Ahh, emblematic of America, of the Snake Oil AmeriKKKa, that is, getting the FDA on the side of Parasetic Capitalists — a buck made with the fucked up thing, Olestra!
Olestra is prohibited from sale in many markets, including the European Union and Canada. Consumption of olestra may encourage rats to eat too much of foods containing regular fats, due to the learning of an incorrect association between fat intake and calories.
The FDA approved it for use in foods in the 1990s and it’s still used in certain potato chips and french fries. But Olestra may cause extremely unpleasant digestive reactions, like diarrhea and leaky bowels.
Then we can just make the Olestra brand logo and that image of drippy anus as the new stars on the U$A Flag.
All funneled through Blackrock:
You get a brown face Trudeau getting it on with SS, and that is the new non-fat fat, anal leak full stop.
Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau has said he cannot remember how often he wore blackface as a younger man, as a scandal deepened ahead of an election.
He was speaking after more images of him wearing black make-up when he was younger emerged.
“I am wary of being definitive about this because of the recent pictures that came out, I had not remembered,” he told reporters in Winnipeg.
The revelations have rattled his campaign in a tight election race.
Canadians will go to the polls on 21 October.
So, my mother’s birth country, full of Olestra, man, cuz they voted for this piece of shit! That was 2019, the story referenced above.
Here, more anal leakage, now the two brothers looking to invade Haiti!
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Kenya’s Defense Minister Aden Duale signed the accord at a meeting in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. The agreement guides the countries’ defense relations for the next five years as the war in East Africa against the al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab extremist group intensifies.
Austin thanked Kenya for volunteering to take the leadership of the Haiti multi-national force and reiterated that the U.S government would work with Congress to secure the $100 million in funding that it pledged on the sidelines of the U.N General Assembly.
War is no-war, in the most blatant anal leak theory of Blinken-Nuland-Kagan-Yellen-Garland. Olestra in the White Wet House!
UPSIDE DOWN WORLD
2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the disastrous Iraq invasion launched by President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. A recent study by Brown University estimated that the West’s 9/11 wars led to the deaths of at least 4.5 million people and the displacement of up to 59 million. Murray reminded “MintPress” that almost no one in power had faced consequences for their actions.
“The people who were behind the war in Iraq that resulted in deaths of literally millions of people…are walking around treated as respected political elders,” he noted, “But [whistleblower] Chelsea Manning has been in jail, and [WikiLeaks co-founder] Julian Assange is in jail for exposing war crimes…that is an astonishing blot on our society!”
Murray previously served as British Ambassador to Uzbekistan between 2002 and 2004. However, after he exposed human rights violations perpetrated by the Karimov administration in that country, he was removed from his post.
Nothing but smoke and mirrors, man, smoke and mirrors.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, but eagled-eyed social media users spotted a major blunder.
Images from the video of his speech suggest Ukrainian media edited the footage to make it appear that the audience was larger than it really was.
In fact, Zelensky can be seen sitting in the audience where he had been during the remarks made by US President Joe Biden earlier that day.
Too much information, man, the latest in the Olestra news:
“Infodemic.”
It’s when saying something is a “pandemic” is just not good enough. And, when you want to be able to target multiple policies/media/persons at the same time.
Reports are already cropping up where this made-up word, “infodemic,” is used as if it means something. No quotes around it, either – and there’s talk about “managing” the situation, the way “global policymakers” -i.e., the WHO treaty negotiators – now see it.
Opponents will say that the UN agency has simply decided to play on the element of intimidation and fear here, by featuring the phrase front-and-center in its recent initiatives.
The most prominent one at this time, of course, is the WHO’s pandemic treaty/accord. It calls for pretty much everybody – to “take action.”
Without ever really going into explaining exactly what the previous pandemic was, how it was handled (justly or not so), whence it originated, and why – the UN’s WHO (World Health Organization) is now “preparing for the next one.” Yet this is not a board game – billions of people’s well-being and livelihoods are supposed to depend on it, going forward.
But now, let’s take the threat of “infodemic” at face value, as those peddling the word would no doubt want us to.
It is this: primarily, a call to rally governments, researchers, media organizations, and tech platforms to take “stronger” action against “the new phenomenon.”
But what is it? “Too much information, including false or misleading information in digital and physical environments during a disease outbreak.”
Say what? Thus far the target was arbitrarily designated “misinformation” – but now “too much information” is also a problem? What does – and in what world – “too much information” even mean? (Reclaim the Net)
Now, this is one Anal Story: Like similar legends such as The Promiscuous Rock Star, this tale has been applied to various public figures who are known or believed to be homosexual, and it has stuck with one in particular: Richard Gere. Although the legend homed in on various targets when it first appeared (including a Philadelphia newscaster), it has clung tenaciously to Mr. Gere’s name since at least the mid-1980s. Rumors that he had an emergency “gerbilectomy” at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in California have spread far and wide, and countless doctors and nurses claim to have participated in, been on hand during, or heard from a reliable colleague about, the procedure. (Cedars-Sinai is apparently the best-staffed hospital in the world, since literally thousands of different doctors and nurses claim to have been on duty at the time Mr. Gere was allegedly brought in for treatment.)
The Dalai and Gere:
Despite his frequent claims of peace, the Dalai Lama knew much more about the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)’s support of Tibetan secessionists in the 1950s and 1960s than he admitted, Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported recently.
A report titled “Seemingly Sacred,” which shed light on the relationship between the Dalai Lama and the CIA, said a shadow of violence falls on the divine king.
The report said an emissary of the Dalai Lama first contacted the US through its embassy in New Delhi and consulate in Calcutta in 1951, and both sides discussed US military and financial aid to Tibetan separatists. One of the Dalai Lama’s elder brothers also attended the meetings.
In the same year the US Defense Department gave the Dalai Lama a letter, in which “light weapons” and “financial aid” were promised to the Tibetan separatist movement, it said.
The Dalai Lama also received 180,000 US dollars a year from the CIA, which was described as “monetary aid for the Dalai Lama” in confidential documents.
The report said the CIA launched “St. Circus Operation” in 1956, which trained Tibetan guerrillas on a South-Pacific island to kill, shoot, lay mines and make bombs.
The CIA also made air drops that provided the guerrillas with machine weapons, ammunition, medicine, and propaganda materials, among others, it said.
According to the newspaper, “The Dalai Lama clearly stood closer to the CIA and knew significantly more than he let on.”
Though the Dalai Lama had always claimed that he only came to know the operations afterwards, it should be no later than 1958 when he was aware of the paramilitary training given by the CIA that was closely linked to poison, killing and other violent acts, it said.
The report said a US movie director, Lisa Cathey, had conducted more than 30 interviews in her shooting of a documentary, CIA in Tibet.
One of those interviewed was a retired CIA agent named John Kenneth Knaus, who was in charge of CIA operations in Tibet and had preserved documents that recorded the training.
The Dalai Lama had met with Knaus twice, once in 1964 and again in the 1990s.
The Dalai Lama apparently hasn’t been honest on whether he knew the CIA’s support to the Tibetan separation, the paper said. Now that with more truth on the Dalai Lama’s relationship with the CIA revealed, a shadow of violence falls on the divine king, it added.
The report called the Dalai Lama “a chess piece of the CIA during the Cold War” and his direct CIA connection does not match his “supreme moral authority.”
One interview that Valentine said made him nauseous was one he conducted with Thomas G. Clines, a CIA adviser to Vang Pao, who bragged about overseeing Phoenix-style operations in Cuba where anti-Castro commandos trained by the CIA used blowtorches to burn the faces off Communist mayors and cadres in rural Cuban villages.
Valentine was also sickened by interviews he conducted with “All-America war criminals” Theodore Shackley, the CIA Station Chief in Laos in the mid 1960s, who had a photo on the wall of his Alexandria, Virginia, office of the CIA’s secret Long Tieng base; and with Richard Secord, a key figure in the Iran-Contra affair, who had overseen the air war over Laos that killed thousands of rice farmers on the Plain of Jars and the 1972 Christmas bombing over North Vietnam that resulted in thousands more civilian deaths.
The My Lai massacre was a result of Phoenix, the ‘jerry-built’ counter-terror program that provided an outlet for the repressed fears and anger of the psyched-up men of Task Force Barker. Under the aegis of neutralizing the infrastructure, old men, women and children became the enemy. Phoenix made it as easy to shoot a Vietnamese child as it was to shoot a sparrow in a tree. The ammunition was faulty intelligence provided by secret agents harboring grudges – in violation of the agreement that Census Grievance intelligence would not be provided to the police. The trigger was the blacklist.
“[President Kennedy] never foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon,” Malcolm X said in response to a question about President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. “Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they always made me glad.”
Ward Churchill, due to the misinterpretations of his Eichmann statement, later clarified his original essay in a piece titled, “On the Injustice of Getting Smeared,” where he writes:
I am not a “defender” of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned. I have never said that people “should” engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy. As Martin Luther King, quoting Robert F. Kennedy, said, “Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable.”
This is not to say that I advocate violence; as a U.S. soldier in Vietnam I witnessed and participated in more violence than I ever wish to see. What I am saying is that if we want an end to violence, especially that perpetrated against civilians, we must take the responsibility for halting the slaughter perpetrated by the United States around the world
Finally, I have never characterized all the September 11 victims as “Nazis.” What I said was that the “technocrats of empire” working in the World Trade Center were the equivalent of “little Eichmanns.” Adolf Eichmann was not charged with direct killing but with ensuring the smooth running of the infrastructure that enabled the Nazi genocide. Similarly, German industrialists were legitimately targeted by the Allies.
And so it goes, unending chickens all over the place, those Yankee Doodle birds, and the Stars and Bars hens, all of them, ready for the plucking and the broiling.
How can this country stand for anything? How can the average American stand for anything?
The first big Murder Inc., the first Eichmann’s, well, all full of Pilgrims’ Progress and colonists, seething with Corporate and Christian greed.
These 9/11’s are all over the globe, and those chickens, or bio-viruses, what have you, they are America’s chickens roosting in other countries: ‘Revelations about what Victoria Nuland ever so euphemistically called “biological research facilities” in Ukraine are usually tied to the start of Russia’s strategic counteroffensive against NATO aggression in Europe (SMO). However, the truth is that the United States has had a massive bioweapons program for well over half a century and that it has become unprecedentedly globalized in recent decades. The belligerent thalassocracy carefully disguises it under the pretense of “battling epidemics” and “improving health services” of host countries, but the very fact that the Pentagon is directly involved in these projects is a major red flag that indicates such claims are at the very least highly questionable.’
These are madmen and madwomen, Eichmann’s but Mengele’s too:
Which World Trade Center do you want to come down? A few thousand dead, or millions across the globe with the planned pandemic:
Russian Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Defence Troops chief Igor Kirillov issued a fresh briefing on Friday, providing new information on US military biological activities in Ukraine, as well as details on what his troops know about monkeypox, a smallpox cousin which has caused a global health scare in recent weeks.
The Pentagon, he said, introduced a mandatory smallpox vaccination back in 2003, with US diplomats and medical personnel also required to be jabbed against the infectious disease.
“This indicates that the United States considers the smallpox pathogen a priority pathogenic agent for combat use, and ongoing vaccination measures are aimed at protecting their own military contingents”, Kirillov said.
Smoking guns just do not matter:
No somersaults by Anderson Vanderbilt Cooper, that human stain, wanting to cover this bioweapons story?
Ahh, if only those Telegram channel videos of the battlefield in Ukraine were shown on the mainstream dirty media, what would happen to the slap-happy Americanos who still support Trump, Biden, war with China-Russia.
And then all the hemming and hawing about a 98-year-old Nazi, in Klanada. We are embarassing, the west, all these sweat-shop investing leaders, Trudeau, all the Yom Kippur Crew in U$A, all of them from top down the MIC — military is just the umbrella of the complex: think education, mining, ag, energy, gas, prison, media, law, finance, insurance, pharma, medical, chemical, propaganda, psychological, journalism, surveillance, AR-VR-AR-MR-VR COMPLEX.
Ahh, those images, in Klanada, and then the reality of UkroNaziLandia: Of course, the white race is mostly Nazi’s.
[Parliamentarians gave a standing ovation to Yaroslav Hunka, a former member of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, the military wing of the Nazi Party, during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Ottawa. Photo courtesy CBC News.]
On September 22, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is continuing his campaign to shore up Western support amidst his military’s flagging counteroffensive, to address the Canadian parliament.
In attendance and seated in the House of Commons visitors’ gallery was a 98-year old Nazi war veteran named Yaroslav Hunka.
Parliamentarians across party lines, including Trudeau, treated Hunka as a guest of honour. House Speaker Anthony Rota introduced Hunka as a “hero” and a “veteran from the Second World War” who had “fought… against the Russians.” Rota then said that the House of Commons “thank[s] him for all his service” in the fight against Russians during the Second World War. Neither Rota nor anybody present thought to mention the obvious: that those fighting Russia during the war were almost exclusively Nazis.
In elections since 1991, it has been common to create fictitious populist parties that can ‘catch a wave’ and score surprise election results. This was the case in 2021 with the ‘Servant of the People’ party created by Volodymyr Zelensky and his cohorts. He and his ‘party’ swept the 2021 elections to the presidency and to the legislature (Rada). They did so by flirting with Russian-speaking voters as well as other voters opposed to, or uneasy with, the anti-Russia policies brought to the fore in Ukraine by the 2014 coup. They promised socially oriented policies and probes towards peace with Russia, but once in power immediately changed course to impose neoliberal policies, urge more NATO military intervention directed against Russia, and continue promoting right-wing, Ukrainian nationalism.
The actual absence of real democracy in post-Soviet Ukraine was always quietly approved by the Western countries. They have long simply slapped the label ‘democratic’ on the most dictatorial of regimes so long as they submit to a status of ‘ally’, that is underling, of the United States and NATO.
Ward Churchill talked about his book Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools, published by City Lights Publishers. The author talked about the history of government-created American Indian residential schools and argued that these schools had genocidal aims. Professor Churchill said that while the term “genocide” is widely understood to refer only to the mass killing of an ethnic group, the U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide defines it in broader terms, which apply to the policies of the U.S. government towards Native American children throughout much of the 20th Century. He described the treatment that these children received and discussed the impact of these schools on Native American society today. Following his remarks, he responded to questions and comments submitted by members of the audience
[Tom Torlino, a Navajo student who attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1882, poses for his “before” picture upon arriving at the school. Photo from the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center.]
Nope, not covered on Anderson Multi-Millionaire Cooper’s piss-poor hellion TV:
Ahh, that Nazi Landia, Ukraine, again, no surprise fascist Klanada would valorize a young or old Nazi:
Nah, not mainstream checked out zombie lobotomized media, they won’t know this?
There were 2.5 million Ukrainian displaced persons, or DP’s, at the end of the war in Germany and in Austria. Most were forced labourers who had been tricked or press ganged by the Nazis, becoming slave labor back in Germany, where a system of apartheid was set up to keep them segregated from the Germans. Of these, 1,850,000 returned to the Soviet Union from 1945-1947. During the Cold War it was claimed that they were all sent off to gulags in Siberia. In reality most returned to their homes. This left only 200,000 Ukrainians in Germany and 50,000 in Austria. Over 120,000 of them had retreated with the Nazi armies when they left Ukraine and were Nazi collaborators, OUN members, and escaped war criminals. They lived in huge displaced persons camps and the OUN/B quickly gained control of them with the backing of the British and the Americans. In the camps the OUN/B recreated their old front groups, youth groups, scouting groups that had been used to indoctrinate the Bandera generation and would now be used to help the OUN/B and OUN/M ideologies to survive their decades in exile.
In 1948 the British quietly ordered a halt to all war crimes trials and investigations and began importing thousands of fascist émigrés. That same year the U.S. Congress passed the Displaced Persons Act which, along with the later Refugee Relief Act, allowed over 500,000 refugees from Eastern Europe to enter the U.S. Many were innocent victims of the war, but others were fascist collaborators that the U.S. felt would be useful during the Cold War. Tens of thousands of OUN members, UPA vets, and Ukrainian SS veterans were brought into the U.S., Britain, Australia and Canada. The CIA also pushed through a secret agreement called the 100 Persons Act which allowed the CIA to bring in 100 people and their families every year and give them citizenship regardless of whatever crimes they had committed in the past that would bar their entry. It was a deal between the CIA, the Justice Department and the INS allowing the CIA to bring in 100 notorious Nazi war criminals every year “In the interests of National Security.” This was used to shield the worst of the worst, like Mykola Lebed and Pavlo Shandruk. the former leader of the Waffen SS division “Galizia”. (source)
Fucking stupid Klanada/UK: The largely unknown story of the first Ukrainian refugees in Britain – an entire SS division composed largely of Ukrainians who arrived in 1947, with many later emigrating to Canada – the 14th SS Galizien. Why did the British Government permit them to settle, and why are they today considered national heroes in Ukraine?
Brutalization Theory: [In our first episode of our new format BEYOND THE GREAT WAR Jesse answers two questions. The first one is in regards to the Brutalization Theory that tries to explain the level of violence during and after the First World War. In our second question, we talk about the start of the Paris Peace Conference 100 years ago.]
Ahh, those goddamned sources, you never know who will access them, but for sure, never a Andeson Vanderbilt on People fucking Magazine!
Sources
In my [Hugo Turner] research this year I read nearly everything I could find that was relevant to the OUN even though much of it dealt with the time periods I covered in Parts one and two.
The definitive book on the OUN remains “Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist, Fascism, Genocide, and Cult” by Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe. A huge highly detailed book that begins in the 19th century and ends in 2014.
Another must-read is “Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War” by Christopher Simpson. All three of Simpson’s books are must-reads.
“MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service” by Stephen Dorril is a great book with valuable information on MI6 backing the OUN/B, the ABN, the Promethean League, and the Intermarium among many other topics.
The final chapter of “Hitler’s Shadow: Nazis War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War” by Richard Breitman and Norman J.W. Goda is an in depth article on the CIA career of Mykola Lebed although it is to some extent a “limited hangout.”
“Ukrainian Nationalism” by John A. Armstrong was considered the definitive book on the OUN for many decades. It completely whitewashes the history of the OUN omitting mention of their war crimes and convinced generations of scholars to call them “Integral Nationalists” instead of fascists. He wrote it for the CIA backed Russia Institute at Columbia University and interviewed hundreds of German and Ukrainian war criminals. Armstrong used code names for them in his notes to protect them. In the 90’s Armstrong bragged that the OUN leaders were his personal heroes. Still it may be worth reading if you are truly obsessed as it provides a great deal of info on the OUN/M.
“Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov” by Trevor Erlacher provides an in depth study of Dontsov the thinker that inspired Stepan Bandera and the OUN/B. The author bends over backwards to avoid calling the OUN fascists but the book is still pretty damning. It is a product of the sinister Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
The UPA war is covered in detail in “The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands” By Alexander Statiev. Unfortunately it dismisses the involvement of Western intelligence and is also highly critical of the Soviet Union containing many horrifying scenes from the Soviet dirty war. On the other hand it debunks many anti-Soviet myths.
“Old Nazis, the New Right and the Republican Party” by Russ Bellant is a must-read classic on the Republican party’s long alliance with fascist émigrés. It covers the Ukrainians, The ABN, and the vast network of right wing NGOs in the 1980’s and early 90’s. The Ukraine lobby interlocked closely with the weapons-making lobby. It covers the brief scandal when George H.W. Bush was discovered to have a number of fascist war criminals working on his campaign. The future president made sure to pay homage to the fascist Ukrainian diaspora living in Michigan.
“Inside the League” by Scott Anderson and John Lee Anderson covers the World Anti-Communist League which by the 80’a united Nazi war criminals, The OUN/B, Latin American death squads, Gladio terrorists, the Moonies, the Yakuza, the drug dealing KMT, “respectable” conservative politicians, and American neo-Nazis. It was among the first books to publish a critical account of the OUN/B war crimes.
“Hitler’s Foreign Executioners: Europe’s Dirty Secret” by Christopher Hale is a great book on Himmler and the SS. It reveals that Himmler was a key backer of Ukrainian nationalism. It also provides a study of fascism in many Eastern European countries like Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia. These fascist movements would join the Waffen SS and later with the OUN/B join the ABN during the cold war.
