and who the fuck cares about some white woman, with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the psychiatrist who was “assisting her” with thoughts of infanticide
Although mental state defenses frequently are raised in cases of infanticide, legal criteria for these defenses vary across jurisdictions. We reviewed outcomes of such cases in states using M’Naghten or Model Penal Code (MPC) standards for insanity, and the factors considered by the courts in reaching these decisions. LexisNexis and Westlaw searches were conducted of case law, legal precedent, and law review articles related to infanticide. Google and other Internet search engines were used to identify unpublished cases. Despite the differing legal standards for insanity among states, the outcomes of infanticide cases do not appear to be dependent solely on which standard is used. The presence of psychosis was important in the successful mental state defenses. This case series suggests that states that use the stricter M’Naghten standard have not been less likely than states with an MPC standard to adjudicate women who have committed infanticide as not guilty by reason of insanity.
Infanticide, defined as the killing of children less than one year of age, has evoked questions and controversy in both psychiatry and the law. Infanticide is etiologically distinct from neonaticide, the killing of an infant in the first 24 hours of life.1
Over the years, when a woman with postpartum mental illness has killed her child, the courts have responded in vastly different ways. In some courts, such women have been found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) and ordered to undergo psychiatric treatment, while in others, they have been found guilty and sentenced to prison, sometimes for life. Some scholars have argued that differing state insanity standards result in disparate sentencing.2 In this article, we explore this hypothesis and examine cases tried in jurisdictions with either the M’Naughten or model penal code (MPC) standard. We conclude by summarizing relevant data for forensic mental health professionals serving as experts in such cases.
Authorities say the two school-aged siblings of a toddler found hanging in their basement walked into their house as the horror was unfolding.
The deceased child, 2-year-old Barrett Walsh, was found hanging from a rafter in the basement of their Frankfort, Ill. home on Sept. 1, according to court documents reviewed by PEOPLE.
Their mother Corie Walsh, 40, was found trying to self-harm and has since been arrested on murder charges, according to the Frankfort Police Department.
Ed Curtain: Yet I was chagrined and amazed by so many people’s insouciant lack of interest in questioning and researching the most important world event since the assassination of President Kennedy. I understood the various psychological dimensions of this denial, the fear, the cognitive dissonance, etc., but I sensed something else as well. For so many people, their minds were like beds already “made up.” I found that many young people were the exceptions, while most of their elders dared not question the official narrative. These included many prominent leftist critics of American foreign policy, such as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Alexander Cockburn, and others, whose defenses of the official government and media explanations (when they even made such defenses; often they just trashed skeptics as “9/11 conspiracy nuts,” to quote Cockburn) totally lacked any scientific or logical rigor or even knowledge of the facts. Now that years have elapsed, this seems truer than ever. There is a long list of leftists who refuse to examine matter to this very day. And most interestingly, they also do the same with the assassination of JFK, the other key seminal event of recent American history.
I kept thinking of the ongoing language and logic used to describe what had happened that terrible day in 2001 and in the weeks to follow, with the nonsense proffered about the anthrax attacks that originated from a U.S. bioweapons lab. It all seemed so clichéd and surreal, as if set phrases had been extracted from some secret manual, phrases that rang with an historical resonance that cast a spell on the public, as if mass hypnosis were involved. People seemed mesmerized as they spoke of the events in the official language that had been presented to them.
So with the promptings of people like Graeme MacQueen, Lance de Haven-Smith, T.H. Meyer, et al., and much study and research, I have concluded that my initial intuitive skepticism was correct and that a process of linguistic mind-control was in place before, during, and after the attacks. As with all good propaganda, the language had to be insinuated over time and introduced through intermediaries. It had to seem “natural” and to flow out of events, not to precede them. And it had to be repeated over and over again.
In summary form, I will list the language I believe “made up the minds” of those who have refused to examine the government’s claims about the September 11 attacks and the subsequent anthrax attacks.
Pearl Harbor. As pointed out by David Ray Griffin and others, this term was used in September 2000 in The Project for the New American Century’s (PNAC) report, “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” (p.51). Its neo-con authors argued that the U.S. wouldn’t be able to attack Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, etc. “absent some catastrophic event – like a new Pearl Harbor.” Then on January 11, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s “Space Commission” warned that the U.S. could face a “space Pearl Harbor” if it weren’t careful and didn’t increase space security. Rumsfeld urged support for the proposed U.S. national missile defense system opposed by Russia and China and massive funding for the increased weaponization of space. At the same time he went around handing out and recommending Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision(1962) by Roberta Wohlstetter, who had spent almost two decades working for The Rand Corporation and who claimed that Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack that shocked U.S. leaders. Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor – those words and images dominated public consciousness for many months before 11 September 2001, and of course after. The film Pearl Harbor, made with Pentagon assistance and a massive budget, was released on May 25, 2001 and was a box office hit. It was in the theatres throughout the summer. The thought of the attack on Pearl Harbor (not a surprise to the U.S. government, but presented as such) was in the news all summer despite the fact that the 60th anniversary of that attack was not until December 7, 2001, a more likely release date. So why was it released so early? Once the September 11 attacks occurred, the Pearl Harbor analogy was “plucked out” of the social atmosphere and used constantly, beginning immediately. Another “Day of Infamy,” another surprise attack blared the media and government officials. A New Pearl Harbor! George W. Bush was widely reported to have had the time that night, after a busy day of flying hither and yon to avoid the terrorists who for some reason had forgotten he was in a classroom in Florida, to allegedly use it in his diary, writing that “the Pearl Harbor of the twenty-first century took place today. We think it is Osama bin Laden.” Shortly after the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor on December 7, Bush then formerly announced, referencing the attacks of September 11, that the U. S. would withdraw from the ABM Treaty. The examples of this Pearl Harbor/ September 11 analogy are manifold, but I am summarizing, so I will skip giving them. Any casual researcher can confirm this.
Homeland. This strange un-American term, another WW II word associated with another enemy – Nazi Germany – was also used many times by the neo-con authors of “Rebuilding America’s Defenses.” I doubt any average American referred to this country by that term before. Of course it became the moniker for The Department of Homeland Security, marrying home with security to form a comforting name that simultaneously and unconsciously suggests a defense against Hitler-like evil coming from the outside. Not coincidentally, Hitler introduced it into the Nazi propaganda vernacular at the 1934 Nuremberg rally. Both usages conjured up images of a home besieged by alien forces intent on its destruction; thus preemptive action was in order. Now the Department of Homeland Security with its massive budget is lodged permanently in popular consciousness and in fact.
Ground Zero. This is a third WWII (“the Good War”) term first used at 11:55 A.M. on September 11 by Mark Walsh (aka “the Harley Guy” because he was wearing a Harley-Davidson tee shirt) in an interview on the street by a Fox News reporter, Rick Leventhal. Identified as a Fox free-lancer, Walsh also explained the Twin Towers’ collapse in a precise, well-rehearsed manner that would be the same illogical and anti-scientific explanation later given by the government: “mostly due to structural failure because the fire was too intense.” Ground zero – a nuclear bomb term first used by U.S. scientists to refer to the spot where they exploded the first nuclear bomb in New Mexico in 1945 – became another meme adopted by the media that suggested a nuclear attack had occurred or might in the future if the U.S. didn’t act. The nuclear scare was raised again and again by George W. Bush and U.S. officials in the days and months following the attacks, although nuclear weapons were beside the point in terms of the 11 September attacks, but surely not as a scare tactic and as part of the plan to withdraw from the ABM treaty that would be announced in December. But the conjoining of “nuclear” with “ground zero” served to raise the fear factor dramatically. Ironically, the project to develop the nuclear bomb was called the Manhattan Project and was headquartered at 270 Broadway, NYC, a few short blocks north of the World Trade Center.
The Unthinkable. This is another nuclear term whose usage as linguistic mind control and propaganda is brilliantly analyzed by Graeme MacQueen in the penultimate chapter of his very important book, The 2001Anthrax Deception. He notes the patterned use of this term before and after September 11, while saying “the pattern may not signify a grand plan …. It deserves investigation and contemplation.” He then presents a convincing case that the use of this term couldn’t be accidental. He notes how George W. Bush, in a major foreign policy speech on May 1, 2001, “gave informal public notice that the United States intended to withdraw unilaterally from the ABM Treaty”; Bush said the U.S. must be willing to “rethink the unthinkable.” This was necessary because of terrorism and rogue states with “weapons of mass destruction.” PNAC also argued that the U.S. should withdraw from the treaty. A signatory to the treaty could only withdraw after giving six months’ notice and because of “extraordinary events” that “jeopardized its supreme interests.” Once the September 11 attacks occurred, Bush rethought the unthinkable and officially gave formal notice on December 13 to withdraw the U.S. from the ABM Treaty, as previously noted. MacQueen specifies the many times different media used the term “unthinkable” in October 2001 in reference to the anthrax attacks. He explicates its usage in one of the anthrax letters – “The Unthinkable” [sic]. He explains how the media that used the term so often were at the time unaware of its usage in the anthrax letter since that letter’s content had not yet been revealed, and how the letter writer had mailed the letter before the media started using the word. He makes a rock-solid case showing the U.S. government’s complicity in the anthrax attacks and therefore in the Sept 11 attacks. While calling the use of the term “unthinkable” in all its iterations “problematic,” he writes, “The truth is that the employment of ‘the unthinkable’ in this letter, when weight is given both to the meaning of this term in U.S. strategic circles and to the other relevant uses of the term in 2001, points us in the direction of the U.S. military and intelligence communities.” I am reminded of Orwell’s point in 1984: “a heretical thought – that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc – should be literally unthinkable, at least as far as thought is dependent on words.” Thus the government and media’s use of “unthinkable” becomes a classic case of “doublethink.” The unthinkable is unthinkable.
9/11. This is the key usage that has reverberated down the years around which the others revolve. It is an anomalous numerical designation applied to an historical event, and obviously also the emergency telephone number. Try to think of another numerical appellation for an important event in American history. It’s impossible. But if you have a good historical sense, you will remember that the cornerstone for the Pentagon was laid on September 11, 1941, three months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, and that the CIA engineered a coup against the Allende government in Chile on Sept 11, 1973. Just strange coincidences? The future editor of th New York Times and Iraq war promoter, Bill Keller, introduced the emergency phone connection on the morning of September 12 in a NY Times op-ed piece, “America’s Emergency Line: 911.” The linkage of the attacks to a permanent national emergency was thus subliminally introduced, as Keller mentioned Israel nine times and seven times compared the U.S. situation to that of Israel as a target for terrorists. His first sentence reads: “An Israeli response to America’s aptly dated wake-up call might well be, ‘Now you know.’” By referring to September 11 as 9/11, an endless national emergency fear became wedded to an endless war on terror aimed at preventing Hitler-like terrorists from obliterating us with nuclear weapons that could create another ground zero or holocaust. Mentioning Israel (“America is proud to be Israel’s closest ally and best friend in the world,” George W. Bush would tell the Israeli Knesset) so many times, Keller was not very subtly performing an act of legerdemain with multiple meanings. By comparing the victims of the 11 September attacks to Israeli “victims,” he was implying, among other things, that the Israelis are innocent victims who are not involved in terrorism, but are terrorized by Palestinians, as Americans are terrorized by fanatical Muslims. Palestinians = Al Qaeda. Israel = U.S. Explicit and implicit parallels of the guilty and the innocent. Keller tells us who the real killers are. His use of the term 9/11 is a term that pushes all the right buttons, evoking unending social fear and anxiety. It is language as sorcery. It is propaganda at its best. Even well-respected critics of the U.S. government’s explanation use the term that has become a fixture of public consciousness through endless repetition. As George W. Bush would later put it as he connected Saddam Hussein to “9/11” and pushed for the Iraq war, “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.” All the ingredients for a linguistic mind-control smoothie had been blended.
Karp has often spoken about his Jewish identity shaping his worldview, according to Weinberger, and framed Israel’s war with Palestine as a struggle of good versus evil. “From my perspective, it’s not just about Israel,” he said in a 2024 interview with CNBC. “It’s like, ‘Do you believe in the West? Do you believe the West has a superior way of living?’” The young radical who once stood up against racism, it seems, now has a cultural superiority complex.
Palantir did not immediately reply to Gizmodo’s request for comment. Weinberger’s Valley of Death will be available in bookstores later this month.
More Jews telling the world about their Jews: Valley of Death, a forthcoming book from journalist Sharon Weinberger about the relationship between Silicon Valley and the U.S. military, suggests his political views have changed over time.
[Jim Doherty, a rancher and former Morrow County Commissioner, center right, listens to a House Interim Committee on Climate, Energy, and Environment informational meeting on data centers at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Ore., on Sept. 8, 2026.]
Your typical fucking redneck:
As the debate over data centers heats up in Salem, the industry is poised to grow 200 miles away in Eastern Oregon, where more than 50 facilities are already online with another in the works.
Morrow and Umatilla counties were among the first places in Oregon to welcome data centers, as Amazon Web Services began building the facilities in the area 15 years ago. Amazon has since turned the region into one of the biggest hubs in the state.
As the industry rises to the forefront of Oregon politics in an election year, its corporate leaders are defending infrastructure they say has become “critical to the way we live and work,” while politicians respond to public outcry over data center tax breaks, power costs and environmental trade-offs.
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek announced Tuesday that she supported a statewide moratorium on the construction of new data centers, hardening her stance as she campaigns for reelection. She also issued an executive order pausing any new developments on state-owned land. Kotek delivered the news to a cheering crowd at an anti-data center protest on the steps of the state capitol, calling on state lawmakers to take action.
Kotek’s announcements are unlikely to slow projects already planned near Boardman in Morrow County, local officials said. David Sykes, the chair of the Morrow County Board of Commissioners, said the state can do what it wants with its land, but decisions over data centers on private property are up to local government.
“This should be left to the counties to decide what to do,” he said.
Doherty, the former Morrow County commissioner, wasn’t persuaded by Amazon’s pitch.
He said in an interview that he was worried the company’s water use would worsen the region’s longstanding nitrate crisis by concentrating nitrate-contaminated groundwater, and that it was running its generators far more than 12 hours per year.
He also dismissed Amazon’s efforts at community investment in light of the tax breaks it receives through the state’s enterprise zone program. Kotek signed a bill this year that pauses state tax breaks for data centers.
“When they’re paying you 10 cents on the dollar and giving you another 10 cents, that’s not philanthropy,” he said.
He was also skeptical that the governor’s executive order would have any effect on his home in Morrow County.
Morrow County Planner Tamra Mabbott said she didn’t think any of the data centers in the pipeline involved state land. Sykes, the current Morrow County commissioner, declined to say whether he supported or opposed more data center developments in the county, but later added that they could continue as long as they went through the proper channels.
Says it all about this War Dog Economy — WILDFIRES?
General Atomics unveils ‘Wildfire’ drone to replace Reaper
Pitched for the Massed Modular Aircraft program run by the Air Force and Defense Innovation Unit, General Atomics says its new drone design can exceed requirements set by the Pentagon to succeed the MQ-9A Reaper.
Ahh, that fucking AmeriKKKa:
Trump said Thursday that the federal government would issue $500 Obamacare refunds to about 1 million people starting in October.
Health policy experts said the money isn’t enough to make up for soaring Affordable Care Act insurance premiums, following the expiry of enhanced premium subsidies.
The refunds would come just a month before midterm elections, in which affordability has become a central theme.
Trump’s announcement came one day after he said he wanted to send a $5,000 election “dividend” to every American.
Another fucking roveling Jew in the News!
Lies, more lies, and Jewish-inspired lies: ‘Surge in construction’ at suspected Iranian nuclear site, analysts say, as US considers ways to strike deep underground.
Iceland’s government will submit a bill in February to ban whaling, a move that would leave Norway and Japan as the only two countries in the world to continue commercial whaling.
Whaling in Iceland has sparked years of protests from animal welfare campaigners and Hollywood celebrities.
The bill will include “a permanent ban on whaling,” the government, which has a majority in parliament, said on its website late on Wednesday.
In this year’s hunting season, which runs from June to around the end of September, 80 fin whales had been caught as of Wednesday, according to Humane World for Animals, an animal welfare group that tracks the catches. The quota allows 150 fin whales to be killed this year.
“There is considerable political and public support for this bill to ban commercial whaling, and compelling ethical, veterinary, legal and conservation reasons to hope it succeeds,” said Wendy Higgins, a Humane World for Animals spokeswoman.
Guts.
Gutless — The Genocide Quintet. Main opposition factions ink surplus-vote deals in bid to maximize Knesset representation
Dirty Nose Job JEW, LGBTQA: OpenAI pulls out of Caltech math hackathon after mathematicians issue open letter criticizing AI math ‘slop’
A researcher at OpenAI said on Thursday that the ChatGPT maker is no longer sponsoring Caltech’s “math hackathon,” an event where participants use large language models to solve research problems.
OpenAI’s exit follows an open letter released on Wednesday from current and former Caltech mathematicians, who said the event, which is sponsored by AI companies, “is likely to have destructive impacts for the mathematical community.”
John Judge – 9/11, Afghanistan, and Iraq: Unanswered Questions of September 11, Part 1 Roxy Theater, Allentown, 10 October 2002
September 11, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Some of the History of 20th Century Wars
at 7:10 I’ve been following 9/11 since its inception. It was close enough to me in DC that it shook my windows when the plane hit. And I was quite amazed at what did and didn’t happen that day. The two things that I have focused on primarily, beyond the background information, because I think these are the two areas that the administration and the national security system are most vulnerable in, are the events of that day, especially in Washington, DC, or what I would call a military stand-down on 9/11 in Washington, DC, and somewhat nationally. And I’ll go into that. The other is the history of the Anthrax investigation.
I was not enamored of the idea of asking, as some were, what did Bush know and when did he know it? I mean, I think the proper formation of that question would be, When was Bush told, and how soon did he forget it? We know that Colin Powell, for instance, was informing India, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and many of the surrounding countries in June of 2001 that the United States would militarily intervene against the Taliban in Afghanistan in mid-October to take them out. This is in June. And we were also told on Tom Brokaw’s ABC News that the war plans for Afghanistan were on Bush’s desk on September 9th. Well, what that says to me is—some people were shocked; Bush knew about the plan even before 9/11—what it says to me, though, is that Bush is out of the loop. Bush is the last to know, the last to be told.
Our choice now seems to be between a “new war” and a new world. As always, the forces of reaction and wealth are telling us we have no choice but war, and no right or power to decide. They are calling for a secret investigation, a secret conviction, a secret method of execution, and a totally secret war abroad. The American people as a whole are the only ones in the world who have the right to decide on a national response to this tragedy, and it must be one that takes into account the rights of all the other peoples and nations of the world.
The empty-headed Westerner, man oh man, getting a gig with Snoop Dog for $10 k a month to travel the world for the best fucking Ice Cream while his fucking boys bomb babies
If I won the lottery, boy oh boy, this is what I would do….
If I just hit the jackpot at the casino, then I could buy a Dodge Viper . . .
If some benefactor offered me a million bucks, man, I would be set…
If I married a rich sheik, I’d be in heaven . . .
If I could get on The Price Is Right, I’d show them how to win a cruise and a cute little Soul car . . .
If Oprah would have me on, I’d plead with her for a new house… .
If your dream job involves traveling the world, eating ice cream and telling Snoop Dogg which flavors are actually worth trying, you might want to clear your schedule.
Snoop Dogg’s Dr. Bombay ice cream brand is looking for an International Ice Cream Taster, and the three-month gig pays $30,000.
The position, posted by Dr. Bombay/Bosslady Foods, is open to applicants around the world. The person hired will be paid $10,000 per month as an independent contractor, with hiring and payments handled through Deel.
And the job description is basically a love letter to ice cream.
“Your mission? Taste. Travel. Discover. Report back to Snoop.”
I heard this on the local radio station, while working with a client, and of course, clients with DD/ID/PD might have some grand illusions or delusions, for sure, but this was an FM radio station so, the ad is going out to thousands of stations.
[DD is developmental disabilities; ID is intellectual disabilities; PD is psychiatric disabilities, FYI]
For three months, the lucky hire will travel the world in search of the best and most interesting frozen desserts.
Their assignment includes:
Discovering unique ice cream and dessert trends
Tasting desserts in different cities and cultures
Finding emerging flavors before they become mainstream
Sharing discoveries with the Dr. Bombay team
Creating social-media content from their adventures
Helping develop new flavors, campaigns and experiences
So, yes, you’ll be eating a lot of ice cream.
But you’ll also need to know what you’re talking about.
The company says it isn’t looking for a traditional, stuffy food critic. Instead, it wants someone who is curious about food, plugged into culture, comfortable on social media and capable of turning a scoop of ice cream into a story.
Creators, foodies, marketers, students, entrepreneurs, journalists, chefs and applicants with unconventional backgrounds are all encouraged to apply.
[TEVYE] “Dear God, you made many, many poor people. I realize, of course, that it’s no shame to be poor. But it’s no great honor either! So, what would have been so terrible if I had a small fortune?”
If I were a rich man, Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum. All day long I’d biddy biddy bum. If I were a wealthy man. I wouldn’t have to work hard. Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum. If I were a biddy biddy rich, Yidle-diddle-didle-didle man.
I’d build a big tall house with rooms by the dozen, Right in the middle of the town. A fine tin roof with real wooden floors below. There would be one long staircase just going up, And one even longer coming down, And one more leading nowhere, just for show.
I’d fill my yard with chicks and turkeys and geese and ducks For the town to see and hear. And each loud “cheep” and “swaqwk” and “honk” and “quack” Would land like a trumpet on the ear, As if to say “Here lives a wealthy man.”
If I were a rich man, Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum. All day long I’d biddy biddy bum. If I were a wealthy man. I wouldn’t have to work hard. Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum. If I were a biddy biddy rich, Yidle-diddle-didle-didle man.
I see my wife, my Golde, looking like a rich man’s wife With a proper double-chin. Supervising meals to her heart’s delight. I see her putting on airs and strutting like a peacock. Oy, what a happy mood she’s in. Screaming at the servants, day and night.
The most important men in town would come to fawn on me! They would ask me to advise them, Like a Solomon the Wise. “If you please, Reb Tevye…” “Pardon me, Reb Tevye…” Posing problems that would cross a rabbi’s eyes! And it won’t make one bit of difference if i answer right or wrong. When you’re rich, they think you really know!
If I were rich, I’d have the time that I lack To sit in the synagogue and pray. And maybe have a seat by the Eastern wall. And I’d discuss the holy books with the learned men, several hours every day. That would be the sweetest thing of all.
If I were a rich man, Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum. All day long I’d biddy biddy bum. If I were a wealthy man. I wouldn’t have to work hard. Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum. Lord who made the lion and the lamb, You decreed I should be what I am. Would it spoil some vast eternal plan? If I were a wealthy man…
[The musical ran on Broadway in 1970, earning nine Tony Award nominations, and was revived successfully Off-Broadway in 1990. A 2015 reworking of the show was praised for clarifying the show and was recorded on JAY records]
Ahh, the JEWS:
“If I Were a Rich Man” from the 1964 Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. While the English lyrics written by Sheldon Harnick use the phrase “If I were a rich man,” the song was directly inspired by a 1902 Yiddish monologue by author Sholem Aleichem titled Ven ikh bin Rothschild (”If I Were a Rothschild”), referencing the famously wealthy Rothschild banking family
When the musical was later translated back into Yiddish, the translator restored this original reference, changing the famous chorus line to
“Ven ikh bin a Rotshild”.
People believe they will win the lottery because of cognitive biases, emotional coping mechanisms, and an inability for the human brain to truly process massive odds.
Cognitive Biases
Availability Bias: Media coverage highlights vivid stories of rare winners, making success feel common while ignoring millions of losers.
Difficulty Processing Numbers: Human brains struggle to intuitively grasp extreme numbers, like odds of 1 in 292 million.
Illusion of Control: Some players believe personal rituals, lucky numbers, or “secret formulas” can influence a random draw.
Emotional and Social Drivers
Escapism and Hope: For many, buying a ticket offers emotional relief, a momentary fantasy, and tangible hope for a dramatically better life.
Perceived Necessity: Studies on Self.inc show that half of players view the lottery as the only feasible way to significantly change their financial situation.
Minimizing Regret: People continue playing regular numbers out of a fear of regret if those numbers happen to hit after they stop.
Then, I got sucked into the Egalitarian’s bullshit:
Oh, shit, now you are into the bloody bullshit national pastime — crime shows, celebrity trials, the whole fucking joke of an American pastime of being junior CSI and Hawaii Five O wannabes.
Yoiu know, I am a writer, journalist, teacher, and fucking worker with a weekly radio show, and imagine that, I knew nothing of this case, until, hmmm, the great egalitarian brought it up. Believe you me, it is easy for an egalitarian to turn off the smut that is NOT news.
So, the murders of the kiddos, infanticide, is EVIL? Oh my, oh my. What about the USA and NED and what is happening in Nepal? The Jewish State of Hell, Occupied Palestine, spreading its true evil from each corner of the globe? Too much to yammer on about THEM?
And, alas, how many are screwed by the criminal injustice systems, locked up for crimes they did not do, for years, in CMUs and solitary is that evil? The jailers, are they evil? The manure pile called Congress and the Senate- do you see evil there?
And you always go after3,428 billionaires; what’s up with that? There are evil ones in the other category of fucking fascist capitalists = 58 million millionaires.
Imagine, the cocktail of dirty drugs prescribed to this woman. IMAGINE. And, alas, it is a country like Nicaragua we should be seeking as a model, or Cuba. Clinics and lay nurses and always people around people and families helping those with all manner of disease or mental hardship. But in your world of citing The Guardian — that piece of shit unreliable Capitalist fucking rag — you are attempting to define EVIL? Based on the most evil of systems — the criminal injustice system with the robed perverts and rotten systems called jury instructions and no power for jury nullification of the crime scene called jurisprudence.
So, thanks for cluttering my head with another fucking pop culture shit show on Court TV, something I have been able to skip over easily.
The specific medications prescribed to Lindsay Clancy included:
Benzodiazepines & Sedatives (For Anxiety and Insomnia)
• Ativan / Lorazepam
• Klonopin / Clonazepam
• Valium / Diazepam
• Ambien / Zolpidem
• Benadryl (Used as a sedative for sleep)
•
Antidepressants (SSRIs, SARIs, & Tricyclics)
• Zoloft (Sertraline)
• Prozac (Fluoxetine)
• Wellbutrin (Bupropion)
• Remeron (Mirtazapine)
• Trazodone
• Amitriptyline
• Antipsychotics, Mood Stabilizers, & Other Anti-Anxiety Meds
• Seroquel / Quetiapine (An antipsychotic also prescribed in low doses for insomnia)
• Lamictal / Lamotrigine (A mood stabilizer/anticonvulsant)
• Hydroxyzine (An antihistamine used for psychiatric purposes/anxiety)]
(Note: THe fucking witch doctor — Jennifer Tufts — also considered Zulresso, a continuous 60-hour IV infusion treatment for postpartum depression that costs $34,000, but Clancy never actually received or took it.)
What Was Actually Found in Her System?
According to forensic toxicologist testimony from NMS Laboratories during the trial, only four primary psychiatric medications were actively detected in her blood following her suicide attempt:
Quetiapine (Seroquel) – Detected at the highest relative concentration, though still well below toxic levels.
1. Mirtazapine (Remeron)
2. Lamotrigine (Lamictal)
3. Trazodone – Detected at levels too low to have an active effect.
4.
Prosecutors used pill counts and these low toxicology results to argue that Clancy had missed or stopped taking many of her pills (such as only taking seven Zoloft and six Ativan pills). Conversely, medical expert reviews and her defense emphasized that rapidly cycling through 13 heavy psychiatric drugs in such a short window can trigger severe mental destabilization, mania, and psychosis, particularly if underlying bipolar disorder is misdiagnosed.
How Lindsay Clancy’s criminal case could help her leverage a ‘million-dollar’ settlement in lawsuit against docs.
When a Jew Lawyer speaks, all parties SHIVER, man:
Clancy could use to bolster negotiations in the civil case, legal observers say.
“It’s like a leverage play when you’re negotiating or mediating,” said Seth Zuckerman, a New York lawyer who handles both criminal and civil cases.
Key Themes and Insights
Brainwashing and Terror: Meerloo notes that to condition individuals, totalitarian regimes systematically eliminate alert consciousness through fear, terror, and hopelessness. Psychological shock is utilized to frighten populations into submission, creating a state of “menticidal hypnosis” where victims act in a trance-like state repeating external commands.
Conformity and Thought Control: The book highlights how inquisitive and doubting minds are actively suppressed under totalitarianism. Implanted delusions remain difficult to correct, and repetition of the “big lie” often overpowers logic during ideological conflicts. Meerloo also observes that conformity is frequently conditioned early in life, affecting even intelligent individuals.
Vulnerability and Addiction: The text addresses how dependencies, such as alcoholism and drug use, impair voluntary mental control and pave the way for totalitarian submission.
