if you do not spit on the faces of all the Israel Supporters, then your phlegm is already crystalized into the STD sputum of sinister murderers and you are DEAD!
The sign says it all: one Trillion Dollars over the life of the Jewish State of Racist Jewish Occupied Palestine:
The US has given about $130 billion in aid to Israel over the last 75 years.
Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of US military funding.
But as the civilian toll in Gaza grows, the US Congress is rethinking its support.
Multiplier of 10 times this so-called “given amount of aid.” It’s all the shit Israel sells to us, and the damage to USA, that Israel has done, between Pegasus and the Wars and Wars the Jews of Rascist Jewish Israel have fomented and conducted. More than a trillion dollars. Sept. 11, 2001, ANYONE? (except Chomsky and Hedges and others, who believe in angels and lies — just a bunch of Saudi hijackers!!!)
While Jew Larry “I am Israel and Jewish First as Long as I Can spin it around a few trillion dollars” Fink and his Black-Heart-Rock guts societies and while Bibi-Zelensky take Goyim all the way to the banks, one microcosm, Portland, Oregon, dying on the streets.
“This morning, we’ve had people who have been outside all night, showing up here, looking for resources for tonight, and it’s been really, really challenging,” said Katie O’Brien, Rose Haven’s executive director.
“We’ve contacted the city and the county looking for additional beds. We called 211 last night; they had no beds available for anybody. There just aren’t the resources,” she continued.
Monster — looks like Jacques Cousteau’s evil twin:
The most inarticulate, unimaginative, stiupid fucking people . . . new normal? that’s what their EuroTrashLandian educations (sic) got them?
Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, said consumption, trade and inflation began to normalize last year.
While the three trends Lagarde identified represent a “normalization,” she said: “It is not normality that we are heading to” in 2024.
Germany’s Minister of Finance Christian Lindner characterized the current economic situation as a “new normal.”
Monster Country and Monster Company:
The US tech giant employs about 2,000 people in Haifa and Tel Aviv, working across data mining and game theory teams, and other R&D activity, as well as sales and marketing
This time around, the scale of the streamlining is not expected to be in the magnitude of last year’s downsizing round. Back in January 2023, Google’s parent company Alphabet cut its workforce worldwide by 6 percent, affecting about 12,000 jobs across product areas, functions and regions.
Over the years, the tech giant has bought and invested in a number of Israeli companies and startups, including the $1 billion purchase of navigation app Waze, threat detection firm Siemplify, cloud storage firm Elastifile, cybersecurity company Cybereason and data migration company Alooma.
While these pieces of shit are at Davos are giving Isra-Hell and UkroNaziLandia advice, telemetry, sighting info, intel, and billions in bombs and shells, well well, the fucking USA is on the big slide: Gallup categorizes Americans as “thriving,” “struggling” or “suffering” for its Life Evaluation Index based on how they rate their current and future lives on a ladder scale with steps numbered from zero to 10, using the Cantril Self-Anchoring Striving Scale.
Those who rate their current life a 7 or higher and their anticipated life in five years an 8 or higher are classified as thriving, while those who give their current life—as well as their next five years—a 4 or below are classified as suffering.
These respondents are more likely to report lacking food and shelter, more likely to have physical pain, stress, worry, sadness, and anger, according to Gallup.
Again, every single piece of human corrupt deluded, colluding shit at Davos, every fucking security detailk every Bentley, every fucking sixth ohome per family, every fucking $2000 meal, $6000 hotel bed, all of it, it must be immolated. Bang.
No money or support for the people:
Independent restaurants and bars are requesting immediate aid from the State of Oregon to address financial loss brought on by the winter storms impacting the area.
According to a letter by the Independent Restaurant Alliance of Oregon (IRAO) addressed to state leaders, the extended closures of independently-owned restaurants, bars and food carts have been “catastrophic” to their business operations.
Additionally, they say the closures are “putting them at risk of permanent closure without immediate assistance from local and regional governments.”
Ahh, the Wailing Wall White House, another Jewish Firster, Israel Only piece of shit.
Why it matters: Zients is convinced that the federal government will work more efficiently and effectively when employees are in the office at least 50% of the time.
His aggressive push has yielded some results, but Zients — who has experience in the public and private sector — is plainly frustrated that more federal workers aren’t back at their desks.
“Your agency should have a system for monitoring implementation progress fully in place,” Zients emailed agency and department heads Friday afternoon.
“I expect that you are personally tracking your progress, and taking appropriate action to meet your agency goals,” he wrote.
It is an illegitimate government, this Wailing Wall White House. Fuck it.
Nazi Germany is at it again awarding it — some fucking Charlemagne ribbon — to Nazi Rabbis and the Nazi regime, AKA, Jewish Germans for Israel: The German city of Aachen said on Friday it would award its 2024 Charlemagne prize to a leading rabbi and Jews in Europe, as antisemitism has surged there following the Hamas-led onslaught in southern Israel and subsequent war in Gaza.
The prize for efforts to foster European unity will go to Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt and “the Jewish communities of Europe,” the board of directors said.
Keeping it consistently Un-United $nake$ of Israel, more of this racist, dirty group of people, Jewish Israel Uber Alles, killing our right to criticize their genocide.
While fucking gringos and BIPOC goyim want more hummus stuffed down their fucking nostrils?
When Columbia University suspended its chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace in November, it said they could be reinstated in the spring semester if they show “a commitment to compliance with university policies.”
The new semester began on Tuesday. But the two pro-Palestinian groups remain suspended, the New York Jewish Week has learned.
Columbia University’s okay: as long as they get their fucking polluted and plasticized and sugarize Coke:
Coca-Cola prices were up 10% in Q2 2023 compared to a year prior, the Financial Times reported, though the company’s latest update showed this had little effect on the bottom line.
Indeed an October release from Coca-Cola for Q3 2023 said net revenues grew 8% to $12 billion with a 2% growth in concentrate sales, a performance Quincey described as a “solid” quarter.
DAVOS, Switzerland — The world is hurtlingforward with developing AI tools and rolling out products and services. That’s causing anxiety for some and excitement for others attending the World Economic Forum this week in Davos.
The big picture: The divide in optimism about AI echoes broader concerns about how innovations are implemented and the role of scientists in releasing new technologies.
New data released this week from the Edelman Trust Barometer found 74% of people surveyed said they equally trust scientists and peers for the truth about innovations, compared to 66% for company technical experts, 51% for CEOs and 47% for journalists.
But people who think new technologies are being poorly managed trust their peers more than scientists.
The trend is putting “innovation in peril” and rapid innovation “risks exacerbating trust issues, leading to further societal instability and political polarization,” according to the report.
Driving the news: AI dominated the storefronts rented out by corporations, governments and non-profits in Davos and featured prominently in the week’s programs and discussions.
The rush by companies to roll out AI-based products and services is in part driven by fear of getting left behind, says futurist Amy Webb, who advises companies on long-term risks. “Some don’t even have a problem to solve.” (source)
Aboslute ZERO push back, ZERO philosophers, ZERO people from and on the streets pushing against this WEF -Reset-Tokenized-Transhumanist fucking Phillip Dick shit!
The Jews rule the fucking world? Fucking nuke Tel Aviv might be a mantra. More illegal bombing: Fifth Iran Revolutionary Guards member dies after strike in Syria attributed to Israel.
TAMPA, Fla. — The U.S. Air Force plans to expand its search for gravesites in a former Black cemetery at a base in Florida after discovering 121 potential sites already, a base official said.
Ahh, Black Graves Do Not Matter Unless they are Accidently Unearthed Before the Cats can bulldoze them into hardpan!
At the time, Joe Sacco was working as a full-time cartoonist after not finding a satisfying journalism job. But when he arrived on his trip to Gaza, his journalistic background kicked in when he realized the importance of interviewing civilians to show the daily reality of living under occupation.
“There were all these things about the occupation I began to find out. I think the thing that really sticks in my head is how all these things sort of led up to attacks on people’s dignity,” he said. “Because when you cannot go from one point to another without being stopped, without being checked, without being taken out of the car, when you worry about going to school, when you’re taken to prison and you’re beaten, crowded together in very unsanitary situations, all these things are obviously an attempt to degrade people.”
But the Palestinization of Oregon, and a state near-by, coming to U$A hard!! Denis Theriault, a spokesperson for Multnomah County, said deciding when and how to close the shelters is complex, due to the storm’s lingering effects. TriMet MAX and bus lines were operating with limited routes and schedules Wednesday, hampering the ability to easily transport people who stayed at warming shelters to other permanent daytime shelters or outdoor encampments.
Shelter visitors were offered tents, blankets and warm weather clothing as they left into the cold.
“The reality is, we are still sending people back into a typical Portland winter,” said Theriault. “It’s rainy, it’s cold. But it’s at least above freezing.”
The county opens emergency shelters whenever temperatures are forecast to drop below 25 degrees Fahrenheit or below 32 degrees Fahrenheit if accompanied by heavy rain.
Fucking Zelensky’s house, right?
City sweeps of tent camps in recent months – as well as homeless people frequently being made to feel unwelcome by many homeowners – have forced those in need of shelter to regularly move around, pushing them to increasingly remote locations far from their communities and making them difficult to find, said Zora Hess, who volunteers with homeless outreach organizations in Portland.
the off-ramp for humanity is, hmm, tabla rasa . . . . reset . . . back to the future . . . ?
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.- Ayn Rand
I just love (not) these fucking Cato Institute Loving fucking whores:
The world could soon have its first trillionaire, according to a prominent anti-poverty organization. That’s pretty cool. But Oxfam—which started as a famine relief group before mission creep set in—portrays the achievement of a new nominal benchmark in wealth as a bad thing that contributes to the misery of the masses. Through impressive economic illiteracy, the organization’s recent report on inequality and poverty manages to misdiagnose the world’s ills and prescribe dangerous and counterproductive remedies. (source)
More Ayn Rand human stain entering my Google Gulag email box:
“Since 2020, the richest five men in the world have doubled their fortunes,” huffs Oxfam’s Inequality Inc. “During the same period, almost five billion people globally have become poorer. Hardship and hunger are a daily reality for many people worldwide. At current rates, it will take 230 years to end poverty, but we could have our first trillionaire in 10 years.”
Oh, the huffing and puffing this Tuccille accuses Oxfam of. He calls this a hate video:
“Through squeezing workers, dodging tax, privatizing the state and spurring climate breakdown, corporations are driving inequality and acting in the service of delivering ever-greater wealth to their rich owners,” insists Oxfam.
That seems an unlikely business plan. Did Bezos do anything else—perhaps found an online book store that grew into a global retail giant? And then, during the post-2020 timeframe that Oxfam emphasizes, did governments respond to the appearance of the COVID-19 virus by locking down populations, driving economic activity into online spaces to the benefit of people like Bezos? Yes, on both counts. (J.D.)
Mother-fucking yammering and masturbation a la a million lights of STD=spewing armchair fucking click click clikcers.
The price of Ayn Rand:
This is the shifting baseline disorder BIG Time. No, not some nostalgic waxing for Norman Rockwell better good old days. The good old days never were allowed to flourish into the good old now days, or the good towns and cities and communities good old future days.
You see, towns and cities never had a chance to embolden community-level engagement. Towns with downtowns with a few highrises, maybe, but better, these cities with nodes, with these little Italy’s and littine Chinatowns. Real trolleys, real light rail, real transportation choices. Businesses on the ground floor and two more stories up with housing. Yes, fucking condo and townhouse and apartment living.
The experiment of real parks, real downtowns, real walkable and bikeable neighborhoods. Real socialism protecting small businesses, stopping huge or semi-huge monopolies. No more mergers beyond mergers which wipe out real nodes, neighborhood gathering places, small businesses, local manufacturing and growing and local almost everything..
Versus this:
Basically, a society, a culture, many cultures, in fact, across the globe, who would never accepted an Amazon forty years ago as an alternative to small bricks and mortar stores with books and music (live) and meeting places, and food, or what have you. Amzon versus local hardware and five and dime and USPS?
Just go along to get along, per the monopolies’ dictates? Tax them? Fucking JAIL them.
Oxfam estimates that a wealth tax on the world’s multi-millionaires and billionaires could generate $1.8 trillion a year. This money could be used to invest in public services and infrastructure and to support climate action initiatives that could better everyone’s lives, not just those of the ultra-wealthy.
What do these burglars — billionaires, trillionaires, millionaires and the rest in the 15 percent, really — what do they invest in to accumulate?
DOD is upgrading its fleet of fighter and attack planes, known as tactical aircraft. Most of these planes—purchased in the 1970s and 80s—have outlived their planned service lives.
Over the next 5 years, DOD is proposing to spend nearly $100 billion on major investments and changes to its current mix of tactical aircraft. This includes
modernizing existing aircraft
buying and developing new aircraft
retiring a significant number of aircraft
We recommended that DOD analyze its portfolio of tactical aircraft investments, including interdependencies and tradeoffs among the different planes, and report on its findings to Congress.
DOD is proposing investing $14.2 billion in the F-35C over the next 5 years
The fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act calls for $886.3 billion in U.S. military spending, up 3.3% from 2023 levels. However, the dynamics in the defense industry changed dramatically when Israel declared war on Hamas in October 2023. The war in the Middle East may force the U.S. government to increase defense industry investment in coming years, and defense stocks have jumped since the conflict began. Defense stocks are attractive investments because they often have predictable, long-term government contracts.
Defense companies get the bulk of their revenue from one customer — the U.S. government. Fortunately, that customer has deep pockets and a long history of paying its bills. The federal government’s stability gives defense companies and investors some predictability when it comes to managing cash and projecting growth.
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Economies of scale, and to attempt to tie in/ track down every penny, every million dollars, every infrastructure million human lifetimes wasted, every school brick layed, every goddamned moment mesmerized by any aspect of Murder Inc., it’s totally impossible.
Then, that fucking outfit, CBS News, tried to give the lo down, but retracted like sniveling drug dealers caught with their baggies: Why military aid in Ukraine may not always get to the front lines.
“Every country and every situation is very different, but certainly if I look back, Iraq is another country where there have been cyclical deliveries. We saw a lot of weapons come in 2003 with the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, and then 2014 happened when ISIS took over large parts of the country and took over large stocks of weapons that had been meant for Iraqi forces,” said Donatella Rovera, a senior crisis adviser for Amnesty International who has been monitoring human rights violations in Ukraine.
So, get this — “we” have to “win” the “war” so semi-failed state Ukraine doesn’t become a feeder for more weapons of mass and minor destruction on the global arms market.
“More recently, we saw the same situation occur in Afghanistan,” she said of the U.S. withdrawal and Taliban takeover of the country. “Oversight mechanisms should be in place to avoid that.”
“That’s one of the reasons we have to win the war,” said Ohman. “If we lose the war, if we have this kind of gray zone, semi-failed state scenario or something like that. If you do this — you funnel lots of lethal resources into a place and you lose — then you will have to face the consequences.”
“There are like power lords, oligarchs, political players,” Jonas Ohman, founder and CEO of Blue-Yellow, a Lithuania-based organization that has been meeting with and supplying frontline units with non-lethal military aid in Ukraine since the start of the conflict with Russia-backed separatists in 2014. Back in April, he estimated that just “30-40%” of the supplies coming across the border reached its final destination.
Ohman described the corruption and bureaucracy he had to work around. “The system itself, it’s like, ‘We are the armed forces of Ukraine. If security forces want it, well, the Americans gave it to us.’ It’s kind of like power games all day long, and so eventually people need the stuff, and they go to us.”
Fucking CBS:
Invest in Military, and read up on the best deals, best ways? Yep, no Investment Push to truly build up in towns, cities, infrastructure, sewer and water systems. Capitalism is all about the war: war against acollective action, collective bargaining, collective decision making, collectives, collective planning, bio-regional planning collectively, collectively sharing the wealth, collectively determining wealth, resource extraction, externalities. NOPE. War against us and these ideas.
