they are so fucking dirty, so backstabbing, so true to their religion: ONLY Jews Count, ONLY Jews are Human, Only Jews are CHOSEN People!
I will not be treating anyone who has the “courage” to speak about Trump, after they remained silent about the genocidal crimes of Joe Biden in Gaza as a moral authority on anything. Indeed, they are examples of moral cowardice and we should bring up our children not to be like them, even if they dress up in a bishop’s garb. — Ali Abunimah
If you DO NOT listen to Arbas like this fellow, then you have two brain cells barely functioning. LISTEN!
This is the true racist fucking underlayer of this dirty fucking EuroTrashLandia. Switzerland?
Fucking psychotic people: You can’t even do a Zoom for a German audience, man. Banned on Zoom, he is, in Nazilandia, and no Swiss Dirty Dirty Switzerland.
He contrasted his ill-treatment by Swiss authorities with that of Israeli President Isaac Herzog who “received a red carpet welcome in Davos, a carpet soaked in the blood” of Palestinians killed during Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
“This ordeal lasted three days but that taste of prison was more than enough to leave me in even greater awe of the Palestinian heroes who endure months and years in the prisons of the genocidal oppressor,” he said. “More than ever I know that the debt we owe them is one we can never repay and all of them must be free and they must remain our focus.”
Abunimah said he was unaware of the global outpouring of outrage and solidarity after his arrest while he was in detention.
“I’m deeply grateful to each and every person who stood up for me,” he added.
Violently arrested by plainclothes police —
Abunimah was detained ahead of a speaking event in Zurich on Saturday.
He arrived in Switzerland the previous day for a series of events at the invitation of local organizers. When he arrived at the airport in Zurich on Friday, Abunimah was questioned by police for an hour before being allowed to enter the country.
Eyewitnesses said three plainclothes police officers violently arrested Abunimah on Saturday and forced him into an unmarked vehicle without disclosing where he was being taken.
Abunimah’s arrest appears to be part of a growing backlash from Western governments against expressions of solidarity with the Palestinian people.
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Speaking of the despicable Swiss!
The head of the snake is located in Basel Switzerland, The Bank for International Settlements (BIS). It is the Central Bank for all Central Banks worldwide.
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is an international financial institution which controls its member central banks. Its primary goal is to foster international monetary and financial cooperation while serving as a bank for central banks. With its establishment in 1930 it is the oldest international financial institution.
Obelisk Pyramids stand at every SWISS banking center.
Rome-Vatican City, London Corporation, & District of Columbia Maritime Law.
1) The Holy See, a sovereign nation of the Catholic Vatican under 24-7 SWISS Praetorian Guard via the Institute for the Works of Religion:
The City of London is a distinct area within the larger metropolis of London. Here’s the difference:
Greater London: This encompasses the entire city and its surrounding areas. It’s both the capital of the United Kingdom and a county, covering 607 square miles. Greater London includes 32 boroughs and the City of London.
City of London (also known as the Square Mile): It originated as the fortified Roman settlement of Londinium about two thousand years ago. Despite covering an area of two square miles, it’s still affectionately referred to as the Square Mile. The boundaries stretch from Temple and the Tower of London on the River Thames to Chancery Lane in the west and Liverpool Street in the east. The City of London has its own government, mayor, and independent police force. It represents Britain’s financial services, housing institutions like the Bank of England, and is traditionally considered the financial heart of the UKThe Institute for the Works of Religion (Italian: Istituto per le Opere di Religione; Latin: Institutum pro Operibus Religionis; abbreviated IOR), commonly known as the Vatican Bank, is a financial institution that is situated inside Vatican City and run by a Board of Superintendence, which reports to a Commission of Cardinals and the Pope. It is not a private bank, as there are no owners or shareholders; it has been established in the form of a juridical canonical foundation, pursuant to its statutes. Since 9 July 2014, its president is Jean-Baptiste de Franssu. The IOR is regulated by the Vatican’s financial supervisory body ASIF (Autorità di Supervisione e Informazione Finanziaria).
This article was written before The Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah was arrested in Switzerland on Saturday afternoon.
Israel smuggled one of its soldiers out of Cyprus, apparently fearing his detention on charges related to the genocide in Gaza, according to Dyab Abou Jahjah, the co-founder of The Hind Rajab Foundation.
Abou Jahjah, a Belgian-Lebanese political activist and writer, told The Electronic Intifada livestream this week that his organization is stepping up efforts all over the world to bring to justice Israeli soldiers implicated in the slaughter of tens of thousands of men, women and children over the last 15 months.
This fucking Crypto Christian Fucking Liar.
How the bishop who scolded Trump enabled Gaza genocide, with Ali Abunimah
I was curious about Episcopal Bishop of Washington Mariann Budde, who’s being treated as a hero for her “courage” confronting Trump over immigration. Did she speak up about the Holocaust of our time in Gaza? By her own admission she mostly stayed “silent,” and when she did speak it was to spread “Israeli” atrocity propaganda about mass rapes, denounce and smear resistance, demand that Palestinians be “held accountable,” but never Israeli war criminals, and she offers only both-sidesy sympathy for Palestinians, while carefully avoiding direct criticism of Israel. And of course while repeatedly citing the moral fraud Elie Wiesel, she never recognizes what happened in Gaza as genocide. If this is the “courage” we can look forward to from hand-wringing liberals under Trump, then they have learned nothing and will be of no use to anyone.
Again, listen to Arabs and non-Western Pukes, please: Egypt and Jordan have been quick to criticize claims from President Trump that they should accept around 1.5 MILLION Palestinian refugees as part of Israel’s efforts to “just clean out” the Gaza Strip. As it was all too easy from Trump to go from taking credit for a temporary ceasefire deal in Gaza, to voicing support for a complete ethnic cleansing of the besieged enclave.
Veteran Palestinian-American Journalist Said Arikat noted that Trump’s latest rhetoric, which echoes back to his son-in-law Jared Kushner’s comments about Gaza’s valuable “waterfront property,” is a reminder that Trump has given Netanyahu the green light to further terrorize the Occupied West Bank, and Israel is doing just that.
Meanwhile, Palestinian-American Journalist and Executive Director of the Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah, was just kidnapped by police in Switzerland, held in prison where he wasn’t allowed to contact his lawyer, and then deported, all for the “crime” of being invited to the country to speak about Palestine.
Justifying Slaughter: How the Cult of Messianic Zionism Conquered the West | Thomas Suárez
Acclaimed author and researcher Thomas Suárez, a former West-Bank resident and faculty member of Palestine’s National Conservatory of Music, appeared at UMass-Amherst on April 16 to talk about the historical roots of Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine, the complicity of Western governments in manufacturing consent to the continuing horrors unfolding in Gaza and the West Bank, and what it will take to fundamentally transform Israel’s current apartheid policies and liberate the Palestinian people.
Suárez, who is also a professional concert violinist and world-renowned cartographer, is the author of four books based on exhaustive archival research into the history of Zionism, Zionist terror, and Israel’s formation.
Thomas Suárez’s most recent book is Palestine Hijacked: How Zionism Forged an Apartheid State from River to Sea, which Noam Chomsky called “a damning story, heavily documented … far too revealing to be tolerated.”
His previous book, State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel, was praised by the eminent Israeli historian Ilan Pappe as “a tour de force that looks boldly at the impact of Zionism on Palestine and its people in the first part of the 20th century,” and “the first comprehensive and structured analysis of the violence and terror employed by the Zionist movement, and later the state of Israel, against the people of Palestine.”
This dirty criminal violent psychotic fucking religion, Zionism or Israeli Judaism by any other name:
Yesterday, not only did Israel fail to evacuate its army from Southern Lebanon as stipulated in the ceasefire agreement, Israel also shot over 130 Lebanese civilians attempting to return home in accordance with the deal, killing 23 and wounding 109 (of whom some are in critical condition).
This included a 12 year old boy wounded in the neck in Kfarkela, standing right next to my local producer Mahmood. I was twenty yards away and on my way to them. Four were killed in Kfarkela and overnight the Israeli army demolished numerous homes there in “punishment”.
I was an eyewitness. Yesterday the Lebanese army just sat and watched the Israeli army massacre 23 Lebanese civilians and shoot another 109. If the Lebanese army was protecting anybody, it was protecting the IDF.The Lebanese army is completely a tool of the USA. Over 100 people shot by the Israelis today in Lebanon, with 11 dead. A 12 year old boy was wounded by Israeli fire standing right next to one of my team, just before this. pic.twitter.com/wsMp7XCiKu
The blood of Holocaust Joe, Genocide Harris, Zyklon Blinken, Minyans and now the Rapist in Chief Trump:
The USA is holding Lebanon down for Israel to violate. United States wants to see Lebanon divided, weak and at the mercy of Israel, and wants to see a reduction of the Shia population. The second-largest US Embassy in the world is being built here as a hub of regional influence, and on the day the ceasefire came into force the USA and Israel activated the attack on Aleppo by their proxy army in Syria
just one fucking company out of several fucking million killer companies — Bayer — and it’s emblematic and axiomatic of Killer Coke, Killer DDT, Killer CAPITALISM
As Aspen takes part in the global celebration of the Bauhaus centenary, this is an opportune moment to consider a less-known aspect of the school’s history. After the Bauhaus’ closure in 1933, several of its leading members — including local hero Herbert Bayer — went on to execute projects for the Nazi regime. It is an uncomfortable aspect of their careers, one which historians have preferred to treat gingerly or not at all.
Bayer’s case in particular demands a reckoning because he created graphic designs for at least three Nazi propaganda campaigns: “German People, German Work” (1934), “The Miracle of Life” (1935), and “Germany” on the occasion of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. A fourth project was an English-language brochure for foreign distribution, “German Youth in a Changing World” (1936). Each of these projects conveyed a specific propaganda message: Germany’s economy was thriving as it rid itself of international Jewry, its population was growing ever more robust through the science of eugenics and its military prowess had restored the country to the status of a European great power.
1. The British press, led by the BBC, is not concerned that the UK Science Media Centre is sponsored by Corporations such as Monsanto, Syngenta, AstraZeneca and Coca-Cola
2. Bayer, the Corporation that colluded with the Nazis at Auschwitz, says Transparency creates trust
3. UN warns of global failure to tackle sales of synthetic chemicals – with risks ranging from cancer to coral damage
4. Most UK farmers who manage ‘75% of UK land’ are drowning their crops in pesticides: ‘Healthy Harvest’ with up to 320 pesticides
5. A global industry has emerged to advise on Biocides Regulation. The British Government is making a lot of money out of it because BiocidesHub and the Yordas Groups are both based in the UK
6. NGOs in Europe say Britons are being used as laboratory rats
7. European Court of Justice rules that EFSA cannot refuse access to industry studies
8. Since 2002, ECHA has classified glyphosate as a substance causing serious eye damage and as being toxic to aquatic life with long-lasting effects
9. The President of the European Commission is also corrupt
10. An increase in the incidence of cataracts is confirmed by epidemiological studies in England and by a 2016 WHO Report
11. Monsanto’s sealed secret studies obtained under FOI from the US EPA 10 Corrupt EFSA officials send secret emails to other regulators to agree a strategy
12. Was the article in the Observer a response to the ECJ ruling, designed to cause confusion?
13. The Monsanto Papers: internal emails that expose the corporation for concealing that Roundup causes cancer
14. The links between glyphosate exposure and CNS disorders in humans
15. After Brexit, British farmers will support GM Roundup Ready crops and Roundup
16. The creator of GMO potatoes reveals the dangerous truth: DNA is a dead molecule
17. How Monsanto, the UK SMC, EFSA and lobbyists tried to discredit Séralini’s study
18. The life expectancy of the British people has deteriorated since 2010
19. Theo Colborn’s crucial research in the early 1990s into Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) that were changing humans and the environment
20. Apocalyptic global losses of biodiversity due to Roundup and neonicotinoid insecticides
21. Americans have grown fatter in the past two decades, but are a curious shape
22. Genetically-engineered crops, glyphosate and the deterioration of health in the United States of America
23. Graphs of correlations between diseases and Glyphosate and GM crops reproduced by kind permission of Dr Nancy Swanson:
Obesity, Parkinson’s Disease, Liver and Intrahepatic Bile Duct Cancer incidence, Prevalence of diabetes, Age-Adjusted deaths due to disorders of lipoprotein metabolism, Age-adjusted deaths from Senile Dementia, Number of children (6- 21 years) with Autism showed by IDEA, Age-adjusted deaths due to Stroke, Age-adjusted Kidney and Renal Pelvis Cancer!
One fucking sick mother fucking product, out of tens of thousands produced by these Union Carbides and Dow Chemical and Exxon and, well, thousands, so all those fucking Trump-Fink profits, hmm, they should be confiscated NOW.
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This human fucking stain, Nazi all over again, JD ‘Mother Fucking Hillbilly Deplorabe Nightmware’ Vance:
However, it was the church and schools order that drew ire from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Mark. J Seitz, migration committee chairman U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, told CBS News “Many of these policies we see going against the basic tenets of our faith.”
Vice President JD Vance blasts U.S. Catholic bishops condemning ICE entering churches and schools
Vance told Brennan the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops “has, frankly, not been a good partner in common sense immigration enforcement that the American people voted for.”
Brennan asked Vance if he specifically supported immigration agents going into churches and schools, and “conducting a raid or enforcement action in a church service, at a school.”
Vance said he “supports us doing law enforcement against violent criminals, whether they’re illegal immigrants or anybody else, in a way that keeps us safe.”
In response, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said Sunday in a statement, “Faithful to the teaching of Jesus Christ, the Catholic Church has a long history of serving refugees.”
“In 1980, the bishops of the United States began partnering with the federal government to carry out this service when Congress created the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). Every person resettled through USRAP is vetted and approved for the program by the federal government while outside of the United States,” the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said. “In our agreements with the government, the USCCB receives funds to do this work; however, these funds are not sufficient to cover the entire cost of these programs. Nonetheless, this remains a work of mercy and ministry of the Church.”
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Vance needs to be put up against the wall, man, as he is the killer inside, the wimpy guy, for sure, but now with the power of whispering in the ear of the Current Rapist in Chief.
Here’s what the fucking pussy grabber is doing: President Donald Trump said on Sunday he will impose sweeping retaliatory measures on Colombia, including tariffs and sanctions, after the South American country turned away two U.S. military aircraft with migrants being deported as part of the new U.S. administration’s immigration crackdown.
Colombia, the third largest U.S. trading partner in Latin America, swiftly responded, threatening a 50% tariff on U.S. goods. The country’s leftist president, Gustavo Petro, later posted on X that he directed his trade minister to increase tariffs on U.S. imports by 25%.
Trump pledges to retaliate with tariffs, travel bans, sanctions
Colombia’s President Petro orders 25% tariffs on US imports
Mexico refused to authorize a US military deportation aircraft
Trump’s immigration crackdown hiking tensions in Latin America
Brazil condemns US handcuffing of migrants on flight
A newly released secret video from 2005 captures it. Here’s what Trump says about the norms of being a famous man: “They let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy.”
Endless hell in this fucking oligarchy, a shift from the democrats corporatism. Oligarchs want everything about society, government, safety nets, to FAIL. Los Angeles Faces Risk of Mudslides With the Arrival of Rain — The wet weather will bring relief to Southern California after a prolonged period of dryness, but there’s concern that any bursts of heavy rainfall could cause flooding.
Adolph Netanyahu and Adolph Junior Zelensky, can we get some shekels returned?
Faggot Trump, man, what a fucking fag:
President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would like to change the colors of Air Force One after plans made during his first term were scrapped under the Biden administration.
Changing the exterior colors, Trump told reporters aboard the presidential aircraft, would be “very much more appropriate.”
“We want power blue, not baby blue. … We’ll be changing the colors,” Trump said.
Fucking sick puppy, this Rapist in Chief: President Donald Trump offered a message of bipartisanship following his Friday tarmac greeting with California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat.
“I decided to be nice,” Trump told reporters Saturday aboard Air Force One. “It was nice that he came to the plane, honestly, I didn’t know he’d be at the plane. … And in the end, you know, we have the same goal: We want to take that catastrophe and make it as good as possible.”
“I actually always got along with him well until fairly recently,” Trump said of Newsom, whom he has referred to as “Gavin Newscum” on social media.
[Above phot: Look at the fucking cunt Ivanka Stump BEHIND the fucking fat ass Rapist in Chief.]
[He’s your fucking Murder Inc. Rapist in Chief, motherfuckers who voted for him. Scum, absolute, scum. That includes every single fucking mom and pop, redneck and fucking blue collar wannabe millionaire and black fucking dude, all of you, cocksuckers, scum, you all should go the way of the dodo.]
President Donald Trump indicated that he spoke with the king of Jordan about a potential plan to construct housing and move more than 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to other countries, a remarkable and unusual proposal from a sitting US president.
Asked about a Saturday call with Jordan’s Abdullah II, Trump said he asked the king to take additional Palestinians into his country.
“I said to him that I’d love you to take on more because I’m looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now and it’s a mess, it’s a real mess,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One.
He said he would like both Jordan and Egypt to house people and that he would speak to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi about the matter on Sunday.
Trump then suggested the proposed increase in IRS employees should be redirected toward aiding his immigration plans at the US-Mexico border.
“On Day 1, I immediately halted the hiring of any new IRS agents,” Trump said. “You know, they hired, or tried to hire, 88,000 new workers to go after you, and we’re in the process of developing a plan to either terminate all of them, or maybe we’ll move them to the border.”
“I think we’re going to move them to border. Well, they’re allowed to carry guns … so we’ll probably move them to the border,” he continued.
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No payment for all the goddamned trillions in damages and wage slavery the cocksucker rich and not-so-rich and super-rich dump on us, USA. No taxes, so the entire show will be run by the cunts of predatory capitalism.
[Endless photo ops with the cancerous race, the white race!]
You dumb as fuck Latinos and Blacks and Chinese and Arabs and other BIPOCs who voted for this goddamned white ghoul leader of his army of dirty white cunts.
Trump backs Florida state Sen. Randy Fine for Mike Waltz’s seat in Congress
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Can’t finish this 15 minutes of hate, a dream of machetes by the millions cracked on their fucking skulls, without more Jewish thievery and lies:
“No one should have to work longer than they want to,” Fink wrote in a recent letter. “But I do think it’s a bit crazy that our anchor idea for the right retirement age – 65 years old – originates from the time of the Ottoman Empire.”
These cunts need 95 percent repay tax, the mother fucking war mongers. How much damage do their fucking investment portfolios do to longevity and health and mental well being?
THEN, MSN, just follows the fucking Jewish Lie: “A key piece of the puzzle is the looming Social Security funding shortfall. According to Fink, the program’s Old Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund is expected to run out of money within the next decade. Once that happens, Social Security will rely solely on payroll taxes, which only cover about 79% of promised benefits, according to the National Association of Plan Advisors.
Baby boomers contributed to Social Security for decades, helping build up a surplus. But now, as millions of them retire, those reserves are dwindling. Meanwhile, millennials and Gen Z are left staring at an increasingly shaky safety net.”
“Electricity consumption of US data centers is currently growing at an accelerating rate,” stated the authors of the report. These massive facilities keep servers cool and operational around the clock, leading to constant energy draw.
