There is no, nor should there be, irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of the individual person and the interests of the collective. There should be no such contrast, because collectivism, socialism, does not deny, but combines individual interests with the interests of the collective. Socialism cannot abstract itself from individual interests. Socialist society alone can most fully satisfy these personal interests. More than that; socialist society alone can firmly safeguard the interests of the individual. In this sense there is no irreconcilable contrast between “individualism” and socialism. But can we deny the contrast between classes, between the propertied class, the capitalist class, and the toiling class, the proletarian class? MARXISM VERSUS LIBERALISM, AN INTERVIEW WITH H.G. WELLS
There can be no greater sickness than this time, when all the powers that shouldn’t be and the powers that should be but are not just watching and listening and hiding whatever brains they have left in the sand.
Like many fathers in Iran, Nariman, a 57-year old teacher, is trying to protect his family from a war that feels closer than ever.On Monday, he arranged with his two daughters to pack their things immediately and flee Tehran for the relative safety of the northern region of the country near the Caspian Sea where U.S. and Israeli strikes have been less frequent.
Nariman, who did not want to share his last name for safety, made the fraught decision to leave after U.S. President Donald Trump posted an ultimatum on TruthSocial on Sunday: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah,” Trump wrote.
In a separate post, Trump later added a specific deadline: “Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time.”
Most Iranians don’t have access to the global internet because of blackouts, but news travels fast through domestic intranet platforms. Nariman saw the updates and realized the scale of the threat.
“I panicked when I saw this. He wants to ‘blow everything up’ and ‘take the oil?’ He is gonna hit bridges?” Nariman told Drop Site News over the phone, his voice shaking. “I must get my family to safety before things go wrong.” The family is packing to prepare for a long drive up north, bracing for huge traffic from Tehran of people who have made a similar calculation to flee the capital in the face of Trump’s threat of widespread destruction. When they will return is unclear. But their car is packed with enough clothes and other supplies for what may be an extended time away from home.
The rot goes throughout the land. And it’s the retirees and soccer moms and those on steroids in the NIMBY crowd: They too are the sickness.
In a small room on the 18th floor of Phoenix City Hall, about 20 people gathered to discuss a newly expanded proposed city ordinance that would severely restrict both food and medical provision in city parks.
The ordinance — which LOOKOUT was first to report on in December — is scheduled to be discussed and voted on at the May 6 City Council meeting. It would allow only two permits per park per month for organizations to conduct basic medical care or distribute food, an expansion of its earlier draft that caused widespread concern among health practitioners. Critics say the restrictions could lead to increased hunger, outbreaks of illness, and death.
The April 1 meeting was part of the Fast-Track Cities Committee, a global network of more than 600 cities and municipalities working to reduce HIV and STI transmissions through urban health initiatives. It included Phoenix councilmembers Debra Stark (right) and Laura Pastor, who previously voted in favor of the ordinance.
“This ordinance is completely in opposition to the mission of this program. Full stop,” said Jack Palmer of Circle the City during the Fast Track Cities meeting.
He noted that in the past eight months alone, more than 100 people tested positive for hepatitis C through outreach conducted in parks.
Arlene Mahoney, executive director of Southwest Recovery Alliance, told LOOKOUT that restricting access would cause severe harm:
“We are meeting people where they’re at, keeping people safer, reducing overdose deaths and transmission of HIV and Hep C, reducing soft tissue infection, providing sharps disposal,” she said.
Duh?
Is the Iranian War About to Become Apocalyptic?
Tonight: a senior medical analyst says the president is exhibiting “all the signs of dementia.” A general had to physically stop Trump from announcing classified troop numbers on live TV. Republicans who voted for mass deportation are now begging Trump not to put concentration camps in their towns. And the DOJ lied to a federal judge about what it’s doing with the personal data of millions of American voters.
Dr. Vin Gupta watched all of this and wrote on X: “Erratic. Can’t finish sentences. Often confused. Illogical train of thought. Word finding difficulties. Developing and worsening gradually over time. The President is exhibiting all the signs of dementia.”
Gupta has been raising these concerns for months. After Trump’s appearance at Davos in February, he noted the president’s family history (Trump’s father died at 93 from pneumonia complicated by Alzheimer’s) and said he was seeing a “trend line” that “seems like it’s getting worse.”
Trump’s own niece told a podcast she looks at him now and sees her grandfather: “I see that same look of confusion. His short-term memory seems to be deteriorating.”
Most telling is the cognitive testing. Trump has bragged about “acing” the Montreal Cognitive Assessment three times. Gupta wasn’t impressed: “Those that tend to do MoCA tests with that level of frequency, usually we’re worried about early-stage dementia.”
Psychologist Dr. John Gartner was blunter: “If you’re giving it to him three times, that means you’re not assessing dementia. That means you’re monitoring dementia.”
The White House spent the weekend denying Trump had been hospitalized at Walter Reed after he vanished from public view for twelve hours. Whether he was or wasn’t, the fact the question is being asked at all tells you something about where we are.
‘I’d Love to Keep That a Secret’
Today, Trump held a press conference about the rescue of two downed American airmen in Iran. Things were going well until Trump prepared to announce the exact number of troops involved in a classified military operation — live, on television, to the entire world, including Iran.
His own Joint Chiefs chairman had to intervene.
“How many men did you send altogether? Approximately?” Trump asked the general.
“I’d love to keep that a secret,” General Caine replied.
“I’ll keep it a secret,” Trump said, before announcing it was “hundreds and hundreds.” He then looked at the general and said, “Is he central casting?”
His response to being told not to disclose classified information was to disclose the approximate number anyway, wrap it in the word “secret,” and then compliment the general’s jawline.
Dementia? That’s the Commander-in-Chief of the United States armed forces. Declining in real time.
God, that guy, Jew Yorker editor, David Remmich, asking, Can Sam Altman Be Trusted?
Remmick was born to a Jewish family in Hackensack, New Jersey, and raised in a secular Jewish home in nearby Hillsdale. He has often reflected on his Jewish identity and background in his writing and interviews, noting that his ancestors lived in shtetls within Russian territory.
In 2023, he was ranked as the most influential Jew by The Jerusalem Post.
Most people, they report, find Altman’s will to power unusually strong—even in the tech world. “He’s unconstrained by truth,” an OpenAI board member told Farrow and Marantz. “He has two traits that are almost never seen in the same person. The first is a strong desire to please people, to be liked in any given interaction. The second is almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come from deceiving someone.” Farrow and Marantz note that this wasn’t the only time they heard the word “sociopathic” used to describe Altman.
SOOO, Jews, Marantz and Farrow (Woody Allen’s kiddo) and then Remmick, a Jew, asking this question about a Jew, Sam. WHEW.
“He has two traits that are almost never seen in the same person. The first is a strong desire to please people, to be liked in any given interaction. The second is almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come from deceiving someone.”
Sounds like a Jewish question to me: Can a Jew be trusted?
Self-Identification: Altman has explicitly stated, “I am Jewish,” and has clarified that he identifies with the faith beyond just cultural practice, though he does not interpret religious texts literally.
Antisemitism: In late 2023 and early 2024, Altman publicly addressed a rise in antisemitism, admitting he had previously been “totally wrong” to downplay its severity. He noted that his online experience as a public figure often involves encountering “horrible things about Jews”.
So-called presidents are just suicide bombers for the empire. Except without any honor that a regular suicidebomber would display in sacrificing their actual life. They just play their role in the con, enjoy their payoff and move along.
Stalin said:
What will this “socialism” be? At best, bridling to some extent, the most unbridled of individual representatives of capitalist profit, some increase in the application of the principle of regulation in national economy. That is all very well. But as soon as Roosevelt, or any other captain in the contemporary bourgeois world, proceeds to undertake something serious against the foundation of capitalism, he will inevitably suffer utter defeat. The banks, the industries, the large enterprises, the large farms are not in Roosevelt’s hands. All these are private property. The railroads, the mercantile fleet, all these belong to private owners. And, finally, the army of skilled workers, the engineers, the technicians, these too are not at Roosevelt’s command, they are at the command of the private owners; they all work for the private owners. We must not forget the functions of the State in the bourgeois world.
The State is an institution that organises the defence of the country, organises the maintenance of “order”; it is an apparatus for collecting taxes. The capitalist State does not deal much with economy in the strict sense of the word; the latter is not in the hands of the State. On the contrary, the State is in the hands of capitalist economy. That is why I fear that in spite of all his energies and abilities, Roosevelt will not achieve the goal you mention, if indeed that is his goal. Perhaps, in the course of several generations it will be possible to approach this goal somewhat; but I personally think that even this is not very probable.
The Intercept found that at least 15 American service members have been killed and more than 520 wounded since the war began, figures the Pentagon has still resists confirming. Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, the largest U.S. military hospital abroad and the only American Level II trauma center overseas, suspended its labor and delivery services entirely to free up capacity for combat casualties, issued urgent calls for blood donations, and received evacuation flights of critically wounded service members, dozens of whom arrived suffering from traumatic brain injuries, memory loss, and other conditions classified as “urgent” by military medical staff. The decision to restructure the hospital’s operations was made, according to internal memos, at a “very high level” within the U.S. military.
RFK’s last step — thanks god, Trump, for doing that other god’s work.
Laith Marouf & Dr Jamal Wakim, professor of Political Science at the Lebanese University, talk about the fantastical tales of Emperor Trump, latest being the failed mission in Isfahan, the historical echoes of Roman imperial collapse at the gates of Persia, and the latest news items in the war for the liberation of Palestine.
If there is a single figure who embodies the financial architecture of the Epstein network — not the trafficking itself, but the system of wealth, lawyers, and institutional complicity that allowed it to persist — it is Leon Black.
Black is the co-founder of Apollo Global Management, one of the largest private equity firms in the world. He paid Jeffrey Epstein $170 million over several years. Senate investigators say that figure is $12 million higher than what Apollo’s own board reported, with no explanation for the discrepancy. And the story of where that money went, and what Epstein did in return, is one of the most detailed case studies we have of how a billionaire’s problems get solved in America.
Black has maintained that the $170 million was for tax and estate planning services. Senator Ron Wyden’s four-year investigation has produced a different picture.
Wyden’s findings show that Black paid approximately $20 million to about a dozen women, at least some of whom he’d had sexual relationships with. These payments were routed through Epstein, who served as a middleman — handling the logistics, the amounts, and the mechanisms of disbursement. In documents Epstein possessed, these payments were described as “gifts.”
The word “gifts” is doing an enormous amount of legal work in that sentence. If the payments were hush money — compensation in exchange for silence about Black’s conduct — then routing them through Epstein and labeling them as gifts raises concerns about money laundering, tax fraud, and obstruction, depending on the circumstances. Wyden’s letter to Black, dated March 20, 2026, makes clear that the Senate Finance Committee considers these questions open and unresolved.
Good Jews.
Jews: Sam Altman says AI superintelligence is so big that we need a ‘New Deal.’ Critics say OpenAI’s policy ideas are a cover for ‘regulatory nihilism’.
Trump said Iran had 48 hours to agree to a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz or make peace.
“If it happens, it happens. And if it doesn’t, we’re blowing up the whole country. We’re blowing up, as I said, it’s going to be bridge day and it’s going to be power plant day in the country of Iran.”
Jews love their sex trafficking: ‘It started with a tipoff’: how a Guardian investigation exposed child sex trafficking on Facebook and Instagram
Up Up and Away: How A Dusty Strip Deep In Iran Can Be Turned Into A U.S. Special Operations Base In Hours.
FARPS and STS’s . . . Orgasms…. The rescue of the F-15E weapon systems officer (WSO) missing in Iran after his fighter was shot down was one of the most complex and dangerous missions the U.S. military can undertake. These kinds of operations can come in many forms. In this case, before the WSO was finally recovered from the mountain crevice where he was hiding, a forward arming and refueling point (FARP) deep inside enemy territory had to be rapidly set up and secured so that it could act as a staging area for the aircraft, equipment and troops taking part in the mission. This is an exact mission set U.S. special operations forces train for extensively.
To get more insights about how such a FARP would be set up and operated, we reached out to Kyle Rempfer, a former Special Tactics Squadron (STS) airman who served in Afghanistan and Iraq. STS units are an elite cadre of operators who work to control aircraft in the air, including from airfields they establish deep inside contested territory, and direct airpower onto the enemy, among other duties, including rescuing personnel trapped behind enemy lines. They are often paired with special operations units, such as SEALs, Delta Force and Rangers, to bring their unique skills to their missions.
An ex-USAF Special Tactics Squadron member tells how the impromptu airfield in Iran would have been rapidly established and defended.
Oh, Forbes and Bloomberg, it’s all about the shekels and Benjamins. Why U.S. Refineries Can Handle Shale Oil Despite The Persistent Myth
A widespread myth in energy circles is that U.S. refineries are “unable” to process the light, sweet crude produced by the shale boom. The claim tends to surface whenever gasoline prices rise or energy independence becomes a talking point. The argument is usually that the U.S. is producing record volumes of oil, yet still imports crude because its refineries were built for heavier foreign barrels.
It’s a compelling narrative, but it’s mostly wrong.
U.S. refineries can and do process shale crude every day. The issue isn’t technical capability. It’s economics.
Understanding that distinction is critical because it explains why the U.S. simultaneously exports large volumes of crude oil while continuing to import it, and why that system works far more efficiently than it appears at first glance.
The roots of this misunderstanding go back decades. From the 1980s through the early 2000s, refiners made massive capital investments based on a widely observed trend: high-quality, easy-to-refine crude was becoming scarce. Future supplies were expected to be heavier—containing longer, more complex hydrocarbon molecules—and increasingly sour, meaning higher sulfur content.
In response, refiner spent tens of billions of dollars upgrading facilities with cokers, hydrocrackers, and desulfurization units designed to process heavy, sour crude, which is more difficult to refine into finished products.
Oil shale is a mixture of sand, silt, salt, and an insoluble organic substance called kerogen. Rock-like at room temperature, oil shale produces vapors and gases when heated, which in turn are condensed and turned into oil.
Oil shale shouldn’t be confused with “shale oil,” also called “tight oil,” a more commonly produced type of unconventional oil that’s found trapped in limestone or sandstone rocks.
Because oil shale requires mining and energy-intensive refining processes, it’s a substantially dirtier energy source than conventional liquid oil. Estimates vary, but turning oil shale into gasoline or diesel may lead to three or more times as many heat-trapping gas emissions as conventional oil.
At present, oil shale is not a commercially viable product in most of the world, as the same processes that make it dirty also make it expensive. In the United States, the largest oil shale deposits occur in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, but remain relatively untouched.
Environmental impacts of oil shale
Oil shale can be extracted via surface, underground, or “in-situ” mining, in which kerogen is heated underground and pumped to the surface. All these techniques demand significantly more energy than what’s required for conventional liquid oil, producing more air and global warming pollution as a result.
Water pollution is another concern, as spills, leaks, and runoff from mining operations may interfere with groundwater supplies. And when extracted oil is shipped to refineries for processing, the trucks, trains, and pipelines that transport it introduce their own environmental impacts.
The solution: Half the Oil
Cutting US oil use is a better energy solution than increasing production of oil, especially when that production comes from extremely energy-intensive resources like oil shale. Cleaner fuels and fuel-efficient cars and trucks can reduce the amount of oil we use—and avoid unconventional oil’s worst impacts—all while benefitting drivers, the environment, and the economy.
Meanwhile, operators and the oil industry should be held accountable for the emissions associated with different types of oil production, avoiding or mitigating additional emissions and impacts as much as possible. What oil we do use doesn’t have to come from the dirtiest unconventional sources like oil shale, coal-to-liquid resources, or tar sands.
Except Hitler didn’t have Israel and Mossad and Synagogues and Ellison and 130 Jewish Billionaires pulling strings, puffing up smoke for the mirrors and smoke game!
“Let every round find its mark against the enemies of righteousness and our great nation,” Hegseth prayed to his god. “Give them wisdom in every decision, endurance for the trial ahead, unbreakable unity and overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy.”
Hitler’s Experience in the Trenches of the Great War
An obscure would-be artist named Adolf Hitler was changed forever by his horrific experiences in the German trenches of World War I.
In the months before the outbreak of World War I, 25-year-old Adolf Hitler was living the starving artist’s life in the Bavarian city of Munich, selling his paintings door-to-door and in the city’s numerous beer halls. Hitler had fled to Munich from Vienna in 1913 to avoid being drafted into the Austrian Army, which he felt allowed too many mixed bloods and different cultures into the ranks. Austrian authorities caught up with him six months before the start of the war and forced him to take a physical exam to see if he was fit to serve. Ironically, Hitler was deemed “too weak for armed or auxiliary service, unfit to bear arms.”
Hitler Enlists for the First World War
Hitler learned of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand when his landlady, Frau Popp, burst into his room in hysterics and shouted, “The Austrian heir to the throne has just been murdered!” According to Hitler, he dropped to his knees and thanked heaven for letting him be there during a time when Germany would be fighting to save itself. He then rushed out into the street to blend into the quickly gathering crowd in the Odeonsplatz. A photograph taken at the time shows a jubilant, sallow-faced Hitler in the crowd celebrating the coming war. Hitler’s life of loneliness and insignificance was about to end.
Hitler tried to enlist in the 1st Bavarian Infantry on August 5, but he was sent away because the Army had more volunteers than it needed. A fortnight later he was summoned to report to Recruiting Depot VI in Munich and enlisted as private No. 148 in the 1st Company, 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment. Also enlisted in the regiment was Lieutenant Rudolf Hess, later to become deputy führer of Nazi Germany, and Sgt. Maj. Max Amann, later in charge of the Nazi press.
Throughout the rest of his life, Hitler remained proud of his military record and mentioned it frequently. He would not tolerate any opinion that might smudge his military career or personal image (real or imagined). When former comrade Hans Mend published an unflattering eyewitness account about Hitler in World War I (including a homosexual affair that Hitler allegedly had with another soldier), Mend quickly disappeared into a “reeducation” camp in 1938, never to be heard from again. Other former comrades did not talk about the Hitler they had known in World War I.
During World War I, Hitler rose from an insignificant, unknown, struggling artist to a decorated, angry veteran. During 45 months and 36 major battles, he developed the personality characteristics that later haunted the world. His regiment suffered 3,754 casualties, including several of Hitler’s friends. There is no record of Hitler ever killing a man in combat. He was more frequently remembered as a nice chap, one who wrote poetry, read, sketched, and painted in his off hours. Serving in the army gave Hitler the self-confidence he never had before. Using his newfound self-assurance, he began to rally his countrymen with the blind rage and hatred that propelled Germany and the rest of the world toward the darkest days of the 20th century. It all began with Hitler’s grueling experiences in World War I.
Easter resurrected Trump:
And so here we are, Easter 2026:
Trump’s brownshirts:
Prayers unanswered: “We are unstoppable as a military force,” Trump boasted before Iran shot down one U.S. plane and another crashed near the Strait of Hormuz.
Shit, the Oscar goes to: Trump Resorts to Propaganda Amid Crushing Failure
In an attempt to conceal the scale of the defeat, U.S. President Donald Trump resorted to social media claims, alleging the success of a “special rescue operation” for the downed pilot.
However, Iranian officials dismissed these claims as psychological warfare and deception, asserting that the reality on the ground exposes a clear and undeniable American defeat.
More resurrections on Easter Sunday:
Recently , Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa- a former Al Qaeda militant installed into power in Syria by the CIA, MI6, and Mossad- met with King Charles and Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the UK, causing a major backlash from critics.
But while the MI6, Al Qaeda alliance is showcased in the open, another alliance is taking place between Ahmed al-Sharaa and Israel behind the scenes over the Israeli war on Lebanon.
For context, Israel is currently carrying out ethnic cleansing in South Lebanon with the intention of permanently occupying South Lebanon up to the Litani River.
Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich openly called for an Israeli annexation of Southern Lebanon, saying, “the new Israeli border must be the Litani”.
This was endorsed by Israel’s Defense Minister, Israel Katz, who said that “Israeli forces would control ‘the entire area’ from the border to the Litani River after the offensive had concluded,” which “would include the demolition of entire Lebanese border towns and that hundreds of thousands of displaced residents would not be able to return.”
Katz openly called to repeat the ethnic cleansing model used in Rafah and Beit Hanoun in Gaza, saying , “all homes in Lebanese villages near the border will be destroyed — in accordance with the Rafah and Beit Hanoun model in Gaza,” in order “to remove, once and for all, the threats near the border”.
The NGO Oxfam warned that Israel is using the “Gaza playbook in Lebanon”, noting that, “Israeli forces are destroying water and sanitation infrastructure including strikes near sites that were being rehabilitated after having been destroyed or damaged in the last war” and that “Israel has also destroyed electricity networks and bridges, cutting off vital supplies and services for entire towns and villages.”
Many Americans now know that the US government lives for war, is owned by Israel, and is completely beholden to and integrated with the military industrial complex. Politicians and their friends brazenly demonstrate their uninhibited ability to invest on “insider” war-related information and soon-to-be announced policy. They happily trade service to constituents for re-election campaigns funded by a few generous Israel-backed donors. Confucius said, “the beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper names.” The Chinese philosopher was right, and we the people are beginning to become wise.
