it’s doubtful he is that connected to the spooks and the murderers and the CIA and NSA and all the other fucking destroyers of earth, but he always sounds like, well, he’s in the know!
Listen to Grant Shapps at the end of the video above, whose mask slips when he openly reveals: “We must resist Putin’s effort to link ISIS to Ukraine.”
But before we go on, let’s remember how almost every previous terrorist attack that was denied by Ukraine ended up being quietly admitted later.
So, Hersh gets inside information from the fucking murderers? Is this Sean Penn and El Chapo Jewish thing?
Same goes for Nord Stream and many others. So why this pearl clutching by the Western commentariat that Ukraine would never resort to killing civilians?
After all, just yesterday Ukraine’s head of the SBU Vasyl Malyuk went on a long confession spree, “unofficially” admitting Ukraine’s responsibility for killing Ilia Kiva, Vladlen Tatarsky, and others
“Drug trafficking does not depend on just one person,” Penn said later. “It depends on a lot of people … If there was no consumption, there would be no sales. It is true that consumption, day after day, becomes bigger and bigger. So it sells and sells.”
Mexican authorities have said Penn’s meeting with Guzmán, arranged by the actor Kate del Castillo, helped lead them to the drug baron.
Penn has previously discussed his struggles with drug addiction, telling ES Magazine in an interview last year that he “got caught a lot doing stuff,” including crystal meth.
“I went to rehab because I woke up in a hospital and my dad was like, ‘Rehab? Or bus bench?’ I was like, ‘I’ll take the bed,’ ” he said. “Thank God I got out of that because that was the worst time in my life.”
Actor Sean Penn, whose hot temper has repeatedly landed him in trouble off the screen, was sentenced Tuesday to 60 days in County Jail for reckless driving and for punching an extra on the set of his latest movie.
Municipal Court Commissioner Juelann K. Cathey ordered the 26-year-old actor to surrender July 7 “with his toothbrush and overnight case” to begin serving his sentence.
She also ordered him to undergo at least six months of psychotherapy for his violent behavior.
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Penn was extremely violent toward his ex-wife Madonna when the two were married in the 1980s. Once, in June 1987, he allegedly caused the pop superstar to be hospitalized after hitting her across the head with a baseball bat. But Madonna, who remained protective of her husband, refused to press charges since Penn was already facing 60 days in jail for assaulting a film extra.Things got even uglier on December 28, 1989. According to a police report filed by Madonna, Penn scaled their Malibu home that afternoon, found Madonna alone in her bedroom, and told her that he owned her “lock, stock, and barrel.”
According to reports, “When she told him she was leaving the house, he tried to bind her hands with an electric lamp and cord. Screaming and afraid, Madonna fled from the bedroom. What followed was a nine-hour ordeal which left her deeply shaken. Penn chased her into the living room, caught her and bound her to a chair with heavy twine. Then he threatened to cut off her hair.”
He allegedly “smacked and roughed up” Madonna while she was tied to a chair, and then left for a few hours to buy more booze—leaving his then-wife bound and gagged—only to return and continue terrorizing her. He only agreed to untie her after she “agreed to perform a degrading sex act on him,” and then fled the house, got in her car, and raced to the sheriff’s office—eventually stumbling inside.
“I hardly recognized her as Madonna,” Lt. Bill McSweeney said at the time. “She was weeping, her lip was bleeding and she had obviously been struck.”
Whoops, I went on another Jewish tangent. Back to the CIA and MI-6 killing Russians.
This American intelligence community passed a warning of a possible attack involving religious extremists from Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan eighteen days in advance of the Moscow concert hall assault that killed at least 137 people and injured more than one hundred. Such a warning invariably comes from intercepts from the National Security Agency and agent reports from the Central Intelligence Agency.
The Americans did their job but the Russian intelligence community, heeding its boss, did not. President Vladimir Putin publicly called the warning “provocative statements” three days before the attack, and the Russian security services ignored it. They bear responsibility, in the view of American intelligence experts, for failing to do what was necessary to protect the concertgoers…
His alliances are to Jewish intellectuals, to Judaism, to Israel, to Zionism, though he flails all over the place.
“Gaza has shattered humanity’s records for its darkest chapters. Humanity must now urgently write a different chapter.”
Thank god I do not put in a shekel over at Sy’s Substack, so that’s all I need to read.
“Those same standards say people need 15 liters of water each, daily, and an absolute minimum of three liters just to survive. When I was here in November, families and children in the Gaza Strip were relying on three liters or less of water per person per day. Today, on average, households surveyed had access to less than one liter of safe water per person per day.
“Neighboring Khan Yunis is also unrecognizable, though for a different reason – it barely exists anymore. In my 20 years with the United Nations, I have never seen such devastation. Just chaos and ruin, with rubble and debris scattered in every single direction. Utter annihilation.
“There is an existing old crossing point, Erez, that could be used that is 10 minutes from those facing famine. 10 minutes. Open that and we could turn this humanitarian crisis in the north around in a matter of days. But it remains closed.
Then yesterday, UNICEF sat with adolescents, several of whom said, they were so desperate for their nightmare to end, that they hoped to be killed.
“The unspeakable is regularly said in Gaza. From teenage girls hoping they are killed; to being told a child is the last survivor from their entire family. Such horror is no longer unique here.
Big tough Yanquis. Can’t even deliver fucking flour and crackers.
State Dept. Rebuffs Uniting for Peace at United Nations
In February, Prof. Francis Boyle noted the UN General Assembly could do the following under Uniting for Peace:
“Suspend Israel from participation in its activities as the General Assembly did to the former criminal apartheid regime in South Africa and to the genocidal Yugoslavia;
“Set up an International Criminal Tribunal for Israel in order to prosecute its highest level civilian and military officials for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide;
“Recommend economic sanctions against Israel to UN Member States;
“Recommend UN Member States sever diplomatic relations with Israel;
“Admit Palestine as a full fledged UN Member State.”
Similarly, former UN official Craig Mokhiber similarly stated on “Democracy Now” this week about “General Assembly under the Uniting for Peace resolution, where you could have seen some real meaningful action. You could have seen a resolution with teeth, with substance, resolution that included diplomatic, military, political, economic sanctions — not the enforcement of those sanctions, but the call for those sanctions — the deployment of a protection force, the establishment of a tribunal, the establishment of permanent mechanisms, as was the case within the United Nations during apartheid in South Africa.”
(Boyle states that Uniting for Peace is available right now; Mokhiber says that the non-veto might have (strategically?) slowed the Uniting for Peace process. Regardless, the Security Council “ceasefire” resolution has not actually created a ceasefire. So, the UNSC is clearly failing in its ostensible responsibility.)
[Above: Face a journalist.]
[Below: Face of a continuing criminal enterprise flak. Bloodless.]
Oh, so there are Jews and Killing Russians?
Here’s one indepth theory as to how it likely really happened:
According to the “subjective data” available to me, terrorists from among the citizens of Tajikistan fell under religious lessons conducted on the Internet (watch the video), which were the ideological instructions of the “Islamic State of Valayat Khorosan (IGVC)”.
Also, as I know, at least one of them was in a chat room called “Rahnamo ba Khuroson” (Rohnamo ba Khuroson).
A citizen of Tajikistan, Salmon Khurosoni, was (and is) curating religious processing groups. It was Salmon Khurosoni who made the primary recruitment approach to Islamic terrorists.
There is also information in certain circles that Khurosoni is an intermediate link between the Islamic State of Khorosan Wilayat (IGVC) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States.
Despite the fact that the terrorists of the Islamic State do not promise financial rewards for their terrorist attacks, but promise eternal Paradise … nevertheless, with the assistance of Salmon Khorosani, an amount of 500,000 rubles was approved, which was supposed to cover the costs of the attack.
After that, the tasks and instructions in Turkey were already set by an emissary-mediator, who, presumably, is a staff member of a foreign special service (resident). And they, in turn, sent bayats (the oath of ISIS) to the same Salmon Khurosoni.
Also, Ukraine was not the last link in their withdrawal plan. Another unidentified emissary of foreign intelligence, who is in Ukraine, was supposed to send them directly to Turkey, and then to Afghanistan.
It is in Afghanistan that the alleged ideological (namely ideological, I’m not talking about the customer) leader of the terrorist attack in Moscow, Salmon Khurosoni, is located.
In fact, we see the apotheosis of the development of hybrid terrorism, namely brand franchising – one side aiming to strike at the other, resorts to the help of a third. Including on the basis when the performer is recruited under the third flag, that is, he thinks that he is fulfilling one will, when in reality there is another behind it.
Oh, so we have it: Mad Mad Mad Mad “Who Controls the Media/Hollywood” World.
ust more of the Same — Sy Hersh, Sean Penn, they Know, Therefore, We Gotta Listen to their Bull
Megalomaniac, difficult to work with: Why Silicon Valley VCs are now avoiding Sam Altman.
Another Jew, dead: Joseph Lieberman, senator, vice presidental nominee, dies at 82.
RFK, Jr., VP pick, Nicole Shanahan, Google’s ex [38-year-old Silicon Valley lawyer and tech entrepreneur with virtually no political experience as his vice presidential running mate. Nicole Shanahan had until now been best known as the ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin and as the funder of Kennedy’s ultra-expensive and controversial Super Bowl ad.]
Portugal orders Sam Altman’s Worldcoin to halt data collection [Worldcoin, the cryptocurrency from OpenAI founder Sam Altman that’s been using ominous-looking “Orbs” to scan people’s irises in exchange for free crypto, will have to stop doing that to people in Portugal for 90 days, according to Reuters.
“Portugal’s data regulator, the CNPD, said there was a high risk to citizens’ data protection rights, which justified urgent intervention to prevent serious harm,” Reuters writes.
Worldcoin has already scanned over 300,000 people in Portugal, the CNPD said, according to Reuters.
As of Wednesday, Worldcoin was running its orbs in Argentina, Chile, Germany, Japan, Singapore and the U.S., according to the company’s website. Worldcoin has more than 4.5 million “unique humans” — as opposed to….? — in 120 countries, who have made close to 40 million transactions to date using the company’s app, according to the company. ]
BlackRock Tokenized Fund Draws $160 million in a week since debut
Boeing regains the Bullish narrative with CEO Change
A solution to the retirement crisis? Americans should work for more years, BlackRock CEO says [MONEYWATCH
Americans living longer and spending more years in retirement, the nation’s changing demographics are “putting the U.S. retirement system under immense strain,” according to BlackRock CEO Larry Fink in his annual shareholder letter.
One way to fix it, he suggests, is for Americans to work longer before they head into retirement.
“No one should have to work longer than they want to. But I do think it’s a bit crazy that our anchor idea for the right retirement age — 65 years old — originates from the time of the Ottoman Empire,” Fink wrote in his 2024 letter, which largely focuses on the retirement crisis facing the U.S. and other nations as their populations age.
Fink, who is worth an estimated $1.2 billion, notes that many 65-year-olds in the early 1950s didn’t get a chance to retire because many had already passed away. In other words, he writes, more than half of workers who had paid into Social Security never got a penny because they died before they could claim the benefit.
A look at the splashiest yachts at the Palm Beach International Boat Show
Daniel Kahneman, who plumbed the psychology of economics, dies at 90 [Daniel Kahneman, who understood that not all economic decision-making is strictly rational, has died at the age of 90. His research, which focused on the ways human psychology can warp rational thinking, was recognized with a Nobel Prize in 2002 and helped give rise to the burgeoning field known as “behavioral economics.”
“Danny was a giant in the field,” said Eldar Shafir, a professor at Princeton where a research center is named for Kahneman. “Many areas in the social sciences simply have not been the same since he arrived on the scene.”]
Ireland to intervene in ICJ case against Israel
It’s nepo housing market . . . more than a 1/3 of Gen Zers and millennials expect their parents to help with a down payment, survey finds
All mind fucks, daily, in the mainstream and legacy and so-called alternative media.
“They started crying, not calling for an investigation, but covering up for Ukraine. Their bias and involvement in this issue is evident.”
She claimed that if Kiev had not actually been involved in the attack, Washington’s first reaction would have been to stress the need for an investigation.
Maria Zakharova’s comments come after the head of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), Aleksandr Bortnikov, suggested that not only Ukraine, but also the US and UK – Kiev’s main backers in its conflict with Moscow – may have been behind the shooting. He described the information on the matter as being general, but added that investigators already have “concrete results.”
so one guy who is being prosecuted by Germany calls whatever he sees as anti-semitic crap . . . . When Germany Supplies Nazi Bombs to Nazi Israel and there it is.
Mbembe:
Colonies are similar to frontiers. Inhabited by “savages,” colonies are not organized as a state form and do not create a human world…. They do not establish a distinction between combatants and non-combatants or again between an “enemy” and a “criminal.”
In Africa especially, but in many places in the Global South, energy-intensive extraction, agricultural expansion, predatory sales of land, and destruction of forests will continue unabated. The powering and cooling of computer chips and supercomputers depends on it. The purveying and supplying of the resources and energy necessary for the global computing infrastructure will require further restrictions on human mobility. Keeping the world at a distance will become the norm so as to keep risks of all kinds on the outside. But because it does not address our ecological precariousness, this catabolic vision of the world, inspired by theories of immunization and contagion, does little to break out of the planetary impasse in which we find ourselves. — Mbembe
To me? Or my Pablosharkman? I am banned….. “Unfortunately, I need to explain this again. If you post anti-Semitic or other types of bigoted garbage in my replies, and I see it, I will ban you. I won’t argue with you, or otherwise interact with you. I’ll just ban you and delete your garbage. That will take me about 3 seconds. Then I’ll forget you ever existed”. CJ Hopkins.
What have you, and in the end, who gives a fuck. Here, from the dirty Atlantic:
Quoting more middling mush: Then the latent libertarian side of Hopkins’s leftism emerged as he became a vociferous critic of lockdowns and an opponent of vaccinations, both of which he claimed were elements of a nefarious GloboCap plot. In posts titled “The Germans Are Back” and “The Covidian Cult,” Hopkins blasted what he termed the “New Normal” of mass obedience, “pathologized totalitarianism,” and demonization of dissenters like him. Hopkins inevitably brought his writings over to Substack, and though not the movement-joining type, he expressed sympathy toward the Querdenker, a group of fringe self-styled “lateral thinkers” whom Germany’s domestic-intelligence service placed under surveillance for their sometimes-violent anti-lockdown protests. A self-published 2022 collection of his essays, The Rise of the New Normal Reich, features a blurb on its cover from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praising Hopkins as “our modern Jeremiah.”