According to a study by KnownHost, the use of ChatGPT produces more than 260,930 kilograms (573,000 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) each month. That figure is linked to high traffic from its more than 164 million monthly users.
This is all a fucking LIE: There is no CLEAN batteries in the fucking world!
Tesla‘s Powerwall — a compact home battery that stores energy generated by solar or from the traditional grid — can power homes during outages or serve as a backup energy source. Per Teslarati, the company saw a milestone in 2024 with its Powerwall installations.
In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, the company announced that it had installed 800,000 Powerwalls globally. TeslaMegapacks — large-scale battery systems — also reached over 22 gigawatt-hours of storage in operation across more than 60 countries.
$36,461 a year!!! Fucking scum.
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More cuntry from the UK: Tired of the rat race and the relentless grind of a 9-to-5 job? You might want to consider packing your thermal underwear and heading to Antarctica for a unique work adventure: The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has announced it is recruiting for a variety of job positions at its research stations in Antarctica.
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The SOA first began as a military training site in Panama called the “Latin American Ground School.” In 1963, the institution in Panama was renamed the School of the Americas (SOA). Since its expulsion from Panama in 1984, the SOA has been located at Fort Benning, Georgia and is funded by U.S. tax dollars. Classes at the SOA were not entirely focused on military tactics at first, but after Fidel Castro’s revolution in Cuba, the SOA’s mission changed drastically. President John F. Kennedy then saw communism as a mounting threat. Because of this, the Alliance for Progress was created to provide financial aid for social reform, but more prominently, to fund counter-insurgency operations in an attempt to defuse the influence of communism in Latin America. The U.S. deployed over 600 Special Forces Mobile Training Teams across the Americas to attack any perceived threats of communism. At this time, the SOA began adding anti-communism, interrogation, and counter-insurgency materials to the curriculum. Some of these new additions were eliminated by Jimmy Carter, but in 1981, President Ronald Reagan restored the curriculum to its previous state to include materials such as interrogation techniques, psychological operations, and even classes specifically for the Salvadoran military.
With organizations pushing for the closing of the SOA, it was closed for one month in 2000 by Bill Clinton. However, the institution reopened in 2001 under the new name of Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). Although it was cloaked under this new name, the classes, educators, building, soldiers, and mission all remained the same.
The SOA or “WHINSEC” has been dubbed the “School of the Assassins” due to its history of graduates inflicting extreme violence, bloodshed, and civilian-targeted massacres in Latin America. Civilians in these countries are often tortured, raped, killed, or forced to flee the country as refugees by graduates of the SOA. Targeted civilians also often include those who work for human rights and rights of the poor. The majority of SOA soldiers attend classes focusing on combat training, commando tactics, psychological warfare, military intelligence, and other classes pertaining to military violence.
Victims include, but are not limited to, hundreds of Latin American civilians. In 1980, Cleveland’s own Jean Donovan and Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel were murdered in El Salvador, along with two other church women, Ita Ford and Maura Clark. Out of the 5 soldiers who assassinated these women, three were trained at the SOA. Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, a longtime advocate for the rights of the poor, was also assassinated in 1980 by 3 soldiers, two having been trained by the SOA. At this same time, the civil war in El Salvador was just beginning and violence and bloodshed increased. It was then that the SOA Watch movement began in response to the “dirty wars” and violence all around. As a result, people started to mobilize and advocate for the closing of the SOA. Currently, Honduras is being affected by the 2009 coup against their democratically elected president by SOA graduates, and still holds the highest homicide rate in the world.
It is extremely irresponsible for the U.S. government to continually be spending U.S. tax dollars to fund the SOA. It is unfathomable that the government continues to support an institution that perpetuates such violence and bloodshed. Other countries, such as Venezuela, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua now refuse to send soldiers to be trained at the SOA. The U.S. must cut-off support to the SOA and make the move to close it for good. With participation from more countries such as these to boycott the SOA, as well as active advocacy, there is hope that the SOA will close and there will be an end to such senseless military violence.
The retired colonel’s tenure as ambassador to El Salvador lasted less than two years, but it was enough for him to forge a personal friendship with President Nayib Bukele. During the country’s civil war in the 1980s, he led combat and counterinsurgency operations.
Quoting an Op-Ed in LA Times:
I didn’t think Trump could stoop any lower, but here I am, surprised yet again by his decision to nominate Ronald Johnson as ambassador to Mexico.
This is no ordinary diplomat. Johnson is a retired Green Beret with an impressive—and let’s be honest, ominous—résumé that includes twenty years in the CIA and a stint as a “senior advisor” to the Southern Command, that long arm of the White House which stretches across the Americas, stirring up coups and chaos. Chile in ’73, Bolivia in ’71, Honduras in 2009—ring a bell?
With credentials like these, let’s not pretend Trump didn’t warn us: he’s coming for Mexico—our resources, our economy, our government. And he’ll do whatever it takes to meddle, even if that means resorting to military invasion.
This might sound like something out of an action movie, but Trump himself has openly floated the idea of a “soft invasion” of Mexico, where U.S. forces would hunt down drug lords.
The problem with this—aside from the obviously horrifying prospect of turning Mexico into a Syria with guacamole—is that Trump is addicted to hamburgers and sugar. He doesn’t know when to stop. Once he sets his orange feet on Mexican soil, he’ll want to grab every taco stand on every corner, until he’s made his way to the National Palace itself.
He’s even dared to toy with the idea of annexing Mexico as yet another American state. This wouldn’t be the first time. Remember 1846? The Stars and Stripes flew over Chapultepec Castle, and it all ended with the disgraceful Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, where Mexico lost nearly half its territory—from Texas all the way to Wyoming. So, no, I don’t think he was joking. In psychoanalysis, there’s no such thing as a double meaning in psychotic individuals. Now do you see? When Trump says something, take him at his word. With him, there’s no such thing as “it’s probably just a joke.”
Colonel Johnson served in Trump’s diplomatic corps during his first administration. From 2019 to 2021, he was ambassador to El Salvador, tasked with stopping migration, curbing China’s economic influence, and backing President Nayib Bukele’s Territorial Control Plan. Yes, that plan praised for supposedly wiping out gangs by granting the police and military a monopoly on violence.
The plan, however, has been criticized by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for hiding details about its implementation and results, highlighting its “repressive approach” and the establishment of “death squads” carrying out “social cleansing”—a grim throwback to the paramilitary groups of Roberto D’Aubuisson’s fascist government during El Salvador’s civil war in the 1980s.
According to Human Rights Watch, over 3,000 teenagers have been detained by Bukele’s squads, 60 of whom were tortured, as evidence shows. Add to that the more than 80,000 people arrested under the so-called “state of emergency,” 265 of whom have died in custody—including, horrifyingly, four babies.
These were the “achievements” praised by Ambassador Johnson—perhaps because such horrors feel familiar to him. As a U.S. Army Special Forces agent and CIA operative, he led combat operations against El Salvador’s Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front guerrillas, in support of D’Aubuisson’s dictatorship.
This imperialist figure is set to be Trump’s next ambassador to Mexico.
By the way, it’s customary for the U.S. State Department to seek approval from Mexican governments for their ambassadorial picks. Did they bother to do so with Ronald Johnson?
Either way, one thing is clear: Trump has Mexico and Latin America in his crosshairs. His nomination of Marco Rubio as Secretary of State is proof enough. And as if that weren’t enough, he’s appointed former U.S. Ambassador Christopher Landau as Rubio’s deputy. Both of these men speak Spanish and have deep vested interests in the region. The writing on the wall is obvious: they’ll aim to destabilize Mexico and push a staunchly anti-leftist agenda.
What’s left for us to do? Open our eyes, keep a close watch on the news, and reread the history of the Bay of Pigs.
Author
Luis Alberto Rodríguez ÁngelesLuis Alberto Rodriguez Angeles. Writer and journalist. National Journalism Award for Human Rights by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Mexico. Reporter with 20 years of experience covering social movements. Teacher and activist.
[Operation RED, WHITE, and BLUE: Eglin AFB and the Mariel Boatlift] The good old days when there were solid roofs and floors and running water!!
Japanese Americans, prisoners, U$A.
German immigrants were the second largest immigrant group to settle in Iowa, after people from the British Isles.
German settlement peaked around 1890, when nearly 7% of Iowa residents were born in Germany.
German immigrants settled in every Iowa county, and by 1920 half of all Iowa farmers were of German descent.
German-Americans are the largest self-reported ancestry group in the United States, making up about 17% of the population.
German POWs
Number of POWs: The US held over 425,000 POWs by the end of the war, including 372,000 Germans.
Where they were held: POWs were held in camps across the country, including in the South, Southwest, Great Plains, and Midwest.
What they did: POWs were put to work in canneries, mills, and on farms.
People of German ancestry
Number of people interned: The US interned at least 11,000 people of German ancestry.
Who was interned: Many family members of people of German ancestry were also interned, including American citizens.
How they were interned: People were interned at Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) internment camps and military facilities.
Alien hearings
Fucking Iowa: Iowa’s law, Senate File 2340, passed by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds in April, would make “illegal reentry” into the state a crime punishable by up to two years in prison. It also would authorize state judges to order that individuals return to their home countries after serving sentences.
And the fucking German Nazi, the Rapist in Chief, all those fucking fools voting for Trump over, what, Harris, or Stein or West or . . . Pieces of shit stain. This is what the settler colonial slaving dirty Doctrine of Discovery rooted cunt of a country (sic) delivers to the Dirty Jewish Un-Nation of Isra-Hell.
Ceasefire my ass. War Preparations 5.0.
The two Jews of a different feather: Mileikowsky. His paternal grandfather, Nathan Mileikowsky, was a rabbi and Zionist writer. When Netanyahu’s father immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, he hebraized his surname from “Mileikowsky” to “Netanyahu”, meaning “God has given.” Trump: He is of German and Scottish descent.
And the fuckers, the Glen Greenwalds and Judge Andrews and the fucking Blumenthals and Halpers and Mates play the fucking loose change game:
You mother fucking women voted for this rapist? May the Karma Get Ya.
A jury found Donald Trump liable Tuesday for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996, awarding her $5 million in a judgment that could haunt the former president as he campaigns to regain the White House.
The verdict was split: Jurors rejected Carroll’s claim that she was raped, finding Trump responsible for a lesser degree of sexual abuse. The judgment adds to Trump’s legal woes and offers vindication to Carroll, whose allegations had been mocked and dismissed by Trump for years.
She nodded as the verdict was announced in a New York City federal courtroom only three hours after deliberations had begun, then hugged supporters and smiled through tears. As the courtroom cleared, Carroll could be heard laughing and crying.
Jurors also found Trump liable for defaming Carroll over her allegations. Trump did not attend the civil trial and was absent when the verdict was read.
You cunts who voted for Trump because you want a strong man in your fucking pants?
This is going to look like a cake walk. AmeriKKKans are fucking afraid to call this cocksucker a fucking lunitic and dangerous fucking war monger. Yeah, 2,000 pound bombs is WARRING, motherfucking creeps.
Dumb fucking Putin believing ANYTHING out of the anus of the Rapist in Chief’s fucking shit hole?
Debt debt war debt war merc, war war war, the Trump Way:
Read you fucking dumb as knot-holes AmeriKKKans.
The Road to Chaos
The 1940s saw a series of movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, starting with the Road to Singapore in 1940. The plot was always similar. Bing and Bob, two fast-talking con men or song-and-dance partners, would find themselves in a scrape in some country, and Bing would get out of it by selling Bob as a slave (Morocco in 1942, where Bing promises to buy him back) or committing him to be sacrificed in some pagan ceremony, and so forth. Bob always goes along with the plan, and there’s always a happy Hollywood ending where they escape together – with Bing always getting the girl.
In the past few years we have seen a series of similar diplomatic stagings with the United States and Germany (standing in for Europe as a whole). We could call it the Road to Chaos. The United States has sold out Germany by destroying Nord Stream, with Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholtz (the hapless Bob Hope character) going along with it, and with European Commission President Ursula von der Lehen tplaying the part of Dorothy Lamour (the girl, being Bing’s prize in the Hollywood Road movies) demanding that all Europe increase its NATO military spending beyond Biden’s demand for 2% to Trump’s escalation to 5%. To top matters, Europe is to impose sanctions on trade with Russia and China, obliging them to relocate their leading industries in the United States.
So, unlike the movies, this will not end with the United States rushing in to save gullible Germany. Instead, Germany and Europe as a whole will become sacrificial offerings in our desperate but futile effort to save the US Empire. While Germany may not immediately end up with an emigrating and shrinking population like Ukraine, its industrial destruction is well under way.
Trump told the Davos Economic Forum January 23: “My message to every business in the world is very simple: Come make your product in America and we will give you among the lowest taxes of any nation on earth.” Otherwise, if they continue to try and produce at home or in other countries, their products will be charged tariff rates at Trump’s threatened 20%.
To Germany this means (my paraphrase): “Sorry your energy prices have quadrupled. Come to America and get them at almost as low a price as you were paying Russia before your elected leaders let us cut Nord Stream off.”
The great question is how many other countries will be as quiescent as Germany as Trump changes the rules of the game – America’s Rules-Based Order. At what point will a critical mass be achieved that changes the world order as a whole?
Can there be a Hollywood ending to the coming chaos? The answer is No, and that the key is to be found in the balance-of-payments effect of Trump’s threatened tariffs and trade sanctions. Neither Trump nor his economic advisors understand what damage their policy is threatening to cause by radically unbalancing the balance of payments and exchange rates throughout the world, making a financial rupture inevitable.
The balance-of-payments and exchange-rate constraint on Trump’s tariff aggression
The first two countries that Trump threatened were America’s NAFTA partners, Mexico and Canada. Against both countries Trump has threatened to raise U.S. tariffs on imports from them by 20% if they do not obey his policy demands.
He has threatened Mexico in two ways. First of all is his immigration program of exporting illegal immigrants and permitting short-term work permits for seasonal Mexican labor to work in agriculture and household services. He has suggested deporting the Latin American immigration wave to Mexico, on the ground that most have come to America via the Mexican border along the Rio Grande. This threatens to impose an enormous social-welfare overhead on Mexico, which has no wall on its own southern border.
There also is a strong balance-of-payments cost to Mexico, and indeed to other countries whose citizens have sought work in the United States. A major source of dollars for these countries has been money remitted by workers who send what they can afford back to their families. This is an important source of dollars for families in Latin American, Asian and other countries. Deporting immigrants will remove a substantial source of revenue that has been supporting the exchange rates of their currencies vis-à-vis the dollar.
Imposing a 20% tariff or other trade barriers on Mexico and other countries would be a fatal blow to their exchange rates by reducing the export trade that U.S. policy promoted starting under President Carter to promote an outsourcing of U.S. employment by using Mexican labor to keep down U.S. wage rates. The creation of NAFTA under Bill Clinton led to a long line of maquiladora assembly plants just south of the US/Mexican border, employing low-wage Mexican labor on assembly lines set up by U.S. companies to save labor costs. Tariffs would abruptly deprive Mexico of the dollars received to pay pesos to this labor force, and also would raise costs for their U.S. parent companies.
The result of these two Trump policies would be a plunge in Mexico’s source of dollars. This will force Mexico to make a choice: If it passively accepts these terms, the peso’s currency exchange rate will depreciate. This will make imports (priced in dollars on a worldwide level) more expensive in peso terms, leading to a substantial jump in domestic inflation. Alternatively, Mexico can put its economy first and say that the trade and payments disruption caused by Trump’s tariff action prevents it from paying its dollar-debts to bondholders.
In 1982, Mexico’s default on its tesobono bonds denominated in dollars triggered the Latin America debt bomb of defaults. Trump’s acts looks like he’s forcing a replay. In that case, Mexico’s countervailing response would be to suspend payment on its US-dollar bonds.
This could have far-reaching effects, because many other Latin American and Global South countries are experiencing a similar squeeze in their balance of international trade and payments. The dollar’s exchange rate already has been soaring against their currencies as a result of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates, attracting investment funds from Europe and other countries. A rising dollar means rising import prices for oil and raw materials denominated in dollars.
Canada faces a similar balance-of-payments squeeze. Its counterpart to Mexico’s maquiladora plants are its auto-parts plants in Windsor, across the river from Detroit. In the 1970s the two countries agreed on the Auto Pact allocating what assembly plants would work on in their joint production of U.S. autos and trucks.
Well, “agreed” may not be the appropriate verb. I was in Ottawa at the time, and government officials were very resentful at being assigned the short end of the auto deal. But it is still going today, fifty years later, and remains a major contributor to Canada’s trade balance and hence the exchange rate of its dollar, which already has been falling against that of the United States.
Of course, Canada is no Mexico. The thought of it suspending payment on its dollar bonds is unthinkable in a country run largely by its banks and financial interests. But the political consequences will be felt throughout Canadian politics. There will be an anti-American feeling (always bubbling under the surface in Canada) that should end Trump’s fantasy of making Canada the 51st state.
The implicit moral foundations of international economic order
There is a basic illusory moral principle at work in Trump’s tariff and trade threats, and it underlies the broad narrative by which the United States has sought to rationalize its unipolar domination of the world economy. That principle is the illusion of reciprocity supporting a mutual distribution of benefits and growth – and in the American vocabulary it is wrapped together with democratic values and patter talk about free markets promising automatic stabilizers under the U.S.-sponsored international system.
The principles of reciprocity and stability were central to the economic arguments by John Maynard Keynes during the debate in the late 1920s over U.S. insistence that its European wartime allies pay heavy debts for arms bought from the United States before its formal entry into the war. The Allies agreed to pay by imposing German reparations to shift the cost onto the war’s loser. But the demands by the United States on its European allies, and in turn by them on Germany, were far beyond the ability to be met.
The fundamental problem, Keynes explained, was that the United States was raising its tariffs against Germany in response to its currency depreciating, and then imposed the Smoot-Hawley tariff against the rest of the world. That prevented Germany from earning the hard currency to pay the allies, and for them to pay America.
To make the international financial system of debt service work, Keynes pointed out, a creditor nation has an obligation to provide debtor countries with the opportunity to raise the money to pay by exporting to the creditor nation. Otherwise, there will be currency collapse and crippling austerity for debtors. This basic principle should be at the heart of any design for how the international economy should be organized with checks and balances to prevent such collapse.
Opponents of Keynes – the French anti-German monetarist Jacques Rueff, and the neoclassical trade advocate Bertil Ohlin – repeated the same argument that David Ricardo laid out in his 1809-1810 testimony before Britain’s Bullion Committee. He claimed that paying foreign debts automatically creates a balance in international payments. This junk-economic theory provided a logic that remains the basic IMF austerity model today.
According to this theory’s fantasy, when paying debt service lowers prices and wages in the debt-paying country, that will increase its exports by making them less costly to foreigners. And supposedly, the receipt of debt service by creditor nations will be monetized to raise its own prices (the Quantity Theory of Money), reducing its exports. This price shift is supposed to continue until the debtor country suffering a monetary outflow and austerity is able to export enough to afford to pay its foreign creditors.
