The 785-foot-tall Larry Silverstein structure designed by CetraRuddy Architecture and Steelman Partners will feature a gaming facility, 1,000-room hotel, as well as dining and entertainment
Larry Silverstein is the chairman and founder of Silverstein Properties, a New York-based real estate development firm.
Silverstein Partners owns nearly 16 million square feet of office, residential and retail properties in the U.S., including 7 World Trade Center in Manhattan.
Silverstein signed a 99-year lease on the World Trade Center towers for $3.2 billion in July 2001, seven weeks before the 9/11 attacks.
Silverstein Properties and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ultimately received a $4.55 billion insurance payout and built new towers on the site.
The firm developed the 7, 2 and 3 World Trade Center office towers. A fourth building, 5 World Trade Center, will be a residential high-rise when it’s complete.
New designs have been released for The Avenir, a 45-story mixed-use tower in Hell’s Kitchen being developed in a joint venture between Silverstein Properties, Rush Street Gaming, and Greenwood Gaming and Entertainment. The 785-foot-tall structure designed by CetraRuddy Architecture and Steelman Partners will feature a gaming facility, 1,000-room hotel, as well as dining and entertainment. If approved, the building is expected to create 4,000 construction jobs, more than 5,000 permanent jobs, and opportunities for local business and community participation.
Oh, that conspiracy?
No one can be too sure of what Lucky Larry meant when he said “pull it”. It is rather shady though, when you consider at least one of his additional slip-ups.
Take this one for example when talking about the new WTC 7 during a speech in Israel:
“the first design meeting was in April of 2000, and construction began shortly there after in 2002”.
WTC 7 was the first to be cleaned up at ground zero, and the construction of the new WTC 7 started in 2002. It was the first WTC complex building to be completed.
It is difficult to see this as a slip-up because:
-He gives both a month and a year (April 2000)
-If he meant April of 2001, that is just as damning
-He could not have meant April of 2002, because that is when construction began
-While not impossible, it is highly improbable that from 9/12/01 to 4/02 they were able to choose an architect, approve Architect’s design, have engineers and architects draw master drawings, get all permits, etc.
Let’s take a look at this quote again:
“the first design meeting was in April of 2000, and construction began shortly thereafter in 2002”.
HE GLOSSES OVER THE EVENTS OF 9/11 LIKE THEY WERE NO SETBACK.
Larry Silverstein’s company, Silverstein Properties, owns and operates a significant portfolio of properties, including nearly 16 million square feet of commercial and residential space. This portfolio includes office towers, hotels, and residential buildings in various locations, including New York City, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. Specifically, their portfolio includes properties like 30 Park Place, 120 Broadway, 120 Wall St., 1177 Sixth Ave., and several towers at the World Trade Center. They also developed and own the Four Seasons Resort at Walt Disney World.
Jeffrey Shapiro, in a column on Fox News, attempted to defend Silverstein by saying that on the day of 9/11, Larry was on the phone to his insurers to see if they would authorize the controlled demolition of WTC 7.
Some other issues surrounding Silverstein.
-Claimed he was at home when he got call alerting him about a plane flying into North Tower. Larry claimed he had a doctor’s appointment which is why he was not eating breakfast at the Windows of the World, like he did every other day. So why was he home when he got call?
-Larry demanded the building’s insurer add terrorism to policy, and cash pay out. After 9/11, Larry claimed he was entitled to two payouts because it was two separate planes, and thus two separate terrorist attacks.
-Tried to collect 10 billion from the two airlines of the four planes alleged to be hijacked.
In conclusion:
Larry’s use of the term “pull-it” is certainly shady but not enough to indict him. However, taken his other slips-ups and behavior into account, you would assume in a “just” society, Silverstein would have had to testify under oath during The 9/11 Commission’s investigation. But the report did not even mention WTC 7.
Here, from Redditt:
The conspiracy that was 9/11 was so vast and unprecedented in scale and scope that I frequently regard it as “The single most corrupt day in human history.”
9/11 was years in the making, requiring the collusion (or deception, as the case may be) of dozens of the most powerful and influential agencies in the world—both before and after the fact—and continuing to this day. These people (to use the term loosely) ran a right-wing think tank, at the time, called “Project For A New American Century.”
PNAC wrote a report named “Rebuilding America’s Defenses. Everything the report called for would later happen— including “A new Pearl Harbor”—starting on 9/11. Look at the signature page, note the various agencies represented, then ask yourself, “Would all these powerful and influential people really come together and publish this report as an academic exercise?”
This is the part where the unsophisticated parrot the standard talking point that such a thing “could not be done without any leaks.”Silverstein’s admission was a leak. One of many. The man on the street simply has a woefully outdated understanding of international intrigue. They still expect that the media would pick up any such leak(s) and widely publicize the story. That’s outdated information, too. The national media is no longer in the exposé business.
The Powers That Should Not Be have worked tirelessly, for decades, to adapt to change, and solve the kinds of problems that are endemic to the nature of ‘spy craft.’ They know how to deal with leaks.
[The current chairman (since 2017) of the Council is David Rubenstein, the billionaire co-founder of the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm. He is also a longtime major donor to the CFR, having given at least $5 million dollars in 2006–7 alone.33 In November 2020, Rubenstein teamed up with real estate developer Larry Silverstein to raise money for Israel by selling Israeli bonds. Their sales event was described as “an exclusive Israel Bonds real estate event industry viewed by over 1,000 participants from the U.S. and Canada.”34]
93 Fucking Evil Years OLD:
There are many ways of dealing with leaks, now, of which John Q. Public neither knows—nor wants to know—and that is the primary method. As long as people want to believe that their government is unfailingly righteous, the majority can be expected to accept any and every denial of government wrongdoing, no matter how unlikely or implausible said denial might be. Once lies reach the point of patently absurd, gaslighting is achieved. The masses can simply be told what to see.
These same people lack the will and the wherewithal to refute what should be obvious deceptions and/or incongruities. They can be expected to expend exactly zero effort uncovering a truth that would only present them with an uncomfortable reality—at best. There’s just no reward for learning painful truths, as they would have to stop feeling protected by their government, and start facing the possibility that they might be threatened, instead.
Once they’ve dug their heels in, the predictable majority can always be subsequently turned on the few exceptions who can also be reliably anticipated. All they have to do is say, “conspiracy nut,” or a similar intellectual perishable that hasn’t been clever since the 1970’s; woefully outdated. In any event, there are other ways of dealing with leaks, but this is the major reason the majority perceive that there are none: It’s simply what they want to hear.
Everything was wrong with the collapse of WTC7. There were fires, but they were nowhere near capable of causing the collapse that we saw—unless we were told to see something else. The fires in the picture below seem like they could and/or should have been extinguished by the sprinkler system, begging the question “why weren’t they extinguished by the sprinkler system?”
Moreover, the fires are several floors apart. They don’t appear to be a single incident, exhibiting a pattern consistent with splash damage—mind you, from an epicenter that is 700 ft away. Nothing else in the foreground exhibits any indication of splash damage. Given the situation, and the amount of evidence I have gathered, I’m going to take the liberty of raising the specter of two separate fires that were intentionally set to destroy documents.
WTC 7 was a collapse that shouldn’t have happened, couldn’t have been foreseen, and that was reported before it happened. A collapse that the building’s lessee went on record describing as a deliberate act. An act that couldn’t possibly have been both decided upon and carried out in one day, and most especially in response to (and in the midst of) allegedly unforeseen and chaotic events.
Silverstein spoke truth mixed with lies, but he was not a professional liar like his co-conspirators in the media; he wasn’t practiced enough. They probably shouldn’t have put a microphone in front of him, but what’s done is done. As soon as he said “pull,” the truth became exposed. That is controlled demolition parlance that just wasn’t common knowledge—at the time. Moreover, have you ever known a fire department to demolish a building? Neither have I; not before, nor since—yet Silverstein‘s words are unmistakable.
The truth about WTC7 is that it must have contained something that would have been fatal to the official narrative. Something so damaging that it was worth destroying the entire building to ensure that no physical evidence of that truth would ever be found. A truth so shameful that the same official 9/11 commission that devoted copious pages to incredibly boring filler material about firefighters’ radio reception in the towers decided it best to pretend that the collapse of an enormous, 47-story building didn’t happen at all. The official report makes no mention of the collapse of WTC7. None, whatsoever.
The 27th floor of WTC 7 had bomb-proof windows, and a self-contained air supply. It was listed on the building’s directory as the “mayor’s bunker,” only the one day you would think the sky bunker would be most useful, then-Mayor Giuliani was nowhere near it. Records show him stating that he’d set up an impromptu emergency response unit at 75 Bleeker Street—if memory serves.
No, something else was going on. Something so sinister that the government had to destroy an enormous, expensive structure, and then pretend that it never existed.
I submit that the 27th floor of WTC 7 housed the command center for the controlled demolition of the Twin Towers. Line of sight. Sufficiently tall and close. Leased by Larry Silverstein. It was the perfect lair for the soulless, secret demolition team.
However, so long as no one breaks character and the assault on truth seekers is maintained, the guilty will continue to enjoy all the plausible deniability you can get from a national media that is locked down, complicit, and/or in fear. The real perpetrators of 9/11 will continue to get away with crimes which, for lack of punishment, can be expected to only escalate.
Read all about the Jewish Mafia and the CFR and Project to Remake the WORLD in the Jews’ eyes.
Censorship at that fucking den of sicarios and hitmen, Oxford: This week on The Watchdog, Lowkey catches up with Palestinian writer Susan Abulhawa and hears about her trips to Gaza during the genocide. He also explores her experience with censorship at the Oxford Union over a speech she made there about Palestine and Zionism.
EMPIRES. International Division of Humanity. Some people are more human than others.
the Jew Yorker, at it again with a Jewish writer writing about a Jewish Monster, but his Judaism ain’t part of the story, as ALWAYS
Jerry Seinfeld bluntly tells activist ‘I don’t care about Palestine’ in awkward encounter
Ava Kofman Staff writer
The frantic search to identify the draftsmen behind the Trump Administration’s intellectual blueprint can often seem like a fool’s errand—not least because the President is driven by whim and vendetta. Those around him, however, take ideas seriously, including the radical proposals of the neo-reactionary writer Curtis Yarvin.
Photograph by Carolyn Drake for The New Yorker
Nearly two decades ago, Yarvin began composing a sprawling apologia for an authoritarian takeover of the United States on his self-described “anti-democracy blog,” where he called for “liquidating” the government, abolishing the press, and putting a C.E.O.-king in charge of the country. In 2022, he presciently outlined a plan for Donald Trump to appoint a strike force of “ninjas” to parachute into government agencies and shut them down. But this mission would not be limited to D.C., Yarvin said. The organs of civil society—Harvard, the Times, N.G.O.s—would also need to be destroyed.
When I first heard about Yarvin, around 2015, from my roommate (a programmer who enjoyed reading political theory as a hobby; he has since become a historian), the blogger’s ideas seemed far-fetched, even comical. Now Vice-President J. D. Vance, the Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, and the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen are among his most prominent fans. For a piece in this week’s issue, I spent dozens of hours in the past six months interviewing Yarvin—along with his family, friends, exes, former classmates, colleagues, and interlocutors—to better understand how a crankish software engineer, posting under the nom de internet Mencius Moldbug, became one of the country’s most influential illiberal thinkers. Yarvin often performs a pantomime of thinking, stitching his arguments together in a Trumpian fashion and jumping to conclusions that he proclaims as self-evident. A few weeks ago, he told me that “the right way for the international community to respond to Kim Jung Un” would be for Silicon Valley to buy North Korea for a hundred billion dollars—a deal that would be “done in a week, what an amazing property, it’s obvious when you think about it.”
Given the embrace of his ideas by some of the country’s most powerful figures, I expected to find Yarvin in triumphant spirits when I met him the weekend before Trump’s Inauguration. Instead, I was struck by the dismissive, almost contemptuous tone in which he spoke of the new Administration, as though a cult band he’d been following for years had suddenly gone mainstream. What many Americans view as a constitutional crisis, Yarvin regards as weak tea. Trump, he contends, has not gone nearly far enough.
Another Jewish Voice, Aaron, again, advocating for a two-state solution.
00:00 – Intro: Who Gets to Be a Truth Teller?
01:40 – Meet Aaron Maté: Journalist & Skeptic
03:25 – The War on Journalism & Narrative Control
06:10 – Independent Media vs Corporate Gatekeeping
09:45 – Syria, Douma & Media Complicity
13:05 – Investigating the OPCW Cover-Up
16:20 – Censorship and “Conspiracy” Labels
19:30 – Russiagate: What Really Happened?
23:15 – Trump, Russia, and the Media Circus
26:40 – Was the 2016 Election “Hacked”?
30:10 – Why Russiagate Helped Trump
33:05 – When Democrats Became Hawks
36:40 – Foreign Policy as Domestic Distraction
40:00 – Ukraine War and U.S. Double Standards
44:15 – How the Media Frames War
47:30 – Selective Outrage on Human Rights
51:00 – Israel, Gaza, and Media Silences
55:30 – The Myth of U.S. Moral Superiority
58:45 – How Censorship Works Today
01:02:00 – Lessons for the Left: Media & Messaging
01:05:40 – Being a Target: Smears & Character Attacks
01:09:00 – Final Thoughts: Truth, Power & Integrity
01:11:30 – Outro & Support Independent Media
In person, as in print, Yarvin expresses himself with imperious self-assurance. He is nearly impossible to interrupt. “When the rabbi is speaking, you let the rabbi speak,” Razib Khan, a right-wing science blogger and a close friend of Yarvin’s, told me. Even his friends and family, however, acknowledge that he has room to grow as a communicator. He talks in a halting monotone, rarely answers questions directly, and is prone to disorienting asides. In the middle of saying one thing, he is always getting distracted by something else he could be saying, like a G.P.S. that keeps suggesting faster routes.
Yarvin nearly ended up a libertarian. As a Bay Area coder and a devotee of Austrian-school economists in his late twenties, he exhibited all the risk factors. Then he discovered Hoppe’s book “Democracy: The God That Failed” (2001) and changed his mind. Yarvin soon adopted Hoppe’s imago of a benevolent strongman—someone who would govern efficiently, avoid senseless wars, and prioritize the well-being of his subjects. “It’s not copy-and-pasted, but it is such a direct influence that it’s kind of obscene,” Julian Waller, a scholar of authoritarianism at George Washington University, said. (Over e-mail, Hoppe recalled that he met Yarvin once at an exclusive gathering at Peter Thiel’s home, where Hoppe had been invited to speak. He acknowledged his influence on Yarvin, but added, “For my taste his writing has always been a bit too flowery and rambling.”) Hoppe argues that, unlike democratically elected officials, a monarch has a long-term incentive to safeguard his subjects and the state, because both belong to him. Anyone familiar with the history of dictatorships might find this idea disingenuous. Not Yarvin.
“You don’t ransack your own house,” he told me one afternoon, at an open-air café in Venice Beach. I’d asked him what would stop his C.E.O.-monarch from plundering the country—or enslaving his people—for personal gain. “For Louis XIV, when he says, ‘L’état, c’est moi,’ ransacking the state holds no meaning because it’s all his anyway.” Following Hoppe, Yarvin proposes that nations should eventually be broken up into a “patchwork” of statelets, like Singapore or Dubai, each with its own sovereign ruler. The eternal political problems of legitimacy, accountability, and succession would be solved by a secret board with the power to select and recall the otherwise all-powerful C.E.O. of each sovereign corporation, or SovCorp. (How the board itself would be selected is unclear, but Yarvin has suggested that airline pilots—“a fraternity of intelligent, practical, and careful people who are already trusted on a regular basis with the lives of others. What’s not to like?”—could manage the transition between regimes.) To prevent a C.E.O. from staging a military coup, the board members would have access to cryptographic keys that would allow them to disarm all government weapons, from nuclear missiles down to small arms, with the push of a button.
The German academic Hans-Hermann Hoppe is sometimes described as an intellectual gateway to the far right. A retired economics professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Hoppe argues that universal suffrage has supplanted rule by a “natural élite”; advocates for breaking nations into smaller, homogenous communities; and calls for communists, homosexuals, and others who oppose this rigid social order to be “physically removed.” (Some white nationalists have made memes pairing Hoppe’s face with a helicopter—an allusion to the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s practice of executing opponents by throwing them from aircraft.) Though Hoppe favors a minimal state, he believes that freedom is better preserved by monarchy than by democracy
These fucking narcissistic and psychotic and perverse Jews must be sterilized. Look at this Jew Yorker journalist just go go go:
visited Lydia Laurenson, Yarvin’s ex-fiancée, in Berkeley. The two began dating in September, 2021, after Yarvin posted a personal ad on Substack, explaining that he’d recently lost his “widower virginity” and was looking to meet someone of “childbearing age.” Laurenson, a freelance writer and editor, replied the same day: “I have historically been a liberal but my IQ is really high, I want kids, and I’m incredibly curious to talk to you.” Yarvin went on Zoom dates with other women who answered the post—among them, Caroline Ellison, the ex-girlfriend of the now imprisoned crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried—but he and Laurenson soon found themselves in an all-consuming romance. She told me that the ethos of her relationship with Yarvin was
“ ‘We’re going to be geniuses together and have genius babies.’ I’m making fun of it a little bit, but that really was it.”