My comments:
AmeriKKKans are checked out, Karen. I am not sure how you ground-truth, but it ain’t going to be the No Kings Kamala for President crowd that speaks to any of this.
Here’s reality:
All is a okay with HBO Max and the fucking basketball game… Nary a word about the Mafia running USA into a banana buggered Republic
Trump is seeking to pay for his new $1.5 trillion military budget by cutting the following from American citizens (source in comments):
$510 million – Grants for farmers and agricultural research
$82 million – Loans for rural small businesses (Fully eliminated)
$61 million – Support for farmers and food markets (Fully eliminated)
$240 million – School meals and food education for children abroad (Fully eliminated)
$659 million – Community building grants
$47 million – Support for minority-owned businesses (Fully eliminated)
$449 million – Economic development grants for communities
$1.6 billion – Weather forecasting, fisheries, and coastal protection (NOAA)
$993 million – Scientific research and technology standards
$150 million – Support for American exports and trade
$2.2 billion – Broadband and internet access programs
$8.5 billion – Funding for public schools
$1.5 billion – Vocational training and adult education (Fully eliminated)
$2.7 billion – College access and higher education support
$15.2 billion – Roads, bridges, and infrastructure projects
$1.1 billion – Home energy efficiency and clean energy programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.1 billion – Scientific research funding
$386 million – Environmental cleanup programs
$150 million – Cutting-edge clean energy research
$4 billion – Help paying home heating and cooling bills for low-income families (Fully eliminated)
$768 million – Refugee resettlement assistance
$819 million – Care and shelter for migrant children
$775 million – Local anti-poverty programs (Fully eliminated)
$5 billion – Public health programs, mental health services, and disease prevention
$5 billion – Medical research (NIH)
$129 million – Healthcare quality and safety research
$356 million – Emergency preparedness and disaster response
$1.3 billion – FEMA community disaster preparedness grants
$707 million – Cybersecurity protection for critical infrastructure
$52 million – Airport and transportation security
$40 million – Protection against chemical and biological weapons threats
$53 million – Funding for homeland security operations
$3.3 billion – Community development block grants for local neighborhoods (Fully eliminated)
$1.3 billion – Affordable housing construction grants (Fully eliminated)
$393 million – Programs to reduce homelessness
$529 million – Housing assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS (Fully eliminated)
$489 million – Housing and services for Native American communities
$50 million – Grants to help communities build more housing (Fully eliminated)
$60 million – Enforcement of fair housing and anti-discrimination laws
$58 million – Homebuyer and renter counseling services (Fully eliminated)
$45 million – Renewable energy development programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.7 billion – Grants for local law enforcement and public safety
$20 million – Civil rights mediation and legal access programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.6 billion – Job training for at-risk youth (Fully eliminated)
$395 million – Jobs program for low-income seniors (Fully eliminated)
$234 million – Worker safety and labor protection programs
$101 million – Enforcement of equal pay and workplace anti-discrimination laws
$46 million – Programs to combat child labor and forced labor abroad
$2 billion – International humanitarian aid
$1.2 billion – Food aid for hungry families abroad (Fully eliminated)
$4.3 billion – Global health and disease prevention programs
$2.7 billion – Funding for the United Nations and international partnerships
$642 million – International economic and treasury programs
Forgiveness (for not everyone, but for too many) is a shameless crutch that enables harmful acts to proliferate.
I have been a victim of crimes, and I have known criminals. I can tell you that for me, the crimes of ignorance and passion and just trying to support a family and being young and stupid are far far easier to forgive than the calculated crimes of greed and hypocrisy. Or the crime of “just doing my job.”
I’m not sure how those criminals of society justify it, beyond that Christ died for their sins.
If everything is forgivable, everything is permissible.
I wrote about that a while ago. You can read it here.
US/CIA invented the term “brainwashing” in the Korean War because they couldn’t fathom why some American POW chose to go to China rather than be repatriated to the US.
They attributed it to some secret Chinese psychological control. This gave rise to the film The Manchurian Candidate in 1959
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Jesus died for our sins, they say. A review of Jesus’s sins, and his life, show he was a healer, a pilgrim, a compassionate man, and one who loathed hypocrisy. He was not a capitalist. He was not a settler. He was not wealthy. Rather, he was persecuted and killed by the settlers, the wealthy, those in power.
By those metrics, justice continues to be meted out in the same way. The innocent continue to suffer. Jesus is crucified every day.
If everything is forgivable, everything is permissible. That “everything is permissible” is everywhere today. 1 Corinthians 10:23 talks about it, easily taken out of context.
Jesus was accused of violating Sabbath laws by performing healings on that day.
Anger and Insults: Some interpret his anger (such as overturning tables in the Temple) and calling religious leaders “fools” or “blind” (Matthew 23) as sinful
Disrespecting Authorities: Reddit users’ views suggest that his challenging of Pharisees was seen as arrogant by some.
Symbolic Misconduct: Some suggest the cursing of the fig tree or sending demons into pigs (Mark 5) showed anger or destruction.
‘Jesus was God’s anointed Messiah; you have rejected him; but God raised him from the dead and he ascended to God’s right hand; one day he will come as judge; therefore repent and be saved’.
On October 25, at 3 am, the regiment entered its first battle, arriving just in time to join the German assault during the first phase of the Battle of Ypres. The regiment’s objective was to take a farmhouse and the edge of the woods beyond the house, about half a mile from the German lines. A heavy fog had risen, forcing a delay in the attack timetable while others rounded up the lost battalions. At dawn the attack began, but a few steps out the regiment came under intense fire from the right. In the fog and confusion, the regimental hats that Weidemann had complained about brought trouble. A regiment of Württemburg troops on the regiment’s right thought the Bavarians were British and opened fire, inflicting heavy casualities. Hitler and his friend Ernst Schmidt threw their caps away instantly and ran to the rear headquarters to report the situation and stop the slaughter. The first hour the regiment spent in combat, it lost many valuable men, including the regimental commander, to friendly fire.
After this incident the attack proper began, with the British dropping artillery shells into the assaulting columns. The men crawled into shallow dugouts and shell holes to escape the flying shrapnel, before racing to a small farmhouse in the middle of the field and crawling into a ditch. During this assault, Hitler’s platoon leader was killed, as were most of the noncommissioned officers. In all, it took five bloody assaults to take the edge of the forest. The final assault ended in hand-to-hand combat, and Hitler was surprised when he jumped into the British trench and made a soft landing—he had landed on a British corpse.
Amid reactions to Donald’s shocking assassination attempt, the former “Apprentice” host shared his side of the story, including describing the terrifying moment he realized he’d been hit by a bullet.
“I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin,” Donald wrote. “Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening.”
A Decorated Soldier
This was the only battle in which Hitler fought as a true frontline soldier. For his bravery and soldierly conduct, the new regimental commander, Lt. Col. Philipp Engelhardt, recommended Hitler as a dispatch runner (Meldegänger) to serve at regimental headquarters. Someone also recommended Hitler and Schmidt for the Iron Cross, although neither received the decoration. Of the 3,600 men who marched out of camp with the regiment, 373 men were killed in the first three weeks of fighting. Hitler’s uncanny luck began in his first battle. At one point, a shell exploded near him; it killed another soldier, but Hitler only had a sleeve ripped away.
A few days later, Engelhardt went to inspect the British position and took Hitler and Hitler’s friend Balthasar Brandymayer with him. At the edge of a wood, Engelhardt stepped out to see the British trenches better and instantly drew fire. Hitler and Brandymayer stepped in front to protect Englehardt from harm, before dragging their commander to a nearby ditch. The next day, Hitler and several others were called to headquarters and told that they had been recommended for the Iron Cross. It was Hitler’s second nomination in two months. When four more company commanders arrived, Hitler and the others left to give the officers room. Five minutes later a British shell hit the tent, killing most of the men inside and severely wounding Engelhardt.
What would — Would the Real Jesus Please Stand Up — JESUS do?
Whose side would Jesus be on? The local chief of the Mandan tribes, Arkara and Hidatsa in North Dakota, weeps, forced to sign a treaty transferring the fertile lands on the Missouri River plain, the homeland of these tribes, under threat of the destruction of his entire people. United States, 1948.
Which country NOW would Jesus carpet bomb? [map of US carpet bombing of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, 1965-1975]
San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas. The main victim of the current stage of capitalism is the nation-state, which now has no decision-making capacity, stated Captain Marcos of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).
He added that “in our opinion, we may be wrong, but the reconstruction of the nation-state is not possible because it no longer has fundamental bases.”
Marcos expressed the above during the second day of activities of the April 2026 Seedbed: The Storm Inside and Outside According to the Zapatista Communities & Peoples, which is being held in San Cristóbal with the participation of 418 people from some thirty countries, including Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the United States, France, England, Iran and Italy, in addition to members of the EZLN.
Speaking this Friday [in discussion entitled], A Peephole into the Storm in the World: Nation-States Under Attack, he said that “the Nation-State is born for capitalism, that is, the bourgeoisie needs a State, a territory, a currency, laws, a geographical delimitation, a coat of arms, a flag. And so nation-states are born.”
In fact, he added, “in Europe, where feudalism was displaced and revolutions began to form the nation-state, that is where capitalism found its breeding ground and began to develop. It developed so much that the nation-state became an obstacle, and capitalism, the system, needed goods to circulate, to be sold quickly, and to generate the greatest profit as quickly as possible.”
He pointed out that “national currencies, the national legal structure, the governance they call it—that is, the form of government and the entire legal system—are obstacles to them. Then, free trade agreements come along, and borders open up for investments and goods but close down for human beings.”
Marcos reiterated that “the nation-state has no decision-making power. Sovereignty is a bad joke. They can’t say that Mexico is sovereign, even if they say so on the Mañanera, if it can’t even decide whether to send oil to Cuba. It can’t be. In a developed nation-state, that decision belongs to the government: to say who to give or sell to, or who not to. It’s no longer possible.”
“The entire offensive under the names of (Donald) Trump and (Benjamin) Netanyahu is related to this. Israel thinks it is defending the nation-state, but that is not true. As long as the people of israel do not understand that Palestine is the home of the Palestinians, that they will always want to return, and that they carry the key to their land with them wherever they go, until they die, are killed, or disappear, this will not stop.”
In reality, he elaborated, “Netanyahu isn’t defending the State of israel, that’s a lie. He’s conquering territory, but the Palestinians aren’t going to surrender. I don’t know how many years it will take; they’re not going to surrender. There’s something deep within the Palestinian people that I can’t explain, and I don’t know if anyone can: Why, with everything against them, do the Palestinian people continue to resist? Why are the Cuban people preparing for an invasion? If they’re supposedly under a dictatorship, why don’t they take to the streets and say: Yes, invade us and liberate us?”
He added: “Why did the U.S. military enter Venezuela to kidnap Nicolás Maduro and Cilia—it was funny how the media didn’t want to say kidnapping and said they went to arrest them—and if they [the opposition] won the elections, why didn’t anyone take to the streets to welcome them? They had to make a one-way trip. It’s not that they had almost no casualties; they didn’t have any because the U.S. military uses mercenaries for that. These mercenaries don’t exist; they’re paid, and if they’re killed, that’s it, but they’re nameless. So, the U.S. military casualties during the kidnapping in Venezuela don’t appear on the lists, and the major left-wing analysts, including those from Cuba, take it for granted that what Trump says about them having no casualties is true. They did. What happened is that they used mercenaries. Just like Putin had to use them in Ukraine. Even a country’s national army can no longer sustain a war as a nation. They have to rely on other resources.”
Subcomandante Moisés
Marcos asserted that in the US and israel’s war against Iran, the big oil companies are the ones who benefit because the price of oil has risen. “That’s what needs to be discussed: who is profiting from these wars?”
Thirty-two years ago, thousands of Indigenous people (as many as 12,000, primarily Mayan) rose up in armed rebellion and declared war against the Mexican state. While their arms were largely makeshift weapons, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, known as the EZLN for its Spanish initials, briefly occupied several cities, including the popular tourist destination of San Cristóbal. Although fighting lasted only about 12 days, the uprising’s impact has been long-lasting.
Intentionally timed to coincide with the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on January 1, 1994, the revolt elicited widespread support across Mexico and beyond. That support enabled the Zapatistas ultimately to govern an autonomous zone covering about 300,000 people in 55 municipios (counties).
Today, however, the Zapatistas face new threats. Cartels are muscling their way deeper into Chiapas, while large-scale infrastructure and mining projects are encroaching on their lands—bringing in money and the corruption that often goes along with it.
From a distance, the October 2024 swearing-in of Claudia Sheinbaum, a lifelong leftist, as Mexico’s president might appear to benefit the Zapatistas. Those close to the movement, however, are not optimistic that she will prioritize Indigenous wellbeing. Still, the Zapatistas are not giving up on their vision to create un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos—a world in which many worlds fit.
Would Jesus be a Zapatista?
“The Zapatistas touched my heart in a way that has lasted until now,” Cerullo says. “The Zapatistas have an ethical core and an openness.”
Although the EZLN had its roots in Marxist insurgencies not unlike those seen elsewhere in Latin America, the movement has never fit neatly into an ideological mold. Its communiques are known to drift into poetry. Governance is based on communal participation and consent, and seven principles of mandar obedeciendo—which literally means “obeying by following,” but is more aptly described as servant leadership.
Specifically, these principles, described in greater detail in English here, are as follows:
To obey, not command
To propose, not impose
To represent, not supplant
To convince, not conquer
To construct, not destroy
To serve others, not serve oneself
To work from below, not seek to rise
[María de Jesús Patricio Martínez is surrounded by supporters after registering to run in the presidential elections.]
Or, ‘Can’t you just enjoy a thing without always bringing in some negative part of the world, man, just enjoy the play, the competition, the athleticism.’
As of April 2026, Arizona men’s basketball coach Tommy Lloyd agreed to a five-year contract extension, making him one of the top five highest-paid coaches in college basketball. The new deal starts in the 2026-27 season at approximately $7.2 million, averaging $7.5 million annually, with significant bonuses, a large staff salary pool, and a high buyout clause.
Dusty May, the head men’s basketball coach at the University of Michigan (hired March 2024), has a five-year contract with an average annual value of approximately $5.1 million. His contract includes a base salary of $4.6 million for the 2024-25 season, with annual increases of $250,000, rising to $5.6 million in the 2029-30 season.
$20,508.
$7,066 per-section
Pay for full-time faculty members rose 2.6 percent this academic year over last, according to “Visualizing Change,” the American Association of University Professors’ Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession. But professors shouldn’t get too excited: adjusted for inflation, that amounts to just 0.5 percent.
Although average faculty salary increases this year are fairly close to the increases the past two years, a relatively high Consumer Price Index in many metropolitan areas “means the real buying power of any increases [is] substantially diminished,” said Samuel J. Dunietz, a senior program officer at AAUP who helped write the report.
Released today, AAUP’s annual survey finds that the average salary for full-time ranked faculty members was $80,095 in 2016-17, while the average total pay for part-time faculty members at a single institution was $20,508. Average pay for part-time faculty members teaching on a per-section basis only (excluding professors teaching part-time during phased retirement, for example) was $7,066, with serious limitations to the data.
Here’s where the price is right: Pentagon awards Raytheon $45 million for GPS ground system as program future is reassessed. The ‘unpriced change order’ supports satellite launches while officials reassess long-delayed ground system
Follow the dead girls and imploded apartment buildings . . . that’s where the money is. Lockheed Martin plans to quadruple its output of Precision Strike Missiles, used for the first time in the Iran war.
Why it matters: Questions about production capacity and stockpile health haunt the U.S. military, especially as its offensive alongside Israel breaksthe one-month mark. And PrSM’s first-ever employment has already drawn scrutiny.
In less than one week, the Iran war has produced a remarkable string of combat firsts that pull back the curtain on an American military boosted by AI and stocked with upgraded weapons.
Why it matters: Some of America’s defense-tech advancements have been on full display during Operation Epic Fury. The Trump administration has been happy to confirm — and flex — the results.
They’ll be coming after you: “Democracy” facilitates Neo-Colonialism.
Oh, so this is deceptions? Breaking: Casualties and injuries reported among U.S. forces, with some captured by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, after the American pilot was reportedly used as bait in a trap to ambush U.S. special forces during a deceptive landing attempt in southern Iran moments ago.
April Madness:
The Five-Second Epistemology of That’s the Pilot
That’s the pilot. Dehdasht. Kohgiluyeh province. The province the IRGC cordoned off. The province five Black Hawks couldn’t get into. The province the empire bombed trying to find this man. The locals found him first.
Western male. Late 20s to mid 30s. USAF CWU-27/P Nomex flight suit. SJU-5/A survival vest with harness straps, equipment pouches, survival radio mount on the chest. Strobe marker attachment point. Name tape and unit patches removed — standard procedure for combat missions over hostile airspace. Pilots strip identifying patches before missions. The patches are gone because the empire takes the identity off the pilot the same way the empire takes the identity off the aircraft. The false insignia starts before takeoff.
Blood on his right temple and cheek. Ejection injuries. Windblast and canopy fragmentation at high speed. Conscious. Dazed but alert. Flight suit dirty and scuffed — hours on the ground in rough terrain. Survival vest still fully on with equipment attached. He didn’t have time to ditch his gear. He didn’t have time to evade. He was found before he could go to ground. The IRGC drives 20 minutes. The empire flies from Kuwait.
Three men flanking him. Keffiyehs. Camouflage. Basij or local paramilitary. Not regular IRGC in formal uniform. The locals. The $1 million bounty. The GPS beacon broadcasting on 121.5 MHz. The lighthouse the kitchen wrote about this morning. Iran followed the signal. The locals followed the bounty. The empire sent five Black Hawks. Two destroyed. Three fled from Yasuj. The empire sent more helicopters at 1:02 AM over Chahardeh village. Clashes between civilians and American forces. The governor reporting 3 martyrs from American strikes. The empire bombing the province the pilot was hiding in. The Hannibal procedure. The empire still trying to get him back. The locals already had him.
[Iranian missiles advocate women’s rights more than political claimants and feminist movements do.]
Whether people want to hear it or not, the U.S. military is the biggest terrorist organization on the planet, and those volunteering to be violent thugs for political psychopaths deserve neither praise nor respect. (See first comment below for video link.)
It’s 55 years since Lennon wrote and released the song. But its simple plea for a world without war, borders or divisions resonates just as powerfully now as it ever has done.
“Anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic. But because it is sugarcoated, it is accepted”: The song John Lennon called “the best I’ve ever written” – and Yoko Ono’s uncredited contribution
In another interview in December 1980, with writer David Sheff, Lennon said that the song was also inspired by a book about “the concept of positive prayer” that he and Ono had been given by American comedian, actor, writer and political activist Dick Gregory.
Lennon was allegedly later contacted by a religious organisation with a request to use the song.
He recalled: “The World Church called me once and asked, ‘Can we use the lyrics to Imagine and just change it to “Imagine one religion?”’ That showed [me] they didn’t understand it at all. It would defeat the whole purpose of the song, the whole idea.”
On 27 May 1971, Lennon began recording the song at Ascot Sound Studios, a facility that he and Ono had created in the basement of the original house on the estate. Sound engineer Eddie Veale helped build the studio and called it “the first professional home studio in the UK”.
Phil Spector and Yoko Ono produced Imagine and the album that bears its name.
Lennon assembled a crack band for the recording. On drums was future Yes drummer Alan White, while revered session player Nicky Hopkins played additional piano.
On bass was Klaus Voormann, a long-time friend of The Beatles from their Hamburg days and a linchpin in their backstory, who also designed the Revolver album cover.
“Tittenhurst Park was a sort of paradise, beautiful gardens,” recalled Voormann in the 1988 documentary Imagine: John Lennon. “The house itself wasn’t that big but a very, very nice house. I loved it. The studio was really small and the atmosphere was very loose.”
Dirty dirty lawyers:
When it comes to using AI, it seems lawyers just can’t help themselves.
Last year saw a rapid increase in court sanctions against attorneys for filing briefs containing errors generated by artificial intelligence tools. The most prominent case was that of the lawyers for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who were fined $3,000 each for filing briefs containing fictitious, AI-generated citations.
But as a cautionary tale, it doesn’t seem to have had much effect.
“Recently we had 10 cases from 10 different courts on a single day,” says Damien Charlotin, a researcher at the business school HEC Paris who keeps a worldwide tally of instances of courts sanctioning people for using erroneous information generated by AI.
U.S. federal agents have detained the niece and grand-niece of late Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani after Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked their lawful permanent resident status, the State Department said on Saturday.
“Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter are now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” the State Department said in a statement, adding that Rubio revoked their residency status, also known as a green card.
She is “an outspoken supporter of the Iranian regime who celebrated attacks on Americans and referred to our country as the “Great Satan,” Rubio said in a post on X. “The Trump administration will not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals who support anti-American terrorist regimes.”