But the United States did not permit foreign imports to compete with its own producers. And for debtors, the price of monetary austerity was not more competitive export production but economic disruption and chaos. Ricardo’s model and U.S. neoclassical theory was simply an excuse for hard-line creditor policy. Structural adjustments or austerity have been devastating to the economies and governments on which it has been imposed. Austerity reduces productivity and output.
In 1944 when Keynes was trying to resist U.S. demand for foreign trade and monetary subservience at the Bretton Woods conference, he proposed the bancor, an intergovernmental balance-of-payments arrangement calling for chronic creditor nations (namely, the United States) to lose their accumulation of financial claims on debtor countries (such as Britain would become). That would be the price to be paid to prevent the international financial order from polarizing the world between creditor and debtor countries. Creditors had to enable debtors to pay, or lose their financial claims for payment.
Keynes, as noted above, also emphasized that if creditors want to be paid, they have to import from the debtor countries to provide them with the ability to pay.
This was a profoundly moral policy, and it had an additional benefit of making economic sense. It would enable both parties to prosper instead of having one creditor nation prosper while debtor countries succumbed to austerity preventing them from investing in modernizing and developing their economies by raising social spending and living standards.
Under Donald Trump the United States is violating that principle. There is no Keynesian bancor-type arrangement in place, but there are the harsh America-first realities of its unipolar diplomacy. If Mexico is to save its economy from being plunged into austerity, price inflation, unemployment and social chaos, it will have to suspend its payments on foreign debts denominated in dollars.
The same principle applies to other Global South countries. And if they act together, they have a moral position to create a realistic and even inevitable narrative of the preconditions for any stable international economic order to function.
Circumstances thus are forcing the world to break away from the U.S.-centered financial order. The U.S. dollar’s exchange rate is going to soar in the short term as a result of Trump blocking imports with tariffs and trade sanctions. This exchange-rate shift will squeeze foreign countries owing dollar debts in the same way that Mexico and Canada are to be squeezed. To protect themselves, they must suspend dollar debt service.
This response to today’s debt overhead is not based on the concept of Odious Debts. It goes beyond the critique that many of these debts and their terms of payment were not in the interest of the countries on which these debts were imposed on in the first place. It goes beyond the criticism that lenders must have some responsibility for judging the ability of their debtors to pay – or suffer financial losses if they have not done so.
The political problem of the world’s overhang of dollar debts is that the United States is acting in a way that prevents debtor countries from earning the money to pay foreign debts denominated in US dollars. U.S. policy thus poses a threat to all creditors denominating their debts in dollars, by making these debts practically unpayable without destroying their own economies.
The U.S. policy assumption that other countries will not respond to U.S. economic aggression
Does Trump really know what he’s doing? Or is his careening policy simply causing collateral damage for other countries? I think that what’s at work is a deep and basic internal contradiction of U.S. policy, similar to that of U.S. diplomacy in the 1920s. When Trump promised his voters that the United States must be the “winner” in any international trade or financial agreement, he is declaring economic war on the rest of the world.
Trump is telling the rest of the world that they must be losers – and accept the fact graciously in payment for the military protection that it provides the world in case Russia might invade Europe or China send its army into Taiwan, Japan or other countries. The fantasy is that Russia would have anything to gain in having to support a collapsing European economy, or that China decides to compete militarily instead of economically.
Hubris is at work in this dystopian fantasy. As the world’s hegemon, U.S. diplomacy rarely takes account of how foreign countries will respond. The essence of its hubris is to simplistically assume that countries will passively submit to U.S. actions with no blowback. That has been a realistic assumption for countries like Germany, or those with similar U.S. client politicians in office.
But what is happening today is system-wide in character. In 1931 there was finally a moratorium declared on Inter-Ally debts and German reparations. But that was two years after the 1929 stock market crash and the earlier hyperinflations in Germany and France. Along similar lines the 1980s saw Latin American debts written down by Brady bonds. In both cases international finance was the key to the system’s overall political and military breakdown, because the world economy had become self-destructively financialized. Something similar seems inevitable today. Any workable alternative involves creating a new world economic system.
U.S. domestic politics is equally unstable. Trump’s America First political theater that got him elected may get his gang unseated as the contradictions and consequences of their operating philosophy are recognized and replaced. His tariff policy will accelerate U.S. price inflation and, even more fatally, cause chaos in U.S. and foreign financial markets. Supply chains will be disrupted, interrupting U.S. exports of everything from aircraft to information technology. And other countries will find themselves obliged to make their economies no longer dependent on U.S. exports or dollar credit.
And perhaps in the long-term view this would not be a bad thing. The problem is in the short run as supply chains, trade patterns and dependency are replaced as part of the new geopolitical economic order that U.S. policy is forcing other countries to develop.
Trump bases his attempt to tear up the existing linkages and reciprocity of international trade and finance on the assumption that in a chaotic grab-bag, America will come out on top. That confidence underlies his willingness to pull out today’s geopolitical interconnections. He thinks that the U.S. economy is like a cosmic black hole, that is, a center of gravity able to pull all the world’s money and economic surplus to itself. That is the explicit aim of America First. That is what makes Trump’s program a declaration of economic war on the rest of the world. There is no longer a promise that the economic order sponsored by U.S. diplomacy will make other countries prosperous. The gains from trade and foreign investment are to be sent to and concentrated in America .
The problem goes beyond Trump. He is simply following what already has been implicit in U.S. policy since 1945. America’s self-image is that it is the only economy in the world that can be thoroughly self-sufficient economically. It produces its own energy, and also its own food, and supplies these basic needs to other countries or has the ability to turn off the spigot.
Most important, the United States is the only economy without the financial constraints that constrain other countries. America’s debt is in its own currency, and there has been no limit on its ability to spend beyond its means by flooding the world with excess dollars, which other countries accept as their monetary reserves as if the dollar is still as good as gold. And underneath it all is the assumption that almost with a flick of the switch, the United States can become as industrially self-sufficient as it was in 1945. America is the world’s Blanche duBois in Tennessee Williams’ Streetcar Named Desire, living in the past while not aging well.
The American Empire’s self-serving neoliberal narrative
To obtain foreign acquiescence in accepting an empire and living peacefully in it requires a soothing narrative to depict the empire as pulling everyone ahead. The aim is to distract other countries from resisting a system that actually is exploitative. First Britain and then the United States promoted the ideology of free-trade imperialism after their mercantilist and protectionist policies had given them a cost advantage over other countries, turning these countries into commercial and financial satellites.
Trump has pulled away this ideological curtain. Partly this is simply in recognition that it no longer can be maintained in the face of US/NATO foreign policy and its military and economic war against Russia and sanctions against trade with China, Russia, Iran and other BRICS members. It would be madness for other countries not to reject this system, now that its empowering narrative is false for all to see.
The question is, how will they be able to put themselves in a position to create an alternative world order? What is the likely trajectory?
Countries like Mexico really don’t have much of a choice but to go it alone. Canada may succumb, letting its exchange rate fall and its domestic prices rise as its imports are denominated in “hard currency” dollars. But many Global South countries are in the same balance-of-payments squeeze as Mexico. And unless they have client elites like Argentina – its elite being themselves major holders of Argentina’s dollar bonds – their political leaders will have to stop debt payments or suffer domestic austerity (deflation of the local economy) coupled with inflation of import prices as the exchange rates for their currencies buckle under the strains imposed by a rising U.S. dollar. They will have to suspend debt service or else be voted out of office.
Not many leading politicians have the leeway that Germany’s Annalena Baerbock has of saying that her Green Party does not have to listen to what German voters say they want. Global South oligarchies may rely on U.S. support, but Germany is certainly an outlier when it comes to being willing to commit economic suicide out of loyalty to U.S. foreign policy without limit.
Suspending debt service is less destructive than continuing to succumb to the Trump-based America First order. What blocks that policy is political, along with a centrist fear of embarking on the major policy change necessary to avoid economic polarization and austerity.
Europe seems afraid to use the option of simply calling Trump’s bluff, despite its being an empty threat that would be blocked by America’s own vested interests among the Doner Class. Trump has stated that if it does not agree to spend 5% of its GDP on military arms (largely from the United States) and buy more US liquid natural gas (LNG) energy, he will impose tariffs of 20% on countries that resist. But if European leaders do not resist, the euro will fall perhaps by 10 or 20 percent. Domestic prices will rise, and national budgets will have to cut back social spending programs such as support for families to buy more expensive gas or electricity to heat and power their homes.
America’s neoliberal leaders welcome this class-war phase of U.S. demands on foreign governments. U.S. diplomacy has been active in crippling the political leadership of former labor and social democratic parties in Europe and other countries so thoroughly that it no longer seems matter what voters want. That is what America’s National Endowment Democracy is for, along with its mainstream media ownership and narrative. But what is being shaken up is not merely America’s unipolar dominance of the West and its sphere of influence, but the worldwide structure of international trade and financial relations – and inevitably, military relations and alliances as well.
Screaming children heard crying for parents at US detention centre after being separated at border under Trump policy, in distressing audio recording
“Diversity is the mix. Inclusion is making the mix work.” — Andres Tapia
So, those fucking freaks, the Trump MAGA Evangelical Warring Cunts of Capitalism, all those wife beater t-shirt lovers, the entire suite of deplorables, really, hating education, hating black-brown-Chinese-Indian American-Anything Other Than White Fucking Colonial fast, you know, this fucked up ANTI-DEI racism, well well, the hard fucking work of scientists around the world, in so many different venues, including academia and non-profits, all that fucking work, these motherfuckers say is fake science.
They are lobotomized and lunatics. Fact after fact shows how fucked up the Capitalists of the Wester are, how fucked up the system of Empire and Hegemony are.
You don’t see fucking loggers or K12 kiddos or teachers from K12 or business owners and the like at these fucking amazing film festivals:
Opening Night includes a reception and films at Hatfield’s Gladys Valley Marine Studies Building in the Carmen Ford Phillips Auditorium. Complementary food and drinks are available. Awards will be presented to the winning filmmakers. We will also be showing the following films.
Cosmos Beneath (2:20 min.) A modest tribute to the Cosmos, the Ocean, and how the two are intertwined. Film by Lucas Lengagne.
Letter from the Age of Ecocide(6:00 min.) A woman navigates her underwater home, struggling to restore it to its former health. Meanwhile, a wise sage in another dimension recounts the ancient creation myth of her ancestors, revealing a universal story of ecological loss and acceptance. Film by Dr. Shireen Rahimi.
Regional Class Research Vessel (8:30 min.) The Regional Class Research Vessel (RCRV) project is a groundbreaking effort to build three state-of-the-art research vessels to define the future of oceangoing science. The communities these ships are named after are often overlooked and misunderstood. In this film, we explore and celebrate the history of the names of these new and upcoming vessels. Film by Darryl Lai.
Most Inspiring Award | El Pulmo| (32 min.) Mario Castro is a retired commercial fisherman whose tireless efforts have transformed Cabo Pulmo, Mexico, into the most successful marine park in the world. However, his idyllic world is threatened by the encroachment of modern-day challenges such as massive development projects, lack of authority and the swelling population. Embark on a journey through time, exploring the complex story and gain insight into Mario’s deep-rooted connection to this place and his unwavering commitment to preservation. Film by Mark Kronemeyer.
The stuff the fucking MAGA NEVER ever will look at, or the Musk Mules.
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These scientists and researchers and students WORK their asses off to find solutions to the global environmental and ecological and biome crises. Not some fucking coder or fucking six figure or seven figure FIRE cunt.
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Film Blocks at Hatfield Marine Science Center | Sat. Jan. 25
Block A: Passionate about Protecting, 10 a.m. (2 hours)
The Reserve by Lara Gribbin (6:36)
A short film about Cabbage Tree Bay aquatic reserve in Sydney showcasing its role for the community and marine life.
Sammy Safari is a ranger with Bahari Hai, a marine conservation nonprofit organization that works to empower coastal communities to manage and protect their resources in East Africa. Sammy runs an anti-poaching team that protects sea turtles. This is his story.
OceAnthropogenic tells the story of the coral reefs in Pramuka Island, part of the Thousand Islands in Indonesia, which are facing a serious threat due to human-induced activities such as breakwaters and the activities of tourists and fishermen. In addition, plastic waste from Jakarta and its surrounding areas has also become a serious threat to the coral reefs of Pramuka Island. This crisis requires an immediate response to involve all parties in preserving the sustainability of coral reefs, considering their important role in maintaining marine stability and providing habitats for various marine species.
Palau, An Ocean Inheritance by Rayne Sullivan & Skylar Chen (19:50)
“To understand the Ocean is to understand how humanity can redeem and restore itself.” Palau, An Ocean Inheritance transports viewers to the incredible islands of Palau, where ancient legends, cultural connections, and unparalleled marine biodiversity converge. This documentary celebrates Palau’s natural wonders, from vibrant coral ecosystems to the majestic species that call these waters home. At the film’s core is a powerful call for ocean justice—a recognition that ocean solutions can be found in Indigenous knowledge and community-led stewardship.
Best Film Award Winner | The Blue Quest Palawan (Link is external) by Clément Pourtal & Jérôme Brousse (47:22) A new documentary about marine conservation from award-winning filmmakers. With The Blue Quest, Clément and Jérôme travel the world to meet marine conservation projects and highlight their actions as well as the amazing people behind them. This time, they are going to Palawan, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in the Coral Triangle, which is “The Philippines’ last ecological frontier.” An area with exceptional marine biodiversity yet under threat. The Blue Quest takes you to meet the projects fighting at different levels to protect these vital ecosystems with a hopeful tool: marine protected areas.
Get Gulled by Matt McElrath (2:31) An animated film reflecting the relatable experience of trying to enjoy your lunch on the beach under the watchful eye of a seagull… The perfect short film to kick off the lunch hour!
Rise Age by Tatjana Theuer (4:42)
Fluorescent critters groove through a coastal world led by a superior choir. Their carefree crawl, however, is increasingly disturbed by the rising seas. As an invisible force gnaws its way up the beaches, one individual after another disappears. But is an invisible danger really worth slowing down the usual crawl?
Catch 22 by Cathal Mckeown, Maya Bengard, Kylie Jasnoch (17:14)
When the kelp in Goleta Bay disappears after a major El Niño event, a diverse group of fishermen, innovators, and scientists must navigate funding, access, and motivational challenges in a bid to restore the seafloor after over forty years of ecological imbalance. Can they do it?
Set on the island of Sandhornoy in Northern Norway, five young innovators have devoted their lives to kelp farming. Kelpinor, which began as a student start-up, has grown into a climate-action company dedicated to large-scale kelp cultivation. Their close friendship, shared passion for the environment, and commitment to sustainable practices drive them forward to reach their long-term mission: phasing out the use of wild-harvested seaweed for agricultural purposes through sustainable aquaculture.
What if our food could save the ocean? The ocean is the source of life. The ocean is vital, but it is under threat. And that is mainly because of our food. We don’t think about it because we can’t see it, but what we eat can have serious consequences for the health of the ocean. Fortunately, solutions do exist. In France, men and women are already laying the foundations for more sustainable eating. Malaury, a young ocean activist, sets off to hitchhike the roads of France to meet them. She will try to better understand the impacts of our food on the ocean. Above all, she will discover tangible solutions for eating well while preserving the ocean.
In Busua, Ghana a group of young men who taught themselves to surf as children using wooden planks now extend their knowledge and skill to their community. Today, with their own surf school, they are empowering local girls, teaching them how to swim, surf, and embrace the ocean, rather than fear it. This short documentary captures this journey, showcasing the transformative impact of surfing, as well as the joy and freedom that comes with understanding nature and being with your people.
The first biographical documentary film about the greatest Brazilian sailor by miles traveled; the living legend who spent, in total, 10 years at sea. Setting sail from Salvador – Bahia – Brazil, Capital of the Blue Amazon, the Ukrainian Brazilian personality Aleixo Belov has already circumnavigated the globe five times, three of them alone, aboard a little sailboat built in his own backyard.
Wild Sea is a captivating short documentary that delves into the life of Jeff Allen, a trailblazing figure in the world of sea kayaking. The film illuminates the transformative power of the sea as Jeff finds purpose and healing through his connection with the ocean. Wild Sea is a poignant exploration of resilience, redemption, and the profound bond between humanity and the sea, offering a profound testament to the healing power of nature.
The Weekend Sailor is a feature documentary about the unexpected victory of the Mexican yacht Sayula II in the first crewed sailing race around the world in 1974. The most demanding sailing quest in history.
Water connects all life; it defines our sense of place, culture and spirituality. This ground-breaking documentary, Our Blue World, narrated by Liam Neeson, introduces a collection of extraordinary individuals who are harnessing natural flows and unearthing the ancient wisdom of our ancestors. This beautiful documentary celebrates the wonder of water, revealing how since the beginning of time water defined our meaning, our spirituality, our lives and our joys through every precious drop. Ultimately, Our Blue World is a film of hope, showing how each one of us has the power through our interaction with water to transform our planet for good. Our Blue World (2024) is the sequel to the award-winning documentary, Brave Blue World (2020).
Our Mission
Our festival’s goal is to showcase ocean-themed films at the confluence of marine sciences, humanities and the arts. We also aim to engage the community and raise awareness about marine issues and how we might solve them.
We strive to inspire, educate and captivate our audience members with science and ocean entertainment. These films tell stories that shape our future understanding of one of our planet’s most important resources.
The Big Blue Film Fest is hosted at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center, which has operated in Newport, Oregon, for 59 years. Hatfield is dedicated to education and exploration with classes, internships, top-quality research and meaningful community outreach.
We are STUCK in fucking neutral, that gear box all full of shavings, as these fucking human stain like Zyklon Blinken and now Mutt Mario and the entire AIPAC-Mossad-Minyans killing us so quickly and economically.
Here’s a fucking Jew who threw in a million up front and millions in backdoor deals with Rapist in Chief Trump.
This is what you fucking nerds work/worked for!
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg just dropped a bombshell for the tech world: AI could soon replace the work of midlevel software engineers – yes, the ones earning mid-six-figure salaries.
Speaking on The Joe Rogan Experience, as quoted by Business Insider, Zuckerberg said, “Probably in 2025, we at Meta, as well as the other companies that are basically working on this, are going to have an AI that can effectively be a sort of midlevel engineer that you have at your company that can write code.”
This is what the death of fucking real science means — the fucking sludge story I was dealing with in the 1980s in West Mother Fucking Texas. Trains from Vermont, man, with their shit and bio-waste and feces of felines and all of that shake and bake killer goo.
And so, to NOT kill these fucking peole and their families and friends is an act and crime against us, HUMANITY: A US-based company has unveiled an extravagant $300 million doomsday bunker complex designed to shield ultra-wealthy individuals from global disasters. According to Forbes, the Aerie project is set to open in 2026 and promises unrivalled luxury alongside state-of-the-art security.
Nah, they are not in the hottest circle of hell in Dante’s Inferno! Safe Founder Al Corbi with director of medical preparedness Naomi Corbi at an Aerie construction site. (Safe’s systems are designed to give the owner control, not their staff. For clients with large households, like one with 150 rotating staff members, Safe’s systems track assets and detect problems to ensure nothing is ever misplaced or compromised.0
Here we go, Rapist in Chief and his fucking Eichmann’s and thugs: Trump ramps up dramatic daybreak immigration raids in sanctuary city LA.