More controversial than this endorsement was the image accompanying it: a face mask that bore the very faint image of a swastika.
Read: Is Germany capable of protecting its Jews?
Bowing to national laws prohibiting Nazi insignia, Amazon banned the sale of the book on its platform in Germany, the Netherlands, and Austria. (“The book is clearly also banned in actual German bookstores,” Hopkins claimed, because “numerous readers have tried to order it in person at bookstores, and have been told it is ‘unavailable.’”) The author was perturbed but unrepentant, publishing his correspondence with Amazon’s content-review team on his site. In August 2022, Hopkins posted an image from the cover of his book on X (formerly Twitter), with a message in German declaring that “masks are ideological-conformity symbols.” Three days later, in a tweet responding to an article featuring a quote from the German health minister endorsing the use of face masks, Hopkins republished the image.
Then, this past May, Hopkins received a letter from the Berlin state prosecutor’s office announcing that it had launched an “investigative procedure” against him for violating the German penal code, namely article 86a, which prohibits the dissemination of “propaganda, the contents of which are intended to further the aims of a former National Socialist organization.” The investigation led to charges, and Hopkins’s case goes to trial on January 23, according to his Substack. If found guilty, he faces either a fine of 3,600 euros (about $4,000) or 60 days in jail.
Hopkins sees his ordeal as part of a broader “criminalization of dissent” sweeping the Western world. “Basically anyone prominent, halfway prominent, and even little fish like me, if you get on the radar of challenging the official ideology, the program of the day, they’re making examples of people is basically what it is,” he told me. Against his lawyer’s advice, Hopkins republished the tweets in his Substack newsletter—sparking, as he reported, a second criminal investigation, this time for minimizing Nazi crimes.
“They can silence me for a while if they want,” he wrote defiantly. “But they cannot make me silence myself.”
Fucking childish and hackneyed same old bullshit? First amendment for, that, even if it is offensive stuff??? Jesus, 3rd grade debate points. “… freedom of expression is tested by speech that we hate . . . . “ We? Which fucking WE?
“Even if some find Hopkins’s views and the way he expresses them offensive, that does not lessen the danger that his prosecution represents. A society’s commitment to freedom of expression is tested not by the easy cases but by the hard ones—by protecting, as the Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. once wrote, “freedom for the thought that we hate.” Hopkins may have turned his back on America, but he has gained a new appreciation for America’s founding principles.”
That Atlantic shit rag.
Caitlin Johnstone:
Quoted: Israel Apologists Relentlessly Gaslight And Attack Our Sense Of Reality
The Atlantic has a new Israel apologia article out titled “The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous and False” — a noticeable change in tone from the outlet’s “Decolonize Russia” sentiments of last year.
The entire article has been picked apart paragraph by paragraph by a commentator named Sana Saeed (see below), but for my purposes here I’d just like to focus on one specific sentence in it about Israel’s ongoing massacre in Gaza:
“The Israeli goal in Gaza — for practical reasons, among others — is to minimize the number of Palestinian civilians killed.”
If you didn’t know that The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg is a former IDF prison guard who in 2002 said that “the coming invasion of Iraq will be remembered as an act of profound morality”, it would astonish you that such a sentence ever went to print.
One need only look at the before and after satellite images of the bombing campaign in Gaza to see immediately that Israel is doing nothing at all to minimize the number of civilians killed.
One need only look at the fact that nearly 70 percent of the people killed in these airstrikes have been women and children to see immediately that Israel is doing nothing to minimize the number of civilians killed.
One need only listen to Israeli officials themselves saying “the emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy” and “Gaza will eventually turn into a city of tents; there will be no buildings” to see immediately that Israel is doing nothing to minimize the number of civilians killed.
You don’t get to openly declare that you’re going to do a ton of damage with no regard for accuracy, carpet bomb entire neighborhoods into gravel killing mostly women and children, and then say you’re trying to minimize civilian casualties. That’s not a thing.
But that’s exactly what The Atlantic instructs us to believe. They demand that we ignore what’s right in front of our faces and mistrust what we are seeing with our own eyes.
You see this kind of thing over and over again from Israel apologists. They tell you things you absolutely know to be false in your own direct perception, over and over and over again, in the hope that they can overwhelm your mind. That’s what’s happening when they tell you Israel is “defending itself” and “targeting Hamas” when they’re mostly killing women and children and bombing entire city blocks into powder, and that’s what’s happening when they tell you over and over again that you hate Jews and love terrorists even when you know for a fact that you don’t.
The term “gaslighting” has been frequently misused in modern political discourse lately; you’ll often see people using that term to describe someone lying, or even someone just saying something they don’t agree with. But that’s not what the term gaslighting historically means.
Merriam-Webster defines gaslighting as “psychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of time that causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories”. It’s when you attack someone’s perception of reality with such sustained aggression that the victim’s psyche just kind of gives up and assumes they’re not mentally competent enough to interpret reality for themselves.
And that’s exactly what you see Israel apologists doing day in and day out with regard to this conflict.
They tell you to doubt your own eyes when you see mountains upon mountains of evidence that Israel is raining high tech military explosives upon areas known to be packed full of children.
They tell you to doubt your own ears when Israeli officials spout genocidal rhetoric.
They tell you to doubt your own intelligence when you talk about the many gaping plot holes in what we’re told to believe about October 7.
They tell you to doubt your own sanity when they demand that you accept unverified allegations about beheaded babies and babies cooked in ovens while ignoring the thousands of children that are being massacred in Gaza.
They tell you to doubt your own beliefs when they tell you repeatedly that you’re an anti-semite for criticizing Israel even when you know you have nothing but good will toward Jewish people.
They tell you to doubt your own motives when they tell you repeatedly that you support terrorism and want Jews to be killed even when you know nothing could be further from the truth.
They tell you to doubt your sense of reality when they tell you Hamas is responsible for all the death and destruction that you can plainly see is being inflicted by Israeli bombs.
They’re never just telling you what to believe about the world, they’re also telling you what to believe about yourself. This is always a telltale sign that you are being psychologically manipulated. Anytime you find yourself involved with someone who continually works to change your perception of yourself in a negative way, you would be well-advised to dis-involve yourself from them as quickly as possible.
Israel apologists need to do this because they don’t have truth on their side, and they don’t have morality on their side, so all they’ve got is manipulation. They work so hard to distort your perception of reality because a lucid perception of reality is highly unfavorable to Israeli information interests.
Don’t let them do this to you. Whenever you get the sense that you are being manipulated by someone, just start ignoring their words and watch their actions instead. Their words can deceive you, but their actions, examined objectively, will tell you everything you need to know about them.
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Oh, a fucking playright in Berlin. Fuck Hopkins.
“The Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories serves as a laboratory for a number of techniques of control, surveillance, and separation that are today proliferating to other places on the planet. We are increasingly faced with the question of what to do with those who’s very existence does not seem to be necessary for our reproduction, those whose mere existence or proximity is deemed to represent a physical or biological threat to our own life.
Paradigmatic of this matrix of rule is present-day Gaza in Palestine. On the one hand, it is the culmination of spatial exclusionary arrangements that existed in an incipient state during the early phases of modern settler or genocidal colonialism. Such was the case of Native American reservations in the United States, as well as island prisons, penal colonies, camps, and Bantustans in South Africa in the not-so-distant past. — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 2016
So, this dirty society, this dirty hateful driven society, this dirty society of zealots, this dirty society of neo-Nazi’s, this dirty dirty virus that is USA Wailing Wall White House, all those monstrosities, the sickness?
An Israeli attack on an emergency response center in Lebanon killed seven people. Another set of strikes on Syria killed several soldiers and an Iranian military adviser.
Sickness, the Minyans of Murder, Final Solution Biden and Zyklon B.B.B. Blinken. This is how the fucking u$A-I runs the show?
Twelve people drowned trying to reach aid dropped by plane off a Gaza beach, Palestinian health authorities said on Tuesday, amid growing fears of famine nearly six months into Israel’s military campaign. [ Military Campaign? Fucking Genocidal Campaign. Starvation Campaign. Death Campaign. ]
Video of the airdrop obtained by Reuters showed crowds of people running towards the beach, in Beit Lahia in north Gaza, as crates with parachutes floated down, then people standing deep in water and bodies being pulled onto the sand.
Russia on Wednesday said it sent over 29 tons of humanitarian aid for the besieged Gaza Strip, where more than 32,400 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 74,800 injured since Oct. 7 last year.
A statement by Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry said on Telegram that a special flight it dispatched earlier in the day has delivered the 20th batch of humanitarian aid to representatives of the Egyptian Red Crescent in the city of El-Arish, who will then redirect the aid to Gaza residents.
The ministry said earlier that the humanitarian aid consists of cereals, flour, sugar, and other long-term storage products, as well as personal hygiene products, most of which were collected at the initiative of authorities from the Russian Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia.
“In total, since the beginning of the humanitarian mission, 20 flights of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations have delivered more than 480 tons of cargo,” it further said.
whether it’s Fucker-berg and his $300m yacht or Altman and his Talmudic Dystopia or Fink and his Global Mafia, my algorithms are set for Wailing Walls, Minyans and Runny Hummus
Guatemalan military officers referred to such strategies as a “Palestinization” of Guatemala’s post-massacre Maya lands, where shock and awe and scorched earth campaigns left a devastated people. Guatemala-born journalist, Victor Perera described the result “a distorted replica of rural Israel.” Ian Almond, who recounted Perera’s description stated that Israeli trained, Guatemalan Colonel Eduardo Wohlers, in charge of the Plan of Assistance to Conflict Areas, admitted, “The model of the kibbutz and moshav is planted firmly in our minds.”
Criminal of the Highest Jewish Order!
So, when Fink speaks, the world listens? BlackRock’s Larry Fink calls for urgent national action on retirement crisis! This is the tyranny of this fucking Casino and Miyan Capitalism, where this fucking Israel First Judaic controls $70 trillion and tells the working poor and the working middle class what gives.
DOA — Democracy Totalitarian Style.
Or, “Nearly half of investors expect a ‘no landing’ scenario for the economy where inflation remains, but there’s no recession, Deutsche Bank (Nazi) survey says.”
“You could say it’s implied Goldilocks ‘no landing’ for now . . . the markets quite liking their porrige on the warmer side,” Deutsche Bank’s Jim Reid wrote.
We are fucking six year olds, these fucking piles of shit, giving us these fucking analogies?
[During the war, Deutsche Bank provided banking facilities for the Gestapo and, through its branch in Katowice, loaned the funds used to build the Auschwitz camp and the nearby IG Farben facilities. Deutsche Bank publicly acknowledged its involvement at Auschwitz in 1999. It also was a principal participant in the Nazi regime’s gold transactions. Between 1942 and 1944, Deutsche Bank purchased 4,446 kg of gold from the Reichsbank, of which 744 kg came from Holocaust victims.
In an effort to come to terms with its past during the Nazi era, Deutsche Bank in 1995 published a history volume that detailed its entanglement with the dictatorship. In December 1999, along with other major German companies, Deutsche Bank contributed to a US$5.2 billion compensation fund following lawsuits brought by Holocaust survivors;U.S. officials had reportedly threatened to block Deutsche Bank’s $10 billion purchase of Bankers Trust if it did not contribute to the fund.
[Jews have a site on the biographies of “Jews of the Deutsche Bank”? Fucking Jew World! …. Jewish employees worked alongside non-Jewish colleagues at Deutsche Bank since the institution’s first days. One of its founders (Ludwig Bamberger) and two of its first Members of the Management Board (Hermann Wallich and Max Steinthal) were of Jewish origin – as well as three Spokesmen of the Management Board (Paul Mankiewitz, Oscar Wassermann and Georg Solmssen).
The exact number of Jewish employees at the time of the National Socialist takeover of Germany is not known. Estimates say they accounted for at least two percent of the workforce, or about 340 employees.]
One fucking statement at the Jewish Oscars, and this is what these fuckers do?
Some 1,215 Jewish show business professionals now have signed a letter denouncing the filmmaker Jonathan Glazer’s speech, in which he decried the “dehumanization” of the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. See the updated full list.
More racism from the prime racist, Stephen Fucking Spielberg:
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” said Steven Spielberg. “I am increasingly alarmed that we may be condemned to repeat history–to once again have to fight for the very right to be Jewish,” the Schindler’s List director added at an event Monday celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Spielberg founded Shoah Foundation.
[Photo: Hugo Roitman – corrupt Israeli businessman arrested in Guatemala]
“In the face of brutality and persecution, we have always been a resilient and compassionate people who understand the power of empathy,” Spielberg added to a full USC ballroom, including over 30 Holocaust survivors. “We can rage against the heinous acts committed by the terrorists of October 7th and also decry the killing of innocent women and children in Gaza.”
“Bussers, dishwashers, they cannot afford to live here,” said Galvez. “Also right here where we’re located, there is no transportation, so we had no people to work.”
And Fascist Zionist Jewish FInk states what about retirement? Fucking housing, bitch! Get those Jewish and Goyim lawyers on the case: NIMBY!
“Sedona City officials reassured residents that the lot will not be visible from any of their homes — so they won’t have to worry about inadvertently casting their gaze on the homeless workers who make their lux lives in Sedona possible.”
I ran into some fucked up Israelis in Guatemala in the 1980s, man, arrogant, sly, shady dudes with bullshit hippie credentials and running hummus falafel bars in several touristy Guatemalan cities.
I was anti-ISRAEL back then, not just fucking ANTI-Zionist, so we had some fucking oud arguments, and alas, I was alone, backpacking with journalist’s notepad and Nikons, and I knew that any fucking faux hippie Jew in Guatemala with a business and locals working for them, and banking connnections, that I was one vulenrable Goyim.
