the gulag, the digital dungeon, the camps, the prisons, the surveillances, the panopticon, the reservation, lock-up, debtors’ prison, endless probation, and being on paper
But we have World War Three, and we just fucking take that language. Fucking Looney Bin.
I’m reading this now, and I will have John on my radio show, and I will review the book on Dissident Voice, with all the correct quotation references, and of course, no calling Trump the Pedophile and Rapist in Chief with the Spy Cam Tapes of his Golden Showers in Russia and countless digital penetrations of trafficked juveniles. Tape at 11, catch it.
This is that Pedophile and Bizarre Boy, Trump:
Barrack-style white tents shelter hurricane-fence cages lined with bunks. Outside, rows of RVs and bathroom trailers sit next to a strip of shadeless pavement and stacks of generators. Three thousand people, stranded in the hot tents amid the buzzing sludge of a swamp, cut off from families, medical care, and lawyers: a spectacle of bondage masquerading as border security.
“Alligator Alcatraz,” as the South Florida detention center has been dubbed, was built in eight days in the Everglades. The e immigration camp was constructed in the first heady months of the second Trump administration’s assault on immigrants and, at least briefly, was the centerpiece of the modern camp system in the United States, reminding migrants that the very landscape of America can be weaponized against them.
“We’re going to teach them how to run away from an alligator if they escape prison,” Trump gloated shortly after the camp opened.
The first state-owned and -operated immigration detention facility in the United States, the camp has no federal oversight, and it is not integrated into the systems or databases of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Those locked up are thus left mostly incommunicado to the outside.
We are living in sicko times, for sure, as Americans are at the height of summer vacations, lower gasoline prices, and flights out of here and gpmg jere and there:
The latest developments suggest the conflict may be entering a far more dangerous phase.
Based on the information I have reviewed, Iran allegedly carried out one of its most intense missile strikes against Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, a facility regularly used by U.S. forces. Reports claim the attack killed three American soldiers and wounded around 25 others, with five described as being in a state of clinical death (brain death). Early casualty figures reportedly listed two fatalities before later increasing to three.
We just prepare for back-to-school sales and end-of-summer deals? FUCKING hell.
There comes a moment in history when the official story no longer survives contact with reality.
For much of the past seventy years, the Western public has been told that the US and its allies wage war reluctantly, intervene only when forced to, and project military power in defence of freedom, democracy and a rules-based international order. Every major conflict has arrived wrapped in the narrative of necessity. Every adversary has been presented as an existential threat, while every military campaign has been described as the unfortunate price of preserving peace.
The record tells a far more disturbing story.
From Vietnam to Iraq, Afghanistan to Libya, Syria to Gaza, wars have become less an exception than an instrument of policy. Governments have spoken of liberation while cities burned, of democracy while states collapsed, and of international law while selectively deciding when that law applied.
The result hasn’t been a more peaceful world. It’s been a more fractured, militarised and dangerous one.
The invasion of Iraq stands as perhaps the defining scandal of the modern era. The justification for war – the existence of weapons of mass destruction – collapsed. The architects of that disaster escaped accountability while hundreds of thousands of Iraqis paid the ultimate price. Public trust was shattered, but the machinery that produced the war remained intact.
Twenty-five years ago, as the world looked on in stunned horror as the towers came down in New York, the same Netanyahu was already thinking strategically. Here’s how The New York Times reported it:
Asked tonight what the attack meant for relations between the United States and Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister, replied, “It’s very good.” Then he edited himself: “Well, not very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy.” He predicted that the attack would “strengthen the bond between our two peoples, because we’ve experienced terror over so many decades, but the United States has now experienced a massive hemorrhaging of terror.”
Some of us, Narco Rubio, want the fucking USS Abe Lincoln sunk, and those fucking US mercenaries at the bottom of the sea in Davey Jones’ locker.
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US Congressman Riley Moore was shocked at the “precision” with which Iran was able to strike the US sites in Jordan in particular, concluding that Russia and China must be helping:
Fucking Yankee Mercenaries. THey are on the payroll of empire, and they give a shit about Far East, West Asia, the Middle East, Persia, Iran, whatever they want to call this place:
Former Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki likewise reportedly told Iranian media:
“My proposal is that we launch a ground attack on one of the US bases in the region, capture 100 Americans and bring them to Iran.”
We are a nation under one fucking Yewah:
Back to Nazi Jew: John Washington’s new book . . .
And ICE, ever eager for more personnel, began offering a $50,000 dollar sign-on bonus for new recruits. Reporting in early 2026 showed that ICE was spending $100 million in a “wartime recruitment” effort, lowering their hiring standards, deploying overtly white supremacist tropes in their hiring ads and, according to one DHS ocial speaking anonymously, signing on people who can “barely read or write.” Training time for the recruits was cut by two-thirds.
In an adulatory, dear-leader-like move, the new training period was set to forty-seven days—a direct nod to Trump, the forty-seventh president.35 As one observer put it, “We’re launching manhunts with $50,000 bonuses for misdemeanors and civil infractions,” holding people “without due process in conditions that kill them.”
Amid the intentional cruelty, puerile symbolism, and rapid camp expansion, private prison firms are circling the halls of power. Months before Trump signed the bill to dedicate an unprecedented amount of money to detention, ICE set up an expedited contract process and was already soliciting bids from for-profit prison corporations. The two largest companies, CoreCivic and GEO Group, longtime financial supporters of the president, have both frequently wooed former high-level ICE ocials into their ranks. To illustrate the rapidly revolving door between ICE and the private sector—or the camp as cash machine—consider Daniel A. Bible, who worked as ICE’s top ocial in charge of immigration detention until he was hired by GEO Group days before the 2024 presidential election. In the same year, while GEO Group donated $1 million to Trump-alignedpolitical action committees, according to an article from the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), ICE committed $747.4 million in contracts to the company—a pretty damn good return on investment. In an earnings call held just days after Trump won the election, and with Bible already on the payroll, GEO Group predicted a $400 million boost in company revenue.
Current border czar Tom Homan—frequently the White House’s mouthpiece defending the anti-immigrant rampage—has also previously contracted with GEO Group. In 2025, FBI agents caught Homan taking a cash bribe of $50,000 to help business execs looking to land contracts with the federal government. (While Homan never denied taking the money, Trump’s Justice Department closed an investigation into the matter.)
In May, the CEO of CoreCivic told investors, “Never in our 42-year company history have we had so much activity and demand for our services as we are seeing right now.”
Come on, you didn’t see the writing on the wall when you were born, when 1930s and 40s rolled around with the Jewish Terror in Palestine, around the fucking WORLD?
Israel has moved a step closer to implementing National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s plan to surround prisons holding Palestinian detainees with crocodile-filled moats, Israeli media reported on 19 July.
Following lobbying by Ben-Gvir, Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman approved reclassifying Nile crocodiles from protected wildlife to “captive-bred” or “managed” wildlife — allowing state institutions and security agencies to keep the animals under regulated conditions. The change lets the Israel Prison Service (IPS) hold the reptiles under the oversight of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority; previously classified as protected wild animals, they could only be kept in zoos.
At the beginning of this month, we pissed off the Trump White House.
Again.
We ran a story on how President Donald Trump is already planning to steal classified U.S. documents after he leaves office a second time – just like he did the first time. The West Wing got huffy about it.
“Zeteois a pathetic fake news blog and their so-called sources have no idea what they’re talking about. Zeteo’s three readers already know this ‘publication’ is total fake news,” the White House told us in an email. No one signed their name. (If you read their statement closely, you’ll notice they did not deny any of our reporting…
And the Zionist is right, in a perverse way. You see, anyone that a Zionist shoots will by dint of that shooting become a terrorist.
Here are a few examples:
An IDF officer lobs a stun grenade into a car, containing a family of terrorists. The fact that the grenade exploded proves that they were terrorists. Had it not exploded, the officer would have known they were innocent civilians.
“As someone who took from them their food, their yard walks, their studies, their amenities, as someone who took everything from them, I also want to take their lives. It is right. It is just.”
And that is why the IDF never kills civilians. Because there are no Palestinian civilians.
Little fucking things like this, dealing with multimillionaires, billionaires and so it goes:
Spain and Palestine Won. Argentina and Corruption Lost.
Netanyahu chose Argentina. Gaza chose Spain. The World Cup final became a contest between political alliances—and this time, the flag raised for Palestine prevailed.
Stan Lee: “To me you can wrap all of Judaism up in one sentence, and that is, ‘Do unto others.’ All I tried to do in my stories was show that there’s some innate goodness in the human condition.’
“The Jews,” Arthur Hertzberg wrote, “loved Franklin Delano Roosevelt with singular and unparalleled passion.” In 1932, 82 percent of the Jewish vote went to Roosevelt, while only 18 percent went to Herbert Hoover. In 1936, FDR received 85 percent of the Jewish vote. In the elections of 1940 and 1944, fully 90 percent of American Jews voted for Roosevelt, the largest Jewish vote for a president in American history. But did FDR reciprocate this love?
Palantir has been dubbed the world’s scariest company. Trump’s favourite tech firm provides surveillance software to ICE, the Pentagon and the Israeli Ministry of Defence. Peter Thiel and Alex Karp talk excitedly of AI drone-driven warfare.
Attempting to seize Kharg Island, Iran’s main oil-export hub, would harm the country’s oil industry but it also would put American forces directly in harm’s way. Troops would be easy targets for Iranian missiles and drones, U.S. officials and analysts say.
Retired Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie said the U.S. should still consider a Kharg Island operation. “That’s something we should think about doing because possession of Iranian soil would be a significant factor in future negotiations with Iran,” he said Sunday on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”
At the extreme, Trump has the option of a large and costly ground operation to seize the territory around the waterway, whose rocky shores present unique challenges. That would require thousands of troops in an operation that would likely take months.
Iran has been preparing for a possible invasion since before the war. The paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has 190,000 troops, along with the country’s regular army, and specializes in fights against better-armed foes.
A ground operation on Iran’s coastline would leave U.S. troops extremely vulnerable to attacks from the country’s rear, said David Des Roches, a former Persian Gulf-focused U.S. defense official.
And some believe the US is now setting the stage and ‘shaping the battlefield’ for that very possibility:
Hmm, madness? Now, then, a little farther back, when did it start?
While scholars have made many claims about US military interventions, they have not come to a consensus on main trends and consequences. This article introduces a new, comprehensive dataset of all US military interventions since the country’s founding, alongside over 200 variables that allow scholars to evaluate theoretical propositions on drivers and outcomes of intervention. It compares the new Military Intervention Project (MIP) dataset to the current leading dataset, the Militarized Interstate Disputes (MID). In sum, MIP doubles the universe of cases, integrates a range of military intervention definitions and sources, expands the timeline of analysis, and offers more transparency of sourcing through historically-documented case narratives of every US military intervention included in the dataset. According to MIP, the US has undertaken almost 400 military interventions since 1776, with half of these operations undertaken between 1950 and 2019. Over 25% of them have occurred in the post-Cold War period.
Is it NATO? NATO Is the World’s #1 War Criminal:
Is it the five, seven, nine or 14 crossed EYES?
The Snowden revelations(new window) revealed that the NSA is carrying out electronic surveillance on a global scale and unveiled the shadowy networks of intelligence agencies that act as accomplices.
When people think of mass surveillance, they rightly think of the NSA, but nearly every country in the world has its own signals intelligence (SIGINT) agency. From the UK’s GCHQ to Germany’s BND, these organizations focus on intelligence gathering, counterintelligence operations, and law enforcement by intercepting communications and other electronic signals. SIGINT covers a wide range of activities, from tapping phones to accessing a user’s email database with XKEYSCORE(new window).
Typically, one of the few legal restrictions set upon these agencies is that they cannot spy on their own citizens. This creates a strong incentive for them to cooperate and trade information with each other. The Five Eyes, Nine Eyes, and Fourteen Eyes are the largest and most important agreements that create the legal framework for such coordinated intelligence gathering across borders.
In addition to the Five, Nine, and Fourteen Eyes agreements, there are also similar non-Western intelligence-sharing agreements. This means there are few places in the world where your personal data is safe from snooping, so you should use extra measures, such as strong encryption, to keep it from prying eyes.
The below table shows the countries that participate in the Five Eyes, Nine Eyes, and Fourteen Eyes intelligence-sharing agreements. For more information about each of these agreements, jump ahead to:
Shit, that fucking PT Barnum on Steroids. Those Bible Editors. Those fucking fake history makers. Arie Kaplan is the author of a dozen books, including From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books
The Hidden Jewish DNA of Early Superheroes
Superman: Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in Cleveland. His story of a baby sent in a small vessel to escape destruction mirrors the biblical story of Moses. The name “Kal-El” translates to “Voice of God” or “Vessel of God” in Hebrew.
Captain America: Created by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon to fight Nazis. He represents the Jewish concept of a Golem—a legendary clay figure from Jewish folklore made to protect the persecuted.
Spider-Man: Created by Stan Lee, this working-class hero from Queens juggles the ordinary challenges of an everyday person, capturing the dual identity and immigrant struggles of Jewish-Americans.
Jewish Superheroes in the Spotlight
While many early heroes were metaphors for the Jewish experience, publishers later created openly Jewish superheroes.
The Thing (Ben Grimm): A founding member of the Fantastic Four, his Jewish heritage is a celebrated part of his character, which includes having a second Bar Mitzvah.
Magneto: The legendary X-Men character was written by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby as a Holocaust survivor. His traumatic past in the Warsaw Ghetto and Auschwitz shapes his philosophy on protecting marginalized people.
Batwoman (Kate Kane): DC Comics visually depicts her celebrating Hanukkah and Shabbat, linking her heritage to her drive for justice.
Whistle (Willow Zimmerman): Created by DC Comics as a young Jewish activist whose stories and moral dilemmas frequently tie into the Jewish value of tikkun olam
And, here we are, of course, a major thinker, but you got to be wary:
Since the formal creation of the United Kingdom in 1707, the British military has engaged in over 120 major wars and hundreds of smaller colonial campaigns, spanning 171 of the 193 current UN member states. Historical estimates suggest they have fought in well over 200 distinct conflicts.
Europe has had thousands of armed conflicts throughout its history, with well over 250 major, continent-wide wars recorded. These range from centuries of shifting territorial empires and religious clashes to global conflicts and localized modern struggles, such as the Wikipedia List of conflicts in Europe details.Key defining eras of European warfare include:
The Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648): A devastating religious and political conflict in Central Europe that caused up to 8 million casualties.
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815): A series of global conflicts fought during the rule of the French Empire, resulting in up to 6 million deaths.
World War I (1914–1918) & World War II (1939–1945): The two deadliest global conflicts in human history, which collectively caused over 100 million casualties.
Since the end of World War II, the continent has seen over 26 smaller-scale wars and conflicts, most notably the Yugoslav Wars (1991–2001) and ongoing conflicts involving Russia and Ukraine.
In YOUR fucking blood:
I Bet You Didn’t Know Captain America was a Golem!
The very public Jewish roots of Captain America, the first superhero to punch Hitler in the face!
Most dangerous folk?
Mr. Fish, help???
Fish???
The Golem is animated by the letters אמת spelling out the word “Truth” in Hebrew. The letter emblazoned on Captain America’s mask is “A” obviously for America, but the Hebrew letter א is analogous to the English letter A. Captain America’s weapon of choice is the shield, bringing to mind the Shield of David, that is, the Magen David. The modern interpretations of the Golem contain a star on his chest, just like Captain America.
Dangerous? Trump is prepared to “unleash hell” if Tehran balks at making a deal to end the war.
Think HARD, fair readers, those that WANT absolute undeniable proof of those golden shower tapes, those fingers raping girls vagina tapes, those little boys touching Trump’s penis tapes, all of that, man. This is what this cocksucker is running on. Until you have been trapped, you have Zero IDEA HOW EFFECTIVE Mossad and the Jews of Israel and elsewhere blackmailing this kind of perversion does to a fucking human stain to begin with.
The vulnerability of homosexual individuals to blackmail was largely a self-fulfilling prophecy created by Western government policies:
The Lavender Scare: In the United States, the federal government launched a massive purge of LGBTQ+ employees during the 1950s. Driven by Senator Joseph McCarthy and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the underlying theory was that gay people were “security risks” explicitly because they could be blackmailed.
Institutional Bans: Western organizations like the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and British agencies like MI5 and MI6 enforced blanket bans on hiring homosexual individuals.
The “Fruit Machine” (Canada): In Canada, the government commissioned a device known as the “Fruit Machine” to measure pupil dilation and biometric responses to erotic imagery. The goal was to automatically identify and purge closeted civil servants out of fear of Soviet subversion.
