Now now, would it not be in everyone’s interest to see the uniformed mercenary services go the way of the dodo?
Smedley Darlington Butler was commissioned in the Marine Corps in 1898 at the age of 16. Two years later, he was promoted to the rank of captain by brevet for his heroic conduct during the Boxer Rebellion in China. He served in nearly every campaign of the Marine Corps from 1898 to 1931[1]. His first Medal of Honor was awarded in 1914 for “distinguished conduct in battle” during the U.S. occupation of Veracruz, Mexico.[2] His second Medal of Honor came less than two years later, when he led an attack on Fort Riviere, Haiti. Butler was one of only two Marines to receive two Medals of Honor.[3]
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
Smedley Butler
After his retirement, Butler became harshly critical of US military involvement abroad and militarism in general. Throughout the early 30’s he toured the country giving lectures advising against US intervention abroad, and criticizing the use of wars for profit by big business. He also harshly criticized the separation between the top and bottom of American Society; between those who paid and fought for wars, and those who led men into war and reaped the profits.
In keeping with these views, Butler publicly supported the demands of the Bonus Army. He went to Washington along with his son, and ate and camped with the soldiers. He spoke before the assembled veterans and told them that they had as much right to lobby congress as any company. When the protestors were forcibly cleared by General MacArthur, Butler identified himself as a “Hoover for Ex-President Republican” and campaigned for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932.
In 1933 Butler was contacted by a bond trader named Gerald McGuire claiming to be speaking on behalf of a group of powerful businessmen. He approached Butler about leading an army of 500,000 veterans in an attempt to depose President Roosevelt. Butler testified before congress as to what became known as the “Business Plot”. The few businessman who McGuire named as his backers denied any involvement, and modern historians disagree whether any such plot actually existed, or whether Butler was the victim of a con by McGuire.
Regardless, the offer deeply distressed Butler who became suspicious of the power of big business in shaping policy both domestic and foreign, and he became even more zealously anti-militarist and anti-fascist. In 1935 in the socialist newsletter Common Sense Butler reflected on his time in the armed forces, writing:
“I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
Iranian media report that the U.S. pilot was found by Iranian civilians in a cave in southern Iran. They deceived him into believing he would be handed over to U.S. forces, but instead, he was delivered to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps intelligence.
Following the destruction of 12 aircraft and helicopters by Iran, the US has canceled all flights into Iranian airspace.
Ahh, up up and away: Pentagon requests 38 Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighters for U.S. Air Force in 2027 defense budget proposal.
The budget allocates $30.6 billion for Air Force aircraft procurement, marking an increase over previous years. However, it does not specify detailed funding breakdowns for key aircraft programs.
An Office of Management and Budget official confirmed that the Air Force would receive 38 of the 85 F-35 aircraft requested. Analysts said the figure may not be sufficient to address the service’s fighter inventory challenges.
“If the budget does fund 85 F-35s overall, with only 38 going to the Air Force, my reaction is that this is a mixed signal—on one hand, 85 aircraft is still a meaningful production number for the military and it helps preserve industrial-base stability, but on the other hand, 38 for the Air Force is not a serious rebuild rate for a service operating the oldest and smallest fighter force in its history,” said David A. Deptula, dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. “It may keep the line warm, but it does not reverse the fighter inventory shortfall.”
[A fully self-contained drone manufacturing facility built inside a standard shipping container.]
Oh, that old Putin, Zelensky-ed again. While interceptor drones have become one of the most sought-after commodities of the Iran war, Ukrainian officials and defense practitioners are cautioning allies to recognize that the pace of today’s battlefield requires them to buy into an entirely new system of production alongside the endpoint weapon.
“Expertise is not a drone, but a skill, a strategy, a system where a drone is one part of the defense,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Reuters on Monday.
Ukraine now produces roughly 1,000 interceptor drones a day through hundreds of vetted manufacturers, deliberately dispersed so that no single strike can cripple the supply chain, Zelenskyy reported last month. The country has the technical capacity to double that figure, he said, but lacks the budget to do so.
While Ukraine has built that infrastructure gradually over the last few years, most countries now trying to integrate interceptors into the air defense have not invested in building the necessary logistical framework needed to effectively build, arm or deploy the cheap flyers.
Some countries have already learned this lesson the hard way.
After some Ukrainian companies built interceptor drone factories abroad without state approval, multiple buyers complained because the drones were sold without the warheads or expertise needed to operate them properly, Zelenskyy said on Friday, per Ukrainska Pravda.
“They had also been sold a certain number of interceptors — again without explosives,” Zelenskyy said about a European country he visited recently. “And they asked me whether we could send more operators. I said no.”
Oppen-Monster-Heimers: The UC Berkeley physicist and climate scientist was raised Catholic. He has stated that while he went through a period of being an “enlightened atheist,” he now identifies as someone “aware of the existence of God,” though he does not belong to an organized religion.
Liz Muller convinced her dad Richard to forego retirement and become an entrepreneur. The result is a revolutionary approach to making atomic energy cheaper and safer.
For more than a decade, Elizabeth Muller and her father have taken a three-mile hike, usually twice a week, through the hills of Berkeley, California, stopping for coffee and brainstorming on the way. “I would have an idea and she would have an idea,” says Richard A. Muller, who devised the modern carbon dating method used to determine the age of ancient plant and animal remains before he was 33 and won a MacArthur Foundation “genius” award at 38. Now, after 40 years of teaching at the University of California at Berkeley, the 82-year-old physicist is on the verge of having his greatest commercial impact, thanks to his business-minded daughter and those long walks.
“Nuclear brings out big emotions on all sides,” says Liz, 47. “As a kid growing up in Berkeley, all my teachers and friends were anti-nuclear, and the city became a nuclear-free zone.” She too leaned anti-nuke, even though her father’s mentor, Nobel Prize winner Luis Alvarez—who worked with Robert Oppenheimer on the first atomic bomb—was “like a grandfather to me.” But after college at UC San Diego, she moved to Paris in 1999 to earn a master’s at ESCP Business School and worked in international finance there for eight years. In France, she explains, everyone supported nuclear power as a “clean, reliable global warming solution.” She returned to Berkeley determined to tap her dad’s genius.
The global oil crisis is turning into an everything crisis
European Parliament member Rima Hassan has been detained in France on suspicion of “apology for terrorism”, French media outlets are reporting, in a move members of her left-wing La France Insoumise (LFI) party say aims to silence Palestine supporters.
APOLOGY for terrorism? Fucking FRANCE is going after her. THAT France:
Le Parisien newspaper reported on Thursday that Hassan was detained in relation to an investigation into a social media post that referenced Kozo Okamoto, who took part in a deadly attack at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport in 1972.
Hassan had deleted the post on X, Le Parisien said.
Jean-Luc Melenchon, the founder of LFI, said in a social media post on Thursday that Hassan’s detention related to a retweet from last month. “So there is no longer parliamentary immunity in France. Intolerable,” he wrote on X.
Le Parisien and the AFP news agency also reported that a small amount of “synthetic drugs” was found on Hassan when she was taken into police custody.
See his Mossad handlers, left and right? Meta is slashing hundreds of employees in Silicon Valley as the tech giant heavily invests in artificial intelligence and weighs axing over 20% of its workforce.
The Facebook parent company is cutting nearly 200 workers in the San Francisco Bay Area, according to new state filings.
The reductions will hit 124 employees in Burlingame, Calif. and another 74 in nearby Sunnyvale, with the cuts taking effect in late May and all affected positions permanently eliminated, filings cited by the San Francisco Chronicle show.
Oh, go team F-35! Who’s putting bets on this? The loss of the American aircraft marks the first time a U.S. fighter jet has been downed in combat in decades. It also challenges Pentagon and White House’s claims that thousands of U.S. and Israeli strikes have wiped out Iran’s missile capabilities.
Iranian firepower also struck a U.S. aircraft dispatched to support the search and rescue mission. That aircraft — a single-seat A-10 Thunderbolt, known as the Warthog — crashed in Kuwaiti airspace after its pilot ejected safely, a U.S. official told NBC News. U.S. military helicopters were also hit by Iranian firepower, but no crew members were injured in the attack.
And so, this is what the Pedophile is interested in? Trump signs order intended to stabilize college sports, threatens to cut funding
Trump went after eligibility rules, transfers and the spiraling costs associated with an industry that now pays its players millions of dollars per year.
Banana Republic with them stuck up our asses. Massive NPS Staffing Cuts Loom as DOI Orders ‘Visitor-Facing’ Realignment and Early Retirement
As the Department of the Interior pushes employees into “visitor-facing” roles and proposes to slash $736 million from the National Park Service budget, critics warn that the scientists and stewards who keep our parks alive are once again being purged.
The everthing is chaos Pedophile and Rapist in Chief. What falling wage growth says about where the U.S. economy is heading
Soaring gas prices mean inflation could soon outpace most Americans’ pay raises. “That’s where you see a lot of squeeze on workers,” said one economist.
Is this a joke? After the release of the Epstein files, why have there been so few arrests?
All governments lie:
All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out. IF Stone
Mothers search in the scrublands, poking the earth for signs of a corpse. Desperate pleas fill social media, crying out for clues that may bring relief. Tattered posters flutter in the wind, asking for help in the search. Often, all that is left of the missing are scattered bones bleached by the sun.
It is arguably Mexico’s greatest human rights crisis. More than 130,000 people have vanished since the state went to war against drug cartels a decade ago. Now, activists and human rights experts say the authorities are trying to erase their loved ones from the record.
The government recently presented a new report which said a third of the country’s missing had actually showed signs of life, while another third lacked sufficient data to be found – causing fury and condemnation from relatives who have spent years searching for their missing.
“What the government is doing is illogical and outrageous,” said María Herrera Magdaleno, a leader in the movement of mothers looking for their missing children: Herrera’s four sons are among the disappeared. “Instead of looking for our disappeared, they’re disappearing them.”
This is the Crusades, man, the Gestapo Crusades:
Blasting begins for border wall on cherished New Mexico mountain
A planned 1.3-mile barrier across Mount Cristo Rey has drawn opposition from environmentalists and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces.
Fucking Democrat Party NANNIES. In a letter obtained exclusively by CBS News, Sen. Tammy Duckworth demanded that TSA immediately rescind its “shoes-on” policy, calling it a “reckless act” that may be placing the flying public at risk.
This video features an interview with Daniel Klein, a former student of the Mechina Bnei David preparatory program in Israel. The discussion explores the nature of Zionist indoctrination within the military preparatory academies (mechinot) and how these systems shape the worldview of young recruits.
Know the truth about why Israeli society is so blood thirsty and savage.
The Survival Skills Project deepens students’ knowledge of their country and helps them build their familiarity with its terrain in person. While strengthening students’ bond to the land and inculcating the values of nature and the environment, the Survival Skills Project develops their independence, adaptability and resilience skills, and leadership abilities. Skills taught in the Survival Skills Project are a valuable part of preparation for military service.
Mission: To instill values of responsibility, faith, and elite service, encouraging students to view IDF service as a privilege rather than a burden.
Curriculum: Combines intensive Talmudic studies, Jewish philosophy, and religious ethics with physical fitness, navigation training, and security-related studies.
Target Audience: Primarily religious Jewish males planning full-length IDF service, often acting as a bridge between high school and the military.
Influence: Considered a major, often controversial, institution that has produced many senior IDF officers and is supported by state funding.
Oh, it’s always good to get a spook and a former Vietnam helicopter pilot and Colin Powell buddy.
Hegseth Says U.S. Troops Are Fighting for Jesus. The Pope Disagrees.
In sharp contrast to the Trump administration’s calls for Christian prayers for the war effort, Pope Leo XIV says military domination is “entirely foreign to the way of Jesus Christ.”
Biography
Col. (ret.) Lawrence Wilkerson’s last positions in government were as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff (2002-05), Associate Director of the State Department’s Policy Planning staff under the directorship of Ambassador Richard N. Haass, and a member of that staff responsible for East Asia and the Pacific, political-military and legislative affairs (2001-02).
Before serving at the State Department, Wilkerson served 31 years in the U.S. Army. During that time, he was a member of the faculty of the U.S. Naval War College (1987 to 1989), Special Assistant to General Powell when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-93), and Director and Deputy Director of the U.S. Marine Corps War College at Quantico, Virginia (1993-97). Wilkerson retired in 1997 and began work as an advisor to General Powell. He has also taught national security affairs at the George Washington University and is currently working on a book about the first George W. Bush administration.
Areas of Expertise
Vietnam War
Diplomacy / National security process
Iraq wars
China / Russia “new” Cold War
U.S. Nuclear Policy
Defense budgetary process
U.S.-Iranian relations
JEWS and Christians need only apply!
“Holy War” Rhetoric: Hegseth has used his position to advocate for a Christian nationalist vision of the military, framing wars as battles for a Christian nation under God.
Pentagon Worship Services: He organized monthly, voluntary Christian worship services in the Pentagon auditorium, a move critics note is a departure from traditional chaplaincy, which is designed to be ecumenical and inclusive.
“Overwhelming Violence” Prayer: In March 2026, he was filmed at a Pentagon service praying for US troops to inflict “overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy,” concluding with “in the mighty and powerful name of Jesus Christ,” during the ongoing war with Iran.
Chaplaincy Changes: Hegseth removed the requirement for chaplains to wear their rank insignia, replaced it with religious symbols, and shifted the chaplain corps away from what he termed “political correctness and secular humanism”.
“Deus Vult” Symbolism: He has faced scrutiny for sporting a “Deus Vult” (God Wills It) tattoo, a phrase historically associated with the Crusades and currently with extremists, though he has not explicitly renounced it, viewing it as his Christian faith.
Definition: A supernatural entity who controls, commands, or protects in matters of war and conflict.
Greek Mythology:Ares is the primary god of war, often representing the brutal, bloody nature of battle, while Athena represents strategic warfare.
Roman Mythology:Mars was the Roman counterpart to Ares, holding a more revered position as a protector of the state.
Norse Mythology: Figures like Odin, Thor, and Tyr are associated with war and battle prowess.
Other Traditions: In some contexts, war gods represent protection, strength, and the martial aspects of life.
That fucking MAGA cuntology: As of early April 2026, the average price of one pound of lean ground beef has surpassed the federal minimum wage of per hour, with average prices ranging from to over per pound. This means one hour of work at the federal minimum wage is often insufficient to purchase a single pound of high-quality ground beef.
This is the story of a family destroyed by hunger, violence, and the impossible choices forced on civilians
This family is personal for me. I have been donating to Sejood for a long time, back when her husband Mohamed was still alive. I didn’t know them before Israel bombed their home. By the time I met them, their house was already destroyed and they were living inside the broken remains because they had nowhere else to go.
Mohamed was killed at one of the “Christian” GHF aid centers. He went there because his children were dying from starvation. Everyone in Gaza knows the danger of approaching aid points. People have been shot just for trying to reach food. He had no choice. On July 23, 2025, he went to try to bring back one bag of flour. He was killed.
A man died because he wanted to feed his family. That is the truth of this story.
Now all of that responsibility sits on Sejood’s shoulders. She never had the chance to grieve her husband. No one in Gaza gets that time. Survival doesn’t pause for grief. Every hour is about keeping her children alive, finding food, finding medicine, finding clean water, and trying to protect them inside a home that no longer exists.
Her four‑year‑old son, Yamen, has a serious leg condition and wears heavy metal braces. She carries him everywhere because they cannot afford a wheelchair. The cost for that wheelchair is $1k, an impossible amount in a place where a bag of flour is $30. Her baby, Sanad, is one year old and needs regular medication. Both children have perforated eardrums from explosions landing too close to them. They are often sick. Food is never guaranteed.
Sejood is a very humble person. She never asks for the sake of asking. She doesn’t use her grief to manipulate and get donations. She only requests when she has no choice and nowhere to turn.
What she urgently needs right now:
A wheelchair for Yamen so she no longer has to carry him on her back
Basic food and a few days of breathing room
Medication and diapers for the baby
I am hoping that through this community, we can raise at least $1500 for her. One thousand will go toward the wheelchair. The remaining $500 will give her a small window of relief to buy food and medicine for her children.
The GHF centers were American‑funded. Whether we wanted it or not, every American was made complicit in the conditions that forced Mohamed to risk his life for food. The least we can do is shoulder a piece of the suffering that families like Sejood’s are carrying alone.
Farm Workers’ Day, now, after the stories of Cesar Chavez’s rapes have surfaced and Dolores has spoken . . . time to topple/strip ALL presidents’ names, ALL Epstein class’ names, ALL slavers’ names!
On Tuesday, March 24, Tucson Mayor Regina Romero renamed the city’s César Chávez Day to Dolores Huerta Day.
Adam Sarvana, director of communications and community engagement for the mayor’s office, told Arizona Luminaria the change is “a measure for now until there are longer-term conversations with the community and the coalition.”
The move came as schools, cities and states rushed to expunge Chávez from its holidays, marquees, monuments and more. Tucson officials also plan to discuss existing local homages and will include a public outreach effort to gather feedback. The city removed a bronze statue of Chávez after it was vandalized with red paint on the body’s head, face and neck. Pima County is considering policies and next steps for identifying and removing Chávez’s name from government commemorations.
As of 2021, there were approximately 149 monuments dedicated to Christopher Columbus across the United States. While over 40 statues have been removed since 2018 due to protests and re-evaluations of his legacy, a significant number remain in major cities, and a new replica was installed on the White House grounds in March 2026.
His basic story is uncomplicated: he sought to make a fortune by sailing west, perhaps by exploiting natives in hitherto unknown lands, perhaps by trading with “the Indies.” Unfortunately, textbooks shy away from such candor. Instead, they leave out almost everything important while putting in all kinds of details that never happened. Some call the voyage to the Caribbean “storm-tossed,” when they had great weather, but not one mentions that his flagship, Santa Maria, hit rocks off Haiti. In Columbus’s words, the local leader “sent all his people from the town, with many large canoes to unload the ship.” Columbus limped back home on two ships, leaving 40 men behind. This detail is important, because it challenges the “superior European / inferior primitive” meme in our culture that otherwise starts here, with Columbus.
Educators can prod students to examine the words textbooks use. Columbus “discovers” America, but authors never say Da Gama “discovered” India, not even in quotation marks. Textbooks call Columbus and those who came after him “explorers,” not “conquerors,” even though the Spanish used the more honest “conquistadors.” “New World” is of course Eurocentric; less biased terms are “Western Hemisphere” or “the Americas.” Did Europeans (and Africans) “settle” or “colonize” the Americas?
Like Da Gama, on his second voyage Columbus introduced shocking practices, including cutting off Natives’ hands if they did not pay his quarterly gold tax. He started the trans-Atlantic slave trade, in Native people, from west to east. A particularly repellent aspect of the trade was sexual: as Columbus noted, “girls from nine to ten are now in demand.” Partly as a result, the Native population of Haiti fell from perhaps 3,000,000 in 1491 to fewer than 500 by 1535. His son started the trade from east to west, in Africans.
All this might prompt students to discover when and why their state adopted Columbus Day. Should it join the movement to change the holiday’s name to honor Native Americans? Educators can help them avoid falling for the excuse that everyone accepted slavery in 1493. The Arawaks didn’t! Neither did, famously, Bartolomé de las Casas, the Spanish priest who said of the slave trade, “What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind, and this trade as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them.”
Thinking seriously about Columbus is important, because he introduced four processes that transformed the modern world:
The taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous peoples an ocean away;
The transatlantic slave trade;
Demeaning on racial lines the people he had subjected, and
The “Columbian exchange” – a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds. Exchanges of plants, animals, diseases and technology transformed European and Native American ways of life. The Columbian Exchange impacted the social and cultural makeup of both sides of the Atlantic. Advancements in agricultural production, evolution of warfare, increased mortality rates and education are a few examples of the effect of the Columbian Exchange on both Europeans and Native Americans.
And so the head honcho rapist and mass murderer, name changes? Eminent domain, everything named ‘trump.”
As of April 2026, the list of buildings and properties named after Donald Trump has expanded significantly, especially following his return to the presidency. The following is a comprehensive list of current and former buildings bearing his name, categorized by their primary use.
Recently Renamed Government & Public Buildings
In his second term, several prominent public institutions have been renamed or have had his name added:
The Donald J. Trump andThe John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts: In December 2025, the Kennedy Center board voted to add Trump’s name to the national memorial.
Donald J. Trump United States Institute of Peace: The administration renamed this federal body in Washington, D.C., in late 2025.
President Donald J. Trump International Airport: On March 30, 2026, legislation was signed to rename Florida’sPalm Beach International Airportafter the president.
Donald J. Trump State Park: Located in Westchester and Putnam counties, New York, on land he donated in 2006.
The Donald J. Trump Justice Complex: Located in Lyon County, Nevada.
Trump Ballroom: A large-scale expansion of the White House East Wing, currently under construction and slated for completion in 2027.
Several international and domestic golf properties bear his name, including sites in Florida, New Jersey, and California, alongside international locations in Scotland and Ireland,
[Members of the National Capital Planning Commission are shown deliberating on whether to approve plans for the Trump East Wing ballroom in Washington, April 2, 2026. The commission voted 8-1 to approve the project, though it has been halted by a judge.]
[Visitors look at a bronze sculpture of President John F. Kennedy in the recently renamed Trump-Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in Washington, Feb. 2, 2026.]
[The statue depicts President Donald Trump embracing the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a Titanic-style pose.]