Do you feel the cum all over the typing keyboard yet? Oh, those fucking BIPOC and LGBTQA+ in uniform, or in skinny jeans. Masturbation, and you expect what at the international court looking at yet another genocide from isra-HELL.
All these numbers of course are cooked books numbers. We spend trillions a year on war, on military, on all the subsidiaries of lying, cheating, sancitoning, resource theft, human capital draining.
There is no fucking GENOCIDE decision coming out of that fucking court. The reality is, war and murder and budgets for non-proportionality i.e Gaza t(always triple of quadruple the actual taxpayer outlays) will win.
Oh, those cool, walkable-bikeable-light railable cities and towns, yep, and those agriculture centric towns, and all those fucking cool, smart ideas about resilience in a time of expanding (it’s fucking seal level rise) oceans, nah. The orgasms and masturbation is all about the kills, KIAs, the space wars, the mind and homes and schools and markets as a battleground.
Read the report, man. Vomit bags not included.
Break into those mattresses now and pull out the Benjamins: It’s only 50 pages, the REPORT on how to INVEST in investment products in order to facilitate killing babies. Put those Benjamins to work!
Ahh, a thousand good books from over a century on how to build real communities. I’ll take sidewalks anyday over these fucking murderers.
Summary: This documentary, directed by Barry Alexander Brown, is based on the ethnographic fieldwork that sociologist Mitchell Duneier conducted for his seminal book, Sidewalk (1999). Framed in the film’s introduction as an “epilogue” to the book, Brown offers a plot summary: “SIDEWALK chronicles the lives of primarily black homeless book vendors and magazine scavengers who ply their trade along 6th Avenue between 8th Street and Washington Place in New York City. By briefly comparing those book vendors with the history of book vending along the Seine in Paris, the film speaks to the efforts of North American and European societies to rid public space of the outcasts they have had a hand in producing.
The film takes us into the social world of the people subsisting on the streets of New York by focusing on their work as street side booksellers, magazine vendors, junk dealers, panhandlers, and table watchers. The sidewalk becomes a site for the unfolding of these people living on the edge of society in order to give us a deeper understanding of how these individual’s are able to survive.
It also becomes a site for conflicts and solidarities that encompass the vendors and local residents. We followed half dozen vendors for most of this past decade. By the end of shooting the film, their lives had taken a myriad of routes…” Like other urban ethnographic films (e.g., here), Sidewalk would be excellent to show in an urban sociology course, as well as an introductory sociology class, as it engages core sociological concerns around race, poverty, homelessness, underground economies, interactions with police, and community support networks, among others. Ethnography professors might also find the film useful—the film opens with several screens of written text, describing the film as a “set of fieldnotes.” There is also discussion of the film available online.
One of these discussions entails Duneier’s introductory lecture on ethnographic methods, in which two sidewalk vendors visit his class. Here Duneier presents his approach to doing ethnography, particularly within the context and medium of film. The other is a panel discussion about the film with Cornel West and Kim Hopper at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting.
“Fixity is always momentary.” — Octavio Paz
But those fucking billionaires and the Fucked Up Trillionaire Wannabe Musk, they plan now and in the future a system for destroying us, man, destroying cities, destroying people, babies, families, ecosystems, but we turn on ourselves, triagulate and divide and let them conquer us.
Don’t fucking fool yourself with Cato Ayn Rand Chlamydia.
A good essay here:
The Permanent and Ephemeral: What Does This Mean for Urbanism?
Cities have largely been imagined by architects and planners as permanent entities – artefacts where architecture and planning are the central instruments for their manifestation. Today, this basic assumption stands challenged on three counts. Firstly, because of the massive scale of the “informalization” of cities where urban space is constructed and configured outside the formal purview of the State – a phenomenon that has engulfed the globe in the last four decades. Secondly, on account of the massive shifts in demography occurring around the world. The phenomenon of the movement of large groups of people across national boundaries as a result of political instability will only be accelerated by climate change, the depletixon and imbalance of natural resources or the rise of natural disasters. Lastly, the assumption that permanence is a default condition or the single instrument to imagine our cities is further complicated, albeit in positive ways, by the fact that in recent years, there has been an extraordinary intensification of pilgrimage practices as well as celebration and political congregations of all kinds globally, which have consequently translated into the need for larger and more frequently constructed temporal structures and settlements for hosting massive gatherings.
The combination of these factors should prompt us to rethink the assumption or notion of permanence in our response to the ever-shifting conditions of urbanism around the world. Like the “informalization” of the city, which results in temporary auto-constructed environments, natural disasters and changes in climatic conditions are also turning temporary shelters, extended with increasing frequency into camps or settlements, into holding strategies or short-term solutions.
Spread from The Kinetic City and Other Essays. Courtesy of ArchiTangle
There are numerous examples of such temporary occupation in response to natural catastrophes and environmental threats, such as those recently seen in the Philippines, Haiti and Chile, along with several other cases of temporary cities built in the context of disaster. Furthermore, political tensions in many places around the globe contribute to the displacement of people from their places of origin and fuel tremendous ecologies of refugee camps. The flux will continue to accelerate given the general inequity and imbalance of resources that have disrupted and brutally dislocated communities and nations across the globe. Extreme examples of humanitarian spaces hosting stateless persons and asylum seekers are the refugee camps located in Ivory Coast, which accommodate more than nine hundred thousand refugees, mostly from Liberia but also from other adjacent locations. However, the most striking cases are those of Dabaad in north-eastern Kenya, which accommodates almost five hundred thousand people, the Breidjing camps in Chad, home to two hundred thousand people, and several camps in Sri Lanka holding three hundred thousand people displaced during the decade-long civil war.
Startlingly, these camps only hold a small fraction of the forty-five million people who, according to the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees, are currently displaced around the world and living in temporary structures. At the other end of the spectrum, cultural and religious celebrations are also on the rise. Increasing in scale as well as frequency, they too lead to the erection of temporary structures within and outside urban areas.
Extreme examples of temporary religious cities are the ephemeral constructions set up for the Hajj, as well as a series of temporary cities constructed in India to host celebrations like the Durga Puja, Ganesh Chaturthi or Kumbh Mela – a religious pilgrimage, which according to official figures, draws congregations of over one hundred million people.
Extensive music festivals like Exit in Serbia, Coachella in California or Sziget in Budapest also lead to the construction of extended ephemeral settlements to house large groups of people together for short periods. Festivals range from relatively small gatherings, like the Burning Man in Nevada or Fuji Rock in Japan, where around forty thousand people gather to enjoy music and celebratory events, to three hundred fifty thousand people flocking to musical events like Glastonbury in England, Roskilde Festival in Denmark, and Werchter in Belgium.
These examples could be expanded to include many others, such as the temporary cities built on mining, oil drilling or forestry sites where natural resources are exploited. The Yanacocha mine in Peru, for example, employs over ten thousand people who live in temporary housing. Other mining communities like the Maritsa Iztok mines in Bulgaria, the Motru Coal mine in Romania, or the Chuquicamata, Salvador and Pelambres sites in the north of Chile generate completely different sorts of temporary settlements on account of the different time spans involved, adding a further degree of complexity. Here, large-scale operations have modified the topography of a landscape, albeit temporarily, on a territorial scale with the attendant environmental consequences.
The lifecycle of these temporary cities lasts as long as the resources being mined, and so have a known or predictable date of expiry. The operative question is thus: Can temporary landscapes play a critical “transitionary” role in this process of flux that the planet will experience evermore frequently? This contemporary condition, coupled with the rampant expansion of the influence of global capital and the colonization of land on the peripheries of cities, is locking the globe into unsustainable forms of urbanism, where fossil fuel dependence in combination with isolationist trends of gated communities for the rich are creating a polarity that will become harder to reverse.
So, while cities grow in the formal imagination of governments and patrons, the proliferation of the informal city is amplified in magnitude as never before! Is there a role for urban design in addressing these questions? Can we as architects and planners challenge the assumption that Permanence matters?
The city in flux is a global phenomenon. In several cities around the world, the postindustrial scenario has given rise to a new system where living and working have become extremely fragmented. The locations of jobs and places of living are no longer interrelated in the predictable fashion when job locations were centralized. In today’s networked economies, these patterns are not only fragmented but in flux and constantly reconfiguring.
This results in the fragmentation of the structure of the city itself and its form, where the notion of clear zoning or predictable and implementable land-use all break down into a much more multifaceted imagination of how the city is used and operates. It is an urbanism created by those outside the élite domains of the formal modernity of the State. It is what the Indian scholar Ravi Sundaram refers to as a “pirate” modernity that slips under the laws of the city to simply survive, without any conscious attempt at constructing a counter-culture.
Yet, this phenomenon of flux is critical to cities and nations connected to the global economy; however, the spaces thus created have been largely excluded from the cultural discourse on globalization, which focuses on élite domains of production in the city. They are spaces that have been below the radar of most architects and planners, who focus on the traditionally defined public realm. Yet within these confines, the very meaning of space is in flux and ever changing. It cannot only be defined as the city of the poor, nor can it be contained within the regular models of the formal and informal, and other such binaries. Rather it is a kinetic space where these models collapse into singular entities and where meanings are ever shifting and blurred.
The questions this raises are as follows: Can we design for this space as urban designers and planners? Can we design with a divided mind? Can other forms of organizations be embedded in our concept of the city and, if so, how do we recognize and embed these in the formal discourse on urban design? This is not an argument for making our cities temporary but rather one of recognizing the temporary as an integral part of the city and seeing whether it can be encompassed within urban design – in terms of urban form, public spaces, and governance structures.
Framing this phenomenon of flux under the rubric of “ephemeral urbanism” is perhaps to create a more inspirational category than the binary of the formal and informal city, for it implies the transitional rather than the transformative or the absolute. Furthermore, as designers we tend to observe and organize the world around us in binaries such as the rich and poor, the state and private enterprise, or the formal and informal city.
While these are productive as categories to describe the world, they do not seem to serve design operations productively because they force urban designers to occupy and advocate one or the other world articulated in the binary. Urban design, on the other hand, is about design synthesis and dissolving and resolving contestations through spatial arrangements.
So, what then is the role of urban design in this condition? Most certainly, this flux is the new normal. In addition, the spurts of growth and flux triggered by natural and political uncertainty are going to challenge our reading of the urban condition and the role of urban design. J. B. Jackson in his book Discovering the Vernacular Landscape (1984) and writing about North America highlighted the importance of what he called the third landscape – the landscape of cyclic events. He stressed that the first landscape was one of mobility: of the early colonial vernacular cultures, which preferred mobility, adaptability, and transitory qualities; of the short-lived tents and log cabins – a landscape that characterized North America before Jefferson’s classical farm villages appeared, he added.
These settlements of the decomposable (equivalents of which exist in every culture) are what Jackson brought to our attention. This mobile ephemeral landscape was replaced by another landscape, which “impressed upon us the notion that there can only be […] a landscape identified with a very static, very conservative social order” found in most of contemporary North American and European – and now perhaps Chinese – cityscapes. The people in this landscape, he argued, feel isolated from one another even though they work and live closely together. Thus, he implicitly argued for the “third” landscape where the ephemeral and the temporary can be instilled in the landscape of static objects to create richer social interaction. It is a landscape in flux and temporary, serving specific needs on a sometimes predictable timescale. The circus, the farmers’ market, and the festival, for example, are suddenly moments where different parts of society are made aware of their own existence within the urban system.
The ephemeral obviously has much to teach us about planning and design. In fact, the ephemeral city represents an entire surrogate urban ecology that grows and disappears on an often extremely tight, temporal scale. In short, this notion of the ephemeral as a productive category within the larger discourse on urbanism deserves serious consideration. For in reality, when cities are analyzed over large temporal spans, ephemerality emerges as an important condition in the life cycle of every built environment.
Peter Bishop and Lesley Williams recently asked: Given overwhelming evidence that cities are a complex overlay of buildings and activities that are, in one way or another, temporary, why have urbanists been so focused on permanence? The aim of broadening the rubric is a way of starting to assemble evidence that could give us some material to move toward a more open urbanism – open in the way Richard Sennett describes it, which in a city means being incomplete, errant, antagonistic, and non-linear.
The issues that could be negotiated in this form of urban practice are therefore as diverse as memory, geography, infrastructure, sanitation, public health governance, ecology, and urban form, albeit in some measure temporary. These parameters could unfold their projective potential, offering alternatives of how to embed softer but perhaps more robust systems in more permanent cities.
Andrea Branzi advises us on how to think of cities of the future. He suggests that we need to learn to implement reversibility, avoiding rigid solutions and definitive decisions. He also suggests approaches that allow space to be adjusted and reprogrammed with new activities not foreseen and not necessary planned.
Thus, architecture and urban design as a practice must acknowledge the need for re-examining permanent solutions as the only mode for the formulation of urban imaginaries, and instead imagine new protocols that are constantly reformulated, readapted, and re-projected in an iterative search for a temporary equilibrium that reacts to a permanent state of crises.
Furthermore, the growing attention that environmental and ecological issues have garnered in urban discourses, articulated through the anxiety surrounding the recent emergence of landscape as a model for urbanism, has evidenced that we need to evolve more nuanced discussions for the city and its urban form in the broadest sense. The physical structure of cities around the globe is evolving, morphing, mutating, and becoming more malleable, more fluid, and more open to change than the technology and social institutions that generated them.
Today, urban environments face ever-increasing flows of human movement, accelerating the frequency of natural disasters and iterative economic crises, which in the process modify streams of capital and their allocation as physical components of cities. As a consequence, urban settings are required to be more flexible in order to be better able to respond to, organize, and resist external and internal pressures. At a time in which change and the unexpected are omnipresent, urban attributes like reversibility and openness seem critical elements for thinking about the articulation of a more sustainable form of urban development.
Therefore, in contemporary urbanism around the world, it is becoming clearer that for cities to be sustainable, as both Saskia Sassen and Richard Sennett have pointed out, they also need to resemble and facilitate active fluxes in motion rather than be limited by static material configurations.
This expanded version of the practice of urbanism that embraces rubrics such as the “ephemeral” presents a compelling vision that enables us to better understand the blurred lines of contemporary urbanism – both spatial and temporary – and the agency of people in shaping spaces in urban society. Thus, to engage in this discussion, the exploration of temporary landscapes opens up a potent avenue for questioning permanence as a univocal solution for the urban conditions.
One could instead argue that the future of cities depends less (or completely, as in the case of the city beautiful movement) on the rearrangement of buildings and infrastructure and more on the ability of architects and urban designers to openly imagine more malleable, technological, material, social, and economic landscapes.
That is, to imagine a city form that recognizes and better handles the temporary and elastic nature of the contemporary and emergent built environment with more effective strategies for managing change as an essential element for the construction of the urban environment.
The challenge is then learning from these extreme conditions how to manage and negotiate different layers of the urban while accommodating emergent needs and the often largely neglected parts of urban society. The aspiration would then be to imagine a more flexible practice of architecture and planning more aligned with emergent realities that would enable us to deal with more complex scenarios than those of static, or stable environments constructed to create an illusion of permanence.
I would like to thank Felipe Vera and acknowledge the many essays we have written together on the subject of Ephemeral Urbanism. Naturally those have influenced this essay. And to Ricky Burdett for the development of some of these ideas.
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Yep, DoD, military murderers, that’s the ticket. Finally, remember the olden days when the English (racist) only movement was a toxic railroad dropping poison across the land? Rand, Ron, Winston.
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Boring, pedestrian, and way too local for my sophisticated urbane readers. Fuck it. Ahh, back to my local shit while trillions go to Israel Hell and UkroNaziLandia and endless streams of welfare sent in the trillions to Larry “I am a Secular Jew but Israel-Firster” Fink-Rock.
Lincoln City Pacific Power customers seeing rate boost [Pacific Power serves approximately 618,000 customers in Oregon, including customers in the Lincoln City area.]