Like Yarvin, Laurenson had been a precocious child who went to college early. She’d also maintained a blog with a cult following, where, under the pseudonym Clarisse Thorn, she wrote about sex-positive feminism, B.D.S.M., and pickup artistry. She and Yarvin fought often, sometimes about politics. Laurenson had moved away from the left, but she hadn’t fully embraced neo-reaction. When I asked her if she’d ever changed Yarvin’s mind about anything, she said she’d gotten him to stop using the N-word, at least around her. (He later told this magazine that he was not using the word in the spirit of “a Southern plantation owner.”)
The bigger source of tension, according to Laurenson, was Yarvin’s autocratic attachment style. When they fought, Laurenson said, he insisted that she provide a rational justification for ending hostilities. She felt that Yarvin’s slippery personal attacks resembled his manner in public debates. “He makes up explanations that seem reasonable, but are actually false; he attacks the character of the person who is trying to point out what he’s doing; it’s like a DDOS attack of the soul,” she told me in an e-mail, referencing the cyberattack strategy of overwhelming a server with traffic from multiple sources. James Dama, a friend of Laurenson’s who had his own falling out with Yarvin, recalled, “He would make a coarse joke about Lydia’s weight or looks, not get a laugh, and then get angry at Lydia for being too stuck up.” (Tanner, Yarvin’s first girlfriend, described a similar pattern of insults and demands.)
Laurenson and Yarvin broke up in the summer of 2022, while Laurenson was pregnant. He told me that his desire for closeness might have struck Laurenson as “overbearing and stifling,” and that he had a bad habit of making “a joke that’s sort of a barb,” but he denied that he was ever purposefully cruel during the relationship. (He added that, after the relationship ended, “my natural instinct was, I’m going to cut her down to size every time I can”—something, he noted, he was “very good at.”) A few weeks after their son was born, that December, Yarvin sued for partial custody, which he received. An ongoing family-court case remains acrimonious. “The parents are in disagreement about nearly every issue,” their mediator observed last year.
Now that they share a toddler, Laurenson spends a lot of time thinking about Yarvin’s own childhood. “He has this class-clown thing going on, where he very much craves attention,” she said. To her, it seemed that his embrace of a provocative ideology was a kind of “repetition compulsion,” a psychological defense that allowed him to reframe the ostracization he experienced growing up. As America’s most famous living monarchist, he could tell himself that people were rejecting him for his outré ideas, not for his personality. She wondered if he’d first adopted “the monarchist thing” as a kind of intellectual sport, a bit from Usenet, and then, like the parallel world in the Borges story, it had slowly taken on a reality of its own. “Is it just like you found this place where people admire you and allow you to troll as much as you want, and then you just live in that world?” she asked.
And ten years earlier, again, the Jew Report by the Jew: Forgive My Father, For He Has Sinned: On the poetic struggle of two familial, and familiar, figures of speech By Ava Kofman, January 11, 2015
God, we are doomed with this Century of the Fucking Jew:
Ireland?
But the Jew World will continue to decay our heads
When the Israeli army forces us to move, they issue what they call “evacuation” orders. The Israeli army uses this to portray itself as an army that fights in accordance with international law—that distinguishes between civilians and combatants, that has no intention of harming children. This is far from the truth.
The Israeli military has invaded and besieged many areas before issuing these so-called evacuation orders, as has happened in Rafah and Shujaiya. Israeli invasions force people to flee to so-called “safe zones” under heavy bombardment, making their way through checkpoints with nothing but the clothes on their backs, unable to carry even a day’s worth of food, any documents, or a blanket to cover themselves at night. Many of the leaflets the army drops on civilians contain terrifying threats that amount to psychological warfare. And then, they bomb the safe zones anyway.
Anyone observing the conditions of the displaced people in Gaza can clearly see that the Israeli military doesn’t care about the fate of civilians at all. Israeli forces only tell them to flee—run!—and it doesn’t care where they will stay, what they will eat, or how they will live. Israel wants to force two million Palestinians in Gaza to cram into a tiny plot of land in the south—to live in tent camps with no infrastructure—where rivers of sewage run beneath their feet. Israel’s plan is to force people to leave their neighborhoods by labeling them “combat zones,” so they can destroy, bomb, and flatten everything to make them uninhabitable, even if the residents are ever able to return.
All Israel wants is destruction and ruin, more land to seize, and eventually to establish settlements and pave the way for so-called “voluntary” migration, which many will be forced to accept after being broken by repeated displacement.
Throughout this war, I never evacuated to the south, hoping to stay close to my home and return once the army retreated. I paid the price for that decision with injury and hunger. But now, for the first time, I am displaced in Deir al-Balah, staying at my aunt’s house. It’s the first time I have come south in some 15 years—since I visited my aunt when I was nine or ten years old.
I don’t know how long my aunt will be able to host us, or where we’ll go when we leave. I tell myself we’re just here to visit my aunt after a long time—that I’m on a retreat or vacation somewhere else in the world—just to avoid dying from heartbreak over what we have left behind.
The night we fled Jabaliya wasn’t the worst or most violent of the war. It was just another night from the depths of hell—like every night before it. But this time, we had no choice. We haven’t had a single peaceful night’s sleep since the beginning of the genocide. The deep, dark circles under my eyes are proof of that. Still, I refuse to accept this as normal. I haven’t gotten used to suffering. I just want to sleep one peaceful night before I die.
In As You Like It by Shakespeare, Rosalind asks Orlando: “Can one desire too much of a good thing?” …
Although previously accepted as the less toxic alternative, with low impact on animals, farmers as well as consumers who are exposed to residues in food, glyphosate chemicals are now increasingly controversial as new evidence from research is emerging. We argue that specific aspects of the history, chemistry and safety of glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides should be thoroughly considered in present and future re-evaluations of these dominant agrochemicals:
• Glyphosate is not a single chemical, it is a family of compounds with different chemical, physical, and toxicological properties.
• Glyphosate is increasingly recognized as having more profound toxicological effects than assumed from previous assessments.
• Global use of glyphosate is continuously increasing and residues are detected in food, feed, and drinking water. Thus, consumers are increasingly exposed to higher levels of glyphosate residues, and from an increasing number of sources.
• Glyphosate regulation is predominantly still based on primary safety-assessment testing in various indicator organisms. However, archive studies indicate fraud and misbehavior committed by the commercial laboratories providing such research.
We see emerging evidences from studies in test-animals, ecosystems indicators and studies in human health, which justify stricter regulatory measures. This implies revising glyphosate residue definitions and lowering Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) permissible in biological material intended for food and feed, as well as strengthening environmental criteria such as accepted residue concentrations in surface waters. It seems that although recent research indicates that glyphosates are less harmless than previously assumed and have complex toxicological potential, still regulatory authorities accept industry demands for approving higher levels of these residues in food and feed.
Friends of the Earth’s analysis finds that, on the fiftieth anniversary of its commercialization, Roundup sold to consumers is more toxic than ever before. Bayer pledged to remove glyphosate from Roundup products sold to U.S. consumers (which does not include agricultural or professional use Roundup) starting in 2023, in response to tens of thousands of lawsuits linking the weedkiller to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
We found that Bayer replaced glyphosate with combinations of four chemicals, two of which are banned in the European Union. The new Roundup formulations are 45 times more toxic to human health following long-term, chronic exposures, on average. They also pose significantly greater risks to the environment. What’s more, we found that Bayer has failed to remove glyphosate from all U.S. consumer Roundup products.
Bayer’s failure to warn consumers about the new risks posed by its reformulation of Roundup is negligent and should be unlawful. The fifty-year history of Roundup shows that chemical companies like Bayer cannot be trusted to protect consumer health. It is essential that lawmakers and regulatory agencies, including a strengthened Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), take responsibility for ensuring that people.
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A fascist AmeriKKKa, what’s that mean?
Clean thy brain of the Jews here: Anti-Imperialism and Indigenous methodologies w/ Sardana Nikolaeva and Masha Kardashevskaya
it is so so easy to see the way of the sicario, the techno-despots, the dictatorship of data . . .
And we just fucking watch?
And China? Those old Venom-dripping Fangs of Judiasm Rothschild and that other Rockefeller Mentality are all part of Brussels-New York-City of London-Switzerland.
Trump wants China to open up its key sectors like finance, real estate & high-tech industries so that his billionaire Zionist buddies can buy up the assets (using the freely printed USD the Fed gave them) and control China like they control America.
China’s embassy spokesperson, Liu Pengyu, said that China has maintained communications on trade matters with the US, but expressed concerns about U.S. policies, saying, “China once again urges the U.S. to immediately correct its erroneous actions, cease discriminatory restrictions against China and jointly uphold the consensus reached at the high-level talks in Geneva.” This response highlights China’s position that the U.S. is engaging in “erroneous actions” and abusing export control measures, particularly in the semiconductor industry.
This is a very polite way of saying that China is not going to play Trump’s silly game. If the administration chooses to break WTO rules and unilaterally ban Huawei’s new AI chips “anywhere in the world”, then they can expect that China will retaliate. The US is not used to someone its own size, calling its bluff, but that is simply the new reality.
But we think there is more to these “non-tariff barriers” than meets the eye. We think Trump’s real target is something much more ambitious and lucrative. Check it out:
This is pure fiction. Yes, China has lifted some restrictions on foreign banks and liberalized parts of its financial system, but the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) still exerts absolute control over China’s banking and finance sectors as well as the nation’s Central Bank which is led by the CCP. (“The PBOC sets monetary policy, interest rates, and reserve requirements, aligning financial policy with party goals like economic stability and growth.”)
There is no chance that China will follow the same path as the United States and put its future in the hands of the voracious miscreants who have taken everything of value and left the country drowning in red ink. Even so, there is reason for concern.
Oh, they call them Zionists when they are full-fledged Jews, and then Mushroom Dicks like Graham a Zionist when he’s full-fledged Christian C*nt.
“Someone called Will Chamberlain, who has 384,000 followers and seems to be another one of those legal types (judging by his bio), thought something could be really funny. I’ll let you guess what that something was…”
And more of the Judaism in Education, and those Jewish will inform us of their “anti” Semitism. Complete failure, USA Ed.
Goddamn. No health, no pharmacies, no sewers, no water systems, no schools-safety nets and sanity, but we got Crackpot Ed doing the fucking Jewish “thing” over and over and over . . .
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is now an opera – the case for adapting the book that the Auschwitz Museum said ‘should be avoided’
Do we need to read beyond the headline?
Striped Pajamas or Solitary confinement?
As it turns out, the new mic rule had come from the dean’s office. It appears that, in the wake of an embarrassing recent disruption of a speech by an Israeli politician on campus, and with the Trump administration on the prowl for any snafus that can be used to buttress their assault on colleges, the Princeton administration had decided that it was too risky to let speakers hold their own microphones while talking. The fear, I suppose, was that if speakers could hold their own mics and they decided to be disruptive or say embarrassing things, it would be too difficult to stop them. That it looked silly and made speakers feel stupid was surely a price worth paying to avoid another scene that might go public. Ironically, the subject of the event was the declining reputation of higher education with the public.
Given the litany of challenges that Trump II is presenting for colleges, it might seem that something like this is too trivial to notice. But I don’t think that’s right. Indeed, that this kind of thing has become common has helped enable Trump’s unprecedented attacks on higher education. My undignified experience was a symbol of the broader fact that colleges have become less serious places. They are losing the capacity for common sense. Treating students like helpless children has been a well-observed and pervasive trend. But the instinct to manage and meddle extends well beyond those to whom the college is supposed to stand in loco parentis.
Warning: This story contains references to suicide, which some readers may find disturbing. If you or a loved one is experiencing suicidal thoughts, help and support are available. Visit Befrienders International for more information about support services. By Tariq MaQbool
We all are in confinement, protesting the United Snake$ of Amnesia.
It’s a white white white white wrapping paper for dissidents and even just people who want to KNOW.
Here we go, more of the vapidness of a lobotomized culture, and the media, and the algorithms, and the cult of naval gazing and naval surgery.
Born between 1954 and 1965? You might be thrilled to learn you’re not a Boomer. You’re ‘Gen Jones.’
These not-quite-Gen Xers shares some pretty cool and unique traits. This sort of pablum, man all over the FU Book, X, Twitter, and the general news feeds. It’s enough to have a good boy look for high octane gasoline and a few thousand hypodermic needles.
Is this the unreal world of bombing babies, trillions for Jews/Goy-ionists in Banking and BlackRock sort of Mafias and for the Middle East, Raping Murdering Maiming, and Starving Polluting Poisoning Occupied Palestine?
the degradation, the devolving nature of the Psychotic White Nations and their Psychotic sycophants will purge the earth of good thinking people, wholesome people, the sale of the earth
The Shit-Hole It Always Has Been, and will be Forever, that is, until (the racists are buried deep in a lithium mine with water and bread and nothing else)
The Shit-Hole It Always Has Been, and will be Forever, that is, until (the millionaires are driven out of their tax havens and into the light of what a society is supposed to be)
The Shit-Hole It Always Has Been, and will be Forever, that is, until (the Indian Killers and Lynchers and Mass Murdering Loving Americans are put into Davey Jones Locker forever)
The Shit-Hole It Always Has Been, and will be Forever, that is, until (the young and old see that it is collectivism and socialism and individual agency that will rule the planet)
The Shit-Hole It Always Has Been, and will be Forever, that is, until (all the Holly-Dirt Liars and Media Mushers and PT Barnum Advertisers end up on the heap pile of history)
Small pathetic men and women of the U$A — this is the shit hole now, on crack under the Minyan in the White Man’s House ruled over by THAT Rapist in Chief.
Several Eastside Catholic School students, nearly all of them students of color, were pulled aside and “harshly” questioned by a U.S. border agent on their return from a school trip to Canada, according to a letter sent to families earlier this week.
The Sammamish private school said Friday it plans to file a formal complaint with U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Karen Hatch, a school spokesperson, declined to provide more information about the incident, citing the privacy of students.
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Investing in death. Forbes, of course, is a fucking liars post:
A new kind of arms race is underway—not for nuclear stockpiles or territorial conquest, but in the contested domains of artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and space-based defense. With rising threats ranging from hypersonic missiles to rogue-state satellite programs, the United States is laying the foundation for what could be the most ambitious defense upgrade in decades: a next-generation missile shield known informally as the “Golden Dome.”
Multimillionaires never ever quit in protest for a cause.
It’s heavy stuff, as Leslie Stahl says Owens (and CBS News CEO Wendy McMahon, who also resigned) served as vital “barriers” to keep Paramount (and, specifically, Shari Redstone) from tampering with the show’s work. Gently pushed by interviewer David Remnick to define where her own line would be, Stahl notes that there were conversations about a mass resignation of 60 Minutes staff in the wake of Owens’ announcement—but that the veteran producer asked his (now former) staffers not to quit on his behalf. “He explicitly asked us not to resign.”
Twain: “Patriotism is to support your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
“Patriotism is to support your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
“Patriotism is a menace to liberty,” – Emma Goldman.
“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons,” – Bertrand Russell.
“Patriotism is a religion, the egg from which wars are hatched,” – Guy de Maupassant.
“The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.” – Jane Addams
“Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.” – George Jean Nathan
“You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality.” — Malcolm X.
Ahh, patriotism! Fucking Third Grade Thinking Room Temperature IQ Cunt in the Oval Office and the Cunts Following him and the Jewish Miller running this shit show.
Gestapo or Israeli Occupation Genociding Forces, all the fucking same criminals:
Know your enemy — cops, pigs, FBI, ATF, any of the alphabet motherfucking agencies with bullets and guns.
A chaotic scene from a federal immigration raid on a popular San Diego restaurant is drawing new attention to government tactics in the push to fulfill President Trump’s promise to deport millions in a historic crackdown.
Video shared on social media and local news shows armed and masked agents in full tactical gear swarming the area near a popular Italian restaurant called Buona Forchetta late Friday afternoon.
A crowd of people gathers, filming and yelling in protest, surrounding cars and detention vans. Then, a momentary explosion of what appears to be a flash-bang grenade sends smoke floating through the street.
Civilian mass murderers, the JEWS.
An Associated Press photographer captured the moment an Israeli airstrike slammed into a building in Gaza City, showing a rare glimpse of the devastation Israeli air power has had on the Palestinian territory during the 19-month war with Hamas.
Jehad Alshrafi’s photos show a fireball, a massive cloud of smoke and people running away after Sunday’s strike.
THose AI motherfucking JEWS:
Yet another AI scandal has hit self-publishing, as an author left generative AI in a final draft of their book – but this isn’t an isolated incident, and reveals a growing, and deeply problematic, trend. The impact of AI on publishing has been hotly debated since the launch of ChatGPT, with concerns that it will be used to ‘write’ and publish content without human intervention – which is not just an issue for the creative community, but occasionally, for safety. AI-generated books on mushroom foraging, in particular, have been an example where incorrect information (which AI is well-known to produce) has the potential to be deadly.
