The Evening Blues - 4-18-24
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This evening's music features blues piano player Otis Spann. Enjoy!
Otis Spann - T'Aint Nobody's Business If I Do
"The Assange extradition case is like if the mafia was demanding a snitch be extradited to Italy and multiple nations collaborated with them to help make this happen, except in this case the snitch is a journalist who told the truth, and the mob happens to run a global superpower."
-- Caitlin Johnstone
News and Opinion
Assange Extradition Case Moves Forward While The CIA Covers Its Tracks
So they’re really doing it. The Biden administration is really ignoring Australia’s request to end the case against Julian Assange, and they’re proceeding with their campaign to extradite a journalist for telling the truth about US war crimes.
In order to move the extradition case forward, per a British high court ruling US prosecutors needed to provide “assurances” that the US would not seek the death penalty and would not deprive Assange of his human right to free speech because of his nationality. The US provided the assurance against the death penalty (which they’d previously opposed doing), and for the free speech assurance they said only that Assange will be able to “raise and seek to rely upon” US First Amendment rights, adding, “A decision as to the applicability of the First Amendment is exclusively within the purview of the U.S. Courts.”
Which is basically just saying “I mean, you’re welcome to TRY to have free speech protections?”
At the same time, CIA Director William Burns has filed a State Secrets Privilege demand to withhold information in a lawsuit against the agency by four American journalists and attorneys who were spied on during their visits to Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. State secrets privilege is a US evidentiary rule designed to prevent courts from revealing state secrets during civil litigation; the CIA began invoking it with the Assange lawsuit earlier this year.
Burns argues:
“I am asserting the state secrets and statutory privileges in this case as I have determined that either admitting or denying that CIA has information implicated by the remaining allegations in the Amended Complaint reasonably could be expected to cause serious — and in some cases, exceptionally grave — damage to the national security of the United States. After deliberation and personal consideration, I have determined that the complete factual bases for my privilege assertions cannot be set forth on the public record without confirming or denying whether CIA has information relating to this matter and therefore risking the very harm to U.S. national security that I seek to protect.”
Which is obviously a load of horse shit. As Assange himself tweeted in 2017, “The overwhelming majority of information is classified to protect political security, not national security.” Burns isn’t worried about damaging “the national security of the United States,” he’s worried about the potential political fallout from information about the CIA spying on American lawyers and journalists while visiting a journalist who was being actively targeted by the legal arm of the US government.
Political security is also why the US is working to punish Julian Assange for publishing inconvenient facts about US war crimes. The Pentagon already acknowledged years ago that the Chelsea Manning leaks for which Assange is being prosecuted didn’t get anyone killed and had no strategic impact on US war efforts, so plainly this isn’t about national security. It’s just politically damaging for the criminality of the US government to be made public for all to see.
They’re just squeezing and squeezing this man as hard as they can for as long as they can get away with to keep him silent and make an example of him to show what happens when journalists reveal unauthorized information about the empire. Just like Gaza, the persecution of Julian Assange makes a lie of everything the US and its western allies claim to stand for, and reveals the cruel face of tyranny beneath the mask of liberal democracy.
Non Assurances for Assange - Turmoil in the Middle East - with Craig Murray & Cathy Vogan
Aaron Maté : Biden Fuels Regional Carnage
Israel reportedly deploys extra weapons for assumed Rafah offensive
Israel has reportedly deployed extra artillery and armoured personnel carriers to the Gaza Strip periphery, suggesting that the military is preparing for its long-threatened ground offensive on Rafah, the only place of relative safety for at least 1.4 million displaced Palestinian civilians.
Israeli daily Ma’ariv also said on Wednesday that troops had been put on alert and “the governing principle of the operation” had been approved by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) general staff and Yoav Gallant, the defence minister. The IDF declined to comment on the reports.
The IDF confirmed on Tuesday it was buying 40,000 tents to prepare for the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians who have sought shelter in Rafah, the southernmost town in the Gaza Strip, which is only major urban area in the territory that Israeli ground forces have not yet entered.