Fucking Jew slated for Democratic nomination for POTUS: Always Jew World. Akiba went 25-3 in 1991 and won its league championship with an offense orchestrated by the future governor of Pennsylvania. Eden played center, Aaron Hahn Tapper was a 6-foot-3 shooting guard after hitting a growth spurt, and Josh Shapiro played point guard.
The team’s win was still seconds away but the real victory was starting as the opposing team intentionally fouled, sending Akiba Hebrew Academy to the foul line.
Before the game, Ami Eden could feel opponents overlooking Akiba, a Jewish day school in Merion Station. Now he stood near the basket while a teammate shot free throws and hoped to make eye contact with an opponent.
The other guys refused to look his way.
“I never felt more chip-on-my-shoulder Jewish than during Akiba games,” Eden said. “Once in a while opposing fans would taunt us, throw pennies, things like that. But most of the time it wasn’t a matter of overt antisemitism, but the bigotry of low expectations. Simply put, many of the other schools didn’t think they had to worry about a Jewish team. And nothing felt better than wiping the collective smirk off their faces and replacing it with a look of, ‘Oh, [expletive], those Jews can play.’”
Proud to be an alumnus of Ghent University in Belgium, one of the three Belgian universities where UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese received an honorary doctorate this week.
A powerful acknowledgment of her expertise and the courage with which she continues to document the horrific crimes of the Israeli apartheid state.
In this apartheid state, champagne was cracked open in parliament this week upon the introduction of the death penalty exclusively for Palestinians.
The same methods, the same masters, the same lies
They had called him mad. An extremist. A dictator. They even accused him of enriching himself. Thomas Sankara, the man who rode a bicycle while his counterparts collected Mercedes, the one who had slashed his salary and sold off the presidential fleet, the one who lived in a modest official residence and dressed like a simple captain, was portrayed as a power-drunk despot. Not because he stole. But because he threatened the thieves.
In 1986, the smear machine kicked into gear. Silent, insidious, well-oiled. Guy Penne, Mitterrand’s Mr. Africa, orchestrated a demolition campaign against the Burkinabè revolution from the shadows. Sankara had to be taken down not with weapons, but with slander. Africa and the world had to stop seeing a just man, and start seeing a monster.
François Hauter, then a journalist at Le Figaro, was put in touch with Pierre Lacoste, former head of the DGSE. French intelligence slipped him carefully crafted dossiers describing alleged atrocities. Tortures. Executions. Nighttime operations. Nothing was too outlandish to tarnish the one who got in the way. Hauter published. Later, he would admit to having been manipulated. But the damage was done. Once sown, rumor grows fast in hot climates.
Today, the stage has changed sets, but the actors are the same. The target, too. Those who demonized Sankara yesterday are now hounding the presidents of the Alliance of Sahel States. Same tone. Same vocabulary. Same method.
They no longer dare say “dictators”: they prefer “putschists.” They no longer dare say “savages”: they prefer “unpredictable military men.” But the substance is identical: they want to discredit those who refuse to bend. They invent massacres without bodies, wave reports without sources, and accuse without proof. AFP, RFI, Jeune Afrique, and the whole media pack howl in chorus, just like in 1986. They must destroy the image before destroying the regime.
What they reproached Sankara for was his freedom. What they reproach Traoré, Tiani, or Goïta for is the same thing. They don’t steal. They don’t bow their heads. They don’t ask permission. They govern for their people, not for their masters.
So old France, the one of hushed plots and poisoned smiles, dusts off its forger’s toolkit. A fake report here, a paid witness there. An “expert” African exile who spits on his country from Paris. A “researcher” subsidized to claim that the Sahelian peoples live under terror. And when that’s not enough, they invent enrichment stories, just as they did with Sankara. As if the Sahel’s military had fought to steal, rather than to restore to their people the dignity stolen for 60 years.
But this time, they have a problem. The people have learned. They remember. They understand that those who called Sankara mad had him killed. And that those who today besmirch IB, Tiani, or Goïta are preparing the same betrayals. So the people watch. The people stay vigilant.
And if one day they dare again… the people will respond. Because the Sahel has decided to be free. And freedom isn’t negotiated. It’s defended. Until the last breath.
Ibrahima Maiga
“…we’re going to bomb [the Vietnamese] into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power—not with ground forces”. – General Curtis Lemay, Former US Air Force Chief of Staff
They switched from stand-off munitions to closer range stuff. A bunch of aircraft were hit. Now they’re dipping into what is left of stand-off capacity. It’s really starting to feel like America’s last rodeo at this point.
Epstein was seen again in Tel Aviv, Israel. I guess he’s still alive… his death was faked by the Mossad.
The British Empire caused 165 million deaths in India in just 40 years. British colonialism caused these deaths in India between 1880 and 1920. While the British stole $45tn in just over 200 years. This is what the empire was really like: starvation.
Now now, would it not be in everyone’s interest to see the uniformed mercenary services go the way of the dodo?
Smedley Darlington Butler was commissioned in the Marine Corps in 1898 at the age of 16. Two years later, he was promoted to the rank of captain by brevet for his heroic conduct during the Boxer Rebellion in China. He served in nearly every campaign of the Marine Corps from 1898 to 1931[1]. His first Medal of Honor was awarded in 1914 for “distinguished conduct in battle” during the U.S. occupation of Veracruz, Mexico.[2] His second Medal of Honor came less than two years later, when he led an attack on Fort Riviere, Haiti. Butler was one of only two Marines to receive two Medals of Honor.[3]
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
Smedley Butler
After his retirement, Butler became harshly critical of US military involvement abroad and militarism in general. Throughout the early 30’s he toured the country giving lectures advising against US intervention abroad, and criticizing the use of wars for profit by big business. He also harshly criticized the separation between the top and bottom of American Society; between those who paid and fought for wars, and those who led men into war and reaped the profits.
In keeping with these views, Butler publicly supported the demands of the Bonus Army. He went to Washington along with his son, and ate and camped with the soldiers. He spoke before the assembled veterans and told them that they had as much right to lobby congress as any company. When the protestors were forcibly cleared by General MacArthur, Butler identified himself as a “Hoover for Ex-President Republican” and campaigned for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932.
In 1933 Butler was contacted by a bond trader named Gerald McGuire claiming to be speaking on behalf of a group of powerful businessmen. He approached Butler about leading an army of 500,000 veterans in an attempt to depose President Roosevelt. Butler testified before congress as to what became known as the “Business Plot”. The few businessman who McGuire named as his backers denied any involvement, and modern historians disagree whether any such plot actually existed, or whether Butler was the victim of a con by McGuire.
Regardless, the offer deeply distressed Butler who became suspicious of the power of big business in shaping policy both domestic and foreign, and he became even more zealously anti-militarist and anti-fascist. In 1935 in the socialist newsletter Common Sense Butler reflected on his time in the armed forces, writing:
“I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
Iranian media report that the U.S. pilot was found by Iranian civilians in a cave in southern Iran. They deceived him into believing he would be handed over to U.S. forces, but instead, he was delivered to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps intelligence.
Following the destruction of 12 aircraft and helicopters by Iran, the US has canceled all flights into Iranian airspace.
Ahh, up up and away: Pentagon requests 38 Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighters for U.S. Air Force in 2027 defense budget proposal.
The budget allocates $30.6 billion for Air Force aircraft procurement, marking an increase over previous years. However, it does not specify detailed funding breakdowns for key aircraft programs.
An Office of Management and Budget official confirmed that the Air Force would receive 38 of the 85 F-35 aircraft requested. Analysts said the figure may not be sufficient to address the service’s fighter inventory challenges.
“If the budget does fund 85 F-35s overall, with only 38 going to the Air Force, my reaction is that this is a mixed signal—on one hand, 85 aircraft is still a meaningful production number for the military and it helps preserve industrial-base stability, but on the other hand, 38 for the Air Force is not a serious rebuild rate for a service operating the oldest and smallest fighter force in its history,” said David A. Deptula, dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. “It may keep the line warm, but it does not reverse the fighter inventory shortfall.”
[A fully self-contained drone manufacturing facility built inside a standard shipping container.]
Oh, that old Putin, Zelensky-ed again. While interceptor drones have become one of the most sought-after commodities of the Iran war, Ukrainian officials and defense practitioners are cautioning allies to recognize that the pace of today’s battlefield requires them to buy into an entirely new system of production alongside the endpoint weapon.
“Expertise is not a drone, but a skill, a strategy, a system where a drone is one part of the defense,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Reuters on Monday.
Ukraine now produces roughly 1,000 interceptor drones a day through hundreds of vetted manufacturers, deliberately dispersed so that no single strike can cripple the supply chain, Zelenskyy reported last month. The country has the technical capacity to double that figure, he said, but lacks the budget to do so.
While Ukraine has built that infrastructure gradually over the last few years, most countries now trying to integrate interceptors into the air defense have not invested in building the necessary logistical framework needed to effectively build, arm or deploy the cheap flyers.
Some countries have already learned this lesson the hard way.
After some Ukrainian companies built interceptor drone factories abroad without state approval, multiple buyers complained because the drones were sold without the warheads or expertise needed to operate them properly, Zelenskyy said on Friday, per Ukrainska Pravda.
“They had also been sold a certain number of interceptors — again without explosives,” Zelenskyy said about a European country he visited recently. “And they asked me whether we could send more operators. I said no.”
Oppen-Monster-Heimers: The UC Berkeley physicist and climate scientist was raised Catholic. He has stated that while he went through a period of being an “enlightened atheist,” he now identifies as someone “aware of the existence of God,” though he does not belong to an organized religion.
Liz Muller convinced her dad Richard to forego retirement and become an entrepreneur. The result is a revolutionary approach to making atomic energy cheaper and safer.
For more than a decade, Elizabeth Muller and her father have taken a three-mile hike, usually twice a week, through the hills of Berkeley, California, stopping for coffee and brainstorming on the way. “I would have an idea and she would have an idea,” says Richard A. Muller, who devised the modern carbon dating method used to determine the age of ancient plant and animal remains before he was 33 and won a MacArthur Foundation “genius” award at 38. Now, after 40 years of teaching at the University of California at Berkeley, the 82-year-old physicist is on the verge of having his greatest commercial impact, thanks to his business-minded daughter and those long walks.
“Nuclear brings out big emotions on all sides,” says Liz, 47. “As a kid growing up in Berkeley, all my teachers and friends were anti-nuclear, and the city became a nuclear-free zone.” She too leaned anti-nuke, even though her father’s mentor, Nobel Prize winner Luis Alvarez—who worked with Robert Oppenheimer on the first atomic bomb—was “like a grandfather to me.” But after college at UC San Diego, she moved to Paris in 1999 to earn a master’s at ESCP Business School and worked in international finance there for eight years. In France, she explains, everyone supported nuclear power as a “clean, reliable global warming solution.” She returned to Berkeley determined to tap her dad’s genius.
The global oil crisis is turning into an everything crisis
European Parliament member Rima Hassan has been detained in France on suspicion of “apology for terrorism”, French media outlets are reporting, in a move members of her left-wing La France Insoumise (LFI) party say aims to silence Palestine supporters.
APOLOGY for terrorism? Fucking FRANCE is going after her. THAT France:
Le Parisien newspaper reported on Thursday that Hassan was detained in relation to an investigation into a social media post that referenced Kozo Okamoto, who took part in a deadly attack at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport in 1972.
Hassan had deleted the post on X, Le Parisien said.
Jean-Luc Melenchon, the founder of LFI, said in a social media post on Thursday that Hassan’s detention related to a retweet from last month. “So there is no longer parliamentary immunity in France. Intolerable,” he wrote on X.
Le Parisien and the AFP news agency also reported that a small amount of “synthetic drugs” was found on Hassan when she was taken into police custody.
See his Mossad handlers, left and right? Meta is slashing hundreds of employees in Silicon Valley as the tech giant heavily invests in artificial intelligence and weighs axing over 20% of its workforce.
The Facebook parent company is cutting nearly 200 workers in the San Francisco Bay Area, according to new state filings.
The reductions will hit 124 employees in Burlingame, Calif. and another 74 in nearby Sunnyvale, with the cuts taking effect in late May and all affected positions permanently eliminated, filings cited by the San Francisco Chronicle show.
Oh, go team F-35! Who’s putting bets on this? The loss of the American aircraft marks the first time a U.S. fighter jet has been downed in combat in decades. It also challenges Pentagon and White House’s claims that thousands of U.S. and Israeli strikes have wiped out Iran’s missile capabilities.
Iranian firepower also struck a U.S. aircraft dispatched to support the search and rescue mission. That aircraft — a single-seat A-10 Thunderbolt, known as the Warthog — crashed in Kuwaiti airspace after its pilot ejected safely, a U.S. official told NBC News. U.S. military helicopters were also hit by Iranian firepower, but no crew members were injured in the attack.
And so, this is what the Pedophile is interested in? Trump signs order intended to stabilize college sports, threatens to cut funding
Trump went after eligibility rules, transfers and the spiraling costs associated with an industry that now pays its players millions of dollars per year.
Banana Republic with them stuck up our asses. Massive NPS Staffing Cuts Loom as DOI Orders ‘Visitor-Facing’ Realignment and Early Retirement
As the Department of the Interior pushes employees into “visitor-facing” roles and proposes to slash $736 million from the National Park Service budget, critics warn that the scientists and stewards who keep our parks alive are once again being purged.
The everthing is chaos Pedophile and Rapist in Chief. What falling wage growth says about where the U.S. economy is heading
Soaring gas prices mean inflation could soon outpace most Americans’ pay raises. “That’s where you see a lot of squeeze on workers,” said one economist.
Is this a joke? After the release of the Epstein files, why have there been so few arrests?
All governments lie:
All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out. IF Stone
Mothers search in the scrublands, poking the earth for signs of a corpse. Desperate pleas fill social media, crying out for clues that may bring relief. Tattered posters flutter in the wind, asking for help in the search. Often, all that is left of the missing are scattered bones bleached by the sun.
It is arguably Mexico’s greatest human rights crisis. More than 130,000 people have vanished since the state went to war against drug cartels a decade ago. Now, activists and human rights experts say the authorities are trying to erase their loved ones from the record.
The government recently presented a new report which said a third of the country’s missing had actually showed signs of life, while another third lacked sufficient data to be found – causing fury and condemnation from relatives who have spent years searching for their missing.
“What the government is doing is illogical and outrageous,” said María Herrera Magdaleno, a leader in the movement of mothers looking for their missing children: Herrera’s four sons are among the disappeared. “Instead of looking for our disappeared, they’re disappearing them.”
This is the Crusades, man, the Gestapo Crusades:
Blasting begins for border wall on cherished New Mexico mountain
A planned 1.3-mile barrier across Mount Cristo Rey has drawn opposition from environmentalists and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces.
Fucking Democrat Party NANNIES. In a letter obtained exclusively by CBS News, Sen. Tammy Duckworth demanded that TSA immediately rescind its “shoes-on” policy, calling it a “reckless act” that may be placing the flying public at risk.
This video features an interview with Daniel Klein, a former student of the Mechina Bnei David preparatory program in Israel. The discussion explores the nature of Zionist indoctrination within the military preparatory academies (mechinot) and how these systems shape the worldview of young recruits.
Know the truth about why Israeli society is so blood thirsty and savage.
The Survival Skills Project deepens students’ knowledge of their country and helps them build their familiarity with its terrain in person. While strengthening students’ bond to the land and inculcating the values of nature and the environment, the Survival Skills Project develops their independence, adaptability and resilience skills, and leadership abilities. Skills taught in the Survival Skills Project are a valuable part of preparation for military service.
Mission: To instill values of responsibility, faith, and elite service, encouraging students to view IDF service as a privilege rather than a burden.
Curriculum: Combines intensive Talmudic studies, Jewish philosophy, and religious ethics with physical fitness, navigation training, and security-related studies.
Target Audience: Primarily religious Jewish males planning full-length IDF service, often acting as a bridge between high school and the military.
Influence: Considered a major, often controversial, institution that has produced many senior IDF officers and is supported by state funding.
Oh, it’s always good to get a spook and a former Vietnam helicopter pilot and Colin Powell buddy.
Hegseth Says U.S. Troops Are Fighting for Jesus. The Pope Disagrees.
In sharp contrast to the Trump administration’s calls for Christian prayers for the war effort, Pope Leo XIV says military domination is “entirely foreign to the way of Jesus Christ.”
Biography
Col. (ret.) Lawrence Wilkerson’s last positions in government were as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff (2002-05), Associate Director of the State Department’s Policy Planning staff under the directorship of Ambassador Richard N. Haass, and a member of that staff responsible for East Asia and the Pacific, political-military and legislative affairs (2001-02).
Before serving at the State Department, Wilkerson served 31 years in the U.S. Army. During that time, he was a member of the faculty of the U.S. Naval War College (1987 to 1989), Special Assistant to General Powell when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-93), and Director and Deputy Director of the U.S. Marine Corps War College at Quantico, Virginia (1993-97). Wilkerson retired in 1997 and began work as an advisor to General Powell. He has also taught national security affairs at the George Washington University and is currently working on a book about the first George W. Bush administration.
Areas of Expertise
Vietnam War
Diplomacy / National security process
Iraq wars
China / Russia “new” Cold War
U.S. Nuclear Policy
Defense budgetary process
U.S.-Iranian relations
JEWS and Christians need only apply!
“Holy War” Rhetoric: Hegseth has used his position to advocate for a Christian nationalist vision of the military, framing wars as battles for a Christian nation under God.
Pentagon Worship Services: He organized monthly, voluntary Christian worship services in the Pentagon auditorium, a move critics note is a departure from traditional chaplaincy, which is designed to be ecumenical and inclusive.
“Overwhelming Violence” Prayer: In March 2026, he was filmed at a Pentagon service praying for US troops to inflict “overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy,” concluding with “in the mighty and powerful name of Jesus Christ,” during the ongoing war with Iran.
Chaplaincy Changes: Hegseth removed the requirement for chaplains to wear their rank insignia, replaced it with religious symbols, and shifted the chaplain corps away from what he termed “political correctness and secular humanism”.
“Deus Vult” Symbolism: He has faced scrutiny for sporting a “Deus Vult” (God Wills It) tattoo, a phrase historically associated with the Crusades and currently with extremists, though he has not explicitly renounced it, viewing it as his Christian faith.
Definition: A supernatural entity who controls, commands, or protects in matters of war and conflict.
Greek Mythology:Ares is the primary god of war, often representing the brutal, bloody nature of battle, while Athena represents strategic warfare.
Roman Mythology:Mars was the Roman counterpart to Ares, holding a more revered position as a protector of the state.
Norse Mythology: Figures like Odin, Thor, and Tyr are associated with war and battle prowess.
Other Traditions: In some contexts, war gods represent protection, strength, and the martial aspects of life.
That fucking MAGA cuntology: As of early April 2026, the average price of one pound of lean ground beef has surpassed the federal minimum wage of per hour, with average prices ranging from to over per pound. This means one hour of work at the federal minimum wage is often insufficient to purchase a single pound of high-quality ground beef.
This is the story of a family destroyed by hunger, violence, and the impossible choices forced on civilians
This family is personal for me. I have been donating to Sejood for a long time, back when her husband Mohamed was still alive. I didn’t know them before Israel bombed their home. By the time I met them, their house was already destroyed and they were living inside the broken remains because they had nowhere else to go.
Mohamed was killed at one of the “Christian” GHF aid centers. He went there because his children were dying from starvation. Everyone in Gaza knows the danger of approaching aid points. People have been shot just for trying to reach food. He had no choice. On July 23, 2025, he went to try to bring back one bag of flour. He was killed.
A man died because he wanted to feed his family. That is the truth of this story.
Now all of that responsibility sits on Sejood’s shoulders. She never had the chance to grieve her husband. No one in Gaza gets that time. Survival doesn’t pause for grief. Every hour is about keeping her children alive, finding food, finding medicine, finding clean water, and trying to protect them inside a home that no longer exists.
Her four‑year‑old son, Yamen, has a serious leg condition and wears heavy metal braces. She carries him everywhere because they cannot afford a wheelchair. The cost for that wheelchair is $1k, an impossible amount in a place where a bag of flour is $30. Her baby, Sanad, is one year old and needs regular medication. Both children have perforated eardrums from explosions landing too close to them. They are often sick. Food is never guaranteed.
Sejood is a very humble person. She never asks for the sake of asking. She doesn’t use her grief to manipulate and get donations. She only requests when she has no choice and nowhere to turn.
What she urgently needs right now:
A wheelchair for Yamen so she no longer has to carry him on her back
Basic food and a few days of breathing room
Medication and diapers for the baby
I am hoping that through this community, we can raise at least $1500 for her. One thousand will go toward the wheelchair. The remaining $500 will give her a small window of relief to buy food and medicine for her children.
The GHF centers were American‑funded. Whether we wanted it or not, every American was made complicit in the conditions that forced Mohamed to risk his life for food. The least we can do is shoulder a piece of the suffering that families like Sejood’s are carrying alone.
