Paul Haeder, Author

Ya Gotta ReWrite and ReEdit and Censor the Bible and Koran cuz the Jews Say So . . . .

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March 15, 2025

…And Jews Want Universities & K12 to Scrub and Erase and Burn “the words” of truth

But first, cut cut cut, clear-cur, clear-cut, clear-cut the world, Under the Minyan of Trump the Rapist.

“Clear‐cutting thousands of acres of old growth forest is a wasteful and wanton practice that cannot continue,” said Holly Harris, Earthjustice attorney. “The Tongass is a national treasure, but it is also an economic powerhouse for sustainable industries such as commercial fishing and tourism. This kind of large‐scale industrial old growth logging hurts Southeast Alaskans and compromises the environmental and economic viability of the Tongass.”

“The rainforest of the Tongass should be safeguarded for future generations, not given up for unnecessary clear‐cutting. The best path forward, for both the wildlife and the people who depend on the Tongass, is to protect the rainforest and its old growth trees. Moving ahead with plans to log this amazing wild place is incompatible with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s plan to transition away from old growth logging,” said Alli Harvey, Alaska Representative for Sierra Club’s Our Wild America campaign.

“Export based industrial‐scale clearcuts just don’t make sense on the Tongass, where our thriving fishing and tourism economy is based on healthy streams and abundant wildlife,” said Malena Marvin with Southeast Alaska Conservation Council. “Local people would rather see a small, sustainable wood industry that keeps money circulating in our communities while protecting the resources that support our Tongass jobs, fishing, and hunting.”

“Today’s rulings are yet another punch to the gut for the Tongass National Forest and southeast Alaska,” said Kristen Miller, Conservation Director at Alaska Wilderness League. “Continuing to subsidize sales like Big Thorne threatens the viability of the wildlife and scenery that bring one million people to hike, hunt, fish, kayak and tour America’s Tongass each year. Southeast Alaska’s economy has moved on from timber. Instead of continuing to pour money into massive old growth giveaways like Big Thorne, the Forest Service should be investing in the region’s true economic powerhouses of tourism, recreation and fishing.”

“This decision is disappointing for Southeast Alaska,” said Jim Adams, Policy Director for Audubon Alaska. “The Big Thorne sale bulldozed right over the Forest Service’s own guidelines for protecting deer and goshawk habitat. Selling off old growth trees and destroying important habitat for wildlife while losing millions of taxpayer dollars a year is shortsighted and foolish.”

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And the scum always rises from the pig feces-blood-aborted fetuses POND. Trump, addressing DOJ attorneys, says that those who fight him in court are ‘scum’

“So, people with gender dysphoria can’t be honest, humble, or have integrity. You think that’s demeaning to people with gender dysphoria?” U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes asked a DOJ attorney on Wednesday during a hearing on the service member ban.

“I can’t answer that question,” he responded.

Boebert stands by ‘pimp cane’ comments about Texas Representative Al Green, even as she faces censure — What Boebert said was “pimp cane” in referencing Rep. Al Green, a 77-year-old Black congressman from Texas, who shook his cane at the president before being removed from the chamber.

That phrase has led to a censure resolution against her.

So, this fucking Cunt-Tree was so primed for DOGE Raped.

Already, the Department of Education is moving forward with a proposal to get rid of nearly half its workforce, the Department of Veterans Affairs is targeting a reduction of 80,000 employees and the Social Security Administration has offered voluntary buyouts ahead of a reduction in force.

The outlined changes are in service of Trump’s vision of drastically reducing the size and scope of the federal government — an effort that has been led so far by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Tens of thousands of employees on probationary status — typically those new to government or who have recently started in a new role — have been fired, though these terminations have been challenged in court and the administration has been ordered to issue sweeping job reinstatements.

Trump-towns.

Oh, Klein, again, more Jews on Goy-ionsts.

The specter of economic displacement is rising in the U.S., with eerie echoes of the Hoovervilles that defined the Great Depression. Today, growing homelessness, stagnant wages, and declining affordability are converging with the political landscape shaped by Project 2025—a proposed policy overhaul that threatens to exacerbate these challenges. If implemented, the consequences could accelerate the emergence of “Trumpvilles”—tent encampments of economically displaced individuals—driven by policies that weaken social safety nets, restrict worker protections, and amplify economic inequality.

As Ezra Klein discusses in his podcast entitled “Is Trump ‘Detoxing’ the Economy or Poisoning it?” Trump’s economic strategy and his administration appears willing to push the economy into ‘a period of pain, maybe even a recession,’ in pursuit of long-term economic dominance.

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NO MORE KLEIN’S, please.

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The university sent us this statement regarding the Education Department’s investigation:

We take this complaint seriously. We have recently reviewed all of our practices and believe that the University of Oregon is in compliance with the law.

We have continued to review policies and practices in light of the administration’s executive orders and look forward to working with the Office for Civil Rights to resolve this complaint.

he PhD Project’s annual conference is set to start next week in Chicago. A spokesperson for the organization did not say how many universities have pulled their support for attendees, or if they’d seen an uptick in requests to cancel registrations.

Fansmith said that initiatives to recruit a more diverse applicant pool shouldn’t be viewed as discriminatory—especially in academic fields that have struggled to diversify. Only 35 percent of doctoral candidates in business, and 26 percent of business school faculty, are people of color, according to a 2023 report from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

“There’s lots of admissions initiatives seeking to put institutions in front of groups of students so they become aware of the programs they offer. Those are not discriminatory,” Fansmith said. “The reason these programs exist is because there are categories of students who are underrepresented in many fields… it would be a shame to see schools walk away from them.”

And K12, in Oregon? [After two weeks of tumult, school board members in Woodburn — where 87% of students are Latino, the highest of any Oregon school district — have reversed themselves and supported a resolution expressing support for the privacy and rights of immigrant and refugee students.

The reversal, which passed on a 3-1 vote, with school board chair Noemi Legaspi abstaining, came after two hours of contentious testimony during which speaker after speaker castigated the board for rejecting the resolution at their previous meeting on Feb. 25.]

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All dissidents and Indians and BIPOC and Palestinians are good if, well, dead.

Tribes and Native American students sue over Bureau of Indian Education firings

The resolution that the board passed Tuesday is similar to those passed by other school districts in Oregon in recent months, including Portland, Beaverton and Salem. It says that all children in Woodburn have the right to attend public school, regardless of their immigration status, and that the district supports Oregon’s status as a sanctuary state, meaning that school employees may not aid federal immigration enforcement efforts. The resolution also specifies that immigration officials may not enter school buildings beyond the front office or remove a student from school unless they have a court order to do so.

Several dozen Woodburn students were so upset about the previous vote that they walked out of school to protest; others brought their concerns directly to the school board, where they and others were asked to submit all their testimony ahead of the meeting.

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Three tribal nations and five Native American students say in a lawsuit that the Trump administration has failed its legal obligations to tribes when it cut jobs at Bureau of Indian Education schools.

Firings at two colleges as part of the administration’s cuts to federal agencies, with the help of Elon Musk, have left students and staff with unsafe conditions, canceled classes, and delayed financial aid, according to the lawsuit Friday.

Lawyers at the Native American Rights Fund filed the suit in federal court in the nation’s capital against the heads of the Interior Department, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Office of Indian Education Programs on behalf of the Pueblo of Isleta, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. The tribes allege they were not consulted when the federal government laid off several employees at the two colleges under the purview of the BIE.

[White KKK, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum walks to the House Chamber before of President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington.]

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These fucking misanthropic Jews:

Meta on Wednesday won an emergency arbitration ruling to temporarily stop promotion of the tell-all book Careless People by a former employee, according to a copy of the ruling published by the social media company.

The book, written by a former director of global public policy at Meta, Sarah Wynn-Williams, was called by the New York Times book review “an ugly, detailed portrait of one of the most powerful companies in the world”, and its leading executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, former chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan.

If the news is so old, one might ask why is Meta going nuclear on Wynn-Williams? For one thing, its author was a senior executive who was in the room, and on the corporate jet, when stuff happened—and she claims that things were worse than we imagined. Yes, Meta’s reckless disregard in Myanmar, where people died in riots triggered by misinformation posted on Facebook, was previously reported, and the company has since apologized. But Wynn-Williams’ storytelling paints a picture where Meta’s leaders simply didn’t care much about the dangers there. While the media has written about Zuckerberg’s obsession with getting Facebook into China, Wynn-Williams shares official documents that show Meta instructing the Chinese government on face recognition and AI, and says that the company’s behavior was so outrageous that the team crafted headlines to show what the company would have to deal with if their plans leaked. One example: “Zuckerberg Will Stop at Nothing to Get Into China.” While making blanket statements that the book can’t be trusted, Meta hasn’t denied all these allegations specifically. (In general, when a company tries to dismiss charges as “old news,” that translates to a confirmation.)

In Spain people huddled together at movies

and heating simply didn’t exist.

After so much bloodshed, it was a peace

that dawned in dirty rags, just as we

Spaniards had none of it for five years.

And an entire penniless continent

wormy with history and the black market,

suddenly looked much more like home.

“Every year is a little bit different, but what’s clear is that the ocean continues to rise, and the rate of rise is getting faster and faster,” Josh Willis, who researches sea level rise at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a statement.

After reporting on sea level rise — which stokes increased flooding and storm damage while threatening coastal infrastructure from sewage plants to water supplies — over the past decade, the most common responses I receive on the topic (beyond the unprintable) are either essentially “that’s barely any sea level rise” or “stop sensationalizing sea level rise.” It’s true that four inches of sea level rise over the last few decades may not be concerning or noticeable to some people. And just four inches itself, occurring in a temporal vacuum, doesn’t spell a serious problem. The problem, however, is it’s not stopping at four inches.

In a previous report authored by top researchers at a diversity of U.S. agencies — the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA, the Department of Defense, and beyond — scientists project sea levels will rise by some 10 inches to a foot along the U.S. coast over just the next three decades. And again, it won’t stop there, either. The U.S. could see several feet of sea level rise by the century’s end. (Different longer-range sea level rise scenarios are shown later in this story.)

Sea level rise as measured by earth-observing satellites since 1993.

Musk-Adelson-Altman-Fink-Schwarzman-Zuckerberg-Ellison-Thiel-Trump and Company. Fucking fools.

“The ice sheets are just getting warmed up.”

Five potential sea level rise scenarios for both the U.S. and the globe.

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No, No, No: Never Ever Support Zelensky or Azov or Proxy War in Ukraine Against Russia!

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March 15, 2025

… and NEVER EVER call us Marxists and socialists Trumpies for supporting the end of Zelensky and the end of support for the proxy war in Ukraine

The Americans have moreover completely deceived the Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian government with regard to the completely unrealistic victory of Ukraine in this war, in my opinion, because in any case the big loser in this war is Ukrainian population itself and also as a consequence Europe with all the crisis in which it was engulfed by the will of the politicians.

— Pierre de Gaulle, grandson of Charles de Gaulle, December 2022[23]

Fucking reality:

In early November, Barbara Bonte, a Belgian member of the European Union (EU) parliament, raised concern about the sell-off of Ukrainian land on a massive scale to U.S. private equity firms along with some Saudi agro-industrial and investment businesses.

Bonte wrote to the EU parliament that, “according to several disquieting reports, mainly U.S. but also Saudi agro-industrial and investment businesses are purchasing Ukrainian farmland on a massive scale. Cargill, ADM, BlackRock, Oaktree Capital Management and Bunge Limited, for instance, have reportedly gained control over much of Ukraine’s farmland.”

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Bonte then posed two questions to the EU parliament as follows:

“1. What is the Commission’s assessment of the impact of this sell-off of European farmland to multinationals serving only U.S. interests on EU strategic food-supply dependence? How does the Commission intend to address that impact?”

“2. This strongly suggests that the United States is seeking to recoup its military support for Ukraine, and ensure a geopolitical presence there in a post-war scenario through control over Ukrainian farmland and the profits it generates. How does the Commission intend to prevent the United States from cherry-picking in Ukraine and Europe from being left to deal with just the handicaps?” (source)

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If not enough people die, if not enough blood flows, the people will never stand up for themselves.

—Gheorghe Ratiu, head of domestic intelligence in Romania’s Departamentul Securității Statului “Securitate” 1986-1989^[28]

Read read read, listen listen listen. Stay away from TIK-TOK and these fucking bizarre podcasters, man, whomever, working to bullshit their way into saying Little Ukraine (David) against Giant Russia (Goliath).

Is this same bullshit analogy working for the USA killing hope and futures in Cuba, in most African Nations, most South American Nations? Really, how many David’s have been destroyed by USA?

Ukrainian drones have carried out terrorist strikes extending into Russia designed to cripple its oil and gas industry and been deployed to attack Russian journalists

On one of its last days in office, the Biden administration declassified an account of its once-secret support for Ukraine’s drone industry.

U.S. officials said they had made big investments—sending $1.5 billion last September alone—that helped Ukraine start and expand its production of drones as it battled Russia’s larger and better-equipped army.

The U.S. effort included money to support drone makers and to purchase parts. The U.S. also sent intelligence officials to Ukraine to help build the drone program.

Top 5 CIA operations against the Soviet Union - Russia Beyond

[Meet the CIA’s eager students—star pupils in the art of terrorizing civilian populations: Organization of Ukrainian Nationalist (OUN) partisans recruited by the CIA to fight against the Soviets.]

Part I of a 3 Part Series on Ukrainian Fascism and the U.S.

The history of Ukraine is long and rich. For millennia, the fertile lands of Ukraine with their black earth and rich seas have been highly contested. From the Scythians of antiquity, the Varangians who would eventually become the Rurukids and the first Tsars, to the Mongols, the Hetmanate and the Ukrainian SSR, it is impossible to truly understand the situation in Ukraine today without some historical background.

Out of all those who have lived, fought and died in Ukraine, one group stands out for their importance to the events of today. The fascist terrorists, bandits and collaborators known as the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN).

Part II of a 3 Part series on Fascism and the CIA in Ukraine

“Terror will be not only a means of self-defense, but also a form of agitation, which will affect friend and foe alike, regardless of whether they desire it or not.” —UVO (fascist Ukrainian Military Organization) brochure from 1929

s I write, the world is on the edge of nuclear and humanitarian crises after a year of the Ukraine “proxy” war with Russia. No single event can be seen as the sole cause, but the most dramatic lurch in the story was the “Revolution of Dignity” in Ukraine in November 2013 to February 2014, notably the horrific massacre of protesters and police in Maidan (Independence) Square on February 20, 2014.