Oh, the fucking legacy: Here’s what’s on the table today: Suppressed FBI notes describe a 13-year-old girl being trafficked to Donald Trump by Jeffrey Epstein. New Epstein files show Epstein was selling access to the Trump White House to foreign billionaires. Trump spent Saturday morning attacking the New York Times while a missing American service member remains unaccounted for in Iran. And 23 states are suing Trump over an executive order that hands control of American voter rolls to the Department of Homeland Security.
The Post and Courier is reporting that FBI handwritten notes from a 2019 interview with an Epstein trafficking survivor contain details that were left out of the official summaries released by the Justice Department in March — and those missing details matter.
The woman, from South Carolina, told FBI agents she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein as a teenager and brought to New York or New Jersey, where she was introduced to Donald Trump in 1984. She was approximately 13 years old.
The official summaries, known as 302s, described some uncertainty about how she traveled with Epstein. The handwritten notes are more direct: Epstein both drove and flew her to meet Trump. She described being taken to a very tall building with large rooms. She said Trump ordered everyone else out, then sexually assaulted her. She said she fought back. He hit her.
The notes also reference two additional interactions with Trump that the woman declined to discuss further during the interview.
Roughly 30 pages of documents relevant to her account have still not been released as part of the Epstein file disclosures. The Justice Department has acknowledged withholding millions of Epstein-related files, which critics say is a direct violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act that Trump himself initially fought against passing.
These are allegations. They are serious ones. And the documents that could shed more light on them are being withheld by the administration of the man they implicate.
Ohio State University: The university has received nearly 300 requests to remove billionaire donor Les Wexner’s name from buildings, including the Wexner Medical Center, due to his ties to Epstein. Despite this, the university has not taken action, and Wexner’s name remains on at least three buildings.
Harvard University: Similar pressure exists regarding the Leslie H. Wexner Building at the Harvard Kennedy School and other campus structures.
Targeted Names: Protesters are pushing to remove names of individuals appearing in the files from various campus buildings, often citing that holding the buildings feels “gross” to students and faculty.
“Moral and Financial Bind”: Universities are struggling with these demands, as the named individuals have often donated massive sums—over $200 million from the Wexners to Ohio State alone.
While some institutions removed names related to the Sackler family in similar past scandals, no specific, widely publicized name removals have occurred yet in direct response to the 2026 pressure campaigns regarding Epstein associates, with institutions largely keeping the names for now.
From left, Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Kenneth Starr, Lawrence M. Krauss and Noam Chomsky
Oh, these maps: Many major American Jewish establishment groups officially support the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign.
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the American Jewish Committee (AJC) have issued statements commending the resolve to halt a regime they describe as endangering global stability.
The Reform and Conservative movements, while expressing concern for civilians and questioning the lack of Congressional approval, have also acknowledged the Iranian regime as a “malign force” against the Jewish people.
The war waged by the United States and Israel against Iran is not only criminal, but utterly disastrous. It reflects the crude, short-sighted, and depraved nature of those who govern us—a group of war criminals, billionaires, and pedophiles. It is the Epstein class’s war.
Experience is directly drawing a connecting line between this war and the rising cost of gas, mortgages and every other commodity. But, in the minds of millions, it is also being connected with Epstein.
Presidents Day:
Key Presidents Who Initiated Major Wars/Invasions:
James K. Polk (1845–1849): Initiated the Mexican-American War to acquire territory.
Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865): Initiated military action to oppose secession in the Civil War.
William McKinley (1897–1901): Led the U.S. into the Spanish-American War.
Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921): Requested formal declaration for WWI.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945): Led the U.S. into WWII.
Harry S. Truman (1945–1953): Initiated U.S. involvement in the Korean War without a congressional declaration.
Lyndon B. Johnson (1963–1969): Vastly expanded U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
George H.W. Bush (1989–1993): Initiated the Gulf War and invaded Panama.
George W. Bush (2001–2009): Initiated invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Barack Obama (2009–2017): Authorized military intervention in Libya and increased drone strikes.
Military Invasions and Interventions by Other Presidents:
Ronald Reagan: Invaded Grenada.
Bill Clinton: Used military force in Bosnia, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Kosovo.
Richard Nixon: Expanded Vietnam war into Cambodia.
Every fucking Chavez Statue, Columbus Statue, President Statue:
A list of wars (italic) and of military combat that for some reason isn’t called a war (non-italic) that does not attempt to include every war and combat against Native Americans:
1774-1883 Shawnee, Delaware 1776 Cherokee 1777-1781 Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee) 1780-1794 Chickamauga 1790-1795 Miami Confederacy 1792-1793 Muskogee (Creek) 1798-1801 France 1801-1805 Tripoli 1806 Mexico 1806-1810 Spanish, French privateers 1810 Spanish West Florida 1810-1813 Shawnee Confederacy 1812 Spanish Florida 1812-1815 Canada (Great Britain) 1812-1815 Dakota Sioux 1812-1815 Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee) 1813 Spanish West Florida 1813-1814 Marquesas Islands 1813-1814 Muskogee (Creek) Confederacy 1814 Spanish Florida 1814-1825 Pirates 1815 Algiers 1815 Tripoli 1816 Spanish Florida 1817 Spanish Florida 1817-1819 Seminole 1818 Oregon (Russia, Spain) 1820-1861 African Slave Trade Patrol 1822-1825 Cuba (Spain 1824 Puerto Rico (Spain) 1827 Greece 1831-1832 Falkland Islands 1832 Sauk 1832 Sumatra 1833 Argentina 1835-1836 Peru 1835-1842 Seminole 1836 Mexico 1836-1837 Muskogee (Creek) 1838-1839 Sumatra 1840 Fiji Islands 1841 Samoa 1841 Tabiteuea 1842 Mexico 1843 China 1844 Mexico 1846-1848 Mexico 1847-1850 Cayuse 1849 Turkey 1850-1886 Apache 1851 Johanna Island 1851 Turkey 1852-1853 Argentina 1853-1854 Japan 1853-1854 Nicaragua 1853-1854 Ryukyu, Ogasawara islands 1854-1856 China 1855 Fiji Islands 1855 Uruguay 1855-1856 Rogue River Indigenous Peoples 1855-1856 Yakima, Walla Walla, Cayuse 1855-1858 Seminole 1856 Panama (Colombia) 1856-1857 Cheyenne 1857 Nicaragua 1858 Coeur d’Alene Alliance 1858 Fiji Islands 1858 Uruguay 1858-1859 Turkey 1859 China 1859 Mexico 1859 Paraguay 1860 Angola 1860 Colombia 1862 Sioux 1863-1864 Japan 1864 Cheyenne 1865 Panama (Colombia) 1866 China 1866 Mexico 1866-1868 Lakota Siouw, Northern Cheyenne, Northern Arapaho 1867 Formosa (Taiwan) 1867 Nicaragua 1867-1875 Comanche 1868 Colombia 1868 Japan 1868 Uruguay 1870 Hawaii 1871 Korea 1872-1873 Modoc 1873 Colombia (Panama) 1873-1896 Mexico 1874 Hawaii 1874-1875 Comanche, Apache, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Kiowa 1876-1877 Sioux 1877 Nez Perce 1878 Bannock (Banna’kwut) 1878-1879 Cheyenne 1879-1880 Utes 1882 Egypt 1885 Panama (Colombia) 1888 Haiti 1888 Korea 1888-1889 Samoa 1889 Hawaii 1890 Argentina 1890 Lakota Sioux 1891 Bering Straight 1891 Chile 1891 Haiti 1893 Hawaii 1894 Brazil 1894 Nicaragua 1894-1895 China 1894-1896 Korea 1895 Panama (Colombia) 1896 Nicaragua 1898 Cuba (Spain) 1898 Nicaragua 1898 Philippines (Spain) 1898 Puerto Rico (Spain) 1898-1899 China 1899 Nicaragua 1899 Samoa 1899-1913 Philippines 1900 China 1901-1902 Colombia 1903 Dominican Republic 1903 Honduras 1903 Syria 1903-1904 Abyssinia (Ethiopia) 1903-1914 Panama 1904 Dominican Republic 1904 Tangier 1904-1905 Korea 1906-1909 Cuba 1907 Honduras 1909-1910 Nicaragua 1911-1912 Honduras 1911-1914 China 1912 Cuba 1912 Turkey 1912-1933 Nicaragua 1914 Dominican Republic 1914 Haiti 1914-1919 Mexico 1915-1934 Haiti 1916-1924 Dominican Republic 1917-1918 World War I (Europe) 1917-1922 Cuba 1918-1920 Russia 1918-1921 Panama 1919 Dalmatia 1919 Turkey 1919-1920 Honduras 1925 Panama 1932 El Salvador 1941-1945 World War II (Europe, North Africa, Asia/Pacific) 1946 Trieste 1947-1949 Greece 1948-1949 Berlin, Germany 1950 Formosa (Taiwan) 1950-1953 Korea 1953-1954 Formosa (Taiwan) 1955-1975 Vietnam 1956 Egypt 1958 Lebanon 1962 Cuba 1962 Thailand 1962-1975 Laos 1964 Congo (Zaire) 1965 Dominican Republic 1965-1973 Cambodia 1967 Congo (Zaire) 1976 Korea 1978 Congo (Zaire) 1980 Iran 1981 El Salvador 1981 Libya 1981-1989 Nicaragua 1982-1983 Egypt 1982-1983 Lebanon 1983 Chad 1983 Grenada 1986 Bolivia 1986 Libya 1987-1988 Iran 1988 Panama 1989 Bolivia 1989 Colombia 1989 Libya 1989 Peru 1989 Philippines 1989-1990 Panama 1990 Saudi Arabia 1991 Congo (Zaire) 1991-1992 Kuwait 1991-1993 Iraq 1992-1994 Somalia 1993-1994 Macedonia 1993-1996 Haiti 1993-2005 Bosnia 1995 Serbia 1996 Liberia 1996 Rwanda 1997-2003 Iraq 1998 Afghanistan 1998 Sudan 1999-2000 Kosovo 1999-2000 Montenegro 1999-2000 Serbia 2000 Yemen 2000-2002 East Timor 2000-2016 Colombia 2001 – Afghanistan 2001- Pakistan 2001- Somalia 2002-2015 Philippines 2002- Yemen 2003-2011 Iraq 2004 Haiti c2004- Kenya 2011 Democratic Republic of the Congo 2011-2017 Uganda 2011- Libya c2012- Central African Republic c2012- Mali c2013-2016 South Sudan c2013- Burkina Faso c2013- Chad c2013- Mauritania c2013- Niger c2013- Nigeria 2014 Democratic Republic of the Congo 2014- Iraq 2014- Syria 2015 Democratic Republic of the Congo c2015- Cameroon 2016 Democratic Republic of the Congo 2017- Saudi Arabia c2017 Tunisia 2019- Philippines
The supreme international crime according to 2017 U.S. media reporting is interferring nonviolently in a democratic election — at least if Russia does it. William Blum, in his book Rogue State, lists over 30 times that the United States has done that. Another study, however, says 81 elections in 47 countries. France 2017 makes that total at least 82. Honduras 2017 makes it 83. Russia 2018 makes it 84. The 2020-revealed 1964 coup in British Guiana makes it 85. Somalia 2022 would be 86. In 2025 Trump’s blatant interference in Argentina and Honduras would make it 88. There are clearly dozens more.
In a reality-based assessment of U.S. crimes, the serious offenses begin beyond that threshold. Here’s Blum’s list of over 50 foreign leaders whom the United States has attempted to assassinate:
1949 – Kim Koo, Korean opposition leader
1950s – CIA/Neo-Nazi hit list of more than 200 political figures in West Germany to be “put out of the way” in the event of a Soviet invasion
1950s – Chou En-lai, Prime minister of China, several attempts on his life
1950s, 1962 – Sukarno, President of Indonesia
1951 – Kim Il Sung, Premier of North Korea
1953 – Mohammed Mossadegh, Prime Minister of Iran
1950s (mid) – Claro M. Recto, Philippines opposition leader
1955 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India
1957 – Gamal Abdul Nasser, President of Egypt
1959, 1963, 1969 – Norodom Sihanouk, leader of Cambodia
1960 – Brig. Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem, leader of Iraq
1950s-70s – José Figueres, President of Costa Rica, two attempts on his life
1961 – Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, leader of Haiti
1961 – Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo (Zaire)
1961 – Gen. Rafael Trujillo, leader of Dominican Republic
1963 – Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam
1960s-70s – Fidel Castro, President of Cuba, many attempts on his life
1960s – Raúl Castro, high official in government of Cuba
1965 – Francisco Caamaño, Dominican Republic opposition leader
1965-6 – Charles de Gaulle, President of France
1967 – Che Guevara, Cuban leader
1970 – Salvador Allende, President of Chile
1970 – Gen. Rene Schneider, Commander-in-Chief of Army, Chile
1970s, 1981 – General Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama
1972 – General Manuel Noriega, Chief of Panama Intelligence
1975 – Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire
1976 – Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica
1980-1986 – Muammar Qaddafi, leader of Libya, several plots and attempts upon his life
1982 – Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of Iran
1983 – Gen. Ahmed Dlimi, Moroccan Army commander
1983 – Miguel d’Escoto, Foreign Minister of Nicaragua
1984 – The nine comandantes of the Sandinista National Directorate
1985 – Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese Shiite leader (80 people killed in the attempt)
1991 – Saddam Hussein, leader of Iraq
1993 – Mohamed Farah Aideed, prominent clan leader of Somalia
1998, 2001-2 – Osama bin Laden, leading Islamic militant
1999 – Slobodan Milosevic, President of Yugoslavia
2002 – Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Afghan Islamic leader and warlord
There are few American Neo-conservatives more influential than Robert Kagan.
In 1997, Kaganco-founded the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), the Neo-con think tank responsible for staffing the Bush administration with hawks such as Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz, and played a large role in the Iraq War in 2003.
In 2010, Kagan founded a new think tank, the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) which was instrumental in pushing for a new Cold War with Russia.
Kagan’s wife, Victoria Nuland was instrumental in the proxy war in Ukraine, playing a leading role in the maidan coup of 2014 ,as Assistant Secretary of State for the Obama administration, and again played a leading role in the proxy war in Ukraine as the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs for the Biden administration, including in blocking the peace deal in Istanbul in April of 2022 and in the bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline.
However, Kagan has begun to change his tune since Trump launched a war on Iran for Israel, sounding more like a John Mearsheimer realist than the leading champion of American regime change that he has always been.
Fucking Sachs: Prof. Jeffrey Sachs discusses the unravelling of the US alliance system that has dominated the past decades and how a lingering imperial mindset prevents adjustment to new realities. Recorded 4th of April 2026.
Might as well be James Bond fan:
Kim Basinger [above] posing with Sean Connery at the filming of an Arab slave market scene in the James Bond shoot for Never Say Never Again (1983).
The
Trump administration has engaged in a targeted effort to remove or review slavery-related exhibits, memorials, and educational materials at national parks and federal sites, framing this as a move to “restore truth and sanity to American history” and eliminate “divisive, race-centered ideology”.
Key actions include:
Philadelphia Independence National Historical Park: In January 2026, National Park Service (NPS) workers dismantled exhibits detailing the enslavement of nine people by George Washington at the President’s House site. Following a lawsuit, a federal judge ordered the exhibit reinstalled in February 2026, although the Interior Department indicated plans to appeal.
“The Scourged Back” Photograph: In September 2025, the administration ordered the removal of a famous 1863 photograph, which showed the heavily scarred back of an enslaved man named Gordon, from the Fort Pulaski National Monument in Georgia.
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park: Information regarding abolitionist John Brown’s raid was removed, and dozens of signs referencing racial discrimination and white hostility towards formerly enslaved people were flagged for removal.
“Restoring Truth and Sanity” Order: A March 2025 executive order instructed the NPS to review content that “inappropriately disparages” American history, focusing instead on “greatness”.
Smithsonian Criticisms: Trump has directly attacked the National Museum of African American History and Culture, stating it focuses too much on “how bad Slavery was”.
But really, this is about how far down the bloody lobotomized and Stepford Wives rabbit hole Americans have traveled since way before ‘si se puede’ and ‘it’s the economy, stupid.”
First, though, it is always about one stinking pilot versus how many girls murdered by, err, pilots?
Yikes, the crocodile tears, man, for American murderers who exact death from the sky.
I was confused and kept searching for my children’s classrooms. My daughter’s classroom was entirely flattened.
The strike killed up to 168 people and is the worst mass casualty of the Iran war
Fucking Ritter:
A US pilot has been shot down over Iran. US Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) teams have been dispatched to effect a rescue. History shows just how dangerous–and ultimately futile–such ops can be. Scott Ritter
And Scott and Trump watch the same movies: The Werner Herzog film starring Christian Bale is Rescue Dawn (2006), a war survival drama based on the true story of Dieter Dengler, a US pilot shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War. Bale plays Dengler, enduring extreme captivity and conducting a daring escape.
Movies movies movies: Growing up in Germany during the 1930s and ‘40s, Dieter Dengler was no stranger to war, and it was during an Allied bombing raid that he first caught sight of airplanes and became obsessed with the notion of becoming a pilot. After moving to the United States, he joined the Navy to pursue his dream of flying, which took him to the skies over Vietnam and, in February 1966, Dengler was shot down in Laos, captured by enemy forces, and marched to a prison camp.
Movie movies movies: Having been interrogated, beaten, and tortured for months, Dengler and several fellow captives devised a daring escape plan. After he evaded the prison camp guards, Dengler — alongside American prisoner Duane Martin (Steve Zahn) — spent days facing the unforgiving terrain and monsoon rains of the jungle, with Martin ultimately being killed by the enemy. Alone, riddled with disease, and weighing only 98 pounds, Dengler miraculously caught the eye of an American pilot and was rescued after six months. A national hero, he was awarded the Navy Cross and returned to the cockpit as a pilot for TWA.
Movies movies movies: Much has been made about Christian Bale and Wernor Herzog’s respective on-set temperaments, with each man known for a tendency to ruffle feathers and push the envelope in pursuit of authenticity. Never one to shy away from a challenge, Bale’s commitment to playing Dieter Dengler amounted to losing weight, frequently putting himself in physical danger, and chowing down on some unsavory snacks. “One of the best memories I have of being in the jungle is looking at Steve Zahn and Jeremy Davies’ faces as I’m tucking into a bowl of live maggots and pig offal,” Bale told GQ. “It was great. I couldn’t stop laughing.”
Israel-US kill negotiators, destroy civilian structures, but Iran’s military capabilities are still largely intact –
Now now now, of course we can root for Iran, for the Houthis, for the Iraqis, of course of course, and yet, NO WE CANNOT if you want a fucking city job. Here, briefly, my little bit of hell in AmeriKKKa.
I applied to be a building attendant, part-time, with the City of Newport. For the Recreation Center, up to 29 hours a week. The director and others encouraged me to apply, and they told me they’d make sure I got an interview.
So, that was done, I had a phone interview, and then I was invited for a three-person interview in person. I did well. I was called and said I got the job. I was then sent a letter of employment, contingent on a reference check, and I passed the background check. My references all called and said they did great favors for me. But then, crickets for a week, and today, after I inquired about the status. Nothing pushy, etc.
But, while heading home, I got an email from someone in HR: rescinding the job offer.
Hello Paul,
I am writing to inform you that, after careful consideration and completing the preemployment screening process, we must rescind the employment offer previously extended to you. This decision was not made lightly, and we understand the inconvenience this may cause. Attached to this email is the formal notice.
Here:
[Hundreds of university students in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis have begun attending in-person classes for the first time since the start of the conflict, in Gaza City, Palestine, on March 31, 2026]
The hell holes USA and Israel have created, the ICE dungeons, the billionaires and millionaires sacking us all, yep. Yeah, yeah, I know, in the scheme of fucking things, no big deal, got hired for a job, but never went to the first day of work before getting, err, sort of fired, that’s a first for me . . . but wait?
Nope, I am not here yet: Heavily armed Israeli soldiers conduct a military operation in the West Bank. Such operations have increased significantly in frequency and intensity since October 2023. These operations often involve searches, arrests, and confrontations with residents, who are generally unarmed.
Yeah, I know, I know: I’m not in these fucking dirty Jewish-Led Dire Straits. Recently released Palestinian prisoners show signs of malnutrition, medical negligence, and torture. Many reportedly had their legs bound too tightly for so long that they got gangrene and were subject to amputations (without anesthesia) while in prison.
Yes, yes, in the scheme of things, just take your lumps and swallow, Paulokirk:
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – APRIL 2, 2026*:
At least73,432 Palestinians killed, 183,740 injured – including:
Yeah, at least I still have a bridge to cross to get back home to lick my fucking mini-fascist-inflicted wounds:
By one count, Israeli attacks have killed approximately 282 Palestinian journalists and media workers (most recent March 9, 2026 (other groups have tallied between 215 and 356 Palestinian journalists killed, depending on the criteria used).
Now now, did I get the rescinding letter because of THIS, Paulo Kirk, Substack, or just a plain Google Search with Paul Haeder put in?
Oregon HR departments can screen public social media accounts of job applicants, but they are strictly prohibited from requiring access to private, password-protected accounts. Under Oregon law, it is illegal to ask for login credentials, force a connection (like a “friend request”), or require applicants to log in in the employer’s presence.
Ah, replace: “fire” with “not hire” and “employee” with “applicant for employment”:
“In general, an employer could fire an employee for just about anything, including criticizing the company on social media or anywhere else,” said Jeffrey Hirsch, a professor of labor and employment law at the University of North Carolina.
