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“We need to look ourselves in the mirror as a society. We are letting our elders die out alone in the cold or the heat, deeply traumatized, deeply frightened, and die alone and outside.

This fucking Jewish Narco State — Texas and the fucking for-profit shit hole “charter/Christian/Zionist” schools.

A vote in South Texas by those who live on the base of Elon Musk’s SpaceX company has made the workplace Texas’ newest city, Starbase.

Musk, the SpaceX CEO and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) lead, posted late on May 3, after the vote, that Starbase, Texas “is now a real city!” As for next steps, a judge will need to assign an order declaring the results of the election and the official incorporation of the new city.

Fucking shoot him like the rabid dog he IS.

Rejected? She should show some bigger Mexican juevos.

The CIA’s former top-ranking doctor is suing the spy agency over her firing, accusing the government of denying her due process and allegedly bowing to far-right activists who singled her out for criticism.

Terry Adirim, director of the CIA’s Center for Global Health Services, was hired by the agency after serving as assistant secretary of defense for health affairs at the Pentagon during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Just days after starting her job last year at the CIA, far-right commentator Ivan Raiklin accused Adirim of allegedly being the “architect” of the Defense Department’s vaccine mandate, which required members of the military to get the Covid-19 jab.

The lawsuit alleges that Adirim’s hiring at the CIA was not yet announced publicly and that someone inside the government leaked that information to Raiklin.

Raiklin, a former Green Beret who has called himself the “secretary of retribution,” has been an intense critic of the Covid-19 vaccine, calling it a “DNA-mutilation injection.” He has demanded retaliation against Pentagon officials who he believes were involved in requiring service members to get the Covid-19 vaccine.

Raiklin is associated with Michael Flynn, who briefly served as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser at the start of his first term.

[So this queer Green Beret, he’s okay with me and millions of others not wanting the fucking CIA in the first place, or the fucking Green Berets in the second place? Shoved down my taxpayer’s throat, the trillions for those two fucked up “agencies.”

A face only a flame thrower could enjoy. Uneducated, 100 IQ, rapist, pedophile, probably, and this is it, man.

The Nazis with the star of (d)avid. May every reservist be destroyed.

Highlights by Hussain “Hoz” Shafiei (@HussainShafiei)

The goal of the left is to destroy my influence. So they relentlessly push negative propaganda about me like the fake Nazi stuff and ignore anything positive.

GET your Russian World War History RIGHT.

Die Israelis, DIE.

Ansarallah scorches Israel and announces ‘complete aerial blockade’ in support of Gaza

The Yemeni Armed Forces announced plans to repeatedly target Israeli airports in retaliation for the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Palestine Will Be Free

Ansarallah scorches Israel on a glorious day for the resistance in support of Gaza - Palestine Will Be Free

Sunday was a glorious day. The Israelis, a vast majority of whom have cheered on the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the brutal crimes of their state in Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, got a little taste of their own medicine when Ansarallah scorched Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv and the surrounding areas with a heavily packed warhead that appeared to make several impacts on the ground. The multi-layered Israeli air defences, fortified with the help of the United States, failed to intercept the Ansarallah projectiles, as more than 3 million Israelis ran for cover on what would otherwise have been a typical Sunday morning of coffee and muffins — paired with cheering on the live-streamed annihilation of starved, emaciated, and defenceless Palestinians being carried out just a few kilometres from their stolen homes.

Jews running the Aryan Goy-ionist: Hegseth orders consolidation and transformation of the Army Drone swarm integration, a right to repair and increased forward logistical capacity are all on the table in the new proposals.

Cunts: Nearly 7,000 troops, tanks and parachute jumps: Army confirms military parade coinciding with Trump’s birthday. DIE:

Fucking Jews!

Fucking Military Drone Banking Finance Real Estate Law Chemical Oil Energy Ag Communications Aerospace Education Surveillence COMPLEX:

Seniors in Southern Oregon, Northern California are being priced out and ending up homeless

Hearts for Seniors, a housing program based in Southern Oregon, focuses on this problem: helping older adults with whatever they need, whether it’s getting food or fixing up their house.

“When we hear about these seniors who are going to be evicted if they don’t have clear pathways, we try to get teams that can go in and help keep them in their homes,” said Stephanie Miller, the program’s director.

A team of volunteers fans out to seniors’ homes, cleaning up the yard, installing a ramp or just providing company.

Miller said they serve 80-90 seniors each week in Jackson, Josephine and Lincoln Counties.

Shoot the whole fucking Rapist Trump and his Minyans and dirty billionaire Jews:

Dirty Rotten Jewish Controlled Capitalism?

Fucking JEWS:

Fucking JEWS:

Jews:

Fucking Jews DIE: A ship carrying aid to Gaza in a bid to break Israel’s blockade was hit by drones (allegedly Israeli) in international waters off Malta, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), the group that organized the mission.

…Klan and Aryans and Republicans and Democrats somehow have Gaza Genocide in their fucking DNA, thanks to 80 Years of Holocaust Lying Industry

“They want us to pretend that providing war criminals with a revenue stream is business as usual. It’s time to put an end to this complicity – or else Booking.com becomes a shameful, indelible stain on our resumes and conscience.”

Kimia Talebi, the Watermelon Index organiser for Progressive International, added: “Booking.com workers are refusing to be complicit in the displacement of Palestinians, yet they are being silenced and ignored by the company. Workers have a right to know about the legal risks posed to them in processing illegal settlements.”

Dirty Dutch Company!

‘Stop Booking Apartheid’ targets Booking.com’s Israeli settlement profits

New campaign highlights online travel agent’s listings in occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and Syrian Golan Heights

More on the Semen Drip Front: And then there’s Elon Musk, who is himself unquestionably among the most influential people on the planet. Just a few weeks ago, Musk made the following statement on X, the social network that he owns and on which he is the most followed account:

“It increasingly appears that humanity is a biological bootloader for digital superintelligence.”

They need to be shot.

During an interview published earlier this month on the website Vox, the American technologist and writer Jaron Lanier came out with one of the more unsettling remarks I’ve encountered recently. Lanier is one of the more interesting of Silicon Valley’s in-house intellectuals. He was an early developer of virtual reality technologies in the 1980s, and is often credited (and credits himself) with coining the term to describe that technology. He’s a genuine believer in the human possibilities and social benefits offered by information technology, but also a trenchant and vehement critic of the anti-human tendencies within the culture of Silicon Valley.

Lanier’s value as a public intellectual has always struck me as being somewhat limited by his tendency, common among Silicon Valley thinkers, to see social and political issues as primarily engineering problems. But he is generally worth reading and listening to as a tech industry insider whose critiques are motivated by both a love of technology and a deep liberal humanism – a love, that is, for technology as a human art form that is inseparable from a love of humanity itself.

The remark in the Vox interview that I found especially unsettling was one in which Lanier addressed the ascendancy of precisely the opposite tendency within the elite of Silicon Valley. He is, he says, constantly talking to people who believe that we need to put everything into developing superhuman artificial intelligence, recognise its status as a higher form of intelligence and being, and simply get out of its way.

“Just the other day,” he says, “I was at a lunch in Palo Alto and there were some young AI scientists there who were saying that they would never have a ‘bio baby’ because as soon as you have a ‘bio baby,’ you get the ‘mind virus’ of the [biological] world. And when you have the mind virus, you become committed to your human baby. But it’s much more important to be committed to the AI of the future. And so to have human babies is fundamentally unethical.”

Shot. Dead. In. The. Street.

Trump and Company? DOA. On. The. Street.

“There are a lot of vague promises in what was announced this week, but honestly, it really doesn’t treat the PFAS forever chemicals crisis as, frankly, the five-alarm fire for public health that it is,” said Dr. Erik Olson, senior strategic director for health in the environmental health program at the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, DC. “The key decisions that they were supposed to be making on those two things, they’re completely silent on.”

Thirteen Year Old Fucking Queer Boy Brain Trapped in an Old Man’s Body — and the USA eats this shit up.

Shoot. This. Guy. In. His. Mar-a-lago. BED.

“There is nothing clever or funny about this image, Mr President. We just buried our beloved Pope Francis and the cardinals are about to enter a solemn conclave to elect a new successor of St Peter. Do not mock us.”

All of them need to be held down and hypodermic with high octane gasoline from Saudi Arabia. Despite pledge to expand naloxone access, Trump administration proposal would cut overdose prevention programs.

[The farming practices of North America’s European settlers led to rapid erosion and sedimentation, with towns such as Beaver, Minnesota, suffering severe effects of flooding during the 1930s Dust Bowl. Researchers have been photographically documenting these effects in Minnesota for decades, yielding images such as this one taken in the 1940s.]

EuroTrashIndianKillers, this is what the psychosis of whiteness has reaped:

Few forces rival a glacier’s erosive power. Some 20,000 years ago, during the last glacial maximum, the Laurentide Ice Sheet blanketed much of North America, gouging the land and carving the Great Lakes. But a study published this month in Geology finds that settlers over the past 150 years have altered the landscape just beyond the Laurentide’s edge far more dramatically, scooping away earth up to 12 times faster than during the ice age and the quiet millennia that followed. What’s at stake, scientists say, isn’t just the landscape. It’s our food.

“Agricultural erosion is one of the most overlooked yet profound human impacts on the environment. How long do we let the system run in a deficit before it catches up with us?” says David Montgomery, a geologist at the University of Washington who wasn’t involved with the study. “This is an exceptional dataset that links a pivotal moment in geologic history to the modern era.”

The new study—based on sediment records in a Minnesota river valley—adds to a growing consensus across the Midwest and North America as a whole that the European settlement profoundly shaped the continent. The work focuses on the state’s Upper Mississippi River Valley: a watershed that saw unsustainable, extraordinary erosion during the 1930s Dust Bowl. In the small farming town of Beaver, for example, floods repeatedly washed sediment into the streets—28 times in 1938 alone. By 1940, with up to 4.5 meters of sediment nearly burying buildings, residents abandoned their town as the state converted the land to a game reserve.

[A sick sea lion is seen on a beach in Ventura County on April 25, 2025]

“Early symptoms of (shellfish poisoning) include tingling of the lips and tongue, which may begin within minutes to a few hours after eating toxic shellfish,” the CDPH said in its warning. “These symptoms are typically followed by a loss of balance, lack of muscular coordination, slurred speech, and difficulty swallowing.”

Homo Sapiens Consumopethicus. The feces species:

California News

California health officials issue warning over ‘recreationally harvested’ shellfish

Home Sapiens McDonaldsization Pethicus: The expansion of the animal-style empire continues apace as California burger purveyor In-N-Out appears set to open at least seven new locations.

The home of the Double-Double, once praised by late food authority Anthony Bourdain, has continued to expand beyond its California roots in recent years, opening stores in ColoradoTexas and Idaho.

Psychosis of Whitness — where did this shit come from?

“There was a feeling of shame, like a child being singled out, made into a joke, isolated, and having their hair shaved, making them look ugly,” said Khao Klong, now 20 and at university. He still vividly remembers walking back into class afterwards, where “everyone turned to me and burst into laughter.”

“It was a scene that remains stuck in my mind, and it made me really insecure,” he said.

The punishment may seem extreme, but for decades, these scenes were common across Thailand, with students subject to strict rules about their appearances that go far beyond the school dress codes seen in other countries.

For instance, male students had to have an army-style crew cut and female students had to wear their hair in short, ear-length bobs — before rules were loosened in 2013 (when boys could grow their hair to the base of their neck, and girls could grow their hair even longer, so long as it was tied up).

Khao Klong’s hair had only been a few centimeters over the limit, but even that was too much to allow.

A nation of fucking In-N-Out Cocksuckers under Rapist in Chief Trump and his Jewish Klan: DOGE Demands Deep Cuts at Humanities Endowment –

The feces Administration and the Feces-Eating AmeriKKKans.

and the Jewish Controlled Rapist in Chief’s Cabal and Klan will forever hold your agency in their cold, semen drip hands as their self-piloted bombers and submarine drones stick it up our asses

But first, the psychosis and perversion of the RICH: And so the cunts of capitalism, the dirt of society, those echelon freaks, get time off for very bad behavior

Jeffries grew up in Los Angeles, the son of Donald R. Jeffries, who owned a chain of party supply stores.[2][5] Jeffries attended Claremont Men’s College and the London School of Economics before receiving an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1968.

In 1971, Jeffries married Susan Hansen.[5] They have a son.[2]

Salon.com reported in 2006 that Jeffries is a “gay man”[32] who lives separately from his wife.[2] As of 2013, Jeffries was reported to be living with his partner, Matthew Smith (born c. 1963),[28][33] and three dogs.[22] Smith is more than a romantic partner; he also headed the Jeffries Family Office, an Ohio limited liability company that “advocates for the personal interests of Jeffries.”[28] Smith also reviewed internal documents and consulted on real estate matters at Abercrombie & Fitch.[22]

Mike Jeffries will be held in hospital for treatment for a maximum of four months

Mike Jeffries will be held in hospital for treatment for a maximum of four months© Getty Images

The former chief executive of fashion brand Abercrombie & Fitch is “mentally incompetent” and currently unfit to stand trial on charges of sex trafficking and prostitution, a US court has ruled.

Mike Jeffries will now be held in custody and treated in hospital for an initial period of up to four months to determine if his condition is likely to improve enough for the case to proceed.

Mr Jeffries’ legal team said last December he has dementia and late onset Alzheimer’s disease.

He is accused of using his wealth, power and status to traffic and sexually abuse vulnerable men over years – alleged crimes that could carry a life-term jail sentence.

Then of course, on the genocide and murder and torture front of those Jews, and those ZAIPAC-ers: US supports Israel-imposed famine, genocide – War on Gaza Day 572 Netanyahu expected to approve expanded Gaza war plans; Day 3 of Int’l Court of Justice hearings against Israel; Israel closes schools for 800 Palestinian children in East Jerusalem; 100 days of Israeli assaults in West Bank; Israel’s plans for Syria; Israel boycotts in Texas; one win for student protesters

A rat among rats! Fiction, man, easier than truth. Fucking Jew-Landia stuck in the fucking head of the Jew-Landians.

Most information is not about representing reality in a truthful way. The main function of information is to connect a lot of things together, to connect people together. And you sometimes can connect people with the truth, but it’s often easier to do it with fiction and fantasy and so forth. Some of the most important texts in history, you know, like the Bible – Hmm- They connect millions of people together,but not necessarily by telling them the truth. In a completely free market of information,most information will be fiction or fantasy, or even lies because the truth is costly. Whereas fiction is cheap. To write a truthful account of anything, of history, of economics, of physics, you need to invest time and effort and money to gather evidence to fact check. It’s costly. Whereas fiction can be made as simpleas you would like it to be. And finally, the truth is often painful or unpleasant. Whereas fiction can be made as pleasant and attractive as you would like it to be. So in a completely free market of information, truth will be flooded, overwhelmed by enormous amounts of fictions and fantasies.

The head of the class of lies, theft, mind warping, country-stupification, global intellectual viral fatigue? “It’s toasted.”

What Edward Bernays’ writings furnish is not a principle or tradition by which to evaluate the appropriateness of propaganda, but simply a means for shaping public opinion for any purpose whatsoever, whether beneficial to human beings or not.

This observation led Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter to warn President Franklin Roosevelt against allowing Bernays to play a leadership role in World War II, describing him and his colleagues as

“professional poisoners of the public mind, exploiters of foolishness, fanaticism, and self-interest.”

Henry Kissinger, 99, has been invited to meet every president at the White House since his days working for Nixon, but has not yet heard from Biden, he told The Post during an interview to discuss his new book.

[Vice President Joe Biden, right, shaking hands with World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder, as former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger looks on, at the Pierre Hotel in New York City, Nov. 9, 2016]

JEWS: Vice President Joe Biden said the U.S. commitments to Israel will remain the same under President-elect Donald Trump.

“I stand here to tell you that I have no doubt, none whatsoever, that in the Trump administration there will be no diminution of support as a consequence of this transition,” Biden said Wednesday night in a speech to the World Jewish Congress in New York, where he was honored by the organization. “Even if the new administration were inclined to reduce the commitment, which it is not, Congress would never let it happen, the American people would never let it happen.”

PSYCHOSIS of WHITE JEWISHNESS:

When the Justice Department lifted a school desegregation order in Louisiana this week, officials called its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggested that others dating to the Civil Rights Movement should be reconsidered.

The end of the 1966 legal agreement with Plaquemines Parish schools announced Tuesday shows the Trump administration is “getting America refocused on our bright future,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said.

Inside the Justice Department, officials appointed by President Donald Trump have expressed desire to withdraw from other desegregation orders they see as an unnecessary burden on schools, according to a person familiar with the issue who was granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

The psychotic Guardian, that InBred Quee-ueer-dom rag, is all about the fucking graphs! It’s all a fucking joke now, no, fact and truths as the king rat Jew stated above:

Jesus, save us fucked up Goy-ionists, Save Us, JESUS: Supreme Court’s conservatives lean toward allowing country’s first religious public charter school,

All a fucking racist cuntsville LIE, whatever whites say!

Oh, those enlightened Kushner’s and Miller’s and Ellison’s and Adelson’s and Zuck-Chan-Berg’s: Trump administration dismisses nearly 400 scientists working on congressionally mandated national climate report

Failing to publish a report of record that stands up to rigorous scientific review of past national assessments is significant, says Dr. Mijin Cha, a climate and environmental justice professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a fellow author on this year’s assessment.

“We’re losing our status as the premiere data and research country,” Dr. Cha said.

Many in the scientific community have begun to talk about how to move forward, but fears remain that the Trump administration will proceed with its own report, assigning authors that represent alternative viewpoints on climate change.

“I’m worried who will do the NCA moving forward and putting something forward that is false,” said Dr. Cha.

In his ruling, Kasubhai found that the BLM had based some of its analysis of the logging’s impact on “guesswork,” which “distorted the data” in the analysis, rendering it “irrational and inadequate” under the National Environmental Policy Act. The bureau also failed to gather site-specific data with regards to the logging plan’s impact on animals that are considered threatened or endangered, such as the bald eagle and spotted owl.

“The court finds that several intensity factors raise substantial questions over whether the Siuslaw Plan may have significant impacts,” Judge Kasubhai wrote, which ordered the BLM to prepare a more thorough environmental impact statement, using site-specific data.

My interview of Chuck, motherfuckers!

Scroll down: Here.

Moving along back to the Murdering Jews: (Sam Husseini) The imperial system wants at times to instrumentalize international law, which is one way of effectively, tacitly destroying it as a meaningful thing.