SHOP, man, Homo Sapiens Consumpticius:
General Belief: Roughly 70% of American adults believe in angels overall.
Personal Protection: A major study by Baylor University found that 55% of Americans specifically believe they have been personally protected from harm by a guardian angel.
Non-Religious Believers: Interestingly, the belief is experiential and crosses secular lines; about 1 in 5 Americans who identify as non-religious still believe they have been watched over by a protector angel.
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“When there was a crisis facing the Jewish people, we can look back to the golem myth from late 16th-century Prague. The Jews were threatened by pogroms, so the rabbi conjured a man out of earth and gave life from nothingness to save the ghetto and protect the Jewish people,” Schumer said.
American superheroes of the 1930s, like Batman, were a response to the rise of fascism and Nazism. Other superheroes, like Captain America, were created to help raise American consciousness about the war and to change isolationist attitudes, he added.
Schumer, as an artist and writer himself, created the comic book character Captain Israel, based on Captain America, to bolster public support for the State of Israel as it was threatened by terrorism during the Second Intifada.
“Jewish ideas of truth, justice and the American way are basically the Jewish democratic ideal,” Schumer said. “The Jewish people, as the original storytellers, as the Bible writers, conjure heroes out of nothingness to inspire people.”
Jews, the INSIDERS, the system of KILLING.
Cognition vs. Identification in the Judaic State
Gilad Atzmon, quoting:
Yesterday, I watched a short clip from the 1970s featuring an Orthodox Jew whom I regard as the most important Jewish thinker of his generation and beyond.
Yeshayahu Leibowitz was asked about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Jewish historic right to the land.
Leibowitz insisted that a historic right doesn’t exist—there is no such thing, he said.
What we see in Palestine, he contended, isn’t a legal, historical, or political clash. It is a clash of cognitions.
In Leibowitz’s view, being French or English is not grounded in any legal or historical right but in the cognition of being English or French. One is French not because one carries a French ID card, but because one recognises in oneself the cognition of being French. It is the bond with the language, the soil, the sky, the streets, the blossom in the spring, the history, the culture, the poetry, the chanson, the heritage.
It is worth mentioning that cognition is something one finds in oneself, as opposed to identification, which implies an identification with something external. This distinction is illuminated in the difference between ‘being English’, for instance, and acting ‘as a’ Brit. I believe that being English would be perceived by Leibowitz as a cognition, while acting ‘as a’ Brit is displaying an amalgam of identifications (as a Brit, I believe-in or identify-with X, Y, Z).
According to Leibowitz, the fight over Palestine is a battle between two peoples locked in two separate cognitions: Israeli and Palestinian. Such a battle, according to Leibowitz, could only lead to two possible scenarios:
One scenario is dividing the land between the two peoples (this option was later named the ‘two-state solution’).
The other is a catastrophic, bitter war in which, according to Leibowitz, the whole world will join with the Arabs.
This was Leibowitz in the 1970s. If there was a window at any point for a two-state solution, that window closed long ago. We are now witnessing the evolution of the second scenario, as accurately predicted by Leibowitz: a colossal war in which the whole of humanity is taking the Palestinian side, turning against the Jewish genocidal state and its caretakers around the world.
But the story doesn’t end here.
It is also worth mentioning that what Leibowitz viewed as an ‘Israeli cognition’ back in the 1970s has evaporated completely. It has been replaced by Jewish/Judaic cognition.
Jewish (Cognition) vs. Israelines (Identity)
Arthur Finkelstein was the American political strategist behind Benjamin Netanyahu’s stunning 1996 election victory. Finkelstein was a pioneer in using data to drive political strategy. He polled voters on whether they identified first as Jews or Israelis and used the results to design campaigns, leading to concepts like “Bibi is good for the Jews.”
Finkelstein’s polling in 1996 revealed a fundamental divide in the Israeli electorate. Voters were asked: “Do you consider yourself more Jewish or more Israeli?” You may note that the ‘Z’ word was not mentioned. Zionism was already a dead notion in Israeli politics by 1996.
A majority of respondents answered, “Jewish.”
Those identifying as “Jews” tended to vote for Netanyahu, while those identifying as “Israelis” tended to vote for Shimon Peres.
Finkelstein correctly believed this distinction explained everything in Israeli politics. It led to the campaign’s core message—”Peres will divide Jerusalem”—based on the finding that “Jewish”-identifying voters would reject any deal requiring the capital’s division. This insight was crucial to engineering Netanyahu’s victory.
In an interview following his defeat, Peres was asked about the election results. He said: “We lost.”
“Who is ‘we’?” The interviewer wondered.
“The Israelis,” Peres answered.
“And who won?”
“The Jews!” Peres replied.
The last Israelis
Nearly five decades later, the last so-called ‘Israelis’ are leaving the country. They have grasped that Israel’s transition into a Jewish ghetto/ Judaic State is nearly accomplished and there is nothing they can do about it.
The Israeli ‘cognition’ couldn’t last. Because it wasn’t really a cognition. It was a ‘cognition wannabe’—an invention born out of an aspiration of ‘becoming’ as opposed to a celebration of ‘being.’
Israeliness was just another Jewish ‘revolutionary’ dream. It was an a phantasy born out of European Jewish self-loathing, an expression of the Jewish desire to be ‘normal,’ a people ‘like all other peoples.’ Israeliness was an identitarian dream for auto-metamorphosis, a fantasy of a secular, Hebraic, self-sufficient society. Israeliness provided a short-lived, fake, delusional sense of authenticity. As such, more than a real cognition, it was a delusional momentary identitarian adventure.
The cracks in the Israeli so-called ‘cognition’ fully unveiled themselves in the early 1970s, especially following the 1973 war.
Slowly but surely, more and more Israelis started to lose faith in the fake Israeli ethos. They started to search for a path towards authenticity and true meaning that might justify dying in an Israeli war or committing a genocide while pretending to be a ‘peace lover.’
Israeliness couldn’t provide the good. The Israelis were singing about shalom, yet doing everything within their power to make shalom impossible. Israeliness could never rid itself of its original sin, the 1948 Nakba. Judaism, was consistent and coherent; it rationalised supremacy, expansionism, and even genocide.
Judaism was destined to prevail. It had 2,500 years of experience in suppressing Jewish revolutionaries and dissenters. The victory of Judaism over Israeliness is the moment in time when the West Bank settlement movement matured into a noticeable political force. By the end of the 1970s (1977), Labour Zionism had lost its power, pretty much forever. The Jewish State launched its transition into a Judaic state.
If you wonder how it is possible that Israeliness was so easily defeated by Jewishness, cognition vs. identification is the answer. The Judaic state is consistent with the Jewish cognition. While Israeliness offered a revolutionary, albeit short-lived, identitarian outlook—a fantasy of being ‘authentic’—Jewishness offered the Israelis the prospect of simply being themselves. It is that particular ‘being themselves’ and being for themselves that brought along the worst documented genocide in human history.
What They Told You Was True
The prescription is written on the basis of a mechanism, a diagnosis, and a trial. Each has failed on its own terms.
1. The chemical imbalance was never demonstrated
The theory that depression results from a deficiency of serotonin was never established in the scientific literature. Joanna Moncrieff and colleagues published a comprehensive umbrella review of the serotonin theory in 2022 and found no consistent evidence for its central claims.⁵ The theory was abandoned by serious researchers decades earlier. It continued to appear in direct-to-consumer advertising and patient education materials because it served a function. It explained why the pill was necessary and why the patient would need to keep taking it.
Steven Hyman, director of NIMH from 1996 to 2001, later observed that “the gold standard was the DSM criteria. It struck me as a fool’s errand to try to develop a biomarker for a fictive category.”⁶ The chemical imbalance was the mechanism proposed for a disease no one could measure, in a category no one could validate.
After four decades and hundreds of millions of dollars in federal research, not one disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has a confirmed biological test. Not depression. Not schizophrenia. Not bipolar disorder. Not ADHD. Not anxiety. Not any of the more than three hundred conditions the manual lists.
Robins and Guze proposed a five-step validation process in 1970: clinical description, laboratory studies, exclusion criteria, follow-up studies, family studies.⁷ The five steps were meant to establish, over time, which alleged disorders were real diseases and which were figments. Four decades later, Darrel Regier, who chaired the DSM-5 task force, told Psychiatric News that “validity tests have not lived up to the expectations of Robins and Guze.”⁸ Kenneth Kendler, the field’s leading nosologist, wrote that the diagnostic categories in use had been “heavily influenced by expert opinion” and were “fuzzy constructs that shift when viewed in different ways.”⁹
Thomas Insel, director of NIMH from 2002 to 2015, put it most directly in a 2005 address to the American Psychiatric Association: “The DSM-IV has 100 percent reliability and zero percent validity.”¹⁰ Reliability means clinicians using the same manual will arrive at the same diagnosis. Validity means the diagnosis corresponds to a real thing. Insel was telling the assembled profession that its manual sorted patients consistently into categories that did not exist.
The APA response was to convene committees to plan the DSM-5. The committees did not find biological markers. They could not have. The categories were not built to have biological markers. They were built from clinical description alone. The manual reifies its own criteria.
The consequence for the patient is direct. When the doctor says “you have major depressive disorder,” the patient hears a diagnosis in the sense that a diabetes diagnosis is a diagnosis: a measurable biological state with a known mechanism. What the patient has actually received is a checklist tally. Five of nine symptoms present for two weeks. That is the whole test. There is no blood work, no scan, no biomarker. The diagnostic bible of American psychiatry sits on the shelf as an artifact of expert agreement, not a description of nature.
The opening figures bear structural repetition: 3 percent versus 67 percent, admitted by the lead investigator, still not retracted, still cited. Ed Pigott’s reanalysis was published in BMJ Open in 2023.¹¹ The investigators, when confronted, doubled down on the fraud in the American Journal of Psychiatry rather than correct it.¹² The owner of the journal, the American Psychiatric Association, did nothing.
Peter Gøtzsche has documented the specific manipulations. The “remission” threshold was set so low that a patient scoring 7 on the Hamilton depression scale, including endorsement of “feels like life is not worth living,” was counted as symptom-free.¹³ Patients who exited the study were assumed to have remitted at the same rate as those who stayed, a statistical fiction that inflated the numbers by an order of magnitude. Eleven prespecified outcomes were never reported. Suicidal ideation was reported at 0.7 percent in one paper and ten times that in others by the same authors.
The trial that was supposed to establish the effectiveness of antidepressants in real-world practice established the opposite. The profession’s response was to continue citing the announced figure.
The prescription arrives with the phrase “you may notice some side effects.” The phrase does the work of concealment. Three effects, in particular, are not warned about with the seriousness they warrant.
4. Akathisia carries documented suicide risk
Akathisia is a state of extreme inner restlessness produced by antidepressants, antipsychotics, and antiemetics. The Greek term means inability to sit still. The patient may pace, fidget, wring hands, or endlessly walk. The condition may also present without visible motor symptoms, as unbearable internal agitation the observer cannot see.¹⁴
In 1990, Martin Teicher and colleagues at Harvard published five cases of patients who developed intense suicidal preoccupations on fluoxetine, all associated with akathisia, all resolving when the drug was stopped and returning when it was restarted.¹⁵ Rothschild and Locke published the rechallenge study in 1991: three patients who had made serious suicide attempts on fluoxetine, all rechallenged under controlled conditions, all developing akathisia and becoming suicidal again. One patient said in retrospect: “I tried to kill myself because of these anxiety symptoms. It was not so much the depression.”¹⁶
A study of psychiatric inpatients found that 79 percent of those who had attempted suicide were experiencing akathisia at the time.¹⁷ Another found that half of all fights on a psychiatric ward were akathisia-related. Haloperidol at moderate to high doses made half the patients markedly more aggressive, sometimes to the point of wanting to kill their psychiatrists.
The FDA’s 2004 black-box warning on antidepressants describes what Breggin has called the stimulant syndrome: anxiety, agitation, panic attacks, insomnia, irritability, hostility, aggressiveness, impulsivity, akathisia, hypomania, mania.¹⁸ The label warns that these can occur in nonpsychiatric patients, meaning the drug produces the syndrome by itself, not by unmasking a preexisting condition.
Gøtzsche’s team examined manufacturer trial data and found akathisia miscoded as “hyperkinesia” in Zoloft trials. In paroxetine trials they found not a single case of akathisia recorded, which is statistically impossible given the drug class.¹⁹ The miscoding was systematic.
The FDA-approved label for Zyprexa describes akathisia as “extreme inner anxiety and restlessness.” At least one psychiatric textbook labeled it “agitated depression,” folding the drug’s most dangerous effect back into the diagnosis it was prescribed to treat. The patient who reports the akathisia is told the underlying illness has worsened. The dose is increased.
5. Benzodiazepine dependence begins at prescribed doses
The FDA-approved label for Xanax states that withdrawal symptoms, including seizures, have been reported after only brief therapy at doses within the recommended range for treating anxiety.²⁰ In the eight-week trials used for FDA approval, patients were worse off at eight weeks than before starting the drug. Between 7 and 29 percent of patients could not withdraw after only six to eight weeks of exposure.²¹
If you are currently taking a benzodiazepine, do not stop it abruptly. Abrupt cessation can produce seizures. Item 12 addresses what safe withdrawal actually requires.
Heather Ashton, the British psychiatrist who ran a benzodiazepine withdrawal clinic at the University of Newcastle for decades, documented that long-term users often required a year or more to taper.²² Some experience withdrawal symptoms lasting years after cessation. Cognitive impairment, depression, and anxiety worse than the original condition are common outcomes of long-term use.²³ Gøtzsche, who has decades of clinical pharmacology experience, has noted that patients report benzodiazepine withdrawal as often worse than heroin. Heroin abstinence symptoms resolve within days. Benzo withdrawal can persist for years.
6. ADHD stimulants produce the symptoms they treat on withdrawal
The DSM has a category for stimulant withdrawal, which lists depression, anxiety, irritability, sleep problems, fatigue, and agitation as the withdrawal syndrome after “several days or longer” of use. Rebound hyperactivity, talkativeness, and inattention are documented after a single dose in a placebo-controlled NIMH study of normal children ages 6 to 12.²⁴ Ten of fourteen children in that study showed marked behavioral rebound; three developed euphoria.
If a child is currently taking a stimulant, do not stop it abruptly. Rebound and withdrawal effects are commonly mistaken for a worsening of the original condition. Item 12 addresses safe withdrawal.
The teacher observes the child on Monday morning after a weekend off the drug, notices the child is more scattered and irritable than usual, and concludes the child needs the medication. The child is in withdrawal. The dose is increased. Peter Breggin’s observation from the early 1990s stands unchanged three decades later: if the child continues on Ritalin because they continue to have problems focusing, the disorder may be the drug’s effect.²⁵ Drug-induced inattention becomes the reason to continue and increase the drug.
The Multimodal Treatment Study of ADHD, the largest NIMH-funded stimulant trial, tracked children through eight years of follow-up. By three years, the medicated children showed no advantage over the non-medicated on any measure. They were, however, 2 cm shorter and 2.7 kg lighter than their unmedicated peers, a growth suppression the FDA eventually required on the label.²⁶
The drugs act on the brain and the brain responds. What the brain does under sustained chemical assault is documented in the profession’s own imaging studies.
7. Antipsychotics shrink brain tissue on MRI
Nancy Andreasen, editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Psychiatry from 1993 to 2005, began a longitudinal MRI study of over 500 first-episode schizophrenia patients in 1989. In 2003, she reported that frontal lobe white matter volume decreased progressively over the years of treatment.²⁷ In 2011, her team published in Archives of General Psychiatry the finding that antipsychotic exposure was directly associated with volume loss.²⁸ In a 2008 interview with the New York Times, Andreasen stated it plainly: “The more drugs you’ve been given, the more brain tissue you lose.”²⁹
Fusar-Poli and colleagues confirmed the pattern in a 2013 meta-analysis of longitudinal MRI studies.³⁰ The 2009 Navari and Dazzan review reported that both older and newer antipsychotics produce gross changes in brain volume in selected regions.³¹ In monkey studies, haloperidol and olanzapine produced substantial reductions in both grey and white matter, and reduced glial cell numbers.³²
Andreasen’s original interpretation was that the shrinkage reflected the disease. The follow-up data forced her to concede the drug was the cause.
Tardive dyskinesia is a drug-induced movement disorder produced by antipsychotics. It can affect any voluntary muscle: face, tongue, neck, torso, extremities, diaphragm, vocal cords. The condition presents as involuntary jerky movements, slower writhing movements, painful spasms, or restlessness the patient cannot control. The mechanism is understood. Antipsychotics block dopamine receptors in a brain region called the basal ganglia. Over time the brain compensates by growing more of those receptors. When the drug dose is reduced, or when the extra receptors eventually outnumber the block, the excess drives the involuntary movements.
The prevalence is not marginal. DSM-IV-TR sets the annual incidence at 3 to 5 percent per year in young adults and 25 to 30 percent per year in older patients.³³ These are cumulative rates. A young adult after three years of exposure has a 9 to 15 percent risk. An older patient after three years has a 75 to 90 percent risk. Prevalence in outpatient clinics runs above 40 percent. In long-term facilities, above 50 percent.³⁴ There is no established treatment. Most cases are permanent.
The condition often extends beyond motor symptoms. Gualtieri and Barnhill observed that “in virtually every clinical survey that has addressed the question, it is found that TD patients, compared to non-TD patients, have more in the way of dementia.”³⁵ Breggin has called this tardive dementia. Tardive akathisia and tardive psychosis have also been documented, representing further permanent damage to the higher brain function of patients whose brains were supposed to be helped.
The condition is frequently masked by the drug that caused it. Increasing the dose suppresses the visible movements while the underlying damage progresses. Reducing the dose brings the movements out, which the prescriber may interpret as evidence that the patient still needs the medication. The patient’s brain, already damaged, is offered more of what damaged it.
The neurological literature has documented tardive dyskinesia for over five decades. It is required disclosure on antipsychotic labels. It is not routinely disclosed at the point of prescription.
Electroconvulsive therapy applies electrical current to the head sufficient to produce a grand mal seizure. In modern practice, the patient is anesthetized and given a muscle relaxant to prevent the visible convulsion. The electrical dose is often increased to compensate for the seizure threshold raised by the anesthesia. Multiple treatments are given, typically 8 to 16 per course, sometimes more.
Autopsy studies dating to the 1940s documented brain necrosis in patients who died following ECT.³⁶ Animal studies documented brain damage. The brain’s response to ECT is an acute organic brain syndrome, medically indistinguishable from severe head injury. In neurological terms, multiple continuous seizures without full recovery of consciousness constitute status epilepticus, a medical emergency defined by its risk of permanent brain damage.
The memory loss is documented in every serious study that has looked for it. Larry Squire and Pamela Slater reported an average of 27 months of retrograde amnesia surrounding treatment.³⁷ Freeman and Kendell, using face-to-face interviews conducted by the treating doctors themselves (a design that biased strongly against reporting), found that 74 percent of patients reported memory impairment and 30 percent said their memory function was permanently affected.³⁸ Squire and Slater’s own longer follow-up found that 55 percent of patients felt they had not regained normal memory function over the years.
Gøtzsche summarizes the current literature: with strict definitions of memory loss, 29 to 55 percent of patients are affected. With looser criteria, 51 to 79 percent.³⁹ Death rates from ECT, according to a systematic review by John Read and colleagues, run at approximately 1 per 1,000 treatment courses, ten times higher than the American Psychiatric Association’s stated figure.⁴⁰
The efficacy evidence is thinner than the harms evidence. The 1985 NIMH Consensus Conference on ECT accepted the finding that no controlled study showed benefit beyond four weeks. The four-week window corresponds to the acute organic brain syndrome, during which severe brain dysfunction produces the euphoria or apathy interpreted as improvement.⁴¹ Once the brain begins to recover, the depression returns. If the patient is given more ECT, the brain damage accumulates. If the patient is not given more ECT, the profession points to the returning depression as evidence the disease was chronic.
The APA’s 1990 task force report on ECT omitted essentially the entire literature documenting memory loss and brain damage.⁴² The literature it omitted included the work of Squire, Slater, Janis, Friedberg, Breggin, and even the APA’s own previous 1978 report, which contained more information on memory loss than the 1990 update. In psychiatry, science sometimes runs backward.
At some point the patient decides they no longer want to be on the drug. The system was not built to help them leave.
10. SSRI discontinuation can last years
The FDA-approved labels describe “discontinuation syndrome.” Patients and doctors alike were told the symptoms would last a few weeks and resolve. The systematic review by Davies and Read, published in 2019, established that this was false. Withdrawal symptoms are more common than reported, more severe than reported, and last far longer than reported. In one survey of 580 patients, 16 percent reported withdrawal symptoms lasting over three years.⁴³
If you are currently taking an SSRI or SNRI, do not stop it abruptly. Withdrawal reactions can include severe agitation, akathisia, suicidal ideation, and violence. Item 12 addresses the resources for safe tapering.
The Dutch tapering-strip program run by Peter Groot and Jim van Os has documented the shape of the problem. Of 895 patients on antidepressants, 62 percent had previously tried to withdraw without success. Using hyperbolic dose-reduction strips, 71 percent were able to withdraw within a median of 56 days.⁴⁴ Venlafaxine required 90 percent of patients to start at the lowest available dose and taper over three months. Some patients required more than six months. Dutch insurers refused to reimburse extended tapering because “there is no evidence in the literature” for its necessity, a circular defense against the very treatment the literature was documenting.
The withdrawal is routinely misinterpreted as return of the underlying illness. The patient is told they were unwise to stop and needs to remain on the drug indefinitely. Breggin’s term for this pattern is medication spellbinding. The drug produces effects the patient attributes to the disease.
11. Long-term outcomes are worse with the drugs than without them
The 1997 British study of a large inner-city primary care facility followed 95 never-medicated depressed patients and 53 drug-treated ones. Symptom reduction at six months: 62 percent for the never-medicated, 33 percent for the drug-treated.⁴⁵ A World Health Organization study of 640 depressed patients found that medicated patients had worse general health and were more likely to still be mentally ill at one year.⁴⁶ A Canadian five-year study of 9,508 depressed patients: 19 weeks of depression per year for the medicated, 11 for the unmedicated.⁴⁷ An NIMH study of 547 patients: medicated patients were three times more likely to lose their principal social role and nearly seven times more likely to become incapacitated at six years.⁴⁸
Rif El-Mallakh reported that 40 percent of patients on antidepressants end up in a chronically depressed “treatment resistant” state.⁴⁹ Giovanni Fava documented that drug changes induced by antidepressants “may propel the illness to a more malignant and treatment unresponsive course.”⁵⁰
The pattern extends to antipsychotics. Martin Harrow’s 15-year follow-up of first-episode psychosis patients found that those not on antipsychotics had significantly better outcomes and were far more likely to be in recovery.⁵¹ Lex Wunderink’s 7-year Dutch trial randomized first-episode psychosis patients to maintenance antipsychotics or dose reduction and discontinuation. The reduction group had double the recovery rate.⁵² Bockoven had documented in 1975 that rehospitalization rates rose after the introduction of antipsychotics and that medicated patients were more socially dependent than those treated in the pre-drug era.⁵³
The pattern is consistent across drug classes and across decades. Longer exposure produces worse outcomes. The drugs sensitize the brain and convert episodic distress into chronic dysfunction. The profession’s response has been to rewrite the natural history of the conditions to match the drug-damaged outcomes. The 1999 American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry declared that older studies showing depression was self-limiting had been “disproved.” Depression became “a highly recurrent and pernicious disorder.”⁵⁴ The drugs had made it so.
12. Tapering protocols do not exist in most medical schools
The prescriber who put the patient on the drug is typically not trained in how to help them come off it. Withdrawal is not covered in the standard psychiatric curriculum. The tapering approach with the strongest evidence base is hyperbolic dose reduction, developed by Mark Horowitz and Joanna Moncrieff and published in Lancet Psychiatry in 2019.⁵⁵ The approach requires micro-dose reductions of a few percent at a time, made possible by liquid formulations or compounded tapering strips. Standard tablets do not come in the small doses required.
Peter Gøtzsche’s team spent two years trying to publish a Cochrane review protocol on antidepressant withdrawal support. The Cochrane depression group, chaired by Rachel Churchill, raised objections through 12,044 words of feedback across 86 numbered points, then rejected the protocol.⁵⁶ Cochrane refused to publish a review on how to help patients safely withdraw from a class of drugs prescribed to hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Gøtzsche’s PhD student Anders Sørensen mentored 30 consecutive patients through withdrawal in his unpaid spare time and documented the results, because it was the only way to do the work.
The insurance system compounds the problem. Dutch national health insurance refuses to reimburse extended tapering on the grounds of insufficient evidence, though the evidence exists and the insurers know it does. American insurers do not cover compounded formulations. The tapering strips developed at the Amsterdam pharmacy (taperingstrip.org) are available to prescribers in any country, but the patient must find a prescriber willing to order them, which many will not.
The knowledge exists. The Ashton Manual for benzodiazepine withdrawal has been public since 2002.⁵⁷ The Horowitz-Moncrieff hyperbolic tapering literature is in peer-reviewed journals. Mad in America hosts a withdrawal community with thousands of patients’ documented experiences. Breggin’s Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal was published in 2013.
None of it is on the psychiatric residency reading list. The doctor who wrote the prescription is, in most cases, not the doctor who can help the patient stop taking it. The patient is on their own.
The most common defense of the current prescribing paradigm is that the drugs help some patients, and that essays like this one endanger those patients by encouraging them to stop.
Some patients do report subjective benefit on these drugs. That is not disputed. What is not established is that this benefit exceeds placebo by a clinically meaningful margin, or that it survives the long-term outcomes documented in Item 11.
The safety caveats throughout this essay, and the resources listed below, exist precisely because abrupt cessation is dangerous. Nothing here recommends abrupt cessation. What is recommended is informed choice, which requires the twelve findings to be visible before the prescription is written or renewed. A patient who wishes to continue after seeing the twelve findings has made a different decision from a patient who was never shown them.
JEWS:
When the DSM-5 was published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in May 2013, it faced widespread criticism for over-medicalizing normal human behaviors. In response, a group of writers and mental health professionals published a celebrated parody called The Diagnostic Manual of Mishegas. [1]
The Concept: Created under the fictitious persona of “Dr. Sol Farblondget,” the manual humorously categorizes archetypal Jewish behaviors and anxieties into clinical “disorders”.
Cultural Context: Rather than mocking mental illness, the book highlights the historically deep ties between Jews and the American psychoanalytic tradition, turning cultural quirks (like excessive worrying, overeating, or parental guilt) into tongue-in-cheek diagnostic criteria.
The satirical Diagnostic Manual of Mishegas–created by the fictitious Dr. Sol Farblondget–sends up the DSM with its listing of Jewish disorders.
CATEGORIES OF MISHEGAS
1.0 NERVOUS CONDITIONS OF EVERYDAY LIFE
Nervous conditions are part of the human condition, and thus are as different in their variations as human beings are different from one another. Still, it is helpful to understand what form of nervousness you are experiencing, or what type of tsuris-addict is torturing you with tales of woe, and to thereby figure out how to tell the feeling, or the person, to gei avek (get lost!), gei shluffen (go to sleep), or—our number one suggestion, especially when the meter is running out on your patience for listening to yet another mournful Oy Vey-drenched soliloquy—to tell the tsuris-addict to fardrai zich deyn kopf (literally: ‘Go turn your own head around’—i.e., to leave me alone and make yourself nuts!) Also: a good hot pastrami sandwich, don’t skimp on the mustard, with a nice, fat sour pickle on the side, can’t hurt.
Here follows a list of common nervous conditions that, though different in kind, one from the other, have many qualities in common and, depending on a particular day’s Dow Jones Industrial Average or the state of your kishkas (intestines), can sometimes be used interchangeably.
1.01 Tsuris Reactions and Sequelae
Although Jews like to claim a monopoly on tsuris, the truth is that this condition (troubles, aggravation, worries, suffering) befalls everyone, and most of what passes for mishegas is a natural reaction to life’s vagaries and pitfalls. Thus, when a 54-year-old woman becomes depressed because her accountant husband, also 54, has taken up with an 18-year-old hotsie-totsie, she is not mishugah and in need of psychotropic medications. What she needs, we believe, is to shack up with an 18-year-old lifeguard or tennis pro, and to leave her husband a note, informing him that, as an accountant he should realize that 18 can go into 54 many more times than 54 can go into 18.
The point is not to moan, groan and carry on about the tsuris that has befallen you, but to do something about it. Remember: when the Children of Israel fled from Egypt and came to the Red Sea with the Egyptians in hot pursuit, and they complained to God that he had delivered them from slavery into something worse than slavery, and Moses, who did not even ask for a retainer, went to God on their behalf and transmitted his tribe’s complaints, God laughed. “Wherefore criest thou unto me?” God said. “Go forth!” And it was only when the Children of Israel stopped kvetching, and plunged forward into the Red Sea, that the waters parted.