Reality:
Professor Richard Falk, a leading scholar in international law and former UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine:
“The right of resistance was affirmed during the decolonization process in the 1980s and 1990s, and this included the right to armed resistance. However, this resistance is subject to compliance with international laws of war.”
Even the preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law”.
Israel does not comply with international laws of war—for example, the entire situation in Gaza is one of the most flagrant violations of Israel’s complete disregard, not only for the laws of war, but for the entire apparatus of international and humanitarian laws.
Palestinians, on the other hand, who are in a permanent state of self-defense, are driven by a different set of values than Israel. One is that they are fully aware of the need to maintain moral legitimacy in their methods of resistance….
“To the extent that there is real evidence of atrocities accompanying the October 7 attack, those would constitute violations, but the attack itself is something that, in context, appears entirely justifiable and long overdue,” Falk said. Palestine Chronicle
Look at you all, tired and hungry. What has happened to you? Did no one feed you? How heartless. Come, we will feed you. We will give you bread. We will give you your olive oil and water, too. Za’atar? We got that too.
Now, one by one, Make a line. Sit tight; the food is on the way. (And the tanks, too.) You’ll be hungry no more. You’ll sleep so well, you’ll snore. Have you all gathered around? Make sure no one’s left behind. Now, here, take this aid. Look, you’re dead!
Jews in a cage with SS watching them?
We are not witnessing a rupture with how things used to be.
What is unfolding today in Gaza, where food aid falls from the sky like ordinance and “humanitarian corridors” double as kill zones, is not the collapse of humanitarianism, but its logical consummation under conditions of settler-colonial necropolitics.
What happened in Tal al-Sultan on May 27 offered the world yet another glimpse into this emerging logic. At the launch of the GHF’s first aid distribution center, thousands of Palestinians gathered, driven by the extremity of hunger. As fences broke under the weight of the crowd, Israeli forces responded with what they called “warning shots.” By the end of the day, three Palestinians lay dead, 48 were injured, and seven others were missing. This was not the failure of humanitarian logistics; it was the logic fulfilled. The aid site became the set-piece where Israel can lure the starving into kill zones and use a loaf of bread as a pretext for a bullet.
Shit Hole Patriotism! At least $200 million for this one day faggotry. Expect Trump’s Military Parade to Cost More Than the Army Says. The Army says Trump’s June 14 military parade will cost up to $45 million. This is likely an underestimate due to unaccounted expenses.
Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., suspects the costs could be markedly higher than the current estimates. “This administration does not have a credible history of telling the truth about anything. And so, when they estimate $45 million, you know that’s a low-ball figure,” he told The Intercept. “I don’t know if it includes transporting the troops from their home stations to Washington or feeding them on that trip.”
Cohen brought up other costs from aircraft flyovers — “How much fuel do they burn up? How much maintenance is required before and after the flight?” — to the construction of stands and viewing platforms on the parade route.
The total burden on taxpayers could also soar higher because the federal government is on the hook to fix city streets and other infrastructure torn up by the armored vehicles (each Abrams tank, for instance, weighs almost 70 tons). “If military tanks were used, they should be accompanied with many millions of dollars to repair the roads,” said D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser in April, adding that tanks rolling through the city’s streets “would not be good.”
The Army says they have this covered — at taxpayer expense. “As a prevention measure to ensure there are no damages to the roads, one-inch-thick steel plates, varying in size from 4 feet by 8 feet and 8 feet by 20 feet will be placed on the roads at any pivot point and all new rubber tracks will be placed on vehicles,” Heather J. Hagan, an Army spokesperson, told The Intercept. “The federal government would be responsible for any damages.”
Additional expenses, like cleanup and an increased police presence, are also apparently not part of current estimates, although Daniel Gleick, Bowser’s press secretary, was unable to provide projected local costs. The sheer number of agencies the Army is working with, however, speaks to the likelihood of wide-ranging additional expenses. “The Army is coordinating with local law enforcement, National Park Services, District Department of Transportation, Federal Highways Administration, U.S. Park Police, and DC Water, who will assess the roads and bridges,” said Hagan.
One major expense of the parade to be borne by taxpayers is the cross-country transport of mammoth military vehicles. The Abrams tanks have, for example, already been loaded onto flatbed railcars at an industrial rail yard facility at Fort Cavazos, Texas, for their long journey toward Washington. The tanks will then be trucked to a staging area near the parade route.
The district will also be flooded with close to 7,000 troops. The Army did not want to disclose the locations for force protection reasons, but service members will be housed in the Agriculture Department and General Services Administration buildings, according to Pentagon sources. Contracting materials examined by The Intercept show the Army National Guard is seeking to rent “800 Sleeping Cots in Support of Army 250 Parade in Washington D.C.”
“They’re going to sleep on cots. They’re going to get cots and MREs,” said Smith, the Army spokesperson, referring to “meals ready-to-eat,” the military’s moniker for rations.
Cohen, the Tennessee representative, also referenced the inclusion of large numbers of National Guard members. “They’ll have to take time from their jobs. And are they being paid by the state extra for this time as being in the National Guard? That’s another expense,” he said.
The Army is also looking into potential lodgings — like hotel rooms or furnished apartments — to house 280 personnel from June 12 to 16 and another 275 personnel from June 13 to 16 near the National Mall. These people will, however, eschew MREs for more sumptuous victuals: a hot breakfast, a bag lunch, and a hot dinner, according to a request for information issued by the Army earlier this month. Smith said she did not have details about this effort. Hagan, the other Army spokesperson, did not have a more granular breakdown of other parade costs.
“I have no love for America, as such; I have no patriotism. I have no country. What country have I? Frederick Douglass.
Please, all of you fucking generals and politicians, drink acid NOW:
A book on ex-Defense Secretary James Mattis reportedly claims that the retired general said privately he’d “rather swallow acid” than watch the massive Fourth of July military parade that President Trump wanted.
Jews & Others: The AI data center race is getting way more complicated
Adjustments by Amazon and Microsoft reflect harsh realities: power grids that take years to expand, land speculators inflating prices, and overwhelmed utilities
There was just one problem with that analysis: The companies building these data centers say it’s wrong.
ANd, the SCOTUS scrotum scum: Supreme Court lets Trump end legal protections for 500,000 migrants, exposing more to deportation
THe financial criminals talk tough.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon sounded a warning Friday on the fractious US relationship with China — and on “the enemy within.”
“China is a potential adversary — they’re doing a lot of things well, they have a lot of problems,” Dimon said at the Reagan National Economic Forum in Simi Valley, California. “But what I really worry about is us. Can we get our own act together — our own values, our own capability, our own management.”
Dimon’s comments come as President Donald Trump’s tarrifs have sharply cut into trade between the United States and China, the world’s two biggest economies. Trump’s trade policy has whipsawed through different tariff levels and has also been caught up in court decisions, adding more uncertainty to what has become a testy relationship affecting economies around the world.
Dimon also warned that the standoff with China — which escalated Friday after Trump claimed Beijing “totally violated” its latest trade agreement — will not back down.
“They’re not scared, folks. This notion they’re gonna come bow to America, I wouldn’t count on that,” Dimon said.
A death culture that listens to fucking Dimon!
National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists are already issuing guidance ahead of a surge in temperatures this weekend, with inland areas across much of the state expecting temperatures to hit triple digits.
Since it is one of the first heat waves of the season, people might be unprepared for the hot temperatures, putting them at a greater risk for heat-related illness.
The tragedy of a good Indian is a dead or dying or drug- infected Indian.
That fucking Switzerland (neutral my ass) and that Nazi State!
Switzerland allows the sale of Leopard 1 tanks to Germany on condition that they are not transferred to Ukraine
Finishing on a cunt low point this Radio Head Multimillionaire scum:
Hamas Hamas Hamas, and the LIES he consumes.
Thom Yorke has released a statement about Israel and the war in Gaza. The Radiohead and Smile frontman began his statement by acknowledging the pro-Palestine concertgoer who shouted at him about the war during an Australian show last year. “Some guy shouting at me from the dark last year when I was picking up a guitar to sing the final song alone in front of 9000 people in Melbourne didn’t really seem like the best moment to discuss the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza,” Yorke shared. “Afterwards I remained in shock that my supposed silence was somehow being taken as complicity, and I struggled to find an adequate way to respond to this and to carry on with the rest of the shows on the tour.”
Yorke continued by stating his opposition to Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his government. (Around the time Radiohead last performed in Israel, in 2017, Yorke also made clear his opposition to Netanyahu.) “I think Netanyahu and his crew of extremists are totally out of control and need to be stopped, and that the international community should put all the pressure it can on them to cease,” the musician wrote. “Their excuse of self-defence has long since worn thin and has been replaced by a transparent desire to take control of Gaza and the West Bank permanently.” Additionally, Yorke called the blockade of aid to Gaza “horrific.”
Shut the fuck up, entitled fucking scum:
Yorke also condemned Hamas, admonishing the Palestinian Islamist group that governs the Gaza Strip for the October 7, 2023, attacks that precipitated the Israeli military’s offensive in the region. “Why did Hamas choose the truly horrific acts of October 7th?” he asked. “The answer seems obvious, and I believe Hamas chooses too to hide behind the suffering of its people, in an equally cynical fashion for their own purposes.”
They all must be shot and buried, these human stains: After gifting a Boeing 747 VIP jet to the United States, Qatar’s generous Emir escaped Doha’s scorching summer by sailing to Spain aboard his $500-million superyacht Al Lusail, a vessel longer than an NFL football field with six decks, multiple pools, and even a beauty salon.
His goal was for people to recognize that their fight for freedom, equality, and liberation was inseparable from the struggles of others around the world. He famously articulated the purpose of his oratory by declaring:
“To show the relationship between the struggle that is going on on the African continent and the struggle that’s going on among the Afro- Americans here in this country. I … would like to impress… the importance of realizing the direct connection between the struggle of the Afro-American in this country and the struggle of our people all over the world. As long as we think … that we should get Mississippi straightened out before we worry about the Congo, you’ll never get Mississippi straightened out. Not until you start realizing your connection with the Congo.”
Malcolm writes,
“Zionist Israel’s occupation of Arab Palestine has forced the Arab world to waste billions of precious dollars on armaments, making it impossible for these … nations to concentrate on strengthening the economies of their countries and elevate the living standard of their people”.
Because of this war economy, “the Zionist propagandists [utilize it] to make it appear to the Africans that the Arab leaders are not intellectually or technically qualified to lift the living standard of their people … thus, indirectly “inducing” Africans to turn away from the Arabs and towards the Israelis for teachers and technical assistance”
reading a new book by Will Potter, author of Green is the New Red (’11), and then newsfeeds just keep dinging me on my computer as I read his Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth from Farm to Fable
I’ll be interviewing Will Tuesday, for my radio show, Finding Fringe: Voices from the Edge, and it will air in July.
Here’s a blub — a promotional positive statement about the book:
“We are in a fight for our lives against a rising authoritarian tide, and this clear-eyed, compelling, clarion call of a book has a message everyone needs to hear. We will not save ourselves if we do not also fight for the lives of others–including non-human animals. No one is better positioned than Will Potter to connect the dots between fascism and factory farming, and he does so with energy, conviction, and incredible insight.” — — Astra Taylor, author of Democracy May Not Exist, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone
I’m digging the book he sent me. Stay TUNED.
Yes indeed, things have gotten really really worse, and the book thus far is about ag-gag, the history of those laws, and we go back farther than Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, way back to “Old McDonald Had a Farm.” Even farther back to Matthew in that book about bearing witness, or Islam and the concept of being a martyr, witness, whistleblower.
Oh, I recall this bullshit interview/debate on Democracy Now with Will Potter and the schill goofy woman working for the lobby, man, and the manufactured balance, the false balance, the broken equivalency.
My most recent radio interview about to hit the airways June 18, KYAQ.org, but DV and Paulokirk readers get the preview here: The right to community. And that is what the politicians and their thug dictators, the corporations, the polluters and the destroyers, want DESTROYED forever. The-Right-to/for/because of Community
So, moving on before I get back to reading Will’s new book, the infamy of AmeriKKKa and the world, as we slaughter not just the billions of birds and bovine and swine, but our fellow human beings.
Amer had a name. He had a smile. He was loved. He was real. And now, he is gone. We owe him more than silence. We owe Gaza’s starving children more than silence.
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I talk about this EVERYDAY — how do we go on without YELLING at the top of our lungs everywhere all the goddamn time?
What glorious days I wake up to! What mirth and joy the mornings conjure. After starting my day with coffee and Wagyu steak, I tap-dance to work and present my deck.
All fun and games with the friends at work, As we discuss last night’s game we streamed. “Oh, how he shot — and the one he missed — They should build him a statue in the city’s midst.”
At noon, I got the letter with the bonus check — My hard work is really stacking the deck! That called for a celebration, so we went To this exquisite bar a colleague had picked.
We did good business this year, my boss said, As our machines were deployed across the East and the West. We’re ramping up production — the demand is high. I already smell the next check — oh, how I fly!
We wrapped up another busy day at work, As we built more machines to send across the pond. On the way home, I called my spouse, And we went to her favourite: Roundhouse.
As we got home, on the TV they showed One of our products being dropped by the shore. Our President announced, “No holds will be barred, In support of our friends who always want more.”
Smacking my lips, I looked up the scrip, Giddy as a kid, I slept like a pig. More work tomorrow, as we must ship more Of our fearsome products to our friends by the shore.
Oh, what great progress! We have come so far. With my MIT degree, I have become a star. My machines hum low as they cross the sea, Carving silence where children used to be.
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More of the monsters, the criminals, the continuing criminal enterprises of finance and predatory and disaster and penury and polluting capitalism:
JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon calls on US to stockpile bullets, rare earth instead of bitcoin!
Crime boss in a 5,000 dollar suit:
“We should be stockpiling bullets,” he continued.
“Like, you know, the military guys tell you that, you know, if there’s a war in the South China Sea, we have missiles for seven days. Okay, come on. I mean, we can’t say that with a straight face and think that’s okay. So we know what to do. We just got to now go about doing it. Get the people together, roll up our sleeves, you know, have the debates.”
And so the clown show is so on track to take the USA down the path of intellectual-spiritual-agency starvation. No one in the NBC piece is railing against the military and the fool Trump, no-sir-ee.
Army says Trump’s military parade could cause $16 million in damage to Washington streets
The repair costs are part of the estimated $45 million price tag for the upcoming parade.
Bone spurs Trump, man, what a complete Rapist in Chief Fraud.
“We have the greatest missiles in the world. We have the greatest submarines in the world. We have the greatest army tanks in the world. We have the greatest weapons in the world. And we’re going to celebrate it,” Trump added.
The parade will be part of a massive celebration in downtown Washington that includes a number of events, historical displays and a demonstration by the Army’s famous parachute team, the Golden Knights.
The parade itself will include about 130 vehicles, including 28 M1A1 tanks, 28 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, 28 Stryker armored fighting vehicles and a number of vehicles towing artillery launchers. More than 50 helicopters will also participate in an “extensive flyover” in the nation’s capital.
The event will also bring more than 9,000 soldiers from around the country to Washington, about 7,000 of whom will march in the parade itself. The event will also include at least eight Army bands, and some troops will ride on the nearly three dozen horses and two mules expected to march as part of a historical section of the parade.
[Photo: Poison Ivy League school Harvard!]
And you thought colleges were places of sanity and caring? Forget about it.
As colleges halt affinity graduations, students of color plan their own cultural celebrations. Affinity graduations recognize the range “of challenges and obstacles” that students from minority backgrounds face as they work toward their degrees, said one professor.
Death spiral in almost 100 percent of American life:
The Harvard university joins many other institutions across the country that have canceled affinity graduations after the federal cracked down on funding for colleges. Notre Dame canceled its Lavender Graduation for 50 LGBTQ students, with members of the university’s Alumni Rainbow Community and the Notre Dame Club of Greater Louisville stepping in to host an independent ceremony this month.
Wichita State University, the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky also canceled some or all of their affinity ceremonies. The Hispanic Educators Association of Nevada said it canceled its event for Latino students because of a lack of financial support.
This is what education once again means to the perversions called US Secretary of Ed.
U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said her department will give the state ten days to sign an agreement rescinding its Native American mascot ban and apologizing to Native Americans for having discriminated against them and attempted to “erase” their history.
JP O’Hare, a spokesperson for the New York education department, dismissed McMahon’s visit as “political theater” and said the school district was doing a “grave disservice” to its students by refusing to consult with local tribes about their concerns.
“These representatives will tell them, as they have told us, that certain Native American names and images perpetuate negative stereotypes and are demonstrably harmful to children,” he said in a statement.
You feeling the dictator’s blues yet? President Trump has long called for escalating the U.S. drug war against Mexican cartels and wants tougher penalties for dealers selling fentanyl and other street drugs in American communities. “I am ready for it, the death penalty, if you deal drugs,” Trump said during a meeting with state governors in February, where he said dealers are too often treated with a “slap on the wrist.”
But despite his tough rhetoric, Trump has sparked controversy by pardoning a growing number of convicted drug dealers, including this week’s move to grant clemency to Larry Hoover, 74, who was serving multiple life sentences in federal prison for crimes linked to his role leading the Chicago-based Gangster Disciples.