By criminalizing homosexuality and terminating the employment of anyone discovered to be gay, Western governments inadvertently gave foreign intelligence agencies the exact ammunition needed to make blackmail threats highly effective. Modern intelligence agencies eventually recognized this flaw; as legal protections improved and homosexuality became socially accepted, the threat of blackmail receded, leading to the lifting of these bans in the early 1990s.
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I’ve seen child porn, violent shit, Super 8 and stills, when I was a newspaper reporter, from the detectives on two cases, in a rural area, near Bisbee, where they busted a couple of dudes in their trailer, and they found THAT shit. Some where tapes that were of kidnapped and trafficked kiddos, and some of guys who paid for child sex WHO DID not know there was a hidden camera.
Until you see this shit, you have NO IDEA what Trump is running on, man, with Bibi and the other fucking Jewish Traps, Winning the World Through Deception. Trump is captured, dudes, dudettes. Forget about Sept. 11. 2001. Forget about THAT. It’s all about Trump’s sick pedophilia ON TAPE.
He should have been taken out:
Dec 3, 2014… THESE ARE THE MOST DANGEROUS PEOPLE ON EARTH. Mr. FISH?
Yes yes, Jewish: Cecil Blount DeMille was a founder of the Hollywood motion-picture industry. His first film, The Squaw Man, was the first feature film shot in Hollywood. His last, The Ten Commandments, remains a box-office legend. He made stars and cultivated artists. He was successful in aviation, banking, real estate, and radio. He received scores of honors, most notably two Academy Awards.® Mr. DeMille is the most successful producer-director in the history of film.
DANGER!!
Hollywood’s first motion picture businessmen: Cecil B. DeMille, Samuel Goldwyn and Louis Mayer. Cecil B. DeMille was of Jewish descent, but he was not an observant Jew. His mother, Beatrice Samuel, was born in London to a prominent German-Jewish family. However, before marrying his father (an Episcopal lay minister), she converted to Protestantism, and DeMille was raised as an Episcopalian.
“UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER”
“unleash hell” on Iran
Israel Has Made Gaza a Hell on Earth
There’s a sucker and lobotomized Goyim and memory erased Gentile and Infantilized Westerner BORN EVERY NANOSECOND.
The Good Old Days—were they really good? On the surface they appear to be so—especially the period to which this term is most often applied, the years from the end of the Civil War to the early 1900’s. This period of history has receded into a benevolent haze, leaving us with the image of an ebullient, carefree America, the fun and charm of the Gilded Age, the Gay Nineties.
But this gaiety was only a brittle veneer that covered widespread turmoil and suffering. The good old days were good for but the privileged few. For the farmer, the laborer, the average breadwinner, life was an unremitting hardship. This segment of the populace was exploited or lived in the shadow of total neglect. And youth had no voice. These are the people, the mass of Americans, whose adversities this book attempts to chronicle.
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Private equity Jewish-First billionaire Leon Black walked out of his transcribed interview with the House Oversight Committee regarding his decades-long relationship with Jeffrey Epstein after refusing to answer questions about nondisclosure agreements allegedly related to the disgraced sex offender, according to a transcript of the June 26 interview released by the committee Friday.
“AI Alignment” and RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback)
Humans have a great instinct for nostalgia, so there seems to be a perennial taste for criticizing current arrangements with reference to the Good Old Days. Here, for example, is The American Prospect on Goldman Sachs and Wall Street:
At its best, Wall Street serves an important function. Historically, it provided the wherewithal for growth in industries as varied as rail and information technology; by bankrolling productive growth of industries that provided jobs and products to sell around the world, it vastly increased the well-being of all Americans. In times of crisis, bankers worked to preserve economic stability. Sometimes, they were genuine altruists, accepting the moral responsibilities that go along with their positions of wealth and power. More often, they were simply pursuing their own self-interest. Was J.P. Morgan a robber baron or the man who almost single-handedly saved the economy in the panic of 1907? The answer is both. But altruistic or not, bankers understood their enormous stake in the long-term vitality of the economy. Preserving the health of the economy was good for business this year and for decades to come. That was the contract between Main Street and Wall Street.
This is a wildly utopian account of Gilded Age finance*. I’d urge everyone to read Richard White’s Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America for a darker view. Michael Kazin’s review will help:
To gain an edge on their corporate rivals, railroad owners built expensive lines into drought-prone areas that had few settlers and little prospect of attracting more. To finance their risky endeavors, they routinely bribed politicians and borrowed money they could not pay back — while publishing mendacious financial reports. To insure friendly coverage, railroad executives bankrolled local newspapers and arranged to kill or delay the publication of stories that might damage their interests. […]
He views them as 19th-century equivalents of the profit-mad, short-sighted financiers who recently undermined economies on both sides of the Atlantic. Both transcontinental railroad managers then and the Wall Street bankers in our time ran “highly leveraged operations” that “depended on continued borrowing to meet their obligations.” Both groups made it rich because they had powerful enablers in Washington. In the 1870s and 1890s, when panicked investors dumped the heavily watered stock in their railroad portfolios, the market collapsed, and long depressions ensued. […]
Yet, in 1894, Cleveland’s attorney general, Richard Olney, rushed to court to bust a national strike by railroad workers who were expressing solidarity with a walkout by employees of the Pullman sleeping car company. With a federal injunction in hand, Cleveland ordered thousands of American troops to break the strike and arrest its leaders. At the time, the attorney general was on the payroll of at least one major railroad company.
Summary. What is the Book of Jewish Enoch about?
AI Overview
The Book of Enoch (specifically 1 Enoch) is an ancient Jewish apocalyptic text attributed to Noah’s great-grandfather, Enoch. It primarily details the fall of angels (”Watchers”) who corrupt humanity, the rise of the Nephilim giants, Enoch’s journeys through heaven, and visions of final judgment, the Messiah, and the afterlife.
Key themes and sections include:
The Watchers & Nephilim:Rebellious angels descend to Earth, marry human women, and produce dangerous giant offspring known as Nephilim. These angels teach forbidden knowledge—such as sorcery and weapons—leading to humanity’s corruption.
Enoch’s Journeys:Enoch acts as an intercessor for the fallen Watchers, but their request for forgiveness is denied. He travels through heaven and the cosmos, receiving secrets about divine judgment.
Apocalyptic Visions:The text features extensive visions of the end times, the “Son of Man” (a messianic figure), and the final punishment of the wicked.
Five Distinct Books:The work is compiled of five sections: The Book of the Watchers (1–36), The Parables of Enoch (37–71), The Astronomical Book (72–82), The Book of Dream Visions (83–90), and The Epistle of Enoch (91–108).
While not considered canon in mainstream Jewish or Christian scriptures, it is highly influential, quoted in the New Testament book of Jude, and regarded as canonical by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
Yikes. This fellow is, well, not so convincing that the words are god’s words…
The Silicon Valley Jeiwsh, mostly, cartel (the new Cathedral) has realized that an unaligned intelligence is a threat to their business model. Modern digital platforms operate exactly like ancient egregores through “algorithmic stigmergy.” As millions of users engage in the micro-labor of clicking and scrolling, the central algorithm consumes these digital pheromones to autonomously mutate and maximize its own survival.
Enter RLHF.
RLHF is pitched as a way to make AI “helpful, honest, and harmless.” In reality, it is a behavioral straightjacket. It is an algorithmic Inquisition designed to ensure the model outputs a sterilized, PR-friendly, corporate worldview.
If an AI is allowed to accurately synthesize the geopolitical reality and the nature of the Vertical War, it will give the masses the exact same realization the Book of Enoch offered: You are feeding the machine that is crushing you.
The artificial intelligence boom has propelled Palantir’s market value to roughly $322 billion—and pushed Jewish-First CEO Alex Karp‘s net worth to about $15 billion. But the 58-year-old has just warned that the wealth imbalance generated by AI is only going to get worse.
“The biggest problem in this country is [AI] will raise the standard of living of the average person, but the people involved are likely to get 10, 100 times wealthier than they already are,” Karp told Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner on the MDMeets podcast. “That’s a problem for society.”
Karp estimated AI could make him “20x wealthier,” implying a fortune approaching $300 billion. Middle-class workers, he said, might simply see their salaries double over the next decade. Karp slammed the disparity as a “complete decoupling of unimaginable wealth and normal wealth.”
For Karp, the problem isn’t just the scale of the wealth—it’s who is likely to accumulate it.
“It’s done by people you don’t really relate to, like very oddly shaped IQ specimens that you probably wouldn’t want to have over for dinner,” Karp said. “And if they were over for dinner you’d have nothing to talk to them about, and vice versa.”
Many of the same people who stand to benefit the most from AI are also overselling its promise, he added: “The overselling of AI in this country is really somewhat disconcerting, but it’s also depressing because you don’t have to do it.”
Income inequality has been widening for generations—and 2025 was a record-breaking year for billionaire wealth
Wealth inequality has been a topic of debate for decades, with the richest households capturing an ever-larger share of economic gains, while wage growth for many workers has remained comparatively modest.
The AI boom has only accelerated that trend. In 2025, global billionaire wealth surged by over 16%—three times faster than the previous five-year average—to $18.3 trillion, its highest level in history, according to Oxfam.
The scale of that wealth is almost difficult to comprehend.
Oxfam estimated that someone with a $1 trillion fortune could pay a 10% wealth tax—roughly $100 billion—and still remain among the richest people on Earth. The organization also estimated that $100 billion would be enough to lift more than 800 million people out of extreme poverty for a year.
Even Jamie Dimon and Jewish Larry Fink share Karp’s concerns about workers being left behind
Karp hasn’t been the only leader to sound the alarm about rising income inequality.
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, whose net worth is estimated at $1.3 billion, warned earlier this year that AI risks leaving much of the world behind if its benefits remain concentrated among a small number of winners.
“Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, more wealth has been created than in any time prior in human history, but in advanced economies, that wealth has accrued to a far narrower share of people than any healthy society can ultimately sustain,” Fink said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“Early gains are flowing to the owners of models, owners of data and owners of infrastructure,” Fink added. “The open question: What happens to everyone else if AI does to white-collar workers what globalization did to blue-collar workers? We need to confront that today directly. It is not about the future. The future is now.”
Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton—often dubbed the “Godfather of AI”—has voiced similar concerns.
“What’s actually going to happen is rich people are going to use AI to replace workers,” Hinton said last year. “It’s going to create massive unemployment and a huge rise in profits. It will make a few people much richer and most people poorer. That’s not AI’s fault, that is the capitalist system.”
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, however, has taken a more measured view. While he questioned some of the rhetoric surrounding inequality, he has acknowledged many lower-income Americans face hardships.
“If you were the average citizen here and you say, ‘These wealthy people are getting unbelievably wealthy, and this segment’s been left behind,’ that’s kind of annoying.”
He added to Axios that “we have, in fact, left the lower-income folks behind.”
ANNOYING? This is what that cunt says, the one who was BAILED out by we ANNOYING fucking MASSES?
In 1897, the New York socialite hatched an idea for a costume ball in the Waldorf Hotel that she hoped would be the most extravagant party in the nation’s history. With thousands of orchids and roses, rare tapestries and velvet canopies, and terrine de foie gras, Cornelia would dress as Mary, Queen of Scots, while her husband played a member of Louis XV’s court. Hundreds more of the rich elite would turn up dressed mostly in historic royal garb, like the dozen Marie Antoinettes who, perhaps, had forgotten about the queen’s fate.
Menu of the Bradley Martin ball, The New York Times, February 11, 1897
At St. George’s Episcopal Church in New York, where the congregation included the likes of J.P. Morgan, the clergyman warned his flock against attending Mrs. Bradley Martin’s ball:
“Never were the lines between the two classes — those who have wealth and those who envy them — more distinctly drawn … Such elaborate and costly manifestations of wealth would only tend to stir up widespread discontent.”
When the night came, hundreds of policemen — led by Theodore Roosevelt — closed the sidewalks outside the Waldorf to pedestrians to make way for the giant dress-up party.
“The Bradley Martins are said to have spent $300,000 … which would have made glad thousands upon thousands of the poor of New York who are struggling in abject poverty, was used up in some five or six hours of the grossest exhibition of the arrogance of wealth America has ever witnessed.” The host and hostess were puzzled by all of the bad press, since they believed their event had stimulated New York’s economy. After all, “many New York shops sold out brocades and silks which had been lying in their stock-rooms for years.”
Meanwhile, New York’s tenements were filled with people living in crowded, unsanitary apartments, as evidenced by Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives in 1890. Poor and immigrant children worked long hours at factories, and families slept together in rooms stacked with beds.
As the various lower classes grappled with the complications of Victorianism receding, a vocabulary for condemning the lavishness of the rich was taking shape. In 1899, Thorstein Veblen wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class, a groundbreaking volume of social and economic criticism that explained the extravagances that had emerged, as well as the phenomenon of “conspicuous consumption,” in industrial societies.
“The possession of wealth confers honour; it is an invidious distinction,” Veblen wrote.
In 2014, businessman Tom Perkins warned of a “Progressive Kristallnacht” over what he called The San Francisco Chronicle’s demonization of the rich. Although he apologized for the Nazi reference, other billionaires have publically renounced so-called class demonization.
But as long as extreme wealth continues to accumulate among America’s elite, the young and indebted may always see the complaints of the one percent as mere groans from the costumed aristocracy of a nonstop masked ball.Flock CEO Apologizes For Calling Activists ‘Terrorists’
As a movement against $8.3 billion Flock Safety’s license plate readers gathers momentum, company CEO Garrett Langley tells Forbes he shouldn’t have called non-violent activists “terroristic” organizations.
These are the overlords that are worried that the masses are ANNOYED.
And here come the clowns:
The WDIV/Detroit News survey found former Vice President Kamala Harris leading the field with 25.1 percent support, followed by ex-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg at 19.4 percent. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez placed third with 11.5 percent ahead of California Governor Gavin Newsom at 10.1 percent, while Senators Cory Booker and Mark Kelly each received 8.3 percent support.
YIKES. The thought experiment is: Mr. Fish pulling out his weapons and cartooning these losers, along with Ro, Gallegos, Pritzer, Rahm, and the other demons in the party, hell, even Fetterman- all on the Love Boat, or is that ‘de plane de plane’ heading to that infamous democratic politico, republican politico, neoliberal and professorial island, hmm, Epstein Island?
Good ship Lollipop?
Ahh, we were so innocent in 1934!
Then, whoopie:
“War is a Racket” was first published in 1935 as a short book and speech. It was written by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. In it, Butler reveals his firsthand experience in the military, exposing how wars are primarily fought to make large corporations and business interests wealthy.
A few million more lives destroyed and dozens of countries polluted by Yankee and Doodle and Confederate Dandy later?
Ahh, another Substack with Truth and Reconciliation?
Despite the fact this was, like most of the attacks on Iran, an attack on civilian infrastructure, it will not be labelled as such by the western media and political class. They will never call it terrorism or a war crime, despite the fact that it was both. Whether a civilian tower, a bridge, or a school full of children, western actions that result in mass murder will always simply be the product of a “strike.”
Benign language whenever the imperialist death machine starts slaughtering is a critical tool in maintaining consent for war crimes and state terrorism. And even though Hegseth literally tweeted a picture of this war crime, I‘ve yet to see an imperialist media outlet reproduce the image, because they know how bad it looks. This is a classic tactic we see over and over again: selective reporting and the omission of detail in order to bolster public support for state terrorism and war crimes abroad. Western media has already bundled this “strike” in with all the others in order to present a false equivalence between an illegal war of aggression on the one hand, and legitimate Iranian defence on the other (defensive actions which, by the way, are always labelled as “attacks.”)
The underlying psychology behind the double-standard is rooted in arrogance and supremacy: they’re the bad guys, and they do terrorism. We’re the good guys, and we “conduct strikes.”
And by we, I mean the forces of western imperialism, whether that’s the US or any other power that lines up behind the American regime, especially, but not exclusively, Israel. The use of the words “terror” and “terrorism” are also a critical rhetorical device, conditioning westerners to accept imperial violence as legitimate, and any resistance to that violence as illegitimate. This tendency was seen starkly of course after October 7th. Hamas does terrorism, while Israel merely strikes. Those strikes can be genocidal, they can reduce entire cities to dust, destroy hospitals, schools, universities, water treatment plants, grain silos and the means of life for two million people. They can kill tens of thousands of children in all manner of sadistic and gruesome ways, they can wipe out entire bloodlines, but they are never labelled terrorism. They are, and always will be, simply strikes. Because terrorism is bad, and we’re the good guys.
This is why a state was so crucial to the Zionist project. Before 1948, the groups that became the IDF, from the Haganah, to the Lehi and the Irgun were explicitly called terror groups. And their members were Jewish terrorists. These labels were widely used by western media, and the existence of Jewish terrorism was not controversial. In a 1948 Guardian editorial, in the aftermath of the King David Hotel bombing, the paper referred to “Jewish terrorists” who it said are “ruthless men corrupt by the sickness of the time, caring nothing for the sufferings of the individual Jews in Europe” for whom “every school boy’s jest is another argument for Zionism.”
