…bread, staff of life, and the Jews of Bethlehem and Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are looking for more targets to kill . . . Merry Xmas!
…bread, staff of life, and the Jews of Bethlehem and Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are looking for more targets to kill . . .
Gen. Curtis LeMay, commander of the US bombers in the Pacific. LeMay later launched airstrikes on North Korea and Vietnam and supported the idea of a preemptive nuclear attack against Russia during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. LeMay would later acknowledge the sheer brutality of it.
“Killing Japanese didn’t bother me very much at that time… I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal,” he is widely quoted as saying.
Israel loves its history buffs. Japan and fires anyone?
Video: Israel missile strike lights up Gaza skyline as bombing intensifies into the night.
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There are scores of Palestinian writers and photographers, many of whom have been killed, who are determined to make us see the horror of this genocide. They will vanquish the lies of the killers. {Christ Hedges and Mr. Fish, Bearing Witness)
Perfected carpet bombing, including early use of incendiary bombs, those Italians and Germans:
Old Emanuel forgets to call Jesus a Palestinian. Calls him a Jew, but ain’t getting around that this mythical figure was a Palestinian.
The Jews of Jewish Occupied Jewish Palestine, well, they have their cards up their sleeves, now don’t they?
Tens of thousands more people were killed, and fire bombs followed on the major cities of Nagoya, Osaka and Kobe. The US bombers then targeted “medium-sized towns,” hitting 58 of them, according to the official history.
At one point, the B-29s’ base at North Field, on the tiny island of Tinian,was the busiest airport in the world.
The official US Army Air Force post-war history puts the scope of the fire bomb campaign matter of factly, saying by June Japan’s industrial centers “were finished off as profitable targets.”
But the raids seemed to do little to bring Japan’s capitulation. Some of the damage only enraged its leaders.
“We, the subjects, are enraged at the American acts. I hereby firmly determine with the rest of the 100,000,000 people of this nation to smash the arrogant enemy, whose acts are unpardonable in the eyes of Heaven and men, and thereby to set the Imperial Mind at ease,” then-Prime Minister Suzuki Kantaro said, according to an account by Richard Sams in The Asia Pacific Journal.
Still, the harm inflicted on Japan was massive. By the end of the campaign, hundreds of thousands of refugees were created across Japan.
LeMay would later acknowledge the sheer brutality of it.
“Killing Japanese didn’t bother me very much at that time… I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal,” he is widely quoted as saying.
[Wartime production of the B-29 was spread among Boeing plants in Wichita, Kansas and Renton, Washington and built under license by Martin and Bell.]
The bombers were the culmination of 20 years of aviation advances leading up to World War II and were the first to have pressurized, heated fuselages, enabling them to operate above 18,000 feet without crews having to don special gear or use oxygen masks.
That put them out of range of most anti-aircraft guns and gave them plenty of time before fighters could rise up to engage them, Kinney said.
“The B-29 Superfortress was the most advanced technology of its time,” he said.
Now, the U$ of Israel First has armed them, the Jews of Zion, with Stealth Bombers. [The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy strategic bomber, featuring low-observable stealth technology designed to penetrate dense anti-aircraft defenses. A subsonic flying wing with a crew of two, the plane was designed by Northrop and produced from 1987 to 2000.]
Starving them quickly:
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Goddamn, queer as brokeback mountain: Another Pinochet or Franco or Hitler in the making: “Happy Holidays and be careful not to become a communist”: Argentine President wishes citizens a Merry Christmas.
Higher Happy Fucking Higher (lower) Education: Another fascist capitalist who needs that bat, Milei: Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh has the Wolverines in the College Football Playoff for the third consecutive season, and the school reportedly wants to secure his services for the long haul. The school (sic) is offering Harbaugh a 10-year, $125 million contract extension, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. [The offer contains a clause stipulating that Harbaugh not seek or entertain NFL coaching offers for the 2024 season].
Jews in Israel gotta die, as well as all the check writers for that Fascist Nazi State (sic)? Bombing other countries? Yep.
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS:
PM Netanyahu says Israel will not succeed in freeing remaining hostages without applying military pressure
Three sources say Israeli airstrike outside Damascus kills senior adviser in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
Goddamn, Iran, just fucking nuke the fucking place!
[Another Mafia thug? The grandson of Italian immigrants, Pascrell was born in Paterson, New Jersey, the son of Roffie J. (née Loffredo) and William James Pascrell (originally Pascrelli)]
Five Eyes on the fucking monster pushing for more war:
On Sunday, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez asserted that Venezuela is maintaining heightened alerts after the United Kingdom announced the dispatch of a warship to Guyana amid the territorial dispute between the two South American countries.
“A warship in waters to be delimited? What? What about the commitment to good neighborliness and peaceful coexistence? And what about the agreement not to threaten or use force mutually under any circumstances?” he asked.
Merry Fucking Jewish Satanic Xmas: Seyyed Razi Mousavi was one of the top companions of Iran’s General Qassem Soleimani.
On Monday, Israel bombed the Sayyeda Zeinab neighborhood in Damascus, killing Seyyed Razi Mousavi, a veteran member of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), who was serving as a military advisor in Syria.
Among the organizations that initially disseminated information about Mousavi’s death was the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based NGO which stated that the Israeli attacks had targeted a high-ranking figure.
Happy Fucking Satanic Xmas:
Corporations that specialize in manufacturing weapons are excited about Israel’s war on Gaza, letting their top investors know that huge profits are on the way.
Already overflowing with cash thanks to seemingly endless U.S. weapons shipments to Ukraine, the accounts of companies like RTX (owner of Raytheon), General Dynamics, and Lockheed Martin are growing even fatter as the Biden administration steps up direct military support to the ultra-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Across the entire Raytheon portfolio, you’re going to see a benefit of this restocking,” he told shareholders.
Kristine Liwag, a Wall Street analyst for Morgan Stanley who was on the call, said the war against Palestine appeared to be an “opportunity” that “fits quite nicely” with the company’s product offerings.
“I think if you look at the incremental demand potential coming out” of the Israeli campaign, “the biggest one to highlight and that really sticks out is probably on the artillery side.”
A General Dynamics’ weapons plant in Massachusetts was the target of an anti-war protest last week. Demonstrators unfurled a banner reading: “Genocide: Brought to you by General Dynamics.” Aiken was undeterred, however. Looking ahead, he predicted “the Israel situation is only going to put upward pressure on that demand.”
Monsters below:
Mothers: Monsters!
Morgan Stanley depends on more blown apart babies, dying injured in hospitals and bombs galore . . . an “opportunity” that “fits quite nicely” with the company’s product offerings.
Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house. Not a creature was stirring not even a mouse . . . the world is complicit now!
Remember this fairy tale? “If only if there had been photographs (cell phone snaps and videos now) of the death camps during the Nazi genocide, it would have been stopped.” Sure, if only there had been a TV reporter in Vietnam, in South Africa, sure, never again, never again!
Just as the fabricated story of bin Laden and al-Qaeda was a fraud to push the United States into a series of wars for Israel, so is the false account below of the Hamas-Israel relationship a calculated lie meant to advance disastrous outcomes for average people, including Jews, the world over. The lies about the supposed Hamas rapes have been expertly exposed by Max Blumenthal. What a sordid tale he has unearthed to cover up the Israeli depravity that actually took place. (Anthony James Hall: The Israel Lobby Embarks on a Course of Lies and Crimes to Push More War, Based on a False Narrative of October 7, (10/7) — Beware the Propaganda Blitz Being Prepared to Divert Us From Holding the Israel-US Government Accountable for Its Obvious Genocide in Gaza)
I had a dream
nightmare cloistered by anger
I had a dream, days inside drugs
one flashpoint of REM
those dealers with extra guns
bone-breaking ethos, knives
slicing tendons behind the knees
already capped by .22 long rifle slugs
just to let the guy (or gal) suffer
more, those retaliations
a business proposition, eye
for eye entire families behheaded
because the dope was shorted
Benjamins rifled through
entire Juarez neighborhoods terrorized
women and mothers like ghosts in shadows
hurrying themselves to work at 4 am
fingers and arms like robotics
for the dirty tools of capitalism
girls pregnant slogging for General
Motors, piecing together
parts for million dollar MRI machines
it’s Gaza, really, Jews in fatigues
chiseled faces looking down
on old men and random men
stripped, held at AR-15 gun point
these sicarios with tekhelets
tallits tzitzits blue and white
their un-godly God’s color
of mass atrocities they
laugh riding stolen girls’
bicycles as they shit
in the corners of bombed mosques
as they shoot medics even
target UN foood workers
shoot the press just like
Sinaloa Cartel machete TV
reporters’ bodies, a headless
press, now, USA a Jewish
Only Press
forget about these sub-humans
forget about their movie moguls
their thespians in front of cameras
their limp-wrist writers
Bob Dylans and CEOs
dialing for dollars, dialing for
Epstein, they are almost
all the same, these heavy belly
captains of industry
just more well-connected El Chapo’s
the guy in my REM held
down the other guy’s fingers
his big LT holding that guy’s
body, as the head honcho
sicario — call him IOF archetype—
pounded each righthand
finger with ball peen
hammer
it’s Israel, it’s each rotting
CEO and VP and Provost
holding even muffled
voices at bay, each daily “pay check”
in the hands of those overlords
fat or trim, expensive mansions
their epicenters for monstrous
moves, this Jewish world
like a machine gunner
in every home, every school
every workplace, they have
studied Goyim, studied psychology
of fomenting madness, fear, acceptance
my nightmare, daily dreams
turned into genocide of one
sort or another
Intentional destruction of cemetaries, crops, mosques, food production facilities, schools, hospitals, apartment blocks . . . These are Jewish Values since for 75 years they have not been held accountable, since the Jews in those trillionaire countries piled up cash and guns and spyware for these dehumanizing people.
Calling Palestinians vermin, ants, roaches, animals, and calling for them all to die under the rubble, each child’s torn limb dripping of life, those Jews in Hollywood laughing at Club Med kibbutz, just like laughing with thug punk ZioAzovNaziLensky.
Ten steps for genocide to be called — all have been ticked off since October 7.
The Security Council resolution introduced by the United Arab Emirates calls for “full, rapid, safe and unhindered humanitarian access into and throughout the entire Gaza Strip.” It also calls on parties to the conflict to “create the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities.”
The resolution as passed will not likely have much benefit to Palestinians who are starving, displaced and under fire in Gaza, critics say.
More than 20,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s attacks on Gaza since 7 October and thousands more are reported missing, many of them presumed dead under the rubble of destroyed buildings.
By not calling for even a cessation of hostilities, let alone a ceasefire, some diplomats said the resolution is viewed as a green light for Israel to continue its devastating military campaign in Gaza.
Experts say that campaign “now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in recent history,” as the AP news agency reported.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres, in a press statement made after the Security Council vote, excoriated the continuation of the status quo in Gaza, saying “there is no effective protection of civilians.”
He criticized Israel for “creating massive obstacles to the distribution of humanitarian aid inside Gaza.”
Guterres said that “an effective aid operation in Gaza requires security; staff who can work in safety; logistical capacity; and the resumption of commercial activity.”
He noted that 136 UN employees had been killed in Gaza since 7 October and that the Kerem Shalom commercial crossing was bombed “while aid trucks were in the area” on Thursday.
The New York Timesreported that four people who work at the crossing were killed in the strike and that the Israeli military claimed it had “struck armed terrorists near the area of the crossing and that the incident was under review.”
COMPLICITY!
“… Our twentieth century is the century of fear… To come to terms, one must understand what fear means: what it implies and what it rejects. It implies and rejects the same fact: a world where murder is legitimate, and where human life is considered trifling. This is the great political question of our times, and before dealing with other issues, one must take a position on it…” “Let us, then, admit that our refusal to legitimise murder forces us to reconsider our whole idea of Utopia. This much seems clear: Utopia is whatever is in contradiction with reality. From this standpoint, it would be completely Utopian to wish that men should no longer kill each other. That would be absolute Utopia. But a much sounder Utopia is that which insists that murder be no longer legitimised. Indeed, the Marxian and the capitalist ideologies, both based on the idea of progress, both certain that the application of their principles must inevitably bring about a harmonious society, are Utopian to a much greater degree…” (Camus)
It is a sick sick world: These thespians will see their paydays limited,
Note that the Palestinian isn’t mentioned in this drippy trippy letter from Holly-Dirt:
We all want the same thing: Freedom for Israelis and Palestinians to live side by side in peace. Freedom from the brutal violence spread by Hamas. And most urgently, in this moment, freedom for the hostages.
We urge everyone to not rest until all hostages are released. No hostage can be left behind. Whether American, Argentinian, Australian, Azerbaijani, Brazilian, British, Canadian, Chilean, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Eritrean, Filipino, French, German, Indian, Israeli, Italian, Kazakh, Mexican, Panamanian, Paraguayan, Peruvian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, South African, Spanish, Sri Lankan, Thai, Ukrainian, Uzbekistani or otherwise, we need to bring them home.
The faces of prostitutes for Jews and Israel: “We all want the same thing: Freedom for Israelis and Palestinians to live side by side in peace,” reads a letter signed by both talent and entertainment executives.
Fuck these syphilis churning fuck ups who do NOTHING for their billions.
… death by a thousand usury cuts, sanctions, dummy bombs, forfeitures, and pollutants and jabs killing us hard and long . . . they gotta be tried and sent to old Marie Antionette’s recliner
So, yet more pathetic actors, thespians, what have you, just all dirty AmeriKKKans, Dukes of Hazzard or Friends, it does not matter — Sean Penn wants Putin’s head (along with how many dirty perverts in US politics?) and then all those CEOs and demented Hi-Tech Idiotas and the billionaires, they want another 60,000 Palestinians Dead on Arrival, but this AmeriKKKan is being threatened with investigatin because he called for Biden’s head on the block?
Which goddamned war criminal is he (Schneider) really noticing? The Trumpies never notice this piece of human stain. Murdered who? Hero of Iran?
US President Donald Trump has said that he ordered a precision strike to “terminate” a top Iranian commander who was plotting “imminent and sinister attacks” on Americans, adding that the decision was one of deterrence rather than aggression.
“We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war,” Trump said in a statement from his Mar-a-Lago resort on Friday, a day after a US drone strike on a Baghdad airport killed Qasem Soleimani.
Later, while at a Miami church for an Evangelicals for Trump event, the President said: “He was planning a very major attack and we got him.”
Iran, in a letter to the United Nations, called the attack state terrorism and an unlawful criminal act.
It was “tantamount to opening a war,” Majid Takht Ravanchi, Iran’s ambassador to the UN, told CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” on Friday. He said the strike had escalated a war that started when the US pulled out of a nuclear deal with Tehran in 2018.
[Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, left, and Qasem Soleimani were killed in the US strike.]
