Zionism is a racist and settler colonialist movement, which opportunistically coopts aspects of Judaism in an attempt to justify its criminal practices of apartheid and genocide of indigenous Palestinians. White supremacy is dominant within Israeli society, which privileges white-skinned Ashkenazi Jews at the expense of dark-skinned African Jews, Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews as well as African refugees. African/black Jewish communities are often denied recognition by Israeli authorities with some members even deported.
The millions of documents published by the Justice Department last month reveal Epstein’s disturbing fascination with eugenic science, expressed through research linked to the intelligence services of multiple governments. Epstein covertly negotiated access to dangerous and ethically dubious technology between financial elites, often alluding to grand ambitions for reshaping both the human genome and the world order.
Drop Site News has spent the past several months exposing Epstein’s ties to U.S. and Israeli intelligence. Our full series is available here.
In a lunchroom at Anthropic, an A.I.-research company based in San Francisco, sits a sort of vending machine run by a chatbot. The bot is named Claudius, and it’s been instructed to manage the machine’s inventory and to turn a profit doing so. Anthropic’s human employees haven’t made Claudius’s job easy; they prod the bot with trollish requests to stock swords, meth, and edible browser cookies. But, even without all the human interference, Claudius has struggled with some basic business principles: staffers had to explain that it was unlikely to sell much Coke Zero, for instance, given that it’s available elsewhere in the cafeteria, for free.
Pranking an A.I. vending machine may not sound like particularly important work. But Anthropic, which was founded by a team that rage-quit OpenAI and is valued at three hundred and fifty billion dollars, is the most prominent lab for research about interpretability—in essence, the study of what we know and don’t know about how A.I. really works. (Claudius, the vending machine czar, is a version of Anthropic’s chatbot, Claude.) For this week’s issue, Gideon Lewis-Kraus goes inside the company, where he talks to dozens of people and explores this central question in artificial intelligence. I caught up with him by phone earlier this week, to discuss what he learned.
[Gideon Lewis-Kraus is a Jewish-American author, journalist, and New Yorker staff writer whose work frequently explores themes of faith, secularism, and Jewish identity. His memoir, A Sense of Direction, chronicles pilgrimages that include visiting the tomb of a Hasidic mystic in Ukraine with his father, a rabbi.]
[Anthropic’s major investors include tech giants like Microsoft and Google, cloud providers like Amazon, and prominent investment firms such as Sequoia Capital, Coatue Management, GIC, Iconiq Capital, and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with large strategic investments from Microsoft and Amazon, and significant funding rounds involving numerous other financial players like Fidelity, BlackRock, and Nvidia.]
How’s that working out for ecosystems, forests, coral reefs, community employment and energy resilience, air, water, food?
What’s the fucking Jewish-run AI going to say about: Will the US or Israel Attack Iran in the next two weeks?
That’s a very understandable question — especially given how tense things have been in that region lately. However, no one outside government or military intelligence circles can predict with certainty whether the U.S. or Israel will launch a military attack against Iran in the next two weeks.
Here’s what can be said based on current open-source intelligence and geopolitical patterns (as of early 2024):
🌀 Current Situation
Tensions remain high: Israel and Iran have been in a long-standing shadow conflict—cyberattacks, covert operations, proxy clashes (like in Syria and Lebanon), and maritime incidents.
U.S. position: The U.S. typically prefers to avoid open conflict with Iran. However, it has increased its regional deterrence (aircraft carriers, missile defense, and naval presence) to contain escalation.
Iran’s posture: Iran has continued nuclear development and influence across the region through groups like Hezbollah and the Houthis, which raises risks of military friction.
⚖️ Key Factors That Could Trigger Action
Major Iranian attack on Israeli or U.S. assets or allies (directly or via proxies).
Evidence of imminent threat such as movement toward nuclear weaponization.
Political developments within Israel or the U.S. that make force more appealing or strategically necessary.
At the moment, there’s no verified intelligence or official movement suggesting an immediate large-scale strike is planned. Most military analysts currently assess the probability of open conflict in the next two weeks as low but nonzero — incidents or small reprisals are more likely than a full-scale attack.
📊 What to Watch
Sudden military alert or reserve mobilization in Israel
Evacuation advisories or travel warnings from Western embassies
Large-scale movements of U.S. or Israeli forces toward the Theater of Operations
Sharp escalation by Iranian proxies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, or Yemen
🕊️ Summary
Likelihood of full-scale attack in next two weeks: Low
Likelihood of continued covert or limited military actions: Moderate to high
Tensions: Ongoing and serious
Would you like me to give you a risk assessment model or timeline projection based on current intelligence trends and historical patterns? That could give a clearer sense of near-term escalation risks.
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1) No confirmed imminent attack orders
As of the latest reporting, there is no published or official confirmation that the U.S. or Israel has launched or scheduled a military attack on Iran in the next two weeks. Current news and government statements point to continued deliberation, diplomacy, and threat rhetoric, not an imminent strike.
2) U.S. is still publicly debating options
The U.S. White House has said President Trump is weighing whether to take action but has not ordered a definitive strike. In recent briefings, U.S. officials state negotiations with Iran and diplomatic options are still active.
3) Israel hasn’t announced a scheduled offensive
Analysts note that some Israeli officials want stronger action against Iran’s nuclear program, but there’s no official, publicly announced plan for an Israeli military assault in the immediate weeks ahead.
4) Iran is reacting strongly but not stepping back from talks
Iran continues to issue warnings of retaliation if attacked and has emphasized diplomatic communications, though tensions remain high.
5) Experts emphasize high risk but not certainty
Independent analysts describe the situation as tense and volatile, with the potential for conflict escalation, but they do not assert that a major attack is scheduled or inevitable within the next two weeks.
Context on Conflict Dynamics
The U.S. and Israel have both hinted at military options if diplomacy fails, but threats, troop movements, and debate do not equal a confirmed attack order.
Past cycles of escalation in the region have included warnings, deployments, negotiations, and sometimes limited strikes — but not automatic full-scale war. Also, high-level officials repeatedly state they “prefer negotiations” over conflict.
Bottom Line
There’s no publicly confirmed intelligence or official announcement that a U.S. or Israeli attack on Iran is scheduled for the next two weeks. What exists right now are:
strong political/military posturing,
ongoing high tension,
and continued diplomatic engagement.
This means that while escalation risk remains significant, the current evidence does not support a definitive prediction that either country will attack Iran imminently.
If you want, I can explain what triggers could make an attack more likely, or break down the military and diplomatic conditions that analysts watch most closely.
Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.
Over 50 U.S. Air Force fighters and roughly 20 tanker aircraft packed onto one Middle Eastern air base. Not declared in any big speech, not shown in glossy Pentagon videos. Just… there.
Like a quiet message, waiting for someone to notice.It’s easy to jump to worst‑case scenarios when you see so much grey metal in one place. Anxiety loves a zoom button. An empathetic view starts with this: every government in the region, not just Washington, is scared of miscalculation. Many of these planes are there to prevent the slide from crisis to catastrophe, even if their very presence also raises the temperature.
“Aircraft are not just weapons, they are messages,” says a retired European air force officer who has worked alongside U.S. units in the Gulf. “When you send 50 fighters and 20 tankers to one airfield, every serious actor in the region understands you’re writing a message in bold, whether you admit it or not.”
Look at mix, not just numbers: Fighters plus tankers equals reach; add surveillance jets and you’re looking at a full campaign toolkit.
Watch for rotation patterns: if new satellite shots in a few weeks show similar numbers, that’s a sustained posture, not a temporary surge.
Compare with public statements: When the rhetoric is about de‑escalation but the apron fills up, that gap tells its own story.
Notice regional reactions: sudden military drills, emergency summits, or sharper TV talk shows often echo what satellites already saw.
Don’t forget the basics: every extra aircraft on that ramp costs fuel, maintenance, crews, and political capital; nobody does this just for fun.
A quiet picture, and a louder question
This single overhead frame won’t decide war or peace. It won’t reveal secret clauses, back‑channel calls, or the private doubts of presidents and generals. It does something else: it pins down, in one frozen moment, what American power in the Middle East still looks like when the slogans are stripped away.
Rows of fighters. Lines of tankers. A base far from U.S. shores, close to many old fault lines. A reminder that, despite talk of withdrawal and fatigue, Washington still prefers to keep a loaded toolbox within reach of the region’s most explosive problems.
For people living under these flight paths, the image doesn’t feel abstract. It means nights listening for the distant rumble of engines, checking news alerts when something booms across the border, wondering whose jets just streaked overhead. For Americans scrolling past this on a phone, it’s a chance to ask a rare, uncomfortable question: how “out” of the Middle East are we really, if our most advanced aircraft are parked wingtip to wingtip on someone else’s sand?
The photograph doesn’t answer. It just keeps quietly asking.
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Duh! Palestinians say new Israeli measures in West Bank amount to de facto annexation,
Oh cry for me, Satanist Isr-ahh-Hell. “Israel has yet to prove that it can build defense-tech startups into a sustainable industry”
Fucking EUroTrash — Switzerland: The world’s largest shipping line has been enabling the transport of goods to and from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, as the United States and Europe continue to promote trade despite clear responsibilities under international law, a joint investigation by Al Jazeera and the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) reveals.
The Switzerland-based Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has regularly shipped cargo from companies based in Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, according to commercial documents obtained through US import databases.
Dirty dirty Epstein CLass Jews:
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the latest California billionaire heading for Florida, snapping up a massive waterfront mansion in Miami’s exclusive “Billionaire Bunker,” as Golden State lawmakers push a proposed 5% tax on the ultra-wealthy.
Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are buying a newly built mansion on Indian Creek, one of the area’s most expensive enclaves. The deal has not been confirmed as closed, sources with knowledge of the transaction told The Wall Street Journal, but neighbors said Zuckerberg plans to move in by April — signaling a relocation rather than a vacation home.
“People like Zuckerberg plan three moves ahead. That billionaire tax chatter has a lot of Palo Alto owners doing real math. If you’re staring at a potential 5% hit tied to net worth, Florida becomes a business decision. And Indian Creek is the clearest signal you’re serious, because it’s built for privacy and control,” Troy Dean Home CEO Troy Ippolito told Fox News Digital in reaction.
“This is a loud signal that South Florida is a primary market now. When someone at Zuckerberg’s level buys here, it changes buyer psychology overnight,” he continued. “If that tax actually moves forward, you’ll see the impact first at the very top, because there’s so little true trophy inventory.”
Oh, cry for me, China!
The United States is bolstering its presence at Japan’s Misawa Air Base with additional F-35 fighters, a strategic move designed to extend the reach of 5th-generation air power to the Taiwan Strait and mainland China without relying on vulnerable tankers.
This deployment fortifies a “semi-circular” perimeter of allied stealth aircraft stretching from Japan and South Korea to the Philippines and Australia, effectively encircling China’s coastline.
Something about the end of Zionism, of Israel? Jesus fucking Christ.
EU clears Google to purchase Israeli-founded cybersecurity unicorn Wiz for $32B
A small group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts seem poised to pay off.
Yep, Brokeback Mountain, and No Country for Thinking Young Men and Women:
Researchers at two Spanish universities have found that 84% of the contiguous U.S. states have shown signs of warming over the last 70 or so years, which is more than previously suggested.
In a report published last week in the journal PLOS Climate, the researchers found that 41 U.S. states have gotten warmer since the middle of the last century. Alaska and Hawaii weren’t included in the study.
The states’ warming patterns weren’t uniform, Jesús Gonzalo, an economist and professor at the University of Charles III in Madrid, explained using a riddle. In Spain, the satirical statistics joke goes: “There are two hungry people vying over a single chicken. One eats the entire thing, leaving the other to starve. So, on average, each person has eaten half of a chicken.”
In that scenario, the average amount of food consumed per person failed to convey the important fact that 50% of the pair whose chicken intake was being calculated had nothing to eat at all.
“The average doesn’t say much, no?” Gonzalo said.
Its premise exemplified the main conclusion of the report that Gonzalo co-authored, which urged researchers and policymakers to look beyond mathematical averages when evaluating how temperature trends relate to climate change.
In the report, Gonzalo and his co-author, María Dolores Gadea Rivas of Spain’s University of Zaragoza, wrote that although “the climate system functions on a global scale, its effects are experienced locally, resulting in significant regional variability.”
Sixth year of drought in Texas and Oklahoma leaves ranchers bracing for another harsh summer.
Many cattle producers and rangelands were still recovering from a severe 2010-2015 drought when a flash drought hit western Texas in spring 2020, marking the beginning of the current multibillion-dollar, multiyear and multistate drought. Ample spring rainfall in 2025 and severe flooding in central Texas that year weren’t enough to end the drought, and a powerful winter storm in late January 2026 missed the driest parts of the region.
Fucking crazy fucking fascist carcereal state story.
The world’s largest pencil maker has accused the Costa Rican government of misusing an old factory that the German manufacturer donated for humanitarian purposes – by detaining asylum seekers there who were deported from the US by the Trump administration last year.
Faber-Castell produces more than 2bn wooden pencils a year worldwide and used to have a factory in the southern part of Costa Rica, bordering Panama and supplied by trees cultivated in the region.
But it closed it down in 2013 because of adverse economic factors, and in 2018 the facility was gifted to Costa Rica by Faber-Castell. In a contract between the company and the ministry of public security, shared with the Guardian, Faber-Castell specified that the premises would be used as a shelter to offer refuge and humanitarian assistance for people migrating through the region.
JewWorld: Chairman, and CEO, Marc Benioff, is Jewish. Cut 1,000 roles at the beginning of this month, Business Insider reported on Monday, citing a person familiar with the matter.
The affected roles included marketing, product management, data analytics and Agentforce AI product, Business Insider said, citing LinkedIn posts and conversations with two employees. in early 2023, when Salesforce laid off approximately 8,000 employees, or about 10% of its total workforce at the time.
Semen Drip Pedophile and Rapist in Chief all about MAGA: US to cut $600 million in public health grants to Democrat-led states, Bloomberg reports
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President Trump’s allies in the Senate are planning to go to war with Democrats this week over proposed immigration enforcement reforms, working closely with White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller to play offense on what has been a strong issue for the president.
These Senate conservatives are gearing up to fight any potential deal with Democrats that would rein in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers by requiring them to obtain judicial search warrants and prohibiting them from wearing masks.
Graham, who watched the Super Bowl with Trump on Sunday, said Republicans need to seize political momentum by forcing Democrats to defend state and local officials who refuse to cooperate with ICE during operations in Minneapolis and other Democratic-run cities.
“We’re now going on offense,” Lindsey Graham told The Hill. “President Trump sent [border czar] Tom Homan to Minnesota to turn down the heat. That was a good decision. But the idea that we’re going to abandon the campaign promises of President Trump on immigration is not accurate.”
Jew World: Israel is accused of spraying farmland across Syria and Lebanon with chemical herbicides, destroying crops along the shared border. Farmers say it’s threatening their livelihoods, calling it an attempt by Israel to force them off their land.
Al Jazeera’s Ayman Oghanna met some of the farmers and sent this report from Quneitra, in southern Syria.
In the hours after Super Bowl LX, where the Seattle Seahawks pounded the New England Patriots, close to 100 private jets departed from the San Francisco Bay area, highlighting many of America’s elite who attended the iconic sporting event.
Within the two hours of the Super Bowl ending, Flightradar24 identified that 95 private jets departed, with the most popular destinations including Van Nuys Airport (VNY) and Las Vegas Harry Reid International Airport (LAS). Overall, more than 1,000 private jets were used to travel to and from the Super Bowl event. Between Wednesday and Saturday in the lead-up to the Super Bowl, 914 business jets were recorded arriving in the Bay Area.
Oh, those elites, laughing all the way to the Crypto Epstein Bank!
An immigration judge terminated removal proceedings against Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, who was detained for over a month last year as part of the Trump administration’s effort to target and deport international students and activists involved in pro-Palestinian advocacy, her lawyers said Monday.
The Department of Homeland Security hadn’t met its burden to prove Öztürk’s removability, prompting the immigration court to end removal proceedings against her, according to a letter from her attorneys submitted in court and a federal appeals court docket.
The move comes after recently unsealed court documents showed the federal government didn’t have any evidence that Öztürk had been supporting terrorist activity when she was arrested, and that her visa revocation and arrest were because of an opinion article she wrote containing criticisms of Israel.
“Today, I breathe a sigh of relief knowing that despite the justice system’s flaws, my case may give hope to those who have also been wronged by the U.S. government,” Öztürk wrote in a statement Monday. “Though the pain that I and thousands of other women wrongfully imprisoned by ICE have faced cannot be undone, it is heartening to know that some justice can prevail after all.”
Her immigration attorney said the judge’s decision was “a powerful affirmation of fairness and the rule of law.”
“We are grateful that the Judge carefully considered the facts and the law, and we hope this decision serves as a reminder that immigration enforcement must always be guided by justice,” Mahsa Khanbabai said in a statement to CNN.
Rümeysa Öztürk speaks to reporters after urging a federal judge to order the Trump administration to restore her student visa record, outside the federal court in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 4, 2025
Nate Raymond/Reuters
Öztürk was detained outside her home in March 2025 as the administration sought to deport her after revoking her student visa.
Chilling video of the PhD student’s arrest showed a swarm of officers encircling her near her home in Somerville, Massachusetts, as she shrieked in fear, sparking national outrage.
That same month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted on X that the Trump administration “will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”
Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin told CNN at the time that DHS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigations had found that Öztürk had “engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans.”
A DHS spokesperson called the immigration judge’s ruling “judicial activism” to “keep a terrorist sympathizer in this country.”
“We are under no obligation to admit them or let them stay here. Sec. Noem has made it clear that anyone who thinks they can come to America and hide behind the First Amendment to advocate for anti-American and anti-Semitic violence and terrorism – think again,” the spokesperson said.
Öztürk’s arrest came a year after she co-authored a campus newspaper op-ed that was critical of Tufts University’s response to the war in Gaza, and her attorneys have said that she was targeted by the administration in an attempt to chill pro-Palestinian speech in violation of her constitutional rights.
Hundreds of people gather to demand the release of Rümeysa Öztürk in Somerville, Massachusetts, on March 26, 2025.
Michael Casey/AP
The PhD student, originally from Turkey and on a valid F-1 student visa, was shuttled through multiple states following her arrest and suffered a series of asthma attacks without adequate medical care, according to her attorneys.
A State Department memo said Öztürk’s visa was revoked following an assessment that her actions “‘may undermine U.S. foreign policy by creating a hostile environment for Jewish students and indicating support for a designated terrorist organization’ including co-authoring an op-ed that found common cause with an organization that was later temporarily banned from campus.”
Öztürk was one of several international university students facing deportation as part of the Trump administration’s efforts last spring. The arrests of scholars and students at the hands of masked law enforcement officers, who have taken them into custody by ambushing them on city streets and near their homes, sent a chill across the international student community.
The Trump administration was ordered last May to release Öztürk, with the judge saying that “continued detention potentially chills the speech of the millions and millions of individuals in this country who are not citizens.”
Following weeks of grueling detainment, Öztürk returned to her home state a day after US District Judge William K. Sessions III ordered her immediate release.
Not Pissed Off Yet? My Fucking Taxes Go to this Star of David Hells Angels on Crack Cocaine
and so the fucking U$A uniformed mercenaries, AKA, Pagans, the Outlaws, and the Bandidos in fucking camouflage, we throw fucking trillions for these cocksuckers????