Farm Workers’ Day, now, after the stories of Cesar Chavez’s rapes have surfaced and Dolores has spoken . . . time to topple/strip ALL presidents’ names, ALL Epstein class’ names, ALL slavers’ names!
On Tuesday, March 24, Tucson Mayor Regina Romero renamed the city’s César Chávez Day to Dolores Huerta Day.
Adam Sarvana, director of communications and community engagement for the mayor’s office, told Arizona Luminaria the change is “a measure for now until there are longer-term conversations with the community and the coalition.”
The move came as schools, cities and states rushed to expunge Chávez from its holidays, marquees, monuments and more. Tucson officials also plan to discuss existing local homages and will include a public outreach effort to gather feedback. The city removed a bronze statue of Chávez after it was vandalized with red paint on the body’s head, face and neck. Pima County is considering policies and next steps for identifying and removing Chávez’s name from government commemorations.
As of 2021, there were approximately 149 monuments dedicated to Christopher Columbus across the United States. While over 40 statues have been removed since 2018 due to protests and re-evaluations of his legacy, a significant number remain in major cities, and a new replica was installed on the White House grounds in March 2026.
His basic story is uncomplicated: he sought to make a fortune by sailing west, perhaps by exploiting natives in hitherto unknown lands, perhaps by trading with “the Indies.” Unfortunately, textbooks shy away from such candor. Instead, they leave out almost everything important while putting in all kinds of details that never happened. Some call the voyage to the Caribbean “storm-tossed,” when they had great weather, but not one mentions that his flagship, Santa Maria, hit rocks off Haiti. In Columbus’s words, the local leader “sent all his people from the town, with many large canoes to unload the ship.” Columbus limped back home on two ships, leaving 40 men behind. This detail is important, because it challenges the “superior European / inferior primitive” meme in our culture that otherwise starts here, with Columbus.
Educators can prod students to examine the words textbooks use. Columbus “discovers” America, but authors never say Da Gama “discovered” India, not even in quotation marks. Textbooks call Columbus and those who came after him “explorers,” not “conquerors,” even though the Spanish used the more honest “conquistadors.” “New World” is of course Eurocentric; less biased terms are “Western Hemisphere” or “the Americas.” Did Europeans (and Africans) “settle” or “colonize” the Americas?
Like Da Gama, on his second voyage Columbus introduced shocking practices, including cutting off Natives’ hands if they did not pay his quarterly gold tax. He started the trans-Atlantic slave trade, in Native people, from west to east. A particularly repellent aspect of the trade was sexual: as Columbus noted, “girls from nine to ten are now in demand.” Partly as a result, the Native population of Haiti fell from perhaps 3,000,000 in 1491 to fewer than 500 by 1535. His son started the trade from east to west, in Africans.
All this might prompt students to discover when and why their state adopted Columbus Day. Should it join the movement to change the holiday’s name to honor Native Americans? Educators can help them avoid falling for the excuse that everyone accepted slavery in 1493. The Arawaks didn’t! Neither did, famously, Bartolomé de las Casas, the Spanish priest who said of the slave trade, “What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind, and this trade as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them.”
Thinking seriously about Columbus is important, because he introduced four processes that transformed the modern world:
The taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous peoples an ocean away;
The transatlantic slave trade;
Demeaning on racial lines the people he had subjected, and
The “Columbian exchange” – a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds. Exchanges of plants, animals, diseases and technology transformed European and Native American ways of life. The Columbian Exchange impacted the social and cultural makeup of both sides of the Atlantic. Advancements in agricultural production, evolution of warfare, increased mortality rates and education are a few examples of the effect of the Columbian Exchange on both Europeans and Native Americans.
And so the head honcho rapist and mass murderer, name changes? Eminent domain, everything named ‘trump.”
As of April 2026, the list of buildings and properties named after Donald Trump has expanded significantly, especially following his return to the presidency. The following is a comprehensive list of current and former buildings bearing his name, categorized by their primary use.
Recently Renamed Government & Public Buildings
In his second term, several prominent public institutions have been renamed or have had his name added:
The Donald J. Trump andThe John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts: In December 2025, the Kennedy Center board voted to add Trump’s name to the national memorial.
Donald J. Trump United States Institute of Peace: The administration renamed this federal body in Washington, D.C., in late 2025.
President Donald J. Trump International Airport: On March 30, 2026, legislation was signed to rename Florida’sPalm Beach International Airportafter the president.
Donald J. Trump State Park: Located in Westchester and Putnam counties, New York, on land he donated in 2006.
The Donald J. Trump Justice Complex: Located in Lyon County, Nevada.
Trump Ballroom: A large-scale expansion of the White House East Wing, currently under construction and slated for completion in 2027.
Several international and domestic golf properties bear his name, including sites in Florida, New Jersey, and California, alongside international locations in Scotland and Ireland,
[Members of the National Capital Planning Commission are shown deliberating on whether to approve plans for the Trump East Wing ballroom in Washington, April 2, 2026. The commission voted 8-1 to approve the project, though it has been halted by a judge.]
[Visitors look at a bronze sculpture of President John F. Kennedy in the recently renamed Trump-Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in Washington, Feb. 2, 2026.]
[The statue depicts President Donald Trump embracing the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a Titanic-style pose.]
Oh, the fucking legacy: Here’s what’s on the table today: Suppressed FBI notes describe a 13-year-old girl being trafficked to Donald Trump by Jeffrey Epstein. New Epstein files show Epstein was selling access to the Trump White House to foreign billionaires. Trump spent Saturday morning attacking the New York Times while a missing American service member remains unaccounted for in Iran. And 23 states are suing Trump over an executive order that hands control of American voter rolls to the Department of Homeland Security.
The Post and Courier is reporting that FBI handwritten notes from a 2019 interview with an Epstein trafficking survivor contain details that were left out of the official summaries released by the Justice Department in March — and those missing details matter.
The woman, from South Carolina, told FBI agents she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein as a teenager and brought to New York or New Jersey, where she was introduced to Donald Trump in 1984. She was approximately 13 years old.
The official summaries, known as 302s, described some uncertainty about how she traveled with Epstein. The handwritten notes are more direct: Epstein both drove and flew her to meet Trump. She described being taken to a very tall building with large rooms. She said Trump ordered everyone else out, then sexually assaulted her. She said she fought back. He hit her.
The notes also reference two additional interactions with Trump that the woman declined to discuss further during the interview.
Roughly 30 pages of documents relevant to her account have still not been released as part of the Epstein file disclosures. The Justice Department has acknowledged withholding millions of Epstein-related files, which critics say is a direct violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act that Trump himself initially fought against passing.
These are allegations. They are serious ones. And the documents that could shed more light on them are being withheld by the administration of the man they implicate.
Ohio State University: The university has received nearly 300 requests to remove billionaire donor Les Wexner’s name from buildings, including the Wexner Medical Center, due to his ties to Epstein. Despite this, the university has not taken action, and Wexner’s name remains on at least three buildings.
Harvard University: Similar pressure exists regarding the Leslie H. Wexner Building at the Harvard Kennedy School and other campus structures.
Targeted Names: Protesters are pushing to remove names of individuals appearing in the files from various campus buildings, often citing that holding the buildings feels “gross” to students and faculty.
“Moral and Financial Bind”: Universities are struggling with these demands, as the named individuals have often donated massive sums—over $200 million from the Wexners to Ohio State alone.
While some institutions removed names related to the Sackler family in similar past scandals, no specific, widely publicized name removals have occurred yet in direct response to the 2026 pressure campaigns regarding Epstein associates, with institutions largely keeping the names for now.
From left, Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Kenneth Starr, Lawrence M. Krauss and Noam Chomsky
Oh, these maps: Many major American Jewish establishment groups officially support the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign.
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the American Jewish Committee (AJC) have issued statements commending the resolve to halt a regime they describe as endangering global stability.
The Reform and Conservative movements, while expressing concern for civilians and questioning the lack of Congressional approval, have also acknowledged the Iranian regime as a “malign force” against the Jewish people.
The war waged by the United States and Israel against Iran is not only criminal, but utterly disastrous. It reflects the crude, short-sighted, and depraved nature of those who govern us—a group of war criminals, billionaires, and pedophiles. It is the Epstein class’s war.
Experience is directly drawing a connecting line between this war and the rising cost of gas, mortgages and every other commodity. But, in the minds of millions, it is also being connected with Epstein.
Presidents Day:
Key Presidents Who Initiated Major Wars/Invasions:
James K. Polk (1845–1849): Initiated the Mexican-American War to acquire territory.
Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865): Initiated military action to oppose secession in the Civil War.
William McKinley (1897–1901): Led the U.S. into the Spanish-American War.
Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921): Requested formal declaration for WWI.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945): Led the U.S. into WWII.
Harry S. Truman (1945–1953): Initiated U.S. involvement in the Korean War without a congressional declaration.
Lyndon B. Johnson (1963–1969): Vastly expanded U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
George H.W. Bush (1989–1993): Initiated the Gulf War and invaded Panama.
George W. Bush (2001–2009): Initiated invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Barack Obama (2009–2017): Authorized military intervention in Libya and increased drone strikes.
Military Invasions and Interventions by Other Presidents:
Ronald Reagan: Invaded Grenada.
Bill Clinton: Used military force in Bosnia, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Kosovo.
Richard Nixon: Expanded Vietnam war into Cambodia.
Every fucking Chavez Statue, Columbus Statue, President Statue:
A list of wars (italic) and of military combat that for some reason isn’t called a war (non-italic) that does not attempt to include every war and combat against Native Americans:
1774-1883 Shawnee, Delaware 1776 Cherokee 1777-1781 Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee) 1780-1794 Chickamauga 1790-1795 Miami Confederacy 1792-1793 Muskogee (Creek) 1798-1801 France 1801-1805 Tripoli 1806 Mexico 1806-1810 Spanish, French privateers 1810 Spanish West Florida 1810-1813 Shawnee Confederacy 1812 Spanish Florida 1812-1815 Canada (Great Britain) 1812-1815 Dakota Sioux 1812-1815 Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee) 1813 Spanish West Florida 1813-1814 Marquesas Islands 1813-1814 Muskogee (Creek) Confederacy 1814 Spanish Florida 1814-1825 Pirates 1815 Algiers 1815 Tripoli 1816 Spanish Florida 1817 Spanish Florida 1817-1819 Seminole 1818 Oregon (Russia, Spain) 1820-1861 African Slave Trade Patrol 1822-1825 Cuba (Spain 1824 Puerto Rico (Spain) 1827 Greece 1831-1832 Falkland Islands 1832 Sauk 1832 Sumatra 1833 Argentina 1835-1836 Peru 1835-1842 Seminole 1836 Mexico 1836-1837 Muskogee (Creek) 1838-1839 Sumatra 1840 Fiji Islands 1841 Samoa 1841 Tabiteuea 1842 Mexico 1843 China 1844 Mexico 1846-1848 Mexico 1847-1850 Cayuse 1849 Turkey 1850-1886 Apache 1851 Johanna Island 1851 Turkey 1852-1853 Argentina 1853-1854 Japan 1853-1854 Nicaragua 1853-1854 Ryukyu, Ogasawara islands 1854-1856 China 1855 Fiji Islands 1855 Uruguay 1855-1856 Rogue River Indigenous Peoples 1855-1856 Yakima, Walla Walla, Cayuse 1855-1858 Seminole 1856 Panama (Colombia) 1856-1857 Cheyenne 1857 Nicaragua 1858 Coeur d’Alene Alliance 1858 Fiji Islands 1858 Uruguay 1858-1859 Turkey 1859 China 1859 Mexico 1859 Paraguay 1860 Angola 1860 Colombia 1862 Sioux 1863-1864 Japan 1864 Cheyenne 1865 Panama (Colombia) 1866 China 1866 Mexico 1866-1868 Lakota Siouw, Northern Cheyenne, Northern Arapaho 1867 Formosa (Taiwan) 1867 Nicaragua 1867-1875 Comanche 1868 Colombia 1868 Japan 1868 Uruguay 1870 Hawaii 1871 Korea 1872-1873 Modoc 1873 Colombia (Panama) 1873-1896 Mexico 1874 Hawaii 1874-1875 Comanche, Apache, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Kiowa 1876-1877 Sioux 1877 Nez Perce 1878 Bannock (Banna’kwut) 1878-1879 Cheyenne 1879-1880 Utes 1882 Egypt 1885 Panama (Colombia) 1888 Haiti 1888 Korea 1888-1889 Samoa 1889 Hawaii 1890 Argentina 1890 Lakota Sioux 1891 Bering Straight 1891 Chile 1891 Haiti 1893 Hawaii 1894 Brazil 1894 Nicaragua 1894-1895 China 1894-1896 Korea 1895 Panama (Colombia) 1896 Nicaragua 1898 Cuba (Spain) 1898 Nicaragua 1898 Philippines (Spain) 1898 Puerto Rico (Spain) 1898-1899 China 1899 Nicaragua 1899 Samoa 1899-1913 Philippines 1900 China 1901-1902 Colombia 1903 Dominican Republic 1903 Honduras 1903 Syria 1903-1904 Abyssinia (Ethiopia) 1903-1914 Panama 1904 Dominican Republic 1904 Tangier 1904-1905 Korea 1906-1909 Cuba 1907 Honduras 1909-1910 Nicaragua 1911-1912 Honduras 1911-1914 China 1912 Cuba 1912 Turkey 1912-1933 Nicaragua 1914 Dominican Republic 1914 Haiti 1914-1919 Mexico 1915-1934 Haiti 1916-1924 Dominican Republic 1917-1918 World War I (Europe) 1917-1922 Cuba 1918-1920 Russia 1918-1921 Panama 1919 Dalmatia 1919 Turkey 1919-1920 Honduras 1925 Panama 1932 El Salvador 1941-1945 World War II (Europe, North Africa, Asia/Pacific) 1946 Trieste 1947-1949 Greece 1948-1949 Berlin, Germany 1950 Formosa (Taiwan) 1950-1953 Korea 1953-1954 Formosa (Taiwan) 1955-1975 Vietnam 1956 Egypt 1958 Lebanon 1962 Cuba 1962 Thailand 1962-1975 Laos 1964 Congo (Zaire) 1965 Dominican Republic 1965-1973 Cambodia 1967 Congo (Zaire) 1976 Korea 1978 Congo (Zaire) 1980 Iran 1981 El Salvador 1981 Libya 1981-1989 Nicaragua 1982-1983 Egypt 1982-1983 Lebanon 1983 Chad 1983 Grenada 1986 Bolivia 1986 Libya 1987-1988 Iran 1988 Panama 1989 Bolivia 1989 Colombia 1989 Libya 1989 Peru 1989 Philippines 1989-1990 Panama 1990 Saudi Arabia 1991 Congo (Zaire) 1991-1992 Kuwait 1991-1993 Iraq 1992-1994 Somalia 1993-1994 Macedonia 1993-1996 Haiti 1993-2005 Bosnia 1995 Serbia 1996 Liberia 1996 Rwanda 1997-2003 Iraq 1998 Afghanistan 1998 Sudan 1999-2000 Kosovo 1999-2000 Montenegro 1999-2000 Serbia 2000 Yemen 2000-2002 East Timor 2000-2016 Colombia 2001 – Afghanistan 2001- Pakistan 2001- Somalia 2002-2015 Philippines 2002- Yemen 2003-2011 Iraq 2004 Haiti c2004- Kenya 2011 Democratic Republic of the Congo 2011-2017 Uganda 2011- Libya c2012- Central African Republic c2012- Mali c2013-2016 South Sudan c2013- Burkina Faso c2013- Chad c2013- Mauritania c2013- Niger c2013- Nigeria 2014 Democratic Republic of the Congo 2014- Iraq 2014- Syria 2015 Democratic Republic of the Congo c2015- Cameroon 2016 Democratic Republic of the Congo 2017- Saudi Arabia c2017 Tunisia 2019- Philippines
The supreme international crime according to 2017 U.S. media reporting is interferring nonviolently in a democratic election — at least if Russia does it. William Blum, in his book Rogue State, lists over 30 times that the United States has done that. Another study, however, says 81 elections in 47 countries. France 2017 makes that total at least 82. Honduras 2017 makes it 83. Russia 2018 makes it 84. The 2020-revealed 1964 coup in British Guiana makes it 85. Somalia 2022 would be 86. In 2025 Trump’s blatant interference in Argentina and Honduras would make it 88. There are clearly dozens more.
In a reality-based assessment of U.S. crimes, the serious offenses begin beyond that threshold. Here’s Blum’s list of over 50 foreign leaders whom the United States has attempted to assassinate:
1949 – Kim Koo, Korean opposition leader
1950s – CIA/Neo-Nazi hit list of more than 200 political figures in West Germany to be “put out of the way” in the event of a Soviet invasion
1950s – Chou En-lai, Prime minister of China, several attempts on his life
1950s, 1962 – Sukarno, President of Indonesia
1951 – Kim Il Sung, Premier of North Korea
1953 – Mohammed Mossadegh, Prime Minister of Iran
1950s (mid) – Claro M. Recto, Philippines opposition leader
1955 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India
1957 – Gamal Abdul Nasser, President of Egypt
1959, 1963, 1969 – Norodom Sihanouk, leader of Cambodia
1960 – Brig. Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem, leader of Iraq
1950s-70s – José Figueres, President of Costa Rica, two attempts on his life
1961 – Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, leader of Haiti
1961 – Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo (Zaire)
1961 – Gen. Rafael Trujillo, leader of Dominican Republic
1963 – Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam
1960s-70s – Fidel Castro, President of Cuba, many attempts on his life
1960s – Raúl Castro, high official in government of Cuba
1965 – Francisco Caamaño, Dominican Republic opposition leader
1965-6 – Charles de Gaulle, President of France
1967 – Che Guevara, Cuban leader
1970 – Salvador Allende, President of Chile
1970 – Gen. Rene Schneider, Commander-in-Chief of Army, Chile
1970s, 1981 – General Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama
1972 – General Manuel Noriega, Chief of Panama Intelligence
1975 – Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire
1976 – Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica
1980-1986 – Muammar Qaddafi, leader of Libya, several plots and attempts upon his life
1982 – Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of Iran
1983 – Gen. Ahmed Dlimi, Moroccan Army commander
1983 – Miguel d’Escoto, Foreign Minister of Nicaragua
1984 – The nine comandantes of the Sandinista National Directorate
1985 – Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese Shiite leader (80 people killed in the attempt)
1991 – Saddam Hussein, leader of Iraq
1993 – Mohamed Farah Aideed, prominent clan leader of Somalia
1998, 2001-2 – Osama bin Laden, leading Islamic militant
1999 – Slobodan Milosevic, President of Yugoslavia
2002 – Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Afghan Islamic leader and warlord
There are few American Neo-conservatives more influential than Robert Kagan.
In 1997, Kaganco-founded the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), the Neo-con think tank responsible for staffing the Bush administration with hawks such as Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz, and played a large role in the Iraq War in 2003.
In 2010, Kagan founded a new think tank, the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) which was instrumental in pushing for a new Cold War with Russia.
Kagan’s wife, Victoria Nuland was instrumental in the proxy war in Ukraine, playing a leading role in the maidan coup of 2014 ,as Assistant Secretary of State for the Obama administration, and again played a leading role in the proxy war in Ukraine as the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs for the Biden administration, including in blocking the peace deal in Istanbul in April of 2022 and in the bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline.
However, Kagan has begun to change his tune since Trump launched a war on Iran for Israel, sounding more like a John Mearsheimer realist than the leading champion of American regime change that he has always been.
Fucking Sachs: Prof. Jeffrey Sachs discusses the unravelling of the US alliance system that has dominated the past decades and how a lingering imperial mindset prevents adjustment to new realities. Recorded 4th of April 2026.
Might as well be James Bond fan:
Kim Basinger [above] posing with Sean Connery at the filming of an Arab slave market scene in the James Bond shoot for Never Say Never Again (1983).
The
Trump administration has engaged in a targeted effort to remove or review slavery-related exhibits, memorials, and educational materials at national parks and federal sites, framing this as a move to “restore truth and sanity to American history” and eliminate “divisive, race-centered ideology”.
Key actions include:
Philadelphia Independence National Historical Park: In January 2026, National Park Service (NPS) workers dismantled exhibits detailing the enslavement of nine people by George Washington at the President’s House site. Following a lawsuit, a federal judge ordered the exhibit reinstalled in February 2026, although the Interior Department indicated plans to appeal.
“The Scourged Back” Photograph: In September 2025, the administration ordered the removal of a famous 1863 photograph, which showed the heavily scarred back of an enslaved man named Gordon, from the Fort Pulaski National Monument in Georgia.
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park: Information regarding abolitionist John Brown’s raid was removed, and dozens of signs referencing racial discrimination and white hostility towards formerly enslaved people were flagged for removal.
“Restoring Truth and Sanity” Order: A March 2025 executive order instructed the NPS to review content that “inappropriately disparages” American history, focusing instead on “greatness”.
Smithsonian Criticisms: Trump has directly attacked the National Museum of African American History and Culture, stating it focuses too much on “how bad Slavery was”.