12.9 percent average increase in revenues from residential customers. For a single-family residence using the average 900 kWh a month, monthly bills will increase by $14.92.
12.1 percent average increase in revenues from small commercial/business customers
16.7 percent average increase in revenues from large commercial/industrial customers
Drivers for the increase included an annual adjustment for power supply costs, which is a pass-through cost of Pacific Power purchasing power to meet customer demand. Power costs have risen sharply and increased in volatility in the Western electricity market. There was also an increase due to costs for wildfire risk mitigation actions taken by the company, among other small adjustments.
“The rate increase reflects the reality of high market power prices for utilities and the important actions Pacific Power is taking to reduce wildfire risks on its system,” PUC Chair Megan Decker said in a news release. “At the same time, we recognize how difficult it is for families and businesses to adjust to higher bills, and we encourage them to seek out help through energy efficiency programs that reduce usage and rate discount programs to address communities facing high energy burdens.”
Yeah, the pain is a’coming 2024!
Tear the Fascists Down by Woody Guthrie
There’s a great and a bloody fight ’round this whole world tonight
And the battle, the bombs and shrapnel reign
Hitler told the world around he would tear our union down
But our union’s gonna break them slavery chains
Our union’s gonna break them slavery chains
I walked up on a mountain in the middle of the sky
Could see every farm and every town
I could see all the people in this whole wide world
That’s the union that’ll tear the fascists down, down, down
That’s the union that’ll tear the fascists down
When I think of the men and the ships going down
While the Russians fight on across the Don
There’s London in ruins and Paris in chains
Good people, what are we waiting on?
Good people, what are we waiting on?
So, I thank the Soviets and the mighty Chinese vets
The Allies the whole wide world around
To the battling British, thanks, you can have ten million Yanks
If it takes ’em to tear the fascists down, down, down
If it takes ’em to tear the fascists down But
But when I think of the ships and the men going down
And the Russians fight on across the Don
There’s London in ruins and Paris in chains
Good people, what are we waiting on?
Good people, what are we waiting on?
So I thank the Soviets and the mighty Chinese vets
The Allies the whole wide world around
To the battling British, thanks, you can have ten million Yanks
If it takes ’em to tear the fascists down, down, down
if I had a weaker constitution, I’d be making a run on Southwest Airline vomit bags after considering how lunatic this bastion of snake oil salesmen and nanny overlord will always be, unless
…bats to the head!!
Into the night. Just slowly but methodically, take these genocide murderers and their families and their politicians and their rabbis OUT. Batting practice!
“We are here adding light after the black sabbath that the people of Israel had,” one of the men says in the video, circulating on Telegram. “We are occupying, deporting, and settling. Occupying, deporting, and settling. Did you hear that Bibi? Occupying, deporting, and settling.”
Ahh, you still love Jews who support Israel, pay for rabbinical advice and cheer their chosen people, right?
A photograph shows soldiers posing with an orange banner that reads: “Only settlement would be considered victory!” The color orange was used by the settler movement in 2004 and 2005 to protest Israel’s disengagement from Gaza.
Jewish Supremacy Watch: The executives overseeing Harvard University’s $51 billion endowment reportedly trekked around Silicon Valley last week, meeting with deep-pocketed investors as the Ivy League looks to repair its battered image.
The team at Harvard Management Company, the nation’s largest college endowment, visited firms including Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and Andreessen Horowitz, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Hang on, I’ll try to pull all these news (sic) items together somewhere — at the end?
Since this is an STD world of fucked up media, fucked up press, fucked up politicians, fucked up Inverted Totalitarianism, fucked up education “system,” fucked up bowing to Jew Bibi and Jew Zelensky, why not keep the poison spgot open?
You get it, right? We pay for our own rape kits, our own judge, jury and prosecution. We pay to be raped! Not the perps, not the polluters, but fucking US.
EPAgency officials estimate that between 3,400 and 6,300 water systems will be affected by the regulation, which is the EPA’s first ever PFAS standard and the first MCL set by the agency for any chemical in drinking water in over 25 years. PFOA and PFOS account for the majority of anticipated exceedances.
Brian Tarbuck, GAUD’s general manager, is now gearing up to spend $3 to 5 million on PFAS removal technology, according to Tarbuck, much of which will be passed on to its customers in the form of higher water bills. Nationally, the price tag of meeting the standard could top $37 billion in upfront costs, in addition to $650 million in annual operating expenses, according to the American Water Works Association, or AWWA, a nonprofit lobbying group representing water utilities. That’s far higher than the EPA’s cost estimate of $777 million to $1.2 billion and a significant burden for an industry already contending with other costly priorities, such as boosting cybersecurity and “replacing all those antiquated, leaking big water pipes that transport the water from the treatment plant to the service line” that connect to homes, said Marc Edwards, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech. Chris Moody, the AWWA’s regulatory technical manager, said most of the money will be spent in the next several years, as utilities race to install PFAS removal systems and other infrastructure needed to meet compliance deadlines.
You get it, no? Who is the largest polluter? Israel and Ukraine and USA-Five Eyes, the mercenary forces of Raytheon, et al running the fucking Wall Street/Jewish Fink Black “War is a Very Good Investment” Rock.
Hang on, more fucking millionaire and billionaire shit: So, yeah, noise pollution, be fucking damned. And your stupid fellow fucking neighbor think this is a-okay? Then run 10 rock tumblers outside next to their polluted fucking windows.
And you aren’t just itching for an In Cold Blood attack on these fucking Hitlers with some fucking weapons of their own design — their own medicine? Drones dropping spores or botulism or, homemade napalm or, well, you get the thought experiment (recall — I am a published fiction writer, fucking creeps who have already “turned” me in).
Ahh, solving the climate issue one defamation lawsuit after another? He’s a fucking public and celebritized figure, but go figure?
A lawsuit first instituted over 10 years ago, brought by an esteemed climate scientist over alleged defamation by a rightwing blogger and an analyst, goes to trial this week.
The 2012 court case was brought by the University of Pennsylvania earth and environmental scientist Michael Mann, who is alleging that online attacks on his work amount to defamation.
The litigation targets two writers: Rand Simberg, analyst at the rightwing thinktank Competitive Enterprise Institute, who published a piece comparing Mann to a convicted serial child molester, and the National Review blogger Mark Steyn, who in a blogpost favorably quoted Simberg and called Mann’s research “fraudulent”. (Mann originally went after both publishers as well, but in 2021 a court ruled that neither the Competitive Enterprise Institute nor National Review could be held responsible for the attacks.)
Ahh, the organ snatchers, the Palestinian murderers, the Jews with the Jewels. (“Doctor admits Israeli pathologists harvested organs without consent — from Palestinians”; “Israel is set to outlaw trafficking in human organs” ; “Israel Became Hub in International Organ Trade Over Past Decade”)
In January, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau determined that the cultured meat produced by Aleph — though not necessarily all cultured meat — is kosher and “pareve,” designating a food that is neither meat (sometimes referred to as fleishig) nor dairy (milchig).
Lau’s ruling was based primarily on the fact that Aleph, along with several other companies, uses a process in which its meat is cultivated from stem cells taken from fertilized egg rather than from cells of muscle tissue.
You betcha the Jews in Jurispurdence are getting their cut here: Grand Theft Rules Based Wailing Wall of White House Terror:
The issue was on the minds of U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy when they met at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday.
“We’re determined to sustain our support” for Ukraine, Blinken said, “we’re working very closely with Congress in order to do that. I know our European colleagues are doing the same thing.”
How? Frozen (illegal) Russian assets. Theft at the Highest Jewish Level? Bats to the entire Klan’s Heades:
Well, the misanthropes and pedophiles and father and mother fuckers, they have other digital gulag projects in mind:
The rise of generative artificial intelligence has dominated private and public discussion at the World Economic Forum as the world’s largest technology companies, including Salesforce,Microsoft and Google, temporarily take over local storefronts as a show of force to conference attendees.
While 2023 highlighted the technology’s ability, 2024 will be about increasing the accuracy of results so that executives in high-stakes industries such as hospitals and manufacturing can get comfortable using AI, said Intel Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger in a CNBC interview.
“You’ve now reached the end of today’s AI utility,” Gelsinger said. “This next phase of AI, I believe, will be about building formal correctness into the underlying models.”
Not one academic of note or worth or of even Substack level will go up against their masters:
Altman believes future AI products will need to allow “quite a lot of individual customization” and “that’s going to make a lot of people uncomfortable,” because AI will give different answers for different users, based on their values preferences and possibly on what country they reside in.
“If the country said, you know, all gay people should be killed on sight, then no … that is well out of bounds,” Altman tells Axios. “But there are probably other things that I don’t personally agree with, but a different culture might. … We have to be somewhat uncomfortable as a tool builder with some of the uses of our tools.”
Asked if future versions of OpenAI products might answer a question differently in different countries based on that country’s values, Altman said, “It’ll be different for users with different values. The countries issue I think, is somewhat less important.”
Jewish Values, infecting goyim gullibilty and greed:
In non-Jewish news (sort of): Microsoft has a multibillion-dollar partnership with OpenAI. Gates remains one of Microsoft’s largest shareholders.
“The goal of the Gates Foundation is to make sure that the delay between benefitting people in poor countries versus getting to rich countries will make that very short,” Gates told Zakaria at Davos for the World Economic Forum. “After all, the shortages of doctors and teachers is way more acute in Africa then it is in the West.”
Only $19.50 = “Willie McCovey Big Stick 31″ L ~ 1.14lbs. Bat Marked Made in USA 302SF Adirondack 302SF. No Cracks.” eBay!
Forget about zombies taking over. Killer weeds, manufactured by Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta, Bayer, et al.
I had fucking first year community college students in the 1990s working on these stories of superweeds — bug and pest and poison resistent. Too bad mother’s fetus ain’t no toughie like these super weeds.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba/CHICAGO (Reuters) – Crop-killing weeds such as kochia are advancing across the U.S. northern plains and Midwest, in the latest sign that weeds are developing resistance to chemicals faster than companies including Bayer and Corteva can develop new ones to fight them.
In many cases weeds are developing resistance against multiple herbicides, scientists said.
Here, more capitalist murdering superweeds:
This, in our Fucking Bisexual/Lesbian Governors Blue State, this fucking asshole still keeps his license?
At age 69, Portland neurosurgeon Dr. Darrell Brett is in the home stretch of a successful medical career. At his peak, he performed 750 surgeries a year, many at Adventist Health, a Southeast Portland hospital, where he still keeps a clinic. His medical practice has made him wealthy: a lakefront home, a flotilla of boats, a silver Bentley.
But for the past year, Brett hasn’t charged a dime for his services.
It’s not because he has decided to give back to the community. Instead, it’s because the state’s licensing board issued a remarkable sanction against him.
Sort of a small fry in the Sackler Jewish Lawyer story:
An Oakland County (Detroit) physician is headed to prison for illegally prescribing controlled substances.
As reported by the Department of Justice, Scott Henry Cooper, 61, was ordered to spend five years in prison at his recent sentencing hearing before United States District Judge Denise Page Hood.
Cooper, who worked as a primary care physician at Comprehensive Medical Associates on Haggerty Road in West Bloomfield from 2013-2018, pleaded guilty last April to a charge of illegally distributing prescription drugs. That charge stemmed from Cooper writing monthly prescriptions for three years to a man in prison, despite never seeing or examining him, and allowing a relative to pick up the drug orders at the clinic where he worked.
When the patient was released from prison, Cooper reportedly continue to prescribe the same drugs he had been prescribing while the patient was incarcerated.
According to federal court records, prescriptions under the inmate’s name totaled more than 7,000 oxycodone pills, despite no determination of medical necessity. Cooper’s plea agreement called for a sentence of at least 44 months in prison.
According to the DOJ, Cooper’s patients included those seeking highly-abused controlled substances such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, methadone, Xanax and Adderall. Cooper’s patients included those on Medicaid — which he reportedly considered to be problem patients that he didn’t want to see and often didn’t, though he continued to prescribe controlled substances to them.
Susan Susan Suan. You went to a pro-baby and pro-pregnant mother and pro-father and pro-disabled citizen march, and the two Jewish women who were skimming 10 percent of your supposedly large Holly-dirt fees for a decade , fired you from their talent agency because of that? Who woulda thunk?
Come on, your ex-husband knows something about bats:
Shit, folks, get that GMO popcorn and Monsanto slathering fake butter ready and watch old Robert hit one out of the park. Bats to the head practice. Do you get it yet? The connections here? Where things are heading?
You feel like you have zero agency?
This may be a good old boy from Texass, but Thiel, Bezos, Nuland, Yellen, Garland, Kagan, Blinken, Bibi, Zelensky, Gates, Altman, et al, believe it with all their hearts.
”If rape is inevitable, just relax and enjoy it.” He said it while eating beans and gruel at a chuckwagon about the weather.”
Newpaper clips, man. I have thousands from my newspaper and magazine writing days.
For ‘deeper reading’ among children aged 10-12, paper trumps screens. What does it mean when schools are going digital?
Jewish Forever Chemical president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, a powerful Democrat lobbied successfully to prolong school shutdowns.
Until recently there has been no scientific answer to this urgent question, but a soon-to-be published, groundbreaking study from neuroscientists at Columbia University’s Teachers College has come down decisively on the matter: for “deeper reading” there is a clear advantage to reading a text on paper, rather than on a screen, where “shallow reading was observed”.
Again, in the 1980s my college students were studying the effects of televised (on a screen) stuff they watch, even a filmed real theater Shakespear play, versus the actual book, and what sorts of brain activity was happening.
Fucking United States of Fucking Amnesia.
It’s all a conspiracy of the rich and powerful and sadistic, don’t you forget. Stupidty and analysis paralysis and choice overload, also known as overchoice, choice paralysis, or the paradox of choice, describes how people get overwhelmed when they are presented with many options. Decision fatigue describes the decreasing quality of your decisions from making your decisions over a course of time.
Soren Kieekergard: Lost in the infinite.
Intrabale asininity, AKA Buridan’s dilemma!
DO YOU GET HOW I TIED IT ALL IN, fine readers?
Now fucking pay for this fucking Substack, please.
Now get along and fix your fucking ride: The government and Pete McKinsey Butt-berg, looking out for us:
the Epstein-kinda-folk at WEF are predicting no globalization, no technocratic totalitarian society, no hell on earth UNLESS “they” can cook the books, cook the bioweapons, cook our brains!
These fucking elites, man, censor censor censor. Naomi Oreskes, like Diane Ravitch, are flaming militant, military-backing, censorship-loving Jews, who are FLAMING Racist Zionists, who are FLAMING Bonafied Génocidaires!
“I really hope that the World Economic Forum will take this issue on board and think harder about the role that the private sector can play in standing up against disinformation, even if they might like the fact that that politician would cut their taxes,” Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, said, complaining about what she said is the spread of disinformation on social media, notably attributing a significant part of this issue to social media companies and even President Trump and certain business entities.
[Fucking Harvard Trash.] Her proposed solutions raise alarming implications for free speech and highlight the dangers of censorship.
Influential figures from the educational sector of the conference voiced their displeasure about Musk’s platform, dubbing it problematic and “toxic.”
[Fucking Monster from Milan.] Luciana Vaccaro, head of swissuniversities, and Naomi Oreskes, a Harvard Professor specializing in the History of Science, both voiced their concerns during a panel discussion at the event. A video capturing their condemnation of X and Musk himself has since been circulating on the platform.
Then this human stain, Diane Ravitch, Jewish Murder Incorporated through and through:
The MAGA faction of the Republican Party has made clear that it does not want to defend Ukraine. It does not see the point of helping Ukraine resist a Russian takeover. As foreign policy expert and national security specialist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has said, “Ukraine is not our 51st state.” Like Trump, the “Freedom Caucus” does not want to pay to repel Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Trump thinks that Putin might be our ally if only we give him whatever he wants. (He has said he wants to restore the USSR.). You need only look at any photo of Trump and Putin together to see how Trump looks at Putin with a deferential and adoring expression.