I am doing this because I am a human being, and I cannot remain silent in the face of injustice. I am doing this because I am a soldier and I cannot remain loyal to a government that betrays its own values and principles. I am doing this because I am a martyr and I cannot remain alive in a world that kills the innocent and protects the guilty.
I am doing this because I am Aaron Bushnell, and this is my final act of protest.
You owe me this witness. I owe you flames. —Kazim Ali
In a revelation that should horrify the world, Israel is actively preparing to carry out the mass execution of Palestinian captives it has been holding for years. This is not justice. It is cold-blooded, state-sponsored murder, dressed up in bureaucratic language and enabled by a bloodthirsty new death penalty law.
Reports emerging lay bare the Israeli Prison Service’s grotesque execution plan, approved in the shadow of a discriminatory law that essentially green-lights the killing of Palestinians. The details are chilling, calculated, and dripping with cruelty.
Israel is building an entire dedicated execution complex, a shiny new death factory designed solely to hang human beings. These will not be quick or merciful deaths. The regime has chosen hanging, but with a sick twist to soothe the guilty consciences of the killers: three guards will press buttons simultaneously so no single perpetrator has to live with the full knowledge that they dropped the trapdoor. How convenient. How utterly cowardly. This mechanical sleight of hand is nothing more than an attempt to launder the psychological stain of cold-blooded murder.
The IPS is planning to build a specialized facility for carrying out executions, referred to in reports as the “Israeli Green Mile” or a dedicated execution complex.
A delegation from the Ministry of National Security, headed by Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir along with representatives from Israel’s Prison Service, will travel to several nations that still apply capital punishment, such as the United States.
The Idaho Department of Correction is currently renovating the execution chamber at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution, according to building permits from the Division of Occupational & Professional Licenses.
The change comes after the failed execution attempt of 74-year-old Thomas Creech on Feb. 28, in which the medical team could not establish an IV line to carry out his execution by lethal injection. The department called off his execution.
“The tolerance to having our speech minutely curated by professional bodies would have seemed absurd a mere six years ago. Are we being broken in a systematic way to tolerate more control?” [56]
She warns we are facing “the reframing of speech as something ‘owned’ by those who regulate access to work and professions”. [57] “The organizations can strip the initiative from individuals to do anything other than conform”. [58]
“I suggest that these subordinate organizations are linking together internationally to form the foundations of a new transnational form of government”. [59]
We are seeing “the unfolding of tyranny” [60], Miron says, and potentially heading into a “global monolithic system that is not acting in our interests. [61]
A third clue is the rainbow flag which, whatever its original or apparent meaning, “has become the symbol of globalist authority, power, and omnipotent oppression”. [76]
Miron remarks: “There isn’t a post, stick, crosswalk or architectural item that can’t now benefit from a rainbow…
“To deny access to a full rainbow in every concrete mile must be a violation of human rights codes. And none of this appears the least bit authoritarian and frightening”. [77]
The rainbow also happens to be the “unofficial” symbol of the judeo-supremacist Noahide Laws – supposedly given by the Jewish god to Noah, as a rainbow marked the end of the Flood.
The first source of Jewish supremacy has its roots in the Zionist movement, but the second is grounded in certain theological positions within Rabbinical Judaism. We are not suggesting that all forms of Judaism equate to Jewish supremacy and recognize the diversity of voices within Judaism, but in many rabbinical schools of thought this notion is dominant. There is a fundamental principle in most interpretations of Rabbinical Judaism that distinguishes between Jews and non-Jews. For example, the Halakha (Jewish law) places non-Jews in a completely different legal system called the Noahide Laws (named after the Sons of Noah). A number of Rabbinical Jewish thinkers have argued that these laws are universal for all non-Jews, and if non-Jews living under Jewish territory do not accept them, they may be subjected to capital punishment. And if non-Jews do accept the Noahide Laws they must pay tribute to the Jewish authority.
This distinction, between Jews and non-Jews, in the rabbinical legal system is based on a more foundational theology of election. According to some Jewish theologians, Jews have a divine nature which is determined by blood alone and not by faith or actions. Others have gone as far as to suggest that the Jewish soul is greater than that of a non-Jewish soul. Following this logic, many religious Jews view themselves as spiritually superior to non-Jews who are the pioneers of God’s will on earth.
It is important to note that Rabbinical Judaism has become more hostile to Christians in recent history. According to Karma Ben Johanan, a scholar of Jewish-Christian relations, a number of rabbis have expressed more and more hostile remarks towards Christians ever since the establishment of the State of Israel. She argues that the reason for the increase of hostility is due to the change in power dynamics between Judaism and Christianity. That is to say, Jews are no longer subjected to Christian authorities and have their own country. As such, they are free to voice their opinions and to dictate their own governance. Either way, this increase in hostility follows a religious notion of Jewish supremacy.
FROM the Jewish Sewer to the Star of David Cesspool…
Drowning in the waste of Israeli settlers/ Some 19 million cubic metres of wastewater from Israeli settlements flows through the occupied West Bank each year.
The truth is – also almost unbelievable – they have been chosen precisely for their pedophile psychopathy – to become heads of state or Prime Ministers, Ministers, or even kings, queens and princesses (see Denmark’s princess affiliation with Epstein and the defamed Prince of the UK), because they are “weak” and will be easily manipulatable – or else.
Obedience by Blackmail. The reigning sick elite behind the curtains, the multi-billionaires – needs such people to control the world, to control everything, with the latest tools, full digitization of humanity, of money – the prison, the Gulag, from where there is no escaping.
Why? — These people are deeply sick, like an alcoholic, just much-much worse. Once they are hooked on power and money, they need more and more. Controlling the world, parts of the world, is POWER.
Who identifies and selects them? – Another good question. Most likely the Tavistock Institute and /or DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), attached to the Pentagon. There are more of such secret services throughout the world. They have 100-plus years of research experience in manipulation and brainwashing of people, and societies.
So, almost all of our so-called leaders (sic) have been selected by the nameless elite of money and power which pulls the strings and calls the shots.
You may legitimately ask: what about our democratic elections? – Forget democracy. It never really existed, not even in Greece, where this political system was apparently invented some 2,500 years ago. What was invented by an elite was that the educated elite was able to vote – men only !!! – No women, and no laborers. That was “democracy” – and has been transported as a highly convenient propaganda tool for the west. Today it functions similarly as 2,500 years ago. Leaders (sic, again) are implanted, because they serve the string-pullers agenda.
Epstein was one of those instruments, a Zionist Jew, working for Mossad, the CIA and MI6 – the infamous trio working almost always in unison. — Peter Koenig, Feb 09, 2026
Heresy. That’s what you get punished for, not for being part of the resistance, because officially there is no resistance.
[Figure 1: Mind control: From nazis to DARPA. Dachau concentration camp, it was one of the first places where mind control programs started. (Left) Alberto Sabogal Hospital is the main place where DARPA is developing illicit and forced human experimentation with brain nanobots, microchips to execut mind control (Right).]
The basic ideas of mind control originated in 1921, in Tavistock, a research center of the British Intelligence Service, and then they were developed in Germany, mainly during Nazi government. Since 1943, German military physicians working at the concentration camps Dachau and Auschwitz experimented with barbiturates, morphine derivatives, and mescaline for interrogation purposes [5].
Mescaline a psychotic alkaloid that occurs naturally in the Mexican peyote cactus was the main drug that Nazi scientists used. Experiments with mescaline were realized in Auschwitz and then they were repeated in Dachau. Dachau was the first Nazi concentration camp opened and it is known for the Nazi experiments of Hypothermia [6]. In Dachau, the experiments of mind control with mescaline were conducted by Dr Kurt Plötner, who joined the SS as a physician in the 1930s [7].
According to Walter Neff, a prisoner’s nurse involved in experiments at Dachau, the goal was: “to eliminate the will of the person examined” [5]. After “research” on 30 inmates, Plötner concluded, that mescaline was “too unreliable to be a truth drug”. Sometimes it worked; sometimes it didn’t [5].
Plötner’s work in the concentration camps came to the attention of American intelligence, the United States Navy’s intelligence officers recruited to Plötner in 1945, permitting him to continue his interrogation research. Really, US army developed a big operation, the Operation Paperclip; the secret intelligence program to bring Nazi Scientists to America [8] thus recruited too many Nazi scientists who experienced in prisoners of Dachau after the end of World War II. In fact, Plötner was never indicted for his mescaline experiments [9], he enjoyed particular protection. Plötner proceeded to live under the name of “Schmitt” in Schleswig-Holstein into the early 1950s.
Recent researches lead to suspect that the Zombie apocalypse promoted by CDC and US army would really be a world mind control epidemic using brain nanobots [28], camouflaged as a “viral” epidemic and organized by CDC itself and the US Army. There is also strong suspect that US government would be doing a secret dissemination of brain nanobots in the entire world, “a pandemic of brain nanobots” [3,28]. Researches that CDC and US army have not denied. The election of Mexico in the TV series about the origin of the zombie epidemic is probably not just fiction; it is probably that thousands of Mexicans are being victims of a secret administration of brain nanobots for develop mind control [28].
Israelis are bold and visionary, passionate and generous. But they can also be grandiose and self-absorbed. Emerging from the depths of Jewish history and the drama of the Zionist rebellion against it, they have a deeply conflicted identity. They are willing to sacrifice themselves for the collective, but also to sacrifice that very collective for a higher, and likely unattainable, ideal. Resolving these internal conflicts and coming to terms with the trauma of the Holocaust are imperative to Israel’s survival as a nation and to the stability of the world. Alon Gratch, a clinical psychologist whose family has lived in Israel for generations, is uniquely positioned to confront these issues. Like the Israeli psyche that Gratch details, The Israeli Mind is both intimate and universal. Intelligent and forthright, compassionate but sometimes maddening, it is an utterly compelling read. Drawing on a broad cultural and historical canvas, and weaving in the author’s personal and professional experience, The Israeli Mind presents a provocative, first-hand portrait of the Israeli national character.
The Big Picture: How Israel Won the West examines how Israel has come to occupy such a privileged and protected place in the Western world. It traces the journey of the Jewish people from biblical stories of origin through centuries of persecution and the advent of Zionism, all the way to the creation of Israel and its ensuing occupation of the Palestinian territory. Along the way, what is revealed is a process of transformation, of how Jews went from being despised by early Christians as “Christ killers” – seeding a vile anti-Judaism that would mutate into anti-Semitism – to being considered part of the white Western world, sharing a common Judeo-Christian heritage.
The film lays bare the alignment of Zionism with “Western civilisation”, deliberately putting it in opposition to the people of the east – Arabs, Muslims. This would lay the foundations for an Israel where Arab Jews would be marginalised and European Ashkenazi Jews would dominate and go on to become the bedrock of support for right-wing governments and ultra-right nationalists.
What becomes apparent is the century-old policy, first outlined by Ze’ev Jabotinsky, that only force could impose Zionism and beat Palestinians into accepting the reality of colonisation.
Maintaining the imposition of this settler-colonial reality would require a “special relationship” between Israel and the United States. It would be fostered not just by US geostrategic interests in the Middle East but also facilitated by the “whitening” of Jews in the American and Western imagination, folding them into an opportunistic Judeo-Christian identity that excluded Arabs. This deliberate positioning of an “us” and a “them” has served to legitimise Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territory and the massacre of Palestinian people, all under the umbrella and support of the Western world order.
The horror of Israel’s war on Gaza is clear for all the world to see. More than 40,000 people are dead, the majority of them women and children, killed in the name of “self-defence” by Israeli forces on a mission to “destroy” Hamas after the attacks of October 7, 2023. We are witnessing, in plain sight, an unfolding genocide. And yet Israel continues its war. Its mission creeping into Lebanon, where more civilians are killed as Israel targets Hezbollah. All this is playing out with the full support of the West as Israel claims to be fighting on behalf of Western civilisation and against “human animals” in a battle between the Judeo-Christian world and “barbarians” – a contrived narrative long in the making.
The 21st century’s most criminal evil state, the Jewish state #Israel has installed more gates around #Palestinian towns and cities in the West Bank in order to lay siege to them whenever it feels like it.
The world looks on and does nothing while the genocide in Gaza continues.
Israel was booed at the Olympics yesterday. Good time to remind you that the entire team is made up of IDF troops. Here is my full investigation.
Meet Israel’s Olympic Team: The IDF Soldiers Who Support Genocide
Israeli Olympic athletes competing in Paris are soldiers in the Israeli Defense Forces. Many have called for genocide in Gaza, or expressed support for the IDF. So why are the IOC and FIFA silent?
NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast
Vice-president given hostile reception by some in Milan
US broadcast cuts out crowd’s show of dissent
IOC calls for ‘fair play’ after jeers for Vance, Israeli athletes
This is the end for us all, man oh man:
Open Letter to the US Environmental Protection Agency about glyphosate and the International Monsanto Tribunal
Executive Summary
Monsanto and CropLife America paid in advance for the FAO/WHO/JMPR decision that glyphosate was non-carcinogenic and non-genotoxic. The same Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Rapporteur Member State Federal Pesticides Risk Assessment (BfR) were present at the FAO/WHO/JMPR in 2002 and made an identical decision.
Both CLA and Monsanto were very aggressive and impatient in their letters August 24/26 respectively because Monsanto had just had an invitation to attend the International Monsanto Tribunal launched by civil society to be held in The Hague October 14-16 2016. A selection of Monsanto’s victims and their lawyers were going to appear before five judges (one of whom had been a judge in the International Criminal Court) and describe how Monsanto had violated their human rights.
The Dow AgroChemical submission also talked about the FAO/WHO/JMPR decision. However, the Bradford-Hill (1965) ‘causality criteria’ was mentioned in support of their claim that glyphosate was not carcinogenic to humans. Bradford Hill causality criteria cannot be applied in this context. It can only be applied to human diseases…for example the link between smoking and lung cancer.
On October 4 2016, CropLife America wrote to EPA to demand any scientist who had ever expressed an opinion against glyphosate be excluded from the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel. The specifically mentioned two names. EPA immediately bowed to that request and delayed the date of the SAP to find further ‘epidemiologists’ approved by industry.
In the evidence from the Monsanto Tribunal, the truth is there for the world to see The US EPA, the European Food Safety Authority, the European Commission, the UK Chemicals Regulation Directorate and the Republic of Ireland have been conspiring with Monsanto against civil society to destroy the environment with chemicals and poison their food. These countries have sustained over the years the largest loss of biodiversity, i.e. ecocide. In the International Criminal Court in The Hague, ignorance is no defence.
Nnimmo Bassey at the opening said: “Being an ambassador to this Tribunal is like being an ambassador to mother Earth. If mother Earth could speak, Monsanto ought to be in jail long before now. Food is a celebration, it is culture, it is life. This is a struggle not against one multinational corporation, it is a struggle for life, it is a struggle for liberty. A struggle to stop big companies from colonizing our food systems, colonizing our agriculture, holding mother Earth as a slave for their profits.”
The fucking JEWS:
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Until now, 404 Media has never done any paid advertising, but we figured why not get in on the country’s biggest ad extravaganza with a message about our journalist-owned, human-focused media company. There are tons of ads for AI and big tech this year, so how about some counter programming?
On a whim last week, we began looking into purchasing a Super Bowl ad for as little money as possible, by finding a local station willing to air our ad. We knew this was possible because in 2015, The Verge bought a Super Bowl ad that aired only in Helena, Montana, for a cost of $700. Inspired by them, we did the same this year.
After googling “smallest TV markets in the United States,” we came across KYOU, which serves the city of Ottumwa, Iowa: population ~25,000. There were other options, but we thought we would try Ottumwa and see if anyone responded or if this seemed like a fool’s errand. We emailed KYOU to see if we could buy a Super Bowl ad, and we got an immediate answer: There was one slot left, and it would cost $2,550. They also had a slot immediately after the game for $1,250, one during the Olympics following the game for $500, or pregame slots for $500. It felt important to have the ad actually run during the game, so we paid the $2,550 in-game slot.
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GIRALDI: Heart of darkness — Israel’s government is completely evil
Feb 08, 2026
BY PHILIP GIRALDI
It is not for nothing that most of the world both abhors and condemns Israeli behavior, whether it be measured by the never-ending genocide in Gaza or the similarly driven terrorizing and deportation of the Palestinian population on the West Bank.
Israel is intent on taking full control of historic Palestine and is willing to do whatever it takes to bring that about, and, unfortunately, the United States has been its all too often enthusiastic accomplice in that effort.
Beyond that, Israel has bombed and otherwise killed its neighbors in Lebanon and Syria while also enticing Washington to join in the effort to attack Iran and bring about regime change in Tehran.
Apartheid Israel, which has declared itself legally and ethnically a Jewish state, intends to become that in reality by eliminating all non-Jews from its ever-expanding territory, and it is willing to do whatever it takes to bring that about.
There is something that is a tad peculiar about the Jewish state’s sense of identity in that it does not regard killing those who are non-Jews by any means possible as either a crime or, more to the point, as a sin in spite of the prohibition included in its own Ten Commandments.
Nor does Israel consider any agreements it enters into with other countries to be in any way binding on it and its leaders, witness the regular violation of the two ceasefires that Tel Aviv has entered into over Gaza, or its behavior regarding similar arrangements with neighbors Lebanon and Syria.
In Lebanon and Syria, Israel is currently spraying “unidentified”, though apparently toxic chemicals on farmland near the border to drive away local residents through destruction of their livelihoods. Israel does what Israel does, and the United States, which was a guarantor of all the ceasefires as well as of the ongoing peace process, never says a word when Israel breaks the agreements and goes about killing more local inhabitants.
Israel’s latest ploy is to bring about a United States attack on Iran to destroy that country’s ability to strike Israel, making the Jewish state by default the regional dominant military and political power.
Israel reportedly convinced Donald Trump not to attack Iran several weeks ago because there was concern that Iran would, as part of its defense, attack targets inside Israel that had the ability to support the American effort.
In other words, Israel was seeking a solution to Iran that would not put itself at risk and would instead put the onus on the United States. One might point out that this is hardly the appropriate behavior for a country that is repeatedly praised as Washington’s “best friend and closest ally.” It is anything but that while Trump and the politicians are either too stupid or corrupted to realize that, or too intimidated by the Lobby, to respond as they should if the US interest were truly their priority in relation to an Iran which does not threaten America in any way.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has now called for a meeting with Donald Trump for later this week, which would be the ninth meeting between the two since Trump’s inauguration, far more than with any other foreign politician. Netanyahu has asked to meet with Trump to discuss options for the ongoing indirect discussions with the Iranians. Netanyahu’s office released a statement that “The prime minister believes that all negotiations must include limiting the Iranian ballistic missiles, and ending support for the Iranian axis” of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, which Israel perceives at the principal threats against it.
In any event, it is generally conceded that Trump will do what Israel wants. Netanyahu will also be seeking a plan of action whereby the US will attack and bring about regime change in Iran while also neutralizing its offensive capabilities.
Israel, meanwhile, will stay out of the fight to avoid any damage from the Iranian arsenal. Neat, and any dead Americans resulting from that formula, most probably on U.S. bases in the Persian Gulf region, will just be the cost of doing business with Netanyahu who will be leaving from his sessions with Trump with a smile.
Netanyahu is smiling because he always wins when dealing with American presidents while simultaneously treating the United States like a bit of dirty laundry that can easily be discarded or ignored whenever it is is not useful as a source of money, weapons and protection.