Imagine someone like me who criticizes almost EVERYTHING about America and governments, politicians, HR Departments, and the Nanny State and the Lobotomized Masses? I shall and can rejoice, but this post then goes through the AI crap HR departments deploy:
This photo below brings tears of joy to my eyes; therefore, YOU ARE UNEMPLOYABLE.
Or, the guy on the left below is a hero, the one on the right epitomizes the Epstein Class, both the Democrats and Republicans in lower office.
Is this a non-hirable offense? BREAKING: Some real hope: I still have good news. The search for the pilot of the USAF F-15E (494th FS) shot down over Iran is still ongoing. He has not been rescued. It was the pilot of an A-10C shot down over the Persian Gulf who was recovered. The Islamic Regime of Iran might have the F-15E pilot, fortunately.
Is this how I get cancelled from working at the City of Newport, reposting things? Alon Mizrahi, an Israeli journalist, one of the most worthy Jews in the world:
“We are witnessing history. Iran, to everyone’s surprise, is destroying American bases so thoroughly, on such a large scale, and so decisively that the world is not ready for this.
In 4 days, Iran has managed to expand its sphere of military dominance in the region. Iran has destroyed the most valuable and expensive military bases, property, and equipment in the entire world.
The American bases in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia are among the largest military facilities in the entire world. These facilities have cost trillions of dollars over several decades to build. We are talking about the fact that the bulk of the military spending that has been made over more than 30 years has gone up in smoke.
We see radars costing hundreds of millions of dollars each being destroyed in an instant. We see entire military bases being abandoned and burned, looted, and destroyed. And I’m telling you, as far as I know, the U.S. has never suffered such destruction in its entire history, except perhaps for Pearl Harbor, but that was just one attack.
No enemy in a conventional war has ever done this to American military forces as Iran is doing right now. It’s hard to believe. The military situation is so serious that censorship is blocking almost all new information about this war. If you’ve noticed, we’re getting less and less information every day.
Thirty-five years ago, during the first Iraqi war, we were shown endless footage from Iraq. Back then, smart bombs and cameras were a novelty, but every night we were shown night-time footage. Now we hardly see any videos at all.
Understand this! Supposedly, this is the world’s largest military power, with the world’s largest air capabilities, and on the fourth day of the U.S. offensive, supposedly and supposedly breaking through Iranian defenses, we don’t see any signs of American dominance in the Iranian sky. Where are all the video recordings of our planes flying over Tehran or any other part of Iran, for that matter?
American soldiers can’t even dream of setting foot on Iranian soil. And to understand how desperate this war is, on the fourth day you’re already hearing the most insane proposals and ideas from the Trump administration. They’re proposing sending military escorts for oil tankers leaving the Persian Gulf. What are you even talking about! You want to send American ships into the zone of destruction of thousands of Iranian missiles? NOW no one can get through the Strait of Hormuz.
The Iranians have been preparing for this for decades. They’re flaunting the idea of arming Kurdish militias to invade Iran. What the hell are you talking about? Have you seen a map of Iran!? It seems the Trump administration has never seen a map of Iran! Do you know how vast it is? What does it mean to invade Iran!? Do you think a militia of 10,000 people could invade Iran!? Or even 50,000? Or 100,000? Iran will swallow them up.
The U.S. and Israel have already lost this war. The U.S. and Israel can kill millions of civilians in their homes. They have powerful bombs and can blow up buildings, but they won’t win this war. Iran’s military infrastructure and weaponry is deep underground all over IRAN. Neither the Americans nor, especially, the Israelis have any chance of reaching any of it. They’re in deep shit.
They started something they have no chance of finishing. When this all ends, the U.S. will never return to West Asia. There will be no American presence in the Middle East. I’m telling you this now with certainty.”
Yeah, so here’s my email, since the City of Newport is closed on Friday, even though I got the “dear fucking Paul, you illegitimate bastard, unemployable and dirty rotten to the core for being anti-American.”
This is, of course, upsetting. First, I applied in earnest for the building attendent job, and went through the necessary hoops to work for the Recreation Center. Second, BS sent me a letter of contingency hiring and then did her interviews with references. I received the results of the background check, as you did, and there was nothing there.
Third, today I casually asked JR today if she had heard anything about the building attendant position and getting me onboarded. She said she had not heard, but she also told me she’d look into it, and I asked her to limit her sleuthing to see what the holdup was or if I missed anything.
Within 20 minutes of that conversation with Jenni, I received your email and the attached letter from Ms. W.
I called BS today, left a message, and then I called Ms. W, but her voicemail sent me back to Bonnie’s voicemail.
There is, in my opinion, a complete lack of professionalism and lack of courtesy and trauma-informed awareness in what just occurred regarding my application and my reaching out to see what the holdup was.
Do you not think that I was confident about the position after you had sent me the letter of hire (contingent, albeit)?
Do you not think that the 20 to 29 hours a week at $20.63 an hour would have been important income for me, a senior on a fixed income?
Do you not think that I am now concerned about being “blacklisted” from ever applying for another city job ever?
BOLI and Oregon labor statutes have much to say about the rights of employers and some things to say about the rights of people applying for jobs, in this case, a municipal position. I can only speculate as to why the position was rescinded. I am not going to speculate, though. This is troubling, and to me, these actions speak of discrimination against me based on whatever matrix or screening methods you have deployed beyond the work, reference, and background checks.
You never gave me a solid reason why a job offer was rescinded. This is terribly upsetting and deeply concerning to me how HR works within the City of Newport. It should be concerning to any taxpayer in the City of Newport.
So in the end, who the fuck do these goddamned people think they are? I passed a background check to drive as a volunteer for the city, and I have background checks yearly for working with children and adults with developmental disabilities. Fucking creeps everywhere, whichever way I turn.
Nanny state
Professional Managerial Class
Admin Class
HR Class
Rules up their Asses Class
Government jobs
A city that runs through dozens of employees a year
The end of the road middlings and milquetoast folk
Christ, the dudette who ran the interview and who sent me the rescinding letter, yes, again, another fucking German (last name) who has derailed my livelihood.
March 26, 2026
Dear Paul,
I am pleased to make you a contingent offer of employment with the City of Newport (the ‘city’) as a Building Attendant in the Recreation Division of the Parks and Recreation Department.
Employment at the City of Newport is contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation and reference checks on all of its potential employees. Your job offer, therefore, is contingent upon a successful clearance of such a background investigation, and reference checks.
Once your background investigation and references have been successfully completed, and I am able to confirm your job offer, the terms of your employment will be as such:
Reports to: Recreation Superintendent
Classification: Regular, Part-Time, Non-Exempt, Non-Bargaining Unit Member
Rate of Pay: Range P102 /Step 3= $20.63/hour
The City is excited about your joining us and we look forward to a beneficial and productive relationship. Your first six (6) months of employment is considered your trial service period. During this period, you are considered to be in training and under observation and evaluation by your supervisor. Evaluation of your adjustment to work tasks, conduct, and other work rules, attendance and job responsibilities will be conducted during the trial service period. This period gives you an opportunity to demonstrate satisfactory performance for the position, and also provides an opportunity to determine if your knowledge/skills/abilities (KSAs) match the requirements of the position. It is also a chance for you to decide if the city meets your expectations as an employer.
As a City employee, you will be expected to abide by the City’s policies, rules and standards. Specifically, you will be required to sign an acknowledgment that you have read and that you understand and agree to comply with the City’s rules of conduct, which are included in the City Handbook, which you will be given on your first day of employment. You should note that the City may modify job titles, salaries and benefits from time to time as it deems necessary.
This letter sets forth the terms of your employment with the city and supersedes any prior representations or agreements including, but not limited to, any representations made during your recruitment, interviews or pre-employment negotiations, whether written or oral. Once we have completed your background investigation and references, we can determine a start work date.
To accept the City’s offer, please sign and date this letter in the space provided below. Once we have completed the pre-employment process, we will be able to confirm the job offer and determine a start work date.
We look forward to your acceptance of the job offer and to working with you at the City of Newport.
Sincerely,
Ahh, the shame, the shame:
Of course, working for tech companies, hmm, that is the problem to begin with. But here you go:
Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Tech Workers for Kshama national meeting. The energy was incredible, and we’re just getting started. During our discussion, one tech worker asked a question that I think is on every tech worker’s mind right now: how do we fight against the mass layoffs happening in the tech sector?
Barely 24 hours after our meeting, we saw exactly why this matters: on March 31st, between 20,000 and 30,000 Oracle workers, roughly 18% of the company’s global workforce, woke up to a cold five-line email from “Oracle Leadership” at 6 am. No phone call. No meeting with HR. No warning from their managers. Just a message telling them their roles had been eliminated, that today was their last working day, and that their access to company systems had already been cut.
Oracle is not a company in distress. It posted a 95% jump in profits last quarter, $6.13 billion in a single quarter. The principal owner of Oracle stock, Larry Ellison, owns $200 billion in wealth and is the sixth-richest person in the world. Other top Oracle executives and major shareholders are also billionaires and multimillionaires. Like Jeffrey Henley and Clayton Magouyrk, who have an estimated net worth of a billion dollars and nearly $44 million, respectively.
This layoff “bloodbath,” as it’s being called, is about profit-hoarding by billionaires and multimillionaires and redirecting tens of billions of dollars into AI infrastructure while discarding the workers who built the company.
Oracle is far from an exception. In just the first three months of 2026, tech workers have been hit by a layoff wave unlike anything we’ve seen in years. Amazon has cut over 30,000 jobs since late 2025, including 16,000 corporate roles in January, its second major round of cuts in three months. Microsoft has cut over 15,000 workers. Google, Meta, Block, Intel, Pinterest, Autodesk — the list goes on. In total, over 85,000 tech workers have been laid off in 2026 alone. Nearly a thousand layoffs per day.
The bosses have a name for this: “efficiency.” We should call it what it really is: class war by the bosses against the working class. Capitalism IS class war.
The profits of the tech bosses, like all billionaires and multimillionaires, come from the wealth produced by the labor of tech workers and all the other workers who make all the corporations run every single day. The vast majority of the wealth is then stolen by the bosses.
That’s why any gains workers can win in the form of job protection, wage increases, and improvements in benefits and working conditions can only come out of the profits of the bosses. That means our interests and the bosses’ interests are fundamentally opposed, and no amount of polite negotiating changes that.
What we need is a class struggle-based fightback. In the labor movement, it means we need class struggle unionism: the understanding that the only way workers can build leverage is by shutting down production and profits until management is forced to concede. That means boldly exposing the bosses, building solidarity across the entire working class, and connecting our workplace fights to the broader political struggle for free healthcare, rent control, and taxes on the rich, and against imperialist war, ICE terror, and the cost-of-living crisis.
It also means breaking from the Democratic and Republican parties, both parties of the bosses. For decades, the leadership of the labor movement has funneled money, volunteers, and political support into the Democratic Party, and workers and rank-and-file union members have gotten betrayal after betrayal in return. Most of the billionaires and multimillionaires donate to both Democratic and Republican politicians. Adam Smith, the Democratic incumbent Kshama is running against, has taken money from numerous wealthy individuals, including executives and major shareholders of Microsoft and Palantir.
To find an alternative to AOC’s “democratic socialism,” we must investigate why exactly these politics are harmful to Palestine, and all other areas in the popular struggle. Putting forth such an alternative is an important part of critiquing social democrats, because without presenting a credible solution, we’ll fall into ultra-leftist patterns. When I decry social democrat politicians as a Marxist, I am doing so with the awareness that these figures are the only version of “socialism” which their supporters have been exposed to. And to draw these working-class Americans away from social democracy, which is now a highly urgent task, we must explain which forces of popular revolution the socdems have set themselves up against.
In global terms, these forces are the mass movements that have been waging wars of resistance against U.S. imperial aggression, with the Palestinian resistance being the foremost struggle that leaders like AOC oppose. We know they oppose this struggle because every one of these “progressive” leaders, when they’ve come across opportunities to align with Palestine’s fight for liberation, has done what the occupier prefers. They’ve served as “progressive” launderers for Zionism at a moment when Zionism is in unprecedented existential danger, is surrounded by a world that hates it more than ever, and needs spokespeople who can put a friendly face on it.
Because the bulk of Gen Z have come to understand why Zionism is irredeemable, every time these politicians betray the Palestinian cause, they further alienate themselves from their primary base. Bernie Sanders and AOC have voted to continue funding the Zionist occupier’s “defensive” military equipment, and Zohran has taken the Zionist position by affirming the occupier’s supposed right to exist. Now, AOC has again shown a lack of commitment to fighting against aid to the occupation by stating that, due to existing U.S. foreign aid policies, “I believe the Israeli government is well able to fund the Iron Dome system, which has proven critical to keep innocent civilians safe from rocket attacks and bombardment.” This was how AOC qualified her pledge not to continue voting for the Iron Dome aid, which evidently still comes with a fundamental desire to counter Gaza’s resistance coalition; AOC’s language clearly implies that this choice comes from a confidence in the occupier being able to wage its colonial war without her help. When this changes, AOC will get behind the occupier, along with every other “soft” Zionist leader.
These fucking HR departments, man:
Here are the primary ways city departments control free speech in the workplace:
1. Distinguishing Job Duties from Personal Speech
Official Duty Restriction (Garcetti v. Ceballos): When public employees make statements pursuant to their official duties, they are not speaking as citizens for First Amendment purposes, and the city can restrict this speech.
Limiting Workplace Advocacy: Departments can prohibit employees from engaging in political, social, or personal speech while actively performing their job functions (e.g., advising a supervisor, interacting with the public).
2. Implementing Content-Neutral Policies
Clear Workplace Policies: Departments develop policies that regulate when and where speech can occur, focusing on reducing disruption.
Uniform Application: To avoid claims of viewpoint discrimination, policies must be enforced consistently across all employees, not selectively.
Time, Place, and Manner Restrictions: Employers can limit political activities to non-working hours or areas, and prohibit the use of city equipment (email, copiers) for private, political speech.
When employees speak as citizens on matters of public concern, departments must show that the disruption caused by the speech outweighs the employee’s interest in speaking. Controls are often justified if speech:
Disrupts Harmony: Impairs discipline, harmony, or working relationships among co-workers.
Impairs Functionality: Hinders the normal, efficient operation of the department.
Misrepresents the Agency: Causes the public to confuse personal employee views with official city policy.
4. Enforcing Anti-Discrimination and Harassment Policies
Duty to Protect Workers: Cities have a legal duty (under Title VII) to maintain a workplace free from harassment and discrimination.
Controlling Hateful Speech: If employee speech creates a hostile work environment based on protected characteristics (race, gender, religion), the city must regulate or prohibit it.
5. Managing Social Media Usage
Off-Duty Conduct Monitoring: While off-duty speech is generally protected, it can be regulated if it has a direct nexus to the disruption of workplace operations.
Policy Compliance: Cities create social media policies that prohibit employees from posting confidential information or engaging in speech that violates city workplace policies, even outside of working hours.
Key Takeaway for Compliance: To successfully control speech without violating legal rights, city departments often conduct investigations to document the specific disruption caused before taking disciplinary action.
And so AmeriKKKa is the lobotomized — no critical thinking in the public spaces, no robust debate without fistacuffs, no deep thinking about the issues of our time and systems that oppress and suppress and harm us as citizens, communities. We have to bow to the admin class, to the fucking lawyers or city and county manager, all of that, until some schmuck like me applies for a fancy-named janitorial job and gets culled for unstated reasons, but boy oh boy, the fuckers went to social media, and did this on Google Gulag search: Paul Haeder Then, put in Paul K. Haeder and you get a different take. Hundreds of “pages” on the Jewish Gulag Google.
The Pickering Connick test takes its name from two public employee free speech decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court. One of the decisions involved Harry Connick Sr., who served as district attorney in New Orleans for three decades. The case arose when Connick fired an employee for questioning the office’s policies. (Connick is the father of famous pianist-singer-actor Harry Connick Jr.) The test asks if the employee spoke on matters of public concern, and if the free speech rights of the government employee outweighs the interest in a disruptive-free workplace. (In this photo, Orleans Parish District Attorney Harry Connick answers questions during a news conference in New Orleans Friday, May 25, 2001.]
The Pickering-Connick test refers to a longstanding test in First Amendment law used by courts to determine whether a public employer violated an employee’s free-expression rights.
Did the public employee speak on matters of public concern?
The test has two parts. The threshold part asks whether a public employee spoke on a matter of public concern, defined as a matter of larger societal significance or importance. If a public employee was disciplined for expression that is characterized as more of a private grievance, then the employer prevails.
If, however, a public employee spoke on a matter of public concern, then the court proceeds to the second part of the test, often called the balancing prong. Under this prong, the court must balance the employee’s right to free speech against the employer’s interests in an efficient, disruption-free workplace.
As mentioned, the Supreme Court developed this test in Pickering, a case involving a public high school science teacher named Marvin Pickering, who was terminated after writing a letter to the editor of his local newspaper that was highly critical of school district officials but not people he worked with on a day-to-day basis. The Supreme Court reasoned that Pickering spoke on a matter of public concern – whether the school district spent too much money on athletics as opposed to academics.
The Court then held that Pickering’s rights to free speech outweighed the school board’s interests in a disruptive free workplace, largely because Pickering did not criticize people that he worked with daily, such as fellow teachers or his principal.
Balancing test weighs free speech against a disruptive-free workplace
In Connick, New Orleans District Attorney Harry Connick Sr. fired assistant district attorney Sheila Myers after learning that Myers distributed a questionnaire to fellow employees, questioning various policies in the district attorney’s office. Myers sued, alleging a violation of her free-speech rights.
The Court applied the Pickering-Connick test, finding that most of the questions on her questionnaire were closer to a private grievance than matters of public concern. However, the Court found that one question – whether employees felt pressured to support political candidates backed by the district attorney – touched on a matter of public concern. The Court then balanced Myers’ free-speech rights against the district attorney’s interests in an efficient disruptive-free workplace. The Court, by a 5-4 vote, struck the balance in favor of D.A. Connick, crediting testimony from another district attorney that Myer’s questionnaire caused a “mini-insurrection” in the office.
For several decades, the Pickering-Connick test served as the guidepost for public employee First Amendment free-speech claims. Then, in Garcetti v. Ceballos (2006), the Court introduced a new threshold inquiry by holding that when public employees make statements pursuant to their official job duties they have no First Amendment protections.
PMC, man, including the fucking HR administrators: LISTEN UP.
I am not socially acceptable to the German HR Newport woman, nor to the City in General. Morality at the wrong end of the alimentary canal.
Soooo . . . Sure, some of us DO need a few shekels for these rants, this railing on Subterranean Substack, so thanks to those subscribers who have thrown in a few to me, not just to the Big Boys and Girls like Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate and Katie Halper.
Ahh, speaking of Blumenthal: Fuck, right before my 8 pm Wednesday show, two nights ago, kyuaq.org, Finding Fringe, this daily show, Background Briefing. On a community radio station, with Democracy Now and Thom Hartmann? Fuck. Blumenthal, man, the fucking Hillary and Bill cunt:
Then, finally, we speak with Sidney Blumenthal, the former assistant and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton, and senior adviser to Hillary Clinton. He has been a national staff reporter for The Washington Post, Washington editor and staff writer for The New Yorker and his books include the bestsellers The Clinton Wars, The Rise of the Counter-Establishment and The Permanent Campaign. His latest book is All the Powers on Earth, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln 1856-1860, and his latest article at The Guardian we discuss is “Trump’s war is holding him hostage.”
If there is any consistency to Trump’s policy, it is a series of frantic attempts to justify his original blunder and extricate himself from its dire consequences.
But we gotta take care of the Jewish Sicarios and Rapists and Murderers and Neuroperverse:
This video features an interview with Daniel Klein, a former student of the Mechina Bnei David preparatory program in Israel. The discussion explores the nature of Zionist indoctrination within the military preparatory academies (mechinot) and how these systems shape the worldview of young recruits.
Know the truth about why Israeli society is so blood thirsty and savage.
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Family Values for Jews: If you want a better understanding of the American regime, for the first time, the U.S. Army tested a PRSM missile in Malard, Iran. A weapon that detonates mid-air, releasing thousands of deadly fragments. And as a result, 21 Iranian teenagers who were simply playing in their neighborhood lost their lives…
Jewish Family Values: There are also books in the library by those who killed, destroyed, and committed genocide against us; those who usurped our land, murdered our ancestors, and built cities over their bodies. You are a people who feed off the Holocaust that happened a hundred years ago, using it as a pretext to justify the genocide you have committed against us.
The U.S. and Israeli regimes have assassinated our leaders, killed schoolchildren, and attacked hospitals, universities, energy facilities, and desalination plants. They have now struck the Pasteur Vaccine Institute and key road bridges. They openly threaten to bomb our power infrastructure and “return Iran to the Stone Age.” It seems these realities do not reach Australian and EU officials, or they are unwilling to condemn them. Instead, they criticize Iran’s self-defense. The world and history will judge you. Do not stand on the side of Nazis.
He’s a Calfironication Incel Nazi:
Glosser-Miller, a product of that worldview of hate and bigotry: He coulda been raised in Is-RAW-HELL.
1. Architect of Family Separation
Miller was the chief architect of the Trump Administration “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which led to the forced separation of thousands of children from their parents at the southern border. According to Vanity Fair, “Stephen actually enjoys seeing those pictures at the border.” His own words on the policy? He called it a “simple decision.”