The new operation in the six-month war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas will reportedly focus first on securing northern and central Gaza, particularly the string of refugee camps around the town of Deir al-Balah, Ma’ariv said. It comes 10 days after Israel withdrew the bulk of its ground forces from the strip, leaving one division to man the Netzarim Corridor, the Israeli-built buffer that now divides the coastal territory.
But Palestinians on the ground said there had been a renewed presence of Israeli ground troops in northern Gaza this week, including in Beit Hanoun, where tanks surrounded school buildings where displaced people were sheltering. Overnight, Israeli airstrikes hit Rafah and several other urban areas.
Biden SANCTIONS Iranian Drone Makers As Israel POSTPONES Retaliatory Strike
1. Deny bombing the consulate
2. Say the consulate wasn't really a consulate
3. Say Iran better not retaliate against you for that time you bombed the consulate
4. Say you had no idea that Iran would make such a big deal about you bombing their consulate https://t.co/86cA0QK453— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) April 18, 2024
Israel Considers Attacking Iran and Invading Rafah as Netanyahu Seeks Lifelines to Stay in Power
Israel ‘making decision to act’ after Iran attack, says Cameron on Jerusalem visit
David Cameron has said it is clear Israel is “making a decision to act” in response to last weekend’s Iranian mass drone and ballistic missile attack, as Benjamin Netanyahu brushed off calls for restraint and said his country would make its own decisions about how to defend itself.
Lord Cameron, the UK foreign secretary, speaking on a visit to Jerusalem, said he hoped the Israeli response would be carried out in a way that minimised escalation.
“It’s right to have made our views clear about what should happen next, but it’s clear the Israelis are making a decision to act,” he said after meeting the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog. “We hope they do so in a way that does as little to escalate this as possible,” he added, becoming the first non-Israeli politician to openly admit that some kind of military reprisal is inevitable.
Cameron later met Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, who made it clear Israel would reach its own decisions on its security.
Speaking at the beginning of his cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Netanyahu said: “I thank our friends for their support for the defence of Israel … They also have all kinds of suggestions and advice, I appreciate it, but I want to make it clear: we will make our own decisions, and the state of Israel will do everything necessary to protect itself.”
Yah, sure Genocide Joe Biden wants a "two state solution."
Leaked Cables Show Biden Pressuring Nations to Oppose Palestine's UN Membership
As the United Nations Security Council prepares to vote Thursday on Palestine's bid to become a full U.N. member, the Biden administration—which claims to support Palestinian statehood—is lobbying UNSC nations in an effort to wrangle enough "no" votes so that the United States can avoid resorting to a veto.
Leaked cables obtained by The Intercept show U.S. pressure on Security Council members including Malta—which currently presides over the body—and Ecuador.
While claiming that President Joe Biden backs "Palestinian aspirations for statehood," one of the cables asserts that "it remains the U.S. view that the most expeditious path toward a political horizon for the Palestinian people is in the context of a normalization agreement between Israel and its neighbors."
"We therefore urge you not to support any potential Security Council resolution recommending the admission of 'Palestine' as a U.N. member state, should such a resolution be presented to the Security Council for a decision in the coming days and weeks," the document advises.
Biden admin is quietly pressuring countries to vote against Palestinian statehood at the UN, according to diplomatic cables leaked to me:https://t.co/XWxz7kddPK
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) April 17, 2024
The U.S. argument essentially is that the U.N. should not create an independent Palestinian state by fiat—even though that's precisely how the world body voted in 1947 to establish the modern state of Israel.
The renewed push for Palestine's U.N. membership comes as Israel wages a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Authority, which hasn't controlled Gaza for nearly two decades, rejected the Biden administration's requests to hold off on seeking full membership.