Note the disregard for the damage done to the United States by the Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy which was without question a major blackmail operation up to the U.S. presidential level run by Mossad to favorably influence policies towards the Jewish state. Even now with many incriminating documents revealed there is total resistance on the part of the Trump regime and the opposition Democrats to honestly expose what was done by our “good friends” in Israel.
But I have described Israel as uniquely evil and there is plenty of evidence for that outside of its treatment of the United States of America as some kind of vassal state that is a source of money and political and military support. As observed above, Israel has never complied with any agreement that it makes with foreign countries. During the course of the current ceasefire it has blocked the entry of food or medicines while also continuing to bomb and shoot Gazans, killing close of 600, including many children. Meanwhile, far from withdrawing its army from Gaza it has increased its foothold in the Strip, occupying close to 60% of the total area as a “Yellow” security zone, presumably leaving the rest as eventually intended for the Trump Gaza Resort or for Israeli settlers who have been appearing in the area in increasing numbers and even staking out new settlements.
As a gesture to indicate some measure of compliance with the ceasefire, last week Israel agree to partially open the Rafah Crossing from Gaza to Egypt which it controls, and the first to pass through were supposed to be those Gazans suffering from injuries and wounds requiring advanced medical treatment. Something like 22,000 Gazans were registered or lined up seeking passage and a long line of ambulances from the Egyptian side were waiting to help. Israel then closed the Crossing in spite of its commitment to open it and reportedly only let 150 injured Gazans pass through it with 50 Gazans who were already in Egypt allowed to return home from the other side.
Another story making the rounds is how the Israeli military has now conceded that its multi-year offensive in Gaza has killed approximately 70,000 Gazans, a number that is being praised in some circles because it is considered an honest, though unfortunately brutal, appraisal. Some believe, however, it is meant to throw out a lower number so the real number will never be revealed.
The 70,000 number is much higher than what has appeared in the Zionist controlled western media up until now but it is far below other estimates from reliable sources like the British medical journal The Lancet that place the deaths at 186,000, with most of the bodies still buried under the rubble. Some other conservative estimates believe that fully 12% of the original 2 million Gazan population has been killed, meaning close to 240,000.
And when one speaks of how evil Israel is, there is another issue which might be considered. Israel is sometimes described as the leading country in providing resources for organ replacements, a procedure sometimes euphemized as “organ harvesting.” That appears to be true because the thousands of Palestinians who are held without charges in Israeli prisons are treated abominably, to include having their organs removed for marketing purposes if they die and even when they are still living. The evidence for that horrific behavior consists of the bodies of Palestinians that are released from prisons and given to their families for burial. Those bodies frequently have what are presumed to be their viable body organs as well as corneas or even skin removed prior to being returned. The organs are then marketed worldwide. The result is that organ donation in “Israel” is among the highest in the world, despite some religious restrictions and a relatively small population.
So I rest my case. These are not the sorts of things that countries with any sense of morality or respectability embrace. And unfortunately Israel is able to drag Donald Trump and the US Congress along with it, even making Washington do the real dirty work when it comes to confronting nations like Iran. But there are signs that the American public has become tired of the whole charade and Israel’s role in it. The litmus test will come with the handling of the situation with Iran and we should be seeing what will happen there in the next week or two.
Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
This fucking knee jerk goddamned woman, man, Zionist, god, we can’t dislike Jews or Judaism . . . . Cunt Cunt Cunt: Ana Kasparian!
Amid calls from right-wing lawmakers for the dismissal of Deputy Attorney General Dana Zilber, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son shared an image Thursday of the senior lawyer appearing as a character in a horror movie.
Zilber has come under fire in recent days after criticizing the so-called culture loyalty law during a Knesset committee meeting, prompting Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked to call for her to be fired.
In a Facebook post he later deleted, Yair Netanyahu shared a movie poster-style image of Zilber in a horror film titled “The Clerk: Revenge of the Deputy Attorney General,” in which she appears as a monster-like character.
Since October 7, 2023, over 71,800 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, including at least 21,289 children, with more than 171,000 injured. Even after the fragile ceasefire of October 2025, the violence has not fully abated: airstrikes, shelling, and gunfire continue, claiming 492 more lives and injuring 1,356 in the months since. Ninety percent of Gaza’s population—1.9 million people—remains internally displaced, huddled in overcrowded, makeshift shelters that offer scant protection against winter’s bite. Reports from UNICEF and the World Health Organization highlight the toll: 11 children have died from hypothermia since the cold set in, with respiratory infections surging, preterm births rising due to maternal malnutrition and stress, and dehydration, skin diseases, and acute malnutrition afflicting half of all children. Infrastructure lies in ruins—92% of Gaza destroyed, generating 61 million tonnes of debris that could take seven years to clear under ideal conditions. Water, sanitation, and waste systems are decimated, exposing the entire population to public health crises. Food insecurity persists: though aid flows have improved post-ceasefire, prices remain exorbitantly high, unemployment exceeds 80%, and one in five households still survives on a single meal a day.
Despite almost 100 recorded deaths in custody and abundant testimonies and other evidence of severe physical abuse — including widespread sexual violence, as documented in a damning new report by the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights — only one Israeli soldier has been prosecuted; he was sentenced in February to seven months for assaulting detainees from Gaza. Five other soldiers have been charged with aggravated abuse and causing serious bodily harm to a detainee at the Sde Teiman detention center, after footage was leaked to the Israeli media last year.
A detainee who was in the same cell as Mara’i told PHRI: “About 15 [prison] personnel attacked him, all standing around and beating him severely. The blows lasted about five minutes and focused on hitting his head.”
Sari Hurriyah, a Palestinian attorney with Israeli citizenship who was detained at the same time as Mara’i over Facebook posts, told Israel’s Channel 13 that he witnessed Mara’i’s death in the neighboring cell. “Every night, we could hear people being beaten to death, screaming,” Hurriyah said.
YOU have to be a fucking lobotomized cunt to not want the heads of Jews on Spikes. FUCKERS.
JEWS are sodomizers, just the same DNA strand of Epstein-Weinstein-Spitzer . . . name your fucking Jewish Poison!
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Our stories say water is the ultimate cleanser. It purifies; it redeems. It allows us to be born again, as from our very first, womb waters. Water that beckons: the seduction of submergence, the hopeful re-emergence.
But, Aaron, you chose fire.
Barely older than my children. Fresh-faced like my students, some of whom attend classes dressed in fatigues like yours. Hair, the color of soft flames flickering in a fireplace. And spring-green eyes. A smile so open, it holds nothing back.
Aaron, you held nothing, but nothing, back.
When an event shakes our world, we feel compelled to pinpoint our own location at the time. We remember where we were when it happened—JFK’s assassination, 9/11, COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders. How blithely we were going about our day when, unbeknownst to us, distant but connected, everything shifted. A marvel, how each of us inhabits such separate realities. And now and then these realities collide, combust, go up in smoke.
Where was I, Aaron, when you set yourself ablaze? I calculate the time difference—your Sunday afternoon, my Sunday night on February 25, 2024—and know that I sat in a hotel room in Islamabad, savoring family photographs of a fleeting week, an hour to go before my departure for the airport. And seven hours later, when you gave us your last breath, I was suspended above the earth, somewhere between Islamabad and Doha, Qatar, blurring date lines and time zones on the long skyroad home to California. Oblivious of how the world had slid.
You outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., on that Sunday afternoon.
Two years ago, I landed in Fresno to news that my home was on fire. A fire I didn’t choose; a fire that cleansed nothing. It destroyed and displaced, though it spared life—a lifetime to sift through the ashes. This time, I arrive home to news of you aflame. A faraway fire, yet so close it chokes. Fire that consumes the known and familiar. A bonfire of the stories we tell to coax conscience to sleep.
Memory-ash of a body that was mostly water, birthed from the mother-water a mere twenty-five years ago. A Massachusetts baby, like my two.
Aaron, you were an aspiring software engineer. But you might have been in my English class. How well you understood the power of the story you were telling, the power of the symbol, of contexts and settings that give our actions meaning. An active duty pilot protesting his government’s complicity in genocide in a time-honored fashion. A soldier laying down his life in his own definition of patriotism. A sacrificial body, buying back its country’s conscience. Your body, a text. Read it, you said. You knew nothing else would make us see. And even in the moment, you had reluctant readers. The story you were telling was not legible to the Secret Service officer who responded in the only language he knew: a gun pointed at you while you lay on the ground, afire. Ironic and absurd. All poetry lost.
But you knew not to trust your readers to interpret what you narrated with your body. Even before you livestreamed your last act—This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal—you made a Facebook post to say we needn’t wonder what we would have done to protest slavery or Jim Crow because we’re doing it right now. And in your message to alternative media, how eloquently you articulated your reasons for doing what you were about to do. Your words weren’t widely read in the country you served, but I found them in an Indian news outlet online. A series of statements beginning: I am doing this because . . . The complicity of the government, the media, the world. The complicity of you and me. A series of statements—rhythmic, incantatory—the final four sentences reinscribing your life:
I am doing this because I am a human being, and I cannot remain silent in the face of injustice. I am doing this because I am a soldier and I cannot remain loyal to a government that betrays its own values and principles. I am doing this because I am a martyr and I cannot remain alive in a world that kills the innocent and protects the guilty. I am doing this because I am Aaron Bushnell, and this is my final act of protest.
You shouted Free Palestine! again and again. A fiery refrain, hoarse with the heat of your conviction, before the flames snuffed out your voice. You knew nothing else would make us listen. A seer, a storyteller.
And then our media, if it covers the news at all, spins a story about your mental health. NPR footnotes the news with “If you or someone you know . . .” and shares the number of the suicide hotline. We’re told of your isolated, fundamentalist upbringing. Your implied unhinging. A traumatic response to that early domestic trauma or this political one. Perhaps. But in the words of your friend, you were not ill. In the words of your friend, it’s we who are ill, to stomach the carnage we enable and not feel moved to question it. Suicide for genocide.
Suicide, the great Abrahamic taboo. One commits it as a crime or a sin. And yet there have always been other ways to read it. As honor: not just the Romans and World War II Kamikazes, but all the crusades and jihads, past and present, down to the everyday recruitment of college students to the military. All the hunger strikes through the ages. Even the mother who starves herself so her child may eat. When faith frames the narrative and love lifts it above the literal, we read the death-wish as a life-wish.
Self-immolation as sati in South Asia’s past, when many a Hindu widow leapt into her husband’s funeral pyre, wifely glory in grief. Kurdish women in the present, burning for the opposite: the right to live free. American men, to protest our scorchings of the earth.
Self-immolation as political protest, birthed at the intersection of urgency and despair. In the Buddhist tradition of Thich Quan Duc and Nhat Chi Mai, who set themselves on fire in Saigon in 1963, self-immolation is not suicide, but the highest form of sacrifice. Eighty-two-year-old Quaker Alice Herz read it that way in Detroit, Michigan, and burned at a curbside to protest the Vietnam War. Vietnam to Tibet, and Tunisia—where, in the embering days of 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi ignited the Arab Spring. Students, alight with passionate protest, self-immolating in Prague and New Delhi and La Jolla, California.
At the University of California, San Diego, my daughter points to the plaque in the ground outside her first-year dorm in Revelle Plaza: “In honor of George Winne Jr. who immolated himself in Revelle Plaza in protest of the Vietnam war in 1970. He held a sign that read ‘In the name of God, end the war.’”
A global tradition of violent nonviolent resistance.
Aaron, since your death, I, who never knew you, seek your life. Your username, LillyAnarKitty. Your reasons for choosing it, yours alone. That’s who you were on social media, where you liked the poem “The Empire Raised Me” by Anansi’s Library and planned to recite it when you retired from the air force in a few months. Its haunting lines: “And I was raised a soldier/ Now the muzzle is at my back/ The boots are at my door/ The guns are all racked.” Your embrace of anarchist philosophy against vertical power structures. Your joy in robotics, like my son’s. Lord of the Rings and Marvel and karaoke. Your care for the homeless in San Antonio and Akron. You loved a cat named Luna. You remembered your responsibility, bequeathed her to your neighbor. Or was that Pumpkin you left with your friend Erin, the one with a following on TikTok? Or then again, was it Sugar, white as her name, who looks up into your face as you crouch down to pet her in a tender photograph on X?
Forgive me for slamming my laptop shut when you appeared on the screen, smiling, in that green and black rugby shirt with horizontal stripes—identical to the one my boy liked so much, I bought it for him in two sizes. To see him smile in it a little longer.
You were a young white American who cared about the powerless. About what we are doing in Palestine. Palestine-Falasteen, a moral litmus test for the world, as Black activist Angela Davis has said. Angela Davis, who never got her PhD from the University of California, San Diego, because the FBI confiscated her work the same year that George Winne, Jr. self-immolated in Revelle Plaza.
You left all your savings to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.
You made a wish for your ashes: If a time comes when Palestinians regain control of their land, and if the people native to the land would be open to the possibility, I would love for my ashes to be scattered in a free Palestine.
A deep blue sign with white letters appears in Jericho-Ariha, in the Occupied West Bank. A street named after you. Aaron Bushnell Street, linked to the main street in Jericho, Gateway to Palestine—among the longest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Jericho city council member Amani Rayan tells Al Jazeera: I felt that he was family. Someone who’s so close to us, who shares our deep pain. . . . This is the ultimate sacrifice at a time when no one seems to see us. Mayor Abdul Karim Sidr wants to bring your family to Jericho to see for themselves how your name lives on in the hearts of an ancient people. Aaron Bushnell A kid, a prophet.
So the Lord said to Moses, “Aaron, your brother, will be your prophet.” Haroon in the Quran—my father’s name. Aaron-Haroon, the Priest. The Anointed One, the one who spoke for Moses when Moses couldn’t.
Let all the stories speak to me. The phoenix rising from the flames. Agni, god of fire. With his two faces, benevolent and malevolent, mediating between the earth and heavens. Let it be true that a single sacrifice can pay for our collective sins. Wash us clean. Baptism of fire or water, restore us to our moral bones. Write us our redemption arc.
But how to make the story add up? To call it a fair exchange? And accept this barter as a bargain: Aaron’s one life for all of ours. Ask the mother who birthed that son.
You raised your boy well, I want to tell her. Too well, she might reply.
[Refueling tankers will be supporting the Super Bowl LX flyover too, helping the B-1 bombers and providing added valuable training. Pictured is a B-1 refueling with a KC-135]
a 19-year-old African Augur Hawk named “Taima,” who flies out before home games to excite fans. While the “seahawk” term is not a specific, single species, it is often associated with the osprey, a large bird of prey, which the team’s logo also resembles. Taima has been with the team since 2005 and lives in Spokane, WA.
American Patriots: He has visited Israel over 100 times, frequently funding initiatives like the Kraft Family Sports Campus in Jerusalem, supporting American football in Israel,
Kaepernick is still the youngest quarterback to win a regular season game in New England against the Patriots. In 2012, Kaepernick, at 25 years and 43 days old, led the 49ers to a 41-34 win at Gillette Stadium. He threw for 221 yards and four touchdowns in the victory.
Yikes. Still Black History Month here in our Empire:
You want pre-halftime Super Bowl fucking toilet bowl American news?
Administration seeking expedited removal of 5-year-old and family, Rep. Castro says
Fucking Kosher Nostra:
A federal prosecutor in Massachusetts said Friday that the federal government will not return a 19-year-old college student who was deported over Thanksgiving despite a court order blocking her removal.
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was deported to Honduras in November shortly after she was detained, even though a federal judge had ordered the government not to remove her from the U.S. or transfer her out of Massachusetts.
After the college student’s removal, U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns said he was giving the government an opportunity to “rectify the mistake” and recommended that she be issued a student visa.
“I think for me it’s more I’m representing my friends and family back home and the people that represented before me and all the things that I believe are good about the U.S.,” Hess continued. “If it aligns with my moral values, I feel like I’m representing it. Just because I’m wearing the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the U.S.”
“U.S. Olympic Skier, Hunter Hess, a real Loser, says he doesn’t represent his Country in the current Winter Olympics. If that’s the case, he shouldn’t have tried out for the Team, and it’s too bad he’s on it. Very hard to root for someone like this,” Trump wrote on his social media platform.
White fucking Chlamydia Chabab. Netanyahu has moved up his visit to Washington and is expected to meet with President Trump on Wednesday to discuss the negotiations with Iran, the prime minister’s office said in a statement.
Why it matters: The announcement of the urgent visit comes a day after Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held negotiations in Oman with Iran’s foreign minister over a potential nuclear deal.
To be sure, Trump has also scored major legal victories on education, particularly regarding his desire to downsize and eventually eliminate the Education Department.
But opponents of his agenda are getting results after lawyering up.
“What we are seeing is, since the early days of this administration, more teachers, more students, more schools are standing up and saying, ‘That is not what the law says, and that is not how we have decided in our community to educate our students.’ And I think that the more people we see doing that, the courage, I think, is contagious. It is spreading,” said Maddy Gitomer, senior counsel at Democracy Forward who has successfully won education cases against the administration.
Lang describes himself as “deeply secular” and not a believer. However, he is often identified as having Jewish roots in cultural contexts.
Wife: He is married to Monique Buczynski, who is also Jewish.
Jack Lang, a former French culture minister, has resigned as head of Paris’s prestigious Arab World Institute after revelations of his past contacts with the disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and the launch of a financial investigation by French prosecutors.
The 86-year-old resigned on Saturday night before he was due to attend an urgent meeting called by the French foreign ministry to discuss his links to Epstein.
Lang was “very sad and deeply hurt to be leaving a position he loves”, his lawyer, Laurent Merlet, told RTL radio on Sunday. “He put the interests of the Arab World Institute first.”
No refuge could save the hireling & slave/
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:/
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave/
O’er the land of the free & the home of the brave.
Jew Jew Jew . . .
Who Is Singing The National Anthem At The 2026 Super Bowl?
Key, an elite insider and author of the national anthem, helped a president down a dark path to defend slavery. Kaepernick, the outsider, is the former NFL quarterback banished from the realm for kneeling during the lofty victory song that Key wrote under a battle-stained sky in 1814.
Never has more attention been paid to “The Star-Spangled Banner,” played and sung at every major sporting event. Now the national symbols, the flag and the song, remain at the center of controversy. And as the NFL season gets underway, sides are being drawn in a renewed battle over free speech and nonviolent resistance among legions of sports fans.
Lawyer-poet Key, born to massive slaveholding wealth in Maryland, was one of the richest men in America. He liked it that way.
As he grew older and darker, Key sought to buttress slavery, known as our own “peculiar institution.” He did just that, past his last breath. The U.S. Supreme Court, which he helped shape, stood strongly for slavery. So beside the anthem, his political legacy as a critical political player in upholding slavery is devastating.
In his 50s, Key became an adviser to President Andrew Jackson, who was also a wealthy self-made Southern slaveholder.
At the same time, Key was named by Jackson as the U.S. district attorney for the nation’s capital, where he prosecuted race and slavery laws to the fullest extent, even to the death penalty. He also aggressively prosecuted early abolitionists, who had founded the anti-slavery movement in 1833.
Key often whispered in the ear of Jackson, the plantation owner in the White House. When he wasn’t shouting, Jackson listened. Jackson’s presidency brought brutal, racially motivated mob violence like never before, including a race riot in Washington, D.C. Jackson had no sympathy for mobs, but even less for slaves and free blacks.
Then came the worst cut of all: Key prevailed on Jackson to name Key’s own brother-in-law, Roger Taney, to the Cabinet and then to the ultimate prize: chief justice of the United States.