And at times, working hand in glove, it may seek to obliterate it completely. It’s Biden and Trump, colluding.

Here are Ní Ghrálaigh’s remarks which contain lots of good information, though the headline of the video — “This is about Gaza’s future” — is not really accurate, it’s about the world’s future as she says:

She added: “If these venerable institutions are to survive … the international community must act while it can to uphold them.”

Indeed.

Then she claims: “The international community is so acting”, citing the advisory proceedings ongoing at the ICJ.

Here, I think she’s wrong. The “international community” is failing. It is seeking advisory opinions when it should be seeking further orders under the Genocide Convention. It should finally be moving with a General Assembly Uniting for Peace resolution as I’ve repeatedly urged.

Additional points made in the accuracy.org news release I just put out:

Is Israel Set to Shred International Law? How to Stop It — Interviews Available

PSYCHOSIS: JEWS!

Kids Being Advised to Stay Indoors Could Mark ‘Horrible Turn for Society’

Fuck, Bloomberg? All about green porn, man, washing the green with the GOLD.

Most climate-change deniers don’t even bother fighting the established science anymore: The planet is warming, human activity is the cause, and we can do something about it if we really try. Modern deniers will concede all that, but fire back that the “do something about it” part is too hard, too expensive to be worth trying. We have to be pragmatic, they’ll say, and keep burning fossil fuels to make life easier on people.

But we keep finding evidence that not doing something about it will be far more expensive and hard on people. Being truly pragmatic means leaving fossil fuels behind as quickly as possible.

Politics — Death star of the Rapist in Chief’s Minyans, Bernays, and of course, those Jews like Zuck-Chan-Berg and Oppen-Monster-Heimers like Adelson and Ellison: Senate votes to overturn EPA rule that limits 7 hazardous air pollutants . . . Half of Americans breathing unhealty air? Shit, make that 100 percent.

The Senate on Thursday approved an effort to overturn an Environmental Protection Agency rule tied to the Clean Air Act and designed to limit seven of the most hazardous air pollutants that are emitted by heavy industry.

The 52-46 party-line vote marked the first time in the 55-year history of the Clean Air Act that Congress has moved to weaken the power of the landmark environmental law.

Senate Republicans utilized the Congressional Review Act to overturn the regulation, which was passed by the Biden administration in 2024.

Solar Geoengineering Is Possible with Existing Aircraft, Study Finds

Scientists previously thought that solar geoengineering—or releasing particles into the atmosphere to reflect solar rays—would require specialized high-altitude vehicles

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While we die!

No Meals on Wheels or Basic Dental and Health Care, and fuck the Jewish BlackStone and BlackRock housing crisis: Solar Geoengineering Is Possible with Existing Aircraft, Study Finds . . . Scientists previously thought that solar geoengineering—or releasing particles into the atmosphere to reflect solar rays—would require specialized high-altitude vehicles

Trump’s budget calls for the elimination of one program that some of the nation’s 5,000 Meals on Wheels groups rely on: Community development block grants, a $3 billion program that started in the Ford administration to give states and cities more flexibility in how they combat poverty.

But Trump’s proposal — known as the “skinny budget” because it’s the first, vague outline of a more formal submission to come — is largely silent about the program that provides the vast majority of federal funding for senior services.

“The budget will adversely impact older adults,” said Sandy Markwood, CEO of the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging. “We just don’t know how much.”

Here’s why. The majority of Meals on Wheels programs get most of their federal funding through the Administration for Community Living, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services that serves the elderly and disabled. That agency has a $227 million line-item for “home-delivered nutrition services.”

Jews and Your Uncle and Aunt’s jobs: The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes

Motherfucking Psychotics. Goy this time!

Driverless trucks are officially running their first regular long-haul routes, making roundtrips between Dallas and Houston.

On Thursday, autonomous trucking firm Aurora announced it launched commercial service in Texas under its first customers, Uber Freight and Hirschbach Motor Lines, which delivers time- and temperature-sensitive freight. Both companies conducted test runs with Aurora, including safety drivers to monitor the self-driving technology dubbed “Aurora Driver.” Aurora’s new commercial service will no longer have safety drivers.

“We founded Aurora to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly, said Chris Urmson, CEO and co-founder of Aurora, in a release on Thursday. “Now, we are the first company to successfully and safely operate a commercial driverless trucking service on public roads.”

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and in that Jewish Racist and Supremacist schema, I am dead in the water, once again, looking for ‘work’

Fucking gets me down EVERY time, man, hundreds of job rejections in 40 years?

April 30, 2025

Thank you for submitting your application and resume to the City of Newport for consideration.

We are fortunate to have many qualified candidates apply for the 60+ Supervisor position. We have reviewed the qualifications of each candidate and after careful consideration, we have determined that the credentials of other candidates may better fit our needs at this time. We invite you to revisit our career site at https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/cityofnewport to view other current openings.

Thank you for your interest in the City of Newport and please accept our best wishes in your job search.

City of Newport
Human Resources

I was asked by some of the senior center folk to apply since the last and the last process produced not so great candidates, and these people already know me, but alas, this is the screening of the Kafkaesque Human Resouces departments.

More depressing news here on the Oregon Coast, and alas, I get it I get it. These fucking HR pricks and cunts used Google and a deeper tool to screen the internet for my name: and then they attach my name with words like “politics” and “activism” and “anti-American” and of course “antisemitism.”

Here’s the cunt AI response:

Employers often utilize applicant tracking systems (ATS), background checks, and social media monitoring to screen candidates for potential issues, including negative comments about the company.

Here’s a more detailed look:

  • Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS):.Opens in new tabMany companies use ATS to manage the hiring process. These systems can be programmed to search for keywords in resumes and online profiles, potentially identifying candidates who have written negative comments or expressed dissatisfaction with the company.
  • Background Checks:.Opens in new tabBackground checks can include searches for information on social media, where candidates may have shared their opinions about previous employers or companies.
  • Social Media Monitoring:.Opens in new tabSome employers actively monitor a candidate’s social media presence to assess their character and potentially identify any negative comments or opinions about the company.

Important Considerations:

  • While employers may look for negative comments, it’s important to remember that social media and online content can be interpreted differently. A candidate’s comments might be a reflection of a personal experience, not necessarily a widespread issue with the company.
  • Employers must also be mindful of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and other relevant laws when using background checks and accessing information from social media.

Types of adverse media to screen

So what is adverse media? Unfortunately, “media” itself is a very broad term that can refer to many different types of information sources. Here are some common adverse media examples.

  • News outlets: This includes physical and digital newspapers; TV and online news videos; and audio news shows. Investigative journalism can uncover evidence of illegal or unethical behavior by a business (or someone associated with it).
  • Social networks & forums: Users of social networks and forums often provide feedback and opinions regarding businesses and their customer experiences. A buildup of grievances, criticisms, and unfavorable reviews can create reputation problems for a business. This could cause risks for you, if you’re affiliated with that business.
  • Blogs: Similar to with social networks, a business could post long-form content on blogs that readers respond negatively to (if they’re able), reducing the business’s credibility. Other blog writers could also post reviews, commentaries, and even exposés on businesses that could cause reputational risks — and even other types of risks if the information turns out to be valid.
  • Video sharing websites: Users may post things like reviews, commentaries, and even raw footage on video sharing websites that could damage a business’s image if they portray the business in a negative light. Additionally, if the business posts content itself, its reputation could suffer if users consistently give the content negative feedback or comments.
  • Regulatory databases: Public sanctions lists and watchlists from regulatory agencies, such as the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), can also count as adverse media. They can indicate a business or associated person is involved in unethical or even criminal behavior, or at least with a country that’s at high risk for this sort of activity. Or they could indicate activities from the business that aren’t necessarily illegal, but can still signal risks (such as bankruptcy filings, court judgments, and liens).

Ahh, so many tools, to find out if I have ever criticized the city of Newport, the social services arena, etc. etc. Know Your Business. KYB.

So, instead of drowning my sorrows with tequila, I went for Richard Medhurst’s most recent interview on Chris Hedges. Talk about depressing. Sure, no chance to interview for an $81k a year job. Downer. Bummer. Worse than that. But Medhurst?

Richard Medhurst’s persecution by both British and Austrian authorities signifies a major escalation in Israel’s and its allies’ full throated attack against the press in the West.

“I was just trying to tell the truth as best as I could with the facts that we had at that time and that’s it. And I think they’re trying to make an example out of me, definitely,” Medhurst tells Hedges.

Medhurst points to Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in the UK as one of the broad laws being used to silence people like him. “If they really want to, they can charge you for just saying a simple fact just because the fact is uncomfortable to the government or perhaps they can twist it into saying you’re glorifying a group but it’s not true,” he explains.

For Medhurst, the UK pinned Schedule 12(1A) on him, which he explains “has never been used before, and escalated it straight to an arrest.” They then took his “fingerprints, [his] DNA, [and] they put [him] in jail for 24 hours.”

Despite his accurate reporting, Medhurst says that the validity of what one says does not matter when it conflicts with the establishment line. “You’re not glorifying anyone. You’re just stating a fact, but they can still charge you. That’s what’s so dangerous about this law,” he said.

Austrian security service agents still possess most of Medhurst’s journalistic tools. There is still no clear time table as to when he will get his tools back.

As Medhurst explained:

“It wasn’t just my phone and my laptop, which I also use for work, which are my work tools, but …you know, hard drive adapters, things that don’t even have data on them, analog microphones. Why would you do that to someone unless you’re trying to make a point that you don’t want them to continue their work?”

Again, we can and shall criticize Judaism or Jews or what have you. AIPAC? Is it ZAIPAC — zionist American Israeli Public (Putrid Propaganda) Affairs (Deceit) Committee (Minyan).

I wholeheartedly agree with this:

“This fetishisation of ‘Jewish anti-Zionism’ is based on racism.

The underlying logic is that resistance to Jewish supremacism is only legitimate if endorsed by Jews. Most individuals on this graphic do not even support the Resistance, or the complete liberation of the Levant from the racist cult of Jewish supremacism. This is due in part to the residual Zionism that clings to Jewish identity, which afflicts the overwhelming majority of Jews.

Depending on which figures you uses somewhere above 60% and up to above 90% of British Jews either say they are Zionist or that Israel has a special place in their lives. Its true that the young are more critical but even there recent figures suggest around 57% are attached to Zionism.

But in the end, why should anyone care what Jewish people think of resistance to Jewish supremacism? Did we poll Germans on whether we should attempt to eliminate the Nazi threat? Did we beg for German ‘allies’ in this cause?

Jewish ‘communities’ and institutions (like the JNF, CST, BoD, JLC) are the backbone of Zionist militarism. They provide the money, the manpower and the tactics to steal Arab land across the Levant; to terrorise Muslims globally; and to penetrate and subvert political systems the world over.

The Western Left’s reification of Jews and fetishisation of Jewishness comes with the price of: complete irrelevance from the liberation struggles of West Asia; a startling ignorance of Islamophobia and a deliberate obfuscation of how it works, so as not to offend Jewish Zionist sensibilities; and the embedding of Islamophobia in left-wing thought.

Quite simply, a Jewish life, a Jewish voice and Jewish concerns are elevated in importance — certainly to a higher level than any Palestinian or Lebanese — by most Western Leftists, whether they know it or not.

Until this endemic and frankly inane form of racism — practiced throughout the Corbyn years by Corbyn himself and his team; organisations like JVL and their ilk; the ‘Palestine Solidarity Campaign’ and other ‘Jewish’ or ‘left’ groups — is defeated, the Western Left will remain a tool of the Zionists, as it has been especially since 1948.”=-Professor David Miller

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The unending propaganda NEVER ends.

Stone the fucking Jew:

Yes, roots, spawn, sperm, family do say A LOT about people: Early life

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WIlliam Oliver Stone was born on September 15, 1946 at Doctors Hospital in New York City, the only child of Jacqueline (née Goddet)[11] and Louis Stone (born Abraham Louis Silverstein), a stockbroker.[12] His parents met in his mother’s hometown of Paris during World War II where his father, a U.S. Army colonel, served as a financial officer on General Eisenhower‘s staff.[13][14] Stone’s paternal great-grandparents were Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants from Poland. His grandfather, Joshua Silverstein, owned and operated successful skirt-making companies in New York City and New Jersey.[15] His aunt was author and editor Babette Rosmond and his cousins are writer Gene Stone and former chairman of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission James Stone.[16] The family changed its surname from Silverstein to Stone in the 1920’s due to rampant antisemitism in the United States. Stone himself grew up in Manhattan and Stamford, Connecticut. While his American father was Jewish, his French mother was Roman Catholic, though both were non-practicing.[17] Stone was raised in the Episcopal Church[18][19] and now practices Buddhism.[20]

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Jews:

Executive Producing ‘JFK’

The question of how Milchan came to be the executive producer of JFK was addressed in some detail in the 1995 bookStone: The Controversies, Excesses, and Exploits of a Radical Filmmaker.

“In this first full biography, author James Riordan has interviewed Stone, the actors who’ve starred in his films, and his family and friends, to assemble a complete portrait of Stone’s professional achievements and personal demons,” reads a note on the front flap of the book.

According to Riordan, Stone had met Milchan “years before” writing and directing JFK, and he was the “ace” that Stone had up his sleeve—and ultimately played— when he realized he’d need a lot more money for the film than the $20 million that Warner Brothers had initially committed to.

After explaining the origins of the project, the research that went into Stone’s writing of the screenplay, Stone’s deal with Warner Brothers, and his early attempts to court actor Kevin Costner to play Jim Garrison, Riordan writes on p. 364:

Costner held out, refusing to commit to the role. Meanwhile, there were budgetary concerns. The new budget came in at over $40 million and Stone felt that Warner Brothers was getting a little nervous. And there was increasing concern about the script. Stone knew that a studio talking about doing a controversial movie and actually reading the script were two different things. So far, everything was fine, but he knew the real heat was yet to come. Like any astute tactician, Stone was always careful to protect his backside. He’d been holding an ace for some time and now he decided to play it.

Arnon Milchan is one of the true power players in Hollywood. He’s so friendly and unassuming it’s hard to believe he’s amassed a huge fortune and an even huger power base from foreign arms deals. The owner of Milchan Bros., an Israeli company with interests in half a dozen industries, Milchan has been in the international headlines for making deals to benefit Israel’s nuclear arms program, but he claims defense of his homeland, not profit, has been his motive. His Regency International Pictures is a major force in world entertainment, partnering with German conglomerate Scriba & Deyhle and French pay-TV company Le Studio Canal.

Remember, Stone told Sam Husseini that he “knew [Milchan] was an Israeli, uh– let’s say a big shot in Israel, and he probably had some intelligence ties,” but “didn’t know specifically what he had done.” Here’s Riordan (pp. 364-365):

Milchan’s past and slickness didn’t bother him. Stone likes power players from the fringe because they have an independence and a gutsiness that establishment Hollywood lacks . . . When asked about his relationship with Milchan, Stone made references to The Mask of Dimitrios, a classic film noir starring Peter Lorre as a mystery writer who becomes ensnared by a web of intrigue while tracking an international businessman with shady methods across Europe.

Milchan, however, apparently told Riordan that he was the one who “pushed himself right down” the “throat” of a “hesitant” and “highly suspicious” Stone (pp. 365-366, bold added):

For his part, Arnon Milchan had been eager to work with Stone for some time. “I had met Oliver years before and was impressed with his work because he is a fighter,” Milchan says. “An artist and a fighter. Then I saw him a couple of times at Terry Semel’s house. And this was when JFK started to cook. Now, a few other things were cooking at the same time. I was getting more muscles in the business and Warner Brothers was getting more and more nervous about JFK. I liked Oliver and we met for dinner one night, had a couple of beers, at Spago’s. We were both drunk at the end, but I remember my last words before I collapsed were, ‘Whether you like it or not, I’m going to be your partner.’ And he had this manipulative little grin. I call it manipulative because it does magic on you. He could give you a smile and even if you were just about to kill him, you’d change your mind. Oliver can get away with anything.”

Stone had let it drop that Warner Brothers might be open to a partner on the film, and that was all Milchan needed. “I’m good at feeling when people are hesitant,” Milchan says. “I realized there was discomfort around the project. First of all, Kevin Costner was not committed yet. Warners was a little hesitant. Actually, I practically ignored Oliver and made the deal with Warner Brothers. I said, I’ll put up all the money, let’s go. My agenda was—I wanted the project. I wanted to start the new company, Regency Films, off with a big bang, whatever happened. And I wanted to nail down the beginning of a relationship with Oliver.” . . .

Stone, though he had sown the seeds for the arrangement, reacted customarily. “He was highly suspicious,” Milchan recalls. “Nobody like Oliver Stone wants a partner without being asked. I pushed myself right down his throat, y’know? And I sensed that all he wanted really was a relationship with my French partners, Canal. He thought my being so emotional was some kind of Hollywood game. But Oliver is a great whore, in a good sense. He will do what it takes to make the kinds of movies he wants to make.

Sicarios and war lords and gun runners and murderers, Barbara!

Jews, peepsqueek Danny!

Israel and the JFK assassination

Going back to the “mini-presser” at the Capitol this month: In addition to asking about Milchan, Sam Husseini—along with a couple others who were present, including Karl Golovin—were able to ask Stone, James DiEugenio, and Jefferson Morley several other questions.

Among the topics discussed:

For more background, see Sam’s 2023 article: “Israel and the Kennedy Assassinations.”

Here’s a compilation of clips, starting with what Stone said right after answering Sam’s question about Milchan (seen in the video at the beginning of this article):

Trump on Biden Steroids — how many Larry Finks and Schwarzmans and Zelenskys does it take to make a Jewish Minyan?

Ahh, Trump and his Jews are Keeping the Jew Penis Piano Man in the Buggering Seat:

So, after teh HR monster(s) sent the letter saying that they won’t even entertain my candidancy, Hedges, Medhurst and Viet (unfortunately on Jewish Democracy Now)

Vietnam, uh? El Salvador and Guatemala, and Jewish Arms.

They are all leeches and rabid monsters, the fucking Swiss? Swiss entrepreneur Peter Huber is shifting most of his defense contracting business to Portugal, as the neutrality of his home nation threatens its arms industry.

Oregon education leaders say they’re already following federal student privacy laws in response to an ultimatum from the U.S. Department of Education over federal funding that implied schools are withholding information from parents related to students’ gender identity.

In March, federal officials wrote to state education agencies demanding proof that schools and states’ departments of education are following two federal student privacy laws.