I say, FUCK this hypocritical thug country, this Nordstream bombing, Proxy-war fomenting, dirty telemetry-aiding war criminal Country. Murder Inc., U$A. How many should be on the block, or lined up for firing squad? Hold all that ammo for the NaziAzovZioLensky!
Simple, easy to put together device perfect for under the Xmas tree. Use unsparingly on all of ISF and Israeli settlers and colonizers, as well as the Klan of Obama, Biden, Trump, Bush, and how many generals and admirals and Blinkens, et al shall we put under the blade?
Goddamn, we are a country full of syphilis. Must be coming through the take-out Chinese food, since there is little actual fornication going on in the American home. Just On-Line Porn, Incels and Zoom Dating and Jerking Off.
Actor John Schneider called for the executions of Joe Biden and the president’s son Hunter in a now-deleted social media post that drew ridicule and questions about whether he should be criminally charged.
Schneider, perhaps best known for his role as Bo Duke on the TV series Dukes of Hazzard as well as his recent runner-up finish on The Masked Singer, fired off the post on X at 2am local time on Thursday.
“Mr President, I believe you are guilty of treason and should be publicly hung,” Schneider wrote to Biden. “Your son too. Your response is..? Sincerely, John Schneider.”
The comment was a reply to a post from Biden which said Donald Trump – who is facing more than 90 criminal charges as he seeks a second presidency in 2024 – “poses many threats to our country”.
Goddamn this is one curdled shit milk country for brains. Blinken or Yellen or Nuland or Powers or Lloyd Austin or . . . . Full of brain rotting take-out syphilis.
Oh, The Judge and the Max have some fun things to say how much the cottage cheese between the ears of these DC American has gone bad.
“But the greatest threat Trump poses is to our democracy,” Biden’s X post continued, in part. “If we lose that, we lose everything.”
Schneider’s response to Biden’s post drew thousands of replies before it was deleted.
As Newsweek first noted, among those to reply was the investigative journalist Victoria Brownworth, who wrote: “Just here for the ratio and to let you know that it’s ‘hanged,’ not ‘hung’.” Brownworth added: “There’s zero evidence of ‘treason.’ Step out of the Fox News bubble.”
Another user added: “Wow! You’re calling for the execution of a sitting president. May the secret service show up at your door with a reply.”
Citing anonymous sources close to the matter, Deadline reported later Thursday that the Secret Service – the agency tasked with protecting presidents and their families – had opened a preliminary investigation into Schneider.
Other commenters maintained Schneider’s remark fell short of constituting a death threat. Under federal law, threatening “to inflict bodily harm upon the president of the United States” could carry a fine and up to five years in prison.
[Photo: Hero.]
[Other photo, below: Queer Eye for the Lindey. Unman man.]
“The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out. You would be doing your country – and the world – a great service,” Graham said.
“Putin coup is underway and impossible to stop.” Yahoo news onSeptember 13, 2022
“Russian resistance is growing against Putin’s war.” NY Post onMarch 2, 2022
“The Russian military should overthrow Putin.” The Hill on March 14, 2022
“Fully-fledged revolt against Putin is near.” Newsweek on September 10, 2022
“As Russians retreat, Putin is criticized by hawks.” NY Times on September 10, 2022
“Russian officers turn against Putin for military incompetence.” Bipartisanreport on May 31, 2022
“Rogue Russian generals should assassinate ‘demented’ Putin.” The Sun on March 5, 2022
“Russian elites planning to overthrow Putin.” NY Post on March 20, 2022
“Sean Hannity suggests Vladimir Putin should be assassinated.” Washington Post March 3, 2022
Dirty dirty dirty AmeriKKKans, and dirty dirty presidents, all of them murderers, under any sense of common human law. But in the richest and freest country in the world — the fucking secret service makes us foot the bill for these perverts.
The extended protection could cost taxpayers millions of dollars because of how many people are being protected and how often they travel, The Post says.
For example, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the Secret Service incurred about $396,000 in expenses, “primarily for temporary duty costs, while protecting Donald Trump, Jr. and Eric Trump during three international trips taken in January and February 2017. Eric Trump traveled to Uruguay and the Dominican Republic and Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, and their spouses traveled to the United Arab Emirates.”
The Post also reports that from 2017 to 2019, Trump family members took more than 4,500 trips requiring the Secret Service to travel alongside them, at a cost of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars.
In Trump’s first four trips to Mar-a-Lago in 2017, the Secret Service alone spent about $1.3 million on each visit, and for just one month in 2017, Trump’s travel costs totaled $13.6 million, including expenditures by the Secret Service, the Department of Defense and the cost of renting space and equipment, The Post notes, adding that Trump had made 22 more trips to Mar-a-Lago since then, at a cost of an additional $28 million if the Secret Service’s costs remained constant.
Ugly at its best:
Kamala Harris’ Reported Secret Service Code Name Is So on Point
The call sign is a nod to her trailblazing status on the ballot.
As the official Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate, Kamala Harris is under Secret Service protection. This means that Harris now has a staff of special agents dedicated to protecting her from any potential threats posed against her. It also means—the thing we’re most excited about at the moment—that she now has a personally chosen code name.
Queer as hell, infantilization oh AmeriKKKa, “SCOOP: Dem Vice Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris has chosen “PIONEER” as her Secret Service codename, a law enforcement source tells me. Biden’s codename, otherwise known as a “call sign” has been CELTIC.”
The Kennedys all had call signs that begin with “L.” (President Kennedy was ‘Lancer,’ Jackie was ‘Lace,’ Caroline was ‘Lyric,’ and JFK Jr. was ‘Lark.'”) The Obamas reportedly used the letter “R” (Barack was “Renegade,” Michelle was “Renaissance,” Sasha was “Rosebud,” and Malia was “Radiance”), while Donald Trump’s family codenames begin with “M” (Donald is “Mogul,” Melania is “Muse,” and Ivanka is “Marvel”).
Following this tradition, Harris’ husband Douglas Emhoff will likely have a code name beginning with the letter “P,” but his moniker hasn’t yet been reported. (P for Putz!)
NEWS is asleep at the wheel in syphilis-induced dementia America?!@#$%
Schneider was on The Dukes of Hazzard from 1979 to 1985. In 2015, the television channel TV Land announced it would pull reruns of the action-comedy series because the car the main characters drove around displayed the Confederate battle flag, a symbol adopted by white supremacist hate groups.
Schneider – whose character’s full first name, Beauregard, is identical to the surname of a famous general in the Confederate army – protested against TV Land’s decision by remarking “the whole politically correct generation has gotten way out of hand”, as Today.com reported.
A second-place finish in Wednesday’s season finale of The Masked Singer had earned Schneider – also a country musician – some favorable celebrity media coverage. So had a new interview with Fox News in which he described how difficult he expected this Christmas to be after his wife, the producer and actor Alicia Allain Schneider, died from breast cancer in February.
“It’s going to be rough,” Schneider had said in that interview. “Grief will never go away.”
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Hmm, the Wailing White House, was built by, WHO? Two of Washington, DC’s most famous buildings, the White House and the United States Capitol, were built in large part by enslaved African Americans. National Archives holdings include wage rolls, promissory notes, and vouchers that document the work done by slaves on these two historic structures.
In 1791 Pierre L’Enfant, who planned the City of Washington, leased African American slaves from their masters to clear the sites for the “President’s House” and the Capitol. Once the land was cleared, Washington’s three-man Board of Commissioners, who oversaw the new city’s construction, tried to recruit laborers from Europe and America to build the two structures. Unable to find as many workers as they needed, the commissioners turned to African Americans slaves. Most slaves hauled building materials and sawed lumber, but others performed skilled labor such as carpentry, stonecutting, and bricklaying. A list of persons who were employed to build the Capitol and White House, between 1795 and 1800, contains 122 names labeled “Negro hire.”
Wage rolls preserved at the National Archives list the African Americans who worked on these projects as carpenters and brickmakers. One such roll is a 1795 “Carpenter’s Roll” for the President’s House. The document lists four slaves, “Tom, Peter, Ben, [and] Harry,” two of whom were slaves owned by James Hoban, the architect of the President’s House. The rolls record the number of days worked and the rate at which each person was paid. A slave’s wages were paid directly to the slave owner who signed the rolls as receipt of payment. (source)
BURN that Wailing Wall Slave White Washing Horror Filled Building — burn it down DOWN!
Two hundred years ago today (June 18, 2012), a 36-year old America declared war, for the second time, against Great Britain. The plan was to conquer Canada and wrest North America for the United States once and for all. But, by pretty much all measures, the war was a total mess…
It began in confusion, with the United States declaring hostilities unaware that one of its major war aims was already addressed. And it ended that way, too, with a last, pointless battle fought weeks after a peace treaty was signed. Civilians on both sides suffered, there were horrible massacres, and even more bungling by generals than is customary in warfare.
The British and American armies, supplemented by militia and First Nations warriors, pushed back and forth for nearly three years, temporarily trading territory along the Niagara river, and hitting each other at their cores.
York, now Toronto, was captured and looted. And Newark, now Niagara-on-the-Lake, was burned. British forces attacked Washington and torched the White House. (source)
For the Americans who do know something about it, the War of 1812 is a string of myths, isolated, picture-framed snapshots of heroism. It’s that smoke-shrouded naval bombardment that gave birth to the Star Spangled Banner. It’s when the British sacked Washington and burned down the President’s House—a humiliation somehow redeemed by First Lady Dolley Madison rescuing a canvas painting of George Washington. And, for those who were particularly attentive in school, it’s the war when future President Andrew Jackson thrashed the British at New Orleans (a battle fought, unbeknownst to both sides, after American and British envoys had already settled peace terms across the Atlantic.)
Whatever snippets have been committed to memory, though, they don’t quite add up. “Americans have found a way of both forgetting and remembering various bits and pieces of the war,” says John Stagg, professor of history at the University of Virginia and author of The War of 1812: Conflict for a Continent. “But what they’re left with, in and of itself, makes no sense.
Burn down the Wailing Wall White House!
Burn that Goddamned place DOWN with the entire White House Press Corps and Blinken Klan and Bidens a la mode inside!
And, finally, the trigger warning for warming centers in Oregon is 30 degrees. Imagine those Eichmann’s and Cohen’s coming up with those fancy mathetmatics around hypothermia. Thirty fucking degrees. Not a degree higher!
Calories or hours exposed to below-freezing temps (forget that the guys and gals could be wet, or that they might have some pre-existing conditions, like poverty and malnutrion and major depressiong and surpressed immune systems) are calculated by the best of the STEM graduates.
Israel calculated the number of calories Palestinians would need to avoid malnutrition under its blockade of the Gaza Strip, according to a study which the Supreme Court forced the government to release!
Now? Oh, the dirty lawyers are being asked? WHY?
When is a bombing a war crime? How does the principle of proportionality constrain civilian casualties? How does Hamas’s status as “civilians engaged in armed conflict” impact their protections and rights? What are the rules on fighting in hospitals, schools, or mosques? How do states and their militaries distinguish between legal use of force and serious crime in the context of the Israel-Gaza war?
Winter in Gaza! Winter In America
by Gil Scott-Heron
In case you haven’t been there lately We have, and the season is back I mean, it was, it was holiday weather for a minute Or when I was just on vacation I’ll tell you a story
There used to be an agreement between the seasons I mean, after a while they decided to sit down and work it out And they agreed that they were gonna just come and stay About three months each And then they would go to wherever seasons go When they’re not where you are And this would be a cycle and it would go on all the time
And then one year in America, one of the seasons got mad And decided it was going to stay Decided that the way things were done there made it feel at home He would not, he wouldn’t go when he was supposed to I mean it wasn’t the people The people runnin’ this stuff, you know what I’m sayin’ It was something, there was some kind of vibe there
Made it feel like it weren’t leaving, it was just not, just not gonna go It wasn’t in terms of the temperature, it was in terms of the philosophy The politics, the psychology, the way things were going in other directions And so for a long time, where we come from there’s no spring And no summer and no fall
We have been taken over by the season of ice Very few people recognise it for what it is Although they feel uncomfortable Very few people recognise the fact that somehow the seasons don’t change I mean, you can acclimate it, you can politically acclimate it You can philosophically acclimate it
You start to, you start to relate everything to the season of ice And so your dreams become frozen, and your ideas become frozen Your promises become frozen in this Frozen days, and frozen nights Frozen aspirations and frozen inspiration
There’s something wrong, I mean, there’s something wrong I mean, there’s something wrong, I mean There’s something wrong, I mean We’d like to talk to you about a season that is taking over America The season is winter This song is called, “Winter in America”
From the Indians who welcomed the pilgrims And to the buffalo who once ruled the plains Like the vultures Circling beneath the dark clouds Looking for the rain Hey, they’ve been looking for the rain
Just like the cities staggered on the coastline Livin’ in a nation that just can’t much more Like the forest they buried beneath the highway Never had a chance to grow Well, they never had a chance to grow
And now it’s winter Come on, sing if you know the words Seemed like winter in America A time when all of the healers done been killed Or been betrayed, say People know that something’s wrong Everybody oughta know winter Seemed like winter in America
The truth is there ain’t nobody fighting Because, well nobody knows what to save Brother, save your soul Lord knows it’s winter in America The Constitution, a noble piece of paper With free society
Well, they struggled but they died in vain And now democracy is ragtime on the corners On the cord, hoping it’d rain Yes, he’s been a-hopin’ for some rain But it just don’t look like rain
And I see the robins, yeah, perched in barren tree tops Watching last-ditch racists marching across the floor And like the peace sign that filtered in our dreams That never had a chance to grow Yeah, they never had a chance to grow
Somebody want to go tell them it’s winter It’s cold, it’s like winter in America Time when all the healers, people who have done been killed Or been betrayed, say But the people know there’s something wrong Hey, it’s winter It seems like winter in America
The truth is there ain’t nobody fighting ‘Cause, well nobody knows what to save Aw, sister save your babies Yes, winter in America
I said hey, hey, hey It’s winter
It’s cold, it’s like winter in America Time when all the healers, brothers who have done been killed And put them in jail, say People know there’s something wrong Something wrong with winter It feels like winter in America
The truth is there ain’t nobody fighting because Well nobody knows what to save Yes and the truth is There’s nobody fighting, nobody fighting Nobody knows, nobody knows what to do, what to do The truth is there ain’t nobody fighting because Nobody knows what to save
Thank you all Thank you, thank you
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And, calling for all these fuckers to be judged and tried and convicted and put up against the traitors’ and murderers’ firing squad wall, where with specific folk we convict in our minds, or not, that’s the fun of the THOUGHT experiment.
Utah anyone? Legislation signed by Utah Governor Gary Herbert in March 2015 restores the firing squad as a legal method of execution, requiring its use if the state is unable to obtain the necessary lethal injection drugs within 30 days of a scheduled execution.