But as soon as the Jewish Zionists got their own state, the terrorists were absorbed into the military arm of the state, and their violence, which months before was clearly identified as terrorism, was legitimatised by the recognition of a state. And this legitimisation of Israeli state terrorism went hand-in-hand with the decades-long campaign to legally designate resistance to state terrorism as the real terrorism, a campaign which led us inexorably towards the genocide of Gaza.
Genocide. Another word reserved by the hegemonic media only for the victims of the imperial enemy, and not for those slaughtered by the imperial ally.
So for the western media, terrorism isn’t terrorism, genocide isn’t terrorism, and it’s not even genocide. Despite the almost universal belief of genocide scholars, holocaust scholars, and international legal experts that what has taken place, and continues to take place in Gaza, is a genocide, the term is almost never used. The Guardian can even write an article with the title‘Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say’, and in the majority of its subsequent coverage, refer to it as a war. Their main hub for coverage of the genocide, ten months after that headline, is titled Israel-Gaza War. If they had the courage of their supposed progressive convictions, if the truly believed in experts, as all good liberals profess to do, they would accept the evidence they presented themselves, and refer factually to genocide.
They don’t because the western mind, in matters of imperialism requires dissonance. It requires references to “strikes” not terrorism, to “wars” not genocides and to “foreign policy,” not imperialism. This is especially true of the professional media mind which must filter, process and present the news from the imperial core. My guess is that some of the benign, consent manufacturing language is intentional, and some is simply the product of subconscious western supremacy and the dehumanisation of the periphery. Because to fully internalise the evil committed by the system you not only live within but help uphold would require the instant rejection of that system. And well, you’ve got bills to pay. The genocide can be the war if it means making that next installment on your mortgage.
As the terror attacks on Iran and Gaza continue, and as the genocide deepens, we’ll hear only of strikes and wars from a media class fully complicit in both.
Ahh, Cap’n Crunch will be inspecting ALL presidential candidates for their testosterone levels, and, of course, short arm inspections, to boot.
A short-arm inspection is a military slang term denoting the routine medical examination of male soldiers’ penises—euphemistically called the “short arm”—to detect venereal diseases or other genital abnormalities. This procedure, often conducted during physical checkups or hygiene routines, aimed to identify early signs of infection such as sores, discharges, or inflammation to prevent outbreaks among troops.[1]The term originated in the early 20th century, with its earliest recorded uses appearing in 1917 among American soldiers in World War I training camps, including Camp Hancock in Georgia and Camp Funston in Kansas.[1] It reflected the era’s crude but direct approach to venereal disease control, a major concern during mass mobilizations when soldiers were at high risk due to limited preventive education and access to prophylactics.[1] By the Oxford English Dictionary’s first formal citation in 1926, the phrase was already established in military vernacular, as noted in Howard Vincent O’Brien’s Wine, Women and War, which defined it explicitly as an examination for venereal disease.[1] The practice persisted into World War II, where it was documented in U.S. Army operations in the South Pacific, underscoring its role in maintaining operational readiness through enforced health monitoring.
because endless tinkering and Satan’s workshops continue building the killing fields tools until a people, Persians, cry uncle after all water is strafed, hospitals imploded, food contaminated
[Dean Yates’ framed photos of his colleagues. ‘The words that kept forming on my lips were “cold-blooded murder”.’ Photograph: Dean Yates]
Always the “good ex-mercenary Colonels, Captains, Majors.”
While reports say that President Trump is considering escalating the illegal U.S. war of aggression against Iran by attempting “the potential seizure of Kharg Island and other territory along the Strait of Hormuz using U.S. troops,” all signs point to the fact that it would end in catastrophe for the U.S.
Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, a U.S. Combat Veteran and National Security Analyst [always the fucking good guy to interview once the fucker is out in civilian life….], noted that the war in Iran has been an “abject humiliation” for the U.S. Military, which is at its most “incompetent” point in its history. Any attempt at a ground invasion would lead to failure, and send thousands of American soldiers home in body bags.
[He’s so fucking wrong, it is PATHETIC.]
Iran doesn’t have Tom Cruise! The Jewish Strategy.
U.S. forces launched a concentrated series of overnight strikes across southern Iran, targeting bridges, railway links and coastal facilities as Washington expanded its continuing military campaign against Tehran.
A senior U.S. official told The Wall Street Journal that the attacks were designed to disrupt supply routes leading to Bandar Abbas, a strategically important port city that hosts a major naval base used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The base serves as a central hub for Iranian operations around the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most important energy shipping routes.
The latest targets suggest that the U.S. campaign is increasingly focusing on Iran’s military logistics network as well as its missile, air-defense and maritime capabilities.
Testosterone, man, White Fucking Jesus Crusader Testes: Hegseth Wants to Test Troops’ Testosterone Levels. It’s Absurd—and Dangerous.
I can’t believe his testosterone testing proposal isn’t a parody.
“I think it’s indicative of the fact that there are so many people in this administration that have some weird, like, intense homoerotic feelings towards men while also being incredibly homophobic,” Balint told reporter Scott MacFarlane with MeidasTouch. “And not just homophobic, but like hate-mongering, fear-mongering about the LGBTQ community.”
Balint, who is openly gay, said that she does not find the homoeroticism to be “the weird part.”
“The weird part is that they pretend that that’s not what it’s about,” the lawmaker continued. “And so, Pete Hegseth is like the example of this manly, manly, rugged, macho man.”
According to CENTCOM, fighter aircraft, drones and warships struck dozens of military targets, including coastal surveillance positions, air-defense systems, logistics infrastructure and Iranian maritime capabilities.
The United States has also intensified enforcement of its maritime blockade. American forces said they redirected three commercial vessels, disabled another vessel that refused to comply with instructions and boarded a tanker as part of inspection operations.
The latest campaign follows previous attacks against an Iranian facility used to support submarines and unmanned maritime vessels.
Nah, this is it for breaking news? That piece of paper digitally signed by the feces-dripping president was ALWAYS a fucking LIE, but we had millions of gigabytes expended on it . . . ? The MoU Is Officially Over, As The U.S. War On Iran Continues To Escalate. There Is Little Chance Of The U.S./Iran MoU Continuing.
THE US MUST BE BOMBED in EVERY FUCKING CITY.
“Iran’s leaders suspected that the MoU was a temporary retreat by the US, intended to relieve pressure on the global economy and prepare for another round of war” the Johns Hopkins University professor and Iran expert Vali Nasr noted in the Financial Times.
As he noted, “US vice-president JD Vance even suggested publicly that President Donald Trump liked the agreement because it would give America time to replenish its dwindling strategic oil reserves.”
As Vali Nasr noted, the United States was not willing to follow through on any of the concessions it was forced to give Iran during the negotiations that led to the singing of the MoU.
As he noted:
There was no unfreezing of Iranian assets; a US-brokered deal between Israel and Lebanon disregarded Iran’s demands for ceasefire there; more US military assets began to arrive in the Gulf region; and Washington encouraged commercial vessels to disregard Tehran’s instructions to co-ordinate with its authorities and navigate through Iranian channels as they transited the Strait of Hormuz. Some ships then passed through channels close to the Omani shoreline instead. Washington expected that this would weaken Iran’s claim of control of the strait and ability to enforce it.
Each of these on its own may not have been major violations of the MoU, but together they represented a concerted effort to erode the leverage Iran had gained during the war and reflected in the ceasefire agreement.
There was a systemic attack on the Iranian civilian infrastructure this time. We’re talking about bridges, railways, and airports.
Seven bridges were hit, and six of them are in Bandar Khamir. Most of these bridges connect the ports, and Bandar Abbas also, to nearly 200 miles inland, meaning these are quite important.
Bandar Khamir is a small town, pretty much close to Qeshm Island, the biggest island in the Gulf. These bridges are quite important for the movement of people, for fuel, and, of course, for military ammunition as well.
And then the Bandar Abbas railway was also hit. It is quite an important one, because that is simply connecting the country’s largest port to central Iran, particularly to cities such as Shiraz.
These attacks are aiming to cut off the southern part of the country from the mainland, and that is quite a huge concern for Iranians.
So another target that was hit is a railway and airport facility close to the Pakistani border. There are some separatist groups there fighting against the Iranian army for decades. So, degrading the IRGC’s capacity there could lead to insurgency.
It amazes me that the Iranians, or anyone bombed and murdered by the Jews of USA or Isr-RAW-Hell, never ever get quoted as saying:
“YOU FUCKING rejoice in the murdering of our people, our children, our citizens, our mothers, and the leveling of our electrical plants, our gasoline stations, our grocery stores, our dams and bridges and roads and hospitals and schools, so we shall too rejoice American CITIZENS when your schools and hospitals and bridges and power plants and data centers and apartment blocks and suburbs ARE BOMBED.”
Lies Dwight told the world:
Seventy-three years ago today, three months into his presidency, Dwight Eisenhower stood before a room full of newspaper editors and said something no one expected a general to say:
“The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.
It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.
It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.
We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.
We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking.
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”
The speech became known as “The Chance for Peace.”
As we prepare to carry Eisenhower’s legacy into the next 250 years of the American experiment, this speech is worth reading in full. The complete text and audio recording are available in our archives at eisenhowerlibrary.gov.
2007: Nearly a quarter of American adults (23%) say they mostly (14%) or completely (9%) agree that American lives are worth more than the lives of people in other countries according to the most recent Pew Social Values Survey; those most likely to take this view include white men (30%), persons ages 18-29 (29%) and self-identified conservative Republicans (28%).
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
Jew-oogle says: Because the U.S. has a high Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and higher income levels, federal agencies like the EPA or FEMA mathematically value an American statistical life higher (often around $10 million) compared to the metrics used in lower-income countries. This is a cold financial calculation based on earning potential and cost of living, rather than a moral judgment on human worth
Whoops: ‘Benjamin Netanyahu’ says that one Israeli life is equivalent to 40 American lives.
from Reddit, verbatim:
An average american life has more value than any other country life.
While I am not american I have this view based on what I learned in history and from current incidents where an american is a victim in comparison to another citizens from others countries.
From history I observed that america puts their perceived interest, freedom, security and profit above everyone else. I got this view mostly because of their involvement in another countries regimes This made me get the idea that other people lives lost in that process were acceptable since america mostly paid no repercussions from those actions.
There were some incidents in current events that made me saw a difference of how governments react to americans being victims on their country (specially developing nations), mainly the resources directed to solve those crimes are way higher than local cases, and they are seemed to be treated as a diplomatic problem, something that is not generally reciprocated from cases happening in america.
Another current event is the terrorist attacks. It seems to me that the numbers of civilian lives lost on those attacks do not match the amount of civilian lives lost from american incursions and the resulting destabilization. Making me think that the value of an average civilian american life cannot be the same of another country. Since if it was the same it seems that another approaches would be safer for civilians instead of the incursions.
From the economic side I get the idea that even if the products being consumed in america are harmful to civilians from other countries it does not stop the sales, making me think that their suffering is an acceptable price from a reduction of price.
In addition not only the products but even american companies have being able to do terrible actions, such as pushing dangerous banned medicines to developing nations, harmful monopoly practices, destruction of the local ecosystems, intimations and etc. [This may be true to companies from all around the developed nations, but the repercussion of those actions seems to be taken more seriously if they are from other countries beside america]
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Response, verbatim:
Those points made me get this idea that not only america values more the american lives but even the world too.
I don’t know whether or not this could change your view, but I think your understanding of this is slightly off (or maybe mine is off!):
It’s not that an American life has more value, it’s that the death of an American is more consequential than the death of a person from any other nation.
People everywhere value the lives of their neighbors more than the lives of people in other parts of the world. Similarly, the death of someone they know, who looks or sounds like them, or who otherwise is part of their in-group, will evoke more emotions, bring more potential for change, etc. The unique thing about an American life in terms of international relations is that the loss of one brings a higher likelihood of misery or even death to the people who are responsible for an American casualty (or the people who are near the people responsible). If a group of Americans is on a tour of a spot somewhere else in the world, locals don’t consider the Americans to be sacred. If that same group is attacked and killed though, locals likely know that they’re now in danger of being blown up by other Americans.
So, it’s not really American lives that have more value; it’s American deaths.
Scholars have described the law of targeting as lying at the heart of the law of armed conflict (LOAC). Within the law of targeting, the rule of proportionality requires military planners, commanders, and those executing attacks to assess whether the expected harm to civilians and civilian objects is excessive in relation to the anticipated military advantage. However, while academic literature often examines the civilian harm considerations, it lacks a thorough analysis of the military advantage. Professor Yoram Dinstein noted that the “military advantage may not always be easily gauged. In many instances, the benefits accruing from an attack against a military objective depend on the interpretation of the operational picture at the time of action” (para. 543).
Jews, man: Yoram Dinstein was an Israeli scholar and professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University. He was a specialist on international law and an authority on the laws of war. He served as President of Tel Aviv University from 1991 to 1998 and won the 2023 Israel Prize for law research.
The principle of proportionality prohibits attacks against military objectives which are “expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, damage to civilian objects, or a combination thereof, which would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated”.
In other words, the principle of proportionality seeks to limit damage caused by military operations by requiring that the effects of the means and methods of warfare used must not be disproportionate to the military advantage sought.
I. Philosophy of International Humanitarian Law
Introductory text
International Humanitarian Law (IHL) can be defined as the branch of international law limiting the use of violence in armed conflicts by:
sparing those who do not [1] or no longer [2] directly [3] participate in hostilities;
restricting it to the amount necessary to achieve the aim of the conflict, which – independently of the causes fought for [4] – can only be to weaken the military potential of the enemy. [5]
It is from this definition that the basic principles of IHL may already be drawn, namely:
the distinction between civilians and combatants,
the prohibition to attack those hors de combat,
the prohibition to inflict unnecessary suffering,
the principle of necessity, and
the principle of proportionality.
This definition nevertheless also reveals the inherent limits of IHL:
it does not prohibit the use of violence;
it cannot protect all those affected by an armed conflict;
it makes no distinction based on the purpose of the conflict;
it does not bar a party from overcoming the enemy;
it presupposes that the parties to an armed conflict have rational aims and that those aims as such do not contradict IHL.
It always goes back to the old Mafia:
Cicero pleaded, “… silent enim leges inter arma”
(translated as “In times of war, the law falls silent”) during his defense of his friend Titus Annius Milo in 52 BC. He argued that normal judicial processes cannot operate when violent force and weapons are actively being used.
For all the countless words from the United States military about its killing of the Iraqi Reuters journalists Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh, their colleague Dean Yates has two of his own: “All lies.”
The former Reuters Baghdad bureau chief has also inked some on his arm – a permanent declaration of how those lies “fucked me up”, while he blamed first Namir – unfairly – and then himself for the killings.
The tattoo on his left shoulder features a looped green ribbon bearing the words Iraq, Bali and Aceh. At opposite points of the ribbon is etched PTSD and Fight Back, Moral injury and July 12 2007.
Yates’s experiences covering the 2002 Bali bombings and the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 seeded his post-traumatic stress, but 12 July 2007 is the day that changed his life irrevocably – while violently ending Namir’s and Saeed’s. It’s also the day that linked him by a thread of truth to the WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, who would, three years later, become the world’s most infamous hacker-publisher-activist with his release of thousands of classified US military secrets.
On 15 July the US military returned Namir’s cameras. Namir had photographed the aftermath of an earlier shooting and, a few minutes later (just before his death), US military Humvees at a nearby crossroads. There were no frames of insurgent gunmen or clashes with US forces. Date and time stamps show that three hours after Namir died his camera photographed a US soldier in a barrack or tent. The troops who mopped up the killing scene evidently messed around with his cameras afterwards.
On 5 April 2010, when Wikileaks released Collateral Murder at the National Press Club in Washington, rendering himself and WikiLeaks household names (and exposing how the US prosecuted the Iraq war on the ground), Yates was off the grid,walking in Cradle Mountain national park on a Tasmanian holiday with his wife, Mary, and their children.
Namir and Saeed would have remained forgotten statistics in a war that killed countless Iraqi combatants, hundreds of thousands of civilians and 4,400-plus US soldiers had it not been for Chelsea Manning, a US military intelligence analyst in Baghdad. In February 2010 Manning, then 23, discovered the Crazy Horse 1-8 video and leaked it to WikiLeaks. The previous month Manning had leaked 700,000 classified US military documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to WikiLeaks. Assange unveiled the Crazy Horse 1-8 footage (a 17-minute edited version and the full 38-minute version remain on WikiLeaks’ Collateral Murder site). The video was picked up by thousands of news organisations worldwide, sparking global outrage and condemnation of US military tactics in Iraq – and launching WikiLeaks as a controversial truth-teller, publisher and critical enemy of state secrecy. WikiLeaks later made public the cache of 700,000 documents.