[Photo: International Women’s Day demonstrators in Ciudad de Guatemala tagged sidewalks and building facades. The phrases “FALTA LUCIA” (LUCIA IS MISSING) and “Free Gaza” are seen here. March 8, 2024. (Image courtesy of Festivales Solidarios)}
I’ve read the books and railed against the dirty Jew World in Latin America, along with the dirty Yanqui World, too. Israeli anthropologist, Jeff Halper, documents this at length in his book, War Against the People: Israel, The Palestinians, and Global Pacification. Bishara Bahbah’s book, Israel, and Latin America: The Military Connection (1986) [he termed Israeli military aid to Guatemala “A Special Case” within a larger set of Israel’s armament sales to Latin America over the decades.] Other works make similar points, such as the study by Milton Jamail and Margo Gutierrez, It’s No Secret: Israel’s Military Involvement in Central America.
Source — Israel and Genocide: Not Only In Gaza (Israel and the United States share responsibility in perpetuating Guatemala’s military-sponsored Silent Holocaust.) March 25, 2024, Mark Lewis Taylor
Backing State Terrorism in Guatemala
I was first in Guatemala in 1987 to interview educators and activists who were important for my research about the role of religious beliefs among Maya indigenous peoples as they waged resistance to their ongoing repression. 1987 was a date when Guatemala’s latest series of military governments had just passed the worst of mass violence against Maya communities, the worst occurring between 1981 and 1983.
The period is often called a “hidden/silent holocaust,” the “Guatemala holocaust” or the “Maya holocaust.” And this is only one site of Israel’s involvement with massive state violence and terrorism throughout Latin America. I had been working with Guatemalans and others in the US to seek an end to U.S. military aid to Guatemala.
Simultaneous to my research, I was also in Guatemala to set up a program for students, one that I ran at Princeton Theological Seminary for almost 15 years. It placed our students in Central America, usually in Guatemala, for 8-weeks of summer learning programs–not for missions, building projects, but primarily for accompaniment, listening, and mutual understanding. Setting up this program through consultations with many Guatemalans, and then guiding students through this program remains one of the most valuable of my experiences over 40-plus years of teaching at Princeton.
One day in 1987, as the dust and smog of a Guatemala City street swirled about me, I walked in conversation with an activist friend and mentor. We were interrupted, startled by a loud order given by an authoritative command, projected by a deep vibrating loudspeaker. Call it a Darth Vader like sound-only sharper, slightly higher pitched, more threatening at high volume.
“What?” I gasped with irritation.
Witness our new police vehicles, courtesy of the Israeli Government.“Oh yeah,” clarified my colleague, “Witness our new police vehicles, courtesy of the Israeli Government.”
“Israel in Guatemala?” This disturbed me and started a line of thinking that persisted in my research and writing for decades. The Israeli state’s destruction of over 400-500 villages in Palestine of 1947/1948 would for subsequent decades be linked in my mind with the destruction of a similar number of villages destroyed in Guatemala in the early 1980s. My thinking on this part of the tangled web of world genocidal outcomes became a life-long concern in my research and publications.
I knew something of Israel’s history of war and repression in Palestine, but I did not know then, in 1987, of its connections to supplying police and military equipment as well as advisors in technology and surveillance to Guatemala. The nation’s police institutions were networked with military and surveillance agencies. These armed agents of state became fearsome threats to its citizens and brutal actors, especially after the 1954 CIA orchestrated coup against Guatemala’s last democratically-elected government.
The United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday published a draft report that found “reasonable grounds to believe” that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a move that came on the same day as the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in the ongoing war.
The advance unedited version of the report—entitled Anatomy of a Genocide—concludes that Israel’s far-right government and military “have intentionally distorted jus in bello principles, subverting their protective functions, in an attempt to legitimize genocidal violence against the Palestinian people.”
“The overwhelming nature and scale of Israel’s assault on Gaza and the destructive conditions of life it has inflicted reveal an intent to physically destroy Palestinians as a group,” the draft report states, enumerating Israeli actions that violate Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: “Killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to group members; and deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”
“Israel has de facto treated an entire protected group and its life-sustaining infrastructure as ‘terrorist’ or ‘terrorist-supporting,’ thus transforming everything and everyone into either a target or collateral damage, hence killable or destroyable,” the paper continues. “In this way, no Palestinian in Gaza is safe by definition. This has had devastating, intentional effects, costing the lives of tens of thousands of Palestinians, destroying the fabric of life in Gaza, and causing irreparable harm to its entire population.”
“I learned an infinite amount of things in Israel, and to that country I owe part of my essence, my human and military achievements” said Colombian paramilitary leader and indicted drug trafficker Carlos Castao in his ghostwritten autobiography, Mi Confesin.
WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD is true. I was in his house. His wife carried a tray of coffee and sugar. His daughter filed her nails, his son went out for the night. There were daily papers, pet dogs, a pistol on the cushion beside him. The moon swung bare on its black cord over the house. On the television was a cop show. It was in English. Broken bottles were embedded in the walls around the house to scoop the kneecaps from a man’s legs or cut his hands to lace. On the windows there were gratings like those in liquor stores. We had dinner, rack of lamb, good wine, a gold bell was on the table for calling the maid. The maid brought green mangoes, salt, a type of bread. I was asked how I enjoyed the country. There was a brief commercial in Spanish. His wife took everything away. There was some talk then of how difficult it had become to govern. The parrot said hello on the terrace. The colonel told it to shut up, and pushed himself from the table. My friend said to me with his eyes: say nothing. The colonel returned with a sack used to bring groceries home. He spilled many human ears on the table. They were like dried peach halves. There is no other way to say this. He took one of them in his hands, shook it in our faces, dropped it into a water glass. It came alive there. I am tired of fooling around he said. As for the rights of anyone, tell your people they can go fuck themselves. He swept the ears to the floor with his arm and held the last of his wine in the air. Something for your poetry, no? he said. Some of the ears on the floor caught this scrap of his voice. Some of the ears on the floor were pressed to the ground. [“Witnessing War” — May 1978]
The draft report urges U.N. member states to “enforce the prohibition of genocide in accordance with their… obligations” under international law. In January, the U.N.’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) found that Israel was “plausibly” perpetrating genocide in Gaza and ordered the country’s government to “take all measures within its power” to prevent genocidal acts. Human rights defenders say Israel has ignored the order.
“Israel and those states that have been complicit in what can be reasonably concluded to constitute genocide must be held accountable and deliver reparations commensurate with the destruction, death, and harm inflicted on the Palestinian people,” the publication argues.
Back to the future, here: Shifting to a more mellow look at humanity, which you can find here: Print edition.
Trading Chihuahua Desert Hardscrabble for Coast Range Wet
The word was the ember and the forest was my life. ― Jimmy Santiago Baca, “Coming into Language,” March 3, 2014
Oscar Juarez at Oregon Coast Community College in Newport. (Courtesy photo)
We’re at the Flip ‘n Chicken sharing food, swapping stories about El Paso, and philosophizing about what it means to be an educator in the Early Childhood program at Oregon Coast Community College.
His looks are a cross between Lee Trevino (golfer from El Paso) and my buddy the muralist from El Paso, Mario Colin.
My hope is that I can influence high school students to become teachers . . . to be better teachers . . . go to grad school . . . get a master’s degree, get a doctoral. My biggest pleasure would be to see that student who obtained a certificate from Oregon Coast College come back to replace me. — Oscar Juarez, faculty member in early childhood education at Oregon Coast Community College.
As the day unfolds, Oscar leads me from his faculty office to the Flip ‘n Chicken to meet Marco and Ana, the proprietors of the small eatery. For Marco and Oscar, this modest Mexican-styled restaurant serving chicken wings and all-day breakfasts is a hub of activity for the Newport and beyond Latino community.
The journey here for his wife Teresa and five children, aged 22 to 11, is a cultural/intellectual/ spiritual roadmap he’s plotted for his entire life. Leaving a huge metropolitan area with more than 90 percent Hispanic population in El Paso and several million Mexicans right across the border in Juarez, to this almost alien quasi-barren place called the Central Oregon Coast has galvanized into him the word “significant.”
Come November 28 2019, it will be a year since he was hired at OCCC-Newport.
Journeys from Mexico to El Paso – Family Legacy
The legacy of his Mexican roots planted in this country – historically in large part the sanctum of Mexico (or New Spain) for hundreds of years — are still tended carefully.
His parents met in Ciudad Juarez. Jesus Juarez was from Guanajuato and Oscar’s mother Maria Guadalupe from Zacatecas. His mother had a third-grade education, and his father went to college and obtained a business degree while living in Mexico City. Both did not speak English when they arrived to Juarez, Chihuahua.
Soon, a carpet tienda opened up – Alfombras Juarez, both in Juarez and then soon after a sister store in El Paso opened. Oscar and three brothers and sister were born in El Paso. The fifth child, a brother, was born in Juarez as their mother went into labor which necessitated giving birth in Mexico.
For Oscar, their humble beginnings set in motion his own ethos of caring for family and appreciating the little things in life – the gulls, the seals in Waldport where he lives, all the vegetation foreign to a Chihuahua native.
However, it doesn’t take much to precipitate pride in his own country’s history of struggle, and his own belief in the common good of all people, no matter the national borders set down.
Zoot Suits, Gang Bangers, Family Unity
We talk about gangs in El Paso, groups I am familiar with since I was both a college/university instructor who also taught in alternative programs tied to gang activity reduction. Oscar grew up with both parents in the household, and their home was part of two other residences – aunts and uncles with their own broods of 5 and 6 children each.
He attributes that cohesion as to why he, his siblings and cousins never got involved in gangs or drugs.
Where I grew up, one block east was the Barrios San Juan gang. One block west, the Fatherless gang. Two blocks north, the Diablo Sherman gang.
He’s quick to dispel the racist banter about Latinos and gangs.
You can’t judge a book by its cover.Here is one gang, Diablo Sherman, which came from a rundown housing project … they were never given a chance. With both parents working night and day. So, what other outlet do teenagers have? These gangs give them a sense of belonging.
He admits there was pressure to join a gang, but he stifled that by becoming a diplomat, making friends with individuals from every gang.
Given the tight-knit family, the young Oscar had many dreams of what he wanted to be when he grew up. One dream was to become an astronaut. He had aspirations for military life, even wanting to join the Army when the Gulf War began.
Life hit him like ice water to the face several times, the first one being the death of his father when he was killed by a hit and run driver in Juarez when the family was there for a quinceanera.
His mother was 38 years old left alone to raise five boys and a daughter.
Speech Therapy, Learning to Persevere
That’s when my impediment started,” Oscar says. This is one form of trauma precipitated by witnessing his old man die – stuttering, or stammering. “My siblings went to counseling after our father’s death. I was so young I guess they thought I didn’t need to get counseling.
His family was wrong about that. Consequently, his family believed Oscar was faking the stammering, or that he was imitating a cousin who stuttered.
It’s been a blessing for me. It changed my attitude. It made me realize others’ suffering, and to put myself into other people’s shoes.
The “it” is more than a speech challenge/disability – he sees life as a process of challenging any individual to live outside the box.
He was evaluated in fourth grade, received an IEP (Individualized Education Plan), and a speech therapist. For Oscar, during his senior year, the therapist told him his plans for the future – Air Force Academy – were not typical of others with this impediment. “She was telling me how much strength I had by not letting this limit my life, my dreams.”
I took it as a challenge. I never wanted the easy road. It would have been easier to just shy away from public speaking events. I was fortunate I had a few good teachers who made the difference for me.
Teaching is in his Blood
Ironically, it was his family of five children – Clara, 22; Yasmine, 21; Jesus, 18; Oscar, 14; Alicia, 11 – and his wife who chose Newport over a more lucrative offer of an associate professorship (with more pay) at New Mexico State University (his grad school alma mater) in Carlsbad (still close to his large clan in El Paso).
’Let’s get out of our comfort zone,’ Teresa said. ‘We’ve been playing it safe for so long, let’s gamble.’
That gamble means a win-win to the third power for Newport. He says he is really motivated to help transform Oregon Coast College into “the community’s school.”
His multicultural class is helping early childhood instructors see their students’ lives from a broader and multifaceted lens and narrative frame. “I feel I have to be more of an advocate for the college. Being here does provide me with a venue. I want this college to be more inclusive. I tell my students, ‘This is your community college. I am only a steward of the college.’”
He’s all about teaching, even though he was headed for an academy, which didn’t work out. He was a chemistry major at UT-El Paso. He was one semester away from heading to a lab. That didn’t work out.
In fact, Oscar Juarez’s presence in Newport – as he spreads his knowledge, passion and inspiration – is largely because he dropped out of college to take care of an ailing mother. In doing so, he worked odd jobs, including custodian at a Head Start in El Paso. And that’s when the teaching bug hit him hard.
Entre los individuos, como entre las naciones, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la pazAmong individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace.— Benito Juarez, Zapotec Indian, president of Mexico (1861–72)
The Benito Juarez Connection
This quotation Oscar recites while we eat our veggie burrito and chicken wings. It was the second Mexican revolution, against the French (1864–67) – essentially a foreign occupation under the emperor Maximilian.
That was the Battle of Puebla, which Mexico under Benito Juarez won. Think of Cinco de Mayo (5th of May).
He relates how his father spoke no English but opened up a business in both Juarez and El Paso. In fact, Oscar worked in both carpet stores in the summer. And it was his father who told him that he wanted his son to “not work on his knees but with his head” — no trabajar de rodillas sino con la cabeza.
Persistence is another trait Oscar attributes to his father and to the indigenous hero Benito Juarez. As the last child of six to still be at home, Oscar was asked to undertake caring for his mother.
His mother’ one side of her face was hit with Bell’s Palsy, then the other side was also paralyzed, on top of bouts of painful arthritis. He ended up dropping out of college to work odd jobs to support them both.
Those jobs and supporting his mother led her to ask him if it was okay if she married another man. Oscar speaks fondly of both his mother and step-father, who miss them dearly now that the five grandchildren and daughter-in-law are so far away.
Starting a Family Young
He was working odd jobs when he answered the request to be a volunteer at his daughter’s Head Start. He then got the job as custodian. Then one day one of the teachers asked him to assist with an unruly child. Oscar was a natural mentor. This Head Start mental health provider witnessed Oscar’s calming and instructive response and so asked him to apply to be a teaching assistant.