Leave it to the fucking Mormons to do this shit — like a sniper, man, some puke behind a cinder block peep hole, and then a fucking audience watching this sadism. AmeriKKKa is so full of syphilis the brain rot covers from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Here, a real one, firing squad and line, but the convicted ones aren’t Biden and Company or Trump LLC.
Here, the sickenss of AmeriKKKA:
Ahh, the Jewish-Developed Vaccination, also called JewJab by Linh Dinh — the makers of more than just killer mRNA a la “turbo cancers.”
Head gear for the victim of the Utah or South Carolina firing squad booth, don’t you know.
Gazans or Black Americans?
“[Israel has] the means to carry out genocide. And they’re deploying all of those means as we speak. Based on this, genocide scholars have these series of 10 steps that indicate genocide – all of them have been ticked off since October in one of the most clearly manifest cases of genocide that we’ve ever seen,” international human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber told us on Friday’s livestream.
“Because there has been such a climate of impunity granted to Israel for decades, underwritten by the United States, the United Kingdom, some European countries as well, this has led to a situation where they believe they will not be held accountable,” he explained.
“And as such, they are declaring their genocidal intent openly, publicly and on the record since the beginning.”
You know, many Jews (you want a fucking percentage? go ask a Jewish statistician . . . she’ll make something up) hate Christians. They welcome December 25 as a time to kill Goyim/Gentile!
Quoting, Hammam Farah: This morning Israeli snipers shot and killed my two family friends in an attack on the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza.
Nahida (Um Emad Anton) and Samar, mother and daughter, were walking to the Sisters’ Convent to use the only bathroom.
One was killed as she tried to carry the other to safety. Their bodies remain strewn across the church courtyard.
The water tanks and solar panels were also struck. We don’t know if they have enough water to survive.
The Christian community in Gaza is on the verge of extinction.
There are about 800 of us left, some sheltering in the Catholic church, some in the Orthodox church, and a few still in their homes in Gaza City.
There are approximately 530 Christians inside the Holy Family, 60 per cent are women and children.
My family has been sheltered there since St. Porphyrius Orthodox Church was bombed and my cousin was murdered.
This is a targeted death campaign during the Christmas season on the world’s oldest Christian community.
Earlier this morning, an Israeli tank fired on the Convent of the Sisters of Mother Theresa. The convent housed ~54 people with disabilities. The generator was destroyed, taking out electricity. Then two more shells were fired completely destroying the convent. Many of these people are now without the respirators they need to survive.
The Red Cross has submitted a request to the Pope for urgent intervention.
And, so how’s that ADL and ACLU sort of AIPAC kind of Dancing with Rothschild antisemitism going?
In the letters of Paul, which are regarded by historians to be the oldest works of the New Testament (written 10 to 20 years after Jesus’ death), Paul mentions, almost in passing, “the Jews who killed the Lord, Jesus” (I Thessalonians 2:14-15). While probably not central to Paul’s understanding of Jesus’ life and death, the idea that the Jews bear primary responsibility for the death of Jesus figures more prominently in the four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, which have slightly different accounts of Jesus’ life.
Matthew, the best-known gospel, describes the unfair trial of Jesus arranged and presided over by the Jewish high priest who scours the land to find anybody who would testify against Jesus. Eventually, the high priest concludes that Jesus is guilty of blasphemy and asks the Jewish council what the penalty should be. “They answered, ‘He deserves death.’ Then they spat in his face and struck him” (Matthew 26:57-68). Matthew’s description of Jesus’ suffering and death on the cross (referred to by Christians as Jesus’ “passion”) has becomes the basis for many books, plays, and musical compositions over the years, and is prominent in Christian liturgy, particularly for Easter.
All four gospels suggest either implicitly or explicitly that because the Jews were not allowed to punish other Jews who were guilty of blasphemy, they had to prevail on the reluctant Romans to kill Jesus. Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea, is described as basically sympathetic to Jesus but unable to withstand the pressure from the Jews who demanded Jesus’ execution. This idea is expressed most clearly in the gospel of John: “Pilate said, ‘Take him yourselves and judge him according to your own law.’ The Jews replied, ‘We are not permitted to put anyone to death’” (18:31).
Says enough?
Earlier, 2015? New deputy defense minister called Palestinians ‘animals’
[Photo: Jewish Home MK Eli Ben Dahan to oversee the authorization of travel and entry permits for Palestinians in West Bank, Gaza.]
Fuck these human monsters. Firing squad for the IDF, writ large?
requisite for the Wailing Wall White House is unwavering loyalty to Jewish State of Jewish Occupied Palestine . . . .
I have no qualms picking at the bones of a not-so-dead-horse — Jewish Power.
I just want some DEI involved in that Wailing Wall of Jewish Jews and Jewish Zionists and then the Zionist-Firsters who happen to be not-so-Jew: [U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Gary Gensler during a meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council at the U.S. Department of Treasury on Dec. 14. The group has published their 2023 annual report, which takes a look at the past year in climate, banking, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, and other issues.]
Way too much power in the hands of these two rabbi-induced folk — Yellen and Gensler.
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Moving to higher education: Harvard is a shit school of the Poison Ivy League variety, but a few okay folk like Winona LaDuke matriculated from their decades ago. This isn’t undeserved power? This piece of shit billionaire, Ukraine Jew, and he has the purse strings for fucking Harvard?
So, Jewish Billionaires determine the curriculum and professorships and administrations of schools like Harvard and U of Penn?
The power, man, of the unelected, the perversions of humanity, billions in their caches of death — money on the backs and souls and lives of the world.
Blavatnik’s family foundation has given at least $270 million to Harvard, but it’s pausing donations in the wake of university President Claudine Gay’s widely derided congressional testimony on antisemitism, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. [Len Blavatnik originally became wealthy through energy and metal companies formed around the breakup of the Soviet Union. ]
“Billionaire’s fortune grows by £7.2bn to £23bn following gains from Warner Music and Dazn — Number of billionaires in UK reached new record during Covid crisis!”
You get the picture yet? An evil cabal of a few tens of thousands, clamoring around a few thousand perversions of the Epstein Kind. And they breed, man, breed with five evil spawn under his legal mantel . .. .. .. He has also sought political influence. In the US, Blavatnik mainly gave to Democratic politicians before 2014, but his spending then shifted to the right, with donations of millions of dollars to Republican causes and a $1m donation to Donald Trump’s inaugural committee.
“Blavatnik is based in London, where he owns a mansion in Kensington Palace Gardens that has been valued at up to £200m. He is married to US-born Emily Appelson, and has five children.”
PAIN, death, destitution, that buzzard mentality of the rich picking at the bones of communism, of the Soviet Union. That will not happen ever again, and Putin’s and Russia’s unwavering support of much of what Israel has done is gone gone gone:
Nobody was allowed to legally accumulate substantial amounts of capital in the Soviet Union, although a handful of bureaucrats and entrepreneurial tough guys managed to grow moderately rich by Soviet standards. The fall of communism was followed by rapid privatization, under U.S. tutelage, of many of the prize assets of one of the world’s largest countries.
A handful of men — most of whom had accumulated wealth and political connections in the Soviet era to take advantage of the bargain-basement sale of the national patrimony — rapidly became billionaires, some of them key political players in the disarray of the Boris Yeltsin years. Sensing the danger of being stripped of their wealth if they found themselves on the wrong side of the Kremlin, a number of those oligarchs stashed their assets abroad. An estimated $150 billion of Russian capital left the country in the decade that followed the collapse of the Berlin Wall, draining the Russian economy as it flooded into Western banks and property markets. Forbes’ 2014 list of the world’s richest people includes eight Russians in the top 100. Today more than 35 percent of Russia’s economy is owned by just 110 people.
Here, and this fellow isn’t an unbiased observer, that is, he doesn’t like Putin or Russia:
On 26 March, President Biden, speaking in Warsaw, said, unscripted:
“For God’s sake, this man [Putin] cannot remain in power.”
Such an overt statement of intention for regime change in Russia has not gone down well in most of Europe. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken later clarified Biden’s Warsaw remark:
“As you know, and as you have heard us say repeatedly, we do not have a strategy of regime change in Russia, or anywhere else, for that matter”.
Blinken has apparently forgotten Vietnam, Chile, Iraq, Afghanistan, and quite a few more.
Consider the following quotes. On 24 February, during a White House press conference on the first day of Russia’s invasion, Biden said sanctions are designed not to prevent invasion but to punish Russia after invading
“…so the people of Russia know what he has brought on them. That is what this is all about.”
On 27 February, James Heappey, UK Minister for the Armed Forces, wrote in the Daily Telegraph:
“His failure must be complete; Ukrainian sovereignty must be restored, and the Russian people empowered to see how little he cares for them. In showing them that, Putin’s days as President will surely be numbered… He’ll lose power and he won’t get to choose his successor.”
Finally, on 1 March, Boris Johnson’s spokesperson said the sanctions on Russia
“we are introducing, that large parts of the world are introducing, are to bring down the Putin regime.”
These statements reflect long-standing US strategy for regime change in Moscow, with Ukraine as the pivot. On one hand, send sufficient military and other equipment to Ukraine to sink the Russian military in a quagmire. On the other hand, impose severe, far-reaching sanctions on Russia so as to cause major disruption to the Russian elite and a major contraction of living conditions for the Russian middle-class. The combination should last long enough for Russians to rise up to overthrow Putin and install a Yeltsin-like President more sympathetic to the West.
But this weapons-plus-sanctions strategy needed a cause. Putin’s invasion was the required casus belli.
Note the date — almost two years ago! More shitty predictions.
Listen to Mark who works and teaches in Russia. American. Ex-Navy:
Above: Face of a dirty sicario/SS/Gestapo — he is for murdering citizens, bombing cafes, anything: Forcibly conscripted Ukrainians are performing poorly on the battlefield, Kiev’s military intelligence chief, Kirill Budanov, has admitted. He warned, however, that the country’s harsh recruitment drive must continue, and that no one will be able to “escape mobilization.”
The spymaster made the remarks during a panel discussion titled ‘2024: Challenges and Prospects’, excerpts from which were circulated by local media on Sunday. Budanov backed the idea of continuing forced conscription into the country’s military, claiming it was the only way to maintain numbers.
“It is impossible to escape mobilization,” he stated. “There are currently 1.1 million people in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. No recruiting can cover such volumes.”
“We don’t have that many people willing to do anything, actually. I’m not even talking about fighting,” Budanov added, admitting that most Ukrainians prefer to support the country’s troops away from the front lines.
The chosen people – Ukrainian leader pleads to American Jews for support:
When Stephanie Gold, a Los Angeles lawyer, read that Volodymyr Zelenskyy told European Union leaders, “this might be the last time you see me alive,” she broke down and cried.
“I’m terrified for him,” she said.
There’s something unique about the way that Zelenskyy has entered the hearts of American Jews. In a week, Ukraine’s president has gone from “Who’s he?” to family. The concern for him is intimate and visceral. And the question that shadows every conversation about the war is, What will happen to Zelenskyy?
Thoughtful, balanced reporting from the Forward and around the web, bringing you updated news and analysis of the crisis each day.
“No man has gone from joke to legend faster,” L.A. director and screenwriter Michael Idov wrote in British GQ.
Of course, people around the world share a deep concern for Zelenskyy’s fate. But the feeling is especially strong among American Jews.
“Tonight, we celebrate Shabbat with a world that is unified in this moment, behind a Jewish president of Ukraine who comes from a grandfather who was the only son of four who survived the Holocaust,” Rabbi Ryan Bauer of Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco said in his weekly sermon.
Part of that is because, as a torrent of internet memes has established, he is a handsome and superb communicator with an improbable background: actor turned producer turned president turned leader of The Resistance, a Jew who speaks native Russian now being accused of Nazism by that same global superpower.
[ Poll: 72% of men and 65% of women would renounce Ukrainian citizenship rather than go to the front / Air strike update for Dec 22, 2023/ Ukraine has figured out that they were NOT fighting for Ukraine but for Washington. A turning point has been reached. But psycho Zelensky wants to recruit a half-million more. Will they rise up? ]
“Everyone is fleeing.” The Ukrainians have realized that this is not their war.”
—Ukrainian political scientist Vladimir Kornilov
So the Jews of Jewish Occupied Palestine are real toughies, and their twins in the USA have more of the same bullshit. You think this is real? Then you believe in Israel as a Democracy for all and one!
A nationwide swatting spree targeting nearly 200 Jewish institutions over the weekend appears to have been a coordinated effort by an entity based outside the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s top spokesperson said in a confidential memo to partner law enforcement agencies.
The communication, written by Assistant FBI Director Cathy Milhoan, and obtained by ABC News, says, “At this time, based on similar language and specific email tradecraft used, it appears the perpetrators of these threats are connected. Additionally, these threats appear to be originating from outside of the United States.”
Think false or black flag operation by Mossad and Unit 8200 and . . . . The main difference between a black operation and one that is merely secret is that a black operation involves a significant degree of deception, to conceal who is behind it or to make it appear that some other entity is responsible (e.g. false flag operations).
Welcome Nazis —
Top insiders interrogated by Salvini turned out to have surprising information on FM 30-31B.
Relentless Milan Judge Guido Salvini. [Source: ansa.it]
Additional verification of the truthful nature of FM 30-31B came in the 1990s, as a result of the dogged criminal investigation conducted by Milan Investigating Judge Guido Salvini.
Salvini was looking into the infamous Piazza Fontana terrorist attack of December 12, 1969 (regarded as the beginning of the “Strategy of Tension” in Italy), which caused 17 casualties.
Salvini exposed an extensive connection between a U.S. military-intelligence network, operating around NATO bases in northeast Italy, and operatives from far-right organizations, Ordine Nuovo in particular, which were ultimately responsible for executing terrorist attacks.
The ultimate purpose was to implement a radical policy of destabilization, to prevent Communists from ever seizing power.[11]
The American military-intelligence network investigated by Salvini originated in World War II, particularly with the activity of the Counter Intelligence Corps, and continued, under different structures and individual actors, throughout the most sensitive timeline of the Cold War.
Essentially, the U.S. recruited a number of Nazi-fascist assets in the fight against Communism.
Several names in this network appear in the records declassified as a result of the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, such as that of Nazi SS officer Karl Hass, co-responsible for the Fosse Ardeatine massacre in Italy during WWII.
Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate will cover the latest developments from the Gaza-Israel war as Israel’s military tallies historical records with its brutality towards Palestinians and kills more of its own civilians while failing to achieve it owns stated objectives. Will Israel’s refusal to negotiate an end to the war lead it to a point of no return, where it must expand the theater to Lebanon? And will a coming regional war soon engulf Yemen as well? Link. WATCH IT.
It was typical, Pepe Escobar, talking to Danny Haiphong, about how bad the Atlanticists are around just bloody talking, you know, being smart and respectful in a room with world thought leaders. They can’t, man.
Listen — early in the interview. How at this meeting these pukes attacked a 90 year old Russian journalist. This is the way of the Bull in a China Shop West.