“Unholy Trinity: The Vatican the Nazis, and the Swiss Banks” by Mark Aarons and John Loftus covers the story of the ratlines and explains how 8,000 Ukrainian SS Galizia division veterans were sent to Britain after the war.
America’s Nazi Secret by John Loftus is the uncensored new version of his classic Belarus Secret. It focuses mainly on Belarus but also has information on Frank Wisner’s backing of the UPA, the purging of CIA files on fascist émigrés and Mykola Lebed.
“The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA” by Burton Hersh is a classic covering the early cold war history of American intelligence the OSS, CIA, and OPC Allen Dulles’ business ties to the Nazis and many other topics.
Another great interview with Moss Robeson on the history of the OUN/B and the Ukraine Lobby.
More SS, Gestapo, Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS, SS Death’s-Head Units,The Secret State Police (Gestapo), The Protection Squad (SS), The Reich Cabinet, The Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party, The Stormtroopers (SA), The Security Service (SD), The General Staff and High Command of the German Armed Forces.
[Nazi guards at the Belzec death camp: Samuel Kunz was a former guard who was on trial participating in the murder of over 430,000 Jews at the camp]
…engineering the sky, engineering AI to end of work . . . the age of building man, and that Indeed Work God telling kids what not to study, UN Haiti on Fire, Ishmael, Donbass, and more!
Once a Nazi, always one, and now a ZioAzovLansky hero: Zelenskyy joins Canadian Parliament’s ovation to 98-year-old veteran who fought with Nazis — The man was part of SS Galichina, a unit whose history has been whitewashed by veterans groups in the West.
For decades, Canada has underwritten the cultish worship of Ukrainian Nazi collaborator war criminals.
Pretty dashing Nazi guy at 98, ergo, no guilty conscience there.
So we adopt all sorts of crazy militarized bullshit robotics crap!
Imagine the African American cop, err, Mayor, and his Robot dog?
Freaks, and more freaks, Big Brother from another Mother!
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Mayor Eric Adams of New York City, who once said that “Big Brother is protecting you” has unveiled a new policing initiative involving a robotic law enforcement officer. Announced in a press conference on Friday, the NYPD plans to trial a dystopian robotic surveillance platform in the Times Square subway station.
Dubbed the Knightscope K5, this semi-autonomous robot is no lightweight. Weighing in at approximately 400 pounds and capable of moving at a top speed of three miles per hour, the K5 has been described by Adams as “not a pushover.” This was clearly demonstrated during the press conference as the Mayor tried unsuccessfully, multiple times, to knock it over.
Robot dog at 400 lbs, or German Shepherd at 85 pounds.
We are shackled in more and more spaces, today. We are under the thumb of some little big men virus spreaders, super spreaders of lies, half-truths, the big lie, invented history, washed away facts (agnology), zombie thinkers.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the U.S. would provide logistics, including intelligence, airlift, communications and medical support to the mission, which still needs to be approved by the U.N. Security Council. Other than Kenya, which would head the operation, Jamaica, the Bahamas, and Antigua and Barbuda have pledged to deploy personnel.
Blinken urged the international community to pledge additional personnel as well as equipment, logistics, training and funding for the effort to be successful.
This article above, from the AP, is vapid, nothing burger, a read out of the press release of Blinken House. As opposed to this cogent stuff below.
On every level, the managerial class, the elites’ stormtroopers, are shackling discourse and dissent.
Until the headlines are like lobotomies! Little ones, daily, nano-lobotomies!
Again, here we have to just have to accept headlines and theses: It’s Time to Engineer the Sky!
Scientific American: On the crisp afternoon of February 12, 2023, two men parked a Winnebago by a field outside Reno, Nev. They lit a portable grill and barbecued a fist-sized mound of yellow powdered sulfur, creating a steady stream of colorless sulfur dioxide (SO2) gas. Rotten-egg fumes permeated the air as they used a shop vac to pump the gas into a balloon about the diameter of a beach umbrella. Then they added enough helium to the balloon to take it aloft, attached a camera and GPS sensor, and released it into the sky. They tracked the balloon for the next several hours as it rose into the stratosphere and drifted far to the southwest, crossing over the Sierra Nevada Mountains before popping and releasing its gaseous contents. The contraption plummeted into a cow pasture near Stockton, Calif.
The balloon released only a few grams of SO2, but the act was a brazen demonstration of something long considered taboo—injecting gases into the stratosphere to try to slow global warming. Once released, SO2 reacts with water vapor to form droplets that become suspended in the air—a type of aerosol—and act as tiny mirrors, reflecting incoming sunlight back to space. Luke Iseman and Andrew Song, founders of solar geoengineering company Make Sunsets, had sold “cooling credits” to companies and individuals; a $10 purchase would fund the release of a gram of SO2, which they said would offset the warming effects of a metric ton of atmospheric carbon dioxide for a year. They had planned a launch in Mexico but switched to the U.S. after the Mexican government forbade them.
Many people recoil at the notion of solar geoengineering, or solar radiation management (SRM), as it’s often called. The idea that humans should try to fix the atmosphere they’ve messed up by messing with it some more seems fraught with peril—an act of Faustian arrogance certain to backfire. But as it becomes clear that humans are unlikely to reduce emissions quickly enough to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, some scientists say SRM might be less scary than allowing warming to continue unabated. Proposals for cooling the planet are becoming more concrete even as the debate over them grows increasingly rancorous.
But but but, we are suppose to believe humans are changing the jet stream, weather, climate, water cycle, and so, here, after we give all those trillions to space ships, space surveillance, war, pharma, and junk everything:
Reducing CO2 levels in the atmosphere will take more than cutting emissions—we will also need to capture and store the excessive volumes of already-emitted carbon. In an opinion paper published in the journal Trends in Plant Science on September 21, a team of plant scientists argue that arid lands such as deserts could be one answer to the carbon-capture problem.
The authors argue that we could transform arid ecosystems into efficient carbon-capture systems with improved soil health, enhanced photosynthetic efficiency, and larger root biomass by engineering ideal combinations of plants, soil microbes, and soil type to facilitate a naturally occurring biogeochemical process called the oxalate-carbonate pathway to create below-ground carbon sinks.
“Re-greening deserts by restoration of ecosystem functions, including carbon sequestration, should be the preferential approach,” writes the research team, led by senior author and plant scientist Heribert Hirt of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. “The advantage of reclaiming arid regions for re-greening and carbon sequestration is that they do not compete with lands used in agriculture and food production.” (source)
Of course, we need to shift the paradigms, and that first one should be culled is capitalism, and then moving those billionaires and multimillionaires into work camps — to work the land (Mao 3.0). Let them have hobby farms, and those tiny homes they want for the majority of humanity.
We need food, clean water, clean air, reselient communities, bill of rights for towns, cities, states, bio-regions and for ecosystems.
So, do we continue pumping out hydrocarbons? Aks a kid, and they think gasoline comes from dinosaurs —
“For some strange reason, the idea that oil comes from dinosaurs has stuck with many people,” geologist Reidar Müller from the University of Oslo explained to Science Norway. “But oil comes from trillions of tiny algae and plankton.”
As algae and plankton died tens to hundreds of millions of years ago, they sank to the bottom of the sea, where they accumulated and were buried by layers and layers of sediment. Eventually, after millions of years in a high-pressure and low-oxygen environment, the algae and plankton got “cooked” and turned into that sticky black oil we humans apparently can’t get enough of despite the threat of a climate emergency. From here, it seeps upwards until it hits rock it can’t make it through, requiring humans to drill it out (or some other natural disaster to set it free again).
AND, so the future of learning, the future of mentoring and future of idea exchanging, future of education or schooling, in the hands of another monster, bald headed son of a bitch.
Obsolete, man, this is it for the world — fucking Indeed setting the agenda for humanity?
The boss of job-hunting website Indeed.com said college students are shelling out thousands to attend schools that are teaching skills that soon could be rendered “obsolete” thanks to artificial intelligence.
“With AI, it’s conceivable that students might now find themselves learning skills in college that are obsolete by the time they graduate,” Indeed CEO Chris Hyams wrote in a column in Fortune.
He’s 55, from Russian Jewish background, and that’s it for America, the west, the world — When Indeed Speaks, Everyone Listens?
Interesting stuff, that good old beer. Imagine, if we really put our great smart heads together to help sick people?
Researchers, including those from Oregon State University, have shown in a mouse model and lab cultures that a compound derived from hops reduces the abundance of a gut bacterium associated with metabolic syndrome.
The findings, published Thursday in the journal Microbiome, are important because an estimated 35 percent of the U.S. adult population suffers from the syndrome, a common and serious condition linked with cognitive dysfunction and dementia as well as being a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.
This is what the Hasbara Elite, those East Coast Chosen People, are cooking up, and Zuckerberg and GoGulagogle are in on it:
Who knows, or would have known, back 500,000 years, people were breaking and cutting and building (with) wood.
European researchers have unearthed evidence indicating that humans constructed wooden structures and established a settled way of life in Africa approximately 500,000 years ago.
An international research team, which included Professor Larry Barum from the University of Liverpool in the U.K., released its research findings in the international academic journal ‘Nature’ on the 20th. The researchers remarked, “The structure found at Calambo Falls in Zambia, Africa, could potentially be the earliest example of wood usage.”
The gorilla, Ishmael, begins his teaching by asking the question,
“On the basis of my [personal] history, what subject would you say I was best qualified to teach?” When the narrator is unable to answer, Ishmael responds, “Of course you do. My subject is ‘captivity.’ ”
Although he was captured and sold to a zoo as a young gorilla, Ishmael does not seek to teach about the captivity behind bars, but one of a more subtle and far-reaching nature. “Among the people of your culture, which want to destroy the world?” he asks. The narrator responds, “As far as I know, no one specifically wants to destroy the world.”
“And yet,” Ishmael continues, “you do destroy, each of you. Each of you contributes daily to the destruction of the world. Why don’t you stop?”
The narrator shrugs. “Frankly, we don’t know how.”
“You arc captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.”
So, leaving this mash-up, let’s get down to brass tacks, Donbass:
Vanessa Beeley interviews independent journalist George Eliason based in Donbass for shocking insight into the predatory nature of NATO member states.
“Why is Zelensky shelling a Nuclear plant? The war will end and money stream will dry up. If Ukraine sets off a Nuclear explosion (3 times that of Chernobyl) funding opportunities increase and are guaranteed for 100 years during clean-up operations. This IS the thought behind the process. Bankrupting EU and US while ensuring disappearance of Russians and Russian speakers in the region.”
…the daily slime is more than any giant slime mold can comprehend — Inside Job and Stealing from Africa by Bunko Carbon Markets and the New Green Deal!
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers called for Russia’s frozen funds to be made available for Ukraine
It would be financially and politically expensive for the US to fund Kyiv’s needs, he told Bloomberg TV.
Brefeldia maxima is one of the largest of the slime molds and its distinctive feature is the presence of multicellular vesicles within the capillitium. Joszef Tomasz Rostafinski (1850–1928) first described this species.
Brefeldia maxima is one of the largest of the slime molds and its distinctive feature is the presence of multicellular vesicles within the capillitium. Joszef Tomasz Rostafinski (1850–1928) first described this species.
I don’t give this “brilliant mind” description credence, but here, the fucker Summers: From Huffington, not my cup of tequila!
So let me turn the high beam on one of the main architects of the plan — less in the news than Tim Geithner, but no less important — Larry Summers.
To understand why a man as brilliant and accomplished as Summers can be so wrong about what to do with the banks and Wall Street, it would be useful to turn to “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen.
The book explains how even very successful companies, with very capable personnel, often fail because they tend to stick to the strategies that made them successful in the first place, leaving themselves vulnerable to changing conditions and new realities. So you can have brilliant managers who miss what’s needed for success in the future because they are too tied to the past.
This describes Summers to a T.
He is one of the top economic minds of his generation, a tenured professor at Harvard by the time he was 28, with plenty of real-word experience — ranging from heading the Treasury to heading a major university. But his core beliefs and assumptions helped lay the groundwork for the current crisis.
As treasury secretary under Bill Clinton, Summers played an important role in convincing Congress in 1999 to pass the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which repealed key portions of the Glass-Steagall Act and allowed commercial banks to get into the mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations game. The measure also created an oversight disaster, with supervision of banking conglomerates split among a host of different government agencies — agencies that often failed to let each other know what they were doing and what they were uncovering.
At the signing of the bill, Summers hailed it as “a major step forward to the 21st century.”
Summers also backed Phil Gramm’s other financial time bomb, the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which allowed financial derivatives to be traded without any oversight or regulation. So it was on his watch that the credit-default swaps warhead that has blown up our economy was launched.
Indeed, during a 1998 Senate hearing, Summers testified against the regulation of the derivatives market on the grounds that we could trust Wall Street. “The parties to these kinds of contract,” he said, “are largely sophisticated financial institutions that would appear to be eminently capable of protecting themselves from fraud and counterparty insolvencies and most of which are already subject to basic safety and soundness regulation under existing banking and securities laws.”
It would be hard to make assumptions that turned out to be more wrong than Summers’ were.
Slime mold has more purpose in life than all the economists put together in a giant canal which might be a place to start growing mold, for sure.
Commonwealth Club (yuk!): “Come hear from the filmmaker of this year’s Academy Award-winning best documentary feature film. Could the global economic meltdown of the last few years have been prevented? Ferguson believes that the crisis was no accident. His latest documentary, Inside Job, makes the powerful case that an out-of-control finance industry took advantage of a deregulated atmosphere and purposely sought to get rich at the expense of others. Through extensive interviews with financial insiders and government officials, Ferguson crossed the globe to find proof that the financial industry intentionally engaged in unethical behavior. His gripping account of the global recession is sure to evoke feelings of disgust, anger, and concern that this all may happen again unless our regulatory system is changed. Ferguson’s previous film, No End in Sight, was nominated for an Oscar, and Inside Job brought home the grand prize at this year’s awards ceremony.”
Inside Job, old, but telling. And Summers, like many human slime molds, is all about outright theft:
“It’s a very difficult budgetary time, in the United States and other major economies. What those facts say to me is that we’re not going to find hundreds of billions of dollars for Ukraine in our budgets,” Summers said. “And then if we find a lot of money, it’s gonna be enormously expensive money, in terms of what it means politically, and in terms of what it means for the rest of the world.”
Taking over the Russian funds should be achievable, and would free the US to commit its budget to other concerns, such as climate change protection, he added.
The assets, amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars in value, were first frozen by Western institutions in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last year.
And it is not a far cry from Sean Penn, Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler and all the other human stains going to Zelensky on hands and knees. Caitlin Johnstone:
I’ve fucking had it with this shitbrained idea that it’s somehow an act of courage to risk the life of every terrestrial organism rolling the dice on nuclear war for the advancement of your personal geopolitical preferences, and that anyone who doesn’t want to do this is a coward. Most of the humans on this planet don’t give a fuck who governs Crimea or the Donbass, and exactly zero of the non-human lives care either way. Yet you think you’re a big brave hero for wanting to gamble all their lives controlling that outcome? Fuck you.
This is who is running our narrative, framing, the shit show of elites and molds running the country:
And, the mold can look a bit less moldy:
Priscilla Chan and husband Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to eradicate human disease by 2100.
Their project plans to use 1,000 GPUs to build a massive database of healthy and diseased cells.
One researcher’s excited by the potential, but said it’ll likely take lots of time and money to complete.
Ahh, the deadend lives of billionaires. Again, these are monsters, Caitlin, not just the war mongers of Blinken-Kagan-Nuland-Etc.
Here are 10 popular jobs with skills most replicable by AI, according to ChatGPT itself.
The jobs site Indeed analyzed GPT-4’s ability to perform skills required for these common jobs.
Though GPT-4 is able to perform some skills, others — like driving a car — still require a human touch.
Oil oil oil, and the fake green lies of a Canada!
Canada, home to the world’s third-largest crude deposits, is poised to reshuffle global oil flows next year.
The nearly completed expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline promises to vault Canada into a new role in global markets by transporting an additional 600,000 barrels a day — on par with the daily output of Azerbaijan — from the country’s vast oil sands to a port on the Pacific Coast.
Hydrocarbons, and then, the Greta/John Kerry/UN Wildbunch — stop oil? No development for Africa? Right! And those fires? (source)
Wildfires are thought to be increasing in severity and frequency as a result of climate change1,2,3,4,5. Air pollution from landscape fires can negatively affect human health4,5,6, but human exposure to landscape fire-sourced (LFS) air pollution has not been well characterized at the global scale7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23. Here, we estimate global daily LFS outdoor fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and surface ozone concentrations at 0.25° × 0.25° resolution during the period 2000–2019 with the help of machine learning and chemical transport models. We found that overall population-weighted average LFS PM2.5 and ozone concentrations were 2.5 µg m−3 (6.1% of all-source PM2.5) and 3.2 µg m−3 (3.6% of all-source ozone), respectively, in 2010–2019, with a slight increase for PM2.5, but not for ozone, compared with 2000–2009. Central Africa, Southeast Asia, South America and Siberia experienced the highest LFS PM2.5 and ozone concentrations. The concentrations of LFS PM2.5 and ozone were about four times higher in low-income countries than in high-income countries. During the period 2010–2019, 2.18 billion people were exposed to at least 1 day of substantial LFS air pollution per year, with each person in the world having, on average, 9.9 days of exposure per year. These two metrics increased by 6.8% and 2.1%, respectively, compared with 2000–2009. Overall, we find that the global population is increasingly exposed to LFS air pollution, with socioeconomic disparities.
And, now, hobbling Africa, those new green fascist dealers:
In the meantime, Campbell says, “It’s important that the G8 outcome be committed over the long term to maintaining [financial aid] policies.” This financial aid, he says, will be vital to the lives of Africa’s poor, who represent an ever increasing segment of African society. And climate change is likely to accelerate such societal stratification, he says. People who have at least some wealth will be better able to switch to different crops, buy a different kind of livestock, or combine growing and herding. “Herders who had taken on farming appeared to be less vulnerable to drought than the people who had maintained themselves in terms of subsisting almost entirely on herding,” Campbell says. “So that diversification showed itself to be successful in terms of allowing them to cope with prolonged drought.” However, those Africans who don’t have sufficient wealth to buffer the effects of increasing climatic variability will plunge deeper into poverty.
But as much as financial aid is needed, Nyong says, the reality is that no amount of money is going to stop climate change from affecting Africa in profound and unpredictable ways.
Africa wasn’t able to prevent the buildup of greenhouse gases, he says; “What we are left to do now is to adapt to the buildup.” (source)
Even countries with binding commitments to switch to low carbon energy have found their priorities have shifted, at least in the short term and African nations see the potential for new export markets, as well as a chance to end domestic fuel poverty.
“There is a lot of oil and gas companies present at COP because Africa wants to send a message that we are going to develop all of our energy resources for the benefit of our people because our issue is energy poverty,” said Namibia’s petroleum commissioner, Maggy Shino, who works within the country’s Ministry of Mines and Energy.
Echoing comment from other African nations, Shino said wealthy countries had failed to deliver promised funding that would help them to expand clean energy instead of exploiting their fossil fuel resources.
“If you are going to tell us to leave our resources in the ground, then you must be prepared to offer sufficient compensation, but I don’t think anyone has yet come out to make such an offer,” she said. (source)
So, the Sean Penn’s and Larry Summers’ of the world, they have eyes on more ill-gotten, stolen profits.
Chinese oil imports from Africa amounted to about 63 million metric tons in 2009, while the United States imported 107 million tons and Europe 124 million tons. Angola is the number one oil supplier to China, leaving behind even the Saudi Arabia and Iran, followed by Sudan and the Equatorial Guinea. China buys two-thirds of Sudan’s oil exports and invests in exploration, production, refining and hydrocarbon transportation in Sudan now that Western companies have left it. The Chinese completely ignore sanctions against Khartoum imposed by the West. Chinese oil companies operate in Angola, Nigeria, the Republic of Congo, Algeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Namibia and Ethiopia.