"We wanted the U.S. to provide a substantive alternative to U.N. recognition. They didn't," one unnamed Palestinian official told Axios on Wednesday. "We believe full membership in the U.N. for Palestine is way overdue. We have waited more than 12 years since our initial request."
As The Intercept's Ken Klippenstein and Daniel Boguslaw noted:
Since 2011, the U.N. Security Council has rejected the Palestinian Authority's request for full member status. On April 2, the Palestinian Observer Mission to the U.N. requested that the council once again take up consideration of its membership application. According to the first State Department cable, U.N. meetings since the beginning of April suggest that Algeria, China, Guyana, Mozambique, Russia, Slovenia, Sierra Leone, and Malta support granting Palestine full membership to the U.N. It also says that France, Japan, and Korea are undecided, while the United Kingdom will likely abstain from a vote.
Along with the United States, China, France, Russia, and the United Kingdom are permanent members of the UNSC, so they also have veto power.
Ahead of Thursday's planned vote, Spain has been doing its own lobbying in Europe to build greater support for Palestinian statehood. At a joint Tuesday press conference with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob said the question is "when, not if, but when is the best moment to recognize Palestine."
Belgium—which is seeking economic sanctions against Israel in response to its genocidal war on Gaza—is expected to join Spain's push for Palestinian statehood after the country's European Union presidency expires in June.
Currently, 139 of the U.N.'s 193 member states recognize Palestine as an independent state.
Countries recognizing Palestinian statehood. https://t.co/7EQQFaOaUt
— GenXDutchess (@GenXDutchess) April 10, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—who has also claimed to support a so-called "two-state solution"—has alternately boasted about thwarting Palestinian statehood.
Critics pointed to the leaked cables as more proof of U.S. duplicity and double standards on the Israel-Palestine issue.
"This is the evidence that President Biden's talk about a two-state solution is nothing but idle talk," Massoud Maalouf, a former Lebanese ambassador to Canada, Chile, and Poland, said on social media.
US CAUGHT HIDING Proof Israel Torture, War Crimes
UN Rights Office Says Israel Still Imposing ‘Unlawful’ Restrictions on Gaza Aid
The UN’s Human Rights Office said on Tuesday that Israel is still imposing “unlawful” restrictions on aid entering Gaza despite US and Israeli claims that there’s been an increase in deliveries, Reuters reported on Tuesday. ...
“Israel continues to impose unlawful restrictions on the entry and distribution of humanitarian assistance and to carry out widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure,” said Ravina Shamdasani, spokeswoman for the UN Human Rights Office.
Shamdasani added that “those delivering or trying to access humanitarian assistance must never be attacked.” Last week, UNICEF workers reported that a vehicle they were traveling in was hit by Israeli gunfire, but nobody was hurt.
Israel has sped up settlement-building in East Jerusalem since Gaza war began
Israel’s government has accelerated the construction of settlements across East Jerusalem, with more than 20 projects totalling thousands of housing units having been approved or advanced since the start of the war in Gaza six months ago, planning documents show.
Ministries and offices within the Israeli government are behind all the largest and most contentious of the projects, sometimes in association with rightwing nationalist groups with a history of trying to evict Palestinians from their homes in parts of the city.
The rapid approval or construction of settlements that are illegal under international law is likely to further damage Israel’s relationship with the Biden administration. ...
“The fast-tracking of these plans has been unparalleled in the last six months,” said Sari Kronish, from the Israeli human rights organisation Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights. “While many government bodies were shuttered or had limited operation following 7 October, the planning authorities continued to plough forward, advancing these plans at unprecedented speed.”
The new settlements will offer homes for Israel’s majority Jewish population in parts of Jerusalem that were unilaterally annexed by Israel in 1980, and are likely to be an obstacle to any attempt to create a viable Palestinian state with the east of the city as its capital.