No one ever lost money betting on the ability of the Empire of Chaos, Lies and Plunder to construct a “coalition of the willing” whenever faced with a geopolitical quandary.
In every case, duly covered by the reigning “rules-based international order”, “willing” applies to vassals seduced by carrots or sticks to follow to the letter the Empire’s whims.
Cue to the latest chapter: Coalition Genocide Prosperity, whose official – heroic – denomination, a trademark of the Pentagon’s P.R. wizards, is “Operation Prosperity Guardian”, allegedly engaged in “ensuring freedom of navigation in the Red Sea.”
Translation: this is Washington all but declaring war on Yemen’s Ansarullah. An extra US destroyer has already been dispatched to the Red Sea.
The Houthi military not only reaffirmed it has “weapons to sink your aircraft carriers and destroyers” but made a stunning call to both Sunnis and Shi’ites in Bahrain to revolt and overthrow their King, Hamad al-Khalifa.
As of Monday, even before the start of the operation, the Eisenhower aircraft carrier was around 280 km off the closest Ansarullah controlled latitudes. Houthis have Zoheir and Khalij-e-Fars anti-ship ballistic missiles with a range of 300 to 500 km.
Ansarullah Supreme Political Council member Muhammad al-Bukhaiti felt compelled to re-stress the obvious: “Even if America succeeds in mobilizing the entire world, our operations in the Red Sea will not stop unless the massacre in Gaza stops. We will not give up the responsibility of defending the Moustazafeen (oppressed ones) of the Earth.”
The world better get ready: “Aircraft carrier sunk” may become the new 9/11.
This is the way of the west — dirty, foul-mouthed un-diplomatic tyrants, milquetoast Poison Ivy League recent grad thinkers, or the likes of those spitting blood from eyes like frenzied horned toads in that Wailing Wall White House — Emoff, Blinken, Nuland, Yellen, Powers, Garland, and just keep running throught the line of Israel-Only, Jewish-First, Zionist-Always horrorific whores.
So, I got wrangled into sitting on my ass watching Netflix, and yet another rotten movie, man so so rotten, I had to gargle with peroxide. Stained my brain. Lost two hours from my life.
Like everything else in Capitalism, in LaLaLandia, the touch of Mediocrity is the Midas Touch in Holly-Dirt, with these fucking creeps, superficial jerks, and the amount of shallowness and fourth grade philosophy in this crap, man-oh-man.
Leave the World Behind is so bad, so Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke bad, man, and fake, foolish, inept, and the people — characters — are totally unredeeming. Not one is worth shit, and I know that was not the intention. I was hoping a Juarez cartel member would appear and take the cast and crew out. Cinéma vérité!
Dumb sick WASP couple, Roberts and Hawke, do a weekend vacation away from their Brooklyn digs. Two insipid kids (the actors, too) dragged along. IN a mansion they end up, with this shit storm idea of a weekend away (a 6,000 square foot home, something Obama and Michelle call a cabana I am sure).
Roberts’ character is in NY advertising, and she hates all people (because that’s what Edward Bernays Madison Avenue does to Goyim). Hawke is a communications and media studies prof. Both actors are worthless, good at selling toothpaste, cars, tampons, Princess Lines cruises, maybe.
Story? A fucking high school screative writing workshop would have done better. The owner of the house returns with his daughter. This black fellow (Mahershala Ali) is a hedge fund dude (sure) and he has big wigs in the MIC investing, and supposedly got a tip about something about to happen from this fellow in that “evil cabal.” (this is Barak Obama’s executive produced childish shit).
The premise is “something” is happening. Cyber attack, ships running aground, planes dropping out of the sky, herds of deers conjuring, flamingos in the New York State pool. Kid’s teeth falling out.
These thespians are born liars and mirror gazers.
A real ugly storyline, bad lines, and shit storm acting. More crappola directing. Imagine this, it could have been Russia or Korea or Iran. Kevin Bacon has a spot as a prepper, shotgun and all (a fucking shotgun?).
This is the rot-gut TV viewing from rot-gut Obama and rot-gut Michelle. This is the height of the POTUS, man, and nothing like reflecting upon what his life was/is — one Benetton advertisement.
Yeah, Oh-Bomber, this bailout queen, Oh-Bomb-Them. This dirty boy of murdering Libya. This terrible human, terrible teacher, terrible politician.
Over the past few years, Barack and Michelle Obama have made a seamless transition from political powerhouses to influential figures in the entertainment industry through their production company, Higher Ground, which has already released 17 projects. Founded in 2018, Higher Ground was created with the mission of entertaining, informing, and inspiring audiences of all ages. It also has a central focus on elevating new and diverse voices within the entertainment space, which is evident through each of its projects. Each movie and television show to come out of the studio feels intentional with its characters and storylines, as they all demonstrate a profound dedication to fostering empathy, understanding, and social change.
That seamless transition to vapidity as First Lady and POTUS and then this new realm of multimillionaires with the digs. Quote: “The Obamas’ awesome Hawaiian estate is nearing completion … but not without controversy.
This well could be where Barack and Michelle Obama spend their retirement years — assuming, of course, that they will ever fully retire. It sits on 3 acres in the community of Waimanalo on the island of Oahu. They bought the property back in 2015 for $8.7 million.”
“Fun fact — the house that was on the property when the Obamas bought it was the house featured in “Magnum P.I.” The Obamas razed the house in 2018.”
Environmentalists aren’t happy with the Obamas construction project … they allegedly found a loophole in the law to keep a seawall on the property, and they say these seawalls are eroding the coastline.
There will be 3 structures on the site … presumably one for Secret Service. There are 2 — count them — 2 swimming pools.
Yeah, the great new green green deal, Obama, tearing down the original home, and leaving in a sea wall.
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Fourteen years ago! Author, journalist, film maker John Pilger speaks at Socialism 2009 http://www.socialistworker.org; wwwhaymarketbooks.org Filmed by Paul Hubbard at the Womens Building in San Francisco 7-4-09.
Freaks, every AmeriKKKand now. “Working: What We Do All Day is an interesting docuseries that explores what working looks like for modern Americans, particularly in a time of rapid change. It was released in May 2023 and follows Barack Obama visiting people in their homes and their workplaces to learn more about their lives.”
Vomit bags are on your OWN dime. Leave it to this Tefelon man to go into the Liars’ Biz.
“Higher Ground’s first-released project, a documentary called American Factory, came out in 2019. Given that the project was Higher Ground’s debut, it was essential that it set the tone for where the company wanted to go and the stories it was looking to tell. It is set in post-industrial Ohio, where a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in an abandoned General Motors plant. This initially causes hope and optimism for the residents in the area but quickly turns into a culture clash between high-tech China and working-class America. In a Tweet, Barack Obama shared that he was proud of the film for achieving an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary, and he and Michelle were aiming to create a story that’s not seen often enough.”
Plastic in your feces, plastic in your blood, and now in the brain. That’s Holly-Dirt. It is a protective mechanism against viruses and bacteria, yet these particles were able to get there. It was actually deep in the brain tissue.” A microplastic particle in the brain of a mouse after short-term exposure, showing the particles are able to permeate the brain blood barrier.
When Jaime Ross set out to investigate the impact of microplastics on human health as we age, she wasn’t expecting what she found.
In a new study, Ross, an assistant professor of biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences at the Ryan Institute for Neuroscience, looked into effects of short-term exposure to microplastics—minute plastic particles—in young and old mice. Her lab not only found that the particles induced cognitive changes, but they were also able to cross the highly protective brain blood barrier.
“We were very surprised to see that,” said Ross. “The brain blood barrier is supposed to be very difficult to permeate.
Oh, those dirty Wailing Wall Whitehouses under Obama, Trump and Biden, and this is it for 2023, outta here: No four alarm for this total hell for humanity. No immediate Marshall Plan to take to task all those sources of plastics in the body.
Hormone-morphing chemicals, cancer inducing pesticides, all that fun and games the US government is SUPPOSED to stop, but not under pricks like Obama, Biden, Trump, Bush, the lot of them.
Prof. WEST: Well, I think it’s true in the society as a whole. We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property, it doesn’t leave a whole lot of time for non-market values and non-market activity so that love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that’s being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.
You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit. You see it in our television culture that’s obsessed with superficial spectacle. You see it even in our educational systems, where the market model becomes central. It’s a matter of just gaining a skill or gaining access to a job to live in some vanilla suburb, as opposed to becoming a critical citizen concerned with public interest and common good.
It’s a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what’s right and what’s good. It’s just stuck, and they can’t get it out because there’s too much greed. There’s too much obsession with reputation and addiction to narrow conceptions of success.
And when I talk about love, I’m talking about something that’s great, though, brother. I’m talking about something that will sustain you. It’s like an Aretha Franklin song, brother, or a Coltrane solo or Beethoven symphony, something that grabs you to the gut and gives you a sense of what it is to be human.
That’s what we’re more and more lacking, and it’s very sad. It’s a sign of a decline of an empire, my brother.
Oh, that “n” word!
Reacting to President Obama’s use of the n-word on Marc Maron’s podcast, Cornel West called him the first “niggerized” president in an appearance on CNN. West criticized Obama as “a person who is afraid and intimidated when it comes to putting a spotlight on white supremacy.”
“Too many black people are niggerized,” West said Monday on CNN. “I would say the first black president has become the first niggerized black president.”
“A niggerized black person is a black person who is afraid and scared and intimidated when it comes to putting a spotlight on white supremacy and fighting against white supremacy,” West explained. “So when many of us said we have to fight against racism, what were we told? ‘No, he can’t deal with racism because he has other issues, political calculations. He’s the president of all America, not just black America.’ We know he’s president of all America but white supremacy is American as cherry pie.”
So, now, we have Zionist Supremacists in the Wailing Wall House. Biden on his knees for the Jewish Supremacy. Then, his fucking “n” word Raytheon Austin.
May they all die violent deaths! Smiling?
See that dirty Rascist Star of Fucking David?
Yeah, you think Michelle is going to dig into a story with relevance and current events staying power? Nah. Cornel has them all pegged. How about a documentary on a few brave Jews like: Yoav Litvin, an Israeli-American doctor of psychology/neuroscience, a writer and photographer. His work can be found at yoavlitvin.com. “The anatomy of Zionist genocide”
On October 7, Hamas fighters breached the Gaza prison fence, launching a coordinated attack on at least seven Israeli military installations and more than 20 surrounding residential communities. Over 1000 Israeli citizens, both civilian and military, as well as dozens of foreign nationals, were killed in the attack. Some 240 others were taken captive. Caught off guard and in disarray, the Israeli military responded to the attack in a frenzy, firing indiscriminately on breached localities, slaying Israeli captives alongside Hamas fighters in the process. It took the Israeli forces nearly a day to recapture all lost territory and secure the Gaza perimeter.
Following Hamas’s unprecedented incursion, Israel’s public relations apparatus launched a misinformation campaign aimed at inciting fear and fury and began to spread unverified atrocity propaganda. The campaign, involving tales of babies being “beheaded en masse”, “burned” and “hung on a clothesline”, helped transform the Israeli public’s shock into genocidal tribalism and diverted attention from Israel’s political, intelligence and military blunders that paved the way for the attack in the first place. The campaign also helped the government garner crucial public support for mass mobilisation of reserve units which made the consequent full-scale ground invasion of the Gaza Strip possible. (Litvin)
So, we get this “who could have hacked our internet and our communications networks sort of fucking joke of a Kool-Aid lite dystopian film where the end message is a kid at the end breaking into a millionaire’s house, in the bunker, and finding the last show of the TV series, “Friends,” which she was watching when the “unknown, non-descript attack” occurs and knocks out her Smart Pad and her viewing pleasure.
Nothing is right or on target or real about this movie.
greater ‘Israel’ is a concept that defines why the wondering Jew shoulda been cemented right smack in Berlin forever!
Don’t forget, those tinkers and tradesmen and trouble making AI generators have many Arabs tap dancing to their I Wish I Was a Rothschild banjo playing Bob Zimmerman . . . er, Dylan?
Urban and global planning on acid: NEOM and the Line!
The unending trail of trillions of dollars sucked from the people, from the seed savers, from the ones who know forest, river, lake, savannah, mountain, valley, reef, to construct absurdity and ugly.
Leon Krier joins UK Column for the third part of our discussions about architecture and urban planning. In this interview, we look at city development for the future, and we start by focusing on Neom, the mirrored ‘line’ city of the Saudi Arabian desert.
In this interview, following two short video clips presenting the Neom project, Leon Krier describes the new city as an absurdity which makes promises that do not correspond to reality. He remains unimpressed with the ultra-high technology of The Line and argues that we should still accept low-tech construction, particularly where it is appropriate and effective: for example, using mud construction in hot, arid climes.
He highlights that much of contemporary urban zone development is promoted heavily on the back of growth models which nobody controls. He also describes territorial zoning as ‘planning massification’, which in turn catalyses uniformity in architecture, economic class and community. These are all points which, he reminds us, the then Prince Charles, Krier’s former architectural patron, challenged as a lone voice amongst ‘a band of [architectural and planning] criminals’.
In the latter part of the interview, Krier expresses his concern over Ukraine and President Zelensky’s invitation to BlackRock to plan for the future. He warns that there will be no small-scale development and much will be ‘robotised’: jobs and the human element will be phased out.
Krier ends by considering what it is that people strive for: to build their own house and be able to grow food for themselves. Our final comment is on Léon Krier’s attractive, low-cost wood construction home in the Seaside community in Florida.
Dirty minds, dirty ideas, idiots with trillion$. These billionaires and their foot soldiers are more than out of touch creeps. They do not care about humanity.
Oh, those Holly-Dirt perversions, all those wasted lives penning foolish fantasy, all that CGI, all the fakery, all the drip drip drip of hi-tech fantasy, a Dystopia.
Fast rail, all amenities of the city tied to that fucking Hi-Tech umbilical cord? Hubris doesn’t cover what these planners and architects and engineers and wealth whores are about!
Here, heroe, Jane Jacobs:
The late Jane Jacobs received the Vincent Scully Prize from the Green Building Council in 2000. Jacobs made a seminal speech offering suggestions for communities on the four topics: Empowering immigrant neighborhoods to develop freely, investing in “community hearths,” dealing with gentrification, and, finally, encouraging small business activity. Although the speech was made 23 years ago, her excerpted comments resonate today:
We take it for granted that some things are improved or enhanced with the passage of time, and the things that the passing of times brings. Trees grow larger; hedges grow thicker, fine old buildings are put to uses that were never intended or anticipated, and increasingly appreciated as time passes. Now I am thinking of American city and suburban neighborhoods. On the whole, they have very chancy records of dealing well with time and change.
My first suggestion concerns immigrants. Right now, striving immigrants are settling in woebegone city suburbs to which time has been unkind. These newcomers are enlivening the dull and dreary streets with tiny grocery and clothing stores, second-hand shops, little importing and craft enterprises, skimpy offices, and modest but exotic restaurants.