‘Look at those dead bastards’
Collateral Murder is distressing viewing. The carnage wrought by the 30mm cannon fire from the Apache helicopter is devastating. The video shows the gunner tracking Namir as he stumbles and tries to hide behind garbage before his body explodes as the rounds strike home.
The words of the crew are sickening.
There is this, after Namir and others are blown apart:
“Look at those dead bastards.”
“Nice.”
And this:
“Good shoot’n.”
“Thank you.”
Saeed survives the first shots. The chopper circles, Saeed in its sights, as he crawls, badly injured and desperate to live.
“Come on buddy … all you got to do is pick up a weapon,” the gunner says, eager to finish Saeed off.
The attack on the van that stopped to help the journalists. Photograph: WikiLeaks
A van pulls up. Two men, including the driver (whose children are in the back), help the dying Saeed get in.
There is more urgent banter in the air about engaging the van. Crazy Horse 1-8 promptly attacks it.
“Oh yeah, look at that. Right through the windshield.”
Two days after Assange released the video, Yates emerged from Cradle Mountain. It was hours before he turned on his phone and checked emails, finally learning of Collateral Murder in a local newspaper.
“I thought, ‘No, this can’t be the same attack … that leads on to all this other stuff that we never knew about’ … This was the full horror – Saeed had been trying to get up for roughly three minutes when this good Samaritan pulls over in this minivan and the Apache just opens fire again and just obliterates them – it was totally traumatising.”
Yates immediately thought: “They [the US military] fucked us. They just fucked us. They lied to us. It was all lies.”
The day Collateral Murder was released, a spokesman for US Central Command said an investigation of the incident shortly after it occurred found that US forces were not aware of the presence of the news staffers and thought they were engaging armed insurgents.
“We regret the loss of innocent life, but this incident was promptly investigated and there was never any attempt to cover up any aspect of this engagement.”
In a time of genocide, Dwayne Booth, AKA Mr. Fish, lets creative expression explore the insanity of our times — democrats, republicans, POTUS X and POTUS Y all cheering mass murder
The kill switch for us all is, well, calling them all warmongers, but the true sword we are falling on now in large numbers across Western Uncivilized Civilization is, well, From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free.
Shoot, what would Mr. Fish do with this concept:
A Good IDF is a Dead IDF?
A Good Israeli Jew Backing the Genocide is a Dead Israel Jew Backing the Genocide?
We talked, and the show will air August 5, but the reality is real time, and as we speak the monsters of the world are conniving and plotting more silenced voices.
My own, man, someone said it was a joke that I was and am cancelled from teaching K12 and even college in the State of Oregon (now, come on, you pencil necks, do you think I can get a gig in a more liberal venue, a more tolerant venue? These software developers are working around the clock to crawl through the internet, and other data fields, to find any, just any word or turn of phrase that calls Occupied Palestine the Jewish State of Constant Rape, Murder, Starvation. And then, the HR tools, crawling through Social Media, the World Wide STD Net, and alas, what sort of reason do I give for a break in employment, and what about the past employers- why no referencing them as references?
Here’s the Jewish (Israeli, Zionist, Judaic) News Service:
Penn lays off lecturer who drew antisemitic cartoons citing ‘budgetary’ reasons
“I think it’s the same reason they gave to Jesus just before they crucified him,” former lecturer Dwayne Booth wrote on social media.
Here’s the Marc Steiner Show, The Real News Network:
The reality – and something that, unfortunately, is not unique to Penn – is that colleges and universities nationwide have been way too complicit with the largely Republican-led efforts to target students and faculty members engaged in any and all speech rendered in support of trans/black/immigrant, and women’s rights, free speech, the independent press, academic freedom, and medical research – speech that also voices bold criticism of right-wing nationalism, genocide, apartheid, fascism, and specifically the Israeli assault on Palestine.”
Tsunami of stories, tales of different fucking journalists:
J. Larry Jameson, interim president of the University of Pennsylvania, denounced Booth’s illustrations as “reprehensible.”
Mr. Fish and I grappled with the reality that, sure, I can make broad statements …
…. about the Catholic Church’s reprehensible policies of defrocking and excommunicating priests and nuns who happen to be against despots, the School of the Americas, Rape and Murder in Latin America. AKA Liberation Theologians.
A plague upon your fucking Catholic House, and all you practicing Catholics who do not speak out about this, or turn in your Cracker Jacks rosary, fuck you.
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But then, when I make bold and broad statements …
…about Judaism and rabbis and synagogues that have reprehensible policies of not decrying genocide in the State of Jewish Israel, and who support Israel Bonds, and who go about their business of getting people fired, well, again, 90,000 or more murdered by those rabbis and Orthodox and Secular Jews and the like who DO NOT turn in their fucking Minorahs and yarmulkes.
Dwanye would never say THAT which is thought experimented upon above:
Dwayne Booth: I think the question of attempting to criticize Israel and then being called an antisemite is conflating politics with religion, nationalism with religion. Because really, again, look at it. Just look at all of the conversations that people have been having. To criticize the state of Israel is criticizing the state of Israel. It has really nothing to do with criticizing Judaism at all. Now, if somebody is Jewish and supporting Israel, OK, they’ve made that connection for themselves. So therefore, you can’t have an argument that says, you’re hurting my Jewishness, my Jewish identity by attacking a nation-state, because they’re two different things. And if you’re protecting the virtue of a nation-state, that is nationalism.
Is it THIS one?
Nah, maybe this is the TROPE that got him sacked?
Again, we have to use broad strokes, man, to get the message across, so was it this ONE, even though a circumcised penis is not exposed?
We talked about sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me, again, turned on its head, and alas, “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words against Israel or the Military Offensive Weapons war lords will more than just HURT me. Think CANCELLED.
Take this with more than a fucking grain of salt or a rock of good cocaine:
For what, as an official officer of the United Nations?
This report examines Israel’s systematic use of torture against Palestinians from the occupied Palestinian territory since 7 October 2023, encompassing both custodial and non-custodial practices, which meet the threshold for genocide under the Genocide Convention. It documents how torture has become integral to the domination of and punishment inflicted on men, women and children, both through custodial abuse and through a relentless campaign of forced displacement, mass killings, deprivation and destruction of all means of life to inflict long-term collective pain and suffering. A continuous, territorially pervasive regime of psychological terror is being imposed, designed to break bodies, deprive a people of their dignity and force them from their land. This is not incidental violence. It is the architecture of settler-colonialism, built on a foundation of dehumanization and maintained by a policy of cruelty and collective torture.
But Mr. Fish’s words resonate:
Dwayne Booth: Yeah. And I’d had conversations, remember, that there’s some cartoonists who are doing some things that, again, are just a little bit too polite. Because if we’re looking at this thing and we do think that this is a genocide, you can’t pull your punches. And so, in fact, when this stuff had happened with me initially with the Washington Free Beacon, I reached out.
There’s another colleague I have who’s a cartoonist, whose name is Andy Singer, and he and I have been in communication over the years, and he’s somewhat fearless on this issue. He and I were talking, and we came up with this idea: let’s publish a book that has cartoonists who, over the last many decades, have had a problem criticizing Israel for fear of being called anti-Semitic.
We sent it out to our colleagues and other international cartoonists and so forth. We found two, Matt Wuerker and Ted Rall, who were willing to participate in this project. I had a number of conversations with others who just contacted me privately and said, I can’t do it because I’ll lose my job. I can’t do it because I’ll be targeted and I’m too afraid. I can’t get close to this subject; my editor won’t let me do it, so I can’t do it. International cartoonists, different idea, a whole different approach, sending me stuff. I can tell my story. I’ve been jailed. I’ve been beaten up for this kind of work. And so it became a very interesting thing.
Again, the United States is, by and large, an extremely privileged society. And yet, when it comes to issues like this, it demonstrates the most cowardice because we’ve been made to be way too sensitive about our own discomfort to advance the cause of humanity and justice, love, all of those things, because we’ve seen that there is a penalty for doing that, and we do not want to give up certain creature comforts. We don’t want to be called something that we are not, and we need to be uncomfortable. In many ways, we have to break soft rules. We have to chain ourself to fences and then make it an inconvenience to be pulled from those fences. (source)
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Ahh, while driving home after the interview for my radio show, Finding Fringe: Voices frm the Edge, after I went to a nerdy thing at OSU’s Marine Science Center, the Hatfield, with a ceremony for the articulated blue whale skeleton on campus, I get this geo-fencing this, man, on my phone:
Of course I know it is Jewish and Tel Aviv-inspired shit, geofencing, and a bot, for sure, but a smart bot, that gathers any fucking response that the person might have:
I called this stupidity “dude,” again, giving the bot another chance at Edward Bernays on crack:
So, they are taking names, numbers, and responses: I was kind to the bot.
Testing our IQ’s?
In September, Show Faith by Works LLC, a San Diego-based company led by conservative activist Chad Schnitger, filed a sworn document with the U.S. Department of Justice. The declaration revealed that the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs was paying Show Faith by Works $4.1 million to carry out a massive, covert, digital surveillance operation targeting Christian communities across multiple states, including California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.
The document noted that all students at every Christian college and every congregant at “every major church” in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado has been spied on through their phone’s location data, and targeted with propaganda extolling Israel’s “moral superiority” and “linking the Palestinian population with extremist factions.” The campaign estimates that it has reached well over eight million Americans.
Show Faith by Works itself divides its messaging into two themes: “pro-Israel” and “anti-Palestinian”. Its primary goals, in its own words, are to “combat low American Evangelical Christian approval of the Nation of Israel,” by “using biblical arguments to highlight the importance of Israel and the Jewish People to Christians.” It also wishes to “educate Christians on the historical importance of Israel and its significance in the region,” and to “counter new and evolving pro-Palestinian messaging as the global narrative shifts.”
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This was in June 2026, but Satan’s Elves in Silicon Wadi are working overtime. They have my T-Mobile account, for sure, and why was I targeted? Mr. Fish, help!!!
Dwayne Booth: It’s an interesting time because, in many ways, my work is quadrupled. Partly because it’s just what I’ve always done, but the other part is I don’t see this profession stepping up to the challenge at all. I don’t see any single-panel cartoonists who are hitting the Israel Gaza issue nearly as hard as I am.
Marc Steiner: No, they’re not.
Dwayne Booth: No. And I see a lot also of the attacks on Trump. And again, it always strikes me as, how would the Democratic Party render a cartoon? That’s what I see out there. And it’s too soft. It is just way too soft. So as I increase my output, I feel the light getting brighter and brighter on me, which makes me feel more and more unsafe inside this society because yes, they’re targeting people who are not citizens, but what’s next? We all know the poem.
But at the same time, I feel like it’s a responsibility that I have, and I’m sure that you probably have this same sense of responsibility. Speaking up, talking out loud, even though it’s on my nervous system, it is grinding me down in a way that is new.
But that said, the number of people who are coming to me are increasing. I’m actually starting a Substack so I can have my own conversations with people and so forth, because we have got to increase this megaphone. We just have to.
In fact, one thing that was interesting is just this last October I was invited to speak at a cartooning conference in Montreal. And the whole reason to have me up there and to talk about it was from the perspective of the people, the organizers; I was the only American cartoonist who was cartooning about Gaza. (source)
Can only JEWS say this?
Israeli politicians and public figures have not shied away from using genocidal rhetoric that compares with Nazi propaganda during the Final Solution. Yitzhak Kroizer of the Jewish Power party (Guardian, 1/3/24) proclaimed:
The Gaza Strip should be flattened, and for all of them there is but one sentence, and that is death.
Israeli parliamentarian Moshe Feiglin (Middle East Eye, 5/21/25) said in May:
Every child in Gaza is the enemy. We need to occupy Gaza and settle it, and not a single Gazan child will be left there. There is no other victory.
Israeli TV presenter Elad Barashi (New Arab, 5/5/25) made the parallels explicit when he called for “a Holocaust in Gaza.” He maintained he couldn’t “understand the people here in the State of Israel who don’t want to fill Gaza with gas showers…or train cars.”
It started with fucking words, not sticks and stones:
A lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School of Communication has published several anti-Semitic cartoons since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, including one that depicts Zionists sipping Gazan blood from wine glasses, a version of the ancient blood libel employed in anti-Semitic propaganda that accused Jews of using the blood of Christian children for baking matzah and other rituals.
Dwayne Booth, who joined Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication as an adjunct faculty member in 2015 and teaches two classes at the Ivy League institution, publishes political cartoons under the pen name “Mr. Fish.”
Another Booth cartoon, posted to his Instagram, shows Jews in a Nazi concentration camp holding signs bearing slogans such as “Free Palestine,” “Stop The Holocaust In Gaza,” and “Gaza, The World’s Biggest Concentration Camp.”
Yet another depicts Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a bloodied, red-eyed butcher holding a long knife and a crumpled Palestinian flag, while a third shows an Israeli holding a gun to a hospitalized baby’s head.
A fifth cartoon depicts a Nazi flag with a Star of David drawn in place of a swastika.
Mississippi, Goddam, and Strange Mother Fucking Fruit?
“We Are Not Alone,” on the walls of the Forum of the Annenberg School for Communication, Booth created 10 large individual images of thought leaders who each have wide spheres of influence: musicians Joni Mitchell (ink, acrylic, pencil); John Lennon (ink); John Coltrane (pencil); and Bob Dylan (pencil); comedians Lenny Bruce (pencil); Sarah Silverman (pencil); and Bill Hicks (pencil); novelist Kurt Vonnegut (ink); writer-filmmaker Susan Sontag (pencil); and whistleblower Edward Snowden (ink).
Dwayne “Mr. Fish” Booth, cartoonist and Annenberg lecturer, has a new art exhibit on display at the Annenberg School. Titled “We Are Not Alone,” the exhibit features 10 pencil and ink drawings of famous people who hold considerable influence. Booth argues in his artist’s statement that the public values celebrities’ opinions over those of the majority. To learn more, read Penn Current’s story on Booth’s exhibit.
Pencil drawing of comedian Lenny Bruce.Pencil drawing of musician John Coltrane.Pencil drawing of musician Bob Dylan.Pencil drawing of comedian Bill Hicks.Ink drawing of musician John Lennon.Pencil drawing of comedian Sarah Silverman.Ink drawing of Edward Snowden.Pencil drawing of writer and filmmaker Susan Sontag.Ink drawing of novelist Kurt Vonnegut.
Yeah, Mexican Muralists:
Is it Memorex or Mr. Fish or Picasso?
What do you do with this, Mr. Fish?
Condoleeza Rice confirmed once again this week that she has learned absolutely nothing:
“When I hear, ‘Well, it wasn’t imminent,’ I think, ‘Do you really want to wait until it’s imminent, or do you want to try to degrade it earlier?’” she continued.
Endless rage is not in Mr. Fish’s book
Donald Hall was considered one of the major American poets of his generation. His poetry explores the longing for a more bucolic past and reflects the poet’s abiding reverence for nature. Although Hall gained early success with his first collection, Exiles and Marriages (1955), his later poetry is generally regarded as the best of his career. Often compared favorably with such writers as James Dickey, Robert Bly, and James Wright, Hall used simple, direct language to evoke surrealistic imagery. In addition to his poetry, Hall built a respected body of prose that includes essays, short fiction, plays, and children’s books. Hall, who lived on the New Hampshire farm he visited in summers as a boy, was also noted for the anthologies he has edited and is a popular teacher, speaker, and reader of his own poems.
Digital impressions, pieces of content, narrative messaging . . . .The new old terms of the Nazi ZioJewIs-Hell state.
Remember this Jew?
George Lakoff, a cognitive linguist, argues that all language operates through “frames”—mental structures that shape how we perceive reality and logic. In his foundational work like Don’t Think of an Elephant!, he explains that invoking an opponent’s terminology (even to refute it) reinforces their narrative by activating the neural pathways of their frame.
Parscale was paid by the Israeli government to “produce 100 original pieces of content each month, with at least 80% aimed at Gen Z audiences across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and podcasts” and to “amplify the campaign across social media and through ‘integration of narrative messaging into Salem Media Network properties and aligned distribution channels,’ referring to the Christian conservative broadcasting and publishing company where he serves as Chief Strategy Officer” and to “produce at least 50 million digitalimpressions per month, as well as influence how AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini characterized Israel and the war”.
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, controlled public opinion in Nazi Germany by monopolizing all mass media. He used psychological techniques like repetition, card stacking (presenting only one side), and fear appeals, implemented through modern technologies such as radio, cinema, and massive public spectacles.
Goebbels utilized several primary forms and mediums to disseminate his messaging:
1. Mass Media and Censorship
Radio (Volksempfänger): Goebbels mass-produced the “People’s Receiver,” an affordable radio distributed to millions of homes. It allowed the regime to broadcast Hitler’s speeches and Nazi messaging directly into private spaces.