Without dismissing the large sectors of Ukrainian society with legitimate grievances against corruption and stagnation, this was a bloody coup d’état, engineered largely by the U.S. over years with parts played by NATO puppets and local proxies. Viktor Yanukovych was elected in internationally recognized fair elections, and new elections were planned to occur within a year. But powerful interests and a large section of the public believed it could not wait as he could not be trusted. And he was chased out of the country like a hunted animal.

And, like all “color revolutions,” despite the underlying legitimate grievances, it was no true upheaval or revolution at all, it was simply local elites of the same class switching their allegiances to another external power. As Ukrainian political researcher Volodymyr Ishchenko describes, four groups gained power after the violent 2014 coup: “the oligarchic opposition, the NGOs, the far right and Washington-Brussels.”^[1]

[ncle Sam says to the Filipinos: You choose—school teacher or soldier? We will dominate you either way. A centerfold in Puck by Udo Keppler, published November 1901.]

Ukraine 2014: The Tipping Point of Terror

The fact that Zelensky is Jewish is often mentioned by the naïve or deceptive as an obvious sign that “Ukraine can’t be that fascist.” But this ignores the strange bedfellows of money and power politics, particularly in a region that has been pumped full of aid, gas money, corrupted investment and propaganda for decades, and has long been a battleground between the U.S. and Russia as well as between a large minority of Ukrainians and Russia.

Behind Zelensky and many of the notorious nationalist-fascist militias in the Donbas war, such as the Azov Battalion, is Ihor Kolomoisky, the PrivatBank and Burisma-linked billionaire.

Not only is he accused by the U.S. Department of Justice of millions in fraud and embezzlement, but Federal Court records show a far greater level of embezzlement that triggered a recession in Ukraine: “Between 2006 and 2015, more than $4.45 billion was transferred without any apparent effort by the banks or the government to stem the movement of dollars as the oligarch and his partners acquired an enormous [U.S.] real estate portfolio.”^[18] Yet, for the most part, the government, Deutsche Bank and mainstream media continue to look the other way. “He might be a totally corrupt oligarch with no morals, but he’s our guy!”

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The main strategies of regime change are:

Soft power: Provide weaponized aid, development, humanitarian assistance and media to win public opinion, ideology and culture.
Political co-opting: Co-opt and unite opposition, ideally including military leaders.
Political grooming: Train and fund a new generation of overt agents of change, the future political leaders (e.g., the World Economic Forum’s “Young Global Leaders” program).
Covert Action/Black operations: Train and fund covert agents of change (often fascist or extremist) to do the dirty work of insurgency and counterinsurgency.
Narrative control: Develop a sympathetic media.
Economic warfare: Diplomatic isolation, sanctions and sabotage to “make the economy scream.”^[21]
Mobilization: Organize mass protests and PR with media control, while also warning that “there will be blood.”
Provocateurism: Goons and dragoons of power engineer provocation, confrontation, outrage and chaos and the soft arm controls the media analysis through immediate (social media), short (mainstream news) and long term (NGO reports and books).
Assassination of key political leader or false flag targeting opposition leader or public citizens.
Denial and cover-up via censorship, propaganda and narrative bias. It helps if you built the whole mediasphere.

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HERO.

There Will Be a Mighty Mouse to the Rescue . . . but only in your late night emissions

haederpaul

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March 12, 2025

and so they judge Trump on Monday and then Wednesday, it’s a whole other fucking crime syndicate boss

In Ex-Colonial Countries, People Should Stop Admiring the US and Europe

April 13, 2019 by Andre Vltchek

It may sound incredible, but it is true: in countries that have been damaged, even totally robbed and destroyed by the West, many people are still enamoured with Europe and North America.

For years, I have been observing this ‘phenomena’, even in the most plundered, devastated war zones and slums. Often I was shocked, other times thoroughly desperate. I did not know how to respond, how to react, how to describe what I have been observing.

Then, a few days ago, in Syria, right next to the Idlib battlefield, close to the deadly positions of Al-Nusra Front, in a country where the West and its allies have murdered hundreds of thousands of people, one of my interpreters exclaimed in a ‘patriotic’ outburst: “Look how beautiful this land is! It is almost as beautiful as Europe!”

And at night, another guide of mine began nostalgically recalling his glorious days in Europe, when he could still go there; before the Syrian war began.

An interpreter did not know who Fidel Castro was (I had his portrait, lighting up cigar, as my phone screensaver), but both of them—my local companions at the battle ground—were fluent in Western slang and the worldview. They knew, however, near zero about China. They were patriotic and they fully supported their country, but at the same time they admired the West and Western journalists from the mainstream media—those very same propagandists who helped to bring their beautiful and unique Syria to the state in which it is now.

It all felt schizophrenic, but definitely not new.

I could not take it, anymore. I decided to write this story, despite the fact that it is an intellectual ‘minefield’. I decided to write it, because it is how it is. Because I have to tell it; someone has to. And above all, because it is absolutely essential to combat the crooked selfie image with which the West has been infecting almost all nations of the world, including all those that it has been plundering and raping.

Are we dealing with the so-called “Stockholm Syndrome” here? Most likely, yes. The victim falls in love with her or his tormentor.

For long centuries, the West has been colonising, usurping, literally terrorising the entire planet. Hundreds of millions have died as a result of colonialism, neo-colonialism, and imperialism. Wealth, cultural and educational institutions, hospitals, transportation, parks—all that Europe and North America possess to date and boast about—was constructed on mountains of bones, on genocide and unbridled plunder.

That cannot be disputed, can it?

Slavery, mass murder, genocidal expansions; the West robbed the world, and then consolidated its power, promoting its exceptionalism through relentless brainwashing (called ‘education’), propaganda (called ‘information’), and twisted entertainment for the masses that inhabit poor countries (called ‘culture’ and ‘the arts’).

Shockingly and absurdly, Europe and North America are still loved and admired by many, even (or especially) in such places where Western governments and companies plagued everything like locusts, leaving to the locals only burned land, poison and miserable slums.

How is it possible?

For years, I have been working in Africa, a continent which was entirely subjugated by the UK, France, Germany, Belgium and other European expansionist nations. Africa, from where millions of men, women and children were brought in chains to the “New World”, as slaves. Where millions died during the ‘hunt’, where millions died in ‘transit centers’, and then, on the open seas. That’s tens of millions of ruined lives. The complete plunder of the resources, the unimaginable humiliation of the people, broken cultures, genocides and holocaust against local individuals from what is now Namibia to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Great African heroes like Lumumba assassinated by the Western rulers.

And yet, many Africans see the West as some great ‘example’, as a ‘guiding light’, as a severe but respectable ‘daddy’, who uses the belt when it is necessary, but who also rewards justly those of his ‘children’ who ‘behave properly’.

It is repulsive, but undeniable.

The greatest African writers are now teaching at US and UK universities. They have been ‘neutralised’ and ‘pacified’, many of them outrightly bought. In many countries, African judges wear comical white wigs, doing their best to look like their British counterparts.The children of corrupt elites are collecting diplomas from the UK and French universities, imitating upper-class European accents.

To behave, to look and sound like the colonisers, is something that brings respect.

The same on the Sub-Continent, of course.

The mannerism among the upper classes in India and Pakistan are those of the UK (and lately, of the US). Elites there go out of their way to be more British than the Brits; more Californian than the inhabitants of the US West Coast. Countless private Indian universities call themselves ‘American’ or ‘British’, with ‘Oxford’ or ‘Cambridge’ frequently ‘decorating’ their names.

‘To be accepted’ in Europe or North America is the highest honour in almost all former colonies, therefore, in almost the entire world.

‘Well-groomed’, well-educated and modern Asians, Latin Americans, Africans and the Middle Easterners are expected to ape Westerners; to dress like Westerners, eat (and drink) like the Westerners and to ‘defend the same values’ as them.

In fact, they are expected to be much more Western than the Westerners.

But ‘expected’ by whom? Yes, you guess correctly: very often by their own people!

Ask and many in the ‘South’ will tell you: everything that comes from the West is beautiful, progressive and dandy.

“Every bule is beautiful,” I was informed, recently, by a young indigenous professional lady in the totally environmentally plundered island of Borneo/Kalimantan. Bule is a vulgar, derogatory Indonesian word for the ‘whites’, and literally means ‘albino’. However, the lady was not joking, it was a compliment: she was brought up believing that every bule is actually superior and fine-looking.

In the indigenous Mexican state of Yucatan, right after the elections that brought to power the left-wing President Obrador, I overheard the conversation of a dozen or so upper-class housewives in a Western chain café. Their references were fully European and North American: from vacations in Italy and Spain, to the films they were watching, books they were reading; Europe was their ‘mother-continent’, while Miami their only true comparison. Before Obrador came to power, indigenous people were increasingly living in misery, their roofs broken, jobs disappearing. But the elites were, as always, in a European state of mind. The real Mexico was not on their radar. It did not matter, or didn’t even exist.

Even some of the poor in the ‘conquered world’, who are actually ‘concerned’ about Western imperialism, see it as an abstract problem. They see it as a strictly political, military or economic issue. The fact that Western imperialism has ‘culturally’ immobilised entire nations and continents is hardly addressed.

Even in those proud countries that are determinedly struggling against Western imperialism—China, Russia, Iran, or Venezuela—the Western narrative of exceptionalism has already managed to cause tremendous damage.

In China, for instance, almost everything ‘Western’ had been, until recently, associated with modernity. Being ‘against the West’ was considered boring, gray and outdated, somehow connected to the ‘Communist propaganda’ of the past (the fact that the ‘Communist propaganda’ was often correct, mattered nothing). This attitude allowed the great infiltration of Chinese universities by Western academia, as well as the injection of Western nihilism into Chinese arts, culture, even way of life. Only recently, has this dangerous trend been reversed, but not after it had already caused great damage.

The admiration of everything Western destroyed the greatest progressive experiment of modern history—the Soviet Union and the so-called “Eastern Bloc”.

The power of negative Western propaganda packaged together with the promotion of extreme individualism, selfishness and consumerism literally wiped out all internationalist zeal, humanism and higher principles from the minds of tens of millions of young Czechs, Poles, East Germans, Bulgarians and even Soviets.

The once proud Communist Eastern Bloc, after liberating dozens of countries from colonialism, after fighting for an egalitarian world, showing solidarity with all oppressed nations, was then gradually defeated by such shallow bullshit as blue jeans labels, the nonsensical lyrics of rock and pop songs (a favorite weapon of the West), greed, religions (another Western weapon), and slogans like ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ (the Western world which has been denying freedom and democracy to almost all countries on our planet, cynically turned the truth upside down and fooled East Europeans, by skillfully applying centuries long propaganda methods).

In the end, confused and increasingly cynical, what many East Europeans demanded was not ‘freedom’, but more money, more labels, and the ability to join the bloc of the countries that have been plundering the world.

III

So, what makes the West so successful, when it comes to brainwashing people all around the world? How is it possible, after all that banditry, terror and ruthlessness, that most of the oppressed and conquered countries are still showing plenty of respect to the masters that reside in New York, London or Paris?

I believe that if we find the answers to this question, we will be able to save the world and reverse this deadly trend.

First of all, after interacting with thousands of people in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Oceania and Latin America, I am coming to the conclusion that the West (and Japan) is often admired for the ‘high standards of living’.

In such miserable and collapsed countries like Indonesia, I often hear nonsense like: “European countries are more ‘Muslim’ than we are. They treat people much better than we do.”

Middle and upper class Southeast Asian families travel to Netherlands or Germany, and then exclaim after returning home: “Look at their parks, hospitals, bicycle lanes, trams, museums . . . We have to learn from them! They do so much for improving our world.”

That’s precisely what Africans admire about Europe. That’s how many ‘educated’ Indians or Southeast Asians feel. That’s what Peruvians, Hondurans or Paraguayans love about their Miami.

Are they wrong? Isn’t there, after all, plenty that poor countries could learn from the West?

Yes; definitely they are wrong. Totally wrong!

Let’s see ‘why’?

The West ‘arranged’ the entire world in accordance with its own feudal system of the past centuries. It brought the system of shameless oppressive regime to the global level.

To admire this monstrous and regressive global system would be like admiring the arrangement of European societies some three hundred years ago. It would be essentially like saying: “Look, the aristocracy of France or England was actually quite fine, egalitarian, educated and healthy, and we should learn from how they lived, and copy their examples!”

Of course, the aristocracy, the royalty and the church of Europe has always lived well, even 300 years ago. They had good schools for their children, they had decent medical care, palaces, summer villas, sanatoriums with mineral waters, theatres, lavish parks and tons of servants.

The only ‘tiny’ problem was that some 95% of the population had to work for the luxury they enjoyed, subsisting in total misery. Plus, of course, those tens of millions of un-people in the colonies were being exterminated like animals.

The same is happening now. The entire Europe (with the exception of the poor people there) has moved to the bracket of new aristocracy, at least comparatively. And the rest of the world is labouring, dying, being raped and plundered, in order to maintain this ‘wonderful-looking’ social-state project of the West. Even the US and its relatively brutal turbo-capitalist model is still ‘socialist’ (for the US citizens), compared to such countries as Indonesia, India, Peru or Nigeria.

Western standards of living cannot be replicated elsewhere. To believe that the West would allow Africans or Southeast Asians to build a social state is naïve, almost intellectually insulting. Singapore, South Korea and Japan are rare exceptions, where the West closed both eyes, for strictly strategic reasons.

In order for the West to prosper, maintaining a super high standard of living, with all the benefits for its citizens, billions of the ‘serfs’ all over the world have to suffer, sacrifice themselves, and work for close to nothing; the more of them that live in hell, the better.

Nature has to be plundered in places like Borneo and Papua, DR Congo and soon in Brazil.

People have to be ruled by pro-Western corrupt oligarchs, and by the military and religious leaders. Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and now Brazil, are perfect countries for the West: they happily and willingly sacrifice their own people, guaranteeing Western prosperity.

You did not know? Nonsense! You did not want to know. All those people who matter are very happy with this arrangement: the Western rulers, citizens of Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, as well as the rulers/elites in the poor countries. The only ones who are truly suffering are those billions of the poor, worldwide, but they matter nothing, and they are not told anything anyway, because the media is in the hands of the West and their lackeys, and so is ‘education’.