Ukr Collapse: Rus Holds 40% Krasnogorovka, Storms Ocheretino, Ukr Mutinies; Israel Prepares Strike
UK insurers refuse to pay Nord Stream because blasts were ‘government’ backed
British insurers are arguing that they have no obligation to honor their coverage of the Nord Stream pipelines, which were blown up in September 2022, because the unprecedented act of industrial sabotage was likely carried out by a national government.
The insurers’ filing contradicts reports the Washington Post and other legacy media publications asserting that a private Ukrainian team was responsible for the massive act of industrial sabotage.
A legal brief filed on behalf of UK-based firms Lloyd’s Insurance Company and Arch Insurance states that the “defendants will rely on, inter alia, the fact that tiger explosion Damage could only have (or, at least, was more likely than not to have) been inflicted by or under the order of a government.”
As a result, they argue, “the Explosion Damage was “directly or indirectly occasioned by, happening through, or in consequence of” the conflict between Russia and Ukraine” and falls under an exclusion relating to military conflicts.
Prof. John Mearsheimer: Russia Smashes NATO
Biden to triple taxes on Chinese steel and block Japanese takeover of US Steel
Joe Biden announced plans to triple tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum and promised to block the acquisition of US Steel by a Japanese company during a speech to steelworkers on Wednesday in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, where union support could prove crucial in the November general election.
Biden touted the plan during a visit to the United Steelworkers union headquarters in Pittsburgh, the heart of the American steel industry, where he said “the backbone of America has a steel spine” and promised to keep US Steel as a “totally American-owned, American-operated” company.
The Biden administration is reviewing a proposed $14.9bn acquisition of US Steel, once the world’s largest company and which played a key role in the nation’s industrialization, by Japan’s Nippon Steel. Biden said last month he would oppose the deal.
As he was greeted by a small group of steelworkers upon his arrival in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, one shouted: “Keep US Steel in America!” Biden responded: “Guaranteed.” A large group of protesters gathered across the street, one group chanting “Bidenomics has got to go” and another yelling “Ceasefire now!”
During his speech, the president called on his trade representative to consider tripling the existing 7.5% tariff rate on Chinese steel and aluminum imports, a move the White House said was aimed at protecting American jobs against “unfair” competition.
Speaker Johnson BETRAYS GOP On Ukraine Funding, MAGA Members Are FURIOUS
Consolation prize - allows some congressworms to pretend that they give a rat's ass about your constitutional rights.
Amid Spying Fight, House Passes Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act
While applauding the U.S. House of Representatives' bipartisan passage of a bill to ensure that "law enforcement and intelligence agencies can't do an end-run around the Constitution by buying information from data brokers" on Wednesday, privacy advocates highlighted that Congress is trying to extend and expand a long-abused government spying program.
The House voted 219-199 for Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act (FANFSA), which won support from 96 Democrats and 123 Republicans, including the lead sponsor, Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio). Named for the constitutional amendment that protects against unreasonable searches and seizures, H.R. 4639 would close what campaigners call the data broker loophole.
"The privacy violations that flow from law enforcement entities circumventing the Fourth Amendment undermine civil liberties, free expression, and our ability to control what happens to our data," said Free Press Action policy counsel Jenna Ruddock. "These impacts affect everyone who uses digital platforms that extract our personal information any time we open a browser or visit social media and other websites—even when we go to events like demonstrations and other places with our phones revealing our locations."
"We're grateful that the House passed these vital and popular protections," she added. "The bill would prevent flagrant abuses of our privacy by government authorities in league with unscrupulous third-party data brokers. Making this legislation into law with Senate passage too would be a decisive and long-overdue action against government misuse of this clandestine business sector that traffics in our personal data for profit."
Telegram Founder Pavel DurovTells Tucker Carlson The FBI Tried SPYING On Users Via The Messenger
Arizona Republicans again block effort to repeal 1864 near-total abortion ban
After days of nationwide debate over the Arizona supreme court’s recent decision to uphold a near-total abortion ban from the 19th century, Arizona’s Republican-controlled statehouse has again quashed an effort to repeal the ban.