1.02 Tsuris-addiction
Tsuris addiction is a widespread condition which, by cutting people off from their innate capacity for pleasure and encouraging kvetching (complaining), enables them to spread gevalt-laden gloom and doom everywhere. In an iconic example, four elderly Jewish women are wading ankle-deep in the waters at Brighton Beach. “Oy,” says Ethel. “Oy vey,” says Molly. “Oy vey iz mir,” says Lillie. “Please, ladies,” says Annie. “We promised not to talk about our children.”
People who have life-long love affairs with, and attachments to, misery wind up living in what we think of as The Village of Oy Vey Iz Mir at whose center is the Shtiebel of Gornish Helfin. Tsuris addicts spend their lives holding on to every morsel of real or imagined bad news they ever had—kvetching, for example, about how unfair it is that they had to grow up near people with bigger houses, better time-shares, more cashmere sweaters and fancier cabanas than theirs. In Oy Vey Iz Mir, any and every event is cause for weeping and wailing.
That tsuris addiction is a regrettable and oft-considered natural part of life is not even mentioned in the D.S.M. (Nor is tsuris attachment, which is pretty much the same thing, except that you can send it to someone in an e-mail.) While some studies show that tsuris addicts may take what they consider genuine (if perverse) pleasure from being miserable, the price of their pleasure is often to plunge many of us into a desire to rip out their vocal cords.
1.02A: The Wisdom of Gornish Helfin
Although the D.S.M. makes a big deal out of attachment theory, we are advocates of detachment theory, since experience convinces us that what proves most helpful both to those addicted to tsuris, and those who must suffer from relationships with tsuris addicts, is the concept of Gornish Helfin (meaning, literally, “Nothing will help”), which can be explained by the following archetypal example.
When the great Yiddish actor Mendel Kupietzky fell down in the middle of a Yiddish-language performance of King Lear, and a doctor rushed to the stage and began examining him, a man in the balcony started yelling, “Give him an enema. . . . ! Give him an enema. . . . !” And when, a moment later, the doctor threw out his hands in a gesture of helplessness, and announced that Mendel Kupietzky was dead—still the man from the balcony kept yelling “Give him an enema . . . ! Give him an enema. . . . !” and would not stop despite pleas from other actors and members of the audience. Only when the theater manager appeared alongside the doctor and looked up at the man in the balcony and said, “He’s dead, sir. An enema can’t help. Gornish Helfin . . . Gornish Helfin . . . ”
—only then did the man in the balcony change his tune. “Give him an enema!” he cried one last time. “It can’t hurt . . . . ”
Once we understand that no matter what we do to and for some people, they will not change—that GornishHelfin, and therefore the best thing is to leave them be—we free ourselves from the quintessential American illusion, pragmatic to its core, that there is no problem for which there is not a happy solution. What we believe is that for many situations and conditions, including most forms of mishegas—tsuris addiction at the top of the list—there is nothing to be done. Thus, any engagement with the tsuris addict—especially telling the addict that kvetching about tsuris is not such a hot idea—merely brings on ever-rising levels of tsuris-addiction.
For tsuris addicts, insatiability is the name of the game. Nothing will ever please them, and it is a waste of time—truly mishugah!—to point out that they have no real reasons for being miserable, or to urge them to find ways to be happy.
Therefore, when engaged in relationships with tsuris-addicts, and you sense an impulse to enter into dialogue with them, the suggestion here is to cock your head to the side, furrow your brow in feigned sympathy, and stare through or past the addict while silently repeating, “Gornish helfin . . . Gornish helfin . . . Gornish helfin . . . ” This way, if by some miracle these people ever do change, you have not destroyed whatever good will may exist between you, and they remain ready to embrace you.
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Russian Jewish Gulags, before the King David Hotel, Honey Pots, Contra rebels, USS Liberty, and, gulp, well well Controlled Demolition and the Hannibal Murders
It was announced by the BBC 20 minutes before it Happened. (Foreknowledge?)
Oh, the chain of Jewish Crimes CUSTODY:
No, Gideon… this is a genocide, a systematic annihilation of the great indigenous people of Palestine and their beautiful civilization.
It is inspired by Old Testament and Talmudic misanthropy…
Sergey Brin is cooking up Google’s AI destiny
The Alphabet cofounder has gained more influence over Gemini, working from a microkitchen in Mountain View
On the second floor of Gradient Canopy, a tent-like structure that rises east of Google’s Mountain View headquarters, is a microkitchen filled with many of the typical fixings: coffee beans, grinders, an espresso machine, a fridge. Less typical is the U-shaped formation of desks, used by Google cofounder Sergey Brin and a handful of mission-critical leaders who are steering Google through an AI race it can’t afford to lose.
US Rep. Chris Pappas swiftly defeated progressive opponent Karishma Manzur in a Democratic Senate primary in New Hampshire on Tuesday, capping off one of several races in which criticism of Israel and AIPAC became prominent talking points.
The Associated Press called the race just an hour after polls closed, at 6 p.m., when 22% of the votes had been counted. As the night wore on, with 88% of the votes tallied, Pappas had accrued 65% of the votes to Manzur’s 32.8%.
“If you look at October 7 as the starting point, then you might say Israel is defending itself,” Manzur said. “But you should actually look at the 100 years of war between the two people.”
Centrist beats progressive foe in NH Democratic Senate primary marked by Israel criticism
Chains of Custody!
Ahh, Jew Fall on Streaming Propaganda, a la JEWS: Goyim will have even more of that 2 percent of a functioning brain lobotomized by the Mossad.
Writer and Director Guy Moshe served in the Israeli special forces, followed by a stint working protective details be fore becoming a filmmaker. In his early years, he distanced himself from his military service, but he always knew he wanted to explore his niche service experience. When an idea from former CIA Intelligence Special Operations Group Officer Bazzel Baz (“The Blacklist”) came across his desk, Moshe saw an opportunity.
Along with co-writer Mark Bacci (“Real Detective”), Moshe wrote the screenplay for “The Fix,” a special forces thriller starring Liam Neeson (“Taken”), Zachary Levi (“Shazam!”), Quincy Isaiah (“Nemesis”), Elnaaz Norouzi (“Tehran”), and Titus Welliver (“Lost,” “Bosch”).
Miliband rejects chief rabbi’s claim British Jews in greater danger after sanctions move
That fucking crime scene: Jews make up approximately 0.4% to 0.5% of the total population of the United Kingdom
Which fucking Jew is in on this one? As Social Security fund runs dry, some Republicans say it’s time to raise taxes
Raising the payroll tax cap is gaining traction as a fix — even in the anti-tax GOP — to fend off deep cuts in retirement benefits.
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Economist Alan Nasser argued in his article “The Paradigmatic Liberal as Fiscal Conservative: How Franklin D. Roosevelt Botched Social Security” that FDR’s choice to fund Social Security through regressive payroll taxes rather than general government revenues was a profound political and economic mistake.
Regressive Funding: Nasser and other critics note that financing Social Security via employee and employer payroll contributions (FICA) operates like a flat tax or sales tax, placing a heavier relative burden on lower-income workers who can least afford it.
Subordinating Public Good to Capital: Nasser argued that FDR structured the New Deal to fit comfortably within capitalist market parameters, prioritizing business profit stability and sound fiscal conservatism over true redistributive justice.
FDR’s Political Rationale
The Insurance Illusion: Roosevelt famously insisted on contributory payroll taxes not for sound economic reasons, but for deliberate political self-defense.
Creating Entitlement Protection: FDR told aides—such as Luther Gulick—that paying into the system gave workers an unquestionable “legal, moral, and political right” to collect benefits, making it politically impossible for future conservative politicians to scrap the program.
The Trade-off: By tying benefits explicitly to individual payroll contributions modeled on private insurance, FDR insulated the program from political repeal, but permanently anchored public welfare to a regressive funding mechanism.
From Cambridge University in 1932-1933, John Maynard Keynes observed a promising new U.S. president presiding over what he saw as half-baked and confused policies, while labor insurgency was mounting. Roosevelt’s measures were, Keynes conceded, without precedent, but novelty was not enough. Long-term commitment to direct federal employment was required. For Keynes, this was the bottom line. (For a detailed analysis of Keynes’s prescriptions for eliminating unemployment, see Alan Nasser, “What Keynes Really Prescribed,”CounterPunch subscription edition, volume 19, number 19, 2012)
Existing programs were not only too small, but they were also either temporary (Civilian Conservation Corps and Civil W orks Administration) or irrationally tied to the severely weakened states’ ability to raise substantial revenues on their own (Federal Emergency Relief Act and Public Works Administration). CWA had come closest to the kind of commitment Keynes thought indispensable, but it suffered two fatal defects: it was temporary, designed only to help workers get through the harsh winter of 1933, and of all these programs it was the object of Roosevelt’s greatest suspicion. Roosevelt feared that CWA would raise workers’ expectations of what they could permanently expect from government.
The Dawn of the New Deal and Keynes’s 1933 Letter
The president’s instincts were solidly anti-federalist; there must be no permanent direct government provision of what it is the proper function of the private sector to provide. (1) Roosevelt wanted relatively small, temporary federal efforts on behalf of workers, with the states primarily responsible for the provision of social benefits in the long run. Keynes urged large, permanent programs supplying employment during both economic contractions and expansions, provided directly by the federal government. He communicated his concern to Roosevelt in an open letter published in The New York Times on December 31, 1933. (2)
In the letter he expressed his extreme distress at Roosevelt’s timid policy. “At the moment your sympathizers in England are nervous and sometimes despondent. We wonder whether the order of different urgencies is rightly understood, whether there is a confusion of aim, and whether some of the advice you get is not crack-brained and queer.” He then outlined his alternative analysis.
The basic issue, Keynes insisted, is “Recovery,” whose object is “to increase the national output and put more men to work.” An increase in output depends on “the amount of purchasing power… which is expected to come on the market.” Recovery depends upon increasing purchasing power. There are, Keynes pointed out, three factors operating to raise purchasing power and output. The first is increased consumer spending out of current income, the second is increased investment by capitalists, and the third is that “public authority must be called in aid to create additional current incomes through the expenditure of borrowed or printed money.”
Since the vast majority of consumers are workers, increased consumption expenditure is impossible on the required scale during a period of high unemployment and low wages. Business investment will eventually materialize, but only “after the tide has been turned by the expenditures of public authority.” Government investment in employment-generating public works must come first. Only after large-scale government investment can private investment be expected to kick in.
A compelling logic is implicit in that observation. According to the orthodoxy Keynes is criticizing, a revival of aggregate investment by the class of capitalists is necessary and sufficient to constitute recovery. But investment by an individual capitalist in a severe downturn would be irrational. So each capitalist will defer investment until there is evidence of recovery, i.e. evidence that the other capitalists have undertaken productive outlays. Uh-oh: a structural contradiction is in place. If each investor refrains from investment until all the others invest, no capitalist will invest. Each will die waiting for the others to come across. In the absence of an external impetus to the private investment system, the depression will be endless. Recovery is possible, then, only if a force external to the private market gets the ball rolling. Enter government to the rescue. “[T]he tide has been turned.”
Hence Keynes’s conviction that only government expenditures on a grand scale can breathe life back into a depressed economy. Keynes suggested as an example of what he had in mind “the rehabilitation of the physical condition of the railroads.” He would later, in a 1938 letter, recommend a national program of public housing as a project on the required scale.
The crisis was not merely economic. Keynes had witnessed the rise of revolutionary movements in response to the protracted inability of capitalism to meet the needs of working people. He had written about both the Bolshevik revolution and the tendency of austerity to spawn revolt from the Right. Keynes was antipathetic to both fascist and worker rule, and feared revolutionary consequences should the New Deal fail. “If you fail,” he wrote Roosevelt, “rational change will be gravely prejudiced throughout the world, leaving orthodoxy and revolution to fight it out.” The politicalstakes were high, as they must be under conditions of protracted capitalist austerity.
The stakes are no less high now. The current contraction emerged from a political-economic settlement, the post-Golden-Age period from 1974 to the present, resembling in relevant respects the Depression-prone economy of the 1920s.
I want to review both those features of the 1920s which generated the economic debacle Keynes addressed, and the corresponding precipitating causes of today’s crisis. The similarity of the origins of both contractions is striking. If Keynes was right to argue -and we shall see that he was- that large-scale public employment is the only remedy for a severe and extended economic contraction, it will be clear that the same prescription applies to the present depression. We will then be in a position better to grasp the urgency of public employment as a policy without which the United States faces a future of long-term stagnation and intolerable unemployment.
The 1920s as Exemplar of Mature Capitalism: the Stage-Setting for the Great Depression
The 1920s was the benchmark decade for mature pre-Keynesian capitalism. The major capital-intensive industries were in place and oligopolized (or rapidly becoming so), technological development raced ahead and production and profit levels were high. By 1919 union power had been dealt a crippling blow; labor was almost entirely unorganized during the 1920s.
The remarkable increases, between 1919 and 1929, in GDP (40 percent), production (64 percent in manufacturing), productivity (43 percent in industry as a whole, 98 percent in automobiles) and profits (200 percent) were not matched by a comparable increase in wages. Productivity advances did not lead to higher wages; wages were no higher in 1929 than they were in 1922. Nor did they bring about falling prices; industrial concentration made for “downwardly sticky” prices. The result was inexorable: national income was distributed upward so that by 1928 the nation exhibited the greatest inequality of the century to that point.
In his landmark study of the economy of the1920s (3), George Soule spelled out the consequences of that settlement:
“…toward the end of [the decade] large amounts of cash remained in the hands of of the big manufacturing and public-utility corporations that they did not distribute either in dividends or by means of new investment… the large corporations accumulated even more cash than they needed for their own uses… This money eventually spilled over into stock speculation. …[T]he surplus funds of large business corporations were now being lent directly to speculators…A curious commentary on the state of the American economy at the time is the fact thatbusiness could make less money by using its surplus funds in production than it could by lending the money to purchasers of stocks, the value of which was supposed to be determined by the profit on that production.”
The lessons of the 1920s are clear, and they bear directly on the build-up to the present crisis. Developed capitalism without social democracy and strong labor unions leads to productivity increases far outpacing wage growth, extreme inequality, insufficient working-class purchasing power, an unprecedented buildup of household debt and nowhere for profits to go but into capitalist consumption and financial speculation. With financial growth not reflecting comparable health in the productive economy, a bubble formed in stock market speculation and household debt grew faster than household income. By their nature, bubbles break. The popping of the speculative bubble brought about the stock market crash of 1929.
The crash and ensuing Depression afflicted what we have seen was a highly vulnerable economy. Because the economy had by the 1920s become industrially mature, growth no longer depended upon the breakneck expansion of the capital goods sector, but was now, and for the first time, fuelled by the production and consumption of consumer durable goods like refrigerators, radios, vacuum cleaners and, most importantly, automobiles. Consumption replaced investment as the driver of economic growth. (4) Robust growth would now require high wages.
With wages stagnant, working-class households’ ability to sustain the consumer durables boom became dependent, as it would again from the mid-1970s onward, on unsustainable household debt levels. Supplementing income-based purchasing power with credit had been a fact of life since the late nineteenth century, but the debt increments increased especially rapidly during the 1920s. The proportion of total retail sales financed by credit increased from 10 percent in 1910 to 15 percent in 1927 to 50 percent in 1929.When working-class purchasing power and household debt approached their limit by 1926-1927, the rate of growth of consumer purchases began to decline. Key growth markets like autos and construction became saturated and excess productive capacity became conspicuous. Production fell and profits were directed to financial speculation and bubble creation. The stock market and the economy responded accordingly. The Great Depression was at the door.
A comparable dynamic was in effect during the period preceding September 2008. From the mid-1970s to the year before the housing bubble began to leak, 2005, the gap between productivity growth and flat wages grew wider and wider. As in the 1920s, national income shifted steadily and increasingly to the top. Inequality approximating that of the 1920s grew. 1928 and 2007 were the highest inequality years since 1900. (Each year, not coincidentally, was followed by a major meltdown.) Workers once again resorted to debt to maintain living standards. The ratio of outstanding consumer debt to disposable income had more than doubled, from 62 percent in 1975 to 127.2 percent in 2005. Since 1995 the debt burden, measured by the percentage of household income pledged to debt service, had become increasingly concentrated in the lower three income quintiles. Financial speculation, which had accelerated since the mid-1970s, took off with a vengeance after 1999. Echoes of the 1920s were loud and clear.
When 2008 ushered in today’s depression, the political-economic legacy of the New Deal had long given way to the neoliberal religion of market-only solutions harkening back to the pre-Keynesian 1920s. The Great Depression’s lesson that only public employment on a grand scale could remedy persistent joblessness was cast aside as incompatible with born-again free market fundamentalism. Obama’s remarks at the December 3, 2009 “jobs summit” express the current elite consensus that any politically acceptable remedy for intractable joblessness must be market-based: “[While] government has a critical role in creating the conditions for economic growth, ultimately true economic recovery is only going to come from the private sector.” That’s a recipe for endless depression.
We shall see below that Big Guns from Larry Summers to Paul Krugman have finally drawn the appropriate conclusion: America faces a future of long-term, perhaps permanent, stagnation and high unemployment. This is indeed the price working people will pay for the total exclusion of public employment from current policy discussions. We can see this more clearly after we first have a look at the course of the Great Depression and the alternative Keynes urged upon Roosevelt when the New Deal recovery fizzled in 1937.
The Big Contraction, the Aborted Recovery and Keynes’s Response
From 1929 to 1933 the economy plummeted, leaving 24.9 percent of workers unemployed and many more underemployed. By 1932 more than 32,000 businesses would go bankrupt. National output fell by 50 percent. Investment plunged.20 percent of U.S. banks, at least 5,000, failed. This is what created the grist for Keynes’s mill.
The Depression reversed the euphoria of the 1920s and initiated a profound sense of desperation frequently referred to by president Roosevelt as a national “emergency.” Motivated by advisors more radical than he and mounting worker impatience, Roosevelt initiated experimental stimulus measures.
The WPA and other modest public employment measures provided sufficient momentum to the economy that a sharp upturn began in late 1933 and lasted until 1937. This was one of the two longest cyclical expansions in the nation’s history, and the steepest ever. The upturn is typically but misleadingly thought to be a direct result of the New Deal’s enormous increase in deficit spending. The lesson “Keynesians” have drawn is that mature capitalism is capable only of brief periods of stability left to its own private devices, so that government intervention during economic downturns is a recurrent necessity built into the system. Private investment, then, is necessary but insufficient to drive the accumulation process; deficit-financed government investment is also required if economic growth is to be accompanied by full employment.
This can be seriously misleading. Government investment is not merely necessary; it is the only form of investment, Keynes claimed, capable of bringing about full employment. Keynes was emphatic that reducing taxes and interest rates, and providing temporary unemployment benefits, were no substitute for direct government job creation. The lesson that matters is that the elimination of unemployment is not the direct result of government deficit spending as such. Public works projects, for example, put people to work, and this provides workers with a wage, the household spending power Keynes underscored as the key to recovery. Without restoring the purchasing power of the working majority, there would be no recovery.
Wages turned into effective demand, then, is the direct cause of a revival of production and employment. But niggardly wages will not do. The nation’s human and non-human resources are vast, and marshalling them for production at full employment calls for aggregate household spending power sufficient to that task. The 1920s and the period from 1974 to the present display those features of mature industrial capitalism which generate the kind of crisis which only high wages can reverse.
The End of the Recovery and the Triumph of Sound Finance
The recovery of 1933-1937 exhibited the fastest growth rates of the twentieth century. At the peak of the expansion industrial output and national income had returned to 1929 levels and purchases of new autos surpassed 1929 sales. (5) New auto sales were fuelled by consumer spending. The consumer demand that drove this exceptional recovery was created by public, not private, investment. It is not investment as such that capitalist development renders otiose, but private investment.
New Deal government investment was a precondition of the 1933-1937 expansion, during which banks had stopped lending and net private investment had evaporated. But the New Deal took no steps to ensure the permanence of adequate consumer demand or household income. Roosevelt took his policies to be temporary urgencies to be terminated once their “jump-start” aims had been accomplished. He anticipated the time when he could reduce deficit spending and return to the principles of sound finance.
The president’s wishes seemed to be coming true in 1937. From FY 1936 to FY 1937 total government expenditures dropped from $8,476,000,000 to $8,001,000,000 and the deficit fell from $4,361,000,000 to $2,708,000,000. Federal tax receipts increased from $4,116,000,000 to $5,294,000,000. (6)As early as January of 1937Rooseveltwas planning retrenchment. (7)
In his January 1938 budget message the president announced with relief that the increase in government income meant that New Deal deficits -meaning New Deal programs- must be reduced to 0.1 percent of GDP and taxes would be increased to fund the Social Security program. So eager was the president to bring the budget closer to balance that he could overlook the sharp declines in employment that had begun in September 1937. The president had felt forced by circumstance to accept policy to which he was otherwise opposed, direct federal employment. The improved fiscal picture provided the fiscally conservative Roosevelt with the opportunity to cut WPA jobs and other income-generating programs.
Keynes promptly wrote, less than one month after the budget message, in a private letter to Roosevelt that it was an “error of optimism” to act as if recovery were assured when it had only just begun. (Read the entire letter here: https://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/aboutfdr/pdfs/smFDR-Keynes_1938.pdf)
The president should invest, Keynes urged, more heavily in public works lest another disaster ensue.
Roosevelt paid no heed. New Deal spending fell and unemployment rose. The economy plunged into another, somewhat shorter and shallower, depression. The new contraction was doubly discouraging, causing public confidence in the New Deal to diminish and business to feel threatened by the radical claim that it had been shown to be unable to deliver on its promise to bring about economic renewal once government had withdrawn.
Fed chairman Marinner Eccles urged renewed government spending and Roosevelt responded by increasing WPA and AAA spending, but not by very much. His eggs were in another basket, new military expenditures. Roosevelt’s choice was not merely cynical. He saw the growing aggression of Italy, Germany and Japan in Africa, Europe and East Asia as calling for a re-evaluation of American neutrality.
Public opinion polls in 1938 and 1939 found the public disapproving of the military spending as excessive in the light of intensified economic hardship at home. The 1937 cyclical peak did not after all end the Depression. In that year workers were still pressing for what they deserved but had not yet gained. 1937 saw a massive sit-down strike at the General Motors Flint, Michigan plant. It is a measure of the public’s awareness that the recovery did not mean that the Depression was over that the strike enjoyed broad support. The Governer even called out the National Guard to protect the strikers from possible violent resistance by General Motors.
In his 1938 letter to Roosevelt Keynesurged the presidentto redouble the efforts that had produced the 1937-1938 upswing:
‘…the present recession is partly due to an “error of optimism” which led to an over-estimation of future demand… But I am quite sure that this is not all. There is a much more troublesome underlying influence. The recovery was mainly due to the following factors: –
(i) the solution of the credit and insolvency problems, and the establishment of easy short-term money;
(ii) the creation of an adequate system of relief for the unemployed;
(iii) public works and other investments aided by Government funds or guarantees;
(iv) investment in the instrumental goods required to supply the increased demand for consumption goods;
(v) the momentum of the recovery [was] thus initiated.’
Keynes intends here to rule out the position common among the administration’s apologists, that current policy is unobjectionable and not at the root of the renewed contraction. The problem, it was argued, was that the president had made an overoptimistic projection of future buying power. The remedy was to resume government spending as before. Keynes objected that the problem rested with current policy, which not only must not be retrenched, as Roosevelt had done, but should be expanded. More of the same was not enough. The key movers of the expansion had been (iii) and (iv), but they were not large enough:
“Now of these (i) was a prior condition of recovery, since it is no use creating a demand for credit, if there is no supply. But an increased supply will not by itself generate an adequate demand. The influence of (ii) evaporates as employment improves, so that there is a dead point beyond which this factor cannot carry the economic system. Recourse to (iii) has been greatly curtailed in the past year. (iv) and (v) are functions of the forward movement and cease – indeed (v) is reversed – as soon as the position fails to improve further. The benefit from the momentum of the recovery as such is at the same time the most important and the most dangerous factor in the upward movement. It requires for its continuance, not merely the maintenance of recovery, but always further recovery. Thus it always flatters the early stages and steps from under just when support is most needed. It was largely, I think, a failure to allow for this which caused the “error of optimism” last year.” (Emphasis Keynes’s)
Keynes makes it clear that increased spending on public works is the linchpin of sustained recovery. If spending is not increased, much less actually decreased, as Roosevelt had done, the economy’s “forward movement” will reverse itself. Thus, forward movement must also be “upward movement,” creating a higher level of demand, not merely restoring the pre-downturn 1937 level. Output and income must increase over time. This means that public investment too must increase.
Failure to grasp that consumption demand and investment demand must perpetually increase in tandem will lead one erroneously to “over-optimism,” to infer from the achievement of a higher level of demand that one need only do more of the same, with respect to government investment, in order to maintain demand. But the nature of capitalism is that demand requires not merely to be maintained, but to be increased, and that requires increased investment. The upshot is that government must be permanently involved in support of effective demand, and since the precondition of demand is the availability of jobs, the government must become a permanent provider of employment.
In the letter Keynes recommends “increased investment in durable goods such as housing, public utilities and transport… in the United States at the present time the opportunities, indeed the necessity, for such developments were unexampled.” Keynes had understood from earlier discussions with Roosevelt and his advisors that the administration was commited to the need for hitherto untried alternatives, and that housing was an obvious priority.
But in this case it was Keynes who had been over-optimistic. “Take housing. When I was with you three and a half years ago the necessity for effective new measures was evident. I remember vividly my conversations with Riefler at that time. But what happened? Next to nothing.”
Keynes went on to make the case for investment in public housing as an ideal for a more buoyant and sustained recovery:
“Housing is by far the best aid to recovery because of the large and continuing scale of potential demand; because of the wide geographical distribution of this demand; and because the sources of its finance are largely independent of the Stock Exchanges. I should advise putting most of your eggs in this basket, caring about this more than about anything, and making absolutely sure that they are being hatched without delay.” (Emphasis Keynes’s)
Roosevelt apparently did not “care” enough to launch such a program. To this day the U.S. has one of the poorest records on public housing of all the developed capitalist countries.
Keynes was familiar with the American bias toward the individual states, rather than the federal government, as providers economic aid. If the states must be intermediaries of federal funding, so be it, he concedes – but get the job done! “In this country we partly depended for many years on direct subsidies. There are few more proper objects for such than working class houses. If a direct subsidy is required to get a move on (we gave our subsidies through the local authorities), it should be given without delay or hesitation.” (Emphasis Keynes’s)
Keynes implored Roosevelt to nationalize the utilities. “Personally I think there is a great deal to be said for the ownership of all the utilities by publicly owned boards… If I was in your place, I should buy out the utilities at fair prices in every district where the situation was ripe for doing so, and announce that the ultimate ideal was to make this policy nation-wide… a policy of competing plants with losses all round is a ramshackle notion.” As for the railroads, “Nationalize them if the time is ripe.” And the imperative to socialize was not limited to railroads and utilities. “I accept the view that durable investment must come increasingly under state direction… I regard the growth of collective bargaining as essential. I approve minimum wage and hours regulation.”
Note Keynes’s institutional socialism: “durable investment must come increasingly under state direction.” The socialization of investment was no mere “emergency” measure.
Summing up his policy recommendations, Keynes declares that “A convincing policy, whatever its details may be, for promoting large-scale [government] investment under the above heads is an urgent necessity… Far too much precious time has passed.” There will be resistance, Keynes acknowledges, to these measures. Capital will greet all these recommendations with great alarm. Keynes’s instructions to Roosevelt on the proper handling of businessmen is wonderfully clever, close to Oscar Wilde at his best:
“Business men have a different set of delusions from politicians; and need, therefore, different handling… You could do anything you liked with them, if you would treat them (even the big ones), not as wolves and tigers, but as domestic animals by nature, even though they have been badly brought up and not trained as you would wish. It is a mistake to think that they are more immoral than politicians. If you work them into the surly, obstinate, terrified mood, of which domestic animals, wrongly handled, are so capable, the nation’s burdens will not get carried to market…”
This was the way to break down resistance and enlist capital into the recovery effort.
The notion that capital can be cajoled to acquiesce in the socialization of some of the nation’s biggest private investments strikes us as naïve. In Keynes’s day capital had nothing resembling the virtually complete hegemony over public policy that finance capital enjoys today. But about this Keynes was right: capitalists are not more immoral than politicians. The need to enlarge profits under conditions of international competition does not permit moral restraint, any more than those sitting around a Monopoly board are morally bound to throw the game out of empathy with the losers. The rules and objects of the game are such that moral considerations have no application.