Even now, hundreds of children remain separated from their families. The policy was condemned by the United Nations and numerous human rights organizations as cruel, unnecessary, and a violation of international law.
2. White Nationalist Ties
During Trump’s first term, leaked emails revealed that Miller frequently shared white nationalist talking points and publications, including content from VDARE and the Camp of the Saints – a notoriously racist and anti-immigrant novel embraced by far-right extremists.
The Southern Poverty Law Center characterized Miller’s communications as “open white nationalism.” Over 100 members of Congress called for his resignation; however, Trump stood behind him along with many of the GOP.
3. A Career Built on Bigotry
Before entering the White House, Miller worked under Senator Jeff Sessions, helping craft policies aimed at rolling back civil rights, weakening voting protections, and targeting marginalized communities. His work in government has consistently targeted people of color, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ Americans.
In 2023, Miller’s legal group, America First Legal, filed a complaint accusing Kellogg’s of “politicizing and sexualizing its products” simply for releasing a Pride-themed Pop-Tarts box and featuring RuPaul’s image on Cheez-Its. That’s the kind of manufactured outrage Miller uses to push his far-right agenda. His rhetoric directly fuels discrimination and violence against already vulnerable groups.
4. Ethical Conflicts with Anti-Immigration Groups
During his first term in the White House, Miller routinely collaborated with anti-immigration hate groups like the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), both of which have deep ties to white nationalist ideologies.
Miller elevated their ideas into national policy, blurring the line between governance and extremist ideology, resulting in sweeping deportations and a normalization of xenophobia at the highest levels of government.
5. Long History of Harmful Rhetoric
Miller’s inflammatory tone isn’t new, it dates back to his days at Duke University, where he penned right-wing columns attacking diversity, tolerance, and liberalism. In one article, he mocked Duke’s efforts toward inclusion, calling the school’s climate a “shameful deficiency.”
That same combative style carried into his work for Trump, helping shape speeches and policies that escalated racial and cultural divides. His influence isn’t just about policy– it’s about poisonously reshaping the national conversation.
Stephen Miller is a central figure in shaping the Trump Administration’s agenda. From enabling state violence against immigrant families to promoting white nationalist rhetoric in government, his career is a warning of what happens when bigotry gains institutional power.
[According to the Letter of the Law by Zuni Maud, depicting the effects of the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, which curtailed immigration to the United States. Published in Der groyser kundes,]
Ahh, 2019 article:
IMMIGRATION HAS BECOME so central to US politics today that it’s hard to remember how rarely it flickered into the national spotlight before 2016. Prior to Donald Trump’s election, both parties agreed on the need for border enforcement, with the GOP routinely accusing Democrats of being soft on “illegals” and the Democrats responding with vigorous deportation campaigns. But the explicit racism of the Trump era, with its Muslim travel ban and the daily outrages of family separation and detention, has galvanized a large-scale protest movement. Jews have been especially active in this mobilization, driven by their social liberalism, their sense of religious duty, or both. Synagogue networks sprang up to offer aid to refugees, while groups like Jews United for Justice and Jewish Voice for Peace have been a visible presence at protest rallies. The role of Trump advisers Stephen Miller and Jared Kushner has at times made the fight seem unusually personal—even familial. Miller’s uncle, a neuroscientist, has been welcomed onto the public stage for his denunciations of his nephew’s immigration policies, which the elder Miller has characterized as hypocritical: the Millers’ not-so-distant Jewish ancestors were, of course, immigrants themselves.
Writing for the panel, Judge Gould did not mince words about what the record showed: federal agents shot a protester in the head, legs, and feet with pepper balls at close range while the person was complying with orders. A member of the press was struck in the head with a rubber bullet and sustained a concussion. Another reporter was hit in the arm by a tear gas canister while retreating — diagnosed with a hematoma and treated for a burn. A fourth person was hit in the hand by a canister fired from 50 to 75 feet away, requiring stitches.
“In some instances,” the court found, “officers issued no warnings and shot individuals who posed no threat to the officers or to any other person.”
1. ICE is violating its own parental interest policies at every stage. The current Detained Parents Directive requires ICE to ask every person it arrests whether they are a parent, to ensure children are safe at the time of arrest, and to give parents facing deportation the opportunity to decide whether their children come with them or remain in the US. The report documents routine violations of all three. Parents were never asked about their children. Parents who tried to raise the issue were dismissed. One father begged to call the babysitter who was inside with his three-year-old and was refused. Parents who signed official forms requesting to bring their children were deported without them anyway.
2. The scale has changed dramatically. Data obtained through public records requests and reported by the amazing team at ProPublica shows that under the Biden administration, 264 mothers were detained and 30 percent were deported. Under the current administration, that number has jumped to 800 mothers detained, with 60 percent deported. WRC has also been tracking a significant uptick in the detention of pregnant, postpartum, and lactating women since the spring of 2025, using a detention pregnancy tracker built in partnership with Relevant Research. Zain described one case as particularly haunting: a woman who experienced a miscarriage in detention received no medical oversight for ten days, was deported in an acute medical crisis, and had her life saved only because reception center workers in Honduras rushed her to an emergency room. It’s unthinkable that this is happening.
3. There is no system for international family reunification, and one is desperately needed. There is no legal right to reunification under US law and no established DHS procedure for facilitating it. More than 400 parents sought reunification through the Honduran government in 2025 despite no formal program existing. Receiving countries lack the resources, the infrastructure, and the most basic information from the US government to make reunification work at scale. So when we think about the next 10-20-year horizon of how we respond to this massive problem, we really need to construct a cooperative system for information sharing and facilitating reunification.
We did not get enough time to discuss that last point, but I want to double down on it here because I think it is the most important long-term takeaway from the conversation. The consequences of the current administration’s deportation policies (and frankly the United States’ deportation policies for years now across Republican and Democratic administrations) mean that we are creating a long-term family separation crisis that will outlast any single presidency.
[U.S. citizen children board a van in early February before taking a flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Guatemala, to be reunited with parents who were deported]
[ProPublica’s reporting shows that the parents of at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children were arrested and detained in the first seven months of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. First image: Two volunteers place a 2-year-old American child in a car so he can be reunited with his mother, who is from Honduras and awaits deportation at the Dilley, Texas, family detention center. Second image: Two American children, left, talk on the phone with their father, who is detained at “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida after being arrested on Christmas.]
Retrograde:
Rubio this week:
“Imagine an Iran that instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, had spent that money helping the people of Iran, you’d have a much different country.”
President Donald Trump (who very clearly needs to arrange some sort of morning meeting with his staff to get their talking points down) this week:
“The United States can’t take care of daycare. We’re a big country, we have all these other people, we’re fighting wars! We can’t take care of daycare! You’ve got to let a state take care of daycare and they should pay for it too! They have to raise their taxes. It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. We have to take care of one thing: military protection.”
Family Values, a la War Criminal: The Karaj bridge, several kilometers west of Tehran, which was destroyed during U.S.-Israeli military operations in Iran, on April 3, 2026.
Trump celebrated a double tap strike on a highway bridge linking Tehran to Karaj on Thursday, sharing video of the attack that killed eight people and wounded 95. The second strike occurred as rescue workers responded to the initial attack, according to the Fars news agency. Iranian officials told state media the casualties were civilians who had gathered beneath the bridge and along the riverbank to celebrate Nature Day in Iran. The unfinished bridge intended to connect Tehran to the Caspian Sea.
“The biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again — Much more to follow! IT IS TIME FOR IRAN TO MAKE A DEAL BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, AND THERE IS NOTHING LEFT OF WHAT STILL COULD BECOME A GREAT COUNTRY!”
Trump wrote on social media. Trump told Time magazine in an in
A February inspection of Camp East Montana, the nation’s largest immigration detention facility, in El Paso, Texas found 49 violations—an unusually high figure compared to a maximum of 13 found at any other facility inspected so far this year. The inspection cited the use of excessive force, the provision of medical care, security, and mental health. The facility—which houses nearly 3,000 detainees per day, the majority of whom have no criminal convictions—has recorded at least three deaths since opening last summer. Despite the 49 violations, the report rated the facility “acceptable/adequate.” Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas), who has toured the facility, said the findings were “a drop in the bucket” of what is wrong there. “ICE is completely uninterested in really creating any change.”
The comments were initially broadcast live on the White House’s YouTube account before the video was made private following public backlash. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt later stated that the President’s remarks were intended to highlight the importance of “rooting out the billions of dollars in fraud” within those programs.
“The United States can’t take care of daycare. We’re a big country, we have all these other people, we’re fighting wars! We can’t take care of daycare! You’ve got to let a state take care of daycare and they should pay for it too! They have to raise their taxes. It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. We have to take care of one thing: military protection.”
The government cannot legally detain U.S. citizen children with their parents or deport them. According to immigration experts and current and former officials, the arrest and detention of parents of U.S. citizens often leads to a family separation, even if it’s brief.
We counted a parent as having been detained by ICE if they were booked into a facility for any length of time according to the Deportation Data Project’s detention records. In a very small minority of cases during the Trump administration, parents were released from ICE custody in less than a few days. This was more common under Biden. When we calculated the criminal history of parents arrested and detained by ICE, we relied on the criminal charges in these detention records.
To calculate that Trump has deported mothers of U.S. citizen children at four times the rate that Biden did, we calculated the total number of mothers removed under each administration in the period covered by our data and divided by the number of days each president was in office during that period. We used the period from November 2023 through mid-August 2025 to minimize undercounting at the start and end of our detention dataset. We also compared equivalent seven-month periods in 2024 and 2025, which produced a similar result. For the purposes of our analysis, we counted a small number of detained mothers who agreed to leave the country voluntarily as having been deported.
“We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks, we’re going to bring them back to the stone ages, where they belong.”
Well, maybe a simple Stone Age “fired upon” response would work for Trump, LLC, his Minyans, the terrible Jews running the show, and of course, all believers in the worth of whites and Westerners over all other creeds.
“Progress is theft. Progress is slave-mongering. Progress is murder. Progress is genocide.”
Oh, that STONE Age: The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years[1] and ended between 4000 BC and 2000 BC, with the advent of metalworking.[2] Because of its enormous timescale, it encompasses 99% of human history.
[I picked up this odd item a number of years ago (note in the second and third pic that the ‘wick’ and wooden cap are for show only) at an antiques mall with no provenance or explanation as to what it was. The item appears very old, is made of a light-weight black clay and while fragile, I can squeeze it in my hand without cracking it (i.e. It’s not so delicate that it can’t be handled). It is slightly bigger than a gulf ball and completely hollow. It measures roughly 2 1/2″ tall and approx 7″ total diameter. My hand gives a corresponding size. Now, the question is…what is it?
When I first bought it, it had a very old piece of cork stuffed in the top that crumbled away. I wasn’t sure if I smelled any residue or not. I can’t tell if it is scuffed or had weal markings on the outside at one time. Perhaps I’m being fanciful, but I think this is an incendiary carcass or stink pot/bomb? I think we can rule out a few things it’s probably not. I doubt it held incense, candle wax or a plant! The bottom is completely round and it wouldn’t have been practical as any of those type devices. As a container holding liquid, it would be very prone to spilling. I guess it could be a one-off pottery piece, but I can’t imagine it would have been easy to make such a thing just for fun? It reminds me of the early grenadoes that were used by the buccaneers of old, but they were made of iron (same shape and even with a raised lip. See Warren Moore’s ‘Weapons of the American Revolution’ ,pg 215, ex.A-166 grenade found at Fort Ticonderoga). What got me thinking about this piece was Matchlock’s incendiary grenade thread with it’s glass French bombs, which are similar, but much thicker. In use, this little item could have very well held a volatile liquid or even black powder. In Gilkerson’s ‘Boarder’s Away’, he mentions clay stink pots, so I thought this could be another possibility?
Has anyone seen anything like this? Was black pottery used for such things? Were there Spanish colonial grenadoes like this? What type of clay was used? Anyone want to weigh in on this odd piece?]
Maori shark-tooth knife
The phrase “bombing back to the stone ages” is widely associated with US Air Force officer Curtis LeMay, in the context of US threats against North Vietnam in LeMay’s 1965 book, Mission with LeMay.
[Bombs Away’ LeMay: America’s Unapologetic Champion of Waging Total War]
“We’re going to bomb them back into the Stone Age,” he wrote. LeMay, who had played a central role in executing the World War II carpet bombing of Japanese cities in which between 240,000 and 900,000 people were killed, had by the time of the Vietnam War risen in rank to chief of Air Staff before he retired the year his book was published.
In December 1972, President Richard Nixon ordered a major bombing campaign against North Vietnam, especially Hanoi and Haiphong, known in the US as the “Christmas bombings”.
US Secretary of State James Baker met Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz in Geneva on January 9, 1991. In that meeting, Baker threatened that the US would bomb Iraq “back to the Stone Age” if it did not withdraw from Kuwait.
On September 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaeda hijackers seized four US commercial airliners. Two were flown into the World Trade Center towers in New York, another hit the Pentagon in Virginia, and one crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after passengers resisted.Nearly 3,000 people were killed, and the attacks prompted the United States to launch a global “war on terror” targeting al-Qaeda and other groups it designated as terrorist organisations.After the attacks, Pakistan’s Pervez Musharraf, who was president from 2001 to 2008, later recounted that senior US official Richard Armitage warned his country would be “bombed back to the Stone Age” if it refused to join the war on the Taliban.
Two weeks (May 2010) after the failed Times Square plot, national security adviser, General James Jones, and director of central intelligence, Leon Panetta, were dispatched to Islamabad to deliver a message from President Obama to Pakistan’s army chief, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. According to the account revealed in the new book by New York Times journalists, Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker, Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda:“Obama’s warning to Kayani that his military that he needed to clamp down on the Islamic fighters, who were using safe havens inside his country, or pay the price of devastating American air strikes, was yet another example of how the U.S. government was adopting classic Cold War notions of deterrence to protect the United States against terrorists. The message was clear: If we are attacked, you will be attacked.”
All these Stone Age weapons get through metal detectors, now, don’t you know!
But the orgasms are coming now that Noem and Bondi are toast:
Her ouster comes just weeks after Epstein survivors sued the DOJ for mishandling of the release of the case files.
So, is it any wonder these toothless female wonders accepted temporarily into a misogynistic and incel heavy fucking Jewish Controlled Administration would be fired?
Women, and those two melanin-rich dudes, fired!!!
Oh, no matter how hard you pray to the god who was never there or how much begging you do to blue-eyed Jesus, you ain’t going to get nothing but buggering from daddy.
Cunt Trump hates women and hates color, other than bottle-brush orange. This little elf will be going too:
And we’re going to give headline after headline to this whore?
Humpty Dumpty Trump:
US President Donald Trump brags about destroying Iran’s B1 Bridge in Karaj, the highest bridge in West Asia:
“The biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again — Much more to follow! IT IS TIME FOR IRAN TO MAKE A DEAL BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, AND THERE IS NOTHING LEFT OF WHAT STILL COULD BECOME A GREAT COUNTRY!”
Versus a human:
Iranian President Pezeshkian released a lengthy text addressed to the American people ahead of Trump’s address to the nation. This text stands out as an exemplary case of an ethical, harmonious, responsible and deep thinking state leader, something we didn’t see from a Western politician for a very long time.
He also warns: “Attacking Iran’s vital infrastructure—including energy and industrial facilities—directly targets the Iranian people. Beyond constituting a war crime, such actions carry consequences that extend far beyond Iran’s borders”
FULL LETTER BELOW:
“To the people of the United States of America, and to all those who, amid a flood of distortions and manufactured narratives, continue to seek the truth and aspire to a better life:
Iran—by this very name, character, and identity—is one of the oldest continuous civilizations in human history. Despite its historical and geographical advantages at various times, Iran has never, in its modern history, chosen the path of aggression, expansion, colonialism, or domination. Even after enduring occupation, invasion, and sustained pressure from global powers—and despite possessing military superiority over many of its neighbors—Iran has never initiated a war. Yet it has resolutely and bravely repelled those who have attacked it.
The Iranian people harbor no enmity toward other nations, including the people of America, Europe, or neighboring countries. Even in the face of repeated foreign interventions and pressures throughout their proud history, Iranians have consistently drawn a clear distinction between governments and the peoples they govern. This is a deeply rooted principle in Iranian culture and collective consciousness—not a temporary political stance.
For this reason, portraying Iran as a threat is neither consistent with historical reality nor with present-day observable facts. Such a perception is the product of political and economic whims of the powerful—the need to manufacture an enemy in order to justify pressure, maintain military dominance, sustain the arms industry, and control strategic markets. In such an environment, if a threat does not exist, it is invented.
Within this same framework, the United States has concentrated the largest number of its forces, bases, and military capabilities around Iran—a country that, at least since the founding of the United States, has never initiated a war. Recent American aggressions launched from these very bases have demonstrated how threatening such a military presence truly is. Naturally, no country confronted with such conditions would forgo strengthening its defensive capabilities. What Iran has done—and continues to do—is a measured response grounded in legitimate self-defense, and by no means an initiation of war or aggression.
Relations between Iran and the United States were not originally hostile, and early interactions between the Iranian and American people were not marred with hostility or tension. The turning point, however, was the 1953 coup d’état—an illegal American intervention aimed at preventing the nationalization of Iran’s own resources. That coup disrupted Iran’s democratic process, reinstated dictatorship, and sowed deep distrust among Iranians toward U.S. policies.
This distrust deepened further with America’s support for the Shah’s regime, its backing of Saddam Hussein during the imposed war of the 1980s, the imposition of the longest and most comprehensive sanctions in modern history, and ultimately, unprovoked military aggression—twice, in the midst of negotiations—against Iran.
Yet all these pressures have failed to weaken Iran. On the contrary, the country has grown stronger in many areas: literacy rates have tripled—from roughly 30% before the Islamic Revolution to over 90% today; higher education has expanded dramatically; significant advances have been achieved in modern technology; healthcare services have improved; and infrastructure has developed at a pace and scale incomparable to the past. These are measurable, observable realities that stand independent of fabricated narratives.
At the same time, the destructive and inhumane impact of sanctions, war, and aggression on the lives of the resilient Iranian people must not be underestimated. The continuation of military aggression and recent bombings profoundly affect people’s lives, attitudes, and perspectives. This reflects a fundamental human truth: when war inflicts irreparable harm on lives, homes, cities, and futures, people will not remain indifferent toward those responsible.
This raises a fundamental question: Exactly which of the American people’s interests are truly being served by this war? Was there any objective threat from Iran to justify such behavior? Does the massacre of innocent children, the destruction of cancer-treatment pharmaceutical facilities, or boasting about bombing a country “back to the stone ages” serve any purpose other than further damaging the United States’ global standing?
Iran pursued negotiations, reached an agreement, and fulfilled all its commitments. The decision to withdraw from that agreement, escalate toward confrontation, and launch two acts of aggression in the midst of negotiations were destructive choices made by the U.S. government—choices that served the delusions of a foreign aggressor.
Attacking Iran’s vital infrastructure—including energy and industrial facilities—directly targets the Iranian people. Beyond constituting a war crime, such actions carry consequences that extend far beyond Iran’s borders. They generate instability, increase human and economic costs, and perpetuate cycles of tension, planting seeds of resentment that will endure for years. This is not a demonstration of strength; it is a sign of strategic bewilderment and an inability to achieve a sustainable solution.
Is it not also the case that America has entered this aggression as a proxy for Israel, influenced and manipulated by that regime? Is it not true that Israel, by manufacturing an Iranian threat, seeks to divert global attention away from its crimes toward the Palestinians? Is it not evident that Israel now aims to fight Iran to the last American soldier and the last American taxpayer dollar—shifting the burden of its delusions onto Iran, the region, and the United States itself in pursuit of illegitimate interests?
Is “America First” truly among the priorities of the U.S. government today?
I invite you to look beyond the machinery of misinformation—an integral part of this aggression—and instead speak with those who have visited Iran. Observe the many accomplished Iranian immigrants—educated in Iran—who now teach and conduct research at the world’s most prestigious universities, or contribute to the most advanced technology firms in the West. Do these realities align with the distortions you are being told about Iran and its people?
Today, the world stands at a crossroads. Continuing along the path of confrontation is more costly and futile than ever before. The choice between confrontation and engagement is both real and consequential; its outcome will shape the future for generations to come. Throughout its millennia of proud history, Iran has outlasted many aggressors. All that remains of them are tarnished names in history, while Iran endures—resilient, dignified, and proud.”
The sickness flows from Americans, man:
The US/Israeli regime attacked a livestock farm near the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz, rescue teams working to save animals trapped under the rubble.
They have attacked many livestock farms in Iran.
Destroying livestock is a way to create food shortages and famine, forcing civilian populations to flee or surrender due to lack of sustenance — Weaponizing hunger and starvation.
“Murdering Goyim is like killing wild animals” is cited from Sanhedrin 59a.
Ebrahim Zolfaqari, Spokesperson of the Central Headquarters of Khatam al-Anbiya:
— As we have said, we declare to the American-Zionist enemies that your intelligence about our military power and equipment is incomplete. You know nothing about our very extensive and strategic capacities.
— Do not hope that you have destroyed the centers producing strategic missiles, long-range offensive and precision drones, modern air defense systems, electronic warfare, and our special equipment, because with such an assumption you will deepen the quagmire you have trapped yourselves in.