Republicans, who hold a one-seat majority in both the Arizona house and senate, on Wednesday shot down a procedural measure in the statehouse that would have enabled the chamber to vote on a bill to repeal the ban. Just one Republican, the representative Matt Gress, voted with the house’s 29 Democrats, but the 30-30 split was not enough to move forward.
Wednesday marked the second time that state legislators have tried to repeal the ban, which was first passed in 1864, since the state supreme court ruling. Last week, Gress tried to bring forth a vote on the repeal bill. However, he then voted with other Republicans to recess until Wednesday.
The ban, passed before Arizona became a state, only permits abortions in cases to save a woman’s life. It does not have exceptions for rape or incest. Due to legal delays, it is not yet in effect; instead, Arizona currently bans abortion past 15 weeks of pregnancy.
Former St Louis undercover officer gets $23m after beating by police colleagues
A Missouri judge awarded more than $23m to a former St Louis police officer who was beaten by other officers while working undercover at a protest in 2017.
On Monday Luther Hall was awarded the significant sum in a default judgment by Joseph Whyte, the St Louis circuit judge, after one of the defendants failed to respond to a lawsuit over the 2017 attack. “Mr Hall had to endure this severe beating and while that was happening, he knew it was being administered by his colleagues who were sworn to serve and protect,” Whyte said.
Hall was severely injured by his own colleagues while undercover at a protest following the acquittal of Jason Stockley, a white police officer who shot and killed 24-year-old Anthony Lamar Smith, a Black man. Hall was pinned to the ground by officers and beaten with a baton, suffering permanent injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder, Buzzfeed News reported. ...
In a 2022 interview with KMOV, Hall said that officers at the 2017 demonstration were simply out to hurt protesters. “I could have been anybody, but being Black definitely didn’t help,” Hall said. Officers also lied on an incident report about Hall’s assault, writing that “Hall was knocked to the ground striking the concrete” as officers were making arrests.
Los Angeles police officer who killed girl, 14, in department store will not face charges
A Los Angeles police officer who fatally shot a 14-year-old girl inside a clothing store in 2021 will not face charges, the California attorney general announced on Wednesday.
Valentina Orellana-Peralta was shopping with her mother at a north Hollywood Burlington Coat Factory on 23 December 2021 when the LAPD entered to apprehend a man suspected of attacking customers in the store. When officer William Dorsey Jones Jr fired three rounds at the man, Valentina was in a nearby dressing room with her mother praying and was killed by Jones’s gunfire. The killing just before Christmas sparked national outrage, and the California justice department has been investigating it for years, following state law requiring inquiries into all fatal police shootings of unarmed victims.
The California department of justice said on Wednesday that there was “insufficient evidence to support a criminal prosecution” of the officer. The state’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, released a report on the investigation, which recommended that the LAPD “consider updating their communication training bulletin and any related training to account for the type of situation presented during this event”.
The lack of charges comes despite an LA police commission ruling in 2022 that Jones had violated policy during the shooting, a rare rebuke from the civilian oversight group. The commission said Jones’s second and third shots were not justified. Michel Moore, the police chief at the time, concluded that Jones should not have fired any of the shots and said it did not appear deadly force was “objectively reasonable or necessary”.
Body-camera footage of the shooting immediately raised concerns when it was released in 2021. The video showed that as soon as Jones saw Daniel Elena Lopez, the 24-year-old who had assaulted customers, Jones fired three rounds in rapid succession. It did not appear that Jones shouted commands at Elena Lopez or attempt to de-escalate before firing. Elena Lopez was also killed.
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Trump Juror DROPS OUT As Impartiality Questions Swirl
Climate crisis: average world incomes to drop by nearly a fifth by 2050
Average incomes will fall by almost a fifth within the next 26 years as a result of the climate crisis, according to a study that predicts the costs of damage will be six times higher than the price of limiting global heating to 2C.