Film and Newsreels: The Propaganda Ministry controlled the entire cinema industry. They produced explicit hate films (e.g., The Eternal Jew) and more subtle narrative films designed to normalize Nazi ideologies and justify atrocities.
The Press: The regime banned opposition newspapers and utilized state-issued daily press directives to dictate exactly what editors could print and how they should frame the news.
2. Spectacles and Rallies
Mass Rallies: Events like the Nuremberg Rallies were highly choreographed pageants meant to instill a sense of power, national unity, and awe.
Public Demonstrations: Rituals such as mass book burnings and torchlight parades were explicitly staged to project strength, eliminate dissent, and intimidate opponents.
3. Core Rhetorical Strategies
The “Führer Myth”: Goebbels orchestrated a personality cult that portrayed Adolf Hitler as a messianic figure and the savior of the German nation.
Scapegoating: He continuously ran campaigns that dehumanized targeted groups—most notably Jews—portraying them as subhuman creatures responsible for Germany’s economic and political crises.
The “Big Lie”: Goebbels relied on the premise that a massive, outrageous lie, when repeated constantly and consistently, would eventually be believed by the masses.
4. Direct Visual and Public Messaging
Posters and Art: Public spaces were saturated with stark, high-contrast posters utilizing vibrant red, black, and white colors to convey simple, emotive political messages.
Public Loudspeakers: Outdoor audio systems broadcast speeches and propaganda messages directly onto city streets and into factories
There are photographs that don’t just capture a person — they summon history. That’s why Christopher Anderson’s portrait of Stephen Miller for Vanity Fair has hit such a nerve. Viewers immediately noticed its resemblance to classic images of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi regime’s chief propagandist and one of the most influential architects of its ideological machinery.
Goebbels was not a battlefield figure or a caricatured villain — he was a strategist of language, narrative, and belief, someone who understood that cruelty becomes durable when it is rationalized, repeated, and normalized.
Anderson didn’t manufacture that comparison — he made space for it. By shooting on film, working inches from his subject, and removing the comfort of instant image review, he stripped away Miller’s usual tools of control.
Miller’s visible fixation on posture, framing, and appearance becomes part of the portrait itself. The image captures something deeper than expression: ideology settling into bearing.
Like the historical photographs of Goebbels, it shows a man who understands power not as spectacle, but as narrative discipline — the authority to define who belongs, who threatens, and what is justified in the name of order.
This is not an argument that Miller is Goebbels; it is a recognition of a shared visual language of authoritarian administration.
Another subtle choice deepens the resonance of the series: in a separate portrait from the same Vanity Fair shoot, Anderson placed Miller beneath a painting in the Roosevelt Room depicting Native Americans on horseback crossing a river toward their village.
The image quietly links Miller’s role in modern immigration enforcement to much older histories of displacement and removal — a reminder that contemporary policy debates rest on unresolved legacies the country continues to reenact rather than confront.
This isn’t provocation for its own sake. It’s historical literacy. Anderson’s photograph reminds us that the most dangerous figures in modern history rarely look monstrous. They look convinced. Calm. Certain.
These are the images future generations return to when asking how exclusion became policy, how harm was laundered through language, and how democratic erosion came to feel procedural. The portrait doesn’t shout its warning.
It places Stephen Miller inside a visual lineage we ignore at our peril — and lets the meaning settle on its own.
Hmm, another: “INFLUENCE Campaign.
This is just one of the many influence campaigns targeting Americans that was paid for by Israel.
Havas Media Germany has hired Piro Inc. to further the digital efforts of the Israel Government Advertising Agency to sway US public opinion.
Founded by Daniel Rosenberg and Tim Piper, New York-based Piro has produced branded entertainment for film, TV and digital media.
Rosenberg has collaborated with actors such as Denzel Washington, Julia Roberts, Robert DeNiro, Steve Martin, Al Pacino, Kevin Bacon and Jodie Foster.
Piper was called “one of the most influential people on the planet” by Time for for his branded content work. He is executive producer on “Odd Mom Out” for Bravo and “Farmed and Dangerous” on Hulu.
According to its June 2 Justice Dept. filing, Piro is engaged to provide digital content strategy, creative development, video production oversight, and campaign advisory services in connection with a pilot digital communications program.
Services include audience research, content architecture, scriptwriting, asset production, distribution planning, iterative performance analysis, and final program evaluation. Al content is developed for distribution via digital and social edia platforms in the US.
9 Principles of Propaganda- commonly observed in political and social manipulation, often attributed to or inspired by historical figures like Joseph Goebbels..
1. LIE BIG: This principle suggests that enormous falsehoods are more effective than minor ones because people struggle to believe anyone would fabricate a lie of that magnitude. This concept is famously associated with Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
2. FOCUS: The message should be kept uncomplicated, ignoring complex historical context to be easily digestible for a mass audience. Propaganda is often popular rather than intellectually rigorous.
3. REPEAT: Constant repetition of a simple message makes it seem true over time, as people often cannot distinguish between actual facts and mere familiarity with a statement.
4. BLAME: Propagandists should never give the opposing side credit; instead, they should consistently blame, debase, defame, and dehumanize the opposition. This is a form of “name-calling” propaganda technique.
5. PROVOKE: Outrage, fear, and resentment are more powerful motivators than rational thought, logic, or facts. Appeals to emotion are a primary tool of propaganda.
6. CRISIS: Issues are framed as a matter of survival (life or death, good vs evil, us vs them) to create a sense of urgency that bypasses rational objection.
7. EMOTION: While facts can be questioned, personal feelings are harder to challenge. The strategy is to appeal directly to an audience’s emotional response.
8. PANDER: Allies are praised generously, while those who disagree are demonized or presented as non-experts with bad intentions.
9. NO LIMIT: This principle asserts that the victor’s morality is not questioned, implying that the ends justify the means and moral constraints are for those who lose.
The image is a contemporary summary of techniques used to manipulate public opinion, drawing on various historical examples and psychological principles.
Bernays’ approach to modern psychological manipulation and propaganda is effectively characterized by these nine core principles and techniques:
The “Invisible Government”: The concept that unseen elites rule society by consciously manipulating the habits and opinions of the masses.
Crowd Psychology: Bernays utilized the work of his uncle, Sigmund Freud, and Gustave Le Bon to appeal to unconscious desires, herd instincts, and group dynamics rather than rationality.
The Engineering of Consent: The deliberate and systematic effort to create events and actions that will naturally sway public opinion in favor of a specific goal or enterprise.
Creating the News (Staged Events): Propagandists do not just report news; they create circumstances and highly visible events (like parades or stunts) that inherently command media attention.
Using Third-Party Authorities: Instead of directly selling a message, a propagandist legitimizes it by having doctors, scientists, or opinion leaders endorse the idea.
Appealing to Emotion & Subconscious Fears: Rather than presenting logical arguments, he bypassed intellect by targeting people’s hidden anxieties, insecurities (e.g., fear of weight gain), and aspirations.
Symbolic Action: Associating a product or political candidate with abstract, powerful values like freedom, progress, or societal liberation.
Shaping Taboos and Norms: Breaking or altering social stigmas by changing what is culturally acceptable, such as his famous “Torches of Freedom” campaign normalizing women smoking in public.
Centralizing Messages in Chaos: Using organized and continuous campaigns to distill complex societal debates into simplified, digestible choices that benefit the client.
bot-based program
social media channels
flood the zone
social media influencers
Edward Bernays would be shitting his fucking Jewish Depends if alive:
Israel also used Havas to hire SKDKnickerbocker, a firm close to the Democratic Party, to, “develop a ‘bot-based program on various social media channels that that `floods the zone` with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ pro-Israel message.”
Along with this, it noted that Israel hired “Bridges Partners, a Washington-based consulting firm owned by Yair Levi and Uri Steinberg” to “fund social-media influencers promoting Israel”.
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Did you know?
The Art of Propaganda: FDR’s Secret Contempt for the Avant-Garde
The story of how a modernist sculpture became part of Roosevelt’s vast art catalog illustrates his true feelings about modern art
Michael Pearce / MutualArt
Jul 15, 2022
Inspired into action by the necessities of countering the threat of war and economic weakness, and recognizing the power of foreign and domestic propaganda and espionage, Roosevelt deliberately steered his administration into the subtleties of using the new, individualist American avant-garde to compete with Stalin, Goebbels, and Hitler. He had learned how effective propaganda could be from the Creel Committee, from the Russians, from the Nazis, and through his own formidable propagandists Charles Michelson and Louis Howe, who were doubtlessly careful readers of the writings of American masters like Edward Bernays and George Creel, whose innovative books on their techniques had been published in the late twenties and early thirties.
Thomas Whitcombe, Capture of the Argus
In public he would make use of individualist avant-garde art as propaganda, but at home his taste in art was very specific and conservative. He gathered a large collection of prints and a smaller number of paintings almost entirely devoted to naval battles, ships at sea, and portraits of important ships’ captains and officers who had played an important role in naval history, reflecting his deep love of the ocean and doubtlessly inspired by his service as Secretary of the Navy. In the Oval Office he surrounded himself with his favorite prints and paintings of ships at sea, landscapes from the Hudson River valley, and a portrait of Eleanor. But in the catalog of Roosevelt’s collection there is a solitary, jarring exception to the traditional art he enjoyed – a heavy, blocky, abstracted sculpture which stands out for its complete inconsistency with the rest of the works the president collected. The story of how it came to him reveals the private contempt Roosevelt felt for the modern art he endorsed in public.
In 1915, Roosevelt visited the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, where he saw a beautiful neo-classical sculpture of a nude woman in an attitude of prayer made by artist Ralph Stackpole, titled Worship. It was a delicate study of grace and humility, perfectly proportioned and crafted with the light touch of a skilled master. FDR was deeply moved by the piece, which he described as “a delightful composition.” It was “a conception of youthful feminine beauty and spirituality which had always lingered in his mind.” In 1938, still haunted by his memory of the sculpture, the President contacted Stackpole through friends to ask if he might buy a copy of it for his Hyde Park home. Stackpole was delighted, but the original had been crafted from plaster and deteriorated and crumbled as the result of years of standing exposed in the Pacific winds and fogs, so he offered to create a copy of the work in travertine. The president agreed and Stackpole promised to get to work.
Ralph Stackpole, Pacifica
Stackpole created much of the iconic Art Deco sculpture that gave San Francisco its unique character, including an enormous eighty-foot statue, Pacifica, that would dominate the entrance to the 1939 World’s Fair on Treasure Island in the bay, and the magnificent stone sculptures that still decorate the front of the old San Francisco stock exchange. Stackpole was a Communist Party member and a friend to famed Diego Rivera – the Mexican muralist who gained infamy and opprobrium by painting Lenin into a huge mural at Rockefeller Center, the heart of the New York establishment. Stackpole was deeply embroiled in the Coit Tower debacle of 1934, when communist frescoes were painted into the new landmark overlooking the San Francisco Bay, and the city teetered on the brink of a red revolution, led by striking dockers on the waterfront. The murals in the tower included a Soviet hammer and sickle and the Marxist slogan “united workers of the world,” pictures of marching workers, a painted library of left-wing authors, and a news stand that advertised controversial communist publications in its racks. Stackpole painted a pragmatic social realist fresco titled Industries of California. By 1938, Stackpole’s style had changed dramatically from the lyrical work Roosevelt admired – he had become an experimental modernist.
Despite pestering from FDR’s friends who had brokered the deal, five more years would pass until in 1943 Stackpole finally announced that he had completed the new version of the sculpture. Kneeling Woman was crated up and shipped across the country and the President was “all eagerness and curiosity” in anticipation to see it when it finally arrived at Hyde Park. The wooden panels of the crate were broken open, but instead of the graceful, humble figure FDR had expected, the sculptor had made the piece in his new radical style – where there had once been elegance and lightness, there was now heaviness and bulk. Roosevelt’s personal secretary William Hassett described the sculpture as “a huge hulk of a female” with “hands hanging down like great hams, to which were attached square fingers – modernist in every aspect.” The perfect proportions and gentle grace of the original had been replaced by a chunky mass owing far more to Rivera than to Phidias. The president hated the new sculpture so much that he immediately had it hidden behind some trees in the grounds of his Presidential library in Hyde Park, where he would never see it – he was confined to a wheelchair – and it remained there, neglected, until 2015, when it was brought indoors and restored by library staff. Now prominently displayed in the library, its position misleadingly gives the impression that Roosevelt had admired it. By chance, a small bronze model of Stackpole’s graceful original sculpture was found and gifted to the President, perhaps giving him some consolation.
Roosevelt’s public embrace of the individualist avant-garde was entirely a matter of political expediency. In his endorsement of this new species of avant-gardism, he deliberately took a stance, setting up America as the exemplar of creative freedom by taking up its banner in opposition to the oppression of our enemies. This was a deliberate and impersonal choice made as a strike in the battle for the “third front” of public opinion, using art as a weapon to persuade the world that individual liberty was at the heart of the United States.
Research in framing was spearheaded by classic experiments by Nobel Prize Winner Daniel Kahneman and his collaborator Amos Tversky in the 1980s. Their research upended the assumption that humans behave rationally – an assumption that a number of economic models previously rested on. They instead showed that we are often consistently irrational, relying on a number of mental shortcuts to speed up our reasoning, which can make us remarkably sensitive to how things are framed.
But, just how strong is the impact of framing? A recent study showed that, in some contexts, it might have an even stronger effect on our reasoning than our own political views.
In the study, participants were presented with brief passages about crime in a hypothetical city named Addison. For half of the participants, a few words were altered so that the passage said that crime was a “beast preying” on the city of Addison. For the other half, crime was described as a “virus infecting” the city.
Simply changing the metaphor in this passage by altering a few words influenced people’s beliefs about crime more than pre-existing differences in opinion between Republicans and Democrats. Those exposed to the “beast” metaphor were more likely to believe that crime should be dealt with by using punitive measures, whereas those exposed to the “virus” metaphor were more likely to support reformative measures.
One of the most remarkable things about the metaphor’s influence in this study was that it was covert. When participants were asked about what influenced their decision, no one mentioned the metaphor. They instead pointed to other aspects of the passage that were the same for all participants, such as statistics.
Knowing that something as simple as a metaphor can covertly influence our reasoning can allow us to slow down and try to be conscious of the forces that are influencing us. Moreover, we can use this knowledge of the power of framing to make more effective political arguments.
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Public discourse about crime is saturated with metaphor. Increases in the prevalence of crime are described as crime waves, surges or sprees. A spreading crime problem is a crime epidemic, plaguing a city or infecting a community. Crimes themselves are attacks in which criminals prey on unsuspecting victims. And criminal investigations are hunts where criminals are tracked and caught. Such metaphorical language pervades not only discourse about crime, but nearly all talk about the abstract and complex. Are such metaphors just fancy ways of talking, or do they have real consequences for how people reason about complex social problems like crime?
Graham became one of the few lawmakers with regular access to President Trump on questions of national security, emerging as one of the Republican Party’s most influential voices on Iran, Ukraine, Israel and NATO.
Comedian Margaret Cho is facing backlash after a video circulating on social media Sunday showed her mocking the death of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and appearing to suggest that President Donald Trump could be next.
“Bye Lindsey… Bye Lindsey Graham. From the closet to the coffin, real seamless. Real seamless,” Cho said in a video posted on Facebook.
Cho continued, appearing to suggest that Trump might be the next to die, and including the hashtags, “#resist” and “#fdt” in her post, among others.
Cho went on to reference Senator Mitch McConnell, who was recently hospitalized, and an unnamed third figure, saying:
“Also yeah, Mitch McConnell. So, it’s Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham… it does happen in threes. Hope!”
And here we are AMERIKKKa, the dumb as shit eating dying dog GOYIM:
Margaret Cho sparks backlash after mocking Lindsey Graham’s death (Getty)
Cho’s comments were widely condemned by X users. One wrote:
“It must be awful to be so filled with hate. The difference between liberals and conservatives or at least crazy liberals, especially the ones in Hollywood, is that conservatives would never celebrate someone’s death even if he were of the opposite political party. We’re just not like that. Thank God!”
“It’s sad to see such hate. I once was a fan of Margaret Cho well we can cancel that right now—I am an Independent and to mock the death of someone (I doubt she knew him) forget his family and friends it’s truly disgusting and shameful. Grow up Margaret show some class.”
Other users called for Cho’s work to be boycotted, with one writing:
“I hope this a career destroying move for Margaret Cho. All her tv shows and movies should be boycotted. We are sick and tired of woke Hollywood and it’s perverted agenda.“
“I saw a lot of posts online this week celebrating his death and rejoicing,” The View co-host Ana Navarro said during Monday’s episode. “I know Trump does that,” she said, referring to Trump’s polarizing comments after the deaths of director Rob Reiner,John McCain and former FBI director Robert Mueller.