— The centers you think you have targeted are insignificant, and our strategic military productions take place in locations you have no knowledge of and will never reach.
— We save you the trouble of counting our missiles, drones, and strategic equipment because you will certainly be mistaken and get nowhere.
— You must pay the price for the aggression you initiated to the honorable, dear, and Muslim nation.
— With reliance on Almighty God, this war will continue until your permanent, definite humiliation, regret, and surrender.
— In continuation of the strong and unimaginable blows and slaps you have received so far, expect our more crushing, extensive, and devastating actions.
[U.S.-Israeli airstrikes caused extensive damage to the Pasteur Institute of Iran, in Tehran.]
[Targeting Iran’s pharmaceutical hubs has placed thousands of terminally ill patients on the brink of a humanitarian disaster. Human rights experts believe that this action is a blatant and overt example of a “war crime.”]
Iran’s healthcare system is showing signs that it may be breaking down as a result of recent U.S.-Israeli attacks on key health infrastructure. A cancer patient told the Iranian newspaper Sharg that the MAHAK cancer charity informed them it had no post-chemotherapy medication available. Non-emergency surgeries are being postponed due to anesthesia shortages; and in some Tehran neighborhoods, a single doctor is seeing 200 to 300 patients per day. Iran’s deputy health minister said that 24 pharmaceutical and medical facilities have sustained partial or total damage since the war began. Also on Wednesday, a group of Austrian physicians pointed out that recent Israeli-U.S. strikes on Iranian pharmaceutical facilities fall “outside all legal frameworks of war,” in an interview with Deutsche Welle Persian.
Here is what cuntology looks like a la democrats. No reparations, no war crimes tribunal, nothing, just a bunch of bullshit. It’s really cool to be a Reagan democrat these days with No Kings Day and Indivisible fucks hanging around.
Possible Democratic hopefuls say Israel must pay for its own missiles: New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani voiced his agreement with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who announced on Tuesday that she would oppose all military aid to Israel. “I support what the Congresswoman said,” Mamdani said. Ocasio-Cortez issued another statement regarding her new position, saying that Israel is “well able” to fund its Iron Dome system, which she defended in principle as “critical [in keeping] innocent civilians safe from rocket attacks and bombardment.”
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) joined in on Wednesday, signalling he would not support additional funding for Israel’s Iron Dome. “Israel is a first-world country,” Khanna said, “and it can pay for the defensive systems it needs.” Former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel made similar comments in an interview with Semafor’s Dave Weigel.
School’s out forever:
The US and Israel have targeted more than 600 schools and educational centers in Iran over 34 days of war, according to Iran’s Foreign Ministry.
Alice Cooper learned that lesson, too. Last month he said: “If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we’re morons.” This is not the mere ironic muttering of a rich man on a Glendale golf course. It’s the voice of a smart Republican who knows firsthand the power of any moron who has the nerve to get up on stage, who fears what these pop stars in opposition to this administration can do. (His friends in the party of Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger also understand the pull of celebrity, which is why they trotted out their heavyweights like Bo Derek in New York.)
The little difference between a Stein and a Steen… Here, on Instagram/
Oh, those fucking patriots, uh? US oil producers are hesitant to boost production!
Dallas Federal Reserve President Lorie Logan said on Thursday that US oil producers are unlikely to ramp up production in the near term or protect consumers from rising gasoline prices.
She noted during a conference at her regional Fed bank that the price US producers say is needed to justify increased drilling is just under $70 per barrel, compared with current levels of about $110 per barrel. Logan added that prices would need to remain at or above that breakeven threshold for a sustained period before companies commit to the investments that could eventually ease prices for consumers.
US oil firms “need to have a sense that those higher prices are going to stay around for a while, and so I am not hearing that we’re going to see a dramatic increase in production here in the short run,” she said.
TEAM OIL:
Key Oil & Gas Executives and Billionaires (2025-2026)
Vicki Hollub (Occidental Petroleum): Recognized as a top CEO in energy and a powerful woman in business, she has led major acquisitions, including Anadarko Petroleum, and managed top Permian Basin production.
Harold Hamm (Continental Resources): A fracking pioneer who built one of the largest independent oil companies, leading the Bakken region’s development.
Darren Woods (ExxonMobil): Leads ExxonMobil, often seeing the highest profits among Western energy companies.
Wael Sawan (Shell): Top executive steering the international energy giant.
Mike Wirth (Chevron): Leads one of the world’s largest energy companies.
Jeffrey Hildebrand (Hilcorp): Billionaire owner of Houston-based Hilcorp, noted for operating a vast number of wells.
Kelcy Warren (Energy Transfer): Billionaire cofounder of the pipeline company.
Top Energy Billionaires (Forbes Data)
Gennady Timchenko & Mikhail Fridman: Russian energy magnates with major stakes in companies like Novatek and Alfa Group, ranking among the richest despite market volatility.
“I call up France, Macron – whose wife treats him extremely badly. Still recovering from the right to the jaw.”
This is about all the U$A can produce:
It is not the first time that Donald Trump has resorted to this kind of language. But the timing, as always, is everything.
His remarks about Emmanuel Macron, delivered during a private lunch in Washington, were crude and personal, yet also deeply political.
Macron’s response—measured but unmistakable—was to dismiss them as “neither elegant nor up to standard,” adding that they did not merit a reply.
But to treat this as merely another episode of improvised rhetoric is to miss its significance.
Trump’s attack on Macron did not emerge in a vacuum. It came as part of a broader complaint, one that placed France—and by extension other NATO allies—at the center of a narrative of absence.
It is astonishing how most of us spend our entire lives assuming that our modern industrial existence is completely normal.
We think that it is quite normal to inject cocktails of chemicals into a baby’s bloodstream as soon as it is born, quite normal to rear children on industrial fake-food and toxic tooth-rotting gunge, quite normal to let them be snatched away from their families to have their heads filled with whatever the corporate slave-masters deem useful.
We consider it normal for a child to get used to the idea that its time is not its own, that most of its waking hours must be spent obeying orders and performing tasks that may be of no interest to it.
We find it normal that young people are sorted and sifted like vegetables on a conveyor belt and that at the end of their so-called “education” it is revealed that this has really just been about lining them up for their place as a cog in the great machine of sustainable exploitation.
We deem it normal that life = job, that success = money, that respectability lies in conformity, that safety and security can best be attained through cowardice and hypocrisy.
We imagine that it is normal to the point of necessity to have a machine to move us from one place to another, a machine to wash our clothes, a machine to do the dishes, a machine to make soup, a machine to sweep the floor, a machine to chop wood, a machine to cut the grass.
We regard it as normal to sit in front of a screen and have persons unknown present to us their version of reality, to programme us with whatever aspiration, fear, shame or guilt best suits their agenda.
We tell ourselves it is normal to simply submit to this control, to be a good citizen – not an extremist or a trouble-maker – and to accept that it is our solemn duty never to question what our masters tell us.
We accept that it is quite normal to have to toil for decades simply to have a roof over our heads, to have to buy water, to be milked by debt, to pay for “insurance”, to be taxed on what we earn and what we spend, to be ripped off and robbed blind again and again and again.
We fool ourselves that it is normal to spend our lives as half-humans, spineless and domesticated, acting out a script of sorry servility and trying to believe that we have found happiness in the comfort of our beautifully upholstered cells, in the reassuring restraint of our designer chains, in the delusion of democracy, in our pride in Progress, in the heap of precious plastic baubles that we have lovingly spent our lifetimes accumulating and admiring.
All of this may indeed be normal in the sense that our parents and grandparents probably lived much the same way and we therefore know nothing different.
But it is certainly not natural – it is not the way in which we were meant to live, in which we should live and in which we could live again if we found the strength to finally snap out of this civilizational catatonia.
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When we talk about “the technological system”, we refer to the technical, economic and political system formed by the global interconnection of all the authoritarian technologies of the Industrial Age. Technologies that we describe as authoritarian, in that their high degree of complexity makes them escape human democratic controls.
Industries form a world-system.
Technologies are characterized by the fact that they could not exist without each other: the computer needs the Internet; servers need electricity; the electrical industry needs roads; the concrete industry needs oil; oil the extractive industry; the extractivist industry the military industry; the military industry the digital industry, and so on (to name a few).
This world-system structures our existence.
This system is thus structured from the extraction of raw materials in mines, to the consumption of energy or materials in cities and industries, through the repression and enlistment of populations as workers in factories, or through their entertainment using the mass media and the electoral masquerade maintained by all technoprogressive politicians.
Technology is not neutral.
We talk about a system because judging each modern technology one by one, to take them out of their political and productive context and their supply of energy/materials, is absurd. Producing and maintaining any modern technology depends precisely on a particular political regime, on an interconnection to a multitude of other technologies grouped together within a “technological system”.
The technological system must be dismantled.
This is the very thing we want to dismantle, because we have no problem with the countless low-powered democratic techniques and tools that our ancestors used for thousands of years. What we refuse today is the submitting of the entire human race to the crazy implications of a set of interconnected technologies which imposes on everything and everyone its needs (in materials and energies) and whose very systemic structure annihilates any possibility of democracy or autonomy.
Down with the technological system, long live the technical autonomy of free humans!
Israelis eye up BRICS membership
The idea that Israel, so close to the USA, might join the rival “multipolar” BRICS bloc currently sounds far-fetched.
But there are voices in that country calling for that very outcome, which seems less implausible when one considers its links to India and its growing economic ties with China.
One Israeli website, Israel by Locals, writes: “While Israel’s inclusion in BRICS is not imminent, its engagement with BRICS members, particularly Russia, India, and China, reflects a strategic shift in the country’s foreign policy as it seeks to secure its position in a changing global landscape”.
The article stresses the need for “diversifying strategic partnership” and argues that “Israel seeks to balance its reliance on the United States and expand its strategic relationships beyond the Washington-Jerusalem axis”.
The bigger picture is that Pax Americana has nearly had its day and that the new axis of global power is planned to be that between Asia and Africa, with Israel – or rather Greater Israel – sitting nicely in the middle.
It is not just one website saying this, either – the Israeli NGO Dor Moria (“Bridging Cultures, Building Futures”), which claims to represent Russian-speaking Israelis, is very interested in the idea of Israel joining BRICS at some point in the future.
It has been sounding out public opinion on the issue and concludes: “In general, if Israel joins the BRICS alliance, Israelis expect positive changes in all areas of the country’s life. They associate the most positive expectations with economic stability and improved foreign policy”.
On June 27 2024 Dor Moria held what it calls “a significant event” in Tel Aviv entitled “Israel: Between the Collective West and the Global South”.
It reports: “A key outcome of the meeting was the formation of the ‘Coordination Council for Israel’s Cooperation with BRICS Countries’”.
Bob Friedman, the chairman of its supervisory board and Gregory Pelman, its director of international projects, recorded “a resonant video address” aimed at the Indian public.
“The message, calling for support of Israel’s accession to BRICS, was published in more than 30 Indian media outlets, indicating a growing interest in Israel’s potential rapprochement with the Global South”.
This (less-than-resonant) video, published on YouTube under the heading “Israeli Society Eyes BRICS Membership with India’s Support” promotes a conference called Socially Responsible Entrepreneurs for ONEFUTURE.
It says: “The goal of the conference is to promote the expansion of Israel’s cooperation with BRICS countries in various fields, from culture and education to high technologies and peace-keeping”.
Friedman declares: “We are confident that BRICS members will open up new opportunities for Israel”.
The video voice-over explains: “According to experts, the BRICS membership will allow Israel to diversify its foreign economic ties, strengthen its international position and leverage the potential of the developing markets to stimulate its growth.
“Strategic reorientation towards cooperation with the Global South will contribute to the country’s economic stability and prosperity.
“Dor Moriah and the member organisations of the coordination council will continue to work on promoting the idea of Israel joining BRICS”.
As the Israel by Locals site concedes: “One significant challenge Israel faces in relation to BRICS is the Palestinian issue.
“BRICS countries tend to vote against Israel on Palestinian-related matters, extending the legacy of the Non-Aligned Movement. For example, in 2011, Brazil, India, and South Africa supported UN recognition of Palestine as a state.
“However, BRICS as an institution has not engaged extensively in direct international diplomacy concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”.
This failure of BRICS as a whole to take a political position regarding Israel’s conduct has also been true of the conflict with Iran – one of the newest BRICS members.
Middle East Eyenoted on March 3 2026: “Whereas every member of the original core – besides India – has released individual statements either condemning or raising concerns about the killing of Khamenei, the bloc itself has yet to utter a word as a collective”.
It quotes Priyal Singh, a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in Pretoria, as saying: “Modi was basically in Israel, hugging Netanyahu and making it very clear that, seemingly, there’s a much stronger solidarity or kinship between these two leaders, and this is going to extend officially into the respective bilateral relations”.
Singh said that India’s closeness to Israel, as well as Iran’s retaliatory attacks on the UAE, in particular, has probably made it even harder for BRICS to reach a place of consensus.
The article continues: “BRICS is currently chaired by New Delhi, which last week upgraded India-Israel ties to ‘a special strategic partnership’ and whose statements and actions since have been interpreted as being aligned with Israel’s war on Iran. On 1 March, India condemned Iran’s missile strikes on the UAE.
“The bloc has been routinely divided and seemingly paralysed by differing agendas and a lack of alignment on global issues – from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
“But its inability to respond to an attack and attempt at the overthrow of the government of a permanent member of the bloc may just be the most damaging hit to its credibility yet”.
This remarkable incoherence is ascribed partly to BRICS’s “institutional design” and partly to “the economic policies and investments of individual states – including significant trade ties with Israel”.
In other words, the BRICS project is really all just about money – unsurprisingly since it is simply yet another front for the same old global mafia!
Patrick Bond of the University of Johannesburg said: “If the BRICS don’t break, it will probably be because for most, their commonality is more powerful, namely corporate profiteering in Israel”.
He said that BRICS countries’ continued commitment to economic deals with Israel was ultimately likely to “outweigh genuine solidarity with Iran, just as we have seen recently with Venezuela and probably soon in Cuba, too.
“No BRICS ruling class will come to Iran’s aid when at the same time, their class interests are in Israel’s prosperity, genocide or not”.
The latest in our series of profiles from the organic radicals website.
“Progress is theft. Progress is slave-mongering. Progress is murder. Progress is genocide.”
Derrick Jensen (1960-) is a contemporary radical deep green writer who argues that the industrial capitalist system must be brought to an end.
His clear and direct language leaves no room for doubt about the urgency of the environmental crisis and the scale of the response that is needed.
Jensen writes in his 2011 book Dreams: “We must do everything necessary to decisively and finally bring down civilization before it kills any more of the planet.
“Because if the scientific, materialist, instrumentalist perspective is true, this culture will continue its routine and necessary destructiveness until it collapses or is stopped”. (1)
He explains that to stop a train, you dismantle the infrastructure that allows the train to run and, likewise, “to curtail global warming, you dismantle the infrastructure that causes global warming”. (2)
Jensen’s philosophy is not obviously sourced from other organic radical inspirations, but rather inspired directly both by contact with nature and by the cultures of the indigenous peoples of North America.
He explains the indigenous belief that we are guided by “original instructions” and have a responsibility to live according to them.
“Original instructions presume we come into this world carrying with us advice on how to live properly, how to fit in, how to do what is right; and even more crucially, we come into this world having been given a personal and social framework for looking for that advice, for finding it in our daily lives, in dreams, in our relationships with others, and in these others’ actions”. (3)
But the people of the modern industrial West have lost touch with all that and are totally unaware that “a world of meaning surrounds them, a world of meaning that gave birth to them (back when they were alive, back when they were human), a world of meaning waiting to welcome them home”. (4)
The central character in Jensen’s 2009 novel Songs of the Dead is psychologically wounded by the life-hating violence of the ‘wetiko’ invaders and makes an interesting comment about the difficulties for people of European descent in America to link into a collective unconscious.
“I asked for dreams. Nothing. I looked at the stars and asked. Nothing. I sat beneath trees and asked. Nothing. I held soil in my hands and asked. Nothing. My only hint of anything, and I’m sure this was simply a projection on my part, was a faint voice saying, ‘I can’t hear you very well. You’re too far away.’
“Projection or not, what the voice said to me was true. My ancestors, the ones whose blood mingled for generations with the same soil, are half a world away in Europe, too far away to be able – at least with my inexperience – to help me”. (5)
In another passage from the book, Jensen conjures up a dream vision from the vibrant, interconnected, human-natural world that has been buried, apparently forever, under the grey concrete of Western civilization.
He writes: “I see Indians dancing. I see fires. I see days and nights and years of celebrations and mournings. I see people making love. I see the same for all kinds of animals, all kinds of plants.
“I see them living, dying, loving, hating. I see generation after generation of human, generation after generation of cedar, generation after generation of porcupine, generation after generation of ant, generation after generation of grasses, mosses, generation after generation of fire.
“And suddenly I see even more. I see generation after generation of muse, dreamgiver, demon, walking back and forth between worlds. I see geese and martens and wrentits moving between worlds. I see humans moving between worlds. I see all these worlds being renewed by this intercourse, this movement across borders porous and impenetrable and permeable and impermeable and breathing and alive as skin.
“I see these worlds winding and unwinding, tangling and untangling like the lovers they are, and I see moments in time, too, winding and unwinding, tangling and untangling like the lovers that they are, too. These worlds, these moments, they are not one, they are not two. They are lovers, like any others”. (6)
It is this “direct and supra-mental intellection” – as Frithjof Schuon put it – which has been so stifled by a system of living and thinking based on quantity rather than quality, the material rather than the spiritual.
Jensen writes: “This culture devalues introspection, and many of us are trained to do whatever we can to fill (and kill) time so we never have to be alone with who and what we have become, and so we never can become who we really are and were meant to be”. (7)
This, for Jensen, amounts to a mental illness afflicting our civilization and he declares in his two-volume 2006 work Endgame that “the culture as a whole and most of its members are insane”. (8)
This insanity includes the belief that somehow the society we are living in is the apex of evolution and that science and its technocratic world have been a force for good.
He comments: “Sure, science brought us television, modern medicine (and modern diseases), and cardboard-tasting strawberries in January, but anyone who would rather have those than a living planet is, well, a typical member of this culture”. (9)
In view of the destruction we have already witnessed, and that which seems to lie ahead, Jensen argues that it is absurd for people to retain faith in the industrial capitalist myth of “progress”.
He declares: “Progress is pure selfishness. Progress is theft. Progress is slave-mongering. Progress is murder. Progress is genocide. Progress is ecocide. Progress is sociopathy”. (10)
Living in this mad world, plummeting towards destruction, inevitably produces feelings of despair in many of us: “How do we go on living, when every day our hearts break anew?” (11) asks Jensen.
This insanity is not something we can run away from, he insists: “There is nowhere, no one, safe from the murderous cult that is this culture”. (12)
Instead, we are obliged to resist, to try to bring about a fundamental change in the direction that human society has taken.
Jensen was one of the founders of the Deep Green Resistance movement and frustration with the insipid pseudo-radicalism of mainstream environmentalism runs through his work.
For instance, he is scathing about the reformist target of “sustainable development”, pointing out: “It is an oxymoron, since ‘development’ is a euphemism in this case for industrialization, which is by definition unsustainable; in fact, industrialization is utterly, irrevocably, and functionally antithetical to sustainability”. (13)
When people ask how they can make current society more sustainable, they are really asking how they can make it more sustainable without stopping or even significantly curtailing industrialism, adds Jensen.
The way in which we fight industrial capitalism also needs to go way beyond the ineffective symbolic level on which so much political action takes place, he argues.
He writes in Endgame: “If a foreign power (or space aliens) were to do to us and our landbases what the dominant culture does – do their damnedest to turn the planet into a lifeless pile of carcinogenic wastes, and kill, incarcerate, or immiserate those who do not collaborate – we would each and every one of us – at least those of us with the slightest courage, dignity, or sense of self-preservation – fight them to the death, ours or far preferably theirs. But we don’t fight. For the most part we don’t even resist. How’s it feel to be civilized? How’s it feel to be a slave?” (14)
For Jensen the environmental cause is not some kind of add-on struggle that can be allocated a little slot as one of a variety of political issues, but an obvious and urgent existential priority.
As he comments in Dreams: “If we don’t stop them from killing the planet, nothing else matters”. (15)
1. Derrick Jensen, Dreams (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2011), pp. 25-26. 2. Jensen, Dreams, p. 249. 3. Jensen, Dreams, p. 445. 4. Jensen, Dreams, p. 274. 5. Derrick Jensen, Songs of the Dead (PM Press: Oakland, 2009), p. 167. 6. Jensen, Songs of the Dead, pp. 260-61. 7. Jensen, Dreams, p. 215. 8. Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol 1: The Problem of Civilization (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2006), p. 151. 9. Jensen, Dreams, p. 110. 10. Jensen, Dreams, p. 173. 11. Jensen, Dreams, p. 319. 12. Jensen, Dreams, p. 320. 13. Jensen, Dreams, p. 26. 14. Jensen, Endgame, Vol 1, pp. 200-01. 15. Jensen, Dreams, p. 221.
So, they’re not surprised at the mass slaughter of men, women, children, disabled, medics, doctors, teachers, ambulance drivers in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Gaza, Iran by Jews of Israel?
On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communication devices and detonated them remotely, killing 37 people and injuring nearly 3,000, including children.
In this special documentary report, journalist Rania Khalek goes inside the attack, tracing the human toll of one of Israel’s most chilling operations to date. Through interviews with survivors, families, and legal experts, the Khalek exposes the international complicity that made it possible, and the resilience of those who lived through it. This is the untold story of the pager attack.