“Larry Hoover was the head of perhaps the most pernicious, efficient drug operation in the United States,” Safer said. “They sold over $100 million of drugs a year in the city of Chicago alone. They were responsible for countless murders. They supported their drug territories with ruthless violence.”
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A LITTLE pushback?
What? Everything about Trump, man, is the most perverse, weird and dystopian and of course, Snake Oil Salesmanship and Three Card Monty and Chapter 11-13 full bore.
Not digging the Catholic Church, but can you imagine making rabbis tell the truth, the FOrtune 300 or 5,000 go before a board of truth and reconciliation? Imagine if the Jewish State of Murdering Raping Maiming Polluting Poisoning Starving Occupied Palestine had to disclose that client-extortionist privilege? Patient-Doctor confidentiality? Doesn’t exist, and DOGE is coming after the food stampers and the disability pittance receipients while the millionaires, billionaires and trillionaires get to keep their dirty feloneous secrets, well, secrets.
The sickness throughout the land, as Flag Day and Rapist in CHief’s B-Day and the Military Uniformed Mercenary Hired Guns Army have their anniversary, and we continue writing at Dissident Voice and elsewhere the crimes, man, the inhumanity, the absolute Orwellian and Phillip K. Dick nature of this dystopia.
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Some of us are tired of surviving
For many in Gaza, death isn’t always the worst outcome.
What kind of world forces people to beg for death to feel peace?
I’ve survived so many times now I’ve lost count. I was pulled from the rubble with my son after our home was flattened, walked for hours carrying a bag of bread and the bones of what once was a life, fled neighborhoods, towns, and streets we once called home, only to find no home waiting on the other side, and every time I survived, something else died. Sometimes, it was a friend. Sometimes a cousin and sometimes a colleague. Some other times it was the sound of my son’s laughter and my own belief that living means something.
Survival is not a blessing.
I’ve come to learn that survival is just another word for staying inside the pain. People wake up every day in a different place than where they were yesterday and find it more crowded and more tired and more broken. Stepping over children sleeping on cardboard under trees is now a normal thing, and the days are all the same. So are the struggles of hunger and water and the bitter metallic taste. The same questions about where we should go next, what we will eat today, and who else we’ve lost.
A reporter captured the moment at midnight, as the sky lit up like day from illumination flares.
The caption reads: “We are dying. The Israeli bombing is relentless. Women and children are the victims. No safe places left. No food, no water. Famine is spreading rapidly.”
I’ve sat with people who don’t run anymore when leaflets fall from the sky, I remember talking to a woman in Khan Younis who told me she stayed in her home after the first warnings. Her name was Sameera and she was sixty-two. Her husband was too sick to walk and she couldn’t carry him. “If we leave, we die on the road. If we stay, we die here,” she said. “At least here I know the ground. I know which walls will fall on me.”
She didn’t say it with fear. There was simply no fear left.
Another man in Deir Al Balah was standing in the middle of a bombed street and sweeping glass and dirt into a pile. He’d lost two of his daughters, and when I asked him why he didn’t leave earlier, he said, “I didn’t want to spend the last moments of my life running.”
It’s neither courage nor resistance, only exhaustion, the kind that comes with an understanding that in Gaza there is no such thing as a safe place. We just run until our legs and souls give out. And even if we make it out alive, we still carry the weight of every person who didn’t.
In one video, a child sits on top of the rubble sobbing. His father is still trapped beneath the debris.]
People always say survival is the goal and we’re lucky to have made it. But there’s no such thing as luck about people dissolving slowly and dying in slow motion.
During my months reporting from there, I saw children who don’t speak anymore. I once saw a boy in Jabalia who used to love cartoons but now just sits and stares at the wall. When I tried to ask for his name, he covered his ears. His mother said he hasn’t spoken since the missile hit their home and took his sister.
When someone cries out of an injury, we know they’re still holding on. But when they just stare at the ceiling as they bleed, we know they’ve already left, even if their body hasn’t.
There is nothing noble about this kind of survival. There is no aftercare or healing.
A young Palestinian student, Shayma, describes what it’s like to be forcibly displaced amid the devastation and having nowhere to go. The camera pans across the flattened neighborhood where she is sheltering.
We don’t want to die. But when some of us fantasize about death, it’s because we’re full of everything that hurts. Our moms whisper that they envy those who died peacefully and quickly. I myself used to shower in cold water at night just to feel something cold. My neighbor lost her baby to dehydration around the time my son and I were diagnosed with malnutrition in March 2024. She still carries his blanket in her bag.
And here my friends tell me to stay strong and safe. But I don’t want strength anymore. I don’t want to be the one who survived everything. I don’t want my son to grow up believing that pain is something you get used to or that losing everything and still breathing means you’re lucky.
We all have our tricks for trying to suffer a little less. Some stop talking about the people they lost because even saying a name is unbearable. Some lie to themselves and pretend their loved ones are still displaced just somewhere they can’t reach. Some stop eating because food feels like a betrayal when the person you used to share it with is gone.
I once believed that writing would help me make sense of it and that putting these stories down would somehow soften them. But even that doesn’t work anymore. I can’t keep writing about mass graves and call it documenting and narrating pain while still living inside it.
There is nothing poetic about this grief. It is ugly and it is heavy and it is repetitive. Sometimes I walk for hours just not to think and keep my body moving while my mind shuts down, or just to delay the next memory from arriving.
I still wake up sometimes believing we’re back home and feel like I’ll hear my mother’s voice and make coffee in our old kitchen.
The truth is, survival, when it’s endless and hollow and filled with nothing but hunger and mourning and fear… it begins to feel like a punishment.
We are alive in ways no one in this world would envy.
So when the people in Gaza no longer pray for safety, it’s because we’ve seen too much and lost too many.
the world of deals, that Trump world, it will never be in favor of we the people or the so-called GLobal South
This is the heart of the monster:
USDA HQ employees told to work remotely so office building can house soldiers in upcoming military parade
Follow the Money: Army’s 250th anniversary, which coincides with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday.
The email obtained by Government Executive says that access to USDA’s South Building will be restricted to essential employees from June 1 through June 20 and that maximum telework is recommended for individuals who work in the building. The parade is scheduled for June 14.
“Your school has 30 calendar days from the date of service of this Notice to submit written representations under oath and supported by documentary evidence, setting forth the reasons why SEVP should not withdraw your school’s certification,” the notice said. “If SEVP certification is withdrawn, your school will then no longer be approved to enroll or continue to educate nonimmigrant students.”
This is the value system of a culture of death, pettiness and puerile presidents! All those fucking creepy heads in the White Man’s House really working hard.
So, let’s start with a definition of what Kehinde Andrews means by a psychosis of whiteness:
“I use psychosis here as a metaphor to diagnose the delusional thinking that is necessary to maintain a racist society…”
Adding….
“To avoid facing up to its true nature, society creates myths and distortions, resulting in what I am calling the psychosis of Whiteness”
“China is so deeply engulfed in the psychosis of Whiteness that the government is pumping billions into transforming its population to be able to consume a Western diet. The symbolism could not be more apparent; milk is actually white.”
ANd it is a complete fail, USA: A new report from LendingTree paints a grim picture for first-time homebuyers in the Pacific Northwest, ranking Portland as the metro with the worst housing crisis outlook among the nation’s largest 100 cities.
The study analyzed vacancy rates, housing unit approvals, and home value-to-income ratios, concluding that three of the five worst metros are in the Pacific Northwest.
Portland – 1st
Boise – 2nd
Spokane – 4th
The study shows Portland has a median home value of $526,500, while the median household income is $94,573.
World markets and the U.S. dollar have surged this morning after a shock U.S. court ruling overnight that said the bulk of President Donald Trump’s sweeping import tariff hikes were outside his authority.
More fucking Jews on NPR talking with a head JEW: War crimes? Genocide, mowing the lawn, disproportionate beyond all measures, but the two Jews talk it up?
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
Many Israelis have criticized their own government’s conduct of this war, and that includes a former prime minister of Israel. Ehud Olmert is a longtime critic of his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu. He said for some time, including on this program, that Netanyahu seemed to have no long-term strategy, and now Ehud Olmert says something more, writing an article for an Israeli newspaper asserting that Israel is committing war crimes. He’s on the line. Welcome back to the program, sir.
EHUD OLMERT: Hi. Good morning.
INSKEEP: I want to acknowledge you previously rejected the accusation of war crimes against Israel. What specifically would have changed your mind?
OLMERT: Well, a couple of things. No. 1 – the fact that senior Israeli ministers in the cabinet called expressly and explicitly to deny any humanitarian needs from the people in Gaza, a couple of million people living in Gaza, and they say they should all starve and be demolished. This is a call for war crime by the many senior ministers in the cabinet, without one comment by the prime minister that he’s not – that he does not support this. And then, of course…
INSKEEP: I wonder if I could just interrupt for a second. From the very first days of the war, in fact, right on October 7, Israel blocked food and other aid from getting into Gaza. That has come and gone from time to time, but there have been statements like this all along. What pushed that over into war crimes if it was before?
OLMERT: It’s a matter of volume, you know? At some point, when it becomes critical, and there are hundreds of thousands of people looking for food, and the supply does not arrive because of the actions taken by the government of Israel with specific orders to deny these foods. At some point, it crosses the line which distinguishes it from just something which is not done to a crime. And this is what happens. This is one thing. I said there were two things.
Oh, the IRONY:
AI Cheating Is So Out of Hand In America’s Schools That the Blue Books Are Coming Back
Pen and paper is back, baby.
And the 250th birthday of the USA uniformed mercenary brigades? Ahh, those national symbols of AmeriKKKan decay.
Long lines, dirty bathrooms, closed campsites await visitors: national park experts warn
TrumpLandia:
Experts warn staffing cuts will jeopardize summer travel plans to national parks.
Reduced staffing could lead to long lines, dirty bathrooms, and could compromise public safety.
Staffing shortages could also increase wildfire risks, park advocates warned.
A swarm of parasites. No two ways to look at it.
Israel authorizes more Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank
Israel has already built well over 100 settlements across the territory that are home to some 500,000 settlers.
And so, what are the five? Pentagon orders civilian employees to submit money-saving ideas. It’s the last step in the “5 bullet points” weekly email exercise After this week, Defense Department civilians will no longer have to submit an email list of five things they accomplished over the previous week, according to a Friday email from the Pentagon’s acting personnel chief, ending a requirement the Pentagon put in place back in March.
Hmm, what is it that the Pentagon relies on? HOW many contractors?
Their last email, due Wednesday, must include one idea that will “improve the Department’s efficiency or root out waste,” according to the message from Jules Hurst. It shouldn’t include anything classified or sensitive, he added.
“Your weekly emails have served as a reminder of the depth and breadth of the Department’s mission, and of how it takes a workforce of many talents to achieve our national security mission,” Hurst wrote in the email.
The “5 bullet points” exercise first came down from the Office of Personnel Management in February, an initiative by the Department of Government Efficiency, a White House advisory board.
For staff, it was one more requirement on top of existing internal weekly reviews.
“We still have not been told what its true purpose is or who will read it. It’s an internal joke,” a Defense civilian told Defense One after the requirement came out in March. “This is just one more report each week that takes time away from the actually important work we have to do, for which we’re already overworked and underpaid.”
[Pentagon spending has totaled over $14 trillion since the start of the war in Afghanistan, with one-third to one-half of the total going to military contractors. More than half of the annual Department of Defense budget is now spent on military contractors, and payments to contractors have risen more than 164% since 2001, from about $140 billion in 2001 to about $370 billion in 2019. A large portion of these contracts have gone to just five major corporations: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman. Military contracting can be called the “Camo Economy” because it camouflages from public view the full costs of the wars both in human and economic terms — the number of contractors employed, injured, and killed is not transparent, nor is there detailed information on the dollars flowing from the Pentagon through prime contractors and many layers of sub-contractors.
While billions of dollars are spent on DoD-funded contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, many of the individuals working for those contractors and their sub-contractors receive extremely low pay while working long hours in bad work environments with minimal labor and legal protections. More than half of the people working under U.S. contracts are either “Host Country Nationals” or “Third Country Nationals” – the latter is the term used for migrant laborers who often face the worst exploitation.
Critics have raised major economic and security concerns including the concentration of defense contracts among just a handful of large firms, exorbitant prices for goods and services, fraudulent contracts, and the “revolving door” between the large defense contractors and government, such as that between Halliburton and the Bush administration.
The growth of private contracting has increased not only in the military, but also in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where private contract employees outnumber government employees in United States intelligence operations.
Weapons makers have spent $2.5 billion on lobbying over the past two decades, employing, on average, over 700 lobbyists per year over the past five years. That is more than one for every member of Congress.]
Fucking Gestapo:
Missouri has agreed to abide by a request from the federal government to turn over personal data about anyone receiving food assistance, the state social services agency confirmed to The Independent Tuesday.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture earlier this month requested sensitive data from states about participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, including their Social Security numbers and addresses, in what it says is an effort to ensure program integrity.
That request has prompted concerns among privacy and hunger groups, who have argued it violates federal privacy law and data protections.
Fucking Crazy: In a Tom Clancy-worthy twist, North Korean hackers cracked the transponders of Roman Abramovich’s $600-million superyacht Eclipse, anchored in Turkey for three years, and broadcast its cloned identity 4,700 miles away so a cargo ship could smuggle banned coal to China.
THey all must be macheted to be the chum for the great white sharks: After gifting a Boeing 747 VIP jet to the United States, Qatar’s generous Emir escaped Doha’s scorching summer by sailing to Spain aboard his $500-million superyacht Al Lusail, a vessel longer than an NFL football field with six decks, multiple pools, and even a beauty salon.
Follow the Money? The Algorithm Follows Us to Make the Money
…Those who control the narrative, control the (fill in the blank, but hint hint, ‘world’)
…Those who control the food, control the (fill in the blank, but hint hint, ‘world’)
…Those who control the water, control the (fill in the blank, but hint hint, ‘world’)
…Those who control the money, control the (fill in the blank, but hint hint, ‘world’)
…Those who control the media, control the (fill in the blank, but hint hint, ‘world’)
…Those who control outer space, control the (fill in the blank, but hint hint, ‘world’)
…Those who control the data, control the (fill in the blank, but hint hint, ‘world’)
Throwing in that “Big data” fishnet just a decade ago was the big new addition to the scientific method: Try to find even the most vague or minimally-recognized studies, and then let the computer develop the patterns.
Ahh, was it David Quammen or some of the other thousands of sources I have utilized over a 45 year period that exposed me to that rare but highly interesting factoid that a woman’s daily diary entrees while living in Costa Rica allowed science to research why the birthrate had fallen and the survival rate had plummented for the golden toad.
She catalogued the changing cloud and mist and fog cover in her homeland, and over a thirty year period, she meticulously recorded all number of tidbits of observation, including that reduction in the clouds hitting the treeline.
Do the Google AI search, and nothing pops up.
It’s pure lies, these AI generated responses: Quoting below.
While the story of a woman’s diary specifically detailing the golden toad’s decline and its link to reduced mist in Costa Rica might be fictional or anecdotal, the core issue of the golden toad’s extinction and its relation to changing cloud forest conditions is well-documented.
Here’s a breakdown of how changes in mist and fog likely contributed to the golden toad’s disappearance:
1. Golden Toads and Their Cloud Forest Habitat:
The golden toad was endemic to a small, high-altitude region within the Monteverde Cloud Forest in Costa Rica, an environment known for its constant mist, high humidity, and a rainy season.
These specific conditions were crucial for the golden toad’s breeding cycle and survival.
2. Climate Change and Reduced Mist:
Climate change has altered weather patterns globally, and the Monteverde Cloud Forest was not spared.
Researchers have observed a decrease in mist and moisture levels in the cloud forest, potentially due to rising temperatures and shifting cloud patterns.
This reduction in mist could have made the environment drier, impacting the golden toad’s delicate skin and potentially leading to dehydration.
3. Impact on Breeding:
Golden toads relied on rainwater pools for breeding.
Reduced mist and rainfall likely led to the drying up of these crucial breeding pools, hindering the toad’s ability to reproduce successfully.
4. The Chytrid Fungus:
Changes in climate, including drier conditions, could have created a more favorable environment for the chytrid fungus, a deadly pathogen that affects amphibians.
This fungus attacks the skin of frogs and toads, disrupting their ability to absorb water and electrolytes, ultimately leading to death.
In Summary:
While a diary account remains unsubstantiated, the scientific consensus points towards climate change, leading to a reduction in mist and rainfall, as a significant factor in the golden toad’s extinction. These altered environmental conditions likely impacted the toad’s ability to breed and may have increased its vulnerability to the deadly chytrid fungus.
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So, my own Substacks (I have three under pseudonyms) have varying levels of so-called rant and railing and deep deep disregard for most authorities. A few hundred subscribers, and very few are paid ones.
Because I do these “news” headline “essays,” my own news feeds have been corrupted with many times the opposite sort of sources I would go to for reliable information — Israeli rags, USA mainstream, European mainstream, defense/offensive professional journals, Bloomberg and Fortune, et al.