Not so with politicians, who are supposed to legislate in the interests of the democratic aspirations of the citizenry. Protecting the less advantaged from the vagaries of the market is a moral and political imperative. This is why picketing the banks, as some did after the September 2008 debacle, betrays a failure to grasp the source of economic power. In themselves, the banks are powerless. Such powers as they have are legislated, all of them. What banks do they do, Capital (sic) Hill willing and enabling. Political economy is first political; the economics is derivative.
Roosevelt could not have been expected to embrace Keynes’s counsel. The resumed spending, niggardly as it was, brought about a minor rebound, but the overall contraction was not ended until the U.S. mobilized for entry into the Second World War.
The Consequences of Rejecting Government Job Creation: Long-Term Stagnation, Chronic Joblessness, Persistent Austerity
Since last November, perhaps the most widely discussed item of economic news has been Larry Summers’s Nov. 8 speech at the IMF’s Annual Research Conference. Summers argued that it is likely that the US faces a future of chronic “secular stagnation,” with slow growth, high un- and underemployment and low wages. The force of ‘secular’ is that this is not a temporary state; stagnation looks to be the “new normal.”
After the postwar boom began the term ‘secular stagnation’ fell out of use as the 1920s fantasy of endless growth and prosperity once again took hold. But two post-Golden-Age factors have made it increasingly difficult for mainstream economists to sustain optimism. The slow growth rates since 1974, and especially the ineffectiveness of the Fed’s recent unparalleled monetary stimulus, defies orthodox comprehension. More importantly, we are seeing both the mass destruction of full-time jobs, many of which will never return, and record levels of long-term unemployment (unemployed for 15 weeks or longer).
Most revealing is that long-term unemployment has been rising since the late 1960s, well before the triumph of neoliberalism. The short-term unemployed have been a shrinking percentage of all unemployed throughout the entire postwar period. Looking at the business cycle over the last forty years, an ominous trend emerges: in each business-cyclical expansion, the long-term unemployment rate remains either at or above the level of the previous expansion. In a word, for the last forty years the short-term unemployed have been a declining, and the long-term unemployed an increasing, percentage of all unemployed. By Keynes’s own standards, pretend-Keynesian fiscal policy has been a seventy-year bust. Summers’s forecast shows that this has not been entirely lost on the economics establishment.
Summers’s invocation of secular stagnation takes off from the fact that while the dot.com bubble of the late 1990s did (for three years only) raise employment and wages, the much larger housing bubble of the 2000s had no such effect. It neither produced high employment nor drove up wages nor spurred the economy to full capacity. He adds the equally important observation that neither of these bubbles, representing a huge boost to demand, brought about real-economy inflation, a typical concomitant of robust, employment-creating growth. Krugman adds (New York Times, blog, November 16, 2012) that even earlier expansions, such as characterized the later Reagan years, were driven not by economic “fundamentals” like rising employment and wages, but by “runaway thrift institutions and a large bubble in commercial real estate.” As Summers put it, “Even a great bubble wasn’t enough to produce any excess of aggregate demand… Even with artificial stimulus to demand, coming from all this financial imprudence, you [didn’t] see any excess… I wonder if a set of older ideas, that went under the phrase ‘secular stagnation’… may not be without relevance to America’s experience.”
The conclusion drawn by both Summers and Krugman is that bubbles appear to be required to sustain not merely the listless growth of the post-Golden-Age era, but even the exceptionally sluggish growth rates of the new millenium. So powerful is the tendency to stagnation that even zero interest rates are insufficient to create jobs -much less full employment- or to get the economy running at full capacity. In sum, full-throttle monetary stimulus functioning to sustain bubbles is necessary to keep the economy from falling below stagnation levels of output and rates on unemployment. Bluntly put, if you don’t want a full-fledged Depression, you’ve got to keep the bubble going. Slow growth, high un- and underemployment and low wages are the best we can do.
Expect no relief, says Summers: “The underlying problem may be there forever.” Krugman puts it in the form of a rhetorical question: “[W]hat if the world we’ve been living in for the past five years is the new normal? What if depression-like conditions are on track to persist, not for another year or two, but for decades?” (“A Permanent Slump?”, New York Times, November 17, 2013) To his credit, Krugman saw the handwriting on the wall well before the Summers speech. In his June 27, 2010 column, he wrote: “We are now, I fear, in the early stages of a third depression…[T]he cost – to the world economy and, above all, to the milliions of lives blighted by the absence of jobs – will… be immense.”
In none of this discussion is there mention of the Keynesian solution, government as a permanent and increasingly essential provider of productive employment. Ironically, Summers and Krugman have unwittingly made the case that orthodox, acceptable demand boosters are inadequate to the task of providing working people with material security. Large-scale public employment is, as Keynes argued, the only alternative to mass immiseration.
The Summers-Krugman point confirms Keynes’s central claim that, contrary to the neoclassical theory that the free economy naturally tends toward full-employment equilibrium, the economy can reach equilibrium (the quantity of goods supplied is equal to the quantity of goods demanded) at any level of employment. Let there be 30 percent unemployment. Firms will then produce no more and no less than the lucky 70 percent are willing to pay for. Excess capacity will be wrung out of the system by the liquidation or destruction of redundant plant and equipment. But what about excess labor capacity?
Secular stagnation leaves the nation with a large number of permanently un- and unemployed persons devoid of hope for themselves or their children. But it is just this hope that constitutes the “American dream.” With the dream become a nightmare, we are on the path to social dislocation on a potentially terrifying scale: higher rates of crime, suicide, domestic violence, psychological depression and other forms of social disorder characteristic of periods of intense material insecurity. These are forms of unorganized resistance, and cannot be “wrung out” of the system like idle plants. They will be repressed. The powers that be have been putting in place for some years now, surely in anticipation of widespread social turbulence, the infrastructure of a police state. This comes as no surprise. Historically, capitalism in deep and protracted crisis and without an organized and active Left generates the makings of fascism. If the Left remains dormant, we are in for big trouble.
Alan Nasseris professor emeritus of Political Economy and Philosophy at The Evergreen State College. His website is:
. His book, The New Normal: Persistent Austerity, Declining Democracy and the Privatization of the State will be published by Pluto Press later this year. If you would like to be notified when the book is released, please send a request to nassera@evergreen.edu
During the intervening 12 years, the pair stood at the center of cataclysmic events, with the very outcome of Western civilization at stake. No two men could have been more diametrically opposite in their personal, political, moral, or ethical dimensions, and in no sphere were these traits more striking than in their worldview and their treatment of the Jews.
While Hitler’s unspeakable record in this regard has been amply documented and denounced, Roosevelt’s is still being tallied, a subject of fitting and extended debate among scholars, ideologues, and the extended Jewish community. Middle ground is a rare commodity here, but American University professors Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman attempt to stake out just such territory in “FDR and the Jews,” published last year by Belknap/Harvard University Press.
The two historians meticulously analyze and explicate FDR’s personal feelings and appraisal of the Jews as a people; his political calculus and penchant for secrecy in the way he dealt with them as he did with all of his constituencies; and the persistent allegations about what he knew of the Final Solution, when he knew it, and whether he did enough to combat it.
Dr. Breitman and Dr. Lichtman also dissect two of the most contentious accusations against Roosevelt: that he callously prevented the docking in the United States of the SS St. Louis after the German vessel transporting more than 900 Jewish refugees was turned away by Cuba in 1939, and that he failed to order the bombing of gas chambers or the railroads leading to them in 1944, when it seemed feasible to do so.
Their profile of the enigmatic Hudson Valley patrician and master of the Machiavellian arts who forever refashioned the presidency is thoughtful, crisp, and unapologetic. If there are any judgments to render on arguably one of the top three chief executives in U.S. history (Lincoln and Washington are the others; readers are free to rank them), Dr. Breitman and Dr. Lichtman do so with balance and dispassion, showing a sure feel for the fraught, unprecedented situations of the 1930s and ’40s.
FDR clearly exceeded all of his predecessors in support from Jews. He reciprocated by appointing them to key positions during his governorship of New York and the presidency. Fully 15 percent of his choices were Jewish, an astounding number for the time. He also nominated a second Jewish justice to the Supreme Court (Felix Frankfurter joined Louis Brandeis after Benjamin Cardozo’s death) and was so openly groundbreaking that his programs were derisively dubbed the “Jew Deal.”
Perhaps this was due to Roosevelt being shielded to some extent from the anti-Semitism of his privileged class by parents who instilled tolerant attitudes for the times in their doted-upon only child. Roosevelt’s formidable mother, Sarah Delano, even addressed a Hadassah group just before her death.
Despite this, FDR most assuredly indulged in stereotyped banter about Jews as an undergrad at Harvard (where he later voted as an overseer against raising their admissions quota above 6 percent), with his cronies in Albany and Washington, and with Stalin at Yalta. Yet these utterances seem more generic than genuine, flippant reminders of a politically incorrect age and country-club condescension.
By contrast, Eleanor Roosevelt clung to crude anti-Semitic attitudes through her early years, especially during FDR’s Washington service as assistant secretary of the Navy during World War I. She is quoted by Professors Breitman and Lichtman in one particularly vicious reference: “The Jew party [for Bernard Baruch] was appalling. I never wish to hear money, jewels, or sables mentioned again,” and in another, characterizing Felix Frankfurter as “an interesting little man but very Jew.”
However, as her marriage to Roosevelt faltered, her larger world blossomed, and her metamorphosis into a human rights icon gained traction over the decades. She ultimately would surpass her husband in both the depth and understanding of oppressed people everywhere and in her support for Israel. (See the excellent analysis by Warren Boroson in the July 26, 2013 issue of the Jewish Standard.)
Fucking Nazis.
Oh, that superior race has got the fucking Africans snookered.
In a blatant manifestation of neo-colonial ambition, the Zionist entity is aggressively expanding its footprint across the African continent. Far from mere diplomatic outreach, this systematic infiltration aims to construct a contiguous “Israeli Belt”—a geographic and military continuum stretching from the Horn of Africa to the Gulf of Guinea. Backed by the United States and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), this imperialist project is designed to encircle the Arab and Islamic worlds, secure regional puppet regimes, and further the Zionist agenda against the Axis of Resistance.
Mercenaries for Gaza: Uganda and Burundi’s Treacherous Complicity
The moral bankruptcy of several African regimes has been laid bare by their willingness to act as subcontractors for Zionist atrocities. Recent intelligence indicates that Uganda and Burundi are actively preparing to deploy troops to the Gaza Strip as part of a so-called “International Stabilisation Force.” This move, operating under the auspices of a US-Zionist “Peace Council,” represents a grave betrayal of the Palestinian cause and the broader Global South.
Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni has committed 1,200 soldiers to this force, while Burundi is expected to send up to 2,000 troops. For these regimes, participating in the subjugation of Gaza is a transactional bid to secure military and financial concessions from Tel Aviv. Museveni, in particular, views his subservience to the Zionist entity as a lifeline for his dynastic succession. This complicity was grotesquely underscored when his son and heir-apparent, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, attended the unveiling of a statue honouring Yonatan Netanyahu—the notorious Zionist commander killed during the 1976 Entebbe raid.
According to reporting compiled by More Perfect Union, in 2022 big investors bought more than one in every four single-family homes sold nationwide. Read that again slowly, because the number is doing more work than a single clause can hold. One in four. Not one in four in some overheated Sun Belt boomtown, though those markets got hit hardest, but as a national figure, a blended average across a country that still, officially, tells its children that buying a house is the reward for working hard and saving money. It turns out there was a fourth bidder at the table the whole time, and it was never planning to live there.
Crime scene after Jewish Crime Scene — Chain of Custody of the Evidence: 9/11 + 25 = New World Next Week
This week on New World Next Week: the KSM trial date is set; Trump lifts sanctions on Al Qaeda; and the generated outrage occurs just in time for the 911 anniversary.
1)Lazar Kaganovich: Stalin’s political figurehead of the Central Committee. In 1928, Kaganovich led the implementation in the Ukraine of Stalin’s first Five-Year Plan.
~ The aim of Stalin’s first Five-Year Plan in Ukraine was to destroy family farms through starvation, making the peasants “landless” and thereby introducing “collectivization,” by which the Ukrainian peasants were forced to become employees of the state. This forced famine reached its crisis point in 1932.
2)Genrikh Yagoda: Founder of the NKVD (Soviet Secret Police). Assisted in the first Five-Year Plan of starving Ukrainian peasants.
3)Nikolai Yezhov: Appointed by Yagoda as Head of the NKVD. Assisted in the first Five-Year Plan of starving Ukrainian peasants. Yezhov took on a “Russian” name like most Judeo-Bolsheviks. His wife was an active Jew.
These Judeo-Bolsheviks seized livestock, crops, grain, and farm instruments from the Ukrainian peasants. Any Ukrainian citizen who resisted them was shot. Desperate Ukrainian clergy and peasants ate anything to survive: bugs, grass, and leather shoes.
Thousands of prisoners were slaughtered by the NKVD, headed by Genrikh Yagoda and Nikolai Yezhov. The NKVD was thesecret police who carried out mass torture, starvation, and executions.
Judeo-Bolsheviks were the chief architects of the Ukrainian forced famine, which eliminated Ukrainian clergy and 6 million Ukrainian Orthodox Christians.
Anybody who claims the Holodomor was not perpetrated by Jews is ~15% correct and about ~85% wrong.
The Butterfly Effect? A Cornell University study showed that monarch larvae fed milkweed leaves heavily dusted with pollen from Bt corn suffered higher mortality, ate less, and grew slower.
Bt-modified corn produces pollen containing crystalline endotoxin from the bacterium genes. When this corn pollen is dispersed by the wind, it lands on other plants, including milkweed, the exclusive food of monarch caterpillars and commonly found around cornfields.
Says John E. Losey, Cornell assistant professor of entomology and the primary investigator on the study: “We need to look at the big picture here. Pollen from Bt-corn could represent a serious risk to populations of monarchs and other butterflies, but we can’t predict how serious the risk is until we have a lot more data. And we can’t forget that Bt-corn and other transgenic crops have a huge potential for reducing pesticide use and increasing yields. This study is just the first step, we need to do more research and then objectively weigh the risks versus the benefits of this new technology.”
Everywhere I go in America, I hear this:
“Oh, I can’t eat that; I have Crohn’s disease, or Cushing’s, or Hashimoto’s, or IBS or leaky gut syndrome or diabetes or celiac’s or allergies to soy, corn, eggs, fish, nuts, milk, melons, blueberries, vegetables of all kinds, and cold air.”
The butterflies overwinter in Mexico and by the spring begin migrating north. The first generation of the year crosses into Texas, other Gulf Coast states and Florida, seeking milkweed on which to lay their eggs and feed. By late May or early June, the second generation of adults has emerged and heads north to areas including the Midwest Corn Belt. Monarch caterpillars are feeding on milkweed during the period when corn is shedding pollen, Losey says. Thus “they may be in the right place at the right time to be exposed to Bt-corn pollen.”
Chronic disease touches nearly every American household — across every age, community, and corner of the country.
The numbers are striking:
▪️ 76% of U.S. adults have one or more chronic diseases ▪️ 51% have two or more chronic diseases ▪️ 194 million Americans are living with at least one chronic condition
Poison by any other name is still POISON.
Despite headwinds like the war in Europe, high inflation, and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US chemical industry made it out of 2022 in relatively good shape. That is one interpretation of the results of C&EN’s new survey of the top 50 US chemical producers, which is based on these firms’ financial results for 2022.
These 50 chemical makers posted combined sales of $376.7 billion, an 11.4% increase from a year ago and a new record for the annual survey. Only six firms posted a sales decline.
But for the 43 firms that disclose profit figures, combined chemical operating profits fell 4.8%, to $55.2 billion. Sixteen firms posted an earnings decline. One company, Trinseo, posted a loss.
Many of those that reported reduced profits—Dow, ExxonMobil, LyondellBasell Industries, and Westlake—are large petrochemical makers. The petrochemical industry built a lot of capacity in recent years, and the sector is in a cyclical downturn. In addition, energy prices rose sharply in 2022 because of the war in Ukraine. Oil prices spiked by 33% in the first half before settling down.
In contrast, fertilizer makers had a tremendous year. Sales at Mosaic, which makes phosphate fertilizers, rose 54.8%, lifting the firm to number 4 in the US top 50. Sales at the nitrogen fertilizer maker CF Industries skyrocketed 71.1%, propelling it to number 8.
But even those gains are modest compared with the jump at Albemarle, a major supplier of lithium for electric car batteries. Its sales more than doubled, launching it from 24 in last year’s ranking to 15 this year.
Spending on the future was mixed at chemical firms. The 42 companies that disclose capital spending figures reported a combined rise of 22.2%, to $20.1 billion. Some 26 firms report R&D spending. Their combined total was $3.2 billion, a 1.0% decline.
Many firms departed this year’s US top 50. Kraton was acquired in March 2022 by South Korea’s DL Chemical for $2.5 billion. The polymer and pine chemical firm was number 34 in last year’s survey. The electronic materials maker CMC Materials, number 42 last year, was acquired in July 2022 by Entegris—ranked 41 this year—for $5.7 billion.
In April 2022, the industrial conglomerate Prince International, backed by the private equity firm American Securities, bought Ferro, number 43 in last year’s ranking, for $2.1 billion. Prince and Ferro then merged with Chromaflo Technologies to form Vibrantz Technologies. As a private company, Vibrantz does not publicly report financial results.
Minerals Technologies and Goodyear Tire & Rubber, last year’s numbers 49 and 50, respectively, didn’t have enough revenues to make the cut this year.
Debuting in the ranking at a hefty number 26 is Ascend Performance Materials. The nylon 6,6 business, once part of Solutia, is owned by the private equity firm SK Capital and is now disclosing its annual sales.
Other newcomers are firms riding a wave of high commodity prices. LSB Industries and CVR Partners, numbers 45 and 46, respectively, are both nitrogen fertilizer producers. Livent, the lithium business that spun out of FMC in 2019, nearly doubled sales in a single year and comes in at number 48. Sisecam Resources, wrapping up the list at number 50, makes soda ash.
The C&EN ranking includes only companies that publicly report sales from chemicals. Some large companies would likely make the list if they disclosed these figures. For example, Invista, a polymer and fiber business owned by the privately held Koch Industries, would easily be on the list, possibly near the top. SI Group and TPC Group, two other private firms, would also probably make the survey. In addition, some diversified public firms don’t break out chemical sales—for example, Procter & Gamble with its oleochemical business.
By highlighting some of the worst offenders on the market, EWG’s Dirty Dozen Guide to Food Chemicals shows you which chemicals in food to avoid:
Potassium bromate
Potassium bromate is a possible human carcinogen added to flour used in packaged baked goods.
Propylparaben
Propylparaben is a preservative used in pastries and some tortillas. It causes developmental and reproductive harm.
BHA
Butylated hydroxyanisole, better known as BHA, is a preservative used in cured meats and other foods. Multiple sources have identified it as a possible human carcinogen.
BHT
Butylated hydroxytoluene, also called BHT, is a preservative found in cereals and other foods. It’s a chemical cousin of BHA and is a possible human carcinogen.
Titanium dioxide
Titanium dioxide is a color additive used mostly in candy. It may damage DNA.
Seven artificial dyes
Synthetic food dye can be found in many types of food and beverages. It can affect development and cause behavioral difficulties in children. There are seven dyes that are especially concerning: Red 3, Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1, Blue 2 and Green 3.
Aspartame
Aspartame is an artificial sweetener that can affect the hormones that regulate metabolism and have a negative effect on weight control. It has also been linked to heart disease and increased risk of cancer.
ADA
Azodicarbonamide, or ADA, is used as a dough conditioner and strengthener, as well as a bleaching agent in breads and pastries. ADA has been linked to an increased risk of cancer. It may also cause liver and kidney injury and affect the blood and the nervous and respiratory systems.
Propyl gallate
Propyl gallate is a preservative used in vegetable oil, meat products and chewing gum, among other products. It may cause hormone disruption and has been linked to an increased risk of asthma, hyperactivity and even cancer.
Sodium benzoate
Sodium benzoate is a preservative used mostly in carbonated drinks, fruit juice, salad dressing and fermented foods. When combined with ascorbic acid, citric acid and vitamin C, it has been linked to an increased risk of cancer. The reaction between sodium benzoate and any of these three compounds forms benzene, a chemical associated with blood cancer.
Methylene chloride, trichloroethylene and ethylene dichloride
Methylene chloride, trichloroethylene and ethylene dichloride are solvents used in the production of decaffeinated coffee and tea and certain spices. These three chemicals are linked with an increased risk of cancer.
Sodium nitrite
Sodium nitrite is an additive used to preserve meat. When added to processed foods, nitrites are associated with an increased risk of cancer.
Tip of the fucking iceberg, but this Jew, man, Satan on Crack:
Yeah, butterflies:
Nine-year-old Wafaa Akila was killed with her father in Gaza City after leaving school to buy supplies for the new year.
Key Developments
Wafaa Yousef Akila, nine, had just begun the new school year in Gaza after prolonged disruption caused by Israel’s genocidal war.
After classes, she went with her father, Yousef, to buy notebooks, pens and other school supplies when an Israeli strike hit their car.
Wafaa and her father were killed in the Al-Nasr neighborhood of Gaza City, while others were wounded in the attack.
A First Day of School
Wafaa Yousef Akila was nine years old when she began what should have been a new chapter in her childhood.
Like thousands of children across Gaza, she was returning to school after a prolonged interruption caused by Israel’s genocidal war on the Strip.
Her expectations were those of any child beginning a new academic year: notebooks, pens, a school bag and the chance to see classmates again.
On Sunday, Wafaa attended her first day of school. After classes, she left with her father, Yousef, to buy the school supplies she still needed for the days ahead. It was supposed to be an ordinary family errand marking the beginning of a school year.
Instead, it became their last journey together.
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Killed While Buying School Supplies
According to Palestinian sources cited by Al-Jazeera, an Israeli missile struck the car carrying Wafaa and her father in the Al-Nasr neighborhood of Gaza City.
Both were killed in the attack, while others were wounded. The strike turned the objects associated with Wafaa’s return to school, notebooks, pens and supplies, into part of the scene of destruction.
Gaza Health Ministry Director General Munir al-Barsh drew attention to the circumstances of her killing, asking what threat a school bag, notebook or pen could represent.
Wafaa never returned for her second day of school.
A Story beyond One Child
Wafaa’s killing resonated widely because it reflected a much larger reality confronting Gaza’s children.
The new school year has begun amid widespread destruction, displacement and the deaths of thousands of children and family members throughout the Israeli war.
For many students, returning to classrooms has meant returning without parents, siblings or classmates who were killed during the genocide.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians and wounded over 174,000.
Thousands of children are among those killed, while much of Gaza’s educational infrastructure has been destroyed or damaged, leaving an entire generation of Palestinian children to pursue their education amid death, displacement and destruction.
(PC, AJA, Palestinian media)
Two Jews in a pod:
The Rape of the Mind is a 1956 book by Dutch-American psychoanalyst Joost Meerloo that examines how totalitarian regimes use brainwashing, coercion, and psychological torture to control human thought. Edward Bernays was an American pioneer in public relations and mass propaganda who applied psychology to shape public opinion and consumer behavior.
While Meerloo focused on the defensive analysis of authoritarian “menticide” (the killing of the spirit), both figures explored how mass psychology can be deployed to manipulate the human mind.
Shared Territory: Both Meerloo and Bernays recognized that the conscious mind is vulnerable to hidden psychological triggers and mass suggestion.
Opposing Lenses:
Bernays treated psychological manipulation as a practical craft to be utilized for commerce and political steering.
Meerloo viewed those very same techniques as a dangerous pathology—a form of spiritual violation that strips away human dignity and democratic freedom.
He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity
Viewers who elect to watch certain innocuous classic films on Disney’s streaming service, Disney Plus, will find themselves confronted by the following statement:
This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together.
It’s a relief to know that the Disney corporation has such a powerful sense of moral responsibility. Absent this forewarning, defenseless children might find themselves exposed to subtle messages of oppression and hatred in films like Dumbo or Aladdin or Peter Pan. Or, at least, they might if Disney had not taken the additional precaution of removing these titles from children’s accounts altogether. Apparently, it is fine for minors to be exposed to quite frightening recent films like Raya the Last Dragon (2021), but a film like the original Aladdin (1992) is an altogether riskier proposition.
What makes these classic films so dangerous is sometimes difficult for even the alert and socially conscious adult to discern. Aladdin, online commentators have explained, features a villain whose nose is larger than that of the protagonist. In The Jungle Book (1967), the orangutan King Louie sings jazz and risks being perceived as a racist caricature (even though he was voiced by the Italian American musician, Louis Prima). Other films do include more obvious transgressions: the Native Americans in Peter Pan (1953) are a stock collection of prominent stereotypes, and the friendly crows in Dumbo (1941), one of whom is called Jim Crow, feature in scenes reminiscent of minstrel shows.
FAQ
Why do narcissists infantilize others?
Narcissists infantilize others to assert their dominance and maintain a sense of control, even if this control is imagined. Because narcissists are motivated to make themselves feel a sense of importance over others, infantilizing someone is an easy way to accomplish this.
Are Millennials infantilized?
Yes, any adult can be infantilized. Millennials represent roughly people born between 1981-1996, so they are old enough to be infantilized. Infantilizing young people often functions to devalue or undermine their knowledge and experience based on presumptions relating to age.
What does infantilization mean in sociology?
In sociology, infantilization refers to the practice of treating an adult like a child as it relates to the social structures between the actors. In other words, the sociological understanding of infantilization examines the existing power structures, sociocultural categories (e.g. race, age, status, etc.), and social norms of the system in which the infantilizing occurs.
It seems that throughout the stages of our lives, our perceived maturity level is a parabola.
At birth and infancy, we are at our lowest level of perceived maturity, slowly rising as we grow into adolescence and adulthood, and peaking when we reach what is deemed “middle-aged.” However, the curious part is where the dip occurs. Despite the steady rise seen for the first part of our lives, the fall seems to be abrupt and unexpected as we reach geriatric ages. As infants, we are, naturally, taken care of and spoken to in a tone and cadence that to any other age group would come across as patronizing. However, even though it seems like society would naturally view elderly people as the most mature group, it is often the opposite that happens: infantilization.
It seems that as an elderly person, you fall into one of two groups or typical tropes: infantilization or vilification. It has been repeatedly seen and reinforced in the media that almost all of these characters fall into one of the two. They are either deemed “cute” and in many ways treated similarly to how we treat babies, or they are seen as grouchy, rude, and made to be vilified by their age.
The diaperfication of the fucking Crocodile Tears All for the Red White and Blue Camo Mercenaries..
You know about the missing trillions, right? You know, the $2.3 trillion missing from the Pentagon’s coffers that was announced to the public on September 10, 2001, and then never mentioned again? …Of course, if that IS your understanding of the missing trillions story, then you don’t know the missing trillions story. Join James for today’s Corbett Report deep dive into the real story of the Pentagon’s missing trillions and how many trillions are missing today.
MAGA madness . . . Trump promised to Save Your Job. John Deere Moved It to Mexico Anyway.
More Perfect Union’s investigation, “Trump Says He Will Save American Jobs. John Deere Is Calling His Bluff,” has the full reporting: John Deere has announced more than 1500 layoffs in the last year. Deere and Case New Holland used to employ generations of union workers across the Midwest. Now they’re slashing American jobs and moving to Mexico. We investigated what’s behind it — and how to bring those jobs back.
How much information can the 3rd-grade reading level Trump take, or the 7th-grade reading level of most Americans absorb?
What does insect collapse mean?
It’s hard to grasp the extent of insects’ impact on our daily lives, but loss of these species would be catastrophic for our planet.
They’re the most diverse form of life on Earth, making up 75% of all species and outnumbering humans 200 million to one. While there are only 5,416 mammal species, there are about 1 million insect species we know exist – and experts believe there are millions more yet to be discovered by humans.
Insects not only pollinate many of the plants we eat, but they help decompose matter, control weeds, and provide food for other forms of life. Without insects, entire ecosystems would collapse. How would that affect us? Well, it would drastically alter our current food systems, for a start.
Is insect collapse really happening?
The findings of the research are shocking, and The Guardian has proclaimed that insects could “vanish within a century”.
However, others express skepticism that this simply isn’t possible because of insects’ sheer numbers and their diversity, which makes them more resilient to disasters that could wipe humans off the planet. In addition, much of the data from the study was drawn from North America and Europe, with limited data from insect populations around the rest of the world.
But experts such as Michelle Trautwein from the California Academy of Sciences say that while the data isn’t spotless, the warning is legitimate, and we should take this information as an opportunity to figure out how serious the threat of insect collapse really is.
Butterflies, like many of the insects on this list, are indicators of environmental health. If we lost them, we may lose a key marker of the state of our environment.
Urbanisation seems to be playing a big role in their decline, as scientists found that butterfly species in cities and towns were declining at a much higher rate than their countryside counterparts (at 69% to 45%) – air pollution, loss of green spaces, paving of gardens, neglecting of parks and loss of brownfield sites were all cited factors.