Timothy Snyder, Professor of History at Yale University, published this powerful article in the Kyiv Post. He should have published it in The Washington Post.
I have been thinking for a long while about writing a post describing my views about the war in the Middle East. It’s not something I could toss off easily because my views are complicated. [Complicated? complicent in the murder, in the racist ideology of the concept of Jews taking land from Palestinians. Corruptable elites who run in the same Racist Circles of Dante’s Hell.]
As a Jew, I support Israel because I am painfully aware of the many centuries of Jew-hatred. My father’s father and mother fled Poland in the mid-19th century. All the Jews in their hometown (Lomza) were subsequently murdered by the Nazis. My mother and her immediate family (parents and sister) fled Bessarabia (now Moldova) in 1914 after a pogrom. Not one member of the families they left behind survived the Holocaust. Not one. Jews know in their bones that nowhere is truly safe from anti-Semitism.
The pursuit of peace requires both sides to negotiate in good faith. Spokesmen for Hamas have vowed to attack Israel again and again in the future. Hamas cannot be trusted to negotiate in good faith. They are terrorists and proud of it. No Israeli government can endure a terrorist regime on its borders. Other Arab nations will have to commit themselves to stopping Hamas terrorism. They must stop funding Hamas and collaborate to build a functional government for any new Palestinian state, a government that forswears terrorism and is committed to providing security, economic development, and public services for its people. [Because stopping the war machine, the dirty sicario factory which is Israel, that is off fucking Ravitch’s table.]
I stand with Israel. I oppose terrorism. I hope for a day when the Jewish state lives free of the fear of terrorism and of war, side by side with neighbors that respect its borders and that share in regional prosperity. If that day ever comes, the people of the Middle East will enjoy a new world of peace. [Israel IS terrorism.]
For the global business community, the top concern for the next two years is not conflict or climate. . . the bigger problem is . . . “disinformation and misinformation, followed closely by polarization within our societies.”
President Ursula von der Leyen: “Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, dear Klaus, your annual Global Risk report makes for a stunning and sobering read. For the global business community, the top concern for the next two years is not conflict or climate, it is disinformation and misinformation, followed closely by polarization within our societies. These risks are serious because they limit our ability to tackle the big global challenges we are facing. Changes in our climate and our geopolitical climate, shifts in our demography and in our technology. Spiraling regional conflicts and intensified geopolitical competition, and their impacts on supply chains. The sobering reality is that we are once again competing more intensely across countries than we have in several decades. And this makes takes the theme of this year’s Davos meeting even more relevant. Rebuilding trust. This is not a time for conflicts or polarization. This is a time to build trust.”
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today warned during a panel at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, that the world must prepare for a future pandemic, which may be caused by a yet-unknown “Disease X.”
Preetha Reddy, executive vice-chairperson of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd., an Indian hospital chain.
Dr. Nancy Brown, CEO of the American Heart Association, who moderated the panel discussion.
Aside from “Disease X,” the panelists also discussed future pandemic prevention measures, the need for a “pandemic agreement” and the future role of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare.
“Artificial Intelligence as a Driving Force for the Economy and Society” is one of the central organizing themes of this year’s WEF meeting, taking place Jan. 15-19 in Davos, while the central theme of this year’s gathering is “Rebuilding Trust.”
And that night at midnight, the LORD struck down all the firstborn sons in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn son of the prisoner in the dungeon.
Whenever I’ve pointed out the immorality of slaughtering innocent people, believers are disturbingly quick to defend their god, “It is ok for my god to kill innocent children on Passover because…”
When Christopher Hitchens said that “religion poisons everything” he was saying that “it infects us in our most basic integrity.” Here’s the incomparable Hitchens on this point:
So when I say, as the subtitle of my book, that I think religion poisons everything, I’m not just doing what publishers like and coming up with a provocative subtitle, I mean to say it infects us in our most basic integrity. It says we can’t be moral without Big Brother, without a totalitarian permission. It means we can’t be good to one another, it means we can’t think without this. We must be afraid, we must also be forced to love someone who we fear, the essence of sado-masochism and the essence of abjection, the essence of the master-slave relationship and that knows that death is coming and can’t wait to bring it on. I say this is evil. And though I do, some nights, stay at home, I enjoy more the nights when I go out and fight against this ultimate wickedness and ultimate stupidity.
But these fucking gods, techies, man oh man, what Gods. In a recent episode of “Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates,” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, and tech billionaire Bill Gates controversially delved into the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool for maintaining democracy and promoting world peace.
The discussion notably omits a critical aspect: the influence of the programmers’ own beliefs and principles on the AI’s functioning. The designers and developers of AI systems inherently embed their ideas about democracy, free speech, and governance into the AI’s algorithms. This raises significant concerns about the impact of these personal biases on the AI’s neutrality and its ability to make fair, unbiased decisions.
The prospect of AI systems being programmed with particular ideologies could have profound implications for free speech. If an AI is designed to favor certain political or social viewpoints, (excluding those it decides are “polarizing”) it could potentially suppress opposing perspectives, leading to a form of digital censorship.
Support and endorse the Republic of South Africa’s carefully formulated Legal Procedure against the State of Israel in relation to the Genocide Convention (click here to access the 84-page submission.
In accordance with the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, a State Party may refer to the Prosecutor a situation in which one or more crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court appear to have been committed requesting the Prosecutor to investigate the situation for the purpose of determining whether one or more specific persons should be charged with the commission of such crimes.
Statement of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim A.A. Khan KC, on the Situation in the State of Palestine: receipt of a referral from five States Parties
In receiving the referral, my Office confirms that it is presently conducting an investigation into the Situation in the State of Palestine. This investigation, commenced on 3 March 2021, encompasses conduct that may amount to Rome Statute crimes committed since 13 June 2014 in Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. It is ongoing and extends to the escalation of hostilities and violence since the attacks that took place on 7 October 2023.
You think WEF in Davos would wipe away all the other fascist programs and come together on this:
“The WEF and other multi-stakeholder endeavours have democratic deficits when the people that they affect do not have adequate opportunities to participate in and control their processes,” Jan Aart Scholte, professor of global transformations and governance challenges at Leiden University, said.
“It is an exclusive invitation-only club, and meaningful participation is mainly limited to the world’s more powerful governments, corporations, and civil society actors. Moreover, when excluded people disagree with or feel harmed by WEF activities, they generally lack adequate channels to be heard and pursue redress.”
Yeah, Gaza, and the implications for us all, with the Palestinization of most of the rest of the world. Look at this monster:
Lior Haiat, spokesperson at the Israeli foreign affairs ministry, has leveled an extraordinary charge against South Africa, claiming that the anti-apartheid state “is functioning as the legal arm of the Hamas terrorist organization.”
This human stain — Haiat — needs to be batted into his own hell.
Far too many civilians on both sides have been killed. South Africa’s case, however, may finally be making clear for people around the world just how far Israel has taken matters – and has for decades with its apartheid and occupation policies.
Spinning genocide and apartheid is a losing cause in much of the world. Nonetheless, with many American and European politicians, Haiat continues to find a willing audience. — Michael F. Brown
GUESTS: Haidar Eid, scholar and activist; Ahmed Abofoul, legal researcher and advocacy officer at Al-Haq; Shahd Abusalama, educator and activist
The worst two months of his life. Displaced four times with two children.
But do you think these Jews like Ravitch and Friedman and the lot of them at Davos, give one shit about Haidar?
A man after my heart, after my own name: Hader, Haeder, Haider.
Meaning: Lion. Haider is a strong masculine name of Arabic origin. Also spelled Haydar, Hajdar, and Heidar, this name means “lion” and carries connotations of a brave and noble warrior. The lion is a powerful symbol of courage and royalty in Islamic art and culture, making this name a powerful option for baby.
Another hero!
Leila Khaled: “Liberation is Not Achieved at the Negotiation Table”
Madaar: In your opinion, what are the major implications of the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle?
Leila Khaled: “All peoples rose up with this overwhelming attack, and the most affected was Israel. This entity was shaken, and the first attack was carried out on a military squad, something their intelligence did not expect.
Israel relies on its military strength… and until this moment it has not achieved any form of victory, but its ugly face, the face of murderers and war criminals, has appeared. This has become the image of the Zionist entity. The Palestinian narrative has risen, defeating the narrative that the Zionist movement has worked on for a hundred years…
The West was also shaken by the demonstrations in various European countries, which it shares with Israel. We all noticed how heads of state came, the first of whom was Biden, who came to announce that he supports Israel, and came with battleships and all kinds of weapons to support this entity.
This entity is considered a cat’s claw in the Arab region, and in fact it was a cat’s claw, but on the land of Palestine it was always faced with resistance. The resistance has not stopped since the occupation of the country, the establishment of this entity on our land, and the displacement of our people and the masses of refugees in different countries. Yes, Palestinian society was destroyed in 1948, but this people restores itself every time.
But this time is completely different, so the entity did not have a plan for confrontation, and it resorted to one method, which was to kill the people in a complete extermination process, genocide and ethnic cleansing, and this is what it wanted, because they bombed the homes in the presence of its residents, including children, women, men, the elderly, and the youth. This is what actually happened up to this moment. They said that their goal in this war, in response to the attack, is to root out and eliminate Hamas. It is a country that has 200 nuclear warheads and is facing an organization, as it did in 2006 when it faced an organization called Hezbollah…
It does not attack armies, so where will it strike? It does not see the place of Hamas in Gaza, so it was surprised that the resistance, along with Hamas of course, fought battles for more than 60 days. It was the one that asked for the fighting to stop. Note that this was the first time in the history of the Zionist entity to request protection from America and the West, so they came with their weapons and their support… Blinken, the American Secretary of State came to Israel and said, “I came as a Jew, not as a foreign minister.” But later the US Secretary of State became part of the war council prepared by Israel.
All of these repercussions are still continuing until this moment, until America asked Israel to stop the fighting, because they feared that the army that entered Gaza would collapse, and continued to enter and exit due to the resistance.
As for the ceasefire, the resistance benefited from it by bringing in aid, and set conditions to replace its detainees with our detainees in the prisons, including children and women. The Zionist society is now divided. The army used to go to fight, whether in Lebanon, Gaza, or the West Bank… it would unite behind it, and it would be forbidden to criticize it or criticize the government. However, we heard the criticism, and we heard many soldiers left the front and returned. Two battalions whose soldiers returned and said: We could no longer fight in the face of the ferocity with which the resistance faced them.
So we are talking about this being the beginning of the liberation battles. Liberation battles begin with strikes on all places in this body called the Zionist entity, and this will not be the last time. Our people will also fight other battles, and liberation means withdrawal from Palestinian land, and now we are witnessing that. After the first strike, Ben Gurion Airport was crowded with thousands of people leaving.
Their press even criticizes the army and the methods it uses, meaning killing children and women and demolishing homes on top of their owners. The world no longer accepts this, and therefore there is no unified discourse for them… each one speaks differently, and contradicts the other. The whole goal is to eliminate Hamas, but they are unable to do so. They were unable to release the prisoners, and so they returned to strike again in Gaza.
All our people in Gaza say we are with the resistance, we are protecting it. We hear from inside Gaza those standing on the rubble of houses chanting: We are with the resistance and we will remain with it.
We are reassured because this battle has also united other arenas, as the West Bank is also rising up.”
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“To punish the oppressors is clemency. To pardon them is barbarism”.
And, more of the same wicked fucking albinos — WEF president worries the world is looking too much like 19th-century Europe:
‘A lot of multipolarity, but not a lot of peace’
“Good morning,
Hello from Davos, where the World Economic Forum annual meeting is in full swing and there is a bit of a fin de siècle feeling among top participants. It doesn’t bode well for the rules-based global order in which Davos came to prominence—or the borderless business models of large, multinational companies that still dominate the pop-up storefronts of the town’s main street.
On the one hand, Davos is brimming with energy levels rarely seen before. Judging by the number of side events and the sheer number of people who have ascended to the Alpine town, Davos seems to be in its heyday. I’ve been here every year since 2013 (except the COVID year of 2021) and never have I seen so many people and sensed so much enthusiasm among participants.
On the other hand, among organizers and principals, there’s a palpable sense of fear and concern. Globalization—as measured by trade as a percentage of global GDP—is in reverse. Geopolitical cooperation has given way to geostrategic competition and war. Misinformation and disinformation threaten to put isolationists in power from Washington to Brussels.
In the past, optimism often prevailed in Davos, especially as the week went on. Seeing like-minded people and hearing how they’re navigating headwinds can have a cathartic effect. But this year, the World Economic Forum itself added to the undercurrent of doom when it published its first “Global Cooperation Barometer” with McKinsey last week, which showed that cooperation on peace and security, as well as health, is in decline. The world’s disjointed response to COVID and Russia’s war in Ukraine are the greatest examples of the trend, which also is apparent in the crumbling power of organizations like the UN and NATO.”
As the other freak Greta would have said — “blah, blah blah, blah.”
If a person spent an eternity on this planet would that be the same as spending it in Hell?
T.
Almost daily, the realities of these fucking Princes of Darkness just shine through the miasma they carry around them like fire and brimstone clouds of sulfur. (Remember Hugo Chavez and that comment?)
Pence is the embodiment of wimps on their mother’s/wife’s crack(s). The bigger the wimps, the bigger the stupidity.
WTFWJB?
Yeah, who the fuck would Jesus bomb? Pence shows up at the Jewish Racist IDF Units Inciting Genocide and the Perverse Parameters of their Form of Judaism. What Israel is doing is blessed by the rabbis. And the donor class of Jews here, there, everywhere, DO NOT BE FUCKING FOOLED.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimates that nearly 85 percent of Gaza’s population, amounting to about 1.9 million people, is internally displaced, including many who have been forced to move several times in search of safety.
“We have raised the alarm of the risk of genocide several times, reminding all governments they have a duty to prevent genocide,” the experts said.
“Not only is Israel killing and causing irreparable harm against Palestinian civilians with its indiscriminate bombardments, it is also knowingly and intentionally imposing a high rate of disease, prolonged malnutrition, dehydration and starvation by destroying civilian infrastructure.
“Aid needs to be delivered to Gazans immediately, and without any hindrance, to prevent starvation.”
They continued: “Our alarm for the unfolding genocide does not only refer to the ongoing bombardment of Gaza but also concerns the slow suffering and death caused by Israel’s long-standing occupation, blockade and current civic destruction, since genocide advances through an ongoing process and is not a singular event.
“The clear path to achieving peace, safety and stability for both Israelis and Palestinians lies in the realization of Palestinian self-determination. This can only be achieved through an immediate ceasefire and the cessation of the Israeli occupation.”
After increased pressure from the public and his fellow candidates, Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday released the names of the clients he worked for at McKinsey, a consulting firm Buttigieg himself has called “amoral.”
The firm worked with drug company Purdue Pharma to boost opioid sales even in the middle of America’s addiction crisis, and earlier this month, ProPublica and the New York Times published a report detailing the company’s work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement on detaining and deporting immigrants — which included McKinsey recommending cuts on government spending on food for migrants.
Ahh, so, Zelensky the Blood sucker, THE Penis Piano Cocaine Cowboy, he’s a guest the fucking WEF today?
McKinsey’s business model also generates a second round of revenue from its government work: The firm effectively sells data it obtains from one government project to other agencies. McKinsey generally retains in its central databases anonymized work product from its engagements, so future consulting teams can get a head start on similar projects. Ordinarily, the federal government might be expected to put together that type of clearinghouse and share it with state and city governments free of charge. But in the absence of such a clearinghouse, McKinsey has something state, city and federal government agencies need, and access to government data has formed a core part of McKinsey’s COVID-19 pitch.