It was the assistant director of the program who “saw me interacting with my son . . . it wasn’t a classroom setting.” One week later he was offered the job of teacher’s assistant.
That opportunity came with a cut in pay, but Head Start offered him free schooling. Again, baptismal by fire – “The first day on the job the classroom teacher was out on a training and I was left with the classroom all day. I didn’t know the children’s names or the lesson plans.”
He did the TA job for two years, and then he ended up getting two AA degrees, and finally, after one and a half years of on-line school, he finished his bilingual early childhood education bachelor’s degree (2013).
He then found the time and opportunity to go to graduate school in 2016. Back to UTEP, in their grad program in education and curriculum development. He worked at Head Start fulltime as a teacher.
Barrage of Applications
He tells me with a smile that in December 2017 he started sending out applications for full-time college gigs in early childhood education. Over 100 were sent out all over the country. One landed an on-site interview, Grays Harbor College.
On his way back to El Paso, he got the call he didn’t land the Washington job. He emphasizes most colleges and universities were looking for PhD applicants.
He was exhausted, and he got one call from NMSU. He then was asked by OCCC for a remote interview. He did so well they invited him out to Newport for a face-to-face interview. He and his eldest daughter drove to Newport, met his (future) boss, teachers and others. He believes a training video Head Start had made of Oscar teaching in the classroom (age 3 to 5) won them over.
In the video Oscar shows how he can easily impart concepts of math and physics to 3-to 5-year old’s, ideas much older students have a difficult time grasping. He attributes his math and chemistry background to that success.
His trip back – he emphasizes how his family was strapped for money – included a blowout in Kingman, Arizona. Luckily, the spare tire was good. He got home on a Wednesday, got an offer from NMSU-Carlsbad, but then he wondered: “I saw the need of this community were high. I also would be in charge of starting the program – bilingual early childhood education. I wanted to leave my fingerprint on a program.”
Challenges and Changes
He tells me about how his Waldport neighbor Rick, two houses down from the duplex the Juarez family is renting, wrote a little piece for the local paper inspired by Oscar, emphasizing how local residents can take many things for granted.
What do I like about the coast? The weather. The scenery, and the green. I like the small things that people might not see. When driving to and from work, I get to see this amazing area. Even the dandelions. I look at them on the ground and I am truly amazed.
Those conversations with Rick from Waldport made Rick realize how much coastal beauty he takes for granted.
This brings up the fact Oscar Juarez and his family’s presence here – as well as all the other new residents from all parts of Mexico and Central America – could be transformative for dyed in the wool locals who are skeptical of outsiders, especially from countries south of the US border.
In fact, the Chicano-Latino connections Anglo residents are making and continue to make could be yet another story in the legacy of this country’s philosophy of being a welcoming country for immigrants. In 2011 the Mayor of Newport signed a Proclamation stating the city is a Welcoming Community – part of a large initiative called, Welcoming America movement, which has spread to more than two dozen states to promote immigrant inclusion, respect and integration.
The reasons I came to Newport and the Oregon Coast College involve my philosophy of making change where it really counts, Oscar tells me.
He sees the need for early childhood educators to be much more attuned to the shifting demographics of America – no matter how insane and inaccurate the current POTUS and his rabid followers are when discussing immigrants in this country.
Increasing the numbers of bilingual teachers across America is a win-win situation, and Oscar is of a generation of adults who was raised to fight for social justice and human dignity. We talk about his Catholic upbringing and beliefs, and we quickly launch into liberation theology, which is centered in activism by nuns and priests supporting indigenous, poor, farming and working communities throughout Latin America in their struggle to break the chains of oppression, structural violence and austerity measures dictated by transnational financial organizations.
We talk about how Lincoln County’s young minds need to be exposed to the big ideas, the big social justice tools, and how to create a more diverse and respectful world.
Advocate for the Young People
I’m at Oscar’s multicultural and early childhood ed classes at OCCC to give my own presentation on an anti-poverty program I am helping direct in Lincoln County.
The young people obviously open up their minds and hearts to the big ideas I am presenting around social IQ, social capital and communitarianism. The principles Oscar brings to the classroom align with my work for Family Independence Initiative: allowing people or families to make decisions in their lives about what progress should look like.
Investing in families is key to raising smart, resilient and resourceful youth. Having early education students understand the overlay of how young kids end up struggling with reading and writing and their behavior is a must for the new crop of teachers of the 3 to 5 year olds.
Oscar has invited many professionals to his class to talk to his students. I was there when Sommer McLeish, Community Health Improvement Program Coordinator for Samaritan Hospital, gave a presentation on early childhood principles and parenting programs. She too is all about building communities within communities.
Sommer brings up ACES — Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, which looks at the variables in a child whose upbringing is rough. The more precarious the parenting, the higher the child’s risks are for later health problems. Abuse, Neglect and Household Dysfunction are just three ACES. Both Oscar and Sommer are looking at arming parents with the tools to make sure the household is one of enrichment, lowered chances of abuse and neglect, and where the children can thrive and get a head start in education.
As I leave his two classes, Oscar runs into a few students – Spanish speaking young men and women who are animated and confident around him.
That is a picture worth more than a thousand words. As more people in our county come to understand the power of the journeys people are making today – sacrifices to leave behind their homelands, communities, families – to live and work here, the more powerful the story of diversity is when traditions and cultural signposts and activities are then shared among all in our community.
A few days earlier, Marco of Flip ‘n’ Chicken showed me the Oceanlake Elementary School Day of the Dead celebration his wife and others in the community put on. Here I was, in this little restaurant, while the Mexican showed me on his android phone the costumes and the dancing and drumming and guitar playing.
Oscar nodded, affirming his role in this county will have a lasting impact for some of those offspring of the Latino and all the other ethnic communities when they take his early childhood education courses to become mentors and guides in the classroom for the next and the next generation of children.
Riffing with the El Pasoan in Ten Easy Questions
My alma mater NMSU called me with the same type of position at almost the exact same time as I heard from Oregon Coast Community College. I felt this was a community that needed me more, and now that I’ve been here for a bit, I feel I made the right choice. I have a lot of experience working with low-income families, and as a Hispanic person, I’ve heard from people that said they were excited to see someone with their skin color that can speak their language, and others saying that seeing me in this job gives them hope.
Paul Haeder: What defines you as a teacher? Oscar Juarez: I have to give all my best every day. I know being a teacher is my vocation and I enjoy what I do. Another key thing to define me has a teacher is the ability to take a complex problem and break down to its basic element and teach it to my students. I must also have compassion with my students.
PH: What defines you as a father?
OJ: This is somewhat a difficult way to describe. I was fortunate that we had a nuclear family at home with my dad providing the example, but when he passed away my eldest brother took his role. Imagine a 20-year-old being the main male figure in our household but he tried his best and carried a great burden on his shoulders. My wife Terry is the person who has made me a better father. She reminds me when I am wrong and what I did right. Seeing the births of all my children brought me a new sense of security. I will be the first to admit that being a father is difficult and we don’t provide a support system. I always hoped that being a good father made me a better man, and being a good man made me a better father.
PH: What is the best definition of a good teacher?
OJ: A good teacher is a person who has embraced their vocation. Like I explain to my students, teaching is a vocation, meaning you enjoy every single moment and wake up energized each day. As a teacher we make many sacrifices for our families and children. I must emphasize when I mention children, they were my students. I say this because at times I was a stable figure, role model, and sometimes a parent to them after spending 9 months together. A teacher will use their own resources to help provide students the opportunity of giving them a toy or so forth to those who may not have what we all have. There were times, and still currently, financial hardships teachers face but we put a brave face.
PH: What is the main difference being a Latino in Lincoln County vs your life in El Paso?
OJ: The biggest difference is the change in demographics. In El Paso Latinos are the majority group in the city, and in Lincoln County we are the minority group. The food, produce, and language are very distinct from back home. We have found it very difficult to find food and produce that make up our diet. Mexican produce is very limited and expensive here. Another major difference is not being able to speak Spanish with other people. Being bilingual is great, but I still feel the urge to speak my native tongue or even joke around with friends and coworkers.
PH: What are some of the key issues in your multicultural class students might struggle with?
OJ: One of the biggest issues my students are facing is the financial struggle. Poverty has no racial line. Another issue is understanding the views and pressures other cultures have and understanding the similarities of each group. Finally, speaking about the elephant in room, white privilege.
PH: You have seen in your lifetime a real spotlight on Americans’ supremacist history, no? How do you have that conversation with your 5 children about how they might be greeted by cops, officials and even just the public based on the color of their skin?
OJ: Yes, I have seen the American supremacist history in action. Growing up in a majority Latino community, I was still called “wetback” and “illegal.” The attitudes by white Anglo people were very disheartening. Being subjected to injustices and discrimination in school, work, and in society would hamper my ideal of equality, but I became resolute in what needs to be done. When I drove to Newport the first time around, I noticed the same discrimination in Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Idaho. We have been able to avoid some of the discrimination towards our children. We have taught them we all are equal and have the same value in society, but society has not kept up to the times. I still get the look when I’m driving and notice a police car following me. Or even walking into a store and I hear the “keep an eye code” over the intercom. Yes, I did work in retail, do understand the codes to be vigilant with certain customers. On several occasions, I had sheriff’s deputy officer and Customs and Border agent berate me due to the color of my skin. All of these experiences have only made me more of an advocate for social justice.
PH: What are the key changes need to be made in the entire early education framework?
OJ: The changes I would love to make are “to learn through play,” community involvement, local curriculum needs, and better training of teachers. Learn through play is the easiest change we need in order to allow teachers the freedom to have fun with children. We are teaching children as if we are factory workers. Federal and state mandates have pushed out the ability to have fun. My fondest memories when I taught was when my students and I had fun learning. Allowing them to use their natural curiosity to investigate and develop the correlation of a solution while having fun. I often ask people what is your fondest memory of school. Almost 99% will say when they had fun in a class. The community input is very important in the classroom and outside the classroom. But we have built a wall around schools. Parental involvement is vital to the success of their children. We need them to volunteer in the classroom, we need them feel invested in their child’s learning. They are the experts on their children, not us. When we create an inclusive environment with the community, they will help us identify curriculum needs for their children. If we have a multicultural community, we need to hear and understand their needs. This will go along with using their cultural strengths in school. Lastly, we need to encourage teachers to step out of their comfort zone. We need to bring teachers to use their talents into the classroom by changing how we train teachers. Teacher training usually involves sitting down and listening to a speaker. This is sometimes boring. We need to create training that will foster their skills with hands on activities, learn through play.
PH: What is your favorite thing to do in Lincoln County, on the Coast?
OH: My favorite thing to do in the county is walking on the beach with my family. We are trying to go out every weekend to Seal Rock or Waldport beach and enjoy being together as a family. My wife and I enjoy watching our kids running or enjoying themselves in the natural beauty of the beach. This is a major contrast to our former Chihuahua desert view.
PH: Define community for me.
OJ: A community is helping your family, friends, and neighbors. The mutual cooperation to help each other in a time of need. When I used to be at catechism for confirmation, I had my candidates share the Christmas joy by buying presents to under privileged children in the community. Understanding the hardships and how we could help make the difference in people lives.
PH: Why would you make a good governor of Texas, or Oregon?
OJ: First all is the understanding the daily struggles everyone has. I do not come from a family of wealth or a generation of privilege. In Texas the challenges include affordable housing, Medicaid expansion, education funding, and safety net plans. I know how it feels to live in poverty and the challenges to make ends meet. We have programs that are meant to help families from low socio-economic status with food, housing, and so forth. But when a family is trying to overcome their challenges, the programs that are meant to help instead push families away. For example, if a family is making more money, their SNAP benefits are reduced. We create more obstacles for those families. In education, the funding would go to the Education Agency, in Texas it’s the TEA. They would give the monies according to each district; now the problem here is that more affluent districts would get a greater chunk of the monies and poor districts would get the least.
Oscar Juarez leads an Early Childhood Education course at Oregon Coast Community College in Newport. (Courtesy photo)
I wrote some of my graduate work on the importance of changing the formulas to better match the needs of the community by providing more funds to school with high rates of reduced or free lunches. Another issue tied to this is providing more funding to rural communities. I believe that every family that makes $70,000 or less should receive SNAP. Families are struggling to make ends meet, and food takes a big chunk from family budgets. Giving them more for their food will allow them to build up wealth and not live paycheck to paycheck. I believe families should free high-speed internet. We need to build new infrastructure that benefit both rural and urban communities. The one program I would implement is affordable housing. I would take land and old buildings and create new homes. The use of eminent domain in certain areas is necessary to help reduce families living in poverty or homeless.
For example, I would take 10 acres of land and build 4 houses on every 1 acre. I would state that companies bidding for contracts must pay a living wage, be local, hire locally, and purchase from local vendors. We would offer homes to low income families and allow them to borrow $20,000 for the closing costs and down payment. The caveat to this would be families would need to live 10 years there and be forgiven the first $10,000; if a family lives in the house for 20 years, the other $10,000 would be forgiven. We would continue to do this for several years. By providing affordable housing, rent prices shall fall. Imagine if we could build homes in rural communities that need the most? It may sound odd, but we would be building new infrastructure in rural and urban areas. And yes, this includes creating partnerships with local native tribes to be included in the infrastructure.
Our fellow communities should share the same benefits as everyone in our society. Imagine if we could build homes in rural communities that are in dire need the most? This is why I think I would be a great asset as governor. Hopefully, one day I shall take that bold step.
Ahh, ghosts have personalities. Think Zombies, Caitlin. Or lobotomized laggerts.
Walking the streets of this ghost town, watching ghost people laugh and play and indulge like Gaza isn’t burning, like children aren’t starving, like people aren’t dying slowly trapped under rubble next to the corpses of their loved ones, like IDF troops aren’t merrily picking off civilians with drones and snipers while children get their limbs amputated without anaesthetic, with the full support of this ghost civilization and its ghost leaders.