Now either of two things can befall these newly minted immigrant neighborhoods. Neighborhoods serving only as immigrant launching pads repeatedly take a step or two forwards followed by two or three steps backwards while dilapidation inexorably deepens with time. In contrast, immigrant neighborhoods that succeed in holding on to their striving populations improve with time. They become civic assets in every respect: social, physical, and economic. Progress on the part of the population is reflected in the neighborhood with increasing diversity of income, occupation, and vision, education, skills, and connections. Time becomes the ally, not the enemy, of such neighborhoods.
Self-respecting people, no matter what their ethnic origins, abandon a place if it becomes fixed in their minds that it is an undignified or insulting place to be. Here’s my suggestion: smart municipalities ought to contradict that perception before it takes hold. By making sure that newly minted immigrant neighborhoods receive good municipal housekeeping, public maintenance, community policing, and fair justice services, along with some respectful amenities too—like traffic taming and street trees. And, if they want to provide for themselves, giving quick, hassle-free permissions to organize open-air markets, or run jitney services or make whatever other life-enhancing improvements they want to provide for themselves.
My second suggestion has to do with communities’ needs for hearth, or centers, and with related problems like inappropriate commercial incursion. The object is to nurture locales where people, on foot, will naturally encounter one another.
Let’s think a minute about the natural community anatomy of community hearths. Wherever they develop spontaneously, they are often consequences of two or more intersecting streets well used by pedestrians. On the most meager level, we have the cliché of the corner store or pub that is recognized as a local hangout. “Corner” implies two streets intersecting in the shape of an X or a Y. In traditional towns, the spot recognized as the center of things often contains a triangular piece of ground because it is where three main routes converge in the shape of a Y.
Large cities have typically developed not only localized neighborhoods or district hearths, but also several major hearths. These also have almost invariably located themselves at busy pedestrian streets intersections. All but the smallest hearths typically provide splendid sites for landmark buildings, public squares, or small parks. Now, the converse logic doesn’t work. Living, beating community hearths can’t be arbitrarily located as if they were suburban shopping centers for which the supporting anatomy is a parking lot, or perhaps a transit stop. But given the anatomy of well-used pedestrian main streets, hearths locate themselves. In fact, they can’t be prevented from locating themselves. Of course, good design can greatly enhance or reinforce them.
A neighborhood hearth: The Angel Café in San Francisco.
Now for the related problem of commercial or institutional facilities intruding into inappropriate places. Artists’ create renderings for charmingly designed community hearths surrounded by charmingly designed residences with their yards, and I wonder where future overflows of commerce can be pleasantly accommodated. Perhaps this consideration doesn’t matter in a village destined to remain a village, but it matters very much in a city neighborhood or in a village that becomes engulfed by a city. In cities, successful hearths attract users from outside the neighborhood, and they also attract entrepreneurs who want to be where the action is. If these things didn’t happen, cities wouldn’t generate urban surprise, pizzaz, and diversity.
So with time and change, originally unforeseen institutional and commercial overflows can occur in city neighborhoods. They may have to find and adapt makeshift quarters. Most commonly they appear to be jarring, intrusive smears in the residential streets where they were never meant to intrude. Watching this happen, people think, “the neighborhood is going to the dogs.” And so it is, visually. So much of this deterioration is disliked and feared that one of the chief purposes of zoning regulations is to prevent it. Even if the regulations succeed at holding time and change at bay, as enemies, any success comes at the cost of squelching new conveniences and innovation.
Here is where the anatomy of natural neighborhood hearths can come to the rescue. ;One important advantage of open-ended main pedestrian streets forming intersections is that these streets are logical places for convertible buildings before there is need to convert them. They can be a designed form of neighborhood insurance, so to speak. Row houses can be designed to convert easily and pleasantly to shops, small offices, studios, restaurants, and even to small schools and other institutions. And, of course, many buildings originally built for work, convert pleasantly to apartments or living-and-working combinations.
I am suggesting that urban designers and municipalities should not think about attractive hearths without also thinking about the indispensable street anatomy required by hearths. And they should not think about the street anatomy without also providing or encouraging easily convertible buildings on most streets as opportunity to do this arises. This is a practical strategy for dealing with time and change as allies, not as enemies.
My third suggestion concerns gentrification of low-cost neighborhoods to which time has not been kind, but which have valuable assets nevertheless. Typically the first outsiders to notice these assets are artisans. They are joined by young professionals or other middle-class people whose eyes have been opened by the artists’ discoveries. For a time, gentrification brings heartening renovation and other physical improvements in a neighborhood that needs improvement along with new people, connections, and life skills. As long as gentrification proceeds gently with moderation, it tends to extend beneficial and diversifying change. But nowadays, a neighborhood’s “golden age of gentrification” can be surprisingly short. Suddenly, so many new people want in a place now generally perceived to be interesting and fashionable that gentrification turns economically and socially vicious. It explodes into a feeding frenzy of real-estate speculation and evictions. Former inhabitants are evicted wholesale, priced out by what Chester Hartman has aptly called “the financial bulldozer.” Even the artists who began the process are priced out. The eventual ironic result is that even the rich are cheated by this turn of events. The lively, interesting, and diverse city neighborhood they were attracted to is being killed as the place becomes an exclusive preserve for only high-income people.
When gentrification turns vicious and excessive, it tells us, first, that demand for moderately gentrified neighborhoods has outrun the supply of them. The key attributes of such places that the artists discover are: a) The streets have human scale; b) The buildings are variably interesting; c) The streets are safe for pedestrian use; d) Many conveniences are within pedestrian reach; and e) Neighbors are tolerant of diverse lifestyles.
A few weeks ago, I was in Richmond, Virginia, and my nephew gave me a tour. I was astounded and heartened to see neighborhoods that I remembered as looking quite hopeless, now up-and-coming, attractive, and people doing a lot of do-it-yourself repairs and changes on them. And I was also charmed to see that neighborhoods like this looked very much as though they had been designed by New Urbanists [chuckles]. That tells us something. It’s pitiful that so many city neighborhoods with these excellent basic attributes have been destroyed for highway construction, “slum clearance,” urban renewal, and housing projects.
My final suggestion concerns the hazards of a somewhat different form of popularity. The hazard of community hearths attracting outsiders is this: as leases for commercial or institutional spaces expire, tenants are often faced with shockingly increased rents. Property taxes on the premises can soar too, instigating even further rent increases. This only prevents commercial overflow, but many facilities are priced out of the mix. The hardware store goes. The bookstore closes. The place that repairs small appliances moves away. The butcher chops and the bakeries disappear. As diversity diminishes, into its place comes a monoculture. Starting gradually while times are good, and rapidly when they aren’t, the street becomes dotted with vacancies.
A popular pedestrian main street running through my own neighborhood is now afflicted by this dynamic. Fortunately, the hardware store remains, so does the bookstore, one butcher shop with its associated European grocery, and a large general bargain and outlet store. Not only do they remain; they flourish. The secret of their stability is that they own the buildings where they do business, and so were not vulnerable to being priced out by soaring rents. This has caused me to think about home ownership. When it became public policy in the United States to encourage home ownership, financial devices, such as long-term mortgages, small down-payments, and mortgage acceptance corporations, and agencies, primarily the FHA, proved successful at promoting the policy.
This has made me wonder whether similar techniques would enable or encourage small businesses, especially those whose success depends heavily on location, to own their own premises. Why shouldn’t it become public policy to foster business stability and stability of city streets and neighborhoods by enabling enterprises to protect themselves through ownership against abruptly rising rents. I have arrived at the conclusion that ownership is the surest protection against being priced out of a place of work.
These four suggestions may seem trivial compared to other municipal concerns: Racism, poor schools, traffic, unemployment, illegal drugs, inadequate tax revenues, crime, persistent poverty, what to do with garbage, how to lure tourists, whether to build another stadium or convention center, and so on. Nevertheless, neighborhoods that decline are pretty serious, too. Two steps forward followed by three steps back is no way for a city to progress. And it doesn’t help to solve other municipal problems, either. The pattern makes them more intractable, and it isn’t new. Unless these forms of civic ineptitude are faced and overcome, American city neighborhoods are as unlikely to deal well with time and change in the future as they’ve been in the past.
The suggestions I’ve made may not be politically possible. There may be better or different means of accomplishing similar aims. My purpose is to help stir up creative thinking about how to enlist time and change as practical allies, not as enemies that must be regulated out and fended off on the one hand, or mentally surrendered to, on the other. We might as well learn how to make constructive alliances with the workings of time because time is going to continue happening. Any living thing is involved with time and the changes that time brings, it’s also true of city neighborhoods.
This is such a commentary on these dirty people, Goyim or Zionist, new or old or future Greater Israel: “Volodymyr Zelensky and Larry Fink agreed to focus in the near term on coordinating the efforts of all potential investors and participants in the reconstruction of our country, channeling investment into the most relevant and impactful sectors of the Ukrainian economy,” the Ukrainian government said in statement a year ago.
If you are not sickened yet, with the bombardment of Ukraine vis-a-vis the USA, EU, NATO, well well, then you are not a human. This piece of stain has taken Ukraine to the brink of total death, and his exploits with stupidity and machoism. Below, a calm real voice. Viva Russia.
So, we have BlackRock and JP Morgan, and hundreds of thousands dead and wounded. Thanks to the Nazi Jewish Man:
“The enemy plan was to blockade Melitopol by the end of the 15th day of the offensive,” Valery Gerasimov said. The Ukrainians then planned to advance towards the Sea of Azov, the city of Mariupol, and the border of Crimea, he added.
Melitopol is a large city in Zaporozhye Region, located some 40 km away from the coast of the Azov Sea and about 15 km away from Molochnyi Lyman, a large coastal estuary connected with it.
Gerasimov noted that the core of the Ukrainian force used in the counteroffensive consisted of brigades trained and armed by Western nations. The grouping that was supposed to reach the Azov Sea initially included 50 battalions armed with over 230 tanks and more than 1,000 infantry fighting vehicles, half of them Western-made, he reported. The force was later boosted to 80 battalions, according to the general.
Russian troops prepared deep defensive lines to prepare for the planned attack. When Ukraine launched it on June 4, it “achieved minor advancement at the cost of colossal losses,” failing to breach “even the tactical zone of our defenses,” he stressed.
Additional supplies of Western weapons and the deployment of strategic reserves by Kiev failed to turn the tide, Gerasimov added.
“Hence, the counteroffensive, which Ukraine and its NATO allies had touted widely, failed,” the general stated. The Russian official reiterated that the Ukraine conflict was a “hybrid proxy war against Russia by the US and its allies,” waged with Ukrainian hands. Washington wants to prolong the conflict by providing military assistance to Kiev, he claimed.
In addition to conducting active defense on the front line, Russian forces are using long-range precision weapons to attack Ukrainian “command sites, defense factories and critical objects with a military purpose,” Gerasimov said, adding that over 1,500 such targets have been hit. Degrading the Ukrainian military industrial capacity has been a major achievement, he noted.
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Money to be made with these Handmaid Factories! Ukraine.
But the dirty AzovLensky and Crew, have their factories up and running: While average Ukrainians suffer amid NATO’s proxy war against Russia, business is booming for the surrogate baby industry, which requires a steady supply of healthy and financially desperate women willing to lease their wombs to affluent foreigners.
Surrogates “have to be from poorer places than our clients,” explained the medical director of Kiev’s largest “baby factory.”
Ahh, Winter Solstice! Today. Yet the news, the news!
So tips on how to stop being Jewish? How I Stopped Being a Jew, Shlomo Sand
Gilad Atzmon is frequently misdescribed as a Holocaust denier, but here’s what he actually writes about the Holocaust in The Wandering Who? –
“It was actually the internalisation of the meaning of the Holocaust that transformed me into a strong opponent of Israel and Jewish-ness. It is the Holocaust that eventually made me a devoted supporter of Palestinian rights, resistance and the Palestinian right of return.”
Atzmon asserts that Israel granting Palestinians the right of return “won’t just resolve the conflict in the Middle East, it would also bring to an end two millennia of mutual suspicion and resentfulness between Christians and Jews.”
The only obstacle Atzmon sees to this plan being enacted is that “Jewishness is an ethnic-centric ideology driven by exclusiveness, exceptionalism, racial supremacy and a deep inherent inclination towards segregation.”
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Of his great-grandmother’s death in the Holocaust, Atzmon writes, “The fate of my great-grandmother was not so different from hundreds of thousands of German civilians who died in deliberate, indiscriminate bombing, just because they were Germans.”
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Atzmon — whose true vocation is as a bebop saxophonist — writes that “the Palestinians are the indigenous people of the land, and the rockets they shoot from time to time are nothing but love letters to their stolen villages, orchards, vineyards and fields.”
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In his novel My One and Only Love, Atzmon portrays Israeli intelligence services going out of their way to protect Nazi war criminals, to prevent the sense of closure that might be achieved through these Nazis being tried, “to keep the Shoah legacy going as long as possible.” Characteristically, Atzmon hits on making a serious point — that it is wrong to use the spectre of the Holocaust to deflect all criticism of actions by the Israeli government. Westerners are hopelessly conflicted here – how much pro-Israeli feeling among Westerners is driven by guilt over the Holocaust, and how much pro-Palestinian feeling by guilt over imperialism in the Middle East? Atzmon is offended by “those who put their Jewish-ness over and above all of their other traits.”
As a member of the Israeli air force band — playing music which he and his fellow members hated (“Sometimes we even gathered in the afternoon just to practice playing badly,” to avoid being called to perform) — in Lebanon during Israel’s 1982 invasion, he encountered the infamous Ansar prison camp, an experience that would transform him into a passionate enemy of Zionism and proponent of Palestinian liberation.
“I noticed that we were surrounded by two dozen concrete blocks each around one square meter in area and 1.3m [just over four feet] high, with small metal doors as entrances. I was horrified by the thought that my army was locking guard dogs into these boxes for the night. Putting my Israeli chutzpah into action, I confronted the officer about these horrible concrete dog cubes. He was quick to reply: ‘These are our solitary confinement blocks; after two days in one of these, you become a devoted Zionist!’
“This was enough for me. I realized that my affair with the Israeli state and with Zionism was over. Yet I still knew very little about Palestine, about the Nakba or even about Judaism and Jewish-ness, for that matter. I only saw then that, as far as I was concerned, Israel was bad news, and I didn’t want to have anything further to do with it.”
Here, a techie talking about why he can’t sleep: Paul Biggar
Sometimes I work out how many people my taxes have killed. Intrusive thoughts. Maybe they’re used for roads or healthcare, but maybe I bought a bomb last year and it razed a city block in Khan Yunis. Maybe it killed 50 people. Maybe I killed 50 people.