Gestapo USA:
After receiving criticism for what appeared to be a Nazi salute, Elon Musk speaks to Germany’s AfD.
Fucking Dirty Denmark:
But is living in one of the world’s happiest nations all it’s cracked up to be? What happens if you struggle to find or maintain happiness in a sea of (supposedly) happy people?
In our research, published in Scientific Reports, we found that in countries which rank the highest in national happiness, people are also more likely to experience poor wellbeing due to the societal pressure to be happy.
We are fucked with these fuckers in charge:
Musk, speaking by video link, told thousands of AfD supporters gathered in the eastern city of Halle that their party was “the best hope for the future of Germany”.
AfD supporters at the rally shouted their approval as party co-leader Alice Weidel looked on smiling.
Meanwhile, protesters against the AfD turned out in cities across Germany.
The largest gatherings took place in Berlin and Cologne, police revising their turnout figures upwards to 35,000 and 40,000 respectively. Organisers in Berlin claimed that 100,000 people attended the protests in the capital.
Nazi’s here: “Is Pete Hegseth truly the best we have to offer?” said Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, urging his colleagues to think seriously about their vote. All Democrats opposed the nominee.
Cunts, one and all in Rapist in Chief Trump’s cunt-net:
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said there were few Trump nominees as “dangerously and woefully unqualified as Hegseth.”
More recently, Hegseth’s former sister-in-law said in an affidavit that he was abusive to his second wife to the point that she feared for her safety. Hegseth has denied the allegation, and in divorce proceedings, neither Hegseth nor the woman claimed to be a victim of domestic abuse.
You democrat lites laughed and laughed at these fucking monsters:
You fucking goddamned pussy democrats and shivering shadow fear-babies in the liberal class. This is what you sowed with your fucking Clintons and Obamas and Bidens and, well, you fucking fools:
Winter in America
In case you haven’t been there lately We have, and the season is back I mean, it was, it was holiday weather for a minute Or when I was just on vacation I’ll tell you a story
There used to be an agreement between the seasons I mean, after a while they decided to sit down and work it out And they agreed that they were gonna just come and stay About three months each And then they would go to wherever seasons go When they’re not where you are And this would be a cycle and it would go on all the time
And then one year in America, one of the seasons got mad And decided it was going to stay Decided that the way things were done there made it feel at home He would not, he wouldn’t go when he was supposed to I mean it wasn’t the people The people runnin’ this stuff, you know what I’m sayin’ It was something, there was some kind of vibe there
Made it feel like it weren’t leaving, it was just not, just not gonna go It wasn’t in terms of the temperature, it was in terms of the philosophy The politics, the psychology, the way things were going in other directions And so for a long time, where we come from there’s no spring And no summer and no fall
We have been taken over by the season of ice Very few people recognise it for what it is Although they feel uncomfortable Very few people recognise the fact that somehow the seasons don’t change I mean, you can acclimate it, you can politically acclimate it You can philosophically acclimate it
You start to, you start to relate everything to the season of ice And so your dreams become frozen, and your ideas become frozen Your promises become frozen in this Frozen days, and frozen nights Frozen aspirations and frozen inspiration
There’s something wrong, I mean, there’s something wrong I mean, there’s something wrong, I mean There’s something wrong, I mean We’d like to talk to you about a season that is taking over America The season is winter This song is called, “Winter in America”
From the Indians who welcomed the pilgrims And to the buffalo who once ruled the plains Like the vultures Circling beneath the dark clouds Looking for the rain Hey, they’ve been looking for the rain
Just like the cities staggered on the coastline Livin’ in a nation that just can’t much more Like the forest they buried beneath the highway Never had a chance to grow Well, they never had a chance to grow
And now it’s winter Come on, sing if you know the words Seemed like winter in America A time when all of the healers done been killed Or been betrayed, say People know that something’s wrong Everybody oughta know winter Seemed like winter in America
The truth is there ain’t nobody fighting Because, well nobody knows what to save Brother, save your soul Lord knows it’s winter in America The Constitution, a noble piece of paper With free society
Well, they struggled but they died in vain And now democracy is ragtime on the corners On the cord, hoping it’d rain Yes, he’s been a-hopin’ for some rain But it just don’t look like rain
And I see the robins, yeah, perched in barren tree tops Watching last-ditch racists marching across the floor And like the peace sign that filtered in our dreams That never had a chance to grow Yeah, they never had a chance to grow
Somebody want to go tell them it’s winter It’s cold, it’s like winter in America Time when all the healers, people who have done been killed Or been betrayed, say But the people know there’s something wrong Hey, it’s winter It seems like winter in America
The truth is there ain’t nobody fighting ‘Cause, well nobody knows what to save Aw, sister save your babies Yes, winter in America
I said hey, hey, hey It’s winter
It’s cold, it’s like winter in America Time when all the healers, brothers who have done been killed And put them in jail, say People know there’s something wrong Something wrong with winter It feels like winter in America
The truth is there ain’t nobody fighting because Well nobody knows what to save Yes and the truth is There’s nobody fighting, nobody fighting Nobody knows, nobody knows what to do, what to do The truth is there ain’t nobody fighting because Nobody knows what to save
Thank you all Thank you, thank you
A luscious bitch she is, true But it’s not nice to fool mother nature The proud mother of god like all ho’s Is jealous of her own shadow So who is this young Vic Tanny bitch Who wish to be queen for a day? Who would sacrifice the great grandsons and daughters Of her jealous mother By sucking their brain Until their ability to think was amputated By pimping their instincts Until they were fat, horny and strung-out In her neurotic attempt to be queen of the universe Who is this bitch?
Are these two Jews serious? Of course Zyklon Blinken is-was-will always be compromised:
Here it is two fucking White Dishonest Mother Fuckers: The West Peterson and Morgan.
Fucking Galloway, man, grovelling for Rapist Trump. These fuckers are just white goddamned fuckers. Millionaire Galloway:
These two white men, man, sorry to end the railing on these two, though Hedges knows how fucked up Trump is, and Galloway is a fucking Scotsman of Big Ego Fame.
Opens the door to the takeover of the entire government, and the world by unaccountable IT firms and private intelligence hiding behind the mask of “AI”
Opens the way to Central Bank Digital Currency at the very same time that Trump supposedly rejected it by renaming it as “crypto” and empowering the fusion of IT and private equity to run the economy.
Allowing the military to undertake largescale military actions in the United States and to designate any organization chosen by the elites as a military enemy.
Creating an unconstitutional and opaque “department,” which is not actually a department, that is empowered to fire government employees at will for the interest of the billionaires.
All of these executive orders are prefaced with the line:
“By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows”
The executive order has always been problematic in nature, but here it is used to remke by fiat the very nature of the presidency and the legal system. Trump is saying, in essence, what the president says is the law. Or, as Louis XIV supposedly remarked, “
“L’État, c’est moi”
“I am the state”
There are any number of legal challenges being raised, and that legal effort is worthwhile.
I want to go out on a limb, however, and state that ultimately we will find that it is not sufficient to counter each claim of authority by Trump in the courts. We will ultimately have to say that if the president ignores the people, corrupts the law, and degrades the Constitution, well then he is not the president in any sense. If the entire Congress supports the president in his immoral and illegal actions, or takes actions that assume that he is so empowered, then they also lose their legitimacy and authority. There is no sin, and much merit, in condemning a completely bankrupt system in toto.
Fucking Ritter: “How far will President Trump go when it comes to protecting the free speech right of all Americans, and holding to account those officials who have violated them?
On the evening of January 20, 2025, the newly sworn in President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, made his way into the Oval Office of the White House, where he took a seat at the desk recently vacated by his predecessor, Joe Biden. There, Trump proceeded to sign a series of executive orders designed to undo the policies of the Biden administration and set the United States on a new course designed to “Make America Great Again.”
Like millions of Americans, I watched as the president worked his way through the stack of documents, announcing each one before signing off. Of all the executive orders Trump signed off on that night, two resonated with me personally—those dealing with “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship” and “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government.”
You see, for the past four years, under the leadership of former President Joe Biden, I have seen my freedom of speech infringed upon by a weaponized federal government. While a candidate for president, Trump had spoken out frequently in defense of free speech. Moreover, having himself been under the crosshairs of federal agents operating at the behest of a politicized judicial branch, Trump had firsthand experience of what it was like to have the government target you simply because it did not agree with your position on certain issues.” — Cocksucker Ritter:
Cunts, one and all, loving that fucking criminal, Rapist Trump:
All of which could, in the end, mean little. There is every reason to believe that Trump will get rolled by the Blob, the Israeli government, the Israel Lobby, and their legions of bought-and-paid for representatives in Congress. There is even good reason to believe that “rolled” is the wrong word here, and that Trump has always been, is now, and will always be subservient to the Blob, including its Israeli corpuscle; and that this move by Trump is just a means of providing respite for the Israeli military before expanding its our mass murder in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran. Even this video share can easily be explained away as Trump hearing Sachs criticize Obama, clicking ‘share’, and not listening to the end.
The genocide never stopped, and what happened to Palestine BEFORE Oct. 7. And the carnage. The total polluted lands left by the Jews for the Gazans to return to WHAT?
Strangely, in his press conference of 22 January, Trump also mentions the US$ 500 billion Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stargate project – no mention though of mRNA vaxxes – it will supposedly create thousands of jobs and help making America great again.
But why would President Trump say in the first place that this gigantic Stargate infrastructure project would focus on using AI to manufacture mRNA-technology products, including vaccines?
And that despite his nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Secretary of Health, the very RFK Jr. who is to Make America Healthy Again (MAHA). The mRNA technology does not make anybody healthy. So, mRNA technology does not really fit into Trump’s MAHA ideology?
Was this discussed with RFK Jr.?
In one way or another, Trump must pay his dues to the [Ashkenazi] Zionists, Big Pharma and Big Tech, and not last nor least, the huge and powerful Military Industrial Complex (MIC), all of whom funded his campaign with almost uncountable millions of dollars.
In this episode of Dispatches, Rania Khalek is joined by author, historian, and journalist Vijay Prashad to discuss how the West’s increasing reliance on violent repression, from Gaza to Cuba, signals not strength, but desperation. Prashad dissects the moral collapse of Western imperialism and the challenges facing the Global South as they navigate an era of “hyperimperial” aggression.
Cunts of Continuing Criminal Enterprise:
Firstly, an important point must be made: Trump is extremely condescending to Saudi Arabia in the first statement above. Not only does he narcissistically remark that they should have already preemptively lowered oil prices as a kind of genuflection toward his new ascension to power, but then even outright blames the Saudis for starting the Ukraine war—a pretty outrageously extraneous remark. How exactly do you demand various tithes and tributes from a country to the tune of a trillion dollars, all while belittling them?
Needless to say, this alone mark a not-so-optimistic start to Trump’s war-ending plan. Trump appears to be under the impression that he’s still ruling in a previous bygone era—but times have passed him by, other countries are no longer as beholden nor fearful of the US and its big braggadocios threats. Putin has since developed closer ties to the Saudis and it seems hard to imagine they would skip and jump at Trump’s beck and call so easily all to spite Russia, with whom they now have good relations with, highlighted by Saudi Arabia’s recent inclusion into the BRICS fold. 1
The way Trump has roared onto the scene, demeaning and bullying every country left and right, leaves one to ponder how truly effective his tactic will be in this new world. Denmark, Panama, and Mexico, for instance, have already rebuffed his wild threats, although some reports now claim Denmark is internally in turmoil politically vis-a-vis Greenland.
All in all, it’s still questionable what results Trump’s extremely grating and disrespectful approach will yield, and one surmises that the general concensus of countries treated thusly by Trump will reveal the overall state of the world and direction things will take in the short to medium term. If Trump’s now ‘mythic’-level stature is enough to push countries around all across the globe, it will denote a new muscular American era of global hegemony. But if countries resist, and there begins to be a kind of herd mentality courage that develops, with each subsequent country inheriting boldness from the previous one which demonstrated resistance, then Trump’s new American century may fall flat and be exposed as nothing more than a cheap machismo PR campaign; that of course would subsequently bode very poorly for Ukraine.
So: as per the above, we know Trump is either lazily deluded, or is smarter than we think and is throwing an intentional deflection dart for his enemies. The real mechanism by which Trump aims to bring Russia to its knees is outlined above in two new statements stitched together in this video:
Russia is not afraid of Trump’s threats of “super sanctions” and is ready to fight for at least another year, developing its successes on the front, – Wall Street Journal.
▪️Moscow believes that it is successfully resisting sanctions and is capable of withstanding at least another year of conflict.
▪️At the same time, Russia has an advantage on the front, advancing towards Ukraine’s important logistics centers.
➖“…the situation is not so acute as to demand the cessation of all military actions… We are able to insist on our demands… and if Ukraine’s defense continues to collapse, as it is now, it would be wiser for the other side to agree to our conditions,” said HSE expert V. Kashin.
▪️Therefore, Trump’s statements “appear to be too few to force Russia to change its core demands.” The Kremlin is more likely to view the US president’s threats as “posturing before negotiations.”
➖”Putin perceives these statements as part of a political game. He does not take them seriously… He is prepared for any scenario and has no illusions that a deal will be reached quickly,” says Tatyana Stanovaya, a political scientist at the Carnegie Center.
▪️“Analysts say Putin is seeking a summit with Trump where the two leaders could hammer out a settlement acceptable to Moscow by pushing aside the Ukrainian leadership, which Putin rejects as illegitimate.”
▪️Experts believe that Trump’s threat to impose new sanctions reflects his understanding that the deal could be delayed. At the same time, such behavior could “push Russia away from the negotiating table.”
▪️“Russians always want to be spoken to directly; the Kremlin was already irritated by his communication style in his first term… This is not how to communicate with Russians,” said Oleg Ignatov, an analyst at the International Crisis Group on conflict resolution.
History shows American political violence is nothing new: Thomas Jefferson said ‘the blood of patriots’ is liberty’s ‘natural manure’
If you select “virtually any date in US history, it would be possible to find the same poisonous ingredients [… that] percolated violently to the surface on January 6th, 2021,” writes journalist and historian Nick Bryant in his new book, The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself.
Over two centuries ago, in 1787, Thomas Jefferson, America’s third president and principal author of the Declaration of Independence, wrote:
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
The quote has been repurposed by Donald Trump’s supporters: you can even buy a MAGA T-shirt emblazoned with it.
According to Pew, “Republicans and Democrats are more divided along ideological lines – and partisan antipathy is deeper and more extensive – than at any point in the last two decades.”
And the Demoncrats and LGBTAQA+ were doing what for fucking 25 years? Stopping hard-edged discussions and critical thinking. These supremacists have ALWAYS been around, anf forget about Eagle Forum, Moral Majority and the Promise Keepers.
These a Jewish PR and hasbara and education stunts, until now: White KKK in suits,
Trump’s recent executive order changes the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and Denali back to Mount McKinley.
According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the Gulf of Mexico name dates back to at least the late 16th century.
Mount McKinley is reverting back to its previous name before it was renamed Denali by former president Barrack Obama in 2015.
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What’s a 15-minute hate headline punch without the Jewish Crime Syndicate:
Larry Summers warns bubbling asset prices are hitting levels of froth last seen prior to the financial crisis — Epstein Criminal!
You want fucking double-speak and Up is Down illogic? ANother fucking Oppen-Monster-Heimer, telling us there will be abundance in a world of 10 billion people while the point zero zero zero One Percent fuck over the world? Another Jew, another lie.
In the realm of technological foresight, few names shine as brightly as Ray Kurzweil. Renowned for accurately predicting the rise of the internet and the advent of the smartphone, Kurzweil has solidified his reputation as a leading futurist. In his latest work, The Singularity is Nearer, he unveils a provocative vision of humanity’s future—a world where artificial intelligence (AI) and human life intertwine seamlessly, promising a future of unprecedented abundance by 2030.
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Dirty Jew and Dirty Goyim, at it again. May the next 737 crash their fucking parties.
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This dirty thieving country, man (I’m not talking about UkroNaziAzovZioLand, either:
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The Power of the Jew on Circumcised Fucking Judaic Nazi Trump?
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Yeah, that bomb facilitator:
Leaked documents reveal how Microsoft deepened its ties with Israeli army after Oct 7, 2023 — The investigation is based in part on documents obtained by Drop Site News, which has published its own story.
Damn, saving the planet for more murder, genocide, starvation, pollution:
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A country based on terror, proxy death, wars, guns, weapons, sanctions, drug use, blanket hell on the world, but the USA is always the sweet innocent fucker:
LUCAS: So the order says that the cartels are a threat in a way that your kind of run-of-the-mill organized crime is not. These cartels use horrific violence to control illegal traffic of people and drugs across the Southern border. And that, the order says, is a national security threat for the United States. What this order does is instruct the State Department to recommend, within 14 days, whether to apply this designation to the cartels, as well as to Central American criminal gangs. This sort of designation is something that has been considered in the past during Trump’s first term in office, but also way back during the Obama presidency. Ultimately, the decision back then was not to move forward with it, though.
SUMMERS: Got it. OK. So on a practical level, what would designating the cartels as terrorist organizations actually do?
LUCAS: Well, first off, to be absolutely clear, the U.S. government already has the ability to go after drug traffickers and cartels with both prosecutions and sanctions. What the terrorism designation would do is kind of broaden those options a bit. And the most significant change, many experts say, would be the possibility to bring what’s known as material support prosecutions. So under federal law, it is a crime to provide material support to designated terrorists. And material support can mean anything from money or weapons to lodging, false papers, even something just like a phone card. This is a bread-and-butter charge in terrorism prosecutions, and over the years, it has been interpreted pretty broadly.
Israel receives 230 planes, 20 ships loaded with US arms amid Gaza war
US military assistance includes artillery shells, armored vehicles, basic combat tools for soldiers, lsraeli daily says
Oh, that fucking golden shower Rapist in Chief whose fuck tapes Mossad has stashed away, man.
Federal workers placed on leave by Trump’s DEI order are angry and fearful of what lies ahead
Longtime federal workers say they have become pawns in a battle for political control, that their DEI work is misunderstood and they fear they’re under surveillance.
Rot Gut Landia — Idaho is really USA in its heart:
Organizers of the Greater Idaho movement have descended upon Oregon’s capital city with a series of billboards targeting Oregon lawmakers.
The Greater Idaho movement seeks to dramatically extend Idaho’s western border by annexing roughly half of Oregon. Greater Idaho Executive Director Matt McCaw told KOIN 6 News that the political group’s billboards will remain in Salem for at least a month.
“Our organization has paid to put billboards up in five locations across the Salem area with the intent of reminding legislators that the people of eastern Oregon have spoken, and they have said they want to pursue joining the state of Idaho,” McCaw said.
Ahh, that fucking Rapist in Chief’s followers:
Some years ago, I faced up to the futility of reporting truths about America’s disastrous wars, and so I left Afghanistan for another mountainous country far away. It was the polar opposite of Afghanistan: a peaceful, prosperous land where nearly everybody seemed to enjoy a good life, on the job and in the family.