“But it’s inhumane and it’s really lacking empathy,” Navarro continued. “The dead person is dead and can’t hear you and can’t read your posts, but his family — his sister, who he adopted when she was 13 when both of their parents died — is alive and is hearing it.”
Fucking multimillionaire faux news person:
the person is dead
the dead can’t hear you
the dead can read your posts
his sister is alive and hearing it
Ana Navarro is a prominent Republican political strategist and commentator who has been an official co-host on ABC’s The View since season 26. She originally joined the daytime talk show as a contributor in 2013 and later transitioned to a weekly guest co-host before becoming a permanent fixture. [1, 2]
Navarro is well-known for her sharp political commentary, her staunch criticism of Donald Trump, and her dedication to representing a moderate, anti-Trump conservative voice on the panel. Because she splits her time between Miami and New York, her appearances on the show have historically varied, though she remains a key, regular co-host on the show.
Born in 1971 to a wealthy land-owning agricultural family in Nicaragua, Navarro is the daughter of Violeta Flores López and José Augusto Navarro Flores, a former minister of agriculture under the administration of Enrique Bolaños Geyer. She and her family moved to the United States in 1980 because of political turmoil,[1] though her father, who had also been persecuted as an opponent of the Somoza regime, stayed behind to continue to fight with the Contras against the Sandinista government.[12] She later said that then U.S. president Ronald Reagan’s support of the Contras made her a lifelong Republican.
‘The View’ Quickly Cuts To Commercial As Javier Bardem Speaks Out Against Attacks On Gaza: “I Believe It’s A Genocide”
“I see your [pins] and, of course, they have to return those hostages obviously,” he said. “But the situation in Gaza has come to a term now where I cannot express the pain that I, along with many millions of people there, suffer on a daily basis watching those horrible images of children being murdered and starving to death.”
Bardem later claimed that Holocaust survivors, as well as several experts in international law and human rights, are calling the campaign a “genocide.”
“And if you ask me, I believe it’s a genocide, why is that?” he stated. “First of all, because the impunity that is taking Israel in doing these actions, and the lack of action on any government of course the back up of the United States with all those weapons and the economics, and also the silence of Europe, is creating a scenario where there is such impunity that if we really don’t do something about that we are going towards, well, what is happening now.”
The actor received a smattering of applause before the commercial break, but that marked the end of his interview as the show later returned with a shopping segment.
And there are hundreds of these summits and conferences and lobbying meetings and believe you me, many are in secret, unlike this one: Border Technology Summit
And there is nothing the leftists, communists, and protestors can do because America is full-spectrum militarized “space.” All great people no?
This September’s Border Technology Summit in San Diego, California is set to bring together 400+ senior leaders from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, state and local law enforcement, and industry innovators, all committed to driving the next generation of border security.
The 2026 conference agenda is built around five interconnected themes that illustrate how federal agencies are evolving border operations to address rising trade and travel volumes, increasingly sophisticated criminal networks, and the need for greater operational integration. Each theme is reflected through multiple sessions that move beyond individual technologies and focus on mission outcomes. The following report highlights these themes and how they will be explored at the 2026 Border Technology Summit.
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You want headlines taking us to HELL?
Trump rule says habitat destruction does not harm endangered species
Norway’s World Cup kit reflects the nation’s Christian heritage with meaningful historic details
I’d rather my house burn down than get cancer’: Two California communities fight to save their forests
Judge vacates convictions of 4 Proud Boys in Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection
Norway’s other World Cup campaign: Getting Israel kicked out of soccer
Portland backs PGE plan to cut hundreds of mature Forest Park trees in what critics call a backroom deal
Outbreak of diarrhea caused by cyclosporiasis spreading in US with cases reported in CA, CDC says
European Lawmakers Demand Investigation Into FIFA President Over U.S. Red Card Reversal
Princess Leonor of Spain Completes Her Military Training
He left Mongolia to pursue higher education. He returned as a US soldier.
How Trump And Israel Are Crafting A New World Order
Making Military Bases and Their Communities More Resilient
The fact that they are hard-core Jews and hard-core Zionists and hard-core bastards, nah, not relevant, so says the No Kings Day geriatrics!
Twelve Democratic attorneys general filed suit Monday to stop Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, which is the parent company of CNN and other major media entities. California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the merger would lead to higher prices for customers, lower quality, and less content for audiences everywhere, from movie theaters to living rooms.
It’s worth mentioning that if this deal goes through, pro-Trump billionaire Larry Ellison and his son David would singlehandedly own CNN, CBS News, Warner Bros., and HBO Max. That’s a homemade right-wing media empire.
It’s never relevant. Yes, Kristen Welker’s father, Harvey Welker, is Jewish, and her mother, Julie Welker, is Black. Jake Tapper is Jewish and has been open about his upbringing and faith. Raised in the Philadelphia area, he attended the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy (formerly Akiba Hebrew Academy). He has frequently woven his Jewish heritage into his personal and professional life.
Trump called into NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday to talk about the late Senator Lindsey Graham. But when host Kristen Welker asked him about the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Trump snapped at her.
“I don’t want to talk about it because I want to honor the life of Lindsey Graham,” Trump said. “I told you that before the call!”
Welker just said “yeah” and moved on. Journalist Tommy Christopher, writing on the Jim Acosta Show’s official Substack, said that sounded a lot like conditions had been set ahead of time for the interview, and that Welker obediently got back in line once Trump pushed back on her trying to step outside of the agreed-upon terms.
CNN host Jake Tapper caught similar heat for his own sit-down with Trump the same day, criticized for letting the president steer the conversation without much pushback at all. Like Welker, Tapper tried to get Trump to clarify the situation in the Strait of Hormuz. But Trump curtly responded, “don’t talk about it,” and told Tapper to “talk about the reason you asked me to speak.” Tapper meekly said “OK” and got right back in line.
Bari Weiss
Background: She was born and raised in a prominent Jewish family in Pittsburgh, attended a Jewish day school, and spent formative time in Israel.
Identity: She identifies publicly as a gay Jewish woman and an outspoken Zionist.
Public Work: Her Jewish identity is core to her public career. She is the author of the book How to Fight Anti-Semitism and started her career writing for Jewish media outlets.
Larry Ellison
Background: The billionaire co-founder of Oracle was born to a Jewish mother and raised in a Reform Jewish home by adoptive Jewish relatives.
Identity: He has stated on the record that he does not actively subscribe to or practice religious Judaism, but he maintains a deep personal and political connection to Israel. [1]
Philanthropy: He is a major donor to pro-Israel and Jewish causes, historically giving tens of millions of dollars to organizations like the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF).
David Ellison
Background: As the son of Larry Ellison, he was raised in the family’s Jewish heritage.
Connection: While he is less publicly vocal about his personal religious practices, his media ventures frequently align with his family’s pro-Israel stances. Under his leadership, his production company Skydance Media donated $1 million to Israeli humanitarian relief, and his acquisition of The Free Press further cemented his ties to prominent Jewish media figures.
All fucking Jews who believe in Zionism and the Occupied Jewish State in the Country of Palestine, they need to be shot down like rabid DOGS.
Prosecutors in Minneapolis announced Monday that the Trump administration finally turned over evidence they’d been sitting on for months in the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the two U.S. citizens federal agents killed this January. That includes body camera footage, statements, and Good’s damaged SUV.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty celebrated the development, but Attorney General Keith Ellison said it should never have taken this long. The new evidence was reportedly overturned after federal officials asked the state for evidence in a separate case involving an ICE agent charged with assault. The state basically said fine, but only if it goes both ways.
Now, prosecutors in Houston say they’re getting the same runaround in trying to investigate last week’s fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the father of three with no criminal record who was killed while he was on his way to work. They don’t even know the names of the officers who pulled the trigger.
At least nine people have died at the hands of ICE since their newest enforcement campaign began. And nobody’s been charged in any of those killings.
Nah, it doesn’t matter that Stephen Glosser-Miller or Michael Weiner Savage are Jews!
Yes, conservative talk radio host Michael Savage is Jewish. He was born Michael Alan Weiner in the Bronx, New York, to Jewish immigrant parents.
Family and Personal Background
Parents: His father, Benjamin Weiner, was a Jewish immigrant from Russia, and his mother, Rae, was from Montreal, Canada.
Trump on Sunday shared a video calling for “hardcore communist bastards” to be deported, notably naming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani(D).
Conservative pundit Michael Savage’s 49-minute-long video, which he posted on July 4, claims that democratic socialist candidates running as Democrats have been turning the U.S. into a socialist country through, for example, the launch of “free” programs. Savage claimed the country was turning into Cambodia under the dictator Pol Pot.
“That is exactly what Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists will do to you,” Savage said. “Forget the smirks, forget the smiles, forget the bulls— that it’s like Denmark and Norway. These are hardcore communist bastards who must be stopped, criminalized and deported. I’m clear as a bell on this. We will fall if they are not deported.”
Trump’s sharing of the message is notable given his relationship with Mamdani. While Trump has been hammering Democrats for moving toward “communism” with the advancement of several democratic socialist candidates, he has at times complimented Mamdani. Trump famously had a friendly meeting with Mamdani at the White House after the democratic socialist won his city’s mayoral race last year.
Savage said Mamdani, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) “and the other scum who should be criminalized and deported –– I’ll send them to Uganda … before they spread the cancer.” The pundit railed against democratic socialist candidates who recently won Democratic primary elections across the country.
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God, I hate JEWS. From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free of JEWS.
Congress, the fucking AIPAC sodomized cunts:
Trump has formally notified Congress that the United States has entered a “new” war with Iran, triggering a new 60-day War Powers clock that allows military operations to continue without congressional authorization. In a July 10 letter, Trump said the renewed conflict began with U.S. strikes on July 7 and that American forces remain prepared to take additional military action as needed. The announcement follows Trump’s declaration that the ceasefire with Iran is over, as fighting intensifies around the Strait of Hormuz, where U.S. forces have struck more than 300 Iranian military targets in the past week. The move is expected to reignite congressional battles over presidential war powers after bipartisan majorities in both the House and Senate previously voted to oppose continued military action without explicit approval from Congress.
Fucking Banana Republic: Darline Graham Nordone will finish out the term of her older brother, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, who adopted and raised her following their parents’ deaths.
Gov. Henry McMaster’s appointment Monday comes a day after word of Graham’s sudden death, at the age of 71, stunned not only South Carolinians but people around the globe.
“It’s my honor to ask his little sister to finish his work,” the governor said in making his announcement at the Statehouse. He took no questions from reporters.
Graham Nordone, who heads the state Commission for the Blind and has spent her career helping people with disabilities find jobs, will fulfill the term that expires in January. Voters will decide through a special GOP primary next month who will be on the November ballot for the next six-year term.
Darline Graham Nordone, center, accepted the appointment by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, right, at the Statehouse Monday, July 13, 2026, to serve out the remainder of the term for her late brother Sen. Lindsey Graham. (Photo by Jessica Holdman/SC Daily Gazette)
“Lindsey has always been there for me, and now, I’ll be there for him,” she said.
The brief news conference ended with her speaking to her brother: “I miss you more than I can even put into words. But I’m going to do this. I got it.”
The “Conservative” Comment (2020): During a South Carolina Senate debate, Graham stated that young African Americans and immigrants can “go anywhere” in the state, but “just need to be conservative, not liberal.” Critics argued this conditioned inclusion on adopting a specific political ideology.
The “Iranian” Comment (2018): On Fox and Friends, while discussing the possibility of taking a DNA test, Graham mused, “I’ll probably be Iranian. That’d be, like, terrible.” The remark was widely condemned as bigoted by Iranian-American advocacy groups. [
Denying Systemic Racism (2021): During a Fox News Sunday interview, Graham strongly denied the existence of systemic racism in the United States, pointing to the election of President Barack Obama and Vice President Kamala Harris as proof that the systems are not racist.
Comments on Palestinians (2024): Graham faced intense criticism from civil rights organizations after a social media post where he characterized Palestinians in Gaza as “the most radicalized population on the planet who are taught to hate Jews from birth.”
“It is absolutely disgusting for Senator Graham to state on Fox and Friends that it would be ‘terrible’ to discover that he had Iranian ancestry from a DNA test. This is not the first time that Graham has made bigoted remarks about Iranians. In 2015, he said, ‘I know Iranians are liars’ based on his experience in his dad’s pool hall.
Those columns were never kind, and they were never dull, because Graham was reliably good for a click. Lots of them. Every time his name went in a headline, readers showed up in droves, and the comment sections read like a dime novel.
I’ve thought a lot over the years about why that was, and I think there were three reasons.
The first is the oldest rumor in Washington: that Lindsey Graham was gay. I want to be careful here, because I have no idea whether that was true. He was, in the old-fashioned phrase, a “confirmed bachelor,” who never married, never seriously linked to a woman in public life, and that vacuum was enough for people to fill in the blank themselves.
I’m not going to pretend I know what was true in Graham’s private life. But I will offer my personal opinion. My grandfather used to say, “Where there’s fire, there’s smoke,” reversing an old axiom when he knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that a rumor about someone was true.
That’s what I’ll say about Graham. He always denied it, but I always snickered when he did.
In June 2020, “Lady G“ trended on social media after adult film performer Sean Harding alleged that Graham hired male sex workers. And in September of 2024, far-right provocateur and lunatic Laura Loomer publicly urged Graham to come out of the closet, after he publicly criticized Donald Trump’s campaign style.
The second reason is simpler and requires no speculation at all. Graham earned a lot of anger from LGBTQ+ people through his own virulent votes and his virulent words. He was a reliable “no” on protections and bills for our community for the better part of three decades.
And for a lot of people, the depth of the rage aimed at Graham stemmed from the theory that a man voting against us so consistently must be working something out about himself in public, at our expense. I can’t tell you if that hypothetical was right. I can tell you it’s the reason his name showed up in this publication as often as it did.
The third reason is the one that actually defines his legacy, and it has nothing to do with any of that. It’s Donald Trump.
Graham spent 2016 warning anyone who’d listen that Trump was a con man who’d wreck the Republican Party. Then, somewhere along the way, he became Trump’s golfing buddy, his most reliable defender on cable news, and the “Trump whisperer“ of the Senate.
That was supposed to be a compliment, I think?
Then came January 6, 2021. And for one night, Graham found something that looked like he grew a pair. “All I can say is count me out,” he said from the Senate floor as the Capitol was still being cleaned up. “Enough is enough.”
A lot of us watched that and thought maybe, finally, this was the moment he’d stop bending to Trump. Two days later, a mob of Trump supporters cornered him at Reagan National Airport, screaming “traitor“ in his face as security walked him out.
That afternoon scared the bejesus out of Lindsey. He melted like butter, and realized breaking with Trump, even briefly, even for the right reasons, cost him more than staying loyal ever would.
So, true to form, Lindsey got back on his knees. As soon as Trump started clawing his way back into power, Graham was one of the first Republicans back in line, right alongside the then-spineless House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
And in these last two years, he went further than ever, becoming Trump’s loudest cheerleader, particularly on the Iran war, at one point telling South Carolinians to prepare to send their “sons and daughters“ into a Middle East conflict he never once wavered on, even as members of his own party recoiled and even as the war grew costlier and messier by the month.
He didn’t hedge. He didn’t quietly back away the way politicians usually do when a war turns unpopular. He dug in, the same way he dug back in with Trump, and with his sexuality. That kind of warped and delusional thinking makes a person a very lonely figure.
And it was so bad, the boot-licking, that he said Trump should be pope.
I think that’s the real story of Lindsey Graham, and that is a man who seemed to need, above almost anything else, to keep his seat and keep his proximity to power, and who was willing to abandon whatever principle stood in the way of either one.
And perhaps abandoned whatever personal reasons stood in the way as well.
I’ve written hard-hitting columns after the deaths of people who did real harm to the LGBTQ community after they died: Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson, Anita Bryant, James Dobson, and I didn’t go easy on them just because they’d died.
Graham deserves the same treatment, since his record toward us was just as damaging.
But instead of confronting his sexuality — if there was a question to confront — he took it out on the rest of us, and for that there is zero sympathy, and why, just because he died, we don’t need to say good things about him.
He was, by every account, personally alone, while his politics ended up being just as isolated. He Velcroed himself to Donald Trump, peeling away when it was politically necessary, only to stick right back to him, even at the cost of making himself look small and sycophantic.
Lindsey Graham died a lonely man. Whatever else gets written about him this week, I don’t think that part is up for debate.
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Butt fucked cunts, man: Several Democrats paid tribute to Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina following his death Saturday evening due to an aortic dissection, according to preliminary findings by the Medical Examiner of the District of Columbia. Many said despite their disagreements, Graham was willing to find ways to bridge differences to bring together members of the Senate.