Rising temperatures, heavier rainfall and more frequent and intense extreme weather are projected to cause $38tn (£30tn) of destruction each year by mid-century, according to the research, which is the most comprehensive analysis of its type ever undertaken, and whose findings are published in the journal Nature.
The hefty toll – which is far higher than previous estimates – is already locked into the world economy over the coming decades as a result of the enormous emissions that have been pumped into the atmosphere through the burning of gas, oil, coal and trees. This will inflict crippling losses on almost every country, with a disproportionately severe impact on those least responsible for climate disruption, further worsening inequality.
The paper says the permanent average loss of income worldwide will be 19% by 2049. In the United States and Europe the reduction will be about 11%, while in Africa and south Asia it will be 22%, with some individual countries much higher than this.
Billions more in overseas aid needed to avert climate disaster, say economists
Governments of wealthy countries must pledge hundreds of billions more in overseas aid payments channelled through the World Bank to avert the worst effects of the climate crisis, civil society experts and economists have said.
The International Development Association fund, the arm of the World Bank that disburses loans and grants to poor countries, is worth about $93bn (£b75n) but that figure must be roughly tripled by 2030, according to economic experts.
Governments are expected to discuss new aid pledges this week at the World Bank’s annual spring meetings in Washington DC. The World Bank, its fellow publicly funded development banks around the world and the International Monetary Fund are under pressure to show they can lead the world to the low-carbon transition needed.
Ajay Banga, the president of the World Bank, told journalists the climate crisis would be a priority. “The world is facing a set of intertwined challenges: the climate crisis, debt, food insecurity, pandemics, fragility, and there is clearly a need to accelerate access to clean air, water and energy,” he said. “The [World Bank] needs a fit-for-purpose mission and vision, and that is to create a world free from poverty on a livable planet.”
Work by the economists Nicholas Stern and Vera Songwe suggests $2.4tn a year is needed by 2030 to shift developing countries, excluding China, to a low-carbon economy. About $1.4tn of that is expected to come through these countries’ investments and the remainder from publicly funded assistance from wealthy countries as well as private sector investment.
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
“Rules-Based Order” Means Rules For Thee But Not For We
Craig Murray: The Farce of US Diplomatic Assurances
Speaker Johnson Unveils $95 Billion Foreign Military Aid Bills
‘Brutal’ Is a Word Mostly Reserved for Palestinian Violence
Palestinian boy who survived airstrike dies during food aid drop
Iran And Saudi Arabia - A Common Future Looking East
Dmitry Medvedev's Speech On Russia's Strategic Borders
Can a New German Party Steer the European Left in a More Effective Direction?
Armenia Asks World Court to Pursue Ethnic Cleansing Case Against Azerbaijan
Supreme Court to Decide on Criminalizing Outdoor Sleeping
China Builds A Temporary Bridge In Seven Days: Baltimore Will Take Years To Rebuild Theirs
California cracks down on water pumping: ‘The ground is collapsing’
Scientists Warn Gulf Stream Slowdown Could Begin as Early as 2025
The New McCarthyism: Congress Grills Columbia Univ. President Amid Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech
Columbia Students Risk Arrest, Suspension to Maintain Gaza Solidarity Encampment on Campus
GOOGLE Fires Tech Workers Who Protested Against Firms Israeli Partnership
Thomas Massie & MTG Unite To OUST House Speaker!
A Little Night Music
Otis Spann - Spann's Blues
Otis Spann - Good Morning Mr. Blues
Otis Spann – Mule Kicking In My Stall
Otis Spann – I Wonder Why
Otis Spann w/Fleetwood Mac - Dig You
Otis Spann – Home To Mississippi
Otis Spann – Country Boy
Otis Spann - Sellin' My Thing
Otis Spann - No More Doggin'
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Comments
Aaron:
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"I thought the world would have stepped in long ago."
Yeah me too, Aaron.
Heh…good one.