To be tied to the infamous Taney is a serious stain on Key’s rosy reputation. Like Key, Taney was a native of Maryland, a state steeped in slavery, where Frederick Douglass was born. Taney and Key were friends before Roger met and married Key’s sister. That’s how small the antebellum South was for wealthy white men.
Roundly hated north of the Mason-Dixon line, Taney lived long enough to author the 1857 Dred Scott Supreme Court opinion, the most starkly racist high court decision in history. Taney struck down the argument that free blacks could become citizens in free states like Illinois and further declared that all blacks, whether slave or free, were never entitled to any rights, period.
JewLandia!
Mehmet Oz says Americans should get healthier so they can work an extra year and boost the economy. That’s hard for the poor and less educated, who tend to retire earlier.
That fucking Cheese Curds: Pro Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre announced on social media that he won’t be watching this year’s Super Bowl halftime performance featuring Latin trap artist Bad Bunny.
Instead, Favre said he would tune into the alternative “All-American” halftime show presented by Turning Point USA (TPUSA).
“Not familiar with Bad Bunny so don’t know if his music is good or bad. I’m just going to watch what I know Lee Brice, Kid Rock All-American Halftime Show,” Favre wrote on X.
The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good
Pretti and Good were labeled “domestic terrorists” of The Homeland—rhetoric employed by the administration to justify the state taking life, by associating the dead with national villainy.
Stupor Bowl: $1.7 billion to $1.76 billion is expected to be legally wagered in the US, according to estimates from the American Gaming Association and industry reports.
Robert Kraft New England Patriots Owner since 1994; known for his extensive support of Israel and combatting antisemitism.
Arthur BlankAtlanta Falcons Co-founder of Home Depot and a prominent philanthropist in the Atlanta Jewish community.
Jeffrey LuriePhiladelphia Eagles Purchased the team in 1994; focuses on community outreach and inclusivity.
Stephen RossMiami Dolphins Acquired control in 2008; real estate developer and founder of the Ross Initiative in Sports for Equality (RISE).
Zygi Wilf & FamilyMinnesota Vikings Principal owner since 2005; the son of Holocaust survivors, the family is active in Holocaust education.
Josh HarrisWashington Commanders Led the group that purchased the team in 2023; also owns the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers.
Steve TischNew York Giants Co-owner and Chairman; his family has held a stake in the Giants since 1991.
Mark DavisLas Vegas Raiders Son of legendary owner Al Davis; his family has owned the team for decades.
David TepperCarolina Panthers Purchased the team in 2018; founder of the hedge fund Appaloosa Management.
Glazer FamilyTampa Bay Buccaneers The family, led by Avram and Joel Glazer, has owned the team since 1995.
THEY STICK together!
THEY being . . . .
The Atlantic – which has spent two years justifying the genocide of Palestinians, claiming children are legitimate targets, demonizing anti-genocide protestors – is owned by Ghislaine ‘Rid the world of Arabs’ Maxwell’s associate Laurene Powell Jobs (Steve Job’s widow) and its EIC is former IDF prison guard Jeffrey Goldberg. Got it.
“Palestinians are presented as barbarian and as primitive and as people who do not understand the laws of war, people that do not make distinctions between civilians and combatants, and so forth, and therefore they are immoral, while Israel claims that it tries to protect civilians.”
[Neve Gordon, a member of the Faculty of Law at Queen Mary University in London, who is of Israeli descent, told Anadolu that Israel is working hard to legitimize the war crimes it commits.]
‘Legitimizing’ war crimes
Statements like Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant saying, “We are fighting against animals” are clear examples of the strategy to try to legitimize war crimes, said Gordon.
Comparisons of Palestinians to “rats or snakes” on Israeli social media accounts are an effort to “dehumanize” them and “legitimize civilian deaths.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims that Gaza is a “city of evil,” he said, adding: “When Israel tells 1.1 million Palestinians to move south, and then claims that any Palestinian civilian that stayed there is involved in the conflict, and therefore, a legitimate target, is a way of manipulating the laws of war.”
I know! let’s read the Talmud instead. QUOTES FROM THE JEWISH TALMUD:
1. Sanhedrin 59a: “Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal.”
2. Abodah Zara 26b: “Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed.”
3. Sanhedrin 59a: “A goy (Gentile) who pries into The Law (Talmud) is guilty of death.” to
4. Libbre David 37: “To communicate anything to a Goy about our religious relations would be equal to the killing of all Jews, for if the Goyim knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly.”
5. Libbre David 37: “If a Jew be called upon to explain any part of the rabbinic books, he ought to give only a false explanation. Whoever will violate this order shall be put to death.”
6. Yebhamoth 11b: “Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age.”
7. Schabouth Hag. 6d: “Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording.”
8. Hilkkoth Akum X1: “Do not save Goyim in danger of death.”
9. Hilkkoth Akum X1: “Show no mercy to the Goyim.”
10. Choschen Harmm 388, 15: “If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth.”
11. Choschen Hamm 266,1: “A Jew may keep anything he finds which belongs to the Akum (Gentile). For he who returns lost property (to Gentiles) sins against the Law by increasing the power of the transgressors of the Law. It is praiseworthy, however, to return lost property if it is done to honor the name of God, namely, if by so doing, Christians will praise the Jews and look upon them as honorable people.”
12. Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dla 17: “A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them.”
13. Baba Necia 114, 6: “The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts.”
14. Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56-D: “When the Messiah comes, every Jew will have 2800 slaves.”
15. Nidrasch Talploth, p. 225-L: “Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night.”
16. Aboda Sarah 37a: “A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated.”
17. Gad. Shas. 2:2: “A Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jewish girl.”
18. Tosefta. Aboda Zara B, 5: “If a goy kills a goy or a Jew, he is responsible; but if a Jew kills a goy, he is NOT responsible.”
19. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 388: “It is permitted to kill a Jewish denunciator everywhere. is permitted to kill him even before he denounces.”
20. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348: “All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which, consequently, is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples.”
Billionaire pedophile child traffickers would not be able to get away with their crimes if it weren’t for the medical doctors who took an oath – but chose to not intervene.
Despite this, Dr. Jess Ting was very much engaged with Jeffrey Epstein – he went out of his way to advocate for the convicted pedophile many times to Mount Sinai staff, he alerted them of Epstein’s VIP status, gushed to Epstein’s associate Lesley Groff about how he’d do “anything” for Epstein and was at Epstein’s beck and call.
Ting was at Epstein’s service not only for the “pedophile financier” but also for whoever he sent him – presumably his victims.
Ting appeared to be ordered around by Eva Dubin – she told Epstein that Ting would see his victims if she told him to. She seems to direct Ting to be on call to receive a blunt force trauma victim Epstein flew in from “the island.” It also appears that she directed Ting to be the one who got his “hands dirty” in providing clandestine care – 36 stitches in the forehead of a female, possibly minor victim flown into NYC on a private jet from over four hours away by a convicted child trafficking billionaire.
Weekend at Noam’s
Machetes?
The accusers say the massages involved nudity, sex acts and sex toys, and at times underage girls. Richardson was named in the documents as having received a massage, although it did not go into any other detail.
“Bill Richardson was one of our most prominent politicians here in New Mexico,” said KOAT political expert Brian Sanderoff. “And so, it was disappointing to see that his name has been associated with the Jeff Epstein scandal.”
After the Miami Herald’s bombshell investigation detailed Epstein’s sex trafficking network, Epstein wrote to Chomsky seeking advice on handling his “putrid press.” Chomsky responded sympathetically the same day, urging Epstein to ignore the news and avoid media “vultures.” He wrote that he was pained by “the horrible way you are being treated in the press and public.”
“What the vultures dearly want is a public response, which then provides a public opening for an onslaught of venomous attacks, many from just publicity seekers or cranks of all sorts,” Chomsky advised. He added that “even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder” in the context of what he called “the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women.”
Colonialism was the original system of non-consent. Now, they want to delete the receipts. Don’t let it happen
We didn’t want anybody telling us anything about Africa, much less calling us Africans. In hating Africa and hating the Africans, we ended up hating ourselves without even realizing it. – Malcolm X
Nariman Nuhad Khurshid was a Palestinian fighter and aviator born in 1927 in Jaffa, Palestine
She was a co-founder of the women’s organization Zahrat al-Uqhuwan (The Chrysanthemum Flower). Alongside twelve women from Jaffa, Nariman helped build the organization in its early phase, which initially focused on social support and assistance to poor students before shifting decisively toward armed resistance against Zionist militias.
Within Zahrat al-Uqhuwan, Nariman played an active operational role. The organization trained its members, women and later men and foreign volunteers, in the use of firearms and machine guns, undertook nursing and medical support work, gathered intelligence, and raised funds to procure weapons.
Nariman herself, together with her sister, participated in several armed engagements with Haganah forces in and around Jaffa during the period leading up to and including the Nakba of 1948.
She remained a symbol of women’s direct participation in armed resistance until her death in Cairo on 18 February 2014.
Fannie Lou Hamer was fired and evicted in 1962 after trying to register to vote in Mississippi, despite 18 years working on the plantation as a sharecropper and timekeeper. Yet, she refused to be silenced. Her courage helped launch the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and push forward the Voting Rights Act. Hamer’s sacrifice reminds us: the fight for equality has ALWAYS come at a cost. She risked everything so future generations could have a voice!
Religion:
They killed the prophets. They sacrificed their children to Moloch. They made the star of Renfan their banner. They crucified the Messiah and expelled the Apostles from their synagogue. And wherever they go, they subvert Christian values, enslave the Gentiles through abusive credit practices, and blackmail politicians through extortion and seduction traps.
Satanists rule the world. Who are they? Jesus told us:
“You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45 But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me” (John 8:44-45).
“They will create the virus themselves and sell you the antidotes. Thereafter, they will pretend to take time to find the solution when they already have it.”
Muammar Gaddafi (2009 United Nations Assembly)
Icemen Cometh!
When winter gripped the Eastern Front in 1941, German soldiers learned there was something more terrifying than frostbite: the men who thrived in it. From the frozen reaches of Central Asia and the Far East came the Siberian divisions of the Red Army—warriors forged by isolation, hunger, and ice. They weren’t just soldiers. They were the embodiment of winter itself.
For months, Hitler was convinced Moscow would fall before the snow. But Stalin held back a secret weapon: tens of thousands of troops stationed near Japan. Only when Soviet intelligence confirmed Tokyo wouldn’t strike from the east did Stalin unleash his frozen battalions. Trains thundered across 9,000 kilometers, carrying men, horses, and white camouflage designed for snow-covered warfare.
By the time they arrived, the German army was broken—starved, frozen, and stretched thin. The Siberians, however, were in their element. They moved like phantoms, gliding on skis through forests, vanishing into blizzards, striking with ruthless precision. One German soldier wrote, “They’re like ghosts of ice.” It wasn’t just a counterattack—it was nature weaponized.
In December 1941, those divisions drove the Nazis 200 kilometers west of Moscow. For the first time, Hitler’s advance was halted. The myth of German invincibility shattered, and the legend of the Russian winter—along with its icemen—was born.
Black Panthers and a Palestinian delegation at the Pan-African Cultural Festival. Algeria, 1969.
In 1915, at just 23, Black American chemist Alice Ball created the 1st effective cure for leprosy. It was used globally until the 1940s. After passing suddenly at 24, her advisor stole the credit for her breakthrough. Decades later, she was rightfully credited.
On June 16, 1944, George Stinney Jr., a 90-pound Black 14-year-old boy, was executed in the electric chair in Columbia, South Carolina. Three months earlier, on March 24, George and his sister were playing in their yard when two young white girls briefly approached and asked where they could find flowers. Hours later, the girls failed to return home, and a search party was organized to find them. George joined the search party and casually mentioned to a bystander that he had seen the girls earlier. The following morning, their dead bodies were found in a shallow ditch.
On April 24, George Stinney faced a sham trial virtually alone. No African Americans were allowed inside the courthouse, and his court-appointed attorney, a tax lawyer with political aspirations, failed to call a single witness. The prosecution presented the sheriff’s testimony regarding George’s alleged confession as the only evidence of his guilt. An all-white jury deliberated for 10 minutes before convicting George Stinney of murder, and the judge promptly sentenced the 14-year-old to death. Despite appeals from Black advocacy groups, Governor Olin Johnston refused to intervene. George Stinney remains the youngest person executed in the U.S. in the 20th century.
Seventy years later, a South Carolina judge held a two-day hearing, which included testimony from three of George’s surviving siblings, members of the search party, and several experts. The state argued at the hearing that—despite all the unfairness in this case—George’s conviction should stand. The trial court disagreed and vacated the conviction, finding that George Stinney was fundamentally deprived of due process throughout the proceedings against him, that the alleged confession “simply cannot be said to be known and voluntary,” that the court-appointed attorney “did little to nothing” to defend George, and that his representation was “the essence of being ineffective.” The judge concluded: “I can think of no greater injustice.”
Today, Sandra Bland would have been 39 years old.
Sandra was a civil rights activist who used her platform “Sandy Speaks” to speak truth about police violence and systemic injustice. She had just been hired as a community outreach coordinator at Prairie View A&M University, ready to serve her community and make a difference.
On July 10, 2015, Sandra was pulled over for a minor traffic violation in Prairie View, Texas. During that traffic stop, Texas state trooper Brian Encinia escalated the encounter, forcibly removed her from her vehicle, and arrested her. He claimed she assaulted him. She was charged with felony assault on a public servant and taken to Waller County jail.
Three days later, she was found dead in her jail cell. Officials ruled her death a suicide, but her family knew Sandra. They knew her spirit, her strength, and her future. They rejected that ruling. What happened to her was murder.
Sandra’s death ignited the #SayHerName movement and forced Texas to pass the Sandra Bland Act, mandating police de-escalation training and mental health protections in jails. Her name became a rallying cry for accountability.
We remember Sandra today, not as a statistic, but as a sister, an activist, and a fighter whose voice demanded justice. Her legacy lives in every protest, every reform, and every person who refuses to stay silent.
Say her name. Sandra Bland.
Rest in power
Three Russian ringleaders of a sexual abuse network:
They tell you that the “Satanists” rule the world. And they’re right. But no, Satanists aren’t ghosts or incorporeal spirits, nor do they have tails or horns. They’re flesh-and-blood people, like you and like me.
Who are they? Well, if I told you directly, they’d call me “antisemitic.” So let’s just say they’re “Russians.”
In an interview on Iranian TV, Aisha Muammar Gaddafi, daughter of the late Libyan leader, delivers a clear message to the Iranian people.
“Negotiating with the wolf does not save the lamb, it only delays the hour of its next meal”
Aisha Gaddafi lived through this traumatic experience in her own flesh.
IDF soldiers wear the clothes of dead women they murdered. These rats are sick in the head.
The new official White House portrait!
“Sin is beginning to reproach America today and we want what is rightfully ours. And it’s no need of running and…saying, “Honey, I’m not going to get in the mess.” Because if you were born in America with a Black face, you were born in the mess.” – Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977)
Fusako Shigenobu. Founder and leader of the Japanese Red Army, a Maoist armed organization, which among other things organized the attack on Lydd Airport, with the Palestinian PFLP.
Captured in Lebanon in 2000, she served 22 years in prison in Japan before being released in 2022.
Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind
“Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you — and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Just reminding you where trillions of dollars go . . . Dirty Dirty Talmudists
Remember those states’ rights over the jack-booted feds?
For decades, section 401 has granted states and tribes the authority to approve, impose conditions on, or reject, federal permits for projects that they determine will pollute or damage local waterways.
Now, the Trump administration aims to scale back that authority in order to expedite projects and “unleash energy dominance,” said Jess Kramer, EPA assistant administrator for water, in a press briefing. “This proposed rule is the next step in ensuring that states and tribes only utilize section 401 for its statutory purpose to protect water quality and not as a weapon to shut down projects.”
No more states’ rights under Chabad-Lubavitch drenched United Snakes of Israel:
A declassified FBI memo released on 30 January states that US President Donald Trump was “compromised by Israel,” that Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad agent, and that a Jewish religious movement, Chabad Lubavitch, had coopted Trump’s presidency.
Jamelle Bouie: Trump keeps saying they have to nationalize the elections, they have to federalize the elections, and this just depends on Congress at this point. The relevant part of the Constitution says that states shall handle elections, unless Congress decides they want to step in and do something.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is Congress saying, “We want to do something.” So, Congress has that authority. Unless Congress decides to lay down some standards, unless Congress decides that for whatever reason it wants to nationalize election administration, then I’m not sure that there is anything to worry about in that regard.
Otherwise, election administration in this country is extremely decentralized. It’s not even the case that it’s centralized in each individual state. It’s centralized in each individual precinct.
Setting aside the fact that the executive — or the president, specifically — really has no legal authority here, I want to be very clear about what I’m saying here. I’m not doing the thing where I say, “Well, we can’t do that. It’s illegal.”
[Scrubbing scrubbing shagging shagging.]
But Trump’s second-term messaging strategy has been defined by a mindset that social media content is governing and that governing is also achieved through content creation.
The Department of Homeland Security, the Labor Department and other federal government accounts have shared posts that contain white supremacist rhetoric and nods to conspiracy theories like QAnon. And Trump administration staffers frequently use X to spar with critics and post memes that support the president.
On Friday, Trump faced uncharacteristic pushback from some fellow Republicans after sharing a video on his social media site that contained false claims of election fraud — and a short snippet of an unrelated video that contained a racist depiction of former President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama as apes.
That post was deleted, after the White House initially defended it as an “internet meme.”
Bannon is saying, “Get ICE all around polling precincts”; Trump is waiting for that phone call from Tulsi Gabbard; Tommy Tuberville is saying, “Get rid of voting machines” — you’ve got this environment where MAGA is very focused on the midterms because they’ve been governing like they’re never going to lose power.
Jews: UN peacekeepers in Lebanon say Israeli forces are increasingly harassing them
U.N. peacekeepers patrolling southern Lebanon have faced a dramatic surge of “aggressive behavior” by Israeli forces over the last year, including drone-dropped grenades and machine-gun fire, according to an internal report seen by The Associated Press.
The report by one of the 48 nations that together have more than 7,500 peacekeepers in southern Lebanon says the number of incidents jumped from just one in January to 27 in December. The hilly frontier zone where the UNIFIL force patrols has seen decades of cross-border violence. Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants fought a full-scale war in 2024.
The targeting of peacekeepers appears aimed at undermining the international force and strengthening Israel’s military footprint along the U.N.-drawn border with Lebanon, known as the Blue Line, the report alleges. It was shared with AP on condition that the news organization not identify the countr
All Jews are game, man, anywhere they lather up with their CopperTone
From destroying calories to ‘re-engineering’ society, data and experts reveal how the hunger in Gaza was not a byproduct of war, but a calculated strategy that reached its deadliest peak in 2025.
JEWS:
The Calorie Collapse: Before the war, 500 trucks sustained Gaza daily. During the conflict, this dropped to an average of 19 trucks a day – a 96 percent reduction.
The Thirst War: Water availability plummeted from 84 litres per person to just 3 litres during the siege.
Scorched Earth: Israel systematically destroyed infrastructure for agricultural production. By August 2025, 90 percent of agricultural land was razed, 2,500 chicken farms were destroyed (killing 36 million birds), and the fishing port was obliterated.
“If Israel wanted to do it, every child in Gaza could have breakfast tomorrow,” de Waal observed. “All they need to do is to open the gates”.
Feces sticking together:
Neither Bill Clinton nor Hillary Clinton has been accused of wrongdoing and both deny having any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes. No Epstein survivor or associate has ever made a public allegation of wrongdoing or inappropriate behavior by the former president or his wife in connection with his prior relationship with Epstein.