It’s true that they didn’t work much–not by American standards, anyway. In the United States, full-time salaried workers supposedly laboring 40 hours a week actually average 49, with almost 20 percent clocking more than 60. These people, on the other hand, worked only about 37 hours a week, when they weren’t away on long paid vacations. At the end of the workday, about four in the afternoon (perhaps three during the summer), they had time to enjoy a hike in the forest, a swim with the kids, or a beer with friends—which helps explain why, unlike so many Americans, they are pleased with their jobs.
Often I was invited to go along. I found it refreshing to hike and ski in a country with no land mines, and to hang out in cafés unlikely to be bombed. Gradually, my war-zone jitters subsided and I settled into the slow, calm, pleasantly uneventful stream of life there.
Four years on, thinking I should settle down, I returned to the United States. It felt quite a lot like stepping back into that other violent, impoverished world, where anxiety runs high and people are quarrelsome. I had, in fact, come back to the flip side of Afghanistan and Iraq: to what America’s wars have done to America. Where I live now, in the homeland, there are not enough shelters for the homeless. Most people are either overworked or hurting for jobs; the housing is overpriced, the hospitals crowded and understaffed, the schools largely segregated and not so good. Opioid or heroin overdose is a popular form of death, and men in the street threaten women wearing hijabs. Did the American soldiers I covered in Afghanistan know they were fighting for this?
“America is a violence-loving country where people like John Wayne and even criminals like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Bonnie and Clyde are considered heroes and heroines.
America is a country where the successful man is thought to be the rich man, where honesty, diligence, outstanding scholarship and artistic achievements that bring no financial reward are looked upon with indifference. America is a country where t’s considered O.K. and even clever to break the law as long as you can get away with it. Richard Nixon wasn’t disgraced here because he was dishonest. People had known he was crooked for a long time; he was disgraced because he got caught.
Add those factors up and it’s no wonder you got a lot of people who want money and material luxuries and are willing to use illegal means, including violence, t’ get them. If they’re caught, they’re considered losers, but if they get away with it there’ll be plenty of people in this country that’ll praise ’em.” ―Harvey Pekar, American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar
“Everything he has said and done is to inflame violence… We need moral leadership, and he’s done everything to divide us.” –on Trump by Bishop Budde
Easy Targets NOW? This is fucking the way this fucking country was set up. New targets under the New Rapist in Chief?
Trump posted on his social media website about the service, calling it “very boring and uninspiring.” He also called Budde “a Radical Left hard line Trump hater” who “brought her church into the World of politics in a very ungracious way.”
The new president’s first hours in office have come with dire consequences for the most vulnerable.
Since when were pigs in uniforms, with guns, with copters, with heat seeking tools, with planes, satellites, and such, NOT be the fucking storm troopers of Capitalism?
Oh, those stormtroopers:
For some Americans, just saying “Chicago 68” is enough to bring it all back. Add the words, “Democratic National Convention” and millions more can visualize brawling delegates, billowing clouds of tear gas and police batons flailing at long-haired protestors.
The chant went up from witnesses of the street battle at the time: “The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!”
Much of it was. And the memory has been a kind of curse on the Democratic Party and on the Windy City itself. Prior to 1968, Chicago had easily hosted the most presidential nominating conventions of any city. There had been nine Democratic conventions in the centrally located and convention-friendly city and — 14 Republican ones.
Whore House, USA, and the Bishop?
“Let me make one final plea, Mr. President,” Bishop Mariann Budde said in her 15-minute sermon. “Millions have put their trust in you. And as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now,” said Budde, as she appeared to look towards the president.
“There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives.”
This came just one day after Trump issued a slate of executive orders, including one which has a section dedicated to “recognizing that women are biologically distinct from men,” one that declared a national emergency at the country’s southern border and issued several others related to immigration, including one attempting to do away with birthright citizenship.
Budde challenged these orders and much of the rhetoric that has surrounded them.
“The people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings; who labor in poultry farms and meat packing plants; who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals, they – they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation. But the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors,” said Budde.
Buddle, please, these people, all of them, from Bernie Sanders voting for Marco Rubio, to the entire fucking rich and semi-rich and really-rich “class,” all human stain, ordained by your loser archangel Miguel versus Satan, man, to rule the Earth.
Oh, those prisons:
Randall Sullivan is no stranger to the Catholic mystical. A previous book, The Miracle Detective (2004) is reported to have profoundly changed him. His current book cited above, opens with a question: “Does the Devil exist, or is he a figment of our imagination?” The second question follows: “If he is real, who or what are we describing when we refer to ‘the Devil’”? Sullivan concludes his book with a statement of personal conviction: “There is a Devil, a force of evil that human beings can best comprehend by personifying it. To acknowledge this, he says, is to throw open the door “the Devil hides behind.”
That certainly got my attention. I was stunned to read this in the WSJ on the same day as my haunting dream. Replaying the dream in my mind, one of my first thoughts was to wonder whether the location of the Evil entity — a “far left” corner — was actually a metaphor for a present trend in our culture. It is a trend I wrote about in my recent post (published just a week before my dream) “Cultural Meltdown: Prophetic Wisdom for a Troubled Age.” There is a lot there that I imagine the Devil would prefer you and I did not ponder.
Today many people no longer believe in the Devil — Randall Sullivan gives it an uppercase “D” throughout — and many of those also no longer believe in God. This is a cultural phenomenon that the Devil finds most promising. It’s the theme of a psychological masterpiece by C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters. I wrote of it in Holy Week this year in a post that I am certain the Devil would also prefer that you did not see. In his book, C.S. Lewis laid out the long, subtle descent upon which humans travail a slippery slope away from God:
“It does not matter how small sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge a man away from the Light and out into the Nothing… . Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”
Then, all these people wondering what Kushner-Stephen Miller-Kushner-Netanyahu LLC will do next?
Trump? You are not serious? He’s another rapist in chief and a mutant of the highest criminal and narcissistic order. And so we normalize the fucking abnormal. His picks? Abnormal and misanthropy on steroids. But we’ll just shift the baseline and treat him and his fucked up crew as human? Normal? He’s the old German Nazi ledby the nose by the newest Jewish versions .
Gaza is currently experiencing the largest slaughter of men, women and children in decades and a destruction rate that has produced over 40 million tonnes of rubble that will take over a decade to clear. The near 100,000 tonnes of bombs dropped on the Gaza Strip since1 October 2023 surpasses(external link) the World War II bombings of London, Dresden, and Hamburg combined. Gaza is the site of one of the largest engineered mass starvations(external link) this century. For over a year, a day has not passed by in which a child has not been dismembered by the US-backed Israeli army.
Gaza has seen its hospitals, universities, markets, and essential services blown to pieces, and its waterways, air, and soils polluted to highly toxic levels by chemical residues from carpet-bombing. The destructive force with which the Gaza Strip has been bombarded is equivalent to several times that of the nuclear bomb that the United States dropped on Hiroshima(external link). And yet, the tens of thousands of Palestinian children dying due to mutilation and incineration, and from infection resulting from amputation, count for absolutely nothing in the eyes of the West, in stark contrast to how it reacts when an Israeli is held hostage, or an ultra-wealthy American is trapped in an undersea submersible on a pleasure trip to view the Titanic.
It is breathtakingly clear that Palestinian lives do not matter to Imperial powers and their interests. The complete dismissal of entire populations as sub-human, or not equivalent to European or Euro-American bodies, is a stark reminder that the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade and colonial genocide of indigenous populations by Western empires have never left us. It is also a frightening reflection of the priorities of the world’s rulers as we watch the planet’s life-support systems erode due to ecological collapse.
The ruling class’s desire to preserve a liberal democratic society that is free from ecological breakdown extends only to a future reserved for themselves – an ever-decreasing minority of multi-millionaires and billionaires. Meanwhile, what we are witnessing in Gaza is a sign of what is to come in an era of growing ecological breakdown brought on by a capitalist world order that is no longer fit for purpose – if it ever was.
As Colombian president Gustavo Petro declared at the COP28 climate conference in Dubai last year: “Gaza is the mirror of our immediate future”.
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Trump reply Bishop wey tell am to ‘have mercy’ on LGBT pipo and migrants – who be di Bishop?
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Wetin we call dis foto,President Trump don dismiss di passionate appeal wey Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde make
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Author,Lebo Diseko
Role,BBC World Service global religion correspondent
8 hours wey don pass
For many progressive Christians, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde appeal say make President Donald Trump show mercy to LGBTQ+ pipo and migrants during one service wey hold on Tuesday, 21 January for Washington DC na example of Christian leadership at its best.
But to some conservative Christians, her words for di inaugural prayer service for Washington National Cathedral no hold water, as one pastor call am “inappropriate and embarrassing”.
President Trump for im reaction on Truth Social, call her “radical left hard-line Trump hater” and e demand for public apology.
For inside her 15-minute sermon, di Episcopal bishop of Washington tok about undocumented and LGBTQ+ pipo wey dey fear wetin di future go hold for dem.
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Wetin we call dis foto,Trump look no show say e dey moved as e listen to Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde. E later tell di press say im no “think say di service good”
Since e assume office, di president don issue a number of executive orders wey include one wey recognise only two genders – male and female.
E also announce new measures wey aim to drastically reduce illegal migration and asylum claims for di US border.
65-yer-old Right Rev Budde, na di spiritual leader for 86 Episcopal congregations for di District of Columbia wey include di city of Washington DC and four counties for Maryland, di state wey surround di city.
She be di first woman to dey dat role, she dey also oversee di ministries of di Washington National Cathedral.
One 2011 Washington Post interview she do shortly after she dey installed as di ninth Bishop of di Episcopal Diocese of Washington bin describe her as “unapologetically liberal”.
She bin tok of her support for gay marriage, she call am “a no-brainer”. For di predominantly Democratic region, many pipo welcome her progressive views.
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Wetin we call dis foto,Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde ask Trump to show mercy to LGBT pipo and migrants
Di Episcopal church na arguably one of di most liberal of di churches wey make up di global Anglican Communion (one of di world largest global Christian denominations).
On dia website, dem describe themselves as “aspiring to tell and exemplify God love for every human being”, wit pipo of “all genders and sexual orientations” wey dey serve as bishops, priests and deacons.
Bishop Budde post on her church website say she be “advocate and organiser in support of justice concerns, wey include racial equity, gun violence prevention, immigration reform, [and] di full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons”.
Dis dey very different from di views of many more conservative Christians, in particular di evangelical believers wey form core part of Donald Trump base.
For dem, di increase in LGBTQ+ rights dey in opposition to teachings of di Bible, one perspective wey be like say don already dey shape government policy.
These believers also dey worry say immigration dey put America at risk, dem accuse former President Joe Biden say im policies encourage human trafficking.
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Wetin we call dis foto,Trump don dclare border emergency to control di flow of migrants from Mexico
Dis no be di first time wey Bishop Budde and Donald Trump go dey jam.
During im last presidency, she bin para for am sake of one foto wey show as e how hold Bible outside St John Episcopal Church for Washington DC for di middle of George Floyd protests for June 2020.
For one interview at di time, she tok say “everything e say and don do na to cause violence… We need moral leadership, and e don do everything to divide us”.
Wetin dey happun for America dey show clash between two competing visions of wetin e mean to be Christian.
Progressives argue say living like Jesus na about being accepting of odas and fighting for social justice.
Many conservatives dey of di view say dia kontri dey di state of moral decline becos dem stop to dey follow God word.
Na conflict wey play out for dis election, as heavyweight evangelical leaders like Franklin Graham call Trump victory “a big win for Christians, for evangelicals”.
Perhaps, pipo fit see am clearly for di two statements dem issue on Tuesday. Inside one, di Episcopal church reiterate dia support for migrants, dem tok say “as Christians, our faith dey shaped by di biblical story of pipo wey God led go foreign kontris to escape oppression”.
For anoda statement on X, Republican lawmaker Mike Collins say Bishop Budde “di pesin wey give dis sermon suppose dey added to di deportation list”.
[A pidgin is a simplified language that allows people who don’t share a common language to communicate. Pidgins are often developed in situations like trade, colonization, and enslavement.]
[TheWealth of Nations. Smith’s economic and social theories are crucial for understanding Marx’s critique of political economy. Smith deals with such issues as the so-called labor-theory of value, the equalization of the rate of profit, and the determination of commodity prices in important ways that anticipate Marx or require the corrections Marx provides.]
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The Pverty of a Nation of scoundrels and sycophants and spineless democrats:
The first act of the 119th Congress of the United States was to pass a bill that would require federal immigration enforcement to detain and potentially deport any unauthorized immigrant accused of minor crimes including petty theft or shoplifting.
The bill, which is to be passed on 20 January, is a meaningful departure from current policy, which requires not one but two or more convictions – not accusations – of crimes of moral turpitude to trigger deportation proceedings. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) estimates that it would cost $29.6bn to implement, requiring an additional 110,000 detention beds and 10,000 detention and removal personnel.
This bill is widely recognized as a step toward Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations under the leadership of border czar Tom Homan, one disparaged by the Democratic party as being inhumane.
Yet, even as Democratic party leadership has decried this mass deportation plan and even as the bill maligns Democrats as victimizing Americans through its policy of “open borders,” 48 Democratic members of Congress voted for this GOP-backed bill . The bill is on the verge of passing in the Senate, as 10 Democrats joined Republicans in clearing the way for its final approval.
As a scholar of borders and immigration, I am not at all surprised by the Democrats’ willingness to participate in the prizing of notions of “security” over human rights. After 9/11, the Homeland Security Act was signed, establishing Ice and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), framing immigration as a security issue, to be solved with security solutions. Since then, $409bn has been spent on enforcement, in the form of removal personnel, detention facilities and all forms of dystopian border technology – increasing steadily regardless of which party is in power, and reaching unprecedented levels this year.
But even as people are deported, even as the south-west border has become the deadliest land route in the world , even as more money has been spent on the southern border than ever before, people continue to arrive in unprecedented numbers. The number of unauthorized people has shifted over time but stayed between 10 and 12 million people for at least the last decade. Continuing to adopt more violent solutions do little more than turn us into an autocracy that imprisons people on accusations, one that is willing to eject them at whatever cost.
Today, an unprecedented one in every 69 people in the world is displaced. For them, crossing into the US is the end of a horrifically long journey – the last steps of an ultramarathon. They are fleeing horrors of a world ravaged by climate disaster, civil war and persecution, much of which the world’s wealthiest nations have had a hand in, through their militaries, industries or colonial pasts and presents.
Yet, looking at these numbers, policy makers have called for more security. The former president Barack Obama built walls that Trump expanded, from which hundreds of people, disproportionately pregnant and older women, have fallen to be maimed and even killed. In his first administration Trump separated children from their families, an idea innovated by Homan, who won an award for his service as head of Ice under the Obama administration. During Joe Biden’s tenure, CBP officers on horseback were filmed violently corralling Haitian immigrants, in imagery that evoked slave patrols.
A security focus is a self-fulfilling prophecy in that if security is not working, you need more security, if it is working you need more security. It creates a nail for which there can only be one hammer. Benchmarks for security have been exceeded and raised again and again, each time with deadlier force, with less attention to human rights or human life.
After 9/11, the Patriot Act vastly expanded the government’s right to conduct mass surveillance. As a result, multiple minority groups’ rights were violated – including Muslim Americans who were subject to registration and unfair deportation, and whose mosques were infiltrated by informants. Later, Black Lives Matter activists movements and social media were monitored through the same policies.
This deportation bill, named after Laken Riley, a nursing student who was killed by an asylum seeker who was accused of shoplifting, is the latest move on the slippery slope towards autocracy promised by this security-focused approach.
Its logic is laid bare by John Fetterman , a Democratic senator who co-sponsored the bill and said it “will ensure detention and deportations of criminal aliens before they can commit heinous crimes like what happened to Laken Riley”. His statement shows the willingness to trample the foundational tenets of human rights – the presumption of innocence, the promise of due process in the name of “security”.
While Fetterman’s words may seem particularly callous or absurd, it is less so when we recognize that our system is designed to repel, deny or kill rather than accept or process people’s legal claims. It is a system that imagines all people coming to our borders as guilty until proven innocent. It is one that has long denied due process.
Our legal pathways have shrunk, with funding on the adjudication of immigrant claims steadily declining in favor of higher and higher expenditure on smart walls that are designed to meet people with violence. The US spends triple the amount on immigrant detention than it does on adjudicating removal and asylum claims. The Biden administration recently enacted a policy that rights groups claim amounts to an “asylum ban ” – far from the “open borders” critics allege.
As Trump put it in reference to authorized and unauthorized immigrants he wants to eject, “getting them out will be a bloody story ”. If you believe in the sanctity of human life, this alone should be disturbing.
But even if the moral costs do not concern you, then be concerned with the financial costs; the billions we are all paying to fight windmills. There is copious data on the benefits of immigrants , including unauthorized immigrants, to this nation’s economy; copious data on how law abiding they are as compared to citizens.
Detaining and deporting everyone accused of shoplifting is an expensive, stupid idea. The case of one heinous attack does not change that.
It is time to divest from this path to nowhere and invest instead in the long-neglected systems of adjudication of immigrant claims. Given the exorbitant costs of deportation and detention , this approach promises to be not only more humane but also, ultimately less expensive, and safer.
As we enter this second Trump presidency, people are gearing up to fight against policies that dehumanize, to safeguard the rights that do exist. That fight begins with the Democratic party, many of whose members have veered towards autocracy themselves. It is time to call in those who claim to represent us, and demand that they fight for the US to live up to its mantra as a nation of immigrants.
Stuart Hall would probably caution us from turning to the past to understand the present. The late, great Jamaican-British Marxist would most likely suggest that we approach historical precedent warily, that we not find an easy predictive pattern in prior events, that we not get caught in the trap of seeing history as repetition, as an inevitable cycle with inevitable outcomes. This is not to say that we should not ask questions of the past to understand the present. But those questions should not be answered in advance to confirm what we think we already know. They should work to reveal the specific conjunctures of power and the political-economic formations that characterize the here and now.
And yet it is almost impossible to read Hall’s 1979 Marxism Todayessay “The Great Moving Right Show” – on the historical rise of Margaret Thatcher in the late 1970s – without seeing parallels with the contemporary phenomenon of Donald Trump. Hall’s cogent analysis of the shifting perceptions and functions of the state; of changes to approaches to the management of the economy, of control of education by the right; of racism, immigration, and law and order; of the question of fascism and what he calls “authoritarian populism;” and of the confusion and oftentimes complicity of progressive forces when it comes to the right wing resurgence — all seem to speak powerfully to the present. But Thatcherism is not Trumpism and Musk is not Mussolini, and in the US, the “great moving right show” began long before Trump’s second ascension to the presidency.
The Great Moving Right Show
Stuart Hall
No one seriously concerned with political strategies in the current situation can now afford to ignore the “swing to the Right”. We may not yet understand its extent and its limits, its specific character, its causes and effects. We have so far—with one or two notable exceptions—failed to find strategies capable of mobilizing social forces strong enough in depth to turn its flank. But the tendency is hard to deny. It no longer looks like a temporary swing in the political fortunes, a short-term shift in the balance of forces. It has been well installed—a going concern—since the latter part of the 1960s. And, though it has developed through a series of different stages, its dynamic and momentum appears to be sustained. We need to discuss its parameters more fully and openly on the Left without inhibi- tion or built-in guarantees.