Surprise Surprise Surprise, that religion:
Not that dirty religious cuntry?
Death penalty by any means necessary, as in Blood Libel:
“CPJ is investigating this latest attack on journalists in Lebanon which has been an increasingly deadly zone for journalists, despite their status as civilians who must not be targeted,” said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. “We have seen a disturbing pattern in this war and in the decades prior of Israel accusing journalists of being active combatants and terrorists without providing credible evidence. Journalists are not legitimate targets, regardless of the outlet they work for.”
Lebanon’s president Joseph Aoun and the Lebanese Minister of Information Paul Morcos denounced the killing of the journalists, with president Aoun calling the attack “a blatant crime that violates all the norms and treaties under which journalists enjoy international protection in wars.”
CPJ has documented the killing of at least four other journalists across the Middle East since the outbreak of the Iran war in late February. The targeting of the three journalists comes two days after the killing of the photojournalist Hussain Hamood, and 9 days after the killing of journalist Mohammed Sherri, who also worked for Al-Manar TV, in an Israeli strike in central Beirut. This latest attack brings the total number of press members killed in Lebanon since the Israel-Gaza war began to 11.
Oh, those death penalties approved by the US of Assholes: We dug up medics in Gaza. A year later, international law remains buried
Israel has created an environment of impunity for attacks on healthcare that has spread well beyond Gaza’s borders.
This is what genocide looks like. It is not only the killing – though the killing has been vast and documented. It is also the deliberate dismantling of everything a population needs to survive: their hospitals, their water, their food supply, their civil registry, their police, their medics.
Surprise Surprise Surprise.
Irgun Zvai Leumi: Led by Menachem Begin, this group targeted British military and civilian infrastructure to force a British exit. Notable attacks included the King David Hotel bombing in 1946, killing 91 people, including many civilians.
Lehi (Stern Gang): Founded by Avraham Stern, this militant group assassinated British Minister Lord Moyne in 1944 and fought for the creation of a Jewish state.
The Sergeants Affair (1947): Irgun members kidnapped and murdered two British intelligence sergeants—Mervyn Paice and Clifford Martin—in retaliation for the sentencing of militants.
Casualties: Over the course of the mandate, approximately 750 British soldiers and police were killed by these actions.
Targeting Others:
Palestinians: Zionist militias engaged in attacks against Arab civilians to compel displacement, including the 1948 Deir Yassin massacre.
United Nations: Lehi assassinated UN representative Lord Moyne and targeted UN officials.
Thursday 31 July 1947
It is with deep regret that I confirm the reports which have been current during the past 24 hours that the two British sergeants, Paice and Martin, abducted at Nathanya on 12th July, have been murdered by Jewish terrorists.
I received today the following telegram from the High Commissioner for Palestine:
“Most deeply regret to inform you that the two bodies were found at 9 o’clock this morning in an eucalyptus grove at Umm Uleiqa, near Beit Lid. They were hanging from two trees. Notices were pinned to the bodies saying that the men had been hanged by the National Military Organisation as British spies. The first body was cut down by an Army captain, and as he bent over it a small bomb exploded, injuring him in the face. The surrounding area was found to have been mined.”
Shit, THOSE Jews: Picture of Clifford Martin and Mervyn Paice, the two British sergeants kidnapped and hanged by the Irgun in 1947.
Those fucking friendly neuroperverse supremacists: Back when the British ruled, the Jewish underground (criminal mafia) blew up part of the King David, but this time around, security measures are likely to make the place one of the safest venues on earth
Those fucking Jews:
Above: the “earthquake bomb” that Israel dropped on Syria in December 2024.
This week, the UN’s Mohamad Safa resigned from his position to tell the world that Washington is strongly considering a nuclear attack against Iran. We should take the danger of this happening very seriously, and we must reckon with the apocalyptic harm that Zionism and imperialism have already inflicted on the region’s people during this war. The “worst-case scenario” has already come for all of the people in Lebanon, Gaza, and Iran who Washington has murdered in these last few weeks alone. But when we see these mass-scale atrocities and plans for nuclear holocaust, we need to recognize just how desperate of a mentality our enemies are now operating off of. This isn’t the posture of a confident empire, it’s how Washington is acting when Iran has just taken away its ability to gain submission. The Axis of Resistance has dismantled U.S. hard power in West Asia, to a degree where the foreign policy heads are now deeply wishing to re-create Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Oh, that death penalty passed by the fucking synagogues and fake liberal Jews worldwide:
Israel (most Jews) wants the US to bomb more of Iran’s civilian structures (113,000 is not enough) … Over 90,000 homes, 21,000 commercial facilities, 760 educational centers damaged, says the Iranian Red Crescent.
Sure, fucking psychotic white boys: Douglas Macgregor: Iran War Destroyed NATO, Gulf States, Israel & U.S. Empire
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“I wish users of EBT (SNAP… Foodstamps) would be more responsible about the things they buy here.”
There you have it, from a cashier at a Safeway that is going to be closed in June 2026. Imagine that, be more responsible?
SNAP is highly effective at improving food security. Food insecurity, when a household doesn’t have enough resources to buy enough food, makes it harder for people to manage illness and is linked to chronic health conditions and higher health care costs. Food assistance from SNAP reduces the overall prevalence of food insecurity by as much as 30 percent, and is even more effective among children and those with “very low food security,” that is, when one or more household members have to skip meals or otherwise eat less during the year because they don’t have enough money.One study found that food insecurity among children fell by roughly a third after their families received SNAP benefits for six months. Emerging evidence also suggests that SNAP helps decrease decades-long racial inequities in food security, reducing the gap between Black and Hispanic households, which are more likely to experience food insecurity because of starkly unequal opportunities and outcomes in education, employment, health, and housing, and white households.
SNAP’s return on investment far outweighs its costs. By investing directly in the health and well-being of low-income children, SNAP provides lasting gains not only for the children who participate, but for the nation. One study estimated that every SNAP dollar invested in children returns $62 in value over their lifetimes (due to a range of benefits including improved educational outcomes, higher earnings in adulthood, increased life expectancy, and increased government tax revenue). SNAP should be seen as an investment that will deliver continuing benefits for the life trajectories of children and the broader economy.
SNAP plays a critical role in supporting families and local communities during economic downturns. In a weak economy, every $1 in additional spending on SNAP benefits generates $1.54 in economic activity as households use their benefits to shop at over 250,000 local grocery stores and supermarkets, spurring new spending throughout local economies across the country.
SNAP frees up money that can be used for health-promoting activities and is linked with better access to preventive health care and reduced health care costs. Food assistance acts as an income boost, allowing people to spend money that would otherwise have been used for food on health-related activities. Infants and children in families receiving food assistance from SNAP are more likely to see a doctor for periodic check-ups. Older adults participating in SNAP are more likely to take the full dosage of prescription medications because they have enough income to afford food and medicine, compared to low-income older adults not participating in SNAP, who may have to make difficult choices about stretching their medication to afford enough food. SNAP may also help low-income older adults live independently in their communities and avoid hospitalization. Low-income adults participating in SNAP incur $1,400 — nearly 25 percent — less in medical care costs than low-income non-participants.
SNAP has near-term and long-lasting effects, improving health, education, and economic outcomes that extend from childhood into adulthood. SNAP participants are more likely to report excellent or very good health than low-income non-participants. One study found that test scores among students in SNAP households are highest for those receiving benefits two to three weeks before the test. Another study found that SNAP was associated with a reduced likelihood of repeating a grade among children in low-income families. Studies have found children have improved birth outcomes and better health, education, and employment outcomes as adults if they had SNAP access during early childhood or if their parent had SNAP access during pregnancy. There is emerging evidence showing the association of SNAP with reduced risk of premature death.
So, proof of work, training and job search? ecent federal changes are expanding work requirements for some Oregonians who receive SNAP food benefits, prompting state agencies to urge recipients to connect with free job search and training help through WorkSource Oregon.
The changes mean some adults must meet work requirements to keep getting benefits for longer than three months, and they apply to more people than in the past, including some adults up to age 64 and some households with older children.
Targeted: Iranian women in the ruins of their apartment building, destroyed by US-Israeli bombing of residential areas, Tehran, 12 March 2026
Few experts consider the war launched by the US and Israel against Iran to be legal. Without the approval of the United Nations Security Council – which was not sought – only self-defence could have justified such a sudden and massive use of force.
In spite of Israel’s decades-long efforts, ‘preventative self-defence’ is not recognised in international law. Some experts in international law have tried to promote a new concept – ‘pre-emptive’ military action in response to an ‘imminent threat’ that could only be addressed by military means.
PROOF of work? These cocksuckers in the war monger class? Imagine that, all those trillions for the war machine, a machine that kills, destroys, upsets, breaks, distrupts, murders — what do they do for society but add to the costs of war. Proof of work, Trump and Company?
These fucking retards never ever question the costs of their nephews or daughters in the uniformed mercenary disserveces?
It costs approximately $6.5 million to $8 million per day to operate a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier strike group, including personnel, fuel, and aircraft maintenance. This high cost covers a “floating city” of over 5,000 crew members, operating a nuclear-powered vessel and its supporting air wing, often including accompanying destroyers and submarines.
Daily Operational Costs: The average $6.5M–$8M daily figure covers the carrier, its aircraft, and the accompanying strike group.
Personnel Costs: A significant portion (about $3 million daily) is dedicated to salaries, benefits, and food for the 4,000–5,000 personnel aboard.
Fuel Consumption: While nuclear-powered, the vessels consume significant aviation fuel. During intense operations, fuel costs can exceed $350,000 a day.
Aircraft Maintenance: Operating the aircraft assigned to a carrier is incredibly expensive, costing roughly $1.8 billion per year, or roughly $5 million per day just for the planes.
Active Deployment Costs: In specific, high-intensity scenarios, such as patrolling near Iran, the cost can be lower for specific missions, such as the estimated $2.5 million per day for the USS Abraham Lincoln.
Sure, those fucking Food Stamp scammers:
The estimated total daily cost to keep the U.S. military fed is approximately $50 million to $60 million, based on 2026 fiscal data.
Of course, I came back with a strong retort, reminding her that the billionaires and the rich are you worried about what unhealthy or unnecessary food and stuff those cunts buy?
Oh, those tax dollars paying for these fucking mass murderers, but it’s the poor scamming the SNAP.
Ahmed Al-Harsh waited outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Monday to meet his son, a toddler and the only other survivor of his entire family.
“I’m waiting for my son Mahmoud. I haven’t seen him in two and a half years except once, before he was transferred to Egypt. I’ve been waiting for two and a half years,” Al-Harsh, 31, told Drop Site News.
Mahmoud is one of 28 Palestinian infants who were evacuated to Egypt as premature babies in November 2023 from the neonatal intensive care unit in Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, as the Israeli military laid siege to the medical complex and raided it. Mahmoud and seven other children were returned to Gaza on Monday to be reunited with their families, or what was left of them.
On October 14, 2023, one week into Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, the Israeli military bombed the Al-Harsh’s family home in the Jabaliya refugee camp. Al-Harsh’s entire family was killed in the attack—his four-year-old daughter, his father, mother, brother, sisters-in-law, nephews, and nieces. Al-Harsh initially thought his wife, who was eight months pregnant at the time, had also been killed. He only later learned that she had been gravely injured and had given birth to their son, Mahmoud, in hospital before succumbing to her injuries.
(top) Ahmed Al-Harsh outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis as he waits for his son, Mahmoud, to arrive after 2.5 years in Egypt. 9bottom) Ahmed Al-Harsh holds up a photo of his son Mahmoud on his phone. March 30, 2026. Screenshots of video provided by Abdel Qader Sabbah.
Al-Harsh was able to see Mahmoud only once before he was taken to the neonatal intensive care unit in Al-Shifa’s hospital for care. He had been staying in Beit Lahia, unable to move amid the escalating Israeli assault. In November, Israel laid siege to Al-Shifa hospital, surrounding the medical complex and cutting it off from the rest of Gaza City before raiding it on November 15. Doctors inside scrambled to keep their patients alive, including the nearly 40 premature babies in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit, Mahmoud among them. There was no electricity and incubators were failing. The World Health Organization, which was able to coordinate a one-hour visit to Al-Shifa at the time, described the hospital as a “death zone.”
After much negotiation, 31 premature babies were evacuated from Al-Shifa on November 19 and taken to Rafah. UNICEF said the conditions of the babies had been “rapidly deteriorating” inside the besieged hospital. Five died before they could be evacuated. The next day, 28 of the babies were transported across the border to Egypt for treatment. None were accompanied by family members.
For the past two and a half years, Al-Harsh has seen his son only in photos or videos sent to him from Egypt—first as an infant, then a toddler. “The feeling is indescribable. What can I tell you about this feeling?” he said. “These two years felt like forty, even more—a lifetime. During this time, I was a body without a soul. I couldn’t work or do anything.”
Sundus al-Kurd reunites with her daughter Bissan after 2.5 years in Khan Younis on March 31, 2026. Bissan was born premature and evacuated to Egypt during an Israeli military attack on Al-Shifa Hospital in November 2023.
That death by 10,000,000 cuts PENALTY:
More than 750 schools. Over 300 healthcare centers. And 90,000-plus homes.
The US and Israel have destroyed or damaged more than 115,000 civilian structures, Iran’s Red Crescent Society says – leaving behind a system of chaos, with hospitals, schools, water plants, and civilian roadways turned to dust or rendered useless.
But the toll goes far beyond the loss of structures: The chaos has put enormous pressure on the country’s healthcare workers and first responders, disrupted education for students at every level, and displaced hundreds of thousands, inflicting both physical and psychological trauma that will take many years to recover from, if Iranians can at all.
“Destruction here is not simply material loss,” Tehran’s municipal spokesperson, Abdulmutahhar Mohammad Khani, tells me. “It means disrupting the lives of citizens and inflicting profound psychological and social harm.”
Death PENALTIES by another fucking Jewish Mother!!
International sanctions were reimposed on Iran to influence its leadership. They were leveled to curb Iran’s nuclear program but have caused medical shortages that hit the country’s most vulnerable citizens hardest.
not to outshine those In-and-Out Jesus Burgers — “It’s not about the money for us. Unless God sends a lightning bolt down and changes my heart miraculously, I would not ever sell.”
Presidents Trump and Netanyahu would surely be condemned to death by hanging if they came before a Nuremberg style international tribunal.
Trump meets with Chabad rabbis in Oval Office
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Here, back to Colonel Astore’s Substack, my comment:
I’d reframe — What are the threats to global health, welfare, peace, social justice, prosperity, safe food, air, water, and education?
Yikes.
So freaks like Kissinger stated, with others in the billionaire class and in the AmeriKKKan class,
*Those who control the money of a nation, control economies.
*Those who control the food, control a nation.
*Those who control water, control entire regions.
*Those who control oil, control development.
*Those who control the data, control the world.
So, the most dangerous thing on earth is, well, Capitalism, and you can call it Zombie Capitalism, Disaster Capitalism, Penury Capitalism, Inverted Totalitarian Capitalism, or fill in the adjective before Capitalism.
Now? Digital Gulags are being built, and we can call that Fourth Industrial Revolution, 15-minute or Smart Cities, or a Phillip K. Dick world of surveillance Capitalism, pre-crime set forth through AIG/AI, and here we are — social control through data harvesting and privatization of all human services and governmental programs.
The premise of a social impact bond is that investors pay for public service delivery with the understanding that if the interventions they’ve invested in “work,” the government pays them back, plus a pre-determined, built-in profit. “Successful” interventions purportedly save the government money by reducing the need for special education, addiction treatment, incarceration, and chronic health management services. The idea is that people identified as being “at risk” of becoming a “burden” on society are “treated” via interventions that are supposed to reduce their likelihood of accessing services in the future.
Of course, this structure can be gamed, as evidenced by the Salt Lake City, Utah pre-kindergarten SIB that supposedly reduced the need for special education services for participating children by 99 percent. Most well funded preschool programs, which the Goldman-Sachs-backed project was not, yield at best a 50 percent reduction. So, either the screening tool used to identify children for the program was flawed, or children who may have needed special education services were denied access. This New York Times article, “Success Metrics Questioned in School Program Funded by Goldman” provides additional background.
Social Impact Bonds, or Pay for Success as it is becoming better known, is simply a new method of privatization. Impose austerity so government departments, including education, cannot function; proclaim the system “broken;” and use the created dysfunction as an excuse to outsource services. Worse, by using manipulated data to direct anticipated public expenditures into financiers’ coffers in the present, it hobbles future government operations.
This “Third Way” approach to financing “the public good” has found bi-partisan support in the United States. Liberal interests are happy that services continue to be provided, and conservatives are pleased government is only paying for “what works,” based on data. This summer Democrats, Republicans, investors, consultants, and non-profit service providers all gathered in the Senate Building to celebrate the passage of the Social Impact Partnership Pay for Results Act (SIPPRA), which is set to inject $100 million in federal funding to this nascent “Pay for Success” market. Other beneficiaries of “outcomes-based” contracting include telecommunications companies, cloud-based computing companies, and law firms with expertise in Blockchain smart contracts.
In 2008, the Rockefeller Foundation provided funding to B-Lab to develop the standardized impact metrics that would undergird the system. This framework, now managed as the IRIS initiative, maintains a catalog of over 2,500 metrics aligned to the UN’s Sustainability Goals. Many have specific associated cost savings that are used to calculate profit margins for investors. Predictive analytics establishes baselines for individuals and populations, estimates the likelihood they will be “impacted” in a “positive way” (as shown by data), and assesses what savings might be generated from “fixing” them via interventions. All of this entails significant levels of surveillance.
In October 2024, Kamala Harris stated Iran was America’s “greatest adversary.” For the moment, the Trump administration seems to agree. Yet how, exactly, is Iran a threat to U.S. national security? Yes, Iran has struck U.S. bases in the Middle East, but only after being attacked by the U.S. and Israel. Iran has no capability to strike at the U.S. directly, and even if it had, Iranian leaders know that any attack on the U.S. would likely provoke a massively destructive U.S. response that would make the current war look like a schoolyard skirmish.
A threat to U.S. national security?
So, looking dispassionately, what are truly the biggest threats to U.S. national security?
1. Nuclear war. There is no more immediate threat to our nation’s security (and indeed the world’s) than nuclear war. Thus, we should do everything possible to reduce nuclear weapons and the global proliferation of the same.
2. Climate change. While nuclear war would kill the planet quickly, global warming is a longer-term threat, but a threat nonetheless. Ocean current changes, severe weather, droughts, famine, rising sea levels: all these, and more, loom in the future. If we keep burning fossil fuels like there’s no tomorrow, soon enough there’ll be no tomorrow.
3. The military-industrial complex (MIC) and incessant warfare. Yes, America’s incredibly bloated national security state is a threat to national security. And this is nothing new. Recall that President Eisenhower warned the nation in 1961 that a “military-industrial complex” posed the gravest of threats to democracy and individual liberties. Likewise, James Madison warned a new nation that incessant warfare posed the gravest of threats to democracy and liberty. Forces that reinforce militarism, that wage constant wars, pose a dire threat, especially when they are disguised as “necessary” for national security.
4. Zionism and Greater Israel. The Zionist quest for a “greater” Israel has implicated the U.S. in genocide in Gaza, apartheid and torture of the Palestinian people, and wars in Iraq, Syria, and now Iran. Many Americans see Israel today as the tail that wags the dog of the U.S. government and military machine. True or false, it doesn’t contribute to U.S. national security.
5. U.S. national debt. Currently at $39 trillion and rising, the national debt, propelled by incessant warfare and vast overspending on “defense,” is contributing to the hollowing out of America.
6. Bellicose and bombastic U.S. leaders. Figures such as Trump, Hegseth, Rubio, Witkoff, Kushner, and others do not inspire confidence in U.S. leadership and diplomacy. Devotion to war, Israel, profit, and power doesn’t make America more secure.
7. China’s growth. As the U.S. empire weakens, China grows stronger. Chinese ambitions in the Pacific and designs against Taiwan are perceived by the U.S. national security state as threats, even though such threats are not directly detrimental to America as a nation.
8. The increasing lawlessness of America and the de facto ideal of “might makes right.” In its arrogance, the U.S. empire believes only it determines what the “rules-based order” is. The truth is there are no rules anymore since the U.S. national security state believes it must dominate everything. When genocide is supported, rules mean nothing.
9. Terrorism. It remains a threat, but much of it is blowback from U.S. military operations overseas. Reduce those and blowback will also be reduced. Terrorism is also best addressed through international police efforts rather than further military action of the whack-a-mole variety.
10. A spineless Congress. No war should be fought without a formal Congressional declaration of the same. We haven’t had one of those since World War II. In abdicating its responsibility, Congress since 1950 has enabled the worst presidential/MIC follies.
11. Propaganda and narrative control. Increasingly, the American people are treated like mushrooms, kept in the dark and fed total BS. A misinformed public, deliberately kept divided and distracted and downtrodden, can’t exercise its role as a check on the lawlessness and folly of the powerful.
12. Russia and its expansionist designs. Right now, Russia is bogged down in a regional war in Ukraine, a war that doesn’t directly threaten U.S. national security, unless U.S. government action makes it so. Still, Russia remains a threat, notably because of its nuclear arsenal.
Readers, what do you see as the greatest threats to U.S. national security? Did I miss any? Did I get the order wrong? Have at it in the comments section, and thanks.