And as they are not told anything, they—the wretched of the Earth—are admiring the West, too. They eat Western junk food if they can save few dollars a month, they drink Nescafe instead of their traditional coffee, listen to the shittiest music, watch pirated Hollywood blockbuster movies, wear fake sneakers and jeans, and masturbate to Western porn (if they have internet). They also dutifully follow religions, which were injected and upheld by the West, into their countries.

The poorer the country, the greater appear to be the green hills and pastures of the Western paradise.

And so it goes, on and on.

I am an ‘old-fashioned’ revolutionary. Slaves have to rise and fight, if necessary die for freedom; not to admire their masters and tormentors.

Frankly and honestly, I am tired of this status quo. And I don’t find this amusing at all: hearing admiring statements about European and other Western countries in the middle of the monstrous war zones, famine-stricken areas, brutal mines, on the banks of poisoned rivers and inside the slums.

I am an ‘old-fashioned’ revolutionary. Slaves have to rise and fight, if necessary die for freedom; not to admire their masters and tormentors.

The crimes of the colonialists have to be exposed. The insane arrangement of the world has to be defined and then smashed into pieces.

The cute trams, bicycle lanes, parks, museums, operas, cafes, universities and hospitals in Europe are built on rivers of blood and the bones of ‘The Others’. I said it three years ago on the floor of the Italian Parliament, and I will repeat it again and again, wherever I go.

There is no other topic that matters, right now, on our planet.

Everything is connected to this, including the fear and hate that the West feels and spreads about countries like Venezuela, Russia, China, Iran, South Africa, Syria or Cuba.

They hate us; they hate those who resist, who are standing tall. And they should and will get back the same in return, hopefully, if the truth is pronounced often enough!

(Andre Vltchek was a philosopher, novelist, film maker & investigative journalist)

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And here, a youngster:

The most common arguments Zionists use to justify colonizing Palestine, & how to debunk them

This is a relatively short version of an essay that’s over 4000 words long. I wrote that essay in response to the recent newspaper letter from Shalom Humboldt, the Zionist group which has sought to defend Palestine’s colonization to my local community. To make my arguments more accessible, I’ve put together a concise list of the assertions this letter makes, next to summaries of why these assertions are false. This can serve as a handy guide to countering many of the narratives Zionists use to try to discredit the Palestinian liberation cause.

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So, Shalom is a Zionist term? What the fuck. These are Jews first, Jews second and then Jews to the third power, which is I suppose it Zionism.

Shalom: used as salutation by Jewish people at meeting or parting, meaning “peace.”.

““I’ll be waiting for your call.” “Au revoir.” “Shalom.””

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Jewish inspired:

Intercept (Lalalandia on fucking steroids and triple cream milkshakes)…..

One of the very first executive orders signed by President Donald Trump attempts to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. But under international law, the American government doesn’t have the authority to change the name of the entire Gulf worldwide — and most countries, including Mexico and Cuba, aren’t accepting the name change.

Likewise, noting that the area has carried the name the Gulf of Mexico for more than 400 years, The Associated Press, better known as the AP, decided not to change the name in their reporting. In retaliation, the Trump administration barred the AP’s reporters from the White House press pool and events. It hasn’t stopped there.

They followed up by announcing they intend to cherry-pick friendly media to join the press pool instead, breaking more than a century of independence granted by every Republican and Democratic administration before this one.

This is an unacceptable attack on freedom of the press, in violation of the First Amendment. The AP has sued to regain access, arguing that the administration’s goal is to coerce journalists to use “only government-approved language” in reporting. The administration doesn’t have to wait until the court orders them to act, but they won’t change course unless they hear from the American people.

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They all need to be shot, Mighty Mouse:

On Tuesday, the Association of Foreign Correspondents of the Argentine Republic (ACERA) denounced obstacles to access to official information and the “deterioration of conditions for journalistic coverage” since Javier Milei took office as president in December 2023.

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Winning? Russia Downs 343 Ukrainian Drones Overnight

Putin has to go and bring in the communists, please:

U.S. will immediately resume military aid as Ukraine says it is open to 30-day ceasefire

[Photo: Young recruits of the 10th Edelweiss Separate Mountain Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces attend an oath ceremony, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in an undisclosed location, Ukraine March 8, 2025. Ukraine’s Defence Ministry launched a recruitment drive for young people, 18- to 24-year-olds, to serve in the military for a year for the equivalent of about $24,000 and hefty bonuses. Press Service of the 10th Edelweiss Separate Mountain Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces/Handout via REUTERS]

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Russia don’t get it!

The Network State: Peter Thiel, Donald Trump, and Silicon Valley’s Quest for Greenland — How the Crypto Broligarchy May Explain Donald Trump’s Bizarre Greenland Fixation

In 2019, Donald Trump stunned the world by announcing his desire to purchase Greenland. As Americans slowly growing accustomed to Trump’s daily stream of bats*** insane suggestions—nuking a hurricane, the sound of windmills causes cancer, stealth jets are literally invisible to the naked eye—we collectively rolled our eyes, shrugged our shoulders and said, Huh?

Greenland?

We assumed that giant, barren patch of ice rock over Canada’s right shoulder was Donnie Quixote’s latest real estate windmill to go tilting at. Or maybe the “very stable genius” was miffed about never making Santa’s Nice List and was looking for a staging ground to invade the north pole and put whatever elves felt like defecting to work on H-1B visas at Doral.

One possible explanation was the increase in international attention Greenland has been garnering as North Atlantic shipping lanes have started opening up due to global warming and the melting polar ice caps, dramatically reducing maritime trade routes previously relegated to the Panama and Suez canals for traversing the globe. But since Trump built an entire political movement centered on the counter-factual notion that global warming isn’t real and climate change is a Chinese hoax, convincing his supporters that we needed to invade Santa’s Magic Workshop to capitalize on the global warming that doesn’t exist might’ve invited a tougher conversation with the perpetually-outraged Red Hats than he was up for.

Another possible explanation—one that squares rather nicely with Trump’s ambitions in the Ukraine peace talks—is Greenland’s abundant natural resources. Like Ukraine, Greenland has a vast, untapped supply of rare earth minerals that are critical to the construction of computer chips and semiconductors, which we’re currently reliant on China and Russia for. Say, that reminds me—you know who would really love to get their hands on a virtually unlimited supply of computer components?

Silicon Valley.

In Democracy is Dead: The Rise of Corporate Monarchy, we learned that the PayPal Mafia and billionaire tech bros of Silicon Valley are ideologically aligned with the dystopian political philosophies of Curtis Yarvin and the Dark Enlightenment (I’m not going to rehash it here; click the link for a refresher). Yarvin got the bulk of the attention last time; this time, Thiel’s name is going to come often enough you’re going to be sick of hearing it before we’re done.

The last thing I’ll say about Yarvin for now is that his “burn everything down and turn society into The Matrix” isn’t the only anti-American/anti-democratic ideology out there, merely the most extreme. There are less radical movements to choose from—some of them downright utopian sounding—but they all have two things in common: 1) an end to the American way of life as we know it, and 2) the financial backing of Peter “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible” Thiel.

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Study the Rapist in Chief Trump and his minyans/minions. Andreessen Horowitz funded Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, and donated nearly $90 million to Donald Trump and Trump PACs)

Mighty Mouse:

Capitalists like Liz Warren and Pelosi Knew Trump-Landia Would Emerge, while their Stock Portfolios Bulged

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March 11, 2025

…they do not know, they do not care, they do not have solutions, they do not lose sleep over sackings, and they do not represent the 80 Percent, minus the fuckers who voted for and love Trump

Close to home, mother fuckers:

WHAT WE DO & HOW

Bright Horizons serves a broad range of enthusiastic and hardworking participants. We focus on helping people of all ages reach their life goals through EAAT (Equine Assisted Activities and Therapies). Bright Horizons staff are certified to help those with a variety of special needs and disabilities. We believe that horses help each individual in their own unique way, and we celebrate differences and progress!

Our staff and volunteers are available to conduct a variety of educational and awareness programs that help support our primary mission. These programs include field trips, equine-awareness opportunities for challenged youth, public speaking engagements, and other types of community-based events.

Volunteers play a key role in making our mission a reality as well as keeping our program running. Our volunteers assist with a variety of tasks and responsibilities after receiving task-specific training. These tasks and responsibilities can include stall cleaning, arena set up, grooming, and saddling horses. Volunteers help in lessons by leading horses for participants, and oftentimes walking alongside them to assist as needed.

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So the CEO of the non-profit that has Bright Horizons under its watch has created a huge toxic work environment. It is a larger organization than just the Horse Therapy program. But the director of the equine therapy program has given her 2 week notice, and there ain’t no replacement for her, and the 12 horses, well, are they destined for the glue factory?

Three mental health therapists have quit and two were let go:

This one was cut in the summer:

And this one:

You got it — LGBTQA+ and Latinos and Developmental and Intellectual and Psychological Disabilities. Just like the Cunt Musk and Cunt Trump and the Cunt Billionaires are envisioning and have envisioned.

Cut Cut Cut.

In my long and wide experience teaching and reporting and doing prison work and remedial ESL work and social work and work with homeless and jobless, well well, there is not one shred of Trauma Informed Care for the staff and lower fun folk.

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Sackings and going after so-called blue states: Oregon’s unemployment rate is up 0.3% since January of 2024, reaching the highest levels since September of 2021, according to the Oregon Employment Department.

In January, the state’s unemployment rate reached 4.4%, 0.4% higher than the national average. Manufacturing and retail saw the largest declines within the past year.

“Manufacturing continued its decline of the past two years, cutting 6,900 jobs (-3.7%) in the 12 months through January, while retail trade shed 2,300 jobs (-1.1%) during that time,” the Oregon Employment Department said.

It’s a mafia, this society, and dog-eat-dog ain’t no new thing with Rapist in Chief Trump, but he is on the prowl with Nazi Musk and Nazi Thiel and the 11 Fascist Billionaires in the Open and hundreds more in the shadows grifting and gouging and gutting.

And the fuckers at the local restaurant of whom I overhead, and who voted for the cunt and want the military to be triple budgeted, they love the fucking lies and white male military PR. Really. Fucking crab catchers.

See them all come to Ohio and cum all over themselves?

DEI on parade:

Dirty Entitled Icteric Idiocracy — DEI & I!

Locally, Anduril plans to add 4,000 new jobs at a $900 million facility in Pickaway County at Rickenbacker International Airport by 2035. Those hired will work in a 5 million square foot manufacturing facility named “Arsenal 1,” according to a previous company announcement.

Anduril engineers work on everything from artificial intelligence to robotics, software, sensors, secure networking, aerospace and virtual reality technology, according to the company’s website.

Yeah, Putin, you putting trust in the fucking Jews and Trump?

The British arm of a drone manufacturer planning a nearly $1 billion weapons facility near Rickenbacker International Airport has reached an agreement to provide drones to Ukraine for its war with Russia.

The British government said on Thursday it had struck a deal with defense tech company Anduril UK to allow Ukrainian armed forces to use more advanced attack drones in the Black Sea. Anduril UK is part of Anduril Industries, based an hour south of Los Angeles in Costa Mesa, California.

This is AmeriKKKa, man, no need for K12 or universities: In his Feb. 25 op-ed “Bring Warriors Back to the U.S. Military,” Mike Gallagher proposes focusing military recruiting on a combat-first approach, emphasizing physical fitness, a warrior mindset and the prospect of “bad food, little sleep and long deployments.” This would be spot-on if we were still living in the 19th century. In the 21st century, however, warfare is dominated by highly computerized weapons systems, including advanced radars, stealth aircraft, drones, hypersonic missiles and directed energy weapons. Doing pushups and hiking 50 miles has little to do with being able to operate and maintain such sophisticated systems, much less protect them from cyber attack. The military will always need Rambos, but in the 21st century it will need as many if not more Sheldons too.

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Oh Liz and Bernie and the rest of the DNC, didn’t see this coming?

When it comes to military recruitment, President Biden left President Trump a flaming bag of you-know-what on the White House steps. Mr. Biden sapped the ranks of America’s military when he discharged more than 8,000 members for noncompliance with his Covid-19 vaccine mandate. These dismissals compounded the morale catastrophe of the Pentagon’s diversity, equity and inclusion push, best understood as a pseudoscientific attempt to favor loyalists at the expense of merit-based promotions and military readiness.

The Navy and Air Force missed their recruitment targets in fiscal 2023 for the first time this century. The Army missed its enlistment goals in 2022 and 2023, and the Marine Corps barely met its target in 2024. The most advanced weapons systems are useless without talented, motivated soldiers to operate them. Any military recruitment crisis emboldens America’s enemies. Resolving the Biden-created recruiting crisis is as important as securing our borders.

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Yeah, no more trains and civilian ferries and cars and buses. Bring on the Nazi Equipment:

Germany’s economy should embrace the pivot from cars to defense equipment as a major growth driver, according to a proposal by the country’s leading defense industry group.

The Federal Association of the German Security and Defense Industry (BDSV) pitched the idea last week while hailing the incoming government’s pledge to continue expanding the defense budget drastically. To overcome production bottlenecks, the argument goes, why not repurpose manufacturing capabilities of Germany’s famed, but ailing, automobile sector?

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Fucking Fascist Germany.

Is it possible to work every day yet still sleep on the street at night? This is reality for thousands of people in Germany who have jobs but are unable to obtain housing.

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Here we are, don’t you know you fucking crocodile tears Scott Ritters and the lot of you whining military mutts.

China Could Attack Pearl Harbor—and the West Coast By Lieutenant Colonel Thomas McCabe, U.S. Air Force Reserve (Ret.)

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Lies, and more lies and fabrications and, well, more fucking retired cunts that need their benefits cut.

And our masters, the Jews: IDF plans to summon 14,000 haredim, expects shortfall in 2025 draft goals

The IDF said it expects to miss its 2025 goal of 4,800 recruits by 1,800.

Oh, that’s right, a trade war with Europe.

US arms exports to Europe triple, boosted by Ukraine aid: SIPRI

Shipments of U.S. weapons to Europe rose 233% in the 2020-2024 time frame from the prior five-year period, according to a March 10 report by the Swedish think tank. For the first time in two decades, Europe accounted for the largest share of U.S. arms exports, SIPRI said.

This is the new AmeriKKKa — arms, jets, bombs, drones, AI, satellites, weaponizing the mind — the mind is a battlefield.

The Army is grappling with a staggering attrition rate among newly enlisted troops, even as recent recruiting figures suggest the service is clawing its way out of a yearslong enlistment crisis.