This ghost town full of ghost cars, ghost buses, ghost trains, ghost pubs, ghost concerts, ghost theme parks, ghost cinemas, ghost festivals, ghost laughter, ghost feasting, ghost shopping, all going on just the same as it was before all this started. Little children running around with flesh on their bones and their organs inside their bodies like they’re supposed to be, supervised by ghost parents with heads full of social clout and gossip. (Ghost Town)
Outside USA military mercenary compounds:
The IPC said 70 percent of people in parts of northern Gaza were suffering the most severe level of food shortage, more than triple the 20 percent threshold to be considered famine. In all, 1.1 million Palestinians in Gaza, about half the population, were experiencing “catastrophic” shortages of food.
Israel “must kill 100,000, even a million” people in Gaza if that was necessary to stop Palestinian resistance fighters from firing rockets.
In a column called “Ask the Rabbi,” Eliyahu suggested that a biblical law authorized sexual violence under certain circumstances. He was responding to a question – apparently by one of the website’s readers – about whether women could be viewed as “war booty.”
According to Eliyahu, an Israeli soldier should be subject to few, if any, constraints when fighting a war.
“Now he has got to fight, and you shouldn’t be preaching morality to him,” he wrote. “Do it at home, before the war, and not now in the middle of the war. Don’t weaken his spirit. If you forbid him from a beautiful woman and he’s enraptured by her outer charms, then he’ll think about her and is likely to get to the point where the Jewish people will be defeated. What will you gain from that?”
Eliyahu interpreted a biblical scripture as meaning “if it burns in you, take a beautiful woman,” thereby excusing rape during war.
[Photo: Ghosts? Nah, active Shooter Satans. Rabbis for Rape: Shmuel Eliyahu, chief rabbi of Safad, who justified the rape of non-Jewish women and advocated genocide in Gaza].
Ghosts? This is the Final Solution carried out by not ghosts, but foot soldiers and enablers and zombies for the Zyklon B.B.B. Blinken’s.
“They raped women, kidnapped women, executed women, and pulled dead bodies from under the rubble to unleash their dogs on them.”
Jamila al-Hissi, a Palestinian woman who was besieged for six days in a building in the vicinity of al-Shifa hospital, told Al Jazeera that Israeli forces raped, tortured and executed women inside the hospital.
The Israeli military troops killed five medical staff inside al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, according to Gaza’s government media office. They are still trapping hundreds of patients and displaced people inside this medical facility.
Earlier Sunday, Israeli military vehicles suddenly entered near the Nasser Medical Complex, coinciding with a series of Israeli raids in various areas of the city causing deaths and injuries, according to eyewitnesses.
Boycott? Hmm, bomb? It’s my fucking tax dollars, my fucking communist tax mother fucking dollars going to this Final Solution Jewish Rape Factory.
More Genocidal Final Solution Zyklon Zionist News:
Al Jazeera: What is happening with the ceasefire talks?
Al Jazeera: Palestinian boy describes executions inside al Shifa Hospital
WAFA: Israeli occupation blocks West Bank Christians from accessing Jerusalem on Palm Sunday
WAFA: WAFA correspondent killed along with son in Israeli airstrike on Gaza
Mondoweiss: Weekly Briefing: Zionism will never be viewed the same after the Gaza genocide
Mondoweiss: GoFundMe’s Palestine double standard makes it complicit in Gaza genocide
Middle East Eye: In numbers: The scale of Israel’s devastating war on Gaza after 170 days
IMEMC: Israeli Colonizer Stabs a Palestinian Bus Driver Near Ramallah
The sane people at the table: The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas welcomed the United Nations Security Council’s call today for an immediate ceasefire, in a statement released on Monday.
“We stress the necessity of reaching a permanent ceasefire that leads to the withdrawal of all Zionist (Israeli occupation) forces from the Gaza Strip and the return of the displaced [Palestinians] to the homes they were forced out of,” the movement emphasized.
“We also affirm our readiness to engage in an immediate prisoner exchange process that leads to the release of both sides’ detainees and captives,” Hamas said.
“We call on the Security Council to pressure the occupation to adhere to the ceasefire and stop the war of genocide and ethnic cleansing against our people,” the Resistance movement affirmed. (source)
Robots like Draco 3 could one day care for the elderly . . . after they clear Gaza of Natives!
Six months after Al-Aqsa Flood, Israel has made little progress in eradicating Hamas or its capabilities, and its Gaza war only fueled and expanded support for resistance. Tel Aviv has miscalculated badly; you can’t fight ideology with guns.
Six months into Israel’s blitzkrieg on Gaza, the occupation state’s military intelligence has reluctantly acknowledged what many had suspected: achieving a decisive victory over Hamas is an unattainable goal. Despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s initial rhetoric of total annihilation, the reality on the ground speaks differently. (Xavier Villar)
Cows. Look at them. USA and UK. COWS. Dirty bovine.
The United Nations Security Council on Monday demanded an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas and the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages after the United States abstained from the vote.
The remaining 14 council members voted for the resolution, which was proposed by the 10 elected members of the body.
[Photo: China’s Representative to the United Nations Zhang Jun, Russia’s Representative to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia, Malta’s Representative to the United Nations Vanessa Frazier and Riyad H. Mansour, Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations gather on the day members of the United Nations Security Council vote on a Gaza resolution that demands an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan leading to a permanent sustainable ceasefire, and the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages, at U.N. headquarters in New York City, U.S}
Step DOWN???? Shoot these rabid capitalists! “Boeing CEO, other executives stepping down amid safety crisis”
Nazi’s at home: In an exclusive interview with CBS News, U.S. Border Patrol chief Jason Owens called the situation at the southern border a “national security threat,” expressing concern about tens of thousands of migrants who have evaded apprehension and entered the country surreptitiously over the past five months. ]
Dirty dirty empire, off on spring break! “More American citizens rescued from Haiti as flights continue to land in Central Florida”
Can we turn off the fucking Zionist, Israel-Forever, Judaism Everywhere shit for a month, a year? Dirty Times of Israel: “US academics from Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth latest group to make Israel pilgrimage: Mindful of an informal boycott of Israeli academics since Oct. 7, faculty from three prestigious US schools come to tour massacre sites and take home the lessons learned”.
“I gathered a team of about 10 Hebrew-speaking clinicians, and we provide support for anyone who needs it,” she said. “The experience of Israelis in the US now is completely different… On a regular day now, we have 5-6 cases just from the Israeli community. They feel ghosted and alone, it’s a shift in their identity. There is a ton of survivor’s guilt, about being there and not here,” she said.
A matter of STEM versus Humanities? Fuck, this is rich.
Speaking broadly, Kreiman said there is “a clear difference” between STEM and humanities departments in terms of how faculty and students look at the Israel-Hamas conflict, with the latter more likely to be pro-Palestinian in orientation.
In other words, the fucking science (sic) technology (billionaire’s Eichmanns) engineering (Blackrock fuckers) and math majors (Wall Street, hedge funders) all are for the starvation and bombing of civilians in Gaza, while humanities might have a ceasefire now protest?
More Jews stirring the Goyim Pot. Harvard of all places! The event featured Ilya Shapiro, director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research; Jeannie Suk Gersen, a Harvard Law School professor; Amna Khalid, a Carleton College history professor; and Stacy Hawkins, a professor at Rutgers Law School. Christopher Robichaud, a Harvard Kennedy School lecturer, moderated the discussion.
Harvard, meanwhile, has been hauled into government proceedings surrounding its response to campus tensions and the war in Gaza — including a far-reaching congressional subpoena, Department of Education investigations, and multiple federal lawsuits. In a January letter threatening to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status, House Ways and Means Committee Chair Rep. Jason T. Smith (R-MO.) criticized the University’s DEI initiatives, arguing they exclude Jewish students and repress dissenting voices.
Shapiro, who co-authored model legislation restricting diversity efforts in higher education, was eager to take credit for the new laws.
“I had my hand in a lot of that,” he said.
Khalid slammed the restrictions as “ideologically charged” and said legislatures should stay out of the DEI debates.
“While I’m very critical of DEI offices, there is no space — and should be no space — for interference from the legislature on academic matters,” Khalid said.
Jews ‘r Us.
Fucking Fucker-Berg! A recent one, involving a property that’s been linked to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, was of the latter variety.
According to a report from the Real Deal, the four-bedroom, 3.5-bath mansion on about 3.5 acres in Woodside, CA, passed from one limited liability corporation to another in a $29.6 million deal a couple of weeks ago.
These fucking criminals, Jews from Russia.
[Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer was once Bill Gates’ assistant, now he’s the 6th richest person in the world. Here are his 5 tips for success . . . Steven Anthony Ballmer was born on March 24, 1956, in Detroit, Michigan as the son of Beatrice Dworkin and Frederic Henry (Fritz Hans) Ballmer, a manager at the Ford Motor Company. Frederic (1923–2000) was from Zuchwil, Switzerland and arrived in the United States in 1948. He is Jewish. Steve’s mother was the daughter of Samuel Dworkin, a Russian Jew who fled to the United States in 1914 and became a merchant for a glass store. Through his mother, Ballmer is a second cousin of actress and comedian Gilda Radner.Ballmer grew up in the affluent community of Farmington Hills, Michigan. Ballmer also lived in Brussels from 1964 to 1967, where he attended the International School of Brussels.
Can we fucking kill these fucking people — Wailing Wall White House Minyans? “Putin Faces Some Nasty Surprises” – Victoria Nuland’s Threat Exactly One Month Before Moscow Attack!
Your skin crawling yet? According to The Financial Times, 75 percent of nations are predicted to fall beneath population replacement birthrates by 2050.
This could cause many issues for the economy and society as a whole. One major concern is that the elderly will have no one to care for them. This is where humanoid robots could come in and do the tasks that relatives would once do.
[Photo: Draco feeding grandma and changing grandpa’s catheter.]
Ah, no depopulation agenda. STEM, go to Israel and plan the beachfront properties and gas pipelines for the Mayer Lansky’s.
US agriculture industry gears up for futuristic aerial ‘drone-swarm’ farming after FAA decision
Texas drone maker Hylio wins FAA exemption to make flying payloads competitive with farm tractors.
Fucking STEM: Professor Mark Miodownik of University College London told the BBC,
“Just like the hermit crabs, we should be reusing plastics much more, instead of discarding it.”
Scientists raise concerns after observing ‘heartbreaking’ behavior of hermit crabs:
‘We are living in a different era. Animals are making use of what is available to them.’
Give this woman a five gallon plastic bucket, please, and let her live under it!
While the pink and BIPOC pigs guzzle:
And sperm counts are 1/2 of the 1950s, but that RNA is fucked up passed onto these fucking mothers. Eggs formed from Jack Daniels binges:
While Gaza burns.
Israeli forces target aid workers in string of killings amid imminent famine
Yep. No regrets about this dirty country’s war mongering, Jewish Gangsterism!
They fucking do polls on this fixation?
A new report by the research group Forensic Architecture counters Israel’s argument at the International Court of Justice that it followed humanitarian policies to safeguard civilian life in Gaza. South Africa argued in January before the ICJ that Israel was guilty of genocide during its war on Gaza. The report argues that what Israel says are humanitarian evacuations in Gaza actually amount to the forced displacement of Palestinians, which is a war crime. It found that since October 7, Israel has issued imprecise and sometimes contradictory evacuation orders, attacked people even in so-called safe zones and evacuation routes, and failed to provide the necessities of life for those civilians, all while pushing the population further and further south into areas that are then also attacked or evacuated at a later time. “We cannot see it as anything else but part of the genocidal campaign,” says Forensic Architecture director Eyal Weizman, who accuses Israel of using humanitarian principles as yet another weapon against Palestinians in Gaza. He says Israel’s objective is to “exercise pain on the civilian population” in order to deter “ongoing resistance to the Israeli occupation.”
Jews and Mossad and Isra-Hell Bombs the Fuck out of World Trade Center (USS Liberty anniversary is coming up) and Jewish Neo-Cons and Wailing Wall White House Bombing Moscow
Dirty boys and girls and LGBTQA+ Iberian monsters at it yet again.
In sum, for the entire present-day United States from 1492 to the present, the total number of Indigenous deaths includes the 12 million estimated by Thornton; the additional approximately 790,000 deaths that occurred in Hawaii, Alaska, in Puerto Rico; and about 200,000 excess deaths since 1900. Thus, the Indigenous Holocaust in this country appears to have taken around 13 million lives. Signally, this horrific number of deaths was only a very small portion of the mind-numbing Holocaust throughout the Western Hemisphere. When Thornton’s estimated hemispheric population decline of 70 million is multiplied by 2.5, the total number of Indigenous deaths throughout the Western Hemisphere between 1492 and 1900 appears to be about 175 million. And the number of Indigenous people who have died in the hemisphere because of war, repression, racism, and harsh conditions of life since 1900 surely runs into the millions. (source)
Dirty dirty EuroTrashLandians:
It is very, very clear to all of us who have been on the ground in Gaza that the only way to try and stop this humanitarian catastrophe is for an immediate ceasefire. There’s a lot of talk back in the U.K. and in the U.S. about how to get aid to Gaza. We can talk about the fact that, undoubtedly, the best way to get aid is over land rather than via airdrops or via sea corridors. But even if they open up the land borders, the crossings, to get the aid in, the distribution of aid within Gaza is virtually impossible with the ongoing military activity. And what is crucial is that aid gets not only to Gaza, but within Gaza easily, to get to all — particularly to northern Gaza, where we know there is now a famine. And so, my message is — our message is that there has to be pressure on the Israelis to stop — and Hamas — to have a ceasefire, so that that aid can be delivered throughout the whole of Gaza and humanitarian care and aid can start to work. — British surgeon Dr. Nick Maynard, who recently led an emergency medical team at Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital
Fucking Jewish Jugular Killers, PayPal fuck is now weighing in on the Ukrainian Jewish ZioAzovNaziLensky’s terrorism?
American businessman David Sachs said that Ukraine’s role in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall looks increasingly likely.
If the Ukrainian government was behind the terrorist attack, as is looking increasingly likely, the US must disavow it or we will become complicit.
– former PayPal executive director, billionaire David Sachs wrote on his social network page (can we just end the fucking Jewish Spin on the World They Are Creating — pain, suffering, hell, chaos, starvation, feudalism, inverted totalitarianism?