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Threats? To the World? To the UnUnited Snakes of I$rael?
Trump plans to move Forest Service headquarters to Utah and shutter research sites
THREATS? Just plain old Judaism: Vanier College is apologizing after facing criticism for postponing a Holocaust commemoration event, acknowledging it failed to fully consider the impact of the decision.
In a statement sent to Global News, the college said its 34th Holocaust and Genocide Symposium went ahead as planned last week, featuring multiple educational activities and guest speakers for students, faculty and staff.
However, the college said the decision to reschedule the commemorative portion of the event was made amid heightened attention to safety and security.
“In doing so, the College acknowledges that it did not fully consider the significance and impact that such a change could carry. This was an oversight,” the statement said.
Oh, that Air Force Colonel Astore retired from: The US military says its 70-year-old B-52 bombers are now flying overland missions as air superiority expands over Iran
Jews again in the news? A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the University of Pennsylvania to comply with a subpoena from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission seeking a list of Jewish community members in what the federal government says is an effort to combat antisemitism on the Ivy League campus.
The university had fought the subpoena, which alarmed several members of Penn’s Jewish community and prompted a monthslong federal court battle. Several people told CNN the government’s quest for a list of names, phone numbers and mailing addresses of Jewish people felt like an invasion of privacy and evoked haunting historical comparisons.
But in a 32-page opinion issued three weeks after oral arguments in a Philadelphia courtroom, US District Judge Gerald Pappert dismissed constitutional concerns and said comparisons between the EEOC’s work and the Holocaust or Nazi Germany were “unfortunate and inappropriate.”
“Though ineptly worded, the request had an understandable purpose – to obtain in a narrowly tailored way, as opposed to seeking information on all university employees, information on individuals in Penn’s Jewish community who could have experienced or witnessed antisemitism in the workplace,” Judge Pappert wrote of the EEOC’s subpoena.
The university plans to appeal the ruling, a Penn spokesperson said in a statement.
“We continue to believe that requiring Penn to create lists of Jewish faculty and staff, and to provide personal contact information, raises serious privacy and First Amendment concerns,” the statement read in part.
“The University does not maintain employee lists by religion,” it added.
Oh, so religion is not a threat to world peace? The Real Religious ‘Renewal’ Happening in Gen Z
Some pastors and politicians claim that a Christian revival is afoot among young Americans. Nationwide data tell a different story.
Conversion therapies everywhere in the White Man’s House: Vance to publish book on his conversion to Catholicism in June.
It is the most high-profile release from a potential 2028 hopeful.
LGBTQA Jews: OpenAI is now bringing in $2 billion a month — and 3 more highlights from its latest update. His paternal great-grandfather was born in Płock, Poland.
More funds run by Cathie Wood’s Ark will have positions in the ChatGPT creator
Fascism against clowns, man:
Dozens of clowns have marched through the streets of Bolivia’s capital to protest against a government decree that limits extracurricular activities in schools, threatening their livelihoods.
Wearing full face paint and their signature red noses, the clowns gathered on Monday in front of the ministry of education in La Paz to oppose a decree published in February. The new mandate says schools must comply with 200 days of lessons each year – in effect banning them from hosting the special events where the entertainers are frequently employed.
“This decree will diminish our income, and with the economic crisis the country is going through, our future looks increasingly gloomy,” said Elías Gutiérrez, a spokesperson for the Confederation of Artisanal Workers of Bolivia.
Bolivia is grappling with its worst economic crisis in decades. Revenues from natural gas are plummeting after a sustained decline in production, and US dollars are becoming scarce, making imports more expensive in the landlocked nation.
Fucking clown show at the Department of War Crimes:
Defense secretary Pete Hegseth said the crews of two US army AH-64 Apache helicopters that hovered next to the singer Kid Rock’s swimming pool while he clapped and saluted on Saturday are no longer suspended.
“No punishment. No investigation,” Hegseth wrote on social media. “Carry on, patriots.”
Hegseth’s announcement came just hours after a US army spokesperson said the crews had been suspended from flying pending a investigation.
“The army has confirmed that on 28 March, two Apache helicopters from the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade at Fort Campbell conducted a flight in the Nashville area that has attracted public and media attention,” according to a statement from the army on Tuesday.
The army said it was reviewing “the circumstances surrounding the mission, including compliance with relevant FAA regulations, aviation safety protocol, and approval requirements”.
Here we are, buggered buggered buggered by that zero inflation: Pacific Power, PGE raise residential electricity rates again for Oregon customers
The Public Utility Commission on Tuesday approved rate increases for the two monopoly utilities that will take effect Wednesday
[n October 2023, Palestinian poet and professor Refaat Alareer warned that former New York Times journalist Bari Weiss had put his life in danger.
Weiss tweeted that he “joked about Israeli babies burned alive” — a claim rooted in unverified atrocity propaganda that Israeli officials themselves later walked back. But this atrocity propaganda was used to justify Israel’s atrocity in Gaza.
Refaat tweeted:
“If I get killed by Israeli bombs or my family is harmed, I blame Bari Weiss and her likes.”
Weeks later, he was targeted and killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza as the IDF escalated its attacks against Palestinian scholars and academics.
Today, Bari Weiss — founder of the pro-Israel outlet The Free Press — is reportedly set to become editor-in-chief of CBS News under a new ownership deal led by Larry Ellison’s family, one of Israel’s biggest private donors.
From incitement to influence, this is what media power looks like in an empire that rewards those who justify genocide.]
Chabad Broadcasting System’s updates:
What to know about the Iran war:
President Trump told reporters Tuesday he expects U.S. operations in Iran to wrap up in “two weeks, maybe three.”
Earlier Tuesday, the president told CBS News’ Weijia Jiang he’s not ready “quite yet” to abandon efforts to force Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to all shipping traffic.
After he renewed his threat to attack Iran’s civilian energy and water infrastructure if no deal is reached to end the war, Iranian state media said a water desalination plant on an island near the Strait of Hormuz was out of commission after being hit.
Energy markets continued to convulse over uncertainty about the war, sending the average price of a gallon of gas in the U.S. over $4 for the first time in almost four years as a massive tanker loaded with crude was hit by an Iranian drone off Dubai’s coast.
American journalist Shelly Kittleson was kidnapped in Baghdad. A State Department official said a person linked to the Iran-backed militia group Kata’ib Hezbollah is believed to have been involved.
That states’ rights Pedophile in Chief (sic). Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order seeking to restrict mail-in voting and compile a national voter list in a move that is unprecedented and likely unconstitutional.
The order directs the administration to establish a federal list of confirmed citizens that can legally vote in each state, and orders the postal service to send mail-in ballots only to those on the list. During a press conference at the White House, Trump said the administration would like to require voter ID and proof of citizenship, and repeated falsehoods about mail-in voting.
A Silicon Valley city will offer its residents free wireless doorbells equipped with cameras to help police collect video evidence.
The city council of Milpitas, a suburb north of San Jose, California, recently approved $60,000 to provide these devices on a one-camera-per-household, first-come, first-served basis, as was first reported by Milpitas Beat and confirmed by the Guardian.
$60,000 in funding has been approved for the program. These funds will be put toward purchasing the cameras, which will be distributed on a first-come first-serve basis.
To be eligible, one must be a verified resident of the City of Milpitas. The cameras will be distributed by the Milpitas Police Department (MPD). The MPD plans to show residents how to set up and maintain the cameras. The City hopes that along with improving safety and awareness, giving residents the cameras will increase the availability of video evidence for investigations.
The doorbell camera provides similar capabilities to Ring cameras, and does not require a monthly subscription to maintain.
“It ensures that all distributed cameras can remain fully operational without recurring costs, reduces financial barriers to participation, and supports long-term program reliability,” read a City report. “Existing digital evidence upload procedures provide a workable method for obtaining footage when needed.”
Residents would be allowed one camera per household.
In the near future, the MPD plans to order a small batch of cameras and host an event where residents can receive them. If they determine that there’s ample interest, they will purchase more cameras and host more events.
“Even with limited funding, we are committed to making this program successful,” said Councilmember Chua. “And we will advocate for additional resources, if needed, to keep our residents safe.”
Good Little Germans: Where once the suburbs were characterised by net curtains and the drone of lawn mowers, now they are defined by Ring doorbells. An unsleeping gaze is fixed on our gnomes and driveways, our children walking home and our midday deliveries. The houses have eyes now.
My street WhatsApp is populated with daily reports from neighbours’ doorbells – suspicious roofers, sinister car thieves at 3am, sometimes just a guy, standing by the wall, leaning oddly. The group buzzes frequently, too, with videos from other streets’ doorbells, images that have been forwarded so many times they have the weary sheen of photocopies. Watch out, the messages say, for men in hoods, men with bricks, men stealing packages from doorsteps, or, yesterday on our road, a doorstep itself.
As more and more millions of internet-connected doorbells and devices are sold, the problems of mass surveillance become both more expansive and more intimate. Especially as we learn (and had confirmed with last week’s Channel 4 report on Gen Z’s doubts about democracy) that people between the ages of 13 and 28 are growing “more uncertain about who to trust”. The knowledge their parents are tracking them remotely, the knowledge their privacy is a myth, how does that contribute to this instability of trust? These pricks of paranoid light that watch them as they walk home, that broadcast a darkened street to their family’s phones, that make the world seem suspicious and full of dread simply by capturing a night scene through a fisheye lens, what impact does it have on their understanding of equality, or safety, or identity, or youth? Trust takes time to earn, but falls away in seconds.
Mail on Sunday poll of 18- to 27-year-olds found 67% were in favour of chemically castrating sex offenders and 45% supported the death penalty. A study for Channel 4 found 52% of gen Zers thought “the UK would be a better place if a strong leader was in charge who does not have to bother with parliament and elections”.
Iran? Ukrainian Nazis? Noem’s crossdressing hubby? Nope, In and OUT cardiac burgers are in the news: Here’s where new In-N-Out locations are opening next.
Utah, which saw its first Double-Double in 2008, is slated to get a new store at 4643 S. Pioneer Road in St. George, while the Las Vegas Strip is preparing for a three-story restaurant at 3747 S. Las Vegas Blvd., expected to be one of the largest in the burger chain’s history.
Family Ownership: The company has remained private and family-owned for its entire history, passing from the founders to their sons, Rich and Guy, and eventually to Lynsi Snyder, the only grandchild of founders Harry and Esther Snyder. She is a devout non-denominational Christian who has spoken openly about her faith, guiding her leadership of the company.
Religious Tradition: The practice of printing Bible verse references on packaging—such as “John 3:16” on soda cups—was started in the late 1980s by Lynsi’s uncle, Rich Snyder, following his religious conversion.
Expanded Expressions of Faith: UnderLynsi Snyder’sleadership, the company has added more verses to its packaging, including:
Proverbs 24:16 on French fry containers.
for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.
Luke 6:35 on coffee cups.
“But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked”
Isaiah 9:6 on holiday cups.
“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace”
Philanthropy: The family maintains several faith-based and charitable organizations, such as the Slave 2 Nothing Foundation (fighting human trafficking and substance abuse) and the In-N-Out Burger Foundation (assisting abused and neglected children).
Many of my well-off gay No Kings Day friends are worried about their stock portfolios with this “new situation” which they never call genocide a la Iran . . .
Several brokerages named top places to work for LGBTs, HighTower adds a team from UBS and W.R. Berkley launches insurance products for the high net worth.
Happy Tuesday. The Nasdaq jumped over 3% today as tech stocks took off on renewed hopes for a cessation in the Iran conflict, plus a positive consumer confidence report. Meanwhile, the Russell 2000, S&P 500, and Dow advanced over 2% on the news.
Top LGBTQ+-Focused Investment & Venture Capital Firms
Gaingels: One of the largest LGBTQ+-focused private investment syndicates, with over 800 companies in its portfolio.
Colorful Capital: A venture capital firm focusing on LGBTQ+-led ventures.
Pride VC: A firm focused on empowering LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs.
Causeway Investments: A New York-based firm specializing in venture capital secondary markets.
Venture Out Partnership: A non-profit focused on fostering an LGBTQ+ VC community.
Inclusion & Protections: The company offers specific guidelines for transitioning employees and includes LGBTQ+ protections in its equal opportunity employment policies.
Employee Resources: RTX supports LGBTQ+ employee resource groups (ERGs), such as #RayPride.
Partnerships: Raytheon UK has partnered with platforms like myGwork to improve LGBTQ+ inclusion.
External Criticism: In 2025, the Human Rights Campaign stopped taking donations from major defense contractors, including Raytheon, following pressure regarding the company’s role in supplying weapons for conflicts, resulting in criticism from some advocacy groups.
I am sure the LGBTQ+ investment screening doesn’t take out these economic hitmen and hit women: An AI Reckoning for HR: Transform or Fade Away
Each wave of HR technology over the past 25 years promised to help tame part of the job.
AI-enabled tools are taking on key functions of human resources. HR professionals risk being displaced if they don’t devise a stronger strategic role for themselves.
And here we are with EUroTrashLandia: RDS, err, Russia Derangement Syndrome!
Donald Tusk and Micheál Martin say reported phone call with Moscow on sanctions confirms Hungary ‘doing the bidding for Russia’ within EU
No Future or No Cuntry or No Life for Old Men, or, fucking just chop their fucking white heads off?
“This country is hard on people.”
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has a message for young Americans looking for work in a tough job market: Don’t be deterred, even as job creation remains weak and the threat of artificial intelligence looms.
The Fed chair, who made the comments on Monday to an undergraduate economics class at Harvard University, covered a lot of ground during his hour-long appearance, including the financial system’s capacity to weather future crises. He also touched on inflation amid the war in Iran, saying that longer-term expectations remain in check.
Powell is set to step down from his role as chair in May, when he will be replaced by Kevin Warsh, a former Fed official whom President Trump nominated to the post in January. In the meantime, the Fed is wrangling with economic data showing that the inflation rate remains above the central bank’s 2% annual goal, while surging oil prices are pushing up costs at the gas pump and may ripple through the economy.
Proving Grounds, dudes . . . 90% Destroyed: How Israel Improved Its Interception of Drones From Lebanon.
Something about the end of fucking Zionism? Israel vows to occupy swathes of southern Lebanon to expand the buffer zone. Defence minister outlines plans to destroy all homes and villages in the area ‘in accordance with the model in Gaza’
Stress Tests and Positions. Of course, the world will . . . . The world cannot allow Gaza’s horrors to be replayed in Lebanon
Your editorial on Israel’s military escalation in Lebanon (25 March) rightly warns against a repeat of the devastating tactics unleashed on Palestinians in Gaza.
My colleagues in Lebanon are reporting the fear instilled by mass forced-displacement orders and military attacks, including on healthcare workers. Our team and partner organisations have been supporting Palestinian refugees who have had to flee their homes, while others have not been able to evacuate even if they wish to. This has instilled deepening panic within communities, including Palestinian refugees who already live in overcrowded camps, and experience poverty and limited access to essential services.
Spain’s PM says Israel to inflict on Lebanon the same destruction as in Gaza
Jew York Times, what fucking Israel Sycophants: For the Global Economy, ‘All Roads Lead to Higher Prices and Slower Growth’
US aircraft can continue to use the airspace and land at the bases in emergency situations, and are still able to provide logistics support to 80,000 US forces stationed across Europe.
But as The Guardian reported Monday, 15 US refueling planes were diverted from the Morón de la Frontera and Rota bases to military facilities in France and Germany at the beginning of the war.
The US was also forced to find an alternative location for B-52 and B-1 bombers due to Spain’s policy, with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer agreeing to allow Trump to send them to Fairford Air Base in Gloucestershire, England in the first days of the war.
The Seville Air Traffic Control Center has provided navigation support to B-2 Spirit bombers that have traveled from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri to carry out strikes in Iran, but those planes do not enter Spanish airspace, instead crossing the Strait of Gibraltar.
Sánchez has rejected Trump’s criticism of Spain’s policy, noting that the country has also led the way in recent years in recognizing the state of Palestine and speaking out against Israel’s assault, as other European governments eventually did.
“They say that Spain is alone,” the prime minister said earlier this month. “They said the same when we recognized the state of Palestine, and then others followed. We are not alone. We are the first. Those defending the indefensible will be the ones left alone.”
The effects of the war in Iran are squeezing consumers, businesses and governments around the world, raising the prices of many essential goods.
More of the neuroperverse Jews: ‘Discriminatory’ Israeli death penalty law would be war crime, says UN rights chief
Volker Türk says the bill, which applies to Palestinians convicted of terror charges but not Jewish extremists, must be repealed
Fired, oh, YOU ALL ARE fired, and our stocks went up in “value.”
More Jew Software, a la Karp:
Palantir’s UK boss has urged the government not to give in to “ideologically motivated campaigners” as government ministers explore a way out of a £330m NHS contract with the tech company.
Ministers have sought advice on triggering a break clause in Palantir’s deal to deliver the Federated Data Platform (FDP), amid questions over the company’s presence in the public sector.
The FDP is an AI-enabled data platform designed to connect disparate health information across the NHS, while Palantir also has contracts with the Ministry of Defence, several police forces and the UK’s financial watchdog.
Louis Mosley, the executive vice-chair of Palantir in the UK, told the Times the government should resist calls to eject the company from NHS England’s data systems.
“Having a review clause in a contract is good and normal practice. However, what some ideologically motivated campaigners are suggesting should happen would harm patient care and prevent some of the biggest challenges facing the NHS from being tackled,” Mosley said.
“That would be a mistake. The clear evidence of the past two years of delivery is that our software is helping. It is forecast to deliver £150m in benefits by the end of the decade, representing a £5 return for every pound spent.”
[Grandfather: Sir Oswald Mosley (6th Baronet): The most prominent “fascist father” figure in the family line, Sir Oswald founded the British Union of Fascists (BUF) in 1932. He was a former Member of Parliament who became a pariah for his antisemitism and ties to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.]
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson told the Guardian: “The NHS Federated Data Platform is helping to join up patient care, increase productivity, speed up cancer diagnosis and ensure thousands of additional patients can be treated each month – with strict requirements in place about data security and confidentiality.
“Every hospital trust and integrated care board has their own instance of the IT platform, with complete control over who has access.”
Sources close to the health secretary, Wes Streeting, point to comments he made to the Guardian Politics Weekly podcast, in which he was asked about ethical issues with engaging Palantir.
Asked if he recognised that people were worried about the deal with Palantir, given his history and the fact that it was founded by Peter Thiel, an influential figure on the American right, he said: “Yes … When you look at some of the things Palantir’s leaders have said in the States, when you look at their political views and their outlook … If you were to put [Thiel] and some of those Palantir bosses on the political spectrum in the UK, they would be well off to the right of even Kemi Badenoch’s Conservative party.”
Gilad Atzmon:
Netanyahu declares, “since the beginning of the revival war, we inflicted on Iran 10 plagues”. This declaration is made one day ahead of Passover, which celebrates the (Godly as well as genocidal) Ten Plagues of Egypt.
Just in case you ever wrongly believed that ‘Zionism is not Judaism’, the truth can’t be suppressed anymore. The Jewish State is driven by Judaic ideology, its war crimes echo the Old Testament’s barbarism, and its prime minister equates himself with the Jewish God.
Scary indeed..
Interestingly enough, I wrote today an extended piece about the crucial role of Judaism in shaping Israeli criminality. Link in the first comment.
Gilad, banned by all those Aaron Mate-Max Blumenthal-Katie Halper-Jon Stewart types.
Purim, Passover, and the war against Iran
Since Israel isn’t just a ‘Jewish State’ (the state of the Jewish people), but has gradually morphed into the Judaic State (a state driven by Judaic religion and spirit), it is crucial to examine the current Israeli-American war in Iran within the context of the Judaic religion.
The criminal war against Iran was launched one day before Purim, the most joyous Jewish holiday, which celebrates the biblical story of a Jewish genocide in ancient Persia. The celebration is inspired by the Book of Esther. It is worth mentioning that the story of Purim has zero historical support; it does not appear in any Persian historical account, yet Jewish people—both religious and secular—celebrate it.
Was the decision to launch the war on Iran a day before the Jewish celebration of a genocide in ancient Persia a coincidence? Was the decision to kill the Supreme Leader in the first air raid a tactical move, or was it inspired by religious sentiment? I will let you ponder these questions.
A month into this war, it is proving to be a catastrophe for its ‘architects’ and the West in general. It signals the long-awaited end of American global hegemony. It may well turn the prime aggressor- ISrael into WASrael.
Yet, from a Judaic point of view, we are just entering another Jewish holiday—or perhaps another ‘commemoration’ of a biblical, genocidal fantasy narrative.
Passover is, of course, a celebration of the Jewish God inflicting ten plagues on Egypt. These plagues should be described as nothing short of WMD and cosmic war crimes, entailing biological warfare of the worst kind. The Biblical plagues, in order, included turning the Nile to blood, frogs, lice/gnats, flies, livestock pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, and the death of the firstborn.
The Jewish Passover feast is a celebration of these divine collective punishments. Again, there is zero historical account of such an event ever occurring, but one thing cannot be denied: Jews, both religious and secular, celebrate this narrative of extended mass killing.
More worrying is the thought that they didn’t just invent this genocidal event and celebrate its alleged occurrence; they actually invented the God who inflicted this genocide and have adhered to Him throughout their history.