Ukraine bombed a Russian airfield in Crimea with UK storm shadow supplied bombs and the US had a drone over the area and probably used US supplied satellite imagery to guide the bombs. I’m wondering how many more red lines is Russia going to allow be crossed? They know that ISIS is an American-Israel -UK creation and attack group and those countries were involved in the terror attack.
Biden gave Israel permission to go into Rafah as long as they don’t attack Iran.
Johnson said that we have to send money and weapons to Israel because if we don’t then gawd won’t favor America for standing up for Israel and to push gawd into coming back and killing the Jews and letting satan rule the earth for 7 years. What the F happened to separation of church and state?
Thanks for the news and blues!
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
evening snoopy...
yep, it seems that the world is not what it's international institutions and their charters might lead you to believe.
i think that russia should get some sort of award for all of the crap that it has put up with from the u.s. and its vassal states in europe. i'm sure that ukraine could not hit targets without intelligence, targeting and probably physical assistance on the ground from the u.s. and other nato nations.
it seems quite likely that biden would do pretty much anything in an election cycle to avoid being dragged into a losing war with iran and the nations that stand behind it. maybe after the election the neocons and the fundamentalist morons will get their way.
Speaking of Russia getting fed up
with our two faced hypocrisy. I don’t follow the UN hearings unless they make the news, but has Russia called us out on our helping Ukraine commit terrorist acts?
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Actually I did mention it. :j
And quit calling me
ShirleyHumphreyWhich AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
So much for Biden’s not getting dragged into
another war because of Israel.
Oil jumped
Dammit there goes my summer!
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fabulous!
glad i just filled up the tank today. can't wait for wwiii to start in earnest.
The China bridge
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That Ian is talking about.
Granted that it’s only one section, but they have built others in record time. How long did it take Russia to build the Crimea bridge? 2-5 years?
Once Americans looked forward to this future, but then the government pissed away $14 trillion on wars for the parasite class.
Comment:
We don’t make much of anything anymore because the oligarchs have sucked all the jobs and factories out of the country. We are a rentier society with debt slaves.
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Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
evening humphrey...
not to mention that the government allowed the parasite class to sell off america's manufacturing base abroad, mostly to china.
the u.s. will have to spend years clawing its way back to being a modern state by the time these morons are through with it.
The other shoe to drop. Maybe this weekend.
Was watching Judge Napolitano interviews with Alastair Crooke who talked about how the Israelis view the attack on the Palestinians as an eschatological struggle (thus justifying genocide using the same argument of the real OG Nazis). I used to discount these types of interpretations as my view was just purely cynical on motivations of the elites. Not anymore. Mike Johnson leader of the House came out rather emotionally calling Russia, China, and Iran truly an axis of evil. I think he might have forgotten North Korea.
This is why I now believe Israel and many in the West are part of death cult. The simple Merriam Webster definition of eschatological:
The crazies in Israel and the West have the power to literally bring on the end times of nuclear war .
Waiting for the other proverbial shoe to fall. One pundit noted the US waits until markets close over weekend for bombing campaigns.
evening mr w...
yep, i've long thought of our moronic ruling class as a death cult. i guess at least it's not boring, we can speculate as to which of the four horsemen will lead us over the brink.
have a good one!
Could this be a message for the shitlibs?
heh...
don't know, perhaps somebody could post it over at one of those shitlib sites and ask them if it was the correct address.![Smile](https://caucus99percent.com/sites/all/modules/smiley/packs/kolobok/smile.gif)
China China China has entered the chat
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Republicans: Let’s end the Ukraine war so we can enter the China war.
Democrats: Russia Russia Russia.
But what have you done for we the people?
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wow...
it's just amazing that so many delusional people could be in charge of a country.
Yeah
I’ve thought this for some time. The thing is that both sides support war in private no matter what they say in public.