What happens, though, is a reverse osmosis sort of play on the hourly news that gets fed to me via Bing, Yahoo, AP, UPI, CNN, and the list goes on.
It’s not exactly a deep and sophisticated exercise that might end up on Dissident Voice, but I’ll attempt one now:
1. Forgone conclusions, and this is the techno-fascist world controlling the narrative and that narrative is controlled by the oligarchs and the virus of a shifting baseline disorder and rampant disregard for a precautionary principle and the value of looking at intended and unintended (rare) negative effects of these titans of capital and their Brave Banal Evil Doers, the scientists, engineers, fabricators, technologists, et al.
Exhibit A (infinity is really that number):
Looks and sounds like a geek, such a nice sweet looking banal sort of fellow?
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says in the next 5-10 years, AI will disturb more jobs
He urged teens to become code ninjas to deal with the AI-driven world
He also said that the youngest generation, Gen Alpha, must start experimenting with AI as soon as possible
As the world dashes into an AI-driven future, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has a clear message for teens: learn now or be left behind. Hassabis leads Google DeepMind, the advanced research lab behind the company’s most high-end AI developments, including the Gemini chatbot. The lab is also spearheading Google’s efforts toward achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) — a yet-unrealised form of AI capable of human-level reasoning. At the recent Google I/O developer conference, Hassabis said DeepMind is likely less than a decade away from building AGI. As he works in such an environment, he certainly knows what form AI will take in the near future. (India Today, of all rags I get in my feeds)
There are many many paywalls now, so anything from the NYT, well, I have to do end-arounds sometimes to read the entire pieces, but headlines and sub-headlines do the trick:
Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think. Others welcome the shift.
Go to Redditt on this one headline and you get all sorts of opinions and personal experiences with codes.
I’ve written much about Amazon, and I even organized with SEIU against Amazon’s warehouse unsafe warehouse conditions and their anti-union stance.
But the geeks and all those soccer moms and geek dads want their children not to marry cowboys but to marry coders and software engineers, or drone impresarios: A “17-year-old designed a cheaper, more efficient drone. The Department of Defense just awarded him $23,000 for it.”
Dual Use, man, dual use which is always Capitalist Abuse and Military Murder Hardware: Cooper Taylor, 17, aims to revolutionize the drone industry with a new design.
Taylor designed a motor-tilting mechanism to lower manufacturing cost and increase efficiency.
Taylor has spent the last year optimizing a type of drone that’s being used more and more in agriculture, disaster relief, wildlife conservation, search-and-rescue efforts, and medical deliveries.
All drone technology is for murdering, in the end.
And what fuels these death machines, these genocide facilitators? Geeks in high school robotics Olympics.
A breathtaking flyover of nearly every United States Air Force fighter and bomber jet soared during a Florida air show Saturday, stunning footage of the historic aerial display showed.
Seven of the top military aircraft, called the “Freedom Flyover,” united as “one unstoppable force” for thousands of people to take in over Memorial Day weekend at the Hyundai Air and Sea Show in Miami Beach.
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Somehow it ALWAYS comes down for me from these feeds back to the Jewish State of Murdering Raping Starving Polluting Poisoning Occupied Palestine:
As thousands of Israeli nationalists and religious Jews on Monday marked Jerusalem Day, which celebrates Israel’s 1967 capture of east Jerusalem, some chanted “Death to Arabs” while marching through Muslim neighborhoods. Protesters, including an Israeli member of parliament, also reportedly stormed a compound belonging to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
[Oh, you can call these Jews in Israel Right-wing Nationalists, or pro-settler extermists, but they are in the Jewish State of Israel, and they are Jewish. Calling them Jewish is not anti-semitic, and leaving out the term “zionist” is not an error of omission.]
Last year’s procession, which came during the first year of the war in Gaza, saw ultranationalist Israelis attack a Palestinian journalist in the Old City and call for violence against Palestinians. Four years ago, the march helped set off an 11-day war in Gaza.
Tour buses carrying young ultranationalist Jews lined up near entrances to the Old City, bringing hundreds from outside Jerusalem, including settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Police said they had detained a number of individuals, without specifying, and “acted swiftly to prevent violence, confrontations, and provocations.”
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And, the IOF, Israeli Occupation Forces, well, they do teach many US police departments on “crowd suppression,” pressure point holds, subbing peaceful protestors, and strong-arming old ladies and teens.
And, as always, NBC, or whichever mainstream and corporate media outfit, will always suppress the reality — Some fear excessive use of force will rise as the DOJ drops oversight of police departments.
George Floyd, Michael Brown?
“It is important to not overstate what consent decrees do,” said Jin Hee Lee with the Legal Defense Fund, referring to the power of federal courts to enforce orders. “They are very important and oftentimes necessary to force police departments to change their policies, to change their practices,” she added. “But consent decrees were never the end all, be all.”
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Then you get this Jewish Fervor, and who the hell wants to defend the Poison Ivy School, but you have to under the Rapist in Chief Trump and his henchman, Stephen Miller:
At the Harvard Kennedy School, the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke Harvard’s eligibility to enroll international students — temporarily blocked in court — could eliminate nearly 60 percent of the student body.
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Until the last half-decade, the majestic lesser flamingo had four African breeding sites: two salt pans in Botswana and Namibia, a soda lake in Tanzania, and an artificial dam outside South Africa’s historic diamond-mining town of Kimberley.
Now it only has three.
And then, I get tons of wildlife and climate news: “Lesser flamingos lose one of their only four African breeding sites to sewage.” Emblematic at how messed up the polluting Homo Consumopethicus is. Sewage. Shit.
This sort of stuff, all these headlines, all these stories, seemingly disconnected, unrelated in theme, well, the theme is clear — Capitalism is a Cancer Supported by Economic Wars and Genocide and a Mafia that is Global in Its Reach. Is that a good enough connecting headline?
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Thank goodness that I have writers for Substack who put it all into perspective, how this world is up shit creek illustrated by the War on People in Palestine.
I tended my garden with great care — Olives, thyme, dates, sage, and rosemary there. Well before fajr and long after isha’s call, No effort was spared in looking after them all.
From tiny seeds to flowers in full bloom, I watched them glow in sun’s majestic light. And as the first buds of the olives came to life, Every glance, every day was an endless delight.
Wearied days would vanish at their sight Each bloom I touched made my mornings bright I would count my blessings: one, two, three, four… Up to ten — then countless more.
Then came the fire that scorched it all — Thyme, dates, sage, and rosemary gone. One gnarly olive barely hangs by a thread; My waking moments are soaked in tears, eyes red.
Now with every breath, a prayer escapes: Protect my olive — please keep it safe. It’s the last remnant of a heart so full, a life well lived, In service of my garden, my people, and God the Esteemed.
You blessed Yaqub with a garden vast, Only to separate him from Yusuf, the rose of his heart. Yaqub complained, yearned, and wept till blindness veiled his eyes You, the Merciful, answered his prayers and restored old ties.
So bless me, as You did Yaqub in the end — Restore the coolness of my eyes, O Ibrahim’s Friend. “For I too have the gift of song which gives me courage to complain, But ah! ‘tis none but God Himself whom I, in sorrow, must arraign!”
Your infinite wisdom is beyond my grasp, So, to Your rope of hope I must clasp. “The lessons of patience I teach my heart, As though to night’s separation I show a false part.”
Only Total Collapse Will Rouse Humanity from Its Suicidal Sleepwalk
Editorial Comment:
I have been issuing warnings since the genocide began and every nation and institution failed to stop it. Not one invoked the appropriate legal mechanisms designed for such a crisis that would have ended abuse of veto, ousted Israel from the United Nations and imposed sanctions on the genocidal entity. I am pleased to see more activists understanding the extent of manipulation and deception we have all been subjected to.
There is no hope for the world to be found in any government, institution or movement that can normalize ties with or fail to stop a genocidal oppressor.
There can be no faith in leaders that place interests above moral principles.
There is no salvation to be found standing with those too cowardly to act in the face of murderous criminality.
The hope of humanity rests solely on the shoulders of each awakening individual and on movements in the grassroots bases who have never lost touch with reality and are willing to defend life at all costs.
Karim has brilliantly and succinctly presented the many facets of our present dilemma in the article below.
Once we abandon fantasy and begin with these truths, realistic solutions and avenues of dissent, resistance and revolution can constellate and finally manifest.
As Gaza’s children burn while the world watches, it becomes clear: only climate catastrophe, nuclear armageddon, or World War III may force humanity to abandon Western capitalism’s suicidal path.
The brutal death march of global capitalism does not pause for our lamentations. It grinds forward with mechanistic certainty, reducing human bodies to raw material and human aspirations to market commodities. We stand now at the precipice of a darkness so profound that our collective imagination fails to grasp its dimensions.
Gaza Exposed the Multipolar Fantasy
Let us dispense with comforting illusions. The mythologies we have constructed about saviors – whether BRICS nations, ‘multipolar world orders’, institutions of international law, or benevolent statesmen – have disintegrated before our eyes.
As Gaza burns and its children scream under collapsing concrete, we witness Russia making backroom deals with the architects of genocide. As Palestinian bodies pile in makeshift morgues, China issues empty declarations at the United Nations while its trade with the genocidal regime continues uninterrupted.
These are not the actions of counterweights to empire. They are the maneuvers of players within the same global system, differing perhaps in position but not in fundamental nature. They have shown themselves to be integral components of the very machinery we hoped they would dismantle.
We have watched, with desperate hope, the Palestinians stand against overwhelming military force, the Lebanese resisting occupation, Ibrahim Traore challenging neocolonial structures, Syrians and Yemenis enduring apocalyptic bombardment.
We projected onto them our desperate yearning for liberation from the imperialist hellscape spreading like wildfire across our planet. But they cannot do it alone, and our delegation of hope to others is itself a form of moral abdication.
The Frightening Truth is: It Really Comes Down to Us
The terrible truth we must confront is this: the responsibility is ours. The revolution required is not national but global, because the capitalist system has metastasized globally.
It has burrowed deep into the institutional structures of every society, captured the regulatory mechanisms that might constrain it, corrupted the informational systems that might expose it, and weaponized the technological systems that might liberate us.
Consider the grotesque spectacle of our current moment: we watch genocide in real-time on social media platforms owned by billionaires who fund that same genocide, we march in permitted protests that change nothing, we sign petitions that disappear into administrative voids. Meanwhile, the machinery of death continues unabated, and the architects of suffering retire to coastal mansions and mountain retreats after receiving fifty standing ovations for speeches that are nothing more than celebrations of mass murder.
The ruling classes have constructed a system of control so comprehensive, so technologically sophisticated, and so psychologically insidious that most cannot even perceive the depth of their enslavement. The surveillance apparatus tracks our movements and predicts our thoughts. The military-industrial complex develops weapons of terrifying precision to eliminate those who resist too effectively. The propaganda system manufactures consent with algorithmic efficiency.
All Wish to Sit at the Blood-Soaked Table of Imperialism
As vanessa beeley and Fiorella Isabel so meticulously lay out for us, Putin, for all his anti-Western rhetoric, demonstrates through his actions that he seeks merely better terms within the imperial arrangement, not its dissolution. His government works in tacit coordination with Israel while claiming to stand against Western hegemony. This is not resistance; it is negotiation for a better position at the blood-soaked table of imperialism.
And what of China? Does it dream of global equality? Let’s rephrase, do ruling elites anywhere envision a future where they stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the peasants in the villages they dominate? History speaks to us with terrible clarity. The powerful do not relinquish power voluntarily. Systems of exploitation do not reform themselves out of existence. The capitalist machine — whether neoliberal or state capitalism — will not decommission itself out of ethical awakening.
We have already weathered global catastrophes that should have taught us these lessons. World War I reduced a generation of young men to shredded flesh in muddy trenches, yet we learned nothing. World War II revealed the industrial-scale horror humans could inflict upon one another, yet we learned nothing. The grinding machinery reassembled itself, adapted, and continued its relentless accumulation.
“Humanity appears incapable of changing direction without first experiencing the catastrophic consequences of its current trajectory. We seem determined to learn only through suffering, to change only when continuation becomes impossible”
World War III
The terrifying conclusion becomes unavoidable: only the total breakdown of global society will create the conditions for fundamental transformation. This is not a wish but a recognition of historical pattern. The entrenchment is too deep, the control too complete, the psychological captivity too thorough for anything less than systemic collapse to break the spell.
What form will this breakdown take? Perhaps nuclear winter that eliminates most of humanity. Perhaps the collapse of ecological systems that sustain human life. Perhaps the return of fascistic brutality in World War III as soldiers march through our streets, rounding up our women and children to violate their dignity and take away their innocence while the men disappear into torture camps. The specific manifestation matters less than the certainty of its arrival if our course remains unchanged.
This is the darkness we must stare into without flinching. Humanity appears incapable of changing direction without first experiencing the catastrophic consequences of its current trajectory. Even high-definition genocide—burning children and prisoner rapes streamed directly to our iPhones—fails to move us to effective action. We seem determined to learn only through even more extreme suffering, to change only when our current path becomes literally impossible to continue.
Resistance
Yet within this terrible recognition lies a seed of possibility. If we understand the machinery of our destruction with unflinching clarity, if we abandon the comfortable myths that absolve us of responsibility, if we recognize that no external force will save us from ourselves – perhaps then we might begin the work of genuine resistance.
Not the performative — flag-waving, song-singing, tweet-sharing — resistance that leaves power structures intact, but the fundamental reimagining of human society. Not the delegation of hope to distant leaders, but the reclamation of our collective agency. Not the comfortable protest that returns home for dinner, but the sustained commitment to dismantling systems of death.
The machinery of global capitalism does not pause for our lamentations, but neither is it invulnerable to our determined opposition. The question remains whether we will summon the courage to oppose it before the breakdown comes, or whether we will continue sleepwalking until we awaken amid the ruins.
Only Total Collapse Will Rouse Humanity from Its Suicidal Sleepwalk
Little wonder that I am Back on Dissident Voice, but not shouting at the ramparts or calling the bastards BASTARDS, since name calling is not allowed at Dissident Voice.
I called Stephen “I Am a California KKK Jew” Miller**, what, fascist (no neo in that term) and called him a Gestapo-Loving-Bar-Mitzvahed Cunt. Called him the architect of Trump’s White Man’s House rendition — kidnapping — of student protestors and anyone that looks “Latino/Central American” who might upset his racist supremacists psychotic white chosenness in a regime of Rapist in Chief Trump’s White Man’s (lots of Jews) House.
“A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet.”
“A Jew by Any Other Name — Talmudist, Orthodox, Reformed, Cultural, Settler, Colonialist, Perdatory — is Still a Genodicier that stinks like death!”
And thusly, calling this inverted totalitarian shit-hole anyting but corporate-conjoined-with-politics fascism is a lie, a big lie, and using a million words to describe the “birth of a nation,” man, you might as well just go to the racist and queer Peter Thiel for what he believes in:
Musk, Thiel, Murdoch, and their cronies are backing a movement against democracy.
Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech financier, has written, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”
If freedom is not compatible with democracy, what is it compatible with?
Thiel donated $15 million to the successful Republican Ohio senatorial campaign of J.D. Vance, who alleged that the 2020 election was stolen and that Biden’s immigration policy meant “more Democrat voters pouring into this country.” (Vance is now high on the list of Trump vice presidential possibilities.)
Thiel also donated at least $10 million to the Arizona Republican primary race of Blake Masters, who also claimed Trump won the 2020 election and admires Lee Kuan Yew, the authoritarian founder of modern Singapore.
Stephen A. Schwarzman, the billionaire chairman and chief executive of the Blackstone Group — who had called the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol an “insurrection” and “an affront to the democratic values we hold dear” — is backing Trump because he believes “our economic, immigration and foreign policies are taking the country in the wrong direction.”
Trump recently solicited a group of top oil executives to raise $1 billion for his campaign, promising that if elected he would “immediately” reverse dozens of environmental rules and green energy policies adopted by President Biden. According to The Washington Post, Trump said this would be a “deal” for them “because of the taxation and regulation they would avoid thanks to him.”
Lies are truth, man:
Speaking from the World Economic Forum’s confab last January in Davos, Switzerland, Jamie Dimon — chair and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, the largest and most profitable bank in the United States, and one of the most influential CEOs in the world — heaped praise on Trump’s policies while president. “Take a step back, be honest,” Dimon said. Trump “grew the economy quite well. Tax reform worked.”
Rubbish. Under Trump the economy lost 2.9 million jobs. Even before the pandemic, job growth under Trump was slower than it’s been under Biden.
“The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of ‘capitalist democracy’ into an oxymoron.” — Peter Thiel
If “capitalist democracy” is becoming an oxymoron, it’s not because of public assistance or because women got the right to vote. It’s because billionaire capitalists like Musk and Thiel are intent on killing democracy by supporting Trump and the neofascists surrounding him.
Not incidentally, the 1920s marked the last gasp of the Gilded Age, when America’s robber barons ripped off so much of the nation’s wealth that the rest of America had to go deep into debt both to maintain their standard of living and to maintain overall demand for the goods and services the nation produced.