My investors keep posting. How unsafe the kids feel at Harvard. Railing against “From the river to the sea” as they conveniently omit “Palestine will be free” . Cancelling Tiktok for teaching the kids history instead of US and Israeli propaganda.
“Members of the Haganah paramilitary group escort Palestinians expelled from Haifa after Jewish forces took control in April 1948 (AFP)”. Middle East Eye
Anything to keep your eyes off the rubble that Gaza has become. The trail of tears to an empty desert, bombed and shot as they go . Anything to avoid their own culpability in this genocide. They are Hess. They post Israeli flags on twitter as Israel drops bombs on Gaza. They protest a ceasefire. THEY PROTEST A FUCKING CEASEFIRE.
I don’t know what to do, but I know these are not my people. Who can work with people whitewashing genocide. Are we supposed to pretend it’s business as usual as we send our friends’ intros, frolic at conferences, discuss monetization strategy.
To Ed Sim, Erica Brescia, Michael Dearing, and especially Matt Ocko, we’re done [47]. I’ll never pitch you again, never ask for help, never send intros or recommend you. I’m done with Boldstart, and DCVC, and Harrison Metal, and Redpoint. (I’m also done with Bessemer [48] and Sequoia [49] and First Round [50].)
I’m ashamed that these are some of my biggest supporters over the years, the people who invested in me, twice, the people who helped, who advised. I cannot work with the people whitewashing a killing, the people who know it’s happening, and who cover for it, who support the IDF and the US administration which allows it, which funds it.
Read his piece, and go to some of his hot links, including one particular archetype Jewish Hatred Filled Techie, Matt Ocko.
Kenneth was previously the co-founder and Chief of Strategy of Republic Crypto, the blockchain arm of early-stage investment platform, Republic, and ran institutional fund products at Angellist.
In 2008, whilst attending Eden College in Durban, Kenneth penned a report for his history class titled “Report on Apartheid”. Based on surveying his teachers who lived through apartheid, Kenneth concludes:
“Apartheid is often criticized as a pure evil system, without taking the full factors and results into consideration. When compared to other post-colonial countries in Africa, the situation in South Africa today is much better than anywhere else. This isprincipally thanks to apartheid system, which albeit repressive and anti-constitutional, prevented full-scale civil war and evolved South Africa and made it into a modern developed country, and improved the quality of living”
Whilst one can put this down to a mind not yet of age, Kenneth’s proclivity for genocide was seemingly just getting started.
In subsequently deleted X posts, Kenneth called for re-education camps and the sterilisation of the people of Gaza, as the “only way to pacify the jihadi population” and went on to say that “the world would be a much better place if they didn’t reproduce”
Yeah, infants, keeping Christians childlike and childish: Christmas is on Dec. 25, but it wasn’t always. Dec. 25 is not the date mentioned in the Bible as the day of Jesus’s birth; the Bible is actually silent on the day or the time of year when Mary was said to have given birth to him in Bethlehem. The earliest Christians did not celebrate his birth.
[Photo: The nativity scene depicting a baby amid the rubble symbolises Gaza’s war [Getty] ]
“And when the angels said, ‘O Mary, indeed Allah gives you good tidings of a word from Him, whose name will be the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary – distinguished in this world and the hereafter and among those brought near [to Allah]” (The Quran 3:45).
There is something beautifully sacred about the moment in the Quran when the angels inform Mary she is about to give birth to Jesus. Angels bring her the good news. They tell her of how “He will speak to the people in the cradle and in maturity and will be of the righteous.”
The massive propaganda to cast the resistance of Palestinians to the colonial occupation and theft of their homeland as a battle between “Jews and Arabs” was so dominant in the la la land of the US and even Europe that the very idea that Palestinians are Christians, too, and that Jesus was, in fact, a Palestinian Jewish Rabbi scares and confuses the living daylight out of their slumbering ignorance.
The very simple fact that Palestinians have historically been Jews, Christians, and Muslims was hard to digest in that la la land. By extension, also the very simple fact that Christ and Mary are two seminal figures in the Quran has also been seen as a strange proposition in this banality.
Jesus was a Palestinian Jew who spoke Aramaic, a language in the same family as Hebrew and Arabic. He came from the same prophetic tradition as Prophets Moses and Mohammad.
There are, of course, doctrinal differences between the figure of Jesus as he appears in the Quran and his divinity as understood in Christianity. Here it is crucial to remember the manner in which in both Persian poetry and Islamic mysticism, the figure of Christ expands into the far more pervasive icon of divine mercy. The seminal Sufi master Ibn Arabi (1165-1240) has in his works, particularly in the chapter, The Wisdom of Prophecy in the Word of Jesus, in his masterpiece, Fusus al-Hikam/Bezels of Wisdom, sought to bring conceptual harmony between the Muslim and Christian perceptions of Jesus.
Through his doctrine of “Oneness of Being”, Ibn Arabi accommodated the question of sonship in Christian doctrine: Jesus emerges as a “Perfect Man” and “the Seal of Saints”. Ibn Arabi cites the Quranic references to Jesus’ ability to bring a clay bird to life as an indication of the Divine Will.
In his exquisite study, Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture (1985), the eminent historian and theologian Jaroslav Pelikan has demonstrated that, throughout history the image of Christ has gone through successive reformations, from a Jewish Rabbi to “Light of Gentiles”, “the King of Kings”, “the Son of Man”, “the Monk who rules the World”, “the Universal Man”, “the Prince of Peace”, to a liberator who inspired Lev Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr to “the Man who belongs to the World”.
While Israel is causing starvation in Gaza, Israeli soldiers are cheerfully filming themselves destroying food, looting, and vandalizing Palestinian property.
Oh, the mysteries of Divine Will — one clay bird in hand, is a sparrow in flight?
Man, that Divine Will is Missing in Gaza? Sacrificial Zone for more of this crappy sappy failed childish bunk. Come on, Divine Spirit. Any help for those kids in Gaza?
Attempts to provide biblical warrants for Christian participation in warfare have long been offered by those who reject Christ-centered nonviolence. Some of the arguments that have frequently been offered in defense of Christians on the battlefield go back to the fourth century to Ambrose and Augustine. Below in bold type are brief statements of some of the more common “biblical” justifications for the Christian’s participation in war. Following each of them is a short response that indicates why the argument fails to make the intended case.
“When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed; this must take place, but the end is still to come” (Mark 13:7, also Matt. 24:6, Lk. 21:9).
The followers of Jesus conquer “by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony” (Rev.12:11). Any violence that is done in this highly symbolic book is performed by Christ himself, along with angelic forces. The primary weapon of Jesus is the “sword from his mouth” (Rev. 1:16, 19:15, 21).
In the book of Revelation, as elsewhere in the New Testament, Christians are not to cause suffering but are called upon to endure it, trusting that the ultimate victory is in the hands of God. Nowhere in scripture are Christians called to emulate the glorified Christ in ways of judgment, power or punishment. Instead Christians are urged to follow the self-giving way of the incarnate One, “Who though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant…[H]e humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross” (Phil. 2:6-8). — Craig M. Watts is a member of the Executive Committee of the Disciples Peace Fellowship
…that is the nefarious power of pink washing, and Isra-Hell is famous for that song and dance
The high school dictionary definition ain’t going to cut it — as a way to say all those Americans are so tired of all of us calling what Isra—Hell is doing is genocide.
I understand contradictory thinking, so-called counterintuitive thinking.
Yes, Joe McCarthy was coached by Roy Cohn, and gay and AIDS expiring Cohn coached Trump.
Jesus was a Palestinian, and here you go, genocide is genocide, and forget about the pocket dictionary.
William A. Schabas is a Professor of International Law at Middlesex University, London. He is also a Professor Emeritus at Leiden University and the University of Galway, and an invited visiting scholar at the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po. Recognized as a leading expert on international human rights law, international criminal law, genocide and capital punishment, he is the author of more than 20 books and 400 journal articles on these issues.
He is also Editor Emeritus of Criminal Law Forum, the quarterly journal of the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law. Professor Schabas was a member of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He also worked as a consultant on capital punishment for the UN Office of Drugs and Crime and drafted the 2010, 2015 and 202 reports of the UN Secretary-General on the status of the death penalty.
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Top UN official in New York steps down citing ‘genocide’ of Palestinian civilians
Craig Mokhiber, director of human rights body, accuses the US, UK and much of Europe as ‘wholly complicit in the horrific assault’
The director of the New York office of the UN high commissioner for human rights has left his post, protesting that the UN is “failing” in its duty to prevent what he categorizes as genocide of Palestinian civilians in Gaza under Israeli bombardment and citing the US, UK and much of Europe as “wholly complicit in the horrific assault”.
Craig Mokhiber wrote on 28 October to the UN high commissioner in Geneva, Volker Turk, saying: “This will be my last communication to you” in his role in New York.
Mokhiber, who was stepping down having reached retirement age, wrote: “Once again we are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes and the organization we serve appears powerless to stop it.”
The Pink Washing lies of Isra-Hell, oh what a new LGBTQA+ Uniformed USA Services we have — blast them all to kingdom come!
Pinkwashing is an Israeli government propaganda strategy that cynically exploits LGBTQIA+ rights to project a progressive image while concealing Israel’s occupation and apartheid policies oppressing Palestinians.
For decades, Israel’s colonial and apartheid regime has robbed, oppressed, ethnically cleansed, impoverished, imprisoned and killed Palestinians, queer and non-queer alike.
As Israel’s far-right government allies itself with homophobic, intolerant and racist leaders around the world, including Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, and Christians United for Israel (CUFI) leader, pastor John Hagee, who combines anti-Semitism with Islamophobia, sexism, and homophobia, LGBTQIA+ communities are seeing through the pink smokescreen. There is growing awareness that queer and trans liberation cannot be separated from Palestinian liberation.
Anti-pinkwashing activists and groups have pushed Palestinian rights to the forefront of Pride events across the world. More than 100 LGBTQIA+ groups supported the call from Palestinian queers to boycott Eurovision 2019 in apartheid Tel Aviv. Dozens of queer filmmakers have withdrawn or opposed screenings of their films at TLVFest, the Israeli government-sponsored LGBT film festival in Tel Aviv.
While LGBT personnel obtained routine medical care in percentages similar to non-LGBT personnel, they reported more smoking, binge drinking, risky sexual behavior, and adverse sexual health outcomes. The percentages of LGBT personnel experiencing mental health issues and those with a history of physical abuse and sexual assault were particularly high. These observed differences were similar to those observed for LGBT people in the general U.S. population.
Although these individuals are a small portion of the force, these disparities warrant close attention and tracking by DoD and the Coast Guard so that the specific needs of this subgroup can be addressed. This is particularly important for the Navy, which has the highest percentage of gay men serving and of LGBT service members overall, and in the Marine Corps, which has the highest percentage of bisexual women serving. Policies that enhance, for example, efforts to prevent substance use and sexual risk behaviors may address LGBT health disparities. Although one option is to target the LGBT population with clinical and population efforts, such an approach may stigmatize LGBT service members.
The Kiss of Death.
The four-star general had just wrapped up a high-octane keynote speech at the Air Force and Space Force Association’s 2022 Air, Space and Cyber Conference, where he gave an address titled the “Mobility Manifesto.” While shouting into a wireless microphone away from the podium, he underscored two main points: “Lethality matters most” and China’s military is “tailor-making an air force to kill you.”
Months later, in a memo dated Feb. 1, Minihan took it a step further. He told his command that war with China was right around the corner, and he called on airmen with weapons qualifications to “fire a clip into a 7-meter target with the full understanding that unrepentant lethality matters most. Aim for the head.” He also advised airmen to update their virtual Record of Emergency Data, essentially their dependents’ contact information and wills.
Xi is a hero, and he has to prepare for these Neo-Con Christian Freaks and Neo-liberal Jewish Freaks.
Ahh, Russia has a right to preventative self-defense!
Putin’s government has offered a series of justifications for Russia’s use of force on Ukraine on different legal fronts. Chief among them is the claim that the eastward expansion of NATO is a direct threat to the security of Russia and therefore triggers Russia’s right of self-defense. There might be some merit to the first part of this claim on the political and military front, bearing in mind that NATO was born -basically- to keep the USSR (now Russia) in check; however, down law alley, this is an abuse of right. Ukraine is free to join whatever collective security arrangements it deems appropriate (without prejudice to the ability of Russia to attempt to deter or dissuade them by diplomatic and legal means) as a function of its sovereignty. Attempting to coerce Ukraine by force into abandoning its bid for NATO membership is the functional equivalent of claiming preventive self-defense. This is, in many ways, a destiny of NATO and friends’ own making. The claims for preventive self-defense put forth by the US and Israel, among others, seeking to justify their aggressions have sowed the land so that Russia may try and reap it.
Russia’s representative in the UN Security Council invoked the right of self-defence and attached the speech by President Putin announcing the “special military operation” as justification for its action immediately following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces. In that statement Putin referred to various reasons for its claim of self-defence. These included past allegedly unlawful uses of force by Western nations in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yugoslavia, the “threatening expansion” of nato towards Russia’s borders, the alleged plight of persons of Russian ethnicity in Ukraine, especially the Donbas region and the “ genocide” supposedly being perpetrated against them, and the “request for assistance” by the breakaway enclaves of Luhansk and Donetsk, which had been recognized as independent States by Russia only days before the invasion commenced. All of this made it in his words imperative to take action to rid Ukraine of supposedly “anti-Russian” and “Nazi” elements and enforce its “demilitarization and neutrality”
Shock and Awe, USA Style:
On Aug. 26, 2002 Vice President Dick Cheney specifically linked Bush’s embryonic doctrine of pre-emption to Iraq, declaring at a convention for the Veterans of Foreign Wars that:
“What we must not do in the face of a mortal threat is to give in to wishful thinking or willful blindness…deliverable weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a terror network or murderous dictator or the two working together constitutes as grave a threat as can be imagined. The risks of inaction are far greater than the risks of action.”
“Young Americans Turn Against Boomers Over Social Security”
Yes, the hell unleashed on Palestinians — carte blanche accepted by the Anglo-AmeriKKKan-Klanadian-Saxons-Francos-Iberians-InbredQueendomers — is just a little bit of 2023 “scrolling throug the genocide of “our” first nations.
Imagine if those images were happening now, real time, posted on Telegram, TeleSur, or wherever there isn’t a Jewish Overlord Lobby Controlling ‘Our/Their/His/Her’ Narratives.
Well, we do get that with the Keystone Pipeline played out in their own land: Palestine near Pine Ridge!
Imagine, now, the Native Tribe of Palestine being decimated in all the hi-tech, drone-razzing, smart-bomb dropping, dumb-bomb carpeting, mowing of that lawn glory played out second by second, yet we are primed for the Christmas Shopping, for baby Jesus, when Jesus was a Palestinian!
“My lands,” he said, “are where my people lie buried,” and “One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.”