Chinese presence in Africa has many faces and includes the provision of grants and loans; rail and highway construction; construction of power plants, housing construction, shopping malls, schools, and hospitals; arms supplies; tens of thousands of Africans studying in China; regular summits and mutual visits at the highest government level. There are more Chinese restaurants than McDonald’s in Africa. Many African states are celebrating their 50th anniversary of independence these days. The Chinese have invested $100 million in building the African Union’s headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and are completing the construction quickly. The buildings of foreign ministries and parliaments in many African countries came as a gift from China. Roads, bridges and airfields are usually built on credit. In exchange, China gets access to the African riches. The Africans don’t mind, although the negotiations are not always perfectly smooth.
There have been two significant energy-related developments in the last two decades. The first is a demand-side development, the awakening of the two Asian giants – China and India. Both these economies have launched an energy-intensive rapid-growth paradigm, playing ‘catch-up’ in the inexorable global development game. With their combined populations accounting for more than a third of global population and their low per capita energy consumption base, the two economies will pre-empt an increasing share of the dwindling global energy sources, especially hydrocarbons.
Already nearly half of global incremental oil demand comes from just these two countries and this trend can only become more pronounced in the coming years. The other important development on the energy scene, this time on the supply side, is the emergence of new hydrocarbon supply regions – in Russia, Central Asia, Africa and Latin America. Of all these regions, Africa has indeed become the target of predatory acquisitions and unsavoury practices of international extractive enterprises engaged in the extraction of all minerals, of gold, diamonds, oil and timber. Russia, Central Asia and Latin America have, to a large extent, escaped the exploitative reach of global and now Asian multinational corporations scouting around the world for new assets.
Africa with its loose and unstructured investment regime is the prime target of Asian oil and gas companies looking for accretion to their own reserves. India, for instance, has invested in the energy sectors of Sudan, Libya, Egypt and Cote d’Ivoire and is scouting for new assets in other African countries. In Sudan, it partners with Chinese and Malaysian companies, in Libya with a Turkish company, in Cote d’Ivoire with a Chinese company.
The question therefore is: What is it that makes Africa vulnerable? What is the difference in the political, economic and investment environment in Africa and the other three regions? Can Africa learn from the example from the other three regions and adopt their techniques to ensure that its own peoples benefit most from the extraction of minerals from its territory? At the same time, can Africa escape the resource-curse that has plagued and doomed the single-resource economies of the Middle East?
How can Africa use its mineral wealth to build a diversified economy and ensure economic and social development for its peoples who are among the most impoverished and illiterate in the world? Since the relentless quest for new energy sources will make it impossible to stop the exploitation of Africa’s vast unexplored mineral wealth, how can we ensure that such exploitation takes place in an equitable and humane manner?
So, that proxy war in Ukraine, it is a sickness, man, a real sickness of the West, of Israel, of the war machine, the bombs and bullets and balloons and satellites and drones and every goddamned bit and piece of what makes the Blood Merchants Bloody Murderers, in the field or in the boardroom.
Hands of Africa, Summers, Blackrock, et al!
The Belt and Road Initiative
This initiative was launched in 2013 as Chinese president Xi Jinping announced the double project of connecting China to Europe by land through Central Asia and thus creating a “Silk Road Economic Belt”, and to develop a maritime communication route between the two continents. It has since then become the main pillar of Chinese economic diplomacy.
The official objective of the BRI is “to promote the economic prosperity of the countries along the new Silk Roads (Belt and Road), to promote regional economic cooperation, to enhance exchanges and mutual understanding among civilizations, and to promote peace and development in the world”. It offers partner countries the possibility to finance and build a wide range of new infrastructure, particularly in the field of communication and transport (roads, railways, ports, airports, pipelines, internet network, etc.) and energy. Today, not only have most Asian countries and many European countries joined the initiative, but also almost the entire African continent and some Latin American countries. In addition to building infrastructure, the BRI has four other components: policy coordination, trade and investment facilitation, financial integration and cross-cultural exchanges.
Through the BRI, China is making clear its power ambitions as a global player and intends to adopt a much more proactive stance on the international stage than before. Beyond supporting the country’s economic growth, giving China’s national currency international stature, and strengthening energy security, it has a strong diplomatic component seen in the development of the Belt and Road International Forum and the signing of cooperation agreement with partner countries. The second forum, in May 2019, focused on the fields of energy and telecommunications. It included the signing of an agreement between the African Union and the Global Energy Internet Development Cooperation Organization, initiated by the China State Grid Corporation, the major state-owned company in charge of managing the electricity grid in China.
Africa in the BRI
Although Africa is not the centrepiece of the BRI, the continent has been attracting special attention from China for at least two decades, well before the BRI was launched. Indeed, Africa offers a range of characteristics that are perfectly in line with China’s economic and strategic objectives as defined in the BRI:
It is a continent rich in raw materials, especially oil and gas, which are essential for the functioning of the Chinese economy.
The infrastructure needs are colossal.
African economies, traditionally extroverted and dependent on the rest of the world (for access to finance as well as to technology and know-how), are particularly welcoming to international investors.
Africa’s population is growing much faster than anywhere else in the world, while a consumerist middle class is beginning to emerge, heralding the eventual development of a huge market.
Political institutions are relatively weak and standards (social, environmental, safety, etc.) are low, which opens the door to low-end products and less conscientious economic players or those with less expertise.
The Relationship Between Economic Decline and Authoritarianism
“Fascism is capitalism in decay,” we have all heard this referenced to Lenin. While it’s important to note that this specific quote may not be verbatim from his writings or speeches, it does capture the essence of Lenin’s views on capitalism and its potential consequences. Lenin believed that as capitalism reached a certain stage of development, it would exhibit characteristics that resembled fascism. This idea suggests that fascism emerges due to the inherent contradictions and crises within capitalism as it reaches an advanced stage.
Fascism arises as a desperate attempt by the ruling capitalist class to maintain its power. It is a form of authoritarianism that emerges when capitalism is in a state of decay, During periods of economic crisis or decline, the ruling capitalist class may face challenges to maintain their dominance. In response, they might turn to authoritarian and nationalist movements as a means to protect their interests and maintain control. Fascism is the extreme manifestation of these efforts. Economic collapse can generate fear and insecurity in society. Fascist leaders often thrive on this fear, offering a sense of order and protection in exchange for loyalty and obedience.
Fascist regimes promote corporatism (a close collaboration between the state and big business) to maintain social order and protect the interests of the capitalist elite. In desperate times, people may be willing to sacrifice democratic principles for perceived stability. This erosion of democratic norms can pave the way for authoritarian rule.
Lenin’s statement suggests that fascism is not a separate or unrelated phenomenon but a product of the contradictions and crises within the capitalist system. Fascist movements often scapegoat minority groups, blaming them for the economic problems. This can lead to the persecution of marginalized communities, further consolidating power for the authoritarian regime. Fascist regimes tend to suppress dissent and opposition forcefully. This can involve censorship, repression of civil liberties, and the use of state power to maintain control over the population.
In history, when the Nazis aimed to establish legal measures to marginalize and discriminate against Jewish citizens, these concepts were not created in a vacuum. They meticulously examined the legal framework of another nation. According to James Q. Whitman, the author of “Hitler’s American Model,” that nation happened to be the United States. Specifically, the Nazis admired the Jim Crow laws for segregating Black Americans from white Americans and debated whether to introduce similar segregation in Germany. However, they concluded that such measures wouldn’t be sufficient in their case.
They were particularly interested in how the United States had designated groups like Native Americans and Filipinos as non-citizens, even if they lived in U.S. territories. This influenced the Nuremberg Laws, which stripped Jewish Germans of their citizenship and classified them as “nationals.” In essence, the Nazis found inspiration in the American system of racial segregation.
Suppressing Dissent: Fascist regimes tend to suppress dissent and opposition forcefully. This can involve censorship, repression of civil liberties, and the use of state power to maintain control over the population.
Propaganda: The use of propaganda is a common feature of fascist regimes. Propaganda can be used to manipulate public opinion, justify authoritarian measures, and create a sense of unity and purpose.
Erosion of Democracy: As fascism takes hold, democratic institutions and norms may gradually erode. This can include limiting the power of elected representatives, controlling the media, and undermining the rule of law.
Historical Examples
Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany (1933-1945): Nazi Germany provides a stark historical example of fascism emerging during an economic crisis.
Economic Collapse: The aftermath of World War I and the economic turmoil of the Great Depression created widespread unemployment and suffering in Germany. This economic collapse contributed to the appeal of Hitler’s promise to restore economic stability and greatness.
Authoritarianism: Hitler’s regime was characterized by extreme authoritarianism, where dissent was ruthlessly suppressed. This consolidation of power allowed for radical policies and ideologies, including the anti-Semitic and racist beliefs that led to the Holocaust.
State Control of the Economy: The Nazi government exerted significant control over the economy, implementing public works programs and militarization. This interventionist approach was seen as a solution to economic woes.
Abortion Laws (Social Control and Ideological Suppression):Nazi Germany had restrictive policies on abortion as part of its racial purity ideology.
State Repression: Gestapo and SS PowersThe Gestapo (Secret State Police) and the SS (Schutzstaffel) had sweeping powers to investigate and arrest individuals considered threats to the Nazi regime. They operated outside the conventional legal system and often engaged in extrajudicial actions.
Book Banning (Censorship and Control of Information): Authoritarian regimes have often engaged in censorship to control information and shape public opinion. This includes banning books and materials deemed subversive or contrary to the ruling ideology. Nazi Germany, for instance, burned books by authors considered undesirable.
Criminalization of Homosexuality: Under the Nazi regime, homosexuality was criminalized through the notorious Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code. This law made any form of same-sex sexual activity illegal and punishable by imprisonment.
Parallels Today
Economic Uncertainty: In modern times, economic uncertainties persist, with events like the 2008 financial crisis and the 2020 pandemic causing economic hardships for many. Economic instability creates fertile ground for extremist ideologies.
The resurgence of Authoritarianism: Authoritarian tendencies, with leaders curtailing civil liberties and suppressing dissent. While not all are fascist, these actions reflect a troubling trend.
Economic Populism: Economic grievances and job insecurity have fueled the rise of far-right populism in some regions. Leaders often promise to protect jobs and the interests of the majority, echoing historical appeals to nationalism and economic stability.
Xenophobia and Racism: Like in the past, economic difficulties can exacerbate xenophobia and racism. Some individuals and groups use economic frustrations as a platform to promote discriminatory ideologies. Capitalism is inherently linked to colonialism when fascism rises as does racism.
Abortion Laws (Social Control and Ideological Suppression): Some governments have passed highly restrictive abortion laws, limiting women’s autonomy over their bodies. This can be seen as an attempt to impose ideological control and restrict individual freedoms, echoing historical authoritarian tendencies.
RICO Statutes Against Activists (State Repression): There have been instances where RICO statutes have been used against activists and protest movements, alleging that they are engaged in illegal conspiracies. This use of legal tools to target political dissent raises concerns about state repression and parallels historical tactics employed against activists.
Book Banning (Censorship and Control of Information): Governments or interest groups may seek to remove books from curricula or libraries, aiming to control the narrative and limit access to diverse perspectives. This echoes historical tactics of information control seen in authoritarian
Erosion of Civil Liberties: Fascist regimes suppress civil liberties and individual freedoms in the name of “maintaining order.” Anti-LGBTQ laws, by limiting the rights of LGBTQ individuals, directly undermine civil liberties, including freedom of expression, association, and equal protection under the law.
There are two main paths society can take: one is the downward capitalist path with fascism, and the other is the upward socialist path.
In the end, these are sociopaths, man: Read all about it!
According a study dating back to 2010, there were at least three times as many psychopaths in executive or CEO roles than in the overall population. But more recent data found it’s now a much higher figure: 20 percent.
The incidence of psychopathy among CEOs, for instance, is four times higher than the general population, reports journalist Jon Ronson in his book “The Psychopath Test.”
“Basically, when you get them talking, [psychopaths] are different than human beings,” Ronson told Forbes. “They lack things that make you human: empathy, remorse, loving kindness.”
This behavior is quite different from normal humans. It also says that,
In studying psychopaths, researchers Paul Babiak and Robert Hare found that the high-stakes, high-profits corporate environment attracts these dysfunctional personalities.
Psychopaths often share the same goals as many others: money, power…
Lawrence Summers, the President Emeritus of Harvard University, met with Jeffrey Epstein more than a dozen times following his 2008 conviction, and solicited Epstein for funds to support his wife’s budding nonprofit, new documents revealed.
Epstein donated millions of dollars to Harvard during Summers’ stint as the Ivy League university’s president from 2001-2006, which came after Summers served as US Treasury Secretary for Bill Clinton and before his tenure as chief economic adviser to President Barack Obama.
Nevertheless, new documents obtained by The Journal revealed that Summers continued to meet with Epstein from 2013-2016, and they had several dinners on the books throughout the four-year period.
A spokeswoman for Summers confirmed that “their interactions primarily focused on global economic issues,” and The Journal reported that Summers never received additional funds — personally or for Harvard — from Epstein following his conviction.
Summers went on to argue that boys outperform girls on high school science and maths scores because of genetic difference. “Research in behavioural genetics is showing that things people previously attributed to socialisation weren’t due to socialisation after all,” he told the Boston Globe yesterday.
As an example, Summers told the conference about giving his daughter two trucks. She treated them like dolls, and named them mummy and daddy trucks, he said.
Summers also played down the impact of sex bias in appointments to academic institutions.
He said: “The real issue is the overall size of the pool, and it’s less clear how much the size of the pool was held down by discrimination.”
At least half of his audience comprised women, several said they found the remarks offensive and one walked out.
“It was really shocking to hear the president of Harvard make statements like that,” said Denice Denton, who is about to become president of the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Others said Summers’s comments were depressingly familiar. “I have heard men make comments like this my entire life and quite honestly if I had listened to them I would never have done anything,” said Donna Nelson, a chemistry professor at the University of Oklahoma. (source)
when the bureacratic well runs dry, you as survivor of DV are on your own, especially when family and friends are riding in their own Private Idaho
Preface: According to band member Kate Pierson, “Private Idaho” was inspired by the feeling of being trapped and isolated, like a prisoner in solitary confinement. The song originated when Pierson had a vision of someone disappearing into themselves and being cut off from the world around them.
Note that in Western Capitalism, so so many people are trapped, self-imposed, sure, but mostly dictated by the oppression, the constant celebrity cult fawning, all those elites lording over the masses, i.e. the 80 percent. Think about all the services (social, mutual aid, support, food, schooling, child rearing, aging, disability) that were not there in the first place in this Number One Nation on Earth Shit-Hole, and those that were there as threadbare services designed to clog and fail . . . and you get a picture of how lost we are in this putrid world.
Think about domestic abuse, AKA Battered Wife Syndrome. Think about dysfunctional courts, dysfunctional prosecutions, dysfunctional defense attorneys, dysfunctional investigators and more than dysfunctional cops and even victims rights advocates who are to lunch, or just so fearful of rocking the boat, they just do the basics or do not stick out their necks for fear of being sent to HR and being put on some fucking PIP — Personal Improvement Plan!
So, when a bloke like me ground truths with one example of one woman in one county dealing with one abuser and one last straw that precipitated calling 911, the world in an oyster is the world all of you readers will engage with at one point in your life struggling to make ends meet, struggling to understand how Capitalism and Patriarchy and Forced Implosion of Services are orchestrated by some of the most sociopathic and mean “leaders” in “society.”
Stages of Grief, Disempowering the Abuser, Healing
Operator: What’s the nature of your call, ma’am?”
Victim: “I’m … I’m locked out of my house. My, he . . . my husband, he just tried to strangle me . . . suffocate me …”
Operator: “Where are you now? Are you in a safe place?”
Victim: “Oh my god, safe? I don’t know.”
Operator: “Ma’am. Where are you now? In the house with him?”
Victim: “No, no . . . I got away. I’m at a neighbor’s house. He’s locked himself in our house.”
My friend is now almost a year from that frantic call last November. She’s in counseling. She knows the facts, too, rattling them off while she puffs a cigarette:
· “It can take seven attempts before a survivor permanently leaves an abusive partner.”
· “Around 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States.”
· “I’ve read that around 31% of all women will experience domestic violence. Can you believe that?
· “For Black women, that statistic rises to than 40%. It’s insane how much domestic abuse goes on.”
Even after eleven months navigating and meeting with the Lincoln County courts, the victim’s assistance program, a local counselor, and a divorce lawyer, my friend is in many ways right back at the trigger point of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from the moment she got away from a couch pillow and 220-pound man forcing her not to breathe.
It’s not a disorder, PTSD (or BWS), in the traditional sense, but rather an overarching set of fears, habits, thinking processes, self-perceptions and societal norms that rush through any victim’s or survivor’s head. That incident she was surprised to read ended up in the Newport News Times the following Wednesday that chilling November evening.
That was a shock – in black and white. That same week, a grand jury indicted the abuser – the accused – on most of the charges leveled at him by the arresting deputies. A husband and wife – where she ended up fleeing to with her dog – were also called in by the Grand Jury as witnesses, as well as the investigating deputy.
That 911 call and the indictment were not stages one and two. For her, she had been forced for more than four years to leave the house, or even when they were camping together, forced to flee from his very presence because of his heavy abuse of alcohol and constant verbal and financial abuse.
He gave her a concussion two years ago. She lied to the attending medical personal saying, “I fell in a river and hit my head.”
She lived a life of isolation, developing a contrived “everything is okay” attitude, but deep down she feared that he might one day just kill her. Nights were bad when he passed out after consuming huge amounts of beer and booze. Each time she left, he attempted to reel her back, she tells me. And that worked over and over and over. Apologies, big male crocodile tears telling he’ll never do it again, and then this woman’s need to believe she was committed to marriage for the long haul.
She repeats to me – “Can you imagine if we had a child? I understand why victims of domestic abuse who have kids get priority in shelters, for services.”
My Sister’s Place is a Template Needing Replication a Thousand Times
Taking power back is one of the goals of Amber Wishoff-Martin who is the director of My Sister’s Place in Newport. She was in a whirlwind when I first made contact with her.
On her mind was on my friend’s case – Wishoff-Martin asked for the perpetrator’s name and the date my friend contacted My Sister’s Place. But Amber was in the midst of putting together a flyer for an August 15 training in Newport sponsored by Catholic Charities: “Understanding How Immigration Laws Can Help Survivors of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Child Sex Abuse, Stalking, & Human Trafficking.”
I broached the issues of overworked DA’s; not always trauma-informed/sensitive victim’s advocates; the nuances of defense attorneys and prosecutors meeting to “horse trade” charges to forgo or forestall a trial based on a reduced set of charges in a plea agreement.
Wishoff-Martin states she wants to be “a voice of compatibility” when looking at the challenges typical of domestic abuse prosecutions. Amber noted the County’s domestic violence diversion court is effective. In the end, though, the shortage of prosecutors and defense attorneys has “a direct impact on survivors.”
We’ll get into the benefits and services of MSP, but one organization I contacted is Portland-based, SCARS – Survivor Collective Alliance, Reach Society. Rachelle Scheele is the principal cofounder SCARS. One of the incredibly impactful aspects of this collective is the Podcasts: Survivors Speak Truth. This is an abuse and trauma survivor-run Podcast. The goal is to “elevate survivor voices and amplify survivor stories.”
Healing takes time, as all the practitioners agree. Some of that roadwork, according to SCARS and social workers, including Heidi H. Heild, thirty years in social work, is drilling down to the truth of abuse. SCARS ramifies healing from trauma through peer support: “self-advocacy, healing, outreach, education, and restorative justice.”
I asked Heidi what goes wrong, usually, in domestic violence court cases. “The lack of advocacy for the victim, revictimization through the court process.”
Her biggest push is creating more services for domestic violence victims/survivors. “Not all DV victims are alike,” Heild says. “Some need only a little help to exit abusive relationships and get on with their lives.; at the other extreme are those deeply traumatized by their experiences and in need of extensive professional help to regain a basic ability to function independently. Clearly, different types and levels of service are needed.”