When that debt bubble burst in 1929, we got the Great Depression. Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler then emerged to create the worst threats to freedom and democracy the modern world had ever witnessed.
If America learned anything from the first Gilded Age and the fascism that grew like a cancer in the 1930s, it should have been that gross inequalities of income and wealth fuel gross inequalities of political power — as Musk, Thiel, and other billionaires are now putting on full display. Inequalities of power in turn generate strongmen who destroy both democracy and freedom. [Elon Musk and Peter Thiel’s War on Democracy]
Names? Fucking South African Racist Semen Drips? Too much in a time of genocide?
Ahh, taxation for, by, with, because of the regular PEOPLE? NOPE.
What’s in the bill? Section 8 and housing aid on the chopping block
The proposed legislation would:
Eliminate new funding for Housing Choice Vouchers (Section 8)
Freeze or reduce renewal funding for current voucher holders
Add new income verification rules that could disqualify recipients
End emergency rental assistance programs launched during COVID
Nothing is supposed to work in fascism: Head of controversial US-backed Gaza aid group resigns, citing concerns over independence and impartiality
“I am proud of the work I oversaw, including developing a pragmatic plan that could feed hungry people, address security concerns about diversion, and complement the work of longstanding NGOs in Gaza,” said Wood in a statement.
“However, it is clear that it is not possible to implement this plan while also strictly adhering to the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence, which I will not abandon,” he added.
Duh, and he’s a GQ military boy!
Jews (you can’t call the Israel terrorists terrorists or Jews in mixed company!): Mossad Reps Working to Block Sale of Advanced Fighter Jets to Saudi Arabia
According to a report on the Intelligence Online website, Israeli security representatives in Tokyo — including a former deputy head of the Mossad whose identity was not disclosed — expressed direct concern to their Japanese counterparts regarding the inclusion of Saudi Arabia in the future fighter jet development project.
Israel has also shown growing concern over the possibility that sixth-generation fighter jets, equipped with advanced stealth technology and sensor fusion systems, might be delivered to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
This year, shortly after Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni publicly supported Saudi Arabia’s inclusion in the program, it was reported that Mossad liaisons contacted their counterparts in Tokyo, warning that cooperation with Saudi Arabia could “fundamentally alter the geopolitics of the Middle East” and even lead to the leakage of military technology to Russia.
And the war lords/monsters keep beating their stock portfolios for more, more, more.
Raytheon has received a $580 million contract from the U.S. Navy to build more units of its Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band system. The system helps block enemy radar and communications using advanced electronic signals.
Ahh, all those states smacking their fucking War Lord Loving lips: Forest, Mississippi; McKinney, Texas; El Segundo, California; and Andover, Massachusetts.
Ahh, the backward fucking Cunt-Tree-Tis-Of-Thee! Fossil fuels are by far the largest contributors to global warming, accounting for more than 75% of global greenhouse gas emissions and nearly 90% of carbon dioxide emissions.
That was 2020!
When I say teachers saved my life, I mean it. In this essay, I wrote about the educators who saw something in me when I couldn’t see it in myself and why the current push to dismantle the Department of Education is not just misguided, but dangerous. We should be talking about how to find and keep more teachers like the ones I had—not about gutting the systems that help them reach the kids who need them most. If you’ve ever had a teacher who made a difference in your life, I hope you’ll read and share.
Finally, before the really depressing story, one once again proving birds are smarter than the average Cunt Musk Type and Cunt Musk Lover: Vladimir Dinets was driving his daughter to school one morning when a flash of movement caught his eye. He watched as a young Cooper’s hawk darted out of a tree, soared low to the ground along a line of cars and dove into a nearby front yard.
Dinets is a zoologist at the University of Tennessee who specializes in animal behavior and intelligence, so the scene naturally piqued his curiosity. But when he watched the exact same scenario play out a few days later, Dinets realized something scientifically interesting might be going on. He decided to investigate.
The bird seemed to understand that, whenever a human pushed the pedestrian crossing signal, a long line of cars would back up down the street. The savvy creature then used the vehicles as cover to launch a sneak attack on a group of unsuspecting birds gathered in a nearby home’s front yard. Dinets details the hawk’s clever behavior in a new paper published Thursday in the journal Frontiers in Ethology.
“When I figured out what was going on, I was really impressed. I didn’t expect that,” Dinets tells the Guardian’s Nicola Davis. “On the other hand, every time I study some animal species it proves smarter than I expect.”
Dinets observed the hawk for 12 total hours over the course of 18 weekday mornings in a neighborhood in West Orange, New Jersey, during the winter of 2021 to 2022. He watched as the bird attempted six attacks on the prey flock, but because of where Dinets was positioned, he couldn’t see how many of the hunts were successful. On one occasion, however, he did see the hawk fly away with a sparrow gripped in its talons, and on another, he saw the hawk eating a mourning dove on the ground.
As Gaza’s children burn while the world watches, it becomes clear: only climate catastrophe, nuclear armageddon, or World War III may force humanity to abandon Western capitalism’s suicidal path.
The brutal death march of global capitalism does not pause for our lamentations. It grinds forward with mechanistic certainty, reducing human bodies to raw material and human aspirations to market commodities. We stand now at the precipice of a darkness so profound that our collective imagination fails to grasp its dimensions.
Gaza Exposed the Multipolar Fantasy
Let us dispense with comforting illusions. The mythologies we have constructed about saviors – whether BRICS nations, ‘multipolar world orders’, institutions of international law, or benevolent statesmen – have disintegrated before our eyes. As Gaza burns and its children scream under collapsing concrete, we witness Russia making backroom deals with the architects of genocide. As Palestinian bodies pile in makeshift morgues, China issues empty declarations at the United Nations while its trade with the genocidal regime continues uninterrupted.
These are not the actions of counterweights to empire. They are the maneuvers of players within the same global system, differing perhaps in position but not in fundamental nature. They have shown themselves to be integral components of the very machinery we hoped they would dismantle.
We have watched, with desperate hope, the Palestinians stand against overwhelming military force, the Lebanese resisting occupation, Ibrahim Traore challenging neocolonial structures, Syrians and Yemenis enduring apocalyptic bombardment. We projected onto them our desperate yearning for liberation from the imperialist hellscape spreading like wildfire across our planet. But they cannot do it alone, and our delegation of hope to others is itself a form of moral abdication.
The Frightening Truth is: It Really Comes Down to Us
The terrible truth we must confront is this: the responsibility is ours. The revolution required is not national but global, because the capitalist system has metastasized globally. It has burrowed deep into the institutional structures of every society, captured the regulatory mechanisms that might constrain it, corrupted the informational systems that might expose it, and weaponized the technological systems that might liberate us.
Consider the grotesque spectacle of our current moment: we watch genocide in real-time on social media platforms owned by billionaires who fund that same genocide, we march in permitted protests that change nothing, we sign petitions that disappear into administrative voids. Meanwhile, the machinery of death continues unabated, and the architects of suffering retire to coastal mansions and mountain retreats after receiving fifty standing ovations for speeches that are nothing more than celebrations of mass murder.
The ruling classes have constructed a system of control so comprehensive, so technologically sophisticated, and so psychologically insidious that most cannot even perceive the depth of their enslavement. The surveillance apparatus tracks our movements and predicts our thoughts. The military-industrial complex develops weapons of terrifying precision to eliminate those who resist too effectively. The propaganda system manufactures consent with algorithmic efficiency.
All Wish to Sit at the Blood-Soaked Table of Imperialism
As vanessa beeley and Fiorella Isabel so meticulously lay out for us, Putin, for all his anti-Western rhetoric, demonstrates through his actions that he seeks merely better terms within the imperial arrangement, not its dissolution. His government works in tacit coordination with Israel while claiming to stand against Western hegemony. This is not resistance; it is negotiation for a better position at the blood-soaked table of imperialism.
And what of China? Does it dream of global equality? Let’s rephrase, do ruling elites anywhere envision a future where they stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the peasants in the villages they dominate? History speaks to us with terrible clarity. The powerful do not relinquish power voluntarily. Systems of exploitation do not reform themselves out of existence. The capitalist machine — whether neoliberal or state capitalism — will not decommission itself out of ethical awakening.
We have already weathered global catastrophes that should have taught us these lessons. World War I reduced a generation of young men to shredded flesh in muddy trenches, yet we learned nothing. World War II revealed the industrial-scale horror humans could inflict upon one another, yet we learned nothing. The grinding machinery reassembled itself, adapted, and continued its relentless accumulation.
“Humanity appears incapable of changing direction without first experiencing the catastrophic consequences of its current trajectory. We seem determined to learn only through suffering, to change only when continuation becomes impossible”
World War III
The terrifying conclusion becomes unavoidable: only the total breakdown of global society will create the conditions for fundamental transformation. This is not a wish but a recognition of historical pattern. The entrenchment is too deep, the control too complete, the psychological captivity too thorough for anything less than systemic collapse to break the spell.
What form will this breakdown take? Perhaps nuclear winter that eliminates most of humanity. Perhaps the collapse of ecological systems that sustain human life. Perhaps the return of fascistic brutality in World War III as soldiers march through our streets, rounding up our women and children to violate their dignity and take away their innocence while the men disappear into torture camps. The specific manifestation matters less than the certainty of its arrival if our course remains unchanged.
This is the darkness we must stare into without flinching. Humanity appears incapable of changing direction without first experiencing the catastrophic consequences of its current trajectory. Even high-definition genocide—burning children and prisoner rapes streamed directly to our iPhones—fails to move us to effective action. We seem determined to learn only through even more extreme suffering, to change only when our current path becomes literally impossible to continue.
Resistance
Yet within this terrible recognition lies a seed of possibility. If we understand the machinery of our destruction with unflinching clarity, if we abandon the comfortable myths that absolve us of responsibility, if we recognize that no external force will save us from ourselves – perhaps then we might begin the work of genuine resistance.
Not the performative — flag-waving, song-singing, tweet-sharing — resistance that leaves power structures intact, but the fundamental reimagining of human society. Not the delegation of hope to distant leaders, but the reclamation of our collective agency. Not the comfortable protest that returns home for dinner, but the sustained commitment to dismantling systems of death.
The machinery of global capitalism does not pause for our lamentations, but neither is it invulnerable to our determined opposition. The question remains whether we will summon the courage to oppose it before the breakdown comes, or whether we will continue sleepwalking until we awaken amid the ruins.
– Karim
Here’s the piece in Dissident Voice:
An “In” on Getting in Small Town Newspapers
Start with the national/international celebratory stuff, then go for the anti-Capitalist jugular
Thousand-word Opinion Editorials are a fine thing to pen, and you can cover a lot of ground in this amount of verbiage. Normally, local rags limit letters to the editor to 300 words, and alas, in this sound bite sort of scrolling-on-the-screen culture, going over a 500-words limit is the kiss of death — you lose your reader.
But there is a method and mad dash of hope in this formula of once-a-month tributes to hard work, that is, highlighting the hard work of “heroes” in this hard land of penury and disaster and predatory (retaliatory) capitalism.
Today’s piece in my local rag (5/21) is emblematic of my own proof that we can fight the surge of shallow thinking and even shallower writing.
Here, just heading home from assisting at the 60+ Center (senior adult center), I caught this show, on the radio station where I broadcast my own Wednesday show, Finding Fringe. 6 PM, PST, streaming live on kyaq.org.
East Orosi hasn’t had safe drinking water in over 20 years. The water is full of nitrates, runoff from industrial agriculture, which is harmful to human health. The community has taken action to find a solution, from lobbying at the state capital to working with neighboring towns.
And they may finally have one. New California laws, passed in the last five years, have opened up funding to build water infrastructure in small towns like East Orosi. But even as laws and funding develop, implementation has been challenging.
We visit East Orosi and talk to Berta Diaz Ochoa about what it’s like living without clean drinking water and the solutions on the horizon in part one of a two part series. — Listen.
So, imagine, a sound bite around the issues of field workers pulling up crops that are destroying healthy water systems, forcing them to have to drink that toxic water or paying for bottled water to survive. Is water a human right? In California is it.
So, take ANY community, not just the fenceline ones, the communities that are in the sights of the perveyors of criminal capitalism because they are poor and probably BIPOC, and then find how infrastructure and services and even bloody retail enterprises like pharmacies or grocery stores are being gutted by Capitalism, pre-Trump/post-Trump.
You have any axes to grind? You live in a flyover state or rural community?
Efforts to write it off as “disappearing” are complicated by the 60 million Americans who call a rural community home.
We must recognize that innovation, diversity of ideas and people, and new concepts don’t need to be imported to rural communities – they’re already there. Rural entrepreneurs and community leaders have always, by necessity, been innovative.
Rural communities have faced some harsh realities in the last generation: they’ve seen manufacturing move overseas, farming monopolized by big outfits with only 5% of rural residents working in agriculture, generational migration to bigger cities, school consolidation, and the absence of basic community resources such as health care and broadband, and, more recently, threats to the lifeline that is the U.S. Postal Service. This, and the pandemic.
Every brightly lit corporate store on the edge of town is a monument to a system that does not build community or advance a healthy entrepreneurial ecosystem.
While noting the decades of gerrymandering to enhance the power of rural officials, New York magazine author Ed Kilgore concludes, “Underlying it all are real differences in outlook between different parts of the country, made more important by the distinct institutional features of a constitutional system designed to protect the interests of small, largely nonmetropolitan states.”
Sorry, Ed; the values of citizens of rural areas have as much to do with school violence and immigration resistance as do video games. In fact, Kilgore undermines his own argument by citing Ronald Brownstein’s analysis in the Atlantic of the red-blue divide. Alas, the same Ronald Brownstein reported on CNN just one week later that a prosperity gap was the source of the split between Democrats and Republicans. “Observers in both parties agree that the sense of economic displacement in recent years has intensified the long-standing movement toward the GOP among small-town and rural communities initially rooted in unease over cultural and demographic change.” It’s fair to observe that gun-loving nativists did not create the dismal economic prospects that drove them to vote for candidate Trump.
It is true that after years of civic disengagement, rural voters turned out in record numbers to elect the only coastal elitist who showed up in their communities and asked for their votes. So, Trump won and Clinton lost. Beyond that, any generalization about the impact of rural citizens on national politics is just horsepucky. Rural citizens didn’t create the electoral system that permits unlimited campaign donations to state officials who draw Congressional districts to favor entrenched wealth. In fact, rural citizens are the victims of gerrymandering as much as any disenfranchised cohort that ends up in a noncompetitive legislative district.
Alas, here’s the Google Gulag AI response to “all the problems in rural America”:
Rural communities face numerous interconnected challenges that can be described as “broken systems” due to a combination of historical disinvestment, geographic isolation, and economic shifts.
Here’s a breakdown of some key broken systems in rural communities: 1. Healthcare:
Limited Access: Rural areas often have a shortage of healthcare providers, specialists, and hospitals, forcing residents to travel long distances for care.
Hospital Closures: Rural hospitals are closing at an alarming rate due to financial difficulties and staffing shortages, further limiting access to care.
Lack of Services: Rural areas may lack crucial services like mental health care, substance abuse treatment, and specialized medical care.
2. Economic Systems:
Job Losses: Rural communities have experienced significant job losses due to the decline of manufacturing and agriculture, leading to higher unemployment and poverty rates.
Limited Opportunities: A lack of diverse industries and businesses can limit economic opportunities for residents, particularly young people. Brain Drain: Young, educated individuals often leave rural areas for better opportunities in urban centers, further weakening the local economy.
3. Infrastructure:
Poor Broadband Access: Many rural areas lack access to reliable, high-speed internet, hindering economic development, education, and access to telehealth.
Inadequate Transportation: Limited public transportation options can isolate residents and make it difficult to access jobs, healthcare, and other essential services.
Aging Infrastructure: Rural areas may have aging infrastructure, including roads, bridges, and water systems, which require significant investment to repair and upgrade.
4. Education:
School Consolidation: Rural schools have been consolidated, leading to longer commutes for students and the loss of local schools as community anchors.
Funding Challenges: Rural schools often face funding challenges, which can impact the quality of education and available resources.
Teacher Shortages: Rural schools may have difficulty attracting and retaining qualified teachers, impacting student outcomes.
5. Social Systems:
Social Isolation: Geographic isolation and limited social opportunities can contribute to social isolation and mental health challenges for residents.
Lack of Community Resources: Rural areas may lack access to essential community resources such as libraries, childcare facilities, and recreational opportunities.
It’s important to note: These “broken systems” are interconnected and often exacerbate each other. The challenges faced by rural communities vary depending on location, demographics, and economic conditions. Addressing these challenges requires a multi-faceted approach involving government, businesses, non-profit organizations, and community members.
+–+ Here is May 21st’s piece.
Identify, Diversify, and Harmonize How We Think this May
By Paul Haeder/Lincoln County (Oregon) Leader One may wonder how the heck did we get all these national and international days of celebration. It is a feature of Homo sapiens to celebrate accomplishments and honor causes and individuals who make the world, well, theoretically a better place.