But really, this is about how far down the bloody lobotomized and Stepford Wives rabbit hole Americans have traveled since way before ‘si se puede’ and ‘it’s the economy, stupid.”
First, though, it is always about one stinking pilot versus how many girls murdered by, err, pilots?
Yikes, the crocodile tears, man, for American murderers who exact death from the sky.
I was confused and kept searching for my children’s classrooms. My daughter’s classroom was entirely flattened.
The strike killed up to 168 people and is the worst mass casualty of the Iran war
Fucking Ritter:
A US pilot has been shot down over Iran. US Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) teams have been dispatched to effect a rescue. History shows just how dangerous–and ultimately futile–such ops can be. Scott Ritter
And Scott and Trump watch the same movies: The Werner Herzog film starring Christian Bale is Rescue Dawn (2006), a war survival drama based on the true story of Dieter Dengler, a US pilot shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War. Bale plays Dengler, enduring extreme captivity and conducting a daring escape.
Movies movies movies: Growing up in Germany during the 1930s and ‘40s, Dieter Dengler was no stranger to war, and it was during an Allied bombing raid that he first caught sight of airplanes and became obsessed with the notion of becoming a pilot. After moving to the United States, he joined the Navy to pursue his dream of flying, which took him to the skies over Vietnam and, in February 1966, Dengler was shot down in Laos, captured by enemy forces, and marched to a prison camp.
Movie movies movies: Having been interrogated, beaten, and tortured for months, Dengler and several fellow captives devised a daring escape plan. After he evaded the prison camp guards, Dengler — alongside American prisoner Duane Martin (Steve Zahn) — spent days facing the unforgiving terrain and monsoon rains of the jungle, with Martin ultimately being killed by the enemy. Alone, riddled with disease, and weighing only 98 pounds, Dengler miraculously caught the eye of an American pilot and was rescued after six months. A national hero, he was awarded the Navy Cross and returned to the cockpit as a pilot for TWA.
Movies movies movies: Much has been made about Christian Bale and Wernor Herzog’s respective on-set temperaments, with each man known for a tendency to ruffle feathers and push the envelope in pursuit of authenticity. Never one to shy away from a challenge, Bale’s commitment to playing Dieter Dengler amounted to losing weight, frequently putting himself in physical danger, and chowing down on some unsavory snacks. “One of the best memories I have of being in the jungle is looking at Steve Zahn and Jeremy Davies’ faces as I’m tucking into a bowl of live maggots and pig offal,” Bale told GQ. “It was great. I couldn’t stop laughing.”
Israel-US kill negotiators, destroy civilian structures, but Iran’s military capabilities are still largely intact –
Now now now, of course we can root for Iran, for the Houthis, for the Iraqis, of course of course, and yet, NO WE CANNOT if you want a fucking city job. Here, briefly, my little bit of hell in AmeriKKKa.
I applied to be a building attendant, part-time, with the City of Newport. For the Recreation Center, up to 29 hours a week. The director and others encouraged me to apply, and they told me they’d make sure I got an interview.
So, that was done, I had a phone interview, and then I was invited for a three-person interview in person. I did well. I was called and said I got the job. I was then sent a letter of employment, contingent on a reference check, and I passed the background check. My references all called and said they did great favors for me. But then, crickets for a week, and today, after I inquired about the status. Nothing pushy, etc.
But, while heading home, I got an email from someone in HR: rescinding the job offer.
Hello Paul,
I am writing to inform you that, after careful consideration and completing the preemployment screening process, we must rescind the employment offer previously extended to you. This decision was not made lightly, and we understand the inconvenience this may cause. Attached to this email is the formal notice.
Here:
[Hundreds of university students in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis have begun attending in-person classes for the first time since the start of the conflict, in Gaza City, Palestine, on March 31, 2026]
The hell holes USA and Israel have created, the ICE dungeons, the billionaires and millionaires sacking us all, yep. Yeah, yeah, I know, in the scheme of fucking things, no big deal, got hired for a job, but never went to the first day of work before getting, err, sort of fired, that’s a first for me . . . but wait?
Nope, I am not here yet: Heavily armed Israeli soldiers conduct a military operation in the West Bank. Such operations have increased significantly in frequency and intensity since October 2023. These operations often involve searches, arrests, and confrontations with residents, who are generally unarmed.
Yeah, I know, I know: I’m not in these fucking dirty Jewish-Led Dire Straits. Recently released Palestinian prisoners show signs of malnutrition, medical negligence, and torture. Many reportedly had their legs bound too tightly for so long that they got gangrene and were subject to amputations (without anesthesia) while in prison.
Yes, yes, in the scheme of things, just take your lumps and swallow, Paulokirk:
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – APRIL 2, 2026*:
At least73,432 Palestinians killed, 183,740 injured – including:
Yeah, at least I still have a bridge to cross to get back home to lick my fucking mini-fascist-inflicted wounds:
By one count, Israeli attacks have killed approximately 282 Palestinian journalists and media workers (most recent March 9, 2026 (other groups have tallied between 215 and 356 Palestinian journalists killed, depending on the criteria used).
Now now, did I get the rescinding letter because of THIS, Paulo Kirk, Substack, or just a plain Google Search with Paul Haeder put in?
Oregon HR departments can screen public social media accounts of job applicants, but they are strictly prohibited from requiring access to private, password-protected accounts. Under Oregon law, it is illegal to ask for login credentials, force a connection (like a “friend request”), or require applicants to log in in the employer’s presence.
Ah, replace: “fire” with “not hire” and “employee” with “applicant for employment”:
“In general, an employer could fire an employee for just about anything, including criticizing the company on social media or anywhere else,” said Jeffrey Hirsch, a professor of labor and employment law at the University of North Carolina.
Imagine someone like me who criticizes almost EVERYTHING about America and governments, politicians, HR Departments, and the Nanny State and the Lobotomized Masses? I shall and can rejoice, but this post then goes through the AI crap HR departments deploy:
This photo below brings tears of joy to my eyes; therefore, YOU ARE UNEMPLOYABLE.
Or, the guy on the left below is a hero, the one on the right epitomizes the Epstein Class, both the Democrats and Republicans in lower office.
Is this a non-hirable offense? BREAKING: Some real hope: I still have good news. The search for the pilot of the USAF F-15E (494th FS) shot down over Iran is still ongoing. He has not been rescued. It was the pilot of an A-10C shot down over the Persian Gulf who was recovered. The Islamic Regime of Iran might have the F-15E pilot, fortunately.
Is this how I get cancelled from working at the City of Newport, reposting things? Alon Mizrahi, an Israeli journalist, one of the most worthy Jews in the world:
“We are witnessing history. Iran, to everyone’s surprise, is destroying American bases so thoroughly, on such a large scale, and so decisively that the world is not ready for this.
In 4 days, Iran has managed to expand its sphere of military dominance in the region. Iran has destroyed the most valuable and expensive military bases, property, and equipment in the entire world.
The American bases in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia are among the largest military facilities in the entire world. These facilities have cost trillions of dollars over several decades to build. We are talking about the fact that the bulk of the military spending that has been made over more than 30 years has gone up in smoke.
We see radars costing hundreds of millions of dollars each being destroyed in an instant. We see entire military bases being abandoned and burned, looted, and destroyed. And I’m telling you, as far as I know, the U.S. has never suffered such destruction in its entire history, except perhaps for Pearl Harbor, but that was just one attack.
No enemy in a conventional war has ever done this to American military forces as Iran is doing right now. It’s hard to believe. The military situation is so serious that censorship is blocking almost all new information about this war. If you’ve noticed, we’re getting less and less information every day.
Thirty-five years ago, during the first Iraqi war, we were shown endless footage from Iraq. Back then, smart bombs and cameras were a novelty, but every night we were shown night-time footage. Now we hardly see any videos at all.
Understand this! Supposedly, this is the world’s largest military power, with the world’s largest air capabilities, and on the fourth day of the U.S. offensive, supposedly and supposedly breaking through Iranian defenses, we don’t see any signs of American dominance in the Iranian sky. Where are all the video recordings of our planes flying over Tehran or any other part of Iran, for that matter?
American soldiers can’t even dream of setting foot on Iranian soil. And to understand how desperate this war is, on the fourth day you’re already hearing the most insane proposals and ideas from the Trump administration. They’re proposing sending military escorts for oil tankers leaving the Persian Gulf. What are you even talking about! You want to send American ships into the zone of destruction of thousands of Iranian missiles? NOW no one can get through the Strait of Hormuz.
The Iranians have been preparing for this for decades. They’re flaunting the idea of arming Kurdish militias to invade Iran. What the hell are you talking about? Have you seen a map of Iran!? It seems the Trump administration has never seen a map of Iran! Do you know how vast it is? What does it mean to invade Iran!? Do you think a militia of 10,000 people could invade Iran!? Or even 50,000? Or 100,000? Iran will swallow them up.
The U.S. and Israel have already lost this war. The U.S. and Israel can kill millions of civilians in their homes. They have powerful bombs and can blow up buildings, but they won’t win this war. Iran’s military infrastructure and weaponry is deep underground all over IRAN. Neither the Americans nor, especially, the Israelis have any chance of reaching any of it. They’re in deep shit.
They started something they have no chance of finishing. When this all ends, the U.S. will never return to West Asia. There will be no American presence in the Middle East. I’m telling you this now with certainty.”
Yeah, so here’s my email, since the City of Newport is closed on Friday, even though I got the “dear fucking Paul, you illegitimate bastard, unemployable and dirty rotten to the core for being anti-American.”
This is, of course, upsetting. First, I applied in earnest for the building attendent job, and went through the necessary hoops to work for the Recreation Center. Second, BS sent me a letter of contingency hiring and then did her interviews with references. I received the results of the background check, as you did, and there was nothing there.
Third, today I casually asked JR today if she had heard anything about the building attendant position and getting me onboarded. She said she had not heard, but she also told me she’d look into it, and I asked her to limit her sleuthing to see what the holdup was or if I missed anything.
Within 20 minutes of that conversation with Jenni, I received your email and the attached letter from Ms. W.
I called BS today, left a message, and then I called Ms. W, but her voicemail sent me back to Bonnie’s voicemail.
There is, in my opinion, a complete lack of professionalism and lack of courtesy and trauma-informed awareness in what just occurred regarding my application and my reaching out to see what the holdup was.
Do you not think that I was confident about the position after you had sent me the letter of hire (contingent, albeit)?
Do you not think that the 20 to 29 hours a week at $20.63 an hour would have been important income for me, a senior on a fixed income?
Do you not think that I am now concerned about being “blacklisted” from ever applying for another city job ever?
BOLI and Oregon labor statutes have much to say about the rights of employers and some things to say about the rights of people applying for jobs, in this case, a municipal position. I can only speculate as to why the position was rescinded. I am not going to speculate, though. This is troubling, and to me, these actions speak of discrimination against me based on whatever matrix or screening methods you have deployed beyond the work, reference, and background checks.
You never gave me a solid reason why a job offer was rescinded. This is terribly upsetting and deeply concerning to me how HR works within the City of Newport. It should be concerning to any taxpayer in the City of Newport.
So in the end, who the fuck do these goddamned people think they are? I passed a background check to drive as a volunteer for the city, and I have background checks yearly for working with children and adults with developmental disabilities. Fucking creeps everywhere, whichever way I turn.
Nanny state
Professional Managerial Class
Admin Class
HR Class
Rules up their Asses Class
Government jobs
A city that runs through dozens of employees a year
The end of the road middlings and milquetoast folk
Christ, the dudette who ran the interview and who sent me the rescinding letter, yes, again, another fucking German (last name) who has derailed my livelihood.
March 26, 2026
Dear Paul,
I am pleased to make you a contingent offer of employment with the City of Newport (the ‘city’) as a Building Attendant in the Recreation Division of the Parks and Recreation Department.
Employment at the City of Newport is contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation and reference checks on all of its potential employees. Your job offer, therefore, is contingent upon a successful clearance of such a background investigation, and reference checks.
Once your background investigation and references have been successfully completed, and I am able to confirm your job offer, the terms of your employment will be as such:
Reports to: Recreation Superintendent
Classification: Regular, Part-Time, Non-Exempt, Non-Bargaining Unit Member
Rate of Pay: Range P102 /Step 3= $20.63/hour
The City is excited about your joining us and we look forward to a beneficial and productive relationship. Your first six (6) months of employment is considered your trial service period. During this period, you are considered to be in training and under observation and evaluation by your supervisor. Evaluation of your adjustment to work tasks, conduct, and other work rules, attendance and job responsibilities will be conducted during the trial service period. This period gives you an opportunity to demonstrate satisfactory performance for the position, and also provides an opportunity to determine if your knowledge/skills/abilities (KSAs) match the requirements of the position. It is also a chance for you to decide if the city meets your expectations as an employer.
As a City employee, you will be expected to abide by the City’s policies, rules and standards. Specifically, you will be required to sign an acknowledgment that you have read and that you understand and agree to comply with the City’s rules of conduct, which are included in the City Handbook, which you will be given on your first day of employment. You should note that the City may modify job titles, salaries and benefits from time to time as it deems necessary.
This letter sets forth the terms of your employment with the city and supersedes any prior representations or agreements including, but not limited to, any representations made during your recruitment, interviews or pre-employment negotiations, whether written or oral. Once we have completed your background investigation and references, we can determine a start work date.
To accept the City’s offer, please sign and date this letter in the space provided below. Once we have completed the pre-employment process, we will be able to confirm the job offer and determine a start work date.
We look forward to your acceptance of the job offer and to working with you at the City of Newport.
Sincerely,
Ahh, the shame, the shame:
Of course, working for tech companies, hmm, that is the problem to begin with. But here you go:
Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Tech Workers for Kshama national meeting. The energy was incredible, and we’re just getting started. During our discussion, one tech worker asked a question that I think is on every tech worker’s mind right now: how do we fight against the mass layoffs happening in the tech sector?
Barely 24 hours after our meeting, we saw exactly why this matters: on March 31st, between 20,000 and 30,000 Oracle workers, roughly 18% of the company’s global workforce, woke up to a cold five-line email from “Oracle Leadership” at 6 am. No phone call. No meeting with HR. No warning from their managers. Just a message telling them their roles had been eliminated, that today was their last working day, and that their access to company systems had already been cut.
Oracle is not a company in distress. It posted a 95% jump in profits last quarter, $6.13 billion in a single quarter. The principal owner of Oracle stock, Larry Ellison, owns $200 billion in wealth and is the sixth-richest person in the world. Other top Oracle executives and major shareholders are also billionaires and multimillionaires. Like Jeffrey Henley and Clayton Magouyrk, who have an estimated net worth of a billion dollars and nearly $44 million, respectively.
This layoff “bloodbath,” as it’s being called, is about profit-hoarding by billionaires and multimillionaires and redirecting tens of billions of dollars into AI infrastructure while discarding the workers who built the company.
Oracle is far from an exception. In just the first three months of 2026, tech workers have been hit by a layoff wave unlike anything we’ve seen in years. Amazon has cut over 30,000 jobs since late 2025, including 16,000 corporate roles in January, its second major round of cuts in three months. Microsoft has cut over 15,000 workers. Google, Meta, Block, Intel, Pinterest, Autodesk — the list goes on. In total, over 85,000 tech workers have been laid off in 2026 alone. Nearly a thousand layoffs per day.
The bosses have a name for this: “efficiency.” We should call it what it really is: class war by the bosses against the working class. Capitalism IS class war.
The profits of the tech bosses, like all billionaires and multimillionaires, come from the wealth produced by the labor of tech workers and all the other workers who make all the corporations run every single day. The vast majority of the wealth is then stolen by the bosses.
That’s why any gains workers can win in the form of job protection, wage increases, and improvements in benefits and working conditions can only come out of the profits of the bosses. That means our interests and the bosses’ interests are fundamentally opposed, and no amount of polite negotiating changes that.
What we need is a class struggle-based fightback. In the labor movement, it means we need class struggle unionism: the understanding that the only way workers can build leverage is by shutting down production and profits until management is forced to concede. That means boldly exposing the bosses, building solidarity across the entire working class, and connecting our workplace fights to the broader political struggle for free healthcare, rent control, and taxes on the rich, and against imperialist war, ICE terror, and the cost-of-living crisis.
It also means breaking from the Democratic and Republican parties, both parties of the bosses. For decades, the leadership of the labor movement has funneled money, volunteers, and political support into the Democratic Party, and workers and rank-and-file union members have gotten betrayal after betrayal in return. Most of the billionaires and multimillionaires donate to both Democratic and Republican politicians. Adam Smith, the Democratic incumbent Kshama is running against, has taken money from numerous wealthy individuals, including executives and major shareholders of Microsoft and Palantir.
To find an alternative to AOC’s “democratic socialism,” we must investigate why exactly these politics are harmful to Palestine, and all other areas in the popular struggle. Putting forth such an alternative is an important part of critiquing social democrats, because without presenting a credible solution, we’ll fall into ultra-leftist patterns. When I decry social democrat politicians as a Marxist, I am doing so with the awareness that these figures are the only version of “socialism” which their supporters have been exposed to. And to draw these working-class Americans away from social democracy, which is now a highly urgent task, we must explain which forces of popular revolution the socdems have set themselves up against.
In global terms, these forces are the mass movements that have been waging wars of resistance against U.S. imperial aggression, with the Palestinian resistance being the foremost struggle that leaders like AOC oppose. We know they oppose this struggle because every one of these “progressive” leaders, when they’ve come across opportunities to align with Palestine’s fight for liberation, has done what the occupier prefers. They’ve served as “progressive” launderers for Zionism at a moment when Zionism is in unprecedented existential danger, is surrounded by a world that hates it more than ever, and needs spokespeople who can put a friendly face on it.
Because the bulk of Gen Z have come to understand why Zionism is irredeemable, every time these politicians betray the Palestinian cause, they further alienate themselves from their primary base. Bernie Sanders and AOC have voted to continue funding the Zionist occupier’s “defensive” military equipment, and Zohran has taken the Zionist position by affirming the occupier’s supposed right to exist. Now, AOC has again shown a lack of commitment to fighting against aid to the occupation by stating that, due to existing U.S. foreign aid policies, “I believe the Israeli government is well able to fund the Iron Dome system, which has proven critical to keep innocent civilians safe from rocket attacks and bombardment.” This was how AOC qualified her pledge not to continue voting for the Iron Dome aid, which evidently still comes with a fundamental desire to counter Gaza’s resistance coalition; AOC’s language clearly implies that this choice comes from a confidence in the occupier being able to wage its colonial war without her help. When this changes, AOC will get behind the occupier, along with every other “soft” Zionist leader.
These fucking HR departments, man:
Here are the primary ways city departments control free speech in the workplace:
1. Distinguishing Job Duties from Personal Speech
Official Duty Restriction (Garcetti v. Ceballos): When public employees make statements pursuant to their official duties, they are not speaking as citizens for First Amendment purposes, and the city can restrict this speech.
Limiting Workplace Advocacy: Departments can prohibit employees from engaging in political, social, or personal speech while actively performing their job functions (e.g., advising a supervisor, interacting with the public).
2. Implementing Content-Neutral Policies
Clear Workplace Policies: Departments develop policies that regulate when and where speech can occur, focusing on reducing disruption.
Uniform Application: To avoid claims of viewpoint discrimination, policies must be enforced consistently across all employees, not selectively.
Time, Place, and Manner Restrictions: Employers can limit political activities to non-working hours or areas, and prohibit the use of city equipment (email, copiers) for private, political speech.
When employees speak as citizens on matters of public concern, departments must show that the disruption caused by the speech outweighs the employee’s interest in speaking. Controls are often justified if speech:
Disrupts Harmony: Impairs discipline, harmony, or working relationships among co-workers.
Impairs Functionality: Hinders the normal, efficient operation of the department.
Misrepresents the Agency: Causes the public to confuse personal employee views with official city policy.
4. Enforcing Anti-Discrimination and Harassment Policies
Duty to Protect Workers: Cities have a legal duty (under Title VII) to maintain a workplace free from harassment and discrimination.
Controlling Hateful Speech: If employee speech creates a hostile work environment based on protected characteristics (race, gender, religion), the city must regulate or prohibit it.
5. Managing Social Media Usage
Off-Duty Conduct Monitoring: While off-duty speech is generally protected, it can be regulated if it has a direct nexus to the disruption of workplace operations.
Policy Compliance: Cities create social media policies that prohibit employees from posting confidential information or engaging in speech that violates city workplace policies, even outside of working hours.
Key Takeaway for Compliance: To successfully control speech without violating legal rights, city departments often conduct investigations to document the specific disruption caused before taking disciplinary action.
And so AmeriKKKa is the lobotomized — no critical thinking in the public spaces, no robust debate without fistacuffs, no deep thinking about the issues of our time and systems that oppress and suppress and harm us as citizens, communities. We have to bow to the admin class, to the fucking lawyers or city and county manager, all of that, until some schmuck like me applies for a fancy-named janitorial job and gets culled for unstated reasons, but boy oh boy, the fuckers went to social media, and did this on Google Gulag search: Paul Haeder Then, put in Paul K. Haeder and you get a different take. Hundreds of “pages” on the Jewish Gulag Google.