Nearly one-quarter of soldiers recruited since 2022 have failed to complete their initial contracts, according to internal Army data reviewed by Military.com. While the Army’s recruiting totals look solid on paper, a high dropout rate raises serious doubts about whether those numbers are an accurate portrayal of how well the service is manned.

It remains unclear why the Army is losing so many soldiers, but one explanation could be the declining quality of its recruiting pool. One-quarter of all enlistees last year had to go through at least one of the Future Soldier Preparatory Courses, which were set up as a sort of silver bullet for recruiting woes — getting applicants up to snuff with academic or body fat enlistment standards before they ship out to basic training.

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Hero!

These are not protectors of truth, nor are they soldiers of the Fourth Estate:

With Pentagon Leak, the Press Had Their Source and Ate Him Too

Whatever Jack Teixeira’s motives, he’s accused of sharing documents that have underpinned major stories in the same outlets that helped hunt him down.

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Feb. 17, 2023. The Justice Department is shifting its corruption probe of the Texas attorney general from federal prosecutors in the state to investigators in Washington, according to a person familiar with the matter. Photographer: Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The final tour, Yankee Doodle Dandy: There is free-riding among the US military services, too

Ahh, allies: Elon Musk says X facing ‘massive cyberattack’ originating from the Ukraine area. Musk says X cyberattack was done ‘with a lot of resources,’ suggests ‘large coordinated group’ using IP addresses from the Ukraine area were involved.

And, more of our dollars stolen, in the trillionss:

Ahh, taxes for the rich, gone gone gone:

Yeah, more white trash: Rising home prices, the increasing cost of rent, and high mortgage rates are each contributing to major financial problems for many Americans.

New York University professor, author, and podcaster Scott Galloway urges people to understand the real estate and housing predicament in a different way.

The author explains that about a third of Americans pay for rent, not mortgages — and cites a United States Census Bureau report that found 49.7% of the 42.5 million renter households were “cost-burdened” in 2023, meaning that they spent more than 30% of their income on housing costs.

Galloway reports that, since 2019, rents have risen at a pace one-and-a-half times as fast as income in most metropolitan areas.

Another Jew giving us the tips to the stock market!

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As someone who makes $16 million per year, Galloway does not think he should be eligible to collect Social Security when he retires. Rather, he supports means-testing as a tool to determine whether one qualifies for benefits.

The podcast host clarifies that he pays $9,000 in Social Security taxes every year. And he says that is the same amount someone who makes $160,000 annually pays.

Galloway believes that most people who collect Social Security take out two to three times the amount of money they contribute to it through the tax. People who are extremely well off, he suggests, do not necessarily deserve the money just because they have paid the tax during their working years.

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“Saving” Social Security

A Neoliberal Recapitulation of Primitive Accumulation

by Alan G. Nasser

(Dec 01, 2000)

Alan G. Nasser teaches philosophy and political economy at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. His article “The Atom Bomb, the Cold War and the Soviet ‘Threat’” appeared in the December 1989 issue of Monthly Review.

Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot, Social Security: The Phony Crisis (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000), 175 pp., $22.

The pronounced insecurity that inevitably attends capitalism’s historic tendency to commodify, and hence privatize, everything that can be commodified and privatized has been met with two major forms of resistance. The first is revolutionary communism, which emerged in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the second is social democracy, which developed in its strongest form in Europe after the Second World War. A defining feature of our present situation is that neither of these forms of resistance to capitalist hegemony is currently a major historical force.

The absence of major challenges to capitalism has led to an attack on the social and economic policies that lessen the dependence of the working population on the vagaries of the market and the demands of capital. Neoliberalism is now mainstream orthodoxy: regulation of business activity is to be eased, publicly owned enterprises are to be privatized, and the services and income supplements that have constituted the social wage are to be notably reduced or outright eliminated. This massive assault on the security of working people has met with no small measure of success: the real income of the typical US worker has been in decline for at least two decades, the number of medically uninsured individuals has risen, and both intra- and international inequalities have reached levels unmatched since the Great Depression. In the United States, the decline of workers’ real income has been accompanied by an overall shift of national income from labor to capital.1

The 1990s have seen two tremendous attacks by the rulers on the welfare and security of working people. The first, in 1996, resulted in a ruling-class victory: the sixty-year-old federal income guarantee for poor families was abolished. The second onslaught is still underway. It aims to cut benefits and at least partially privatize the Social Security system, which would no longer function as a system of social insurance, protecting all workers in the face of any misfortune that might befall them. Groups such as the Urban Institute, the Concord Coalition, the Cato Institute, and the National Center for Policy Analysis have produced a barrage of studies and statistics designed to undermine the most successful US program explicitly intended to reduce poverty. Jeanette Nordstrom of the National Center for Policy Analysis makes the aim of her organization clear: “to break the strong tie between the taxes employees pay during their working years and their right to a pension later on.”2 The media have on the whole communicated this agenda to the American people under the rhetoric of the “crisis” that Social Security faces and the corresponding need to “save the system”—presumably by excising its guts.

Social Security is often characterized as a pay-as-you-go arrangement under which current benefit payments are financed out of current payroll taxes. Yet, rather than conforming strictly to a pay-as- you-go principle, whereby current proceeds are immediately spent to meet current obligations, Social Security has been structured along actuarial lines (used by insurance companies) almost from the beginning. This has required the amassing of trust funds to meet future exigencies. Since 1984, the system has been building up a surplus of tax revenues over benefit payments, which the Social Security Administration (SSA) is required by law to use to buy US Treasury obligations. It has accumulated almost one trillion dollars in these government bonds and continues to add to this amount to the tune of more than one hundred billion dollars a year. (The current surplus stands at about 150 billion dollars.) According to figures accepted by all sides of the debate, the program will take in enough revenue to pay all promised benefits for almost forty years, without any change at all in the tax or benefit payout structure. (Baker and Weisbrot’s analysis is based largely on the then-latest figures released by the SSA in April 1999, which projected a revenue shortfall in 2034. SSA’s 2000 report, released last March, revises this projection to 2037. It’s worth noting that for years, SSA set the dreaded date at 2029.

Their 1998 report jumped the date to 2032, and the 1999 report to 2034. With the current wisdom projecting to 2037, we can probably expect further postponements of Judgment Day. This is remarkable in itself. What other project of this size, private or public, is able to guarantee its benefits for almost four decades?)

So what is all the fuss about? Most Americans seem to believe the scenario, put forward by pro-privatization think-tanks, politicians, and the media that (in the words of a 1998 report by the Heritage Foundation) “the Social Security system is bankrupt.” It is this belief that leads many Americans to support neoliberal demands for privatization. The stock market is touted as a more secure investment outlet for workers than an allegedly insolvent fund managed by “big government.” After all, haven’t stocks been making money for “us” hand over fist for years?

Baker and Weisbrot show in great detail that both the diagnosis of bankruptcy and the prescription of privatization are nonsense. Unlike most economists, the authors’ historical literacy is formidable and their quantitative and theoretical sophistication dwarfs the kind of confused and disingenuous sophistry coming out of the right wing think-tanks. They argue rigorously from the same set of economic and demographic assumptions and the same numbers that the privatizers play fast and loose with and demonstrate conclusively that the recommendations of the “reformers” are entirely inconsistent with undisputed facts. The pessimism of the general public regarding Social Security’s future, created with the assistance of an uncritical media establishment, is testimony to perhaps the greatest public-relations scam in contemporary America. (And the hoax extends to another major form of social security; Baker and Weisbrot also include a detailed analysis of the phony Medicare “crisis.”)

What are the relevant facts? In 2014 (now 2015 according to Baker and Weisbrot), the benefits paid out by Social Security are projected to slightly exceed taxes received. But does it follow from this that Social Security is “going broke?” Of course not. The privatizers know full well that the funds borrowed from Social Security by the US Treasury are to be paid back, as they have been since the system’s inception, with interest. Accordingly, the system’s total income consists of payroll taxes plus interest income. At the end of 2014, the system is projected to take in 585 billion dollars (in 1999 dollars) in taxes and 137.9 billion dollars in interest payments for a total income of 722.9 billion. And it will have nearly 2.3 trillion dollars in assets. With benefit payments projected at 592.7 billion dollars, the total income of the system is thus expected to exceed benefit payments by 130 billion dollars. The figures show that Social Security’s total income will be able to cover all benefits until 2022. From that point until 2034, Social Security will be able to pay all benefits by drawing on the principal of its accumulated assets. (These figures were reported by Baker and Weisbrot in 1999. Recall that this year’s projections have extended the year of reckoning to 2037.)

Note how mainstream economic reporting misrepresents these figures. Katharine Q. Seelye recently reported for the New York Times (May 14, 2000, section 1, p. 22) that Social Security “will begin paying out more than it takes in by 2015.” (The 2015 date extends the 2014 projection available to Baker and Weisbrot.) Does Seelye think that what Social Security “takes in,” i.e., its income, is exhausted by payroll taxes? As we have seen, an additional component of Social Security’s annual income is the interest on the Treasury bonds it holds, which accounts for the 270-billion-dollar surplus the system is officially projected to have in 2015. In fact, this surplus was planned precisely in order to cover the anticipated shortfall. Seelye adds insult to injury when she further claims that “without a major fix, the system could go broke by 2037.” But Baker and Weisbrot show that the contribution from interest payments makes it possible for the system to pay all benefits out of its income until 2022. From then until 2037, it will draw on the principal in the trust fund to maintain full benefit payments. These payments can be further extended through 2074 with a mere 2.07 percent payroll tax increase, about 1 percent each for employer and employee. If the economy were to limp along at a growth rate somewhat lower than its present relatively low rate, indeed, if the economy simply manages to avoid a major depression, the “crisis” of Social Security, as defined by the privatizers, simply vanishes. This point requires further elaboration, as it touches on one of the principal contradictions in the case for privatization.

The SSA trustees are required by law to produce annual projections of the system’s future financial status. The assumptions of the generally accepted projection are astonishing. The economy is projected to grow at an average annual rate of just under 1.5 percent over the next seventy-five years. (This year’s report revises that figure to just under 1.7 percent.) This means that the economy is expected to perform worse than in almost any previous period in US history. Now if this scenario were taken seriously, one would expect the alarm to be sounded not over the “crisis” of Social Security, but over the forecast that we may well be heading for an extended period of severe economic stagnation. Neoliberals have seized upon this slow-growth assumption to argue that the economy will generate insufficient income to cover Social Security benefits. Their case is conspicuously incoherent: the privatizers’ central recommendation is that a portion of workers’ income be transferred to private accounts invested in the stock market. But how can the stock market be expected to provide robust returns in an economy that is projected to be in virtual long term depression? The privatizers’ assumption that future stock market returns will reflect past returns stands in stark contradiction to their reliance on SSA’s ultra-pessimistic growth forecast.

We have recently experienced the fastest increase in stock prices in US history. MR readers are familiar with the underlying source of this phenomenon: the pronounced evaporation of profitable investment opportunities in industrial production since the mid-1970s has drawn what would otherwise be idle wealth into the gambling casino of the financial superstructure. The dramatic increase in stock prices is therefore unrelated to the behavior of corporate earnings. This is to say that the stock market is now massively overvalued. Historically, a share of stock has been valued at fifteen dollars per dollar of earnings. After the recent market takeoff, stock shares were selling for more than thirty dollars for each dollar of earnings. It is sheer folly to imagine that the stock market will continue to soar at a rate that bears no relation to the condition of the underlying economy. And it is not only the SSA trustees who foresee a grim picture for profits. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) provides economic projections to Washington legislators debating tax and spending plans for the future. CBO anticipates after-tax corporate profits to decline by 4 percent over the next decade. The combination of current stock (over)valuations and official projections of low profit growth, both well known to Washington politicians, make it fanciful in the extreme to count on the stock market to sustain its historic rates of return. This has been demonstrated in painstaking detail by MIT professor Peter Diamond, a leading expert in public finance, and Dean Baker, who both show that the stock- return projections used by the privatizers in their calculations of the benefits of a privatized system are historically and mathematically preposterous.3 Assume that stock prices continue to outpace profits. The current price to earnings ratio of thirty-to-one would, on the privatizers’ prediction that stock returns of 7 percent can be sustained as the economy grows at half its past rate, rise to 230-to-one by 2055. Who can imagine that investors would continue to hold stocks, as opposed to government bonds, in these circumstances? When stock prices have risen this far from the earnings potential of the stock’s underlying assets, we have the ingredients of a major stock-market crash. This kind of catastrophe appears to be implicit in the argument of the privatizers.

Keep in mind that the accuracy of SSA’s and CBO’s dire growth projections is not what is at issue here. The point is that the privatizers’ case is conspicuously unsupported by their own data and self-contradictory to boot. To adhere simultaneously to optimistic stock-market projections and pessimistic growth projections is to try to have one’s cake and eat it too. Adherence to either of the projections entails the rejection of the other. George W. Bush has recently been impaled on the horns of this dilemma. The Washington Post reported that Bush’s aides defended their optimism regarding future stock returns by claiming that SSA’s economic projections are too pessimistic (Glenn Kessler, “Bush Proposal Ventures Into Financial Unknown,” May 16, 2000, p. A6). But if that’s true, then Social Security is in good shape and Bush’s case for privatization collapses. We have not seen slapstick logic on this order since Abbott and Costello.

The complicity of the mainstream media in the perpetuation of this entire hoax is all too familiar and hard to underestimate. It is not as if there are absolutely no references to the facts on the glaring inconsistencies of the case for privatization. It’s just that the relatively very few citations of serious scholarship have no net effect on the overall impression communicated by the media. In early 1996, Robert Pear of the New York Times wrote a major story discussing Dean Baker’s position on Social Security, which was run as written by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. But when it appeared in the Times, Baker’s criticism of the case for privatization had been cut. The Times did publish an article by one of its own editors, Fred Brock, titled “Save Social Security? From What?” in its Business section (November 1, 1998, p. 12), which favorably quoted Weisbrot and Baker. Brock went on to attribute the hysteria of the privatizers to “hidden agendas.” And it continued, “Wall Street would love to get its hands on at least some of the billions of dollars in the Social Security trust fund…But knowing that the idea [of full privatization] won’t fly politically, [politicians] are pushing for partial privatization, in which individuals would invest a portion of their contribution in the stock market, all in the name of rescuing the system.” Still, in the very same issue, the lead editorial claimed that “The next Congress will have to deal with nothing less than…devising a plan to save Social Security in the next generation” (p. 14). Last May, the Times ran a piece (“Money For Nothing,” May 28, 2000, p. 11) by its Op-Ed economics columnist Paul Krugman that criticized Bush’s stock-price projections. Yet none of this has made any difference to the neoliberal propaganda that pervades the newspaper’s front-page reporting on this issue.