The Monarch butterfly in the US is particularly under threat – scientists believe this could be due to the herbicide Roundup, which kills Milkweed – the Monarch caterpillar’s only food source.
What can you do to help the butterflies?
Be aware that most pesticides (even organic ones like insecticidal soap or neem oil) will still kill or harm butterflies – avoid using pesticides in your garden; if you must, be sure to shield flowers from the sprays (further reading: How to Garden Organically.)
Plant a butterfly garden, using wildflowers and grasses that supply nectar from April to October, and leaving areas of tall grass in your garden; as the RSPB reminds, don’t forget about feeding caterpillars, too!
Moths are important because they provide food for other insects, spiders, frogs, toads, lizards, shrews, hedgehogs, bats and birds – especially baby birds. Britain’s Blue Tit chicks are estimated to eat 35 billion of them a year.
If we lost moths, we’d lose pollinators for important plants and, like butterflies, essential clues to the state of our own environment. Moths also seem to be in danger from urbanisation and pesticides – they’re also particularly affected by artificial lighting, which can alter their reproductive and pollinating behavior. Climate change seems to be a more cited factor for the decline of moths than of butterflies
Some numbers show that the moth population has declined by nearly 50% in Scotland. In England, two-thirds of 340 moth species declined from 1968-2003.
What can you do to help the moths?
Plant amoth garden, with plenty of wild spaces, weeds and plant debris. The RSPB recommends piling up any dead wood you have lying around to make a little moth heaven.
Reduce your carbon footprint – think minimising traveling and using less energy (that artificial lighting!) (This action can help every insect in this list).
Become a volunteer moth (or butterfly) recorder – anyone can take part, from complete beginners to veteran lepidopterists!
Of all the species on this list, you’ve probably heard most about the worrying decline of bees.
Bees pollinate an estimated one-third of the food we consume; without bees, many plants would die, triggering further extinctions of dependent organisms. For us, it wouldn’t mean all-out famine; but it would radically alter existing food systems, with many fruits and vegetables unable to be grown at large scale (for example, blueberries and cherries rely on honeybees for 90% of their pollination).
Bees are disappearing as a result of colony collapse disorder – in which the majority of worker bees spontaneously abandon a hive, leaving behind their queen. Its cause is mysterious, but is suspected to be due to pesticide poisoning and habitat change.
One-third of the United Kingdom’s bee population has disappeared just in the last 10 years, and 24% of Europe’s bumblebees are under threat of extinction.
What can you do to help the bees?
Plant bee-friendly flowers and herbs – just a few pots on the windowsill will do. And on hot days you can even leave out a little bit of water in a saucer for them!
Sign petitions to stop bee-killing pesticides from being used on our food: one started by Avaaz was signed by 5 million people, and pushed Europe to vote for a ban on the pesticides. Petitions can really work!
According to the research, 15% of all dragonfly species may be threatened. Dragonflies eat mosquitoes, and can be top predators in fishless wetlands. In turn, they provide food for fish and other amphibians, birds, bats, and spiders.
How can you help the dragonflies?
Drive at the speed limit! Dragonflies are often killed by cars, but conservational biologists from South Dakota found that dragonflies survived colliding with cars at speeds below 35mph!
You can also make a dragonfly garden, by introducing any kind of water source to your garden, and ensuring there’s a diverse selection of native plants.
Leafhoppers are part of a larger class of insects called Cicadellidae, and look amazingly similar to leaves. Leafhoppers feed on a wide variety of plants; because they’re one of the most common and abundant herbivorous insects, they’re an important food source for birds and lizards.
One study shows that the number of leafhoppers in Germany plunged by 66% in the 50 years up to 2010. Social acidification due to heavy fertiliser use is suspected to be the main factor in their declining numbers.
I don’t like beetles for a bunch of reasons (for starters, they’re just too freaking fast. Some can run 9 km/hour, making them one of the fastest land animals on earth in relation to their size). But ground beetles are far more important than my dislike for them!
They eat other bugs, including maggots, and will also eat the seeds of weeds, which helps to regulate weed population. Without ground beetles, we’d have more pests and weeds (which some people would then, in turn, attempt to kill with even more harmful chemicals). But in the UK alone, huge declines in ground beetles have been seen in three quarters of the 68 carabid species studied from 1994-2008.
How can you help the ground beetles?
First, recognise them as a helpful aide and not a pest, and encourage others to do the same. They’re not harmful to people (despite their alarming speed…).
Next, you can make safe places for beetles in your yard or garden by placing rocks; you can even create, “beetle banks”: raised beds of perennial grasses and flowers complete with rocks and plenty of places to hide.
Caddisflies resemble moths, and live near freshwater like lakes and rivers. They play an important role in aquatic ecosystems – fish and birds eat them, and their larvae even help control algae populations.
Caddisflies are very sensitive to water pollution, especially from human origin, according to the research. The removal of trees also threatens this species. 68% of caddisfly species are now considered to be threatened.
What can you do to help the caddisflies?
Plant trees (caddisflies enjoy cool shade); if you don’t have space in your own garden, you can use a proxy like search engine Ecosia, which uses your searches to plant trees!
To prevent freshwater pollution, recycle appropriately, and encourage your local authorities to properly manage storm runoffin your city.
Mayflies are one of the oldest-known winged insects in existence. They hatch in fresh water and only live for about 24 hours.
Mayflies are active in the warmer months and are found in almost all types of water. What’s the point of saving them if they only live for a day, you ask? Well, during their brief time on earth, they provide food for dragonflies and other insects and mammals, including flying squirrels and fish.
Acidification of water, through industrial chemicals for example, is killing mayflies. 37% of mayfly species are considered to be under threat.
What can you do to help the mayflies? See the above section on caddisflies.
Another tip: mayflies are known to swarm, but don’t be alarmed by them – they’re completely harmless!
Oh, how about a few tens of thousands of dedicated lone wolf heroes and their tinctures, from Rodeo Boulevard to the Halls of City of London’s and N-J York City’s and Brussel’s Dining Facilities?
Sure, the surveillance is oppressive. Debanking, Flock fucking, all the digital hell we are facing- yep, the world is beyond Orwellian and Brave New World. Think Lord of the Fleas and Animal Farm for Consumopethicus Sapiens.
Raping the land, the literature, education, food, air, water, sky, and of course, the MIND.
Joost Meerloo’s work investigates menticide, a term he created to describe the systematic destruction of individual thought through psychological coercion and scientific conditioning. He explains how totalitarian regimes and modern institutions use Pavlovian techniques, isolation, and pharmacological tools to bypass human reason and force abject submission. The book highlights that this “killing of the mind” is not limited to physical torture but extends to unobtrusive pressures found in technology, bureaucracy, and mass media. By creating a semantic fog and fostering mental apathy, these forces aim to transform free-thinking citizens into automated machines that serve a state narrative. Ultimately, the book advocates for a mental fortress built on self-knowledge and intellectual independence to protect the human spirit from collective delusion.
The Deadliest Mushrooms in Oregon
Death Cap (Amanita phalloides): Featuring a greenish-brown to yellowish cap and white gills, this invasive species grows near oaks and conifers, containing liver-destroying amatoxins responsible for most fatal poisonings.
Destroying Angel (Amanita ocreata): A stark white mushroom found near trees, it also contains lethal amatoxins that cause rapid organ failure.
Deadly Galerina (Galerina marginata): These small, brown wood-rotting mushrooms grow in clusters on conifer logs and stumps, containing the same lethal amatoxins as the death cap.
Webcaps (Cortinarius species): Containing the toxin orellanine, these brown mushrooms cause severe, delayed kidney failure where symptoms may not appear for days.
False Morels (Gyromitra species): Often mistaken for edible spring morels, these brain-like, irregular fungi contain gyromitrin, which converts to toxic hydrazine compounds and can cause fatal liver damage.
Smith’s Amanita (Amanita smithiana): A large white mushroom found under conifers that is sometimes confused with edible pine mushrooms (matsutake), causing acute kidney failure.
This dual extraction mushroom tincture recipe is a simple preparation that is applicable for all species, including the well-known medicinal mushrooms reishi (Ganoderma lucidum), turkey tail (Trametes versicolor), or lion’s mane (Hericium erinaceus), whether they have been harvested from the wild, or purchased from a reputable supplier.
A dual extraction ensures the full spectrum of medicinal compounds will be present in the final preparation — the water extracts the polysaccharides (beta glucans), whilst the alcohol extracts the triterpenoids, sterols and phenolic compounds (1). Across species, medicinal mushrooms have a breadth of medicinal applications including for immunity, cardiovascular health, gut health and neurological function.
I interviewed him yesterday for a Sept. 30 airing on my radio show. He was perplexed and sort of wanting to know MY solution to attacking and tackling the monsters of the world — the rich, the Eichmanns, the despots, the billionaires, et al.
I was on the radio, or it will be broadcast, so, I definitely know the constraints of the FCC and community radio, and even with thought experiments, and the Secret Service and NSA and FBI, as so much I have written is out there, collected by Larry Jew First Ellison and their Gestapo and Stasi. I am a mark! Small potatoes, but that might change.
John Rachel has a B.A. in Philosophy, is a novelist and established political blogger. He has written ten novels, three political non-fiction books, a collection of anecdotes about living in Japan, and a fantasy/travel/cookbook about the dietary preferences of mermaids. His political articles have appeared at OpEdNews, Counterpunch, Greanville Post, Dissident Voice, Popular Resistance, Nation of Change, and other alternative media outlets.
Since leaving the U.S. in 2006, he has lived in and explored 34 countries. He is now somewhat rooted in a traditional, rural Japanese community about an hour from Osaka, where he lives with his wife of four years. Daily he rides his bicycle through the soybean fields and rice paddies which sprawl across the surrounding landscape, and experiences infinite delight in the ringing of temple bells three times a day at a local Shinto shrine. These days he’s mostly immersed in good vibrations.
They are KILLING us, and Gazafying the world, and strangling our lives, our futures, our kiddos. Gaza is just a crude vision. Proving ground.
Heat-seeking missiles, shoulder-launched?
FIM-92 Stinger (United States): A prominent infrared-guided missile used globally, effective against jets, helicopters, and drones.
9K38 Igla / 9K338 Igla-S (Russia): A widely exported shoulder-fired system using dual-path optical/infrared guidance.
Piorun (Poland): A modern upgrade based on the Igla family with enhanced resistance to electronic countermeasures.
Mistral (France): A lightweight, heat-seeking system featuring proportional navigation and high decoy rejection.
FN-6 (China): A portable infrared-guided air defense weapon used by multiple militaries.
In a recent article in Science, the biological mechanism behind the health benefits of castor oil was examined. But one cannot look at a derivative of the castor bean without also recalling that another byproduct creates one of the most toxic substances known to man: ricin.
Ricin is a naturally occurring protein that is part of the leftover “waste mash” created when beans from the castor plant (Ricinus communis) are processed to make castor oil. Exposure occurs if the bean seeds are eaten; otherwise, exposure must be deliberate. The substance can be made into a powder, mist, or pellet as a biological agent for warfare, exposing people through food, water, or air. There is no antidote.
Castor beans grow in warm climates, and over a million tons are processed worldwide, so they are readily available. Separating out the protein requires only someone skilled in chromatography, so it is not that difficult to manufacture. In December 2002, six terrorist suspects were arrested in Manchester, England when it was discovered that the group, led by a 27-year-old chemist, was using an apartment as a ricin laboratory.
The toxic properties of ricin have likely been known since the plant was discovered and its beans eaten for food; it wasn’t until German scientist Peter Hermann Stillmark extracted the toxin in 1888 that its use as a biological weapon became a possibility.
Drone Jamming and Spoofing – What That Means
Pilots use remote controls to connect with their drones and direct their flight path, however, the radio signals between the remote control and drone can be interrupted. A blanket term for this deliberate radio signal interruption is jamming, but there are other ways to interfere with a pilot and their drone, including spoofing.
Drone Jamming Vs. Drone Spoofing
Jamming specifically refers to intentionally using a transmission-blocking signal to disrupt communications between a drone and the pilot.
Once a person jams a drone, they can force the drone to do the following:
Land on the spot, halting any further movement.
Return to “home” location. This is a normal function of a drone with GPS and a home location feature. It is designed so that if you lose connection, your drone comes back to where it took off.
Spoofing a drone refers to a third party taking over the drone remotely by impersonating the remote control. It involves emitting a signal that is supposed to confuse the drone so that it thinks the spoofing signal is legitimate (when in fact it isn’t).
Done correctly, spoofing allows a third party to do the following:
Take over the drone and direct the flight.
Download data from the drone or view its camera feed.
What tools or devices are needed to jam or spoof a drone?
The sale and use of drone jammer technologies are illegal for individuals and enterprises, but they are still easily attainable online. Generally, a jammer is composed of a transmitter, which can take different shapes and sizes. When aimed and fixed on a drone, a jammer disrupts the radio and GPS signals guiding it and, depending on the technology used, can deploy this interruption from thousands of feet away.
Why would anyone want or need to jam a drone?
Organizations that are authorized to use jamming technology are usually protecting high-risk areas, such as military bases. In a war zone, military security may want to defeat an unauthorized drone before it enters a protected area and prevent any interruptions or potential harm to themselves or their property.
GPS Jamming (Easy): This involves blasting loud radio noise to completely block satellite signals. It requires very little sophisticated technology—just a powerful enough oscillator and antenna. It causes the aircraft’s GPS display to go blank or show an error.
GPS Spoofing (Harder, but growing): This is a much more insidious threat. Instead of blocking the signal, a spoofing device feeds the aircraft counterfeit satellite signals that seem legitimate. This can trick the plane’s flight computers into thinking it is miles away from its actual location or cause “spurious alerts” from the Terrain Avoidance and Warning Systems (TAWS).
You don’t have to be perverse Jews to get some results taking out the billionaire and celebrity and rich and military class:
A Molotov cocktail has three key ingredients: a container that breaks upon impact (often a glass bottle), flammable liquid, and a wick. When the lit device hits a target it shatters, creating a fireball.
On June 6th then-Assistant Chief Michael Brunson, promoted to Acting Chief after Morales was demoted in August, told the Common Council the department transferred the recovered device to a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) laboratory for review.
Now the department admitted it never was a Molotov cocktail and it never went to a crime lab. It was a plastic water bottle and a fish tank pump.
SOOOO, Pacificists, weaponizing education, science, learning, medicine, community policing, banking, thinking- that’s okay — but using weapons, that’s bad?
City-States Without Limits – Part 1
A powerful group of Silicon Valley oligarchs are using the Trump administration to push for the construction of privatized city-states in the US. Their interests are aligned with a global network of oligarchs who want to move away from the global governance of nation-states to the global governance of an international network of city-states. The intention is for the city-states to form a “patchwork” of realms overseen by a regional balance of power global governance system: the Multipolar World Order.
The proliferation of data centers has become a huge political issue in recent months, particularly in the United States, largely due to concerns about their gargantuan appetite for local resources –– driving up utility prices for everyday consumers and endangering communities where some of those resources were already scarce. Many have been outraged about how their local governments, elected to ostensibly protect their interests, have rolled over for data center developers, promising jobs that rarely manifest and –– if they do –– largely evaporate after the center is built. Meanwhile, the technology many of these data centers power, Artificial Intelligence (AI), has also sparked its own set of concerns, nominally focused on AI’s usurpation of human jobs and human creativity while generating generous returns for the ultra-wealthy and dubious benefits for the rest of us.
The predation of Patagonia by data center developers has been greatly facilitated by the policies of Argentina’s president Javier Milei. Milei has made it a point to partner with Silicon Valley, as well as the current U.S. administration –– itself colonized by Silicon Valley to an impressive and unprecedented degree. He has also developed generous tax benefits schemes for foreign U.S. Big Tech firms to operate in the country, while offering those that seek to park their data centers in the country next to no regulation regarding their construction or operation. Earlier this year, Milei wrote an editorial in the Financial Times where he “invite[d] AI to free itself” and proposed allowing AI-run companies with no humans involved to operate in his country. While some pointed out that these statements seemed to value AI activity over human activity, this is not an isolated incident. For instance, one adviser in Milei’s inner circle, Demián Riedel, has controversially argued that humans are, in fact, Argentina’s biggest problem, particularly in Argentine Patagonia, because they present an obstacle to AI infrastructure and development in the region.
The face of the Jewish Enemy! A generic Jew, for sure.
“When you complete positive actions, you gain Whuffies, and you lose them when you do something that the organization deems to be detrimental. [. . . ]The algorithm takes into account ‘public endorsements’, or the number of times a user’s tweets are retweeted, or a Facebook post is Liked. It also takes into account who is making the endorsement, and the content in the messages that are being posted.”
The Whuffie Bank website noted that the goal of the organization was to drive “social change” through its virtual currency, while another Whuffie Bank co-founder, Santiago Siri, has described its goal as “rethink[ing] the future of money.” Siri, while working at the Whuffie Bank, was named a World Economic Forum Global Shaper for his efforts to advance digital, reputation-based money that rewards or punishes users based on their online activity and speech. The Whuffie Bank represents an early effort to link digital currencies to the digital behavior and reputation of its users, efforts which continue today in other forms and have raised concerns about ascendant “social credit systems.”
While the Whuffies went extinct, Kargieman’s next venture Satellogic quickly placed him shoulder to shoulder alongside the very pioneers responsible for digitizing the U.S. financial system, e.g. former U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and current Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick (previously the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, the largest dealer of government securities in the country). Before his low Earth observation satellite firm took off, former NASA contractor Kargieman found himself in Northern California, at the very Air Force base where Silicon Valley unofficially took hold of the country’s space program –– taking what was once the pride and joy of the US government firmly into the private sector for good.
Family History: His parents, Fredric and Hannah Kurzweil, were Jewish refugees from Austria who escaped Europe prior to WWII. [1]
Religious and Spiritual Education: Although born to Jewish parents, Kurzweil grew up with a unique, pluralistic religious upbringing. He attended a Unitarian church that focused on comparative religion, spending significant time studying both Judaism and Buddhism alongside principles of social justice and tolerance. [1, 2, 3]
Cultural Identity: He identifies with his secular Jewish heritage, and his family history with the Holocaust has been explored in generational works by his daughter, author and cartoonist Amy Kurzweil (such as in her graphic memoir Artificial: A Love Story).
Plenty of TInctures to go around, and jamming private jets, and, well, Molotovs on their patios.
Buddha died from a look-alike black mushroom. In Asia, there are 10 mimics of the mushroom called, the Laughing Buddha Mushroom, also called the Food of the Immortals; the Latin name is, Gymnopolis Spectarallis.
The Druids knew of it, for it grows on Oak trees or high-tannin-content trees. In Europe, one still needs to species it, maybe. On Turtle Island, Oak Trees don’t have mimic black shrooms. But such are good for a therapeutic laugh. Or maybe as a microdose, to keep a smirk going?
YA FEEL RAPED YET?
On the day of the 9-11 attacks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked what the attacks would mean for US-Israeli relations. His quick reply was:
“It’s very good…….Well, it’s not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel)”
The Five Dancing Israelis Arrested On 9-11
A Mossad surveillance team made quite a public spectacle of themselves on 9-11.
The New JewYork Times reported Thursday that a group of five men had set up video cameras aimed at the Twin Towers prior to the attack on Tuesday, and were seen congratulating one another afterwards. 1)
Police received several calls from angry New Jersey residents claiming “middle-eastern” men with a white van were videotaping the disaster with shouts of joy and mockery. (2)
“They were like happy, you know … They didn’t look shocked to me” said a witness. (3)
[T]hey were seen by New Jersey residents on Sept. 11 making fun of the World Trade Center ruins and going to extreme lengths to photograph themselves in front of the wreckage. (4)
Witnesses saw them jumping for joy in Liberty State Park after the initial impact (5). Later on, other witnesses saw them celebrating on a roof in Weehawken, and still more witnesses later saw them celebrating with high fives in a Jersey City parking lot. (6)
“It looked like they’re hooked in with this. It looked like they knew what was going to happen when they were at Liberty State Park.”
One anonymous phone call to the authorities actually led them to close down all of New Jew York’s bridges and tunnels. The mystery caller told the 9-1-1 dispatcher that a group of Palestinians were mixing a bomb inside of a white van headed for the Holland Tunnel. Here’s the transcript from NBC News:
Dispatcher: Jew Jersey City police. Caller: Yes, we have a white van, 2 or 3 guys in there, they look like Palestinians and going around a building. Caller: There’s a minivan heading toward the Holland tunnel, I see the guy by Newark Airport mixing some junk and he has that sheikh uniform. Dispatcher: He has what? Caller: He’s dressed like an Arab. (8)
Based on that phone call, police then issued a “Be-on-the-Lookout” alert for a white minivan heading for the city’s bridges and tunnels from New Jersey.White, 2000 Chevrolet van with ‘Urban Moving Systems’ sign on back seen at Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ, at the time of first impact of jetliner into World Trade Center Three individuals with van were seen celebrating after initial impact and subsequent explosion. FBI Newark Field Office requests that, if the van is located, hold for prints and detain individuals. (9)
When a van fitting that exact description was stopped just before crossing into New York, the suspicious “middle-easterners” were apprehended. Imagine the surprise of the police officers when these terror suspects turned out to be Israelis!According to ABC’s 20/20, when the van belonging to the cheering Israelis was stopped by the police, the driver of the van, Sivan Kurzberg, told the officers:“We are Israelis. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are your problem.” (10)Why did he feel Palestinians were a problem for the NYPD?
The police and FBI field agents became very suspicious when they found maps of the city with certain places highlighted, box cutters (the same items that the hijackers supposedly used), $4700 cash stuffed in a sock, and foreign passports. Police also told the Bergen Record that bomb sniffing dogs were brought to the van and that they reacted as if they had smelled explosives. (11)The FBI seized and developed their photos, one of which shows Sivan Kurzberg flicking a cigarette lighter in front of the smouldering ruins in an apparently celebratory gesture. (12)
The Jerusalem Post later reported that a white van with a bomb was stopped as it approached the George Washington Bridge, but the ethnicity of the suspects was not revealed. Here’s what the Jerusalem Post reported on September 12, 2001:American security services overnight stopped a car bomb on the George Washington Bridge. The van, packed with explosives, was stopped on an approach ramp to the bridge. Authorities suspect the terrorists intended to blow up the main crossing between New Jersey and New York, Army Radio reported. (13)“…two suspects are in FBI custody after a truckload of explosives was discovered around the George Washington Bridge … The FBI … says enough explosives were in the truck to do great damage to the George Washington Bridge.”WMV video download (545kB)
“Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It’s classified information.” US official quoted in Carl Cameron’s Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring.
It was reported the van contained tonnes of explosives (14).What’s really intriguing is that ABC’s 20/20 (15), the New York Post (16), and the New Jersey Bergen Record (17) all clearly and unambiguously reported that a white van with Israelis was intercepted on a ramp near Route 3, which leads directly to the Lincoln Tunnel.
But the Jerusalem Post, Israeli National News (Arutz Sheva) (18), and Yediot America, (19) all reported, just as clearly and unambiguously, that a white van with Israelis was stopped on a ramp leading to the George Washington Bridge, which is several miles north of the Lincoln Tunnel.
It appears as if there may actually have been two white vans involved, one stopped on each crossing. This would not only explain the conflicting reports as to the actual location of the arrests, but would also explain how so many credible eyewitnesses all saw celebrating “Middle Easterners” in a white van in so many different locations. It also explains why the New York Post and Steve Gordon (lawyer for the 5 Israelis) originally described how three Israelis were arrested but later increased the total to five.
Perhaps one van was meant to drop off a bomb while the other was meant to pick up the first set of drivers while re-crossing back into New Jersey? If a van was to be used as a parked time-bomb on the GW Bridge, then certainly the drivers would need to have a “get-away van” to pick them up and escape. And notice how the van (or vans) stayed away from the third major crossing -the Holland Tunnel- which was where the police had originally been directed to by that anti-Palestinian 9-1-1 “mystery caller”. A classic misdirection play.
From there, the story becomes even more suspicious. The Israelis worked for a Weehawken moving company known as Urban Moving Systems. An American employee of Urban Moving Systems told The Record of New Jew Jersey that a majority of his co-workers were Israelis and they were joking about the attacks.The employee, who declined to give his name, said: “I was in tears. These guys were joking and that bothered me.” These guys were like, “Now America knows what we go through.”
A few days after the attacks, Urban Moving System’s Israeli owner, Dominick Suter, dropped his business and fled the country for Israel. He was in such a hurry to flee America that some of Urban Moving System’s customers were left with their furniture stranded in storage facilities (21).
Suter’s departure was abrupt, leaving behind coffee cups, sandwiches, cell phones and computers strewn on office tables and thousands of dollars of goods in storage. Suter was later placed on the same FBI suspect list as 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta and other hijackers and suspected al-Qaeda sympathizers, suggesting that U.S. authorities felt Suter may have known something about the attacks. (22)
The Jewish weekly The Forward reported that the FBI finally concluded that at least two of the detained Israelis were agents working for the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, and that Urban Moving Systems, the ostensible employer of the five Israelis, was a front operation. This was confirmed by two former CIA officers, and they noted that movers’ vans are a common intelligence cover. (23). The Israelis were held in custody for 71 days before being quietly released. (24)
How did they know there would be an event to document on 9/11?It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to connect the dots of the dancing Israeli Mossad agents – here’s the most logical scenario:1. The Israeli “movers” cheered the 9-11 attacks to celebrate the successful accomplishment of the greatest spy operation ever pulled off in history.2. One of them, or an accomplice, then calls a 9-1-1 police dispatcher to report Palestinian bomb-makers in a white van headed for the Holland Tunnel.3. Having thus pre-framed the Palestinians with this phone call, the Israeli bombers then head for the George Washington Bridge instead, where they will drop off their time-bomb van and escape with Urban Moving accomplices.4. But the police react very wisely and proactively by closing off ALL bridges and tunnels instead of just the Holland Tunnel. This move inadvertently foils the Israelis’ misdirection play and leads to their own capture and 40 day torture.5. To cover up this story, the U.S. Justice Department rounds up over 1000 Arabs for minor immigration violations and places them in New York area jails. The Israelis therefore become less conspicuous as the government and media can now claim that the Israelis were just immigration violators caught in the same dragnet as many other Arabs.6. After several months, FBI and Justice Department “higher-ups” are able to gradually push aside the local FBI agents and free the Israelis quietly.Osama bin Laden was immediately blamed for the 9/11 attacks even though he had no previous record of doing anything on this scale. Immediately after Flight 11 hit World Trade Center 1 CIA Director George Tenet said “You know, this has bin Laden’s fingerprints all over it.” (27)
The compliant mainstream media completely ignored the Israeli connection. Immediately following the 9-11 attacks the media was filled with stories linking the attacks to bin Laden. TV talking-heads, “experts”, and scribblers of every stripe spoon-fed a gullible American public a steady diet of the most outrageous propaganda imaginable.
We were told that the reason bin Laden attacked the USA was that he hates our “freedom” and “democracy”. The Muslims were “medieval,” and they wanted to destroy us because they envied our wealth, were still bitter about the Crusades, and were offended by Britney Spears shaking her tits and ass all over the place!
But bin Laden strongly denied any role in the attacks and suggested that Zionists orchestrated the 9-11 attacks. The BBC published bin Laden’s statement of denial in which he said:“I was not involved in the September 11 attacks in the United States nor did I have knowledge of the attacks. There exists a government within a government within the United States. The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; to the people who want to make the present century a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity. That secret government must be asked as to who carried out the attacks. … The American system is totally in control of the Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States.” (28)
You never heard that quote on your nightly newscast did you?[A] number of intelligence officials have raised questions about Osama bin Laden’s capabilities. “This guy sits in a cave in Afghanistan and he’s running this operation?” one C.I.A. official asked. “It’s so huge. He couldn’t have done it alone.” A senior military officer told me that because of the visas and other documentation needed to infiltrate team members into the United States a major foreign intelligence service might also have been involved. (29)
Bin Laden is not named as the perpetrator of 9/11 by the FBI:When asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on Bin Laden’s Most Wanted web page (30), [Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI] said, “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.” (31)
“So we’ve never made the case, or argued the case that somehow Osama bin Laden [sic] was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming” – Dick Cheney. (32)
To date, the only shred of “evidence” to be uncovered against bin Laden is a barely audible fuzzy amateur video that the Pentagon just happened to find “lying around” in Afghanistan. How very convenient, and how very fake. (33)
There is no evidence, be it hard or circumstantial, to link the Al Qaeda “terrorist network” to these acts of terror, but there is a mountain of evidence, both hard and circumstantial, which suggests that Zionists have been very busy framing Arabs for terror plots against America.“I think there is very compelling evidence that at least some of the terrorists were assisted not just in financing — although that was part of it — by a sovereign foreign government … It will become public at some point when it’s turned over to the archives, but that’s 20 or 30 years from now” – Senator Bob Graham. (34)
If the sovereign foreign government mentioned by Senator Graham was an enemy of the United States the “compelling evidence” would not be kept secret for 20+ years.One final point; at 09:40 on 9-11 it was reported that the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attacks (35).