Just this past February, Amber wrote to the House Committee on Judiciary supporting HB2933, a $10 million increase for funding the Oregon Domestic and Sexual Violence Services (ODSVS). She spoke of the increased need for survivor services.
“Our agency, like others across the state, saw exponential growth in calls to hotlines and requests for safe, emergency shelter and services. In the last year we took over 1,300 calls on our “Hopeline,” a 24-hour crisis hotline for Lincoln County support. This was a massive increase over what we have seen in years past,” she wrote.
She emphasizes that a safe place to sleep at night when fleeing domestic violence is a life saver. In Lincoln County, last year, MSP offered 4,140 bed nights to adult survivors and 1,938 nights to their children. MSP, also known as My Safe Place, has been in Lincoln County attempting to meet the needs of victims and survivors for 42 years.
For my friend, who called MSP a week before the attempted murder, said she hit a brick wall as there was no space for her at the time. She told me she’s not throwing aspersions at MSP, but without a place to stay, she went back to her abuser, and a week later, the 911 call was made. “I went back to the abuser and here I am now ten months later as he just pled out for the attempted murder.”
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Here, in the public record, the impact statement, as in VICTIM impact statement: More Ground Truthing/More Reality Not Hitched to Celebrity Culture (Johnny Depp or Russell Brand or Spitzer or Epstein or Bill Clinton or Joe Biden, et al, and their abuse, or alleged abuse).
Quoted verbatim, with persmission.
To the Court and to my Abuser:
I see clearly now. I see how you gained control over the years and how you targeted me from day one. By shining so bright – me the independent, multi-lingual, smart business owner — I had what you never had. You saw in me a powerful but vulnerable well intentioned human being, and you took advantage of it as all abusers do. You never treated me as your equal. I was the perfect victim for you.
I didn’t know back then, but I know now that I married a predator. It was truly scary for me when I talked with your ex fiancé, Mary, and realized how your abusive behaviors only escalated with the years. Her life was shattered, and her current life, married with children, still reflects fear for you, of you. The fact that you never did the work on yourself to heal your own traumas or anger management, that is forefront, but for a victim of more then four years of abuse, I find it difficult to empathize with you. You have continued with your hate, your misogyny and your control; you have only gotten worse. You abused Marytoo and probably every woman that ever crossed your path. You’re a serial abuser.
The control you gained on me over the years was very insidious. The cycle of abuse was vicious. From complete isolation & neglect, to long periods of raging and alcohol abuse, to rejection and abandonment, among others, you wore me down and turned me into a victim of Stockholm Synrome. You belittled me and threatened me every chance you had. You made a point to make my life miserable. You pushed me away and reeled me back in whenever you were pleased with fake apologies, crocodile tears and empty promises to change and be better. I believe you are not redeemable.
You wanted a submissive wife at home to cook, to clean and to fall under your terrible will.
You wanted a punching bag for your emotions, and I was it. That facilitated you to show your best behaviors and charming self to other people. It’s not classic Jekyll & Hide behavior, but it sure was close. Nobody really knew what was really happening behind closed doors. A living hell, that’s what it was all along, all day everyday with you. I was constantly walking on eggshells, sleeping on the couch with my purse hidden under my legs and the dog on a leash, always on a fight or flight mode. I would clean vomit and piss all over the bathroom every other day.
You would hide the car keys so I couldn’t go anywhere. You would lock me outside of the house.
You would threaten to hurt the dog if I would to go anywhere.
You would manipulate me and force me into your deviant sexual fantasies so you would have to seek sex from other women.
You would attack my integrity and make fun of my origins, my family, my friends, my accent, my height, my weight. There was always something wrong with me, any ideas I would have or everything I would do. I was criticized, blamed, and brought down every day.
You gaslit me constantly, trying to convince me that what I saw I didn’t see, what I heard I didn’t hear, what I felt I didn’t feel. That was an ongoing narcissitic plan to convince me that my reality was completely false, and that’s a serious abuse tactic & psychological torture method I have learned now while going to counseling. You were grooming me into losing every little bit of self confidence I had so you could abuse me more intensely and keep me isolated.
The way you treated me all along is a statement of who you are as a human being. Nine months in a county jail with no counseling, no group work, no substance abuse programs just makes you more of a danger to society. But not to me.
For the longest time, I tried to understand your relationship with your mother, and I finally got it: You both are the same person, you both are despicable human beings. You can’t stand each other, yet you use each other to get your evil ways. I don’t think you were born an abuser, but that you became one: forged by another one, your father and your rotten mother’s response to a husband’s abuse. The abused that becomes an abuser is classic, but it doesn’t make me feel vindicated. Everything you guys plotted against me over the years and especially since you got incarcerated were really enlightening to me. She enables you all the way and you don’t know any better than being an abuser & addict.
I have now unraveled all of your lies, including the cheating and the nasty campaign you ran amongst friends and family. Rarely mentioning that we were married, keeping me hidden so you could abuse me better, your have lied throughout this relationship, to me and to others. You also targeting vulnerable and low self-esteem women by luring them into your hotel rooms. I’m truly disgusted. By now, your life has no more secrets for me. Maybe you can find some relief in that.
I wanted to be loved.
I wanted to help.
I wanted to make you happy.
I wanted us to be team #1.
Sure, I have cried, screamed and ran away my fair share as I was reacting to this ongoing nightmare. But unlike you, I never intended to hurt, control and manipulate. I helped you through every struggle you had. I was your cheerleader. I followed, encouraged and helped you in all your projects, as crazy as they were. I was by your side every time you experienced alcohol withdrawals, when you were sick or injured. And so on.
I had good intentions; I wanted a lifetime marriage & partner. But you wouldn’t appreciate anything I would do for you. I did a lot for you, for us. I was a good, loving & faithful wife. I am the one that helped you keeping your head above the water. Without me, you would have sunken a long time ago. Remember the person you first met in Antigua, Guatemala? An independent & strong woman, loved and respected by everyone? Well, by the time you got incarcerated, I was barely a shadow of that person, of myself. I had checked out emotionally. I couldn’t bear any of the abuse anymore. I was at my lowest point and this is exactly where you wanted me to be so you could control, lie, manipulate, cheat and abuse me even more. You thought you had me good; I know you never thought I would call the police on you! You’ve mistaken my kindness for weakness.
I jeopardized my life to flee from you and the abuse on many occasions by flying away, driving away, leaving numerous different jobs, turning down opportunities, sleeping in the car, streets, motels, crashing at friends’ homes.
They say that it takes on average 7 times for a victim to flee her abuser for good. That’s about what it took me to stand for myself and call the police. And yes, I did come back to you plenty of times. I genuinely wanted things to work for us and help you. I loved you very much.
But I know now that I never had a real chance to make this marriage work. For you, it wasn’t about love, respect and devotion. It was all about control, manipulation & abuse. You never loved me. I am no longer ashamed I have been shackled by you because I understand the dynamics of battered wife syndrome.
I am no longer a victim.
You used everything I ever shared with you, with honesty and vulnerability, to manipulate me and keep me around. I was so scared of what would happen if I didn’t obey you. You would threaten me into withdrawing yourself from the green card application so I would be deported. You would hide my passport while you were gone on your trips so I wouldn’t escape. You would make me spend every bit of money I would make so you could control me financially. I could go on forever.
Nothing will ever excuse nor explain what happened on the night of November 11th when for the first time in my life I dialed 911. Who the fuck do you think you are to feel that’s it’s okay to assault me and contemplate killing me? You really scared me. As you grabbed me by the throat, locked my arms behind my back, stuffed my face in the couch, forced a pillow over my head and tried to suffocate me, I thought for sure I would die. You tried to kill me, Abusere!
You must have thought that I had to pay for every woman in your life that let you down and disappointed you. Or maybe you sought some kind of vengeance against women, me, with your dad’s murder anniversary coming up. It took me some time to realize it, but I surely was in great danger! There is nothing I could have done for you justify assaulting me. No trauma or addiction of yours could explain or diminish your actions. I thought about that night many times; there was no happy ending possible. I would of end up dead one day soon anyways. You were out of control and more aggressive by the day. And remember when you gave me concussion in Sedona after hitting me on the head? Remember me begging for my life as you were choking me on the bed? Those burdens are now all on you. I am washing my hands of it. I refuse to let any of the abuse you put me through define me anymore.
The person you assaulted that night exists no more. I am in process of regaining all the self confidence you took away from me, taking back control over my life and healing from all the trauma you caused me. Make no mistake, you can’t fool me anymore. Although you’ve shaken me to my core, you didn’t succeed to kill me and I am now growing stronger than ever.
That’s my biggest victory. I am finally seeing you for the monster that you are. I am standing up for myself. Unlike you, I never soought vengeance. By now, I only want you to take accountability and be held legally responsible for what you did to me. I am finding myself much more peaceful knowing exactly who and what I was dealing with. I know you know exactly what you did to me that and how much you’ve abused me over the years and it’s going to haunt and torture your consciousness forever, no matter how drunk you get.
YOU will have to live with those thoughts ever after.The truth is that you are a danger to society. You have put me through some much abuse and you endangered me and my dog, so many times. You are an abuser in the most classic sense; you drive intoxicated; you are a predator; you are a misogynist, a narcissist, a sociopath, racist and a total fraud. What you have put me through, I don’t wish it on anybody. You are an imminent danger to women and young girls.
You have lucked out and received a plea agreement, and I know your think you have won, that you will get something over on the probabtion officials, that you can scam the system, and that you will drink again and even attempt to contact me. You sould have received prison time.
I truly hope you will heal from your own childhood trauma, through anger management and addiction treatment, and that you will at some point be the better human being I always thought you could be, but I strongly doubt any of these will transpire.
You will hurt again and fuck it up again like you always. How was your time in jail? Just over 8 months, right? How miserable were you? That’s nothing compared to what you have put me through and what I have endured because of you. I was in a prison all day everyday living in serious fear. You plead for easier final punishment because you got scared like a little boy. You shit your pants. I was always the bigger person, not you. You can’t even face your own truth and admit your terrible behaviors and mistakes. It hurts too much to face the reality of your life full of regrets, doesn’t it?
Throughout these months, I never contacted you, didn’t contact your family nor your friends. I am commanding you to never ever get in contact with me, nor stalk me in any way, shape or form. Not me, my family, my friends. Don’t even try because I won’t hesitate to defend myself this time around. After everything you put me through, I would hope you would understand and leave me alone forever. I have given enough of my soul to the dark dark motives in your heart and head. Never again.
I’ll end this statement by saying this: For me, you are a spineless worthless piece of shit and there is no redemption for someone like you. Most importantly, you have now become a total stranger to me.
End Note: I’ll write something in between this piece and the last one, around the power of patriarchy, marriage dynamics, what happens in divorce court, and the bullshit intentions of abusers like this guy playing the system in those “mandatory” anger management and alcohol-substance abuse “classes.”
…. ask Zelensky-Blinken-Yellen-Garland-Nuland-Kagan-Biden where that money is . . . and fuck the Republicans, too, hateful Chamber of Commerce Lovers and MIC fuckers!
Now, do NOT believe the first numbers these Blood Lust Neoliberals list out, because there is always more more more money expended to get to, $24 billion . . . .
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit Congress after making a plea to the United Nations for more weapons. Zelenskyy’s speech comes just weeks before a potential government shutdown in which a $24 billion weapons package for Ukraine might be the central issue. Breakthrough News Editor-in-Chief, Ben Becker, joins the show to discuss Zelenskyy’s UN speech and what a potential end to the conflict might look like.
They do not account for the millions in support (sic) people, transporation, all the HR and accounting aspect of this outrageous theft of the coffers. Think trillions given to Ukraine since 2008. And the JP Morgans and the Golbman Sachs and the Wall Streeters are hoping for more of the pork barrel of grifting us, USA taxpayer, for this corrupt and dirty and poisoned and mined and ugly depopulated place.
Grain for the starving masses? Nah, for the Iberian Conquistadores:
The Black Sea Grain Initiative, signed by Russia and Ukraine in July 2022, was designed to alleviate global food shortages by allowing exports to resume from Ukraine and follow a protected sea transit corridor to the poorest countries in the world.
A recent investigation by the Austrian outlet eXXpress, however, says that didn’t happen. More than half of the Ukrainian wheat and corn exports to the EU ended up feeding pigs in Spain to produce its world-famous jamon.
This is the reality of the Jewish Cabal in Washington and then ZioAzovNaziLensky and his Jewish “cabinet” = money made for jam and bacon. Ahh, the biblical reasons for this stupidity and hypocrisy:
Here is a translation of the original “Divine” command, from Deuteronomy, Chapter 14:8-10:
And the pig, because it has a split hoof, but does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you. You shall neither eat of their flesh nor touch their carcass.
These you may eat of all that are in the waters; all that have fins and scales, you may eat.
But whatever does not have fins and scales, you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
Listen to the DIVINE:
This is the upside down world of broken thinkers, end of ethics, zero consciousness —
And again, more of MY money, sent to the prick of the world = and none of the fucking politicians have the guts to STOP it.
Oh, the Jacabin, but I’ll list these from that rag:
1 —Medicare for All
Medicare for All has become a top item on progressives’ policy wish list, raising the ire of conservatives and centrists everywhere. But despite the cries from fiscal scolds, Medicare for All is not as much as might you think: the $717 billion military budget is just about $12 billion shy of the sum needed to expand government health insurance to the 200 million US children and adults who currently have private insurance or no insurance at all. Structured the right way, Medicare for All could even reduce overall US health care costs by as much as $2 trillion.
2 —Free College
Free college for all is completely affordable — especially if you have the Pentagon budget at your disposal. The military’s $717 billion could pay full tuition for four years at a public university for 21 million college students — more students than are currently enrolled in all colleges in the country.
3 —Food Assistance
At the same time that the $717 billion military bill wends its way toward Trump’s desk, Congress is debating the merits of cutting $24 billion over ten years from food stamps and related assistance for the poor. Together, the proposed cuts and rule changes could result in 3 million Americans losing food assistance.
Trimming the Pentagon budget by $2.4 billion per year — a reduction of less than half a percent — would make up the difference and keep food stamps and its sister programs intact.
4 —Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood received $543 million in government funds in its last reported year. Thanks to lots of resistance, attempts in Congress to defund the organization have so far proven unsuccessful. But now women face a new challenge, named Brett Kavanaugh. Trump’s Supreme Court pick is widely believed to be the vote that could overturn Roe v. Wade, or at least weaken it past recognition. Technically no federal funds are used to pay for abortions (an absurd restriction that should be reversed), but the Pentagon budget could fund services like birth control and gynecological exams at the current funding level until the year 3336.
5 —Reduced Fossil-Fuel Emissions
The only way to slash carbon emissions is by taking aggressive action at the federal level. That will be costly. But fortunately, there’s a bloated Pentagon budget we can draw on.
The military budget could fully fund the $200 billion annual investment needed to reduce US fossil fuel emissions by 40 percent by 2035, according to a 2014 study. That study — the best cost-estimate available for carbon reduction — also estimated that a $200 billion annual investment would create 2.7 million new jobs.
6 —Upgraded Infrastructure
Aside from clean energy, the United States is in desperate need of new infrastructure investment for roads, bridges, public water systems, schools, and more. Millions of Americans drink tap water that isn’t up to public safety standards. The American Society for Civil Engineers gave the United States a D+ for its infrastructure on their most recent report card. Since the United States is $2 trillion shy of the needed funds for repairs over the next ten years, a 28 percent cut to Pentagon funding — from $717 billion to $513 billion, still higher than during the 1990s — would cover the difference.
Again, this is just limited, but the facts are again here, but double the figure:
By the Department of Defense’s own accounting, taxpayers spent $13.34 trillion on the U.S. military from 2000 through fiscal year 2019 in inflation-adjusted 2020 dollars. Add to that another $3.18 trillion for the Veterans Administration, and the yearly average comes to a whopping $826 billion.
The F-35 is just one of the malfunctioning weapons systems on the Pentagon’s current $1.8-trillion shopping list of overpriced aircraft, missiles, ships, satellites and tanks. Other poor performers include the $22-billion Zumwalt destroyer, a warship without a mission; the $30-billion littoral combat ship, which the Navy is already mothballing because it is virtually unusable; and the Air Force’s problem-plagued $43-billion KC-46 refueling tanker, which offers little improvement over current refuelers.
But it is not only exorbitant hardware that picks taxpayer pockets. Pentagon administrative costs are also out of control. A January 2015 report by a federal advisory panel found that the Pentagon could save $125 billion in administrative waste by streamlining its bloated bureaucracy. That sum alone is 15 times more than the $8.3 billion the Trump administration proposes to spend in the next fiscal year to fund the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during one of the worst pandemics in modern history.
Oh, the teary eyes, the crocodile tears. What day is it? November 11?
Fighting ended on the Western Front of the First World War on Nov. 11, 1918. Celebrations of the end of war soon turned solemn, in remembrance of all who were lost. Armistice Day, officially recognized by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in 1919, began to be observed throughout the world, honoring those who brought about the end of the “Great War.”
The fucking “great” war?
The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I, was around 40 million. There were 20 million deaths and 21 million wounded. The total number of deaths includes 9.7 million military personnel and about 10 million civilians. The Entente Powers (also known as the Allies) lost about 5.7 million soldiers while the Central Powers lost about 4 million. Classification of casualty statistics Estimates of casualty numbers for World War I vary to a great extent Military casualty statistics listed here include combat related deaths as well as military deaths caused by accidents, disease and deaths while prisoners of war. Most of the casualties during WWI are due to war related famine and disease. Civilian deaths due to the Spanish flu have been excluded from these figures, whenever possible. Moreover, civilian deaths include the Armenian Genocide. (source)
And this is the backdrop of the dirty pigs of war wanting more casualties, man, this dirty Jewish Leader and his Dirty Green Fatigues and Cocaine Problem?
Of the 60 million soldiers who fought in the First World War, over 9 million were killed — 14% of the combat troops or 6,000 dead soldiers per day. The armies of the Central Powers mobilised 25 million soldiers and 3.5 million of them died. The Entente Powers deployed 40 million soldiers and lost more than 5 million. The mortality rate ranged between 6% and 30%, with the highest in the armies of Serbia, Montenegro and the Turkish Empire, mainly due to large epidemics of cholera, typhoid and smallpox, against which the armies of other countries vaccinated their troops. Infectious diseases did also spread in other armies, but with a lower mortality rate. In absolute numbers, major battles on all fronts claimed the highest number of casualties, primarily because of the technology of warfare based on explosive artillery shells. The death toll among prisoners of war amounted to between 5 and 10 % of prisoners.
ALL those killed because of USA’s Proxy War and Continuing NATO expansion is a drop in the WWI and WWII buckets.
These photos below should run chills down every decent human’s spine, generating a call to action — death to the traitors!
[Photo: BAND OF BROTHERS: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin, Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba, US Climate Envoy John Kerry, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken listen as President Joe Biden addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Tuesday.]
Please-please, BLinken’s last meal? Come on, Putin. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba enjoy a happy meal last week in Kiev.
And so, these people are monsters, and they are A-okay with terrorism!
Criminal trials and investigations in Europe confirmed that top-secret “Supplement B” to U.S. Army Field Manual 30-31, contrary to the U.S. government’s oft-repeated denials, was indeed an authentic document.
FM 30-31B first surfaced in Europe in the 1970s and was long suspected to be used by U.S. and host countries’ intelligence as operational guidance for violent anti-Communist destabilization, including acts of terrorism.
U.S. intelligence claimed consistently that the document was a sophisticated “Soviet forgery.”
Pages and pages and reams of paper are part of the playbook. US School of the Americas?
School for Dictators!
