a hit piece on Congressman Thomas Massie, American veterans, and those who support them.
The article is entitled: ‘‘Remember the Liberty’ has become code for ‘Israel Is Evil,’’’ with the subhead: “Rep. Massie’s call for a new investigation of the tragic 1967 attack on a U.S. ship isn’t about the truth.”
In reality, the article by Forward columnist Rob Eshman repeats a litany of false Israeli claims combined with ad hominem attacks on people he dislikes.
“What is Jewish supremacy? Eighty years after the Holocaust, it’s Mein Kampf in reverse. The superior race is us,” said Moshe Ya’alon.
Off with cunt’s head:
Ya’alon spent decades in the Israeli military and is known to have taken part in the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, the violent suppression of the first and second Palestinian intifadas, and the 2014 war on Gaza.
In 2002, whilst serving as the army’s chief of staff, he said: “The Palestinian threat harbors cancer-like attributes that have to be severed and fought to the bitter end.”
And in 2015, he barred Breaking the Silence – an NGO of former Israeli soldiers who document army abuses – from engaging in activities with the military.
Since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, Israeli society has shifted further toward the right. In this environment, cooperation between Jewish parties and Arab parties is no longer treated as a tactical option but as a political liability.
Despite this, both Netanyahu and his opponents continue to rely on Arab votes. The contradiction is now more exposed than ever, with Arab parties needed numerically, yet rejected politically.
Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich captured this mood when he argued that including Arab parties in government would be worse than the failure to prevent the Hamas-led operation on 7 October 2023. His position reflects a wider consensus that cuts across both coalition and opposition lines.
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett has repeatedly ruled out any partnership with Arab parties, calling instead for a purely Zionist government. By contrast, Yair Golan of the left-leaning Democrats has suggested reaching an understanding with Abbas as a way to remove Netanyahu. The gap between these positions illustrates the limits of opposition coordination.
The first Native American to hear the phrase ‘the only good Indian is a dead Indian’ was this Comanche chief named Tosahwi. In 1869, he surrendered to a General and said, ‘Tosahwi, good Indian,’ to which the General replied, ‘the only good Indian I ever saw was dead.’
Ultra-nationalist Israelis chanted anti-Palestinian slogans such as “death to Arabs” and “may your villages burn” on Jerusalem Day, a national holiday marking the occupation of East Jerusalem by Israeli forces after the 1967 war. Meanwhile, the area was placed under near-total lockdown, with Palestinian-owned shops forced to close and residents barricading themselves indoors.
Israeli forces also forcibly blocked Palestinian Muslims from accessing the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Thursday to accommodate the festival.
piracy and outright dirty dealing and death — the way of the Torah, Mayers, Lazards, Sterns, Speyers, and Seligmans—adopted the Rothschild plan of establishing local branches of usury in Europe
Why wouldn’t you want to go on a rampage after the Jews have raped your mother, father, dog, cousin, sister, brother, uncle, aunt?
The Rothschilds were not, however, without competitors in the issue of public loans. Other Jewish families—the Lazards, Sterns, Speyers, and Seligmans—adopted the Rothschild plan of establishing local branches in European capitals, each headed by a brother, and after 1848 the governments of Europe adopted the plan of throwing loans open to the public instead of resorting to one or two banking firms like the Rothschilds. In this way the Sterns secured the chief Portuguese loans, while a number of smaller Jewish firms began to combine their resources and form limited liability companies like the Crédit Mobilier, the Dresdener Bank, and the Deutsche Reichsbank of Berlin.
The European invaders had their own traditions of torture, and the Huron and other North American Indians often found them shocking. Europeans ignored the conventions of Indian diplomacy. They dispensed unprovoked cruelty while waging what to Indians seemed indiscriminate war.
Torture is enmeshed in European history, in its statecraft, warfare and culture. The Ancient Greeks tortured, the Ancient Romans codified it in law, and the Catholic Church advocated it during the Middle Ages. Lawbreakers were publicly flogged, chained in iron collars, and tormented in stocks; they suffered having their hands and ears cut off, and their bodies racked, burned, flayed, and pulled apart. Churches featured representations of saints enduring horrific torments by knife, spears, arrows and fire. They displayed the nails, spears, thorns, whips and, especially, the Saviour’s blood, as reminders of the torture Jesus had endured. Manuals catalogued, in meticulous detail, accumulated wisdom about effective torture techniques.
European rulers used torture to demonstrate state power, especially against those accused of treason. Since the Roman era, treason had been considered an especially vile crime against the majesty and authority of one’s ruler. Torture occupied an equally prominent role in the Roman Church’s evolving campaign against heresy. Officially, the Church forbade inquisitors from permanently harming suspects or drawing blood. So they devised other effective methods of torture, including the rack, the strappado and simulated drowning to determine the guilt of heretics.
They faced a quandary when confronted with cases in which they lacked either witnesses or confessions. In such instances, communities before the 12th century relied on judicial ordeals during which they determined guilt or innocence by bodily torment (such as fire or water). By observing how the accused endured the ordeal or the extent of their injuries, courts claimed to be able to discern God’s judgment as to their guilt. After the Latin Church in 1215 withdrew its sanction for trials by ordeal, jurists experimented with new procedures to determine truth. They gradually settled on an elaborate method, including torture, to secure proof through confessions.
European torture was the prerogative of trained authorities who professed to act in the interest of society
Mohammed Al-Ali never got to celebrate the fall of Bashar al-Assad on December 8, 2024. It was the night his home was stolen by Israeli soldiers. As liberated civilians flooded the streets of Syria’s cities in euphoria, the Israeli military burst into his home in the village of Al-Hamidiya and ordered Al-Ali and his family to leave.
“They barely gave us ten minutes to get out,” Al-Ali, 50, told Drop Site News, teary-eyed as he recalled the night, clutching a cushion in his lap. “We weren’t able to bring anything with us, we left our whole lives behind.”
Al-Ali would never see his house again. Six months after his forced eviction, Israel demolished his home, alongside 15 others in Al-Hamidiya located in the Quneitra countryside of southwest Syria. According to a Syrian official, residents’ reported that Israeli soldiers told them that the homes “blocked sight lines” from a newly constructed military base at the edge of the village. The official dismissed this pretext, saying “Israel uses the same justifications in Gaza and Lebanon.”
[A damaged mosque in Jubat Al-Khashab, with the Golan Heights in the background, crowned by several Israeli military posts and communication towers on June 9, 2026.]
However, following the ouster of Assad in 2024, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unilaterally claimed this agreement had “collapsed” and ordered the Israeli military into Quneitra province from the Golan Heights, which were seized from Syria in 1967, and unilaterally annexed in 1981, a move unrecognised by the international community. Since then, Israel has deepened its occupation of Syria, establishing new positions in Quneitra, and occupying Jabal Al-Sheikh. Israel also launched a massive wave of airstrikes on Syria’s military infrastructure in the days after Assad’s fall, destroying its conventional military capability.
Israeli officials claim without evidence that its raids target individuals linked to Hezbollah and other Iranian-linked groups. In April, Syria’s Ministry of Interior arrested an alleged Hezbollah cell in Quneitra, and seized a mobile rocket launcher—the only notable instance of its kind.
Nevertheless, Syrian officials reject Israel’s justification for occupation. “If Hezbollah cells do enter the province, our position is unambiguous,” said a local official, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “It is the Syrian government’s responsibility to arrest them and hold them to account, not Israel’s.”
“There is no social base for Hezbollah here, and so most of the arrests of local residents are baseless,” he continued.
“These were areas of the revolution, why would we harbor Hezbollah?” said Hail Abdullah, the Mayor of Rasm Al-Rawadi, a village on the border that has had several homes demolished by the Israeli military. For years, Syria helped fund and arm Hezbollah, which intervened in 2013 in the country’s civil war in defense of Bashar al-Assad. The group is opposed to Syria’s new government under President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who has sought to ingratiate himself with President Donald Trump.
When the Pentagon announced that the 82nd Airborne was deploying to the Middle East in March, it concealed a key detail: some of the paratroopers were headed to Israel, as revealed in an Army deployment order I obtained.
A military source involved in war planning tells me the deployment is tied to new U.S.-Israeli joint contingency plans, completed since February, for seizing Kharg Island and carving out coastal territory inside Iran.
The 82nd Airborne Division is the Army’s premier quick reaction force, trained to parachute into hostile territory.
By keeping the deployment quiet, the Pentagon headed off public debate over a joint U.S.-Israeli operation inside Iran — a prospect many considered plausible at the time, amid a fever pitch of mainstream reporting on a potential ground invasion. The secrecy also sidestepped what’s euphemistically called “host nation sensitivities.” A joint U.S.-Israeli operation raises thorny questions for America’s Gulf Arab “partners,” especially over logistical support — hence the 82nd, which could launch directly from Israel without any Gulf state’s consent to use its territory.
The Army deployment order, issued April 7, 2026, directs elements of the 2nd Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment — the storied “Geronimo” battalion — to deploy to Israel on “temporary duty.” The Israel deployment has not been previously reported.
The House Armed Services Committee buried this dangerous proposal inside the annual military spending bill, the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, which carries a total price tag over $1 trillion. The bill now heads to the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The proposal—Section 224—would arguably be more valuable to Israel than the billions in military funding the U.S. has been providing. It would mean integrating U.S. and Israeli weapons research, production, technology, and military operations. It would make U.S. complicity permanent, while Israel quietly negotiates another 10-year military funding commitment from the U.S.