McKinsey’s data was one of the factors cited by VA officials to justify hiring the firm within 24 hours. As a contracting document explained: The firm “already possessed an immense amount of both global and community epidemiological data on COVID-19” the VA didn’t otherwise have access to. McKinsey customers pay not only in cash but by adding new data that the firm will be able to sell to the next customer.
Listen to the legalesse, the mental gymnastics, the fucking measured pace of this international body: This week South Africa presented a devastating case against Israel at The Hague alleging genocide – and then Israel offered its defence. So what will the International Court of Justice likely rule? This is such an important interview with Dr. Alonso Gurmendi. He says “the Master’s tools will not dismantle the Master’s house.” He cautions those expecting the ICJ to issue a definitive ruling on genocide – but explains the real significance of what has just happened.
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,” is one of Shakespeare’s most memorable lines. You would struggle to find such a line in the writings of lawyers themselves—and not just because they would, presumably, disagree. Though some judges are sophisticated stylists, most legal language is fussy, tangled and incapable of producing anything so pithy. (This is no doubt one reason so many people want to kill all the lawyers.) But do lawyers write that way to impress, to bewilder—or perhaps because they must?
In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Eric Martínez and his colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Edinburgh tried to find out. Contracts written in “legalese”, as well as simplified versions conveying identical concepts, were shown to American lawyers and laypeople. It turns out that lawyers struggle with, and dislike, legal language almost as much as their clients.
…. No academic freedom, boys and girls . . . I remember at Washington State University, Michael Pollan, and his book, an attack on agri-biz, they said, cancelled and then reinstated!
Now that the NYT has weighed in, I guess it’s fair to say this story broke through to the mainstream. I’ll spare you all the assurances from WSU that this Bill Marler-funded resolution proves that the driving issue really was financial. In my view, Marler graciously provided a fig-leaf to a university administration that was very much caught by surprise that anyone would have ever noticed what they’d done. There remain too many bits of evidence that the book was originally canceled due to political pressure. Indeed, Spokane’s newspaper even claims to have identified the culprit:
That political pressure apparently was brought to bear by a member of the board of regents, Harold Cochran, who disapproved of the author’s characterization of agribusiness. Cochran owns and operates a 5,500-acre farm near Walla Walla, is a founding stockholder in the Bank of the West in Walla Walla and is a member of the Washington Association of Wheat Growers.
UPDATE: It’s official WSU announces that it “will reinstate the original plan for distribution of its Common Reading book, ‘The Omnivore’s Dilemma,’ as a result of a private contribution to support the program.”
The good old days of 2009. I was teaching in Spokane and finishing another thesis for a graduate degree in urban and regional planning at the WSU-Eastern WA Spokane campus. My students did have a chance to read Pollan’s so-so book. I was a big sustainability dude back then, and a board member of the Washington Sustainable Farm and Food Network.
Yes, Monsanto DID weigh in vis-a-vis that wheatwehat “grower” (notice farmer isn’t ysed to describe this sod buster!)
Of course, universities are the conduit for Eichmann-Faustian-Prince of Darkness disease: Again, controlled, contrived, currated death by one million nano-bot CUTS, and the universities will be on that cutting edge somehow, some way.
Artificial intelligence continues to revolutionize nearly every sector, and it is important to consider how AI technology will influence higher education within classrooms and university operations.
Loughborough University’s vice-chancellor, Nick Jennings, wrote how AI will soon “power” universities as it transforms research and education.
During a global leadership interview with Chronicle deputy managing editor, Ian Wilhelm, Jennings will share the historical significance and implications of using generative AI in higher education.
You betcha, the universities will not be discussing why ChatGPT and OpenAI ARE the monsters of the 21st Century; the nuclear digital fallout and perp in this “new age of ethical and human devolution.” You can’t get spineless academics to talk about much these days for fear of Harris-Emoff or Trump-Fox or Israel-Jews.
Oh, it’s not guns that kill, it’s the finger behind the gun.
As AI advances, so does its weaponization. Experts warn that AI applications including lethal autonomous weapons systems, commonly called “killer robots,” could pose a potentially existential threat to humanity that underscores the imperative of arms control measures to slow the pace of weaponization.
Yep, it’s not Monsanto and Vioxx and mRNA bioweapons that kill, it’s your own fucking weak immune system, fuckers. If your child can’t take the Atrazene, then move. If your family can’t take the poisoned wells, buy bottled water. If your children have nervous ticks, ADD/ADHD, austim, then move to Canada for some MAID.
Ahh, so, no more kill switchs on these fucking middlings, milquetoasters, Jewish-Run Media, Christian-Run Self-Flaggelation Factories.
You know we are those fucking monkeys whipping ourselves daily with schizoid thinking, bi-polar mania, drip-drip-drip neutering of the brain, and thoughts just like dust in the wind as we pull out the dumb phones to find an image of the sky above us to make sure it isn’t falling. Check the phone, man, the app.
Oh, shit, all that green porn, all those cooked up climate hoaxes, and the failure to rein in all the fucking military polluters, the actual people maimers, the killers, those places bombed and sanctioned and traumatized for generations, where the population, after a few billion with the mRNA jabs (Sputnik V was not mRNA jab), will be weathered into aging quickening, turbo diseases, rampant cancers, and younger and younger people with epigenetic inflencers turning them into bundles of raw nerves and gut problems that would make a chemo patient shudder!
The huns are coming”!!!
Well, huns of a different mother!
I despise those fucking freaks who believe Russia is “winning” and that the “war” is coming to a close in say a year. Even the Russian people know YEARS, if they are lucky, before the dirty Jewish-Nazi clones of Ukraine are kaput.
Russia IS not winning shit! Forget the Larry Johnsons, the McGregor’s, the Ritters, the Duran, the lot of them. They are fucking war-mongering pieces of stain (not all) who see this as a grand historical game on a fucking chessboard.
So, we get dozens of stories a day about how American cities are decaying, how violence is spiking, how thievery is rampant at the 7-11 level all the way up to the JP Morgan Chase level.
Decay, but imagine you are big ass Russia with puny ass 185 million souls. Too many borders, too many resources, not enough people.
You got the USA in on the torture, murder:
Translation of Alina Lipp’s recent Telegram on the murder of Gonzalo Lira.
Outrageous facts have come to light about the murder of journalist Gonzalo Lira: The American, who was tortured to death in SIZO, a Kiev pre-trial detention center in a special wing controlled by the SBU, was the victim of extortionists. SIZO employees and an SBU agent extorted $250,000 from Gonzalo for a change of preventive treatment. The vice-consul of the US embassy, who dealt with the problems of Lira, knew about the blackmail and twice wrote a statement to the SBU and the OP. As a result, the extortionists began demanding $500,000 for Lira’s transfer at his own expense.
The money was to be transferred in cryptocurrency to the SBU agent’s bank.
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Three days after the increase in rates, Gonzalo called his lawyer, but before the lawyer got there, he was killed. An ambulance crew found that he had died of cardiac arrest, with multiple burns from stun guns. The US embassy is silent, Zelensky’s office is silent, the Ukrainian security service is ready to pay for the delivery of the body to Poland, and that’s it. Curtain closed. (Telegram, Lipp)
Torturer in Chief: The Title Fits Ten Million Current Fucks in Corporations and Governments!
Quoting: The horrors of Nyayo House torture chambers are still alive today and wherever its living victims are interviewed, they mention a retired Deputy Commissioner of Police, James Opiyo.
Born in 1945 to a carpenter in Ranen village belonging to the Onyango Abungo clan, a sub-clan of the larger Kogelo clan, Opiyo is said to be the ‘torture-in-chief’.
According to a past piece published by the Standard Digital, Opiyo received the best torture training including from CIA. He was also trained in Germany, Russia, Czechoslovakia and Britain.
His torture skills were great if the narration by some victims is anything to believe.
“First, it is fairly friendly. It is like persuasion. Then, if you persist, the following day, they become more intimidating, threats. After that, the third day, they would then become more violent. You would be taken down to be tortured. They would begin to pour the waters in the cells and so on. Until you finally give in and confess,” ODM leader Raila Odinga narrated in 2009 as quoted by Voice of America (VOA).
There was chaining, stripping, starvation and freezing among other methods.
“I was ordered to strip naked… my hands were chained to the chair and I could not move at all. From the moment the brutal interrogation started, everything in the room changed and the language of coercion and violence was introduced,” historian Maina wa Kinyatti was quoted by SDE.
Even screams could not help until the torture experts got what they were after whether imagined or real.
Opiyo has been painted as a cruel man by victims. However, his family describes him as a loving husband of three wives and the best father.
Susan Crawford, the retired judge in charge of determining which Guantanamo detainees should be tried by a U.S. military commision, has refused to refer the case of Mohammed al-Qahtani to prosecutors because of that assessment, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
“We tortured (Mohammed al-) Qahtani,” Crawford told the Post. “His treatment met the legal definition of torture. And that’s why I did not refer the case” for prosecution.
Bats to the head, botulism put into their fucking medium rare prime rib:
I know daft people, even simple religious fools, who get teary eyed in airports when they see mercenary motherfucking punks in uniform in public! Just a snub-nosed .38 will do, Jack Ruby (Jewish sicarios) STYLE.
Nearly 40 [50]years ago, Alistair Horne wrote a magnificent book, A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962. It tells the story of the French-Algerian War, which ended with the victory of the National Liberation Front (FLN) and an independent Algeria, a land that France had considered an integral part of metropolitan France itself. This book has often been revisited in the decades since its publication, most recently during the Iraq War, when – in 2007 – President George W. Bush invited Horne to speak with him at the White House.
One of the most powerful lessons from the book is on the issue of torture. Torture was used, arguably to great tactical effect, by the French during the war, particularly during the Battle of Algiers. Once the extent of the use of torture became public knowledge, however, it changed the debate about the war, in both France and the rest of the world. Given the ongoing debate about torture in America’s war against jihadists, reignited by the recent report on the CIA’s interrogation practices by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, we could do much worse than to revisit what Horne wrote about the use and impact of torture during this savage war of peace. We are proud to re-print a portion of this book with the permission of New York Review Books. We hope that this elegant and haunting passage will illuminate America’s national debate on an issue that is inextricably linked to both America’s counterterrorism strategy and its core values. Our choice to re-print this passage is not an attempt to claim or even comment on any moral equivalence between France’s torture scandal and our own, but to draw attention to the common shape and form that these debates tend to take, within military and intelligence organizations and in society as a whole. This passage, from Chapter 9, begins with the death of Larbi Ben M’hidi, one of the nine original leaders of the FLN. – RE (source)
Back to Russia’s demise:
The ministry also said that it intercepted four drones in the nearby Russian Belgorod region.
Voronezh, a city of more than 1 million people, lies some 250 kilometres (155 miles) from the border with Ukraine.
There was no immediate comment from Ukraine. Kyiv has intensified its air attacks in recent months in what it says are strikes targeting Russian military infrastructure to undermine Moscow’s war efforts.
Russia has an air base near Voronezh city, where some Sukhoi Su-34s bombers are based, according to Russian media. Russia often deploys the fighter-bomber aircraft during air strikes on Ukraine.
Russia can’t do SHIT against UK-French-USA-Coalition of the Willing Terrorists. Five Eyes, and, Russia is TOO small and TOO beckward to launch anything against the WEAPONS of Sam ALtman to Come!
Think ISRA-HELL. Think JEWISH VALUES. Think AMERICAN JEWISH (most of their values) VALUE. This is the people who believe their DNA is superios, so ANY other people on earth are a threat to their DNA line.
Since 7 October, all birthdays in Gaza have become potential death days.
Families are living dark and bleak days, almost just waiting for their turn to be murdered.
24 December was supposed to be a special day for Marwa Abed. It was her fifth birthday.
And despite the situation, her family were determined to hold some kind of celebration. Her father Muhammad knew that if they had not arranged a party, Marwa would have kept asking about a birthday cake.
Marwa, despite her tender years, has already lived through two wars on Gaza.
At kindergarten she loved English and Arabic. She loved memorizing the Quran.
She is the first child of Muhammad and his wife Aya and the second grandchild of the Abed family. She is always friendly and smiling and speaks almost too politely.
“She always got up early in the morning and had her breakfast to go to the kindergarten. Her activity is inspiring, and all her teachers praised her,” Muhammad said.
Now, however, her mornings are distressing.
“From getting up early in the morning with a huge smile on her face, to crying every night because of the massive bombardment, this is her life now. She cannot sleep at night and always cries out in panic, ‘I am afraid.’ Her life is nothing but torment,” Muhammad said.
Aya tries to keep her happy, but it’s a tough task to make a birthday cake under the circumstances.
“We have to fight for flour, so how can I make her a cake? Baking powder and other ingredients are not available and, if found, too expensive.”
Days before her birthday, Aya prepared some things for the birthday party, such as paper birthday crowns and some toys.
Normally, Marwa would get presents from her uncles, aunts and grandparents on her birthday. This year she only had two gifts, from her father and mother.
“We managed to make a simple cake, some popcorn, and date balls,” Aya said. “Her uncles, aunts and grandparents, all displaced and evacuated from Gaza to Deir al-Balah, gathered in the house to celebrate the birthday. Our goal was to make her happy. Nothing less. Nothing more.”
Singing louder
Every day in Gaza now is dark and miserable. Like everywhere else, Deir al-Balah – a city in the middle area – has suffered a series of airstrikes.
One landed very near Marwa’s house on her birthday.
“Instead of singing ‘Happy Birthday,’ the party was disrupted by intense bombings,” Muhammad said. “We waited for minutes, hoping the bombings would end. The sound only became louder. It was nerve-racking.”
Yet despite this, the children were intent on having fun. Over the sound of the missile strikes, they just sang louder, Muhammad said.
Marwa, third from right, ended up with a happy birthday after all. Abubaker Abed
“I honestly couldn’t speak for tears. I was so happy for her and the children. This is the first smile I have seen on her face for more than two months.”
Aya agreed, choking back her emotions.
“I know this is not the usual birthday party we hold. But at least, it made her day. It was truly delightful. But the fear that her fifth birthday could also be her last, never left me.”
Hassan, Muhammad’s cousin, was so happy for his three children – Ali, 8, Waleed, 6, and Hamza, 3 – that he couldn’t find the words.
“Hamza kept clapping and singing ‘Happy Birthday.’ I can’t remember a night he slept better during this war.”
Ali and Waleed’s birthdays are in February, Hassan noted.
“I hope this war ends soon. We are displaced and suffering from everything, so I can’t even think of planning their parties. I should be able to give them a nice birthday, like any child in the world.”
Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has harmed children the most. More than 10,000 have been killed.
As children will, however, they are adapting, getting used to terrifying moments and terrifying days. Their childhood is turning into a nightmare.
But it’s the only childhood they have.
Marwa never imagined her birthday would be this way. But at least, she celebrated.
She had a moment of happiness. Her birthday did not become her death day.
Connect the fucking dots. Note: I see many pukes are un-subscribing from my free Substack. Says it all, says it all!!!!)
Verdict’s in: GUILTY of Amnesia and Terror and UniParty Politics. There is no shame in Biden or Trump’s game.
Since the start of Israel’s bombardment in retaliation for Hamas’s strike on October 7, Israel has dropped more than 29,000 bombs on the tiny Gaza Strip, according to a U.S. intelligence reportOpens in a new tab last month. And for the first timeOpens in a new tab in U.S. history, the Biden administration has been flying surveillance drone missions over Gaza since at least early November, ostensibly for hostage recoveryOpens in a new tab by special forces. At the time the drones were revealed, U.S. Gen. Pat Ryder insistedOpens in a new tab that the special operations forces deployed to Israel to advise on hostage rescue were “not participating in [Israel Defense Forces] target development.”