Critics have labeled the School of the Americas a “school for dictators.” The ten former Latin American heads of state who attended the School of the Americas include General Manuel Antonio Noriega of Panama, military ruler from 1983 until his ouster from power by U.S. forces in December 1989. In 1992, Noriega was convicted and sentenced in a U.S. Federal court to 40 years in prison on drug trafficking charges, while subsequently he was sentenced in Panama for the 1985 murder of a Panamanian opposition leader and for the October 1989 murder of a Panamanian military officer who led an unsuccessful coup against him. Another Panamanian leader who attended the School of the Americas is General Omar Torrijos who emerged as Panama’s de facto political leader after the National Guard overthrew the elected civilian government of Arnulfo Arias in 1968, and ruled either as official head of government or de facto political leader until his death in a plane crash in 1981. While many observers would label Torrijos a populist leader, others criticize the general for his repression of opposition sectors.
Two additional School alumni who overthrew elected civilian governments are Major General Guillermo Rodriguez (1972-76), who overthrew Ecuadorian President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, and Major General Juan Velasco Alvarado (1968-1975), who overthrew Peruvian President Fernando Belaunde Terry. Breaking with the pattern of previous military leaders in these two countries, Rodriguez and Alvarado initiated extensive periods of direct military rule, seven years in Ecuador and twelve years in Peru.
The six remaining Latin American military rulers who attended the School of the Americas consist of two each from Argentina, Bolivia, and Honduras, all of whom succeeded military rulers. In Argentina, Lieutenant General Roberto Viola led a short-lived military government from March to December 1981, but was ousted because of his failure to contain a rapidly deteriorating economy. (source)
SOA is what Ukraine and Israel lust after.
Ukraine already has terrorism 101 and 201 cells, and biological warfare labs, and all sorts of spooks form UK, Israel and USA: Close the School of the Americas, Again
Public pressure calling for the closure of SOA grew, and when a congressional task force found those responsible for the 1989 UCA massacre were trained at SOA, something had to be done. The House of Representatives narrowly killed a bipartisan bill to shut down SOA, and instead, it was closed in 2000 and reopened in January 2001 as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) under the Defense Department, rather than the Military.
United States imperialism is still alive and well, fueling an international reign of terror that has spawned almost a dozen dictators and countless human rights violators. The School of the Americas was never really closed. Instead, it was given a fresh coat of paint, simply rebranding the same education that promotes violence and terror in the Global South.
This education reinforces a cycle of violence in the Americas. It starts with security sector forces, trained by the United States to use torture, extortion, and abductions on populations of the Global South. As a result, asylum-seekers migrate North to escape from violence, often after a family member has already been tortured, arrested, or kidnapped. At the U.S.-Mexico border, caravans of people are denied refuge and detained, deported, or killed.
From either end, it’s the United States terrorizing and killing innocent people.
It’s a bloody system spawning from the U.S. destructive foreign policy in Latin America, ranging from sanctions to outright coups, that seeks to strangle the region with unfettered capitalism and Washington-backed despots.
Since 2019, SOA / WHINSEC has trained over 83,000 Latin American security forces. The school has held “human rights training” as a central pillar since before the 2001 rebranding, and after the change in leadership, the Defense Department doubled down on this focus by offering courses on “human rights.” However, these efforts are meaningless when it has no correlation to graduates respecting the most basic laws of international human rights.
And so it goes, in the USA Proxy Meat Grinder: Sadistic, Zelensky is wining and dining in Dirty DC and NYC: This is what those effete pigs want….
At least 25,000 Ukrainians have lost limbs since Vladimir Putin’s invasion last year.
Accurate figures are hard to verify and could be much higher.
The number of Russian soldiers to have been maimed is not known but is thought to be huge too.
Neither Ukrainian nor Russian officials are willing, officially, to reveal a figure which underlines the cost of the war.
Yeah, right, the cost of war. Disaster Capitalism. War Capitalism. Destruction Capitalism. Scraping the Dead from the Ground Capitalism.
Bright days ahead for the Blood Lust Merchants of Murder.
The logos of military contractors Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Pratt & Whitney, and Lockheed Martin were emblazoned on the invitation as the event’s sponsors, below the official Ukrainian emblems and elegant blue script that said the Ukrainian ambassador and defense attaché “request the pleasure of your company.”
“It’s really bizarre to me that they would put that on an invitation,” one think tank expert told me. “The fact that they don’t feel sheepish about it, that’s interesting,” explained an academic. (Both spoke on the condition of anonymity and regularly attend embassy events in Washington.)
Amazing these sub-humans — academic, read, fucking tool; and think tank expert, read, ex-academic new tool — and their fucking milquetoast statements.
Again, these people need to be taken out. The American military contractor Marc Morales, center, posing with two employees — Vladimir Koyfman, left, a chief sergeant in the Ukrainian military, and Denys Vanash, a former Defense Ministry adviser — in a photograph posted on Mr. Morales’s company’s Facebook page.
Human stain:
Merchants of Maiming — fucking smiling!
How much for the grad?
Problems followed. The vehicles arrived improperly outfitted, said Volodymyr Havrylov, an assistant defense minister in Ukraine. Anti-corruption officials began investigating the deal, he said. Investigators have asked questions about both Mr. Morales and the Defense Ministry officials who authorized the contract, according to one person who was interviewed.
The Defense Ministry said that the investigation had been “eliminated.” Anti-corruption officials would not confirm that.
Mr. Van Brunt said that Ukrainian authorities routinely investigated military deals. “This is an ‘investigation,’ and to conflate it with what the public may understand to be an investigation would be inaccurate,” he wrote in an email. He declined to comment on the deal itself.
By the end of last year, Mr. Morales’s success was evident at home in Tampa. Global Ordnance flew its employees in from Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, to attend a Christmas party. Mr. Morales posted on Facebook a photograph of himself with his colleagues: Sergeant Koyfman wore wraparound sunglasses and a black T-shirt with an American flag-painted skull. Mr. Vanash wore a traditional Ukrainian shirt embroidered with red and yellow flowers.
Mr. Morales sees a bright future in Ukraine. At the penthouse bar last month, conversation turned toward “large contracts that were about to be awarded,” Mr. Van Brunt said. Officials asked whether the company could handle big new deals.
it’s not the elephant or gorrilla in the room — think golem, monster of war, depair, isolation
“Behind every fortune lies a crime,” said Balzac.
Well, it does take lawyers, CPAs, accountants, banks, and, sure, hitmen to amass the fortune. And armies!
Ahh, as an example of the Tribe’s Specialness, here, some crimes of the son-in-law’s daddy: Charles Kushner’s pardon has re-surfaced the sordid actions that put him in jail in the first place.
Kushner was a multimillionaire real estate executive and top Democratic donor when he was sentenced in 2005 to two years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to 18 counts, including tax evasion and making illegal campaign contributions.
Once Kushner discovered his brother-in-law and former business partner was assisting federal authorities in their investigation, he set out for revenge (and, as prosecutors would argue, witness intimidation).
The wealthy New York real estate magnate hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law in a New Jersey motel, arranging to have the encounter recorded with a hidden camera.
Then, he showed the video to his brother-in-law’s wife: Kushner’s sister.
Adding an interesting twist to the saga is that Kushner’s prosecution was overseen by then-U.S. Attorney Chris Christie, who would go on to become a prominent Trump surrogate and the head of his transition team.
Christie’s history with the Kushner family would loom large over his time with the Trump team. In 2016, he was ousted from the campaign, and many blamed Jared Kushner for his firing.Still, Christie has continually defended his decision to prosecute Charles Kushner, even writing a book centered in part on the saga: Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics.
“Mr. Kushner pled guilty. He admitted the crimes,” Christie told PBS in a 2019 interview. “And so what am I supposed to do as a prosecutor? I mean, if a guy hires a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, and videotapes it, and then sends the videotape to his sister to attempt to intimidate her from testifying before a grand jury, do I really need any more justification than that?”
Christie continued: “I mean, it’s one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes that I prosecuted. And I was U.S. attorney in New Jersey, so we had some loathsome and disgusting crime going on there.” (sources)
“This is a bit like the situation between Poland and Ukraine. Ukraine is under Russian attack, undoubtedly in a very difficult situation, clutching at whatever he can. Should we be offended by it [Ukraine]? Of course, you can be indignant about it,” Duda said.
“Should we act to protect ourselves from being harmed by a drowning man? Of course we must act to protect ourselves from a drowning man causing us harm, because if the drowning man causes us harm and drowns us, he won’t get any help. So we have to look after our own interests, and we will do this effectively and decisively,” Duda said.
Duda also admitted that although he had planned to meet with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, he had not been able to “for organisational reasons” – delays in the schedule of leaders’ speeches at the UN General Assembly – but he does not rule out that a meeting will take place later.
This is what this sort of fellow — the most corrupt of those countries in “EuroTrashLandia” — does: Ukraine to Sue Poland, Hungary and Slovakia , Over Food Import Bans. In May, EU restrictions allowed Ukraine’s neighbors, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, “to ban domestic sales of Ukrainian wheat, maize, rapeseed and sunflower seeds,” Reuters reports.
But on Sept. 15, after the European Commission refused to extend its import ban, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia announced Ukrainian grain import restrictions of their own. The countries maintain that the restrictions are intended to protect their economies and farmers, Reuters reports.
On Sept. 18, Ukrainian officials announced that a lawsuit will be filed against Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Polish politician Radoslaw Fogiel said that if Ukraine does sue, it would “reverberate badly in Poland.
“Our decision is not aimed at Ukraine, it is dictated by the protection of the Polish farmer and the protection of Poland’s interests,” Radoslaw Fogiel, the head of Poland’s parliamentary foreign affairs commission, said via Reuters.
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So this little man, and his little men and women, are demanding more more more, and, they default to lawsuits. While this is escalating. Yeah, the little David, the New Churchill, Zelensky!
Glenn Diesen interviews Col. Douglas McGregor
What’s next in the Ukraine war?
Mcgregor admits that Russia would attack the West with nukes if it is attacked by nukes.
He seems to have missed part of the wording of the new Russian military doctrine, which in fact says that, if Russian territory is attacked – even with a non-nuclear weapon – they retain the right to attack the invader with nuclear weapons!
He also thinks that, if the West continues to send long-range weapons and contracts NATO specialists to provide Ukraine with coordinates and pushes the launch buttons, Putin may eventually get tired of this provocation, and may go on the offensive against a NATO country.
Again, others see this terrorism a la Israel: Don Hank,
But Ze is no longer requesting or even demanding, he is threatening to sic Ukrainian refugees on the entire West if they stop supporting this lost cause.
Well, nothing new in this. Back on July 22, 1946, the Jewish terror group Irgun demanded that Britain refrain from setting limits to the number of Jewish immigrants that could legally enter the then British Mandate, now known as Israel in the West and Occupied Palestine in much of the Muslim world. Now Britain had been the benefactor of the Jewish migrants and in fact, the Zionist project was a brainchild of the British, whose Balfour Declaration laid the foundation for it.
So you might expect the new settlers would appreciate this assistance. But you’d be wrong.
The bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem was planned in response to Operation Agatha (explained here). The terrorist Volodymyr Zelensky was just following an established pattern. Except that, unlike those early forebears, Ze is the leader of a Nazi regime.
But then again, what did the Biden team expect from a Nazi regime?
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AmeriKKKa, and the rest of the Beautiful People in the West:
And, so, one cartel or mafia, Sicily, or a Jewish Mafia is destined to get billions from exploiting Ukraine:
I Wish I Was a Rothschild, err, Rich Man. Blinken’s bat mitzvah bud? DISGUSTING!
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The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Wyatt Reed discuss the appointment of billionaire heiress Penny Pritzker to head US “reconstruction” efforts in Ukraine, and detail her and her family’s sordid history of corrupt financial practices.
Pritzer, man, what a legacy! And on Wikipedia, you will get the white white wash, and dead links.
Dirty dirty: This is Variety magazine, another dirty place of fake news, or fawning news.
Jay Pritzker quietly built a $15 billion empire of more than 200 companies, including Hyatt Hotels Corp., and a network of 1,000 family trusts. But one of the patriarch’s final deals before his 1999 death, designed to bind his heirs closer, unleashed a torrent of anger, greed, and betrayal, culminating last fall in a $6 billion lawsuit by his 19-year-old niece, Liesel. The author charts the destruction of a great American fortune.
It is a simple moment that stands out most vividly in the memories of Jay Pritzker’s friends—a moment during his funeral which did not seem to them remarkable at the time, but which in retrospect was the last time they saw his family united. “It was a very cold day and there was snow,” one friend recalls. Because of the weather, many guests had not been able to make it to Chicago that day in January 1999; still, nearly 1,000 mourners had shown up at the Emanuel Congregation to pay their respects, forcing the police to barricade part of North Sheridan Road to make way for the limousines. Chicago’s mayor, Richard Daley, had come, as had the former congressman Jack Kemp, the real-estate billionaire Sam Zell, and the advice columnist Ann Landers, along with scores of investors and businessmen with whom Pritzker had dealt in the decades during which he amassed one of the largest fortunes in America.
The former director of the National Gallery of Art J. Carter Brown, who, before his death last year, chaired the jury of the famed Pritzker Architecture Prize, was there. And so were representatives of the countless hospitals, cultural groups, and charities to which Pritzker had, before he died at the age of 76, given hundreds of millions of dollars.
“The temple was filled,” says one of Jay Pritzker‘s friends. At the front of the synagogue, taking up several rows of seats, were almost all of the 52 living members of the Pritzker family. For many of the mourners, it was the first time they had seen so many of the publicity-shy clan in public. Intensely private, they are rarely photographed or interviewed, almost never seen.
Marian “Cindy” Pritzker, Jay’s wife of 51 years, and his younger brother and business partner, Robert, were seated in the front row, flanked by Jay’s three sons, Thomas, John, and Daniel, and his daughter Gigi. With cousins surrounding them in a protective phalanx, they formed a tableau that Jay Pritzker, friends say, would have loved. In life, they say with sadness now, nothing was more important to him or gave him more joy than his family.
All three of Jay’s sons spoke at his funeral that day. They spoke about his passions for skiing and buying companies, and about how much they loved him. “I’ve lived a privileged life, and truly the greatest privilege was getting to know Dad in my adult years,” said Daniel, a rock musician, who is now 43.
“Growing up was kind of like having Chuck Yeager and John Glenn for a dad,” said John, now 49 and an entrepreneur in San Francisco. And then Tom, Jay’s oldest son, stood up to speak. It was Tom, now 52, to whom Jay had passed the torch; Tom controlled the family’s empire—including its crown jewel, the Hyatt Hotels Corp., the Pritzkers’ web of more than 200 privately held companies, vast tracts of real estate, and some 1,000 family trusts, all of which, taken together, are said to be worth $15 billion, if not more. His father, Tom told the crowd, “believed a man’s only immortality comes from the values he instilled in his children. The country has lost a great man. I’ve lost my father. I’ve lost my partner. I’ve lost my best friend.” As he spoke, Tom began to cry. (source)
This is the Blinken-Garland-Yellen-nuland-Kagan(s) Dirty White House:
Did you know that in the early 1970s, the Internal Revenue Service investigated the Pritzker family, whose scion Penny Pritzker has just been tapped by President Obama to become Secretary of Commerce, because their Hyatt Corporation was paying no taxes? And that in the course of the inquiry, an IRS statement quoted an informant with access to the records of the offshore bank where they hid their assets that the family, “through their Hyatt Corporation, received their initial backing from organized crime”?
[Photo: President Obama introduces Penny Pritzker as his nominee for Secretary of Commerce.]
Read all about this disgusting family, now tapped by digusting Blinken to work her dirty mafia magic in Ukraine = Penny Pritzker’s Commerce (Part Two)
“Republican senators are likely to be interested in the Pritzker family’s reputation as innovators in the use of offshore trusts and foreign bank secrecy laws to shelter their wealth from income, capital gains and inheritance taxes. Even after tax loopholes were closed, the family’s trusts were grandfathered in and it kept benefiting from them.”
But certain patterns still obtain. It is one of the most crucial stories for understanding our age: how tax-avoidance strategies of a previous generation that might have landed you in court are now legal—which does not make them any more ethical. In fact, it may make them less ethical—precisely because third-gen scions like Penny, born in 1959, have entered into the political establishment, where their representatives, their latter-day Korshaks and Kanters, do their laundering in the halls of government instead of in Las Vegas hotel room meetings with associates of Tony Accardo. The scumminess is the same, or, really, worse; as Charlie Savage wrote this week in The New York Times, “Republican senators are likely to be interested in the Pritzker family’s reputation as innovators in the use of offshore trusts and foreign bank secrecy laws to shelter their wealth from income, capital gains and inheritance taxes. Even after tax loopholes were closed, the family’s trusts were grandfathered in and it kept benefiting from them.” As well the Republican senators should. And, hell, Democratic senators, too.
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Golem, in the image of LAWYERS, a la ZioAzovLenskyLansky: Meyer Lansky was a Mafioso who owned a Cuban casino where Americans loved to gamble.
Burke Osborne Hedges, who operated Cuba’s largest textile company, was revered as a boss who provided free health care and high wages.
Despite their differences, both men were lumped together by Fidel Castro as symbols of the corrupt government he battled to overthrow — Americans who amassed wealth at the expense of Cuban citizens.
Five decades later, long after they passed away, the two men and descendants who live in the Tampa Bay area are linked once again by their Cuba connections.
The families want to add properties they once owned in the island nation to $1.9 billion in claims filed by U.S. citizensover assets seized by the communist government.
Murder Inc., what a Zionist and Jewish mobster who killed, contracted to kill, and used Cubans for his prostitution rings and money laundering—
But the offspring are criminals of another sort: The heirs of Meyer Lansky, the impresario of the North American Mafia gambling colony in Cuba, a reign that lasted from 1933 to 1958, are betting on a big payback from the negotiations between the United States and Cuba to normalize relations between the two countries.
Compensation claims by U.S. citizens or businesses for properties nationalized by the Cuban revolution are among the issues under discussion. Lansky’s daughter Sandi, her son Gary Rapoport, and her brother Paul have filed a compensation claim against Cuba for the Riviera Hotel and Casino with the U.S. Foreign Claims Settlement Commission.
The Cuban revolution confiscated (not really confiscated, but, it is a new land) the Riviera and other Mafia-owned properties after it toppled the gangster-linked regime of General Fulgencio Batista in 1959.
“It was through my grandfather’s hard work that the hotel was built,” Rapoport told the U. K. Daily Mail Online on Dec. 23, 2015. “We are his natural relations . . . . By right, it should be our property.” He said the Riviera is valued at $70 million. The Tampa Bay Tribune, Reuters, and Haaretz have also covered the story. (Lansky died in 1983 at the age of 80 from lung cancer, living his final years quietly in Miami Beach.)
This is the hubris, the pure absurdity, man, of a fucking mafia and drug-running and Murder Inc. Legacy — YOU OWE US! Here’s how the Jewish Press treats this scumbag: My Affair With Meyer Lansky, the Mobster/ He was a famous gangster, she was a young waitress in Tel Aviv. Zali de Toledo recalls her affair with Meyer Lansky, who tried to use Israel’s Law of Return to escape the FBI.
Ahh, the mistress = proud Jewish Girl.
This Hollywood movie has all the right ingredients: a young waitress falls in love with a Jewish organized-crime figure, who meanwhile wants to take advantage of every Jew’s right to claim Israeli citizenship in order to escape the clutches of the FBI. Then there’s the frightened prime minister who tries to get rid of him. For the grand finale, there’s a lawsuit that reaches the Supreme Court and a final tear-jerking scene in which the plane carrying the mobster touches down in the United States and FBI agents take him into custody. (source)
And so, the US taxpayer will be footing the laywers’ bill? The money reappropriated to the offspring of scum? Again, special chosen people stick together, outright criminals or not: Feinberg, well, that says it all!
“This takes us back to the early days of the Cuban revolution, when in their initial nationalization laws that allowed for compensation, as we’ve emphasized, there were clauses in there which excluded people who were… ‘participants in or associates of’ the Batista government,” Richard Feinberg, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told reporters earlier this month.
Feinberg has examined the various ways a deal might be reached, and thinks it will be possible to settle US corporate claims—which, at $1.6 billion, make up the bulk of the list—with some combination of tax vouchers or credits, development rights, debt-equity swaps, or long-term government bonds. That would would both settle the debts and provide new investment in Cuba, a win for both sides.