So, whatever their fucking numbers are, really, the Jews have the greater armies as Jew Tech and Jew Apps and Jew Surveillance and Jew Finance and Jew Influence eats at the souls of 8.5 billion people.
[Amy Jewish Goodman talks with Craig Jewish Aaron about Jewish Ellisons and Jewish Bari Weiss . . . what a fucked up Mad Mad Mad Mitzvah Media WORLD.
[Craig Aaron, the co-CEO and president of the media advocacy organization Free Press, is Jewish and has publicly identified with his Jewish heritage and history]
CRAIG AARON: What we saw happen on Friday was the Justice Department say they could find no reason to block this merger. And that’s because they didn’t look for one. This has been one of the most shallow and corrupt merger review processes we’ve ever seen, and it has been marked by Paramount, the leadership of Paramount, David Ellison, his father Larry Ellison, wooing and capitulating to the Trump administration at every turn, having them for fancy dinners, promising to make sweeping changes to newsrooms like CNN if they can get this deal to go through.
And the great risk here is so much media control under one umbrella, the idea that two of our major mainstream news outlets could be controlled by one company, which, as you said, has shown it is willing to warp and manipulate news coverage to please the president, the idea that HBO and major movie studios, again, falling under one corporate umbrella, raising serious questions about what projects are going to be made, what documentary films will be made, what information and news will we see if the Ellisons control this much of our news media.
AMY GOODMAN: So, talk about this in the context of all these corporate mergers, what it means when CNN, CBS, HBO are all under the same roof.
CRAIG AARON: Well, I think we’ve seen it happening at CBS. So, the Ellisons aren’t hiding the ball. They’re not really making any — the promises they’re making are to turn CNN into something like what they’ve done with CBS, where they’re getting rid of independent journalists asking hard questions. They’re spiking stories about crimes being committed by the Trump administration. And what they’re promising is more of the same. And every big media company that’s gone before this administration to get a deal done, to push through megamerger after megamerger, has promised — and because they know this is what appeals to Trump, they’ve promised them to change their coverage, get rid of activist journalism, get rid of the kind of independent accountability that we need. And they’re going for even the most mainstream types of outlets, like 60 Minutes, you know, a program that is well regarded but certainly not the source of any kind of radical coverage, but serious coverage when it comes to what’s happening in this country and around the world. And under the Ellisons, there’s no place for it. So, we’ve already seen what they’ll do. And what we don’t know what will happen is what programs no longer get made. We get fewer and fewer choices, and we get more and more of the same kind of cookie-cutter content produced.
Fucking a month ago, this ain’t going to do diddly squat, and proof is in the Jewish Pudding:
This is why the Jewish Way of Life Should be Wiped from the Face of the Earth:
Two and a Half Days with His Martyred Wife in the Refrigerator: The Story of a Father Who Could Not Bury His Wife and Children Who Kept Calling for Their Mother
In the early days of the genocide in Gaza, as Israeli occupation forces advanced toward the outskirts of the Gaza Strip, the town of Beit Hanoun was living through some of its darkest hours. Many residents did not realize how close the occupation forces had come, so they remained inside their homes, clinging to what little hope they had left and trying to survive amid bombardment, fear, and siege.
Inside one of those homes lived a simple family: a father, a mother, and their children, struggling to endure like thousands of other families. They had managed to store some food and had a solar power system that helped them survive those dark days, believing it might give them a better chance of staying alive.
But war does not ask permission.
One day during the siege, the mother was holding her infant child in her arms. It was an ordinary moment in the life of a mother who spent her days embracing her children, protecting them, and giving them comfort. She did not know it would be the last moment of her life.
Suddenly, a bullet fired by an Israeli occupation soldier pierced her body. She collapsed to the ground in front of her husband and children, and within a single second, life inside that home turned into a tragedy beyond words.
The husband rushed toward her in disbelief. He called her name again and again. He shook her gently, trying desperately to wake her. He attempted to save her and revive her by every means he could think of. He clung to every shred of hope, refusing to accept the reality unfolding before his eyes.
But the truth was too cruel to deny.
His wife, his life partner, and the mother of his children had been killed.
The man sat beside her in shock, unable to comprehend what to do next. He could not leave the house because of the siege, the snipers, and the danger surrounding them. He could not even give his wife the basic dignity of a proper burial.
Imagine losing the person dearest to your heart and then being denied the chance to say goodbye.
He spent hours thinking of a way to preserve his wife’s dignity. He looked at her face, at his children, and at the walls that imprisoned them all. Then he made a decision he had never imagined he would have to make.
He placed his wife’s body inside the refrigerator.
Not because his heart could bear it, but because he had no other choice.
He carefully placed her inside, closed the door, and tied it shut with ropes so that it would not open, as if he were trying to protect her one last time or delay a farewell he was not ready to face.
But the real pain stood before that refrigerator every day.
Her young children would stand before the closed door and call out:
“Mom… Mom… Mom…”
They waited for her to come out as she always had.
They believed she could hear them.
They believed she would answer.
Their father stood helpless before those heartbreaking cries. He watched his children reaching their hands toward the refrigerator, calling for their mother while tears filled his eyes.
Later, the father said that the hardest thing he had ever experienced was not the siege, not the hunger, and not even the fear of death.
It was watching his children call for their martyred mother while he was unable to explain the truth.
How can a small child understand that his mother will never come back?
How can a broken-hearted father tell his children that the arms they once ran to for comfort are gone forever?
He said he cried silently, grieving for his children even more than for himself. He did not know what to tell them, how to convince them that their mother had left this world, or how to ask them to stop waiting for her.
The hours passed with unbearable slowness.
The siege grew harsher.
And the refrigerator holding his wife’s body stood in the corner of the house as a silent witness to a tragedy beyond imagination.
Many times, the man thought about leaving the house and confronting the occupation forces, regardless of the outcome. He thought about ending all the pain at once.
But then he would look at his children.
He saw the fear in their eyes.
He knew they had no one left in this world except him.
So he endured.
He endured for them.
He remained strong for them.
And he continued trying to protect them even as his heart bled with every passing moment.
The siege lasted for two and a half days.
Two and a half days spent beside his children and the body of his martyred wife inside the refrigerator.
Two and a half days of tears, fear, waiting, and helplessness.
Two and a half days during which he could not bury her, say goodbye to her, or give her the grave she deserved.
Then, at last, relief arrived.
After a limited withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces, civil defense crews were finally able to reach the area. They found the father, his children, and the body of the martyred wife, and evacuated them from the scene.
This story was recounted by one of the civil defense workers who personally participated in the rescue operation. It became known to many residents of northern Gaza who lived through those painful days and witnessed their horrors.
This is not a story from a novel.
It is not a scene from a movie.
It is not the imagination of a writer trying to exaggerate suffering.
This is a true story from Gaza.
The story of a mother killed while holding her baby.
The story of a father forced to place his wife’s body in a household refrigerator because he could not bury her.
And the story of children who stood for two and a half days before that refrigerator door, calling for their mother, unaware that death had taken her from them forever.
It is one of thousands of stories that never reached television screens, and one of countless tragedies endured by the people of Gaza away from the cameras.
Once again, this article is based on a true story told by a civil defense worker who witnessed these events firsthand. We ask only that you respect the reality and suffering of the people of Gaza, remember them in your prayers, and help them in any way you can.
Behind every number announced, every image published, and every headline that quickly disappears, there is a human being who once had a life, dreams, a family, and a story that may be more painful than words can ever describe.
The Persian TRAPS:
These guys aren’t just criticizing the government — they’re accusing it of treason. Out loud. In print. On state TV, no less. Kayhan, which is basically the voice of the old revolutionary guard, has called the MoU a “retreat” and a “betrayal of our long-standing resistance.” One columnist wrote — I’m paraphrasing but barely — that shaking hands with the “Great Satan” now just guarantees the devil asks for a foot next time.
Their argument is dark but consistent: any deal with America is a trap. They don’t see a truce; they see a timeout before the final battle. And here’s where it gets spicy — they’re using this moment to openly accuse the government of serving foreign interests. On state television. Let that sink in. The regime’s own hardliners are airing dirty laundry in the middle of a war, calling their own leaders sellouts.
THere should be millions of Muslim children ready to do what they can to destroy the great Satan and his pimps and prostitutes.
Settlers and the IOF:
The recruitment pipeline includes many U.S. day schools — from more conservative yeshivas to modern Jewish day schools — that advertise how many alumni go on to serve in the Israeli military.
The Frisch School in Paramus, New Jersey, had 51 alumni serving in the Israeli military as of 2023. Another school in New Jersey, the Rae Kushner Yeshiva, has congratulated an alum who became a social media manager in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.
“Her work was recognized as important for hasbara by the Israeli news,” the school boasted on Facebook, using a term for Israeli public diplomacy, including propaganda tailored to international audiences. Another alum of the school served as a lone soldier in the army and was a friend of the son of Netanyahu, who commemorated him after he died while traveling in 2018.
One charity reviewed by The Intercept, the Lone Soldier Foundation, specifically provides funds for the children of families that attend a synagogue in northern New Jersey who join the Israeli military. According to the group’s most recent tax filing, it also supports the units in which the children of members of its congregation serve. In 2023, the group spent over $80,000 on providing “non-combat and equipment to IDF units in which eligible American citizens served.”