May is no exception, and of course, the International Workers’ Day is May 1. In this time of rampant hatred of so many professions by Trump and Company, it goes without saying that his shallow but deeply narcissistic persona just will never grasp the value of the worker.
His entire raison d’être is about tearing down and imploding institutions and attacking individuals for which he deems “the enemy.”
The billionaire classless cabal sees workers as the enemy. And the goals of the International Workingmen’s Association in 1864 were clear: Shorter work hours; safer work environment; fair wages; elimination of child labor; the ability for the state to regulate labor conditions.
Ironically, I was in Ashland on International Firefighters Day, talking to two captains in the city’s two fire stations. I was told that a few years ago firefighters responded to 1,600 calls annually. Last year, Ashland’s stations went out over six thousand times.
Aging in place and lack of family and support precipitates many of the EMT calls. And a fire engine they are waiting for is still four years out, to the tune of $2 million once it’s completely outfitted.
If you watch the milquetoast mainstream media, you will have recalled the Accused Sexual Predator Trump made a mockery of National Teacher Day by laughing at all the cuts to the hundreds of educational initiatives smart and reasoned individuals over decades had initiated for the betterment of society through the intellectual progress of our youth.
Another group of workers in the bulls eye of Musk, Thiel, Stephen Miller and Vance/Trump is nursing professionals. We see the almost total breakdown of nursing and doctoring in Lincoln County because of the hard reality of a for-profit health care system putting profits over patients. Add to that the lack of affordable housing, and rural counties throughout the land are suffering massive nursing and doctor shortages.
Which then brings us to National Day of Reason, where groups of people see the value in enlightened thinking. You know, valuing the separation of church and state, which for all intents and purposes under this fascist regime has been imploded into a crusade against reasoned thinkers who do not see prayer or faith as central to their lives.
Humanists and Secularists created this National Day in response to the national day of prayer.
Celebrations have taken the form of blood drives, secular events and activities, and in some cases, protests against the National Day of Prayer. Imagine Trump and Company having the wherewithal to wrap their heads around this celebration – the Secular Week of Action when people volunteer to make the world a better place.
Two not necessarily different international recognition days in May include World Day for Cultural Diversity and International Day for Biological Diversity. Did you get the memo yet that Trump-Vance are on the attack against affirmative action and ecological health.
In fact, on the biodiversity front, Trump and Company have “redefined” harm as it is applied to the Endangered Species Act. This pinhead thinking is just the tip of the iceberg of clownish but dangerous moves.
Defenders of Wildlife explains:
“Trump administration is hell-bent on destroying the ESA to further line the pockets of industry. The vast majority of imperiled wildlife listed as endangered or threatened under the ESA are there because of loss of habitat. This latest salvo to redefine ‘harm’ to eliminate protection for wildlife from habitat destruction, if successful, will further imperil threatened and endangered species. We will fight this action and continue to protect the wildlife and wild places we hold dear as a nation.”
Are you seeing the pattern carried out by billionaires such as Miriam Adelson, Larry Fink and Larry Ellison? Given the fact half of American cities are under air advisories, we have International Asthma Day to lend pause to how destructive these executive actions have been and will continue to be decades from now.
‘Harm’ is what unchecked air pollution in many forms continues to do to young and old. Harmful air advisories come in daily, and the fear is that Trump will just ban the notifications as a way to say, “See, I have cleaned up the air since there are no more warnings.”
Maybe we can pray the polluted air away.
The backers of Trump’s ideal America will see our “secular humanist” society based on science and reason destroyed. The Ten Commandments will form the basis of the legal system.
Finally, we have World Press Freedom Day. If you have any deep regard for the so-called Fourth Estate, then shivers should be running up your spine under this anti-journalist regime.
Mickey Huff of Project Censored states press freedom succinctly:
“We have to remember that it’s the independent media that is often the grassroots voice of the people. It is often the independent press that is operating on ethical standards and principles, and it is the independent press that is reporting in the public interest, not the corporate media.”
Diversify your news media diets. Find independent outlets, and for journalists, we need to reform the media and create better avenues for news reporting, including better accuracy and what we call “solutions journalism,” which creates truly constructive dialogue in our communities.
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Footnote: And not one mention of the genocide in Gaza, the trillions stolen from Arab nations’ populations, the trillions stolen from citizens of Canada, EU, USA, for the starvation and immolation and rape of a people.
There are no other topics to write about with the same amount of importance that Palestine conveys, from every aspect of War Terror of the Capitalists of both Jewish and Goyim descent.
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GUERRERO: Right. So this is one of the reasons I was drawn to Stephen Miller’s story, the fact that he grew up in Southern California in the ’90s at the same time that I did. You know, I’m a couple years younger than him, and I grew up just a couple hours south of where he grew up in Santa Monica, Calif.
And I remember, you know, the incredible anti-immigrant hostility that was pervasive in California at the time, which may be surprising to people because California is known as such a deep-blue state and kind of leads the charge against the Trump administration today. But in the ’90s, it was sort of ground zero, like a microcosm for what we’re seeing nationally today. There were unprecedented attacks on immigrants through a proposition called Prop 187, which, you know, targeted social services for children of undocumented migrants. It was later ruled unconstitutional. There was also attacks on bilingual education statewide. There were attacks on affirmative action.
And the Republican governor of California at the time, Pete Wilson, you know, was repeatedly railing against what he called the invasion at the border – the same language that you see Trump using today – and blaming all of the state’s fiscal problems on immigrants, you know, running these ads on television that I remember watching about how – you know, showing families coming across the border, and there’s this ominous narrator over the video saying, they keep coming.
And from my reporting, it became clear to me that Stephen Miller is truly a product of this environment. He was internalizing a lot of these white supremacist and racist narratives that were common in the state and acting them out, you know, in his high school. He ends up going to Santa Monica High School, this public high school that’s very diverse. And he would go around, from a very young age, expressing, you know, racist viewpoints, telling his Mexican classmates to speak English and to go back to their countries if they couldn’t learn the American way. He, you know, would go to school board meetings to argue passionately against measures to improve racial equity. Around this time, he broke – he ended a friendship with a Mexican friend, telling him that he could no longer be friends with him because of his Latino heritage.
So, you know, from a very young age, expressing these viewpoints that would later manifest in the immigration policy and the rhetoric that we’re seeing out of the White House. And I truly see it as a case study in radicalization.
GROSS: So during the period of Stephen Miller’s life when he started to be kind of radicalized about immigration, be very anti-immigration, it was also the period when his father had one or more economic setbacks. What was going on in his family at the time?
GUERRERO: So Stephen Miller’s family was going through a period of turmoil that, you know, kind of mirrored the period of turmoil that California was experiencing at the time. You know, Stephen Miller’s dad – he was tangled up in numerous legal disputes related to his real estate company. One of them was a fight that he got into with his brother, so Stephen Miller’s paternal uncle, about – you know, Stephen Miller’s uncle was accusing Stephen Miller’s father of dishonesty in the real estate company and not being honest with investors about how their money was being spent. And, you know, they get into this prolonged multiple legal disputes. And meanwhile, Stephen Miller’s father is also suing his former law firm for allegedly kicking him out of the law firm, which allegedly violated their partnership agreement.
And anyway, he ends up losing a lot of money during these legal disputes that he’s tangled up with. He also has a bunch of bankruptcies related to the fact that there’s this earthquake in Los Angeles at the time that leads to all this damage to his real estate properties. And Stephen Miller’s family at this time ends up having to move from this very affluent part of Santa Monica to a less – a slightly less affluent part. It’s still a nice house, but, you know, it’s a less affluent part of town, and it’s a more diverse neighborhood. And Stephen Miller, instead of attending a private high school the way that his brother – his younger brother later would, he ends up having to go to this public school, Santa Monica High School.
GROSS: Back when Stephen Miller was in high school, he listened to right-wing talk radio. He listened to Rush Limbaugh, who was broadcasting out of California then. And he listened to a show called “The Larry Elder Show” on KABC. The LA Times described Larry Elder as a darling of white listeners who seemed to almost gush when they telephoned him on KABC talk radio, astonished to find a Black man who not only wasn’t going to chastise them but who often agreed with them. So he starts off listening to “Larry Elder,” then he calls in to “Larry Elder,” then he becomes a guest on “Larry Elder.” How did he get to the point of being a guest on right-wing talk radio?
GUERRERO: Yeah. From a very young age, Stephen Miller has been really great about using the media to forward his views and to get power. And, you know, when he was a teenager, Larry Elder, when he heard Stephen Miller call in and start to criticize his high school for its multiculturalism and alleged lack of patriotism, you know, regurgitating a lot of the views that Stephen Miller had been hearing on “Rush Limbaugh,” Larry Elder was just super impressed. He tells me that he just couldn’t believe that there was this teenager who was so articulate and, you know, so passionate about these issues. Stephen Miller didn’t really, you know, um or like, like other teenagers. He was very articulate. And so Larry Elder starts to invite him as a guest regularly because he was so impressed with him.
Finally — Interesting. And possibly a sign of how completely FUCKED up capitalism was and is. Malls? How many are there, and how underutilized are they, and the fucking parking lot footprint, car spaces enough for that busy Xmas shopping one week before Santa. Montreal readies to turn east-end mall into densified neighbourhood with green space: Place Versailles redevelopment project promises to have 6,000 apartments, school, hotel and parks
A former mall in Montreal will soon gain new life as a mixed-use development with a “strong green vision,” reports Isaac Olson for CBC.
The site of Place Versailles, a 62-year-old shopping complex, will include roughly 6,000 housing units (including 1,000 social housing units), a school, and a hotel. The massive, $2.2 billion project will likely take as many as 25 years to complete.
Local residents worry about impacts on local infrastructure including the nearby Radisson Metro station, as well as the height of the proposed buildings (25 stories in a neighborhood where 2 stories is currently the norm).
“In response, the city has indicated that the building heights along the residential streets of Pierre Corneille and du Trianon will be adjusted to eight and six floors, respectively.” Julien Hénault-Ratelle, a city councillor in Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, pointed out that the proposal does not include “adapted or adaptable” units that would enhance accessibility.
Vacant commercial space is everywhere, and a recent study from the real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield quantifies just how many buildings nationwide are mostly or partially empty. Overall, about a fifth of U.S. office space was vacant as of the end of last year.
We find an unprecedented imbalance in supply and demand which, by the end of the decade, will result in a surplus of 330 million square feet of vacant office space that hasn’t kept pace with demands to support hybrid working and efficiency/ESG priorities. The imbalance in demand is further accentuated by a growing quality gap: demand for high-quality office product that can accommodate hybrid strategies and provide a strong in-person experience is dramatically higher, while demand for product that cannot meet modern-era tenant requirements is dramatically lower.
Yet converting spaces has proved expensive, complicated and time-consuming, with the process often also steeped in bureaucracy. It’s also harder to do for buildings constructed after 1950, according to Robert Fuller of the architecture firm Gensler.
“A lot of the kind of older prewar office buildings have already been converted and tend to work fairly well,” Fuller told NPR last year. “What we’re seeing now is a flood of buildings built in the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s that were much deeper. The advent of air conditioning and fluorescent lighting allowed these much larger floor-plate buildings, and those tend to be a little bit more challenging.”
That’s because the center is often darker and doesn’t get sunlight.
I’m not digging the state of my own mental state now that we are impotent and ingrained against the dirty dealings of Jews and their Thugs in Capitalism — I AM Fucking Depressed
I put myself through this Webinar above before heading out to the beach, Devil’s Churn, an expensive 7.5% hard cider. Doctors Against Genocide!
All college degrees are now worthless: Dirty dirty fake fucking Universities: Worthless degrees from Poison Ivy League but a few enlightened graduates. Can you believe the two terrorist flags, Jew-David/Sicario and Stars and Bars, at a graduation.
Anti-Israel protesters briefly disrupted an outdoor commencement address given by Brown University’s president in the United States on Sunday.
Shortly after Christina Paxson began, her speech was interrupted for several minutes by shouting as she told the graduates, “I would really like to give you your degrees.” She eventually resumed with some people continuing to shout.
“No rest till Brown divests,” the protesters chanted.
Refusing to attend Israeli events? Signing Petitions?
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Kaveh Akbar, Michelle Alexander, Fatima Bhutto, Dionne Brand, Jericho Brown, Judith Butler, Amit Chaudhury, Anne Chisholm, Siddhartha Deb, Junot Díaz, Natalie Diaz, Inua Ellams, Annie Ernaux, Nick Estes, Percival Everett, Eve L. Ewing, Shon Faye, Mary Gaitskill, Greg Grandin, Guy Gunaratne, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Marilyn Hacker, Isabella Hammad, Mohsin Hamid, Omar Robert Hamilton, Afua Hirsch, Cathy Park Hong, Leslie Jamison, Ha Jin, Daisy Johnson, Owen Jones, Naomi Klein, Hari Kunzru, Rachel Kushner, Jhumpa Lahiri, Raven Leilani, Ben Lerner, Jonathan Lethem, Layli Long Soldier, Valeria Luiselli, Carmen Maria Machado, Miriam Margolyes, Hisham Matar, Maaza Mengiste, China Miéville, Pankaj Mishra, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Tea Obreht, Torrey Peters, Max Porter, Casey Plett, Derecka Purnell, Sally Rooney, Jacqueline Rose, Arundhati Roy, Sarah Schulman, Kamila Shamsie, Christina Sharpe, Nikesh Shukla, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Gillian Slovo, Ahdaf Soueif, Astra Taylor, Jacques Testard, Miriam Toews, Jia Tolentino, Justin Torres, MG Vassanji, Cecilia Vicuña, Ocean Vuong and Mirza Waheed.
On the beach today:
Then, a cider, in Yachats, reading The Sun and Poetry Northwest, and what about Palestine?
Goddamn, they all need prosecution, CEOs, dual use fucking companies and universities, all of them:
The Hind Rajab Foundation claimed that Peru opened a formal investigation into an IDF soldier following a complaint it had filed.
The complaint was reportedly filed by Julio César Arbizu González, who is described by the foundation as “a prominent Peruvian human rights lawyer and legal counsel to the foundation.”
Look at these fucking Goyionists: So African countries must depend on the fucking Empire, the Black House Negroes and Tio Tacos and White Trash?
US military shifts messaging in Africa, telling allies to prepare to stand on own
The U.S. military is backing off its usual talk of good governance and countering underlying causes of African insurgencies
“I’ve always professed that AFRICOM is not just a military organization,” Gen. Michael Langley said last year. He called good governance an “enduring solution to a number of layered threats — whether it be desertification, whether it be crop failure from changing environments, or whether it be from violent extremist organizations.”
The “whole of government approach” no longer occupies the same place at the center of U.S. messaging, though Langley said holistic efforts have worked in places like Ivory Coast, where development coupled with defense had reduced attacks by jihadi groups near its volatile northern border.
But such successes aren’t a pattern.
“I’ve seen progression and I’ve seen regression,” said Langley, who is scheduled to exit his post later this year.
The U.S. military’s new posture comes even though many African armies remain ill-equipped and insurgent groups expand.
This dirty country, man: Take out the history of the Jewish race in Palestine? A Texas public library did not violate patrons’ right to free speech by removing books due to their content, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled on Friday.
The entire appellate court, in a 10-7 decision, overturned federal district court and appellate court rulings finding the Llano County (Texas) Library System erred in removing 17 books due to their content.
[Llano resident, Emily Decker, right, and Llano County resident Michael McDavid, left, protest outside a Llano County Commissioner’s Court meeting at the Llano County Law Enforcement Center on Thursday, April 13, 2023 in Llano, Texas. The Commissioner’s Court met to discuss closing the Llano County library system rather than comply with a judge’s order to return several controversial books to the libraries’ shelves. “Books. That’s why we’re here. Books,” Decker said.]
Prison Radio, Mumia!
Good fucking Rapist in Chief Trump’s Littler Germans: This sign and tens of thousands of others, to be chopped down.
The country of Cunt-Tree Bumpkins:
(Name of property) belongs to the American people, and (name of land management Bureau) wants your feedback. Please let us know if you have identified (1) any areas of the (park/area, etc. as appropriate) that need repair; (2) any services that need improvement; or (3) any signs or other information that are negative about either past or living Americans or that fail to emphasize the beauty, grandeur, and abundance of landscapes and other natural features.
“the National Park Service is counted among our country’s greatest storytellers, guiding visitors through America’s complex history of triumph and tragedy alike. As Americans, we have entrusted the brave professionals at the Park Service to tell the truth about the events that shaped our nation at Gettysburg, Birmingham, Stonewall, and beyond. This new order from the Secretary of the Interior instructs land managers to post signs asking visitors to report so-called negative information being shared there about past or living Americans. These signs could have a chilling effect on rangers just trying to do their jobs and tell the truth. When the Trump administration tries to rewrite American history, it is the American people who will suffer most.”
Another fucking rich cunt:
With a net worth of $1.2 billion, Gary Tharaldson is the richest person in North Dakota, according to Forbes’ list of the wealthiest people in each state.
Tharaldson, the state’s first andonly billionaire, bought his first Super 8 motel in 1982 in Valley City, a community of 6,500 people west of Fargo. He has since “built, owned and operated over 480 hotels, opening one new hotel per month on average over 40 years,” Forbes reported.