The Dear Colleague Letter, sent March 28 by Education Secretary Linda McMahon and Frank Miller, acting director of the federal education department’s Student Privacy Policy Office, gave states until April 30 to respond. In the letter, McMahon and Miller imply “many” schools and districts are violating the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, or FERPA, and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment, or PPRA by allowing schools to use workarounds that keep parents and guardians from receiving requested records from schools about their students.

Among the examples listed were schools creating “gender plans” that are left out of an “official student record,” and stories McMahon said she’s heard from young people who formerly identified as trans “about the lengths schools would go to in order to hide this information from parents.” McMahon and Miller did not provide evidence of such hiding from any schools or districts but implied the problem was widespread.

Charlene Williams, director of Oregon’s Department of Education, wrote back Wednesday to remind McMahon and Miller that Oregon codified the rights inferred by FERPA in state law in the 1990s.

Your complete guide to Trump’s Jewish advisers and pro-Israel cabinet

Trump’s new cabinet will include Mike Huckabee, Marco Rubio, and other loyalists with strong pro-Israel stances

President-elect Donald Trump (center) on Nov. 13, 2024 and his recently announced appointees.

President-elect Donald Trump (center) on Nov. 13, 2024 and his recently announced appointees. Photo by collage photo via Getty Images

Jacob Kornbluh

By Jacob KornbluhNovember 13, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump has filled much of his cabinet, rolling out nominations that feature people deeply connected to the Jewish and pro-Israel communities, including Mike Huckabee, Steve Witkoff, and Marco Rubio.

His first national security picks are die-hard Israel supporters, some of whom have denied the existence of the Palestinian people and back the annexation of the occupied West Bank. These loyalists are set to advance his “America First” and hardline populist agenda in a second term. They could signal some shifts in longstanding U.S. policy, especially regarding a possible conflict with Iran and resolving conflicts in the Middle East.

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Marco Rubio, secretary of state

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Oct. 29. Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images

Why Trump picked Rubio: Rubio, vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has vast national security experience and strong connections to secure a swift Senate confirmation.

What he’s said on Israel: Rubio, 53, has echoed Trump’s “peace through strength” doctrine and call to allow Israel to do what’s needed to defeat Hamas. In a viral video earlier this year, Rubio said he expected Israel “to destroy every element of Hamas.” Rubio likened the Israeli ground operation in Rafah, which was opposed by the Biden administration, to the Allies’ pursuit of Adolf Hitler during the Holocaust.

What he’s said on Iran: Rubio has advocated for reinstating tough economic sanctions on Iran to weaken its terror networks and prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Relationship with Jews: Norman Braman, an auto dealership magnate and past president of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, was Rubio’s political patron. Rubio surprised pro-Israel backers with his April vote against emergency funding to Israel because it lacked border enforcement measures. Rubio excused Trump after he repeatedly accused American Jews of disloyalty to Israel and suggested they must hate their religion if they vote for Democrats. And he also angered Orthodox leaders in 2022 for introducing a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent across the nation, which they said would have made it more difficult for people to attend morning prayers and get to work on time.

Pete Hegseth, secretary of defense

Fox host Pete Hegseth in August 2019. Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images

What he’s said on Israel: Hegseth, 44, a Fox News host, provided favorable coverage of Israel on the network and said that his time in the U.S. Army turned him into a supporter of the Jewish state. He interviewed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in March and said, “Israel needs our support.” He also ran a three-part series on Fox Nation, “Battle in the Holy Land: Israel at War,” that focused on the war in Gaza and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “There’s no doubt this is a fight that Israel needs to finish,” Hegseth said, echoing Trump’s call for Israel to finish the job and eliminate Hamas.

A hardliner on Iran: Hegseth called for U.S. military action against Iran back in 2020. “I don’t want boots on the ground, I don’t want occupation, I don’t want endless war,” he said on Fox News. “But Iran has been in endless war with us for 40 years. Either we put up and shut up now and stop it, or we kind of wait, go back to the table, and let them dither while they attempt to continue to develop the capabilities to do precisely what they said they want to do.”

Mike Waltz, national security adviser

Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), right, on Aug. 12, 2023. Photo by Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Why it matters: The selection of Rep. Mike Waltz of Florida, a former Green Beret with a staunchly pro-Israel record, to lead the National Security Council signals Trump’s intent to maintain his strong support for Israel in a second term and take a tougher approach toward Iran.

What he’s said on Israel: Waltz, 53, consistently criticized the Biden administration’s foreign policy, describing it as one of “concession and chaos.” He strongly supports Israel’s war in Gaza and praised Israel’s targeting of Hezbollah operatives and elimination of the terror group’s commanding leadership. Even before the war in Gaza, Waltz said the U.S. should allow Israel to strike Iran’s nuclear program. Last month, Waltz recommended that Israel strike Kharg Island, a crucial hub for Iran’s oil exports, and its nuclear facilities at Natanz.

One of his key tasks: Waltz, a staunch advocate for expanding the Abraham Accords, will be playing a central role in talks with Saudi Arabia to advance Trump’s goal of achieving regional peace and resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Elise Stefanik, US ambassador to the UN

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) on Oct. 27. Photo by Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images

What it means for Israel: Stefanik, 40, brings her national security experience and a combative, unapologetic style to the United Nations at a critical juncture for Israel and the Middle East. With tensions expected to rise around Iran’s nuclear ambitions and increasing global pressure on resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Stefanik could position herself as a formidable ally to Israel.

Stefanik recently called to cut off aid for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine, the main supplier of humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza.

Her popularity among conservative Jews: Stefanik gained popularity in the Jewish and pro-Israel community after challenging the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania on whether calls for the genocide of Jews violate their campus codes of conduct.

Mike Huckabee, US ambassador to Israel

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee on Oct. 29. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Why he got the job: Huckabee, 69, enjoys the trust of both Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Huckabee, a Baptist minister, has been traveling to Israel since 1973 and says he’s taken more than 100 trips there. A MAGA loyalist, Huckabee is a seasoned advocate for Israeli interests. His influence could bolster Netanyahu’s outreach to U.S. evangelicals, a community Netanyahu has increasingly prioritized over American Jews in recent years.

What he’s said on Israel: Last year, he led a mission of evangelical leaders to Israel following the Oct. 7 attacks. “I came here to say loud and clear that evangelicals stand with Israel,” Huckabee said. In 2008, Huckabee said, “There’s really no such thing as a Palestinian.” During the 2016 Republican presidential primary, Huckabee said he saw the occupied West Bank as an “integral part” of Israel. In 2017, he said, “There is no such thing as a West Bank. It’s Judea and Samaria. There’s no such thing as a settlement.”

A supporter of annexation: In a radio interview following the announcement of his new role, Huckabee said there’s a chance that Israel will be given the green light to annex the occupied West Bank in a second Trump term.

Unconventional pick: The position, traditionally a political appointment, is usually given to Jewish donors, trusted Jewish officials or career diplomats. Huckabee would be the first non-Jewish ambassador since 2011 and the first non-Jewish appointee without diplomatic experience in more than four decades.

Steven Witkoff, special envoy to the Middle East

Steve Witkoff on Oct. 27. Photo by Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Why he was picked: Witkoff, 67, has no diplomatic experience. However, he has a longstanding trusted relationship with Trump, and with his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who was instrumental during the first Trump administration in crafting the Trump peace plan and brokering the Abraham Accords.

Like Kushner, Witkoff brings a real estate negotiating approach that Trump values. Witkoff has served as the Trump campaign’s backchannel to the Jewish business community, particularly after President Joe Biden halted the shipment of 2,000-pound weapons to Israel.

Relationship with Israel: Witkoff attended Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress in July, and found it moving, especially when Netanyahu talked about the hostages in Gaza — some of whom were at the Capitol that day. “It felt spiritual,” Witkoff said on the Fox Business channel the next day, “and yet, that’s not the reaction you sense that you were getting from many of those Democrats.”

Morgan Ortagus, deputy to special envoy to the Middle East

Morgan Ortagus
Morgan Ortagus on Sept. 21, 2021. Photo by Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit

Ortagus, a former evangelical Christian, converted to Judaism in 2007 while working in Iraq for the U.S. Agency for International Development under President George W. Bush. She brings extensive foreign policy expertise to her role as deputy to Steve Witkoff, a real estate investor and Trump’s longtime friend and golfing partner, who does not have a background in diplomacy.

During Trump’s first term, Ortagus was part of the team working on the Abraham Accords, which normalized relations between Israel and four Arab nations. After leaving the State Department in 2021, Ortagus founded Polaris National Security, a nonprofit supporting defense-focused political candidates, and launched an unsuccessful 2022 run for Congress in Tennessee, a campaign Trump endorsed before ballot access issues derailed her candidacy.

Adam Boehler, special presidential envoy for hostage affairs

Adam Boehler on Sept. 21, 2020. Photo by ARMEND NIMANI/AFP via Getty Images

Who he is: Boehler, 45, who is Jewish, was CEO of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation during the first Trump administration. He served with Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, on the negotiating team for the Abraham Accords and was the lead negotiator in normalization talks between Israel and Morocco. Bohler and Kushner were summer colleague roommates and worked together on a national coronavirus testing plan.

What it means for Israel: Boehler’s nomination to the role, with the rank of ambassador and requiring Senate confirmation, is a positive sign for the families of Israeli hostages, including the American hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. In past writings and interviews, Boehler said U.S. negotiations to secure the release of American citizens wrongfully detained abroad should be backed by the threat of military action. Earlier this year, he said that the Abraham Accords happened because Trump took a hard stance on Iran. “That is how real peace is achieved in the Middle East, through strength. Now is the time to get tough on Iran and their proxies, especially Hamas.”

Howard Lutnick, secretary of commerce

Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, on Oct. 27, 2024. Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images

Why he was picked: Lutnick co-leads Trump’s transition team and had been considered for treasury secretary before Trump nominated him to lead the Commerce Department. Lutnick has served as Trump’s most enthusiastic liaison to the business world, promoting the president-elect’s plan to increase tariffs, which many in the business world worry will dampen the economy. Over the course of the election, Lutnick raised $75 million for Trump’s campaign, not including the $10 million he personally donated.

Lutnick gained fame in the days after 9/11, leading Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial services firm that suffered more fatalities than any other business in the terror attack.

Jewish ties: Lutnick has long supported Jewish organizations. Among them: Park Avenue Synagogue and the Synagogue of the Hamptons, where he is an honorary trustee. Lutnick and his wife chaired United Hatzalah’s annual gala in New York this year, the first since Oct. 7, organizers noted, connecting Lutnick’s loss of his brother, friends and employees in the 9/11 terror attack to Hamas’ terror attack on Israel. Last month, he accompanied Trump to the Ohel, where Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, is buried; it’s a frequent stop for candidates trying to show respect to the Orthodox Jewish community.

Lee Zeldin, EPA administrator

Former Rep. Lee Zeldin on July 17. Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images

A Jewish MAGA loyalist: Zeldin, 44, has earned Trump’s trust since voting as a congressman against certifying the 2020 election results. During the campaign, Zeldin was a vocal Trump surrogate and critic of anti-Israel sentiment in the Democratic Party. He excused Trump’s remarks saying Jews would be to blame if the former president lost the election, and he accused Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro of “trying to un-Jewish himself” to become Kamala Harris’ vice presidential pick.

His Jewish background: Zeldin, who is married to a Mormon, leaned into his Jewish background to rally Orthodox voters during his 2022 New York gubernatorial campaign. His great-grandfather Moshe Efraim “Morris” Zeldin, whom Zeldin is named after, was an Orthodox rabbi in Brooklyn and a pioneer in the Zionist movement.

Growing up in Suffolk County on Long Island, Zeldin spent considerable time with his grandfather Bernard Zeldin, who founded the Farmingdale Jewish Center. His mother, Merrill Schwartz, was a fourth grade teacher at a yeshiva in Brooklyn.

Scott Bessent, treasury secretary

Scott Bessent on July 10, 2024. Photo by Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

His background: Bessent, 62 is described as a protege of Jewish billionaire George Soros, serving for two decades as management investing chief at the Soros Fund Management. (Trump invoked the Soros-as-puppeteer antisemitic conspiracy in his fundraising emails last year.)

What he said about Iran: The treasury department oversees economic and trade sanctions on Iran and other bad actors.

In a recent interview, Bessent echoed Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign on Tehran. “I say, let’s make America great again, and let’s make Iran broke again,” he said.

John Ratcliffe, CIA director

John Ratcliffe, former director of National Intelligence, on April 18, 2023. Photo by Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

What it means for Israel: Ratcliffe, 59, previously a member of Congress from Texas and former director of national intelligence, accused the Biden administration of diverting critical U.S. intelligence assets from monitoring terrorist groups like Hamas.

During the presidential campaign, he criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for promoting “a false narrative” that portrayed Israel as targeting innocent Palestinians in Gaza. Ratcliffe also supported the 2017 travel ban that restricted immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

What he’s said on Iran: In an interview with Fox News this year, Ratcliffe praised Israeli strikes on Iran, describing them as an example of the “Trump doctrine” of maximum pressure. He suggested that the U.S. should assist Israel in such military actions.

Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff and homeland security adviser

Stephen Miller, senior adviser to Donald Trump, on Oct. 27. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

Jewish with strong nationalist views: Miller, 39, declared last month at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, “America is for Americans and Americans only.” He was influential in crafting tough immigration policies during Trump’s first term and was the architect behind the policy of separating young children from their undocumented parents. Miller led the implementation of the so-called Muslim travel ban in 2017 and reportedly also hoped to eliminate all refugee admissions to the U.S., dismantling a policy put in place in the wake of the Holocaust.

Condemned by family and classmates: Miller, now tapped for a powerful role within the administration, has been condemned by his Jewish family, descendants of immigrants who fled pogroms, and by his past classmates. His uncle, Dr. David Glosser, a retired neuropsychologist, called him an “immigration hypocrite.” His former rabbi said Trump and Miller’s statements are “echoes of ominous promises that Jews have heard throughout history.”

Pam Bondi, attorney general

Pam Bondi on July 16, 2024. Photo by Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Her background: Bondi, 59, was Florida’s attorney general. In 2019, she joined Ballard Partners, a top Republican lobbying firm. According to news reports, among her clients was the government of Qatar, the Gulf state that has long been a refuge for the leaders of Hamas and was involved in brokering a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel. In 2010, in her race for Florida attorney general, her Jewish opponent, Dan Gelber, accused Bondi of a smear campaign aimed at undermining him among Jewish voters. Bondi repeatedly denied that she was behind the mailer.

What it means for Jews: The Justice Department oversees the prosecution of violent extremism and hate crimes. Bondi called antisemitism “rampant” in the U.S. and said it’s “heartbreaking to see what’s happening to all of our Jewish friends in this country.” In 2017, after a meeting between Trump and state attorney generals regarding a rash of antisemitic incidents and bomb threats on Jewish institutions, Bondi, said, “I know firsthand President Trump cares deeply about our Jewish community and is extremely upset by these attacks.” If confirmed by the Senate, Bondi would succeed Attorney General Merrick Garland, a Jewish former federal judge.

Her views on Israel: Bondi said she had been to Israel “multiple times.” She criticized President Joe Biden for not building on the Abraham Accords. Shortly after Oct. 7, Bondi suggested federal officials get tougher with pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses and revoke the visas of those who are not U.S. citizens.

Kristi Noem, homeland security

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Oct. 14. Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images

What it means for Jews: The department of homeland security provides resources and guidance to houses of worship to protect themselves under the Nonprofit Security Grant Program. Close collaboration between the agency and Jewish community leaders will be vital to address growing threats and security concerns.

Earlier this year, Noem, 52, serving as governor of South Dakota, signed into law a bill that mandates the use of the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism when investigating allegations of discrimination.

Best known for: Noem gained national attention earlier this year after a revelation in her memoir sparked backlash that derailed her bid to be chosen as Trump’s vice presidential pick. She disclosed that she had shot her hunting dog, an action that stirred controversy, as societal views against cruelty to animals stretch back to the time of the Talmud.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., department of health and human services

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Oct. 27, 2024. Photo by Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images

What it means for Jews: The political scion, 70, a vaccine skeptic who referenced Anne Frank at an anti-vaccine rally, has made some bizarre and troubling comments in recent years. He compared vaccine and mask mandates to the Holocaust. He met with Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan in 2015 about measles vaccines. During his 2024 presidential run, RFK Jr. was condemned by major Jewish groups for promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories about COVID-19. He defended his remarks that the pandemic was an “ethnically targeted” bioweapon that spared Ashkenazi Jews, and claimed he has “literally never said an antisemitic word in my life.”

In 2020, Kennedy spoke at a rally organized and attended by antisemitic and neo-Nazi groups. And last year, after critcism, he retracted his praise of former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters, who faced backlash for using Holocaust imagery in his concerts.

What he’s said: Kennedy claimed he has “literally never said an antisemitic word in my life” and boasted about spending “a lifetime studying the Holocaust and having “many friends who are Holocaust survivors.”

Jared Isaacman, NASA administrator

Polaris Dawn Mission Commander Jared Isaacman on Sept. 16, 2024. Photo by Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Who he is: Isaacman, 41, a Jewish tech entrepreneur and philanthropist, made history in September as the first astronaut to perform a commercial spacewalk. Born in New Jersey, he set the world speed record in 2009 by flying a jet around the world in less than 62 hours. In 2021, he led the first private human spaceflight, operated by SpaceX.

He told CNN that he would not observe Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, that year as it coincided with the launch date. “To be very honest, I’m actually not a religious person,” he said. Accepting his nomination, Isaacman said in a statement that he is “passionate about America leading the most incredible adventure in human history.”

Jewish philanthropy: In 2010, Isaacman used one of his jets to raise funds for Chabad of Hunterdon County, N.J., which was hosting an auction to benefit the organization’s scholarship fund. offered to fly the winner in his high-performance jet, capable of speeds exceeding 8Gs or 80% of the speed of sound — the fastest permissible outside of the military. “The ability to combine having fun and supporting a good cause is a growing trend in fundraising efforts and their success,” Rabbi Eli Kornfeld, executive director of the Chabad of Hunterdon County, said at the time. “People want to enjoy giving back to the community.” This year, he and his father Don, who is on Shift4’s board, were among dozens of people on a gala committee for the local Chabad house.

Daniel Driscoll, army secretary

Daniel Driscoll in 2020. Courtesy of Daniel Driscoll

Why it matters: Driscoll, 37, is a close friend and adviser of Vice President-elect JD Vance and they were classmates at Yale Law School. In contrast to the views of some of Trump’s national security team. Vance is an isolationist and made headlines during the presidential election with his skepticism about American military involvement overseas, including regarding Iran. In the announcement, Trump said Driscoll brings a combination of experiences “to serve as a disruptor and change agent.”