The biggest known funder is Friends of the IDF, which has spent nearly $20 million on its lone soldier program since 2020, supporting more than 6,500 lone soldiers each year, according to documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service. In a statement, Friends of the IDF, an official partner of the Israeli military, said it provides more than 7,000 lone soldiers “with practical, emotional and mental health support throughout their service to make sure they never feel alone.” The group said about half of the soldiers it backs are from Israel but are considered lone soldiers because they don’t have family support.
On its Instagram page, the group says it is the “only U.S. non-profit working directly with IDF leadership to provide critical support for Israel soldiers’ health, well-being & education.”
Other organizations help offset the costs of living for lone soldiers. Bayit Brigade, which operates in both the U.S. and Israel, helps lone soldiers find affordable housing in Tel Aviv and raises emergency funds to help transport soldiers to their bases and provide supplies in the field.
Bayit Brigade has posted videos of volunteers providing resources to the Israeli military’s Yahalom Unit, which conducts “tunnel warfare” and demolitions in Gaza, including destroying areas to allow the military to operate. The organization’s revenue jumped from approximately $160,000 in 2022 to $1.3 million in 2023, according to nonprofit documents. In a statement, the group told The Intercept that following October 7, it “temporarily expanded its community support efforts to address urgent needs on the ground,” but have “no formal relationship with any government entity or with the IDF.”
For Jerusalemites like myself, that symbol is nothing new. It is plastered throughout the city — on cars, signposts, and bus stops — often accompanied by the slogan: “We face the Temple.” A few months ago, I even came across a photograph of the same icon on a mock road sign along a major West Bank highway directing travelers toward Jerusalem, one of dozens placed by Temple activists across the country.
Yet the proliferation of the symbol at this year’s march reflects the growing mainstreaming of the Temple Mount movement within Israel’s religious-nationalist camp. To understand this convergence, it is worth recalling how the Flag March came to stand at the center of the national-religious experience of an entire generation of Israelis.
Although the first procession took place in 1968, soon after Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, and East Jerusalem began, for decades it remained a relatively peripheral event within the religious-Zionist sector. In the early 2000s, however, a new dimension of the march became central to public discourse around it: violent attacks on Palestinians and their property in Jerusalem’s Old City.
That flag has come to signify something that extends far beyond the Temple Mount itself. It has become a shared symbol for a broad political camp, stretching from committed Orthodox activists to national-religious communities, conservative traditionalists, and many secular or non-observant members of the Israeli right. Its growing visibility at the Flag March, on cars, along roadsides, and at settlement outposts reflects the emergence of a common political language that cuts across older religious and social boundaries.
Fucking Jewish packs of rats — A crowd of ultra-nationalist Israelis attack a Palestinian man during the Flag March, in Jerusalem’s Old City, June 6, 2026.
[Maj. Gen. David Zini, head of Israel’s Shin Bet security service, prays with ultra-Orthodox Jewish soldiers from the Hasmonean Brigade after they complete their beret march at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, August 6, 2025]
Vile snakes + A Jewish man prays near the Temple Mount/Al-Aqsa Mosque compound during Jerusalem Day celebrations, in Jerusalem’s Old City, May 14, 2026.
Do those pundits, those ex-CIA cunts, ex-Colonel cunts, all those fucking Substackolytes and AltMediaMuckrakers, get it?
Israel’s war is no longer confined to a single front or geography. Since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October 2023, Tel Aviv’s military operations have stretched across Gaza, the occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran, forming a continuous theater of conflict rather than a series of isolated campaigns.
The scale matters not only for its human cost, but for what it reveals about how war is being used.
Across these fronts, Israel has deployed a wide range of military systems, from precision missiles and drones to interception platforms, radars, and electronic warfare tools. The battlefield now serves as a proving ground, where these systems are not only used but also showcased.
The central question, then, is no longer simply who arms Israel. It is who enables the system that turns ongoing war into a sustained cycle of production, testing, and global sales.
For decades, US and western support formed the backbone of Israel’s military capacity, providing political cover, financial backing, and technological cooperation. That structure remains intact. But it is no longer the only pillar.
A second layer has taken shape over recent years: normalized Arab states, particularly those tied to the Abraham Accords. These states have become a growing market for Israeli defense exports, forming part of a financial circuit that feeds directly into the industries underpinning Israel’s wars.
The numbers behind the industry
Data released by Israel’s Ministry of Defense shows that defense exports reached a record $19.2 billion in 2025, marking the fifth consecutive year of growth. Over five years, exports have doubled; over a decade, they have quadrupled.
Roughly half of these deals, about $10 billion, are direct government-to-government agreements. That detail is critical. It points to a system where arms exports are not merely commercial transactions, but embedded in political and security relationships.
The trajectory of Arab participation in this market reflects the same pattern. In 2022, Abraham Accords countries accounted for 24 percent of Israeli defense exports, roughly $3 billion. In 2023, their share dropped sharply to around three percent, as the Gaza war reshaped public optics and political messaging.
That decline proved temporary. By 2024, their share had rebounded to 12 percent, or about $1.78 billion. In 2025, Israel reclassified its export categories under the broader label of “Middle East and North Africa,” which accounted for 15 percent of exports, approximately $2.88 billion. This grouping includes the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco.
The shift in terminology does little to obscure the underlying trend. Arab demand for Israeli military technology has resumed its upward path, even as the wars driving that demand continue.
Notably, in 2025, this regional category surpassed the US as a destination for Israeli defense exports, with 15 percent compared to 13 percent. That comparison underscores the extent to which normalization has moved beyond diplomacy into structured military and financial integration.
Three companies dominate this sector: Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. Together, they account for roughly 90 percent of exports. Their growth reflects not only rising demand, but a system in which battlefield use feeds directly into sales.
[An Israeli settler steals a sheep from Palestinians in the Bedouin community of Dar Abu Faza in the occupied West Bank on May 12, 2026.]
JEWS: It’s a position more and more Palestinians are finding themselves in. Across the West Bank, attacks on Palestinians’ animals – sheep, goats, horses, guard dogs – have become a documented feature of Israeli settler violence. Two videos last month – one of a settler beating a dog named Lucy and another of a settler running over sheep with his ATV and beating a shepherd – went viral. But such cases often receive less international attention than attacks on people. Still, they serve the same purpose: making Palestinian life on Palestinian land unsustainable.
And so that cocksucker, Blumenthal with fucking smirks of Jewish smirking:
Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz (Jews Jews Jews) dive deep with New York Times reporter Devlin Barrett ….
Synagogue Hostage Crises: Barrett co-authored key coverage on the federal response to the 2022 Texas synagogue hostage situation.Antisemitic Threat Investigations: He has reported widely on FBI probes into bomb threats targeted at Jewish Community Centers (JCCs) across the United States.
Mass Shooting Plots: He broke details regarding federal charges filed against individuals plotting terror attacks on Jewish targets, including an intercepted plot aimed at New York on the anniversary of the October 7 attacks.
Campus Antisemitism Task Forces: He regularly tracks the Trump administration’s Department of Justice civil rights task forces investigating allegations of antisemitism at elite universities.
into his new book, “The Department of Revenge: How Trump Took Control of American Justice,” on FBI director Kash Patel’s lunatic search for a “Grand Conspiracy,” the firings at the FBI and DOJ, and the installation of incompetent stooges.
The head of Hungary’s central bank has called for the International Monetary Fund to close its office in Budapest.
The name Rothschild is literally associated with wealth. This is because for over 200 years, the family has remained the most powerful and wealthy family in the world. Most of the Rothschild fortune has been made in the world of banking, but investments in other industries, such as coal, estates, and construction, have helped secure the family’s wealth and immense power.
[The Rothschilds are a prominent Ashkenazi Jewish banking dynasty originating from the 16th-century Judengasse (Jewish ghetto) in Frankfurt, Germany. Their surname derives from their ancestral home, zum rothen Schild (at the sign of the red shield). The family established an international financial empire and has actively championed Jewish causes and Zionism. ]
One of the banks owned by the Rothschild group (the biggest banking group in the world) is the International Monetary Fund (IMF), AKA ’Imposing Misery and Famine’. Not only does the group make money off usurious interest rates at the misfortune of crumbling economies, it literally owns Governments and people of power. Because it’s nearly impossible to escape the clutches of the banking group, news of IMF being booted from Hungary is being heralded as a victorious happening.
oh, that “six million” figure, and those 320 Jewish billionaires demographic, they will eat your brains alive if you think too much on the global takeover by and for a pathogen
Minister of Foreign Affairs Gideon Sa’ar today (Sunday, 4 May 2025) hosted a ministerial delegation from Ecuador at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem. Delegation members included Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Gabriela Sommerfeld, Defense Minister Gian Carlo Loffredo, and Interior Minister John Reimberg. The delegation, led by Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa, has arrived in Israel to inaugurate an innovation office in Jerusalem that will hold diplomatic status and will be an extension of the Ecuadorian embassy in Israel.
FM Sa’ar expressed appreciation to Ecuador and its president for the opening of the office in Jerusalem.
During the meeting, they discussed strengthening bilateral cooperation as well as regional issues, primarily Iran. FM Sa’ar emphasized that a nuclear Iran is the greatest danger to regional and global peace.
FM Sa’ar: “I thank you for opening an innovation office with diplomatic status in Jerusalem, our eternal capital. You are doing the right thing. We have been waiting for the inauguration and are happy that it is happening. This move will deepen cooperation between our countries in general and in the field of innovation in particular.”