—Crazy Horse chose to continue fighting after other chiefs such as Red Cloud and American Horse had chosen to seek peace with the United States.
Or, 2023: IDP? Internally Displaced Person which is Intentionally Displace Person in my mind!
The tragic reality at KYTC underscores the immense catastrophe these IDPs endure. Privacy concerns, social issues, and the catastrophic living conditions paint a grim picture, but these individuals are resilient. Their struggle for improvement persists, and they depend on the world’s compassion and support.
The Khan Younis Training Center (KYTC) is the only choice amidst a relentless storm. Driven from their homes by unceasing conflict, individuals and vulnerable groups have sought sanctuary at KYTC. Hope mingles with despair in this place, where conditions are far from ideal.
Demographics:
• Total IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons): 22,093
• Families: 4,290
• Children under 3 years old: 1,006
• Persons with Disabilities: 234
• Cancer patients: 16
• Newborn babies with their mothers: 52
• Vulnerable individuals before displacement: 561
• People with chronic diseases: Approximately 300
Living Conditions:
• Space per person: Less than 2 square meters per person.
• Toilets available: 24
• IDPs per toilet: 613
• Daily solid waste generated: Approximately 20 tons
• Food shortage: Families face dire uncertainty due to a lack of food supply.
• Privacy and Space: The per-person space is alarmingly inadequate, leading to a loss of privacy and social issues.
• Skin Diseases: Scabies and other skin conditions proliferate due to insufficient water and hygiene.
• Drinking Water: Most IDPs are left with no choice but to consume irrigation water, endangering their health.
Infrastructure and Utilities:
• Electricity: Unavailable since the first day of shelter operation.
• Power source: Generators running on fuel.
• Fuel shortage: Restricted fuel entry into Gaza Strip adds to the crisis.
• Water source: An in-house well, primarily used for irrigation and toilets, necessitates electricity for water pumping.
• Wastewater system: Overwhelmed and facing flooding issues.
• Sanitation: Toilets and bathrooms are in deplorable, unsanitary conditions.
Challenges:
• Sustainability: The shelter faces unprecedented challenges, with generators on the brink of failure.
• Support Efforts: Tireless efforts continue to provide essential support, including blanket and food distribution to address basic needs.
• Recent Interventions: In response to the catastrophic conditions, the following measures have been implemented to alleviate the crisis:
• Digging of septic tanks for sewage management.
• Installation of 6 units of precast toilets and showers.
• Distribution of plastic sheets to provide shelter from the sun and rain for those sleeping outside.
• Establishment of 3 medical points within the shelter, providing critical healthcare.
• Public Awareness and Psychosocial Support: A foundational program is in place to elevate public awareness and provide psychological and social support activities for children, offering a ray of hope in dire circumstances.
So, the daft Newsweek poll, and headline, speaks to the brainwashing, to the narrative framing, to the dumb-downing, to the constant savagery and brutality of Capitalism in its glorious forms — casino, predatory, shock and awe, penury, zombie, inverted totalitarian, take your pick.
Younger generations in the U.S., including millennials and Gen Zers, are much more likely to believe that the Social Security system needs reforming than those in their 60s and 70s, according to a recent survey conducted by Redfield & Wilton Strategies on behalf of Newsweek.
A majority of 63 percent of Americans “strongly agreed” (28 percent) or “agreed” (35 percent) that the Social Security system needs to be reformed, according to the Redfield & Wilton Strategies/Newsweek poll. Only 10 percent “strongly disagreed” (5 percent) or “disagreed” (another 5 percent).
The poll was conducted on December 8 among a sample population of 1,500 eligible voters in the U.S.
“They have been told by Republicans in Congress, seconded by deficit hawks in think tanks, that the money will run out before they can claim it,” he said. “None of that is true. But, luckily, the younger generation’s skepticism of experts and politicians will help prevent the kind of unnecessary tinkering with future, never present, Social Security payments that some older folks advocate.”
So, here, we must stop and listen to Aspen Institute and the Jewish Leader?
Ida Rademacher, vice president at the Aspen Institute and co-executive director of the Aspen Financial Security Program, told Newsweek that there are a number of proposals to lower costs or increase revenues for Social Security.
“While making those hard choices, policymakers should ensure the benefits of people who depend most on Social Security remain protected,” she said. “Policymakers should also consider changes to our worker retirement savings systems that also significantly impact people’s retirement security,” Rademacher added. “Fifty-seven million workers lack access to a workplace retirement plan, one of the primary tools beyond Social Security for ensuring a secure retirement and building wealth. Closing or eliminating that savings gap would help millions prepare better for retirement and build wealth, ideally making Social Security one of many retirement security pillars for those workers, not the only one.” Without any reform to the system, Rademacher said, “different generations will face unique costs.”Younger generations “would have the largest gap to cover in terms of lost revenue in retirement,” she added, while “older generations, especially younger baby boomers, would have the least time to prepare for significantly lower Social Security income.”
They must die! Today: Aspen is a far cry from Historian Monroney’s description. In 2015, celebrity Drew Barrymore hosted a session at the Aspen Food & Wine Classic festival with around 5,000 attendees paying up to $1,450 to listen to Barrymore shill her brand of Pinot Grigio along with other ultra exclusive talks like “Wines for IPO Billionaires”. More recently, Mariah Carey and paramour made headlines in 2018, tossing snowballs at awaiting paparazzi as she shopped at Louis Vuitton.
Some drooling Islamophobe named @PaulKingsnorth called Kevin Bartlett an anti-Semite.
To atone, I am going to record a video berating myself for failing to purge myself of every last anti-Semitic thought, like “Palestinians are human” and “this media coverage sure seems awfully one-sided” and “I’m not sure the Israelis are telling the truth about those headchopped babies.”
Of course, Jesus was a Palestinian:
Like Abraham grabbing an axe and smashing the idols of his fathers, today’s young people need to pick up a fire extinguisher and put out the flames of Jewish Supremacism before they burn down the world.
Though most people, aside from conspiracists like Dan Brown, agree that Jesus left no descendants, clearly he was Palestinian. That means that today’s Palestinians, who converted to Christianity and Islam down through the centuries, are descendants of Jesus’s relatives. So Sarah Silverman’s only half-joking remark “I hope the Jews did kill Jesus, I’d do it again in a second!” is all too apropos. They are doing it again, in Gaza, practically every second. Every Palestinian child who expires slowly in agony under the rubble of what had been her home is another baby Jesus dying on the cross of Jewish Supremacy. And the Jewish supremacists know it, and relish that baby’s pain. — Kevin Barrett
Ahh, so we should just dump Social Security and give it (our money) to Vanguard and Blackrock and the top (sic) 100 investment products? Here’s the House N*g*e* Obama and his Oh-Bombing Us with his for-profit song and dance.
Present times call for exactly the policy recommended in vain by Roosevelt’s Left advisors. Obama’s response could have been penned by Roosevelt himself. At the December 3, 2009 “jobs summit” he repeated a favorite refrain:
“I want to be clear: While I believe the government has a critical role in creating the conditions for economic growth, ultimately true economic recovery is only going to come from the private sector.”
In September 2010 he flat-out dismissed government creation of jobs:
“I’ve never believed that government’s role is to create jobs or prosperity…I believe it’s the private sector that must be the main engine of our recovery.”
With outsourcing and technological labor-displacement proceeding apace while the captains of industry and finance reap historic profits in a stagnant economy, the current neoliberal settlement portends permanent unemployment. The rustling sound you now hear is Keynes tossing in his grave.
Just like Reagan, or FDR?
Aristocrats like Roosevelt disparaged relief as encouraging public expectations of government provision of social benefits, and as an alternative to workers’ dependence on the employer to make a living. Roosevelt displayed unabashedly the disdain for relief characteristic of his class. In the 1935 Address he declared that
“[D]ependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration fundamentally destructive of the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of a sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America. Work must be found for able-bodied but destitute workers. The federal government must and shall quit this business of relief.” (Source)
So, here we have fucking polls by fucking NewsSpeak, and we have young people polluted with ignorance, coded with zero history, and emboldened with this attitude of “have them eat Purina dog chow and live in a tent mentality.” Instead of TAXING those mother fuckers, the Rich. And this war economy? These fucked up STEM people producing more expensive everything? The constant cost of doing simple business burdened by us, so the freaks like Barrymore can jerk off with Pinot Gris with the other monster in Aspen? Imagine every sofware application deployed in government, at DMV, shopping, workplace, medical facility, everywhere, adding and adding to the cost and time of living and just breathing.
WPA would have to be universalized as enduring policy. This was indistinguishable from Keynes’s position noted above. The provision of social welfare could be maximally just and respectful of a citizen’s right, affirmed by Roosevelt himself, to earn a living only if public policies were in place to ensure full employment. Universal coverage of the elderly, CES proposed, would be effected by pensions paid for at first by both workers’ own contributions and the general revenues of the Treasury. Gradually the Treasury’s contribution would grow to cover most or all pension payments.
Roosevelt was adamantly opposed. The “relief” bugaboo kicked in, and the president dismissed the proposal as “the same old dole under another name.” (6) Roosevelt wanted a planwith no traces of relief, no form of government contribution to Americans’ welfare unrelated to their own work contribution. This was to apply both to unemployment and to retirement. It was essential for the president that the program’s financing not draw on the Treasury.
Here was the vital link between Roosevelt’s rejection of any trace of relief and his prioritization of budget balancing. Social Security had to be “self-financing,” i.e. paid for by the co-parties of the work relation, employee and employer. Each would pay, out of her income, a tax which would be placed into a fund from which the worker would draw upon her retirement. No demands would be made on the Treasury.
Roosevelt wanted to design Social Security in such a way as “to preserve the system of private enterprise for profit…[and] compete as little as possible with private enterprises.” The program was to deliver what the market by itself could not, yet at the same time should embody to as great an extent as possible the principles of capitalism. To Roosevelt, this meant that a plan for social insurance must conform as closely as possible to the existing system of private insurance; it must reflect actuarial principles. A capitalist conceptual framework models the provision of public benefit such that the individual is prior to the social, the private prior to the public. Social Security was made to inhabit and accommodate itself to the space within which private profit is made.
Roosevelt’s conception of Social Security required, then, an economic counterpart to the private individual insurance premium. This was to be the payroll tax, a deduction from the wage. Roosevelt held to this conceit well before he was elected and he reiterated the same commitment years after the Social Security Act was passed. As early as 1930 he declared that any benefits accorded to workers through legislation should “be a result of their own efforts and foresightedness” so that they would “be receiving not charity, but the natural profits (sic) of their years of labor and insurance.” In 1934 he instructed Congress that the program’s funds “should be raised by contribution rather than by general taxation.” In his first meeting with the drafters of the legislation he reiterated that old age insurance “must be self-supporting, without subsidies from general tax sources.” Shortly thereafter he told an assemblage of experts on social insurance programs that Social Security “must not be allowed to become a dole through the mingling of insurance and relief….[and] must be financed by contributions, not taxes.” In response to strong objections from Rexford Tugwell, one of his most articulate underconsumptionist advisors, the president emphasized that he was “inclined toward a wholly contributory scheme with the government not participating.” Two years after SSA was passed Roosevelt reiterated his basic conception of social insurance, and its grounds: “[A]s regards social insurance of all kinds, if I have anything to say about it, it will always be contributed, both on the part of the employer and the employee, on a sound actuarial basis. It means no money out of the Treasury.” (7)
Not only did the contributory scheme mean no money out of the Treasury, it could become a cash cow for Treasury. Roosevelt and his fiscally conservative Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau were in accord that the contributory system had the double economic advantage of linking social benefits to work and ameliorating some of government’s financial problems. Morgenthau anticipated that Social Security taxes could be lent to the Treasury to finance New Deal deficits (much as Lyndon Johnson in 1967 concealed deficits by creating the “unified budget,” counting Social Security surpluses as part of the government’s general operating budget), reducing government’s borrowing needs. Funding Social Security out of general revenues would not have permitted this gambit.
Commenting on the final legislation, historian William E. Leuchtenburg observes that
“[T]he law was an astonishingly inept and conservative piece of legislation. In no other welfare system in the world did the state shirk all responsibility for old-age indigency and insist that funds be taken out of the current earnings of workers.” (8)
So, only the slightly well-endowed with disposable income tourista will be putting all their shit onto the digital (Jewish controlled) Dashboard, after having body parts and anal cavities scanned:
“The system will register the person’s name, type of the travel document, biometric data (fingerprints and captured facial images) and the date and place of entry and exit, in full respect of fundamental rights and data protection,” reads a description of the program on the European Union’s Home Affairs website.
“The kiosks have been tested in Paris and are being reworked for improvements but we will be ready, especially as we are sure now EES will start after the Olympics, even perhaps at the start of 2025,” Union of French Airports delegate Nicolas Paulissen said in a statement in August 2023.
ETIAS is also likely to cause disruptions at airports outside of Europe, predicts Jun Wen, professor of tourism at Australia’s Edith Cowan University. He says that in the months after it launches, many travelers won’t know they need an ETIAS, and will then be barred from boarding their flight to Europe.
However, both Wen and Lee believe that ETIAS won’t deter many people from visiting Europe.
Yeah, the sheeple will continue to let the rich and the Mossad and Unite 8200 and Wadi and Silicon Valleys take their anal probes. Willingly. You can’t find easily which Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley outfits are running this giant Gestapo: Major Shifts in Travel Industry Through 2024
All for the same fucking cell phone camera shot a million others have taken in 2023?
Yeah, this is the new normal, man: young and slightly middle aged hating on the old people. Perfect world the Zionists and Jews and Eichmann Goyim have created!
as if Oppen-Monster-Heimer didn’t have a bloody hand in murdering those Japanese . . . . Einstein with your Fallout Wine, anyone?
You carpet bombed Germany, you dropped the atom bomb, a lot of civilians died. — Benjamin Netanyahu
End of Discussion with Isra-Hell, the Jewish State of MIND!
Precaution? Nah. Sounds so childish:
Of course, it is a first do no harm principle which in this world has zero relevance in most people’s lives. You want the bacon, you want the extra slice of tomato, double-the-Swiss cheese on that Whopper, then, shit, how are those items grown, produced, transported, sourced, and so on.
Decisions Decisions Decisions.
Oh, those capitalist, profit-driven, job-based, billionaire investor decisions. Oregon county approves one-mile setback for large CAFOs
GE tomatoes, confined torture chambers for the pigs, the manure-flows of that Wisconsin ‘Swiss’ cheese production system, and the Round-up Ready wheat buns. FOrget about that feedlot burger.