His views on Israel and Iran: Driscoll, who served a 10-month tour in Iraq in 2009, where he led a platoon of Cavalry Scouts, told me during his run for Congress in 2020 that he favored maintaining a U.S. military presence in the Middle East and supports the “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran. “Sometimes you have to punch a bully in the nose,” he said. Driscoll called Trump’s Mideast peace plan at the time a “helpful” basis for negotiations leading to a two-state solution.

Sebastian Gorka, director of counterterrorism at the NSC

Sebastian Gorka on Aug. 30, 2024. Photo by DOMINIC GWINN/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

Gorka is a White House adviser in Trump’s first term who once swore his allegiance to a Hungarian neo-Nazi group. In 2022, Gorka called the FBI raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in the classified documents case “Gestapo Stasi tactics.”

Earlier this month, Gorka suggested in an interview that there was “no such thing as Palestine.” He also said that Trump’s success in brokering peace is by ignoring the Palestinian Authority, “who are teaching their children that every Jew has to die.”

Gorka declined an interview with the Forward.

Other appointments

► Will Scharf, a former prosecutor and Trump attorney, was appointed White House staff secretary. Scharf, who is Jewish, lost a tense Republican primary race for Missouri attorney general in August.

► Vivek Ramaswamy, 39, a biotech entrepreneur who has never served in public office, was appointed to an outside government entity, called the Department of Government Efficiency, along with Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Ramaswamy has publicly questioned the necessity of continuing U.S. military aid to Israel.

► Katie Miller, the Jewish wife of White House senior advisor Stephen Miller, was named by Trump as a member of DOGE, the informal advisory body. During Trump’s first term, Miller served as press secretary for former Vice President Mike Pence.

► Tulsi Gabbard, an anti-war former Democratic congresswoman who switched to the Republican Party, was nominated for director of national intelligence, raising concerns within the pro-Israel community.

► Charles Kushner, the father-in-law of Ivanka Trump, was nominated as U.S. ambassador to France. Kushner, a convicted felon who received a pardon from Trump at the end of his first term, is likely to play a pivotal role in engaging with the French government. France is a key partner in enforcing the ceasefire in Lebanon and a vital ally in countering Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

► Massad Boulos, the Lebanese American father-in-law of Tiffany Trump who led outreach to Arab-American communities during the election, was appointed as senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs.

► David Sacks, a tech entrepreneur who bundled millions for Trump, was tapped as the White House AI & Crypto Czar. Sacks is a longtime friend of Musk.

► Chris Landau, whose father was Jewish and escaped Nazi persecution in 1938, has been nominated as deputy secretary of state. Raised Catholic, Landau shared the story of his father’s flight from Vienna during a 2020 interview. His father later served as an ambassador to several Latin American countries. Landau himself was the U.S. ambassador to Mexico during Trump’s first term and was on the shortlist Supreme Court justice in 2020. “The nomination is a tribute to them,” Landau wrote following Trump’s announcement.

► Stephen Feinberg, a Jewish billionaire investor, was nominated deputy defense secretary. Feinberg is the founder of Cerberus Capital Management, a private investment firm that invested in hypersonic missiles. The number 2 role at the Pentagon requires Senate confirmation.

► Stephen Miran, who was senior adviser for economic policy at the Treasury Department in Trump’s first term, was appointed as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.

► Boris Epshteyn, a Jewish senior adviser to Trump since 2016, may receive a position. He served as counsel during the hush money trial in New York, and remains in Trump’s inner circle. Epshteyn has reportedly expressed interest in becoming the special envoy for the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Epshteyn, a Russian immigrant, told Trump he had family members on both sides of the ongoing conflict.

► Rick Grenell, former ambassador to Germany who also served as acting director of national intelligence toward the end of Trump’s first term, will serve as Trump’s envoy for special missions. In his announcement, Trump mentioned countries like Venezuela and North Korea, not Iran or Russia. Grenell was on the shortlist for secretary of state. He was a key figure in advancing sanctions against Iran and the normalization of relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. Grenell was instrumental in Trump’s outreach to Arab American and Muslim voters in Michigan during the presidential campaign.

► Kevin Warsh, an economic policy adviser during the George W. Bush administration and a former Federal Reserve Board member, was a treasury secretary finalist. The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump is also considering Warsh for the powerful chair of the Federal Reserve in 2026. Warsh is the son-in-law of Ronald Lauder, the cosmetics heir and president of the World Jewish Congress, who was a whisperer to Trump during his first term.

► Marc Rowan, CEO of Apollo Global Management, is a candidate for a top economic role.

Outside Jewish advisers and people with access

► Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and former Middle East adviser, who said earlier this year he would not return to the White House, is involved behind the scenes and could be a key player in a potential normalization deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel.

► David Friedman, Trump’s first ambassador to Israel, is interested in returning to a national security position to influence Middle East policy and advance a pro-settlement agenda.

Related

► John Paulson, a financier and supporter of Trump, removed himself from consideration for treasury due to financial obligations.

► Steve Schwarzman, Blackstone CEO, will be an influential voice on antitrust rules and trade policy. He is offering recommendations for administration roles.

► Wayne Berman, head of global government affairs for Blackstone and a Republican Jewish Coalition board member, has been suggested by some for deputy secretary of treasury.

► Miriam Adelson is the widow of casino magnate and GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson, who spent more than $100 million for Trump and made several joint appearances with him.

► Matt Brooks, CEO of the Republican Jewish Coalition, who spent $15 million in Jewish voter outreach and increased Jewish support for Trump and the GOP.

► Elan Carr, CEO of the Israeli American Council, served as the antisemitism envoy in Trump’s first term.

► Jeff Miller of Miller Strategies was one of Trump’s top fundraisers.

► Arthur Schwartz, described as a behind-the-scenes operator and longtime political adviser to Donald Trump Jr., is also close to Vice President-elect JD Vance.

Related

► Bill Ackman, a hedge fund billionaire, has been highly critical of the pro-Palestinian protest movement at Harvard and the university leadership’s response to antisemitism. He has also been outspoken against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

► Ike Perlmutter, a former Marvel mogul, is a Mar-a-Lago member who influenced policy at the department of veterans affairs in Trump’s first term.

► Steve Wynn, a Vegas casino mogul, is a longtime Trump friend who warned him about being off message during the campaign.

► Paul Packer, who chaired the commission of the preservation of America’s heritage abroad in Trump’s first term, was co-chair of the Trump campaign’s Jewish Leadership Coalition, a fundraising group.

► Bruce Blakeman, Nassau County’s first Jewish executive and a close Trump ally, is in consideration for an administration job.

► Sid Rosenberg, a conservative New York-based radio host, was one of Trump’s most aggressive Jewish surrogates.

► Yehuda Kaploun worked with the Trump campaign on outreach to Orthodox leaders.

► Laura Loomer, the conspiracy theorist and provocateur who flew with Trump and appeared with him in September, uses her Jewishness to attack opponents.

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Jew-Landia, while Milwaukee burns: Milwaukee’s air quality remains among worst in the nation, a new report says

Vibrations in power lines can also be caused by extreme changes in temperature or air pressure. And this is one hypothesis about what caused the recent widespread blackout across the Iberian peninsula.

As The Guardian initially reported Portugal’s REN as saying:

Due to extreme temperature variations in the interior of Spain, there were anomalous oscillations in the very high voltage lines (400 kV), a phenomenon known as “induced atmospheric vibration”. These oscillations caused synchronisation failures between the electrical systems, leading to successive disturbances across the interconnected European network.

In fact, “induced atmospheric vibration” is not a commonly used term, but it seems likely the explanation was intended to refer to physical processes climate scientists have known about for quite some time.

In simple terms, it seems to refer to wavelike movements or oscillations in the atmosphere, caused by sudden changes in temperature or pressure. These can be triggered by extreme heating, large-scale energy releases (such as explosions or bushfires), or intense weather events.

When a part of Earth’s surface heats up very quickly – due to a heatwave, for example – the air above it warms, expands and becomes lighter. That rising warm air creates a pressure imbalance with the surrounding cooler, denser air. The atmosphere responds to this imbalance by generating waves, not unlike ripples spreading across a pond.

Oh, so all that military hardware and all those billionaires in the EuroTrashLandia, helping the people, we the people.

Jews:

Jews Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Head Start!

Still, Norwegian officials are cautious. In 2024, they blocked a similar attempt by Chinese investors. Trade Minister Cecilie Myrseth warned at the time that such actions could harm regional stability and threaten national interests.

Svalbard is governed by a 1920 treaty that gives over 40 countries, including Russia, China and the U.S., equal rights to live and do business there.

Russia, which operates a settlement on the islands, has accused Norway of breaking the treaty by increasing its military presence, something Norway denies.

Jews in the USA are looking to cut cut cut the Goys’ Social Security . . . Listen to Kushner’s cunt, Kushner’s Fund Has Reaped Millions in Fees, but So Far Returned No Profits


The son-in-law of former President Donald J. Trump has said he has intentionally moved slowly to invest investors’ money, which came primarily from foreign entities.

This is what a fraudster, a rabbi-drenched criminal, and an Edward Bernays cocksucking liar and thief looks like, and they need instant chicken noodle death?

Trump transition co-chair Howard Lutnick said Jared Kushner, the former president’s son-in-law, is helping with personnel decisions.

Different Roots: The Roots of Cruelty

With Whom are Many U.S. Police Departments Training? With a Chronic Human Rights Violator – Israel

When the U.S. Department of Justice published a reportopens in a new tab August 10, 2016, that documented “widespread constitutional violations, discriminatory enforcement, and culture of retaliation” within the Baltimore Police Department (BPD), there was rightly a general reaction of outrage.

But what hasn’t received as much attention is where Baltimore police received training on crowd control, use of force and surveillance: Israel’s national police, military and intelligence services.

Baltimore law enforcement officials, along with hundreds of others from Floridaopens in a new tabNew Jerseyopens in a new tab, Pennsylvania, Californiaopens in a new tabArizonaopens in a new tab, Connecticut, New Yorkopens in a new tab, Massachusetts, North CarolinaGeorgiaopens in a new tabWashington stateopens in a new tab as well as the DC Capitol police have all traveled to Israel for training. Thousands of others have received training from Israeli officials here in the U.S.opens in a new tab

Many of these trips are taxpayer funded while others are privately funded. Since 2002, the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee’s Project Interchange and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs have paid for police chiefs, assistant chiefs and captains to train in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).

These trainings put Baltimore police and other U.S. law enforcement employees in the hands of military, security and police systems that have racked up documented human rights violations for years. Amnesty Internationalopens in a new tab, other human rights organizations and even the U.S. Department of Stateopens in a new tab have cited Israeli police for carrying out extrajudicial executionsopens in a new tab and other unlawful killingsopens in a new tab, using ill treatment and tortureopens in a new tab (even against childrenopens in a new tab), suppression of freedom of expression/associationopens in a new tab including through government surveillanceopens in a new tab, and excessive use of force against peaceful protesters.

Jews are rats?

According to a Mexican news article that surfaced in May, the Israeli military will begin training the police force in Mexico’s southeastern state of Chiapas, where the predominantly indigenous Zapatista National Liberation Army is based.

Yaron Yugman, Israel’s defence ministry representative in Mexico, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic, is quoted as affirming that “a country’s security is fundamental to its growth” and that human rights would be one of the focuses of military instruction.

JEWS: Bolivia’s interim government wants Israel to help local authorities fight “terrorism” in the South American country, the interior minister told Reuters on Friday, alleging plots by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and other leftists to destabilize regional governments.

Without providing details, Arturo Murillo said Bolivian police were investigating radical leftists allegedly linked to Maduro and drug-traffickers whom the government say had instigated deadly unrest in the country after former President Evo Morales resigned last month.

Jews: The right wing seeks to reconquer Bolivia, dismantling solidarity with Palestine and bringing in Israeli advisors to help crush protests.

As for Israel’s alleged experience in “dealing with terrorists”, who better than a terrorist state to offer counter-terror training? To be sure, Israel’s seven-plus decades of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and thwarting peace at every turn make it a strong candidate for assistant Bolivian peace-bringer.

But it’s precisely Israel’s extensive experience in brutal – and frequently lethal – repression that make its tactics so marketable to right-wing regimes worldwide. In Latin America in particular, Israel has been complicit in everything from arming and training death squads in Guatemala and El Salvador, to fuelling the murderous behaviour of notorious former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, to fuelling the murderous behaviour of the contemporary Chilean regime

Is it pure coincidence, one wonders, that both Israeli and Chilean security forces have recently exhibited a penchant for aiming for the eyes? 

After Morales’ overthrow, Kovarik said, “people – especially in the military – started burning the Wiphala, the rainbow-coloured flag that represents all indigenous people and Afro-Bolivians as well, and again is a flag that represents the Native Pueblos not only in Bolivia, but in all of the Andes”.

But, you know, the upheaval was all the fault of those Venezuelan-backed radical leftist drug trafficker-terrorists.

Latin America and Palestine have shared interests, so let’s build on them

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Predictably, the Bolivian interim government’s announcement of the impending renewal of diplomatic ties with Israel was met with high praise from the Trump administration, while the infamous right-wing news site Breitbart applauded interim president Jeanine Anez’s use of “her time in office to rehabilitate much of the country’s government in the aftermath of nearly a decade and a half of socialist rule; re-establishing diplomatic relations with Israel was an item close to the top of the list of reforms she sought.”

After all, what could be more helpful to the average Bolivian struggling to survive than a diplomatic alliance with a genocidal entity on the other side of the planet?

For his part, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz was quoted in the Times of Israel lauding the rapprochement as “contribut[ing] to Israel’s foreign relations and to its international status”.

And as the right wing seeks to reconquer Bolivia – dismantling solidarity with Palestine and whitewashing Israeli brutality in the process – there’s no doubt that the coup against Morales has been a coup for Israel, too.

Death by Judaism, at the center of it all, Isra-hell:

The impunity with which the Israeli regime commits its war crimes throughout West Asia has proven every legal mechanism and international body faulty. In doing so, it has rewound the clock to the standards of the Second World War, for which the United Nations (UN), Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and international law were created to overcome.

Niggerized motherfucking stooges:

I heartily recommend that you watch this documentary. But as you do, if you will, think about everything that’s not in it.

As a thought experiment, when you watch this documentary (or any other similar coverage from Palestine), try to imagine what went through the minds of sweet, innocent Palestinians, who lived peacefully amongst their olives, lemons and orange orchards, shepherding their flocks, working the land or maybe working as a teacher, lawyer or doctor in Haifa or Yaffa, the Galilee or the mountains around Jerusalem in the late 19th century, when the Zionists came.

Think about the sons and daughters of an actual pastoral heaven; a magnificent natural landscape, with monasteries and inns, ancient secrets and beautiful stone houses in big and small villages across the land; miles of untouched beaches, sheep grazing in quiet, figs, pomegranates, small streams and fresh water wells, the serenity of a genuine home, where grandparents age and watch their grandchildren grow next room or next door with no one coming to look for them – –

Just imagine what they, those sweet innocent people, who had never held a weapon in their hands or dreamt of going to war with anyone – imagine, as you see the soldiers, humiliation and brutality, what they saw and felt when the likes of Daniella Weiss and Arik Sharon and Ben Gurion got off their doo doo-carrying boats to be their overlords and tormentors, armed with psychopathy, a divine decree and the unconditional backing of Western colonial empires.

We know: they disembarked with the same sanctimonious evil intent, the same narcissism, the same craziness and ruthlessness, the same disgusting chosenness, with their Eastern European accents at the heart of the Levant. They were exactly the same.

I think about that fateful encounter, laden with so much grief and horror in retrospect; the innocent natives and the scheming, conspiring settlers whose entire existence is dedicated to destroying and erasing the native life. I think about how beautiful Palestine used to be, and all the beauty that has been destroyed and keeps being destroyed, as the Zionist monster continues to bite and mutilate, snatch and chew up the life of Palestine before  our eyes.

Will anything remain? Any of the pastoral, innocent, native simplicity? For our collective sanity, may Israel end before Palestine is forever destroyed (Israel will only stop when it is no more). https://substack.com/@alonmizrahi

Louis Theroux On Returning To The West Bank After 15 Years For BBC Doc ‘The Settlers’ & Being “Perpetrator Focused” — Guest Column

Jews:

JEWS!

Jews: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage directly after Coleman’s speech, highlighting Tel Aviv’s interest in the event, which was billed as the “Inaugural JNS Policy Summit to address Israel’s pressing strategic issues.”

An archetypal neoconservative, Coleman started off as an anti-war activist who once worked as a roadie for Jethro Tull, and was suspended from Hofstra University for leading a sit-in. “I went to Woodstock, and I inhaled!” he boasted at the JNS summit. After first taking office as a member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, Coleman wound up narrowly losing his Senate seat to Al Franken in 2008 as a Republican.

JEWS. And I get labeled antisemetic for telling like it is — CENTURY of the FUCKING JEW!

serendipty and the odd pathways of former selves, former me’s

You can’t make this shit up. I am in Waldport, town of 2300, along the Pacific Coast, Oregon, and I am with a client, and he wants breakfast, so we sit at a tall table while he eats full-order of bisquits and gravey AND potatoes O’Brien and four sliced of bacon.

No shit, man, the couple next to us, well, fucking Haeder has to ALWAYS make communication and talk part of HIS-MY therapy. Small talk? Nah, because she was weating the black Crips headwrap, but she is white and her partner is white and she looks like someone in the middle of tailend of cancer treatment.

Hairless.

So we talk, and I ask where they are from, because they seemed like they weren’t here. Alas, man, Spokane.

SPOKANE, Washington.

Another heyday and trauma field in that crow stuck in my craw:

Well. Spokane. Haeder. KYRS radio. Inlander weekly. Spokane Living Magazine. Local Planet weekly. Spokesman Review daily. Spokane Falls Community College, Gonzaga, masters program at Eastern Washington, while teaching at SCC and SFCC and Gonzaga.

I’ll get to the heart of this Spokanite’s connection to me. Absolutely golden.

But, alas, I told her WHO I was, since that is always a fucking iceberg breaker.

For some reason teaching at Gonzaga is some fucking feather in the cap for some, but I rattled off some stuff. Her eyes were starting to show supreme awareness and deja vu.

First, the fucking firing from Gonzaga: V-Day is not Just a Valentine for your Sweetheart!

V-Day is not Just a Valentine for your Sweetheart

Okay, so this newspaper is almost down for the count, limited to a once-a-week hard copy publication. Therefore, I know my viewpoints better be good, hard hitting and relevant.