Fact checking also seems to be nonexistent when it comes to Social Security. The myth of the “baby boomers,” whose retirement will allegedly bust Social Security, is repeated as factual. But as Baker and Weisbrot show, the accommodation of the flood of boomer retirements from 2010- 2030 has already been taken into account in the financing of Social Security. In 2037, the earliest year in which Social Security is currently projected to face financial difficulties, the biggest effect of the baby boom generation on retirement will be nearly over—the oldest baby boomers will be ninety-one and the youngest seventy-three, eleven years older than the minimum Social Security retirement age. The baby-boomer scare is factually off the wall, but you’d never know it reading the papers.

As noted at the beginning of this essay, the campaign to privatize Social Security is now the front line in the global war of neoliberalism against working people. In this onslaught, we find echoes of what Marx called “primitive accumulation.” The world into which capitalism was born was not pervaded by market institutions, which is to say that human needs and desires were satisfied by means that did not on the whole render people dependent on markets for their livelihood. The historic mission of capitalism is to transform this situation by making people’s ability to get what they need and want contingent upon their ability to strike a deal on a market, i.e., a deal that contributes directly capital. From the capitalist point of view, the ideal situation is one in which everyone is dependent upon the market for everything they desire. Every human activity should contribute to the accumulation of capital. Precapitalist social and economic space was not hospitable to this imperative. Most importantly, there were customary and traditional entitlements and rights of access to productive resources, e.g., land and the instruments of labor, to which one was guaranteed access simply by virtue of one’s membership in one’s clan, family, village, or kingdom. It was capitalism’s original business to abolish these traditional use rights on which most working people depended for their livelihood. These common customary entitlements were correctly seen by capitalist landlords as interfering with their ability to accumulate private, self-expanding wealth, i.e., capital.4

The forced enclosures of common land first begun on a large scale in sixteenth-century England were succeeded by “Parliamentary enclosure,” when acts of Parliament formally reconstituted common resources as private property. Indeed, the history of enclosure in England from the sixteenth to the late eighteenth century might be termed the “primitive privatization,” the historical progenitor of the contemporary neoliberal project to privatize and deregulate everything. The Parliamentary enclosures transformed what had originated as a wave of coerced expulsions into a political process, the legally sanctioned removal of any obstacles to the ongoing and limitless accumulation of capitalist wealth.

This secular tendency of capital to universally privatize was temporarily offset in the middle of the twentieth century by the emergence of the New Deal in the United States and social democracy in Europe. But even these meager provisions of non-market benefits proved to be too radical for capital. Born-again capitalism is now the order of the day, and social security is once again, as it was way back then, a principal obstacle to profitability. The struggle of large English landowners to privatize historically common land finds its contemporary counterpart in the campaign of big banks and Wall Street brokerage houses to put to private, profitable use resources currently earmarked for workers in need. Just as the social costs of the transition to capitalism were borne by the working population, so too the attempted transition back to pre-Keynesian capitalism will be borne by the same class. The administrative costs of privately managing a huge number of individual accounts in Chile and Britain amount to over 16 percent of the systems’ annual revenue. If the US system was run in a comparable way, about seventy billion dollars would be transferred every year from workers’ retirement accounts to brokerage houses and banks. Administrative costs under the present system, on the other hand, amount to less than 1 percent of total benefits paid each year. It would be about forty years before the first generation of private Social Security investors could retire on the returns from their individual accounts. Since current benefits will continue to be paid out of the system’s current income, how will four decades of beneficiaries be able to receive their payments if a substantial portion of Social Security tax revenue continues to be diverted to individual private accounts? Surely not by tapping the resources of others’ private accounts. Barring sharp cuts in benefits, tax increases will become a virtual necessity and these will be enough, as Baker and Weisbrot point out, to ensure a negative return overall for the first generations of privatized savers.

If working people knew all this, they would not support this venal agenda. One of the principal tasks of the socialist left is to fill the factual and analytical vacuum created by the corporate media. As immediate educational tasks go, none is more urgent than this one.

Notes

L. Mishel, J. Bernstein, and J. Schmitt, The State of Working America, 1998-1999 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999).
Quoted in Trudy Lieberman, “Social Security: The Campaign to Take the System Private,” The Nation, January 27, 1997, p. 13.
Baker’s arguments can be found in his detailed letter to the Harvard economist Martin Feldstein at http://www.cepr.net/letters/feldstein_1999_05_15.htm, and Diamond’s “What Stock Market Returns to Expect for the Future?” at http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/csom/executive/crr/ib2.htm.
For a fuller discussion, see Ellen Meiksins Wood, The Origin of Capitalism (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1999.)

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Nazism Never Left, and Colonialism and Imperialism are just Fancy Words for Fascism

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March 9, 2025

‘Capitalism, colonialism, and ecological devastation are all cause and effect of each other, and they coevolved together.’

[In the wake of Trump’s sweeping victory, millions of young and working people are asking, “How did we get here?” To answer this question, we need to understand the root of the right wing’s recent growth—the crisis of capitalism itself.]

Trump and the far right all over the world are a reflection of a fundamentally broken system. When society is a haunted house of inequality and oppression, a few particularly loathsome ghouls are bound to emerge from time to time. But Trump is more than just a uniquely terrible manifestation of the crisis facing the system. He’s a symptom—and capitalism is the disease.]

These are white Nazi Nationalists, and you can call them fucking Female Christians or whatever, but a Nazi is a Nazi.

A group of Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are requesting an investigation into Washington D.C. United States Attorney Ed Martin by the group that governs the region’s legal bar.

Ranking member Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) led a group of 10 Democrats on the committee in accusing Martin of abusing his position by using prosecution as an intimidation tactic toward government employees and limiting the speech of private citizens.

Versus:

In 1982, Novello earned a master’s degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University and in 1986, she became a clinical professor of pediatrics at Georgetown University Hospital. Novello moved to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in 1987, where she focused on pediatric AIDS.

President George H.W. Bush took notice of Novello’s work on pediatric AIDS and, in 1990, appointed her the United States’ 14^th Surgeon General, the nation’s top health official. She was the first woman and the first Hispanic person to serve as U.S. Surgeon General.

Novello focused on the health of women, children, and minorities during her tenure as Surgeon General. She launched initiatives to combat underage drinking and smoking. One of her most effective campaigns sought to end tobacco advertising aimed at children, such as ads with the “Joe Camel” cartoon.

A good day in golf news:

…dug up some of the greens, covered the clubhouse in red paint and more. The vandals also reportedly painted “Gaza Is Not 4 Sale” near one of the holes.

US court orders China to pay $24 billion for protective equipment ‘hoarding’ during Covid: Report

What a joke, Missouri Goddamn! US bioweapon, SARS-CoV2,and they go after China?

The face of addiction and melting mind:

In February, during an interview on Fox News’ “Ingraham Angle,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he had a “generic list” of staffers at the department he’d like to see removed.

“If you’ve been involved in good science, you have got nothing to worry about,” Kennedy said. “If you care about public health, you’ve got nothing to worry about. If you’re in there working for the pharmaceutical industry, then I’d say you should move out and work for the pharmaceutical industry.”

What a fop.

Draining the swamp, uh?

Palantir said it delivered its first two TITAN systems to the U.S. Army.
The company won the $178 million contract last March, beating out competitor RTX Corporation.
The deal underscores the shifting landscape of software use on the battlefield and is the first time a software company has worked as a primary contractor for a significant hardware program.

The agreement includes a total of 10 TITAN systems. Each system includes an advanced system with two larger trucks and a basic system with two vehicles delivered over five delivery orders, Jain explained. The systems allow soldiers to make intelligence decisions without requiring the cloud, putting “all that power in the back of a truck,” he added.

Palantir also joined forces with Northrop Grumman, L3Harris and Palmer Luckey-founded defense tech startup Anduril Industries on some capabilities for the program.

The news from Palantir comes during a volatile period for the 2024 S&P 500 front-runner. Shares have lost more than one-fourth of their value over the past month as risk-off sentiment hits Wall Street and the buzzing tech sector. Last month, shares jumped 24% to a record high after the company reported strong earnings and guidance fueled by AI demand.

Infantino, meanwhile, said the task force will ensure that each of the visitors who will travel from around the world “feels safe, feels happy and feels that we are doing something special.”

“So we’re here to create and to make the best show on the planet ever,” Infantino said. He gave Mr. Trump a personalized game ball and unveiled an elaborate trophy that will go to the winner of the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup, which will pit top soccer clubs against each other this summer ahead of next year’s matchup of national teams.

Soccer’s biggest tournament will have games spread across 16 host cities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico over the course of a month.

Eleven U.S. cities, including Philadelphia, will host World Cup matches. The 10 other U.S. host cities are Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, New York/New Jersey, San Francisco and Seattle.

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The dirt under his nails goes back to Trump’s birth.

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The cunts just love vets:

The Trump administration is planning to fire more than 80,000 employees at the department of Veterans Affairs (VA) nationwide and some employees in Madison have already been terminated.

It is unclear how many people lost their jobs. This comes after a memo issued Tuesday by the chief of VA explained there would be a restructuring of the department.

Wallace said staff at the VFW want to be a listening ear and a place of comfort. He says all employees have one mission, serving veterans.

“We are your advocates; we want you to provide the best care possible and not have to worry about these looming cuts that might disrupt your job,” Wallace added.

Nearly 15,000 people – including more than 1,500 children – are estimated to have died already because of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s savage cuts to USAID, according to an advocacy program tracker.

The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the global health program funded by USAID that includes HIV treatment, testing and prevention drug distribution, has saved more than 25 million lives since it began in 2003 under former President George W. Bush.

A tracker compiled by the HIV Modeling Consortium – a network of epidemiologists, modelers, health economists and policymakers – charts the impact of the Trump administration’s freeze on funding for the AIDS’ program.

And fuck those cocksuckers, Aaron and Max and the lot of them, loving the total cuts to health assistance and food to the “third world.”

21:57 this part resonates deeply! I’ve often been disturbed by the seeming lack of acknowledgement of colonial harm in Europe. As a white settler in Canada it’s all around me and harder to ignore. I visited London a few years ago and was disgusted at the way the North American exhibit at the British museum described First Nations people. As if they’re a dead people. I was so angry I cried. Thanks for another excellent discussion you 3!

Professor Roy Casagranda is an expert in history and political science. He has hosted a series of lectures that are available on YouTube explaining the history of the Americas, the slave trade, colonialism, and the Arab world and the Middle East. In this extended interview, Casagranda takes us on a history lesson that includes the Sykes-Picot agreement, CIA-orchestrated coups in Syria and Iran, various wars, doctrines, betrayals and policies that show just how damaging and cynical US meddling in the Middle East has been over the last century. Hosted by Ashfaaq Carim.

Extremist US defense secretary declared ‘holy war’ on China, left & Islam: Pete Hegseth’s ‘crusade’

Nazis Never Left — They Just Rebranded. Here’s How They Took Over Mainstream Politics

They ‘The People’ are Screwed Blued and Tattooed, but this ain’t no fucking Navy Slang — International Women’s Day is a Salve!

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March 8, 2025

Yanqui Go Home? Nah, Yanqui die die die.

Everything is interconnected. Vandana Shiva, watch her below!

The China Question?

Production does not take place in the USA. The producers have given up production. The US trade deficit with China is instrumental in fuelling the profit-driven consumer economy which relies on Made in China consumer goods.

A dozen designer shirts produced in China will sell at a factory price FOB at $36 a dozen ($3 dollars a shirt). Once they reach the shopping malls, each shirt will be sold at $30 or more, approximately ten times its factory price. Vast revenues accrue to wholesale and retail distributors. The US based “non-producers” reap the benefits of China’s low cost commodity production. (Michel Chossudovsky, The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order, Global Research, 2003)

Oh, globalization and the Chinese Sweat. Blood. Tears

Levels of income inequality are higher than in the U.S. according to a 2014 University of Michigan study. Social inequality in China is among the highest in the world.

Income inequality has been rising rapidly in China and now surpasses that of the U.S. by a large margin, say University of Michigan researchers.

That is the key finding of their study based on newly available survey data collected by several Chinese universities.

“Income inequality in today’s China is among the highest in the world, especially in comparison to countries with comparable or higher standards of living,” said University of Michigan sociologist Yu Xie. University of Michigan study.

While China plays an important and positive balancing role on the geopolitical chessboard, it does not constitute a viable “socialist” alternative to Western capitalism. In contrast to the US, however, China has no imperial ambitions.

Unlimited Reserves of Cheap Labor: 287 Million Internal Migrant Workers

China has currently, according to official figures [275 million (2015)], 287 million in 2017 internal migrant workers employed in the cheap labor export economy, construction and infrastructure projects as well as in the urban service economy.

A formidable labor force almost the size of the population of the US (325 million in 2017).

China’s 287 million migrant workers also constitute the driving force behind the development of infrastructure, roads and transport corridors not to mention the PRC’s “Belt and Road” Eurasian trade and investment initiative.

These workers largely from rural areas and townships constitute more than a third of the labor force. They do not have the right of abode in urban areas.

[China and the Restoration of Capitalism. The Largest Cheap Labor Factory in the World by Michel Chossudovsky]

Oh, China — the USA wants to weaken you, man:

BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is buying the ports on both sides of the Panama Canal, after Donald Trump threatened the Latin American country and forced it to pressure a Hong Kong company to sell its stake. Ben Norton discusses how the US government is trying to weaken China — and strengthen Wall Street oligarchs.

But but . . . Fuck AmeriKKKa, from dirty sea to oil slick sea:

Rollover: Briahna Joy Gray, host of Bad Faith podcast, joins the show to analyze Trump’s speech to Congress on Tuesday, where he lied repeatedly, attacked immigrants and transgender people, while omitting his unpopular agenda to gut social security, Medicaid, and Medicare. Meanwhile, the Democrats responded with boycotts, pink outfits, and bingo paddles– symbolic gestures as Trump dismantles the last modicum of a social safety net left in the US. Why are the Democrats “rolling over and playing dead?” Gray asks.

“At the end of the day they’re funded by a different version of the same people who fund the Republicans.”

Such such such wimpy “Democrats.” Here in Newport, fighting for science.

Ten Democrats voted to censure Al Green. Cunts. Look at this fucking albino, this souther inbred piece of shit.