Here, a real smart and got-it-together human:
Maria Zakharova writes:
US National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson: ‘Ukraine was not involved in the terrorist attack in Krasnogorsk, it was all the fault of the banned ISIS.’
If only they had been able to deal with the assassination of their own President Kennedy so quickly. But no – for more than 60 years they can’t find out who killed him. Maybe it was ISIS, too. Or will they drag on with specifics for another 60 years, playing any “constructive uncertainty”?
Or let’s take the terrorist attack on the Nord Streams? There, according to the United States (and The New York Times referred to comments by officials), Ukrainians were involved. But then the American authorities went “to ground”. So far they are still searching for either Kiev or Isis divers. Not a single word was uttered from Washington calling on Denmark and Sweden not to stop searching for the guilty, and Russia’s proposal for an investigation under the auspices of the United Nations was blocked by the Anglo-Saxons in the Security Council.
All this suggests that the political elites of the U.S. for decades have become adept at skillfully diverting attention from high-profile crimes and all sorts of staged events.
Therefore, until the investigation into the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall is completed, any phrase from Washington justifying Kiev should be considered as evidence.After all, the financing of terrorist activities of the Kiev organized crime group by American liberal Democrats and participation in the corruption schemes of the Biden family have been going on for many years.
Houthis, Help the Free World NOW. Bomb these mother-fucking billionaire criminals into the Sea.
Bye bye Jew and Goy Beasts! Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are so rich that they have support vessels to accompany their megayachts. The shadow vessels carry their jet skis, submarines, and helicopters, and for the first time, they are docked close to each other in Fort Lauderdale.
Houthis? Bomb the shit out of this fucking Arab-Jewish stain on humanity! [Saudi businessman’s 377-feet Lurssen superyacht was so magnificent that billionaires started making offers the moment he took delivery of the vessel. Roman Abramovich made an offer so ridiculously high that the sheik immediately sold him his boat after taking just one cruise on it.]
Familial note: His father, Aaron Abramovich Leibovich (1937−1969), who was of Jewish descent, worked in the economic council of the Komi ASSR, and died when Roman was three. Roman’s maternal grandparents were Vasily Mikhailenko and Faina Borisovna Grutman, both born in Ukraine. It was to Saratov in the early days of World War II that Roman’s maternal grandmother fled from Ukraine. Irina was then three years old. Roman’s paternal grandparents, Nachman Leibovich and Toybe (Tatyana) Stepanovna Abramovich, were Belarusian Jews. They lived in Belarus and, after the revolution, moved to Tauragė, Lithuania, with the Lithuanian spelling of the family name being Abramavičius.
Then this bullshit? Shackles, man. These are fucking criminals. Give me a thousand books describing how they gouge, grift, steal, extort, shadow shelter, bait and switch, push all the hell and pollution and economic destability onto us, the people, onto the Global South, onto the poor and almost really fucking poor. Stories of Economic Hitmen? Fucking Mafia’s, man.
Banking Millions? Banking Billions? Fucking drug money. Fucking murder money. Fucking rape money. Daft fucking shit face Phil White. Go the way of the dodo!
And these scum buckets love their fucking people, us, those they extract our last blood drips, who have colonized our minds, our children’s minds, grandkids’ minds and the future generations’s mind. This is what Casino-Disaster-Shock-and-Awe-Usury-Predatory-Criminal Capitalism is, in this fucking “democracy” they have sold as a fucking totalitarian smoke and mirrors goddamned Michelle and Barak Executive Produced Child’s Show!
Henley & Partners is a company that specializes in helping wealthy people move to different countries—and business is booming. A company report says 120,000 high-net-worth individuals changed countries in 2023, up from 51,000 a decade earlier, Quartz reports. The company, which defines a high-net-worth person as somebody with at least $1 million in “liquid investable assets,” says not all of these American millionaires are departing the US, but many of them are making backup plans. It says the number of inquiries from American clients about obtaining residency in other countries hit a record last year, up more than 500% from 2019.
[Reverse fucking Iberian and EuroTrashLandian Conquest . . . New Conquistadors Like a Cancer/Virus Leaving for the Old Incest Filled World: Top destinations for millionaires leaving America includeGreece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, and Spain.]
The fucking “rich” even get to go to the restaurants that were in the past, fucking affordable family joints!
Olive Garden’s earnings just pulled back the curtain on the economy: The rich are dining out while the poor are falling back
Chain restaurants are supposed to be the more affordable and more accessible dining establishments for everyone. Think endless soup, salad, and breadsticks at Olive Garden and the irresistible rolls from LongHorn steakhouse.
But from what the CEO of Darden Restaurants Inc. (which owns those two brands) is seeing, lower-income families aren’t dining out at their establishments as much—despite seeing total third-quarter sales rise 6.8% to $3 billion.
“We’re clearly seeing consumer behavior shifts,” Darden CEO Rick Cardenas said in a third-quarter earnings call on Thursday. “Transactions from incomes below $75,000 were much lower than last year. And at every brand, transactions fell from incomes below $50,000.”
Meanwhile, transactions for higher-income individuals were higher than last year, according to the earnings call, so households earning at least $150,000 were dining out more. That’s an “ongoing change” to Darden’s income mix, said CFO Raj Vennam. It’s also a vivid illustration of a two-track economy in which lower-income consumers are pulling back and higher-income families are splashing the cash.
Another smear, this one, Goyim Central, Murderer Bezos:
“We need to feed 10 billion people with healthy, sustainable food throughout this century while protecting our planet,” Bezos Earth Fund Vice Chair Lauren Sánchez said in a statement. “We can do it, and it will require a ton of innovation. Our world is poised for transformation, for a future not constrained by compromise. Solutions to our greatest challenges often come from the quiet persistence of those willing to question, reimagine, and innovate.”
Versus this hero!
The biggest corporate takeover on the planet is the hijacking of the food system, the cost of which has had huge and irreversible consequences for the Earth and people everywhere.
From the seed to the farm to the store to your table, corporations are seeking total control over biodiversity, land, and water. They are seeking control over how food is grown, processed, and distributed. And in seeking this total control, they are destroying the Earth’s ecological processes, our farmers, our health, and our freedoms.
Vandana Shiva: Create Food Democracy, Occupy our Food Supply [Before becoming an activist, Dr. Vandana Shiva was one of India’s leading physicists. She holds a Master’s degree in the philosophy of science and a PhD in particle physics. She is the director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology, the author of many widely-translated books, and a leader in the International Forum on Globalization, along with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin. Shiva is also the founder of Navdanya (“nine seeds”), a movement promoting diversity and use of native seeds.]
And this is it, no? The fucking biggest freaks in the World, complete destruction of humanity, one way or another.
As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, causing mass famine, injury and death, we get an update on the malnutrition and mental health crises in Gaza from Dr. Nahreen Ahmed, a pulmonary and critical care doctor and the medical director of the humanitarian aid group MedGlobal.
She is recently back from a two-week volunteer trip to Gaza, where she says these crises are growing so rapidly “that even if aid was increased tomorrow, we would still be in a severe situation where the amount of food would not be enough in the immediate term.” It is a “horrific experience for all involved,” she concludes.
A nazi is a Nazi is a UkroAzovZioNaziLensky, or what have you. It’s about the Wailing Wall, and the Zyklon B.B.B. Blinken-BiBi et al. These are highly Jewish and highly religious and highly dependent upon clerics, AKA rabbis, rabid or what have you.
Johnstone is the Down Under Pundit in the Nose Bleed Section of Life.
People who wish to conflate Zionism with Jewishness often argue that most Jews are Zionists, but so what if they are? Most westerners are propaganda-addled imperialists, but if I didn’t believe westerners can and do snap out of that worldview I wouldn’t be doing what I do here.
In any system where people are being indoctrinated at mass scale by the powerful you’re going to see the majority of that population buying into the indoctrination, but conflating the people with the political ideology they’re indoctrinated with serves only to confuse and distort. If people had conflated “Nazism” with “Germany” that logic could have been used to justify exterminating every German after WWII, but because that distortion wasn’t made it opened up the possibility of de-indoctrinating the nation from that pernicious worldview.
Betting on the possibility of a better future means drawing a distinction between the people and the unhealthy worldviews they’ve been indoctrinated with, whether that’s Zionism, western imperialism, or anything else. We can only have a healthy world when the people snap out of their propaganda-induced coma and shake off the power-serving worldviews of this diseased civilization.
Jesus, calling and identifying Nazi’s doen’t mean they all have to be exterminated. What does that mean, exterminated? Johnstone uses the language of pest control.
Nazi’s are here and there and down under and inside the Inbred Un-United Queendom, and Klanada and everywhere. Passive, card-carrying, mellow, mean, gun weilding, white nationalists, etc. So, Jewish State of Jewish Occupied Palestine, with the Jewish symbol on the flag, and laws tied to Judaism first, and exclusive rights of Jews, well, that is a Jewish State, and equating those who ever supported the Jewish State of Jewish Stolen Palestine with supporters of Judaism and the scab of Zionism, that is perfectly fine, and it’s a fucking joke Johnstone is spending even a drippy paragraph on trying to tell the world how to think about Israel, Israel supporters, Goyim or Jew alike.
Let them eat sour kraut! These are fucking fools in costumes.
Israel doesn’t march and put on CosPlay shit. They fucking shoot medical workers in the legs, and they starve and head-snipe children and disabled. They are Nazi’s in Action, and the entire country supports that, so, different Germany. Fucking Nose BLeed thinker, Caitlin Johnstone!
Nazi’s marching with Tiki torches, verses IOF and Mossad and Silicon Wadi and all the other Nazi agencies of Isra-Hell?
DR. AMBER ALAYYAN: Two populations are particularly vulnerable. Pregnant and lactating women, who were already facing iron deficiency anemia before the war, which puts them at risk for hemorrhage during birth, with the war, it puts them in a state of undernourishment or malnutrition, potentially malnutrition, which means that they can’t breastfeed their children properly. The milk doesn’t necessarily come in, and it’s definitely not enough. And the other population is children under 2 years, which is the breastfeeding age.
There’s not enough space for us to work closely with the mothers to help them start lactating again. We can’t even access them. And to be able to do that, you have to have day-to-day activities with those women, and that is not something that’s possible for us right now. Those children need to be breastfed. If they can’t be breastfed, they need formula. To have formula, you need clean water. None of these things are possible. What we’re talking about is women who are squeezing fruits, dates into handkerchiefs, into tissues, and feeding — drip-feeding their children with some sort of sugary substance to nourish them.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: That was Dr. Amber Alayyan of Médecins Sans Frontières. Dr. Zaher Sahloul, the president of MedGlobal, also spoke at the United Nations on Tuesday.
DR. ZAHER SAHLOUL: This is Hiyam Abu Khader. She’s 7 years old. She is one of the victims of the war in Gaza. A bomb hit her family home, so her father and brother were killed. And her mother also was injured, and she had burns. And she sustained third-degree burns on 40% of her body. She was treated by one of our volunteers, Dr. Vanita Gupta, who is a critical care specialist from New York, in the European Hospital in Deir al-Balah. And Dr. Gupta took some videos of her, and you can see her face in the videos, and also in this picture. And if you want to define post-traumatic stress disorder, this is what post-traumatic stress disorder looks like in the face of a child who’s 7 years old. She was supposed to be evacuated to Egypt, and she waited for weeks before she was eventually evacuated, and she died two days after evacuation, because it was too late.
DR. NICK MAYNARD: I saw things at Al-Aqsa Hospital which I still wake up at night thinking about — appalling injuries in particularly women and children, the most devastating burns in small children. One child that I’ll never forget had burns so bad, you could see her facial bones. We knew there was no chance of her surviving that, but there was no morphine to give her. So, not only was she inevitably going to die, but she would die in agony.
Well, at least she did go after fucking white trash-landian:
Caitlin Johnstone’s response to the lyrics revolving around the most disliked President in American history?
“Just like every other pro-establishment corporate liberal partisan hack, Mathers voiced support for Colin Kaepernick only in the context of opposing Donald Trump, without saying a single word about the police brutality against African Americans which Kaepernick has been protesting. Just like every other pro-establishment corporate liberal partisan hack, Mathers gave “props” to Wall Street crony and drone bombing king Barack Obama, decried the way Trump “tormented” and “slandered” Hillary Clinton, defended bloodthirsty neocon John McCain, invoked the “deplorable” pejorative of the Clinton campaign, and said he loves the US military.
“Just like every other pro-establishment corporate liberal partisan hack, Mathers had nothing to say against the system which forced a nation to choose between an obnoxious billionaire reality TV star and a corrupt warmongering neocon under FBI investigation, nothing to say about how none of the evils Trump facilitates originated with Trump, and nothing to say about the way America’s elected officials are essentially lackeys for an unelected plutocracy which thrives on a paradigm of economic injustice which hurts minorities and other disadvantaged groups worst of all.
“There was once a time when Eminem was widely considered a legit artist and countercultural icon. In 2017, he’s just Rachel Maddow in a hoodie.”
But going after this fucking white trash shit, so so much easier than going after Judaism a la Jewish State of Jewish Stolen Occupied Palestine.
[Photo: Broke Back “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” MOUNTAIN!]
“[T]here can never be any peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion under His holy and righteous name.”
Then, listen/watch! Jeremy Loffredo: “For a week I embedded myself with Jewish Israeli nationalists who believe it’s a worthy cause and religious duty to block desperately needed humanitarian aid at the Gaza border. They enjoyed pastries with the military while confessing to war crimes and cheering for genocide.”
These are the genocide boys and girls, oh, that Building Seven, oh those demolition teams in Trade Center One and Two, oh those Orthodox Nazis.
Shabbat, Mishnah, Muktzeh, Hazon Ish — Agreeing to buy something was prohibited, because most agreements are confirmed in “writing”; climbing a tree is forbidden, because it may lead to breaking twigs or tearing leaves, which could be construed as “reaping” (i.e., separating part of a growing plant from its source). Other activities that by extension are prohibited on the Sabbath include the following:
Adding fresh water to a vase of cut flowers (sowing — any activity that causes or furthers plant growth).
Making a bouquet of flowers (making a sheaf).
Separating good fruit from spoiled fruit (winnowing, selecting, sifting).
Brushing dried mud from boots or clothes (grinding).