Not all topics are going to be warm and fuzzy. On this Valentine’s day, attempt to think about violence against women. The significance of V-Day is a response against violence toward women, girls and the planet. Here in Lincoln County women and girls face all levels of violence.

The V-Day movement is tied a 1996 one-woman play written by Eve Ensler, called the Vagina Monologues. She interviewed more than 200 women from a wide range of ages and cultural backgrounds, whereupon so many of them opened up, baring their souls tied to sexual violence.

One key question was, “What would your vagina say if it could talk?” Over the years, V-Day has become a catalyst promoting creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations.

The Monologues also generates broader attention to stop violence against women and girls.

So what’s a white male writer stepping his toes into these waters? First, let me say that if you read the police blotter in this county, or if you attend public criminal hearings at the courthouse, you will see the level of violence in the household in general is skyrocketing.

Police calls cover the gamut, but one ugly reality is the number of spousal violence calls, especially violence against wives and girlfriends. My own early roots as a reporter in Tucson were ensconced into the music scene and the police beat. That entailed covering a special rape squad set up by Linda Ronstadt’s brother Peter who was the Tucson police chief for more than 10 years.

I was 19 covering a lot of sexual violence against both students and young/old women living around the University of Arizona campus. I covered Take Back the Night rallies – started in the early 1970s in Belgium, but quickly spreading to college campuses and across global communities: from remote Canadian towns to bustling Calcutta streets, from Ivy Leagues to military bases.

While doing my judo and scuba diving thing, I also took a few feminist literature classes, volunteered with Rape Crisis organization, and assisted my sensei with grappling classes, as in self-defense for women.

Fast forward to Spokane, Washington: I was teaching at many venues as a composition and writing instructor, to include Gonzaga University. There, a Vagina Monologues rendition was being rehearsed by various students, including those in the Women’s Studies Club.

That was 21 years ago, and the president of the Jesuit University banned college sponsorship of the “Monologues,” citing Christian values and supposed pushback. One of my cohorts, philosophy professor Mark Alfino, argued against the banishment, telling a standing-room-only crowd of 200 people the ban was a threat to academic freedom.

“It’s a weak faith that doesn’t welcome challenges,” Alfino said. “Academic freedom is not an open-ended license to say anything without impunity. Academic freedom is an openness to the responsible expression of ideas.”

Here’s the deal – some of my students asked me to pen an opinion piece supporting the Vagina Monologues held on campus, as a way to bring in the Gonzaga community and public in by both attending the play but also opening up dialogue around campus rape.

That same semester one of my students (she told me in an office visit) had been the victim of campus rape, unfortunately, the type of violence seen on many campuses: fraternity parties, lots of booze and frequent spiking of women’s drinks with “roofies” (Rohypnol, a clear liquid 10 times stronger than Valium).

I also had a weekly hour-long radio show covering public affairs where I interviewed many heavy hitters in the sciences, publishing, arts, and social justice fields. I didn’t get Eve Ensler on the show, but I had two guests talking about sexual violence and the power of the Monologues, as well as one woman from Somalia who talked about her own forced female genital mutilation.

I discussed both in a written Op-Ed and on my radio show my own issues with the clergy. I had come from El Paso, and there as a reporter, I covered two cases of Catholic priests charged with child rape. These fellows from the Spokane Diocese were accused there, so both were sent south to the border; back then I didn’t know Spokane from Shinola.

I went on to discuss the Catholic Church’s “penis problem,” getting into some of the history (in the thousands) of priests around the US and Canada and world with multiple accusations each of sexual assault. I brought up the Indian Boarding Schools, too, where sexual assault was occurring.

I took the banishment of the Monologues on campus seriously, and I even questioned the president’s claim that “many boosters and supporters” had spoken to him about their concerns with the play being performed on campus.

Oh the irony: the Gonzaga students put on a wonderful performance, and the public, the GU community, including staff, faculty and some priests, were just a few hundred yards off campus at a hotel ballroom for these young women’s performances which helped as a fund-raiser for the V-Day nonprofit that works to stop rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation and other violence against women.

I am a better person for doing my little part – a published viewpoint and radio rant. Not so ironically, though, I was told (off the record) by my department chair I would not be hired to teach at GU, per the “upper administration’s orders.”

V-Day for me also means Cancel Culture Day.

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The hell of it all, this Good Little German society, with those creeps at the curtains, just enough peeling back to peek out and start taking notes and speed dialing the “authorities”: pigs-cops, HMO’s, city and county code people, Child Protective Services, the dog pound, hell, the FBI and ICE and fucking Homeland Secuity.

It just happened to me this newest iteration of a community education class I teach:

Hi, Paul.

Received a note from one of your students this morning:

Can you issue a full refund for my registration to the “Writing As Gift Class” in Waldport which starts this afternoon? This class is not as described in the Catch the Wave. I write about nature and short stories of personal experiences. This class appears to be biased towards politics. Can you also let the instructor know to delete my email and contact information permanently? I do not give the instructor permission to forward my contact information or use it for any other purposes.

I’m going to ask that you not bulk email the students henceforth. Our team will send emails on your behalf about any announcements – assignments, presentations, date/time changes, etc. Just send those to us and we’ll distribute. (Of course, any student who wishes to hear from you directly can tell you so and provide their preferred email address; we have no interest in interfering with that.)

Time is short, but we’re forced to consider canceling the class this morning for two reasons: First, in your email, you introduce an experience far from what we advertised in our catalog. Second, in my estimation it doesn’t conform to our Academic Freedom policy. Based on your email, the class certainly does not appear to be an examination of issues, but presents a singular political agenda. (Note that I’m setting aside here the fact that you and I may share many viewpoints raised in your email to students; this isn’t about my personal beliefs and concerns.) If you wanted to present a workshop focused on your personal opinions, and your past writings, about the current or former administrations or other political issues, one alternative would have been to rent a room from the College or a Library and delivered the event without being tethered by the College’s commitment to freedom of expression of all viewpoints. That may be an option to consider in the future.

Our Academic Freedom policy reads as follows:

Approved by Board of Education: 01/21/2015 Institutions of higher education exist for the common good, and the unfettered search for truth and its free exploration is critical to the common good. The college seeks to educate its students in the democratic tradition, to foster recognition of individual freedoms and social responsibility, and to inspire meaningful awareness of and respect for a collaborative learning environment. Freedom of expression will be guaranteed to instructors to create a classroom atmosphere that allows students to raise questions and consider all sides of issues. OCCC instructors are responsible for exercising judgment in selecting topics of educational value for discussion and learning consistent with course requirements, goals, and desired outcomes. (Emphasis added, DP)

Finally, whether or not we wish to cancel, this drop brings us to near break-even for the course. If we lose another student today we’ll be forced to cancel for low enrollment, full stop. We don’t run Community Ed courses at a loss. The taxpayers don’t fund classes on chocolate enrobing of fruits, nor of sea-star wasting disease, nor of oil painting or writing. These courses must pay their own way. I will let you know if we hear from another student and are forced to cancel. In that case, we will post a sign on the door and email and call registrants so long as time permits.

I’m pasting the course description published in CTW below. It does not hint at the political focus that dominates your email to students.

Dave Price

Oh, the spinelessness of the American Psychotic Male, and this dude is a white male, and his shadow, well, that is one thing that scares the shit out of him, I suppose. And look at his condemnation and attempt to brow-beat me or warn me or scold me or pre-empt me.

… writing a time of family, community, societal estrangement.

Was my offense? An email, before the class met, BCC-ed:

Writing is about confronting our times, and if you have some nostalgia for the past, your family, some historical timeframe, that’s great, but in reality we have important ways to tackle who many in my fields — social work, higher education, journalism, environmental activism, the arts, k12 — are concerned about at this inflection point where the Rapist in Chief Trump and his team of misanthropes are turning this society into a slave society. The democrats? What fools and wasted air we breathe. It is serious with these pigs like Kushner, Miller, Ellison, Zuckerberg, Adelson, Thiel, Musk, and the lot attacking, well, guess what? Those areas I just listed above. What do you want to write about, and it always has been an attack on the arts and press and social services and our safety nets, but here we are in Nazi-Landia:

The humanities are about helping “preserve community history and identity,” said Stephen Kidd, executive director of the National Humanities Alliance, a national umbrella organization supporting the humanities. Kidd said he’s heard from multiple recipients of Humanities grants who told him they received the letter late last night.

“We don’t know the full scope of the impact of last night’s actions,” Kidd said. “We do know that it is affecting the state humanities councils which are crucial to the vitality of humanities across the country. This is funding that was appropriated by Congress to the state affiliates of the NEH. This is funding that has been promised to the states that is now being withdrawn.”

This human stain: Vice President VD Vance has said that “the universities are the enemy.”

The Trump administration is slashing funds for museums and libraries, as a way to coerce these and other liberal arts institutions to bend to his movement’s will in a fashion reminiscent of Nazi Germany.

Writing for MSNBC, sociologist Robyn Autry summed up the racism at play in a recent Trump recent executive order that targets the Smithsonian and expresses particular angst over an exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture that educated visitors about racist pseudoscience.

Autry wrote:

One of the things that has Trump angry is ‘The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture,’ an exhibit at the American Art Museum that innovatively positions nearly 100 sculptures alongside statements about scientific racism. That’s the discredited belief that there are biologically distinct races of people, with some more superior than others. The exhibition examines how artists and art objects have assisted, reflected or challenged such racist thinking since the 18th century, but Trump, in his executive order, expresses disappointment that the show ‘promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct.’

Now is as good a time as any to read my previous reporting on Trump’s promotion of racist pseudoscience. His attack on the National Museum of African American History and Culture is one way the Trump administration is trying to enforce a racial hierarchy based on bigoted myths. Politico recently reported on another way Trump is trying to bring humanities-focused institutions to heel. In mid-March Trump signed an executive order that gutted the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which funds museums and libraries around the country.

According to Politico:

An agency responsible for funding museums and libraries across the nation is the latest to be shrunk by President Donald Trump’s cuts to the federal government, with its entire staff apparently put on administrative leave Monday. The Institute of Museum and Library Services, which provides grants to ‘advance, support, and empower’ museums, libraries and similar institutions in the U.S. according to its website, was named in an executive order this month along with several other agencies. Trump’s order directed the Institute of Museum and Library Services ‘be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law,’ shrinking it down to its statutory minimum.

A Trump official reportedly told Politico that the cuts to the institute are necessary to “ensure hard-earned tax dollars are not diverted to discriminatory DEI initiatives or divisive, anti-American programming in our cultural institutions.”

In a letter seeking a meeting with the institute’s acting director, the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies said that money from IMLS accounts for “an average of one-third to over one-half of each State Library Agency’s annual budget.” And there’s been no suggestion from the Trump administration as to where else these libraries ought to get funding to account for the cuts the administration is making.

What Trump appears to be after with his crackdowns on libraries and museums has some parallel in the way Hitler and the Nazi regime attacked similar institutions in Germany in the 1930s. What the Nazis accomplished with brute force, Trump and MAGA are attempting to do with economic and financial coercion.

What the Nazis accomplished with brute force, Trump and MAGA are attempting to do with economic and financial coercion.

Beginning in 1933, Nazis raided libraries for supposedly “un-German” books, some of which were publicly burned and derided as inappropriate for German consumption due to their content. Much like with the MAGA movement’s book-banning efforts, some of the books targeted by Nazis were written by minority groups, like Jews, or about the LGBTQ experience. (Back in 2023, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum hosted an eye-opening discussion about this with Debra Caldwell-Stone, the director of the American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom.)

In 1937, the Nazis raided museums and seized artworks to place them in what they billed as a “degenerate” art exhibition, a propaganda effort meant to show the public that the Nazis would tolerate only the art that aligned with the party’s views. Defending this effort to suppress the arts, Joseph Goebbels, the minister of propaganda, claimed, “German art of the next decade will be heroic, it will be like steel, it will be romantic, non-sentimental, factual; it will be national with great pathos, and at once obligatory and binding, or it will be nothing.” Hitler himself denounced “degenerate” art pieces as those which “insult German feeling, or destroy or confuse natural form or simply reveal an absence of adequate manual and artistic skill.”

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum also explored the Nazis’ “degenerate art” exhibit in the short video below, noting that the point was for Hitler to wield power over non-governmental institutions to ensure they promoted “traditional German values” and the purported superiority of the “Aryan race.”

While the methods may be different, the purpose of the Nazi attacks on libraries and museums was no different than Trump’s now. Such institutions are known as sites of free thought, imagination and innovation. At best, their content and collections encourages visitors to understand the world around them and the perspectives that shape it — forces like racist and anti-LGBTQ bigotry — and to envision ways to build a better world. And these things are a threat to regimes intent on policing thought and ensuring the masses comply with their revanchist, bigoted agenda.

Writing is about confronting our times, and if you have some nostalgia for the past, your family, some historical timeframe, that’s great, but in reality we have important ways to tackle who many in my fields — social work, higher education, journalism, environmental activism, the arts, k12 — are concerned about at this inflection point where the Rapist in Chief Trump and his team of misanthropes are turning this society into a slave society. The democrats? What fools and wasted air we breathe. It is serious with these pigs like Kushner, Miller, Ellison, Zuckerberg, Adelson, Thiel, Musk, and the lot attacking, well, guess what? Those areas I just listed above. What do you want to write about, and it always has been an attack on the arts and press and social services and our safety nets, but here we are in Nazi-Landia:

The humanities are about helping “preserve community history and identity,” said Stephen Kidd, executive director of the National Humanities Alliance, a national umbrella organization supporting the humanities. Kidd said he’s heard from multiple recipients of Humanities grants who told him they received the letter late last night.

“We don’t know the full scope of the impact of last night’s actions,” Kidd said. “We do know that it is affecting the state humanities councils which are crucial to the vitality of humanities across the country. This is funding that was appropriated by Congress to the state affiliates of the NEH. This is funding that has been promised to the states that is now being withdrawn.”

This human stain: Vice President VD Vance has said that “the universities are the enemy.”

The Trump administration is slashing funds for museums and libraries, as a way to coerce these and other liberal arts institutions to bend to his movement’s will in a fashion reminiscent of Nazi Germany.

Writing for MSNBC, sociologist Robyn Autry summed up the racism at play in a recent Trump recent executive order that targets the Smithsonian and expresses particular angst over an exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture that educated visitors about racist pseudoscience.

Autry wrote:

One of the things that has Trump angry is ‘The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture,’ an exhibit at the American Art Museum that innovatively positions nearly 100 sculptures alongside statements about scientific racism. That’s the discredited belief that there are biologically distinct races of people, with some more superior than others. The exhibition examines how artists and art objects have assisted, reflected or challenged such racist thinking since the 18th century, but Trump, in his executive order, expresses disappointment that the show ‘promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct.’

Now is as good a time as any to read my previous reporting on Trump’s promotion of racist pseudoscience. His attack on the National Museum of African American History and Culture is one way the Trump administration is trying to enforce a racial hierarchy based on bigoted myths. Politico recently reported on another way Trump is trying to bring humanities-focused institutions to heel. In mid-March Trump signed an executive order that gutted the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which funds museums and libraries around the country.

According to Politico:

An agency responsible for funding museums and libraries across the nation is the latest to be shrunk by President Donald Trump’s cuts to the federal government, with its entire staff apparently put on administrative leave Monday. The Institute of Museum and Library Services, which provides grants to ‘advance, support, and empower’ museums, libraries and similar institutions in the U.S. according to its website, was named in an executive order this month along with several other agencies. Trump’s order directed the Institute of Museum and Library Services ‘be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law,’ shrinking it down to its statutory minimum.

A Trump official reportedly told Politico that the cuts to the institute are necessary to “ensure hard-earned tax dollars are not diverted to discriminatory DEI initiatives or divisive, anti-American programming in our cultural institutions.”

In a letter seeking a meeting with the institute’s acting director, the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies said that money from IMLS accounts for “an average of one-third to over one-half of each State Library Agency’s annual budget.” And there’s been no suggestion from the Trump administration as to where else these libraries ought to get funding to account for the cuts the administration is making.

What Trump appears to be after with his crackdowns on libraries and museums has some parallel in the way Hitler and the Nazi regime attacked similar institutions in Germany in the 1930s. What the Nazis accomplished with brute force, Trump and MAGA are attempting to do with economic and financial coercion.

What the Nazis accomplished with brute force, Trump and MAGA are attempting to do with economic and financial coercion.

Beginning in 1933, Nazis raided libraries for supposedly “un-German” books, some of which were publicly burned and derided as inappropriate for German consumption due to their content. Much like with the MAGA movement’s book-banning efforts, some of the books targeted by Nazis were written by minority groups, like Jews, or about the LGBTQ experience. (Back in 2023, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum hosted an eye-opening discussion about this with Debra Caldwell-Stone, the director of the American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom.)

In 1937, the Nazis raided museums and seized artworks to place them in what they billed as a “degenerate” art exhibition, a propaganda effort meant to show the public that the Nazis would tolerate only the art that aligned with the party’s views. Defending this effort to suppress the arts, Joseph Goebbels, the minister of propaganda, claimed, “German art of the next decade will be heroic, it will be like steel, it will be romantic, non-sentimental, factual; it will be national with great pathos, and at once obligatory and binding, or it will be nothing.” Hitler himself denounced “degenerate” art pieces as those which “insult German feeling, or destroy or confuse natural form or simply reveal an absence of adequate manual and artistic skill.”

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum also explored the Nazis’ “degenerate art” exhibit in the short video below, noting that the point was for Hitler to wield power over non-governmental institutions to ensure they promoted “traditional German values” and the purported superiority of the “Aryan race.”

While the methods may be different, the purpose of the Nazi attacks on libraries and museums was no different than Trump’s now. Such institutions are known as sites of free thought, imagination and innovation. At best, their content and collections encourages visitors to understand the world around them and the perspectives that shape it — forces like racist and anti-LGBTQ bigotry — and to envision ways to build a better world. And these things are a threat to regimes intent on policing thought and ensuring the masses comply with their revanchist, bigoted agenda.

And up is down, war is peace, lies are truth, and America is/was a Democracy. Orwell on Meth!

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Do you get it yet, that the academia fearless careerists and Eichmann’s and fucking spineless and UNSUPPORTIVE c*nts are useless idiots but useful, indeed, to this dirty rotten society?

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So back to the couple, the chemo therapy lady. She knew me. She remembered me. Her eyes were aglow, and then she recalls her first week or so at the Spokane Falls Community College. She remembered that those fucking creeps, or let’s say four of them, including a fucking dean of Arts and Humanities, sent an apology email because of ME.