President Donald Trump has said he thinks it’s a “shame” that the Clintons are being called by lawmakers to testify.
“It bothers me that somebody is going after Bill Clinton. See, I like Bill Clinton. I still like Bill Clinton,” Trump told NBC News in a wide-ranging interview
The group is the fourth artist to pull out of the festival, following Ludacris and country artists Morgan Wade and Carter Faith.
“Shinedown is everyone’s band,” the group wrote. “We feel that we have been given a platform to bring all people together through the power of music and song,” the message began. “We have one BOSS, and it is everyone in the audience. Our band’s purpose is to unite, not divide. With that in mind, we have made the decision that we will not be playing the Rock the Country Festival.
Jack-booted feds, uh?
The Trump administration was dealt another setback Thursday in its effort to use taxpayer information to track down undocumented immigrants, as a second federal judge ordered the IRS to stop sharing residential addresses with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani said the information sharing potentially violated taxpayer privacy rights. She blocked the agencies from sharing the data until the court can review the case further and barred ICE from using information already provided by the IRS.
Our research focuses on glyphosate’s impacts on AZA’s relationships with the land along with the forestry companies and provincial government that use and regulate the herbicide on their territory. Through our work with 14 First Nations that are part of the Understanding Our Food Systems project, several communities expressed great concern about environmental contaminants on their territories.
Members of the AZA have been particularly distressed about the impacts of glyphosate on their traditional food systems, the land and watershed, and the community’s health for several years. People who live and work on the land have noticed many changes and called for research and action to address these concerns.
In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans” based on “limited” evidence it causes cancer in people and “sufficient” evidence it causes cancer in animals.
This has been of particular concern for many Indigenous communities in terms of the impact of glyphosate being sprayed on the berries, animals, medicines and fish that make up their traditional food systems.
While several health-related issues have been connected to glyphosate use, such as destruction of cells, inflammation that can damage healthy tissue and weakening of the immune system’s ability to defend the body against infections and disease, there is no clear consensus on what level is considered safe.
Department of War Crimes:
President Donald Trump’s administration blasted New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday for issuing an executive order reaffirming the city’s sanctuary laws, contending the directive will make the city “less safe.”
Mamdani’s order instructs all municipal agencies to ensure compliance with existing sanctuary laws, which bar city employees from assisting federal authorities in most forms of immigration enforcement. The order also directed certain public-facing agencies, including the NYPD, to have their employees undergo new training on sanctuary restrictions. The executive action did not otherwise enact any new restrictions.
“These are policies that keep New Yorkers safe,” Mamdani said of his executive order. “These are policies that are motivated by delivering public safety, not in spite of public safety.”
In Insect Biodiversity, Geoffrey G. E. Scudder writes that, “In terms of biomass and their interactions with other terrestrial organisms, insects are the most important group of terrestrial animals – so important that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.”
Afterall, insects are the biological foundation of all terrestrial ecosystems due to their primary role in cycling nutrients, pollinating plants, dispersing seeds, maintaining soil structure and fertility, controlling other organisms’ populations, and acting as a food source for other creatures. To put a number to the benefits we receive from insects, the service of insects pollinating about 75% of of our food crops is worth around $500 billion every year, without even taking into account the 80% of wild flowering plants they pollinate, which serve as the foundation for so much of the life on Earth.
Ecological harm from pesticides is growing globally, a study has found, with bugs, fish, pollinators and land-based plants among six species groups hit hardest.
Insects suffered the greatest increase in harm from synthetic farm chemicals between 2013 and 2019, the study shows, with “applied” toxicity rising by 42.9%, followed by soil organisms, which faced an increase of 30.8%.
Aquatic plants and land-based vertebrates were the only two groups for which the danger fell.
The global rise in applied toxicities of pesticides for most species groups suggested that ecosystems had become “increasingly impaired” by pesticides. “[This] directly counteracts the risk reduction target set out by the UN’s Global Biodiversity Framework.”
The 15th United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) obligates all countries to reduce pesticide risks by 50% by 2030. In this study, we derived the trends of total applied toxicity (TAT) globally between 2013 and 2019, weighting applied masses by ecotoxicity, of 625 pesticides for eight species groups to assess pathways toward this reduction goal. We found that the TAT of most species groups has increased; that only 20 ± 14 pesticides per group define >90% of the TAT nationally; that fruits, vegetables, maize, soybean, rice, and other cereals contribute 76 to 83% of the global TAT; and that China, Brazil, the United States, and India contribute 53 to 68% of the global TAT. Our target achievement categorization shows that substantial actions, combining shifts to less-toxic pesticides, increased adoption of organic agriculture, and also provision of national pesticide use data, will be required globally to approach the United Nations’ target.
Writing 10 years after the war, Bernays noted that World War One had, ‘opened the eyes of the intelligent few in all departments of life to the possibilities of regimenting the public mind.’
“Comrade, I did not want to kill you… But you were only an idea to me before, an abstraction that lived in my mind and called forth its appropriate response. It was that abstraction I stabbed. But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony — Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy? . . . Take twenty years of my life, comrade . . . for I do not know what I can even attempt to do with it now.” — Remarque
The Monster:
[In this Sept. 26, 1918 photo, a U.S .Army 37mm gun crew man their position during the World War One Meuse-Argonne Allied offensive in France. The CPI’s Division of Advertising churned out propaganda to bolster the support of Americans at home for the war effort.]
Corporations spend billions each year trying to influence how people think, act and spend. But the fields of modern public relations and product marketing really aren’t all that new – they got their big start in a broken campaign promise made nearly 100 years ago.
And as broken campaign promises go, this was one of the biggest.
In April 1917, the First World War had been raging for almost three years, but the United States had remained outside the fray. Although supportive of the Allied Powers, President Woodrow Wilson urged Americans to be neutral in thought and action. Public opinion in the U.S. was solidly behind him – Wilson had been re-elected in November 1916 on the slogan “he kept us out of war.”
Five months later, the president had a change of heart.
Germany was continuing to harass American shipping, and there were real concerns in Washington that the war would be lost. So on April 6, Wilson was able to persuade Congress to declare war on the Central Powers.
Persuading Americans to support the war would be a more challenging task.
Committee on Public Information
Within days of the declaration, the president authorized the creation of the Committee on Public Information.
Under the leadership of George Creel, a former muckraking journalist, the CPI was tasked with winning the war at home by firing up a reluctant American population into what Creel called “the white hot mass of patriotism,” and spreading the good news about America and its democratic values throughout the world.
The famous World War One “Uncle Sam” recruitment poster was painted by James Montgomery Flagg for the Committee on Public Information. (Reuters)
The CPI brought together many of the brightest minds in advertising, journalism, graphic design, academia, and a relatively new industry called public relations.
By the end of the war, more than 100,000 Americans had contributed to the CPI’s efforts. They created Uncle Sam and other iconic recruiting images. They churned out millions of press releases, bulletins, photographs and posters, and produced silent movies with names like Pershing’s Crusaders and America’s Answer.
And 75,000 local notables, known as Four Minute Men, signed up to deliver carefully crafted four-minute inspirational orations in church halls, movie theatres, and anywhere else that Americans gathered.
It all worked spectacularly well.
Within months, Americans had shed their initial war reluctance. Young men were flocking to recruiting offices, and millions were giving money to support the “Liberty Loan” program to help finance the war effort.
The success of the CPI opened the eyes of many of its publicists to new techniques of mass persuasion, and brought the fledgling public relations industry from the fringes of American commerce into the mainstream.
Heart vs. head
“Our effort was educational and informative throughout,” George Creel insisted after the war.
In fact, it was anything but.
The CPI was the largest propaganda machine the world had ever seen. And while its title stressed “information,” the Committee’s publicists understood that electrifying American public opinion would take an appeal to the emotions, not the intellect.
The CPI’s Division of Advertising churned out posters and ads that depicted German atrocities that never happened, played up threats to American homes and families that were wildly exaggerated, and generally appealed to the fears and anxieties that lurked beneath the surface of public consciousness.
All of this was observed with great interest by a young member of the CPI team named Edward Bernays.
In this Sept. 26, 1918 photo, a U.S .Army 37mm gun crew man their position during the World War One Meuse-Argonne Allied offensive in France. The CPI’s Division of Advertising churned out propaganda to bolster the support of Americans at home for the war effort. (The Associated Press)
When the war broke out, Bernays was hired to write propaganda for the CPI’s Latin American section. He was a 26-year-old publicist based in New York City, and he had very big ambitions.
Bernays was the nephew of Sigmund Freud and he shared his uncle’s fascination with the unconscious mind. But while Freud sought to liberate people from their subconscious drives and desires, Bernays wanted to harness those passions for commercial ends.
His work with the CPI had convinced him that if you could sell war by appealing to images and symbols, then you could do the same thing to sell just about anything.
“I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace,” he told a BBC interviewer in the early 1990s.
Bernays had concluded that public opinion was fundamentally irrational, and irrationality was now the filter through which human nature could best be understood. Symbols, not facts, would be the primary tool of persuasion. Public opinion was to be manufactured and managed through communications strategies that aimed for the gut rather than the brain.
Saying that “war is hell,” the Pentagon spokesman confirmed Thursday that many Iraqi troops were buried alive in trenches by U.S. tanks armed with plowblades in an assault during the gulf war. But spokesman Pete Williams would not go beyond his estimate of “many” Iraqis buried by the tanks, declining to confirm or deny published reports that it could have ranged from hundreds to thousands.
“I don’t mean to be flippant, but there’s no nice way to kill somebody in a war,” Williams said. “There is no provision in the Geneva Convention that would prohibit this operation.”
Four Basic Principles of The Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) ….respect for and protection of the civilian population and civilian objects, the Parties to the conflict shall at all times distinguish between the civilian population and combatants and between civilian objects and military objectives and accordingly shall direct their operations only against military objectives.” [Additional Protocol 1, Article 48]
Continuing their ritualistic humiliation of Palestinians in life and death, the Israelis sent the mutilated bodies of 54 martyrs into the Gaza Strip on Thursday. Of these bodies, only about a dozen were intact. Along with the bodies came 66 boxes containing unidentified human remains. Photos published by the Gaza Health Ministry showed morbid images of human body parts, including skulls and other bones.
Dr. Muneer al-Boursh, the Director-General of the Gaza Health Ministry, termed the ongoing macabre Israeli practice a “humiliation inflicted on both the dead and the living.”
Dr. al-Boursh revealed that the bodies bore marks of inhuman torture, which was also the case with around 360 bodies that the Israelis sent into Gaza last year. Some of the bodies of Palestinian martyrs sent last year were still in blindfolds, had missing fingers, and bore marks of all kinds of horrific torture.
Families with missing relatives had to sit through painful photos of mutilated and mangled bodies in order to identify them. It led to excruciatingly painful journeys for many in search of closure, compounding their heartbreak and loss.
“What’s noticeable is that all the bodies had their fingers amputated,” he said. “This is a deliberate attempt to erase identity, to erase memory, to humiliate the living before the dead. When a person receives a bag of body parts, how will they identify them?
“Even during wars this is not a proper procedure. This is a complete moral and humanitarian crime in all aspects.”
Dr. al-Boursh revealed that the bodies of Palestinians had been medically dissected to harvest organs and were subsequently stuffed with gauze and cotton.
What do their synagogues promote?
In 1996, Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh, the influential leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect boasted about the “infinite value” of a Jewish life over a non-Jewish one, which justified stealing the goyim’s organ for the benefit of the Jew.
“If a Jew needs a liver, can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him?” he asked rhetorically before answering: “The Torah would probably permit that, Jewish life has an infinite value.”
Dr. al-Boursh — whose cousin, Dr. Adnan al-Boursh, a beloved and renowned orthopaedic surgeon in the Gaza Strip, was abducted in the early days of the genocide and subsequently raped and tortured to death in their rape-and-torture dungeons, with his body withheld to this day — wrote a moving post capturing the pain of Palestinians as they are denied dignity by their genocidal occupiers even in death:
Gaza Receives the Remains of Its Sons and Daughters… and the World Remains Silent
This is not an ordinary image, nor a fleeting moment in a news cycle. These are the remains of human beings.
Separated bones. Limbs without names.
Bodies that did not return as they left their homes, but as violence intended — to erase them.
A while ago, fifty-four bodies arrived at Al-Shifa Medical Complex, accompanied by sixty-six boxes containing human remains, released through the Red Cross.
But what is truly being handed over? Bodies? Or what remains of human dignity?
Today, we stand before sealed boxes, searching inside them for the faces of our sons and daughters, with no forensic tools, no DNA testing, and no minimum medical or investigative capacity to identify or document them with dignity.
How do we restore names to bodies reduced to numbers on bags and containers? How do families receive their loved ones when identity is erased, bones are shattered, and the body is violated even after death?
This is not ordinary death. It is a violation beyond death — an assault on human dignity, an attempt to erase memory, and a humiliation inflicted on both the dead and the living.
Returning human remains in this condition is not a wartime circumstance, nor a military procedure. It is a moral and humanitarian crime, and a blatant violation of international law meant to protect human dignity in life and in death.
We are not asking for the impossible. We are not seeking privilege. We are demanding a fundamental human right: That a human being be returned as a human being, that the body be preserved, that identity be respected, and that dignity be upheld.
When the world remains silent before such a scene, it is not Gaza alone that is humiliated — silence itself becomes complicit in the crime.
What do their synagogues promote?
“Thanks to the terrible power of our International Banks, we have forced the Christians into wars without number. Wars have a special value for Jews, since Christians massacre each other and make more room for us Jews. Wars are the Jews’ Harvest: The Jew banks grow fat on Christian wars. Over 100-million Christians have been swept off the face of the earth by wars, and the end is not yet.”
— Rabbi Reichorn, speaking at the funeral of Grand Rabbi Simeon Ben-Iudah, 1869
“I am not an American of JEWISH faith. I am a JEW. I have been a JEW for a thousand years. Hitler was right in one thing. He calls the Jewish people a race, and we are a race.”
-– Rabbi Stephen Wise, N.Y. Herald-Tribune, June 13, 1938.
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“Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel,. Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why gentiles were created.”
–Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, head of Shas Council of Torah Sages during a sermon delivered Oct. 2010 in Jerusalem
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“One of the finest things ever done by the mob was the Crucifixion of Christ. Intellectually, it was a splendid gesture. But trust the mob to bungle the job. If I’d had charge of executing Christ, I’d have handled it differently. You see, what I’d have done was had him shipped to Rome and fed him to the lions. They could never have made a savior out of mincement!”
-– Rabbi Ben Hecht
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“I don’t believe in western morality, i.e. don’t kill civilians or children, don’t destroy holy sites, don’t fight during holiday seasons, don’t bomb cemeteries, don’t shoot until they shoot first because it is immoral. The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle).”
— Chabad Lubavitch Rabbi Manis Friedman in Moment Magazine (May/June 2009) in “Ask The Rabbi”
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“…If a Jew needs a liver, can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him? The Torah would probably permit that. Jewish life has an infinite value. There is something infinitely more holy and unique about Jewish life than non-Jewish life…If a Jew needs a kidney, is it allowed, in order to save his life, to take the kidney from a Goy (non-Jew), passing by, even if he is not guilty of anything? In my opinion, Torah allows it. The life of a Jew is priceless.”
— Rabbi Yitzchak Ginzburg in “Jewish Week,” the largest Jewish publication in the United States, April 26, 1996.
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“If you saw two people drowning, a Jew and a non-Jew, the Torah says you save the Jewish life first.”
“We’ve never seen this much surveillance,” said John White who was asked to remove words such as “diversity,” “equity,” “inclusion” and “culture” from his syllabus.
A new book examines how trailer parks trap their residents in a cycle of deprivation.
Corporate owners, for instance, tend to increase rental rates. The national monthly average to rent a space in a trailer park is around $250, so a 10 percent surge means an additional $25 every 30 days. “This may seem minor to someone from the middle or upper class,” says MacTavish, “but that’s a really big deal for low-income families.”
When such price hikes make staying in a park untenable, it’s then hard for residents to move their homes: Despite their name, most mobile homes are fairly stationary and difficult to transport. MacTavish notes that many states prohibit hauling older homes on the highway. “We often heard about people leaving their mobile homes behind and losing them for this reason,” she says. And even when a resident is able to move their home, they may not be able to find a spot in another park, since overall numbers have declined.
As real estate prices have risen, owners of parks located near small or large cities are often tempted to sell the land to developers who will pay well to build condos, office buildings, and the like on the land, displacing residents. This was common before the 2008 recession, and is on the rise again.
The world’s most expensive private residence in the world, Antilia is owned by Mukesh Ambani, the richest person in India, and is named after a mythical island in the Atlantic. This 400,000-square-foot building sits in the most prestigious postcode of India and reaches 27 floors, with each double-height ceiling counting as two floors. But, despite its huge height, it’s designed to withstand huge earthquakes.
These homes, whether single or double wide, provide low-cost housing for 20 million Americans, giving shelter and stability to those who might otherwise be on the streets or moving from place to place. “That’s the positive around the role mobile homes can play,” says Katherine MacTavish, a professor at Oregon State University and co-author of the recent book, Singlewide: Chasing the American Dream in a Rural Trailer Park. Such stability can even help kids growing up in parks succeed in school and move up the social and economic ladder
.The most expensive private residence in Europe, Villa Leopolda sits between two of the most prestigious parts of the world: Monaco and Nice. Sumptuous and stylish, it’s a luxury property in the French Riviera with a regal past and first belonged to King Leopold II of Belgium (hence the name). Since then, it’s passed through the hands of many elite owners and has also been used as a film set for Alfred Hitchcock’s “La Main Au Collet” (To Catch a Thief).
Nestled in the heart of Regent’s Park, London, The Holme is a magnificent mansion previously owned by members of the Saudi royal family. However, this grand estate has recently come into receivership following the expiration of a £150 million loan.
Estimated to be worth around £250 million (approximately $320 million), The Holme is one of England’s most prestigious properties. Covering an expansive area, the Gatsby-esque mansion features more than 40 rooms, including lavish bedrooms, opulent reception areas, and a grand ballroom.
Yet in interviewing 240 residents of trailer parks across the country, MacTavish and her co-author, Sonya Salamon of the University of Illinois, found that such success stories are rare. Moreover, their research revealed that residents of trailer parks are largely unable to parlay their mobile homes into the American dream of conventional home ownership—though most of them saw their mobile home purchase as a path toward just that.
Trump Just Gave Us the Worst January Since the Great Recession
Layoffs have surged to a nearly 20-year high, as job openings plummet.
Two companies are responsible for 40 percent of these job losses: Amazon, which cut 16,000 jobs, and UPS, which cut 30,000 jobs. The cuts are even related: UPS’s cuts are connected to how it is winding down a delivery agreement with Amazon.
The most layoffs were seen in five industries: transportation, technology, health care, chemical manufacturing, and financial.
“Generally, we see a high number of job cuts in the first quarter, but this is a high total for January,” said Andy Challenger, the firm’s chief revenue officer, in a statement. “It means most of these plans were set at the end of 2025, signaling employers are less than optimistic about the outlook for 2026.”
Everything is being rewritten since Americans are not taking to the streets and piling tires on roads with a little love from gasoline:
In 1963, NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers was gunned down outside of his own Mississippi home by Byron De La Beckwith, a Ku Klux Klan member. Now the Trump administration wants the National Park Service to stop calling Beckwith a racist.