The far-right government of Daniel Noboa is facing a serious challenge to its image of an administration that is tough on crime and effective in securing the safety of the Ecuadorian people. The government has attempted to promote the idea that those killed belong to criminal gangs, suggesting that there is a sort of “bubble of violence” within which most crimes occur.
However, the recent deaths of an activist, a student, and a high-ranking official at an Ecuadorian university have shaken public opinion to such an extent that many former defenders of the government’s thesis regarding the limited nature of the issue are now feeling overwhelmed by violence that, on the contrary, is spiraling out of control.
In fact, 2025 was the most violent year in Ecuador in recent history. 9,216 people were killed in violent deaths, an increase of 32% from the previous year. 10 years prior, the number of violent deaths was 1,050. Meaning that from 2015 to 2025, the number of homicides in what once was considered the safest country in Latin America, increased by 777.7%.
Meanwhile, Daniel Noboa’s government has continually insisted that the only solution for combatting the spiking levels of violence is to militarize the country through “Plan Fénix” launched in 2023, maintain the declaration of internal armed conflict and a state of emergency, and engage in joint military operations with the United States, against the expressed will of the Ecuadorian people. These strategies have appeared to be ineffective in stopping the violence and have, unsurprisingly, contributed to its growth.
The tragic and mysterious death of Mónika Silva
A few days ago, authorities reported that anti-corruption activist Mónika Silva Koniuszek was found dead in her home in the province of Santa Elena. The Prosecutor’s Office has requested international cooperation to solve a case that has shed light on the silencing of those who denounce acts of corruption and drug trafficking in the country.
Most concerning is that days before her death, Silva had spoken about death threats against her and stated that her life was in danger. Several human rights organizations, such as the Ecumenical Commission, argued that the state bears responsibility for her death due to its inaction and passivity in response to reports regarding her safety.
Despite this, Interior Minister John Reimberg issued statements a few hours after the murder claiming that the activist’s death could be a suspected suicide, which provoked anger and rejection from Silva’s loved ones and civil society in general. Many questioned why Reimberg rushed to make these statements when a thorough investigation of the case had not yet been conducted.
I want to tell you a very shocking number. Imagine that for every African slave brought to America, 5 Africans met their death either inside the continent or in the Atlantic Ocean. In other words… The Netherlands and its partners, like Spain, Portugal, France, and England, transported during 200 years nearly 15-35 million Africans as slaves from Africa to America. Even if we take the minimum, which is 15 million slaves, then there are 60 million correspondingly who met their deaths… either as slaves transported inside ships who got sick and whose bodies were thrown to the sharks… or as a result of the invasion operations carried out by European companies to seize slaves inside the continent. Africa lost at least 60 million souls of its human workforce, simply so that the Dutch West India Company and the other European companies could profit. Correct, but how did they profit? Let me finish the story… The Netherlands, for example, laid its hands on some Caribbean islands… Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius. They used to call them the Dutch Antilles… and Curaçao was the most important of all. From there, the selling process begins… “Buy, madam… Come closer, sir… The African for only 75 dollars!” And buyers were plentiful. Where would the slave go? He would go to work in the “Heroin” of that old world… Real Heroin? No… Sugar.
Europe discovered sugar cane, a profitable trade requiring hard labor. They started from Bahia in Brazil… The Netherlands would supply African slaves, they would work, extract sugar, and it would be sold back in Europe… Fantastic profits… and the Netherlands profits. 500,000 African slaves were sold by the Dutch West India Company from Curaçao, which was the largest human trafficking market known to history up to that time. Guess how many workers met their death, for example, on sugar plantations? Nearly 3 million people. The Netherlands was the first to invent horrific methods of torturing slaves… They would finish their work, then be tied with an iron halter like beasts. Anyone who tried to escape would be offered as a feast to the predatory dogs. The slaves were terrified and began to rebel. In Dutch Guiana, 17,000 gathered and escaped. The Dutch besieged them because they knew that if a rebellion started, everyone would imitate them. Nevertheless, the slaves succeeded in hiding in the forests, and they became known in history as the “Djukas.” Their fate? The Netherlands crushed them completely. But everyone started imitating them. The African Muslims in Brazil staged a rebellion, and they were called the “Muhammedan Negroes,” in reference to our Master, the Prophet. And the story is not over yet.
You may know the Brazilian club Palmeiras. Palmeiras was the site of the largest rebellion. 50,000 Africans escaped slavery and founded a republic, led by the brave Janja Zomba. The result was that the Netherlands and Portugal cooperated in a very vile way and besieged them, until the escaped slaves were forced to kill themselves for fear of falling into slavery again. Imagine that there is a human being for whom suicide is better than living with Portugal and the Netherlands? But the great uprising would occur.
The New Slave Patrols: Google CEO brought optimism to Stanford commencement. Some graduates walked out
Students protested Sundar Pichai’s appearance over Google’s ties to Israel and the company’s role in Project Nimbus
Jew Angeles Times: One economist’s villainous blueprint to manage global poverty
The report actually suggests that richer countries reduce growth, while allowing poorer countries a little more growth, to keep the global economic activity under a certain threshold that will help limit climate change to under 2°C by 2100. So the central message of Piketty’s report is to tackle climate change by reducing inequality through a combination of a global wealth tax, a world sovereign wealth fund, and a global income tax targeting the world’s richest individuals.
The article starts off comparing Piketty, who is a well-respected economist, to Ayn Rand, a Russian fiction writer who is frequently cited by extreme far right figures as an ideological hero. This is a false comparison, as Piketty is based on rigorous economic standards, whereas Rand is based on fiction.
A little background on Veronique de Rugy. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a nationally syndicated columnist. The Mercatus Center is a free-market-oriented libertarian think tank, significantly funded by the Koch Brothers.
A little history of the LA Times: Billionaire owner Patrick Soon-Shiong became very pro Maga, starting in 2024, increasingly blocking pieces critical of Trump. The paper has moved quite far to the right in terms of bias.
A little background on Piketty. He is probably the world’s most renowned economist on the subject of income and wealth inequality. I’ve been banned from r/askeconomics for frequently citing him. Their official reason was that I had to cite sources. The moderator then had the audacity to call me out on “name dropping” Piketty too much. Hello!!! Name dropping is citing yo! Reddit has become overly biased and censored in many subs since its IPO.
It’s crazy to frame the mission of tackling poverty as villainous, even though that is not Piketty’s central mission. What kind of people would think that helping poor people is villainous? Remember and share this name, Thomas Piketty. He is not the left’s equivalent to the right’s Ayn Rand. Not even close. But that’s the best they can come up with, because there is no equivalent on the right.
Oh, that Jewish State on the Ropes, all the ex-Colonels and ex-CIA analysts say? RIGHT!
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems has introduced Hunter Eagle, a compact kinetic interceptor designed to counter the rapidly expanding threat of low‑altitude unmanned aircraft on the modern battlefield. First shown publicly at Defence Security and Equipment International (DSEI) 2025 and now presented in its serial configuration at ILA Berlin 2026, the system marks an expansion of Rafael’s layered counter‑UAS (C‑UAS) portfolio.
Low‑altitude drones (those that range from hobby‑class quadcopters to larger Group 3 platforms) have become one of the most disruptive technologies on the modern battlefield. Their ability to fly low, evade radar, and deliver precision‑guided or improvised munitions has forced militaries to rethink air defense from the ground up. The proliferation of cheap, expendable drones has also overwhelmed traditional point‑defense systems, creating demand for interceptors that are fast, precise, and cost‑effective.
IDF troops operating in southern Lebanon have been facing low-altitude drones launched by the Lebanese Shia terror group Hezbollah, with over a dozen soldiers and reservists killed and numerous more wounded.
Israeli-made ‘Kfir’ aircraft will fly until 2030, following new deal between Sri Lanka, IAI
Sri Lanka is upgrading the five Kfir jets that it has under a $50 million deal with IAI. The planes received an advanced cockpit, a new mission computer, and additional avionics improvements.
Ahh, the slavers: SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Spain — Even popes have travel delays. Lucky for Pope Leo XIV, King Felipe VI offered a way out, and a way home.
Leo’s Iberia charter, due to take him back to Rome after a weeklong visit to Spain, was grounded by a technical problem Friday, prompting Spain’s king to offer his private jet instead.
Felipe escorted Leo to his Falcon on the tarmac at the airport in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. Leo and members of his delegation boarded the plane and took off, more than three hours after he was originally due to leave.
The glitch marked an unusual end to an otherwise successful trip to Madrid, Barcelona and the Canary Islands. Leo pressed his migration message and also inaugurated the new tower of the Sagrada Familia basilica.
A petition in my email inbox:
Sentencing policy shouldn’t be driven by slogans; it should be driven by science. One size-fits-all policy approaches usually waste public resources and fail to reduce recidivism.
I support a balanced approach to sentencing that holds people accountable while also focusing on requirements that reduce future harm like rehabilitation, restorative justice, treatment and workforce readiness.
I urge lawmakers to support smart sentencing measures including:
Structured treatment and accountability programs that help people get better, take responsibility and are proven to reduce crime
Earned credit programs and incentivized rehabilitation that provide people the skills and support they need to successfully return to their communities
Right-size probation and parole terms to align with what has been proven to have the biggest impact on recidivism
Allowing judges and lawyers to consider a person’s history. PTSD, victimization, mental health challenges or addiction during sentencing
The enemies always rise up again and again…. Germany and Japan Are Rearming Again, 80 Years After World War II
After becoming allies to disastrous effect in the 1940s, Berlin and Tokyo are finding new reasons to team up — including rebuilding their militaries.