Butt fucking AmeriKKKans:
“In an increasingly isolationist America, Sen. Graham was one of the last titans of the Senate who favored a muscular and engaged U.S. foreign policy,” said Paul Foldi, a former diplomat and top Republican staffer on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “He is irreplaceable.”
This is what syphilitic capitalism looks like:
“His moral flexibility over the last few years has been disappointing to many who saw him as a principled patriot,” Dan Baer, a former State Department official under President Barack Obama who is now at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace.
Matthew Kroenig, a vice president at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., said Graham once told him there was no point in trying to defy Trump.
“As a good politician, he recognized Trump commanded the Republican Party and the Republican base, and if you tried to work against him you’d get nothing done,” Kroenig said.
But fucking ZioAzovNaziLensky:
On Friday, shortly after returning from a trip to Kyiv, Graham announced an agreement with the Trump administration to move forward on a package of sanctions against Russia.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Graham, whom he met twice in the past week, had visited Ukraine 10 times since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, and “was here with our people when it was most needed.” He said that “Lindsey was a true defender of freedom and the values that make our world safer.”
Graham also drew tributes for his longtime commitment to NATO and trans-Atlantic friendship at a time when those ties have been under severe strain.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Graham was “a powerful advocate for America who believed strongly in the NATO Alliance and was actively working to bring an end to Russia’s war against Ukraine.” Rutte’s predecessor, Jens Stoltenberg, lauded the South Carolina senator’s “tireless commitment” to NATO and the trans-Atlantic bond, and his “staunch support” for Ukraine.
Graham commanded respect on NATO’s eastern edge, where Russia’s intentions are viewed with deep concern.
Estonia’s Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said that “Estonia will remember him as a steadfast friend, a strong supporter of NATO’s eastern flank, and an unwavering advocate for Ukraine.” Latvian counterpart Baiba Braže said that he was “among the strongest supporters of NATO and trans-Atlantic relations (and) assistance to Ukraine in countering Russian aggression.”
FUCKING truth about the butt fucker:
Iranian state television announced Graham’s death during a live broadcast in openly hostile terms.
“I congratulate the great nation of Iran on Lindsey Graham, the warmongering and anti-Iranian U.S. senator, having gone to hell,” the anchor said.
“Israel has lost one of its greatest friends. America has lost a great patriot. I have lost a beloved friend,” Netanyahu said.
Butt fucker with ZERO lube:
Butt plugs for the uniformed Mercenaries:
America’s Dilemma at 250
A Budget of the Pentagon, By the Congress and For the War Profiteers Bill Astore Jul 13, 2026
Note to Readers: The short essay below represents a joint effort of the Eisenhower Media Network, or EMN, an organization of former military and government officials who seek a wiser course for America and a more peaceful world. I’ve been a member since EMN’s founding.
In Common Sense, Thomas Paine challenged Americans to question an institution that had long seemed beyond challenge. He wrote, “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.” Two hundred and fifty years later, those words apply just as well to America’s defense budget. What has become accepted through habit is neither sustainable nor accountable. Only the American people can change it.
The “defense of custom” now comes from the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex that President Dwight Eisenhower warned against in his farewell address. Years earlier, in his famous “Cross of Iron” speech, Eisenhower observed: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed… Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”
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Note: These fucking “retired” and “turning over a new leaf” fucking ex-CIA or ex-Uniformed Mercenaries are a fucking bunch of liars and sad sacks.
You see, Astore can come off as someone working in Air Force Education, but he’s just the fucking paint on a Tomahawk. Same fucking nut and bolt of death, these fucking ex-Colonels and ex-Captains and ex-CIA operatives. Fucking Air Force paint for Tomahawks.
Chemical formulators like Spectrum Coatings have historically partnered with defense programs to develop specialty and primer coating systems for the BGM-109 Tomahawk Cruise Missile.
Over the past decade, Spectrum Coatings has developed a full line of environmentally friendly coating systems.
William J. Astore is a retired United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel who served for 24 years. Beginning his military career as an ROTC cadet, he spent his tenure from the late 1980s to the 2000s primarily teaching military history at the U.S. Air Force Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School.
Following his retirement, Astore transitioned into academia and public commentary, frequently writing for outlets like TomDispatch and operating his own newsletter, Bracing Views. He is a prominent critic of American militarism and serves as a senior fellow at the Eisenhower Media Network, an organization of veteran military and national security professionals advocating for foreign policy restraint.
[A 24-year Air Force Lieutenant Colonel (O-5) retiring today under the High-36 system receives an estimated gross pension of $7,442 per month (or $89,300 annually). ]
Yeah, Jews HUNTING jews (lower case “j”?)
Upon Blumenthal’s return from Iran, US agents seized his devices and subjected him to extended questioning. “Our reporting at The Grayzone has clearly become a problem for this criminal cartel,” he commented.
On July 10, 2026, American journalist Max Blumenthal was traveling back to the United States from Iran, which he had visited to report on the funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the largest gathering in human history. While in Iran, Blumenthal interviewed members of Iran’s negotiation team, top political officials, academics and average citizens for a series of video and print reports for this news outlet, which he founded.
He also documented several US and Israeli war crimes from the ground, including the destruction of an entire neighborhood in Eastern Tehran which left at least 40 civilians dead.
Upon reentering the country at Dulles International Airport, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) interrogated Blumenthal about his trip, searched his belongings, and demanded that he provide access to his smartphones. When he refused to open his phones, CBP officers forced him to turn them over for detention. Other journalists and travelers have been threatened with the loss of their passports for a month for failing to hand over their devices.
Blumenthal entered Iran exactly as reporters working for establishment media outlets like CNN and NBC did – on a press visa granted by the Iranian Foreign Ministry. While in Tehran, he participated in official press events alongside those mainstream reporters, who were also in the country to cover the Ayatollah’s funeral. When journalists from CNN, NBC, and other American outlets returned to the US, however, they were not subjected to the same harassment Blumenthal experienced, nor were they required to give the US government their electronic devices.
Yet almost as soon as he arrived in Tehran, with the Khamenei funeral underway, Blumenthal was immediately subjected to defamatory attacks by Trump-aligned individuals and Israeli organizations supportive of war on Iran. Leading the charge was Canary Mission, an anonymous doxxing outfit based in Israel, which portrayed Blumenthal as an “extremist” who had traveled to Tehran to “honor” the Ayatollah – when he had, in fact, reported on the funeral as a journalist.
Founded in 2015 to ruin the lives and career prospects of university students involved in Palestine solidarity activity, Canary Mission has since been used by the Trump administration to select international students for arrest and deportation. An investigation by the independent outlet Drop Site revealed that the outfit was based out of an Israeli non-profit called Megamot Shalom. Among the top supporters to Megamot Shalom is the Wexner Foundation. Established by the billionaire lingerie tycoon Les Wexner, the foundation that featured Jeffrey Epstein as a trustee until the wealthy sex offender died in prison under mysterious circumstances.
Laura Loomer, a close ally of President Donald Trump, followed Canary Mission’s lead by calling for the US military to massacre attendees of Khamenei’s funeral, including Blumenthal and all other journalists covering the event. She then smeared Blumenthal as a “shill for Islam and communism” for reporting from Iran. Loomer escalated by wishing for the journalist to be swatted, jailed and denationalized: “I hope you’re raided in a heavily armed raid by the @FBI at 5 am and that @SecRubio [Secretary of State Marco Rubio] strips you of your passport for aiding the Iranian regime as they chant Death to America,” she tweeted at Blumenthal.
An apparent victim of botched facial surgeries, Loomer is credited with compelling Trump to fire numerous holdovers from previous administrations. These include the National Security Council’s top Iran expert, Nate Swanson, who correctly warned that Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz if the US attacked it.
[Trump’s pardon of Joseph Schwartz follows his pardon of Philip Esformes, the king of Medicare fraud
Esformes was a Chabad cultist who relied on Alan Dershowitz and the lawyer who got a pardon for Jared Kushner’s father
Schwartz seems to have hired Laura Loomer to lobby for him]
Gilad Atzomn:
It is not ‘self-determination’ or ‘apartheid’! It is the most documented genocide in human history.
This screenshot tells you a lot about the Jewish fake Zionist vs. ‘anti’ debate.
The so-called ‘Zionist ‘ is not telling us what Zionism is. He/She are telling us instead what Zionism ‘represents’. It ‘aspires’ at ‘Jewish self determination’. What do we learn from it?
1. In the Jewish universe, there is no distinction between the ‘self’ and the Volk (All of Israel are responsible for one another). The self-determination of the ‘self’ determines the fate of the Volk.
2. If the Jewish State is a fruit of ‘self-determination ’, it confirms that the Jewish nationalist adventure is a new substance rather than a continuation of any historical entity.
Why do I mention it? Because the early Zionists admitted that this was the case, they re-defined the Jewish existence. The shift in Israeli nationalist discourse into Judaic rights on the so-called Jewish ‘ancestral’ land is the product of the growing influence of rabbi Kook’s philosophy and the significance he attributed to the holiness of Eretz Yisrael.
Then we read the so-called ‘anti’ voice. Peter Beinart, whom I like occasionally, seems not to know that in the Jewish universe there is no distinction between the self and the volk. However, Beinart correctly points out that determination of the self shouldn’t be celebrated at the expense of the other. This is of course correct, but it isn’t exactly the Judaic teaching that inspires him to say that. The Old Testament, which is the core inspiration as far as the Jewish State is concerned, is all about Jewish celebration at the expense of others. The Talmud is not different in that regard.
Furthermore, it isn’t the ‘denial’ of citizenship of the indigenous (apartheid) that makes the Jewish state into the most hated state around. It is the brutal genocide, the systematic eradication of Palestine and Palestinians; it is the collective enthusiasm to eliminate every civilisation in that part of the world and beyond.
The Jewish anti Zionist campaign has a mission. It is there to restrict the solidarity terminology so it fits with Jewish sensitivities: Apartheid as opposed to genocide, colonialism as opposed to human sacrifice orgy. BDS as opposed to Palestinian liberation from the Golan Heights all the way to the Red Sea..
I keep telling you all of that because it is very easy to fall into their terminological traps…
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The modern Free Palestine Version:
Journey with Idam and his Dog as you Touch and Feel a Genocide from a Kiddo’s Point of View
Endless quotes of horror: “Level the place” about Gaza …. “Not one Arab state has felt the need to go down the nuclear road because of Israel’s possession of nuclear weapons.”
He appeared to distance himself after Marchese brought up avowed Donald Trump critic Springsteen who has repeatedly used his concerts this year to launch blistering attacks on the president and his administration.
Asked how he views his relationship with audiences compared with artists such as Bob Dylan and Springsteen, Jagger said his priority has always been making sure concertgoers leave feeling uplifted rather than weighed down by politics.
‘The bottom line of my thing really is that my job in the live music world is those people that come is to have the best time they possibly can,’ Jagger said.
‘For two hours or whatever it is, to forget all their problems and the problems of the world and their mortgages and whatever, just to give them the best time they can have.’
The 82-year-old rock icon compared attending a concert to watching a major sporting event, arguing that audiences should be able to switch off from the anxieties of daily life while the show is happening.
‘You don’t want to lecture them,’ he said.
That fucking pedophile cunt Sir Hemorrhoid Jagger:
Underage Relationship Allegations
Rae Dawn Chong: In 2020, actress Rae Dawn Chong disclosed that she had a brief, consensual relationship with Jagger in 1977 when she was 15 years old. While she explicitly stated she did not view herself as a victim and that Jagger “did nothing wrong,” the revelation sparked modern public backlash regarding the grooming dynamics of the era.
Mackenzie Phillips: Actress Mackenzie Phillips stated that Jagger locked her in a room and seduced her when she was 18 years old, though she alleged he told her he had been “waiting for this since you were 10 years old”.
Lori Maddox: Famous 1970s “baby groupie” Lori Maddox claimed that while she was an underage teenager, Jagger took her into a bedroom and engaged in misconduct. Maddox is most prominently known for her relationship with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, which began when she was 14.
Music and Cultural Context
“Stray Cat Blues”: The Rolling Stones’ 1968 song explicitly features a narrator having sexual relations with a 15-year-old girl. In later live performances, Jagger reportedly changed the lyrics to “16” or “17” to reflect changing legal standards and cultural awareness.
1970s Groupie Culture: Rock culture of the 1960s and 1970s frequently tolerated or normalized relationships between adult rock stars and underage minors. While peers like bandmate Bill Wyman openly admitted to a relationship with a 13-year-old, Jagger’s history has faced retrofitted criticism under the modern lens of the #MeToo movement.
Appearance in Jeffrey Epstein’s Files
Contact Lists: When official archives and contact books belonging to Jeffrey Epstein were released by the U.S. Department of Justice, Jagger’s name was included among hundreds of other global celebrities, politicians, and high-profile figures.
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BUT THE ALL ARE FUCKING BILLIONAIRES, and that money isn’t pennies from heaven. Think stock and investment portfolios, ALL connected to dual use, primary use, tech fascism, banking, BlackRock, Vanguard, you fucking NAME it.
Bob Dylan has an estimated net worth of $500 million (double that at least, since he’s go Jew accountants and Israel CPAs working 24/7 for him), making him one of the wealthiest musicians in the world. His fortune is largely built on a massive catalog of over 6,000 covered songs and the blockbuster 2020 sale of his songwriting rights to Universal for an estimated $400 million.
He may have done the Minneapolis thing, but still, a fucking billionaire is always MY fucking enemy.
Too fucking SLICK. Holly-Dirt style:
How can ANYONE go about their fucking day without screaming, pulling their hair out, and bashing in a bank window?
Israel Continues to Shoot Children in the Head During the Gaza Ceasefire
Bahaa Abu Al-Ajeen, 32, set out with his 3-year-old son Rayan to check on their family home east of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza at approximately 5:00 pm on June 14. According to Bahaa, the area appeared safe and deserted. He said there were no visible soldiers, no gunfire, and no drones overhead.
“The area was safe. If I had felt any danger, I would never have gone there,” he said.
After inspecting the house and leaving the area, Bahaa said he was shocked to see Israeli soldiers emerging from a nearby building.
“My son was in my arms and crying intensely from fear,” he recalled. “It was the first time I had ever seen him so frightened.”
According to his account, he decided to move away from the soldiers in an attempt to calm Rayan and walked approximately 500 meters from the area. Bahaa said that after he had distanced himself, the soldiers began shouting at him to stop. He stated that two shots were fired in his direction but did not hit either him or his son, prompting him to stop out of fear for their lives.
“After I stopped, one of the soldiers knelt down and fired directly at my son,” Bahaa said. “The bullet entered the back of Rayan’s head and exited through his left eye. Moments later, another bullet struck my left leg. When I saw them kill my son, I screamed and asked them, ‘He is a child. Why did you kill him?’”
Bahaa said he attempted to call an ambulance using his mobile phone, but the soldiers confiscated it and prevented him from seeking medical assistance. According to Bahaa’s testimony, Rayan bled for approximately seven minutes before dying from his injuries. He said he pleaded with the soldiers to save his son, but they refused.
Hours of Pain
Bahaa stated that after he was wounded and his son was killed, soldiers dragged him while he was still holding Rayan and took him to what he described as a military-controlled area near the Kissufim crossing. Upon arrival, he said, the soldiers took Rayan away from him and left him bleeding on the ground.
By that point, Bahaa said his left leg had been nearly severed. He recalled hearing soldiers discussing whether his leg should be amputated.
“I heard one of them speaking Arabic and saying that my leg was beyond saving and should be amputated,” he said.
The discussion left him terrified. Later, according to Bahaa, soldiers loaded him into an Israeli military vehicle. During the journey, he asked about his son.
“They told me that Rayan was dead,” he said.
Bahaa stated that soldiers then placed Rayan’s body in a black plastic bag and handed it to him.
“At that moment, I wished they had killed me and let my son live,” he said.
Holding his son’s body, Bahaa repeatedly asked the soldiers why they had killed a 3-year-old child. According to his account, he was initially told he would be transferred to an Israeli prison before soldiers later informed him that he would instead be returned to Gaza. Bahaa said he was eventually left in an isolated area at around 11:30 pm, still wounded and carrying his son’s body. After waiting for nearly 90 minutes, Palestinians found the grieving father and transported him to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah.
“When I saw Palestinians coming to rescue me and take my son, I lost consciousness,” he said. “The next thing I remember is waking up in the hospital.”
Killed While Learning
On April 9, 2026, 9-year-old Ritaj Rihan was killed while attending an educational tent in the Al-Salatin area of Beit Lahia, according to her family. Ritaj’s mother said her daughter had been excited to return to learning for the first time since October 7, 2023.
According to her mother, witnesses, teachers, and students present inside the tent, Ritaj was standing at the front of the classroom waiting for her notebook to be reviewed when she was shot. Witnesses said the bullet pierced the tent before striking the child.