In light of this religious affinity for genocidal narratives, we shouldn’t be surprised that it was two Jewish scientists (Einstein and Szilard) who initiated the Manhattan Project and a third (Oppenheimer) who built it. The bomb was called at the time ‘The Jewish Bomb’ for a reason. It was also Fritz Haber who devised the idea of gas warfare during WWI. Haber died on his way to Palestine while making Aliyah.
The Jewish State was born in an act of mass ethnic cleansing—the 1948 Nakba—, it then locked the indigenous people of the land in open-air prisons and it did not take long before it committed the most documented genocide in human history (Gaza 2023-2026).
The war against Iran, which was declared as a ‘fight against the regime,’ quickly evolved into a war of destruction against the Iranian people. By now, it is impossible not to attempt to understand the Jewish state and its actions in light of the Judaic religion, texts, and culture.
The Passover Haggadah tells the story of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt. In light of the destruction the New Israelites have spread around them, it seems as if the Israelites’ exodus from Palestine is now only a matter of time.
Could you imagine a situation in which during WW2 commentators would refrain from discussing the nature of German National Socialism in order to not offend a few American of German origin? Could you similarly think of British politicians stopping themselves short of criticizing the nature of USSR’s communism at the time of the Cold War in a genuine attempt not to hurt a few Brits with Russian roots?
Time is overdue to discuss the nature of the Jewish state and to grasp how Judaism, Jewishness and Jews related to each other and how these notions affect world peace…
…You still have people saying, “It’s not Jewish Billionaires, it’s all Billionaires — tax them and that will fix things.” Ahh, Cry for me, Venezuela!!!
Mohamad Safa did not resign. He fled—morally, professionally, and vocally—from an institution he spent twelve years inside, only to conclude it is preparing to participate in a crime against humanity.
His accusation is not abstract. It is not diplomatic hedging. It is blunt, devastating, and, if even partially true, a stain that will never wash off the United Nations. Safa claims that elements within the UN are preparing for the possible use of nuclear weapons in Tehran. Tehran is a city that is home to nearly ten million people. Families. Children. A future reduced to ash—while the institution sworn to prevent such horrors looks the other way, or worse, makes itself complicit.
Let us be clear about what Safa is saying. He is not complaining about procedural inefficiency. He is alleging that the UN is being influenced by what he calls a “powerful lobby” to ignore international law, shield aggressors, and pave the way for catastrophic military action. He points to Gaza—where the UN refuses to call genocide by its name. He points to Lebanon, where ethnic cleansing unfolds without official designation. He points to Iran, a nation repeatedly certified by the International Atomic Energy Agency as compliant with its nuclear obligations, yet now allegedly in the crosshairs of a nuclear strike being *prepared* by the very body meant to prevent war.
What the fuck?
In 2016, Irma Carrillo Nevares swabbed the inside of her cheek and signed a consent form allowing the Colibrí Center for Human Rights to add her DNA to its database. Carrillo Nevares’ son and daughter had gone missing while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border 17 years earlier. She was desperate to find out what had happened to them, and Colibrí’s database offered a ray of hope.
“No matter how many years pass, it’s still a very painful trauma for us, so any option that presents itself is good,” she explained. Now that Colibrí had her sample, if any remains were ever recovered that matched her DNA, the organization would notify her. At least, that was what she thought as she handed over her genetic material.
For a decade, the nonprofit Colibrí Center for Human Rights worked with state agencies and humanitarian organizations to identify migrants whose remains were found in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. As part of this work, the organization managed a database of DNA samples from families across the U.S. and Latin America. By 2022, Colibrí had helped facilitate hundreds of successful identifications.
But now, Colibrí’s missing-persons database has itself gone missing. Since fall 2024, none of Colibrí’s partners have been able to access it, receive information from the laboratory that stores and processes the DNA samples, or make identifications. Colibrí’s website has gone dark, and communications have ceased. In December 2025, the state of Arizona moved to dissolve the organization due to required paperwork not having been filed. Frustrated forensic practitioners across the borderlands are wondering: Is there hope for bringing the database back — or is it gone for good?
[The funeral for Emmanuel Damas, 56, who died in federal immigration custody this month. His death has galvanized opposition to collaboration between ICE and local and state authorities in Boston]
[Revealed: Israeli military creating ChatGPT-like tool using vast collection of Palestinian surveillance data]
AI could be giving US lethal edge in Iran war – but there are dangers
Artificial intelligence can parse vast amounts of data and use it to flag targets, rank threats and suggest priorities. But experts are worried human oversight could be eroded to a dangerous form of “rubber stamping”.
Oh, the Zionist Jewish State is almost over? Christ, end these fucking Substacks and Podcasters:
System Functionality: The “Data Factory” processes massive amounts of intelligence to identify targets and missions in real time. It is designed to shorten the “kill chain,” reducing the time between detecting a target and executing a strike from hours to minutes or seconds.
Operational Scope: While previously used to manage targets in the Gaza Strip, the system is now being used to coordinate strikes against high-level leadership and military assets in Iran and Lebanon.
Technological Integration: Reports indicate the infrastructure leverages commercial AI models and partnerships with U.S.-based firms like Palantir (Maven technology) and Anthropic (Claude LLM) to automate and stress-test large-scale military plans.
Strategic Impact: The AI has enabled an unprecedented scale of operations, with the U.S. and Israel reportedly striking up to 1,000 targets in Iran within a single day during the current escalation.
Ellison and Fucking Jewish LLC & Company: Oracle laid off some employees on Tuesday, according to two employees and LinkedIn posts.
The cuts come as Oracle is trying to cut costs.
The company’s stock has dropped nearly 30% this year as AI fears have driven a software sell-off.
Scientists have found an alarming environmental impact of vast data centers — Ellison with Jewish Zeldin and Jew Led USA, forget about any brakes.
From that fucking manure pile, Politico:
She Spoke Out About Gaza. Now She Can’t Use a Credit Card.
After accusing governments and corporations of complicity in Gaza, the U.N. investigator for Palestine territories now finds herself in Washington’s crosshairs.
GENEVA — Francesca Albanese was on stage receiving a standing ovation when she first learned how the United States was going to punish her.
It was July 9 last year. The Italian legal expert, who is the U.N. special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, was in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana wrapping up a two-hour talk on her most incendiary report yet.
As she spoke, her tone flicked between professorial bromides on international law and flares of outrage as she detailed how some of the world’s largest companies — including giants of American tech, energy and defense — were aiding Israel in the starvation and killing of the Palestinians of Gaza. Now and again she fixed the audience with a look of exasperation.
Francesca Albanese speaks at a United Nations event in Geneva on March 26.
When the talk ended, Albanese stood to accept the crowd’s adulation. One of the organizers walked across the stage, leaned close and said into her ear: “The United States has imposed sanctions on you.”
Albanese’s head dropped. She stared at the floor, absorbing what it meant, thinking that she needed to call her husband and children. Sanctions would cut her and her family off from U.S. banking, travel and tech. Would they be okay? But the crowd was still there. Clapping. Hollering. Her head snapped up. She stretched her arms wide, palms facing her supporters, with a wry smile that said, “What are you gonna do?”
A few seconds later, she raised a fist in the air.
“I was scared and I thought: ‘What a mafia,’” she told me when we spoke in March, referring to the U.S. administration. “‘But they will not break us.’”
Albanese is a self-admitted partisan in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, making her loved and loathed with equal extremes of feeling.
Albanese was among the first official voices to label what has happened in Gaza a genocide. In a statement last week, the Israeli mission to the U.N. Geneva said she had engaged in “virulent antisemitism.”
Her supporters — including human-rights activists, Palestinians, some Israelis and a vast legion of online followers — see Albanese as a rare and forceful voice piercing the cone of silence and indifference that has fallen over Gaza while a generational crime takes place within.
This has earned her powerful enemies. Israel and U.S. officials, antisemitism watchdogs and a group of European governments say she is an antisemite, whose simplistic depiction of the conflict and inflammatory language is fanning hatred toward Jews. Some Jews who might otherwise be sympathetic to her cause find some of her public statements — which, for instance, have drawn parallels between Israel’s government and the Nazis — troubling and offensive.
But even against a campaign to discredit and silence her, the U.S. sanctions were an escalation — and an impressive expression of American power and animus. She was, after all, an unpaid U.N. expert, whose only real weapon (aside from the symbolic authority of her office) was her voice. That’s a point her family will take up in a court in the District of Columbia on Wednesday as they challenge the sanctions on free-speech grounds.
Now she is under constraints normally reserved for narco-barons and terrorists. What had she done that was so threatening to the U.S.?
Albanese thinks she knows. “This fury comes because I poked the bear,” she said. “Not in one eye, in both eyes.”
[A page from Albanese’s book “J’Accuse.”]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio listens to a presentation by Trump Administration officials about post-war Gaza following a signing ceremony for the “Board of Peace” at the World Economic Forum on January 22, 2026 in Davos, Switzerland.
The fucking uniformed mercenaries are fucking buggered Boy Scouts.
Army approves combat patches for soldiers in Iran war zone
The new approval for soldiers to wear a combat patch on their right sleeve covers those currently deployed in countries under U.S. Central Command and Africa Command.
ICE agents will be stationed outside Marine Corps graduation events in South Carolina
As the U.S. continues to fight the war in Iran, the Marine Corps has boosted protection measures on bases, requiring everyone to present REAL IDs, passports or birth certificates to access any sites.
This is what the uniformed mercenary disservices are fighting for: Big Tech’s $635 billion AI spending faces energy shock test, S&P Global says.
So we get more whore news: Usha Vance on disagreements with JD Vance, 2028 and shopping at Costco. The second lady, who was registered as a Democrat until at least 2014, told NBC News she sometimes has thoughts that are “idiosyncratic” and don’t fit neatly with one political party.
Something about Israel falling apart? Israeli parliament passes budget, allowing Netanyahu to avoid early elections
Unilateral and Illegal Sanctions – Mainly by the United States – Kill Half a Million Civilians Per Year: The Thirty-First Newsletter (2025)
According to the Global Sanctions Database, the United States, European Union, and UN have sanctioned 25% of the countries in the world. The United States by itself sanctioned 40% of these countries, sanctions that are unilateral because they do not have the assent of a UN Security Council resolution. In the 1960s, only 8% of the world’s countries were under sanctions. This inflation of sanctions demonstrates that it has become normal for the powerful North Atlantic states to wage wars without having to fire a bullet. As US President Woodrow Wilson said in 1919 at the formation of the League of Nations, sanctions are ‘something more tremendous than war’.
The cruellest formulation of Wilson’s statement was made by Madeleine Albright, then the US ambassador to the UN, regarding the US sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s. A distinguished team of specialists from the Centre for Economic and Social Rights went to Iraq and analysed the data to find that from 1990 to 1996, sanctions had resulted in the ‘excess deaths of over 500,000 children under the age of five. In simple terms, more Iraqi children have died as a result of sanctions than the combined toll of two atomic bombs on Japan and the recent scourge of ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia’. On the CBS television programme 60 Minutes, journalist Leslie Stahl asked Albright about this study, saying ‘we have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima. And you know, is the price worth it?’. This was a sincere question. Albright had the opportunity to say many things: she could have said that she had not yet had time to study the report, or she could have shifted the blame to the policies of Saddam Hussein. Instead, she answered, ‘I think that it is a very hard choice, but the price, we think, the price is worth it’.
In other words, it was worth killing half a million children to destabilise the Iraqi government led by Saddam Hussein. Of course, that government was not overthrown by sanctions. Instead, the people suffered for another seven years, for which there was no comparable study done on excess deaths. It took the massive illegal US invasion to overthrow the Iraqi government (illegal because there was no UN Security Council resolution). To be fair to Albright, she later said, ‘I have said 5,000 times that I regret it. It was a stupid statement. I never should have made it’. But she did. And it made its mark.
So, what does The Lancet’s new study on international sanctions show?
From 1971 to 2021, unilateral sanctions have been the cause of death for 564,258 people per year.
The number of people who die because of sanctions is greater than the number of battle-related casualties (106,000 deaths per year) ‘and similar to some estimates in the total death toll of wars including civilian casualties (around half a million deaths per year)’.
The most vulnerable population groups, as you would expect, are children under five and older people. Deaths of children under five years ‘represented 51% of total deaths caused by sanctions over the 1970–2021 period’.
Unilateral sanctions by the United States and the European Union are more deadly than UN sanctions, with ‘US sanctions appear[ing] to be driving the adverse mortality effects’. This is because ‘unilateral sanctions imposed by the USA or the EU might be designed in ways that have a greater negative effect on target populations’.
The reason why US sanctions – with the EU alongside them – have such negative effects is due to the ‘widespread use of the US dollar and the euro in international banking transactions and as global reserve currencies, and the extraterritorial application of sanctions, particularly by the USA’.
The analysis shows that ‘the effects of sanctions on mortality generally increase over time, with longer-lived sanctions episodes resulting in higher tolls on lives’.
Based on these findings, the study concludes that ‘from a rights-based perspective, evidence that sanctions lead to losses in lives should be sufficient reason to advocate for the suspension of their use’.
In March 2025, we published a dossier called Imperialist War and Feminist Resistance in the Global South, primarily looking at the case of Venezuela, and which described the impact of sanctions and how a society under attack is held together by the work of women. They know what the ‘rain of ruin’ feels like and they are fighting to strengthen their societies against it. As we showed in our FACTS analysis, sanctions against Venezuela resulted in a loss of 213% of its Gross Domestic Product between January 2017 and December 2024, which amounts to a total estimated loss of $226 billion or $77 million per day.
In 1995, during the sanctions against Iraq and before the United States invaded that country illegally in 2003, Saadi Youssef (1934–2021) wrote a miraculous poem called ‘America, America’. Here is the last stanza:
We are not hostages, America, and your soldiers are not God’s soldiers… We are the poor ones, ours is the earth of the drowned gods, the gods of bulls, the gods of fires, the gods of sorrows that intertwine clay and blood in a song… We are the poor, ours is the god of the poor, who emerges out of farmers’ ribs, hungry and bright, and raises heads up high…
America, we are the dead. Let your soldiers come. Whoever kills a man, let him resurrect him. We are the drowned ones, dear lady. We are the drowned. Let the water come.
America, America
God save America My home sweet home! The French general who raised his tricolour over Nagrat al-Salman where I was a prisoner thirty years ago . . . in the middle of that U-turn that split the back of the Iraqi army, the general who loved St Emilion wines called Nagrat al-Salman a fort . . . Of the surface of the earth, generals know only two dimensions: whatever rises is a fort whatever spreads is a battlefield. How ignorant the general was! But Liberation was better versed in topography. The Iraqi boy who conquered her front page sat carbonised behind a steering wheel on the Kuwait- Safwan highway while television cameras (the booty of the defeated and their identity) were safe in the truck like a storefront on rue Rivoli. The neutron bomb is highly intelligent, it distinguishes between an ìIî and an ìIdentityî. God save America My home sweet home! Blues How long must I walk to Sacramento How long will I walk to reach my home How long will I walk to reach my girl How long must I walk to Sacramento For two days, no boat has sailed this stream two days, two days, two days Honey, how can I ride? I know this stream but, O but, O but, for two days no boat has sailed this stream La L La La L La La L La La L La A stranger gets scared Don’t fear dear horse Don’t fear the wolves of the wild Don’t fear for the land is my land La L La La L La La L La La L La A stranger gets scared
My home sweet home! I too love jeans and jazz and Treasure Island and Long John Silver’s parrot and the terraces of New Orleans I love Mark Twain and the Mississippi steamboats and Abraham Lincoln’s dogs
I love the fields of wheat and corn and the smell of Virginia tobacco. But I am not American. Is that enough for the Phantom pilot to turn me back to the Stone Age! I need neither oil, nor America herself, neither the elephant nor the donkey. Leave me, pilot, leave my house roofed with palm fronds and this wooden bridge. I need neither your Golden Gate nor your skyscrapers. I need the village not New York. Why did you come to me from your Nevada desert, soldier armed to the teeth? Why did you come all the way to distant Basra where fish used to swim by our doorsteps.
Pigs do not forage here. I only have these water buffaloes lazily chewing on water lilies. Leave me alone soldier. Leave me my floating cane hut and my fishing spear. Leave me my migrating birds and the green plumes. Take your roaring iron birds and your Tomahawk missiles. I am not your foe. I am the one who wades up to the knees in rice paddies. Leave me to my curse. I do not need your day of doom. God save America My home sweet home! America let us exchange your gifts. Take your smuggled cigarettes and give us potatoes. Take James Bond’s golden pistol and give us Marilyn Monroe’s giggle. Take the heroin syringe under the tree and give us vaccines. Take your blueprints for model penitentiaries and give us village homes. Take the books of your missionaries and give us paper for poems to defame you. Take what you do not have and give us what we have. Take the stripes of your flag and give us the stars. Now as I look across the balcony across the summer sky, the summery summer Damascus spins, dizzied among television aerials then it sinks, deeply, in the stories of the forts and towers and the arabesques of ivory and sinks, deeply, from Rukn al-Din then disappears from the balcony.
And now I remember trees: the date palm of our mosque in Basra, at the end of Basra the bird’s beak and a child’s secret a summer feast. I remember the date palm. I touch it. I become it, when it falls black without fronds when a dam fell hewn by lightning. And I remember the mighty mulberry when it rumbled, butchered with an axe . . . to fill the stream with leaves and birds and angels and green blood. I remember when pomegranate blossoms covered the sidewalks, the students were leading the workers’ parade . . . The trees die pummelled dizzied, not standing the trees die. God save America My home sweet home! We are not hostages, America and your soldiers are not God’s soldiers . . . We are the poor ones, ours is the earth of the drowned gods the gods of bulls the gods of fires the gods of sorrows that intertwine clay and blood in a song . . . We are the poor, ours is the god of the poor who emerges out of the farmers’ ribs hungry and bright and raises heads up high . . . America, we are the dead Let your soldiers come Whoever kills a man, let him resurrect him We are the drowned ones, dear lady We are the drowned Let the water come
Translated by: Khaled Mattawa
The “last communist” never entered Mecca carrying his red banners, as he’d imagined in a poem, but he was buried at High Gate Cemetery, in London, not far from the first communist.
I will not be a stranger on this earth: I have named myself what I wanted I will not be close to this earth: I have two wings […] I will go to the end of the universe Joyful and free Like an Arabian horse Like myself.
[It is in the context of this longstanding socialist reluctance to use violence that you have to view Maduro’s decision to stand down the defence forces in the event of an American kidnap mission. This is a government which does not just use revolutionary slogans, it lives by them, and “peace” is a key one. Maduro almost certainly hoped that domestic solidarity would oblige his return quickly, as had happened with Chavez. It is unlikely it occurred to him that Trump would simply – and pointlessly – remove Maduro and leave his government in power.
Multiple sources have confirmed to me that the Venezuelan forces were ordered to stand down. I visited the hillside location at Fierte Tiuna where young female Lieutenant Alejandra del Valle Oliveros Velásquez , age 23, refused the order to stand down and continued to stand guard with her gun at a vital hilltop communications facility. She died as it was struck by American missiles.]
Almost everything you are told in the West about Venezuela is untrue, and the biggest lie is that Machado, Guaido and the groupings around them are in any sense democrats or liberal. They are not, and have direct family and political links to the murderous CIA sponsored regimes of the pre-Chavez years. They also have many scores to settle – Machado’s family, to give just one example, dominated the electricity supply before it was nationalized.
A very large number of the “political prisoners” the West is so concerned about, were involved in efforts at military coup or violent insurrection, of which Guaido’s comic opera attempt in 2019 was only the most publicized. After the disputed 2024 elections many of those imprisoned were actually brandishing weapons – I met the families of three young men who told me their sons were misled into taking to the streets with guns, and hoped they would get out in the current amnesty.
Sanctions caused great economic hardship, which affected government popularity. But it is a huge error to conflate discontent at the Maduro government with support for Machado – there is almost no evidence of the latter, no matter how hard you look. That Machado does not have the internal support to run the country is one of the few things Trump has stated truthfully. The alternative to the socialist government is chaos.
So Delcy Rodriguez has to maintain the Socialist Party in government, or see supporters butchered and the start of a civil war. At the same time, she has to contend with the blatant colonialist assertion of control over Venezuela’s assets and finances by the USA, while placating the irascible and irrational Trump.
Let us get one thing straight. I have spoken personally to those closest to President Nicolas Maduro. I have spoken with Francisco Torrealba, who followed Maduro as President of the Transport Workers Union and also took over Maduro’s seat in the National Assembly. I have spoken to Maduro’s son, also Nicolas. None of these people believes for one second that Delcy Rodriguez was in any way implicated in the kidnapping of Nicolas and Cilia Maduro.
Why does almost everybody in the West believe a narrative that nobody in Venezuela believes, and which I am quite certain is untrue?
That narrative has been force-fed to you. Trump undermined Delcy Rodriguez by open praise of her and assertion that she is his choice. The truth of course is different: as Maduro’s Vice-President, she naturally assumes the duties of President, as confirmed by the Venezuelan Supreme Court. A coordinated effort of briefings to journalists by the Trump administration, by the security services, and by Machado aligned Venezuelans in Miami, gave to the media in a coordinated fashion a detailed story of negotiations between Delcy and her brother Jorge and the Americans, for a strategy of economic reform that included Maduro’s removal.
I have looked again through many articles that forward this narrative, and all of them very obviously come primarily from Washington sources, and it is a narrative that the United States has been very, very assiduous in feeding you.
Paul Haeder, Author 