“Democratic strategist James Carville wrote this: ‘Roll over and play dead, allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us,’” Welker said. “Senator, what say you? Do you think that’s a good idea?”

“No, I don’t,” Bernie Sanders replied. “In fact, the problem is the Democrats have been playing dead for too many years.”

He highlighted the wealth inequality across the country, a topic he’s been passionate about for decades. By disagreeing with Carville, Sanders is exposing the differing views on how top Democrats think they should respond to the influx of Trump administration action.

“I don’t think you play dead. I think you stand up for the working class of this country and make the point that right now, the Trump administration is clearly an administration designed to represent the interests of the [Elon] Musks of the world,” Sanders said.

Leading Democrats say openly that they have no idea what to do. But the path is clear, they’re just unwilling to take it.

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Dirt.

Watch: My old fucking school, U of Arizona. A Native student was nearly silenced for calling out the University of Arizona for quietly altering its statement honoring Indigenous land stewards. Caving to Trump’s attacks, the university erased any mention of DEI.

Watch: https://youtube.com/shorts/VihAbs3aC2M?si=Nhlo_O2G3q1Yd9O4

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For those students, the sudden ending of those programs is a front-and-center concern. One of those changes sparked concern among Indigenous students at the University of Arizona when they noticed that the university quietly changed language in its official land acknowledgment — without consulting tribes and students.

Indigenous law student Jacquelyn Francisco pointed out the change to Arizona tribal leaders on Feb. 19 during the 4th Annual Tribal Leaders Summit & Student Engagement event.

Francisco stood in front of a room full of tribal leaders and fellow Native students and sharply criticized the university’s administration for unilaterally changing the land acknowledgment language, which had been drafted in conjunction with tribal leaders. She was met with resistance from university officials hosting the event.

Before she spoke, Franciso was denied access to the microphone at the podium by Tessa Dysart, the assistant vice provost for Native American Initiatives, and Kari McCormick, the executive director for Native American Advancement and Tribal Engagement.

Stepping away from the podium and speaking directly to the crowd, Francisco said that University of Arizona President Suresh Garimella discussed the university’s commitment to tribal nations in an earlier speech, but she questioned this commitment after the university “erased” the words “committed to diversity and inclusion” from its official land acknowledgment.

“If he and the university were really committed, they would not delete these words,” Francisco said in a video posted on social media by the University of Arizona Native and Indigenous Law Students Association (NILSA). The Arizona Mirror contacted Francisco for comment, but she declined an interview.

Francisco is a second-year law student at the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law and serves as president of the NILSA. She is Diné and Jicarilla Apache.

NILSA is an organization of law students, faculty and staff at UA dedicated to raising awareness about Indigenous peoples within the law school and the broader community, as well as educating on the legal issues that affect them

“Deleting those five words triggers the erasure of our tribes,” Francisco said in the video. “It’s coming.”

The University of Arizona announced its land acknowledgment statement in 2021, highlighting how it was crafted in consultation with Arizona tribal leaders. Its purpose is to recognize the peoples whose homelands the campus occupies.

The university said at the time that it would provide a foundation for partnerships that more meaningfully serve tribal students and Indigenous communities around the state.

The original land acknowledgment was: “We respectfully acknowledge the University of Arizona is on the land and territories of Indigenous peoples. Today, Arizona is home to 22 federally recognized tribes, with Tucson being home to the O’odham and the Yaqui. Committed to diversity and inclusion, the University strives to build sustainable relationships with sovereign Native Nations and Indigenous communities through education offerings, partnerships, and community service.”

The land acknowledgement on the university’s website now does not include the phrase “committed to diversity and inclusion” in the third sentence. University spokesperson Mitch Zak could not say when the language was changed but said it occurred within the last week.

An internet archive shows that the original language was still present on Feb. 7, and that it had been removed by Feb. 13.

Francisco said in a post on her LinkedIn that the university’s actions were made “without transparency and without considerations for the Indigenous students and communities it directly affects.”

“A land acknowledgment should not be subject to silent revision or political convenience,” she added. “I call on the University of Arizona to restore the original Land Acknowledgement, which was drafted and enacted by Arizona’s Tribal leaders.”

Winona Little Owl-Ignacio was sitting at a table in the audience when Francisco went up to the podium to speak and watched as the university officials denied her access to the mic. But it wasn’t until she overheard them threaten to call campus security to remove Francisco that she walked up and stood beside her.

Little Owl-Ignacio said she recognized that Francisco needed the support because she did not want the situation downplayed as simply a Brown woman getting angry.

“Anger is never a good thing, but especially for people of color,” she said in an interview. “I didn’t want them to paint that picture of her, because she’s a student (and) she doesn’t deserve to be treated like that.”

Little Owl-Ignacio said she stood up because it was unfair for university officials to try to physically prevent Francisco from speaking. In the video, Dysart is seen pulling and keeping the microphone away from Francisco while McCormick stands on the other side of her.

That denial, coupled with comments about calling campus security, raised concerns among the Indigenous students present, Little Owl-Ignacio said, adding that several students approached her afterward, expressing their fears.

“Nobody deserves to have that fear when they go to school,” she added, especially when it comes from university officials who are “supposed to be helping Native Americans.”

Little Owl-Ignacio, 22, is a James E. Rogers College of Law student in the Indigenous People’s Law and Policy Program. She is Lakȟóta and Tohono O’odham.

In the video, she stands next to Francisco and addresses the crowd, calling on tribal officials’ support and asking them “to stand with us, especially when President Trump is handing down these DEI initiatives and saying that we don’t need that.”

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International Women’s Day: Feminism and Revolution: A Conversation with Alejandra Laprea

What is the situation of the feminist movement at the continental and national level?

One of the key lessons we have learned through our participation in the March is that we are part of something larger – feminism manifests in diverse ways across the continent and the world, but our movements share many things, including the effects of crises on working women.

We lived through extraordinary years when the “Marea Verde” [Green Tide, a pro-abortion movement] swept Latin America, with different expressions such as the Me Too movement, the March 8 feminist strikes, and “El violador eres tú” [the wave of anti-patriarchal street performances that used the slogan “You Are the Rapist”].

We witnessed a powerful global feminist surge. However, the enemy was not defeated and reacted with force. Today, we are facing a backlash from patriarchal, capitalist, racist, and colonialist forces working in concert. In the Women’s March, we refer to this as a system of multiple oppressions – they operate simultaneously and reinforce one another.

There are different manifestations of this reaction. For example, Javier Milei in Argentina is aggressively dismantling hard-won rights. On a different scale, we see the emergence of fascist forces in Venezuela, while the negotiations and concessions forced by the blockade-induced crisis are putting some of our rights at risk.

There has been a rise of fundamentalist evangelical Christianity in Venezuela and beyond. How does it affect women?

We are witnessing the global rise of religious fundamentalism. In Africa and the Arab world, this manifests as fundamentalist Islam, while in Latin America, there is a growing influence of Christian fundamentalist tendencies. Venezuela is no exception. Christian fundamentalism is on the rise here, and its primary target is women. These forces invoke the so-called traditional, heteronormative monogamous family – an idealized construct that never really existed – and blame societal problems on its supposed breakdown. These tendencies are gaining ground in every sphere of our society, and they are deeply troubling.

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Women Rock:

Zoe Alexandra, Editor of Peoples Dispatch, joins the show to unpack Trump’s recent announcement pausing (again) 25% tariffs on Mexican imports following discussions with Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum. Alexandra discusses how Sheinbaum is navigating aggressive US attacks—from trade wars to threats of military intervention—while working to rebuild Mexico’s sovereignty, improve living standards for its people, and push back against entrenched US corporate interests.

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Panama:

In this eyewitness account, Tan Wah Piow reports on the mood in Panama, along with the background to the issue, following US President Donald Trump’s brazen threats to “take back” the canal that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Referring to Trump’s “audacity”, Wah Piow notes that: “This is a thriving sovereign nation, a regional financial powerhouse, and, as of January 2025, a newly elected [non-permanent] member of the UN Security Council.”

Citing a vast field of Panamanian flags he saw from his taxi, he notes: “His [the taxi driver’s] words brought back memories of the Museo Canal exhibit on the 1964 Martyrs Day incident when US troops killed 21 Panamanian students for asserting their right to raise the national flag in the US-controlled Canal Zone. The 1964 incident remains deeply ingrained in Panamanian consciousness, symbolising the people’s struggle for independence and control of the Canal.

“That incident was a rallying cry for international solidarity against US imperialism in Latin America. Even Chairman Mao of China issued a statement on January 12, 1964, published in Hong Qi, the Chinese Communist Party’s official organ, supporting the ‘great patriotic struggle’ of the Panamanian people. Back then, China had no diplomatic ties in the region beyond Cuba, and there was no Chinese shipping through the Canal.

“The 1964 Martyrs Day protests ultimately led to the 1977 Torrijos-Carter Treaties, which ceded sovereignty of the Canal to Panama. Under these agreements, Panama gained full control of the Canal in perpetuity.”

Trump’s remarks, he explains, were not merely a one-off provocation or a bargaining tactic, followed as they were by a threatening visit by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

“Today,” Wah Piow notes, “the Panama Canal sees 14,000 vessels annually, handling 5 per cent of global shipping. China-US trade accounts for about 20 per cent of its traffic, while China-Latin American trade represents another 15-20 per cent. Studies suggest this volume is set to rise, with China already having surpassed the US as the primary trading partner of countries such as Brazil, Chile, and Peru. Trump’s renewed interest in the Canal appears driven by the fear that China is outpacing the US in Latin America.”

He calls on the international community to defend Panamanian sovereignty, “otherwise, a US power play to uphold its imperialist interests could threaten not just Panama but the economic stability of an entire region long hindered by dependence on Washington.”

Tan Wah Piow, a retired London lawyer, has been in exile from Singapore since 1976. He was imprisoned as a student leader for his activism and is Singapore’s most well-known exile. He is also a member of the Friends of Socialist China Advisory Group. He visited Panama in February 2025. This article was originally published in the Morning Star.

Women Rock:

Vandana ROCKS:

Oh, Mister Fascism Goes to Washington

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March 6, 2025

ya gotta be kidding / / / Reagan and freedom fighters and ketchup as vegetables, and since when did the USA ever respect dissent and/or real universities?

Cunts on all sides of the Jewish Influence Aisle: His parents are Jewish; his mother, who was raised Presbyterian, converted to Judaism. He was named for Jacob Scher. When Tapper was young, he spent summers attending Camp Ramah in the Poconos, a Jewish summer camp.

As for the media, it did its best to normalize Trump’s speech as part of some sort of legitimate political discourse. CNN’s Jake Tapper referred to its “touching moments.” What can one say?

Ralph on point: A Police State — Franco, Mussolini, Hitler, Pinochet, you name the fucking 110 IQ dictator

Ralph Nader on Trump’s Address to Congress

God, more of the blow-jobs for Trump:

The Trump Admin has confirmed it halted U.S. intelligence sharing with Kiev, with CIA Director John Ratcliffe describing it as “a pause” until Zelensky shows he is “ready for peace” with Russia. This comes as Washington also moved to cut off U.S. military aid to Ukraine this week.

Patrick Henningsen, a journalist and geopolitical analyst, noted that by cutting off intelligence sharing, the Trump Admin is showing it is serious about bringing the war to an end, and doesn’t want to give Zelensky (or any of the right-wing, neo-Nazis he’s surrounding by) ammunition to try to provoke Russia with a false flag attack.

THese fucking freaks. Hmm, Putin the Puppet.

Do you need to anaylze this fucking IQ 110 Rapist in Chief?

Donald Trump’s address to Congress Tuesday night was not so much a speech from a president but the rantings of an aspiring Führer, though with somewhat less decorum than an address by Hitler before the German Reichstag. It was vicious, violent and depraved, plumbing the depths of cultural and political degradation in the United States.

All the tropes that, in an earlier period, would have been identified as belonging to the fascist fringe of American politics have been elevated to its very center. Standing and applauding at every sentence were Trump’s cabinet of billionaires, the personification of government of the oligarchy, along with the Republican senators and representatives, who broke out repeatedly in chants of “USA! USA!”

To attempt to dissect all the lies Trump spewed would be to somehow dignify his comments. This was not a speech worthy of serious analysis. It was a series of pig grunts and dog barks, with the necessary apologies to these intelligent mammals. It was a grotesque marriage of reality TV and political spectacle. Trump crassly exploited personal tragedies, parading victims before the cameras, using them as a bludgeon to demand greater state violence, targeting immigrants and other sections of society.

Beneath it all, one theme was clear: Trump’s speech was a declaration of war—on the world and on the working class. It was a statement of an oligarchy that will stop at nothing to maintain its wealth and power.

Arming and supporting war criminals. Ramping up the war on drugs. Deregulating the government and economy. Slashing union power and unlocking corporate power. Enabling mass suffering towards LGBTQ people. Standing up for apartheid South Africa.

All things Democrats supposedly oppose in Donald Trump. All things Ronald Reagan is famously well known for.

So, why do Democrats keep invoking him?

After a disorganized and neutered-by-leadership attempt to display opposition to Trump (matching outfits, auction paddles, and all), Senator Elissa Slotkin delivered the Democratic response.

The Democratic Party’s choice to elevate Slotkin was eyebrow-raising: her resume includes being the first Democrat ever endorsed by Liz Cheney; voting for the Laken Riley Act, thus empowering Trump to detain and deport undocumented immigrants without due process; and being among the top of the pack of Senate Democrats voting for Trump’s Cabinet picks.

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This fucking fixation with JEWS: Slotkin was born on July 10, 1976 in New York City, the daughter of Curt Slotkin and Judith (née Spitz) Slotkin.^[4]^[5] She is Jewish.^[5]^[6]^[7] Slotkin spent her early life on a farm in Holly, Michigan. She attended Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills.^[8] Her family farm was part of Hygrade Meat Company, founded by her great-grandfather Samuel Slotkin, who emigrated from Minsk in 1900.^[9] Hygrade was the original company behind Ball Park Franks, which is now owned by Tyson Foods.^[10]

Jews: BlackRock’s Panama Canal deal is latest win for chief Larry Fink in strong start to Trump era

AIPAC Watch, uh?

In his address to Congress yesterday, Trump declared war on immigrants, civil rights reforms, Mexico, Canada, Denmark, Panama, social service programs, and more. Meanwhile, the Democrats only put up nominal, performative resistance — in keeping with their “play dead” strategy. Brian is joined by Dr. Nazia Kazi, a professor of Anthropology at Stockton University, and author of the book “Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics.”