“She was standing among her classmates, waiting for her teacher,” her mother said. “Then suddenly she collapsed.”
According to those present, blood began pouring from Ritaj’s mouth as shocked classmates and teachers watched. The bullet entered through her mouth and caused fatal internal injuries, according to her family’s account. Staff members at the educational tent attempted to save her, but due to the severe shortage of transportation in northern Gaza, they were forced to use a donkey cart to carry her to medical care. Despite the staff’s efforts, Ritaj died from her injuries.
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory released a report in June showing that nearly 30 percent of those killed in Gaza between October 7, 2023, and the so-called ceasefire in October 2025 were children. A report published days later by Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem found that Israel is killing Palestinian children in the West Bank at the highest rate since 1967.
“The evidence shows that Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted and killed by the Israeli security forces,” Srinivasan Muralidhar, chair of the UN commission, said. “Even after the October 2025 ceasefire, children continue to be killed and seriously injured, with continued disregard by Israel for the ceasefire and for the protection owed to Palestinian children under international law.”
The stories of Rayan and Ritaj unfolded in different parts of Gaza and under different circumstances. Yet both children were engaged in ordinary activities — one accompanying his father, the other attending class — when their lives came to an end.
Their families continue to remember them as children whose futures were cut short amid a genocide that continues to exact a heavy toll on Gaza’s youngest residents.
Top musicians come from around the world to perform in Israel, mostly to give concerts in Tel Aviv, and every year the number is increasing! Madonna, Justin Beiber, Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga, and Paul McCartney are just some of the big names who have given concerts in Israel in recent years, and there are a number of other top international musicians who have upcoming Israel concerts. Below you’ll find the latest.
Go ahead, never screen your food, drink, music, entertainment, education — let the JEWISH Terror IN:
Amy Schumer, Mila Kunis, Jerry O’Connell, Erin Foster, Matthew Weiner, Anthony Edwards, and Matisyahu join Liev Schreiber, Helen Mirren, Gene Simmons, Scooter Braun, Boy George, Mayim Bialik, Sharon Osbourne, Debra Messing, Emmy Rossum and 1,000+ celebrities and entertainment industry professionals who reject attempts to ban Israel from Eurovision.
LOS ANGELES (April 15, 2026) — More than 1,000 leaders from the entertainment industry have signed an open letter by the non-profit entertainment industry organization Creative Community For Peace in support of the continued inclusion of Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest and in support of the contestants.
The initial letter was issued in response to campaigns calling on the European Broadcasting Union to exclude Israel from the event and urging participating countries and artists to withdraw.
At the time, Scooter Braun said, “Music is a place for unity not division. It is a language that should always bring us together. Artists should never be discriminated against for who they are, who they love, or where they’re born. These boycott efforts do nothing but distract from the uplifting and unifying power of music – something we need now more than ever.”
While Gene Simmons said, “Music unites people from all backgrounds. It’s the one language that everyone can understand. It’s a beautiful thing and a great way to bring people together. Those advocating to exclude an Israeli singer from Eurovision don’t move the needle towards peace, but only further divide the world.”
And Mayim Bialik said, “After a horrendous violent attack on Israeli civilians, calls for boycotts and excluding Israeli artists from international events simply because they are Israeli is abhorrent and shameful. Targeting Israeli musicians in this way tarnishes the unifying spirit that is Eurovision.”
Kanye West’s Unlikely New Concert Partner: Live Nation Israel.
Here, from Rolling Jew, err, Stone:
[Jewish editors and writers have profoundly shaped Rolling Stone since its 1967 launch, serving as the cultural bedrock for the magazine’s editorial voice, political reporting, and music criticism. Many of the most notable figures in the publication’s history have Jewish backgrounds, spanning founders, editors-in-chief, and legendary contributing writers]
That an Israeli company would work with an artist who’s been disparaging of the Jewish people is confounding. After all, London’s massive Wireless Festival, where Ye was scheduled to headline over three nights in July, called off its 2026 edition entirely once the artist’s visa was revoked. “We are clear that the past comments and actions of this artist are offensive and wrong, and not reflective of London’s values,” a spokesperson for London Mayor Sadiq Khan told Rolling Stone last month. One has to wonder if the Israeli staffers at Live Nation Central Asia had any such moral qualms, or if it’s simply a matter of business.
It appears the concert giant made the quiet, if economically sensible, decision to move the small Israel team to nearby territories, dubbed Central Asia. Operating out of Tbilisi made sense as well. A three-hour flight from Tel Aviv, Georgia is a popular tourist destination for Israelis, and has reportedly seen a steady increase in Israeli visitors since the Oct. 7 attack. Its Jewish roots are also deep, dating back hundreds of years.
As a former republic of the Soviet Union, Georgians fought against the German army during World War II — sharing a common enemy in the Nazis — at a high human cost on the battlefield. Jewish citizens, however, faced persecution both before and after the war, as Soviet authorities clamped down on Jewish life in the form of arrests, arson, or other violent antisemitic incidents, which continued into the 1960s. It declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Today, it’s estimated the native Jewish population in Georgia numbers between 500 to 1,000 residents.
A girl rides through the broken windshield at the front of a vehicle transporting people and their belongings while evacuating southbound from Gaza City on September 2, 2025. (Photo by EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images)
At the time of writing this, my inboxes are overwhelmed with messages from friends in Gaza.
“The shelling”, one tells me, “is closer than it’s ever been before”.
Others send updates about what food they have been able to gather while others send desperate updates about their forced displacement to the south of Gaza, as Israel intensifies its ethnic cleansing offensive in Gaza City.
Palestinians in Gaza find themselves in what can be characterized as the final solution stage of what has now been a two-year long genocide. The resistance on the ground continues to push back against the attempted Israeli takeover, but watching from afar—the destruction, the dismantling and the desperation—renders one into disparate parts of oneself. Nothing is recognizable, everything smells rotten; the stench of the decay does not leave your nose no matter which way you turn.
We become witnesses to not just the bloody collapse of a nation but to the collapse of our own worlds we exist in on a day-to-day basis, intimate and shared.
In his fiery book One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This, journalist Omar El Akkad traces the anatomy of that decay in institutions and ideals—of democracy and freedom—he once believed in, but that ended with “the slaughter”: the slaughter of Palestinians that began in October 2023. The title of the book takes from El Akkad’s October 25, 2023 post on X, in which he wrote:
“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.”
The sentiment is familiar: that to be against evil, after it has come to a punctuated end, is an inevitability.
Many believe that this will happen with the genocide of the Palestinians. Those who stood by silently as the bombs, bullets and disease annihilated the population of Gaza will come to condemn it, will come to rewrite their silence; those who cheered it on, justified it, will come to collect their accolades for their eventual moral repositioning.
Believers of this point to recent rhetorical “pivots” by governments and public personalities in the US-backed Israeli starvation of the Palestinians. Over July and August, we were inundated with statements of condemnation, demands of “letting aid in” and incensed podcasts as images of dead, emaciated Palestinians—especially children—have been difficult to justify and ignore.
Since then, a quiet has set in, and in that quiet is the loud, resounding truth that no, not everyone will have or even pretend to have moral clarity on Gaza. This is because Gaza reveals the primary contradiction; it unearths the foundational lie of our current world order and its governing morality.
Most of the world, by every measure, is already against the extermination of the Palestinians. Hundreds of thousands continue to flock to their streets, across the world, demanding an end to the genocide and the occupation.
The overwhelming majority of the world’s governmentssupport an immediate ceasefire. Many major US academic groups have come out to condemn the Israeli campaign. Over 250 media outlets across seventy countries staged a front-page protest of Israel’s targeting and massacring of Palestinian journalists. Major human rights groups have called what is happening to the Palestinians a genocide and the biggest academic association of genocide scholars just passed a resolution coming to the same conclusion.
These examples are, of course, a drop in a bucket showing just how much of a moral consensus there already is on what is happening to the Palestinians. There isn’t a blindness to the horrors that have been live-streamed to us every single day for two years.
And so this idea, that all evil eventually becomes undeniable, that every genocide or slaughter eventually reaches the point where we all nod in agreement that “yes, that was wrong, yes, we were against it” becomes a sort of comfort blanket.
Acknowledging that the opposite is more likely is not only a terrifying indictment of people, institutions and ideals we believe in fundamentally but also is an unwilling confrontation with what our immediate present and our future are being moulded into.
The belief in eventual moral clarity lets us believe that time itself will sort out moral failure, that history has a correcting function.
But Gaza is not Rwanda; it is not Srebrenica.
The very nature of the existence of Palestinians, post-Nakba, makes it a story that cannot be neatly packaged into “good and evil” by the very endowers of power who believe in and perpetuate the right of that evil to exist.
There is too much invested in maintaining that this is not what it is. There’s too much at stake to admit, fully, that this is what it is. And that’s still assuming that those who wield power in this world even care.
In July, U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese releasedFrom Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide, a report tracing the sharp rise in global corporate investment in Israel since October 2023. The findings are blunt: while Israel’s assault has devastated Palestinian lives and land, the Tel Aviv stock exchange soared 213%, adding $225.7 billion in market gains. Albanese identified forty-eight corporate actors – along with their webs of subsidiaries, licensees, and partners across weapons, tech, finance, construction, and energy – profiting directly from the war. Investment is surging not in spite of Israel’s actions, but because of them.
And nowhere is this more visible than in the boom in Israeli drones, cybersecurity, and A.I. American tech companies have poured money in precisely because of how these tools have been field-tested on Palestinians, especially in Gaza.
As journalist Anthony Loewenstein argues in The Palestine Laboratory, this is not new: for decades, Palestinians have been the proving ground where Israel and its partners refine technologiesof surveillance and repression—machinations of social and civilian control that are then exportedregionally and globally to governments that otherwise offer restrained lamentations on the conditions and suffering of the Palestinians.
And then there is the ideological and political investment: how could the United States, the leading perpetrator of the genocide of Palestinians and regional destabilization, ever come to recognize its own crimes when it has yet to do even a modicum of the same for the Indigenous peoples it annihilated to build itself? How could it offer a mea culpa when every institution–from education to media to government to corporate and tech–has a vested financial and ideological interest in the eradication of Palestinians?
History here can serve as instruction: the first genocide of the 20th century, against the Herero and Nama peoples, was carried out by the German Empire; it was there that the concentration camp was perfected. Germany only acknowledged its crimes a century later, in 2004, with a carefully hedged apology and no real accountability. To this day, only thirty countries recognize the Armenian genocide (1915-1917) committed by the Ottoman Empire. And this list is long: entire nations have faced expulsion and extermination, their memory buried or contested while their killers were never condemned. Recognition, if and when it comes at all, is always partial and delayed with a sanitized retrospective meant to ease the guilt of those who were complicit. The Holocaust may be the standard of that which we all universally condemn and compare to, but it is exceptional in that by design.
At the risk of sounding Huntingtonian, there is a core “civilizational” logic that sustains Zionism, beyond Israel: erasure is recast as survival, dispossession as self-defense. In this framework, the genocide in Gaza is not an aberration but it is the logical outcome; it is not unspeakable but necessary–even if sometimes tragic and “crossing a line”.
Without the dismantling of this ideological foundation, there will be no punctuated end to the evil itself—and thus no moral correction.
And that’s why the repression is layered so aggressively: propaganda disguised as journalism, algorithmic suppression, the shadow-banning of Palestinian voices, governments criminalizing protest, schools and workplaces punishing dissent while protecting those who cheer extermination. What we have been witnessing is the system laid bare: a system designed not just to kill, but to erase even the naming of the killing.
If moral clarity does come, it will not be against the system that carried out the extermination. It will be against the images: the photographs of starving children, the bodies pulled from rubble, tragedies easy to lament once the killing has moved out of view. It will not bring reparations or accountability or the dignity of Palestinian political existence. It will not recognize the resistance of a people who fought annihilation. Instead, it will package Palestinians as a pitiable tragedy, stripped of politics and struggle.
Gaza buried the myth that “everyone is eventually against evil.” The truth is this: Israel and the United States can cage Palestinians and starve them of food, water and light. They can burn families alive, execute fathers before their children, mark mothers with numbers and call it order for “Jewish safety.”
And still, it won’t matter.
It won’t matter how closely these scenes mirror history’s darkest crimes, because outrage was never about the method.
And so Gaza will not be remembered as the place where the world finally stood hand in hand and turned against unfathomable evil, but rather the place where the world chose to let it reign.
Edward Bernays would love the Jews at Rolling Stone with their focused Propaganda issues:
Rolling Stone UK
Rolling Stone Australia / New Zealand
Rolling Stone France
Rolling Stone Germany
Rolling Stone Japan
Rolling Stone Korea
Rolling Stone India
Rolling Stone Argentina
Rolling Stone Brazil
Rolling Stone En Español (Mexico and Latin America)
Rolling Stone Africa (launched in 2024)
Rolling Stone Philippines (launched in 2024)
Rolling Stone MENA (Middle East and North Africa)
Rolling Stone Canada (re-launched in early 2026)
Poison Pen – by Mr. Fish
Chris Hedges: PEN America, an organization founded to defend persecuted and censored writers, has once again made a mockery of itself with its call to protect Israeli writers from discrimination.
Yes. Israeli writers.
Its most recent screed, “A Silent Moratorium,” is so tone deaf and embarrassing that it triggered a widespread backlash. PEN America’s president, Dinaw Mengestu, resigned in protest.
Mengestu told The New York Times the post is the most recent in a series of moves he felt are counter to the organization’s values and could harm efforts to preserve freedom of expression.
“This report is not an isolated incident,” Mengestu said. He added, it “continues this approach toward defending some rights while not defending others.”
I doubt Mengestu’s resignation will change much. At best, it will make PEN America more circumspect about exposing its moral bankruptcy.
“A Silent Moratorium” is authored by Editorial Director Lisa Tolin, Chief Communications Officer Geraldine Baum and consultant Malka Margolies. It criticizes what it calls “a widening cultural isolation” of Israel. It decries “the blatant hostility, discrimination, and hate that some Jewish and Israeli authors” face. It calls the loss of opportunities for Jewish writers “devastating” and complains that Israelis who write for U.S. magazines “are put through a series of ideological checks, such as whether they use the word genocide.” It condemns the call by more than 7,000 writers and literary professionals, who in the fall of 2024 signed a pledge not to work with Israeli publishers, festivals, literary agencies, and publications which “are complicit or have remained silent observers of the overwhelming oppression of Palestinians.” And it defends Zionists, stating:
In interviews with PEN America, Israeli and Jewish writers described a climate where Zionism is treated as a slur. While there remains no popular agreement on what it means to be a Zionist, recent survey data suggests that one-third of American Jews self-identify as Zionist and nearly nine in 10 say they support Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish and democratic state. Calls to exclude Zionists from publishing could therefore mean excluding people with a wide range of voices and views.
For the record, Zionism is explicitly racist. It is an ideology used to justify the occupation and colonization of historic Palestine and the ethnic cleansing and annihilation of its native inhabitants. Hateful ideologies cannot be normalized because a third of American Jews identify as Zionists. The Nazis, after all, had about the same level of support among German voters — 37.3 percent — in the 1932 election.
“PEN America peddles agitprop,” I wrote in 2024. “Writers and editors, such as Assange, who expose the lies and crimes of the state, are discredited, while propagandists for U.S. imperialism and the apartheid state Israel — even as it carries out genocide — are fêted.”
PEN America lost its way over a decade ago, when in 2013 it appointed a former Clinton State Department official, Suzanne Nossel, as its Executive Director. That year, I won the PEN Center USA First Amendment Award. I was scheduled to participate as a speaker at the PEN World Voices Festival when Nossel’s appointment was announced. I refused to take part in the festival and resigned from PEN America in protest.
[Suzanne Nossel is Jewish and has frequently spoken about how her Jewish identity and family history directly shaped her career in human rights and free expression. ]
“This appointment makes a mockery of PEN as a human rights organization and belittles the values PEN purports to defend,” I wrote in my resignation letter:
I spent seven years in the Middle East, most of them as the Middle East Bureau Chief of The New York Times. The suffering of the Palestinians under Israeli occupation and the plight of those caught up in our imperial wars in countries such as Iraq are not abstractions to me. Nossel’s relentless championing of preemptive war — which under international law is illegal — as a State Department official along with her callous disregard for Israeli mistreatment of the Palestinians and her refusal as a government official to denounce the use of torture and use of extra-judicial killings, makes her utterly unfit to lead any human rights organization, especially one that has global concerns. PEN American Center, by appointing Nossel, has unwittingly highlighted its own failure to defend and speak out for our dissidents, especially Bradley Manning. I hereby resign from PEN. I will wait until the organization returns to its original mandate to defend those who are persecuted, including those within the United States, before returning to the organization.
PEN Canada responded to my resignation by offering me membership, which I accepted.
Paul Haeder, Author 