Certain aspects have won attention from the Left: the present Government’s tough industrial and economic strategy in face of the recession and crisis in capital accumulation; the emergence of “Thatcherism” and the anti-Left campaigns; the rise of the National Front as an open political force. But the full dimensions of the precipitation to the Right continues to evade a proper analysis. This may be because the crisis continues to be “read” by the Left from within certain well-entrenched and respectable “common sense” positions. Many of these no longer provide an adequate analytic or theoretical framework: the politics which flow from them thus continue to fall far short of their aim.
Thus there are some who would still argue that “worse means better”—i.e. a sharpening of the contradictions. Such a position is often based on a belief in the inevitable rising tempo of class struggle and the guaranteed victory of “progressive forces everywhere”. Those who hold it have short political memories. They forget how frequently in recent history a sharpening of the contradictions has led to “settlements” and solutions which favoured capital and the Right, rather than the reverse. The commonest response on the Left is probably to interpret the “swing to the Right” as a simple expression of the economic crisis. Thus “Thatcherism” is—give or take one or two elements—the corresponding political bedfellow of a period of capitalist recession: the significant differences between this and other variants of Tory “philosophy” being conceived as without any specific pertinent political or ideological effects. And the National Front is the long-anticipated irrational face of capitalism—the class enemy in familiar Fascist disguise.
Specific Features
This position neglects everything particular and specific to this historical conjuncture. It views history as a series of repeats. It is predicated on a notion of a social formation as a simple structure in which economic factors will be immediately and trans- parently translated to the political and ideological levels. It falls under the sign of all “economisms” in supposing that, if you operate on the “determining level”—the economic front—all the other pieces of the puzzle will fall neatly into place.
It thus prevents itself, theoretically and politically, from working on those related but distinct contradictions, moving according to very different tempos, whose condensation, in any particular historical moment, is what defines a conjuncture. It neglects Lenin’s reminder of “an extremely unique historical situation” in which “absolutely dissimilar currents, absolutely heterogeneous class interests, absolutely contrary political and social strivings have merged . . . in a strikingly ‘harmonious’ manner . . .” (Letters From Afar (No. 1)). It takes for granted what needs to be explained: how a capitalist economic recession is presided over by a social democratic party in power (politically) with mass working class support and organized depth in the trade unions; and “lived” for increasing numbers of people through the themes and representations (ideologically) of a virulent, emergent “petty-bourgeois” ideology. These features of the current situation are not so much expressions of the economic crisis (its political and ideological reflection) as they are factors which have effects—including effects on the economic crisis itself and its possible solutions.
One also encounters in this discussion variants of “revolutionary optimism” and “revolutionary pessimism”. The pessimists argue that we mustn’t rock the boat, or demoralize the already dispersed forces of the Left. To them one can only reply with Gramsci’s injunction: to address ourselves “violently” towards the present as it is, if we are serious about transforming it. The optimists cast doubt on the doubters: look for the points of resistance—the class struggle continues. Of course, in one sense, they are right. We must look behind the surface phenomena, we must find the points of intervention, we mustn’t underestimate the capacity for resistance and struggle. But, if we are correct about the depth of the rightward turn, then our interventions need to be pertinent, decisive and effective. Whistling in the dark is an occupational hazard not altogether unknown to the British Left. “Pessimism of the intelligence: optimism of the will”.
Fascism
Finally, there is “”fascism”. There is a sense in which the appearance of organized Fascism on the political stage seems to solve everything for the Left. It confirms our best-worst suspicions, awakening familiar ghosts and spectres. Fascism and economic recession together seem to render transparent those connections which most of the time are opaque, hidden and displaced. Away with all those time-wasting theoretical speculations! The Marxist guarantees are all in place after all, standing to attention. Let us take to the streets. This is not an argument against taking to the streets. Indeed, the direct interventions against the rising fortunes of the National Front—local campaigns, anti-fascist work in the unions, trades councils, women’s groups, the mobilization behind the Anti-Nazi League, the counter-demonstrations, above all Rock Against Racism (one of the timeliest and best constructed of cultural interventions, repaying serious and extended analysis)—constitute one of the few success stories of the conjuncture. But it is an argument against the satisfactions which sometimes flow from applying simplifying analytic schemes to complex events. What we have to explain is a move toward “authoritarian populism”—an exceptional form of the capitalist state—which, unlike classical fascism, has retained most (though not all) of the formal representative institution in place, and which at the same time has been able to construct around itself an active popular consent. This undoubtedly represents a decisive shift in the balance of hegemony, and the National Front has played a “walk- on” part in this drama. It has entailed a striking weakening of democratic forms and initiatives, but not their suspension. We may miss precisely what is specific to this exceptional form of the crisis of the capitalist state by mere name-calling.
The swing to the Right is part of what Gramsci called an “organic” phenomenon:
“A crisis occurs, sometimes lasting for decades. This exceptional duration means that uncurable structural contradictions have revealed themselves . . . and that, despite this, the political forces which are struggling to conserve and defend the existing structure itself are making efforts to cure them within certain limits, and to overcome them. These incessant and persistent efforts . . . form the terrain of the conjunctural and it is upon this terrain that the forces of opposition organize”. (Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, p. 179)
Gramsci insisted that we get the “organic” and “conjunctural” aspects of the crisis into a proper relationship. What defines the “conjunctural”—the immediate terrains of struggle—is not simply the given economic conditions, but precisely the “incessant and persistent” efforts which are being made to defend and conserve the position. If the crisis is deep—”organic”—these efforts cannot be merely defensive. They will be formative: a new balance of forces, the emergence of new elements, the attempt to put together a new “historical bloc”, new political configurations and “philosophies”, a profound restructuring of the state and the ideological discourses which construct the crisis and represent it as it is “lived” as a practical reality; new programmes and policies, pointing to a new result, a new sort of “settlement”—”within certain limits”. These do not “emerge”: they have to be constructed. Political and ideological work is required to disarticulate old formations, and to rework their elements into new configurations. The “swing to the Right” is not a reflection of the crisis: it is itself a response to the crisis. I want to examine certain features of this response, concentrating on some neglected political-ideological aspects.
Economic Crisis
We must examine first the precipitating conditions. This is a matter of a set of discontinuous but related histories, rather than neat, corresponding movements. In economic terms, Britain’s structural industrial and economic weakness emerges in the immediate aftermath of the postwar boom. The 1960s are marked by the oscillations between recession and recovery, with a steady underlying deterioration. These effectively destroy the last remnants of the “radical programme” on the basis of which [British Prime Minister Harold] Wilson won power in 1964, and to which he tried to harness a new social bloc. By the end of the 1960s, the economy has dipped into full scale recession— slumpflation—which sustains the exceptional “Health course” of 1971-4 [after Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath], with its head-on collisions with organized labour. By the mid-1970s, the economic parameters are dictated by a synchronization between capitalist recession on a global scale, and the crisis of capital accumulation specific to Britain—the weak link in the chain. Domestic politics has thus been dominated by crisis-management and containment strategies: dove-tailed through an increasingly interventionist state, intervening both to secure the conditions of capitalist production and reproduction. The strategy has a distinctively corporatist character -incorporating sections of the working class and unions into the bargain between state, capital and labour, the three “interests”. Crisis management has drawn successively on the different variants of the same basic repertoire: incomes policy, first by consent, then by imposition; wage restraint: social contracting. The “natural” governor of this crisis has been the party of social democracy in power. This last factor has had profound effects in disorganizing and fragmenting working class responses to the crisis itself.
At the ideological level, however, things have moved at a rather different tempo, and in certain respects pre-date the economic aspects. Many of the key themes of the radical Right–law and order, the need for social discipline and authority in the face of a conspiracy by the enemies of the state, the onset of social anarchy, the “enemy within”, the dilution of British stock by alien black elements —are well articulated before the full dimensions of the recession are revealed. They emerge in relation to the radical movements and political polarizations of the 1960s, for which “1968” must stand as a convenient, though inadequate notation. Some of these themes get progressively translated to other fronts as the confrontation within organized labour, and the militant resistance it meets develops during the Heath interregnum. For the constitution of the principal thematics of the radical Right, this must be seen as a formative moment. (We have attempted a fuller analysis of this moment elsewhere: the chapters on the “Exhaustion Of Consent” and “Towards the Exceptional State” in Policing The Crisis, Hall, Clarke, Critcher, Jefferson and Roberts. Macmillan, 1978).
The Radical Right
The radical Right does not appear out of thin air. It has to be understood in direct reaction to alternative political formations attempting to occupy and command the same space. It is engaged in a struggle for hegemony, within the dominant bloc, against both social democracy and the moderate wing of its own party. Not only is it operating in the same space: it is working directly on the contradictions within these competing positions. The strength of its intervention lies partly in the radicalism of its commitment to break the mould, not simply to rework the elements of the prevailing “philosophies.” In doing so, it nevertheless takes the elements which are already constructed into place, dismantles them, reconstitutes them into a new logic, and articulates the space in a new way, polarizing it to the Right.
This can be seen with respect to both positions. The Heath position was destroyed in the confrontation with organized labour. But it was also undermined by its internal contradictions. It failed to win the showdown with labour; it could not enlist popular support for this decisive encounter; in defeat, it returned to its “natural” position in the political spectrum, engaging in its own version of bargaining. “Thatcherism” succeeds in this space by directly engaging the “creeping socialism” and apologetic “state collectivism” of the Heath wing. It thus centres on the very nerve of consensus politics, which dominated and stabilized the political scene for over a decade. To sustain its possible credibility as a party of government in a crisis of capital, “Thatcherisni” retains some lingering and ambivalent connections to this centre territory: Mr. Prior [Conservative Party politician Jim Prior] is its voice— but soto voce. On other grounds, it has won considerable space by the active destruction of consensus politics from the Right. Of course, it aims for a construction of a national consensus of its own. What it destroys is that form of consensus in which social democracy was the principal tendency. This evacuation of centrist territory has unleashed political forces on the Right kept in reign for most of the postwar period.
The Contradiction within Social Democracy
But the contradiction within social democracy is the principal key to the whole rightward shift of the political spectrum. For if the destruction of the Heath “party” secures hegemony for “Thatcherism” over the Right, it is the contradictory form of social democracy which has effectively disorganized the Left and the working class response to the crisis.
This contradiction can be put in stark and simple terms; considerable strategic conclusions flow from it. As follows: To win electoral power social democracy must maximize its claims as the political representative of the interests of the working class and organized labour. It is the party capable of (a) mastering the crisis, while (b) defending—within the constraints imposed by recession—working class interests. It is important here to remember that social democracy is not a homogenous political entity but a complex political formation. It is not the expression of the working class “in government,” but the principal measure of representation of the class. Representation here has to be understood as an active and formative relationship. It organizes the class, constituting it as a political force—a social democratic political force—in the same moment as it is constituted. Everything depends on the ways, the apparatus and the “philosophies”—the means—by which the often dispersed and contradictory interests of a class are welded together into a coherent position which can be articulated and represented in the political and ideological theatre of struggle.
The expression of this representative relationship of class-to-party, it the present period, has depended decisively on the extensive set of bargains negotiated between Labour and the trade union representatives of the class. This “indissoluble link” is the practical basis for the claim to be the natural governing party of the crisis. This is the contract it delivers. But. once in government, social democracy is committed to finding solutions to the crisis which are capable of winning support from key sections of capital, since its solutions are framed within those limits. But this requires that the indissoluble link be used, not to advance but to discipline the class and organizations it represents. This is only possible if the link—class-to-party—is dismantled and if there can be substituted for it an alternative articulation: government-to-people. The rhetorics of “national interest”, which is the principal ideological form in which a succession of defeats have been imposed on the working class by social democracy in power, are exactly the sites where this contradiction shows through—and is being constantly reworked. But government-to-people dissects the field of struggle differently from class-to-party. It sets Labour, at key moments of struggle—from the strikes of 1966 right through to the present 5 percent norm—by definition “on the side of the nation” against “sectional interests”, “irresponsible trade union power”, etc.
This is the terrain on which Mr. Heath played such destructive games in the lead-through to the Industrial Relations Act and its aftermath with his invocation of “the great trade union of the nation” and the spectre of “holding the nation up to ransom”. “Thatcherism”, deploying the discourses of “nation” and “people” against “class” and “unions” with far greater vigour and popular appeal, has homed in on the same objective contradiction. Within this space is being constructed an assault, not on this or that piece of “irresponsible bargaining” by a particular union, but on the very foundation and raison d’etre of organized labour. Considerable numbers of people —including many trade unionists—find themselves reflected and set in place through this interpellation of “nation” and “people” at the centre of this mounting attack on the defensive organizations of the working class.
Anti-Collectivism
A closely related strand in the new philosophy of the radical right is the themes of anti-collectivism and anti-statism. “Thatcherism” has given this traditional arena of conservative “philosophy” expansive play. At the level of organized theoretical ideologies, anti-statism has been refurbished by the advance of Monetarism as the most fashionable economic credo. Keynesianism was the lynch-pin of the theoretical ideologies of state intervention throughout the postwar period, assuming almost the status of a sacred orthodoxy or doxa. To have replaced it in some of the most powerful and influential apparatuses of government, research and the universities and restored in its place [Milton] Friedman and [Friedrich August] von Hayek is, in itself, a remarkable reversal. Neither Keynesianism nor Monetarism win votes in the electoral marketplace. But in the doctrines and discourses of “social market values”—the restoration of competition and personal responsibility for effort and reward, the image of the over-taxed individual, enervated by welfare coddling, his initiative sapped by handouts by the state—”Thatcherism” has found a powerful means of popularizing the principles of a Monetarist philosophy: and in the image of the welfare “scavenger” a well designed folk-devil. The elaboration of this populist doctrine—to which Sir Keith Joseph and Mr. Boyson, leader writers in the Telegraph, the Economist and the Spectator, opinion leaders in the Mail and Express and many others have given their undivided attention—represents the critical ideological work of constructing for “That- cherism” a populist common sense. It is a particularly rich mix because of the resonant traditional themes —nation, family, duty, authority, standards, self-reliance—which have been effectively condensed into it. Here elements from many traditional ideologies— some already secured at earlier times to the grand themes of popular Conservatism, many others with a wider popular connotation—have been inserted into and woven together to make a set of discourses which are then harnessed to the practices of the radical Right and the class forces they now aspire to represent.
Aspects of the Repertoire
Two aspects of this rich repertoire of anti-collectivism only should be remarked on here. The first is the way these discourses operate directly on popular elements in the traditional philosophies and practical ideologies of the dominated classes. These elements—as [Ernesto] Laclau among others has recently argued—always express a contradiction between popular interests and the power bloc. But, since they have no intrinsic, necessary and historically fixed class meaning but can be effectively composed as elements within very different discourses, themselves articulated to and by different class positions and practices, it marks the neutralization of that contradiction to have successfully colonized them, for the Right.
The second point is a related one. For what is represented here (again, in an active sense) is indeed the materiality of the contradiction between “the people,” popular needs, feelings and aspirations—on the one hand—and the imposed structures of an interventionist capitalist state—that state of the monopoly phase of capitalist development — on the other. In the absence of any fuller mobilization of democratic initiatives, the state is increasingly encountered and experienced by ordinary working people as, indeed, not a beneficiary but a powerful, bureaucratic imposition. And this “experience” is not misguided since, in its effective operations with respect to the popular classes, the state is less and less present as a welfare institution and more and more present as the state of “state monopoly capital”. Social democracy cannot, of course, exploit any of this terrain to its advantage. First, it holds to a neutral and benevolent interpretation of the role of the state as incarnator of the national interest above the class struggle. Second in the representations of social democracy (and not only there, on the Left) the expansion of the state is understood as, in itself, and without reference to the mobilization of effective democratic power at the popular level, virtually synonymous with “socialism”. Third, the enlarged interventionist state is the principal instrument through which the party of social democracy attempts to manage the capitalist crisis on behalf of capital. Fourth, in this phase, the state is inscribed through every feature and aspect of social life. Social democracy has no alternative viable strategy, especially for “big” capital (and “big” capital has no viable alternative strategy for itself) which does not involve massive state support. Thus in any polarization along this fissure, Labour is undividedly “with” the state and the power bloc—and Mrs. Thatcher is, undividedly, out there “with the people”. It can now be seen that the anti-statist elements in the discourses of the radical Right are key supporters for the new populism. It is no rhetorical flourish. To add that it then does some service in making respectable the radical Right assault on the whole structure of welfare and social benefits is only to say that the work of ideological excavation, if well done, delivers considerable political and economic effects.
Education
We might turn to another area of successful colonization by the radical Right: the sphere of education. Until very recently, the social democratic goals of “equality of opportunity” and “remedying educational advantage” were dominant throughout the world of secondary education. The struggle over comprehensivization was its political signature. Contestation in this area has only gradually deve- loped, through a series of strategic interventions. The “Black Paper ” group—at first no more than a rump—has moved from very modest beginnings to the point where it could justly be claimed (and was) that their preoccupations set the agenda for the “Great Debate” which the Labour Government initiated last year. In the 1960s “progressive” and “community” education made considerable advances within state schools. Today, “progressivism” is thoroughly discredited: the bodies of a whole series of well-publicized schools—William Tyndale and after, so to speak—lie strewn in its path. The panic over falling standards and working class illiteracy, the fears concerning politically-motivated teachers in the classroom, the scare stories about the “violent” urban school, about the adulteration of standards through the immigrant intake, and so on have successfully turned the tide in the education sphere towards themes and goals being established for it by the forces of the Right. The press—especially those three popular ventriloquist voices of the radical Right, the Mail, the Sun and the Express— have played here a quite pivotal role. They have publicized the “examples” in a highly sensational form—and they have drawn the connections.
These connections and couplings are the key mechanisms of the process by which education as a field of struggle has been articulated to the Right. There are long, deep-seated resistances within the philosophy of state education to any attempt to measure schooling directly in terms of the needs and requirements of industry. That these were resistances often shot through with ambiguity is not so important for our purposes. However it arose, this reluctance to cash the school in terms of its immediate value to capital was one on which campaigns could be based with some hope of professional and administrative support. These defences have now been dismantled. Clear evidence is supposed to exist that standards are falling: the principal witnesses to this alarming trend are employers who complain about the quality of job applicants: this, in turn, must be having an effect on the efficiency and productivity of the nation—at a time when recession puts a premium on improving both. Once the often ill-founded elements can be stitched together into this chain of “logic”, policies can begin to be changed by leading educationists of the political Right, indirectly, even before they take charge. And why?
First, because the terrain on which the debate is being conducted has been so thoroughly reconstructed around this new “logic” that the groundswell for change is proving hard to resist. Second, because Labour itself has always been caught between competing goals in schooling: to improve the chances of working class children and the worse-off in education, and to harness education to the economic and efficiency needs of the productive system. We can see now that this contradiction, even within the social democratic educational programme, is a reworking of what earlier we called the principal contradiction of social democracy in this period. The educational experts and spokesmen, the educational press, sections of the profession, the media, many educational interest groups and organizations have been operating exactly on the site of this dilemma and—in conditions of recession—have convinced the Government. It in turn has now taken up the lead in promoting debates and policies designed to make this equation—success in education = requirements of industry—come true.