You see, she was introducing herself as also the Latino/a club advisor, too, and telling us that there would be some event coming up. You know, folclorico or food event celebrating food and dance.

All I said was, in a nutshell: “Welcome aboard. Sounds like you have some things planned. Just as an FYI, we do have some deeply connected Latinos in Spokane, and maybe in the future you’ll be offering more politically-energized events, and if you need any contacts, let me know.”

So, these fucking Careerists, these Eichmanns and curtain peeking Good Little Germans apologized for my email?

I didn’t know about it at the time, and if I had, I would have just stated — “Ahh, everything was with good intentions.”

But alas, in her chemo-drenched brain, she remembered that some 15 years ago. She’s a counselor now, and she talks about retiring when she hits 60 in two years.

That, my friends, is why fucking Zebras do not get ulcers, whereas Homo Consumopethicus and Consumo Retail-Sapiens DO. Constant crashing and smashing of our souls.

Again, the sticks and stones do not hurt as much as the words, the constant fucking small-mindedness of the American.

America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life’s sacred spontaneity. They can’t trust life.

Here, another fucking Oppen-Monster-Heimer JEW:

The Stanley Milgram obedience experiment, a landmark study from the 1960s,…  | Faizan Shaukat

Fucking Jews of the Jewish Raping Murdering Maiming Poisoning Killing Starving Occupying Palestine:

Unexpectedly, giving the order to press the key was enough to cause the effects, even when the keystroke led to no physical or financial harm.

“It seems like your sense of responsibility is reduced whenever someone orders you to do something — whatever it is they are telling you to do,” says Haggard.

The study might inform legal debate, but it also has wider relevance to other domains of society, says Sinnot-Armstrong. For example, companies that want to create — or avoid — a feeling of personal responsibility among their employees could take its lessons on board

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Spring-time in Amerika — Bump those Adjuncts Until They Hurt!

How Many Professors Does it Take to Sink this Ship?

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Miseducation and the Trail of Tears Daily Exacted

Paul Haeder: Substitute teacher, and today, halfway through third period as substitute for a high school language arts class, the burly, idiotic, uninitiated, reactionary, dense, illogical, broken, un-teacher of a vice principal stood out that door at Waldport High School and summarily told me to “grab your belongings and we want you to leave.” — Jan 19, 2020

Poem inspired by the sacking of Haeder:

Invisible Mists Holding Children Like Ghosts

empty vessel
ready for words and worlds
to flow into their hands
children of a lesser god
the child inside
finger painting and murals
real syncopation with eagle
king tide

children captured in retail
space yet blocks away
crashing waves, Seal Rock
Devil’s Churn, black eye
of gray whale
eagle couple over football
field, children held in gulag
four walls like moat
tables chairs lined up
DMV driver’s license test

unholy is imprisonment
unworldly is bumbling
teacher as police officer
dead time half the day
bells and announcements
medium security
old men at 39
women heavy with bulging
hips, hunched over at 50

you are what you eat
what you read
what you say
what you do
what you watch
what you hope
what you dream
what you think
what you don’t do
don’t eat don’t read
don’t say don’t dream of
don’t hope for
don’t watch don’t believe

you are that

the truncheon evil
enforcers of codes
rules regulations grades
assignments deadlines
do’s and don’ts

will they rise above
riptide of stupid
adults stale concepts
misanthropic ideas
mean patriotism
lunatic nationalism
fanatical Christianity?

Is this survival of
fittest dog eat
dog small fish
big pond follow
the crowd don’t
make waves stay
in box?

School.

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“For a bunch of people who are screaming about efficiency,” he said, referring to the administration’s efforts to downsize the federal government, “they’ve done the most inefficient things possible.”

Certainly, once again, the Jew in the Room is Laughing Laughing Laughing:

Oh, that niggerized president and his Jews:

And so the fucking Jews laugh laugh laugh: Federal scientists responsible for monitoring the health of West Coast fisheries are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Department of Commerce failed to renew their lab’s contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance.

Trash is piling up at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, staffers told ProPublica. Ecologists, chemists and biologists at Montlake Laboratory, the center’s headquarters in Seattle, are taking turns hauling garbage to the dumpster and discussing whether they should create a sign-up sheet to scrub toilets.

You fucking cocksuckers, all 70 million of you freaks who voted for the Rapist in Chief. You are deplorable, one stupid line from that war criminal Hillary Cunt-ton said that is applicable for, well, Jews and Goy-ionists and Trumpists.

Once a regime starts to send people to concentration camps — including those in El Salvador — it creates a system of detention that eschews due process and disappears citizens into black holes.

Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t expect them to remain there. Once they are normalized, not only for U.S.-deported immigrants and residents, but U.S. citizens, they will migrate to the homeland. It is a very short leap from our prisons, already rife with abuse and mistreatment, to concentration camps, where those held are cut off from the outside world — “disappeared” — denied legal representation and crammed into fetid, overcrowded cells.

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Of course I hate you, one and all, and there are many on the demon-crat side, too.

Palestinian Photojournalist & Protagonist Of Cannes-Selected Doc Killed In Israeli Gaza Strike

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And you love these cocksuckers, these Jews?

Sick motherfucking Yanqui’s.

Open fucking grifting goddamned racist Mafia!

Military Murdering Endless Cost Overruns Blood-on-the-lords-of-war-hands’ human stain. Even chatting it up about these people killers, well, we are Homo Busterbombpethicus.

Everything about Judaism and Christianity is a plague:

Fucking John Motherfucker Wayne and Pissing Blood Ronald Ray-Gun, what fucking legacies:

Fucking sick Homo Bellum Peticus:

DUH DUH DUH!!

They should ALL be shot on sight.

Psychosis of Whiteness and especially Jewishness: What a 19th-Century Photograph Reveals About Power, Privilege and Violence in the American West

Not in the Rapist in Chief’s anti-black-brown-Asian-Indian Minyan:

My search for the girl’s identity led me not just to her and her family but also to the women and children connected to the men who stand beside her: an orphaned Indian child adopted and sent back east, a famous mesmerist channeling the spirits of the dead, and an enslaved woman murdered by an enraged master. The search introduced me to a bilingual juggler in a Wild West show, an Irish teamster carting a scalped body, an ambitious Lakota lawyer, an angry wife who flees to Paris, and an angry husband who kills his wife in a Wyoming restaurant. The men in this photograph look different when we put them back into conversation with the people with whom they lived, talked, and fought. We may know them through their public deeds, but they also have private lives. We need to follow them home.

The picture invites us to think about eight people: the six peace commissioners, the unnamed child, and the photographer who captured them standing together. But this book gives particular attention to three. It explores how Alexander Gardner, a Scottish immigrant, learned photography and later found himself witness to a treaty council at a frontier fort. It asks how General William S. Harney acquired the brash self-confidence and violent streak that made the Native peoples gathered at Fort Laramie both fear and admire him. And it looks at the unnamed girl, asking just who she is and why she is there, standing calmly among those tall men.

History has treated each of these three figures differently. Gardner gets lauded as the prolific photographer who helps us see some of the seminal events of American history. Harney is the accomplished soldier. The unnamed child slips by unnoticed. But with a focus on the photograph, it becomes possible to rewrite these stories. Gardner’s work explains less about him than scholars have long imagined. Harney has a disturbing private life. The child has an extraordinary story that takes us straight into the changes reconfiguring Indian Country as a period of warfare rolled into the twentieth century.

It is the insanity of American Global Capitalist Syphilis: A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law is drawing fierce backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous groups that warn it could accelerate deforestation in the Amazon rainforest under the guise of economic development.

The amendment eliminates the requirement that landowners or companies get state authorization before converting forested land to other uses. Critics say the change could legitimize years of illegal deforestation.

“To us, this is gravely concerning,” said Alvaro Masquez Salvador, a lawyer with the Indigenous Peoples program at Peru’s Legal Defense Institute.

Masquez added that the reform sets a troubling precedent by “effectively privatizing” land that Peru’s constitution defines as national patrimony. “Forests are not private property—they belong to the nation,” he said.

Ending with more railing against the UnUnited Snakes of Israel: Latest news from If Americans Knew View in web browser

Why AIPAC Must Register Under FARA: Exposing Israel’s Influence in Washington

For decades, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has served as Israel’s unofficial arm in Washington, shaping U.S. policy to favor Israeli interests while avoiding the transparency required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). This evasion hides AIPAC’s role as a foreign proxy and undermines American democracy.

This fucking “country,” Israel, has collective values, and thusly, a Jewish State of Israel is what it is — murdering, maiming, raping, starving, polluting, jailing cunt of a Jewish State.

Just saying, just ranting, just fucking putting in two cents, over at Ralph Nader Raio, is bad bad bad, and seems to be the Jewish thing to be banned, blocked, sued, stopped, imposed upon.

My comments:

A. Paul Haeder

Terminal Velocity: Man Lost of …

Real guests to get on your show: In this episode, former UN human rights specialist on international law Craig Mokhiber reflects on how Israel’s genocidal military campaign has produced an unprecedented crisis for the international order, and how it might represent an opportunity make it more equitable. He also discusses the role, achievements, and failing of the United Nations and the policies that led him to leave the organisation.

Long Form consists of a series of lengthy discussions and conversations with leading thinkers, scholars, and activists that explores the most pressing issues of our day, sheds light on their context and dynamics, and in so doing seeks to explore the broader theme of challenges to the global order and how these might affect it.

B. Real Humanity:

C. Paul Haeder

Civic? How about an entire people, that Jewish-Goy-ionist Genocide Project? Christ, civic?

D. Terminal Velocity: Man Lost of …

God, the same empty mainstream dirty Media Voice, and this Milibank?

Move on from these Zionists, please, or Jewish Israel Supporters.

Jewish Values? Is he serious that the conservatives will wrest control from Ellison, Adelson, Zuckerberg, Fink and Schwarzman and the other 130 Jewish Billionaires pumping up Trump as he cowers from the possiblity of those gold shower and child rape tapes get released by the Epstein Mossad mafia?

https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/jewish-values-out-in-the-open-oppen

Then, well, the Krovan, Skrovan lecturing me: Steve Skrovan

Hey, we’re talking about Israelis and Israeli policy. It’s not Jewish or Jewish policy. Your posts always contain this hint of anti-semitism when you conflate the two. Many of the most vocal leaders protesting the Israeli Genocide in Gaza are Jewish. Get it right or get blocked.

E. Paulo —

Ahh, the warnings, man, that “I am about to block you” warning. Shit, man, hints of antisemitism? HINTS? Give me a break. I have been around many blocks before, and I need no lecture on Genocide in Gaza or the terrorism of ZIonist Jews before 1948 and the large majority of Jewish people who have paid for so many aspects of the Murdering Raping Thieving Maiming Poisoning Occupied Palestine since Nakba, since all the killing fields plowed by the Jewish supplied finances to buy those Catepillars.

Again, rabbis in the USA and people from Zuckerberg to Ellison, to Seinfeld to Adam Sandler, to Bernie to Schumer, they all consider Israel as the mothership of Judaism, not Zionism.

Are they all now cowering behind Zionism — this concept, which is played out by Jews in real time, on the killing fields, to rationalize their support of the murdering Jewish State of Israel?

Many of the MOST vocal people fighting this mass murder and mowing of the lawn ARE indeed, Palestinians, and others in solidarity. Yemen? Give use a break about you identifying Jews as the leaders. Is that antisemitism for pointing out some group’s tribal associations?.

Just going to those 130 billionaires’ biographies, I will say, NOT one states he or she is a Zionist, but he or she does talk about Jewish family and heriditory lines.

Ban me, censor me, ghost me, edit out me, but there is no blocking from you at all. You’d have to be in my presence and walk a mile in my shoes, amigo, to truly understand even the tip of the intellectual iceberg I am standing upon.

So, dozens of Jewish Israeli strikes, worth blocking me for that?

Is it ZioBook, or really, Judaism Book? Jew Book?

Jews? Zionists? Bernie loves that fake country, Israel.

Fucking Jews of the Mossad and Unit 8200 and other dirty kind. Maxwell? Jewish Princess. Hoch AKA Maxwell: Meet Ghislaine: Daddy’s Girl

The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the alleged madam of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual blackmail and sex trafficking network, has attracted considerable mainstream and independent media attention, though not as much as one might expect given the level of media attention that surrounded Epstein’s 2019 arrest and death or given the public interest in the Epstein/Maxwell scandal and its broader implications.

Unsurprisingly, the broader implications of the Epstein/Maxwell scandal have been largely, if not entirely absent, from mainstream media (and some independent media) coverage of Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial as well as absent from the case itself. For example, despite physical evidence of sexual blackmail stored at Epstein’s residences being shown by the prosecution (with the names of those incriminated being notably redacted), the prosecution chose not to mention even the potential role of blackmail in Ghislaine Maxwell’s activities and motives as it related to her involvement in sex trafficking activities alongside Jeffrey Epstein. Not only that, but the names of Ghislaine’s close contacts and even some of her defense witnesses, along with considerable information about her role in Epstein’s network that is very much in the public interest, is due to be filed under seal and forever hidden from the public, either due to “deals” made between the prosecution and the defense in this case or due to rulings from the judge overseeing the case.

Going hand in hand with the blackmail angle of this case is the specter of Ghislaine Maxwell’s family ties to intelligence agencies, as well as the intelligence ties of Jeffrey Epstein himself. Given that blackmail, particularly sexual blackmail, has been used by intelligence agencies – particularly in the US and Israel – since the 1940s and beyond, it is deeply troubling that neither the blackmail or intelligence angle has played any role in the prosecution’s case or in the mainstream media’s coverage of the trial.

To remedy this lack of coverage, Unlimited Hangout is publishing a 2-part investigative report entitled “Meet Ghislaine”, which is adapted from this author’s upcoming book on the subject. This investigation will detail key aspects of Ghislaine Maxwell’s links to intelligence agencies and sexual blackmail activities that are relevant to the case against her and perhaps explain the silence from the prosecution and their interest in sealing potentially incriminating evidence against Ghislaine from public scrutiny. Part 1 of this article will focus on Ghislaine’s father, Robert Maxwell, a “larger than life” figure who straddled the worlds of both business and espionage and whose daughters inherited different aspects of his espionage contacts and activities as well as his influence empire following his 1991 death.

The Making of a Maxwell

To understand Ghilaine Maxwell’s history, one must start with a hard look at the rise of her father, Robert Maxwell. Born in what is now part of Ukraine, “Robert Maxwell” was the last in a series of names he used, with Abraham Hoch, Jan Ludvick, and Leslie Du Marier among his earlier aliases. The name Robert Maxwell emerged at the behest of one of his superiors in the British military. Maxwell had joined the British military during World War II, having left the village of his birth prior to the war, when the Third Reich began its expansion. Maxwell’s parents and his siblings are believed to have died in the Holocaust.

But, we all know these platforms belong to the Zionists or those who serve their genocidal agenda.

The Youtube reference:

Jews! Zionist YouTube? Jewish.

Now now now. Let’s see, here on the Oregon Coast, a 9.2 earthquake might happen, expected every 17,000 years, or what have you. Hmm, twenty-seven foot tall wave.

“Two days, and then you are on your own. No national guard. No bulldozers. Roads and electricity and gas and water gone.”

This is the reality of the Fucking United SNAKES of Israel. How much given to Zelensky the Jewish Nazi and Adolph Netanyahu?

I was there as I always am there once a year for this. Young minds, increible science, and alas, all scientists were wearing tags saying, “We support NOAA, and NOAA supports science.”

This is what VD Vance and Nazi Musk and Rapist in Chief Trump and his Minyan and Goy-ionists HATE. Science.

Fucking Chlamydia Capitalists, under a regime of many billionaires, Goy/Genitle as well as a disproportionate amount of Jews, err, really are they just Zionists and not Jews?

Here, at OSU, the fucking Gestapo will be coming: Can’t have these bathrooms, fucking dudes.

And, of course, one piss can, urinal, with this ecological wonder, saving 40,000 gallons of water a year, total fucking DEI, so VF Vance and South African Apartheid Cunts Musk and Thiel, and others, verbotten:

How many fucking months later?

Fucking failed state, failed world:

Ever since October 7th 2023, it has been inarguably clear that the Zionist entity is committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. Within days of Tel Aviv’s unconscionable assault on the open air concentration camp erupting, Israeli historian Raz Segal, an endowed professor in the study of modern genocide, branded the ZOF’s campaign “a textbook case of genocide”. Mainstream rights groups have repeatedly levelled the accusation. Even elements of the media, which has overwhelmingly whitewashed Tel Aviv’s 21st century Holocaust, acknowledge this reality.

However, no major international organisation has hitherto formally inculpated the Zionist entity of genocide. While an October 31st 2024 UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People meeting featured several “experts” who decisively declared Israel’s actions in Gaza to be genocidal, the organisation did not officially endorse their sentiments. Meanwhile, a case brought against Tel Aviv by South Africa in the International Court of Justice in December the previous year has produced mixed results.

On January 26th 2024, the ICJ issued a provisional ruling, ordering the Zionist entity to undertake all measures to prevent any acts contrary to the Genocide Convention, but stopping short of demanding a ceasefire. On May 20th that year, International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan announced he was seeking international arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, for “crimes against humanity” committed in Gaza since “at least” October 8th 2023.

The Jewish State of Murdering Raping Maiming Starving Eliminating Occupying Jewish Zionist Palestine, destroyed the last working hospital in Gaza, April Fucking 13!

It is a Jewish thing, Nader Bull Dog:

The new Meta (which is under the control of the manly Zuckerberg) is just as censorious as the old Meta (which was also under the control of the manly Zuckerberg). Only difference now is Zuckerberg is pandering to Trump rather than Biden (Trump being so committed to free speech that he’s getting rid of DEI books but keeping copies of Mein Kampf).

Meta says it runs free speech platforms, but the good people at Drop Site News have revealed Zuckerberg is not just pandering to Trump but Netanyahu. They have obtained data showing Meta has complied with 94% of censorship requests from the Israeli government (governments have direct channels to Meta to trigger content review).

First all of, why is a social media company accepting censorship requests from any government through special channels? And why is it keeping such requests secret? Surely, we should know the extent to which our speech is being controlled?

The data shows most governments keep their censorship requests to users from their own country (which is bad enough), but Israel has decided to censor the entire world, particularly the Middle east.