Cutting hair or nails (shearing sheep-removing outer covering of a human or animal).
Applying makeup (dyeing).
Braiding hair (weaving).
Drawing blood for a blood test (slaughtering).
Rubbing soap to make lather, applying face cream, polishing shoes, using scouring powder for utensils or other surfaces (scraping-smoothing the surface of any material by grinding, rubbing, or polishing).
Sharpening a pencil (cutting to shape-altering the size or shape of an item to make it better for human use).
Painting, drawing, typing (writing, making durable marks on a durable material).
Tearing through lettering on a package (erasing).
Opening an umbrella or unfolding a screen (building).
Smoking a cigarette, using the telephone (kindling a fire).
Switching off an electric light (extinguishing a fire).
Setting or winding a clock or watch (finishing off).
Wearing eyeglasses not permanently required (carrying from private to public domain and vice versa).
Fucking deranged people, no? Is it Zion, Israel, Jewish State of Stolen Land of Palestine Run by Jews?
Any items that may not be used on the Sabbath may not even be handled on that day, lest one unintentionally perform one of the forbidden types of work. These objects are termed muktzeh, meaning to “set aside” or “store away.” Among the many things considered muktzeh are money and checks; scissors, hammers and saws; pencils and pens; battery-operated toys and flashlights; radios and CDs; telephones and computers; and certain religious objects such as shofar,tefillin, and lulav. Even the Sabbath candlesticks are muktzeh and thus should not be touched on the Sabbath after the candles have been lit.
Fucking freaks.
For the Hazon Ish, the activation of an electric current and its transmission to sources of power, heat, and light that is produced by turning on a switch is forbidden because it falls under the category of “building” — intentionally causing something to happen. An exception is the refrigerator, which may be opened and closed because any electric current that this produces is incidental and without conscious intent. However, many observant Jews unscrew the refrigerator bulb for the Sabbath.
In the Mishnah, the Rabbis enumerated 39 major categories (with hundreds of subcategories) of labor that were forbidden (avot melachah) based on the types of work that were related to the construction of the Tabernacle in the wilderness, which ceased on the Sabbath.
Fucking dirty Zionist: ‘Get Out!’: Jerry Seinfeld Is a Billionaire . . . Syndication deals alone have earned him about $465 million . . . ‘Seinfeld’ remains popular more than two decades after finale!
Shoot the motherfucker:
Switches? Dirt. “Jerry Seinfeld, left, has joined the ranks of the billionaire class, but Larry David will have to settle for having a reported net worth of $400 million to $450 million”
Fucking forked-tongue Jewish Jews of Jewish Occupied and Stolen Palestine: The U.S. “ceasefire” proposal would allow Israel to invade Rafah.
Watch your wallets, your mortgages, your children, your bombed-out buildings, these Jewish Lawyers, man, turning Gaza into a beach resort and offshore gas station:
In fact, that was the issue that prompted the Russian and Chinese vetoes. Whatthe draft resolution said was that “an immediate and sustained ceasefire” was “imperative.” There is a world of difference between a resolution that invokes the authority of the UN to ‘demand’ a ceasefire, and one that merely says a ceasefire is necessary. And, it is a difference that senior-level diplomats fully grasp, because in diplomacy, words matter. The words that the US delegation chose, were intentionally chosen to subvert the process, link the ceasefire to a release of the hostages, and to give Israel a green light to continue its military operations until a diplomatic agreement could be reached. The Russian ambassador summed it up like this:
If this resolution were adopted, it would definitively close the debate on the need for a ceasefire in Gaza, give Israel a free hand and condemn Gaza and its entire population to extermination or expulsion.
Mike Whitney: He’s right, this maliciously-worded resolution was designed to legitimize Israel’s rampage and provide legal cover for future aggression. Here is the excerpt from the US draft resolution that has drawn the most attention and criticism:
(The Security Council) Determines the imperative of an immediate and sustained ceasefire to protect civilians on all sides, allow for the delivery of essential humanitarian assistance, and alleviate humanitarian suffering, and towards that end unequivocally supports ongoing international diplomatic efforts to secure such a ceasefire in connection with the release of all remaining hostages.
And here’s a brief explanation from political analyst Trita Parsi:
The clause does not demand a ceasefire but determines that it is imperative. Its support is not directly for the ceasefire but for the negotiation process the U.S. has been co-leading and whose parameters the U.S. has sought to determine in favor of Israel. The text points out that this effort to secure a ceasefire is “in connection with the release of all remaining hostages. Why the Ceasefire Proposal Failed at the UNSC, Responsible Statecraft
Mr.President,
For six months now, the UN Security Council has been unable to adopt a resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. Time and again, the United States thwarted any attempt to do so by using a veto in cold blood as many as four times.
During that time, we have heard many different excuses from our American colleagues. For example, that it is premature to seek a ceasefire because it is necessary to give space “for Israel’s counter-terrorism efforts”; that the Council should not interfere with Washington’s “effective diplomacy on the ground”; that we should wait until Ramadan, when, they say, an agreement on a cessation of violence will definitely be made.
Now, six months later, whenGaza has been practically leveled to the ground, the US representative says without batting an eye that Washington has finally started to realize the need for a ceasefire. This leisurely thinking process by Washington has cost the lives of 32,000 Palestinian civilians, two-thirds of them women and children.
And even now we see a typical hypocritical show, when in the cloak of a “ceasefire” the United States is trying to sell to the members of the Security Council and the entire international community something else – a vague phrase about “defining the imperative of a ceasefire”. Such philosophy about ‘moral imperatives’ might seem normal in the works of Immanuel Kant, but it’s not going to save the lives of Palestinians. And that is not at all what the mandate of the UN Security Council suggests, which has a unique toolkit to demand a ceasefire and, if necessary, enforce it.
In an official interview to Al Hadath in Jeddah on 20 March, Secretary of State Blinken said, “Well, in fact, we actually have a resolution that we put forward right now that’s before the UNSC that does call for an immediate ceasefire tied to the release of hostages and we hope very much that countries will support that”. However, the US-proposed draft resolution does not make such call. It appears that either the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations or the US Secretary of State is deliberately misleading the international community.
Colleagues,
From the very beginning, it was obvious that the “negotiations” on the draft resolution held by our American colleagues were only meant to (buy) time. All our comments and “red lines” were ignored, as well as the proposals of a number of other delegations….
The US draft is a thoroughly politicized document, which only aims at pulling on voters’ heartstrings before the US elections by throwing them a “bone” in the form of at least some mention of a “ceasefire” in Gaza. The draft also seeks to consolidate US policy in the region through “terrorist labels” and to ensure impunity for Israel, whose criminal actions the draft gives no assessment to.
Let me also stress that the American draft contains a de facto green light for Israel to conduct a military operation in Rafah. At least, the sponsors have tried to make sure that nothing in their draft would prevent West Jerusalem from completing the deadly cleanup of southern Gaza.
That is actually what Washington wants. We already said that we will no longer pass meaningless resolutions that do not demand a ceasefire and lead us nowhere.
This draft must not pass with the majority of UNSC votes in order to send a message that Washington’s not even palliative but devious concepts are unacceptable. It will be extremely strange if those members of the Council (and they are the majority), who realize this and have been saying to us that the US draft is a flawed one, will now raise their hand in favor. If you do so, you will smear yourselves in disgrace.
Think what this will make you look in the eyes of the people of the Middle East and your own countries, if you support this hypocritical endeavor designed to disorient the international community and, in fact, undermine the authority of the Council by rendering it unable to influence the situation on the ground and making it “stay out of White House’s way”. Are you ready to play a part in this shameful show?
Russia will not do this. As a permanent member of the Security Council and one of the founders of the United Nations, we recognize the global historical responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security and cannot allow the Council to become a tool of Washington’s destructive policy in the Middle East. If this resolution were adopted, it would definitively close the debate on the need for a ceasefire in Gaza, give Israel a free hand and condemn Gaza and its entire population to extermination or expulsion.
In our work, we are not guided by what pleases Washington or its satellites who are ready to cast a vote at the US behest, but by what is necessary for the Palestinians and what promotes peace.
The Bible does not specifically list those labors that are prohibited on the Sabbath, although it alludes to field labor (Exod. 34:21; Num.15:32-36), treading in a winepress and loading animals (Neh. 13:15-18), doing business and carrying (Isa. 58:13; Jer. 17:22; Amos 8:5), traveling (Exod. 16:29-30), and kindling fire (Exod. 35:2-3) as forbidden work.
Shabbos goy — a non-Jew hired by an observant family to perform certain activities forbidden to Jews on the Sabbath, such as starting a fire and turning lights on and off. However, the proliferation of electronic timers has virtually eliminated the need for the Shabbos goy.
FREAKS.
God literally forbids she turn off a vibrator gone rogue, so an Orthodox Jew sets out on a quest to find someone who can.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu echoes the words of Deuteronomy 25:17 in posing Israel’s “war” with the Palestinians as the fulfilment of biblical prophecy:
But today’s covetous King Benjamin has another goal. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan pointed out in his monumental address on February 25th in Detroit that “Israel sees billions of dollars of oil wealth under Gaza and wants to build a canal larger than the Suez Canal and take advantage of that wealth.”
According to a 2019 United Nations report titled The Economic Costs of the Israeli Occupation for the Palestinian People: The Unrealized Oil and Natural Gas Potential, “Geologists and natural resources economists have confirmed that the Occupied Palestinian Territory lies above sizeable reservoirs of oil and natural gas wealth.” They estimate that the Palestinians are sitting atop 1.5 billion barrels of oil with an estimated value of $100 billion. Additionally, the UN estimates that Israel’s apartheid policies have thus far deprived the Palestinians of $2.57 billion in natural gas reserves.
Technique worships nothing, respects nothing. It has a single role: to strip off externals, to bring everything to light and by rational use to transform everything into means.
From the beginning of his academic life, JacquesEllul learned a great deal from Marx. He praises Marx’s opposition to oppression and his resistance to the worship of money and the constant pursuit of profit. He appreciated how Marx encouraged people to side with the poor and to be concerned with the concrete reality of life, not just abstract ideas. He believed that ‘Marx’s work actually gave him an important way to understand the world; and that it was impossible to be both a ‘Christian and a Marxist’.
Again and again Goebbels placed great stress upon phrases and slogans to characterize events. At the beginning of 1942, for example, he began a campaign whose purpose was to indicate economic, social, and political unrest in England. He very quickly adopted the phrase “schleichende Krise” – creeping crisis – to describe this state of affairs and then employed it “as widely as possible in German propaganda” … To achieve such effects, phrases and slogans should possess the following characteristics:
a. They must evoke desired responses which the audience previously possesses. If the words could elicit such responses, then Goebbels’ propaganda task consisted simply of linking those words to the event which thereafter would acquire their flavor.
b. They must be capable of being easily learned. “It must make use of painting in black-and-white, since otherwise it cannot be convincing to people,” Goebbels stated with reference to a film he was criticizing.
This principle of simplification he applied to all media in order to facilitate learning. The masses were important, not the intellectuals. All enemy “lies” were not beaten down, rather it was better to confine the counter-attack to a single “school example”. Propaganda could be aided, moreover, by a will to learn.
But does it matter which mug shot you get? Because the real criminals just get skinny jeans commercials:
Oh, so probing Yasmin Green’s family, work history, statements, upbringing, associations, cliques, beliefs, religion, roots, motivations, convictions gets us in trouble? So I call her a modern Jewish Fascist. Thought police thug of the highest order. An Israel First White Supremacist. A sociopath. Power hungry woman. A misandrist. A Goyim Nanny. A genocide backer and planner.
Yikes, so the ghosts in her dirty machines now have wormed there way into my Substack and have targeted me for elimination? Public humiliation? Financial disenfranchisement?
A monster by any other name is a skinny jeans and hipster fascist.
Whores.
Zyclon/Zyklon B.B.B.B. Blinken!
This is his fucking Torah Torah Torah Legacy!
Poets stand up! National Poetry Month, April 2024!
“Everyone is a target in Gaza,” Mosab Abu Toha, a 31-year-old revered Palestinian poet, scholar, and founder of Gaza’s Edward Said library, tells TIME from Cairo.
Abu Toha was arrested on Nov. 20 while fleeing from Northern Gaza to the south, heading for the Rafah crossing which borders Egypt. Despite having word from U.S. officials that his family would be allowed to enter Egypt, he was arrested at an Israeli checkpoint. He was stripped, beaten, and handcuffed when Israeli forces accused him of being a Hamas activist without evidence, he says.
“In my case I think I was taken on purpose. There are other people taken at random. But for me, it was not random. It was not a mistake,” he says.
He adds that he was only released after two days as a result of the pressure from international media outlets who reported on his detention.
“They wanted to humiliate me, they wanted to beat me, to punish me for speaking and writing about what I have seen in Gaza,” Abu Toha says. “They are trying to kill the voice, to kill the people who speak.”
National Poetry Month, USA, APril!
[The eyes of Mahmoud Darwish look on in a mural seen on a wall in downtown Amman, Jordan, on Jan. 5. The late Palestinian author, who died in 2008, was regarded as Palestine’s national poet.Natascha Tahabsem—Zuma Press]
The practice of targeting Palestinian writers predates the current aggression. Since the 1930s, Palestinian poetry has grappled with the suffering furnished by colonial powers, says Atef Alshaer, a Senior Lecturer in Arabic Language and Culture at London’s University of Westminster. He adds that at times, this poetry foresaw what would happen to Palestinians, from the mass creation of refugees as a result of the 1948 Nakba—the catastrophe in which 80% of the population was displaced—to long term dispossession and exile since Israel’s founding.
[Professor Refaat Alareer during a lecture to his undergraduate literature students at the Islamic University in Gaza on Oct. 4, 2021.]
Link. Electronic Intifada: We are devastated by Israel’s murder of our dear colleague, friend and mentor Dr. Refaat Alareer in Gaza City on 6 December 2023. Throughout this genocide, Refaat never stopped writing, supporting his students and bringing Gaza’s voice to the world. We will make sure it continues to be heard.