Tharaldson sold 130 hotels to Goldman Sachs in 2006 for about $1.2 billion. Before the sale, his company was the largest privately held hotel company in the country. He invested $280 million to open an ethanol plant near Fargo in 2008.
Elon Musk, $418.5 billion
Mark Zuckerberg, $226.6 billion
Jeff Bezos, $225.1 billion
Larry Ellison, $202.1 billion
Warren Buffett, $157.9 billion
Larry Page, $133.8 billion
Steve Ballmer, $131 billion
Sergey Brin, $128.2 billion
Jensen Huang, $115.9 billion
Rob Walton, $114.5 billion
MAGA: protecting the homeland from Canadian bookworms /A dispatch from the library that straddles the US-Canada border
STRADDLING THE the border between Canada and America is the Haskell Free Library and Opera House. It serves two places—Stanstead in Canada’s Quebec province and Derby Line in Vermont—which are a single community. Along with the library, the twin towns share water and sewerage systems. For more than a century the library was an example of America’s special friendship with its neighbour. Not only did the pair once have the longest undefended border in the world, spanning roughly 9,000 kilometres, they shared books too.
United Snakes of Jewish Control, and don’t believe they aren’t Racists.
Citing state crackdowns on diversity, equity and inclusion, the organization that accredits medical schools has dropped diversity as a measure of the quality of medical education.
The Liaison Committee on Medical Education on May 19 voted to eliminate diversity programs and partnerships as criteria when it grades the performance of medical schools that confer “MD” degrees to students.
The liaison committee said it acted because new and proposed state laws targeting diversity, equity and inclusion conflict with the accrediting body’s standards. Eliminating diversity standards would create “a single set of accreditation expectations with which all schools, regardless of their location and current legislative environment, must comply,” the liaison committee said in a statement.
Sick sick sick — the nations that starve starve starve: ‘Bigorexia’ Is On The Rise. Here’s What Parents Should Know. Although it can affect anyone, this lesser-known disorder commonly affects boys and young men.
Can we just take the Kool-Aid NOW?
Parents today are generally aware of mental health conditions that relate to body image, including common disorders like anorexia. But experts warn a lesser-known issue is on the rise, particularly among boys: muscle dysmorphia, aka “bigorexia.”
“Bigorexia is a psychological condition and type of body dysmorphic disorder which involves a distorted self-image that focuses specifically on muscle size and physical appearance,” Kara Becker, a certified eating disorder therapist and national director of eating disorder programs at Newport Healthcare, told HuffPost.
We are such a devolving nation of cunts, the rich, the Wall Street felons. New head of Social Security, hired from Wall Street, tells staff he had to Google the job when he was offered it.
Worthless fucked up dude:
“I’ve gotten notes about, ‘Will the turmoil of the last five months end? Are you here to cause more turmoil?'” he said. “I don’t think it’s the turmoil of the past five months, although I will be the fifth since, you know, November, right?” Bisignano said, referring to being the fifth person put in charge of the critical agency since Trump was reelected in November.
“Are we having fun yet? Are we OK?” he asked those on the call. These Wall Streeterds need to be deep sixed.
JULIE FARRAR: The easiest way to describe what is going to happen to the majority of people is it’s going to be attrition from the program, because now, instead of me having to prove that I’m disabled — I was born missing 12 vertebrae. I can pray, and I can take vitamins, and I am still going to be disabled. So, every six months, I have to prove that I’m disabled enough to qualify for Medicaid. If you are receiving long-term care services, whether it’s in a nursing home or in your own home, and also wheelchairs and all of our medical equipment, the only payer for those are Medicaid and Medicare, period.
And when these cuts go into place, it is just ludicrous, because you have federal — outdated federal computer systems, and then you have outdated state computer systems, and then you have outdated county computer systems, and they’re going to have to communicate with each other, and they’re not going to be able to. And people are going to fall off because they haven’t qualified, they haven’t turned in — their application hasn’t been processed in a timely fashion. So, there’s going to be a lot of that, that is just attrition.
But there is not a way for them to figure out who is on Medicaid. And if you’re disabled, you have to have less than $2,000 in assets, so you have to be impoverished, but you’re supposed to work. These people, every six months, are going to have to prove this. And they’re going to have to have some sort of system to know who is elderly or who is disabled who cannot work. And it’s just — there’s no way for that to happen.
It’s going to kill people. It’s degrading. It’s demeaning. And I want to remind people that the cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point of this. Poor people are going to pay. Disabled people are going to die. And it is blood on the hands of the GOP and the president and the administration, that they want this big, beautiful bill for billionaires that will kill poor people, and it will kill disabled people.
One sort of Rejoicing: Rejoice! Our Times Are Intolerable
And? AND?
AFRICA FOR AFRICANS: Revolutionary Pan-Africanist Unity Across Borders in the Battle for Socialism Against Imperialism! Join the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party alongside the Black Alliance for Peace Mid-Atlantic region for an African Liberation Day Symposium. African Liberation Day (ALD) is a permanent institution in the worldwide Pan-African movement. As a day of work in the area of political education and organization, it reflects the fact that we have not obtained our freedom, and thus it is a day to reaffirm our commitment to Pan-Africanism, the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism. At ALD, we also deepen our understanding of other just struggles and affirm our role in the world Socialist revolution.
Finally, Jeremy takes off the fucking gloves: Israel’s Gaza Trap: Starve, Lure, Kill—Jeremy Scahill Exposes “Final Phase” of Genocide
Jeremey in this interview has a yellow rotary telephone and a photo of Malcolm X.
Psychosis of Whites:
Vijay Prashad Refuses To Be SILENCED on Gaza
And what do you say, $10 million a day given to Israel? Get fucking real. Fucking Israel, and their Jewish lobbies and millionaires and billionaires, all the goods and services, all of that, adds up to hundreds of billions of dollars into the dirty pockets of Jews, in Israel, and with two-three-four fucking passports.
Fucking Chinese Zionists, and Jews get they every fucking time: How China Is Quietly Aiding Israel’s Illegal Settlement Enterprise
Saeed, from Hebron, recalled that “during the Covid-19 pandemic, settlers even quarantined the Chinese workers separately from others”.
Such testimonies reveal an uncomfortable truth: Chinese labour is actively and visibly contributing to the construction of Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land.
Ironically, this reality stands in direct contradiction to China’s own stated policy; a decade ago, it forbade Chinese construction crews from working in Israeli settlements.
Back to 2015, China signed a bilateral labour agreement with Israel that included a stipulation preventing Chinese workers from being employed in the Occupied West Bank. Notably, this condition was motivated by safety concerns rather than by a principled stance against the illegality or immorality of settlement construction.
However, in 2016, these safety concerns appeared to have diminished when China acquired Ahava, a settlement-based company located in Mitzpe Shalem.
One year later, both countries signed another labour agreement to bring in 6000 Chinese construction workers to Israel under the same conditions. Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon confirmed the deal was “based on the concern for the safety and security of the workers”. However, Chinese officials responded by stating that “the real issue was not safety, but China’s objection to construction in the settlements.”
Yet my interviews with residents – from Nablus to Ramallah to Hebron – made clear that Chinese workers remain present and involved in settlement expansion. This raises serious questions about the sincerity of China’s supposed opposition to Israeli settlement activity.
Jews: According to numerous UN resolutions, Israeli settlements constitute a flagrant violation of international law. China’s actions directly contradict the legal principles it claims to uphold.
This barbaric campaign of starvation follows nineteen months of the most sadistic murder spree imaginable, a frenzied assault that has killed, at a minimum, according to the Lancet and The Economist, over 100,000 people and destroyed all semblance of organised society in Gaza.
What did the Palestinians do to deserve this?
Nothing.
They were simply in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
1948, to be precise.
They simply lived in a place that one specific reading of a story book said was owed to a specific people, and these people, Zionist Jews, supported by the power of the colonial west, took the land and the homes and the farms of the people who lived there.
They just……took it.
And not before they had killed and raped significant numbers of the people who lived there, people who had nothing to do with the pretext used for taking this land, people who had nothing to do with Nazi Germany’s holocaust of the Jews.
It was imperialism and colonialism, undertaken with impunity.
Some Palestinians, rather than just lie down and accept this injustice, fought back, as did their children and grandchildren, and they were labelled terrorists for doing so. The people who took the land, who raped and murdered and displaced hundreds of thousands of innocent people, were labelled the good guys.
This short essay is pure Vidal, and the vintage is only 1986. It first appeared in The Nation and coruscates with his sharp apprehension and defiance.
“Of course I like my country. After all, I’m its current biographer. But now that we’re really leveling with each other [in reference to an exchange with the Podhoretz’s], I’ve got to tell you I don’t much like your country, which is Israel. Although there is nothing wrong with being a lobbyist for a foreign power, one is supposed to register with the Justice Department.”
Recently, Norman Mailer and I chatted together at the Royale Theatre in New York, under the auspices of PEN American Center. Part of what I said was reprinted in these pages on January 11, under the title, not mine, “Requiem for the American Empire.” I gave a bit of a history lesson about our empire’s genesis, and I brooded on its terminus last fall, when Tokyo took over from New York as the world’s economic center.
My conclusion: for America to survive economically in the coming Sino-Japanese world, an alliance with the Soviet Union is a necessity. After all, the white race is a minority race with many well deserved enemies, and if the two great powers of the Northern Hemisphere don’t band together, we are going to end up as farmers–or, worse, mere entertainment–for the more than one billion grimly efficient Asiatics. In principle, Mailer agreed.
As expected, that wonderful, wacky couple, Norman (Poddy) Podhoretz and his wife, Midge Decter, checked in. The Lunts of the right wing (Israeli Fifth Column Division), they are now, in their old age, more and more like refugees from a Woody Allen film: The Purple Prose of West End Avenue.
Poddy was the first to respond. He is the editor of Commentary (circulation 55,000, and allegedly falling; paid for by the American Jewish Committee). He is best known–and by me loved–for his autobiographical “novel,” Making It, in which he tells us that he has made it because he has become editor of Commentary and might one day be a guest at the White House, as he has already been a guest of Huntington Hartford in Nassau.
Over the years, Poddy has, like his employers, the A.J.C., moved from those liberal positions traditionally occupied by American Jews (and me) to the far right of American politics. The reason for that is simple. In order to get Treasury money for Israel (last year $5 billion), pro-Israel lobbyists must see to it that America’s “the Russians are coming” squads are in place so that they can continue to frighten the American people into spending enormous sums for “defense,” which also means the support of Israel in its never-ending wars against just about everyone.
To make sure that nearly a third of the Federal budget goes to the Pentagon and Israel, it is necessary for the pro-Israel lobbyists to make common cause with our lunatic right. Hence, the virulent propaganda.
Poddy denounced Mailer and me in the pages of the New York Post. According to him, we belong to that mindless majority of pinko intellectuals who actually think that the nation spends too much on the Pentagon and not enough on, say, education. Since sustained argument is not really his bag, he must fall back on the ad hominem attack, a right-wing specialty–and, of course, on our flag, which he wears like a designer kaftan because “the blessings of freedom and prosperity are greater and more widely shared [here] than in any country known to human history.” Poddy should visit those Western European countries whose per capita income is higher than ours. All in all, Poddy is a silly billy.
Significantly, the one Yiddish word that has gained universal acceptance in this country is chutzpah. Example: In 1960, Mr. and Mrs. Podhoretz were in upstate New York where I used to live. I was trying out a play at the Hyde Park Playhouse; the play was set during the Civil War. “Why,” asked Poddy, “are you writing a play about, of all things, the Civil War?” I explained to him that my mother’s family had fought for the Confederacy and my father’s for the Union, and that the Civil War was–and is–to the United States what the Trojan War was to the Greeks, the great single tragic event that continues to give resonance to our Republic.
“Well, to me,” said Poddy, “the Civil War is as remote and as irrelevant as the War of the Roses.” I realized then that he was not planning to become an “assimilated American,” to use the old-fashioned terminology; but, rather, his first loyalty would always be to Israel. Yet he and Midge stay on among us, in order to make propaganda and raise money for Israel–a country they don’t seem eager to live in. Jewish joke, circa 1900: A Zionist is someone who wants to ship other people off to Palestine.
Midge was next to strike. But before she launched her attack, in something called Contentions, she put on her thinking cap and actually read what I wrote. I give her high marks for that. Unfortunately, she found my history lesson hard going. But then, like most of our Israeli fifth columnists, Midge isn’t much interested in what the goyim were up to before Ellis Island. She also likes the ad hominem attack. When I noted that our writers seldom speak out on matters of war and peace because so many of them are paid for by universities that receive money from the garrison state, Midge tartly retorted, “He, after all, is not paid by a university but by those great centers of independence, the film companies.” Since my last Hollywood film, The Best Man, was made in 1964, I have been “paid” by that American public that buys my books about the American past, a subject of no demonstrable interest to Midge and Poddy and their friends.
Midge was amazed by my description of how we seized territories from Mexico, including California; annexed Hawaii and Puerto Rico and, of course, the Philippines, where we slaughtered between 100,000 and 200,000 of the inhabitants. Interesting note: American imperialists froth if the figures for those murdered are ever in excess of 60,000 men, women and children, the acceptable statistical minimum for genocide. Then Midge, with that magisterial gooniness that marks her polemical style, told us, “that three of these conquered territories are now states of the United States, and a fourth an independent republic, is evidently beside the point–as, we cannot resist remarking. . . .”
Oh, Midge, resist. Resist! Don’t you get the point? We stole other people’s land. We murdered many of the inhabitants. We imposed our religion–and rule–on the survivors. General Grant was ashamed of what we did to Mexico, and so am I. Mark Twain was ashamed of what we did in the Philippines, and so am I. Midge is not because in the Middle East another predatory people is busy stealing other people’s land in the name of an alien theocracy. She is a propagandist for these predators (paid for?), and that is what all this nonsense is about.
Since spades may not be called spades in freedom’s land, let me spell it all out. In order to get military and economic support for Israel, a small number of American Jews, who should know better, have made common cause with every sort of reactionary and anti-Semitic group in the United States, from the corridors of the Pentagon to the TV studios of the evangelical Jesus-Christers. To show that their hearts are in the far-right place, they call themselves neoconservatives, and attack the likes of Mailer and me, all in the interest of supporting the likes of Sharon and Israel as opposed to the Peace Now Israelis whom they disdain. There is real madness here; mischief too.
“Well, one thing is clear in all this muddle,’’ writes Midge, adrift in her tautological sea, “Mr. Vidal does not like his country.” Poor Midge. Of course I like my country. After all, I’m its current biographer. But now that we’re really leveling with each other, I’ve got to tell you I don’t much like your country, which is Israel.
Although there is nothing wrong with being a lobbyist for a foreign power, one is supposed to register with the Justice Department. Also, I should think that tact would require a certain forbearance when it comes to the politics of the host country. But tact is unknown to the Podhoretzes. Joyously they revel in the politics of hate, with plangent attacks on blacks and/or fags and/or liberals, trying, always, to outdo those moral majoritarians who will, as Armageddon draws near, either convert all the Jews, just as the Good Book says, or kill them.
All in all, the latest Podhoretz diatribes have finally convinced me that the time has come for the United States to stop all aid not only to Israel but to Jordan, Egypt and the rest of the Arab world. The Middle Easterners would then be obliged to make peace, or blow one another up, or whatever. In any case, we would be well out of it. After all, the theological and territorial quarrels of Israel and Islam are as remote to 200 million Americans as–what else?–the War of the Roses.
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I had this out with my old friend Norman Lear, who said “you can’t say ‘assimilated.’” I said, “Come on, you started People for the American Way. Well, which are you? If you’re not going to be an ‘assimilated’ American, then what are you? Are you an Israeli who happens to be living here?”
My argument is only weak at one point: What on earth does Vidal care about nationality? I hate the nation-state. What am I doing saying you’ve got to be either a good American or a good Israeli, but you can’t be both? Why not to hell with both of them? That would demolish my argument.
But no Jew can do that, at least none who like Israel, because they have to protect this peculiar little state. So, instead of hitting me where I really am weak, they get hung up and try to talk about anti-Semitism. Which has nothing to do with it.
Wiener: But you’re also talking here about a historical consciousness of the American past, which is increasingly rare.
That may have to do with my age and class and background, but you can’t expect me not to be.
Wiener: American historians understand why the Civil War is the key to our history, but I suspect that most 20th century immigrants — Italians or Poles, or more recently, Asian or Mexican immigrants — have the same feeling that the Civil War is as remote for them as the War of the Roses.
You’re absolutely right. But look at the context of my essay: The Podhoretzes are giving out marks for Americanism. They write about me, “He doesn’t like his country.” That’s the standard neocon line about all liberals. “Well, one thing is clear in all this muddle, writes Midge [Decter], adrift in her tautological sea, “Mr. Vidal does not like his country.” They talk about me not liking my country, but they have no interest in the Civil War — or, I suspect, in the United States except as Israel’s financier.
[Excerpted from “I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics. Interviews with Jon Wiener.” Forthcoming in November 2012, by OR Books.]
Paul Haeder, Author 