The Pickering Connick test takes its name from two public employee free speech decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court. One of the decisions involved Harry Connick Sr., who served as district attorney in New Orleans for three decades. The case arose when Connick fired an employee for questioning the office’s policies. (Connick is the father of famous pianist-singer-actor Harry Connick Jr.) The test asks if the employee spoke on matters of public concern, and if the free speech rights of the government employee outweighs the interest in a disruptive-free workplace. (In this photo, Orleans Parish District Attorney Harry Connick answers questions during a news conference in New Orleans Friday, May 25, 2001.]
The Pickering-Connick test refers to a longstanding test in First Amendment law used by courts to determine whether a public employer violated an employee’s free-expression rights.
Did the public employee speak on matters of public concern?
The test has two parts. The threshold part asks whether a public employee spoke on a matter of public concern, defined as a matter of larger societal significance or importance. If a public employee was disciplined for expression that is characterized as more of a private grievance, then the employer prevails.
If, however, a public employee spoke on a matter of public concern, then the court proceeds to the second part of the test, often called the balancing prong. Under this prong, the court must balance the employee’s right to free speech against the employer’s interests in an efficient, disruption-free workplace.
As mentioned, the Supreme Court developed this test in Pickering, a case involving a public high school science teacher named Marvin Pickering, who was terminated after writing a letter to the editor of his local newspaper that was highly critical of school district officials but not people he worked with on a day-to-day basis. The Supreme Court reasoned that Pickering spoke on a matter of public concern – whether the school district spent too much money on athletics as opposed to academics.
The Court then held that Pickering’s rights to free speech outweighed the school board’s interests in a disruptive free workplace, largely because Pickering did not criticize people that he worked with daily, such as fellow teachers or his principal.
Balancing test weighs free speech against a disruptive-free workplace
In Connick, New Orleans District Attorney Harry Connick Sr. fired assistant district attorney Sheila Myers after learning that Myers distributed a questionnaire to fellow employees, questioning various policies in the district attorney’s office. Myers sued, alleging a violation of her free-speech rights.
The Court applied the Pickering-Connick test, finding that most of the questions on her questionnaire were closer to a private grievance than matters of public concern. However, the Court found that one question – whether employees felt pressured to support political candidates backed by the district attorney – touched on a matter of public concern. The Court then balanced Myers’ free-speech rights against the district attorney’s interests in an efficient disruptive-free workplace. The Court, by a 5-4 vote, struck the balance in favor of D.A. Connick, crediting testimony from another district attorney that Myer’s questionnaire caused a “mini-insurrection” in the office.
For several decades, the Pickering-Connick test served as the guidepost for public employee First Amendment free-speech claims. Then, in Garcetti v. Ceballos (2006), the Court introduced a new threshold inquiry by holding that when public employees make statements pursuant to their official job duties they have no First Amendment protections.
PMC, man, including the fucking HR administrators: LISTEN UP.
I am not socially acceptable to the German HR Newport woman, nor to the City in General. Morality at the wrong end of the alimentary canal.
Soooo . . . Sure, some of us DO need a few shekels for these rants, this railing on Subterranean Substack, so thanks to those subscribers who have thrown in a few to me, not just to the Big Boys and Girls like Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate and Katie Halper.
Ahh, speaking of Blumenthal: Fuck, right before my 8 pm Wednesday show, two nights ago, kyuaq.org, Finding Fringe, this daily show, Background Briefing. On a community radio station, with Democracy Now and Thom Hartmann? Fuck. Blumenthal, man, the fucking Hillary and Bill cunt:
Then, finally, we speak with Sidney Blumenthal, the former assistant and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton, and senior adviser to Hillary Clinton. He has been a national staff reporter for The Washington Post, Washington editor and staff writer for The New Yorker and his books include the bestsellers The Clinton Wars, The Rise of the Counter-Establishment and The Permanent Campaign. His latest book is All the Powers on Earth, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln 1856-1860, and his latest article at The Guardian we discuss is “Trump’s war is holding him hostage.”
If there is any consistency to Trump’s policy, it is a series of frantic attempts to justify his original blunder and extricate himself from its dire consequences.
But we gotta take care of the Jewish Sicarios and Rapists and Murderers and Neuroperverse:
This video features an interview with Daniel Klein, a former student of the Mechina Bnei David preparatory program in Israel. The discussion explores the nature of Zionist indoctrination within the military preparatory academies (mechinot) and how these systems shape the worldview of young recruits.
Know the truth about why Israeli society is so blood thirsty and savage.
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Family Values for Jews: If you want a better understanding of the American regime, for the first time, the U.S. Army tested a PRSM missile in Malard, Iran. A weapon that detonates mid-air, releasing thousands of deadly fragments. And as a result, 21 Iranian teenagers who were simply playing in their neighborhood lost their lives…
Jewish Family Values: There are also books in the library by those who killed, destroyed, and committed genocide against us; those who usurped our land, murdered our ancestors, and built cities over their bodies. You are a people who feed off the Holocaust that happened a hundred years ago, using it as a pretext to justify the genocide you have committed against us.
The U.S. and Israeli regimes have assassinated our leaders, killed schoolchildren, and attacked hospitals, universities, energy facilities, and desalination plants. They have now struck the Pasteur Vaccine Institute and key road bridges. They openly threaten to bomb our power infrastructure and “return Iran to the Stone Age.” It seems these realities do not reach Australian and EU officials, or they are unwilling to condemn them. Instead, they criticize Iran’s self-defense. The world and history will judge you. Do not stand on the side of Nazis.
He’s a Calfironication Incel Nazi:
Glosser-Miller, a product of that worldview of hate and bigotry: He coulda been raised in Is-RAW-HELL.
1. Architect of Family Separation
Miller was the chief architect of the Trump Administration “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which led to the forced separation of thousands of children from their parents at the southern border. According to Vanity Fair, “Stephen actually enjoys seeing those pictures at the border.” His own words on the policy? He called it a “simple decision.”
Even now, hundreds of children remain separated from their families. The policy was condemned by the United Nations and numerous human rights organizations as cruel, unnecessary, and a violation of international law.
2. White Nationalist Ties
During Trump’s first term, leaked emails revealed that Miller frequently shared white nationalist talking points and publications, including content from VDARE and the Camp of the Saints – a notoriously racist and anti-immigrant novel embraced by far-right extremists.
The Southern Poverty Law Center characterized Miller’s communications as “open white nationalism.” Over 100 members of Congress called for his resignation; however, Trump stood behind him along with many of the GOP.
3. A Career Built on Bigotry
Before entering the White House, Miller worked under Senator Jeff Sessions, helping craft policies aimed at rolling back civil rights, weakening voting protections, and targeting marginalized communities. His work in government has consistently targeted people of color, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ Americans.
In 2023, Miller’s legal group, America First Legal, filed a complaint accusing Kellogg’s of “politicizing and sexualizing its products” simply for releasing a Pride-themed Pop-Tarts box and featuring RuPaul’s image on Cheez-Its. That’s the kind of manufactured outrage Miller uses to push his far-right agenda. His rhetoric directly fuels discrimination and violence against already vulnerable groups.
4. Ethical Conflicts with Anti-Immigration Groups
During his first term in the White House, Miller routinely collaborated with anti-immigration hate groups like the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), both of which have deep ties to white nationalist ideologies.
Miller elevated their ideas into national policy, blurring the line between governance and extremist ideology, resulting in sweeping deportations and a normalization of xenophobia at the highest levels of government.
5. Long History of Harmful Rhetoric
Miller’s inflammatory tone isn’t new, it dates back to his days at Duke University, where he penned right-wing columns attacking diversity, tolerance, and liberalism. In one article, he mocked Duke’s efforts toward inclusion, calling the school’s climate a “shameful deficiency.”
That same combative style carried into his work for Trump, helping shape speeches and policies that escalated racial and cultural divides. His influence isn’t just about policy– it’s about poisonously reshaping the national conversation.
Stephen Miller is a central figure in shaping the Trump Administration’s agenda. From enabling state violence against immigrant families to promoting white nationalist rhetoric in government, his career is a warning of what happens when bigotry gains institutional power.
[According to the Letter of the Law by Zuni Maud, depicting the effects of the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, which curtailed immigration to the United States. Published in Der groyser kundes,]
Ahh, 2019 article:
IMMIGRATION HAS BECOME so central to US politics today that it’s hard to remember how rarely it flickered into the national spotlight before 2016. Prior to Donald Trump’s election, both parties agreed on the need for border enforcement, with the GOP routinely accusing Democrats of being soft on “illegals” and the Democrats responding with vigorous deportation campaigns. But the explicit racism of the Trump era, with its Muslim travel ban and the daily outrages of family separation and detention, has galvanized a large-scale protest movement. Jews have been especially active in this mobilization, driven by their social liberalism, their sense of religious duty, or both. Synagogue networks sprang up to offer aid to refugees, while groups like Jews United for Justice and Jewish Voice for Peace have been a visible presence at protest rallies. The role of Trump advisers Stephen Miller and Jared Kushner has at times made the fight seem unusually personal—even familial. Miller’s uncle, a neuroscientist, has been welcomed onto the public stage for his denunciations of his nephew’s immigration policies, which the elder Miller has characterized as hypocritical: the Millers’ not-so-distant Jewish ancestors were, of course, immigrants themselves.
Writing for the panel, Judge Gould did not mince words about what the record showed: federal agents shot a protester in the head, legs, and feet with pepper balls at close range while the person was complying with orders. A member of the press was struck in the head with a rubber bullet and sustained a concussion. Another reporter was hit in the arm by a tear gas canister while retreating — diagnosed with a hematoma and treated for a burn. A fourth person was hit in the hand by a canister fired from 50 to 75 feet away, requiring stitches.
“In some instances,” the court found, “officers issued no warnings and shot individuals who posed no threat to the officers or to any other person.”
1. ICE is violating its own parental interest policies at every stage. The current Detained Parents Directive requires ICE to ask every person it arrests whether they are a parent, to ensure children are safe at the time of arrest, and to give parents facing deportation the opportunity to decide whether their children come with them or remain in the US. The report documents routine violations of all three. Parents were never asked about their children. Parents who tried to raise the issue were dismissed. One father begged to call the babysitter who was inside with his three-year-old and was refused. Parents who signed official forms requesting to bring their children were deported without them anyway.
2. The scale has changed dramatically. Data obtained through public records requests and reported by the amazing team at ProPublica shows that under the Biden administration, 264 mothers were detained and 30 percent were deported. Under the current administration, that number has jumped to 800 mothers detained, with 60 percent deported. WRC has also been tracking a significant uptick in the detention of pregnant, postpartum, and lactating women since the spring of 2025, using a detention pregnancy tracker built in partnership with Relevant Research. Zain described one case as particularly haunting: a woman who experienced a miscarriage in detention received no medical oversight for ten days, was deported in an acute medical crisis, and had her life saved only because reception center workers in Honduras rushed her to an emergency room. It’s unthinkable that this is happening.
3. There is no system for international family reunification, and one is desperately needed. There is no legal right to reunification under US law and no established DHS procedure for facilitating it. More than 400 parents sought reunification through the Honduran government in 2025 despite no formal program existing. Receiving countries lack the resources, the infrastructure, and the most basic information from the US government to make reunification work at scale. So when we think about the next 10-20-year horizon of how we respond to this massive problem, we really need to construct a cooperative system for information sharing and facilitating reunification.
We did not get enough time to discuss that last point, but I want to double down on it here because I think it is the most important long-term takeaway from the conversation. The consequences of the current administration’s deportation policies (and frankly the United States’ deportation policies for years now across Republican and Democratic administrations) mean that we are creating a long-term family separation crisis that will outlast any single presidency.
[U.S. citizen children board a van in early February before taking a flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Guatemala, to be reunited with parents who were deported]
[ProPublica’s reporting shows that the parents of at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children were arrested and detained in the first seven months of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. First image: Two volunteers place a 2-year-old American child in a car so he can be reunited with his mother, who is from Honduras and awaits deportation at the Dilley, Texas, family detention center. Second image: Two American children, left, talk on the phone with their father, who is detained at “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida after being arrested on Christmas.]
Retrograde:
Rubio this week:
“Imagine an Iran that instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, had spent that money helping the people of Iran, you’d have a much different country.”
President Donald Trump (who very clearly needs to arrange some sort of morning meeting with his staff to get their talking points down) this week:
“The United States can’t take care of daycare. We’re a big country, we have all these other people, we’re fighting wars! We can’t take care of daycare! You’ve got to let a state take care of daycare and they should pay for it too! They have to raise their taxes. It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. We have to take care of one thing: military protection.”
Family Values, a la War Criminal: The Karaj bridge, several kilometers west of Tehran, which was destroyed during U.S.-Israeli military operations in Iran, on April 3, 2026.
Trump celebrated a double tap strike on a highway bridge linking Tehran to Karaj on Thursday, sharing video of the attack that killed eight people and wounded 95. The second strike occurred as rescue workers responded to the initial attack, according to the Fars news agency. Iranian officials told state media the casualties were civilians who had gathered beneath the bridge and along the riverbank to celebrate Nature Day in Iran. The unfinished bridge intended to connect Tehran to the Caspian Sea.
“The biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again — Much more to follow! IT IS TIME FOR IRAN TO MAKE A DEAL BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, AND THERE IS NOTHING LEFT OF WHAT STILL COULD BECOME A GREAT COUNTRY!”
Trump wrote on social media. Trump told Time magazine in an in
A February inspection of Camp East Montana, the nation’s largest immigration detention facility, in El Paso, Texas found 49 violations—an unusually high figure compared to a maximum of 13 found at any other facility inspected so far this year. The inspection cited the use of excessive force, the provision of medical care, security, and mental health. The facility—which houses nearly 3,000 detainees per day, the majority of whom have no criminal convictions—has recorded at least three deaths since opening last summer. Despite the 49 violations, the report rated the facility “acceptable/adequate.” Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas), who has toured the facility, said the findings were “a drop in the bucket” of what is wrong there. “ICE is completely uninterested in really creating any change.”
The comments were initially broadcast live on the White House’s YouTube account before the video was made private following public backlash. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt later stated that the President’s remarks were intended to highlight the importance of “rooting out the billions of dollars in fraud” within those programs.
“The United States can’t take care of daycare. We’re a big country, we have all these other people, we’re fighting wars! We can’t take care of daycare! You’ve got to let a state take care of daycare and they should pay for it too! They have to raise their taxes. It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. We have to take care of one thing: military protection.”
The government cannot legally detain U.S. citizen children with their parents or deport them. According to immigration experts and current and former officials, the arrest and detention of parents of U.S. citizens often leads to a family separation, even if it’s brief.
We counted a parent as having been detained by ICE if they were booked into a facility for any length of time according to the Deportation Data Project’s detention records. In a very small minority of cases during the Trump administration, parents were released from ICE custody in less than a few days. This was more common under Biden. When we calculated the criminal history of parents arrested and detained by ICE, we relied on the criminal charges in these detention records.
To calculate that Trump has deported mothers of U.S. citizen children at four times the rate that Biden did, we calculated the total number of mothers removed under each administration in the period covered by our data and divided by the number of days each president was in office during that period. We used the period from November 2023 through mid-August 2025 to minimize undercounting at the start and end of our detention dataset. We also compared equivalent seven-month periods in 2024 and 2025, which produced a similar result. For the purposes of our analysis, we counted a small number of detained mothers who agreed to leave the country voluntarily as having been deported.
“We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks, we’re going to bring them back to the stone ages, where they belong.”
Well, maybe a simple Stone Age “fired upon” response would work for Trump, LLC, his Minyans, the terrible Jews running the show, and of course, all believers in the worth of whites and Westerners over all other creeds.
“Progress is theft. Progress is slave-mongering. Progress is murder. Progress is genocide.”
Oh, that STONE Age: The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years[1] and ended between 4000 BC and 2000 BC, with the advent of metalworking.[2] Because of its enormous timescale, it encompasses 99% of human history.
[I picked up this odd item a number of years ago (note in the second and third pic that the ‘wick’ and wooden cap are for show only) at an antiques mall with no provenance or explanation as to what it was. The item appears very old, is made of a light-weight black clay and while fragile, I can squeeze it in my hand without cracking it (i.e. It’s not so delicate that it can’t be handled). It is slightly bigger than a gulf ball and completely hollow. It measures roughly 2 1/2″ tall and approx 7″ total diameter. My hand gives a corresponding size. Now, the question is…what is it?
When I first bought it, it had a very old piece of cork stuffed in the top that crumbled away. I wasn’t sure if I smelled any residue or not. I can’t tell if it is scuffed or had weal markings on the outside at one time. Perhaps I’m being fanciful, but I think this is an incendiary carcass or stink pot/bomb? I think we can rule out a few things it’s probably not. I doubt it held incense, candle wax or a plant! The bottom is completely round and it wouldn’t have been practical as any of those type devices. As a container holding liquid, it would be very prone to spilling. I guess it could be a one-off pottery piece, but I can’t imagine it would have been easy to make such a thing just for fun? It reminds me of the early grenadoes that were used by the buccaneers of old, but they were made of iron (same shape and even with a raised lip. See Warren Moore’s ‘Weapons of the American Revolution’ ,pg 215, ex.A-166 grenade found at Fort Ticonderoga). What got me thinking about this piece was Matchlock’s incendiary grenade thread with it’s glass French bombs, which are similar, but much thicker. In use, this little item could have very well held a volatile liquid or even black powder. In Gilkerson’s ‘Boarder’s Away’, he mentions clay stink pots, so I thought this could be another possibility?
Has anyone seen anything like this? Was black pottery used for such things? Were there Spanish colonial grenadoes like this? What type of clay was used? Anyone want to weigh in on this odd piece?]
Maori shark-tooth knife
The phrase “bombing back to the stone ages” is widely associated with US Air Force officer Curtis LeMay, in the context of US threats against North Vietnam in LeMay’s 1965 book, Mission with LeMay.
[Bombs Away’ LeMay: America’s Unapologetic Champion of Waging Total War]
“We’re going to bomb them back into the Stone Age,” he wrote. LeMay, who had played a central role in executing the World War II carpet bombing of Japanese cities in which between 240,000 and 900,000 people were killed, had by the time of the Vietnam War risen in rank to chief of Air Staff before he retired the year his book was published.
In December 1972, President Richard Nixon ordered a major bombing campaign against North Vietnam, especially Hanoi and Haiphong, known in the US as the “Christmas bombings”.
US Secretary of State James Baker met Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz in Geneva on January 9, 1991. In that meeting, Baker threatened that the US would bomb Iraq “back to the Stone Age” if it did not withdraw from Kuwait.
On September 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaeda hijackers seized four US commercial airliners. Two were flown into the World Trade Center towers in New York, another hit the Pentagon in Virginia, and one crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after passengers resisted.Nearly 3,000 people were killed, and the attacks prompted the United States to launch a global “war on terror” targeting al-Qaeda and other groups it designated as terrorist organisations.After the attacks, Pakistan’s Pervez Musharraf, who was president from 2001 to 2008, later recounted that senior US official Richard Armitage warned his country would be “bombed back to the Stone Age” if it refused to join the war on the Taliban.
Two weeks (May 2010) after the failed Times Square plot, national security adviser, General James Jones, and director of central intelligence, Leon Panetta, were dispatched to Islamabad to deliver a message from President Obama to Pakistan’s army chief, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. According to the account revealed in the new book by New York Times journalists, Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker, Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda:“Obama’s warning to Kayani that his military that he needed to clamp down on the Islamic fighters, who were using safe havens inside his country, or pay the price of devastating American air strikes, was yet another example of how the U.S. government was adopting classic Cold War notions of deterrence to protect the United States against terrorists. The message was clear: If we are attacked, you will be attacked.”
All these Stone Age weapons get through metal detectors, now, don’t you know!
But the orgasms are coming now that Noem and Bondi are toast:
Her ouster comes just weeks after Epstein survivors sued the DOJ for mishandling of the release of the case files.
So, is it any wonder these toothless female wonders accepted temporarily into a misogynistic and incel heavy fucking Jewish Controlled Administration would be fired?
Women, and those two melanin-rich dudes, fired!!!
Oh, no matter how hard you pray to the god who was never there or how much begging you do to blue-eyed Jesus, you ain’t going to get nothing but buggering from daddy.
Cunt Trump hates women and hates color, other than bottle-brush orange. This little elf will be going too:
And we’re going to give headline after headline to this whore?
Humpty Dumpty Trump:
US President Donald Trump brags about destroying Iran’s B1 Bridge in Karaj, the highest bridge in West Asia:
“The biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again — Much more to follow! IT IS TIME FOR IRAN TO MAKE A DEAL BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, AND THERE IS NOTHING LEFT OF WHAT STILL COULD BECOME A GREAT COUNTRY!”