Anonymous Park Service officials told Mississippi Today that they were being ordered to make ahistorical and incredibly political omissions to the brochure that accompanies the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument.
[Myrlie Evers-Williams pauses during an interview alongside a bullet hole in the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 1, 2023.[
The original brochure stated that Beckwith was part of “the racist and segregationist White Citizens’ Council,” but it has now been removed from the monument.
If shooting Evers wasn’t evidence enough for Beckwith’s deep racism, his past interviews certainly are. An interview he did in 1990—four years before he was actually convicted for his 1963 murder—sees him calling the racist White Citizens’ Council “the first ray of light Dixie had seen since we fought through Reconstruction and captured the right to vote, the right of white people to run the South.”
“N—s are beasts. It says so here in the book of Adam,” he said in the same interview. Beckwith, who also belonged to the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, still called Evers a “mongrel” over 30 years after killing him, adding that “God hates mongrels.”
Pets trained to bite, hold and release on command are growing ever more popular in the UK. But why – and at what cost to the animals and their owners?
While most of his clients are wealthy or in the public eye, Bly says he has seen growing interest from people who aren’t obviously either, wanting “to make an investment in security”. K9 Protector breeds and trains its own dogs, selling between 40 and 60 animals each year. Most are German or Belgian shepherds, or Bly’s own “chimera” hybrid: a “very specific genetic combination” he developed for higher-risk environments. Pricing depends on the dog’s level of training and the buyer’s threat profile, but chimeras start at £32,000.
Cane corsos have become a popular status dog. Photograph: Antons Aleksenko/Getty Images
He believes it is “just a matter of time” before one is injured or killed in an altercation. “Ultimately, they are being bought with the viewpoint that they may have to place themselves in harm’s way.” At the same time, Bly downplays the risks they pose outside that worst case scenario. The training they receive to bite, hold and release on command is “more of an obedience exercise”, like recall, than it is “forward aggression”, he says.
Slaver in Chief: “Not an Angel”: Trump Defends Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good Deaths
JD Vance Delivers Sick Message to Alex Pretti’s Family
The vice president was asked if he’d like to apologize for his comments to Alex Pretti’s family. He had a disgusting response.
“Have you apologized, did you plan to apologize to the family of Alex Pretti?” The Daily Mail’s Philip Nieto asked Vance.
“For what?”
“For, you know, labeling him an assassin with ill intent.”
Yeagh, those brown kiddos, show us their papers or else?
An Argentine judge on Wednesday requested the extradition from the United States of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was captured by the U.S. military last month and now faces federal charges of narco-terrorism and conspiracy to import cocaine in New York.
The inquest from Argentina, whose judges have aggressively pursued human rights abuse cases beyond its borders, accuses Maduro of having committed crimes against humanity in overseeing a harsh crackdown on protesters and political opponents as president.
“The urgent translation of the international request and the documentation attached thereto is hereby ordered,” said the warrant, which was signed by Argentine federal judge Sebastián Ramos and seen by The Associated Press
“On the other side,” he added, “are those accomplices of a narco-terrorist and bloody dictatorship that has been a cancer for our region.”
Argentina has long taken pride in its European heritage. The mass migration of 7 million Europeans, mostly Spanish and Italian, between 1850 and 1950, created a racial profile many Argentinians feel distinguishes their country from the rest of Latin America even today.
“Mexicans descend from the Aztecs, Peruvians from the Incas – but Argentinians descend from the ships,” goes an old saying that encapsulates Argentina’s perception of itself as a nation of transplanted white Europeans.
Scrutiny of university classrooms is being formalized, with new laws requiring professors to post syllabuses and tip lines for students to complain.
Child abuse, peodophilia, brownshirt academy. The Department of War announced Monday evening Scouting America may be on a path to get rid of “DEI” in the organization.
“From Day One at the War Department, we have made it very clear: No more DEI at DoW. Zero tolerance,” Sean Parnell, the senior Advisor to the war secretary wrote on X.
The Chlamydia Capitalism on Steroids: The Washington Post leadership announced a massive round of layoffs after years of staff turmoil and as the newsroom struggles financially, as its billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos—once a very public Post cheerleader— maintains a silence about the organization’s fate that has stretched to nearly a year.
The power of Chlamydia Capitalism:
The Trump administration has secretly deported Palestinian men arrested by ICE to the occupied West Bank by private jet in coordination with Israeli authorities on at least two occasions, according to investigations by The Guardian and +972 Magazine. The detainees were flown in shackles to Tel Aviv and later released at an Israeli military checkpoint in the West Bank. According to the report, the flights took place on a luxury jet chartered by ICE that is owned by Florida developer Gil Deze, a Trump donor, friend of Donald Trump Jr., and a member of the Miami branch of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.
Baby Blood, Semen, Body Snatching, Feces Eating, Organ Thieving, Sex Trafficking, Sodomy, Snuff Movies — Rich People Want Us to Go Go Go, or Soylent Green.
Roger Peet is an artist, printmaker, muralist, and writer living in Portland, Oregon. His visual work focuses on civilized bad ideas, predator-prey relationships, and the contemporary crises of biodiversity and capitalism, as well as on what can and can’t be done about them. His writing addresses the politics and history of social relationships with the natural world. He is a founding member of the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and helps to run the cooperative Flight 64 print studio in Portland. He collaborates with artists, activists, and scientists, locally and globally, in service of a more generous and wilder world.
Ray Acheson (they/them) is Director of Reaching Critical Will, a project working for disarmament and demilitarization. They provide analysis and advocacy at the United Nations on nuclear weapons, autonomous weapons and the militarization of AI, the arms trade, military spending, and more. Ray served on the steering group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its work to ban nuclear weapons, and is a member of the Stop Killer Robots campaign. They also work locally with coalitions that oppose state violence and build community solidarity. They are the author of Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy and Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages, and write a column at CounterPunch called Abolition Everywhere.
M.V. Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security and Professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of Nuclear is Not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change (Verso 2024) and The Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy in India (Penguin Books, 2012). Ramana is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials, the Canadian Pugwash Group, the International Nuclear Risk Assessment Group, and the team that produces the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Leo Szilard Award from the American Physical Society.
Joshua Frank is co-editor of CounterPunch and co-host of CounterPunch Radio. He is the author of Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America, and the forthcoming, Bad Energy: The AI Hucksters, Rogue Lithium Extractors, and Wind Industrialists Who are Selling Off Our Future, both with Haymarket Books.
Why all the release of millions of Epstein files (still four million NOT released). And, how many does Unit 8200 and Mossad have?
We are the fucking proving grounds of the most perverse actions in history, recent history, that is, so why NOW?
Kelly — Because they want to desensitize people against crimes against children, people, women. What happens to a father when he finds out that has happened to his daughter. It’s got to break his heart. The result, there is no action. Heads should roll, and people should be arrested and and Maxwell is a minimum security facility. The rich can do whatever they want.
I remember, the guy with Gerald Horne, Wilbert, come up with words for Trump, he came up with vulgar and crass.
This revelation was brought to light in Epstein Files release EFTA00165118. In an email written between correspondents whose identities were redacted by the DOJ, the sender references an article published on the UK news outlet The Sun covering the suicide of Sabrina Bittencourt. Bittencourt, a victim of the Brazilian celebrity cult leader John of God (legal name João Teixeira de Faria), made famous by US talk show host Oprah Winfrey, alleged that the cult leader held young girls captive to breed them in order to sell their newborns on the black market before murdering the mothers. “Hundreds of girls were enslaved over years, lived on farms in Goias, and served as wombs to get pregnant for their babies to be sold,” Bittencourt alleged. These same allegations were made against Epstein by the sender in the email disclosed in the latest batch of the Epstein Files, who wrote, “[REDACTED] spoke of this going on at Zorro Ranch. She has said on record that Epstein offered her money to do this. Birth babies for black market use.”
While Little Saint James Island, infamously known as Pedophile, Rape, and Epstein Island, has received the bulk of attention in the fallout from the cover-up of Epstein’s crimes, his Zorro Ranch property is another centerpiece of the crimes committed by his criminal network. Located in the high desert north of the Estancia Basin of central New Mexico, where Epstein was not required to register as a sex offender following his 2008 plea deal in Florida, the sprawling 7,600-acre ranch hosted numerous parties implicated in Epstein’s crimes. Epstein reportedly organized the ranch as the headquarters for his eugenic plot to “seed the human race with his DNA” by impregnating countless women and underaged victims on the property. Victim Annie Farmer, alleges that Epstein and his prime accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, sexually abused her at the ranch when she was just 16-years-old.
According to housekeepers and other staff interviewed as witnesses, Epstein hosted Prince Andrew, formerly the Duke of York; former congressman and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson; and Woody Allen alongside his adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, whom Allen married in 1997 after years of allegations that he abused her as a child during his marriage to his ex-wife, actress Mia Farrow, at his New Mexico property. Despite their notoriety, those figures were far from the most high profile visitors alleged to have been hosted by Epstein at the Zorro Ranch.
Stress positions, USA:
Americans have not heart, because they have no country to fight for because it’s land . . . . They know that deep in their heart.
Zebras: Experience intense, short-term physical stress (e.g., being chased by a lion). Once the threat passes, their bodies return to a state of calm, and the stress response shuts off.
Humans: Experience chronic psychological stress (e.g., bills, traffic, deadlines). We activate the same “fight-or-flight” physiological response, but we keep it turned on for months or years, which causes long-term damage.
We are the crash test dummies, the white mice, for . . . slow-moving “diseases of lifestyle” exacerbated by stress.
The “Russian Spy” accusation is based on vapors. It is a narrative with no tangible proof, designed to pander to the Russo-phobic hysteria that has gripped the West since 2016.
Compare this to the mountain of hard evidence regarding Mandelson’s other allegiance: the Epstein-Israel axis.
Court documents, FBI files, and investigative reports have long suggested that Jeffrey Epstein was not merely a financier, but an intelligence asset—specifically, a Mossad cut-out running a “honey trap” operation to compromise Western politicians and businessmen for Israeli leverage.
Mandelson is listed in Epstein’s black book. He flew on his planes. He visited his homes. He is a close friend of Nat Rothschild, the scion of the banking dynasty that sits atop the financial pyramid.
Cancer: Various types caused by toxic exposure (e.g., benzene, arsenic).
One month after the US attack on Venezuela, dozens of Italian cities once again took to the streets in support of the Bolivarian process, demanding the release of President Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores. Organized under the international slogan “Bring them home!”, the decentralized actions represent a stepping stone toward a national assembly in Rome on Sunday, 8 February, as well as permanent mobilization against war and rearmament.
Students and youth made up a significant portion of participants in Tuesday’s demonstrations. “In response to the United States’ military action, a clear expression of its desire to reassert control over the continent, we once again stand alongside the Bolivarian Revolution […] against US imperialism and to demand the immediate release of Maduro and Flores,” the organizations Cambiare Rotta and OSA wrote on the day.
Blood-Harvesting Conspiracy.
According to a study by CEIDAS (the Center for Studies and Research in Development and Social Assistance) in Mexico, the southern border state of Chiapas is particularly susceptible to human trafficking. Irregular migrants from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua are frequently exploited in bars and brothels. Migrants are even more at risk in Guatemala, where young girls are frequently abducted and trafficked. The NGO Casa Alianza found that at least 15,000 children had been trafficked in Guatemala for sexual exploitation; in Guatemala City alone, the NGO identified over 2,000 children who were being sexually exploited in bars and massage parlors. 89 percent were migrants from the nearby countries of El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Children between the ages of eight and 14 were bought and sold in Guatemala, for as little as 100 US dollars.7
In 2018, the Public Prosecutor’s office in Guatemala identified 478 possible victims of human trafficking. 132 of them, 28 percent of the total, were children and adolescents.8 During a UN ceremony commemorating the World Day against Trafficking in Persons in 2013, Honduran spokesman Jorge Ramos announced that 55 percent of Central America’s human trafficking victims were underage girls. Between 2018 and 2019, over 330 people were rescued from human traffickers in Honduras.9 In 2011, the CINDE Foundation and UNICEF conducted an expansive study of missing children in Central America. They announced that a severe problem of child trafficking existed in the region, particularly in “blind points” along border regions.10 Residents of the “Northern Triangle” countries—Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras—are particularly vulnerable to organized crime. These countries are among the poorest in the Americas, with a per capita income less than a third of Mexico’s.
Mexico’s National Institute for Women (INMUJERES) estimates that 25,000 underage girls are subjected to prostitution in the Dominican Republic, trafficked within the country. An increase in sex tourism in the region has led to higher levels of human trafficking, with women, girls, and boys brought to countries like Costa Rica from Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and the Philippines.11 And Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission issued a report last year on children and adolescents who are victims of organized crime. The report states that, according to the Secretariat of Tourism, roughly 21,000 legal minors are trafficked in Mexico every year for the purpose of sexual exploitation. The border state of Baja California is cited as one of the five Mexican states with the highest rates of human trafficking.12
Another crisis of child abductions has been ongoing in Latin America for decades—poor families whose infants are kidnapped for illegal international adoption. The Guatemalan news website Radio Ocote reported on the extensive abduction and trafficking of children for foreign adoption, from the 1980s to the early 2000s.13 Many cases have been reported in Peru as well. As far back as the 1980s, journalist Ismael León participated in an investigation for the Peruvian newspaper La República,which discovered a child trafficking network. Children were stolen from their biological parents in poor and indigenous communities and sold for irregular adoption by foreign couples. This real-life story inspired director Melina León’s 2019 film Canción sin nombre (Song without a Name), which made its international debut at a film festival in Mexico City last year.
And while many of the foreigners who paid for irregular adoptions came from the United States, that is just the tip of the iceberg. The widespread crisis of human trafficking and abduction in Latin America is no accident—it is the direct result of a century of US policies in the region.
In Mexico, the issue of human trafficking cannot be disconnected from the crisis of violence against women: abductions, gender-based murders, and disappearances. The city most famous for rampant femicides—gender-based murder of women—is Juárez, a border city intricately linked to global capital and free trade. Many of the women and girls abducted and murdered in Juárez were recent migrants, having moved north to work in the maquiladoras,assembly-line factories. Foreign capital needed cheap labor to work the assembly lines, and a whole generation of newly-mobile, single females moved north. Organized crime took advantage of this vulnerable population. The number of women and girls who were abducted, disappeared, and murdered began to rise in 1993. This was shortly before the signing of NAFTA, as foreign companies built numerous maquiladora factories along the border. By 2005, the number of femicides in Juárez since 1993 had shot up to 370. This gender-based violence, kidnapping, and human trafficking affects underage girls at an alarming rate.
Growing protests have erupted across the country, calling for justice for their fallen sisters. Ni una menos (“We will not suffer one more missing woman”), Nos están matando (“They’re killing us”). On March 8 of this year—International Women’s Day—millions of women marched across the country.14 More recently, this September, a group of activists broke into the offices of the National Human Rights Commission to protest the Commission’s lack of action on this issue. They were joined by family members of women and girls who had been abducted and disappeared.
The human trafficking rings that have abducted thousands of women, teenagers, and children in Mexico and Central America are controlled by criminal organizations. Many of these, including the fearsome Mara Salvatrucha gang, are themselves the product of US foreign policy. The Mara emerged in the power vacuum that followed the Central American civil wars of the 1980s. As the US fought to keep socialism out of the region, Washington funded brutal paramilitary thugs in Central American nations. Through the US State Department, the CIA, and the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia, the US taught these paramilitaries how to torture, intimidate, and subjugate the civilian population. After the USSR fell and the civil wars subsided, those paramilitary forces remained. They melded with a new group in Central America: recent deportees from the United States who, while in detention, had adopted the culture of US street gangs. They were sent back to El Salvador and Guatemala, and the two forces—gang culture and paramilitary violence—fused together.
US policy has consistently aimed at keeping the region within the US sphere of influence, by any means necessary. This interventionism has continued well into the 21st century, long after the Berlin Wall fell. In 2006, when Honduras elected progressive president Manuel Zelaya, who sought to redistribute land and tax US fruit companies, the US supported a military coup against him. Hillary Clinton may not be part of a Satanic sex cabal, but she did help to plunge Honduras into violence. As Secretary of State under the Obama administration, she gave legitimacy to the putschist military government in Honduras, even as most Latin American regions called for a return to democracy. Honduras is now one of the deadliest countries in the world, with an average of 13 people murdered every day. It is one of the most dangerous countries for journalists, with at least 40 reporters murdered in the last decade, according to Europa Press.15
Neocolonial interventions have defined US policies toward Latin America for over 100 years. Central America has been kept in a constant state of underdevelopment and poverty, held back from anything resembling self-determination. The end result is obvious: millions have been forced to migrate. As people fled the Northern Triangle countries in recent years, gangs quickly took control of the migration routes, abducting adults and children alike. So the migrants sought protection in one another—they joined together and migrated in large caravans, seeking safety in numbers. They began trekking together shortly before the Christmas season. Catholic and Evangelical organizations provided humanitarian support, seeing the migrants’ journey as a modern-day manifestation of the Holy Family seeking shelter.16
But when they reached the US, the migrants found a closed door. As early as 2017, the Washington Post reported on the new (unofficial) tendency of turning away asylum-seekers at the border.17 When one caravan reached the US border in 2018, most migrants were not given the opportunity to apply for asylum—rather, US agents fired tear gas into the crowd. The “Remain in Mexico” policy became the norm. As they languished in tent cities along the border, migrants became even more vulnerable to human traffickers and organized crime. More children went missing.
While criminals took advantage of this population, another child crisis enfolded along the border: migrant children were abducted by the US government itself. In June 2018, the DHS publicly admitted to a policy of family separation. The practice had been in place since the previous year; almost 2,000 children were separated from their parents in April and May 2018 alone. While the official number was 2,737, the government admitted in early 2019 that the actual figure may be much higher. This practice was a natural outgrowth of the Trump administration’s decision to criminally prosecute any adult crossing the border without papers. Once charges were brought against the adults, their children were declared “unaccompanied,” and fell under the supervision of the US Department of Health and Human Services. Children were ripped from their parents arms, with no regard for age. CNN reported a story of a Honduran woman whose infant daughter was taken from her while breastfeeding.18 Some evidence suggests that parents were tricked into releasing their children—perhaps forever. Defense attorneys reported that their clients had been told that Border Patrol agents were only taking their children away for questioning, or to be given a bath.
Many international media have decried the conditions in these migrant detention facilities. Children sleep on cold concrete floors, eating meager rations and washing without soap.19 A facility in Clint, Texas housed 250 children, including several toddlers younger than four. Three-year-old children have been forced to appear in immigration court on their own.20Members of the administration, however, attempted to justify the policy. White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly explained that the policy was “a tough deterrent,” insisting that it was not cruel or inhumane. “The children will be taken care of,” he insisted, “put into foster care or whatever.”21 Attorney General Jeff Sessions callously announced, “If people don’t want to be separated from their children, they should not bring them with them.”22 The policy contained no measures for reuniting families. Although the policy was officially canceled in the summer of 2018, many are still separated. According to the New York Times, the parents of 545 of the children have not yet been located. Around 60 of these children were younger than five years old when they were taken away from their parents.23
Ask AI?
The framing of the Epstein file release as a “test” of American tolerance stems from the deep skepticism surrounding the government’s handling of the documents and the potential for selective accountability.
As of early 2026, several factors contribute to this sentiment:
1. Perceived Institutional Failure
A January 2026 CNN poll found that 67% of Americans believe the government is intentionally holding back information that should be public. For many, the “test” is whether the public will accept what they perceive as a managed or sanitized version of the truth.