If we are subjected to worldwide censorship by a genocidal entity, we should at least be told this is happening. I don’t remember voting for Israeli politicians to control the information I see, do you? Should the Chinese government choose the content we do and don’t see? What about the Russian government? The Iranian government? Oh, you see how censorship is dangerous now? Good!

You will be unsurprised to hear that Israel has made far more censorship requests than any other country. This is because the most dangerous weapon Zionists face is the truth. Drop Site News describes “the largest censorship operation in modern history” and when you look at the figures, that’s almost certainly correct.

Meta widened the net for its AI to automatically remove pro-Palestinian posts. As someone who runs multiple Facebook pages/groups, I can confirm the manner in which posts are removed within seconds can be infuriating.

Predictably, the primary victims of Meta’s censorship are Arab countries, meaning the algorithm is not just authoritarian, it’s racist. Worryingly, the AI is trained based on prior decisions that are often wrong or overly harsh, meaning the racist patterns are reinforced. (source)

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I’m Fucking Resting My Case for this Hour! Zionists are Jews and Jews are Zionists, unless otherwise notified.

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Footnote: Fuck all religions.

Christians Today Cry Hosanna While Crucifying a People

Christians today raise their palms and chant “Hosanna,” all while a people are crucified again and again in Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, Sudan, and beyond.

We are now in the second year of a live-streamed genocide. It began in 2023, and yet not a single major Church institution has found the courage to name the killer.

Not one Church has spoken with moral clarity, except the one that stands where it all began at the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

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“Yeah, if I had been in Nazi Germany, had a Luger or grenade, and if Hitler came by for a pint, I woulda just offed him.” It is the time of MONSTERS!

Summary executions.

No No No, these dirty rats, these dirty Hitlerian and InBred UnUnited Queendomers, these EuroTrashLandians, no no no, they’d never do that then or now.

Badges? Stars of Fucking Schizoid Davids:

And now? Worse than Hitler, man, Rapist in Chief Trump and his Fucking Jews and South Africans!

“Throw one punch to prevent a hundred blows”

Jews are Nazi’s: What was the safest place for a Jew in Hitler’s Germany? A cellar or an attic? A forest? At home with a well-connected Aryan spouse? The answer was in Hitler’s military—in the Wehrmacht, the Kriegsmarine, or the Luftwaffe

[Helmuth Wilberg, a German officer of Jewish ancestry, was the last general of the Luftwaffe during the Second World War]

Summary execution refers to the putting to death of a person accused of a crime without the benefit of a free and fair trial. This practice often occurs in situations of conflict or under authoritarian regimes, where legal processes are bypassed. In essence, it is a form of extrajudicial killing, where the accused is executed immediately after being accused, without any legal proceedings.

Anecdotal testimony, however, suggests that most of the Jewish men who served in Hitler’s military lost their faith during the war, if they’d ever had it. As one soldier put it, after his face had been sprayed with the brains of a comrade, he decided God did not exist.

Another force that encouraged Jewish men to serve was the culture in which they had been raised. In 19th- and early-20th-century Germany, obedience ranked high on the list of virtues. Reverence for the head of the family, the rabbi, the teacher, the kaiser had been instilled in them since boyhood. Individuality was neither encouraged nor valued. Often, it was not tolerated. One Mischlinge naval officer was educated at a strict Prussian school and punished by his father on the rare occasions when he didn’t excel there.

Israel is poised to carry out the largest campaign of ethnic cleansing since the end of World War II. Since March 2, it has blocked all food and humanitarian aid into Gaza and cut off electricity, so that the last water desalination plant no longer functions. The Israeli military has seized half of the territory — Gaza is 25 miles long and four to five miles wide — and placed two-thirds of Gaza under displacement orders, rendered “no-go zones,” including the border town of Rafah, which is encircled by Israeli troops.

Be a good neighbor and kill a Jew, then?

Fucking Jews! Yes, these are Jews in the IOF/IDF, in that fucking “Israel.”

  • UN agency says 4,700 new amputees during conflict
  • Prosthetics and other aid hard to get into blockaded Gaza
  • Doctors warn of further problems from lack of adequate care

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Beyond Hope — Removing a major stumbling block to acting on behalf of the Earth

By Derrick Jensen

THE MOST COMMON WORDS I hear spoken by any environmentalists anywhere are, We’re fucked. Most of these environmentalists are fighting desperately, using whatever tools they have — or rather whatever legal tools they have, which means whatever tools those in power grant them the right to use, which means whatever tools will be ultimately ineffective — to try to protect some piece of ground, to try to stop the manufacture or release of poisons, to try to stop civilized humans from tormenting some group of plants or animals. Sometimes they’re reduced to trying to protect just one tree.

Here’s how John Osborn, an extraordinary activist and friend, sums up his reasons for doing the work: “As things become increasingly chaotic, I want to make sure some doors remain open. If grizzly bears are still alive in twenty, thirty, and forty years, they may still be alive in fifty. If they’re gone in twenty, they’ll be gone forever.”

But no matter what environmentalists do, our best efforts are insufficient. We’re losing badly, on every front. Those in power are hell-bent on destroying the planet, and most people don’t care.

Frankly, I don’t have much hope. But I think that’s a good thing. Hope is what keeps us chained to the system, the conglomerate of people and ideas and ideals that is causing the destruction of the Earth.

To start, there is the false hope that suddenly somehow the system may inexplicably change. Or technology will save us. Or the Great Mother. Or beings from Alpha Centauri. Or Jesus Christ. Or Santa Claus. All of these false hopes lead to inaction, or at least to ineffectiveness. One reason my mother stayed with my abusive father was that there were no battered women’s shelters in the ’50s and ’60s, but another was her false hope that he would change. False hopes bind us to unlivable situations, and blind us to real possibilities.

Does anyone really believe that Weyerhaeuser is going to stop deforesting because we ask nicely? Does anyone really believe that Monsanto will stop Monsantoing because we ask nicely? If only we get a Democrat in the White House, things will be okay. If only we pass this or that piece of legislation, things will be okay. If only we defeat this or that piece of legislation, things will be okay. Nonsense. Things will not be okay. They are already not okay, and they’re getting worse. Rapidly.

But it isn’t only false hopes that keep those who go along enchained. It is hope itself. Hope, we are told, is our beacon in the dark. It is our light at the end of a long, dark tunnel. It is the beam of light that makes its way into our prison cells. It is our reason for persevering, our protection against despair (which must be avoided at all costs). How can we continue if we do not have hope?

Most of these environmentalists are fighting desperately, using whatever tools they have — or rather whatever legal tools they have, which means whatever tools those in power grant them the right to use.

We’ve all been taught that hope in some future condition — like hope in some future heaven — is and must be our refuge in current sorrow. I’m sure you remember the story of Pandora. She was given a tightly sealed box and was told never to open it. But, being curious, she did, and out flew plagues, sorrow, and mischief, probably not in that order. Too late she clamped down the lid. Only one thing remained in the box: hope. Hope, the story goes, was the only good the casket held among many evils, and it remains to this day mankind’s sole comfort in misfortune. No mention here of action being a comfort in misfortune, or of actually doing something to alleviate or eliminate one’s misfortune.

The more I understand hope, the more I realize that all along it deserved to be in the box with the plagues, sorrow, and mischief; that it serves the needs of those in power as surely as belief in a distant heaven; that hope is really nothing more than a secular way of keeping us in line.

Hope is, in fact, a curse, a bane. I say this not only because of the lovely Buddhist saying “Hope and fear chase each other’s tails,” not only because hope leads us away from the present, away from who and where we are right now and toward some imaginary future state. I say this because of what hope is.

More or less all of us yammer on more or less endlessly about hope. You wouldn’t believe — or maybe you would — how many magazine editors have asked me to write about the apocalypse, then enjoined me to leave readers with a sense of hope. But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question back on the audience, and here’s the definition we all came up with: hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

I’m not, for example, going to say I hope I eat something tomorrow. I just will. I don’t hope I take another breath right now, nor that I finish writing this sentence. I just do them. On the other hand, I do hope that the next time I get on a plane, it doesn’t crash. To hope for some result means you have given up any agency concerning it. Many people say they hope the dominant culture stops destroying the world. By saying that, they’ve assumed that the destruction will continue, at least in the short term, and they’ve stepped away from their own ability to participate in stopping it.

I do not hope coho salmon survive. I will do whatever it takes to make sure the dominant culture doesn’t drive them extinct. If coho want to leave us because they don’t like how they’re being treated — and who could blame them? — I will say goodbye, and I will miss them, but if they do not want to leave, I will not allow civilization to kill them off.

When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to “hope” at all. We simply do the work. We make sure salmon survive. We make sure prairie dogs survive. We make sure grizzlies survive. We do whatever it takes.

When we stop hoping for external assistance, when we stop hoping that the awful situation we’re in will somehow resolve itself, when we stop hoping the situation will somehow not get worse, then we are finally free — truly free — to honestly start working to resolve it. I would say that when hope dies, action begins.

A doorway peers into rows of opened doors, creating the effect of a tunnel.

Photograph by Stephen Wilkes.

PEOPLE SOMETIMES ASK ME, “If things are so bad, why don’t you just kill yourself?” The answer is that life is really, really good. I am a complex enough being that I can hold in my heart the understanding that we are really, really fucked, and at the same time that life is really, really good. I am full of rage, sorrow, joy, love, hate, despair, happiness, satisfaction, dissatisfaction, and a thousand other feelings. We are really fucked. Life is still really good.

Many people are afraid to feel despair. They fear that if they allow themselves to perceive how desperate our situation really is, they must then be perpetually miserable. They forget that it is possible to feel many things at once. They also forget that despair is an entirely appropriate response to a desperate situation. Many people probably also fear that if they allow themselves to perceive how desperate things are, they may be forced to do something about it.

Another question people sometimes ask me is, “If things are so bad, why don’t you just party?” Well, the first answer is that I don’t really like to party. The second is that I’m already having a great deal of fun. I love my life. I love life. This is true for most activists I know. We are doing what we love, fighting for what (and whom) we love.

I have no patience for those who use our desperate situation as an excuse for inaction. I’ve learned that if you deprive most of these people of that particular excuse they just find another, then another, then another. The use of this excuse to justify inaction — the use of any excuse to justify inaction — reveals nothing more nor less than an incapacity to love.

At one of my recent talks someone stood up during the Q and A and announced that the only reason people ever become activists is to feel better about themselves. Effectiveness really doesn’t matter, he said, and it’s egotistical to think it does.

I told him I disagreed.

Doesn’t activism make you feel good? he asked.

Of course, I said, but that’s not why I do it. If I only want to feel good, I can just masturbate. But I want to accomplish something in the real world.

Why?

Because I’m in love. With salmon, with trees outside my window, with baby lampreys living in sandy streambottoms, with slender salamanders crawling through the duff. And if you love, you act to defend your beloved. Of course results matter to you, but they don’t determine whether or not you make the effort. You don’t simply hope your beloved survives and thrives. You do what it takes. If my love doesn’t cause me to protect those I love, it’s not love.

Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

A WONDERFUL THING happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize you never needed it in the first place. You realize that giving up on hope didn’t kill you. It didn’t even make you less effective. In fact it made you more effective, because you ceased relying on someone or something else to solve your problems — you ceased hoping your problems would somehow get solved through the magical assistance of God, the Great Mother, the Sierra Club, valiant tree-sitters, brave salmon, or even the Earth itself — and you just began doing whatever it takes to solve those problems yourself.

When you give up on hope, something even better happens than it not killing you, which is that in some sense it does kill you. You die. And there’s a wonderful thing about being dead, which is that they — those in power — cannot really touch you anymore. Not through promises, not through threats, not through violence itself. Once you’re dead in this way, you can still sing, you can still dance, you can still make love, you can still fight like hell — you can still live because you are still alive, more alive in fact than ever before. You come to realize that when hope died, the you who died with the hope was not you, but was the you who depended on those who exploit you, the you who believed that those who exploit you will somehow stop on their own, the you who believed in the mythologies propagated by those who exploit you in order to facilitate that exploitation. The socially constructed you died. The civilized you died. The manufactured, fabricated, stamped, molded you died. The victim died.

And who is left when that you dies? You are left. Animal you. Naked you. Vulnerable (and invulnerable) you. Mortal you. Survivor you. The you who thinks not what the culture taught you to think but what you think. The you who feels not what the culture taught you to feel but what you feel. The you who is not who the culture taught you to be but who you are. The you who can say yes, the you who can say no. The you who is a part of the land where you live. The you who will fight (or not) to defend your family. The you who will fight (or not) to defend those you love. The you who will fight (or not) to defend the land upon which your life and the lives of those you love depends. The you whose morality is not based on what you have been taught by the culture that is killing the planet, killing you, but on your own animal feelings of love and connection to your family, your friends, your landbase — not to your family as self-identified civilized beings but as animals who require a landbase, animals who are being killed by chemicals, animals who have been formed and deformed to fit the needs of the culture.

When you give up on hope — when you are dead in this way, and by so being are really alive — you make yourself no longer vulnerable to the cooption of rationality and fear that Nazis inflicted on Jews and others, that abusers like my father inflict on their victims, that the dominant culture inflicts on all of us. Or is it rather the case that these exploiters frame physical, social, and emotional circumstances such that victims perceive themselves as having no choice but to inflict this cooption on themselves?

But when you give up on hope, this exploiter/victim relationship is broken. You become like the Jews who participated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

When you give up on hope, you turn away from fear.

And when you quit relying on hope, and instead begin to protect the people, things, and places you love, you become very dangerous indeed to those in power.

In case you’re wondering, that’s a very good thing.

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Hoping there are good Jews? Hope? Fuck that shit.

Schizoid Jews of any color — That fucking skull cap need a good chainsaw.

I have repeatedly said that the cutting (material) edge of the anti-Zionist movement is Palestine Action. But, of course, the PSC doesn’t want to hear, as it has been seeking to sabotage the activities of Palestine Action for many months. David Miller

The British-based Palestine Solidarity Campaign has taken it upon itself to try and ban me – and other anti-Zionists – from speaking at public meetings up and down the country. In aid of the absurd campaign of censorship, it has tried to pressure and threaten its local branches.

Before we get into details, one thing to bear in mind is that this type of response is due, in part, to the fact that the Left in the UK had been played by Zionists in the anti-racist movement for decades. Genocidal Zionists associated with the Revisionist Zionist movement were involved in the creation of the ‘anti-fascist’ movement in this country, as I have revealed in earlier reporting.

This particular group then (in 1948) affiliated en bloc with Irgun, the group responsible for the King David Hotel bombing and which was involved in 1947 and 1948 in terror attacks against British interests in Palestine and indeed in the UK itself. Since then, the British anti-racist movement has faced the difficulty of accommodating Zionists in order to create a ‘united front’. This has been true since the 1970s in Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League, and it has remained the case ever since in groups like Unite Against Fascism and today’s Stand Up To Racism.

The problem with allowing Zionists to be involved in leadership positions is that it always comes with a price. That price includes avoiding or soft-pedalling the fact that Zionism is a form of racism and adopting a strategy of opposing ‘fascism’ when the main form of racism in British Society is state and institutional racism against Black people, the Irish, and latterly, especially, Muslims. Jews are not the victims of either state or institutional racism in the UK today. It is a truly extraordinary fact that the Anglo-Left continues to feel so burdened by appeasing the sensibilities of the genocidaires of the Zionist movement.

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The author remarks that there is a growing nostalgia in China for Chairman Mao. Not only are we able to see this in the face of Trump’s economic war waged against the world, but in how the people of China have expressed sentiments regarding China’s neutrality in the face of genocide. What would Mao have done to stop it? Would China be sustaining diplomatic relations and trade with Israel? Would China be promoting a colonial agenda through continually pushing for a “two state solution” even in the midst of the most aggressive and brutal extermination campaign witnessed in our time? I encourage readers to visit the linked articles at the end for greater depth and insight on the significant difference between Mao’s China and Xi’s.

As Chinese people watched the tariff war spiral out of control, there is one person they suddenly feel nostalgic for—Chairman Mao. There’s a consensus in China that, among all leaders, Mao knew best how to handle the United States.

In the collective memory of the Chinese people, Mao is credited with pushing back U.S. forces during the Korean war and securing a safe external environment for China to develop its economy, pivotal for the newly-established socialist country. (source)

“We will fight as long as they want to fight, and fight on until complete victory is achieved”

This statement was made by Mao Zedong in February 1953, when no sign of armistice was on the horizon.

The Chinese Embassy in the U.S. echoed this sentiment in a tweet in early March: “If the U.S. truly wants to solve the fentanyl issue, the right thing to do is to consult with China by treating each other as equals. If war is what the U.S. wants—be it a tariff war, a trade war, or any other type of war—we’re ready to fight till the end.”

Beginning in late 2023, a series of startling and unsettling allegations against Sean Combs –– a record executive and rapper known over the years by stage names like “Puff Daddy,” “P. Diddy” and presently “Diddy” –– have emerged. As the allegations and lawsuits facing Combs have snowballed, so, too, has public interest in the case. The sheer amount of accusations suggests that Combs, in addition to being very sexually and physically violent, filmed many assault encounters and orgies that occurred at his now notorious “Freak Off” parties, sometimes with hidden or security cameras. He also now stands accused of “operating an empire of sexual crimes,” with federal agents having alleged that several of Combs’ victims were of “barely legal” or “barely illegal” age at the time of their abuse. Combs’ apparent documentation of these events strongly suggests that he was interested in keeping these records for more than his perverse enjoyment, as either a form of a protection or as a means to control those who appeared in these films, i.e. blackmail.

As a result, speculation has grown about who is allegedly on the “list” of people filmed by Combs in this way, prompting comparisons to the alleged “list” of sex trafficker, pedophile and intelligence asset Jeffrey Epstein. The comparisons between Epstein and Combs have only grown, with even the homeland security agents who raided Combs’ Miami home suggesting that Combs was “as bad as Epstein.”

However, as has long been a theme of Unlimited Hangout’s Epstein-related reporting, including the book One Nation Under Blackmail, the Jeffrey Epstein case has been poorly explored by the federal government, mainstream media outlets, and even many independent media outlets. A deeper examination of the Epstein case makes it clear that Epstein was not the sole mastermind or sole beneficiary of the sex trafficking and blackmail operation in which he engaged. Instead, Epstein served as an operator for a larger, monied network of oligarchs with extensive organized crime connections in addition to significant affiliations with intelligence agencies. He was also more than a sex trafficker for this group, having aided this network extensively in arms trafficking, money laundering and other crimes (many financial) that fall outside of the focus on his sex-related offenses.