Johnson is saying that he’d rather send bullets to Ukraine than American soldiers. He’s now on message saying that Putin is going to invade all of Europe if he’s not stopped in Ukraine. I think someone got to him. "Nice family you got there…be a shame…"
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This is certainly not one bit surprising!
https://apnews.com/article/un-vote-palestinian-membership-us-veto-8d8ad6...
Yikes…
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Remember Trump was impeached for asking Zelensky to look into Biden’s corruption in Ukraine.
Democrats on the Biden impeachment….
"Nothing to see here and besides Russia Russia…
Raskin and Goldman keeps saying that there is no evidence.
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Columbia University is gathering quite the reputation having
previously hired Hillary and the Cookie Monster. Now this!
https://nypost.com/2024/04/18/us-news/nypd-cops-enter-columbia-after-uni...
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ZH just posted on this
but it took a pro Israel slant on the arrests and boy did they slam the slant in comments. I posted one in today’s open thread.
It’s interesting to see how many people are siding against Israel for murdering so many kids. This country has been pro Israel no matter what they did until now. It’s interesting to watch this happening. ZH of All sites.
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Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
for some reason...
columbia seems to be getting a lot of attention from republicans in congress, especially that weasel elise stefanik who is clearly gunning for scalps of college presidents. as near as i can tell the columbia administration is following the anti-palestinian melody in the adl hymnal pretty closely.
Good evening Joe, thanks for the EBs. Thanks
especially for Otis Spann.
So I'd just like to summarize all the news, not tonight, but for ever so long. The US is facing a grave existential threat It is comprised of the legislative and executive branches of the US Government, including the CIA and the rest of the intel and security stte, the banks, the major corporations, and a whole shitload of sundry mbas.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Perhaps include the judicial branch
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the demise of the USA is in full-tilt boogie mode
if you add in the media and NSA in the trunk
this tree will not stand up in the next wind storm
the sound of falling leaves are peoples brains
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
evening el...
great summary! perhaps one day when i get sick of it all, i'll just post that.![Smile](https://caucus99percent.com/sites/all/modules/smiley/packs/kolobok/smile.gif)
have a good one!
FFS! Who knows how this will end???
https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-04-1...
Update:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/4/19/live-israel-launches-m...
sounds like Isreal is just probing defenses
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according to
Al Mayadeen
https://english.almayadeen.net
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
Israel is asking for another blow
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the next one will hurt
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
heh...
as we used to say, israel is cruising for a bruising. if they want it that badly, i hope they get it.
Of course the US is attempting to run cover for Israel's
actions.
Seeing now that US aircraft are running cover
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from Iraq in support of Israeli strikes in Iran
not a good look, those bases will be toast
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
Yep and it will come down on Biden
and we are still screwed no matter who we vote for. But it’s going to be the troops and innocent civilians who pay the price for Biden’s unconditional support of Israel. But not that Trump would be any different.
Iran is threatening to rethink their stance on building nuclear weapons. Great job Biden’s puppet stringers!
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
Heh…
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I needed to go to the store today and as I was driving there Sam was very quiet in the back seat. I pulled into a spot and saw her in the back. The top was down on the car and I never take her with me when I’m going to be gone long. No wonder she was so quiet… I took her little black butt home and returned to the store. Just thought I’d share this with y’all.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
I had to read this more than once to figure what you were
saying. Then it dawned on me that Sam had snuck into the back seat without you knowing.![](https://caucus99percent.com/sites/all/modules/smiley/packs/kolobok/scratch_one-s_head.gif)
Heh…
No I screwed up, but she was quite happy to let me. I planned on taking her home first, but I forgot. You’d think that wouldn’t be hard… Hey you guys try living with my brain.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
It seems as if Israel's response to Iran was rather tepid
but it opened the door for more tit for tat actions.
The main concern is this!![](https://caucus99percent.com/sites/all/modules/smiley/packs/kolobok/unknw.gif)
Actions like this are the root cause of the on going friction
in the Middle East. This is all done with the blessing of the US.
wink! wink!Let this sink in!
Who knows what will happen next? But this is a good guess.