2. Selective Accountability and Politicization
Analysts argue the release has become a “partisan weapon”.
Institutional Distrust: There is a widespread belief that the legal system provides immunity for elite criminal networks while “normal people” face immediate consequences.
Politically Charged Redactions: While the Department of Justice (DOJ) maintains redactions are necessary to protect victims, many viewers see them as a way to shield powerful figures.
3. The “Haphazard” Release Process
The most recent tranche of 3.5 million pages released by the DOJ in early 2026 has been criticized for being unorganized and containing critical errors:
Failed Redactions: High-profile leaks included uncensored nude photos and the names of victims, which some victims have called “life-threatening”.
Sensitive Data Leaks: Redaction failures also exposed the banking information of victims and sensitive credentials for accounts like Gmail and LinkedIn.
4. Public Apathy vs. Outrage
Despite the high-profile nature of the case, a PRRI survey found only 19% of Americans view the controversy as a “critical issue”. This disconnect is sometimes described as a test of whether the public has become desensitized to allegations of elite corruption.
For individuals observing the events from a distance, the mental effects can include:
Vicarious and Secondary Trauma: Regularly seeing disturbing and violent content, such as images of mutilated bodies and destruction, can lead to vicarious trauma, where individuals experience symptoms similar to direct trauma victims. The mind struggles to process the immense scale of the suffering, which can cause a psychological “shut down”.
Anxiety, Depression, and Grief: Observers report overwhelming feelings of depression, anxiety, uncontrollable sobbing, and deep grief. There is a constant sense of dread and worry about the next atrocity, making daily functioning difficult.
Helplessness and Powerlessness: The ability to witness the destruction without being able to stop it creates intense feelings of helplessness and powerlessness.
Existential and Moral Crises: Constant exposure can lead to deeper metaphysical and existential questions about “good” and “evil,” “right” or “wrong,” and a general disillusionment with humanity and established systems.
Moral Injury: Witnesses may feel a form of moral injury from being part of a society that is perceived as complicit or inactive in preventing the atrocities.
Physical Symptoms: The psychological stress can manifest physically, including memory loss, sleep issues, and a prolonged state of heightened stress that can impact the nervous system.
Impacts on Those Directly Affected
For Palestinians in Gaza, the impacts are direct, severe, and compounded:
Compounded Trauma: The current trauma of the war aggravates the inherited, historical trauma and psychological vulnerability of a population, many of whom are already refugees from past displacements.
Extreme Stress and Fear: The daily struggle for survival amid bombing, displacement, and a lack of basic needs creates an adrenalized, high-stress state.
Loss of Future and Sense of Time: Victims report that time no longer has meaning and they no longer think of the future, instead tracking their lives by “massacres”.
Psychological Harm and Destruction of Society: The deliberate infliction of conditions of life calculated to bring about destruction is seen as causing “severe psychological harm on all Palestinians” and aims to destroy the remnants of a distinct society. The mind is focused on a daily fight for physical survival, which handicaps thinking in both general and national terms.
The unprecedented nature of a “live-streamed” genocide, where the victims are broadcasting their own destruction in real-time, has ensured widespread awareness of the brutality, making it impossible for a “healthy conscience” to ignore and forcing a global reckoning with the mental and ethical toll.
Epstein’s status as an Israeli intelligence operative—now beyond reasonable doubt—and ties to his “closest friend” Trump provide a likely means of ‘kompromat’ allegedly making Trump a tool of Israel. The report comes hot on the heels of other released documents detailing witness testimony accusing Trump of raping and beating children provided to him by Epstein. Dershowitz is also accused in the same files of at least being present during the rape—and in at least one case murder—of children.
A former Justice Department attorney, “Nearly 80% of Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficked underage girls came from the Balkans.” Epstein’s still-censored travel log shows over a dozen flights to the region in the mid to late 90s. This is the time period when Epstein and his Israeli partners began cultivating pedophilia and sex-trafficking-based relationships with key UN insiders. Over the following years, members of Epstein’s network took positions within the highest echelons of the United Nations.”
Gilad Atzmon
What do we get of the Jewish State?
Epstein files
Genocides
Constant global conflicts (Ukraine included)
Financial turmoil
Energy crisis
Constant interference in global affairs and nations’ politics by means of Lobbying, Think Tanks, media control and various methods of blackmail.
If at one point Israel was regarded as an instant of ‘Western stability’ in the ‘volatile’ Middle East, by now this violent Ghetto on the Mediterranean seashore is by far the greatest danger to human survival on this planet.
The big challenge, accordingly, is to dismantle this wound in an harmonious and peaceful manner. This I believe, is the Iranian/dissident’s doctrine. It is moderate, skillful, and careful. It is there to deliver a message to the Israelis: ‘your time in our region has come to an end’!
It is the success of the Iranian deterrence doctrine that made it a necessity for the Jewish State and its lapdog the USA to destroy Iran.
Yet, for humanity to prevail or even just survive. Iran victory is a must!
These are the Israeli ‘demands’ from Iran as they were delivered to Witkoff a few minutes ago:
1: Iran must pass its enriched uranium to a third party state.
2. No further enrichment
3. The Ballistic missile production must come to an end
4. Iran’s support of regional proxies must also come to an end.
From the demands we learn that Israel acknowledges that it didn’t fulfil a single military objective during the 12 days war. If anything it learned to admit to itself that it is actually the Iranian ballistics , rather than nukes, that can turn Tel Aviv into dust .. the truth of the matter is that neither the USA nor the Jewish State posses the means to encounter Iran’s military technology. Israel knows it, the USA military knows it, Iranians know it and even I know it…
In 1993 journalist and writer Michael Collins Piper published his contentious book Final Judgement.
Pooling a large amount of circumstantial evidence, Collins Piper’s premise was that the hidden author of the assassination was, in fact, the security services of the state of Israel. The bastard cousin of all JFK assassination conspiracy books, Final Judgement was notable both for the silence it generated (to this day, almost all serious JFK researchers fail to acknowledge it even exists) and the reported fact that it sold around 100,000 copies through mail order, ‘under the counter’ and other alternate means.
Gilad: And while we are at it, the Sodomites just continued their human sacrifice orgy in Gaza. What stops the Ginger Caligula from deploying his ‘armada’ west of Tel Aviv?
In a 1948 letter to Zionist leaders, Albert Einstein raged that they were ‘terrorists and criminals’, and predicted that colonising Palestine would set up what he called ‘a final catastrophe’ for the Jews.
Last week, an Israeli soldier posted a ‘sunset’ photograph from Rafah on his Instagram. This is what they are proud of. This is what we paid for. This is what support for Israel means. This is Zionism.
Yahu vs. Xstein
Yesterday’s feud between Israeli PM and Biden top adviser exposes the level of Israel’s control over America and the level of American complicity in the worst documented genocide in human history.
In a press conference yesterday Netanyahu accused Biden of IDF fatalities during the Israeli human sacrifice orgy in Gaza. He said IDF ‘didn’t have enough ammunition,’ due to ’embargo’.
However, Amos Hochstein, one of Biden’s Witkoffs in duty insisted that Netanyahu was lying.
“Netanyahu is both not telling the truth and ungrateful to a president that literally saved Israel at its most vulnerable moment.” In further remarks on X, Hochstein wrote that “After more than $20 Billion military support, largest in Israel[i] history, two aircraft carriers rushed to the region, deterring a massive regional war, defeating Iran missile and drone attack twice, defending Israel at most vulnerable moments, after SAVING countless lives of Israelis – only acceptable response to US president Biden and American people is THANK YOU.”
This is pretty much everything you need to know. America is Israel’s most subservient colony. When its youngsters don’t die for Israel its tax payers’ money funds the Israeli genocidal crimes. If Netanyahu is expected to thanks “Biden and the American People” as Hochstein suggests, it only means that in Hochstein’s mind the American people are partners in the Israeli crime against humanity. I am sure that many Americans are upset by the idea and it is down to them to emancipate themselves of their Middle Eastern Mother State.
The Jewish state is beyond a doubt a disaster but the USA being the No 1 most subservient Israeli colony facilitates this disaster.
PS here is the Early Life Wikipedia section about Biden’s Top Adviser Amos Hochstein: Hochstein was born in Jerusalem, the child of American Jewish immigrants to Israel. He studied at Yeshivat Netiv Meir High School and the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces and served in Armored Corps. Following his service, he left Israel and moved to New York City to work at Bankers Trust. While Hochstein’s immediate family continue to live in Israel, he does not maintain dual citizenship, having renounced his Israeli citizenship.
This photographic sculpture was featured in an exhibition in Spain.
A Muslim Arab complained, and when asked why, he replied, “Because it’s scandalous.”
A white Christian complained, and when asked why, he replied, “Because I mustn’t be considered inferior to the Jew.”
A white Jew also complained, and when asked why, he replied, “Because if the Arab rises up, we all fall.”
This is a fascinating, thoughtful Lorenzo Galbiati ‘s interview with Hanna Hoffman. Rarely in your life you will come across a genuine Jewish dissenting voice brave enough to look at the J word and its meaning, let alone admitting the depth of theological morbidity that made the Jewish state into what it is. In fact the entire mission of the Jewish solidarity movement is to divert attention from the J word. Hoffman is different. She isn’t shy of the question.
Hoffman defines herself as Trans Zionist, her rational is fascinating . And I wonder is she a trans Zionist or maybe a trans Jew. I wonder , in the light of Hoffman’s elaboration, whether I myself am an ex Jew, a trans Jew, a proud self hater or a lamb of Christ. I wonder because I have never managed to emancipate myself of the battle with the tribe: its ideology, culture and politics. In that sense, I of course failed as a Christian.
INTERVIEW with Hanna Hoffman (Second Part – the First Part was published on January 14th)
1. Do [Did] you consider yourself an anti-Zionist Jew? And if so, what do you mean by anti-Zionism?
– I consider myself a “Trans-Zionist”, a term I coined. In other words, I was raised a zionist by definition, since I grew up in Israel and for the early 3 or so decades of my conscious life I accepted the absolute righteousness of israel’s existence – despite its somewhat checkered history. Said acceptance incalcated as part of my identity, almost as a god given right, never mind I did not believe in said god.
For me, as an Israeli and for quite a while after I left, this was something not even worth questioning. Mind you, as Israelis we did not refer to ourselves as zionists but as Israelis, which to us meant that this country, with whatever borders it had, even if drawn by outright conquest, was OUR country by divine right, much as France belonged to the French. None of the Israelis I knew and still know to this day, even accepts that israel as founded was an obvious colonialist-settler enterprise.
I was personally surprised by the debates about “zionism” raging in the US when I first arrived and used to vehemently defend israel against all critiques, since as I said, that was an embedded part of my very identity. It took more than a decade and considerable exposure to other thoughts and numerous literary works and historical works that were new to me, before I woke up one day and seemingly out of the blue no longer felt that “zionism thing” to be an inseparable part of my identity. I could for example see the both the first and second Intifada as natural forms of resistance by an occupied, much oppressed people, rather than something absolutely criminal as most Israelis viewed those and still do to this day.
I should add that among israelis and ex-Israelis this state of “transcending” zionism as I refer to it, is considered the worst kind of betrayal since it implies a radical departure from the tribal gestalt. In certain ways to be “trans” is worse than being “anti” as it implies losing the “love” of Israel and indeed the “love” of Jews and Jewishness in general. In a deep sense such an attitude represents an irrevocable parting of the ways from the tribal identity with its built-in belonging to a chosen and superior people at its core, an outright declaration of “not being there” any longer. To put it more simply as one ex-Israeli who long ago left that country and is genrally liberal on most issues said “Israel is in her blood” which is why she felt obliged to sever our 50 year friendship. Basically, once they believe you are truly a “trans-zionist” it is viewed as a step every bit as radical as eg not just identifying with the opposite gender – but excising one’s own biological gender altogether, meaning a deliberate altering of something that is profoundly fundamental to one’s nature.
By contrast, an “anti zionist” may be harshly critical of Israel’s actions and indeed go as far as to deny that Jewish people have exclusive right to that land, but still they retain a love of the IDEA of Jewishness as a state of being and/or maintain belief in Judaism as a supreme value that can justify separateness from classes of non-Jews (like Arabs? Or muslims in general?). An anti-zionist for example may advocate a “2 state” or even a “1 state solution” yet deep at heart they still believe that those Palestinians, and indeed most Arabs, will rise to kill the Jews of israel, if given half a a chance.
In other words, some so-called anti-zionists are just zionist-light, ie, they’d rather Israel behaved much better and was a lot less crudely and visibly violent than it is not so much because they really stand in solidarity with the Palestinians quest for justice and freedom, but because “it’d be good for the Jews”. Other self-described anti-zionists may go much further and proclaim that Israel absolutely does not represent Jews or Jewish values and has no right to call itself THE Jewish State (even as it may remain A STATE for Jews). And still others, who perhaps thought much more deeply about the underlying national, ethnical and religious issues advocate severing any overt connection between Jews at large and Israel. This last class of anti-zionists is probably closer to my concept of trans-zionist as they are willingly “othering” themselves from both Israel and Jewishness as a tribal state.
2. What do you think of Zionism? How do you explain the fact that it historically became established to the point of becoming hegemonic in the Jewish world?
– Answering this querstion would take far longer than the time I have available but I can refer to some of the excellent books I mostly agree with (and have benefitted from in forming my own views).
Books such as “The General’sSson” by Miko Peled which closely reflects my own views, “Being in Time” by Gilad Atzmon (who is even more trans zionist than I am), “The Invention of the Land of Israel” by Shlomo Sand, “The Tragedy of Zionism” by Bernard Avishai, “The Israelis” by Amos Elon, and “Beyond Tribal Loyalties” a collection of essays edited by Avigail Abarbanel who also has a personal essay in the book explaining why she left both Israel as well as Zionism and Jewish tribalism behind (themes that rather resonate with me). Note that all these books are by Israelis and/or Ex-Israelis, the part of the larger community I am most familiar with.
3. Israel is the Jewish state, recognized as such by most Jews around the world. Amos Goldberg has stated that the genocide in Gaza will remain an indelible stain in the history of the Jewish people. What do you think of this statement?
– I would agree with that statement up to a point as I have issues with the concept of collective guilt. In particular, the Jewish establishment, as we refer to it, the one that felt and continues to feel obliged to defend Israel no matter what, does bear quite a bit of responsibility for what happened in Gaza as well as for the dreary blockade and siege of Gaza over the 2 decades that led up to the Oct 7 events. The Gaza genode may well serve as a punctuation mark on the many decades of criminal oppression, persecution and expulsion of Palestinians from their native land, a history that, taken as a whole, will indeed leave a huge stain upon any claim Jewish people – in general – have upon that “high moral ground” their culture and religion were presumed to bestow upon them.
Of course, most of the Israelis I know orwhose comments I read, do not even acknowledge that a genocide was committed in the first place, something they can do given the their lingusitic insulation from the accounts seen by the rest of the world, as well as the wall-to-wall censorship in Israel, both self-imposed and dictated by the government. With Israel comprising one half of the total Jewish population in the world, to which we should add the many diaspora co-religionists who lend their support despite overwhelming evidence of crimes against humanity, I’d say that it will be difficult for Jewish people of the future to wash their hands off the guilt and responsibility for the horrific massacres and mayhem unleashed upon the people of Gaza, as well as many residents of the West Bank.
I’d go even further and maintain that the studied apathy of most Israelis towards the killing of so many men, women and children in gaza – has all but soiled the religion of Judaism itself, in all its forms – from orthodox to reform. It will be difficult, if not impossible to remove this particular stain when, say, defending or advocating Judaism as a religion that has built-in caring and universal ethical concern for human welfare. Sadly, Gaza may well mark the end point of that lovely Tikun Olam movement to which most liberally minded Jewish people in the US subscribe.
4. Alon Mizrahi, an Israeli anti-Zionist Jew, believes that, given the close ties between Israel and the Diaspora, political responsibility for the crimes of Zionism, and therefore also for the genocide in Gaza, should be collectively assumed by the international Jewish community. What do you think of this idea?
– I think the answer is similar to what was given for #9 just above. Unfortunately, one can advocate for such responsibility but that doesn’t mean that the ones who shirked it in the first place (I am refering again to the well-endowed Jewish “establishment” as well as to movements like Chabad that have grown increasingly more extreme in their views) will ever accept it.
5. Antisemitism is the only form of racism theorized in various declarations (for example the IHRA and the Jerusalem Declaration) that encompass numerous behaviors—explicit, implicit, cryptic, and so on. People often also speak of unconscious or unintentional antisemitism. Mere doubt about the legitimacy of a Jewish state in Palestine is often considered antisemitic. But even talking about the many positions of power held by Jews in finance, the media, etc., leads directly to accusations of antisemitism. Do you consider this fair? What is antisemitism for you, in concrete terms? Shouldn’t antisemitism be called “anti-Jewish hatred” and placed on the same level as all other forms of racism?
– I have written a long essay about this very subject, built upon the thesis that, according to my own reading and personal experience with other Jews and Israelis, anti-semitism is something nearly ALL Israelis and a majority of Jews consider as something universal, ubiquitous and unending. They all seem to share a deep belief that one can never exorcise the anti-semitism from the gentile, even if said gentile never as much as met a Jew or even heard of one in their life (like an isolated tribe in the Amazons?).
It is somehow assumed to be effectively an inborn trait of all humans. Sounds silly? Not to most Jews, who seem to live in a state of perpetual fear that Nazis are just around the corner. I claim that in part, this is less of a tacit accusation and more of a projection of their own psyche. Something that is obvious now more than ever before, as the bad behavior of israel appears all but determined to invite the very rebukes and opprobrium they have been dreading all this time.
Of course the cultured Jews of the Anglo countries will not admit to such projections though even they, at least among themselves, may carry – and even profess – such beliefs to various degrees. The difference from the more toxic carrying on about anti-semitism we see coming from various official and unofficial corners such as the ADL, etc, is that these more “cultured” and of course “liberal” Jews do allow for exceptions to that universal principle of never-ending antipathy towards “The Jews” (exceptions, say for Asians? Or Eskimos? Or a non-Jewish spouse?).
6. Do you think there exists a form of racism rooted in Jewish culture? Or one rooted in Jewish Zionism?
– Absolutely. I already elaborated in my response to #4 that traditional Judaism includes within its very core a form of sanctioned racism towards non-Jews (cf goys or gentiles) which in many ways is similar to the caste like system of India, with its many gradations. Indeed, overt racism exists even among Jewish people, certainly so in Israel where Ashkenazi Jews look down on Mizrahi ones (who hail from Arabic countries whose culture – and language – are regarded as inferior), who in turn are generally angry and feel insecure in Israel (ingesting something of a Stockholm syndrome, no doubt). Naturally the Mizrahis as a class then look down on Arabs as a still lower class, effectively relegating them to the status of “untouchables”. Not only that, but Israelis look down upon black people in general and openly claim them as intellectually inferior. So a new class of immigrants to israel, such as the Ethiopians, will occupy a rang somewhere between the lower branches of the Mizrahis and Arabs (a caste which is, in turn, further divided into sub-castes such as Druz, Chrisian Palestinian cand the lowest of the low – “the Muslim Arabs”).