From inside the United States, it is hard to pinpoint exactly where beef is produced, since beef is grown in almost every state in the country. However, the top states in beef sales in 2013 were Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, California and Oklahoma. In reality, it has become harder to track down geographically where beef, and other meats, come from but it is easier to identify one of four or five large processing companies that harvested the animal. In the past, grocery stores and fast food restaurants would get their supplies from hundreds of different local slaughterhouses and farms. Four meat suppliers controlled a little over 20 percent of the beef supply market in 1970 and today, four companies control more than 85 percent of the market. In order for this to be possible, feedlots now contain up to 100,000 head of cattle, according to an interview award-winning, investigative journalist, Eric Schlosser did with PBS.
1. Eating one hamburger wastes more water on the planet than 2 months of showering.
2. It takes 18 times as much land to feed a meat-eater than it does to feed a vegan.
3. Meat does more damage to the atmosphere than all transportation combined.
4. If we took all the feed we give to cattle on the planet and turned it into food for human beings, we could feed every human being on the planet.
But, precaution means getting rid of the billionaires: “Recent data from Oxfam’s research with the Stockholm Environment Institute shows that the wealthiest 1 percent of humanity are responsible for twice as many emissions as the poorest 50 percent and that by 2030, their carbon footprints are set to be 30 times greater than the level compatible with the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement.”
Cowboy Critic
“Hello, my name is Howard Lyman and I am a recovering meat eater … dairy consumer … factory farmer.” Something for an Oprah show? Dr. Phil’s forte?
The Oprah reference is an accurate one for Lyman, the former operator of a super-industrialized livestock lot and dairy farm, now author (Mad Cowboy and No More Bull, both co-written with Glen Merzer) and advocate of vegetarianism, animal rights and stewardship of the land through sustainable agriculture. It was during an April 1996 Oprah show that the fourth-generation Montana cattleman — now living in Ellensburg — “let the cattle out of the bag” by confronting a spokesman for the National Cattleman’s Beef Association about the practice of feeding vegetarian ruminants their own kind. He suggests that the practice is a bizarre cannibalistic ritual set upon the industrialized meat-raising system to satisfy greed and the bottom line.
On the show, Lyman asserted that he and thousands of other cattle operators had been feeding their herds dead cows — downer cows put down because of cancer, viral diseases, genetic anomalies and mysterious neurological ailments — mixed with parts from butchered cows, including pulverized cow manure.
The proverbial cow pie hit the fan when it was acknowledged that this practice had rendered America’s beef supply susceptible to Mad Cow disease (BSE, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy), which had already taken its toll in the United Kingdom just a year earlier. Lyman, known as the “Mad Cowboy” or the “Vegan Rancher,” continues to speak out about abuses in industrial diary and beef operations like the one he ran outside Great Falls, Mont.
Lyman saw the light after more than 20 years of using road-kill and slaughtered cows as ground-up feed. After hundreds of gallons of antibiotics. After daily chemical fogs to douse flies — the No. 2 bane of feedlot operators “after bovine diseases in their various forms.” In the feedlot business, that pesky fly takes a toll on huge operations because of all those cattle unnaturally crammed into one small space.
“With every cow in a pen producing 25 pounds of manure in a day,” Lyman says, “the flies can get so thick that they actually threaten a cow’s ability to breathe.”
“Better farming through chemistry” was Lyman’s mantra before his transformation, so he attacked the insect problem on an industrial scale.
“Early in the morning I would fill up a fly fogger with insecticide and spray great clouds of it over the whole operation,” Lyman writes in his book. “The insecticide would of course fall into the feed and the water of the cattle, as well as on the trees and the grass and the crops.”
To Oprah — and Court
Lyman’s story hinges on his early years working with his grandfather and father.
“At 8 or 9 I began milking cows and branding calves,” he writes. “At 10 I learned how to castrate calves. At harvest time, I’d work long past dark cutting the grain. I’d rake hay and stack it, and I learned to drive a tractor and a team of horses. I worked every day of the year but two: July 4th and Christmas.”
Then he went off to college, leaving the 540-acre spread to his father and cancer-stricken older brother.
At the College of Agriculture at Montana State, Lyman was thrown into classes taught by chemists and academicians “without an hour’s worth of real farming experience among them.” It was the dawn of pesticides, herbicides, hormones and antibiotics.
In the early 1960s, his father was barely making ends meet; Lyman was going to take over the family business only if he could employ Big Ag’s bag of tricks. “My father had no choice,” he says. “He handed over the farm. But as he shook my hand on the deal, he had a few short words for me. He told me I was wrong.”
Eventually, Lyman saw the big picture when he scooped up that fourth-generation Lyman farm dirt and found it to be a lifeless, oily smelling, grey media for all the chemicals.
Jump ahead 20 years and picture Lyman in the Chicago studio of Harpo Productions. The audience is aghast at the commentary this ex-rancher is giving. Oprah and her brethren are freaked out by the prospect of that mad cow prion in the food supply, ready to attack humans — as it was doing in England.
Two months later Oprah, Harpo Productions and Lyman were hit with a “food disparagement” suit by Paul Engler, a Texas feedlot operator, and other Texas cattlemen as plaintiffs.
In 1998, Oprah, her production company, lawyers and Howard Lyman ended up in Amarillo, the first individuals sued under the Texas Food Disparagement Act. Her show went on, from Amarillo.
On Feb. 26, 1998, the jury found in favor of Lyman and Winfrey. No disparagement of beef. No damages levied.
Hold the Beef
Lazy R Ranch cattleman Maurice Robinette gets a kick out of Lyman’s claim to fame: “You have to hand it to him … he’s really found an interesting niche — vegetarian cattle rancher.” Robinette’s a third-generation Cheney cattleman with several university degrees who sees a future in responsible and sustainable cattle ranching. He runs 80 pairs of cattle and another 100 yearlings out of his Cheney operation. He also is Eastern Washington’s coordinator for the Washington Sustainable Food and Farming Network.
Robinette — who heads up Spokane’s Sustainable Agriculture Leadership Team, which helps local, small farmers — is battling against industrial farming, genetically modified crops, the huge bio-tech and ag giants, and the practice of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs).
The reformed Lyman tips his hat to men like Lazy R’s owner for raising beef the old-fashioned way — grass-fed, with no hormones or antibiotics applied, in a manner that protects the soil and abates the impacts on the entire ecosystem. (an old story, Haeder)
Precaution my ass!
And here we have Cancer States — notice the concentration of feedlots:
But, do not believe the fascists at COP28, all of them in their 10,000 sqaure foot mansions and triple-homes and luxury cabanas.
The African Food Systems Transformation Collective launched a declaration on the commitments that government leaders at COP28 needed to make to transform African food systems. The collective is a network of over 200 leading African academics and civil society representatives.
The collective wants world leaders to protect traditional food and seed systems. It has urged global leaders to respect custodianship of nature and shared food as expressions of sacred African values of interdependence and care.
Research and learning must be informed by the wisdom of nature and indigenous knowledge. Locally led technological innovations can level the playing field and improve resource efficiency. These include enhanced traditional storage and processing and renewable energies.
Yet food systems transformations must also go beyond techno-fixes. They must make sure that everyone has fair access to good food.
Supporting people’s agency—their ability to govern food systems—is central to transformation. Women, youth, children, elders and small food enterprises must be able to participate in planning and decision-making. Governance must prevent land-grabbing and promote land reform to right current and historical injustices. Water resources must be managed democratically, to protect and regenerate catchments, coastlines and oceans. Everyone should enjoy equitable access to safe water.
The collective believes food systems must be nourishing, biodiverse, carbon-negative, resilient and fair. States and philanthropies should spur locally led adaptation.
The call was for COP28 leaders to commit to separating food systems from the fossil fuels, antibiotics, preservatives, pesticides, herbicides and artificial fertilizers they are currently centered on. Governments should instead promote local food production with short value chains and strengthen fair trade between African countries. This would mean a big change in regulations, and investment in new infrastructure and technology. Small and informal food enterprises should also be supported with climate-resilient infrastructure.
Precaution:
Nazi’s in 2023 Sheep’s Clothing:
Yeah, what could go wrong here:
Yep, add that substance and cross thy fingers: According to the Cornell Chronicle, researchers first investigated the genetic reasons for broccoli growing abnormally when the thermometer creeps up, and the findings provided some clues as to how to create more heat-resistant varieties.
After applying a substance to stop the DNA methylation process, which would inhibit normal broccoli growth in heat, the scientists found that broccoli was able to grow in a typical fashion even at 82 degrees Fahrenheit.
The outcome is particularly promising, although there’s still some research to be done.
Yeah, what could go wrong here:
The quest for new antibiotics is going back to the Stone Age.
The urgency to identify possible candidates has never been greater as the global population faces nearly 5 million deaths every year that are associated with microbial resistance, according to the World Health Organization.
A research team led by bioengineering pioneerCésar de la Fuente is using artificial intelligence-based computational methods to mine genetic information from extinct human relatives such as Neanderthals and long-gone ice age creatures such as the woolly mammoth and giant sloth.
Yeah, that Oppen-Monster-Heimer science and precautionary ethos.
US defense industry firm Raytheon has successfully tested its “exoatmospheric kill vehicle” (EKV), designed to protect the United States by intercepting and neutralizing ballistic missiles in low Earth orbit, serving the same purpose as Israel’s Arrow-3 missile defense system.
During a test conducted by the US Missile Defense Agency and US Northern Command in the Pacific Ocean, the EKV effectively destroyed a medium-range ballistic missile.
Raytheon president Wes Kramer said in a statement,
“This test demonstrates that the US ballistic missile defense system is operational, reliable, and ready to protect the country.”
Yeah, this is where the world’s smart minds and big money bags should be going:
In a show of solidarity and support with the Israeli people and business community during this time of war, 65 investors, CEOs, and senior executives of US-based technology, venture capital, and private equity firms will land in Tel Aviv next week for a three-day series of economic planning sessions, solidarity discussions, and support meetings.
The group includes leaders from Bain Capital, Meetup.com, Apollo, Houzz, TPG, Susquehanna Growth Equity, and many others. It represents the first and largest group of its kind to visit Israel since October 7.
Yeah, now this is a fucking Jewish-Only Shit Storm of Misplaced Billions for the Occupiers, the Genociders: Israeli tech execs seek UK funds to help create a startup for every Oct. 7 victim: At the London summit, 30 Israeli startups and entrepreneurs will present their technology to 200 British private and institutional investors and business leaders. Presentations will include sessions covering three areas to raise capital for investment in dual-use technologies for civilian and security deployment; agriculture, agritech and foodtech; and AI and cyber.
Ahh, all those scientists and engineers, and other SCUM from the STEM fields, looking out for their big daddy’s wallet. Dual-use my ass:
When the Pentagon pulled the world’s biggest defense contractors into a meeting to tell them to ramp up production shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, one CEO hesitated, saying they did not want to be stuck with a warehouse full of rockets when the fighting stopped, according to three people familiar with the discussion.
Nearly two years later, big defense firms are singing a different tune, with several expecting strong demand in 2024 as the U.S. and its allies load up on expensive weaponry and munitions with an eye on what they perceive as more aggressive actions from Russia and China.
Yeah, those fucking STEM motherfuckers, never will they give up their Eichmann Badges and their Faustian Bargain contracts. Oppenheimer Lives on.
Everything now in 2023 is over — no more protests, no more sanity, and the money and warring and JewWorld win out!
“The Worst Days in Gaza” — these are the words of an extraordinary testimony by Lara Elborno, Palestinian journalist, talking directly from Gaza – with video illustrations – showing in a 4-minute video clip a reality that most of the west ignores, or wants to ignore.
Lara says:
“Everyday has been the worst day; Israel outdoes itself in brutality and destruction every day; so, every day is the worst day. The day Yoav Gallant (Israel’s Minister of Defense, alias War) announced that Palestinians would be denied food, water, and aid, was the worst day.”
“The day that Israeli Officials announced that they were rolling out the Gaza Nakba, was the worst day. (Nakba, means “catastrophe” in Arabic, and refers to the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab / Palestine – Israeli war. A new Nakba is occurring now in Gaza).”
“The day that they sieged and surrounded the Al-Shifa Hospital, bombed the maternity ward, bombed the outside clinic, was the worst day.”
“The day that Israel dropped six 1-ton bombs on the Jabalia refugee camp, was the worst day.”
There is an endless chain of “Worst Days of Gaza” [ illustrated by pictures and video clips – worse than what the world has witnessed in at least the last seven decades, maybe in the last 300 years.]
There are millions who need bats to the head. Culling.
Precautionary Principle? Right, with these three B’s — Bibi, Ben-Gvir, Biden —destroying the world with their Wailing Wall Whackos and their Oppen-Monster-Heimers doing their Always Do Harm song and dance: Biden specifically mentioned Israel’s far-right politician Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is Israel’s national security minister, and said “this is the most conservative government in Israel’s history.”
“He [Bibi Netanyahu] has to change this government. This government in Israel is making it very difficult,” Biden said. He also said that ultimately Israel “can’t say no” to a Palestinian state, which Israeli hardliners oppose.
Biden alluded to a private conversation in which the Israeli leader said:
“‘You carpet bombed Germany, you dropped the atom bomb, a lot of civilians died.'”
Biden said he responded: “Yeah, that’s why all these institutions were set up after World War Two to see to it that it didn’t happen again … don’t make the same mistakes we made in 9/11. There’s no reason why we had to be in a war in Afghanistan.”
Netanyahu said in a statement on Tuesday that Israel had received “full backing” from the US for its ground invasion into Gaza and that Washington had blocked “international pressure to stop the war.”
Oh, those smarty pants scientists, STEM scum, where oh where are you now?
This is pure McCarthyite fiction. The Israeli-American restaurant owner had raised $100,000 for an organization that supports the Israeli military. It’s fine to target his restaurants with nonviolent protests.
The same McCarthyite fiction as University of Pennsylvania megadonor Marc Rowan, a Zionist, who fresh from forcing the school’s president to step down over the Orwellian “antisemitism” question in Congress, promoted rules to keep antisemitism from taking root in campus culture – aimed at stopping Palestinian advocacy.
Or the same hateful McCarthyism as the Long Island community that turned on a local man for questioning Israel’s conduct and stripped him of his — Santa Claus gig for the chamber of commerce! Ken Dorph made the terrible mistake of challenging American Jewish Committee advocates for Israel at a local temple– and 11 members of the temple wrote in that they didn’t feel safe with the 70-year-old in a red Santa outfit.
This is insane because everyone sees that these Zionist individuals and organizations are defending a genocide, and wielding the antisemitism charge against people who oppose the slaughter of civilians. And the liberal media are playing the useful-idiot role here. Celebrating the supposed revival of liberal Zionism, Vox’s Zack Beauchamp can’t ever say the truth about Zionism—it’s generally racist, and wed to apartheid. Just as Ezra Klein of the Times upholds Israeli Labor Zionist Nimrod Novik as an idealist — even as Novik calls for “separation” and a “strong Jewish majority” in Israel.
Letting Zionists occupy the moral high ground on the bigotry issue is not just wrong on facts, but a disaster politically. Even Biden seems to sense it. — Phil Weiss
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