He is skeptical, however, that the US will agree to Cuba’s demands for compensation for damage caused by the embargo. The US government will want to protect its use of economic sanctions as a foreign policy tool. Feinberg expects, though, that any claims settlement will come under a broader agreement that will limit Cuban bitterness over that issue.
Meanwhile, the remaining $230 million in US personal claims against Cuba could be paid out in increments without hurting the government’s cash flow. But even that option won’t really be available to Lansky’s grandson.
“We never filed a claim with the government or hired an attorney earlier because we didn’t think the door for negotiating would ever actually open,” Rapoport told the Florida Sun-Sentinel. “Now it is open.”
The business of Lansky and Bugsy, Murder Inc., involved a special argot: the assignment to murder was a “contract,” the killing a “hit,” and the victim a “bum,” or a “mark.”
In the 1920s and early 1930s, Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel dealt in murder-for-hire in the New York area; the nationwide Murder, Inc., may have been a continuation of this earlier organization. Siegel was a leading hit man in Murder, Inc.
So, who represents all the families and businesses and US taxpayer expenditures for these monsters? Is the Lansky family then going to pay BACK the money owed to those relatives of the murdered folk, all the crime that killed communities? Fuck these people.
You can hang with Yellen or Blinken or Garland or Nuland or any number of criminals from “the tribe,” or you can hang with these human stains, all the same:
[Photo: Sandra Lansky, with her son Gary Rapoport on the porch of their Seminole Heights home, holds a photo of her father, Meyer Lansky. “They spolied me rotten,” Lansky says of the many mob men she called uncle.]
… but it’s more than just that, no, all the manipulations, the mind warping, the entire sea of mis-information, mis-education, half-a-lie thinkers hoping a slice of ‘truth’ moves the masses along —
The new field of neuroeconomics looks at how economic decision-making actually happens inside the brain. Jonathan Cohen, co-director of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University, describes insights that are emerging from the collaborative work of neuroscientists, psychologists, and economists.
The truth = Neuroeconomics: The Tyranny of Behaviouristic Capitalism
The whole idea that a new economic alignment with psychology and neurosicence is in the works is beyond comprehension, yet one should have realized that the great Think Tanks, NGO’s, and Scientific Institutions, etc. have always been funded by the Corporatist system of governance. What’s so interesting is to see the subtle outlines of this new and insidious method to tyrannize over the consumerist society using a science that would know every detail of our decision making process from “stimulus” to final “response”. The quantification of desire along with the ability to “test, measure, and represent” the whole process of choice and options will allow a programmatic manipulation of individual and collective behaviors beyond our wildest dreams. When will we awaken from our lethargic sleep and put an end to such insidious approaches in science? I will not hold my breath. All I can hope is that a few of us that still believe in individual liberty will keep on broadcasting the truth against all systems of tyranny our Global Corporatist State feigns to force upon us under the auspices of cooperation and progressive measures of peace and good will.
Consumption of programmed information threatens to turn us into the human equivalent of social insects. Complexity and emergence leverage automated reactivity and pre-programmed social cues. The system is using playlists of content to manage entire populations, to trigger specific biochemical reactions. I sense we’re in a simulation that is being remotely guided by hormone manipulation and biochemical signaling. See this four-minute clip about neuro-economics and use of oxytocin to induce (or remove) social trust by Elizabeth Phelps of Harvard and Paul Glimcher, a neuro-economist from UPenn.
This is OUT in the open, man . . . . Ukraine as the new 15 Minute Country, all tied to neuroeconomics, neuro-massaging, digital tracking, the entire package, soon to be embedded into smart phones to frontal cortexes.
How many times do I have to illustrate War is a Racket, and now Silicon Valley/Silicon Wadi is Warring Against Us All? The batteries for your daughter’s drone, the motherboard for that cluster bomb, that laser system for those dual-use satellites, AI-MR-ER-VR-AI, it’s all there as not just virtual in the aspirational sense, but against US in this Dystopia of everything we are and do and say and think tagged as nano-data to be uploaded to the Big Heat Seeking Computer. This is a general, cited below, but replace Butler with any number of millions of tech-fascists.
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents. ― Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket
These are not good people, no matter how unmanly or “touched by an angel” they seem to be.
[Photo: Princess of Wales hosts Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska at Buckingham Palace.]
[Smiles.]
So, just being reminded of how much HATE UK and USA has had for Russia, and Israel, tambien, hating Russia and now part of the Israel 2.0 in UkroNaziLandia, it is spine chilling. Genocide against Russians then, Russians now!
It goes back to the Oppenheimer and the Nazi’s.
Were the August 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks used by the Pentagon to evaluate the viability of a much larger attack on the Soviet Union consisting of more than 204 atomic bombs? The key documents to bomb 66 cities of the Soviet Union (15 September 1945) were finalized 5-6 weeks after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings (6, 9 August 1945):
“On September 15, 1945 — just under two weeks after the formal surrender of Japan and the end of World War II — Norstad sent a copy of the estimate to General Leslie Groves, still the head of the Manhattan Project, and the guy who, for the short term anyway, would be in charge of producing whatever bombs the USAAF might want. As you might guess, the classification on this document was high: “TOP SECRET LIMITED,” which was about as high as it went during World War II. (Alex Wellerstein, The First Atomic Stockpile Requirements (September 1945)
The Kremlin was aware of the 1945 plan to bomb sixty-six Soviet cities.
The documents confirm that the US was involved in the “planning of genocide” against the Soviet Union.
Let’s cut to the chase. How many bombs did the USAAF request of the atomic general, when there were maybe one, maybe twobombs worth of fissile material on hand? At a minimum they wanted 123. Ideally, they’d like 466. This is just a little over a month after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Of course, in true bureaucratic fashion, they provided a handy-dandy chart (Alex Wellerstein, op. cit)
The entire lie is a continuation of the big lie, as in the lie that Israel is a country, that Israel is a democracy and that Israel is NOT an Apartheid state. But with cloud servers and total control of smart phones and data centers, well, expect more AGNOTOLGY. = But replace culturally induced ignorance with algorithmic controlled ignorance!
Within the sociology of knowledge, agnotology (formerly agnatology) is the study of deliberate, culturally induced ignorance or doubt, typically to sell a product, influence opinion, or win favour, particularly through the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data (disinformation).
From World War I to the Present: Dollar denominated debt has been the driving force behind all US led wars.
Wall Street creditors are the main actors. They were firmly behind Nazi Germany. They financed Operation Barbarossa and the invasion of the Soviet Union.
The Rockefellers funded Hitler’s election campaign.
Wall Street also “appointed” the head of Germany’s Central Bank (Reichsbank).
Standard Oil of New Jersey provided crude oil to Nazi Germany throughout WWII
Henry Ford controlled 100% of the shares of Volkswagen.
World War II: More than 80 years ago was the start of the greatest slaughter in history.
If we are to approach the problem of “responsibility for the war”, then we first need to answer the following key questions:
Who helped the Nazis come to power?
Who sent them on their way to world catastrophe?
The entire pre-war history of Germany shows that the provision of the “necessary” policies were managed by the financial turmoil, in which the world was plunged into in the wake of World War I.
The key structures that defined the post-war development strategy of the West were the central financial institutions of Great Britain and the United States — the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve System (FRS) — and the associated financial and industrial organizations set out as a means to establish absolute control over the financial system of Germany and its ability to control political processes in Central Europe.
To implement this strategy, the following stages were envisaged:
From 1919 to 1924 — to prepare the ground for massive American financial investment in the German economy;
From 1924 to 1929 — the establishment of control over the financial system of Germany and financial support for Nazism (“national socialism”);
From 1929 to 1933 — provoking and unleashing a deep financial and economic crisis and ensuring the Nazis come to power;
From 1933 to 1939 — financial cooperation with the Nazi government and support for its expansionist foreign policy, aimed at preparing and unleashing a new World War.
This is what Russia Today is up against — History: Hitler was Financed by the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England — US Investments in Nazi Germany. Rockefeller Financed Adolf Hitler’s Election Campaign, by Yuri Rubtsov
Or,
The Nuclear Arms Race — “Preemptive Nuclear War”: The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity by Michel Chossudovsky
Central to our understanding of the Cold War which started (officially) in 1947, Washington’s September 1945 plan to bomb 66 cities into smithereens played a key role in triggering the nuclear arms race.
The Soviet Union was threatened and developed its own atomic bomb in 1949 in response to 1942 Soviet intelligence reports on the Manhattan Project.
While the Kremlin knew about these plans to “Wipe out” the USSR, the broader public was not informed because the September 1945 documents were of course classified. They were declassified 30 years later in September 1975
Today, neither the September 1945 plan to blow up the Soviet Union nor the underlying cause of the nuclear arms race are acknowledged. The Western media has largely focussed its attention on the Cold War US-USSR confrontation. The plan to annihilate the Soviet Union dating back to World War II and the infamous Manhattan project are not mentioned.
Washington’s Cold War nuclear plans are invariably presented in response to so-called Soviet threats, when in fact it was the U.S. plan released in September 1945 (formulated at an earlier period at the height of World War II) to wipe out the Soviet which motivated Moscow to develop its nuclear weapons capabilities.
The assessment of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists mistakenly blamed and continue to blame the Soviet Union for having launched the nuclear arms race in 1949, four years after the release of the September 1945 US Secret Plan to target 66 major Soviet cities with 204 nuclear bombs.
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So, here we are with Beggar Zelensky (he wants nukes, dumb AmeriKKK-an-ohs) at the United Nations and then glad-handing with the perversions of humanity, USA politicians, electeds.
There is blood on the streets, and I was just with the 60 year old at the local grocery store. He was stocking items, and we talked about real inflation, and he says price changes now are in the thousands of changed labels, whereas before 2020, maybe a few hundred price hikes.
It’s not five percent inflation. It’s 50 percent in a few months. Americans are math challenged, and dupes, for sure. Doubling the prices? One hundred percent inflation. But for some things, triple! That’s 300 percent.
My first Campbell’s soup was when I was a dive master stocking up for trips from Tucson to Guaymas. Canned meats, stuff like that.
I say daily, in my heart and mind, fuck the Blinkens. Fuck these monsters. These multimillionaires, or millionaires, and then the $600,000 a year two income families. FUCK THEM, too.
That’s 20 cents, when I was still 20 years old.
As I say, fuck these liars, every single motherfucking “economist,” fuck them all:
Hmm, divide 6 into 6.88, and what we get? Sure, $1.14 for each 10.75 ounce shit food. For old tomatoes ground up and thrown into a can with messed up coagulants. Just add water.
Until we are here, today, the US Merchants of Death Military telling us today, again, that the so-called Chinese Weather Balloon was in fact a fucking weather balloon with no spy equipment. This is the inflation of our times — out of the stratosphere bullshit and out right fabrication.
Yeah, 5 percent inflation!
The fact that the $140 million stealth fighter disappeared without any reports of a crash means it might have gone down in a sparsely populated area. The Drive pointed out, “The DoD is saying the F-35B was put on autopilot prior to the ejection.”
Military expert and former British military officer Frank Ledwidge told Newsweek the F-35 “could likely travel hundreds of miles without its pilot.”
“Historically, an aircraft without a pilot can fly a long way on autopilot,” added Frederik Mertens, a military analyst with the Hague Center for Security Studies.
The Washington Post quoted Jeremy Huggins, a spokesman at Joint Base Charleston, who said the F-35’s transponder was not working “for some reason that we haven’t yet determined.”
Joe Biden’s Pentagon can’t find a freaking F-35 jet, but don’t worry—they know exactly where all our money in Ukraine is going. –
Have you guys checked Ukraine? –
This woman is another monster in the Rabbinical Blinken-Nuland-Kagan White House.
Not just a chicken soup little old Jewish woman, but a monster.
All of them going to China — those from the USA, man, just plain human stain:
Another example that shows how much Chinese democracy is mature, consensual, collective and bottom-up. Western democracy NOT!
And this is the Ukraine, project, a shadow of history, page from the book, ZioBlackRock Lensky is wanting:
In August 1934, America’s Standard Oil [owned by the Rockefellers] in Germany acquired 730,000 acres of land and built large oil refineries that supplied the Nazis with oil. At the same time, Germany secretly took delivery of the most modern equipment for aircraft factories from the United States, which would begin the production of German planes.
Germany received a large number of military patents from American firms Pratt and Whitney”, “Douglas”, “Curtis Wright”, and American technology was building the “Junkers-87”. In 1941, when the Second world war was raging, American investments in the economy of Germany amounted to $475 million. “Standard oil” invested – 120 million, General Motors- $35 million, ITT — $30 million, and Ford — $17.5 million.
The close financial and economic cooperation of Anglo-American and Nazi business circles was the background against which, in the 1930’s, a policy of appeasement led to World War II.
Today, the world’s financial elites have implemented the Great Depression 2.o [2008], with a followup transition towards a “New World Order“.
Finally, it’s in the neuropsychology, for sure. How to manipulate the collective mind:
Yeah, the secret life of Homo Economicus, which is the corpus of Homo Consumopethicus which is in the west, the body of Homo Bellum, to say the least.
Tokenized Economy. Gamefying Everything. It would behoove you to read/research:
Web3, financial innovation, and digital governance have combined to create a global socio-technical architecture with the potential to gamify and steer social outcomes starting with disaster response. While they may sound good to the casual observer, digital community currencies deployed by organizations such as Grassroots Economics and Mitiga Solutions are in fact tools of subtle and not-so-subtle social-engineering. Pervasive sensing technologies, from satellites to nanotechnology, capture data, including participatory surveillance from self-reported citizen surveys, to feed simulations run on supercomputers to inform where social impact finance will be directed.
The implications of bio-digital convergence as it pertains to humanitarian aid delivery, disaster response, and insurance are not well understood by the communities swept up in these pilot programs. Social commentary on the topic is not balanced, leaning heavily on the side of affirming benefits. There has thus far been little discussion about what problems may arise when social systems are linked to game mechanics, ubiquitous computing, and financial bets, and then automated to achieve some arbitrary optimization “human flourishing” metric. Much more informed public discussion is needed before these initial pilots, with their multi-national insurance backers and collaborators in the finance and defense sectors, are brought to scale.
These, unfortunately, are the masters of the universe. Max touches upon Israel and its dominence in its own Silicon-Tel Aviv Valley, and the players in this Total Slavery game are in many cases, Jewish, Israeli, and their acolytes.
Only three responses on this long article by Leo =
It all boils down to TOTAL SLAVERY! Globalist technocrat predator control freak megalomaniacs disguise their evil intent with Orwellian newspeak and doublespeak.
How to fight back against this TOTAL SLAVERY!
RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! DITCH THE DAMNED ‘SMART’ PHONES AND THE DAMNED QR CODES AND GO BACK TO LANDLINES OR FLIP PHONES AND USE CASH AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE! INSIST ON CASH! CBDC IS TOTAL SLAVERY!
One has to acknowledge that the entire working of this planet is rapidly being reduced to interconnected data and a giant simulation under the guise of saving the planet while also generating profit for fun and ultimate control of everything that can be controlled. “This Perfect Day” novel’s planetary computer “UINCOM” if not an actuality exists in separate locations, busy finalizing its reison d’etre.
Excellent read Leo! Much appreciated for the time and work you put into composing this piece!
I was particularly interested in your perspective on weather modification as it pertains to a new line of insurance products and asset classes– despite new and emerging tech (no doubt with hidden and nefarious intentions) we can be certain that fraudsters are still gonna fraud.
Lots of new names for my to keep in mind as I trudge forward — and some familiar ones as well — such as Eric Schmidt — who seems to pop up all over the place the more I trudge down this investigative path. For example, in my work tracing the Lightstage from its inception at USC modern application via monthly subscription, I found a quote from Schmidt on OTOY’s website:
“Six years ago, I predicted that 90% of computing would eventually reside in the web-based cloud. OTOY has created a remarkable technology which moves that last 10% – high-end graphics processing – to the cloud. This is a disruptive and important achievement. It marks the tipping point where the web replaces the PC as the dominant computing platform.” [https://home.otoy.com/]
Also, Professor Akan’s work which you highlighted, focuses in part on “an artificial gut-brain axis as a testbed for the development of novel ICT-based treatment techniques for psychological and intestinal diseases.”
This reminded me of Naveen Jain and his work with VIOME — which, in 2021, received FDA approval and validated: “Viome’s mRNA analysis technology and state of the art AI platform that powers Viome’s at-home Health Intelligence Test designed to offer consumers deeper health insights about their own gut microbiome health, cellular health, immune system health, stress response, and even biological aging. Viome’s AI platform analyzes an individual’s unique microbial and human gene expressions to provide them with personalized food recommendations and tailor-made, precision supplements designed to address the root cause of low-grade inflammation and improve these health metrics over time.”
Great work Leo. Looking forward to your next piece!
A new report by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute has highlighted the robustness of the economic ties between both states, with California being home to 22 Israeli-founded technology unicorns, the most of any US state
More than 10,000 Israelis have chosen to build their careers in the world’s largest ecosystem for high-tech. Around 100,000 Israelis are living in Silicon Valley, which is more than most of the cities in Israel. The Shenzhen government subsidized the opening of the new direct flight to Tel Aviv (around 30 weekly direct flights from China to Israel!) Shenzhen is following many Chinese local governments and cities which are paying closer attention to developments in the Israeli Hitech. The next big thing: Biotechnology.
This is not out of the goodness of their hearts, out of the greatness of their chosenness, and we the USA taxpayer spends billions of dollars a year to throw at Israel, hundreds of billions a year for their killer drones and their killer silicon tools.
[Photo: Israel’s tech-driven military training and supportive environment help to foster its innovation. Image: Getty Images]
universal tracking of all life, of all funtions, of all movements toward Universal BASIC Chump Change Income, or, ‘I wanna have a 20 foot x 10 foot garage to live out my laptop life, now, to save the whale . . . ‘
I will thrown down some of that hyper-bunko junk that comes over my “news” feeds, illustrating way too many bogus, fake science, failed rhetorical tid-bits to daze, confuse and corral. Just this morning, one hour’s worth.
But first, Alison writes about saying good-bye to her father, and in that process, she talks deeply about estrangement from family, mother, daughter, friends, the entire system that is in all our words, Cyber Panopticon:
I try not to judge, because this noetic thing we’re enmeshed in is, in fact, pervasive. In my view, the system considers all Earthly beings to be nodes in a massively sophisticated biological computation machine, the ant computer. Just this week, listening to Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle series, a prequel to Cryptonomicon, it dawned on me that we may be facing off against Gottfried Leibniz’s Characteristica Universalis, a language he conceptualized based on Chinese characters, the i Ching, metaphysics, and calculus. I now think that may be what lies at the core of Web3 smart contracts, human computation, digital commoning, tokenized behavior, cybernetics, complexity, game mechanics, social impact finance, and surveillance of public health and decarbonization metrics.
I am keenly aware that intuitive, imaginative thinking is a threat to such a system. People who choose not to behave according to Skinnerian programs are like nails sticking up, daring the powers that be to try and pound them down. We are sabots in the looms; we are the wrenches that threaten to break the teeth of the gears. We represent the possibility that progress towards digital manifest destiny may be slowed or even hobbled. Climate Millenarianists are working hard to brand their post-Anthropocene “ecotopias” as “green” populist endeavors rather than the corporate juggernauts they actually are. Even if they’re not visible on stage, those in the know understand the likes of Black Rock, Goldman Sachs, Raytheon, and Pfizer are peering out from the wings. The fitness landscapes of genetic algorithms have to work overtime to constantly erase principled dissent on behalf of the sacred natural world and smooth the path towards convergence. Yet still we persist and keep showing up with hearts, sunflowers, and intentions placed to divert the tidal wave of electrical engineering, EMF radiation, nano-biotech, and big data.
I’ll let you spend 15 minutes or so reading Alison’s piece.