But several weeks later, on November 21, the U.S. Air Force issued deployment guidelinesOpens in a new tab for officers, including intelligence engagement officers, headed to Israel. Experts say that a team of targeting officers like this would be used to provide satellite intelligence to the Israelis for the purpose of offensive targeting.
It’s only 11 pages ofr Murder, so read it PDF. Connect the fucking dots.
from promoting lessers, to recrujiting from other countries, the Billionaires will get their pound of flesh and eat it too!
Biden is run by Israel, and so, Bomb Yemen, with no oversight, as 15 percent of global trade goes through this chokepoint. The Yemenis are no strangers to war and bombing. They withstood the pressure of neighboring countries and, with the aid of Iran, became stronger in military terms. Despite its modern weapons and considerable investments into the effort, the anti-Houthi coalition has not been able to defeat Ansar Allah. The group even managed to organize missile defense units, attack an area near the Riyadh international airport, and strike Saudi military bases.
And now Yemen’s Houthis are defying the United States and Israel.
These ships have to go around Africa. Bad for business. Capitalism: When did capitalism begin?
Modern capitalist theory is traditionally traced to the 18th-century treatise An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Scottish political economist Adam Smith, and the origins of capitalism as an economic system can be placed in the 16th century.
The fate of the Ukrainian lands is now at the epicenter of the confrontation between Russia and the West. However, there are growing reasons to believe that the current confrontation is only the beginning of a new phase in relations, which have never been particularly friendly. Several factors are contributing to the return of Russia and the West to the usual rut of systemic confrontation that has been going on for centuries: the inability of the Americans and their allies to recognize the decline of their power to influence the fate of the world, the general crisis of the global market economy, and the very independence of Russia, which has remained a challenge for the US and Western Europe.
What form this confrontation will take remains to be seen. It will certainly not be like the Cold War, when East and West were separated by the so-called Iron Curtain. It’s also unlikely to be as elegant as it was in the 18th and 19th centuries: The current times are more prosaic. But we can be relatively sure that an important part of the relationship will be a very different reading of historical events, including those about which there seems to be little factual basis for argument. We already see examples of this at every turn, to a ridiculous degree – like the recent statement by an elderly American politician that the US liberated Ukraine from Nazism during the Second World War.
In a sense, different peoples have different histories, and it is extremely rare for individual events of the past to be viewed identically on different sides of state borders. History is the interpretation of facts, the determination of the significance of each of them, and the placement of specific events in the general path taken by a state throughout its existence. Those who write textbooks and scientific monographs decide for themselves which facts deserve to become historical events. And they do so on the basis of their own considerations, which may be patriotic or subordinated to the current political situation. But in all cases, when history is written independently, it is inevitably state history. (By Timofey Bordachev, Programme Director of the Valdai Club)
Recall — Britain rules the world: UK boasts of leading aid to Ukraine. London has touted its “100-year alliance” with Kiev while ignoring Washington.
Britain has trained tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers since 2014 and led the Western effort to aid Kiev, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said on Monday. Shapps spoke at Lancaster House in London about the UK’s place in a “more dangerous world.” He painted Britain as a leading global military and industrial power, without once mentioning the US.
Millions now have been infected with war, that Proxy War, that Maidan War, and the Anglo-American-British complicity is the monster of humanity. But we do not get the on-the-ground reports. Here:
Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (15 January 2024)
In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces supported by helicopters and artillery repelled one attack of the AFU 60th Mechanised Brigade’s assault group close to Sinkovka (Kharkov region).
In addition, the Zapad Group of Forces inflicted a fire damage on AFU manpower and hardware clusters close to Petropavlovka, Berestovoye (Kharkov region, Stelmakhovka (Lugansk People’s Republic).
Up to 20 servicemen, three armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system have been eliminated.
In Krasny Liman direction, the Tsentr Group of Forces’ units, aviation, and artillery repelled one attack of the AFU 63rd Mechanised Brigade’s assault group close to Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People’s Republic), and inflicted fire damage on strongholds of the 5th National Guard Brigade near Serebryansky forestry.
More than 160 servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and one Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system have been eliminated.
In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces supported by aviation and artillery inflicted fire damage on AFU manpower and hardware near Vesyoloyeloye, Razdolovka, Kleshcheyevka, Andreyevka, and Kurdyumovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
More than 200 servicemen, one tank, three infantry fighting vehicles, one armoured personnel carrier, 13 motor vehicles, and two Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems have been eliminated.
One artillery ordnance depot of the AFU 46th Airmobile Brigade was destroyed near Kurakhovo (Donetsk People’s Republic).
In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces supported by aviation and artillery hit units of AFU 72nd, 79th air assault brigades near Novomikhailovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
More than 140 servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, and one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system have been eliminated.
In Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian Group of Forces supported by artillery inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of AFU 65th mechanised, 3rd,14th National Guard brigades close to Verbovoye, Rabotino, and Novoprokopovka (Zaporozhye region).
Up to 20 servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and one D-30 howitzer were destroyed.
In Kherson direction, as a result of the systematic fire impact, the AFU suffered losses of 40 servicemen, eight motor vehicles, and one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.
Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Group of Forces have engaged one POL base and 109 AFU artillery units at their fire positions, manpower, and military hardware in 142 areas during the day.
Russia’s Air Defence shot down 25 unmanned aerial vehicles close to Kremennaya, Belogorovka, Krivosheyevka, Nikolayevka, Verkhnekamenka (Lugansk People’s Republic), Spornoye (Donetsk People’s Republic), Pshenichnoye (Zaporozhye region), and three Tochka-U tactical missiles.
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Pretty boring stuff, not fit for the mainstream muck media.
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The Rich and Their Portfolios are murdering the world:
“The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from $405 billion to $869 billion since 2020 —at a rate of $14 million per hour— while nearly five billion people have been made poorer.”
(In case you’re wondering, the top five are Bernard Arnault and his family, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet, Larry Ellison and Elon Musk.)
“You might think there would be little that could surprise us,” says Oxfam’s Riddell. Indeed, their report in 2022 made a very similar point. As NPR’s headline observed: “Oxfam says the rich got richer in the pandemic, and the wealth gap is killing the poor.”
Ahh, so you get some fucking push back: “I’m not such a fan of the five-billion-people-are-worse-off number,” says Charles Kenny, a senior fellow with the Center for Global Development think tank.
“But they’re not worse off in terms of their life outcomes,” explains Kenny. “They’re not worse off in terms of how much they can afford to eat or are they getting decent health care? They’ve just borrowed more.”
Oxfam pushes back, saying these moneyed individuals with debt represent a small fraction of the 5 billion who are worse off. Most “ordinary people,” they say, are really struggling to get by.
Where are the Houthis for these pedophile boats?
Yemen’s Houthi militants struck an American container ship with a ballistic missile on Monday, US Central Command said in a statement. The militants have vowed to target merchant shipping in the Gulf of Aden in response to Israel’s war on Hamas.
Of course I am calling for these ships and boats to be missiled and droned out of the water, or sunk.
Interesting, I have been talking with Anthony James Hall. I’ll have a few pieces up here about our interview, upcoming in two days. Why was he called onto the carpet? Why did he get in trouble with University of Lethbridge in Alberta Canada ?
Part II was selected by The Independent in the UK as one of the best books of 2010. The journal of the American Library Association called Earth into Property “a scholarly tour de force.” One of the book’s features is to set 9/11 and the 9/11 Wars in the context of global history since 1492.
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From Veterans Today: Largely as a result of comparing the predicament of Palestinians to the treatment of Indigenous peoples in the Western Hemisphere since 1492, Dr. Hall faced the ire of the Israel Lobby in Canada.
Ahh, so Hall was part of a false flag, a fabricated swatting?
Veterans Today: “In 2016, the Canadian branch of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith mounted one of its notorious campaigns aimed at destroying the livelihood, reputation, and academic career of Dr. Hall.
The campaign was initiated on the basis of a joint operation linking Facebook Inc. with B’nai Brith Canada. Some have referred to this operation as a digital false flag event. It involved the publication of hateful fabricated posts whose malicious purpose was to defame Dr. Hall.
The Israel Lobby used the hoax to initiate a high-octane smear campaign in the international media. The Lobby persuaded the administration of the University of Lethbridge to join the smear campaign resulting in the illegal suspension of Dr. Hall, then a senior full professor with tenure. On the basis of a ruling by an Alberta Court, Dr. Hall was reinstated to his professional duties in 2017.
In 2018 Dr. Hall retired in good standing from his teaching responsibilities. Based on his academic record the University of Lethbridge granted him the title of Professor Emeritus. Professor Hall continues to live in Lethbridge where he spends much of his time conducting research and writing for various publications.”
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WE all are anti-Jewish/anti-Israel/anti-Zionist when we doubt “their” words?
“On Namibian soil, Germany committed the first genocide of the 20th century in 1904-1908, in which tens of thousands of innocent Namibians died in the most inhumane and brutal conditions,” Hage Geingob, president of the southwest African nation, said on Saturday. “The German government is yet to fully atone for the genocide it committed on Namibian soil.”
“In light of Germany’s inability to draw lessons from its horrific history,” Geingob sharply denounced Berlin’s “shocking decision” to reject “the morally upright indictment brought forward by South Africa before the International Court of Justice that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.”
“The German government has chosen to defend in the International Court of Justice the genocidal and gruesome acts of the Israeli government against innocent civilians in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories,” the Namibian leader said.
“Germany cannot morally express commitment to the United Nations convention against genocide, including atonement for the genocide in Namibia, whilst supporting the equivalent of a holocaust and genocide in Gaza,” Geingob added.
Germans? All thugs? All genocide coveting murderers? Am I in trouble yet with those rhetorical questions?
Ahh, the world is run by the global elite, by the monopolies, the parasites.
The Urban U.S. could look very different in the year 2100, in part because thousands of cities might be rendered virtual ghost towns. According to findings published in Nature Cities, the populations of some 15,000 cities around the country could dwindle to mere fractions of what they are now.
“In the Northeast and Midwest, urban cities with lower median household income are more likely to experience depopulation over time,” the study authors wrote.
“Such trends could exacerbate socioeconomic challenges experienced by lower-income households in these regions, given that population decline can create affordability concerns with infrastructure services.”
Fees, man, while the wild wild west of Casino Capitalism allows massive die offs. None of this fucking makes sense, but it does in a society that sees no concerted socialism as management style for a nation, a state, a region, a community. Dog eat dog and sink or swim.
But fees for gas production, but no fees for weapons production? Or, Jesus, how the fuck do those fucking accelerants and explosives and fuels and bombs get manufactured?
OIL. GAS. FUEL.
Shit, Al, where are you when we need you, Inconvenient Truther, you good old boy?
Al Gore is stepping down from Apple’s Board of Directors – but only because he’s too old to berenominated.
But there are some dual-use methods to keep Gore and all the other old people relevant:Animal bones ground into an edible paste could help reduce food waste: A Finnish start-up has developed a method of grinding up chicken or fish bones into a nutritious paste to make meat production more efficient. New Scientist conducted a taste test with mixed results (The Fucking Finns and their Soylent Green experiment!)
Come on Professor Hall, here is a class-action lawsuit you might be able to glom onto!! Harvard University is being sued by students for what they claim is an “antisemitism cancer” growing on campus, accusing the institution of “hir[ing] professors who support anti-Jewish violence” and “ignoring students’ pleas for protection.”
“Harvard and its administrators… directly and intentionally discriminate against… Jewish Harvard student[s],” the lawsuit states.
The lawsuit was filed Wednesday by Kasowitz Benson Torres (KBT), a major New York City law firm that has been investigating colleges for allegedly violating Jewish students’ Title VI civil rights.
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Hall knows what alternative facts are, for sure. Looking at the Jewish State of Jewish Occupied Palestine, man oh man, even Jeremy Scahill is looking hard at that racist state:
A TEAM OF Israeli lawyers and officials presented their defense at The Hague on Friday in the second day of the genocide case brought before the International Court of Justice by the government of South Africa. The lawyers portrayed Israel as the actual victim of genocide, not Gaza, accused South Africa of supporting Hamas, and painted South Africa’s government as functioning as the legal arm of the Palestinian militants who led the deadly raids into Israel on October 7.
Israel benefitted greatly from the fact that there was no cross examination permitted or debate allowed during these proceedings. It embarked on a bold mission to do in a court of international law what its military and political officials have done day and night throughout the course of this war against Gaza: unleash a deluge of what was known within the Trump administration as “alternative facts.”
Israel’s defense was the inverse of South Africa’s case yesterday, and as weak in offering documented facts as South Africa’s was powerful. History began on October 7, the Israelis seemed to say, South Africa is Hamas, South Africa did not give Israel a chance to meet up and chat about Gaza before suing for genocide, and actually the Israel Defense Forces is the most moral entity on Earth. As for the voluminous public statements by senior Israeli officials indicating genocidal intent, those were just “random assertions” by some irrelevant underlings. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statements invoking a murderous story from the Bible about killing the women, infants, and cattle of your enemies? The South Africans just don’t understand theology and presented Netanyahu’s words out of context.
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Image: Antisemitic through and thorugh, right? Jew, ugly face, scowl, on the ground for all to step on? Whew.
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Who needs Harvard or any college when we have these fucking monster billionaires dialing for scientists? The Billionaires Spending a Fortune to Lure Scientists Away From Universities — Arena BioWorks is promising big paydays to nearly 100 researchers from Harvard, M.I.T. and other prestigious institutions.
In an unmarked laboratory stationed between the campuses of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a splinter group of scientists is hunting for the next billion-dollar drug.
The group, bankrolled with $500 million from some of the wealthiest families in American business, has created a stir in the world of academia by dangling seven-figure paydays to lure highly credentialed university professors to a for-profit bounty hunt. Its self-described goal: to avoid the blockages and paperwork that slow down the traditional paths of scientific research at universities and pharmaceutical companies, and discover scores of new drugs (at first, for cancer and brain disease) that can be produced and sold quickly.
Braggadocio from startups is de rigueur, and plenty of ex-academics have started biotechnology companies, hoping to strike it rich on their one big discovery. This group, rather boastfully named Arena BioWorks, borrowing from a Teddy Roosevelt quote, doesn’t have one singular idea, but it does have a big checkbook.
Fucking Grade Inflation in the All You Can Be US Mercenary Army: Dozens of noncommissioned officers received fast-track promotions for graduating the Army‘s recruiting school in recent weeks — part of a controversial move by the service as it desperately grapples with a depleting pool of NCOs interested in serving in the role.
Of the 145 soldiers who attended the Army Recruiter Course, 56 NCOs were automatically promoted from sergeant to staff sergeant, according to the service. The graduation and promotions occurred Dec. 21, but the Army widely announced it on social media only Thursday.
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Job growth. Same in Australia: Calls To Allow Foreigners To Enlist In Australia’s Military: “Facing workforce challenges”!
Oh, the people’s armies? Nope.
These people the Billionaires shit upon:
JewJabs make billions:
Good paying jobs, NOT:
By the numbers:
Billionaires looking out for their minions:
Coal, copper, cocaine, CocaCola, anyway to make a cool billion?
Billionaires will be calling the cops for this demonstration. Cool idea, no?
My people, on the chopping block and in the line of the sniper fire:
“The Israel-Gaza war is the most dangerous situation for journalists we have ever seen, and these figures show that clearly…The Israeli army has killed more journalists in 10 weeks than any other army or entity has in any single year. And with every journalist killed, the war becomes harder to document and to understand.”
– Sherif Mansour, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ’s) Middle East and North Africa program coordinator. [1]
The fucking sun never sets on the decaying British Empire!
Between the cost of burial or cremation, the price of a memorial service, and expenses like legal fees, the “cost of dying” hit an average of £9,658 ($12,296) in the UK last year, the report stated. This represents an increase of £458 since 2022, and is the highest such figure ever recorded by SunLife.