It should come as no surprise upon closer examination of Sean Combs that, like Epstein, he was operating on behalf of a larger network that he did not ultimately control. Instead, it arguably controlled him. As this three-part series from Unlimited Hangout will endeavor to show, Combs was acting on behalf of an oligarch network that directly overlaps with that of Epstein. However, Combs used to influence a different industry and a different community for the benefit of these intelligence and organized crime-connected oligarchs.

Jews! Wasserman and MCA were also the forces chiefly responsible for the political career of former president Ronald Reagan. Reagan, previously an actor before becoming a politician, had been represented by MCA since 1940. Soon after, he became Wasserman’s first “million dollar client.” Wasserman later engineered Reagan’s campaign to lead the Screen Actors Guild, where Reagan made significant policy changes designed to give MCA an edge over other entertainment companies. Wasserman and other top MCA executives, such as Taft Schreiber and Jules Stein, played an intimate role in Reagan’s successful gubernatorial bid, as well as financing his later campaign for president of the United States. When Reagan was president, his Attorney General Edwin Meese notably quashed what had been an ongoing investigation into MCA’s organized crime ties. Meese later resigned following his involvement in the Bronx-based Wedtech scandal (see end note vi).

Jews: Studio 54 co-owner Steve Rubell, right, and his attorney Roy Cohn, left, talk to reporters outside US District Court in Manhattan, Friday, Nov. 2, 1979, after Rubell and his partner, Ian Schrager, pleaded guilty to tax evasion charges

Jews: Clive Davis’ storied career in the music industry began via his earlier career at Rosenman & Colin. While working at the firm (which –– as previously noted –– counted CBS as a client), Davis was hired to become assistant counsel of the CBS subsidiary, Columbia Records. He became the label’s general counsel a year later. Davis had been hired by Harvey Schein, a former colleague of Davis’ at Rosenman & Colin.

Jews: Beginning in 2017, Russell Simmons was hit with a slew of rape and sexual harassment lawsuits and accusations. One of Simmons’ earliest accusers, model Keri Claussen Khalighi, alleged that Simmons raped her in full view of the director Brett Ratner in 1991. Before the 2017 allegations, police had previously probed Simmons and Ratner for claims of jointly engaging in sexual battery back in 2001. Over a dozen women have since accused Simmons of sexual misconduct or crimes, while Ratner himself has been separately accused of similar crimes, including rape, by at least 10 women. Following the barrage of accusations, Simmons has laid low in Bali, Indonesia, embracing life as a “stateless” US citizen in a bid to evade the court’s jurisdiction. As will be explained in greater detail shortly, Ratner fled to Israel but is now planning a comeback, currying favor with the Trump family to that effect.

Ratner is a long-time close associate of Simmons, with some reports calling Ratner a “protégé” of Simmons. Simmons is credited with helping start Ratner’s career, as the two met while Ratner was still in film school (NYU’s Tisch School) and Ratner began filming music videos for Simmons-managed artists like Public Enemy soon after their meeting. Ratner also filmed a music video for Combs’ longtime associate Heavy D, who had first gotten Combs his internship at Uptown, in 1994. Getty images alone hosts hundreds of photographs of Ratner and Simmons partying together over the years.

Jews: Malnik’s own “protégé,” his adopted son Brett Ratner, claims to have also fostered a close relationship early on with Meyer Lansky himself. In a 2011 interview, Ratner stated the following:

“I grew up on Miami Beach. I lived on Collins Avenue at the Carriage House on 54th Street. And two doors down was the Imperial House where every day after school I would ride my bike and I would walk down the street with an old man who would walk his dog. We would walk together and everyone at the store would kiss my ass when I was with him. He would take me to this restaurant called the Villa Capri and everybody was always treating me so nice. I didn’t realize it until I was in line at the supermarket with my mom and I opened up Rolling Stone and I saw his picture on the back. It was Meyer Lansky’s obituary. Everybody thought it was weird because he was 80 and I was 12. He was the biggest gangster in the world and he was like my best friend as a kid.”

Jews:

Read it: One Label Under Blackmail: The Early Intersections of Diddy and the Epstein Network

In Part I of this series on the overlap between the worlds of Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein, we examine Combs’ early years, his mentors and the industry figures who ensured their, as well as Combs’ own, commercial success. Ties to organized crime and intelligence are readily apparent and point toward a truly sinister reason behind this network’s patronage of Combs and his close associates, like Andre Harrell and Russell Simmons.by C.Z. Means and by Whitney WebbApril 7, 2025

Two hours in, after the nauseating Norman is barely questioned by the nauseating Halper: Whitney Webb has been a professional writer, researcher and journalist since 2016. She has written for several websites and, from 2017 to 2020, was a staff writer and senior investigative reporter for Mint Press News. She currently writes for Unlimited Hangout. She is the author of the book One Nation Under Blackmail. Recently her work was referenced by Ian Carroll on the Joe Rogan Podcast.

Better yet: In this episode, former UN human rights specialist on international law Craig Mokhiber reflects on how Israel’s genocidal military campaign has produced an unprecedented crisis for the international order, and how it might represent an opportunity make it more equitable. He also discusses the role, achievements, and failing of the United Nations and the policies that led him to leave the organisation.

Long Form consists of a series of lengthy discussions and conversations with leading thinkers, scholars, and activists that explores the most pressing issues of our day, sheds light on their context and dynamics, and in so doing seeks to explore the broader theme of challenges to the global order and how these might affect it.

Jews:

as the commentators are at the bar stool or next to the bedpan of the Minyans Circling the World seeking succor

Ahh, Max Jewish Blumenthal’s Grayzone reports on his brothers and sisters in Cultural DNA (“I am Jewish and love the traditions but not big on Zionism . . .”)

The Grayzone has obtained audio of an off-the-record session from the 2025 Congressional Summit of AIPAC, the main US lobbying arm of the state of Israel. Recorded by an attendee of the panel discussion, the audio features AIPAC’s new CEO, Elliott Brandt, describing how his organization has cultivated influence with three top national security officials in the Trump administration – Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Director Mike Waltz, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe – and how it believes it can gain “access” to their internal discussions.

This is the face of global terrorism!

In just 24 hours, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominated Eli Sharvit as the new chief of Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, only to quickly retract the nomination.

This episode highlights the lack of coherence in Netanyahu’s leadership, reinforcing the perception that decisions at the highest levels of government are made impulsively and without a clear plan.

It also serves as further proof that Netanyahu is easily manipulated—not just by his right-wing extremist allies in the coalition, but also by external forces, foreign governments, and, as reported by Israeli media, even his wife, Sara.

This chaotic decision-making process helps explain the deep lack of trust Israelis have in their leadership. Recent public opinion polls show that a significant percentage of Israelis lack faith in their government and are calling for new elections or Netanyahu’s resignation.

Jews Jews Jews Jews:

Zelensky seems to be trying to get Trump’s attention by claiming that Kiev captured two Chinese nationals fighting with Russian forces, and has evidence of 150 more.

Volodymyr Zelenksy, president of Ukraine, wrote on X (formerly Twitter): “We have information suggesting that there are many more Chinese citizens in the occupier’s units than just these two. We are currently verifying all the facts—intelligence, the Security Service of Ukraine, and the relevant units of the Armed Forces are working on it.

I have instructed the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to immediately contact Beijing and clarify how China intends to respond to this.”

U.S. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce told reporters on Tuesday: “It’s disturbing. It’s disturbing with North Korea participating. It’s disturbing with the Chinese soldiers having been captured…China is a major enabler of Russia in the war in Ukraine. China provides nearly 80 percent of the dual-use items Russia needs to sustain the war.”

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Zelensky Cries ‘CHINESE SOLDIERS IN RUSSIA’ + Trump’s Global Tariff War | Mark Sleboda

President Trump announced on Wednesday that while he’s putting a 90-day pause on plans for tariffs on dozens of countries around the world, he’s also raising the tariffs on imports from China up to 125% “effective immediately,” after Beijing retaliated by raising tariffs on U.S. products up to 84…

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Look at this white ghoul, old man, run into the ground by Stephen Mad Mad Mad Mad Jew:

A mother and her three children swept up in an immigration raid in the hometown of border czar Tom Homan have been released following an outpouring of support from locals outraged at their detention.

The release of the family was confirmed Monday by immigration activists working on the family’s behalf and by Jennifer Gaffney, the superintendent of the Sackets Harbor Central School District, where the three children are enrolled.

“My colleagues and I are relieved and grateful to share that, after eleven days of uncertainty, our students and their mother are returning home,” Gaffney said in a statement.

“In the midst of this difficult time, the strength, compassion, and resilience of our community have shone through. We are very thankful to everyone who has reached out with kindness and offered support.”

The family was taken into custody in a March 27 raid at a large dairy farm in Sackets Harbor, New York. Customs and Border Protection agents say the target of their operation was a South African national charged with trafficking in child sexual abuse material, who they apprehended. But authorities also detained the family as well as three other immigrants without documentation. By March 30, the family had been whisked away to the Karnes County Immigration Processing Center, a privately run detention facility in Texas.

This is proof in the Matzah Ball gruel ruling AmeriKKKa: Nearly every day since President Donald Trump entered office three weeks ago, he has convened a huddle in the West Wing with two of his senior-most aides to plot out the next steps dramatically reshaping the federal government.

One is his chief of staff, Susie Wiles.

The other is Stephen Miller, whose title – deputy chief of staff for policy – in many ways understates the massive influence he commands both with the president and across the government.

And someone said Jews DO not hold a large hold on Rapist in Chief Trump? Shit dawg, Epstein and his Mossad goddamned urination on children by Trump on tape. This is the reality of the United Snakes of Judaism:

Shit, Jews don’t control Holly-Dirt, err, Politics?

In this June 2016 photo, Stephen Miller, left, covers the microphone while Donald Trump’s campaign strategist Paul Manafort checks the telepromter before Trump speaks at the Trump SoHo Hotel in New York.

His staying power, according to people familiar with West Wing dynamics, stems from an ability to channel Trump’s political instincts and apply the president’s rhetoric to actual policymaking, all while navigating Trump’s unpredictable impulses.

Miller’s unbridled ambition has so far not subjected him to the fate of so many Trump aides who ran afoul of the cardinal rule of staff-work: don’t outshine the boss. Ultimately, aides said, Miller will be judged by the success or failure of the aggressive executive strategy that is straining legal bounds.

Long Trump’s main speechwriter, Miller is noted among colleagues for an ability to translate Trump’s voice into text. In the second administration, however, officials said Miller has stepped back from the speechwriting role as he focuses on executing Trump’s policies. Aides Ross Worthington and Vincent Haley, who ran policy for the Trump campaign, have assumed those responsibilities.

Who’s standing next to Eleanor? Miller? Cohn?

Roy or Stephen?

Or Roy and Trump?

Too-cool-for-school upper-class students at Santa Monica High scoffed when administrators in 2002 reinstated a daily recitation of the pledge of allegiance.

Most students in the liberal enclave slouched in their chairs and chatted over the morning ritual, which was widely viewed as a throwback to an American patriotism that seemed outdated in the multicultural mash-up of L.A.’s Westside.

Not Stephen Miller. Every day, the student body’s best-known and least-liked conservative activist stood at his desk, put his hand over his heart and declared his love of country.

As he was finding his voice at Santa Monica High, Miller bemoaned the school’s Spanish-language announcements, the colorful festivals of minority cultures, and the decline, as he saw it, of a more traditional version of American education.

Miller grew up in the tony north-of-Montana neighborhood, the middle child, in a Jewish family of longtime Franklin Roosevelt Democrats. He played tennis and golf. But their status abruptly shifted when his parents’ real estate company faltered and the family moved to a rental on the south side of town.

A subscription to Guns and Ammo magazine introduced him to the writings of National Rifle Assn. leader Wayne LaPierre, sparking Miller’s interest in politics. The conservative ideas were like nothing he had ever heard.

By the time Miller began his freshman year in 1999, minority students were the majority on campus, and the community was engulfed in conversations about race and class. The district was working to improve the educational outcomes for all students, not just the wealthier graduates scooped up by Stanford University and UC Berkeley, in part by emphasizing an inclusiveness that has become a mainstay at schools elsewhere today.

Whisper whisper whisper in the Goy’s ears: Stephen Miller, senior policy advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, and Sean Spicer, incoming White House press secretary, at Trump Tower in New York.

Shit dawg ‘if i were a rothschild . . . . ‘

If I Were Rothschild . . . The Monologue of a Kasrilevka Melamed

by Sholem Aleichem

IF I WERE ROTHSCHILD, ah, if I were only Rothschild — a Kasrilevka melamed let himself go once upon a Thursday while his wife was demanding money for the Sabbath and he had none to give her. If I were only Rothschild, guess what I would do. First of all, I would pass a law that a wife must always have a three-ruble piece on her so that she wouldn’t have to start nagging me when the good Thursday comes and there is nothing in the house for the Sabbath. In the second place I would take my Sabbath gabardine out of pawn — or, better still, my wife’s squirrel-skin coat. Let her stop whining that she’s cold. Then I would buy the whole house outright, from foundation to chimney, all three rooms, with the alcove and the pantry, the cellar and the attic. Let her stop grumbling that she hasn’t enough room. “Here,” I would say to her, “take two whole rooms for yourself-cook, bake, wash, chop, make, and leave me in peace so that I can teach my pupils with a free mind.”

This is the life! No more worries about making a living. No more headaches about where the money for the Sabbath is coming from. My daughters are all married off—a load is gone from my shoulders. What more do I need for myself? Now I can begin to look around the town a little. First of all I am going to provide a new roof for the old Synagogue so the rain won’t drip on the heads of the men who come to pray. After that I shall build a new bathhouse, for if not today, then tomorrow — but surely soon — there is bound to be a catastrophe: the roof is going to cave in while the women are inside bathing.

And while we are putting up a new bathhouse we might as well throw down the old poorhouse too and put up a hospital in its place, a real hospital such as they have in big towns, with beds and bedding, with a doctor and attendants, with hot broths for the sick every day. . . . And I shall build a home for the aged so that old men, scholars who have fallen upon hard times, shouldn’t have to spend their last days on the hearth in the synagogue. And I shall establish a Society for Clothing the Poor so that poor children won’t have to run around in rags with-I beg your pardon for mentioning it-their navels showing. Then I shall institute a Loan Society so that anyone at all-whether he be a teacher or a workman, or even a merchant-could get money without having to pay interest and without pawning the shirt off his back. And a Society for Outfitting Brides so that any girl old enough to marry and without means should be outfitted properly and married off as befits a Jewish girl. I would organize all these and many other such societies in Kasrilevka.

But why only here in Kasrilevka? I would organize such societies everywhere, all over the world, wherever our brethren the Sons of Israel are to be found. And in order that they should all be run properly, with a system, guess what I would do. I would appoint a Society to head them all, a Board of Charity that would watch over all the societies under it. This Board of Charity would keep watch over all of Israel and see to it that Jews everywhere had enough to live on, and that they lived together in unity. It would see to it that all Jews sit in yeshivas and study the Bible, the Talmud, the Gemorah, and the various Commentaries and learn all the seven wisdoms and the seventy-seven languages. And over all these yeshivas there would be one great yeshiva or Jewish Academy, which would naturally be located in Vilna. And from there would come the greatest scholars and wise men in the world. And all of this education would be free to everyone, all paid for out of my pocket. And I would see to it that it was all run in orderly fashion, according to plan, so that there should be none of this grab-and-run, hit-and-miss, catch-as-catch-can business. Instead, everything would be run with a view to the common welfare.

But in order to have everyone think only of the common welfare, you have to provide one thing. And what is that? Naturally, security. For, take it from me; security from want is the most important thing in the world. Without it there can be no harmony anywhere. For alas, one man will impoverish another over a piece of bread, he will kill, poison, hang his fellow-man. Even the enemies of Israel, the Hamans of the world-what do you think they have against us? Nothing at all. They don’t persecute us out of plain meanness, but because of their lack of security. It’s lack of money, I tell you, that brings envy and envy brings hatred, and out of hatred come all the troubles in the world, all the sorrows, persecutions, killings, all the horrors and all the wars. . . .

Ah, the wars, the wars. The terrible slaughters. If I were Rothschild I would do away with war altogether. I would wipe it off completely from the face of the earth.

You will ask how? With money, of course. Let me explain it to you. For instance, two countries are having a disagreement over some foolishness, a piece of land that’s worth a pinch of snuff. “T e r r i t o r y” they call it. One country says this “territory” is hers and the other one says, “No, this territory is mine.” You might think that on the First Day, God created this piece of land in her honor …. Then a third country enters and says, “You are both asses. This is everybody’s ‘territory,’ in other words, it’s a public domain.” Meanwhile the argument goes on. “Territory” here, “territory” there. They “territory” each other so long that they begin shooting with guns and cannon and people start dying like sheep and blood runs everywhere like water . . . .

But if I come to them at the very beginning and say, “Listen to me, little brothers. Actually, what is your whole argument about? Do you think that I don’t understand? I understand perfectly. At Passover you are more concerned with the matzo balls than with the seder. ‘Territory’ is only a pretext. What you are after is something else-something you can get your hands on-money, levies. And while we are on the subject of money, to whom does one come for a loan if not to me, that is, to Rothschild? I’ll tell you what. Here, you Englishmen with the long legs and checkered trousers, take a billion. Here, you stupid Turks with the scarlet caps, take a billion also. And you, Aunt Reisel, that is Russia, take another billion. With God’s help you will pay me back with interest, not a large rate of interest, God forbid, four or five percent at the most-I don’t want to get rich off you.”

Do you understand what I’ve done? I have not only put over a business deal, but people have stopped killing each other in vain, like oxen. And since there will be no more war, what do we need weapons for? What do we need armies and cannons and military bands for, and all the other trappings of war? The answer is that we don’t. And if there are no more weapons and armies and bands and other trappings of war, there will be no more envy, no more hatred, no Turks, no Englishmen, no Frenchmen, no Gypsies and no Jews. The face of the earth will be changed. As it is written: “Deliverance will come—” The Messiah will have arrived.

And perhaps, even—if I were Rothschild—I might do away with money altogether. For let us not deceive ourselves, what is money anyway? It is nothing but a delusion, a made-up thing. Men have taken a piece of paper, decorated it with a pretty picture and written on it, Three Silver Rubles. Money, I tell you, is nothing but a temptation, a piece of lust, one of the greatest lusts. It is something that everyone wants and nobody has. But if there were no more money in the world there would be no more temptation, no more lust. Do you understand me or not?

But then the problem is, without money how would we Jews be able to provide for the Sabbath? The answer to that is — How will I provide for the Sabbath now?

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