LIFE ON THE internet has always been a battle between fakers and detectors of fakes, with both sides profiting off the clash. Early spam filters sifted emails for keywords, blocking messages with phrases like “FREE!” or “be over 21,” and they eventually learned to filter out entire styles of writing. Spammers responded by surrounding their pitches with snippets of human-sounding language lifted from old books and mashed together. (This type of message, dubbed “litspam,” became a genre unto itself.) As search engines grew more popular, creators looking to boost their pages’ rankings resorted to “keyword stuffing”—repeating the same word over and over—to get priority. Search engines countered by down-ranking those sites. After Google introduced its PageRank algorithm, which favored websites with lots of inbound links, spammers created entire ecosystems of mutually supporting pages.
Around the turn of the millennium, the captcha tool arrived to sort humans from bots based on their ability to interpret images of distorted text. Once some bots could handle that, captcha added other detection methods that included parsing images of motorbikes and trains, as well as sensing mouse movement and other user behavior. (In a recent test, an early version of GPT-4 showed that it knew how to hire a person on Taskrabbit to complete a captcha on its behalf.) The fates of entire companies have rested on the issue of spotting fakes: Elon Musk, in an attempt to wriggle out of his deal to buy Twitter, cited a bot detector to boost his argument that Twitter had misrepresented the number of bots on its site.
And how much electrical energy, how much climate warming nothingness, water sapping, community destroying, transportation gridlock creating hell do this fucking AI systems of oppression generate?
Amazon already operates two data centers in Umatilla, is building two more in the city, and has tax-break agreements for another two. Amazon also operates a data center in unincorporated Umatilla County, near Hermiston. It is building one inside the Hermiston city limits and has negotiated tax deals for two additional projects there.
Sabey is a privately held real estate company with a rapidly growing data center business. It already operates large Washington state data centers in Seattle, East Wenatchee and Quincy, along with two sites on the East Coast.
Sabey primarily contracts with other large tech companies to supplement their own data center capacity. Rob Rockwood, president of Sabey Data Centers, said Umatilla is well positioned in the western U.S. to capitalize on spillover demand from data centers in Hillsboro and Phoenix, Arizona.
It’s “a more or less undiscovered spot,” Rockwood said. He said Sabey will spend next year doing utility preparation work for the site and plans to start construction early in 2025, with the facility opening in 2027.
And franchise fees generated by data centers’ electrical use are now major contributors to Umatilla’s general fund. The city’s annual electrical franchise fees have grown from $253,000 to $1.4 million over the past decade, equivalent to 12% of Umatilla’s general fund.
Data centers in some parts of Oregon are large water consumers because of the evaporative cooling they use to chill their hardworking computers. Rockwood said Sabey’s Umatilla site will employ air cooling instead, which increases electricity consumption but uses very little water.
This is out in the middle of so-called nowhere, near the Hanford nuclear site, near the Tri-Cities, where all those ranches are and all those dairies, from Portland to Pendleton, and I take the highway through this area to get to Spokane.
Water supplies for household use and irrigated agriculture rely on groundwater wells. When wells are drilled into a highly pressurized aquifer, groundwater may flow up the well and onto the land surface without pumping. These flowing artesian wells were common in the early 1900s in the United States before intensive groundwater withdrawals began, but their present-day prevalence remains unknown. Here, we compile and analyze ten thousand well water observations made more than a century ago. We show that flowing artesian conditions characterized ~61% of wells tapping confined aquifers before 1910, but only ~4% of wells tapping confined aquifers today. This pervasive loss of flowing artesian conditions evidences a widespread depressurization of confined aquifers after a century of intensive groundwater use in the United States. We conclude that this depressurization of confined aquifers has profoundly changed groundwater storage and flow, increasing the vulnerability of deep aquifers to pollutants and contributing to land subsidence.
And, mom and pop, Jose and Wanda, all those kiddos and all those “consumers” think Zuckerberg and Bezos and the rest of the thugs with their armies of “scientists” have all the solutions to these global problems worked out?
How about the moon, our little fucking footprint there, one step for man, one giant leap for the criminals!
It is, alas, a world made reckless and ruined by the least important and valuable and ethical and humane folk on earth, but again, collective Stockholm Syndrome and Collective Battered Citizen Syndrome and General Anxiety Disordered masses can’t wrap their fucking arms around the tyranny.
A survey by the UNDP published in 2021 revealed that a significant majority of people believe that climate change is a global emergency. The psychological toll of this widespread concern is profound.
We are defined by the mind manipulators, the scholastic criminals, the psychologists and Mad Men and WOmen in Manufacturing Consent, Confusion, Collusion, Compliancy, Corruption, and Crackpotting!
Such feelings can give rise to “solastalgia,” which refers to the dread originating from environmental change. Unlike nostalgia, which is a longing for a place or time in the past that one cannot revisit, solastalgia is the experience of distress from belonging to a home that is undergoing change. A person experiencing solastalgia may feel:
A deep grief over changing landscapes that were once familiar
Helplessness over the inability to halt or influence environmental shifts
Chronic stress from ongoing changes, causing symptoms like insomnia
A diminishing hope for the future as the environment evolves
A feeling of being disconnected from one’s community or the environment due to rapid alterations
So, Bruce Willis and Supereman and Wonder Woman to the rescue? Nah, it’s the dirtiest couple around in the Billionaire Robber Baron Class who will save us from virialphobia! CZI, man, it is the new syphilis. Read Alison’s work to get insight into these charlatans, these “We are the Elite, We are the Davos, We are the Aspen Institute, We are the WHO-WEF Generals marching humanity to where WE see humanity will, should can must be. They’ve pledged $6.4 billion to science, and say they will give away 99% of their Meta stock, with the goal of “curing, preventing, and managing” all diseases by the end of the century. Dr. Chan said her experience as a pediatrician partially inspired the decision.
In a virtual interview at Fortune’s Impact Initiative conference—her first since giving birth to her third child—Dr. Chan shared how the billions are being spent. She also gave insight into why she and Zuckerberg are following in the footsteps of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Watch the video interview with Fortune’s Ellie Austin, or read the transcript below.
He was only 30 and had been in the Boston Fire Department less than a decade. But as he investigated his diagnosis of Hodgkin’s lymphoma in October 2020 and sought successful treatment, he learned he and others wore gear that contained the toxic industrial compound PFAS.
“You always hear about the dangers. You just never think it’s going be you,” said Ranahan, who stopped working due to the cancer and is among thousands of firefighters nationwide who sued PFAS manufacturers and companies that make firefighting gear and foam, seeking damages for their exposure.
“These guys put this on day in and day out to protect neighborhoods and wherever they are working,” he said.
And we don’t need to know how vital the burning world is now, how those “wildfires” are not wild or natural at all, and how the Zuckerberg-Chan Chain Gang Crew is PART of the Myriad Problems Here and Now and Later, never the solutions.
“Firefighters don’t want accolades, they don’t need to be called heroes,” says Riva Duncan, a retired USFS fire officer and vice-president of the Grassroots Wildland Firefighters advocacy group. “But they want to at least be treated like they are appreciated for the risks they take and the sacrifices they make.”
Biden’s temporary pay bump – which added the lesser of $20,000 or a 50% increase to firefighter paychecks – was intended as a salve that would buy Congress time to pass a permanent solution to the problems that have left federal firefighters underpaid and overworked for years.
“It was a big momentous thing for the pay bump to happen, and I think the majority of fire folks had no idea that there was a sunset clause,” said Bré Orcasitas, a former federal wildland firefighter who left the service to focus on advocacy. “We are already losing people at an exponential rate – and it will be a slap in the face if they can’t get it together in time.”
Pressure is on legislators to pass a bill that would codify and secure pay increases before the new fiscal year begins in October. It has bipartisan support, and it’s expected to be voted on this week.
Fucking AI Meta Motherfucking CZI! Yeah, plastics in your blood? How’s that one working out for EuroTrashLandians?
Bisphenol A (BPA), a hormone-disrupting chemical used in food packaging, is present in almost all Europeans’ bodies, posing a potential health risk, the European Environment Agency said Thursday.
“A recent Horizon 2020 research initiative, HBM4EU, measured chemicals in people’s bodies in Europe and detected BPA in the urine of 92 percent of adult participants from 11 European countries,” the agency wrote in a new report.
The Copenhagen-based EEA said the share of adults exceeding the recommended maximum levels ranged from 71 to 100 percent in the 11 countries studied, referring to levels outlined by the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) in an April review. (source)
Again, cartoonish, mixed with fucked up science in a classroom, and an upside mis-logic, all and all.
Yeah, that’s the ticket — paycheck to paycheck, until the next next generation will take that fucking 20 by 10 particle board jail cell, err, tiny home, err, apartment.
It’s not just low-income Americans drowning under inflation and interest rates — some higher-income folks are feeling the strain on their wallets as well.
Data from a June survey conducted by personal finance software company Quicken revealed that 32% of Americans earning at least $150,000 a year are currently living paycheck to paycheck, while 36% of folks earning $50,000 to $150,000 and 55% of households earning less than that reported the same.
Shit, now, back to basics, to my wheelhouse — writing and liberal arts:
[Photo: Prostitute, E. Gordon Gee, president of West Virginia University, in New York City in 2009.]
West Virginia University’s board voted on Friday to cut the school’s world languages department and a third of its education department as part of an effort to keep the school “accessible and affordable and relevant,” its chair said.
Why it matters: The university’s decision to reduce parts of its liberal arts department may be a glimpse of the future of U.S. humanities studies, and more narrowly, may limit students in the poor, rural state.
The reductions come on top of major staff and program cuts approved by the board in June, which included 12 graduate and doctorate programs and 132 positions.
The board’s meeting on Friday was briefly interrupted by students protesting the cuts, and among dozens of speakers at the meeting, no one spoke in support of the plan, AP reports.
By the numbers: The board voted Friday to fire more than 140 faculty members and 28 majors, which is around 8% of the school’s programs.
Those figures were lower than originally proposed.
The university currently faces a $45 million budget deficit, the board has said.
Yeah, cut cut cut those important courses so we can have more AI-AR-MR-ER-VR drone schools and engineering wonks for batteries, cloud servers, and more green pornography Africa-Killing Scams.
While OpenAI’s world-beating chatbot suffered its second major outage in as many weeks, big tech executives were convening in Washington to plead their case to lawmakers over the future of AI.
Among several notable figures in attendance was Sam Altman, CEO of the AI startup — who probably hoped to put on a better face amidst increased scrutiny over ChatGPT’s falling user traffic for the past several months.
FUCK these Oppenheimers and Edward Bernays!
Yeah, that fucking Canada, involved in regime change here and their and everywhere. GREEN Klanada?
Canada is planning to expand what is already the world’s largest nuclear generator.
Canada is planning to expand what is already the world’s largest nuclear generator.
Ontario, which has the second-largest energy demand of provinces and territories in Canada, aims to add a third generating station to the Bruce Power facility on Lake Huron. This would be the first new large-scale nuclear power plant construction in Canada in 30 years, according to CBC News.
According to Ontario Energy Minister Todd Smith, the additional construction will produce a maximum of 4,800 megawatts, enough to supply electricity to approximately 4.8 million homes, effectively doubling the power plant’s current output.
Although nuclear energy is considered a controversial form of energy production — due in large part to past accidents across the globe — there are numerous benefits when the process is handled safely.According to Ontario Energy Minister Todd Smith, the additional construction will produce a maximum of 4,800 megawatts, enough to supply electricity to approximately 4.8 million homes, effectively doubling the power plant’s current output.
Although nuclear energy is considered a controversial form of energy production — due in large part to past accidents across the globe — there are numerous benefits when the process is handled safely.
From the nuclear isotope level to marine organisms in the Frankenstein Box of GMO/GE monsters, we are a world gone mad to the 1,000th power: Researchers have genetically engineered a marine microorganism to break down plastic in salt water. Specifically, the modified organism can break down polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a plastic used in everything from water bottles to clothing that is a significant contributor to microplastic pollution in oceans.
Right, man, cart before the horse:
Do no harm:
Finally, that aspect of informed consent should be part and parcel of all corporate transactions and actions, and in fact, all actions and transactions must be measured, studied and approved for the benefits and lack of harm to all communities. In photography? Filmmaking? Whew. Read this article.
As documentary photographers, what is ultimately most important for us is whether the image we are capturing accurately depicts the life of the subjects and the situation in which they live. Equally important is our concern that the images we capture depict the subjects with respect and dignity.
Two bombs went off in the crowd in Diyarbakir, Turkey, five people were killed and more than 400 injured were carried to ambulances. Violent attacks against Kurdish people are a motor behind displacement in the region. Under Informed Consent rules, the photographer would need to approach each of the people in the photograph to let them know how their images might be used. While it is feasible to do that, in this instance it would have had to be done in an ambulance, a Kurdish/English interpreter would be needed, and the unfolding of events around this scene would have been missed. Photo by Sean Hawkey.
A woman demonstrator pushes back at police as displaced residents of Boeung Lake in Phnom Penh, who were left homeless after the government allowed a private developer to move them out and fill in the lake, attempt to protest in the Cambodian capital on December 10, 2012. They planned to take their protest to the prime minister’s office, but police stopped them far short of their goal. Their protest took place on International Human Rights Day. Under “informed consent” rules that require prior approval, the photographer would have had to stop the protest, explain all conceivable forms of use and get permission and a signature from at least the woman, then allow them to proceed while photographing the action, careful not to accidentally include the face of anyone who hasn’t given written consent. Photo by Paul Jeffrey.
Volunteers carry a child ashore on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 30, 2015, after a group of refugees crossed the Aegean Sea from Turkey in a small overcrowded boat provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums. The refugees were received in Greece by local and international volunteers, then proceeded on their way toward western Europe. Under “informed consent” rules, the volunteers would have to give their written permission for this to be used, and the parents or legal guardian of the two children would also have to agree and sign a release. The photographer would have had to produce the forms for their signature while they were busy getting out of cold wet clothes and into dry clothing and continuing their journey. Photo by Paul Jeffrey.
Maya Ixil children during a meeting in Turanza, Nebaj, Guatemala. People had gathered to share experience and learning on food security and nutrition in the region. Under Informed Consent rules, the parents of the children would have to be tracked down to give their consent for this photo to be taken or used. The assumption is that without informed consent, the photograph shows the children in an undignified way, or it puts them in danger. Photo by Sean Hawkey.
Comitancillo, Guatemala. Under “informed consent” rules that require prior approval, the photographer would have had to stop the girls from playing, have them identify their parents, explain the intricacies of “informed consent” and usage, get their signature, and then be able to photograph the girls. That’s a process that’s allegedly designed to assure that the girls are not depicted in an undignified manner. Photo by Paul Jeffrey.
Coffee pickers on their way to the mill on the back of a truck at the Flor del Pino coop, a Fairtrade-certified producer organisation based in Ocotepeque, Honduras. Under Informed Consent rules, everyone on this truck would have to give their consent for this photo to be taken or used, and if the parents of the minors weren’t present they’d have to be found to give their consent. Seeking the informed consent in this case could take so long, it wouldn’t be worth the trouble. Photo by Sean Hawkey
Children practice capoeira on January 24, 2010, in a camp for homeless families in the Belair section of Port-au-Prince. The program, run by Viva Rio, a Brazilian nongovernmental organization, is designed to help children affected by the quake recover their emotional well-being. Under “informed consent” rules that require prior approval, the photographer would have had to stop the girls from playing, go with them to find their parents, explain the intricacies of “informed consent” and usage, get their signatures, then return to the community center to photograph the activity. That’s a process that’s allegedly designed to assure that the children are not depicted in an undignified manner. Photo by Paul Jeffrey.
Dinners in this school near Ranchi in Jharkhand province, India, are subsidised by an aid agency working on nutrition and health. Under Informed Consent rules, the parents of the children in the picture would all have to be talked to in order for them to give their consent for this photo to be taken or used, it’s not feasible to do that. Photo by Sean Hawkey.
Q’eqchi girls playing football in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz. Under Informed Consent rules, the parents of these children would have to be tracked down to give their consent for this photo to be taken or used. Photo by Sean Hawkey.
Children play football during an October 2012 rainstorm in the Doro refugee camp in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State. More than 110,000 refugees had come to camps in Maban County from Sudan’s Blue Nile region, where the Sudanese military was bombing civilian populations as part of its response to a local insurgency. Under “informed consent” rules that require prior approval, the photographer would have had to stop the boys from playing, have them find and identify their parents somewhere in the sprawling camp, explain the intricacies of “informed consent” and usage, get their signatures, and then return to photograph the game. That’s a process that’s allegedly designed to assure that the boys are not depicted in an undignified manner. Photo by Paul Jeffrey.
Newly arrived refugees carry their belongings through the Dadaab camp in northeastern Kenya in 2011. Long the world’s world’s largest refugee settlement, Dadaab swelled with tens of thousands of new arrivals fleeing drought in Somalia. Under “informed consent” rules that require prior approval, the photographer would have had to stop the tired family, explain the intricacies of usage and consent, then get their signatures on the paperwork before allowing them to continue their trek across the hot desert. Photo by Paul Jeffrey.
Ena Zizi is pulled alive on January 19, 2010, from the rubble of Haiti’s devastating earthquake, one week after the city was reduced to ruins in a matter of seconds. The 70-year old woman was rescued from the collapsed home of the parish priest at Port-au-Prince’s Roman Cathedral Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption by members of a Mexican search and rescue team, several of whom were in tears as they pulled the woman free from tons of rubble. She suffered from dehydration, a dislocated hip and a fractured leg, and was taken by helicopter to the U.S.S. Bataan for treatment. She told an interviewer she stayed alive by talking with God. Under “informed consent” rules that require prior written approval, the photographer would have had to stop the rescue, explain the intricacies of usage and consent in two different languages, get the appropriate signatures, then allow the rescue to continue. Photo by Paul Jeffrey
Children jump rope in 2013 in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to “build back better,” creating a sustainable and democratic community. Under “informed consent” rules that require prior approval, the photographer would have had to stop the girls from playing, have them identify their parents, explain the intricacies of “informed consent” and usage, get their signature, and then return to the street and photograph the girls at play. That’s a process that’s allegedly designed to assure that the girls are not depicted in an undignified manner. Photo by Paul Jeffrey.
but linguistic tricksters call it counsel culture, you know, we poor wife-beater t-shirt wearing Goyim need education and culture!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Nobody is talking about Israel’s huge chemical and nuclear weapons arsenal, as they should also be part of the program for the destruction of chemical weapons in the Middle East” — Pepe Escobar
Ahh, the hard fact is, now, watch Max rail against ADL, almost states Israel should not be a state at all, and in the end, Aaron stays pretty quiet while Max exposes how bad-bad the Anti- Defamation League is, but in the end he can’t as a secular and atheist Jew say some other reality pills, gulping down so much, man, is too much in one 30 minute screed.
And, then the Aussie, Caitlin has this headline today on her Substack:
In an article published earlier this month in Responsible Statecraft about the crisis in Niger, Branko Marcetic made the interesting observation that the Nigerien junta which ousted the previous government has explicitly stated that the coup was necessary because of the “continuous deterioration of the security situation” which Niger and other countries in the Sahel have been suffering from for over a decade due to “the negative socioeconomic, security, political and humanitarian consequences of NATO’s hazardous adventure in Libya.”
Marcetic also notes that the regime change intervention in Libya was meant to segue into a regime change intervention in Syria by the same means:
“Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), and John Kerry (D-Mass.) all called for a no-fly zone. ‘I love the military … but they always seem to find reasons why you can’t do something rather than why you can,’ complained McCain. The American Enterprise Institute’s Danielle Pletka said it would be ‘an important humanitarian step.’ The now-defunct Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) think tank gathered a who’s who of neoconservatives to repeatedlyurge the same. In a letter to then-President Barack Obama, they quoted back Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech in which he argued that ‘inaction tears at our conscience and can lead to more costly intervention later.’
“Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, reportedly instrumental in persuading Obama to act, was herself swayed by similar arguments. Friend and unofficial adviser Sidney Blumenthal assured her that, once Gaddafi fell, ‘limited but targeted military support from the West combined with an identifiable rebellion’ could become a new model for toppling Middle Eastern dictators. Pointing to the similar, deteriorating situation in Syria, Blumenthal claimed that ‘the most important event that could alter the Syrian equation would be the fall of Gaddafi, providing an example of a successful rebellion.’ ”
Old Sidney Blumenthal is, well, Max Greyzone Blumenthal’s papa. Now now, it does matter where you come from — who, what, why, when, where, and how, and it goes without saying ALL the fucking time, that a Max here or Aaron there, talking about anti-semitisn, railing against ADL, against Ultra-Zionist Israel, hmm, what’s grandpa Sidney doing about that, with Max and Anya’s new child, old Sidney’s grandchild?
What sort of lessons will be at cross-purposes?
Manufactured and proxy-fied rebellion . . . “could become a new model for toppling Middle Eastern dictators. Pointing to the similar, deteriorating situation in Syria, Blumenthal claimed that ‘the most important event that could alter the Syrian equation would be the fall of Gaddafi, providing an example of a successful rebellion.”
Come on, Maxwell Smart, get into it with this friend and unofficial adviser to Clinton, Hillary, Papa Blumenthal.
Her new book?
Now that’s a hell of a Netflix Series or off-Broadway play — Dinner with Max and Sidney After they Go to the Musical, Les Miserables. I’ll fucking make the pitch, man, and do the casting, please.
Max’s dadd-y-oh has quite the resume and CV, working with Hillary and the Clinton Foundation!
Over time, Blumenthal began to be viewed as an archetype of a new type of journalist who has eroded the divide between the fading boundaries between independent journalism and partisan journalism: “As the connection between journalists and politicians is umbilical in Washington, Blumenthal’s political problem, in part, is journalistic,” reporter Michael Powell wrote of him in a profile in The Washington Post: “His is a type found far more often on the right in Washington, a partisan warrior who takes a critically sympathetic stance not just toward his issues but his chosen political party as well. Even as a writer at The Washington Post, where Blumenthal passed some time in the 1980s, he placed a porous membrane between his political views and his writing. It is the sort of partisan, if also intellectual, engagement that makes mainstream journalists, even those of liberal politics, deeply uncomfortable.”
Look, this is a concerted effort of the great communicators, the linguists, the media moguls and the sons and daughters, and then, East Coast Elitism, Dominance, and alas, who the fuck can talk about the ADL who is not self-described as a Jew?
Here, Max, in the transcript:
“Remember Rick Sanchez when he was on CNN he went on a podcast and said ‘Jon Stewart isn’t oppressed just because he’s Jewish like there are tons of Jewish people working in media he’s not at a disadvantage . . . I am as a Latino trying to make it into media’ … so the cancel culture of the ADL came along and Rick Sanchez was forced to go to a Yankees game with Abe foxman and I think go on a trip to Israel and possibly make donations to the ADL. I talked to Rick about this he he said it was like absurd . . . it just completely absurd and he had to do it to save his career”
The areas Max touches on, well, for someone like me, not a self-described atheist Jew, I am called anti-Semetic.
Just calling the current White House the Blinken-Nuland-Kagan(s)-Yellen-Garland House of Hasbara, gets me labelled as, well, do I fucking care, when those ADL types, and all the knee-jerks, all those fear mongering LIARS, can attack Sanchez and make him grovel?
Here, Brian Berletic, and you will never hear him on any Jewish MSM outlet, or in any Jewish setting. Danny and Brian, two too Goys from another mother.
“The reality of what the the post 2014 Ukrainian government has been is a regime infested with Nazi ideology . . . racism . . . you know race theory where the white race is superior even though they’re all Slavs; they pretend somehow that they aren’t . They live in a fantasy world; it is 2023 and he even thought of saying something like this. What is wrong with him and how is he in a position of power even a pretend position? Like you know this regime is a client regime … it is a puppet regime. Couldn’t they find someone more presentable. The answer is no, and this is the problem the United States has . . . consistently all around the globe the only people willing to sign up to work with the United States are people like this. In every single country whether it’s a Nazi inspired racist in Ukraine or or violent thugs and mass murderers here in Southeast Asia, these are the worst who seem to be attracted to working with the us while the rest of these countries that are being targeted, they they have the actual, you know, the actual people who keep the country running. And when you empower these people over the ordinary people that are actually maintaining a nation state, that is when your nation state falls apart as Ukraine is … as we see every every country the US interferes in and then installs a client regime in, we see this collapse because these people are incapable of running a country. The US is not interested in running the country for them; they’re interested in taking it and using it and then disposing of it. We’ve seen this over and over again; Ukraine is just the most recent example, and, yes, it does when he makes comments like this. It just makes it so much easier for Russia to make its case that this really is the West waging a proxy war, not just against Russia, but eventually it’s going to expand into China in; in you know we’ve always talked about this, Danny, for a very long time: there already is a proxy war against China ongoing but it’ll continue to expand ….”
This is what the Jewish Project in the Blinken-Nuland-Kagan(s)-Yellen-Garland House is sending our tax dollars to: Ukrainian politician and adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Mykhailo Podolyak, in a recent interview, made some bizarre remarks about the ‘intellectual abilities’ of India and China, sparking widespread criticism. Podolyak was quoted as saying that India and China put on display their “weak intellectual potential” and also “fail to analyse the consequences of their actions”.
“What’s wrong with India, China, and so forth? The problem is that they are not analyzing the consequences of their steps, these countries have weak intellectual potential, unfortunately.”
Now now, this is it with the dirty racism of Ukrainians left and right, Jew or Goy. But, you aren’t going to find a Blumenthal here, since Max is all about Beltway Politics, critiquing the Media Mindlessness and, yes, special reports, for sure, but Max and Aaron and his three other new self-described Jewish workers, they need a little bit of diversity training.
You see, the ugly Blinken-Nuland-Kagan(s)-Yellen-Garland White House is up to no good, and check it out above, Isra-Hell, too, in Vanessa’s report.
The Trouble In Greece Isn’t Climate Change, Either – UK Column News – 15th September 2023
– Thesaliatv (Greece): Storm Daniel hit the Municipality of Palamas with fury, the situation is difficult
– Vanessa Beeley (Telegram): “Aerial view of Libya devastation. UK promises funds for victims. There would be far less victims if UK and other murderous NATO states hadn’t bombed the shit out of Libyan infrastructure including dams and water reservoirs.”
– 902 (Greece): They were inundated in water and are being asked to pay to compensate them[selves]
Floods, wildfires and a deadly train collision this year have raised questions about the competence of state authorities and central government.
THE WORLD WITHOUT AFRICA
The world without Africa… it’s like trying to enjoy a burger without the patty. Yeah, you might have some fancy buns and condiments, but where’s the substance? Africa isn’t just another continent – it’s the crown jewel of Earth’s resources.
Here’s Beninese-French singer and activist Angelique Kidjo eloquently making the point on Canadian TV’s George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight.
The world without Africa… it’s like trying to enjoy a burger without the patty. Yeah, you might have some fancy buns and condiments, but where’s the substance? Africa isn’t just another continent – it’s the crown jewel of Earth’s resources. Here’s Beninese-French singer and activist Angelique Kidjo eloquently making the point on Canadian TV’s George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight. #World#Africa#Crown#Jewel#Resources#Benin#French#Singer#Activist#AngeliqueKidjo#GeorgeStroumboulopoulos#AfricanTikTok#Fyp#Ftp
You ain’t going to hear Aaron or Max talk about these Afrikan leaders:
While world leaders turned up for this week’s Africa Climate Summit, one African president was deliberately absent. Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni didn’t want to be part of the hypocrisy – according to Kenyan media. Leaders of Nigeria and South Africa also failed to show up. And it’s not hard to understand why.
The root causes and solutions were barely acknowledged, namely the massive carbon footprint of other parts of the world. Probably because that would embarrass some big names in attendance.
Despite African branding, the Nairobi event was dominated by Western officials, from the EU’s von Der Leyen to US climate envoy John Kerry.
“Per capita America is the world’s biggest polluter, while Germany is shamelessly going back to using coal. All that while Africa is left suffering the impact of climate change brought on by the West’s decades of industrialisation.
Floods have killed hundreds in Central Africa, while millions on the Horn of Africa are food insecure due to years of drought. A solution presented by the likes of John Kerry is to issue ‘carbon markets’. That would see ‘credits’ bought and sold by companies to compensate for green house gas emissions. The real answer, is for major economies to stop polluting. Africa produces less than four per cent of global carbon emissions, so leave it alone. It’s simple.”
And, yes, the time is now for Russia to build relationships with African nations, and that eastern Russia, man, it needs guest workers, guest students, guest innovators, and if people want to settle here, then this has to be the plan, man.
Russia is huge, and the population is small. Russia, it’s your time, now, before Putin takes a dive.
Russian President Vladimir Putin opened and closed his quite detailed address to the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok with a resounding message: “The Far East is Russia’s strategic priority for the entire 21st century.”
And that’s exactly the feeling one would have prior to the address, interacting with business executives mingling across the stunning forum grounds at the Far Eastern Federal University (opened only 11 years ago), with the backdrop of the more than four kilometer-long suspension bridge to Russky Island across the Eastern Bosphorus strait.
The development possibilities of what is in effect Russian Asia, and one of the key nodes of Asia-Pacific, are literally mind-boggling. Data from the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and the Arctic – confirmed by several of the most eye-catching panels during the Forum – list a whopping 2,800 investment projects underway, 646 of which are already up and running, complete with the creation of several international Advanced Special Economic Zones (ASEZ) and the expansion of the Free Port of Vladivostok, home to several hundred small and midsize enterprises (SMEs).
All that goes way beyond Russia’s “pivot to the East” which was announced by Putin in 2012, two years before the Maidan events in Kiev. For the rest of the planet, not to mention the collective west, it is impossible to understand the Russian Far East magic without being on the spot – starting with Vladivostok, the charming, unofficial capital of the Far East, with its gorgeous hills, striking architecture, verdant islands, sandy bays and of course the terminal of the legendary Trans-Siberian Railway.
Fuck USA. Fuck Canada. Fuck Europe. Fuck Israel. Fuck NZ and Australia and Japan and South Korea.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, the host and president of the G77+ group, addresses the summit. Photo: Presidencia Cuba (Source)
In the final declaration, the G77+China Summit highlighted the importance of technology for development, the impacts of climate change, and called for a reform of the international economic system. The event ended on Saturday September 16 in Havana, the capital of Cuba, and was attended by heads of state from Latin America, Africa, and Asia including Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Colombian President Gustavo Petro, as well as United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, and diplomats and delegations from more than 100 countries.
The summit is the largest event of countries from the Global South within the United Nations (UN).
“We stress the urgent need for a comprehensive reform of the international financial architecture and a more inclusive and coordinated approach to global financial governance, with greater emphasis on cooperation between countries, notably by increasing the representation of developing countries in global decision-making and policy-making bodies that will contribute to increasing the capacities of developing countries to access and develop science, technology and innovation,” says the Havana Declaration.
Fuck the ADL, fuck them all, the Museums of In-Tolerance, fuck them all, those ultra-Zionists, and alas Israel is pushing censorship and attacks on humankind in a rhetorical Kristallnacht.
It is time for the end of this project of world domination, man. Defamation, my ass!
QUOTE: From a Jew, “Jewish people control the world.”
Shamir isn’t out to get Foxman, who’s a Holocaust survivor and one of the nation’s most powerful pro-Israel lobbyists, but the filmmaker clearly takes a different view of what’s good for the Jews and for the soul of Israel. A member of Israel’s peace movement, Shamir garnered widespread acclaim for his verité film Checkpoint, which assessed the impact of border-control posts in the Israeli-occupied territories, both on the Israeli soldiers who manned them and on the Palestinians forced to pass through them. His superb 5 Days observed Israel’s 2005 pullout from Gaza with approval — and with sympathy for the anguish of both the evicted settlers and the soldiers, whose orders were to remove resisters bodily from their homes.
Asked by a Sundance Film Festival audience member how he felt about the pullout, Shamir answered wryly, “As a peacenik, I was glad things went smoothly. As a filmmaker, I was hoping for more trouble.”
Shamir instinctively goes where the drama is, but he also has a gadfly’s sharp radar for the gap between rhetoric and reality. When he presses ADL staffers for evidence to back up their claims of a sharp spike in North American anti-Semitism in 2007, they can offer only wan transgressions — letters from employees denied time off for a Jewish holiday, or people offended by a cop’s incautious use of the word “Jew” — that hardly stack up compared with the Holocaust, which is repeatedly invoked by ADL officials as something that could happen again anytime, anywhere.
But he also finds an Orthodox rabbi who notes that when a black person robs a Jew, the crime isn’t necessarily an anti-Semitic one. The rabbi ventures further that the hypervigilance of the ADL inflames already volatile relations between Jews and blacks.
Indeed, Shamir finds far more sensitivity to anti-Semitism among secular Jews than among their religious counterparts, both in the United States and in Israel. Accompanying Israeli teenagers on a school trip to concentration camps in Poland, Shamir watches as their teachers, guides and a zealous security detail whip up fears of rampant neo-Nazism among their charges. One student, hilariously, comes away from an encounter with elderly Polish locals (who speak not a word of English) with the firm conviction that they’ve called her a “monkey” and a “donkey.”
If Shamir is gifted with an anthropologist’s openness to complication, he also has a contrarian’s impish appetite for the opposing argument, the more intemperately expressed the better. The leftist Israeli publisher Uri Avnery assures him that anti-Semitism in America is “a Jewish invention,” while Norman Finkelstein — a professor and son of Holocaust survivors who argues in his controversial book The Holocaust Industry that Israel and its supporters play the Shoah card to justify the oppression of the Palestinians — denounces Foxman as a “thug and a hoodlum.”
And here we are, then, AntiSemitism is a fucking joke to the rest of the world:
QUOTING: The first Israeli victim of Saddam Hussein is a Zionist myth on which we were brought up.
It stated that Israel is a haven for all the Jews in the world. In all the other countries, Jews live in perpetual fear that a cruel persecutor will arise, as happened in Germany. Israel is the safe haven, to which Jews can escape in times of danger. Indeed, this was the purpose of the Founding Fathers when they established
the state.
Now Saddam comes along and proves the opposite. All over the world, Jews live in safety, and only in one place on the planet are they threatened by annihilation: Israel. Here the national parks are prepared for mass-graves, here (pathetic) measures against biological and chemical weapons are prepared. Many people are already planning to escape to the communities in the Diaspora. End of a myth.
Another Zionist myth died even before that. The Diaspora, so we learned in our youth, creates anti-Semitism. Everywhere the Jews are a minority, and a minority inevitably attracts the hatred of the majority. Only when the Jews gather in the Land of their Forefathers and constitute the majority there, will anti-Semitism disappear throughout the world. Thus spoke Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism.
Nowadays this myth, too, is giving up its blessed soul. The very opposite is happening: the State of Israel is causing the resurrection of anti-Semitism all over the world, threatening Jews everywhere.
The Sharon government is a giant laboratory for the growing of the anti-Semitism virus. It exports it to the whole world. Anti-Semitic organizations, which for many years vegetated on the margins of society, rejected and despised, are suddenly growing and flowering. Anti-Semitism, which has hidden itself in shame since World War II, is now riding on a great wave of opposition to Sharon’s policy of oppression.
Sharon’s propaganda agents are pouring oil on the flames. Accusing all critics of his policy of being anti-Semites, they brand large communities with this mark. Many good people, who feel no hatred at all towards the Jews, but who detest the persecution of the Palestinians, are now called anti-Semites. Thus the sting is taken out of this word, giving it something approaching respectability.
The practical upshot: not only does Israel not protect the Jews from anti-Semitism, but quite on the contrary – Israel manufactures and exports the anti-Semitism that threatens Jews around the world.
For many years, Israel enjoyed the sympathy of most people. It was seen as the state of the holocaust survivors, a small and courageous country defending itself against the repeated assaults of murderous Arabs. Slowly, this image has been replaced by another: a cruel, brutal and colonizing state, oppressing a small and helpless people. The persecuted has become the persecutor, David has turned onto Goliath.
We Israelis, living in a bubble of self-brain-washing, find it hard to imagine how the world sees us. In many countries, television and newspapers publish daily pictures of Palestinian children throwing stones at monstrous tanks, soldiers harassing women at the checkpoints, despairing old men sitting on the ruins of their demolished homes, soldiers taking aim and shooting children. These soldiers do not look like human beings in uniform – “the neighbor’s son” as they look to Israelis, but like robots without faces, armed to the teeth, heads hidden by helmets, bullet-proof vests changing their proportions. People who have seen these photos dozens and hundreds of times start to see the Israel in this image.
For Jews, this creates a dangerous vicious circle. Sharon’s actions create repulsion and opposition throughout the world. These reinforce anti-Semitism. Faced with this danger, Jewish organizations are pushed into defending Israel and giving it unqualified support. This support enables the anti-Semites to attack not only the government of Israel, but the local Jews, too. And so on.
In Europe, Jews already feel the pressure. But in the United States, they still feel supremely self-confident. In Europe, Jews have learned over the centuries that it is not wise to be too conspicuous and to display their wealth and influence. But in America, the very opposite is happening: the Jewish establishment is practically straining to prove that it controls the country.
Every few years, the Jewish lobby “eliminates” an American politician who does not support the Israeli government unconditionally. This is not done secretly, behind the scenes, but as a public “execution”. Just now this was done to the black Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, a young, active, intelligent and very sympathetic woman. She has dared to criticize the Sharon government, support Palestinians and (worst of all) Israeli and Jewish peace groups. The Jewish establishment found a counter-candidate, a practically unknown black woman, injected huge sums into the campaign and defeated Cynthia.
All this happened in the open, with fanfares, to make a public example – so that every Senator and Congressperson would know that criticizing Sharon is tantamount to political suicide.
Now this is repeated in a big way. The pro-Israel lobby – which consists of Jews and extreme right-wing Christian fundamentalists – is pushing the American administration to start a war. This, too, openly, in full view of the American public. Dozens of articles in the important newspapers point this out as a plain political fact.
What will happen if the war ends in failure? If it has unexpected negative results and many young Americans die? If the American public turns against it, as happened during the Vietnam War? One can easily imagine a whispering campaign starting: “The Jews have pushed us into this,” “The Jews support Israel more than they support America,” and, finally, “The Jews control our country.”
Furthermore, Sharon may sooner or later bring about a revolution in the Arab world. This will be a disaster for American interests. American Jews, now completely identified with Israel, will be blamed.
Anyhow, the conspicuousness of the Jews in the United States, especially in the media, and their disproportionate influence over the Congress and the White House, can backfire one of these days.
Of course, the special political culture of the United States encourages such phenomena – but that was also true in Spain of the “Golden Age” and the Weimar republic in Germany. History does not have to repeat itself, but neither should one disregard its lessons.
There are people in Israel people who secretly wish for the victory of anti-Semitism everywhere. That would confirm another Zionist myth on which we were brought up: that Jews will not be able to live anywhere but in Israel, because anti-Semitism is bound to triumph everywhere. But the United States is not France or Argentina, it plays a critical role in the Middle East. Israel’s national security, as established by all Israeli governments since Ben-Gurion, is based on the total support of the United States – military, political and economic.
If I were asked for advice, I would counsel the Jewish communities throughout the world as follows: break out of the vicious circle. Disarm the anti-Semites. Break the habit of automatic identification with everything our governments do. Let your conscience speak out. Return to the traditional Jewish values of “That which is altogether just shalt thou follow!” (Deuteronomy 16,20) and “Seek peace and pursue it!” (Psalms 34, 14). Identify yourselves with the Other Israel, which is struggling to uphold these values at home.
All over the world, new Jewish groups that follow this way are multiplying. They break yet another myth: the duty of Jews everywhere to subordinate themselves to the edicts of our government.
Pointing to the recent threats against Syrian government, Escobar argues that there are powerful interests itching for war who should not be underestimated.
Escobar also maintains that there are substantial sectors of the industrial-military complex – including their think tanks; the Israel lobby, especially via AIPAC and WINEP; the neo-cons, which may be dead but not buried; the House of Saud; and sections of US corporate media such as the CNN.
What follows is the text of FNA’s interview with Brazilian investigative journalist Pepe Escobar. (Sept 23, 2013)
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