Quoting Anthony: “Trudeau’s has yet to adequately explain his hostility to the South African case at the ICJ. The South Africans have been widely commended for their compelling legal arguments exposing in great detail the obvious genocidal assault of USA-Israel in Gaza. The result is that Trudeau continues to shame decent Canadians with his anti-Palestinian, anti-South African stance. Both Palestinians and South Africans oppose Israeli apartheid. Does Trudeau oppose Israeli apartheid?
The Trudeau government is also backing the bombing campaign against the Houthi-dominated Yemeni government because the Houthis are with the South Africans in standing up for the right of Palestinian civilians not to be exterminated en masse. We can now see clearly the government of Canada is supporting the mass murder and subsequent deportation of the survivors to finish off the genocidal designs of the Nakba initiated in 1948. Is the Trudeau government already negotiating with the Israeli genocidaires who are known to be seeking to relocate some of the Palestinian survivors into Canada after all the life support systems in Gaza have been purposely obliterated?”
Anthony is more dignified than I would be: “Trudeau’s atrocious position goes far beyond racism. With all his lies and corruptions and perversities, he should have been forced to resign as Prime Minister long ago. The fact that members of the Liberal caucus in Parliament along with the NDP Leader, Jagmeet Singh, have allowed him to stay in office, will be a source of shame and infamy for all of them throughout the remainder of their hopefully short political careers. This most recent disgrace, of and by Canadian parliamentarians follows in the wake of their enthusiastic standing ovations for a Waffen SS veteran who joined in the Hitlerian assault on Russia in WWII.”
— Governor General Michaëlle Jean has formally apologized to Rwandans for Canada’s role as part of the international community that failed to act “soon enough” to prevent the 1994 genocide. Declaring the genocide was made possible by the world’s “indifference and inaction,” Jean said Wednesday, “Canada acknowledges and takes responsibility . . . for not having responded soon enough to what was happening here. “I think we could have made a difference. I think we could have prevented the magnitude of the horror that brought . . . genocide here.”
Ahh, Palestine? Canada? Trudeau? The struggle and guilt will never surface in Klanada or Un-United $nakes of Israel First.e
Hero?
Excerpt: “Engraved still in my brain is the judgment of a small group of bureaucrats who came to “assess” the situation in the first weeks of the genocide: “We will recommend to our government not to intervene as the risks are high and all that is here are humans.”
My story is not a strictly military account nor a clinical, academic study of the breakdown of Rwanda. It is not a simplistic indictment of the many failures of the UN as a force for peace in the world. It is not a story of heroes and villains, although such a work could easily be written. This book is a cri de coeur for the slaughtered thousands, a tribute to the souls hacked apart by machetes because of their supposed difference from those who sought to hang on to power. It is the story of a commander who, faced with a challenge that didn’t fit the classic Cold War-era peacekeeper’s rule book, failed to find an effective solution and witnessed, as if in punishment, the loss of some of his own troops, the attempted annihilation of an ethnicity, the butchery of children barely out of the womb, the stacking of severed limbs like cordwood, the mounds of decomposing bodies being eaten by the sun.
This book is nothing more nor less than the account of a few humans who were entrusted with the role of helping others taste the fruits of peace. Instead, we watched as the devil took control of paradise on earth.”
From 1915, inspired by rabid nationalism and secret government orders, Turks drove the Armenians from their homes and massacred them in such numbers that outside observers at the time described what was happening as ‘a massacre like none other,’ or ‘a massacre that changes the meaning of massacre.’ Although we do not have reliable figures on the death toll, many historians accept that between 800,000 and one million people were killed, often in unspeakably cruel ways, or marched to their deaths in the deserts to the south. Unknown numbers of others converted to Islam or in other ways survived but were lost to the Armenian culture. At the time a number of influential people spoke out against these atrocities, most notably the distinguished historian Arnold J. Toynbee, but it has only been since the 1970s that scholars have devoted anything like sustained attention to this human catastrophe. There is more than enough evidence to suggest that the mass murder of the Armenians was a case of genocide, as that crime was subsequently defined in the United Nations Genocide Convention of 1948. Surviving perpetrators of the Armenian genocide could certainly have been held to account in an international criminal court.
Genocide:
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, commemorating the lives of 1.5 million Armenians killed by the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Past U.S. administrations had been reluctant to officially mark the day, concerned it might offend Turkey, an important strategic ally. But President Biden issued a statement last year acknowledging the genocide and saying, we do this not to cast blame but to ensure that what happened is never repeated.
Peter Balakian, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, comes from a family that fled the Armenian genocide. Some relatives were killed there. Here he reads this poem “After The Survivors Are Gone.”
Peter Balakian’s Armenian Genocide: A Dark Paradigm
In Armenia, 1987
Into a basalt cavern I wandered
where the moon slid like a water snake
in white skin through the gullies
to the blonde and furry wheat.
I dug toward the damp smell of a water channel—
found a shard of a cross
its lacework a system of streams wound into stone—
grapes and pomegranates pomegranates
and grapes pulpy in my hands.
Palmettos sawed my palms.
A rising moon in the moss-grown stone mirrored the light
where winged griffins, those talismans of blood
flew into the arms of Christ.
Down a gully like a volute
I found a way to the dry clay of the border
where a scimitar cut the horizon.
Pegasus flew out of the tufa walls
into the white shroud of Ararat
and the ringing bells slid into the scree.
Down there I felt my name disappear.
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Parable for Vanished Countries
The mountain was close.
Far. Then closer.
Rivulets of light ran across it.
Lakes were white circles,
then canyons,
then empty eyes.
The sky was a field of burning stones.
It was neither day nor night.
It was jasmine, and fires went out
over my head. The closer I got,
the farther it was.
Rivers pooled like green wax,
and the orchards and vineyards
on its flanks flared
like the wings of a scarlet tanager.
The trees glared like shepherds’ crooks
in the brass light; crows roosted on them,
and the mountain rose into the sky,
until it was a cloud
shimmering in black air.
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After the Survivors Are Gone
I tried to imagine the Vilna ghetto,
to see a persimmon tree after the flash at Nagasaki.
Because my own tree had been hacked,
I tried to kiss the lips of Armenia.
At the table and the altar
we said some words written ages ago.
Have we settled for just the wine and bread,
for candles lit and snuffed?
Let us remember how the law has failed us.
Let us remember the child naked,
waiting to be shot on a bright day
with tulips blooming around the ditch.
We shall not forget the earth,
the artifact, the particular song,
the dirt of an idiom—
things that stick in the ear.
Mandelstam in Armenia, 1930
Between arid houses and crooked streets
a shadow could be your wife or a corpse
and a mule’s hooves sounded like Stalin’s
fat fingers drumming a table.
In the Caucasus eagles and hawks
hung in the blue’s basilica.
A swallow flew off a socle
into the wing of an echo—
history’s caw and chirp and bird shit
on the tombs in the high grass.
On hairy serrated stems
poppies flagged like tongues.
Petals of flat paper
lined your thumbed-out pockets.
Anther seeds burned your pen.
From a cloud of broom a red bee stumbled
to your fish-globe brain.
A casket of light kissed the eyebrows of a tree.
Lake Sevan’s rippling blue skirt
lapped you. Slime tongues got your eyes.
A half-dead perch slithered your ear.
When the evening air settled
on the creatures of the mountain
the sun was the Virgin’s head.
Here, where the bush grew with fresh blood
and ancient thorns, you picked the rose
without scissors. Became an omen.
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Road to Aleppo, 1915
A flame like a leaf eaten
in the sun followed you—
a white light rose higher
than the mountain,
and singed the corner of your eye
when you turned to find
the screaming trees
dissolving to the plain.
Even when the sun dropped,
the ground was heat and bayonets,
and in the Turkish wind
the throats of boys
kept ringing in your ears.
Your breath like horizon
settled into black.
You stuttered every mile
to your daughters’
shorter steps.
The air, almost gone,
filled inside your dress.
Post-Traumatic Shock, Newark, New Jersey, 1942
Shirts hang in the glass showcase
behind the gold French Cleaners,
when I open the door,
naphthalene rises
into the no-legs.
Delphiniums are blue like
the decanters of cologne from Paris.
That’s my brother’s house.
God’s face on a wooden belfry.
God’s lips. God’s nose.
God’s innocent little prick.
At the butcher’s those are cow’s eyes
with the visionary gleam of things
in the dead sand.
I’m the star of a Jew
rising from the beery foam
of Chaplin’s moustache.
It was a dirt road
like the head of an elk
or these hanging ribs.
Figs at Delaney’s all
the way from Smyrna
like shit in cellophane.
On the road. We were going there.
and then Hawaii turned into white light
on the screen of the Philco.
Kamikaze metal.
A runway of gin and broken glass.
Naphthalene of the Red Cross nurses.
Yes, yes, the child’s mine.
No Armenians left?
Jimmy Stewart you bastard
I’m here with some shopping bags.
These poems are excerpted from June-tree: New and Selected Poems, 1974–2000 by Peter Balakian, HarperCollins (2001).
The war caused the deaths of between 400,000 and 1,500,000 Algerians, 25,600 French soldiers, and 6,000 Europeans. War crimes committed during the war included massacres of civilians, rape, and torture; the French destroyed over 8,000 villages and relocated over 2 million Algerians to concentration camps.
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[Photo: Djamila Boupacha delivers a speech on 27 June 1962 in Algiers after being arrested, tortured and sexually assaulted by French soldiers. She was first sentenced to death before being released as part of the Evian Accords. [Getty]]
“Through posters and campaigns, the French army tried to convince women to take off their veils and headscarves,” explained Donia Ismail, a Franco-Algerian journalist interested in Algerian history, to The New Arab.
“Personally, I can not care less about apologies. What we want is to hold the guilty accountable. And by that I do not mean to blame some individuals who were in charge during that time, because we know the crimes that were committed were more than individual decisions,” Ismail said.
Yeah, those buttery words in French: agression sexuelle
why the long headline . . . thank fucking god I do not work for “normal” newspapers anymore . . . Five lines Above Say it All, from my Fucking Heart!
A short List (not inclusive, not worldwide), but lest we forget the journalists murdered by the Jewish State of Jewish Hatred Toward Goyim Occupied Israel, you are a dirty rat, one dirty rat.
Murder Incorporated, the Jewish State of Hating Journalists Occupied Jewish Palestine:
And, fellow “journalists” in the “west” are the worst of the worst. Human stain. Push them into the big bad pit where the other accessories to murder should end up.
Dirty fucking rats.
You can look Blinken (oh I can list five dozen Blinkens here in the USA) in the eye, and you see a Monster of the Mossad, the dirtiest un-American Pro-Israel, Jewish Everything, Zionist STD staining humani8ty.
Listen to Aaron Mate call out this dirty rat, this dirty “worst Secretary of State ever” rat!
Hit 10 minutes in.
If you believe any of them in the Blinken-Yellen-Garland-Nuland-Kagan-Emoff Wailing Wall White House should be allowed collectively to breathe air one more fucking hour, then cock off, fuck off and find a fucking stump hole on my 20 acres of forest in Washington so I can open up with a semi-automatic. Or two.
Electronic Intifada: Al-Dahdouh said he tried to regain his strength to seek shelter as he anticipated another missile strike would follow. Realizing the severity of his bleeding arm, al-Dahdouh pressed it and opted to keep walking.
He eventually spotted paramedics and signaled to them, but they were unable to reach him. The correspondent walked until he got to them, received first aid and was taken to hospital.
“I asked them to return to Samer,” al-Dahdouh said.
“But the paramedics said that we had to leave immediately and send another vehicle to the location to avoid all of us becoming targets, and we arrived at the hospital.”
Al Jazeera reported that “by the time he reached an ambulance, medics said they could not return to the site of the attack because it was too dangerous.”
“Following Samer’s injury, he was left to bleed to death for over five hours as Israeli forces prevented ambulances and rescue workers from reaching him, denying the much-needed emergency treatment,” according to Al Jazeera.
Al-Dahdouh told the network that one ambulance tried to reach Abu Daqqa but the Israelis fired at it.
The live broadcast showed al-Dahdouh shortly after he arrived at the hospital. He urged medics and journalists around him to go back and rescue Abu Daqqa.
“Samer was screaming, coordinate with the Red Cross, get someone to bring him.”
Al-Dahdouh displayed the same dignity and determination he had shown when Israel killed his wife, son, daughter and grandson in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on 25 October.
“This is a preliminary message despite the wounds,” he said from his hospital bed.
The total obliteration of the war by information, propaganda, commentaries, with camera-men in the first tanks and war reporters dying heroic deaths, the mish-mash of enlightened manipulation of public opinion and oblivious activity: all this is another expression for the withering of experience, the vacuum between men and their fate, in which their real fate lies. It is as if the reified, hardened plaster-cast of events takes the place of events themselves.
Men are reduced to walk-on parts in a monster documentary film which has no spectators, since the least of them has his bit to do on the screen.
Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life
“Live tracker. War as entertainment. So much engagement. So many clicks.
23 910 Palestinians “and 1 139 people”. Is the choice of words intentionally sarcastic? One hopes so.
More than 7 000 missing. Over 50 000 severely injured, and how many of them will die as a result?
We count the dead in numbers. Replaceable abstractions, reducible to their position in an imaginary line. Of course, this was always the case since ancient organized warfare. Rank. File. Divison. Decimatio. Fustuarium supplicium.
A number, not a person.
Mostly women and children have been murdered. More than 14 000.
About 600 000 men are so far needlessly slaughtered in Ukraine.
We can’t understand these abstractions. We have no idea what’s going on behind them. They shut us off from anything akin to a real experience of the situation.
And in the absense of any real experience, even mechanical warfare and mass murder get boring. Switch to another channel.
So do you have a child in your family or circle of acquintances? Imagine this innocent little person of unimaginable beauty and wonder being bludgeoned to death by concrete fragments. Then imagine it happens eight thousand times over. Is there in your life a mother, sister, friend?
Is there perhaps a woman you love?“ (Source Laughlyn (Johan Eddebo)
Don’t go far off, not even for a day, because — because — I don’t know how to say it: a day is long and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.
Don’t leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift into me, choking my lost heart.
(neruda)
But the Jews of Jew York City want Substack totally screened, so the above piece might be on the chopping block: Mine will be gone for sure. One site, my original, was hacked and I can’t post shit on it. Me, Man lost of tribe, in terminal Velocity: Terminal Velocity: Man Lost of Tribe July was the last time I could do shit on that site, and I lost some subscriber money. The editors or what have you at Substack, did not fix.
The Atlantic has, somehow, published yet-another anti-Subtack hit job, this time written by someone called Jacob Stern. (His LinkedIn proudly notes that he is a graduate of the $50k/year Georgetown Day School. The piece’s existence is both very difficult and very easy to understand. Difficult, because it adds nothing to what Jonathan M. Katz ’s self-regarding piece on the same topic in the same magazine did a couple weeks ago, really nothing at all; easy, because declaring people working without the blessings of big deal media to be racists is the kind of scutwork on which careers are now built.
Leadership at The Atlantic see Substack as an ox to be gored, and you can earn a lot of chits in this business being that kind of bagman. I hope someday you get to write the piece of your dreams, Jacob. Try not to crawl over too many bodies on the way there, if you can.
This is, again dirty Jewish Values?
Substack Was a Ticking Time Bomb
The platform seeded its own content-moderation crisis.
Am I the only bull in a china shop who sees these fucking Katz’s and Stern’s as totally fascist and worthless humans? And for which tribe do they dance to a different fiddler?
Note Miko Peled says Israelis (yes, the Jewish ones) are almost totally brainwashed and indoctrinated to hate Arabs, to treat Palestinians as less than sewer rats, and they do believe in their Jewish Supremacy and that their own DNA is superior to the rest of the human scum they see “us” as.
Now, again, all those mother-fuckers who are spitting on Gonzalo Lira’s grave, I wish them chop chop chop. To the groin and the neck.