The “Great Debate”
Thus the agenda for the “Great Debate” was indeed set for social democracy by the social forces of the Right—and the Government, which initiated it, is almost certainly convinced that this is a largely “non political debate—like debates about education ought to be”. Yet, in order to bring this about, a major restructuring of the state apparatuses themselves has had to be executed. The DES has been set aside, and new state apparatuses, capable of realizing the equation in more immediate and practical forms, have moved into a central position in the field— the Manpower Services Commission, the new TSA re-training programmes in further and technical education, and its ancillary supports etc. Here, training and retraining programmes directly geared in to the demands and movements of industry and the silent deskilling and reskilling of the unemployed can proceed.
Again, this is no merely imposed or rhetorical strategy. The recomposition of the educational state apparatuses and the redirection of resources and programmes is the site of a very real and profound construction of a field of the state, from above. But many aspects of the strategy also seem to win consent and support from parents. Perhaps because, in a period of scarce jobs, working class parents are glad to see their children undergoing the process of being skilled—even if it is for particular places in routine manual labour or, in many instances, for places which are unlikely to exist at all when and if industrial production revives. Perhaps it is because, if comprehensivization, in the form in which it was implemented, and other radical education pro- grammes are not going after all to deliver the goods for working class children, then they may have to be content to be “skilled” and “classed” in a way that seems appropriate.
The shift in educational strategy thus says, in effect, to such parents: you are in the educational subordinate class; the way out is by moving up, through increased educational competition; what counts in this competition is a standard training, acceptable social skills, respect for authority and traditional values and discipline. In the face of the massive failures of social democratic policies on schooling to turn the tide of educational disadvant- age, the positive aspirations of working people for the education of their children can be redirected towards the support for a traditional education, programmes of discipline and “relevance to indus- trial experience”. In the 1960s, parental involvement belonged to “de-schooling” and Ivan lllyich: in the 1970s, it is one of the strongest cards in the educational pack being shuffled by Mr. St. John-Stevas , Shadow spokesman for Education.
Law and Order
If education is an area where the Right has won territory without having to win power, two other areas in the repertoire of the radical Right—race and law and order—are ones where the Right has traditionally assumed a leading role. We can be brief about them since they have gained considerable attention on the Left in recent months. They are chosen as examples here only to make a general point. On law and order, the theme—more policing, tougher sentencing, better family discipline, the rising crime rate as an index of social disintegration, the threat to “ordinary people going about their private business” from thieves, muggers, etc., the wave of lawlessness and the loss of law-abidingness—are perennials of Conservative Party Conferences, and the sources of many a popular campaign by moral entrepreneur groups and quoting editors. But if the work of the Right in some areas has won support over into its camp, the law and order issues have scared people over. In some versions of the discourse of the radical Right, moral interpellations play an important role. But the language of law and order is sustained by moralisms. It is where the great syntax of “good” versus “evil”, of civilized and uncivilized standards, of the choice between anarchy and order constantly divides the world up and classifies into its appointed stations. The play on “values” and on moral issues in this area is what gives the law and order crusade much of its grasp on popular morality and common sense con- science. Yet despite this, it touches concretely the experiences of crime and theft, of loss of scarce property and fears of unexpected attack in working class areas and neighbourhoods; and, since it promulgates no other remedies for their underlying causes, it welds people to that “need for authority” which has been so significant for the Right in the construction of consent to its authoritarian programme.
Race constitutes another variant, since in recent months questions of race, racism and relations between the races, as well as immigration, have been dominated by the dialectic between the radical-respectable and the radical-rough forces of the Right. It was said about the 1960s and early 70s that, after all, Mr. Powell lost. This is true only if the shape of a whole conjuncture is to be measured by the career of a single individual. In another sense, there is an argument that “Powellism” won: not only because his official eclipse was followed by legislating into effect much of what he proposed, but because of the magical connections and short-circuits which Powellism was able to establish between the themes of race and immigration control and the images of the nation, the British people and the destruction of “our culture, our way of life”. I would be happier about the temporary decline in the fortunes of the Front if so many of their themes had not been so swiftly reworked into a more respectable discourse on race by Conservative politicians in the first months of this year.
I have looked exclusively at some political-ideological dimensions of the emergence of the radical Right, not to evoke wonder at its extent, but to try to identify some things which are specific to it, which mark its difference from other variants which have flourished since the War. The first is the complex but interlocked relationship of the Right to the fortunes and fate of social democracy when the latter takes power in a period of economic recession, and tries to provide a solution “within certain limits”. It is always the case that the Right is what it is partly because of what the Left is: here we are dealing with the effects of a lengthy period of social democratic leadership. The second is its popular success in neutralizing the contradiction between people and the state/power bloc and winning popular interpellations so decisively for the Right. In short, the nature of its populism. But now it must be added that this is no rhetorical device or trick, for this populism is operating on genuine contradictions, and it has a rational and material core. Its success and effectivity does not lie in its capacity to dupe unsuspecting folk but in the way it addresses real problems, real and lived experiences, real contradictions—and yet is able to represent them within a logic of discourse which pulls them systematically into line with policies and class strategies of the Right.
Finally—and this is not limited to this analysis, though it seems especially relevant—there is the evidence of just how ideological transformations and political restructuring of this order is actually accomplished. It works on the ground of already constituted social practices and lived ideologies. It wins space there by constantly drawing on these elements which have secured over time a traditional resonance and left their traces in popular inventories. At the same time, it changes the field of struggle by changing the place, the position, the relative weight of the condensations within any one discourse and constructing them according to an alternative logic. What shifts them is not “thoughts” but a particular practice of class struggle: ideological and political class struggle. What makes these representations popular is that they have a purchase on practice, they shape it, they are written into its materiality. What constitutes them as a danger is that they change the nature of the terrain itself on which struggles of different kinds are taking place; and they have pertinent effects on these struggles. Currently, they are gaining ground in defining the “conjunctural”. That is exactly the terrain on which the forces of opposition must organize, if we are to transform it.
Stuart Hall, “The Great Moving Right Show,” Marxism Today (January 1979), 14-2
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It’s a fucking sick country:
Freedom is GONE!
“If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected — those, precisely, who need the law’s protection most! — and listens to their testimony.” — Baldwin, No Name on the Street
The origins of policing in the USA can be traced back to a period when there was a need to control Native Americans and slaves.
New England settlers appointed various constables to police Native Americans as they were deemed a threat.
Slave patrols were created to control the slave population. Their brutality and cruelty brought fear to every black person who came in contact with them.
Fast forward 2020, the previous adjectives can be applied to describe the modern US police. The murder of George Floyd is a testament to this appalling behaviour.
“This continent had to be won. We need not waste our time in dealing with any sentimentalist who believes that, on account of any abstract principle, it would have been right to leave this continent to the domain, the hunting ground of squalid savages. It had to be taken by the white race.”
Seventeen years earlier, Roosevelt, then a young widower, left New York in favor of the Dakotas, where he built a ranch, rode horses and wrote about life on the frontier. When he returned to the east, he famously asserted that “the most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian.”
“I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are the dead Indians, but I believe nine out of every 10 are,” Roosevelt said during a January 1886 speech in New York. “And I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.”
Counting the dead: How the ceasefire will reveal the true scale of Gaza’s death toll
After enduring years of struggle and detention in Israeli prisons, Khalida Jarrar, hailed as “Political Prisoner No. 1” by Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, is finally liberated. Her liberation came as part of the first prisoner exchange between the Israeli occupation and the Palestinian Resistance following Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, which symbolized a historic triumph against the atrocities in Gaza.
Palestinian leader Khalida Jarrar was born on February 9, 1963, in the city of Nablus. She is married to Ghassan Jarrar, a businessman who has endured years of administrative detention, investigation, and deportation.
we are worse than sheep, man, leemings, man, the virus of the nanny state and the police state and the endless guilty before found innocent
MLK Jr. versus radioactive superpowers. Capitalism, man, King talked about it:
“The demand for more public housing hasn’t arisen because of an increase in population, but because the housing available is unaffordable, which leads to more evictions and in turn raises the demand for affordable public housing,” he said. “It’s a vicious circle, but the root of the problem is speculation.”
Today in Spokane, the talks, speeches, kabuki theater?
Fuck. It’s always OUR backpacks they have to rifle through!
And here we are, nuclear fallout is GOOD for us all: Tokens, Game Theory, Internet of Everything, Smart Car-Wallet-City.
Check out today’s Wrench in the Gears: Wolves and low dose radiation and how human potential will be unlocked.
I took notes on Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz’s post-election discussion of their Fairshake pro-crypto Pac and the coming Trump presidency about two months ago, but set them aside and other topics took precedence. Given the rising craziness in the crypto space around the inauguration, I thought it was a good time to put them out for consideration. A quick glance at the finances of their pro-crypto / pro-blockchain Pac should be a wake up call to anyone doubting the rising tide of automated, smart contract law and global cyber governance. We need to wrap our heads around the fact that it’s less about money and power and more about information theory, token engineering, and the shift of social systems into a networked super intelligence operating under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for expanded “human potential.” It is a bipartisan effort. It is an international effort. It will be framed as a “populist uprising” to take back “the commons,” engineered of course by the world’s largest asset holders. In my opinion, meme-coins are biosemiotic aides facilitating emergent swarm intelligence. Tread carefully around those digital mind viruses folks. A lot of money, and tokens, are being thrown around trying to get their planned cyberphysical-sociotechnical future to stick. — Alison McDowell
What Would King Say?
OpenAI may be close to releasing an AI tool that can take control of your PC and perform actions on your behalf.
Tibor Blaho, a software engineer with a reputation for accurately leaking upcoming AI products, claims to have uncovered evidence of OpenAI’s long-rumored Operator tool. Publications including Bloomberg have previously reported on Operator, which is said to be an “agentic” system capable of autonomously handling tasks like writing code and booking travel.
Babies out with the bathwater. Whatever Trump Does is DEAD wrong.
Trump Withdraws U.S. from World Health Organization
Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.
Fucking Queer as hell, wild west fucking drunken judge and sheriff are in town: Trump commutes sentences of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders as he pardons over 1,000 January 6 US Capitol rioters. Yeah, AmeriKKKa is a-okay, man, a-okay so keep this shit coming.
Fucking Freaks Central: All 14 Republicans on the committee voted in favor of Hegseth, while all 13 Democrats voted against him.Despite initial concerns about allegations of sexual assault, alcohol abuse and financial mismanagement — all of which Hegseth has denied — not a single Republican senator has said so far that he or she will vote no, meaning he is most likely on track to be confirmed by the Senate.
Dirty America: And now, the fucking schizophrenia of a modern fucking dispoable money-time-travel fucking world.
Now it has become a parody of itself, a place from which the local population has been exiled in the interests of tourism and maturing investments. Doorways have sprouted combination key safes, a telltale sign of an apartment given over to tourist lets. A 100-year-old apothecary and shirtmaker that stood on La Rambla for two centuries have been replaced by shops selling flamenco dolls and ceramic bulls.
Fucking Billionaires and Millionaires capitalizing on our FUCKING pain: [A banner on a house in Barceloneta, part of Barcelona’s Ciutat Vella, reads ‘no tourist flats’.]
Cities across Spain tell a similar story of slow transformation at the hands of property speculation and a boom in tourist flats – of high rents driving out residents and traditional businesses, and of neighbourhood stalwarts ceding to global chains, souvenir shops, burger joints and nail bars.
We are fucking Capitalism’s victims and Soylent Green;
“I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic… [Capitalism] started out with a noble and high motive… but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness.” – Letter to Coretta Scott, July 18, 1952.
“And one day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth.’ When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society…” – Speech to Southern Christian Leadership Conference Atlanta, Georgia, August 16, 1967.
“Capitalism forgets that life is social. And the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism, but in a higher synthesis.” – Speech to Southern Christian Leadership Conference Atlanta, Georgia, August 16, 1967.
“Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.” – Speech to the Negro American Labor Council, 1961.
“We must recognize that we can’t solve our problem now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power… this means a revolution of values and other things. We must see now that the evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism are all tied together… you can’t really get rid of one without getting rid of the others… the whole structure of American life must be changed. America is a hypocritical nation and [we] must put [our] own house in order.”- Report to SCLC Staff, May 1967.
“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.” – Speech to SCLC Board, March 30, 1967.
“I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective – the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed matter: the guaranteed income… The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.” – Where do We Go from Here?,1967.
“You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You’re really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism.” – Speech to his staff, 1966.
“[W]e are saying that something is wrong … with capitalism…. There must be better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism.” – Speech to his staff, 1966.
“If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God’s children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.” – Speech at Bishop Charles Mason Temple of the Church of God in Christ in support of the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike on March 18th, 1968, two weeks before he was assassinated.
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Expect the Marburg pandemic SOON.
Tanzania’s president said Monday that one sample from a remote part of northern Tanzania tested positive for Marburg disease, a highly infectious virus which can be fatal in up to 88% of cases without treatment.
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World out of balance, man:
Ecologists from the School of Biological Sciences (SBS) and the Swire Institute of Marine Science (SWIMS) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have identified significant ecological risks associated with the release of hybrid groupers into Hong Kong’s coastal waters, a practice often linked to religious ‘mercy release’ rituals.
Their study highlights how the Tiger Grouper-Giant Grouper hybrid (TGGG), also known as the Sabah grouper, disrupts local marine ecosystems by exploiting unique ecological niches and potentially becoming a dominant predator.
This research, the first to use advanced DNA metabarcoding to analyze the diet of this hybrid species, underscores the urgent need for public education and conservation measures to mitigate unintended ecological impacts.
The findings have been published in the journal Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries.
Hybrid groupers: A popular market species with hidden ecological threats
The TGGG is a hybrid species bred through aquaculture by crossing the Tiger Grouper (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus) with the Giant Grouper (Epinephelus lanceolatus). Valued for its large size and rapid growth, it is a common sight in Hong Kong’s fish markets.
Its affordability and impressive size have also made it a popular choice for local mercy release practices, where animals are released into the wild as an act of spiritual merit. However, this seemingly benevolent act has significant ecological consequences.
To explore the potential ecological effects of releasing hybrid groupers into Hong Kong’s coastal waters, a research team utilized DNA metabarcoding to analyze the diet of TGGG.
Becoming the first to apply this method to study the dietary habits of this hybrid species, the team extracted and sequenced DNA from the hybrid’s stomach contents, allowing them to identify its prey, even when the prey was fully digested or fragmented. This innovative approach provides a detailed and accurate picture of the hybrid’s dietary habits and its interactions with local marine ecosystems.
Innovative DNA analysis highlights the threat
The study found that the TGGG is a formidable predator with a distinctive diet, feeding on various prey species not typically consumed by native species—including fish, crustaceans, and cephalopods. By exploiting broader ecological niches and gaps in the ecosystem where resources or habitats are underused, the TGGG disrupts local food webs and is highly likely to thrive and establish itself as a dominant predator.
“Our findings show that the TGGG is not just another introduced species, it has the potential to significantly disrupt trophic dynamics and reshape coastal ecosystems,” said Professor Celia Schunter of HKU SBS and SWIMS, the study’s lead investigator.
The researchers warn that the rapid growth, large size, and absence of natural predators in Hong Kong’s waters make it an exceptionally competitive species. These traits, combined with the availability of vacant ecological niches, pose a serious threat to the balance of marine biodiversity in Hong Kong’s coastal ecosystems.
Rapist Trump Inviting Rapist-Backing, Murder-loving, Starvation-expert, Poison-chief Rabbi Fucking Berman to Soil More of the Wailing Wall White House
Pope Francis sent “cordial greetings” and “assurance of my prayers” to Donald J. Trump on Jan. 20, the day of his inauguration as the 47th president of the United States.
In the text, released by the Vatican at midday, Pope Francis assured the president of his prayer “that Almighty God will grant you wisdom, strength and protection in the exercise of your high duties.”
Rapist Trump and his Judaic Circle Jerk is a monster, a criminal and subhuman, and now again, he is in the Wailing Wall White House leading the Empire of Lies, Chaos, Pain, War, Sanctions, Hell. Let’s get to that next level of Monroe Doctrine.
Here, in Spokane, a sculpture of a Native, Spokane tribe, scooping up salmon. Oh, that bridge: Monroe Street Bridge
But then there is Judaism:
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has announced that the Israeli national anthem will kick off the 2025 Super Bowl at the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Though interpretations of the United States national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, have been performed since the first edition of the game in 1967, the NFL’s Board of Directors decided that this year will be different. In a statement issued today the NFL Board explained:
“Our decision to stand with Israel has nothing to do with the fact that half the team owners are Jewish and the other half are intimidated. And it has nothing to do with that horse’s head that Roger Goodrell found in his bed. We stand with Israel because…well, because we stand with Israel. And if anybody doesn’t stand with Israel—and stand for the Israeli national anthem instead of the American one—that person is a no-good unpatriotic terrorist who probably doesn’t even believe that Muslims blew up the World Trade Center with jet fuel.”
Goodell admitted that some fans may not initially appreciate the break with tradition, but they would eventually get used to it. “The new Israeli national anthem is fantastic! If you haven’t heard it, you’re really missing out.”
And we wonder why the Wailing Wall White House holds sway on this shithole’s politicians.
The Church Committee hearings later revealed that the CIA had developed a “heart attack gun” which could deliver a tiny frozen needle that, upon entering the body, would deliver a toxin that induced a heart attack but then became undetectable at autopsy.
And so the hotel guests are forewarned that their fucking ever-loving time in the spa and bar (watching cunt Trump and Company) might be jiggered up with a march.
And so, we murder doctors, nurses, medical staff, patients in Gaza, while in the fucking U$A?
Declaring that understaffing had them “running on empty,” 5,000 nurses, doctors, midwives, and nurse practitioners walked off the job January 10 in an open-ended strike at Providence Health and Services, the dominant hospital chain in the Pacific Northwest.
The strikers work at eight hospitals plus women’s health clinics across Oregon. They’re demanding proper staffing, affordable health insurance, and competitive pay that can attract and retain seasoned workers.
“I’ve been with Providence for over 30 years, and I have seen what’s changed,” said medical-surgical nurse Kim Martin at Providence Portland Medical Center. “Providence used to be a nice community hospital, and now it’s venture capital with health care as a side gig.”
The 154-page report, “‘Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged’: Israel’s Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza,” examines how Israeli authorities’ conduct has led to the displacement of over 90 percent of the population of Gaza—1.9 million Palestinians—and the widespread destruction of much of Gaza over the last 13 months. Israeli forces have carried out deliberate, controlled demolitions of homes and civilian infrastructure, including in areas where they have apparent aims of creating “buffer zones” and security “corridors,” from which Palestinians are likely to be permanently displaced. Contrary to claims by Israeli officials, their actions do not comply with the laws of war.
“The Israeli government cannot claim to be keeping Palestinians safe when it kills them along escape routes, bombs so-called safe zones, and cuts off food, water, and sanitation,” said Nadia Hardman, refugee and migrant rights researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Israel has blatantly violated its obligation to ensure Palestinians can return home, razing virtually everything in large areas.”