This claim was immediately denied by the DFLP leader Qais abu Leila who said it had always opposed “terror attacks on civilian targets, especially outside the occupied territories.” (36)
Why would a Palestinian organisation comprising of less than 500 people (37) make the suicidal move of immediately claiming responsibility for the attacks?Sharon and the other Israeli leaders aspire to fulfil what the goals of the political Zionist movement have been since its origin a century ago: to turn all of historic Palestine into an exclusively Jewish state. A central tenet of the Zionist ideology is expressed in the racist slogan, “A land without people for a people without a land.” (38)
The implication of Palestinians in the 9/11 attacks would have handed Zionists a golden opportunity to achieve the above because all Palestinians would have been labelled terrorists.
Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that one magical day good luck will suddenly rain down on them–will rain down in buckets. But good luck doesn’t rain down yesterday, today, tomorrow, or ever. Good luck doesn’t even fall in a fine drizzle, no matter how hard the nobodies summon it, even if their left hand is tickling, or if they begin the new day with their right foot, or start the new year with a change of brooms.
The nobodies: nobody’s children, owners of nothing. The nobodies: the no ones, the nobodied, running like rabbits, dying through life, screwed every which way.
Who are not, but could be. Who don’t speak languages, but dialects. Who don’t have religions, but superstitions. Who don’t create art, but handicrafts. Who don’t have culture, but folklore. Who are not human beings, but human resources. Who do not have faces, but arms. Who do not have names, but numbers. Who do not appear in the history of the world, but in the police blotter of the local paper. The nobodies, who are not worth the bullet that kills them.
I decided to give him an email, John Rachel, after reading Covert Action Magazine’s feature on his new book:
And he was open to my inquiries about his narrative — from Michigan to LA, as a music recording honcho, and then his 12 years in Portland, and then his WWOOFing, where he ended up working and living in 34 countries, before settling in Japan.
He is full of ideas, and it was a pleasure to course through many topics with John.
Introduction: “We the people . . .”
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
That’s the Preamble to the Constitution. Notably, it does not say . . . we the oligarchs.
Or . . . we the plutocrats.
Or . . . we the ruling elite.
Or . . . we the aristocrats.
Or . . . we the CEOs.
Or . . . we the Wall Street speculators.
Or . . . we the war profiteers.
Or . . . we the political class.
Or . . . we the technocrats.
Or . . . we the military.
Granted, “the people” has undergone quite a substantial evolution over the 250-year history of our nation. Originally, some “people” had more say over the affairs of the U.S. than others.
Women weren’t allowed to vote until August 18, 1920, with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.
Slaves were not people at the founding; rather, they were property. Until 1863, they were non-citizens and had zero rights. Even for apportioning congressional districts — done by population — a slave was constitutionally deemed as 3/5th of a person. They were finally freed from bondage when Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The 13th Amendment made that constitutionally binding, the 14th Amendment made former slaves full citizens, and the 15th Amendment gave blacks the right to vote.
There have been other notable shifts toward inclusivity.
He’s asking what many have asked for: Contract for American Renewal.
– Minimum wage $20/hour –
– High-quality, inexpensive health care for all –
– Expand Social Security and Medicare –
– End the wars and reduce military spending –
– Money out of politics –
Nuts and bolts?
Minimum Wage: Immediately raising the minimum wage to $20.00 per hour.
• Health Care: Instituting Medicare-For-All and/or single-payer health insurance; paid family and medical leave; coverage for dental, eye, and hearing; lowering prescription drug prices; guaranteeing universal, high-quality health care.
• Job Guarantees: Trade policy and labor reform guaranteeing a full-time job, paying a livable wage and providing adequate family and medical leave, paid vacations, and retirement security, for every person who wants to work.
• Immigration: Initiate a comprehensive immigration policy which: Monitors and controls the number and quality of immigrants entering the U.S.; guarantees humane treatment and respect for the rights of those applying for entry or admitted with official approval into the country; and creates a sensible, expedient, judicious mechanism to award citizenship in a timely manner to immigrants now living amicably in America.
• Getting Big Money Out of Politics: Overturning Citizens United and related judicial decisions and immediately initiating comprehensive campaign finance reform banning big money in politics, especially targeting “dark money” and corporate contributions.
• Campaign Financing: Only accepting contributions from individual donors. Campaign contributions and “dark money” from major corporations, special interest groups, or other organizations, e.g., AIPAC, will not be allowed.
• Expanding Social Security: Making no reductions of current benefits or raising the eligibility age; expanding Social Security by increasing or eliminating the cap on taxable income; increasing benefits by at least 10% for all eligible recipients.
• Reducing Military Budget: Ending the undeclared wars and unnecessary military exploits across the globe, except where absolutely required to protect the safety of American citizens and to defend the nation from overt, verifiable aggression.
Limiting presidential deployment of military assets, except in cases of absolute emergency, by requiring informed congressional approval.
• Crime and Criminal Justice Reform: Reforming our criminal justice system, focusing on our racially biased, for-profit incarceration system. At the same time, investing in effective crime prevention programs and community policing.
• Tuition-Free College: Making tuition free at public colleges and universities throughout America.
• Environment: Implementing bold measures to mitigate the negative impact of climate challenges and to protect the environment from human-caused degradation, pollution, depletion of the oceans, deforestation, and desertification.
• Fair Individual Tax Policies: Instituting fair tax policies to relieve the onerous tax burden now borne by the middle and lower classes; closing tax loopholes, especially targeting tax avoidance using offshore tax havens; introducing appropriate parallel increases to capital gains tax rates.
• Fair Corporate Tax Policies: Eliminating tax loopholes, unnecessary tax credits and corporate subsidies, and barring use of corporate funds to lobby Congress; requiring corporations to contribute their fair share to federal revenue needs.
• Electoral System Reform: Reforming our entire electoral system making voting easier and more accessible, establishing secure and effective mechanisms for reflecting and realizing the priorities and choices of U.S. citizens, including but not limited to: requiring valid voter ID; making election day an official holiday; amending the Constitution such that the President is elected by popular vote; permitting same day voter registration; standardizing procedures on a national level for determining electoral outcomes, instituting fully transparentprotocols for a timely recording, collecting, storing, counting and recounting of votes.
We had some fun, though, with the fact that he loves Japan, but knows Japan is colonized with over 55 military bases(135 facilities total) of the United Snakes of AmeriKKKa.
China on Sept. 3, 2026, marked the 81st anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.
The date carries profound historical significance. On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender. On September 2, it formally signed the Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, bringing World War II to an end in the Asia-Pacific. China designated September 3 as Victory Day to commemorate its victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
The Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was an important part of the World Anti-Fascist War. On the main Eastern battlefield, Chinese soldiers and civilians made enormous sacrifices and tied down a large proportion of Japan’s ground forces, creating strategic space and valuable time for the Allied war effort.
The postwar international order also established a legal framework for addressing the legacy of aggression. The Cairo Declaration, the Potsdam Proclamation and other international documents affirmed key principles of the postwar settlement, including Japan’s surrender and the restoration of territories seized through aggression.
Eighty-one years later, however, the effort to uphold historical justice and prevent the distortion of wartime history remains unfinished, as Japan’s security and defense policies undergo profound changes.
In August, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi avoided explicit references to “reflection” and “lessons” regarding Japan’s wartime aggression at the National Memorial Ceremony for the War Dead. She also made a monetary offering to the Yasukuni war shrine, which honors convicted Japanese war criminals.
At the ceremony marking the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Takaichi also refrained from saying whether her government would continue to uphold Japan’s Three Non-Nuclear Principles.
Meanwhile, a proposed revision to explanatory texts at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum has drawn attention after reports that references to the “Nanjing Massacre” would be changed to “Nanjing Incident” from March next year.
An Iron Lady in Japan? Comparing Margaret Thatcher and Takaichi Sanae
He was a bit blown away by my interview style, alluding to the fact that “you make me sound like a centrist . . . it’s refreshing to talk to someone who understands the complexities of our time.”
Ahh, will I be debanked and taken out by a disgruntled Americano? He’s worried. And yet, she has to have armed police watch her house and her family. So what do I have to worry about?
Some candidates fit Rachel’s bill, including a friend of mine who I got to know a while back in Seattle when I was union organizing and teaching part-time,
In 2013, Sawant became Seattle’s first socialist city councilmember in generations and spent a decade in office using it as an organizing platform. In office, she fought for the country’s first $15 minimum wage, the first tax on Amazon, as well as for a ceasefire resolution against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, calling for an end to all U.S. military aid to Israel. In the midst of the George Floyd protests in 2020, Sawant also let protesters into City Hall, where they demanded the resignation of Mayor Jenny Durkan and cuts to police funding. In the face of these attacks, both big business and the Democratic establishment joined forces and spent heavily to recall her in 2021 — a campaign that she mobilized to beat, before leaving voluntarily at the end of 2023.
Her congressional run carried much of the same politics onto a larger stage. She ran a campaign to tax the rich to fund healthcare for all, to end U.S. military aid to Israel, to stop the growth of data centers and AI layoffs, to take Big Tech and the energy giants into democratic public ownership, to build millions of affordable homes, and to stop deportations and shut down detention centers. Notably, she ran as an independent, launching what she billed as a “working-class, antiwar, anti-genocide” campaign. Her program stood in stark contrast to that of Smith, who’s a senior member of the Armed Services Committee and voted for the Iraq War, voted to create ICE, and has voted to send tens of billions of dollars to arm Israel’s assault on Gaza.
With more than 800 volunteers, Sawant’s campaign raised about $645,000, most of it in small donations at a median of about $25. She out-raised everyone else in the field, including Basler and the other Democrat, Melissa Chaudhry, but was still outspent roughly three to one by Smith, who raised close to $1.9 million. Against the wider progressive slate now sweeping Democratic primaries, hers was a lean operation. Abdul El-Sayed raised more than $12 million for his Michigan Senate bid, Francesca Hong raised more than $1.1 million for her Wisconsin governor race, and Mamdani’s New York mayoral run mobilized tens of thousands of volunteers and maxed out the city’s matching funds.
This gap points to the other half of the story: despite the space for new ideas, the hurdles for Sawant’s campaign were significant. Endorsements came from the activist Left like the Washington Green Party, The Stranger, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the Seattle Gay News. The institutions with real muscle — the unions, the big progressive groups, and DSA — stayed on the sidelines. In March, Seattle DSA’s convention voted 91 to 67 to not even reopen consideration of endorsing her, with critics inside DSA citing a long, fractious relationship and accusing her camp of “entryism.” The real debate that Sawant’s campaign posed, however, was that instead of continuing with DSA’s longstanding strategy of using the Democratic Party ballot line and attempting to transform it into a vehicle for the working class and the Left, there exists an actual space to fight for class-independent politics.
We barely scratched the surface of his latest book:
Rachel points out $9.12 trillion was not used to defend the U.S. from any real foreign enemies but went “directly from people’s pocketbooks, wallets and family budgets into the coffers of major corporations…and bank accounts of their rich and powerful investors.”
According to Rachel, “all the unnecessary wars, 700+ military bases, and upgrade of the nuclear arsenal” were “not the result of honest mistakes or miscalculations or errors in judgment. No. They were all intentional, carefully cultivated fruits of calculated deceptions, patently misleading propaganda, shrewdly designed ruses, pre-meditated lies, false narratives, disinformation campaigns, massive brainwashing, serving shrewd priorities and agendas we the people certainly never voted for.”
Rachel highlights how the U.S. government issued Liberty Bonds to raise money for both World Wars I and II, and specifies that, “if we can raise money for war, we sure as hell can raise money for peace.”
I’ve had Abbey on my show, covered at DV, too. I believe the actual damage of US military expenditures and the actual kinetic and economic hits the US has perptrated, and that includes the 14 Eyes and Israel, that the total costs to humanity, to the lives lost, families torn apart, the PSTD, the harm to cities, schooling, just cultures, plus all the dual and triple use of the military budgets infecting schools, universities, corporations, all of that to include lives interrupted, dreams crashed, economies crashed, we are talking tens of trillions of dollars, if you can put prices on blown up wedding parties and the psychic and vicarious trauma of it all.
A good start, but like everything in transactional and non-nuancing America, UNDERCOUNTS:
The United States’ aggregate extra fuel costs since February 28:
● Could pay for the entire federal Bridge Investment Program announced in 2024 to repair, restore, and modernize over 10,200 of the nation’s bridges
● Exceed the estimated cost of completely redoing the U.S. air traffic control system ($31.5 billion)
● Are twice (2x) the cost of the Federal EV Charging and Electrification Programs proposed under two laws passed during the Biden administration ($18.9 billion)
Again, LIVES, villages, the trauma. Wedding parties?
Iran Red Crescent urges ICC probe into deadly US strike on wedding party
Outrage grows over US strike that killed four people and wounded 67 at a wedding party in Kuhestak.
The premise and basic arguments of the Peace Dividend strategy and for the Peace Dividend Refund are simple and straightforward:
1) All of the wars of the past three decades were based on lies, distortions of reality, hiding of facts, intentionally and by carefully concocted calculation, to misinform and mislead the American public.
2) Threats and enemies were created where none had existed. The need for interventions, regime changes, deploying military force, even initiating entire wars was fabricated out of whole cloth to enlist the support of the public for inflated defense budgets and endless wars.
3) These calculated deceptions constituted criminal fraud and the theft of trillions of dollars which should have been available to American citizens to put to better use.
4) The result was a gigantic transfer of wealth. Literally, it took money from the individual and family budgets of everyday people and gave it to corporations, Wall Street, hedge funds, and the already incomprehensibly wealthy.
5) This fraudulent seizure of funds and abuse of power also consolidated the control by ‘neocons’ over America’s policymaking institutions. Neocons are firmly entrenched in our government. Their agenda is making the U.S. the most powerful, feared empire in history, in order to ruthlessly rule over every other nation on the planet.
6) The American people never voted for any of this at any level. Candidates for office never discussed it.
7) Nor do American citizens, as polls show, now approve of endless wars, limitless military expansion, and America becoming an empire.
8) The U.S. did and could now maintain a sufficient and formidable military on the baseline DOD budget of 1992, which was $325,030,000,000.
9) Any expenditure in subsequent years in excess of this baseline was and is unnecessary. All such expenditures represent a fraudulent appropriation, literally a theft.
10) This theft of money from American citizens constitutes a criminal abuse of power on the part of those in the U.S. government who were and are responsible for such policies.
11) The minimum remedy for rectifying this crime against the American people — the potential for criminal prosecution aside — is a refund of all the funds appropriated under false pretenses.
12) This refund now totals $9.12 trillion, representing 34 years of theft from everyday citizens. The refunded money will be distributed equally to every living U.S. citizen. As of this writing, it comes to $27,522 per person.
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Nah, so every citizen gets $27k? Bezos? The millions of millionaires and hundreds of billionaires? Nah. How many are directly and indirectly making money off of death? U.S. defense industrial base is approximately 1.1 million workers. When combining broader aerospace and national security roles across the complete supply chain, the industry supports 2.1 to 2.2 million jobs.
Nah. Every fucking Gestapo and SS and uniformed and un-uniformed mercenary and Raytheon employee and military family member getting a piece of the dividend? All the trades in offensive weapons and services and other technologies? Nah, not a cent to them.
This is the infection of the military in businesses, real estate, schools, medicine, you name it . . . .
“More generally, the Pentagon has a potential strategic imperative to connect with a broader array of Americans, fewer and fewer of whom have served in the military. At a time when commercial technologies and non-traditional suppliers are increasingly vital to maintain U.S. military technical primacy, the Department of Defense has had a harder time attracting new entrants to the defense supply base. The increasing concentration of the U.S. defense industrial base thus appears to be both a symptom of a broader trend — the isolation of the Defense Department from broader American society — and a critical source of risk: If the established defense industrial base grows more concentrated in fewer areas, then accessing the kinds of commercial technologies, processes, and business models that will be needed in the coming era of great-power competition could grow more challenging.” — The Evolving Geography of the U.S. Defense Industrial Base
Our talk airs Sept. 30 at 8 pm, Wednesday, and rebroadcasts Thursday at 3 pm.
I did bring up Blue Highways, and Leas Heat-Moon’s journey across the US on non federal roads and highways, looking to see if he could get a bead on the American soul. That was 44 years ago.
The year of his journey was 1978. He was Bill Trogdon, or William Least Heat-Moon, according to his Osage lineage. He was 38 then, on an extended road trip in a Ford van following a somewhat circular route around the United States, sticking to the highways marked in blue on his old road atlas.
This is how he memorably put it, at the start, from behind the wheel:
“The first highway: Interstate 70 eastbound out of Columbia, Missouri. The road here follows, more or less, the Booneslick Trail, the initial leg of the Oregon Trail; it also parallels both the southern latitude of the last great glacier in central Missouri as well as the northern boundary of the Osage Nation.”
Least Heat Moon is often an outstanding writer. Look at this portrait of a woman in Nevada playing a slot machine like a zombie.
“… a woman, face as blank as a nickel slug, pulling dutifully on the slot handles. She had stood before the gears so many times she herself had become a mechanism for reaching, dropping, pulling. Her eyes were dark and unmoving as if unplugged. The periodic jangle of change in the winner’s cup moved her only to reach into the little coffer without looking and deposit the coins again.”
I have seen this woman a thousand times, and such men, too. The passage is uniformly good prose, but the key piece of genius is “gears.” About to describe the woman as an automaton, he places the word “gears” right where it will have the maximum effect on the quality of the passage.
Or this:
“A car whipped past, the driver eating and a passenger clicking a camera. Moving without going anywhere, taking a trip instead of making one. I laughed at the absurdity of the photographs and then realized I, too, was rolling effortlessly along, turning the windshield into a movie screen in which I, the viewer, did the moving while the subject held still.”
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Maybe John Rachel was looking for that blue highway experience, some America from Rockwell’s day, somewhere, to prove America was once a great country, one of inspiration for the rest of the world.
“’The sea never forgets where it’s been, and it’s been over that land many times. We haven’t had a major hurricane in nearly twenty years, when we used to have a hard blow every few years. New people don’t know that. They come in and see open beach and figure they’ve found open land. But the Banks aren’t ordinary islands, and that’s why they’ve been left alone. People didn’t used to build much they couldn’t afford to see washed away, because sooner or later most most things out there get washed away. I know — I’ve lived there. It’s always been a rough place. Land pirates, sea pirates. Blackbeard was killed down at Ocracoke where my family comes from. One of my ancestors was on the Arabian ship that wrecked and spilled the Banks ponies that used to run wild.’”
Unnamed man in Manteo, North Carolina, quoted in Blue Highways: Part 2, Chapter 8
well, think of all those THINGS that have been wrecked and continue to be wrecked by the human stains called CEOs, the rich, the uniforms, the political prostitutes, the presstitutes
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Daniel Sanchez Estrada wasn’t accused of attempted murder or material support of terrorism after a protest turned catastrophically wrong outside an ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas. He was merely convicted of obstructing the investigation by moving a box full of antifascist zines after the protest. Giving him a long prison term would make a mockery of justice, his defense attorney, Christopher Weinbel, told U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor on Tuesday.
“The punishment must fit the crimes — not the headlines, not the politics, not the fears that have been mongered about the case,” he said.
Instead, O’Connor gave Sanchez Estrada a 30-year term.
The lengthy sentence was among the eight harsh terms handed down by judges in two courtrooms in Fort Worth on Tuesday to activists who played roles at or after the July 4, 2025, protest at Prairieland Detention Center. Their sentences — longer than any of those received by members of the January 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol — capped a case that is widely regarded as the Trump administration’s first major victory in its crackdown on left-wing activism.
And this is startling news on the Jew Katie’s show?
Last year, during an appearance on anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian extremist Bill Maher’s show, Van Jones baselessly claimed that young people upset about the Gaza genocide were being manipulated by Qatari and Iranian social media influence campaigns before making a joke:
“If you open your phone, and all you see is dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby, Diddy,” said Jones on Real Time, earning laughter and applause. “Dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby… That’s basically your whole feed.”
Jones apologized in the face of backlash, but repeated the false claim that “foreign adversaries [were] creating chaos online” in relation to Gaza.
JEWS, dudes. Bill Dirty Penis Mahr and then Katie The Eyore of Shows Halper?
Van Jones Called Out by Gaza Doctors: A Jewish surgeon and Gaza volunteers rightfully condemn him for using a child’s illness to erase Israel’s responsibility
God, more of that Chosen, Supremacist fucking “people” getting their fame on Gooey Goyim Shows.
Jeffrey Sachs: America’s “Legacy of Delusion” Fueling Financial Bubble & Iran Failure… Jeffrey Sachs joins Drop Site’s Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain to discuss how Washington’s delusions about American power are fueling wars abroad and a financial bubble at home.
Drawing on his firsthand experience advising Russia at the Soviet Union’s collapse and decades studying Asia’s economic rise, Sachs traces the roots of America’s belief that it can dominate the world. He explains why efforts to isolate Iran and Russia are failing, how U.S. sanctions are pushing countries toward alternatives to the dollar, and what he saw on a 15,000-kilometer road trip from Rome to Hong Kong this summer.
Sachs also argues that soaring U.S. stock valuations rest on a dangerous assumption: that American technological supremacy will endure. With China challenging that dominance, he warns of a “major financial correction” as Washington’s “geopolitical bubble” fuels a financial bubble that he argues is destined to burst.
Shit. BILLIONS are wrong, and the .2 percenters, the Jews, are so so right.
“The secret goals of the Jewish people are laid out in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion…They contain the Jewish plan for world conquest…
The Jews will fight without pity. We must also fight without pity against Pan-Jewry. The Jewish people must be exterminated from the face of the earth.”
The text also gained traction in the United States among such noted antisemites as automaker Henry Ford, who published a series of antisemitic articles based on The Protocols in his weekly newspaper and which he would eventually republish in the book, The International Jew.9
By 1925 the first of many Arabic editions of The Protocols emerged in Cairo. Since that initial publication, it has endured as a bestseller and, according to historian Norman Stillman, has remained widely available in bookstores “from Casablanca to Baghdad to this day,” praised by political leaders of the Islamic world.10
The Protocols laid the groundwork for modern conspiracy theories about the reach and influence of “Jewish Power”: that the wealthy Rothschild family controls the world banking system, that the Federal Reserve is under the thumb of Jewish financiers, that Jews control Wall Street, that Jews plotted terror attacks and that Jews have fomented global conflict and war.11
Today, in many parts of the world, The Protocols remains widely read and accepted as fact.12 World leaders such as Reycep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey or Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia still blame a sinister Jewish conspiracy for their misfortunes.13The Protocols is featured for sale at many book fairs across the Arab world.
A sign reading ”Zionist control the media” was displayed at a protest in Seattle on November 18, 2023.
U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. Here is what she said: “And so we’ve got…a legislative branch of 535 individuals. They all swear some kind of allegiance to Israel one way or the other because that’s the way you get campaign finance, you cannot get money out of the big PACs….And if you look at labor unions, labor unions, uh the working class people in the United States who are members of labor unions are actually buying Israeli bonds. So they’re supporting the state of Israel. If a hurricane happens to come your way and you need help from your local emergency agency. Well, it’s likely that you’ve signed the pledge that you’re not going to advocate any policies that Israel doesn’t like. So, I mean, they have penetrated the executive branch, the, the legislative branch, they have, uh, penetrate, created our state and local branches of government.”
“90% of Black people in entertainment — from sports, to music, to acting — are in some way tied into Jewish businesspeople…there’s a Jewish person right there controlling the country, the Jewish people controlling who gets the best video or not, controlling what the media says about me.” — Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, on the “Lex Fridman Podcast,” 10/24/22)
“Through diplomacy, NGOization, education, trade, tourism, and cultural exchange, the zionist entity and its agents have invested billions to make the colony accepted and viable to a world that knows that zionists are fascists [all sic]. When these paths to normalize do not work, zionists move to violent censorship of those who adamantly oppose normalizing with imprisonment, exile, and martyrdom.” Jisr Collective, a self-described anti-Zionist, anti-imperialist group, August 2022
Voltaire: “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
“…they manage the media, the finances and have hidden the truth from the world.” – president of the Palestinian Federation in Chile, an umbrella organization representing the country’s Palestinian population, May 22, 2021
Three years before he became the leader of the United Kingdom’s Labour Party, British politician Jeremy Corbyn voiced support for an artist whose mural depicted, in a style reminiscent of Nazi propaganda, “hook-nosed” caricatures of Jewish bankers playing Monopoly on the bare backs of workers. Corbyn consoled the artist on Facebook after the mural was set to be removed: “You are in good company. Rockefeller destroyed Diego Rivera’s mural because it includes a picture of Lenin.”
In France, the populist “Yellow Vest” demonstrations — which sprung up in late 2018 as a protest against rising fuel taxes and economic inequality — have included antisemitic signs that accuse French President Emmanuel Macron of being a “whore of the Jews” and a Jewish “puppet.”
“The Jews have control over those agencies of government…When you want something in this world, the Jew holds the door.” – Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Black nationalist hate group Nation of Islam (NOI), 2018.
During an interview, Lou Dobbs, Conservative American news pundit, stated that the founder of the Open Society Foundations George Soros’ “tentacles reach out into various non-government organizations and nonprofits.” – September 11, 2019
Jew jew judae
Oh, those fucking parasites, man, the .2 percent solution, dudes. Wrecking ball after fucking perverse Talmudic and Torah-driven Samson Option WRECKING BALL.
Sponsored by New Jersey Democrat Josh Gottheimer and North Carolina Republican Virginia Foxx, the bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit any institution that engages in a “nonexpressive commercial boycott” of Israel from receiving federal student aid. Colleges must also ensure that their students are not “unreasonably obstructed” from participating in academic programs in Israel, and that Israeli students and faculty are fully permitted to participate in theirs.
House Passes Bill Blocking Aid to Colleges That Boycott Israel
Our Jew boy:
Workplace & “Bad Boss” Allegations
Toxic Workplace Culture: In 2019, an exposé by The Intercept detailed allegations from former staffers who described Gottheimer as an exceptionally difficult and abusive boss. [1]
Staffer Mistreatment: Reports claimed he routinely screamed at employees, threw objects in frustration, and subjected his team to severe emotional volatility, resulting in a remarkably high staff turnover rate.
Town Hall Constraints: Former staffers noted his intense aversion to traditional town halls, detailing instances where he demanded questions be pre-written and barred the press from attending. [1]
Clashes with Progressives & Israel-Gaza Stances
Teaneck High School Civil Rights Probe: In 2024, Gottheimer drew backlash from progressive and Muslim advocacy groups for his intense focus on student walkouts protesting the war in Gaza. He successfully pushed the U.S. Department of Education to open a civil rights probe into the school. [1]
Targeting CAIR: He publicly demanded that Teaneck schools cut ties with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), accusing the group of glorifying terrorism. This prompted CAIR to denounce his rhetoric as a defamatory attack. [1]
Feuds with Left-Wing Figures: Gottheimer frequently spars with the progressive wing of his party. He has pushed a bipartisan resolution condemning left-wing online personalities like Hasan Piker for antisemitic rhetoric, and publicly clashed with left-leaning groups like the Working Families Party of New Jersey and NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Missed Immigration Vote Campaign Controversy
Gubernatorial Primary Scrutiny: In early 2025, just weeks after launching his campaign for New Jersey Governor, Gottheimer faced sharp criticism for missing a key congressional vote on a controversial immigration bill. [1]
The Criticism: The Republican-backed bill sought to allow the deportation of undocumented immigrants accused of minor offenses. Political opponents criticized Gottheimer for abandoning his federal legislative duties to focus on his gubernatorial campaign state-side. [1]
Legal & Smear Campaigns
Oath Keepers Defamation Lawsuit: Local conservative activist Bill Hayden sued Gottheimer for defamation. The lawsuit alleged that Gottheimer falsely labeled Hayden as a member of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group and insinuated he was a racist during a political dispute. [1]
Forged Resignation Letter: In 2019, a highly sophisticated, forged resignation letter on official congressional letterhead was circulated to media outlets. The letter falsely claimed Gottheimer was resigning immediately due to an extramarital affair with a staffer. The U.S. Capitol Police launched an investigation into the smear campaign.