Hero: 10 May 2023 — Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on the abduction of journalist Gonzalo Lira Lopez by Ukraine security services
On May 5, we learned that the Security Service of Ukraine detained Chilean journalist and producer Gonzalo Angel Quintilio Lira Lopez. His lot remains unknown at this point.
The Latin American video blogger had been commenting on the events in Ukraine from the epicenter. He explained in detail the sources of the crisis and covered the atrocities of the Nazis, which was not to their taste once again.
This is not his first disappearance. A little more than a year ago (on April 15, 2022) he stopped contacting other people. It turned out that he was being held by Ukrainian secret services who had seized his notebooks and deprived him of access to his accounts. Then they had to release him because of the broad media coverage of his disappearance.
The Security Service of Ukraine is holding him once again, and we urge the journalist community to defend our colleague and demand his immediate release.
In the year of the 50th anniversary of the fascist state coup in Chile, we need to prevent a very similar repetition of those events in Ukraine. The coup led to the forced disappearance of thousands of Chileans, including journalists. We hope for solidarity from the Chilean authorities that consider themselves Salvador Allende’s spiritual heirs.
Fucking Jewish Zelenksy-Led Fascists. And for sure, in my world of social justice, every fuckiing Zelensky family member, friend, associate, backer, needs to be chop-chop-chopped to Hell.
BREAKING: It is with great sadness I must announce that Gonzalo Lira passed away in a hospital according to his father, who has been fighting to get his son much-needed medical attention for the past weeks. Here is a hand-written note from Gonzalo which I received on January 4:
“I have had double pneumonia (both lungs) as well as pneumothorax and a very severe case of edema (swelling of the body).
All this started in mid-October, but was ignored by the prison. They only admitted I had pneumonia at a Dec. 22 hearing. I am about to have a procedure to reduce the edema pressure in my lungs, which is causing me extreme shortness of breath, to the point of passing out after minimal activity, or even just talking for 2 minutes.”
“He was tortured, extorted, incommunicado for 8 months and 11 days and the US Embassy did nothing to help my son,” Gonzalo’s father wrote.
Luckier than many, I look forward to each day, so getting up is my favorite activity. Often leaving my dwelling before the sun rises, I soak in all activities with elation and gratitude. In Vietnam, this means hearing birds, roosters, street sweepers and other early risers. In the dark, they exercise or walk briskly.
During my six months in Tirana, I was daily astounded by the Skanderberg Mountain Range, as seen from my 8th floor window. In Cape Town, it was the Table Mountain as I walked out my door. In Phnom Penh, the sight of the Central Market’s dome never failed to cheer me. Seeing it each morning from my Zing Hotel room meant it was time to hit the still dark alleys. In Pakse, the earliest light would reveal Amor Fati Cafe across the street. Sometimes, an old, hobbling woman who rarely strayed from her block would look up to see me. On the ground floor, Sơn and Thảo, meaning Mountain and Grass, would be busy setting up their hotel’s restaurant while getting their kids ready for school.
This morning, my usual elation was punctured and poisoned by the horrible news Gonzalo Lira had been murdered. Abandoned by his government and mocked by gleeful cowards, Lira had been tortured to death by a regime fronted by a corrupt clown and sustained mostly with American money.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 2/24/22 was merely a belated reaction to the American orchestrated Maidan Revolution of February 2014. Like Jews, Uncle Sam routinely inverts reality, so the destruction and humiliation of Ukraine, now in its final chapter, would be rebranded “The Revolution of Dignity.” Visiting Ukraine just two years later, I witnessed a society already on its knees, with its young men farcically sacrificed in a self-destructive war against Russia. The main American architect behind this was the Jewish Victoria Nuland. Since her grandfather had been forced to flee his native Odessa, Victoria was exacting payback, plus outrageous compound interest, but there were other factors.
On 3/28/22, Gonzalo Lira encapsulated these expertly in a YouTube video. The next day, I added, “A large chunk of Ukraine and southern Russia was once Khazaria, a Turkic kingdom that converted to Judaism in the 8th century. The extent and depth of this conversion have been much debated. Though mostly forgotten, Khazaria was a rival to Christian Byzantium and the Islamic Caliphate for three centuries, with its final demise in the 10th century effected by, drum roll please, Russians! Jewish Khazaria’s annihilator was Sviatoslav I of Kiev.” Jews hate Slavs, in short, so a key objective of the Ukraine war is to murder as many Slavs a possible, a point I made on 3/9/22.
It’s easy enough for me to state all this from the safety of Namibia, but Lira was in Kharkiv. Though a “fish on the chopping block,” to borrow a Vietnamese phrase, he gave us invaluable insights and observations from the war zone without self censorship. It’s this bravery that gained Lira admirers worldwide. Scott Ritter, though, shamefully suggested he was colluding with Ukrainian intelligence. To do what, Scott?
On 3/6/22, Lira correctly predicted Western sanctions will hurt the West much more than Russia. On 3/23/22, Lira concluded the US was committing suicide, but let me to tweak his assessment slightly. With Jewjabs, unchecked illegal immigration, woke education, cancel culture, cowed intellectuals, Jewjewed media, crumbling infrastructure and lying, pedophilic leaders, America is being murdered with a thousand cuts by Uncle Sam’s puppeteer. This is undeniable to anyone paying the least attention, but that’s asking a lot. Here’s a clue: Sam’s increasingly naked genocidal lust mirrors Israel’s, so locked in the sickest 69, they’ll sink together.
Lira was among the few who remembered the Jewjab murdered Tiffany Dover. Sometimes, Lira was wrong, as when he thought Zelensky would soon be assassinated by the US itself. So what? Bold and blunt, Lira literally risked his life to make statements about Zelensky, Putin, Biden and NATO, etc. Among the cowed, Lira stood tall, so that will be his legacy.
Another American in Ukraine is Graham Seibert, but unlike Lira, Seibert is only capable of recycling official bullshit, such as Putin is evil and will flee or be overthrown any time now, Zelensky is the new Churchill, Russians are thinly disguised Mongolians and Ukraine is kicking Russia’s ass, etc. Seibert even believed a Ukrainian babushka had knocked down a Russian drone with a jar of tomatoes ferociously pitched from her balcony!
For mouthing nonsense, 80-year-old Siebert is alive in Kiev with his young wife, while Lira is dead, but let me say this: any nation’s chance of survival is proportionate to its ratio of Graham Seiberts to Gonzalo Liras.
On 9/20/23, American born Ukrainian spokesman Sarah Ashton-Cirillo was fired for making cartoonish threats against journalists, “Next week, the teeth of the Russian devil will gnash ever harder, and their rabid mouths will foam in an uncontrollable frenzy as the world will see a favorite Russia propagandist pay for their crimes […] This puppet of Putin will be the first[…] Russia’s war criminal propagandists will all be hunted down, and justice will be served.”
With Lira gone, Ashton-Cirillo wears a sad face as he/she offers condolences to his family, but his/her stance is clear when he/she hopes that Gonzalo will be “able to find redemption with the Lord,” for he’s “guilty of what he was accused of.” This sudden lawyer cum prosecutor cum judge cum jury even concludes that “Gonzalo Lira was a would-be agent of the Russian government”!
As for his death, it was a “natural demise and natural passing” caused by pneumonia brought on by the stress of “insert[ing] himself into a war on the side of the Russians.” No, Sarah, Lira had lived in Ukraine for years with his Ukrainian wife and children. It’s you who inserted yourself into this genocidal war caused by Satanic Jews and the American empire.
Unlike you and Graham Seibert, Lira risked his life to defend Ukraine. He couldn’t stomach seeing it destroyed. You say he deserved what happened for choosing to stay, but that wasn’t just his home, Sarah, but the native land of his wife and children. For the rest of us, Lira also provided unmatched reports from a country being methodically tortured and wrecked. The same folks are doing it in Gaza.
Hopefully, the truth will come out, even if it takes decades or centuries. As American clowns, assholes and psychos are celebrated, its bravest men are smeared with shit then flushed away, but some day, let’s hope, Lira, David McGowan and Gary Webb, among others, will be held up as models to children.
Those kids won’t be American, though, for that sad, sick country swarming with the most timid and self-regarding will have long disappeared.
As their society imploded, all they did was loot, rape, kill each other, “vote” and rap, and why not?
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I checked out your source Paulo, on Meyer Lansky and discovered Algemeiner. It looks like from the perspective of that venue I’m in the lineup with Lansky. Do you know who is behind the publication.
“This is a monumental and precedent-setting victory for human rights in Canada,” said Michael Mostyn, CEO of B’nai Brith Canada.”
Michael Mostyn must see the genocide of babies in Gaza as a human rights victory for his gang of thugs. Meyer Lansky had a lot more class than the Canada’s B’nai Brith cons that Algemeiner’s staff esteem so highly.
B’nai Brith Canada planted Joshua Goldberg’s ugly posted on my Facebook page as the launching pad of their smear campaign.
When searching for Anthony Hall, you get this on that fucking Zionist paper,
When searching this — on Jewish Google: :Anthony Hall fired from Canadian University” you get all these curated and filtered and swiped off the map (that is, counter charges) Google, the Agnotology Factory.
At least the students, if they would even be allowed to do a critical look at Hall’s case, can get that last link above and then go through pages and pages of the issue.
“Professor Hall retired from the University of Lethbridge in October 2018. He is now Professor Emeritus. He retired because the university environment became too toxic for him to work in as a result of his having been falsely accused of antisemitism.
A full and accurate story of what occurred has yet to be told. It is an important story because of what we all can learn about what needs to be done to protect academic freedom. What does it really mean for a university to be a liberal university? The University of Lethbridge claims that it is, but is it?
The story is also important because of what it tells us about the role that universities play in shaping public opinion during times of conflict – the “war on terror” has been going on for many years now. Do universities serve the prevailing power structure, or do they check that power in the service of peace and justice for all?
There is a five-part “series” explaining the situation: from the accused’s point of view, which for all intents and purposes should be heard, right, in any democracy (sic) especially around losing one’s livelihood as a teacher, especially around academic freedom. The hit squads that go after teachers, professors, well, they are not so sophisticated, but they are like armies of malarial born mosquitoes. Unstoppable without poison.
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The main story 2016 – 2018
Update June 21, 2018: 5-Part Series Giving Hall’s Side of the Story Published in the Lethbridge Herald
From June 4 through 8, 2018, Professor Hall got the opportunity to tell his side of the story in a 5-part series in the Lethbridge Herald. The series may be read on this site here. [Update December 28, 2018: Some time this fall the online version of the Herald removed Hall’s side of the story, and the links to the Herald, previously found here, are broken, so have been taken out.]
The Chair of the Board of Governors of the University of Lethbridge, Kurt Schlachter, responded in a letter to the Herald, which may be read here.
Professor Hall responded to Mr. Schlachter in a letter which was not published in the Herald, but which may be read here.
Additionally, Robin Matthews wrote a letter to the Herald, which was not published in the Herald, but may be read here.
My own two letters, not published in the Herald, are here.
Questioning the 9/11 lies, well well, that gets you into the tinfoil hat looney bin of mainstream whoring media, and worse, mainstem stupid academic circle jerk pile ons.
“In light of this analysis Tony became first skeptical, then a complete disbeliever, in the official narrative of what happened on the infamous day of September 11, 2001, known as “9/11”. He worked with Splitting the Sky, in his attempt to arrest George Bush on his visit to Calgary in 2009. Such behaviour was bound to earn him enemies, and must have been very discomfiting to those who believe the official narrative. Just prior to this event Tony gave a presentation to the Sociology Department at the University of Winnipeg, titled Should George W. Bush Be Arrested in Calgary, Alberta, To Be Tried For International Crimes?in which he said:
The most serious failures connected to the events of 9/11 are not those of US intelligence agencies, airport security services, NORAD and the like. Rather the deepest and darkest of the failures to protect us for those enemies that menace us most lie with journalists, mainstream media outlets, professors and the universities that employ us. It is we who have in the vast majority of cases chosen to abandon our skepticism and with it our professional ethics and responsibilities. By and large our professional class and caste continue to respond to the events of 9/11 in ways that are expedient rather than wise. As I see it, therefore, it is a mass treason of the intellectuals that constitutes the most significant underlying condition resulting in the continuing fraud known as the War on Terror. The War on Terror continues to be packaged, promoted and sold to the public in the most aggressive campaign of psychological warfare ever mounted. How many of us are complicit with our silence in this black psyop, the key enabling factor in the ongoing aggressive wars justified in the name of an unfounded and unproven official conspiracy theory of 9/11?
“I stand with Tony Hall in this assessment. Surely all citizens of the world have a responsibility to develop as best they can an accurate understanding of any historical event as significant as 9/11. And is it not a special responsibility of those who belong to academe, who have been given the time and resources to explore such issues, to do so, and to help others see the truth as they see it? This is not to say that every university professor should drop whatever research program he or she is engaged in, and turn to 9/11, but surely those who do should be encouraged, and not suspended without pay.”
Look, the billionaires and all their sycophants, their Eichmanns, big and small, all those henchwomen, all those black-robed bought-and-paid-for judges and adjudicators, all the neo-cons in liberal sheep’s clothing, AKA, neo-liberal-totalitarians, all of them, are running like rats from a sinking ship.
The billionaire investor, who helped lead a public charge to remove former Harvard President Claudine Gay, criticized the returns of the college’s endowment, which he says has trailed the market. Harvard’s annualized 10-year return as of June 30 was 8.2%. It was the second-lowest performance of the eight Ivy League schools, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Harvard didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
To continue his scrutiny of antisemitism and diversity, equity and inclusion policies on US campuses, Ackman plans to form a team that will go “after these issues in a very aggressive way,” he said.
With his new think tank, Ackman is poised to deploy familiar tactics on unfamiliar targets. At Pershing Square Capital Management, he used a scorched-earth approach to activist investing that resulted in both big wins and shattering losses.
“It’s going to be a think-and-do tank,” he said. “We’re going to study these issues and come up with solutions to problems, and we’re going to implement them.”
Is it anti-Jewish?
This one, anti-Jewish because Biden has mostly Jewish Self Identified Zionist and Israel Uber Alles folk working for him?
Or is this one anti-Jewish because Trump’s family is Jewish and he hires Jewish Lawyers and CPA’s?
Sometimes it’s just the Obama Donkeys that jump ship:
Is this verboten in college classes? Dissecting this piece of shit rag? NY Rag, err, Mag.
Is this going to get the college prof in trouble, citing old news, having students going WAY back to see what this Jewish First and Zionist Always and Israel Mothership noise is all about?
Why should the Palestinians be held victims to US politics while being held hostage to Israeli politics for the last six decades. Why should most Israelis continue to live in a garrison state incapable of normalising relations with their neighbors?
Why should Americans watch as their politicians are held hostage to a foreign power and its influential supporters?
The pro-Israeli Jewish lobby, J Street, commented on the alarming pandering to Israel not only among Democrats but also Republicans, saying: “There’s no limit, it seems, to how far American politicians will go these days in pandering on Israel for political gain.”
While there has been strategic logic for the US support for Israel in the past, Washington’s current pandering makes little sense.
Washington has long used its influence with Israel as strategic leverage to reign in Arab leaders. Only Washington can restrain Israel in war and wring concessions in diplomacy, Arab leaders once reckoned.
But the dictators who either exploited Palestine to garner popular support at home, or bartered it in return for Western favours, belong to the past.
Today’s Arabs are bitter and angry at US-Israeli complicity in Palestine and they won’t be as easily bounded or bribed as their fallen dictatorships.
by Marwan Bishara is Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst. He was previously a professor of International Relations at the American University of Paris. An author who writes extensively on global politics, he is widely regarded as a leading authority on the Middle East and international affairs.
Anti-semitic cuz it’s not written by a New York or East Coast Jew? This one by Bishara written on Sept. 22, 2011, ten years after the Mossad May Have Had a Hand in 9/11.
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