Versus a human:
Iranian President Pezeshkian released a lengthy text addressed to the American people ahead of Trump’s address to the nation. This text stands out as an exemplary case of an ethical, harmonious, responsible and deep thinking state leader, something we didn’t see from a Western politician for a very long time.
He also warns: “Attacking Iran’s vital infrastructure—including energy and industrial facilities—directly targets the Iranian people. Beyond constituting a war crime, such actions carry consequences that extend far beyond Iran’s borders”
FULL LETTER BELOW:
“To the people of the United States of America, and to all those who, amid a flood of distortions and manufactured narratives, continue to seek the truth and aspire to a better life:
Iran—by this very name, character, and identity—is one of the oldest continuous civilizations in human history. Despite its historical and geographical advantages at various times, Iran has never, in its modern history, chosen the path of aggression, expansion, colonialism, or domination. Even after enduring occupation, invasion, and sustained pressure from global powers—and despite possessing military superiority over many of its neighbors—Iran has never initiated a war. Yet it has resolutely and bravely repelled those who have attacked it.
The Iranian people harbor no enmity toward other nations, including the people of America, Europe, or neighboring countries. Even in the face of repeated foreign interventions and pressures throughout their proud history, Iranians have consistently drawn a clear distinction between governments and the peoples they govern. This is a deeply rooted principle in Iranian culture and collective consciousness—not a temporary political stance.
For this reason, portraying Iran as a threat is neither consistent with historical reality nor with present-day observable facts. Such a perception is the product of political and economic whims of the powerful—the need to manufacture an enemy in order to justify pressure, maintain military dominance, sustain the arms industry, and control strategic markets. In such an environment, if a threat does not exist, it is invented.
Within this same framework, the United States has concentrated the largest number of its forces, bases, and military capabilities around Iran—a country that, at least since the founding of the United States, has never initiated a war. Recent American aggressions launched from these very bases have demonstrated how threatening such a military presence truly is. Naturally, no country confronted with such conditions would forgo strengthening its defensive capabilities. What Iran has done—and continues to do—is a measured response grounded in legitimate self-defense, and by no means an initiation of war or aggression.
Relations between Iran and the United States were not originally hostile, and early interactions between the Iranian and American people were not marred with hostility or tension. The turning point, however, was the 1953 coup d’état—an illegal American intervention aimed at preventing the nationalization of Iran’s own resources. That coup disrupted Iran’s democratic process, reinstated dictatorship, and sowed deep distrust among Iranians toward U.S. policies.
This distrust deepened further with America’s support for the Shah’s regime, its backing of Saddam Hussein during the imposed war of the 1980s, the imposition of the longest and most comprehensive sanctions in modern history, and ultimately, unprovoked military aggression—twice, in the midst of negotiations—against Iran.
Yet all these pressures have failed to weaken Iran. On the contrary, the country has grown stronger in many areas: literacy rates have tripled—from roughly 30% before the Islamic Revolution to over 90% today; higher education has expanded dramatically; significant advances have been achieved in modern technology; healthcare services have improved; and infrastructure has developed at a pace and scale incomparable to the past. These are measurable, observable realities that stand independent of fabricated narratives.
At the same time, the destructive and inhumane impact of sanctions, war, and aggression on the lives of the resilient Iranian people must not be underestimated. The continuation of military aggression and recent bombings profoundly affect people’s lives, attitudes, and perspectives. This reflects a fundamental human truth: when war inflicts irreparable harm on lives, homes, cities, and futures, people will not remain indifferent toward those responsible.
This raises a fundamental question: Exactly which of the American people’s interests are truly being served by this war? Was there any objective threat from Iran to justify such behavior? Does the massacre of innocent children, the destruction of cancer-treatment pharmaceutical facilities, or boasting about bombing a country “back to the stone ages” serve any purpose other than further damaging the United States’ global standing?
Iran pursued negotiations, reached an agreement, and fulfilled all its commitments. The decision to withdraw from that agreement, escalate toward confrontation, and launch two acts of aggression in the midst of negotiations were destructive choices made by the U.S. government—choices that served the delusions of a foreign aggressor.
Attacking Iran’s vital infrastructure—including energy and industrial facilities—directly targets the Iranian people. Beyond constituting a war crime, such actions carry consequences that extend far beyond Iran’s borders. They generate instability, increase human and economic costs, and perpetuate cycles of tension, planting seeds of resentment that will endure for years. This is not a demonstration of strength; it is a sign of strategic bewilderment and an inability to achieve a sustainable solution.
Is it not also the case that America has entered this aggression as a proxy for Israel, influenced and manipulated by that regime? Is it not true that Israel, by manufacturing an Iranian threat, seeks to divert global attention away from its crimes toward the Palestinians? Is it not evident that Israel now aims to fight Iran to the last American soldier and the last American taxpayer dollar—shifting the burden of its delusions onto Iran, the region, and the United States itself in pursuit of illegitimate interests?
Is “America First” truly among the priorities of the U.S. government today?
I invite you to look beyond the machinery of misinformation—an integral part of this aggression—and instead speak with those who have visited Iran. Observe the many accomplished Iranian immigrants—educated in Iran—who now teach and conduct research at the world’s most prestigious universities, or contribute to the most advanced technology firms in the West. Do these realities align with the distortions you are being told about Iran and its people?
Today, the world stands at a crossroads. Continuing along the path of confrontation is more costly and futile than ever before. The choice between confrontation and engagement is both real and consequential; its outcome will shape the future for generations to come. Throughout its millennia of proud history, Iran has outlasted many aggressors. All that remains of them are tarnished names in history, while Iran endures—resilient, dignified, and proud.”
The sickness flows from Americans, man:
The US/Israeli regime attacked a livestock farm near the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz, rescue teams working to save animals trapped under the rubble.
They have attacked many livestock farms in Iran.
Destroying livestock is a way to create food shortages and famine, forcing civilian populations to flee or surrender due to lack of sustenance — Weaponizing hunger and starvation.
“Murdering Goyim is like killing wild animals” is cited from Sanhedrin 59a.
Ebrahim Zolfaqari, Spokesperson of the Central Headquarters of Khatam al-Anbiya:
— As we have said, we declare to the American-Zionist enemies that your intelligence about our military power and equipment is incomplete. You know nothing about our very extensive and strategic capacities.
— Do not hope that you have destroyed the centers producing strategic missiles, long-range offensive and precision drones, modern air defense systems, electronic warfare, and our special equipment, because with such an assumption you will deepen the quagmire you have trapped yourselves in.
— The centers you think you have targeted are insignificant, and our strategic military productions take place in locations you have no knowledge of and will never reach.
— We save you the trouble of counting our missiles, drones, and strategic equipment because you will certainly be mistaken and get nowhere.
— You must pay the price for the aggression you initiated to the honorable, dear, and Muslim nation.
— With reliance on Almighty God, this war will continue until your permanent, definite humiliation, regret, and surrender.
— In continuation of the strong and unimaginable blows and slaps you have received so far, expect our more crushing, extensive, and devastating actions.
[U.S.-Israeli airstrikes caused extensive damage to the Pasteur Institute of Iran, in Tehran.]
[Targeting Iran’s pharmaceutical hubs has placed thousands of terminally ill patients on the brink of a humanitarian disaster. Human rights experts believe that this action is a blatant and overt example of a “war crime.”]
Iran’s healthcare system is showing signs that it may be breaking down as a result of recent U.S.-Israeli attacks on key health infrastructure. A cancer patient told the Iranian newspaper Sharg that the MAHAK cancer charity informed them it had no post-chemotherapy medication available. Non-emergency surgeries are being postponed due to anesthesia shortages; and in some Tehran neighborhoods, a single doctor is seeing 200 to 300 patients per day. Iran’s deputy health minister said that 24 pharmaceutical and medical facilities have sustained partial or total damage since the war began. Also on Wednesday, a group of Austrian physicians pointed out that recent Israeli-U.S. strikes on Iranian pharmaceutical facilities fall “outside all legal frameworks of war,” in an interview with Deutsche Welle Persian.
Here is what cuntology looks like a la democrats. No reparations, no war crimes tribunal, nothing, just a bunch of bullshit. It’s really cool to be a Reagan democrat these days with No Kings Day and Indivisible fucks hanging around.
Possible Democratic hopefuls say Israel must pay for its own missiles: New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani voiced his agreement with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who announced on Tuesday that she would oppose all military aid to Israel. “I support what the Congresswoman said,” Mamdani said. Ocasio-Cortez issued another statement regarding her new position, saying that Israel is “well able” to fund its Iron Dome system, which she defended in principle as “critical [in keeping] innocent civilians safe from rocket attacks and bombardment.”
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) joined in on Wednesday, signalling he would not support additional funding for Israel’s Iron Dome. “Israel is a first-world country,” Khanna said, “and it can pay for the defensive systems it needs.” Former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel made similar comments in an interview with Semafor’s Dave Weigel.
School’s out forever:
The US and Israel have targeted more than 600 schools and educational centers in Iran over 34 days of war, according to Iran’s Foreign Ministry.
Alice Cooper learned that lesson, too. Last month he said: “If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we’re morons.” This is not the mere ironic muttering of a rich man on a Glendale golf course. It’s the voice of a smart Republican who knows firsthand the power of any moron who has the nerve to get up on stage, who fears what these pop stars in opposition to this administration can do. (His friends in the party of Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger also understand the pull of celebrity, which is why they trotted out their heavyweights like Bo Derek in New York.)
The little difference between a Stein and a Steen… Here, on Instagram/
Oh, those fucking patriots, uh? US oil producers are hesitant to boost production!
Dallas Federal Reserve President Lorie Logan said on Thursday that US oil producers are unlikely to ramp up production in the near term or protect consumers from rising gasoline prices.
She noted during a conference at her regional Fed bank that the price US producers say is needed to justify increased drilling is just under $70 per barrel, compared with current levels of about $110 per barrel. Logan added that prices would need to remain at or above that breakeven threshold for a sustained period before companies commit to the investments that could eventually ease prices for consumers.
US oil firms “need to have a sense that those higher prices are going to stay around for a while, and so I am not hearing that we’re going to see a dramatic increase in production here in the short run,” she said.
TEAM OIL:
Key Oil & Gas Executives and Billionaires (2025-2026)
Vicki Hollub (Occidental Petroleum): Recognized as a top CEO in energy and a powerful woman in business, she has led major acquisitions, including Anadarko Petroleum, and managed top Permian Basin production.
Harold Hamm (Continental Resources): A fracking pioneer who built one of the largest independent oil companies, leading the Bakken region’s development.
Darren Woods (ExxonMobil): Leads ExxonMobil, often seeing the highest profits among Western energy companies.
Wael Sawan (Shell): Top executive steering the international energy giant.
Mike Wirth (Chevron): Leads one of the world’s largest energy companies.
Jeffrey Hildebrand (Hilcorp): Billionaire owner of Houston-based Hilcorp, noted for operating a vast number of wells.
Kelcy Warren (Energy Transfer): Billionaire cofounder of the pipeline company.
Top Energy Billionaires (Forbes Data)
Gennady Timchenko & Mikhail Fridman: Russian energy magnates with major stakes in companies like Novatek and Alfa Group, ranking among the richest despite market volatility.
“I call up France, Macron – whose wife treats him extremely badly. Still recovering from the right to the jaw.”
This is about all the U$A can produce:
It is not the first time that Donald Trump has resorted to this kind of language. But the timing, as always, is everything.
His remarks about Emmanuel Macron, delivered during a private lunch in Washington, were crude and personal, yet also deeply political.
Macron’s response—measured but unmistakable—was to dismiss them as “neither elegant nor up to standard,” adding that they did not merit a reply.
But to treat this as merely another episode of improvised rhetoric is to miss its significance.
Trump’s attack on Macron did not emerge in a vacuum. It came as part of a broader complaint, one that placed France—and by extension other NATO allies—at the center of a narrative of absence.
It is astonishing how most of us spend our entire lives assuming that our modern industrial existence is completely normal.
We think that it is quite normal to inject cocktails of chemicals into a baby’s bloodstream as soon as it is born, quite normal to rear children on industrial fake-food and toxic tooth-rotting gunge, quite normal to let them be snatched away from their families to have their heads filled with whatever the corporate slave-masters deem useful.
We consider it normal for a child to get used to the idea that its time is not its own, that most of its waking hours must be spent obeying orders and performing tasks that may be of no interest to it.
We find it normal that young people are sorted and sifted like vegetables on a conveyor belt and that at the end of their so-called “education” it is revealed that this has really just been about lining them up for their place as a cog in the great machine of sustainable exploitation.
We deem it normal that life = job, that success = money, that respectability lies in conformity, that safety and security can best be attained through cowardice and hypocrisy.
We imagine that it is normal to the point of necessity to have a machine to move us from one place to another, a machine to wash our clothes, a machine to do the dishes, a machine to make soup, a machine to sweep the floor, a machine to chop wood, a machine to cut the grass.
We regard it as normal to sit in front of a screen and have persons unknown present to us their version of reality, to programme us with whatever aspiration, fear, shame or guilt best suits their agenda.
We tell ourselves it is normal to simply submit to this control, to be a good citizen – not an extremist or a trouble-maker – and to accept that it is our solemn duty never to question what our masters tell us.
We accept that it is quite normal to have to toil for decades simply to have a roof over our heads, to have to buy water, to be milked by debt, to pay for “insurance”, to be taxed on what we earn and what we spend, to be ripped off and robbed blind again and again and again.
We fool ourselves that it is normal to spend our lives as half-humans, spineless and domesticated, acting out a script of sorry servility and trying to believe that we have found happiness in the comfort of our beautifully upholstered cells, in the reassuring restraint of our designer chains, in the delusion of democracy, in our pride in Progress, in the heap of precious plastic baubles that we have lovingly spent our lifetimes accumulating and admiring.
All of this may indeed be normal in the sense that our parents and grandparents probably lived much the same way and we therefore know nothing different.
But it is certainly not natural – it is not the way in which we were meant to live, in which we should live and in which we could live again if we found the strength to finally snap out of this civilizational catatonia.
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The above piece features in the latest Acorn bulletin from my Winter Oak site. Below is the rest of the content.
When we talk about “the technological system”, we refer to the technical, economic and political system formed by the global interconnection of all the authoritarian technologies of the Industrial Age. Technologies that we describe as authoritarian, in that their high degree of complexity makes them escape human democratic controls.
Industries form a world-system.
Technologies are characterized by the fact that they could not exist without each other: the computer needs the Internet; servers need electricity; the electrical industry needs roads; the concrete industry needs oil; oil the extractive industry; the extractivist industry the military industry; the military industry the digital industry, and so on (to name a few).
This world-system structures our existence.
This system is thus structured from the extraction of raw materials in mines, to the consumption of energy or materials in cities and industries, through the repression and enlistment of populations as workers in factories, or through their entertainment using the mass media and the electoral masquerade maintained by all technoprogressive politicians.
Technology is not neutral.
We talk about a system because judging each modern technology one by one, to take them out of their political and productive context and their supply of energy/materials, is absurd. Producing and maintaining any modern technology depends precisely on a particular political regime, on an interconnection to a multitude of other technologies grouped together within a “technological system”.
The technological system must be dismantled.
This is the very thing we want to dismantle, because we have no problem with the countless low-powered democratic techniques and tools that our ancestors used for thousands of years. What we refuse today is the submitting of the entire human race to the crazy implications of a set of interconnected technologies which imposes on everything and everyone its needs (in materials and energies) and whose very systemic structure annihilates any possibility of democracy or autonomy.
Down with the technological system, long live the technical autonomy of free humans!
Israelis eye up BRICS membership
The idea that Israel, so close to the USA, might join the rival “multipolar” BRICS bloc currently sounds far-fetched.
But there are voices in that country calling for that very outcome, which seems less implausible when one considers its links to India and its growing economic ties with China.
One Israeli website, Israel by Locals, writes: “While Israel’s inclusion in BRICS is not imminent, its engagement with BRICS members, particularly Russia, India, and China, reflects a strategic shift in the country’s foreign policy as it seeks to secure its position in a changing global landscape”.
The article stresses the need for “diversifying strategic partnership” and argues that “Israel seeks to balance its reliance on the United States and expand its strategic relationships beyond the Washington-Jerusalem axis”.
The bigger picture is that Pax Americana has nearly had its day and that the new axis of global power is planned to be that between Asia and Africa, with Israel – or rather Greater Israel – sitting nicely in the middle.
It is not just one website saying this, either – the Israeli NGO Dor Moria (“Bridging Cultures, Building Futures”), which claims to represent Russian-speaking Israelis, is very interested in the idea of Israel joining BRICS at some point in the future.
It has been sounding out public opinion on the issue and concludes: “In general, if Israel joins the BRICS alliance, Israelis expect positive changes in all areas of the country’s life. They associate the most positive expectations with economic stability and improved foreign policy”.
On June 27 2024 Dor Moria held what it calls “a significant event” in Tel Aviv entitled “Israel: Between the Collective West and the Global South”.
It reports: “A key outcome of the meeting was the formation of the ‘Coordination Council for Israel’s Cooperation with BRICS Countries’”.
Bob Friedman, the chairman of its supervisory board and Gregory Pelman, its director of international projects, recorded “a resonant video address” aimed at the Indian public.
“The message, calling for support of Israel’s accession to BRICS, was published in more than 30 Indian media outlets, indicating a growing interest in Israel’s potential rapprochement with the Global South”.
This (less-than-resonant) video, published on YouTube under the heading “Israeli Society Eyes BRICS Membership with India’s Support” promotes a conference called Socially Responsible Entrepreneurs for ONEFUTURE.
It says: “The goal of the conference is to promote the expansion of Israel’s cooperation with BRICS countries in various fields, from culture and education to high technologies and peace-keeping”.
Friedman declares: “We are confident that BRICS members will open up new opportunities for Israel”.
The video voice-over explains: “According to experts, the BRICS membership will allow Israel to diversify its foreign economic ties, strengthen its international position and leverage the potential of the developing markets to stimulate its growth.
“Strategic reorientation towards cooperation with the Global South will contribute to the country’s economic stability and prosperity.
“Dor Moriah and the member organisations of the coordination council will continue to work on promoting the idea of Israel joining BRICS”.
As the Israel by Locals site concedes: “One significant challenge Israel faces in relation to BRICS is the Palestinian issue.
“BRICS countries tend to vote against Israel on Palestinian-related matters, extending the legacy of the Non-Aligned Movement. For example, in 2011, Brazil, India, and South Africa supported UN recognition of Palestine as a state.
“However, BRICS as an institution has not engaged extensively in direct international diplomacy concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”.
This failure of BRICS as a whole to take a political position regarding Israel’s conduct has also been true of the conflict with Iran – one of the newest BRICS members.
Middle East Eyenoted on March 3 2026: “Whereas every member of the original core – besides India – has released individual statements either condemning or raising concerns about the killing of Khamenei, the bloc itself has yet to utter a word as a collective”.
It quotes Priyal Singh, a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in Pretoria, as saying: “Modi was basically in Israel, hugging Netanyahu and making it very clear that, seemingly, there’s a much stronger solidarity or kinship between these two leaders, and this is going to extend officially into the respective bilateral relations”.
Singh said that India’s closeness to Israel, as well as Iran’s retaliatory attacks on the UAE, in particular, has probably made it even harder for BRICS to reach a place of consensus.
The article continues: “BRICS is currently chaired by New Delhi, which last week upgraded India-Israel ties to ‘a special strategic partnership’ and whose statements and actions since have been interpreted as being aligned with Israel’s war on Iran. On 1 March, India condemned Iran’s missile strikes on the UAE.
“The bloc has been routinely divided and seemingly paralysed by differing agendas and a lack of alignment on global issues – from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
“But its inability to respond to an attack and attempt at the overthrow of the government of a permanent member of the bloc may just be the most damaging hit to its credibility yet”.
This remarkable incoherence is ascribed partly to BRICS’s “institutional design” and partly to “the economic policies and investments of individual states – including significant trade ties with Israel”.
In other words, the BRICS project is really all just about money – unsurprisingly since it is simply yet another front for the same old global mafia!
Patrick Bond of the University of Johannesburg said: “If the BRICS don’t break, it will probably be because for most, their commonality is more powerful, namely corporate profiteering in Israel”.
He said that BRICS countries’ continued commitment to economic deals with Israel was ultimately likely to “outweigh genuine solidarity with Iran, just as we have seen recently with Venezuela and probably soon in Cuba, too.
“No BRICS ruling class will come to Iran’s aid when at the same time, their class interests are in Israel’s prosperity, genocide or not”.
The latest in our series of profiles from the organic radicals website.
“Progress is theft. Progress is slave-mongering. Progress is murder. Progress is genocide.”
Derrick Jensen (1960-) is a contemporary radical deep green writer who argues that the industrial capitalist system must be brought to an end.
His clear and direct language leaves no room for doubt about the urgency of the environmental crisis and the scale of the response that is needed.
Jensen writes in his 2011 book Dreams: “We must do everything necessary to decisively and finally bring down civilization before it kills any more of the planet.