The Iceman Cometh:
Gordon Ritter: I predicted AI’s learning loop a decade ago. The doomers are still measuring the wrong thing
Gordon Ritter is Founder and General Partner at Emergence Capital, where he led the first major investment in a fledgling cloud computing company called Salesforce. His ability to see around corners continued with Veeva Systems, which he backed in 2008 when the company had just 25 employees and less than $1 million in revenue. Today, Gordon remains Veeva chairman. Gordon’s expertise is rooted in his own entrepreneurial journey. Over 15 years, he founded and built companies that broke new ground in technology. Among them was Software As Service, co-founded with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, which became the foundation for the Salesforce Platform. Another, Whistle Communications, was acquired by IBM, where Gordon went on to lead its $3 billion Global Small Business division.
Meet Gwynne Shotwell, the engineer-turned-COO who runs SpaceX in platform heels and is now worth over $2 billion
“I need more data than Elon does to make a decision,” Gwynn Shotwell once said.
Anduril wants export controls to catch up with drone warfare – Startup Fortune
The new slavers, the New Iberians, the New War Pornographers: Anduril Raises $5 Billion, Hits $61 Billion Valuation in Defense Tech Surge
Imag
The Navy is once again launching planes from Wake Island. This time, the island will serve as the base for P-8 Poseidon patrol aircraft, according to contracts posted by the Navy.
The contracts, listed on SAM.gov, say that the service will use the island and its airfield for “Navy Summer Exercise 26.” That itself was not specified, but the P-8 Poseidon is used for reconnaissance flights and this operation is being overseen by the Seventh Fleet’s main reconnaissance and surveillance arm, Task Force 72. The Air Current first reported on the plan to use Wake Island, following reports on other old airfields from World War II being revived.
Jurisdiction: Under U.S. law, the atoll is administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior.Management & Use: Daily operations are handled by the military. The U.S. Air Force maintains the airfield, while the Department of Defense uses the island as a strategic installation for missile defense testing and satellite tracking.
Population: There is no indigenous or permanent population. The island hosts around 300 rotating personnel, consisting of military members and civilian contractors.
Conflicting Claims: Wake Island is geographically and historically tied to Micronesia. The independent nation of the Marshall Islands claims ownership of the atoll, though it remains under exclusive U.S. administration.
Key Drivers of Tension
Alignment with Iran: Israel views China’s deep economic, political, and indirect military support for Iran with heavy suspicion. China has continuously helped Iran navigate economic sanctions and provided dual-use technology.
The Gaza Conflict and Hamas: Following the October 7 attacks, relations sharply deteriorated. China has repeatedly refused to explicitly condemn Hamas in its international statements, blasted Israel’s military actions as “collective punishment”, and even called for an international arms embargo against Israel.
Information Warfare Accusations: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has openly accused Beijing of orchestrating an AI-driven information blockade and allowing state-controlled algorithms (like TikTok) to amplify anti-Israel and antisemitic tropes. Beijing has flatly rejected these claims.
U.S. Geopolitical Rivalry: As Israel’s primary security guarantor is the United States, Israel has increasingly aligned with Washington’s efforts to restrict China’s access to sensitive dual-use commercial technologies, such as artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and cybersecurity tools.
The Biggest Slice of the Pie in the Sights of the Jews:
pussy grabbing, Howard Stern, Epstein, Golden Showers, Pedophile Island, the Entire Jewish State of Israel is a Rape Colony, but it starts with a shove and white cunt messing with a fruit stand
Yesterday, Reyna, the woman who operates the produce stand at the corner of Highway 229 and Highway 101, was allegedly assaulted along with her husband.
According to Reyna, the responding officer did not speak Spanish, creating a significant language barrier during the investigation. As of now, Reyna says she has not been provided with a case number, the officer’s name, or a business card with contact information.
An agency has stepped in to help Reyna navigate the process. However, despite law enforcement indicating that a case number was provided, Reyna maintains that she has no knowledge of receiving one and has not been given any way to identify or contact the responding officer. The agency assisting her was reportedly told that only Reyna can be provided with the case number, yet Reyna still does not have it.
Don Elmore of the Lower Siletz Water District confirmed that an individual identified as Daniel Noneze works as a meter reader for the district. Mr. Elmore stated that he is unsure of the correct spelling of Daniel’s last name. According to Mr. Elmore, the Lower Siletz Water District does not have hiring paperwork for Daniel, he is paid in cash, has not undergone a background check, and is not issued a 1099 for his work.
Mr. Elmore also confirmed the individual’s identity after reviewing a photograph that was emailed to him by witness Jenny Nelson, stating that the person depicted was the same Daniel who performs meter reading work for the Lower Siletz Water District.
Regardless of who the alleged assailant may be, this community deserves answers. Every victim should be able to communicate effectively with law enforcement, receive basic information about their own case, and feel confident that their report is being taken seriously.
We are calling for transparency, accountability, and a thorough investigation into the alleged assault on Reyna and her husband. Language barriers should never prevent victims from accessing justice, and no one should be left without the information they need to follow up on their own case.
As this matter remains under investigation, all allegations should be evaluated through the proper legal process, and anyone with firsthand knowledge or evidence is encouraged to provide that information to law enforcement.
If anyone witnessed the incident or has additional relevant information, we encourage them to contact the appropriate authorities.
It starts with this warped cunt, but ends like this:
George Floyd (May 25, 2020): Murdered by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, whose actions sparked global protests.
Ahmaud Arbery (February 23, 2020): Pursued and fatally shot by three white men while jogging in Satilla Shores, Georgia.
Breonna Taylor (March 13, 2020): Fatally shot by Louisville Metro Police officers during a botched raid on her apartment.
Atatiana Jefferson (October 12, 2019): Fatally shot through her bedroom window by a Fort Worth, Texas police officer responding to a wellness check.
Botham Jean (September 6, 2018): Fatally shot in his own Dallas apartment by an off-duty police officer who mistook the apartment for her own.
Philando Castile (July 6, 2016): Fatally shot during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.
Alton Sterling (July 5, 2016): Fatally shot by police officers outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Freddie Gray (April 12, 2015): Died after suffering severe spinal injuries while in the back of a Baltimore Police transport van.
Walter Scott (April 4, 2015): Fatally shot in the back by a North Charleston, South Carolina police officer while fleeing a traffic stop.
Tamir Rice (November 22, 2014): A 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot by a Cleveland, Ohio, police officer within seconds of arriving on the scene while holding a toy gun.
Eric Garner (July 17, 2014): Died after being placed in a chokehold by an NYPD officer during an arrest for allegedly selling loose cigarettes.
Of course, how many has the GLosser-Miller-Trump-ICE Gestapo killed?
Border Patrol Encounters: According to tracking by the ACLU of Texas CBP Fatal Encounters Tracker, hundreds of deaths have resulted from encounters with Border Patrol, including agent-involved shootings, vehicle pursuits, and drownings. [1]
ICE Custody Deaths: A joint report by the ACLU and other medical and civil rights organizations documented 52 preventable deaths in ICE detention centers during a previous five-year span. More recently, data from watchdog groups indicates that deaths in ICE custody have sharply risen, with over 30 people dying in a recent 12-month period. Detailed breakdowns of these cases can be examined via the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Deaths in Detention Report. [1, 2]
Have at the comments on this local white piece of trash trashing and threatening the real people we need in this country — Mexicans, their country tis of thee.
Gofundme for Darryl Blanchard, the man who stood up to Reyna’s attacker.
On Thursday at the intersection of Highway 101 and Highway 229, a frightening and deeply disturbing incident unfolded at Reyna’s fruit stand.
According to witnesses, Reyna was subjected to a racially motivated attack by a man who repeatedly yelled hateful remarks, including “Go back to Mexico,” “You’re illegal,” and “You’re not allowed here.” The suspect allegedly destroyed much of Reyna’s fruit stand, causing significant damage to the small business she has worked so hard to build.
The situation escalated when the man reportedly struck Reyna’s husband with his e-bike while openly carrying a handgun. Witnesses say the firearm was used in a threatening manner during the confrontation, leaving Reyna and her family fearing for their safety.
That is when Darryl Blanchard stepped in.
Darryl had simply stopped to buy fruit when he noticed the stand had been destroyed. Reyna pointed out the attacker, and without hesitation Darryl placed himself between the suspect and Reyna’s family. Knowing the man was armed, Darryl chose to stand up for people he had never met, putting his own safety at risk to protect others.
His actions helped de-escalate the situation and eventually the suspect left the area. Darryl remained with Reyna and her family until law enforcement arrived.
When the video of the incident was shared online, it quickly spread across social media, reaching more than 4 million views. Thousands of people have flooded the comment sections with messages of gratitude and support for Darryl’s courage. Many have offered to buy him a meal, send money, or simply thank him for doing what was right when others may have walked away.
What many people do not know is that Darryl faces health challenges of his own. He lives with heart and blood pressure issues and struggles with chronic knee problems. Following the confrontation, he returned home feeling shaken and checked his blood pressure because he was not feeling well after the stress of the incident. Thankfully, he is doing okay.
Today, Darryl is in California helping care for his 85-year-old father as he recovers from surgery.