And cunts hate my No to UN sign?

Reynaldo Urbina rides his motorbike around the streets of Masaya, Nicaragua, with agility, despite having only one arm. Nearly seven years ago, at the height of a US- supported coup attempt against Nicaragua’s left-wing Sandinista government, Urbina was one of those guarding the city’s municipal warehouse when it was attacked by around 200 armed protestors. Warned of the impending attack, the guards had been ordered to hide their weapons and not resist capture, to minimize casualties.

But Urbina was suspected of knowing the whereabouts of the city’s mayor, whom the hooligans sought to assassinate, so they threw him to the ground and smashed his left arm with a rifle butt until it was practically destroyed. Urbina escaped, but his arm could not be saved, and was later amputated.

Reynaldo Urbina el chele — Reynaldo Urbina (left) lost his left arm after being tortured by US-backed opposition gangs

When a team was sent by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to Nicaragua to collect evidence on human rights abuses a few weeks later, Urbina was among those offered by the government as a witness. But the team refused to meet him.

The UN’s 40-page report, issued in August 2018, devotes just five paragraphs to violence by anti-government factions; the rest blames the government and its supporters for practically every other violent incident, including many (like an arson attack on a pro-Sandinista radio station) that were clearly part of the coup attempt.

‘Biased’ UN Report on Nicaragua Ignores Victims of US-Backed Opposition Violence

Jewish Mother Fucking VALUES:

GAZA—On an afternoon in early February, Sami Abu Amr, a 61-year-old farmer, walked through his roughly three-acre stretch of land that lies east of the Gaza City neighborhood of Shuja’iyya where he once tended olive trees and grew seasonal vegetables, including cucumbers, tomatoes, and potatoes. Before the war, the sale of his produce to local residents provided the sole source of income for his family of 13, including his sons and grandchildren. But these agricultural lands are now a scene of devastation: A barren landscape of uprooted trees, bulldozer tracks and soil riddled with craters left by Israeli airstrikes.

Along with the ruin of his farmland, the Israeli military had also destroyed Abu Amr’s agricultural equipment, greenhouse, irrigation network, and poultry farm, amounting to losses he estimates at $70,000. “This land is not just a source of livelihood,” Abu Amr said. “It is my life, my history. I have nurtured it with my sweat for years.”

Before Israel’s assault began in 2023, agricultural land covered approximately 47% of the Gaza Strip and produced enough food to serve up to a third of local demand, offering a critical source of food for Palestinians living under siege for nearly two decades.

Following the “ceasefire” that went into effect January 19, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza returned to their homes and land after months of forced displacement only to find an apocalyptic landscape. In addition to the destruction of homes, shops, bakeries, hospitals, universities, roads, and other civilian infrastructure, Israel has decimated almost all of Gaza’s agricultural capacity.

According to the UN, 82% of croplands, 55% of on-farm irrigation systems and 78% of greenhouses have been damaged, leaving once-productive fields barren. Nearly 70% of agricultural wells have been damaged while 96% of cattle and 99% of poultry have died.

Oh, Ray-Gun: “At the request of the Berkeley mayor, Governor Ronald Reagan declared a state of emergency and sent 2,200 National Guard troops into Berkeley. Some of these guardsmen were even Cal students. At least one young man had participated in the riots, been shot at by police, gotten patched up, and then returned to his dorm to find a notice to report for guard duty. In the following days approximately 1,000 people were arrested: 200 were booked for felonies, and 500 were taken to Santa Rita jail.”

From the standpoint of campus administrators attempting to manage the situation, Reagan’s actions were counterproductive.

In 1981, in a speech before the California Peace Officers Assn., he called the American Civil Liberties Union a “criminals’ lobby.” At Christmas time in 1983, he said he had seen no “authoritative” evidence of a serious hunger problem in America, and that some people go to soup kitchens “because the food is free, and that’s easier than paying for it.” This year, five days before Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday was first celebrated as a federal holiday, Meese invoked the slain civil-rights leader’s name in attacking affirmative action. King, said Meese, would have opposed affirmative action as a violation of his ideal “colorblind” society.

His Justice Department prompted a series of congressional investigations by refusing to seek the indictment of Teamsters Union president and FBI informant Jackie Presser in connection with a payroll-padding scheme that bilked Presser’s union local out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and by negotiating a plea with–rather than prosecuting–executives of E.F. Hutton & Co., the giant brokerage house caught in a huge fraud case that resembled a massive check-kiting operation.

But far more alarming to many lawyers, judges and legal scholars was the attorney general’s frontal assault on decades of established constitutional doctrine. He sparked a profound constitutional debate by arguing that Supreme Court decisions interpreting the Bill of Rights had violated the intent of the Founding Fathers. He attacked the high court’s long-accepted Miranda rulings on the rights of criminal suspects. He sought to roll back the so-called exclusionary rule, which bars the courtroom use of evidence obtained without “reasonable cause.” And, in an unusual move by an attorney general, he publicly called on the Supreme Court to reverse its landmark 1973 decision legalizing abortion.

The former defendants, now known as the Exonerated Five, initially confessed to the crime but later recanted saying their admissions were the result of police coercion.

They were imprisoned for between five and 13 years – but their convictions were ultimately overturned in 2002 after a serial violent offender named Matias Reyes confessed to the attack and DNA linked him to the crime.

In 2014, a $41m (£32m) settlement was reached between the five men and New York City.

This, 2017: The GOP and the American right consistently position themselves against the universities. This is a commonplace of the culture war. But why? America’s universities regularly rank among the most prestigious worldwide, making undeniable contributions to medicine, science, technology, economy, the arts, athletics, and the humanities. America’s universities also attract some of the world’s brightest minds, spurring innovation and dominating globally by countless measures. Conservatives might be proud of the universities as particularly stunning examples of American pluck and ingenuity. Instead, the tax bill appears to be symptomatic of the GOP’s growing disillusionment with higher education. This is, at least, how a number of college presidents and leaders have interpreted it.

For one, the legislation would for the first time ever require universities to pay taxes on their endowment income. Universities have traditionally received tax exemptions on those assets in part because they are viewed as contributing to the public good. In addition, the House bill includes provisions to end graduate-student tax breaks, leading professors and graduate students at top universities to worry that studying for a Ph.D. will become unaffordable for all but the wealthy.

White feces Nazi’s.

Israel’s annihilation of Gaza marks the death of a global order guided by internationally agreed upon laws and rules, one often violated by the U.S. in its imperial wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, but one that was at least acknowledged as a utopian vision. The U.S. and its Western allies not only supply the weaponry to sustain the genocide, but obstruct the demand by most nations for an adherence to humanitarian law.

The message this sends is clear: You, and the rules that you thought might protect you, do not matter. We have everything. If you try and take it away from us we will kill you.

Jews are natural born Killers:

[The CIA, the MI6, the KGB—these are the most notorious spy agencies in the history of the world. And rightfully so: their work shaped our post World War II order and their tales of intrigue and death are told in pop culture over and over again. But right alongside them in international infamy is tiny Israel’s the Mossad—Hebrew for “The Institute.” The story of how and why the Mossad gained its notoriety is told in the Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman’s new Rise And Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations. It’s an exhaustive work that aims to relay the saga of the Israeli intelligence community, from its brazen successes to its war crimes.

In Bergman’s telling, Israeli intelligence is obsessed with killing anyone, anywhere, who’s deemed a threat to the state of Israel, and it’s wholly unconcerned with due process. The intelligence community “implemented a strict policy of telling the truth inside the organization and institutionalized lying to the outside world,” he writes at one point. “Prisoners complained in court that they’d confessed only after being tortured, but it didn’t matter.” At another point, he notes, “killing a man no longer required the prime minister’s approval.” Bergman recently spoke to GQ about the complicated, dangerous, and nearly-decade long process of reporting Rise And Kill First.]

Israel, which as Ronen Bergman notes in “Rise and Kill First” has “assassinated more people than any other country in the Western world,” uses the Nazi Holocaust to sanctify its hereditary victimhood and justify its settler-colonial state, apartheid, campaigns of mass murder and Zionist version of Lebensraum.

Primo Levi, who survived Auschwitz, saw the Shoah, for this reason, as “an inexhaustible source of evil” which “is perpetrated as hatred in the survivors, and springs up in a thousand ways, against the very will of all, as a thirst for revenge, as moral breakdown, as negation, as weariness, as resignation.”

As the Eviceration Continues and the Fascism Ramps Up in this ZioGoyIinst Hell-Scape, I am Being Told to Stop Cussing

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just a little dance on the fascism side a la higher ed

Here, from the Chronicle of Higher Education, always asleep at the wheel a good 40 years behind the fascism times:

Over the past four years, higher education has faced a devastating onslaught of ideological attacks from government actors. Seventeen states have adopted 25 laws or policies restricting ideas on college campuses, beginning in 2021 with state-level educational gag orders banning “divisive concepts” from classroom instruction. Starting in 2023, these attacks expanded to include a host of assaults on university governance and autonomy: bans on diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and on institutional statements on race, gender, and identity; ideological limitations on majors, minors, and core curricula; and restrictions on tenure, shared governance, and accreditation.

In the past month, the federal government has escalated the attacks, issuing executive orders restricting diversity, equity and inclusion (or what the government determines to be DEI, since it is not defined in the order) in a host of public institutions — an order which is now under a partial stay by a federal judge; restricting curricula at military academies and the free expression of international students; instituting a total freeze on federal grant funding (also stayed by a court) and devastating cuts to federal research funding; and publishing a “Dear Colleague” letter threatening to defund colleges over “illegal” DEI programs.

These sweeping attacks on the free expression of ideas have done profound damage to higher education. The news features a constant, demoralizing stream of closed cultural centers, canceled research projects, censored general-education curricula, eliminated majors and minors, deleted websites, and altered mission statements. In many cases, institutions have complied in advance with directives that were merely threatened or suspected rather than enacted, or have overinterpreted vague laws out of an abundance of caution, going far beyond the prohibitions in the actual statute and doing the censors’ work for them. Faculty, staff, and students are operating in a constant state of fear. And all this has happened before the projected dismantling of the Department of Education or the actual enforcement of most of the new federal policies and directives.

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Another proof of how deadly and rotten Judaism is in the USA:

Pro-Palestinian student protestors wave a Palestinian flag as they gather on the front steps of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University in New York City on April 30, 2024.

And Jews writ large are celebrating the continue edifice of UnUnited Snakes of Israel:

The Trump administration has sent its first notice to a college that it may take away federal funding.

A new federal task force on antisemitism will review more than $5 billion that Columbia University receives from the government, and will immediately consider imposing stop-work orders on $51.4 million in federal contracts that Columbia holds.

The funding review — announced by the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education, and the General Services Administration — comes as the Ivy League institution is facing federal scrutiny for alleged violations of civil-rights law. Both the Biden and Trump administrations opened investigations into Columbia over complaints that it had failed to take antisemitism seriously amid a surge in antiwar protests.

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Oh, that Jew York!

The Trump administration has sent its first notice to a college that it may take away federal funding.

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And so we get yet MORE insight from the Chronicle of Lower Education from resident Jews:

So, Rick, I’m not gonna lie: I was naïve. I did not think the Trump administration was going to go after higher education on day one. I knew that Project 2025 existed. And The Chronicle Review published a really fantastic essay in March of 2024 articulating what’s in Project 2025 and basically saying: Hello, higher ed. Trump very well might get reelected. He and his allies have published this blueprint about how they’re going to overhaul higher ed and you should pay attention.

Can you tell us why higher ed is under attack right now?

Seltzer: I think there are several different reasons. Like many things, there’s no simple answer. First and foremost, it was an effective message that they ran on, and it resonated with a certain corner of their base and the Trump administration has made no qualms about trying to deliver on things it promised its base.

Maybe one of the reasons this resonated so much with the base is that a lot of the ideas they’re pursuing are not new in conservative politics. Republicans have long articulated goals like closing the Education Department. Certain cuts to federal funding, even research funding. There have been voices arguing for some of those things, and some of the other things that we’re going to talk about today. So that was all preloaded, if you will.

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From the Chronicle: Looting? Unsual for Universities? The AmeriKKKan and Jewish Way.

A bathtub in Emory University’s museum is splashed with symbols of the sea: a giant fish, wavy water lines. Someone in the ancient Mediterranean world may have used it as a coffin, believing it would ferry their soul to the afterlife, as a label told museum visitors.

Yet this tub has another dark history. In 2007, Greece told the Michael C. Carlos Museum that it and two other artifacts were looted, and asked for them back. They are still there.

The Carlos Museum is considered to have the most prominent classical-art collection in the Southeast and one of the best of any university museum in the country. In an era where Emory was striving to be seen as a top school, the Carlos emerged as a cultural force in its own right, luring crowds, scholars, and money to campus.

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Just a reminder of how rotten the white “race” is, you Putin Putzes!

“Liberated Syria”: Walk among the corpses … we’re not supposed to notice the slaughter

Members of the Jolani militia terrorist organization now controlling parts of Syria walk among the corpses after carrying out a massacre of Alawites in Latakia yesterday

Assad’s mistake was to trust Putin

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In a nutshell, err, pig sty, Capitalism, Global Predatory and Criminal and Soul-Sucking CAPITALISM:

Resistance in Chile against Coexca and its factory pig farms

Private equity has played a key role in the expansion of agribusiness projects in the Global South, and a prime example of this is Coexca, an industrial pig farming company. For over a decade, the community of San Javier, in the Maule region of Chile, has been denouncing this company – backed by Chilean and Danish capital – for its serious environmental, social and economic impacts on the area. Inhabitants have faced land speculation, persistent foul odours, fly infestations, water contamination and financial losses that have significantly diminished their quality of life.

The population has seen domestic animals poisoned and food production diminished. In addition, the presence of pesticides and insecticides in the environment is damaging the only rainfed wetland in Chile, Ciénagas del Name, affecting more than 100 species of migratory birds that inhabit the marshes.

Coexca reflects a production model that prioritises profitability over community welfare and environmental balance.

GRAIN has interviewed a representative of the people of Maule to better understand the principal problems that factory farming is causing for local communities, and how their resistance can be strengthened.

Another problem is water grabbing and pollution. This has resulted in a severe water shortage being declared for the community, which seriously affects the water supply for both people and crops. Wildlife and domestic animals have also been impacted by new diseases and infestations since the factory farm was built.

Recently, in 2024, we noticed the effects of insecticides, specifically pyrethroids. Insects such as cicadas, which used to make noise at night, can no longer be heard. Although there are still bees, they are brought in by transhumant beekeepers, and there are no more wild hives to be found.