“Because if the scientific, materialist, instrumentalist perspective is true, this culture will continue its routine and necessary destructiveness until it collapses or is stopped”. (1)
He explains that to stop a train, you dismantle the infrastructure that allows the train to run and, likewise, “to curtail global warming, you dismantle the infrastructure that causes global warming”. (2)
Jensen’s philosophy is not obviously sourced from other organic radical inspirations, but rather inspired directly both by contact with nature and by the cultures of the indigenous peoples of North America.
He explains the indigenous belief that we are guided by “original instructions” and have a responsibility to live according to them.
“Original instructions presume we come into this world carrying with us advice on how to live properly, how to fit in, how to do what is right; and even more crucially, we come into this world having been given a personal and social framework for looking for that advice, for finding it in our daily lives, in dreams, in our relationships with others, and in these others’ actions”. (3)
But the people of the modern industrial West have lost touch with all that and are totally unaware that “a world of meaning surrounds them, a world of meaning that gave birth to them (back when they were alive, back when they were human), a world of meaning waiting to welcome them home”. (4)
The central character in Jensen’s 2009 novel Songs of the Dead is psychologically wounded by the life-hating violence of the ‘wetiko’ invaders and makes an interesting comment about the difficulties for people of European descent in America to link into a collective unconscious.
“I asked for dreams. Nothing. I looked at the stars and asked. Nothing. I sat beneath trees and asked. Nothing. I held soil in my hands and asked. Nothing. My only hint of anything, and I’m sure this was simply a projection on my part, was a faint voice saying, ‘I can’t hear you very well. You’re too far away.’
“Projection or not, what the voice said to me was true. My ancestors, the ones whose blood mingled for generations with the same soil, are half a world away in Europe, too far away to be able – at least with my inexperience – to help me”. (5)
In another passage from the book, Jensen conjures up a dream vision from the vibrant, interconnected, human-natural world that has been buried, apparently forever, under the grey concrete of Western civilization.
He writes: “I see Indians dancing. I see fires. I see days and nights and years of celebrations and mournings. I see people making love. I see the same for all kinds of animals, all kinds of plants.
“I see them living, dying, loving, hating. I see generation after generation of human, generation after generation of cedar, generation after generation of porcupine, generation after generation of ant, generation after generation of grasses, mosses, generation after generation of fire.
“And suddenly I see even more. I see generation after generation of muse, dreamgiver, demon, walking back and forth between worlds. I see geese and martens and wrentits moving between worlds. I see humans moving between worlds. I see all these worlds being renewed by this intercourse, this movement across borders porous and impenetrable and permeable and impermeable and breathing and alive as skin.
“I see these worlds winding and unwinding, tangling and untangling like the lovers they are, and I see moments in time, too, winding and unwinding, tangling and untangling like the lovers that they are, too. These worlds, these moments, they are not one, they are not two. They are lovers, like any others”. (6)
It is this “direct and supra-mental intellection” – as Frithjof Schuon put it – which has been so stifled by a system of living and thinking based on quantity rather than quality, the material rather than the spiritual.
Jensen writes: “This culture devalues introspection, and many of us are trained to do whatever we can to fill (and kill) time so we never have to be alone with who and what we have become, and so we never can become who we really are and were meant to be”. (7)
This, for Jensen, amounts to a mental illness afflicting our civilization and he declares in his two-volume 2006 work Endgame that “the culture as a whole and most of its members are insane”. (8)
This insanity includes the belief that somehow the society we are living in is the apex of evolution and that science and its technocratic world have been a force for good.
He comments: “Sure, science brought us television, modern medicine (and modern diseases), and cardboard-tasting strawberries in January, but anyone who would rather have those than a living planet is, well, a typical member of this culture”. (9)
In view of the destruction we have already witnessed, and that which seems to lie ahead, Jensen argues that it is absurd for people to retain faith in the industrial capitalist myth of “progress”.
He declares: “Progress is pure selfishness. Progress is theft. Progress is slave-mongering. Progress is murder. Progress is genocide. Progress is ecocide. Progress is sociopathy”. (10)
Living in this mad world, plummeting towards destruction, inevitably produces feelings of despair in many of us: “How do we go on living, when every day our hearts break anew?” (11) asks Jensen.
This insanity is not something we can run away from, he insists: “There is nowhere, no one, safe from the murderous cult that is this culture”. (12)
Instead, we are obliged to resist, to try to bring about a fundamental change in the direction that human society has taken.
Jensen was one of the founders of the Deep Green Resistance movement and frustration with the insipid pseudo-radicalism of mainstream environmentalism runs through his work.
For instance, he is scathing about the reformist target of “sustainable development”, pointing out: “It is an oxymoron, since ‘development’ is a euphemism in this case for industrialization, which is by definition unsustainable; in fact, industrialization is utterly, irrevocably, and functionally antithetical to sustainability”. (13)
When people ask how they can make current society more sustainable, they are really asking how they can make it more sustainable without stopping or even significantly curtailing industrialism, adds Jensen.
The way in which we fight industrial capitalism also needs to go way beyond the ineffective symbolic level on which so much political action takes place, he argues.
He writes in Endgame: “If a foreign power (or space aliens) were to do to us and our landbases what the dominant culture does – do their damnedest to turn the planet into a lifeless pile of carcinogenic wastes, and kill, incarcerate, or immiserate those who do not collaborate – we would each and every one of us – at least those of us with the slightest courage, dignity, or sense of self-preservation – fight them to the death, ours or far preferably theirs. But we don’t fight. For the most part we don’t even resist. How’s it feel to be civilized? How’s it feel to be a slave?” (14)
For Jensen the environmental cause is not some kind of add-on struggle that can be allocated a little slot as one of a variety of political issues, but an obvious and urgent existential priority.
As he comments in Dreams: “If we don’t stop them from killing the planet, nothing else matters”. (15)
1. Derrick Jensen, Dreams (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2011), pp. 25-26. 2. Jensen, Dreams, p. 249. 3. Jensen, Dreams, p. 445. 4. Jensen, Dreams, p. 274. 5. Derrick Jensen, Songs of the Dead (PM Press: Oakland, 2009), p. 167. 6. Jensen, Songs of the Dead, pp. 260-61. 7. Jensen, Dreams, p. 215. 8. Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol 1: The Problem of Civilization (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2006), p. 151. 9. Jensen, Dreams, p. 110. 10. Jensen, Dreams, p. 173. 11. Jensen, Dreams, p. 319. 12. Jensen, Dreams, p. 320. 13. Jensen, Dreams, p. 26. 14. Jensen, Endgame, Vol 1, pp. 200-01. 15. Jensen, Dreams, p. 221.
So, they’re not surprised at the mass slaughter of men, women, children, disabled, medics, doctors, teachers, ambulance drivers in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Gaza, Iran by Jews of Israel?
On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communication devices and detonated them remotely, killing 37 people and injuring nearly 3,000, including children.
In this special documentary report, journalist Rania Khalek goes inside the attack, tracing the human toll of one of Israel’s most chilling operations to date. Through interviews with survivors, families, and legal experts, the Khalek exposes the international complicity that made it possible, and the resilience of those who lived through it. This is the untold story of the pager attack.
Surprise Surprise Surprise, that religion:
Not that dirty religious cuntry?
Death penalty by any means necessary, as in Blood Libel:
“CPJ is investigating this latest attack on journalists in Lebanon which has been an increasingly deadly zone for journalists, despite their status as civilians who must not be targeted,” said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. “We have seen a disturbing pattern in this war and in the decades prior of Israel accusing journalists of being active combatants and terrorists without providing credible evidence. Journalists are not legitimate targets, regardless of the outlet they work for.”
Lebanon’s president Joseph Aoun and the Lebanese Minister of Information Paul Morcos denounced the killing of the journalists, with president Aoun calling the attack “a blatant crime that violates all the norms and treaties under which journalists enjoy international protection in wars.”
CPJ has documented the killing of at least four other journalists across the Middle East since the outbreak of the Iran war in late February. The targeting of the three journalists comes two days after the killing of the photojournalist Hussain Hamood, and 9 days after the killing of journalist Mohammed Sherri, who also worked for Al-Manar TV, in an Israeli strike in central Beirut. This latest attack brings the total number of press members killed in Lebanon since the Israel-Gaza war began to 11.
Oh, those death penalties approved by the US of Assholes: We dug up medics in Gaza. A year later, international law remains buried
Israel has created an environment of impunity for attacks on healthcare that has spread well beyond Gaza’s borders.
This is what genocide looks like. It is not only the killing – though the killing has been vast and documented. It is also the deliberate dismantling of everything a population needs to survive: their hospitals, their water, their food supply, their civil registry, their police, their medics.
Surprise Surprise Surprise.
Irgun Zvai Leumi: Led by Menachem Begin, this group targeted British military and civilian infrastructure to force a British exit. Notable attacks included the King David Hotel bombing in 1946, killing 91 people, including many civilians.
Lehi (Stern Gang): Founded by Avraham Stern, this militant group assassinated British Minister Lord Moyne in 1944 and fought for the creation of a Jewish state.
The Sergeants Affair (1947): Irgun members kidnapped and murdered two British intelligence sergeants—Mervyn Paice and Clifford Martin—in retaliation for the sentencing of militants.
Casualties: Over the course of the mandate, approximately 750 British soldiers and police were killed by these actions.
Targeting Others:
Palestinians: Zionist militias engaged in attacks against Arab civilians to compel displacement, including the 1948 Deir Yassin massacre.
United Nations: Lehi assassinated UN representative Lord Moyne and targeted UN officials.
Thursday 31 July 1947
It is with deep regret that I confirm the reports which have been current during the past 24 hours that the two British sergeants, Paice and Martin, abducted at Nathanya on 12th July, have been murdered by Jewish terrorists.
I received today the following telegram from the High Commissioner for Palestine:
“Most deeply regret to inform you that the two bodies were found at 9 o’clock this morning in an eucalyptus grove at Umm Uleiqa, near Beit Lid. They were hanging from two trees. Notices were pinned to the bodies saying that the men had been hanged by the National Military Organisation as British spies. The first body was cut down by an Army captain, and as he bent over it a small bomb exploded, injuring him in the face. The surrounding area was found to have been mined.”
Shit, THOSE Jews: Picture of Clifford Martin and Mervyn Paice, the two British sergeants kidnapped and hanged by the Irgun in 1947.
Those fucking friendly neuroperverse supremacists: Back when the British ruled, the Jewish underground (criminal mafia) blew up part of the King David, but this time around, security measures are likely to make the place one of the safest venues on earth
Those fucking Jews:
Above: the “earthquake bomb” that Israel dropped on Syria in December 2024.
This week, the UN’s Mohamad Safa resigned from his position to tell the world that Washington is strongly considering a nuclear attack against Iran. We should take the danger of this happening very seriously, and we must reckon with the apocalyptic harm that Zionism and imperialism have already inflicted on the region’s people during this war. The “worst-case scenario” has already come for all of the people in Lebanon, Gaza, and Iran who Washington has murdered in these last few weeks alone. But when we see these mass-scale atrocities and plans for nuclear holocaust, we need to recognize just how desperate of a mentality our enemies are now operating off of. This isn’t the posture of a confident empire, it’s how Washington is acting when Iran has just taken away its ability to gain submission. The Axis of Resistance has dismantled U.S. hard power in West Asia, to a degree where the foreign policy heads are now deeply wishing to re-create Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Oh, that death penalty passed by the fucking synagogues and fake liberal Jews worldwide:
Israel (most Jews) wants the US to bomb more of Iran’s civilian structures (113,000 is not enough) … Over 90,000 homes, 21,000 commercial facilities, 760 educational centers damaged, says the Iranian Red Crescent.
Sure, fucking psychotic white boys: Douglas Macgregor: Iran War Destroyed NATO, Gulf States, Israel & U.S. Empire
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“I wish users of EBT (SNAP… Foodstamps) would be more responsible about the things they buy here.”
There you have it, from a cashier at a Safeway that is going to be closed in June 2026. Imagine that, be more responsible?
SNAP is highly effective at improving food security. Food insecurity, when a household doesn’t have enough resources to buy enough food, makes it harder for people to manage illness and is linked to chronic health conditions and higher health care costs. Food assistance from SNAP reduces the overall prevalence of food insecurity by as much as 30 percent, and is even more effective among children and those with “very low food security,” that is, when one or more household members have to skip meals or otherwise eat less during the year because they don’t have enough money.One study found that food insecurity among children fell by roughly a third after their families received SNAP benefits for six months. Emerging evidence also suggests that SNAP helps decrease decades-long racial inequities in food security, reducing the gap between Black and Hispanic households, which are more likely to experience food insecurity because of starkly unequal opportunities and outcomes in education, employment, health, and housing, and white households.
SNAP’s return on investment far outweighs its costs. By investing directly in the health and well-being of low-income children, SNAP provides lasting gains not only for the children who participate, but for the nation. One study estimated that every SNAP dollar invested in children returns $62 in value over their lifetimes (due to a range of benefits including improved educational outcomes, higher earnings in adulthood, increased life expectancy, and increased government tax revenue). SNAP should be seen as an investment that will deliver continuing benefits for the life trajectories of children and the broader economy.
SNAP plays a critical role in supporting families and local communities during economic downturns. In a weak economy, every $1 in additional spending on SNAP benefits generates $1.54 in economic activity as households use their benefits to shop at over 250,000 local grocery stores and supermarkets, spurring new spending throughout local economies across the country.
SNAP frees up money that can be used for health-promoting activities and is linked with better access to preventive health care and reduced health care costs. Food assistance acts as an income boost, allowing people to spend money that would otherwise have been used for food on health-related activities. Infants and children in families receiving food assistance from SNAP are more likely to see a doctor for periodic check-ups. Older adults participating in SNAP are more likely to take the full dosage of prescription medications because they have enough income to afford food and medicine, compared to low-income older adults not participating in SNAP, who may have to make difficult choices about stretching their medication to afford enough food. SNAP may also help low-income older adults live independently in their communities and avoid hospitalization. Low-income adults participating in SNAP incur $1,400 — nearly 25 percent — less in medical care costs than low-income non-participants.
SNAP has near-term and long-lasting effects, improving health, education, and economic outcomes that extend from childhood into adulthood. SNAP participants are more likely to report excellent or very good health than low-income non-participants. One study found that test scores among students in SNAP households are highest for those receiving benefits two to three weeks before the test. Another study found that SNAP was associated with a reduced likelihood of repeating a grade among children in low-income families. Studies have found children have improved birth outcomes and better health, education, and employment outcomes as adults if they had SNAP access during early childhood or if their parent had SNAP access during pregnancy. There is emerging evidence showing the association of SNAP with reduced risk of premature death.
So, proof of work, training and job search? ecent federal changes are expanding work requirements for some Oregonians who receive SNAP food benefits, prompting state agencies to urge recipients to connect with free job search and training help through WorkSource Oregon.
The changes mean some adults must meet work requirements to keep getting benefits for longer than three months, and they apply to more people than in the past, including some adults up to age 64 and some households with older children.
Targeted: Iranian women in the ruins of their apartment building, destroyed by US-Israeli bombing of residential areas, Tehran, 12 March 2026
Few experts consider the war launched by the US and Israel against Iran to be legal. Without the approval of the United Nations Security Council – which was not sought – only self-defence could have justified such a sudden and massive use of force.
In spite of Israel’s decades-long efforts, ‘preventative self-defence’ is not recognised in international law. Some experts in international law have tried to promote a new concept – ‘pre-emptive’ military action in response to an ‘imminent threat’ that could only be addressed by military means.
PROOF of work? These cocksuckers in the war monger class? Imagine that, all those trillions for the war machine, a machine that kills, destroys, upsets, breaks, distrupts, murders — what do they do for society but add to the costs of war. Proof of work, Trump and Company?
These fucking retards never ever question the costs of their nephews or daughters in the uniformed mercenary disserveces?
It costs approximately $6.5 million to $8 million per day to operate a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier strike group, including personnel, fuel, and aircraft maintenance. This high cost covers a “floating city” of over 5,000 crew members, operating a nuclear-powered vessel and its supporting air wing, often including accompanying destroyers and submarines.
Daily Operational Costs: The average $6.5M–$8M daily figure covers the carrier, its aircraft, and the accompanying strike group.
Personnel Costs: A significant portion (about $3 million daily) is dedicated to salaries, benefits, and food for the 4,000–5,000 personnel aboard.
Fuel Consumption: While nuclear-powered, the vessels consume significant aviation fuel. During intense operations, fuel costs can exceed $350,000 a day.
Aircraft Maintenance: Operating the aircraft assigned to a carrier is incredibly expensive, costing roughly $1.8 billion per year, or roughly $5 million per day just for the planes.
Active Deployment Costs: In specific, high-intensity scenarios, such as patrolling near Iran, the cost can be lower for specific missions, such as the estimated $2.5 million per day for the USS Abraham Lincoln.
Sure, those fucking Food Stamp scammers:
The estimated total daily cost to keep the U.S. military fed is approximately $50 million to $60 million, based on 2026 fiscal data.
Of course, I came back with a strong retort, reminding her that the billionaires and the rich are you worried about what unhealthy or unnecessary food and stuff those cunts buy?
Oh, those tax dollars paying for these fucking mass murderers, but it’s the poor scamming the SNAP.
Ahmed Al-Harsh waited outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Monday to meet his son, a toddler and the only other survivor of his entire family.
“I’m waiting for my son Mahmoud. I haven’t seen him in two and a half years except once, before he was transferred to Egypt. I’ve been waiting for two and a half years,” Al-Harsh, 31, told Drop Site News.
Mahmoud is one of 28 Palestinian infants who were evacuated to Egypt as premature babies in November 2023 from the neonatal intensive care unit in Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, as the Israeli military laid siege to the medical complex and raided it. Mahmoud and seven other children were returned to Gaza on Monday to be reunited with their families, or what was left of them.
On October 14, 2023, one week into Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, the Israeli military bombed the Al-Harsh’s family home in the Jabaliya refugee camp. Al-Harsh’s entire family was killed in the attack—his four-year-old daughter, his father, mother, brother, sisters-in-law, nephews, and nieces. Al-Harsh initially thought his wife, who was eight months pregnant at the time, had also been killed. He only later learned that she had been gravely injured and had given birth to their son, Mahmoud, in hospital before succumbing to her injuries.
(top) Ahmed Al-Harsh outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis as he waits for his son, Mahmoud, to arrive after 2.5 years in Egypt. 9bottom) Ahmed Al-Harsh holds up a photo of his son Mahmoud on his phone. March 30, 2026. Screenshots of video provided by Abdel Qader Sabbah.
Al-Harsh was able to see Mahmoud only once before he was taken to the neonatal intensive care unit in Al-Shifa’s hospital for care. He had been staying in Beit Lahia, unable to move amid the escalating Israeli assault. In November, Israel laid siege to Al-Shifa hospital, surrounding the medical complex and cutting it off from the rest of Gaza City before raiding it on November 15. Doctors inside scrambled to keep their patients alive, including the nearly 40 premature babies in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit, Mahmoud among them. There was no electricity and incubators were failing. The World Health Organization, which was able to coordinate a one-hour visit to Al-Shifa at the time, described the hospital as a “death zone.”
After much negotiation, 31 premature babies were evacuated from Al-Shifa on November 19 and taken to Rafah. UNICEF said the conditions of the babies had been “rapidly deteriorating” inside the besieged hospital. Five died before they could be evacuated. The next day, 28 of the babies were transported across the border to Egypt for treatment. None were accompanied by family members.
For the past two and a half years, Al-Harsh has seen his son only in photos or videos sent to him from Egypt—first as an infant, then a toddler. “The feeling is indescribable. What can I tell you about this feeling?” he said. “These two years felt like forty, even more—a lifetime. During this time, I was a body without a soul. I couldn’t work or do anything.”
Sundus al-Kurd reunites with her daughter Bissan after 2.5 years in Khan Younis on March 31, 2026. Bissan was born premature and evacuated to Egypt during an Israeli military attack on Al-Shifa Hospital in November 2023.
That death by 10,000,000 cuts PENALTY:
More than 750 schools. Over 300 healthcare centers. And 90,000-plus homes.
The US and Israel have destroyed or damaged more than 115,000 civilian structures, Iran’s Red Crescent Society says – leaving behind a system of chaos, with hospitals, schools, water plants, and civilian roadways turned to dust or rendered useless.
But the toll goes far beyond the loss of structures: The chaos has put enormous pressure on the country’s healthcare workers and first responders, disrupted education for students at every level, and displaced hundreds of thousands, inflicting both physical and psychological trauma that will take many years to recover from, if Iranians can at all.
“Destruction here is not simply material loss,” Tehran’s municipal spokesperson, Abdulmutahhar Mohammad Khani, tells me. “It means disrupting the lives of citizens and inflicting profound psychological and social harm.”
Death PENALTIES by another fucking Jewish Mother!!
International sanctions were reimposed on Iran to influence its leadership. They were leveled to curb Iran’s nuclear program but have caused medical shortages that hit the country’s most vulnerable citizens hardest.