This fundraiser is an opportunity for our community and the millions of people who have been inspired by Darryl’s actions to give back to a man who showed extraordinary courage, compassion, and selflessness. He did not step forward, expecting recognition or reward. He simply saw people in need and chose to help.
Any support, whether through a donation or by sharing this fundraiser, is greatly appreciated. Thank you for helping us recognize a man whose bravery reminded us all what it means to stand up for others.
Moderator Jenny Nelson put together a GFM for Reyna and her husband to get a new table and tent, along with other things, from the damage that occurred on Thursday. 1 dollar from a lot of people goes a long way.
This white trash on the bike is telling Reyna and her husband to go back to Mexico. This is the Coast, this is AmeriKKKA.
Video is in translated audio … i’ts going to be in Word format below
“To make sure you can hear me, I’m taking off my hat.
I’m taking this moment to record a video about what happened to my business.
A man came by and pushed my stand, causing everything to fall to the ground.
I don’t know what is wrong with the man.
He seemed upset that I was selling here, or something like that.
That’s why I’m making this video, so someone can help me.
The man scared me a little.
It’s my first time experiencing something like this.
When I realized it, everything was on the ground because of what the man did.
That’s what happened.”
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And so how many fucking schools of lower learning have these Turning Point Racists and Handmaids on Campuses?
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Reddit: “Yeah, we know. You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.“
Charlie Kirk referencing Michelle Obama, Joy Reid, and Kentaji Brown Jackson. All three of whom graduated from Harvard. (Kirk by comparison, dropped out of community college). I’m directly quoting here, so nobody can claim its out of context. This was in a discussion about benefiting from Affirmative Action, in which he says that they had to ‘steal a white person’s slot’. If he’s saying this about three highly accomplished black women with higher education, one doesn’t have to stretch to imagine what he thinks of other black women.
“This is something that I hope will make Taylor Swift more conservative,” he said. “Engage in reality more… Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge.”
Telling a woman to ‘submit to your husband,’ I’d argue is also pretty hateful, even if it’s biblical.
“If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified.’”
Weird. If you see any pilot at all you should think that, but strangely (or not I suppose) Kirk only thinks that about black pilots.
Joe Biden is a “corrupt tyrant who should honestly be put in prison and/or given the death penalty for his crimes against America.
This is the same kind of language people are getting on Democrats about.
Like, we’re dealing with maggots, vermin, and swine here. This is not – these are not good people, they’re not even a little bit good.
I thought we weren’t supposed to say things like that?
People like to pretend Kirk was all about honest debate, but the truth is he wasn’t. He debated with people who were inexperienced about what clips to put on the internet. He had no interest in hearing the other side out. Which is what honest debate should be about.
Oh, and to be clear, none of this justifies his murder. But it explains why so many others view him very poorly.
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Israel is the only state to have legalised torture through a ruling by its own Supreme Court. An expert who has documented these violations since 1983 says, “What the world knows today is less than 5% of what has actually occurred.” In Bodies of Evidence, an Al Jazeera original investigative documentary, we examine the use of sexual violence, torture, and degradation against Palestinian detainees, practices that rights groups and experts say have been systematically employed by Israeli military, intelligence, and prison authorities for decades. Contributors to the documentary include Francesca Albanese, Raji Sourani, Kifaya, Ayed Abu Eqtaish, Ben Marmarelli, Judge Cuno Tarfusser, and survivors whose identities are protected.
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Jew Jew York Yorker:4
The Jew Yorker NEVER ever fails:
Jew World a la Basketball: The Knicks really, truly won it all! David Remnick calls on fans to seize the joy. And Michael Luo reports on how a particular strand of Protestant faith became the biggest winner in the spiritual marketplace.
David Remnick has written a 7,000-word essay describing the “one state reality” in Israel/Palestine. The article appears in the November 17 issue of The New Yorker.
The opening page of the article features a gritty photo of Israel’s President, Rueven Rivlin, with an ominous caption about the demise of “talk” about the two-state solution. The evident purpose of the article is to discredit Rivlin and his prominent advocacy for a one-state solution, granting citizenship and equality for all.
Remnick warns that such talk is a fig-leaf for right wing one-state ideology that has no intention of granting equal rights of citizenship to Palestinians. The conclusion we are expected to draw, it appears, is that we should pay no attention to Rivlin and his crazy one-state talk.
Note that Remnick does not believe the Palestinians will ever have a truly sovereign state. Any two-state solution with a chance of working, he says, must include federal arrangements on security, water, cell phone coverage, sewage and other infrastructure, he says. Remnick does not spell it out here, but what this means is that in any two-state solution Palestinians will not have an army, will not have control over their water, and the IDF will continue to patrol the Jordan Valley and all of Palestine anytime they deem it necessary for security. The key feature of this “workable” two-state solution would be that Palestinians will not have the right to vote in Israel. It means the notion of a Jewish state, as distinguished from a shared power arrangement that protects both Jewish and Palestinian cultures, can remain intact.
David Remnick
Remnick scapegoats Rivlin as a false front for the Israeli nationalist right wing, but he praises him for “being nice” and curbing some of the racist vitriol and jingoism. Be a nice boy, just don’t talk about one state with equal citizenship and rights for all!
All Jews are black mambas. Oh, those calm, normal religious extremists: Since Israel’s 1967 occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem (which it illegally annexed), and the Gaza Strip, successive Israeli governments have advanced annexation plans that would allow the application of Israeli governmental power over the greatest amount of Palestinian territory while keeping minimal Palestinian presence.
[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli President Isaac Herzog and members of the new Israeli government pose for a photo at the president’s house on 29 December 2022 in Jerusalem.]
Jew Yorker, where art thou?
Settler violence is reshaping religious Zionism
As Kahanist ideas gain ground, religious Zionism’s failure to confront settler violence is endangering both Israel’s future and the movement’s soul
Recently, several religious Zionist rabbis in Israel have taken to discussing settler violence publicly, which is important, since the previous position of many was to deny that it exists, label the perpetrators as “some troubled youth,” and other dismissive responses. When Rabbi Natan Slifkin had previously addressed this problem, there were voices in the religious Zionist community who shamefully called him a “Kapo” for stating the obvious, so it looks like we have made some progress. The reason this crisis can no longer be ignored are the weekly videos and images showing Jewish men with kippot, large beards, and pe’ot going into Palestinian villages, destroying property, stealing property, beating Palestinians, and behaving in ways that shock the conscience of any decent human being.
READING, Pa., Oct. 31 Daniel Burros, 28-year-old Ku Klux Klan leader of New York, apparently killed himself with a revolver this morning after the secret of his Jewish origin had been disclosed.
Burros, who had hidden the secret for years, was shot twice, in the chest and head, after he had read a report in The New York Times detailing his background. The police found him dead on the floor of the living room in the small apartment of the Grand Dragon of the Pennsylvania Klan. A 32-caliber revolver was six inches from his right heel. The police said the shooting was witnessed by the Grand Dragon, 25-year-old Roy E. Frankhouser Jr., the Grand Dragon’s girl friend, 21-year-old Regina Kupisziewski, and Frank W. Rotella Jr., King Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in New Jersey. Police listed the death as “apparent suicide” after preliminary investigation showed it was physically possible for Burros first to have shot himself in the chest and then to have raised the revolver to his right temple and fired the second shot, which caused death instantly. A paraffin test of the hands of Burros and the three witnesses will be made, and an autopsy will be performed tomorrow. Detective Capt. Joseph Canfora of the Reading police said Burros apparently shot himself “as an aftermath of an article carried by The New York Times today.”
[George Lincoln Rockwell (center) with his followers, including Danny Burros (far right).]
The article reported that Burros, who had been chosen King Kleagle to lead an anti-Jewish, anti-Negro crusade by the United Klans of America in New York, had one secret that he desperately did not want known. The secret was that his parents were Jewish and that he himself had received a bar mitzvah, or confirmation. When he was confronted with the facts of his Jewish background last week he told the Times reporter: “I’ll have to retaliate, do you understand? If you publish that I’ll come and get you and I’ll kill you. I don’t care what happens. I’ll be ruined. This is all I’ve got to live for.” Frankhouser said that after reading The Times today, Burros repeated the threat, saying that he had to go to New York to “wipe out” the Times reporter who had disclosed his secret and that he would also “wipe out” the newspaper’s staff. According to the police, Burros, who had been staying at the Frankhouser apartment since Friday, went out about 9:30 A.M. this morning to buy The Times. He had expressed to Frankhouser and to Rotella deep anxiety over an article The Times was about to publish about him. But he did not tell them of his specific fear—the report that he was born of Jewish parents. When he returned just before
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10:30 A.M. to the little two- story frame house at 133 South Fourth Street he was in a state of extreme agitation, the police said. He was shouting and he slammed the front door with such violence that the building shook.
Rotella, according to the police, came downstairs to see what was wrong. He found Burros, a short, stocky man with a round sallow face, holding a copy of The Times and shouting: “This will destroy me!”
Rotella told the police that Burros brushed past him and ran upstairs to the living quarters over a barbershop. He kicked open the doors of a bureau and demolished a bedstead with murderous kicks that he learned, Frankhouser said, from a karate instructor.
Frankhouser told the police that Burros shouted that he was looking for a gun, that he found one on top of the bureau and that he shot himself before anyone could intervene.
Tonight, sitting in a barber chair of the shop his father operated before he became hospitalized by a recent illness, Frankhouser spoke with apparent frankness of his relations with Burros.