The bird population has also declined significantly. In addition, those working in the agricultural industry have seen animals such as dogs and rabbits poisoned. This poisoning is the result of pesticides and insecticides such as pyrethroids and organophosphates used by Coexca on its industrial pig farms. These include Demon EC (Zeneca), Aquapest (BTS) Maxifort (BTS), Agita (Elanco) and Diazinon (ANASAC), among others. All these insecticides and pesticides are toxic to humans and animals, as well as the natural environment (there are two large tributaries in the area, the Purapel River and the Perquilauquen River, as well as the only rainfed wetland in Chile, Ciénagas del Name, which is home to unique flora and over 100 species of migratory birds that come every year and have been clearly affected by these practices).

These factors have resulted in financial and environmental losses for farmers. What’s more, the community’s food sovereignty is being compromised, as we are producing less and less food.

Another problem is that, despite all the pollution, the value of the land has not been affected, due to the presence of agribusiness in the region, which leads to land speculation.

Israel’s Pig Farms – a Picture of Inhumanity

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Nov 16, 2005 — Crowded pens have been linked by researchers to violence and turf battles among pigs. Pig farms came to A’ablin following the 1962 law that ..

GRAIN: Who owns Coexca?

MSPV: The company is mainly owned by Chilean and Danish capital. As far as Chilean capital is concerned, the shareholders are linked to the families that traditionally control the country’s economy. As for the Danish capital, it comes from a private equity fund managed by Denmark’s development bank, the Investment Fund for Developing Countries or IFU. The IFU directly manages the Danish Agribusiness Fund I K/S, in which the two major Danish pension funds, as well as the government, are involved. In other words, we are up against powerful national and international groups, who have led society to believe that the fight is over.

It felt like we had arrived in hell. A powerful stench was discernible half a kilometer away. A little closer, you hear the moans and screams. And inside – overcrowding and filth. Here, several kilometers west of the Galilee village of A’ablin, is where all of Israel’s commercial pig farms are concentrated.

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The Next and Next Shoes Dropping: We Got a Million and One Fuckers Talking about China-EU-Ukraine-Russia . . . While Ironweed cracks the real People of USA

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March 5, 2025

these fucking cocksuckers who laugh with the South African Racist 110 IQ Musk’s Dodge-DOGE killing body public while he digs the deep-techno-nadroid-AI-gulag State DEEPER

I’m doing a radio show next week, a weekly, one hour, Wednesdays, 6 pm, public afairs. So many people on the dole, or not, actually called redundant in the InBred Queendom, but truly necessary for the operation of educating, science, weather, oceans, and just plain old national parks.

Going-going-GONE. These fucking Zuckerebergs and Bezos cocksuckers, along with the white ghouls of the Minyans and Goy-ionists of the Rapist in Chief Trump’s administration HATE land, and HATE things that work.

So, my neighbor still has his job at this amazing place, but two have been sacked. I’ll let you know when they are on my radio show. Finging Fringe: Voices from the Edge. KYAQ-FM.

We are the serfs in Musk’s and Trump’s and worse, the billionaire Jews’ colony.

Donald Trump’s fight with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House reflected how the US treats Ukraine as a colony. Trump demands control of the country’s rare earths and critical minerals, to weaken China, re-industrialize, and build tech products. Trump wants to be paid $350 billion, roughly twice Ukraine’s GDP.

Hmm, not a collective psychological warfare response — disorders collectively.

Not sure I believe all she says:

Lara Sheehi, an assistant professor of clinical psychology and author of “Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine,” was targeted for being unapologetically anti-Zionist. She joins Rania Khalek on Dispatches to discuss Zionist repression, psychological warfare, and the fight for decolonization.

Jews are the sickness, not just Zionist Entity, whatever the fuck that is? It’s Jewish Supremacy, man.

These are Jewish Values: In the wake of student protests last year over U.S. support for the Israeli war in Gaza, Columbia University has launched secret investigations into students for pro-Palestinian activity on campuses, including engaging in public protests or sharing material that characterizes Israel’s actions as genocide or apartheid—or even calls for halting U.S. arms sales to Israel.

Columbia’s campaign to suppress campus activism uses provisions from the Civil Rights Act—which the school interprets expansively to characterize criticism of Israel as “discriminatory harassment.” The operation is run out of a recently created office of the university called the Office of Institutional Equity (OIE), which the school has created to oversee, “the review and arbitration of all reports of discrimination and discriminatory harassment at Columbia.” That office is empowered to investigate students and faculty using an opaque administrative process that can punish those found guilty of discrimination with disciplinary notifications, suspensions, loss of housing, expulsions, and even the revocation of diplomas for graduates.

The Gaza ceasefire is a distraction from “Israel’s” deeper strategy: dismantling Palestinian statehood, imposing foreign control, and ensuring permanent occupation under US guidance.

The popular discourse on the fate of Gaza’s ceasefire has been dominated by the rhetoric of US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with most analysts failing to successfully read the situation in between the lines. These are mainly distractions from the bigger picture.

While some are now fixated on the American threats to “own” Gaza and ethnically cleanse it, with others fearing “Israel” seeks to press play on its genocidal assault once again, both of which are valid concerns, something much more sinister is being conjured up behind the scenes.

As I (Robert Inlakesh) have explained in greater detail in previous pieces, most of Donald Trump’s proposals for Gaza are more of a sick orientalist fantasy than substantive threats. To “own Gaza” would mean to invade it and totally defeat its Resistance, which would cost thousands of US soldiers their lives and end up costing Washington hundreds of billions of dollars; also likely resulting in failure. Therefore, an invasion is extremely unlikely, would require scrupulous planning, and we just haven’t seen any movement on the logistical side that suggests there is even a coherent plan to carry this out.

However, the threats of ethnic cleansing, which are implicit in the American President’s calls to “clean out” the population of the Gaza Strip, are somewhat connected to reality. The method that the Zionist entity will try to carry this out through is gradual rather than sudden, unless it seeks to invade the Egyptian Sinai and seize a strip of territory to relocate the people into, which could speed things up.

The fucking Jews in the USA, are JEWS, so throw the word “Zionist” out as some political or psychological orientation. And Trump, the Jew (sic) is in the wave of a global Jewish Shakedown.

Who the fuck cares about Russia or Ukraine or EU or, when our people are dying:

These are the Jewish Gangster Values:

Fired employees fear beloved Yosemite National Park will lose its luster

These are the Sicarios, the Monsters, PERIOD.

We ARE DEAD as a people:

Fifteen years ago, data centers were big – the size of a Walmart Supercenter, perhaps. Then, they became as massive as ten Costcos. Now, thanks to AI’s ravenous hunger for power, they have morphed into sprawling behemoths ten times bigger than the Pentagon, or even the size of a small city. As tech companies compete to develop the biggest, most powerful AI models and the US government pushes to keep data center construction on American soil, these mega datacenters are also rising at a breakneck pace.

The sickness is at the root of Capitalism: Featured

Federal employee cuts hit close to home: Tahoe National Forest confirms some employees lost though no firefighters.

And so we are watching millions of good men and women DROWING, and it is a sign of Stockholm Syndrome and Flight and Freeze and Lobotomies. Crows have so much more humanity than, well, the 110 IQ White Men and WOmen of the Rapist in Chief.

Oh, the Rapist in Chief 110 IQ Trump is so homophoic that, well, you know what homophobia sometimes means the punk is a queer at heart?

Queer choruses across the country are speaking out against the Kennedy Center’s decision to cancel its Pride show featuring the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington.

When Mark McCrary first participated in a gay men’s chorus, he cried.

He came out as gay later in life. The chorus offered him a safe space to perform, in a way few places had.

“For the first time, it was a sense of community,” McCrary said. “I was safe — which lends itself to being a better singer.”

He now works as the executive director for the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus.

As President Donald Trump’s administration has started cracking down on LGBTQ+ rights, queer performing groups across the country have said they’re no longer taking that safety for granted.

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At Least a Few of Our Fellow Americans are kind and empathetic like corvids/crows.

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Here is a Trump a la Great Depression. Epstein or Weinstein or, well, VD Vance, you name the piece of shit, this scene is emblematic of the ghouls of Capitalism:

Bi-Polar But Always Hegemony — The SeeSaw of Corrupt, Collusional, Criminal, Casino, Culling Capitalism

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Give me a C, a C and another C-C, and two More C’s — What’s that Spell? Rothchilds, Chatham House, Switzerland, and a New King Leopold Minted Every Week!

The sickness of the sick:

Whoops, here it is, Rapist in Chief Trump’s DEI Guy:

At his Senate confirmation hearing on January 15, Rubio described Venezuela as a “narco-trafficking organization that has empowered itself of a nation state.” He was unanimously confirmed the very first day of the new administration.

The supposedly opposition Democrats all stampeded in his support, although Rubio severely criticized the previous Biden administration for being too soft on Venezuela. Rubio’s criticism was largely unwarranted because, except for minor tweaks, Biden had seamlessly continued the hybrid war against Venezuela.

The first visit abroad by a Trump administration official was made by Ric Grenell, presidential envoy for special missions. Grenell briefly served in Trump’s first administration as acting director of national intelligence, becoming the first openly gay person in a Cabinet-level position.

“Kara Swisher Wants to Save the Washington Post From Jeff Bezos” . . . Kara Swisher: Rachel Maddow … with a lot less shtick.

Jews in Paradise: “It’s going to have a very disruptive effect on businesses, in terms of their supply chains as well as their ability to conduct their business operations effectively,” said Eswar Prasad, an economist at Cornell University. “There are going to be inflationary impacts that are going to be disruptive impacts.”

Fuck: Yet the Trump administration remains confident that tariffs are the best choice to boost U.S. manufacturing and attract foreign investment. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Monday that the computer chipmaker TSMC had expanded its investment in the United States because of the possibility of separate 25% tariffs.

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Jews’ values here with more white WWF trash:

The U.S. Department of Education is offering an incentive of up to $25,000 to the majority of its staff to resign or retire by Monday evening ahead of rumored work force reductions.

In a department-wide email obtained and first reported by Politico, Education Department employees were offered the one-time buyout and given an 11:59 p.m. deadline on Monday to accept or decline the deal.

“We can confirm that the Education Department emailed its staff today, offering employees up to a $25,000 Voluntary Separation Incentive Payment (VSIP) starting today,” a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Education shared in a statement with Fox News Digital.

“This is a one-time offer in advance of a very significant Reduction in Force for the US Department of Education,” Jacqueline Clay, a chief human capital officer, said in the email.

Then, this prick: Nadella’s perspective is pretty straightforward: AI isn’t about taking jobs away, it’s about shifting how we approach them. He compares AI’s impact to the way spreadsheets revolutionized accounting or how email made communication faster. Those tools didn’t make workers obsolete—they made work more efficient

Fucking Mafia USA: Bodies, limbs, minds, PTSD in every house and child, but the fucking minerals, man, the fucking minerals and metals!

This map shows Ukraine's mineral resources according to data from the Ukrainian Geologic Survey.

And so the acid bath for every aspect of AmeriKKKa is growing larger and larger: U.S. Department of Education Launches “End DEI” Portal

Cunts of AmeriKKKa:

“For years, parents have been begging schools to focus on teaching their kids practical skills like reading, writing, and math, instead of pushing critical theory, rogue sex education and divisive ideologies—but their concerns have been brushed off, mocked, or shut down entirely,” said Tiffany Justice, Co-Founder of Moms for Liberty. “Parents, now is the time that you share the receipts of the betrayal that has happened in our public schools. This webpage demonstrates that President Trump’s Department of Education is putting power back in the hands of parents.”

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Ahh, the science, no? IQ 110 Trump, forget about it!

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), vital for northwards heat transport in the Atlantic Ocean, is projected to weaken owing to global warming¹, with significant global climate impacts². However, the extent of AMOC weakening is uncertain with wide variation across climate models¹^,³^,⁴ and some statistical indicators suggesting an imminent collapse⁵. Here we show that the AMOC is resilient to extreme greenhouse gas and North Atlantic freshwater forcings across 34 climate models. Upwelling in the Southern Ocean, driven by persistent Southern Ocean winds, sustains a weakened AMOC in all cases, preventing its complete collapse. As Southern Ocean upwelling must be balanced by downwelling in the Atlantic or Pacific, the AMOC can only collapse if a compensating Pacific Meridional Overturning Circulation (PMOC) develops. Remarkably, a PMOC does emerge in almost all models, but it is too weak to balance all of the Southern Ocean upwelling, suggesting that an AMOC collapse is unlikely this century.

Back to the fucking Jew Show: Biggest Fucking Mouths on the Fucking Planet.

As per the Guinness World Records, Adrien Brody‘s best actor acceptance speech at the 2025 Oscars is the longest in Oscars history.

Brody emerged triumphant ahead of Timothée Chalamet, Sebastian Stan, Colman Domingo and Ralph Fiennes at the Dolby Theatre on Hollywood’s biggest night of the year, claiming one of the top performance prizes for his portrayal as Hungarian-Jewish architect László Tóth in The Brutalist.

These cunts are the enemy. Attack drones to Ukraine, hmm. Sounds like Trump’s War is Expanding:

Neros, an autonomous drone startup founded just a year ago, has secured a contract to deliver 6,000 FPV attack drones to Ukraine over the next six months.

The agreement represents the largest production rate for any U.S. drone manufacturer to date.

The selection process for this contract began with 260 competing companies, undergoing multiple rounds of rigorous testing before Neros was ultimately chosen. The company’s approach to rapid drone development and battlefield optimization set it apart in an industry that has struggled to meet the demand for large-scale FPV drone production.

How many of you AmeriKKKan cunts have stocks in any of these, plus the several thousand other companies putting this death machine together?

Maimed, murdered, drained, PTSD-ed, forgotten, buried, burned, gone, but the profits are there man-oh.

With European leaders scrambling to rearm and build a “coalition of the willing” to keep the peace in Ukraine if Kyiv can somehow reach a truce with the Kremlin, investors envisaged a mega-bonanza for the Continent’s war machine.

Shares in BAE Systems surged as much as 18.5pc – its biggest single-day jump on record – on Monday morning, having already risen 22pc this year.

German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall leapt 16.5pc, following gains of as much as 70pc in 2025. Shares in French defence manufacturer Thales rocketed 18pc in Paris after the Prime Minister announced a £1.6bn deal for its Belfast factory to supply missiles to Ukraine.

And the Oscar goes to? The Jews!