Here is every Democrat who voted to take funding away from universities that boycott Israel:
Jake Auchincloss (Massachusetts) Kathy Castor (Florida) Gilbert Ray Cisneros Jr. (California) Jim Costa (California) Joe Courtney (Connecticut) Henry Cuellar (Texas) Donald G. Davis (North Carolina) Lois Frankel (Florida) Laura Gillen (New York) Jared F. Golden (Maine) Vicente Gonzalez (Texas) Greg Landsman (Ohio) George Latimer (New York) Susie Lee (Nevada) John W. Mannion (New York) Jared Moskowitz (Florida) Donald Norcross (New Jersey) Jimmy Panetta (California) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Washington) Josh Riley (New York) Bradley Scott Schneider (Illinois) Hillary J. Scholten (Michigan) Kim Schrier (Washington) Brad Sherman (California) Darren Soto (Florida) Haley M. Stevens (Michigan) Thomas R. Suozzi (New York) Shri Thanedar (Michigan) Dina Titus (Nevada) Ritchie Torres (New York) Juan Vargas (California) Eugene Simon Vindman (Virginia) Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Florida)
Benjamin Hanil Song (Ringleader): 100 years for attempted murder and terrorism-support charges.
Maricela Rueda: 70 years.
Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada: 30 years.
Other cooperating defendants: Received between 2 and 15 years.
There are numerous problems with the indictment, but perhaps the most glaring is its inclusion of charges against a Dallas artist who wasn’t even at the protest. Daniel “Des” Sanchez is accused of transporting a box that contained “Antifa materials” after the incident, supposedly to conceal evidence against his wife, Maricela Rueda, who was there.
But the boxed materials aren’t Molotov cocktails, pipe bombs, or whatever MAGA officials claim “Antifa” uses to wage its imaginary war on America. As prosecutors laid out in the July criminal complaint that led to the indictment, they were zines and pamphlets. Some contain controversial ideas — one was titled “Insurrectionary Anarchy” — but they’re fully constitutionally protected free speech. The case demonstrates the administration’s intensifying efforts to criminalize left-wing activists after Donald Trump announced in September that he was designating “Antifa” as a “major terrorist organization” — a legal designation that doesn’t exist for domestic groups — following the killing of Charlie Kirk.
Sanchez was first indicted in October on charges of “corruptly concealing a document or record” as a standalone case, but the new indictment merges his charges with those against the other defendants, likely in hopes of burying the First Amendment problems with the case against him under prosecutors’ claims about the alleged shooting.
It’s an escalation of a familiar tactic. In 2023, Georgia prosecutors listed “zine” distribution as part of the conspiracy charges against 61 Stop Cop City protesters in a sprawling RICO indictment that didn’t bother to explain how each individual defendant was involved in any actual crime. I wrote back then about my concern that this wasn’t just sloppy overreach, but also a blueprint for censorship. Those fears have now been validated by Sanchez’s prosecution solely for possessing similar literature.
Abstract
Anarchism is an ideology that has shown a remarkable talent for survival; it has been with us for some 200 years, since its ideas were first propounded by William Godwin at the end of the 18th century. The principal focal points of anarchism in modem history were in Italy, where an anarchist movement first appeared, led by Bakunin, and in Spain and France, where, from the 1880s to the 1930s, it amassed many adherents. In North and South America, it gained a strong foothold in the United States and Argentina, and more limited support in Brazil, Uruguay, Cuba and Mexico.
Access this library, and the Oppen-Monster-Jew-Heimers and their tracking terrorism will follow you home, to your family, to your bank account, to your job, to your fucking brain:
Anarchist Zine Library is a reboot of the long-gone zinelibrary.info site. As happy users of zinelibrary, we were sad to see it fade away. After some effort, we are pleased to have finally brought it back! We started with their entire collection of pdfs and metadata, and combed through it for our favorites. The result is 1366 zines and growing.
This site is still under construction and we are happy to receive feedback, bug reports, feature requests, and offers to help through our contact form.
Study Gilad’s comments here: 2600 Years of Problems for the Jews and those people around them…. ESCAPE this TRIBE in the middle of the night, collect your things, and run for your LIFE.
In This Episode: • Atzmon’s argument on historical suffering, expulsions and the “triggering animosity” thesis — examined as his interpretation • The “fear of assimilation” as he frames it: Golda Meir on intermarriage & the Samson story • Babylon origins: How he argues Rabbinical Judaism built an exilic identity around law, literacy and chosenness • From minyan & kosher practice to business networks: tribal bonds in his analysis • His claim that litigation replaced ethics — presented as his critique, with context that mainstream Jewish theology centres ethics and debate • The “antagonistic environment” theory and how he applies it to Israel-Palestine today • Zionism after the French Revolution: why he says it emerged from assimilation fears • Eugenics, “ash-bachat agezah” and the making of a cognitive elite in Central Europe — his historical reading • Why he argues Zionists returning to Palestine needed Palestinians as an “Other” to sustain identity • The psychology of exile: paranoia, reactionism and violence in his framework
CHAPTERS: 00:00 – Introduction: Understanding Israel, Jewishness & Gaza 01:54 – Gilad Atzmon on History: Suffering, Expulsions & Animosity 04:53 – The Fear of Assimilation — Core of Identity? 05:18 – Golda Meir on Mixed Marriages 06:23 – Samson as a Warning Against Intermarriage 08:42 – Babylon: Where Rabbinical Judaism’s Exilic Nature Was Built 13:30 – Monotheism, Law, Literacy & Elitism 16:13 – Was the Torah Compiled to Fit an Exilic Narrative? [Guest’s Thesis] 18:34 – Minyan, Kosher & Tribal Bonds 20:32 – Law vs Ethics: Atzmon’s Critique [With Counter-Perspective] 23:16 – Creating an Antagonistic Environment to Prevent Assimilation [Guest’s Argument] 27:33 – Zionism After Emancipation: Fear of Assimilation 29:46 – Blood Purity, Lineage & Eugenics Discussion [Historical Claim] 41:11 – The Exilic Mindset in Palestine & Need for Conflict? 43:06 – Psychology of Exile: Paranoia, Fear & Violence? 46:18 – Supporting Palestine “In the Name of Our Values” — Despite or Because Of?
Ayse Zarakol Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge and author of Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders.
George Lawson Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University
Charles Kupchan, Professor of International Law at Georgetown University and author of The End of the America Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century.
Joseph Nye Professor at Harvard at the Kennedy School of Government and author of Is the American Century Over? and A Life in the American Century.
WHY Israel has no right to be the stain on Palestine, the feces-laying .1 Percent human and global wrecking ball over the real people of Palestine:
The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Barclays and other European old money behemoths. But their monopoly over the global economy does not end at the edge of the oil patch.
According to company 10K filings to the SEC, the Four Horsemen of Banking are among the top ten stockholders of virtually every Fortune 500 corporation.[1]
So who then are the stockholders in these money center banks?
This information is guarded much more closely. My queries to bank regulatory agencies regarding stock ownership in the top 25 US bank holding companies were given Freedom of Information Act status, before being denied on “national security” grounds. This is rather ironic, since many of the bank’s stockholders reside in Europe.
One important repository for the wealth of the global oligarchy that owns these bank holding companies is US Trust Corporation – founded in 1853 and now owned by Bank of America. A recent US Trust Corporate Director and Honorary Trustee was Walter Rothschild. Other directors included Daniel Davison of JP Morgan Chase, Richard Tucker of Exxon Mobil, Daniel Roberts of Citigroup and Marshall Schwartz of Morgan Stanley. [2]
J. W. McCallister, an oil industry insider with House of Saud connections, wrote in The Grim Reaper that information he acquired from Saudi bankers cited 80% ownership of the New York Federal Reserve Bank- by far the most powerful Fed branch- by just eight families, four of which reside in the US. They are the Goldman Sachs, Rockefellers, Lehmans and Kuhn Loebs of New York; the Rothschilds of Paris and London; the Warburgs of Hamburg; the Lazards of Paris; and the Israel Moses Seifs of Rome.
CPA Thomas D. Schauf corroborates McCallister’s claims, adding that ten banks control all twelve Federal Reserve Bank branches.
He names N.M. Rothschild of London, Rothschild Bank of Berlin, Warburg Bank of Hamburg, Warburg Bank of Amsterdam, Lehman Brothers of New York, Lazard Brothers of Paris, Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York, Israel Moses Seif Bank of Italy, Goldman Sachs of New York and JP Morgan Chase Bank of New York.
Schauf lists William Rockefeller, Paul Warburg, Jacob Schiff and James Stillman as individuals who own large shares of the Fed. [3]
The Schiffs are insiders at Kuhn Loeb. The Stillmans are Citigroup insiders who married into the Rockefeller clan at the turn of the century.
Eustace Mullins came to the same conclusions in his book The Secrets of the Federal Reserve, in which he displays charts connecting the Fed and its member banks to the families of Rothschild, Warburg, Rockefeller and the others. [4]
The control that these banking families exert over the global economy cannot be overstated and is quite intentionally shrouded in secrecy. Their corporate media arm is quick to discredit any information exposing this private central banking cartel as a “conspiracy theory”. Yet the facts remain.
Historian Carroll Quigley wrote in his epic book Tragedy and Hope that BIS was part of a plan,
“to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole…to be controlled in a feudalistic fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert by secret agreements.”
Epstein wrote about financial schemes: “This is the way the Jew make money … and made a fortune in the past ten years selling short the shipping futures let the goyim deal in the real world.”
Know your potential enemy/enemies: Here are 20 of the most common and recognizable Jewish last names in the United States, based on demographic and genealogical data:
Cohen: Derived from the Hebrew word for priest, referencing the ancient priestly caste.
Levy (or Levin / Levine): Meaning descendant of Levi, one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Goldberg: A German-origin topographic name meaning “gold town”.
Goldstein: A German name meaning “gold stone”.
Goldman: A surname meaning “gold man”.
Schwartz: A German descriptive name meaning “black” (often referring to dark hair or complexion).
Kaplan: A variant of Cohen or a name derived from the chaplain/priest title.
Katz: An acronym for Kohen Tzedek, meaning “righteous priest”.
Weinstein: Meaning “wine stone” or wine producer/seller.
Friedman: A German/Yiddish name meaning “man of peace”.
Shapiro: Derived from the town of Speyer on the Rhine river in Germany.
Epstein: Named after the town of Eppstein in Germany.
Feldman: Meaning “field man” or someone who worked in the fields.
Berman: Derived from the German word for bear (Bär).
Stern: A German and Yiddish name meaning “star”.
Rosenberg: Meaning “rose mountain” or a place-name based on rose symbols.
Greenberg: Meaning “green mountain”.
Rubin: Derived from the biblical name Reuben.
Adler: A German name meaning “eagle”.
Horowitz: Originating from the town of Horovice in Bohemia. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
ONCE AGAIN: God, these fucking spineless Substack creeps are worried the Jew-oogle AI will penetrate their precious fucking prognostication tools: Antisemitic Comments/ Watford Indie\ Sep 03, 2026????
Fucking everywhere. I was a pre-med major, so Jews there at the departments where I studied in Arizona. Then, into poetry and fiction, and alas, at the English Departments and Creative writing departments, more Jews.
Then, as a faculty member, going to the MLA conferences, or the Society of Professional Journalists, from Tucson to El Paso to Seattle to Portland, more Jews.
My sustainability work, conference in Vancouver, BC, more Jews. Fucking union work in Seattle, well, more Jews.
My literary Agent in New York? A Jew.
So, no, I don’t want to hear about antisemitism, man, just Jewish World a la Paulokirk AKA Paul Haeder.
Family members who were and are doctors; well, they bow to the Jew.
No, I want nothing to do with Yiddish or Hebrew or the Book of Genocide.
Far and wide, man, lecturing, hectoring, pontificating, droning on, high-horsing it, you name it, Jews from Richard Wolff to Finkelstein to Greewald to Ilan Pape, the lot of them, all there for us, the fourth-grade-level thinking (sic) Goyim.
You think ZioAzovPenisPianoMan Lensky is on his own in his fucking Ukraine? Jews, man, from Israel, and BlackRock’s Jew Rat, Fink, all of them, including IDF and Mossad and Adolph Bibi’s Gestapo, giving him the inside scoop on how to Gazafy Russia: bomb supermarkets, schools, hotels, houses, airports.
Jew Landia. King David Hotel is like a fucking pity party compared to the dirty shit ZioAzovNaziLensky is doing at the behest of Jews.
They all parade to the Great Wall of Rape/Hate/Murder.
Here is a list of prominent global stars and figures known for visiting or praying at the Western Wall:
Will Smith & Jada Pinkett-Smith: Visited the wall, prayed, and placed a note in the stones.
Lionel Messi: The soccer superstar visited and posed at the wall wearing a kippah.
Jennifer Lopez: Toured the holy site during her travels to Israel.
Barbra Streisand: The legendary icon has visited the site multiple times.
Frank Sinatra: Visited the historic site during his frequent travels to the region.
Morgan Freeman: Visited in 2015 to film scenes for The Story of God.
David Arquette: Visited and celebrated a symbolic bar mitzvah at the wall.
Mariah Carey: Photographed visiting and reflecting at the Western Wall.
Michael Douglas: Visited the holy site during trips to Jerusalem.
Sharon Stone: Toured Jerusalem’s Old City and visited the wall.
Albert Einstein: The renowned physicist famously visited historical sites in Jerusalem.
Robert De Niro: Visited Jerusalem and the holy sites during his travels.
Kanye West: Visited and participated in local cultural and religious landmarks.
Madona: Toured and performed in the region with visits to holy sites.
Conan O’Brien: Explored Jerusalem and visited the Old City during his travel special.
Jerry Seinfeld: Visited the country and historic landmarks on multiple occasions.
Golda Meir: The former Israeli Prime Minister and global public figure frequently visited.
Bill Clinton: Visited the wall during and after his presidency.
Donald Trump: Visited and prayed at the Western Wall during his presidential term.
Barack Obama: Visited the ancient site during his political career.
20 celebrities with unexpected connections to Israel, from Will Smith to JLo
Bet you didn’t know that Pamela Anderson hosted the Israeli “Dancing With the Stars” or that Leonard Cohen sang for troops in the Yom Kippur War.
Mississippi, Goddam.
Judaism, Goddamn.
Jews, those Goddamn Ones, GODDAMN.
Epstein document releases reveal multiple use of the term “goy” or “goyim” in emails, underscoring a worldview that demeaned non-Jews as lesser or exploitable in a network of power and predation. The use of these terms provides a window into the Jewish supremacism of Zionism. But they also show that Jewish supremacism goes much further – and much further back – than an association simply with the Zionist movement.
Epstein Emails Unleash Explicit ‘Goyim’ Contempt
Jeffrey Epstein’s communications, part of the massive 2026 Department of Justice release exceeding three million pages, openly deploy “goyim” as a dismissive term for non-Jews. These unsealed emails highlight contempt rooted in perceived ethnic superiority — Jewish supremacism.
In a 2009 email to cognitive psychologist Roger Schank, Epstein wrote about financial schemes: “This is the way the Jew make money … and made a fortune in the past ten years selling short the shipping futures let the goyim deal in the real world.” Black Agenda Report analyses this phrasing as embodying supremacist ideas, positioning Jews as profiting cleverly while relegating “goyim” to lesser labour.
A 2010 exchange with publicist Peggy Siegal concerns a party guest list featuring elites such as Prince Andrew and Woody Allen. Siegal asks if it will be “100% JEW NIGHT,” prompting Epstein’s reply: “No, goyim in abundance — jpmorgan execs brilliant WASPs.” Here, “goyim” marks acceptable non-Jews — brilliant WASPs — as still secondary. Even the Times of Israelin its report of the exchange, notes its disparaging tone.
Epstein passed on a message from a correspondent who accused the intended recipient of behaving “just like the GOYIM you do not respect,” weaponising the term against perceived weakness. Victim Maria Farmer testified that Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell routinely called outsiders “goyim” and viewed them as inferior, a pattern these emails confirm.
These references appear repeatedly — over fifty times (though with some duplicates) — including showing Epstein thought ”goyim prosecutors” were incapable of grasping his financial schemes. The Zionist entity’s intelligence links, including Ehud Barak’s involvement, heighten questions of broader supremacist networks.
Further emails reveal Epstein’s casual use in social contexts. In one, he notes the goyim in general know how to have a good time,” blending derision with acknowledgment. Another describes a response as “obviously a polite goyim, response as if he is speaking to a mental patient … polite goy for sure.” These instances paint “goyim” as synonymous with naïveté or inferiority.
‘Goy’ and ‘Goyim’: Biblical ‘Nations’ Twisted into Supremacist Weapon
In Yiddish and Hebrew “goy” (singular) and “goyim’ (plural) literally denote “nation” or “people.” As the Jewish Virtual Library notes, the term has a neutral origin. Usage in Epstein’s circle strips this away. The term drips with condescension, implying gullibility or subhuman status. Even Zionist-leaning sources acknowledge its edge when wielded in such a way.
The Forward explains “goy” evolved in vernacular to mean outsider, often pejoratively. In these files, “goyim” is a shorthand label for expendable outsiders — manipulated elites or dismissed victims — echoing theological hierarchies of chosenness over soulless others.
Zionist narrative policing institutions, such as the Anti-Defamation League, claim “‘The Goyim Know’ is an antisemitic catchphrase … It is most associated with the alt right segment of the white supremacist movement and message boards such as 4chan and 8chan.’ But even the ADL admit that “Goyim” is “a disparaging Yiddish and Hebrew word for non-Jews.”
So, Epstein’s own words flip it inward, revealing supremacist self-views. The Jerusalem Post highlights how the files release “unleashes waves of antisemitic conspiracy theories”, yet the term’s supremacist bent is plain. It seems this supposed conspiracy theory has some truth to it.
Some Zionists decry the misuse of the term. Haaretz discusses how “goy” empowers white supremacists by reinforcing divisions, but in Epstein’s emails, it serves to belittle non-Jews.
Rabbinical and Zionist Quotes That Chill: Non-Jews as Servants or Beasts
Prominent Zionist and Jewish figures’ statements often dehumanise non-Jews, equating them to cattle or servants. These reveal entrenched supremacist ideology amongst influential rabbis. Key examples include:
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, (1920 – 2013) spiritual head of the Shas party that repeatedly propped up Zionist governing coalitions. He proclaimed in a 2010 sermon: “Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world — only to serve the People of Israel.” He continued: “Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why gentiles were created.”
Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935), the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine and a foundational figure in Religious Zionism, did articulate a philosophy insisting on the Jewish soul’s superiority over non-Jewish souls as much greater than between human and animal.
Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg (born 1944), affiliated with the genocidal Haredi cult Chabad, and then head of the ultra extremist Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva, said in 1989 that “seven of his students who have been remanded in custody over the shooting to death of a 13-year-old West Bank girl should not be prosecuted. Rabbi Ginsburg said after the seven were remanded for a further five days in the Israeli town of Kfar Sava, that Jewish religion made a distinction between Jewish and Goyim blood.” (The Daily Telegraph, June 3, 1989). He also asserted “We have to recognize that Jewish blood and the blood of a goy are not the same thing” (NY Times, June 6, 1989).
These teachings, prevalent in certain yeshivas, normalise viewing “goyim” as lesser — mirroring Epstein’s casual exploitation. The wisdom of Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan evidently lost on the likes of Epstein.
Secular Zionists and religious supremacism
Historical quotations from major secular Zionist figures also repeatedly show ‘goy’ and ‘goyim’ have been used to describe non-Jews — laying bare the supremacist logic underpinning the Zionist settler-colonial project.
David Ben-Gurion, founding prime minister of the Zionist entity, from the Labour Zionist tradition, dismissed international opinion with the blunt declaration “It matters not what the goyim say, but what the Jews do.” Obituaries noted it was his frequently repeated position.
Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism, used the word ‘Goy’ so liberally in his 1945 book The Story of the Jewish Legion, that he included it in the glossary.
Menachem Begin, Revisionist Zionist leader and later prime minister of the Zionist entity, shifted responsibility for mass violence onto non-Jews: “Goyim kill goyim and the Jews are blamed,” he famously said.
Among mainstream secular Zionists and the ultra orthodox alike, ‘goy’ and ‘goyim’ serve as linguistic markers of supremacy, legitimising the sidelining, blaming, or instrumentalisation of non-Jews to advance Zionist expansion and control. The secular Zionist movement leaders are from the Revisionist as well as the Labour Zionist tradition. What we see here, then, is a form of Jewish supremacist ideology which predates the Zionist movement. It draws on certain currents of Jewish supremacism within Judaism and these have in turn been drawn upon by the secular Zionist movement. Let’s emphasise that this by itself is not evidence that the whole of Judaism is compromised by Jewish supremacism.
‘Schmuck’ and ‘Freier’: Everyday Slang Enforcing Supremacy in the Zionist Entity
It is apparent, though, that virtually all of the Zionist colony is in thrall to Jewish supremacist ideas. The colony’s slang polices hierarchies, and they run all the way through the public life of the entity. “Freier” (Hebrew: פראייר), meaning “sucker,” captures dread of exploitation. Haaretz frames it as a cultural imperative: “Thou Shalt Not Be a Freier.” Avoiding sucker status often means exploiting others, a mindset that rewards cunning over fairness.
“Schmuck,” Yiddish for fool, targets the gullible — frequently “goyim” seen as easy prey. Merriam-Webster defines it as a stupid or unlikeable person, rooted in vulgar origins but now idiomatic.
This mindset treats non-Jews as natural freiers. In settler discourse, Palestinians earn “freier” labels for weak resistance.
Epstein’s network echoed this: duping “goyim” elites while evading freier traps. In the Zionist entity, “schmuck” derides those who yield, aligning with a culture where being a freier equates to failure. David Grossman explores this in Sleeping on a Wire, portraying a pervasive psychology of exclusion and a “callous treatment” of the Palestinians within “Israel”. Grossman argues that the prolonged occupation and the “temptation born of absolute power” have corrupted the Israeli national character, leading to a worldview that justifies demeaning or dismissing the “other”.
Jewish-Zionist Dominance in Epstein’s Orbit
Epstein’s circle overflowed with Jewish figures linked to Zionist advocacy. Les Wexner, also now implicated in rape and sexual abuse, granted him sweeping control over assets. Wexner is of course one of the founders of the deeply mysterious Mega Group of Zionist financiers which appears to have been advised by Epstein. The group reportedly maintained contacts with the Israeli spy agency Mossad and was described by Israeli intelligence officials as a vehicle for influence operations in the United States. Wexner’s co-founders were Edgar and Charles Bronfman, the Canadian oligarchs whose family fortune was made in the Prohibition era from illegal alcohol sales.
In other words, the Mega Group was an extension of the “Jewish Mob”. This connection to organized crime does not appear to be confined to the history books. We also learn from the files that Epstein “represented” the Rothschilds and was paid millions by them. He was additionally, “chief life adviser” to Peter Mandelson, as the former British Ambassador to the US himself put it. Epstein himself also sent cash to the Friends of the ‘Israel Defense Forces’ and to the Jewish National Fund, the Zionist entity’s premier land theft agency.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s father Robert Maxwell maintained Mossad connections. Ehud Barak appeared on flight logs repeatedly, staying at Epstein’s properties. Both of these facts speak to Zionist intel connections whether to the Mossad or to military intelligence agencies such as Unit 8200.
Alan Dershowitz defended Epstein while championing Zionist positions as well as being implicated for a time in allegations of abuse. Ethnic networks provided cover, with supremacist attitudes rationalising predation on “goy” victims.
Broader Implications: Supremacism’s Role in Exploitation
Epstein’s files tie “goyim’ derision to a network where Jewish-Zionist ties shielded abuse. It was transparently a Jewish supremacist network. But it is not only operative in the Zionist colony itself where the term “freier” justifies dominance. It is a transnational network, or a set of overlapping transnational networks, and it clearly has been for much more than a century.
The Epstein saga exposes supremacist language fueling elite exploitation. We should demand full probes into these ties — awareness erodes their shadows. And we should act now to challenge hierarchies that prey on the vulnerable and consume them in order to build towards a global Jewish empire — which I termPax Judaica.
David Miller is an investigative researcher, broadcaster, and academic. He is the founder and co-director of the lobbying watchdog Spinwatch and editor of Powerbase.info. David is also Producer of a weekly show, Palestine Declassified, on PressTV, and he is a regular columnist at al Mayadeen English. David was unjustly sacked by Bristol University at the behest of the Zionist movement.
In a glaring display of ongoing Western colonial arrogance and resource plunder in the Global South, the illegal British occupation of Argentina’s Malvinas Islands has deepened its exploitation of the South Atlantic, now openly aided by the Zionist entity.
While Argentina’s far-right President Javier Milei recently attempted to manufacture a nationalist flashpoint by threatening the “Sea Lion” offshore oil project, the reality on the ground reveals a joint imperialist-Zionist syndicate actively looting the region’s natural wealth. The drilling project, slated to begin pumping oil by 2028, is spearheaded by the British firm Rockhopper Exploration in direct partnership with Israel’s Navitas Petroleum. This collaboration serves as yet another indicator that the Zionist regime is extending its tentacles of economic exploitation and colonial theft into Latin America, operating hand-in-hand with Western imperial powers to drain the wealth of sovereign nations.
Endless Jewish pathogenic perversion.
What in the hell are we even talking about here??? American universities can protest the United States, they can boycott American companies, or ANY other foreign government or country, but now they cannot boycott Israeli companies? Even the ones that have sanctions in the West Bank. It’s OUTRAGEOUS.
Is your pitiful congressperson on this list?
Let me explain something to you. Almost every Democrat in Congress is pretty awful.
But these 33 – they are the particularly evil ones. They are the ones protecting and defending genocide at every turn.
Congress is still fully owned and controlled by Zionists. And everybody knows it.
Nearly 75% of Americans can’t stand Israel, but the people elected to represent us appear to only want to do the bidding of Israel and not their own voters
Endless Judafication ….
“I Still Hear the Voices”: Wedding Guests Recall Horror of U.S. Bombing in Southern Iran
“My house was in a completely residential area. I don’t know what has happened to my life,” Ali Mallahi, the father of the bride, said of the airstrike on his daughter’s wedding that killed 5 people
Endless perversions, Judaism.
One of Jeffrey Epstein’s largest benefactors, Leon Black, is refusing to comply with a Congressional subpoena, claiming in a new lawsuit that Congress is overstepping its authority in demanding he turn over agreements he has made with an unspecified number of women.
Black was issued subpoenas by the House Oversight Committee after he abruptly left a voluntary interview in June. During that hearing, he declined to answer questions about non-disclosure agreements he signed with women. The committee suspects that the agreements may be tied to his relationship with Epstein.
On Thursday, he refused to turn over the NDA’s and testify under oath, filing a lawsuit challenging the committee’s authority.
There really is no need to fight -they already captured the world. They already own it.
Jews, man …. Dirty Jews
Howard Lutnick Made Over $250 Million Last Year
The billionaire sold his stake in Cantor and other stocks, scooped up index funds
Buggered and bought South Koreans …. Abomination
🇰🇷🇺🇸⚡🇮🇷 South Korea is Planning to Deploy Forces in the Strait of Hormuz.
South Korean media, citing officials from the country’s Ministry of Defense, reported that Seoul is considering deploying naval forces to the Strait of Hormuz to support the United States.
* Iran warned that south Korea will face consequences if they do so.*
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Homelessness and debtors prison and Soylent green or socialism….
Vancouver Habitat for Humanity buying mobile home parks to protect affordable housing
State funding will help lock down rents in a sector that’s become a target for corporate investors.
Jew World…..
Mark Zuckerberg, who spent his entire content-moderation career being accused by this same president of censoring conservatives, gave a million dollars to the inaugural fund and got himself a seat on the dais. Tim Cook did the same. So did the heads of Amazon, Google, OpenAI — a genuine murderers’ row of the exact companies that spent 2016 through 2024 being blamed, on stage, at rallies, in speeches I sat through so you don’t have to, for rigging elections against him. It’s the fastest, cleanest reconciliation in modern political history, and it required no apology, no accountability, no actual change in behavior from anyone involved — just money, deposited at the right moment, into the right account.
Jew logic is Chlamydia Insanity…
🇮🇱⚡️🇶🇦 Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett on Qatar:
I’m not talking about bombing Qatar tomorrow, but you gather intelligence. It’s an enemy and we start working on it.
We begin a campaign — not necessarily a war campaign — a public opinion, economic, diplomatic campaign.
And we join forces with our friends in the region — Saudis, Emirates, Egypt, etc. — to pressure Qatar.
At the end of the day, it’s a tiny place, 330,000 people, and they’re causing crazy havoc, wreaking havoc on Israel.
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Offal. Goyim and Jew alike in the shekel states of Amerikkka have been raped hard by the occupying Jews of the state and nation of Palestine.
All Jews still Jews? Worthless racists and gang-raping usury monsters.
The US House of Representatives on Thursday passed a Republican-backed bill that would penalize universities that participate in boycotts of Israel, or attempt to prevent students from taking part in exchange programs with the country.
The Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act passed by a 237-169 vote, with 33 Democrats breaking with the rest of their party to vote in favor, and only two Republicans opposed. It now goes to the Senate for consideration.
The measure would require that colleges and universities that participate in federal student aid programs not participate in boycotts of Israel and also mandates that institutions receiving federal funding for international study and foreign language programs certify annually that they do not impose restrictions on their students participating in programs in Israel, or on students from Israel participating in programs on their campuses.