He said he never had any suspicion of Burros’s Jewish background. He said Burros had told him Friday of having been interviewed by a Times reporter, McCandlish Phillips.
Burros expressed fear of exposure, but Frankhouser said he never intimated the precise nature of the fear.
A Well-Kept Secret
“If Burros was really Jewish, it was the best-kept secret since the atom bomb,” Frankhouser said.
On Saturday morning, Burros went out to get a copy of The Times and was obviously relieved to see nothing about him in the paper, Frankhouser went on.
Burros seemed quite cheerful, Frankhouser said, and the three Klan leaders discussed plans for a big meeting to be held near Rising Sun, Md., next Sunday.
Frankhouser said Burros had asked him for a gun, expressing fear that a “truckload of niggers” might attack the house. Frankhouser said he gave Burros a gun, but took it from him Saturday because he felt Burros had been acting strangely.
“He had been talking about going to New York and wiping out The New York Times,” Frankhouser said.
He declared that there was no doubt in his mind that Burros shot himself because of the newspaper article.
“Man, it was the newspaper piece,” Frankhouser asserted. “Man, he came raving up the stairs like a madman.” Frankhouser said that the death weapon was not his, that it belonged to the house.
There were several guns in the house; Frankhouser said they were needed because of a mysterious shot fired into an upstairs window two weeks ago from a roof across the street.
One Pistol Left Out
But Frankhouser said he had “locked up” all the guns except “one lousy, stinking pistol” because he was concerned about Burros’s “wild talk.”
He said that pistol was wrapped in oil paper with a hunting knife.
Frankhouser declared that he had heard Burros make several threats to “wipe out” Mr. Phillips, the Times reporter, and the newspaper’s staff in general, but “I thought it was all so weird I paid little attention.”
Rotella, who himself was exposed in the New York newspapers last week as a Klan leader employed by the New York City Welfare Department as a case worker, said he tried to assure Burros that newspaper notoriety was not necessarily fatal.
Rotella has been suspended without pay by the Welfare Department and will be given a departmental hearing. “I intend to defend my civil rights,” he said tonight. “I think a white man has just as many civil rights as a Negro.”
Frankhouser said he had known Burros for five years and considered him “very obviously sincere.”
Regina Kupisziewski, Roy E. Frankhouser Jr., of Pennsylvania, center, and Frank W. Rotella Jr., of New Jersey, in Reading, Pa., after the fatal shooting of Daniel Burros yesterday. known Burros for five years and considered him “very obviously sincere.”
“Funny thing, he was more anti-Semitic than I am,” Frankhouser said. “He wrote a very Nazi-istic-type paper. I heard rumors that he was not Christian but an Odinist.” The Odinists are a Nordic supremacy sect.
“I’m a Protestant Christian,” Frankhouser said, “and I don’t believe the Klan should admit Jews per se. It’s okay to allow Catholics to join. But if you let Jews in, then you’ve lost Christianity. This is a Christian order. It would desecrate the religious aspect of the movement.”
According to Frankhouser, Burros had been given a “standard checkout” by the Klan when he became a Klan organizer. Burros took the Klan oath that he was a white gentile American, Frankhouser said.
The Klan was impressed by Burros’s role as an activist, particularly the part he had played in the White Tower riots in the Bronx, Frankhouser said. This was a reference to right-wing extremists who tried to break up picketing by civil rights demonstrators of the White Tower restaurant chain in protest against the chain’s employment policies.
“We took him at his face value,” Frankhouser said. He conceded that some Klansmen might have resented Burros’s attempt to hide his Jewish background, “but they’ll honor him anyway.”
“As far as I’m concerned, he had a tremendous record,” Frankhouser added. He asserted that the suicide of Burros would not hurt the Klan. “A man commits suicide,” he shrugged. “There are casualties in every war.’”
Frankhouser insisted that Burros was “nothing but a Pfc.” (private first class) in the Klan. But police said they found a card on Burros identifying him as King Kleagle of the New York Klan.
Record of Arrests
A native of Reading, Frankhouser has been arrested several times in connection with right-wing and segregationist demonstrations. He has been affiliated with the Klan since 1958. In that year he was arrested in Atlanta on charges of having assaulted an officer during a Klan-sponsored segregationist rally. He told the Atlanta police he was a member of the National States Rights party. He was arrested in Philadelphia in 1962 while he was handing out anti-Semitic, anti-Negro literature to Christmas crowds.
Tonight Frankhouser, who will be 26 on Thursday, denied he was now a member of the American Nazi party, as was Burros. Frankhouser said he formerly carried a “supporters card” and subsequently broke with Rockwell, commander of the American Nazi party. He said he had found Rockwell “completely ruthless.”
Last April, Frankhouser, who is said to be trained in judo, lost his left eye in a local tavern brawl. Three men, including two convicted racketeers, waived preliminary hearing on assault charges two weeks ago. The case is awaiting grand jury action.
Last Saturday, Frankhouser told the police that someone fired at him on the night of Oct. 21 while he was talking to friends in the second-floor apartment. The shot entered an open window and struck a plastic bowl where Frankhouser kept two pet turtles.
City detectives said they had found indications that the bullet was fired from a roof across the street, but no arrests have been made.
Studied the ‘Isms’
Sensitive to the fact that he is a high-school dropout, Frankhouser insisted tonight that he was well-read. “I’ve studied communism, socialism, fascism, all the isms, and democracy,” he said, “and I’ve come to the conclusion that my country is in danger, that it’s necessary to save the country from atheistic, godless tyranny.” He says he is not against all Jews-” only Zionists.” He believes that the April attack on him in the barroom was inspired by Zionists. He said he had served as a spy for the White Citizens Council in Virginia, attending “Communist and Negro meetings.” He declared that soon after the assassination of President Kennedy, he offered to give the Federal Bureau of Investigation photostats showing that the Socialist Workers Party had a “training group” with which Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin was “connected.”
Frankhouser said he served in the Army Infantry but never left the United States. He said he was a salesman, but refused to identify his employer.
Confirmed in Synagogue
Burros was the son of George Burros and the former Esther Sunshine, who were of Russian Jewish extraction. Burros’s 71-year-old father, a retired machine operator, has a heart ailment. Burros was born in the Bronx on March 5, 1937. The family now lives in Queens. Burros was bar mitzvahed, or confirmed, in an Orthodox synagogue in Queens when he reached the age of 13, the traditional coming of age in the Jewish faith. He had an intelligence quotient of 154, at Public School 121 in Richmond Hill, Queens, and at John Adams High School, he was an outstanding student. From about the age of 10, he said last week, he was interested in the extreme right wing and as a teenager, he was an apologist for German Nazism. He had wanted to go to the United States Military Academy, but, failing to be appointed, he joined the Army and became a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division. He made 17 jumps. As a member of the 101st he was part of the contingent sent to Little Rock, Ark., during the school integration crisis in 1957. Seeing “white American girls” being “pushed by soldiers with bayonets” reinforced his right-wing fervor. The Army gave him a “general discharge under honorable conditions,” which rates below a regular honorable discharge and usually connotes good service but aberrant behavior or character traits. He served two years and seven months in the Army. Burros became a member of the American Nazi Party, headed by George Lincoln Rockwell, and lived at the party headquarters at Arlington, Va. Apparently, no one else in the party knew Burros was Jewish. Burros joined other right-wing or neo-Fascist groups, including the British National Party and the National Renaissance Party in New York. Before leaving the American Nazi party, he had been arrested and convicted four times in 1960 for using profane language, fighting and defacing the B’nai B’rith building in Washington. In New York in July 1964, he was convicted, along with several other members of the National Renaissance Party, of rioting, conspiring to circulate inflammatory literature, and criminal possession of firearms and a switchblade knife. He was sentenced to two years in jail, but was released a month later on a certificate of reasonable doubt pending appeal.
Ltc. (ret.) William J. Astore served in the U.S. Air Force for 20 years, retiring in 2005.
He was a professor of history, and has written extensively for TomDispatch.com, Truthout, History News Network (HNN), Alternet, Salon, Antiwar.com, and Huffington Post among other sites. He is the author or co-author of three books: Soldiers’ Lives through History: The Early Modern World (2007, co-written with Dennis E. Showalter), Hindenburg: Icon of German Militarism (2005, with Showalter), and Observing God: Thomas Dick, Evangelicalism, and Popular Science in Victorian Britain and America (2001). His numerous articles focus on military history as well as the history of science, technology, and religion.
He earned a BS (with distinction) in mechanical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, an MA from the Johns Hopkins University (history of science and technology), and a D.Phil. (doctor of philosophy) from the University of Oxford (modern history). He has taught at the Air Force Academy, the Naval Postgraduate School, and the Pennsylvania College of Technology.
Academic Professor: He spent six years teaching history to future officers at the U.S. Air Force Academy and also taught at the Naval Postgraduate School. [1, 2]
Field-Grade Staff Officer: He spent significant time crafting strategic PowerPoint briefings for senior leadership at the Pentagon, particularly focusing on how various military units supported counter-terrorism operations following the events of 9/11.
Napalm and bunker busters and white phosphorus and cluster bombs and . . .