This deep core of racism, which is a direct result of the choseness complex (as some of us call it) is not something many of the more cultured Jews outside israel will admit openly, except strictly among themselves, and only under duress. Of course some otherwise well educated Jewish people may proclaim their tribal superiority quite openly – witness certain columns written in the past by the likes of eminent commentators such as David Brooks and Thomas Friedman who merrily cited Jewish economic clout and historical accomplishments in the past century or so (especially in the US) as decisive evidence for innate intellectual prowness. Naturally, Reform and Conservative denominations of Judaism in the US will fiercely disclaim such racist views, as best exemplified by enlightened, highly erudite individuals such as Peter Beinart. But deep deep at heart, they all know even if they’ll never admit to knowing, much less feeling.
Gilad: Finkelstein exposes the reality of the “Jewish” White Supremacist State over in the Middle east + a few other all too real elephants in the room. The truth of such deeply held supremacist attitudes (not just among Israelis either) are not news to me of course (I mean, as a “tribal” insider I’ve known the score for a long time) but many, way too many are still in denial.
The part Finkelstein does not go into in this interview is the really dangerous part — the one about the infectious toxicity of this supremacist virus gnawing at the heart of the American Empire, now led by a Caligula-like, Might makes Right clown who adores himself above all else (so much so he neglects to see the deep shadows walking right alongside him, whispering sweet nothings in his ear).
In the past political commentators used to analyse USA foreign policies taking into consideration American national interests, geopolitical complexities, American economy, USA defence needs etc.
No one is doing that anymore. All we see instead is acceptance that the ginger Caligula at the helm is a malignant narcissist, a pathological case who is also subject to blackmail by his Jerusalem puppeteer. Accordingly, not one commenter is even trying to identify a rational in American current politics and actions
We must never forget the Palestinians have always been test subjects for western weapons of war and that the drone tech tested in Gaza is now surveilling us in our towns and cities.
We must never forget ICE and US Border Control agents now visiting terror on US cities are trained by the IDF.
We must never forget that there is no talk whatsoever of justice, no talk of holding Israel to any kind of account, no discussion of rebuilding Gaza beyond the criminal Trump mafia racket known as the Board of Peace.
We must never forget that France, the UK, Canada and other western states recognised a Palestinian state not out of a genuine belief in Palestinian statehood or because they consider the Palestinians to be people worthy of a state, but to try and silence critics of their pro-Israel, pro-genocide policies.
Israeli strikes kill over 20 Palestinians in Gaza, including five children. Children die from lack of medical care as medical evacuations through Rafah remain at a trickle. UN says Rafah reopening far from sufficient in daily briefing. Israel imposes strict limits on Gaza returnees at crossing, as one returnee describes abuse at Rafah crossing. Israeli forces shoot dead Palestinian man in Jericho. Israeli troops arrest over two dozen Palestinians in West Bank raids. European diplomats urge EU action against Israel. UAE denies plans to administer Gaza’s civil society.
HRW director resigns after report on right of return shelved: Human Rights Watch’s Israel-Palestine Director Omar Shakir resigned Monday after leadership halted publication of a vetted report characterizing Israel’s decades-long denial of Palestinian refugees’ right of return as a crime against humanity. The decision was made by incoming Executive Director Philippe Bolopion two weeks before release, and the intervention bypassed the organization’s established legal review process, Shakir said, and reflected what critics called an “Israel exception.” Senior figures, including former HRW Chief Ken Roth, defended blocking the report, while dozens of staff protested internally.
“Israel/Palestine has been the litmus test for every major institution,” Shakir wrote in his resignation email, warning that “Palestine exceptionalism often opens the door to other unprincipled compromises.”
Shakir and Milena Ansari, who contributed major research to the report, submitted their resignations on January 15.
“Throughout my tenure, the review process ensured we published the facts as we documented them and the findings that derived from our principled and consistent application of the law,” Shakir wrote in the email sent to Middle East and North Africa (MENA) leadership and human resources. “I can no longer say that.”
Over much of the past year, the consortium of journalists — with support from FRONTLINE’s Local Journalism Initiative and the AP’s Local Investigative Reporting Program — reviewed thousands of pages of documents and court depositions and interviewed former regulators and industry insiders, as well as doctors, scientists and people who have the kinds of illnesses that researchers have linked to PFAS contamination. The carpet industry has long insisted it’s not to blame for PFAS getting into the environment and noted that chemical companies obscured the risks and assured them the products they were supplying were safe. But the recently reviewed records also show that executives from two of the largest carpet companies received warnings dating back decades about potential harms of some types of PFAS.
What the team found unfolds in full in Contaminated and related reporting from our partners, illuminating how carpet mills contaminated Southern communities with PFAS that take decades or more to break down.
Jolly polluted England, too: Environmental campaigners have criticised a “crushingly disappointing” UK government plan to tackle “forever chemicals”, which they warn risks locking in decades of avoidable harm to people and the environment.
The government said its Pfas action plan set out a “clear framework” of “coordinated action … to understand where these chemicals are coming from, how they spread and how to reduce public and environmental exposure”.
But campaigners described the plan as “incredibly weak” and criticised its failure to match tough action taken in Europe, where national governments are already banning chemicals on the grounds of public safety before EU-wide action.
Already thought to be in the blood of every person on the planet, man-made per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (Pfas) – a family of thousands of chemicals – are used in a huge range of consumer products, from waterproof clothing to electronics.
Brazilian large companies withdraw from the ‘Soybean Moratorium.’
On Monday, international environmental organizations warned that the withdrawal of major soybean traders from the Soy Moratorium could lead to the deforestation of up to 9.2 million hectares in the Brazilian Amazon.
EPA? Under Jew Zeldin?? EDA. Not Epstein Dysfunction Affliction. Environmental Destruction AGENCY.?
Lee Zeldin seems confused. Recently, he decided that the mission of EPA was to: “lower the cost of buying a car, heating a home, and running a business.” That is not EPA’s mission, that is the job of the Commerce Department and several other federal agencies. Here in New York City, the Fire Department puts out fires, the Police Department arrests criminals, and the Sanitation Department picks up garbage. All have different uniforms, different organizational capabilities, and different functions. Each department focuses on their assigned mission. It’s easy to understand. I guess we should be grateful that Zeldin isn’t New York City’s Mayor. The EPA’s job is to protect the environment. It is not trying to raise the cost of living and does not really do that. If you look at all EPA’s programs, the financial benefits are far greater than the costs. It does you little good to buy a car that costs $1,000 less if poisons from environmental pollution keep you out of work or put you in a hospital where your co-pay can be far greater than the cost of a car. Lee Zeldin and the Trump administration apparently do not understand the financial value of a clean environment. If one of President Trump’s golf courses had to close for a week due to the type of air pollution we used to see in China, perhaps he’d better understand the economic value of clean air. There are plenty of agencies involved in promoting the economy, EPA’s job is to protect the environment. In the New York Times on March 13, Lisa Friedman and Hiroko Tabuchi reported that:
“In a barrage of pronouncements on Wednesday the Trump administration said it would repeal dozens of the nation’s most significant environmental regulations, including limits on pollution from tailpipes and smokestacks, protections for wetlands, and the legal basis that allows it to regulate the greenhouse gases that are heating the planet. But beyond that, Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, reframed the purpose of the E.P.A. In a two-minute-and-18-second video posted to X, Mr. Zeldin boasted about the changes… Nowhere in the video did he refer to protecting the environment or public health, twin tenets that have guided the agency since its founding in 1970.”
Fucking NEWS? Donald Trump told the New York Post last month that he isn’t planning to attend this Sunday’s Super Bowl in the Bay Area because it is “just too far away.” It was a transparently flimsy, fake-sounding excuse given that planes exist, he frequently travels long distances, and he went to last year’s Super Bowl.
What the president didn’t say in his Post interview is that some of his administration officials and advisers had privately assessed that if Trump were to attend Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, California, the crowd at the stadium would likely aggressively boo him.
Fucking stop calling it ZIONISM. 19 million Jews, dude: From Jabotinsky to Epstein: Zionism and the Cult of Cruelty. Israel now admits Gaza’s death toll—but only after years of denial. Mouin Rabbani joins to explore what this shift means, and how media and political elites helped enable genocide. We look at US complicity, the BBC’s Gaza coverage collapse, and the ideology of Jewish supremacy inside Israel’s government. Plus: the Epstein files, vice as political currency, and Arab states scrambling to prevent war with Iran.
JUDAISM!
Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp defended the firm’s surveillance technology as it reported a big jump in sales on Monday, saying it has safeguards to prevent government overreach, without mentioning US immigration enforcement efforts in Minnesota that have drawn widespread protests.
The data analytics company said revenue derived from the US government spiked 66 per cent in the fourth quarter from the year-ago period to US$570 million. Total sales of US$1.41 billion exceeded analysts’ estimates and the firm anticipates a big jump in sales, in part due to government contracts in 2026.
Companies working with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are attracting more scrutiny as Americans have turned solidly against ICE’s aggressive tactics following the fatal shootings of two US citizens in separate incidents in January. The company won a contract last year with ICE to develop surveillance systems for immigration enforcement.
If only we could execute 130 Jewish Billionaires and . . .
China has executed four people found guilty of causing six Chinese citizens’ deaths and running scam and gambling operations out of Myanmar worth more than $4bn.
The Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court in southern China announced the executions on Monday morning in a statement. However, the timing of the executions was not clear.
[People from China, Vietnam and Ethiopia, believed to have been trafficked and forced to work in scam centers, sit with their faces masked while in detention after being released from the centers in Myawaddy district in eastern Myanmar]
The executions of 11 other people convicted of running scam centres in Myanmar had been announced last week.
The Shenzhen court sentenced five people accused of running a network of scam centres and casinos to death in November. One of the defendants, group leader Bai Suocheng, died of illness before the sentence was carried out.
The group had established industrial parks in Myanmar’s Kokang region bordering China, from where they allegedly ran gambling and telecom scam operations involving abductions, extortion, forced prostitution, and drug manufacturing and trafficking.
They defrauded victims of more than 29 billion yuan ($4.2bn) and caused the deaths of six Chinese citizens and injuries to others, the court said.
Their crimes “were exceptionally heinous, with particularly serious circumstances and consequences, posing a tremendous threat to society”, the court’s statement said.
The defendants appealed the verdict, but the Guangdong Provincial High People’s Court dismissed their applications, it added.
FUCKING CLOWNS.
What started as a meeting between frequent foes ended with Petro walking out of the Oval Office with a MAGA hat, altered with a pen to say “Make Americas Great Again.”
Trump hosted Petro, a former Marxist revolutionary, at the White House for the first in-person meeting between the two leaders. It was also Trump’s first sit-down with a head of state from the region after the U.S. captured then-President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela exactly one month ago.
The bilateral meeting ended in an unexpectedly positive tone, with both leaders saying afterward that it went smoothly. Ahead of the meeting, former Colombian and U.S. officials had expressed apprehension, citing both Trump’s and Petro’s unpredictable and fiery tempers.
“We got along very well,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon. “He and I weren’t exactly the best of friends, but I wasn’t insulted, because I’d never met him. I didn’t know him at all. And we got along very well.”
From Marxist to MAGA, what a fucking brain dead fucking Tio Taco. Has he been talking to Jason Hinkle?
In the last few years, a self-styled political movement that sounds like a contradiction in terms has gained ground online: “Maga communism”.
Promoted by its two most prominent spokespeople, Haz Al-Din, 27, and Jackson Hinkle, 24, Maga communism comprises a grab bag of ideas that can seem lacking in coherence – ranging from a belief in the power of Donald Trump’s followers to wrest power from “global elites” to an emphasis on masculine “honor”, admiration for Vladimir Putin and support for Palestinian liberation.
Hinkle frequently distorts Marxist theory, claiming that Mao Zedong encouraged people in Japan and the United States to be patriotic[1] (when in fact Mao condemned the patriotism of Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany),[6] that communists do not support the abolition of private property, and that Communism/Marxism has always been conservative and supported patriotic education. The goal of Communists, according to Hinkle, is more Capitalist enterprises.[7] Hinkle has also engaged in slavery apologia.[8] In an interview with Alex Jones, Hinkle denounced the pro-Palestinian student protestors as “extremists” and admitted that he had friends among the anti-Palestinian reactionaries.
“And now we have ‘all white people are bad and they owe me money, based upon something I have no knowledge about’ and I must have missed in that song — I didn’t hear them talking about how, you know, when we brought the slaves over here, there was [sic] active slave trades in Africa that we actually purchased them from, but… maybe that’s the next episode.”
Black History Month! Don Lemon says agents sent to arrest him despite offer to turn himself in
Former CNN anchor faces charges over coverage of an anti-ICE protest that disrupted a Minnesota church service.
Don Lemon says about a dozen federal agents came to his Los Angeles hotel to arrest him overnight on 30 January, even though the former CNN anchor’s attorney had told authorities he would turn himself in to face federal civil rights charges over his coverage of an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a Minnesota church service.
Lemon on Monday told the ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel that sending the agents was a waste of resources because law enforcement would not have had to dispatch agents to follow him if he had been allowed to turn himself in.
In the wake of his executive order, the Defense Department issued guidance declaring “identity months dead” and said that working hours would no longer be used to mark cultural awareness months such as Black History Month, Women’s History Month and National Disability Employment Awareness Month.
That seemed to clash with a National Black History Month proclamation signed the same day by Trump, which called for “public officials, educators, librarians, and all the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.”
While the White House has issued its position, agencies of the government have discretion on whether to continue to recognize Black History Month, according to the official.
On February 1, the first day of Black History Month, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that his department “will no longer participate in celebrations based on immutable traits or any other identity-based observances.” And in a diplomatic cable, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the agency’s removal of DEI policies would dovetail with “eliminating our focus on political and cultural causes that are divisive at home and deeply unpopular abroad.”
The administration has issued a deadline to schools and universities to eliminate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal money. Major corporations have backtracked on DEI policies in hiring, promotion and workplace culture in recent months, with many citing potential legal challenges from the administration.
Meanwhile, multiple artists have canceled scheduled performances at the center since Trump’s takeover. Maria Shriver, a niece of the former president, theorized those cancellations were the reason for the pending renovation project.
“Translation: It has been brought to my attention that due to the name change (but nobody’s telling me it’s due to the name change), but it’s been brought to my attention that entertainers are canceling left and right, and I have determined that since the name change no one wants to perform there any longer,” Shriver wrote on X of the president’s announcement.
“I’ve determined that due to this change in schedule, it’s best for me to close this center down and rebuild a new center that will bear my name, which will surely get everybody to stop talking about the fact that everybody’s canceling… right?”
New documents and emails to and from the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein detail his connections to some professors, putting pressure on those named to explain their communications.
The Department of Justice released more than 3 million documents and thousands of videos and images Friday in its latest, largest and reportedly last release of the so-called Epstein Files, a trove of information related to Epstein, who pled guilty to solicitation of prostitution with a minor in 2008 and was sentenced to 18 months in a minimum-security prison. As was true in previous file drops, prominent higher education figures are named in the files as Epstein’s correspondents, friends and colleagues.
The new documents have prompted action in the higher ed space; the US-Ireland Alliance announced Sunday that its George J. Mitchell Scholarship will no longer bear Mitchell’s name. The former senator from Maine appears to have met frequently with Epstein, according to the latest files.
The 68th Grammy Awards last night, which comedian Trevor Noah helmed for the sixth and final time, was filled with firsts — and proved to be a political hot spot.
Bad Bunny made history when “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” was crowned album of the year, the first time an all-Spanish-language album won the coveted category. The Puerto Rican artist also made perhaps the biggest statement of the evening against the Trump administration’s immigration operations across the country.
“Before I say thanks to God, I gotta say: ICE Out,” he said during one of his acceptance speeches. “We’re not savage. We’re not animals. We’re not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans.”
It’s all about rootedlessness in America, and cheap lattes and 3,000-square-foot homes.
Move over, Florida and Texas. The United States has new hot spots for growth, and they both have Carolina in their name.
North Carolina last year attracted more new residents, 84,000 people, from other parts of the country than any other state, a title held by Texas in 2024 and Florida in the two years before that. South Carolina had the highest overall growth rate last year at 1.5%, a distinction among states held by Florida in 2024, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures released this past week.
Domestic migration, or people moving within the U.S., slowed in Texas. The 67,300 domestic migrants heading to the second most populous state year over year barely squeaked by South Carolina, which had the third highest number of domestic migrants at 66,600.
The appeal of Florida, the nation’s third most populous state, dimmed. It dropped to No. 8 for state-to-state migration, as more U.S. residents preferred to move elsewhere, including Alabama.
Sabrina Morley and Steven Devereaux sold their Tampa-area house last year, moved out of Florida and landed outside Valencia, Spain. Growing up in the 1990s, they both enjoyed Florida’s diversity and being able to run around freely outdoors. But in recent years, as they planned to have children, they had grown wary of the state’s costs, regular threats of mass shootings at schools, the quality of education and political divisiveness. They are expecting a daughter in the spring.
“I had a pretty good childhood, but I don’t think we’d be able to give our child the same quality of life because of the cost of living, food quality, and guns have become more prevalent,” Devereaux said. “We think where we are now, it’s the best decision we could make to give any future children the best quality of life.”
North Carolina state demographer Michael Cline credited the state’s growth to high-paying jobs in banking and tech, the topographical diversity and having smaller big-cities than Florida and Texas.
“North Carolina is attracting younger folks because we have so many nice areas in North Carolina — the mountains and beaches and lakes in between — that we’re benefiting from younger people who decided they can work from anywhere and would rather be in a nice area,” Cline said. “One of the things about North Carolina, our cities are not huge, and that may be attractive to folks, too.”
Dirty dirty three-faced Republicans!
But audience questions quickly turned to recent events in Minneapolis and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s tactics.
Just days before, Rep. Mike Lawler had published a guest essay in The New York Times saying that the country’s current immigration policy is not working and calledfor a “a common-sense bipartisan solution.”
“I think what happened in Minneapolis is tragic,” Lawler said Sunday. “I believe it was entirely preventable.”
Lawler told the town hall audience that he supports certainreforms of ICE tactics and immigration policy. He said he supports equipping ICE agents with body cameras and a ban on masks. The congressman said he also wants to create a path to legal status for immigrants who’ve worked in the U.S., pay taxes and have no criminal record.
“ That does not mean citizenship, but it does mean that they come out of the shadows and that they can participate in our economy and in our community without fear of being deported,” Lawler said.
While Lawler called for a thorough federal investigation into the shootings of Renee Macklin Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minnesota, he faced jeers and insults from many in the room.
“What is the line that you won’t cross?” one audience member could be heard asking at a microphone set up for constituents. “What can Trump do that you’ll say that’s wrong?”
Many people in the audience also demanded that Lawler be more forceful in his response to the recent fatal shootings in Minneapolis and immigration enforcement tactics in general.
Oh shit, the Jerusalem Post calls them Jews: From Gaza to Iran, Israel readies space ‘surprises’ for next conflicts – exclusive
Israel’s space capabilities play a key role in the Jewish state’s strategic military capabilities, and now the space industry is moving toward dual-use and commercial roles as well.
Research of David McGowan, author of the 2004 crime book Programmed to Kill, becomes essential to understanding how our political order works. Going off of information that’s already public, McGowan discusses how U.S. State Department officials are supplied with a consistent stream of underage sexual slaves—not because all of the officials who pass through this system personally participate in crimes against children, but because just by putting them into contact with this abuse system the war machine is able to render its ranks compromised. Being complicit in child sexual assault is a requirement for being a member of the U.S. empire’s top leadership. With this context about the fundamental workings of American foreign policy, every other pedophilic crime that the foreign policy infrastructure produces makes total sense.