Oh, those 2nd-grade Goyim. This guy is emblematic, man, of bag o’ rocks Gentile Gooey Guy.
Sen. Fetterman planned to write op-ed using talking points given to him by Israeli envoy
So, Jewish Supremacy is only the mark of the Israeli? The Zionist? Critics use the term Jewish supremacy to describe specific laws, political structures, or nationalist policies in Israel.
CEO Howard Lutnick survived because he was taking his 5-year-old son to his first day of kindergarten on the morning of September 11. Cantor Fitzgerald suffered the largest loss of life of any single organization during the September 11 attacks, with 658 employees killed.
With the 2027 presidential race looming, the National Rally’s plan to punish Muslim women for their hijab has triggered political fury, legal doubts, and fresh fears for religious freedom in France.
The psychosis of whiteness in living fucking Quasimodo color, on the right!
In the English-speaking world, we like to call the novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which is a marvelous title, given how marvelous is Quasimodo the Hunchback, born of a Jew and a sow (according to a nasty old lady in Book IV), who has got to be the most heartbreaking brokenhearted lover in the history of literature—Quasimodo, whose deformed and decayed skeleton turns up on the final page, entwined in posthumous and pathetic embrace around the skeleton of the hanged “Egyptian,” La Esmerelda, the “bohemian.
The IDF, the “settlers” in Occupied Palestine, Members of the Knesset, and Israeli society in general have all shocked the world with their brutality, their inhumanity, and lack of human empathy.
Palestinians have experienced the Zionist brutality, barbarism, and hate-filled sociopathy of Israelis for eight decades, and not just in the last 3 years. The lack of humanity; the lack of human empathy which sociopathic Zionist ideology has nurtured in Israeli society in particular, and the diaspora worldwide in general, is responsible for the madness the world looks upon with horrified disbelief.
One is tempted to look upon that inhumanity and dismiss the Israelis as devils and demons.
But they’re not demons – they’re human. Flawed beyond apparent redemption, possibly, but still human.
All the lies, the gas-lighting and the appalling inhumanity we have witnessed these last three years – not even that should tempt us to surrender our humanity in a fit of rage; we can’t allow the inhumanity of Zionism to squander our own humanity for the tempting bargain of vengeful, saccharine hate. Sweet at first, but it quickly turns into a bitterness we can’t shed.
There are comments on this Substack which are clearly antisemitic. It’s hard to say if they are coming from trolls; perhaps some are Zionists who need to encourage antisemitism, the oxygen that keeps Zionism flourishing; or real antisemites who have an irrational hatred of Jews.
I won’t block them, but I do disavow such comments.
There is a world of difference between anti-Zionism and antisemitism.
Anti-Zionism is anti-Nazism; it is anti-Fascism; it is anti-bigotry, anti-racism; it is the morally right position to take.
Antisemitism is racism; it’s an irrational bigotry; it will find another target of hate eventually; it is morally repugnant.
Norman Finklestein has described Zionism as “jewish supremacism”. I don’t believe Finklestein is being antisemitic here. He is merely being Finkelstein – pedantic to a fault. He recognises that Zionists are people with a jewish heritage, although they are largely secular, and irreligious, and deep-down antisemitic. Just read some of the statements from the founding fathers of Zionism – they could have been uttered by Hitler himself.
3 SEPTEMBER—Rabhi Abu Alia, age 17, and Omar Muhammad Naasan, age 18, were shot and killed by Zionist occupation forces during an attack on the village of Al–Mughayyir on Wednesday evening, 2 September. Naasan, who graduated from high school one month ago, is pictured above (right) on the day of his graduation. Abu Alia was photographed standing in front of the Dome of the Rock at Al–Haram Al–Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary) near Al–Aqsa Mosque.
In what follows, journalist Wisal Abu Alia—sharing the same family name and related to Rabhi Abu Alia through their grandfather—reports on the current state of siege of Al–Mughayyir.
Wisal Abu Alia’s report arrived by text this morning in the form of a letter. I publish it as it arrived.
—C. M.
By Wisal Abu Alia
Good morning,
To whom it may concern—and to those who do not know where Al–Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, is located: this is not merely a village on a map, nor is it a passing story in a news bulletin.
It is a village where nearly five thousand people live every day beneath a sky that always seems clouded—not because clouds never leave its skies, but because the fear and grief that have accumulated in the hearts of its people have left no room for yet another sorrow.
In Al–Mughayyir, even the calendar seems different.
Day and night are no longer separate periods of time. What happens during the day happens at night, and what begins at dawn does not end at sunset. For three years, people have forgotten what normal sleep feels like. But in recent months, the fear has become even more intense, making every moment capable of turning into a raid, a bullet, an arrest, or an assault. People live constantly on edge.
The army never truly leaves the village. It spreads through its streets, raids homes, breaks down their doors, and enters while carrying weapons and using violence. A home in Al–Mughayyir no longer means safety. A family may be gathered inside when suddenly a tear-gas grenade is thrown among them, turning the very place meant to protect them into a space of suffocation and terror. Between tear gas and bullets, people are left with nothing but their own bodies, using them to try to protect their children and themselves.
And every time a son leaves the house, his mother places her hand over her heart and waits for him to return. She does not know whether he will come back as he left—or whether he will return wounded, detained, or carried on the shoulders of others.
Then come the settlers.
They attack homes at any moment, under the protection of the occupying forces. The scene is no longer simply one in which settlers attack while soldiers stand at a distance. What is new is that the occupation forces have begun bringing settlers with them in military vehicles during raids on the village. And this makes the scene even more brutal than a mere assault.
Soldiers and settlers gather in a field to coordinate the attack. Al–Mughayyir, 2 September.
The army and the settlers operate as one force—occupying Al–Mughayyir, moving through it, and imposing their presence upon it day and night. It is as though the village is no longer merely being raided; it has become surrounded by a force that is present inside it at all times.
Even the trees have not been spared. Trees are uprooted just as homes are torn apart, because a tree on this land is not merely wood. It is memory, livelihood, an extension of a family, and a witness that someone was here—and intends to remain here.
In Al–Mughayyir, there are families who raise sheep and depend on what they produce for their livelihoods. It is a simple life built around the land, what it gives, and the hard work and patience of those who depend upon it. Yet the occupation protects settlers when they come to steal these sheep. And when residents try to defend their homes and their livelihoods, the result is often bloodshed.
Occupation snipers take positions on rooftops, waiting for the moment when residents attempt to defend their homes and their sheep—and people are killed. This is how defending your home becomes an accusation, protecting your livelihood becomes a risk to your life, and simply remaining where you are becomes an act for which you may pay with your blood. And the attacks are no longer confined to homes.
At the entrance to Al–Mughayyir, vehicles are smashed, with people inside them, by settler attacks. And there, at the permanent checkpoint, another story of humiliation begins. Workers and employees who spend an entire month working to bring their salaries home to their families may have those salaries stolen before they ever reach their homes. Soldiers from the occupation forces take them at the permanent checkpoint at the village entrance. And all of this happens only when they, the villagers, are allowed to leave or return in the first place.
The checkpoint may open for only a few minutes, and most of the time it remains closed. Reaching the village is like trying to cross a border that never ends, while returning home becomes a matter determined by the mood of the soldiers at the checkpoint rather than a person’s right to reach their own home. At this checkpoint, hundreds have been subjected to beatings, degrading treatment, and humiliation.
Al–Mughayyir is not merely living under siege. It is living within an entire system of daily pressure:
A checkpoint that closes the road.
An army that raids homes.
Settlers who attack residents.
Bullets that tear into bodies.
Sheep that are stolen.
Trees that are uprooted.
Salaries that are taken.
Arrests that continue.
And vehicles smashed over the heads of those inside them.
Today, during almost every raid on a home, hardly anyone is spared from violence.
Children. Men. Women.
Everyone stands equal before the butts of occupation rifles.
The question in Al–Mughayyir is no longer: Who is being targeted? The question has become: Who is left outside the circle of those being targeted? Hundreds of people in the village—men, women, and children—have been injured. Some injuries have left their victims facing a lifetime of pain, including cases of limb amputation caused by gunshot wounds.
At the same time, the space in which life itself can exist continues to shrink. Al–Mughayyir once had approximately 43,000 dunams of land (10625 acres). Today, only around 980 dunams (242 acres) remain. And even this remaining area changes from one day to the next, revealing that the struggle is not merely over a house, a street, or a tree. It is a struggle over the village’s right to continue existing on its own map.
Land that once had room for an entire village is now shrinking until its people can barely breathe. Even vendors have stopped entering Al–Mughayyir because they fear attacks by settlers. And so it is not only the road that is closed to people. The doors to the market, to work, to movement, and to life are closed as well.
This is how isolation is created, step by step:
The entrances are closed, so people become afraid to come.
Vendors are afraid to enter.
Workers and employees are trapped.
Salaries are stolen.
Vehicles are attacked.
Homes are raided.
Doors are broken down.
Tear-gas grenades are thrown inside homes.
Men, women, and children are beaten.
Trees are uprooted.
Sheep are stolen.
Arrests continue.
And snipers take positions on rooftops.
Then people say that the village lives in isolation. But this isolation is not a natural fate. It is deliberately created. Today, Al–Mughayyir is experiencing an unprecedented state of siege and isolation, to the point that reaching it has become a daily battle.
A battle to reach your home.
A battle to return to your family.
A battle to protect your sheep.
A battle to protect your tree.
A battle to bring your salary home to your children.
A battle to leave the village and return to it.
And an even greater battle simply to remain.
And here lies the harshest truth:
The aim is not only to make people afraid, but to make them exhausted. Not only to injure them, but to strip them of their ability to carry on. Not only to uproot a tree, but to push a person into uprooting themselves. Uprooting does not begin when a house is demolished. It begins when the road to that house becomes impossible.
And,
When going to work becomes dangerous.
When a livelihood becomes vulnerable to theft.
When a father fears for his son.
When a mother fears for her child.
When a shepherd fears for his sheep.
When a farmer fears for his trees.
And when night becomes nothing more than an extension of the day in fear.
And yet, Al–Mughayyir remains steadfast and deeply rooted. Nearly five thousand people still live there, despite everything. Mothers still wait for their sons. Shepherds still go out to tend their sheep. Farmers still look upon their trees. Homes, even with their doors torn from their hinges, still say that their owners are here. And the village, despite the siege, refuses to become a place without its people.
That is why the real struggle does not seem to be only about Al–Mughayyir. It is a struggle over what it means for a human being to have a place to which they can return.
When a place is besieged, the human being is put to the test.
When a tree is uprooted, memory is put to the test.
When a road is closed, the right to access is put to the test.
When a child is terrorized, the future is put to the test.
And when a village’s people are pushed to leave, the very meaning of homeland is put to the test.
And Al–Mughayyir, through everything happening there, says one thing: We are not defending a few dunams of land. We are defending our right to have a tomorrow here.
This is not the whole story of Al–Mughayyir. It is only a small part of what happens every day in a village besieged by the occupation and settlers, where its people live under fear, gunfire, assault, and isolation.
But perhaps this small part is enough to make us ask:
How much more land must be uprooted?
How many more people must be injured?
How many more homes must have their doors torn down?
How many more salaries must be stolen?
How many more trees must be uprooted?
How many more mothers must place their hands over their hearts every time their sons leave home?
How many more times must an entire village have its roads closed?
How much more must happen before those who have the power to listen understand that what is happening in Al–Mughayyir is not an isolated incident, but a daily attempt to uproot people from their land, their livelihoods, their memories, and their right to live?
Al–Mughayyir is not simply a village that cannot sleep. Al–Mughayyir is a village that is being forced not to sleep, so that it will become too exhausted to remain. But, for now, it is still here. And that alone, in an age of dispossession, is an act of resistance.
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I wonder how the 98% take it…
Last month, Ruffalo criticised the links between tech company Oracle – which is owned by Paramount Skydance boss David Ellison’s father, Larry – and the Israeli military, describing the Israeli military’s actions as a “genocide”…
Try to think of a situation in which every time a Jew refers to the Holocaust we would manage to silence him or her, accusing him or her of being anti-German…
Try to think of a situation in which every time a woman complains about a rape we would dismiss her as an ‘anti-male obsessive.’
This is exactly what we see here-an attempt to castigate the reference to the genocide as ‘antisemitism’. To make people fearful, pointing at the worst documented crime against humanity in human history.
Gilad:
This is precious. Dershowitz is probably the best living example of a Talmudic litigious mind – endless hypothetical delusional games furnished with a complete lack of ethics, let alone empathy or even something that resembles humanity.
I have been arguing for years that Dershowitz is on the low cognitive end. Not one argument by him ever presented a sound rationale. The fact that Dershowitz did so well in Harvard points at the systematic collapse of American academia. Jeffrey Epstein and others like him may have something to do with that collapse. It is reasonable to assume Epstein & Co. received something in return for the millions they poured on American academia. They basically made Harvard and other Ivy League institutes into Yeshivas…
David Smith, on the contrary, is the exact Jew whom I am so excited to see more of. He is always presenting a humanist ethical position; he doesn’t BS about his ‘Jewish Values’. He never pulls the ‘As A’ nonsense. He is always applying reason. He is a humanist who happens to be Jewish. Not many of those around..
To the comment “Zionism is an ideology and ideology cannot be defeated,” I answer: Zionism has been hijacked by Judaism; it was defeated a long time ago.
Judaism, on the other hand, is neither a religion nor an ideology. It is a tribal, litigious, racially driven, evolutionary, oppressive model. It is forceful, sophisticated, and dialectical to the extent that it encompasses its so-called “dissenters” (from the Hebrew Prophets all the way to JVP). Judaism and Jewishness cannot be eliminated. But they must be unveiled for what they are.
Jewish power, in that regard, is the power that is designed to prevent this disclosure.
This power is now in decline…
In the image: Rabbi Abraham Kook, who grasped very early on that integrating Zionism into Judaism, making Eretz Yisrael into a sacred Judaic pillar, is the way forward for the Jews. Rabbi Kook’s ideology dominates the Jewish State politically, spiritually, and culturally.
Building 7: Silverstein received about $861 million in mid-2002 for the collapse of 7 World Trade Center.
The Twin Towers: He fought a legal battle over whether the two plane crashes counted as one event or two separate attacks.
Final Settlement: By 2007, the courts and insurers finalized a total payout of $4.55 billion for the entire complex,
And he was a JEW: EDDY.
Spritzler / / / My comments:
Drugs? Hmm, like Freedom Bernays Torches? Most folk I know in their 70s, as former or current cancer stick imbiders, started at age 13.
Drugs? Sacrifice Zones? All those poor people along the fences of refineries or pig-shit ponds?
Hmm, how many nanoparticles in Johnny’s Cheerios? Oh, glyphosate in 90 percent of Jane’s food?
Oh, drugs, that’s right. EMF’s and adjuvants in those jabs, all those, what, 35 vaccines by age 18? Hmm.
Pesticides? Atrazine? Come on, brother, so many drugs and chemicals in the fucking somatic fluid.
Fuck, the black mirror, that fucking Zuckerberg et al attention distractor and attention deficit and attention manipulator fucking screen poison?
Well, so, is it not surprising that modern humans will be zapped, man, AMR? PFAS’s? Forever chemicals again approved by that other Talmudist freak, Zeldin?
Here, one rare Jewish person who dug deep into manipulation, almost a counter-valence to the Monster of the World, that Jewish Stain, Eddy Bernays.
And HE was a Jew, Meerloo.
Rape of the Mind
The Rape of the Mind is a foundational 1956 book written by Dutch physician and psychoanalyst Dr. Joost Meerloo that explores the psychology of brainwashing, thought control, and mass submission. Meerloo, who escaped Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, coined the term “menticide”—defined as the systematic killing of the human spirit and independent mind. The book analyzes how both totalitarian regimes and modern democratic institutions use psychological coercion to force conformity.
Core Concepts & Mechanisms: Meerloo outlines several specific tactics used by entities to strip individuals of their mental autonomy:
Menticide & Hypnosis: Operating on the premise that under continuous trauma, isolation, and pressure, virtually anyone can be forced to break. The conscious personality goes into a trance state, robotically repeating programmed ideas.
Pavlovian Conditioning: Treating human beings like animals in a laboratory by utilizing conditioned reflexes. By alternating rewards and punishments, totalitarians breed predictability and absolute submission. Semantic Fog & Verbocracy: Using confusing language, shifting definitions, and a flood of political jargon to intentionally clutter public discourse. This strips words of their true meanings, leaving citizens exhausted and unable to form coherent arguments.
Mass Delusion & Fear: Employing constant anxiety as a tool. A population kept in a permanent state of fear will voluntarily surrender their personal freedoms in exchange for a false sense of security.
Creeping Mind Control in Free Societies: A central warning in the book is that mind control is not exclusive to dictatorships. Meerloo highlights how citizens in democratic societies face subtle, creeping psychological pressures from everyday systems:
Technology & Media: Automated entertainment and constant media broadcasts can easily bypass critical thinking, fostering passive conformity.
Bureaucracy: Over-regulated institutions demand blind compliance and push individuals to stop thinking for themselves.Mental Contagion: Prejudices, moral panics, and mass hysterias can sweep through a population like a virus, clouding individual judgment
Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo, a psychiatrist and a prolific writer best known during the Cold War years for his studies on the effects of “brainwashing,” died Nov. 17, 1976, in Amsterdam. He was 73 years old.
Imprisoned briefly by the Nazis during the 1940’s, Dr. Meerloo escaped and fled to England, where he became an expert on “mind‐killing,” the various means of torture for which he coined his own word, “mentacide.”
“The Rape of the Mind,” his best-known book, was published in 1956. It brought him wide attention beyond medical circles because of public concern over allegations of “Communist brainwashing” of American soldiers in Korea.
Dr. Merloo emphasized, though, that his overall concerns were focused on describing how modern technological societies exert stressful pressures on the human mind and were not limited to the political implications of brainwashing.
“Mentacide is an infectious disease that exists everywhere, including the United States, where there is a mass hysteria over Communism,” he told a friend before he returned to his birthplace in the Netherlands after 22 years of residence in New York City.
At the time of his death, Dr. Meerloo was working as a consultant in a geriatric medical center and writing books and reviews in subjects ranging from psychiatric studies to art.
Born at The Hague on March 14, 1903, he was the youngest of six children.
Three sisters and two brothers were later killed by the Germans.
Dr. Meerloo was educated at the University of Leyden, where he received his medical degree in 1927. After postgraduate work in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, he continued psychiatric studies in Paris.
Zurich, Berne and London. Between 1930 and 1934, he taught the People’s University in Rotterdam.
During that period, he received his at the University of Utrecht. After his imprisonment by the Nazis, in 1942, and his escape to England, became colonel and chief of the psychological department for the Netherlands army‐in‐exile, based in England.
Treated Nazi Victims
In two works published in 1945, “Homo Militans, the Psychology of War and Peace in Man,” and “The Psychology of Pain and Sorrow,” Dr. Meerloo detailed his experiences during the years in which he treated Nazi torture. Implicit in his studies was the notion that all individuals can break in the hands of their enemies. “Aftermath of Peace; Psychological Essays,” and several hundred other articles were written by Dr. Meerloo and published here where he taught psychiatry at Columbia University and social psychology at the New School for Social Research.
In modern psychological and political discourse regarding Israel and the broader Middle East, Meerloo’s theories on “mass delusion,” “mental contagion,” and “semantic fog” are frequently cited by scholars. Academic researchers and political psychologists leverage his work to analyze:
The weaponization of fear and propaganda in the geopolitical theater.
How populations under prolonged structural trauma can become susceptible to radicalization and ideological conditioning.
The psychological impact of inherited, generational trauma among Jewish populations and Holocaust descendants.
An aerial view shows people surveying damage to buildings in the aftermath of a U.S. strike on a wedding party, on September 2, 2026, in Sirik in the Hormozgan Province of Iran.
Abby is correct — Maga don’t need no fucking badges to support the uniformed mercenaries, the war dawgs, the jets and drones, so do not fall into that fucking trap, that somehow the AmeriKKKan people are tired of war, attacks on innocents, bombing Iran, and, alas, not supporting the Jews of the Nation of Palestine entwining with the US DoD, our grand military murder inc.
Last night’s #USIsraeli strikes on Bandar Abbas injured 98 people,51 hospitalized, and killed four civilians, 100%. Over 80% of the injured were civilians. A family’s wedding turned to mourning. Protecting civilians is an obligation under international law.
Shoot these fucking evil spawn down in the streets.
Bring the war to the fucking parking lots of Costco and retirement homes where the golden girls and our-fucking-crocodile-tears veterans party hardy.
The fucking sperm donors and dirty uterus recipients: parents, grandparents, grandkiddos, all of them, smash their heads in, what a dream!
Hormozgan: A U.S. attack hit a wedding in Sirik on Tuesday, killing at least four people, including a child, and injuring nearly 100 people, 51 of whom were hospitalized, according to Iran’s Health Ministry. Separate U.S. strikes hit a fishing pier and a port authority tower in the city. The U.S. also struck the major southern port city of Bandar Abbas, the city of Jask, and a residential area in the coastal city of Kuhestak. Several parts of the power grid in Hormozgan were also targeted.
Kermanshah: The U.S. killed four Iranian military personnel in an overnight attack on the western province of Kermanshah, according to a statement from Iran’s military.
Sistan and Baluchestan: The U.S. struck the port city of Chabahar several times on Tuesday, and hit the nearby city of Konarak as well.
Khuzestan: A U.S. missile struck the outskirts of the Iranian city of Ahvaz, in the country’s western Khuzestan province, Iran’s Fars news agency reported, and later strikes hit at least two other locations. Tuesday strikes killed at least seven and injured eight others in the province.
Kerman: The U.S. also targeted an airport in the city of Jirfot, in Iran’s southeast, Iranian broadcaster IRIB reported, though the attack entailed no casualties and minimal damage to the airport’s infrastructure.
Bushehr: Explosions were also heard in the gas hub of Asaluyeh.
Markazi: Iranian forces shot down a U.S. MQ-9 drone over Khomeyn, in central Iran on Tuesday, Tasnim reported.
So many abortions should have happened. Stillbirths. Forced vegetative states are too good for these criminals.
In a glaring exposure of the imperialist agenda aimed at obliterating Palestinian identity, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been implicated in a sinister plot to erase the very name of “Palestine” from school textbooks.
According to Jeremy Greenstock, Britain’s former ambassador to the United Nations, Blair was tasked by a US-appointed “Board of Peace” with delivering a brutal ultimatum to the Palestinian Authority (PA): scrub the word “Palestine” from educational materials and replace it with the colonial Zionist term “Samaria.”
4 Year Punishment for Stealing Bread and Butter in Victorian England
The UK is the only EU country to permit 16-year-olds to enlist and start military training. According to Child Soldiers International (CSI), only 17 other countries allow it, including Zambia, El Salvador and Iran. In June, the UN committee on the rights of the child told the UK government to “reconsider its active policy of recruitment of children into the armed forces and ensure that recruitment practices do not actively target persons under the age of 18 and ensure that military recruiters’ access to schools be strictly limited”.
Inquiries by bodies like the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) and investigative reports from the BBC have identified that the high prevalence of sexual abuse and rape of boys in British military and traditional boarding schools historically stems from systemic institutional failures, rigid hierarchical dynamics, and a lack of external accountability
Arnold attended a boarding school with military traditions in the early 1970s.
He was sexually abused, as were many other boys, and says that this was made to seem like a ‘normal induction’ at the school.
Arnold’s parents lived overseas and he was sent to boarding school when he was 11 years old. He didn’t want to go and was homesick from the start. This feeling was made worse by the ‘brutal and intimidating’ atmosphere at the school that he likens to the dystopian novel ‘Lord of the Flies’.
He describes how prefects and older boys systematically abused some of the younger ones, sexually, physically and psychologically. The bigger boys would target any young ones who had a ‘slight flaw’, such as wearing glasses, being overweight or having a speech impediment.
Arnold says he was picked on because he was small. In his first term, he was summoned to the room of a prefect, where he and another boy were stripped naked and one was made to perform oral sex on the other. Arnold remembers how humiliated he felt. ‘It was dehumanising’ he says.
The abuse continued for two years, until the prefect left school and Arnold was ‘set free’. He explains that the abuse was so widespread it was made to seem like ‘normal induction’ into the school, and it was expected that students would do it to others when they reached the sixth form.
He adds that the abusive behaviour was ‘common knowledge’ around the school and there were some teachers and priests who were known to hold ‘special lessons’ where they abused children. He describes how boys would be summoned to certain members of staff ‘and then be quiet when they came back’.
Arnold says he believes that the teachers were motivated by ‘a perverse power trip’ rather than homosexuality. In fact, he says, ‘Some boys were expelled for homosexual activity. But abuse, they chose not to be aware of’.
No one talked about the abuse that was going on at the school, and Arnold says there was no approachable person in authority who he could have talked to. Plus, he says, ‘It was beaten into the pupils from the first day that you do not talk to anybody’. He would not have told his parents about the abuse because he felt ‘it would be letting them down’, which would have added to his shame.
After Arnold left the school, he says he suppressed memories of the abuse, and ‘changed the story to it being a rite of passage’. But in recent years, he realised that he had been raped and he had a nervous breakdown. He sometimes feels suicidal, and ‘not wanting to exist in any way, shape or form’. He suffers with anxiety, has abused alcohol and drugs, and has problems with trust and relationships.
Arnold believes a culture change in boarding schools is needed – ‘one in which people are not strong and silent, but strong and verbal’. He says schools need to actively look out for signs of abuse and should provide an independent person children can talk to. He is not sure that ‘empathy can be taught’ but suggests this should be explored.
He has had therapy, and spoken to a friend, his wife and mother about the abuse he suffered. He says his mother told him she suspected he had been abused, and that although she knows ‘she can’t fix it’, it is helpful talking to her.
Dreadful abuse went unchecked at military boarding school
Lady Smith, Chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, has today (22 October) published her thirteenth volume of findings relating to the provision of residential care for children at Queen Victoria School (QVS), a boarding school in Dunblane.
She concludes that pupils were subjected to ‘dreadful abuse’, and that numerous abusive practices perpetrated by members of staff and pupils went unchecked.
QVS apologised for abuse experienced by children who had been entrusted into its care.
The current management of QVS, HM Commissioners, and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) now also understand that there is no room for complacency given the abuse that has taken place since 2010 despite the child protection systems and policies that were put in place.
Lady Smith said: ‘The pupils at QVS were all boarders and they were exposed to risks of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse. For many of them, those risks materialised and children suffered abuse.
The history of the sexual abuse and rape of young boys in the British Royal Navy is deeply intertwined with the institution’s historic reliance on child labor, its rigid hierarchy, and the realities of isolated life at sea. Historical research reveals that the targeting of “ship’s boys” was widespread, structurally facilitated by vast power imbalances, and policed primarily to maintain military discipline rather than to protect the victims.
The Presence of Children at Sea
During the Age of Sail (roughly 1600 to 1850), young boys were a standard component of Royal Navy crews.
Crew Demographics: Young boys, often referred to as “servants” or “ship’s boys,” could make up as much as 10% of a ship’s crew.
Age Range: While officially defined in later periods as being between 13 and 18 years old, historical records show children as young as 6 to 9 years old serving on these vessels.
Vulnerability: These children were physically smaller, socially isolated, and economically dependent on the adult crew, making them highly vulnerable to predatory behavior.
Yeshivah leaders in Sydney and Melbourne chose to preserve the prestige of their faith over the safety of children. A national inquiry that reverberated around the world painted a devastating picture of how individuals were abandoned and ostracised as they fought to end the code of silence
Orthodox Judaism has never been exposed to such scrutiny. From a Melbourne courtroom, the torment of the Chabad rabbis was streamed live to the world as the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse probed the city’s secretive and powerful Yeshivah community.
The grip of that code still seemed strong in Sydney, where the Bondi Yeshivah was grappling with its parallel scandal: the failure to act on old allegations about the activities of Gug Hayman and a rabbinical student known at the commission as AVL.
One of Hayman’s many friends was the Sydney rabbi Yosef Feldman, son of Pinchus, the chief rabbi at Bondi, and Pnina, sister of both the legendary diamond explorer Joe Gutnick and one of the heroes of this story, Rabbi Moshe Gutnick.
“I really don’t understand why as soon as something of serious loshen horah is heard about someone of even child molestation, we should immediately go to the secular authorities.”
When those emails were leaked to the Australian Jewish News, Feldman issued a statement that he did, indeed, support the official ruling that abuse must be reported to the police, and then stepped down as president of the Rabbinical Council of New South Wales.
He was furious with the paper. After meeting executives of the Jewish News, Feldman emailed a number of fellow rabbis to explain why the public attention being given to the troubles in Chabad caused him such disquiet: “I felt that the hype has been causing phoney attention seekers to come forward like Manny Waks and this should be stopped.”
The Corbett Report
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