Crime Syndicate from the very fucking beginning:
Fifty-one years after the first Zionist conference was held in the Swiss city of Basel, Israel was established on 78 per cent of the area of historical Palestine. The Great Palestinian Catastrophe, the Nakba, was one of the most important consequences of the establishment of the “state”, in May 1948, which has not stopped implementing its strategy summarised by David Ben-Gurion, the first Israeli prime minister, who said that the situation in Palestine will be settled by military force. This was the most important strategic starting point for the occupation of Palestine, and its eventual Judaisation.
Massacres and displacement
The most prominent feature of the rogue state’s (Israel’s) movements was – and still is – committing organised massacres by Zionist organisations and the Israeli army against the people of Palestinian villages, in order to force the largest possible number of Palestinians to leave their land and replace them with Jewish immigrants from all over the world, with the aim of imposing a forced Judaised demographic.
While the Arabs of Palestine were completely unprepared for war, and the majority was unarmed and in a defensive position, the Zionist Hagana, Irgun and Stern gangs launched coordinated offensive strikes against Arab civilians in the three main cities, Haifa, Jerusalem and Jaffa, as well as in the Palestinian countryside. Organised massacres were committed and they destroyed homes in order to force the Palestinian Arabs to leave.
The massacres did not begin in 1948. On the night of 15 July, 1947, a Hagana force entered the citrus grove owned by Rashid Abu Laban, located between Jaffa and Petah Tikva. A family of seven people was sleeping inside their home and nine other workers were sleeping outside it. The attacking force set explosive devices and opened fire, killing 11 Arabs, including a woman and her three daughters.
On 29 September, 1947, the Hagana also attacked the Haifa market, destroying Ahmed Diab Al-Julani’s shop with explosive devices. On 12 December, 1947, an Irgun force wearing British military uniforms entered the town of Tira in the Haifa district, killing 12 Arabs and wounding 6 others. The day after this massacre, the Irgun gang dropped bombs on Arab gatherings at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, killing 4 Arabs. On the same day, the same Zionist gang attacked an Arab cafe in the city of Jaffa, on King George Street, and killed 6 Arabs.
According to statistical figures, on 13 December, 21 Arab civilians were killed in all Palestinian cities as a result of the organised Zionist massacres, and the Zionist gangs continued their organised massacres in the various Palestinian villages and cities.
The biggest massacre was on 30 December, 1947, when a group from the Irgun gang threw two cans of milk containing bombs at a group of about a hundred Palestinian workers who were standing in front of the oil refinery in Haifa to register their names for work. Six Arabs were killed and 46 others were wounded in the attack. Meanwhile, in the clashes that took place inside the refinery, the Arabs killed 41 Jews in self-defence and wounded 48 others. Until this moment, Israel continues to Judaise the Palestinian places with new names.
“Zionist Dollarism,” Malcolm X asserted, is a modern form of evil—“neo-colonialism,” now in the stranglehold of Zionists. Based on his study of the The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, he concluded that Zionists were proficient in the art of deceit. So, he claimed that they had designed neo-colonialism to last much longer than the collapsed European empires. In fact, he taught, the Europeans “foresaw that the awakening masses … would not submit to their old methods of ruling through ‘force and fears.’” Thus, Malcolm X claimed, the Europeans issued the Balfour Declaration and turned their evil mission over to the crafty Jews, who would rule through subterfuge.
Malcolm X stressed that the “colonialism” of “the Israeli Zionists … appears to be more ‘benevolent’” and thus “has fast become even more unshakeable than that of the 19th century European colonialists.”
Zionist Logic
By Malcolm X
The Zionist armies that now occupy Palestine claim their ancient Jewish prophets predicted that in the “last days of this world” their own God would raise them up a “messiah” who would lead them to their promised land, and they would set up their own “divine” government in this newly-gained land, this “divine” government would enable them to “rule all other nations with a rod of iron.”
If the Israeli Zionists believe their present occupation of Arab Palestine is the fulfillment of predictions made by their Jewish prophets, then they also religiously believe that Israel must fulfill its “divine” mission to rule all other nations with a rod of irons, which only means a different form of iron-like rule, more firmly entrenched even, than that of the former European Colonial Powers.
These Israeli Zionists religiously believe their Jewish God has chosen them to replace the outdated European colonialism with a new form of colonialism, so well disguised that it will enable them to deceive the African masses into submitting willingly to their “divine” authority and guidance, without the African masses being aware that they are still colonized.
Camouflage
The Israeli Zionists are convinced they have successfully camouflaged their new kind of colonialism. Their colonialism appears to be more “benevolent,” more “philanthropic,” a system with which they rule simply by getting their potential victims to accept their friendly offers of economic “aid,” and other tempting gifts, that they dangle in front of the newly-independent African nations, whose economies are experiencing great difficulties. During the 19th century, when the masses here in Africa were largely illiterate it was easy for European imperialists to rule them with “force and fear,” but in this present era of enlightenment the African masses are awakening, and it is impossible to hold them in check now with the antiquated methods of the 19th century.
The imperialists, therefore, have been compelled to devise new methods. Since they can no longer force or frighten the masses into submission, they must devise modern methods that will enable them to maneuver the African masses into willing submission.
The modern 20th century weapon of neo-imperialism is “dollarism.” The Zionists have mastered the science of dollarism: the ability to come posing as a friend and benefactor, bearing gifts and all other forms of economic aid and offers of technical assistance. Thus, the power and influence of Zionist Israel in many of the newly “independent” African nations has fast-become even more unshakeable than that of the 18th century European colonialists…and this new kind of Zionist colonialism differs only in form and method, but never in motive or objective.
At the close of the 19th century when European imperialists wisely foresaw that the awakening masses of Africa would not submit to their old method of ruling through force and fears, these ever-scheming imperialists had to create a “new weapon,” and to find a “new base” for that weapon.
Dollarism
The number one weapon of 20th century imperialism is Zionist dollarism, and one of the main bases for this weapon is Zionist Israel. The ever-scheming European imperialists wisely placed Israel where she could geographically divide the Arab world, infiltrate and sow the seed of dissension among African leaders and also divide the Africans against the Asians.
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 newly independent Arab nations to concentrate on strengthening the economies of their countries and elevate the living standard of their people.
And the continued low standard of living in the Arab world has been skillfully used by the Zionist propagandists 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.
“They cripple the bird’s wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.”
The imperialists always make themselves look good, but it is only because they are competing against economically crippled newly independent countries whose economies are actually crippled by the Zionist-capitalist conspiracy. They can’t stand against fair competition, thus they dread Gamal Abdul Nasser’s call for African-Arab Unity under Socialism.
Messiah?
If the “religious” claim of the Zionists is true that they were to be led to the promised land by their messiah, and Israel’s present occupation of Arab Palestine is the fulfillment of that prophesy: where is their messiah whom their prophets said would get the credit for leading them there? It was [United Nations mediator] Ralph Bunche who “negotiated” the Zionists into possession of Occupied Palestine! Is Ralph Bunche the messiah of Zionism? If Ralph Bunche is not their messiah, and their messiah has not yet come, then what are they doing in Palestine ahead of their messiah?
Did the Zionists have the legal or moral right to invade Arab Palestine, uproot its Arab citizens from their homes and seize all Arab property for themselves just based on the “religious” claim that their forefathers lived there thousands of years ago? Only a thousand years ago the Moors lived in Spain. Would this give the Moors of today the legal and moral right to invade the Iberian Peninsula, drive out its Spanish citizens, and then set up a new Moroccan nation…where Spain used to be, as the European Zionists have done to our Arab brothers and sisters in Palestine?
In short the Zionist argument to justify Israel’s present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history…not even in their own religion. Where is their Messiah?
2017: After a three-decade period in which no rabbis spoke at inaugurations, Donald Trump invited Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center to speak. Hier promised a prayer with a “21st-century ring to it” and said he had accepted Trump’s invitation, which drew protests because of Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, in part because he was friendly with the parents of Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law.
2025: For his second inaugural, Trump tapped Berman of Yeshiva University, marking the first time that the leader of an Orthodox institution will speak. Orthodox Jews delivered reliable support for Trump in his reelection bid.
So the Puritans destroying Native Lands is akin to the Israelites coming out of Egypt. This fucking “race/unrace” of people, this fucking “culture” (sick one), these fucking controllers of the world, man, that’s the Jewish thing. Rabbi Pinchas Taylor’s FULL Breakdown of the Jewish Connection to America & The Presidents of the United States.
The Prime Minister and YU President Dr. Berman discussed at length ways to fight the wave of antisemitism on US campuses. The Prime Minister praised Dr. Berman’s initiative for US university heads to participate in the March of the Living in Poland as part of this fight.
The sides also discussed the scandalous possibility that the international court in The Hague will issue arrest warrants against the leaders of the state and IDF commanders, as well as Israel’s just fight against Hamas.
Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and the Prime Minister’s Advisor on Diaspora Affairs, Rena Riger, also attended the meeting.
Yeshiva University President Ari Berman will deliver a benediction at President Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington D.C. on Monday.
Berman’s blessing will immediately follow Trump’s inaugural address and “will call for the nation to rise to this historic moment and unite around America’s foundational values as a source for realizing our shared dreams of a prosperous, compassionate country led by faith and trust in God,” a YU spokesman told The Commentator.
Of course, on MLK Jr., Day, why not end with Three Jews jabbering and jabbering and jabbering.
Jerry Springer and Price is Right and Gilligan’s Island Meets the Lago of La Mar: Fucking A, this is one Fucked up Country, and yet, all the lefties and alties and righties take Rapist Trump Seriously
Faggotry:
Donald Trump told thousands of roaring supporters he would impose severe limits on immigration on his first day in office, vowing to swiftly fulfill the central promise of his presidential campaign at a rally on Sunday inside a packed Washington arena a day before he returns to power.
“By the time the sun sets tomorrow, the invasion of our country will have come to a halt,” he said to cheers at a “Make America Great Again Victory Rally” at the Capital One Arena.
The Racist in the House, Rapist Trump:
White Cunts and Pricks Cometh!
It is the fucking worst country on Planet Earth, after “Israel” and “Ukraine”!
More more more fucking millionaires, wetlands killers, forest cutters, pig and pork and poultry and beef and fish eaters. More more more keeps capitalism warm and toxic and forever chemical inspiring.
Yeah, it’s all about protecting the Century of the Jews, the Shekels, the AI, the GAI/AGI, Black Heart-Stone-Rocks!
“The current calculus of economies cannot support existing income and retirement norms—something must give,” it said.
To be sure, some countries are in worse shape than others. China’s population is projected to crash 55% by the turn of the next century. Italy’s will sink 41%, and Brazil’s will drop 23%.
But helped by immigration, the U.S. should see an increase of 23%. Still, even the U.S. must grapple with the growing costs of Social Security and Medicare.
The primary driver isn’t longer lifespans, McKinsey said. Instead, it mostly a “youth deficit,” meaning fewer young people.
To illustrate the growing burden on younger people, the study noted that the world’s support ratio was 9.4 in 1997, or more than nine working-age people supporting one older person. The ratio is down to 6.5 today, and will drop to just 3.9 by 2050.
Immigration attorney Rolando Vasquez told NewsNation some of his clients who entered under the Biden administration are now choosing to return home, fearing deportation under the incoming administration.
It’s not just Trump’s deportation plans that have influenced these decisions.
Vazquez says Mexico is now open to accepting non-Mexican deportees. This move would affect Cuban and Venezuelan migrants the most since those countries typically do not accept deportation flights from the U.S. but may take them from Mexico.
“This is causing many migrants to leave on their own, knowing that they’re either going to be deported to their home country or be deported to Mexico,” Vazquez said. “The overwhelming majority of them do not want to be in Mexico.
The Jews in the Trump-Kushner-Stephen Miller Minyan:
You motherfucking coders, you motherfucking nerds, you motherfucking robotics high schoolers, you motherfucking STEM creeps:
Though Zuckerberg doesn’t explicitly say he’ll replace his human grunts outright, putting two and two together as he explains how the AI technology will pan out — or looking at literally any company that has bragged about onboarding AI models — makes the implications for people’s jobs pretty clear.
“In the beginning it’ll be really expensive to run, and you can get it to be more efficient,” the Meta CEO said. “And over time it’ll get to the point where a lot of the code in our apps and including the AI that we generate is actually going to be built by AI engineers instead of people engineers.”
This, Zuckerberg argues, will actually “augment” workers.
“My view on this is like the future people are just going to be so much more creative and they’re going to be freed up to do kind of crazy things.”
Cunt Zuckerberg, what a fucking infant — crazy things, man, like NOT grow food, NOT grow community, NOT read books, NOT stop billionaires.
Almost a year ago, an unusual scene took place in Spain’s legislature. A small group of lawmakers sat down to watch the latest film by German filmmaker Werner Herzog, Theater of Thought (2022). The documentary warns that neurotechnology — devices capable of reading, or even modifying, the activity of the human brain — are about to transform the world forever. The director’s hypnotic voice-over resonated inside the Congress of Deputies:
“In the future, will you be able to read my mind and see my next film before I even shoot it?” Herzog asks a researcher at one point in the film. The neuroscientist Rafael Yuste, who features in the documentary, was seated among the Spanish lawmakers, trying to raise awareness about the risks of penetrating the human mind. His answer to the filmmaker’s question is shocking: “Probably.”
Mental Privacy? Fuck!
The crazy things the Centurions of the Century of the Jew have in mind: Pentagon needs to ‘divest to invest,’ embrace more nimble procurement: Defense Innovation Board
“If we don’t do something, there’s an awful lot of dangers, everything that we’ve built in the last 250 years can be thrown away,” Michael Bloomberg said.
Fucking Oppen-Monster-Heimers and their henchmen:
This fucking lizard Jew:
In his long post, Altman said that in 2025, the world may see the first AI agents, known for autonomously accomplishing tasks, join the workforce and materially change the output of companies’. About the company’s pursuit of artificial general intelligence, he wrote,
“We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it.” The CEO said that he continues to believe that iteratively putting great tools in the hands of people leads to broadly-distributed outcomes.
As AI automates more jobs, experts predict that it will replace full-time careers in 2025. Susan Lindeque, CEO of Avestix Group, predicts AI could soon upset the entire employment picture, citing Bloomberg’s announcement that corporations like Citigroup, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs plan to eliminate 200,000 positions over the next three to five years. She also mentions The Future of Jobs Report that says AI will cause 41% of worldwide organizations to cut work forces before 2030. As technology continues to transform workplaces across industries, a new study shows AI is putting Millennial careers at risk.
Who controls the “news”? Independent secures funding from Bill and Melinda Gates’ foundation.
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The value of nothing and the hiking up of everything: High school construction costs in Portland are headed off the charts. Why?
At a National Alliance of Black School Educators conference in Atlanta last fall, Portland Public Schools board member Herman Greene asked a question that brought the room to a standstill.
Portland was planning to spend well over $400 million apiece to build three high schools, Greene told fellow school board members and superintendents from around the country. Did that price tag raise any eyebrows? They fell silent and thought we were crazy.
“The days of thunder begin on Monday,” Steve Bannon said, and the world will not be the same again. Bannon wasn’t talking about Trump going on the offensive against the Chinese, Iranians or the Russians. Trump and his team are preparing to take on the “they.”
One Twitter/X commentator states:
Check out the two TIME Magazine covers. The first from 2017. The second from today. In 2017, the narrative was of a man ignoring all the problems and issues. Idle hands. No concern. Oblivious. Messed up hair. Bad weather beating down inside the office. In 2025, the message is the near opposite. He’s actively removing all remnants of Biden (ed: Biden’s famous aviator glasses seen flying). Focused. Moving. Determined expression and head tilt. In control. Bad weather outside the office, not inside. Same guy. Same agenda, though even more aggressive. Why do you think they have a different perspective?
NSSM200 was reworked and adopted as official United States policy through NSDM 314 by President Gerald Ford on November 26, 1975.[1] It was initially classified for over a decade and has been part of the public record since 1985. The memorandum and subsequent policies developed from the report were observed as a way the United States could encourage human population planning to slow down global population growth in rapidly growing populations of Lesser Developed Countries. The document describes US security interests in natural resource supplies as a motivator for assisting LDCs in curbing population growth rates. It contemplated that situations arising from scarcity of food and other economic preconditions for stable growth in LDCs could lead to political instability which could put in jeopardy supplies to industrialized countries of key minerals and other resources for their growth.
But Nixon’s chief interest in population control was its supposed value as a Cold War weapon. The president charged Henry Kissinger, his National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, with conducting a secret study on the role of population control measures in the fight against global communism. Kissinger pulled together a group of experts drawn from the National Security Council (NSC), the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, the Department of State, USAID, and other agencies to study the question. The result was issued on December 10, 1974 in the form of the classified NSC document titled “Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests.” The document — known as National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM 200), or simply as the Kissinger Report — represented the encoding of Malthusian dogma as the strategic doctrine of the United States.
NSSM 200 was declassified in 1989 and so is now available for scrutiny. Examining the document, what is apparent is the Nietzschean mindset on the part of its authors, who (implicitly embracing the communist line) clearly regarded the newborn masses of the world as America’s likely enemies, rather than her friends, and as potential obstacles to the exploitation of the world’s wealth, rather than as customers, workers, and business partners participating together with America in a grand team effort to grow and advance the world economy. The memo made the case for a population control effort that is global in scope but not traceable back to its wealthy supporters.
On November 26, 1975, NSSM 200 was formally adopted by the Ford administration. A follow-up memo issued in 1976 by the NSC called for the United States to use control of food supplies to impose population control on a global scale. It further noted the value of using dictatorial power and military force as means to coerce Third World peoples into submission to population control measures, adding: “In some cases, strong direction has involved incentives such as payment to acceptors for sterilization, or disincentives such as giving low priorities in the allocation of housing or schooling to those with larger families. Such direction is the sine qua non of an effective program.”
[Mass sterilization camp in India]
Without a shred of justification, but with impeccable organization, generous funding, aggressive leadership, and backing by a phalanx of established respectable opinion, the population control movement was now doctrinally enshrined as representing the core strategic interest of the world’s leading superpower. It was now positioned to wreak havoc on a global scale. — Source
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Ahh, not just dumb-downing and Walmartization and Infantilization and McDonaldsization of AmeriKKKa. Lobotomizing, and sterilizing the minds of those babes.
Books with mature themes will soon be relegated to an adults-only room in most public libraries in Kootenai County.
The private room is a requirement of an Idaho law passed last year, and the Idaho-based Community Library Network board voted Thursday to set up such a room at the Post Falls Library.
The library board also voted to stop children’s Community Library Network library cards from accessing other library systems that may not be subject to the Idaho law.
Under its provisions , Idaho libraries are required to take action to prevent minors from having access to “obscene materials.” Different library systems are taking different approaches to comply with the law, but the conservative Community Library Network board voiced its approval for the new requirements.
The network operates libraries in Kootenai County outside of Coeur d’Alene, including in Post Falls, Hayden, Harrison, Athol, Pinehurst, Rathdrum and Spirit Lake.
Paul Haeder, Author 