This is an excerpt from the EI livestream on 20 November 2023, during which executive director Ali Abunimah, writer and scholar Yousef M. Aljamal and Palestinian novelist Ahmed Masoud talk about the incalculable impact Alareer has had on his students in Gaza
For Palestinians, poetry is “compensation for their lack of physical power,” Alshaer says. “They have been exposed to these practices of violence by the Israeli occupation and left with nothing, so they have used their voice to the maximum [extent] possible.”
Najwan Darwish, a prominent Jerusalem-based Palestinian poet with eight poetry books published in Arabic, tells TIME that it is painful when readers around the globe turn to older works of Palestinian poetry, including his, to make sense of today’s events.
“I am not happy when I see my poetry used in the war, in this genocide, because I wish this poetry would become invalid,” he says.
I want to write the land, I want the words to be the land itself. But I’m just a statue the Romans carved and the Arabs forgot. Colonizers stole my severed hand and stuck it in a museum. No matter. I still want to write it – the land. My words are everywhere and silence is my story.
The Shelling Ended
No one will know you tomorrow. The shelling ended only to start again within you. The buildings fell, the horizon burned, only for flames to rage inside you, flames that will devour even stone.
The murdered are sunk in sleep, but sleep will never find you – awake forever, awake until they crumble, these massive rocks said to be the tears of retired gods.
Forgiveness has ended, and mercy is bleeding outside of time. No one knows you now, and no one will know you tomorrow. You, like the trees, were planted in place while the shells were falling.
Barely Breathing
Sorrow pours from the rooms while I, like a ghost, enter your abandoned homes, holding my end in my hand, sleeping and waking with my ruin. It’s dispiriting to become acquainted with my own desolation, to keep step with it to this extent. They weigh on me – these abandoned houses, this desertion that fills your homes. I enter their hollowed hearts, and can barely breathe . . .
Neither Arabs nor Persians nor Byzantines can feel me now. Didn’t I ever have a history? And how did I lose them along the way – poems that were the world unfurling, in a moment? And how were you lost, all of you? You took my share of loss and left abandonment behind, a planet with no ribs – you left it for me, you left it to burden me.
If I said I was leaving there would still be no one here but abandonment, with its hoarse voice that’s swallowing my own.
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The Palestinian ambassador to the UN has denounced the US draft resolution which was vetoed by Russia and China at the UN Security Council on Friday.
Riyad Mansour said it was “one-sided” and that it failed to address the “genocide” happening against Palestinians in Gaza.
“The essence of it is calling for an immediate ceasefire during the month of Ramadan, which we support because we want to save the lives of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and we want to have massive humanitarian assistance to the level of the needs of our people,” Mansour said.
Guyana abstained from the US resolution because it “lacked attribution in a number of key areas”.
Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett said,
“To whom is the demand for compliance with obligations under international law [addressed?] … Who is preventing the use of all available routes to the Gaza Strip? Who does not respect deconfliction and notification mechanisms?”
“We know the answers to these questions … Why then were the relevant demands in this resolution not clearly addressed to the occupying power, not even once?”
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All eyes are on Rafah as Israel prepares to mount an invasion to expel Palestinians or decimate them. It is this pivotal battle that will either force Israel into a ceasefire or thrust the region into an all-out, multi-front war.
The temporary truce struck on 24 November between the Hamas resistance movement and the Israeli government could have paved the way toward successive truces and potentially a sustainable ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
But the opportunity was squandered by Tel Aviv, who viewed the continuation of its genocidal war as a means to reshape Gaza’s political and security landscape under the guise of ‘restoring deterrence’ and mitigating domestic fallout from Hamas’ 7 October Al-Aqsa Flood Operation.
Now, nearly six months since the commencement of what Israel calls a ‘war of survival and existence’ against Gaza, it has become clear that the occupation state’s military aggression cannot unseat Hamas from either the Strip or the broader Palestinian political arena.
The recent flurry of indirect Hamas–Israel negotiations held in Paris, Cairo, and Doha have revealed a stark political reality: Hamas is the primary Palestinian negotiating party where Gaza is concerned. This tacit acknowledgment by Tel Aviv marks the strategic failure of one of Israel’s dual objectives set forth last October, aimed at eradicating Hamas and its allied resistance factions in the Strip.
[Journalist Jeremy Loffredo goes inside the grassroots Israeli campaign to block desperately needed aid to the besieged Gaza Strip and elicits the shockingly candid views of the Jewish Israeli nationalists manning the barricades. Setting out on a bus caravan through illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, Loffredo arrives at the Kerem Shalom crossing to Gaza, filming Israeli citizens as they physically block trucks loaded with flour and other essential goods. There, a reservist who served in the military assault on Gaza confesses to an array of war crimes, including blowing up the offices of UN centers dedicated to providing food to the local population. Loffredo then joins nationalists on a march toward Gaza, where they hope to establish new settlements after the population is violently driven out.]
Jacques Ellul’s reflections on how propaganda intentionally limits and mutilates our capabilities of critical reflection:
To begin with, what is it that propaganda makes disappear? Everything in the nature of critical and personal judgment. Obviously, propaganda limits the application of thought. It limits the propagandee’s field of thought to the extent that it provides him with ready-made (and, moreover, unreal) thoughts and stereotypes. It orients him toward very limited ends and prevents him from using his mind or experimenting on his own.
It determines the core from which all his thoughts must derive and draws from the beginning a sort of guideline that permits neither criticism nor imagination. More precisely, his imagination will lead only to small digressions from the fixed line and to only slightly deviant, preliminary responses within the framework. —- (Ellul, J. Propaganda.)
But overall, his predictions about the effects of the technological mindset on society ring true. Ellul coined the term ‘technique’ to describe the reality and the mindset of a society consumed by the practical efficiency of systems and machines: ‘Technique is the totality of methods rationally arrived at and having absolute efficiency.’[2] Technique is more than machines or technology in and of themselves, it is the culture and mindset that creates, and is created by, the increasing use of technology. The ‘technological milieu’ becomes a totally unavoidable, encircling system. He wrote very vividly about how much technique governs our very existence:
The machine tends not only to create a new human environment, but also to modify man’s very essence … to a universe for which he was not created. He was made to go six kilometres an hour, and he goes a thousand. He was made to eat when he was hungry and to sleep when he was sleepy; instead, he obeys a clock. He was made to have contact with living things, and he lives in a world of stone. He was created with a certain essential unity, and he is fragmented by all the forces of the modern word.
… He has been liberated little by little from physical constraints, but he is all the more the slave of abstract ones. He acts through intermediaries and consequently has lost contact with reality.
… The pilot of the supersonic aircraft at its maximum velocity becomes, in a sense, completely one with his machine. But immobilised in a network of tubes and ducts, he is deaf, blind, and impotent. His senses have been replaced by dials which inform him what is taking place. (Why you might get something out of French Christian Anarchist Sociologist Jacques Ellul)
Socialism or Barbarism. Socialism or Depravity. Socialism or Collective Theft. Socialism or New Gilded Age. Socialism or Inverted Totalitarianism. Socialism or Extinction. And below, the upside world of the Maslov’s Hierarchy of Sick and False News.
But first —
South Africa Water crisis
NY attorny Gen, takes steps to sieze Trump assets
We don’t have resources left — grandparents giving up retirement to raise their grandchildren
The American Dream Accelerates away from those in the SLow Lane — We are called laggards! Motherfucking elite controlled, fucked up media and those Jewish Educated Economists? Laggards?
Much of America’s two-speed economy is powering ahead, but it’s left a trail of destruction behind it. The laggards are starting to get into serious trouble, with the worst-hit, low-income consumers held back by powerful forces: higher interest rates, inflation and the depletion of pandemic-era support.
Bill proposing legal immunity for pesticide manufacturers advances
Over 100 migrants break through razor wire, knock down guards, cross El Paso border
World Happiness Report: Young People in the West becoming unhappier
CA residents sue Starbucks for discrimination against lactose intolerance consumers
Fed holds interest rates steady
Amazon states its plastic packaging can be recycled . . . but it usually isn’t
US pushes ‘strongest ever’ car pollution rules to push EV’s
Scientists reveal salamon may not be the healthiest fish to eat
Nvidia and Dell build an AI factory together
Bengaluru water crisis: Indian expats in UAE mull over relocating families
As Oregon poposes new groundwater rules, some ag groups push back
Real Estate tokenization: A Start of a New Era in Property Managment
The reality is, the Five Eyes and Nine Eyes and 14 Eyes must suffer hard. Die, Western Viruses, DIE. Capitalism is the killer, man.
Ansarallah has single-handedly disrupted global shipping power dynamics. Yemen is launching attacks against Israeli-linked vessels deep into the Indian Ocean to cut off the last waterway route to the occupation state.
Our people are ready to send hundreds of thousands of mujahideen to Palestine. Okay, geography might pose a problem. It could be a problem for our people to go there in large numbers. Nevertheless, and despite all the obstacles, we will not hesitate to do whatever we can. We are completely coordinated with our brothers in the Jihad and resistance front to do anything and everything that we can do.
– Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, 10 October 2023
But in the west, and other places, water crises ramp up, as the cloud servers and microchip motherfuckers suck suck suck water. Then, the cancer-causing Round-up and Atrazine mother fuckers, they are asking for blanket immunity? Can I get that if I plow into my neighbors’ family on the road?
Lies about Amazon and recycling, what’s new from that syphilis outfit? And now, we have Biden telling the world they must buy EV? How is that free marketing? How is that the democracy he touts? Fuck, EV lies, man, and it’s all about chips and diodes and batteries and charging stations — dirty dirty.
Then tokenizing real estate management? How is this fucking sane, or legal? Salmon not healthy? Hmm, is it because we have so polluted the oceans and rivers that PCBs and plastics are in the blood and flesh?
You can sue Starbucks for lactose-intolerance discrimination, but not for their dirty dealings, their economies of “fucking small business killing” scale?
Why are immigrants breaking nto the USA? For the happiness quotient? The Starbucks?
Fucking Jews in Control and Fucking Goyim of Wailing Wall White House fame under their control!
Imagine all the terror and chaos and pain and hell and maiming and deaths the USA causes, and now through its proxy, Israel, more global fucking pain of the Torah and Talmud Variety!
The West’s response has been to ramp up its propaganda war against China and to try to drive a wedge between China and Africa – most obviously by denouncing Chinese “imperialism” and slandering its investments as “debt traps”. But the reality is that “China’s loans to African countries have some of the lowest interest rates, no political strings attached, mass debt relief programmes, and the massive infrastructure projects they fund and build result in positive net growth.” Chinese loans and investment are paving a road out of poverty and underdevelopment.
Fiona concludes by calling for solidarity with China and Africa in their struggle against imperialism, for countering the lies and distortions of the Western media, and for resolutely opposing the New Cold War.
The State of Breaking Bad and Broke Back Mountain!
AmeriKKKa is a freak show, executive produced by the Obamas, financed by Goldman & Sachs, policed by the Wailing Wall White House, watched over by Silicon Wadi/Unit 8200/Mossad/Dell/Altman/Google
Rotten woman, Huckabee, calling out that Four Dead in Ohio Guard. Amazing, trillions for UkroNaziLandia, trillions for Isra-Hell Fourth Reich, trillions for the Gilded Mother Fucking Perversions, and we get this? Our borders are a threat to humanity?
The lies and more lies and triple-down lies and the upsidedown is upright fabrications of the Fed, the Banks, this Jewish Guy, Garland. Lies about interest, inflation, unemployment/employment. More honest people at a carnival.
Feast Of Fools
Is this just more of the dumb-downing of the BIPOC-Oprah-Barak-Oreo Cookie-dumb? Jesus. This is news?
Beltane
Again, the endless crap of pigs and their turnkey piglets facing down all those toughies on the run. USA is all about that fucking Judge Judy and
Kronia
Our fucking taxdollars going for more worthless and secretive and cost-overrun, dirty merchandise of death.
Fete Des Pinnes
Oh, you know Hunter’s proclivity for free-base, powdered coke, Viagra, underage prostitution, lies, masturbation with cell phone, and his illegal dealings in UkroNaziLandia.
This Jew (Moskowitz) is yet another freak of the Spitzer, Epstein, Weinstein, Weiner variety. Elected? Demented!
And the executions go on and on and on, innocents and those who are not intellectually capable of understanding what the hell they were coaxed into doing. A new study of the case records of the men and women executed in the United States between 2000 and 2015 has found that 21st-century executions disproportionately involve prisoners diagnosed with mental illness and who have experienced traumatic child abuse.
At least 44 people with intellectual disability were executed before the Supreme Court banned such executions in 2002.
Google has come to an agreement to settle a $5 billion privacy lawsuit that alleges it spied on people who used the “incognito mode” option in Google Chrome.
The lawsuit was filed three years ago and claimed the company told its users that it wasn’t tracking whatever they were doing on the internet while in incognito mode. However, the lawsuit argued that Google’s analytics, cookies, and apps tracked their activity even when they set the browser to private.
Bacchanalia
A New York state judge on Monday denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against several social media companies alleging the platforms contributed to the radicalization of a gunman who killed 10 people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York in 2022, court documents show.
“The Court has determined the complaint sufficiently pleads viable causes of action to go forward at this stage of the litigation,” said Erie County Supreme Court Justice Paula Feroleto.
In her decision, the judge said that the plaintiffs may proceed with their lawsuit, which claims social media companies — like Meta, Alphabet, Reddit and 4chan — ”profit from the racist, antisemitic, and violent material displayed on their platforms to maximize user engagement,” including the time then 18-year-old Payton Gendron spent on their platforms viewing that material.
Ahh, so all this flyover shit at football games, all the ROTC programs at high schools and in colleges. All the advertisements for Navy-AF-Marines-Army-Coast Guard, and all the lies in Holly-Jewish-Dirt and all the fun stuff in all the great and not-so-great classics, and the Torah and Talmud and Bible, all of that, from Stephen King movies to Ben Hur all the way to Breaking Bad and all those Netflix streams?
We Need to Talk About Kevin, Super Dark Times, Prisoners, Bone Tomahawk, Old Boy, Nocturnal Animals. Midsommar, Idri i Smotri
‘Gates of Hell Will Open’: Iraqi Resistance Issues Ultimatum on Ouster of US Forces
Paul Haeder, Author 