1. Fifth and Sixth-Generation Air Superiority
Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor: Widely considered the premier air superiority fighter in existence, utilizing a combination of multi-spectral stealth, supercruise speed, and extreme maneuverability to eliminate threats before they even detect its presence. [1, 2, 3]
Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II: Operates as the world’s most advanced network-connected fighter, acting as an airborne data hub that fuses battlefield intelligence across land, sea, air, space, and cyber domains. [1]
Boeing F-47 (Next-Gen): The emerging sixth-generation fighter program designed with multi-spectral stealth and built to act as a systems commander over autonomous collaborative combat drone wingmen at machine speeds. [1]
2. Global Penetrating Strike
B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber: Possesses an unrefueled range of roughly 6,000 nautical miles, capable of bypassing highly sophisticated integrated air defense systems to deliver both massive conventional and nuclear payloads. [1]
B-1B Lancer: A supersonic swing-wing bomber that holds numerous records for speed and payload, historically delivering up to 40 percent of total bomb tonnage in major coalition campaigns. [1]
3. Persistent Close Air Support & Interdiction
AC-130J Ghostrider: Evaluated as the most lethal and innovative gunship in the world, providing unmatched close air support and force protection for ground forces.
A-10 Thunderbolt II: Renowned for its extreme survivability, redundant flight systems, and devastating 30mm GAU-8 Avenger rotary cannon designed for anti-armor and ground interdiction. [1, 2, 3, 4]
A fucking marble-mouthed Brit, no less:
Plato’s cave?
The Four Stages:
In Stage one, people live enchained inside the cave and are engrossed by what they immediately encounter. At this stage, human beings consider only the shadows cast by the artifacts as being the “unhidden” or the truth of things. This could be understood as our ‘enchainment’ to the material nature of things or to our technological devices in our modern day world. It is the stage where most human beings dwell.
At Stage Two, the chains are removed and the prisoner is “compelled” to “turn” and to look at the things that, before, were merely shadows to him or her. Although still within the cave, the person is “free” in a certain respect: they can move their heads in every direction and it is possible to see the very things that were carried along the roadway behind them. Before they looked only at shadows; now they are “a little nearer to what is”. The things offer themselves in a visible form in a certain way, namely, through the light of the man-made fire and they are no longer “hidden” by the shadows they project. When one’s gaze is freed from the captivity of the shadows, it becomes possible for the person who has been freed to enter into the area that is more “unhidden”. But the person will consider the shadows that they saw before as being more “unhidden” than what is being shown to them in the first “turning”. Why is this so?
The eyes are not accustomed to the light and the prisoner is initially blinded and confused. The first liberation is painful. The blinding does not allow the prisoner to see the fire itself and from understanding how its light illuminates the things and lets these things appear for the first time. That is why those who have been liberated cannot comprehend that what they previously saw were merely shadows. They “see” other things besides the shadows; but these things only appear in confusion to them. In contrast, the shadows appear much more sharply and because of this, the prisoner who has been freed thinks these shadows are more “unhidden”. The word aletheia or “truth” occurs again at this point in a comparative degree: the shadows are “more unhidden” than they were before. The prisoner feels that the more proper “truth” is to be found in the shadows because they are unable to recognize or “see” the shadows as shadows. The condition necessary for assessing the shadows as shadows is “freedom”. Removing the chains brings a sort of freedom, but it is not yet real freedom.
Stage Three: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and the Realm of True Freedom:
Real freedom is only attained at Stage Three. The prisoner is led out of the Cave and “into the open” where, as from a height, all things are “shown”. The “looks” that show what things are no longer appear as merely in the man-made and confusing glow of the fire. The things themselves appear in the “truth” and bindingness of their own appearance (both in themselves and to us). The “openness” outside of the Cave does not mean Sun’s light (Beauty, Truth, and Goodness). The light of the Sun is a metaphor for Love in the Cave and outside of the Cave. The “looks” that show what things are, the Ideas or the Forms, are the essence (the “whatness”) of what each individual thing/being shows itself as this or that. It is only through this “self-showing” that the appearing thing becomes visible and accessible to us as human beings.
The stance of “being in the world” at Stage Three is defined in terms of what is “unhidden” at this level. This “unhidden” is even more “unhidden” than the things illuminated by the man-made fire in distinction to the shadows. The “unhidden” that has been reached is the most “unhidden” of all. The light of the Sun grants to the things that are the ability of “self-showing”. Without such a “self-showing” of what they are through the Ideas and the Forms, any and all specific things—in fact, absolutely everything—would remain hidden. “The most unhidden” is called this because it is what appears in everything that appears, and it makes whatever appears be accessible in its appearance. But that which allows things to appear as what they really are is “the Good”, and it allows things to appear in their “Truth” (“unhiddenness”) and their “Beauty”. Beauty, Truth and Goodness are not man-made constructs or concepts, but are in fact “the standards” that allow all things to be seen for what they truly are and “bind” human beings to them in the Beauty of their “unhiddenness”. Understanding this ‘bindingness’ is necessary if one wishes to understand ‘fate’ as it is used in other sections of this blog. As human beings, we are bound to how the things “show” themselves in their “truth”.
For the prisoners inside of the Cave, to have been freed from the shadows to see the light of the fire and to see how things are shown in the firelight was a difficult task that proved too difficult for many prisoners. In their pain and confusion they returned to the shadows. Being freed into the openness outside of the Cave also requires endurance and effort. Being freed from the chains does not come about by the simple removal of the chains; and certainly freedom is not uncontrolled license to do what one wishes. Freedom consists in the continuous effort to accustom oneself to look upon the firm limits of the things that stand in their visible form. It is an understanding of the Necessity that is operable within all things. For Plato, this freedom is not an “active doing” but is more in the nature of “contemplation”, a “beholding” of what beauty, truth and goodness are. Authentic freedom is the steadiness of being oriented toward what appears in its visible form and which is most “unhidden” in this appearing. “Education” is a “turning toward” and a “turning around”. The fulfillment of the essence of “education” can only be achieved in the region of the most “unhidden” i.e. the truest, the most beautiful, and the goodness of what is.
Because the essence of “education” is this “turning around” and a “turning towards” and a “beholding” of what truth, beauty and goodness are, education remains a constant overcoming of “hiddenness” or untruth. Plato views education as the constant overcoming of the lack of education. The allegory continues, therefore, with the Fourth Stage.
Stage Four: The Cave, The Liberator and the Political:
The Fourth Stage involves the descent of the freed person back into the Cave, back to those who are still in the chains. The one who has been freed is required to lead those who are still in chains away from what is “unhidden” for them and to bring them face to face with the most unhidden. But because the liberator has been outside of the Cave, he no longer knows his way around inside of the Cave and he risks the dangers of succumbing to the overwhelming power of the kind of “truth” or “unhiddenness” that operates in the Cave by those who tend the Fire and those who are satisfied living with the shadows: those who believe that what is called reality in the Cave is the only reality. The liberator risks being put to death: the fate that befell Plato’s teacher, Socrates.
The return to the Cave and the battle waged within the Cave between the liberator and the prisoners who resist all liberation makes up Stage Four of the “allegory” and brings the story to an end. The word aletheia or “unhiddenness”, “truth” is no longer used at this stage. Nevertheless, the notion of what truth is creates the conditions of that area in the Cave that the freed person now visits. Now, in stages one and two there were two forms of “unhiddenness” that were operating: the unhiddenness of the shadows and the unhiddenness of the man-made fire. These two views of unhiddenness represent two factors essential to the unhidden or “truth”: not only does the “unhidden” render accessible whatever appears and keeps it revealed in its appearing, but it constantly overcomes a hiddenness of the hidden. The “unhidden” must be constantly “grasped” and “torn away from” hiddenness; it must be “stolen” from hiddenness. Originally for the Greeks, hiddenness was conceived as an act of “self-hiding”, and this “self-hiding” permeated the essence of what we call “reality” and being and it determined how beings were accessible and how beings “presented” themselves. (For example, as students you are constantly “annoyed” by having to look for what you have come to call the “hidden meaning” in your literature texts; and in a Greek way, this “stealing” or “grasping” the meaning of a text is a “wresting away” from the text the “truth” of the text so that the text will be “present” in its “reality”, in its “truth” i.e. not as some kind of “subjective” response to the text as an object. But this ‘wresting away’ requires that the text ‘give’ accessibility to you in its “presence” and that you are able to “see” that which the text “offers” to you, and “grasp” it, and take it away with you.)
Truth originally means that which has been wrested from hiddenness. Truth is a ‘wresting away’ in the form of ‘revealing’. The hiddenness is of various kinds: closing off, hiding away, disguising, covering over, masking, dissembling. Examples of these various kinds of hiddenness are motifs running throughout Shakespeare’s work, particularly Macbeth. According to the allegory, the “most unhidden” must be ‘wrested away’ from a base and stubborn hiding, and it is for this reason that the journey out of the Cave and into the open, into the light of the Sun is a life and death struggle. Stage Four gives us a glimpse into how “privation” (eros), or “need”—attaining the unhidden by wresting it away—belongs to the essence of truth. It is this “privation” or lack of and need of truth that gives concrete substance to what is most natural for human beings. For Socrates, when he speaks of justice and says that “It is better to suffer injustice than to inflict it” (Gorgias), the truth of this is given to him in the light (Love) that comes from the Sun (the Good) and it is the lack of and the need for this light which human beings desire (need) the most and that leads them to seek truth in its most unhidden. And this is why for Plato truth, beauty and goodness are One, but all three are a One and proceed from Goodness (and, as is mentioned in Stage Three, everything proceeds from Goodness). But how is this so?
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