The Evening Blues - 1-2-25
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"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything."
-- Albert Einstein
News and Opinion
The Empire Burns The Middle East While US Homelessness Surges
The IDF has built a beachside resort on the coast of northern Gaza where its soldiers can take a break from committing genocide to relax, get massages, drink iced coffee, and eat ice cream and cotton candy by the shore.
Meanwhile, the last hospital in northern Gaza has been burned down by the Israeli military after days of violent siege warfare on the medical facility.
The IDF is now saying that it may stay in southern Lebanon past the 60-day limit it agreed to in its ceasefire deal with Hezbollah, which means we may soon be looking at yet another protracted illegal Israeli military occupation.
Israel Builds a ‘Beachside Resort’ in Gaza for IDF Soldiers
The resort is the latest sign of Israel's plans for a long-term occupation
by Dave DeCamp@DecampDave #Gaza #Israel #Palestinians https://t.co/VJSIoTYVgN pic.twitter.com/OCiDmwAf8D— Antiwar.com (@Antiwarcom) December 26, 2024
A recent report from Drop Site News cites more than a dozen BBC staff who say all the British state media outlet’s reporting on Israel and Palestine is ultimately controlled by a single editor named Raffi Berg, who previously worked for the CIA. The BBC reporters told Drop Site News that Berg consistently manipulates headlines and reporting in a way that benefits the information interests of the Israeli government.
An anti-Assad outlet called Verify Syria has found that viral video footage purporting to show women and children being freed from Sednaya Prison after Assad’s ouster actually showed no such thing. In reality the location where the terrified women and children were filmed was a family charity facility called the Dafa Association, and they were terrified because the facility was being attacked by armed “revolutionaries”.
This comes as the US-backed al-Qaeda affiliates who are now in charge in Syria announce that they probably won’t be holding elections for another four years.
This is undoubtedly the single most incriminating statistic of the US system (alongside the 13% poverty rate): skyrocketing homelessness when your economy grows means something is fundamentally broken. https://t.co/KdXOqYDtaH
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) December 29, 2024
The US empire is up to its elbows in the middle east working frenetically to manipulate what happens there, while in the United States itself homelessness has taken another record-shattering leap forward. Homelessness in the US has increased by a staggering 18 percent since last year — and last year also saw a giant spike in homelessness of 12 percent from the year before. Officially there are now around 770,000 homeless Americans, though the real number is likely several times higher.
This massive injustice is entirely by design. As the hub of a globe-spanning empire, the US needs to keep its citizenry poor, divided, distracted and powerless in order to keep them from meddling in the gears of the imperial machine. The more free time and mental spaciousness Americans have, the more they’ll awaken to how depraved their government is and how badly it’s screwing them over. The managers of the western empire naturally have a vested interest in keeping Americans poor, sick, ignorant, and propagandized. Which is why they remain so.
The US-centralized empire thrives on lies, manipulation, callousness, and stupidity. The entire world is made worse by its existence. It degrades the collective soul of our species. It’s bad for Americans, and it’s bad for everyone else. Humanity will be much better off when this murderous power structure finally crumbles.
"Exhausted": Palestinian Journalist Shrouq Aila on Life in Gaza, "Duty" to Report on Genocide
Israeli strikes kill at least 12 Palestinians in Gaza on New Year’s Day
Israeli strikes killed at least 12 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on New Year’s Day, mostly women and children, officials said, as the nearly 15-month war ground on into the new year.
One strike hit a home in the Jabaliya area of northern Gaza, the most isolated and heavily destroyed part of the territory, where Israel has waged a major operation since early October. Gaza’s health ministry said seven people had been killed, including a woman and four children, and at least a dozen had been wounded.
Another strike overnight in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza killed a woman and a child, according to the al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital, which received the bodies.
“Are you celebrating? Enjoy as we die. For a year and a half, we have been dying,” said a man carrying the body of a child amid the flashing lights of emergency vehicles.
Gaza Death Count WRONG: American Doc REVEALS HORRORS From Gaza Trip
UN Says Israel Has Turned Gaza’s Hospitals Into ‘Death Traps’
A report released by the UN Human Rights Office on Tuesday condemned Israel’s attacks on hospitals in Gaza, saying the campaign against medical infrastructure in the Strip is a “direct consequence” of Israel’s “disregard” for international law.
“As if the relentless bombing and the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza were not enough, the one sanctuary where Palestinians should have felt safe in fact became a death trap,” said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk.
Israel usually claims there’s a presence of militants to justify its attacks on hospitals but never provides real evidence, which the report notes. “Insufficient information has so far been made publicly available to substantiate these allegations, which have remained vague and broad, and in some cases appear contradicted by publicly available information,” the report reads.
Alastair Crooke : Imperial Hubris in Syria
IDF might stay in Lebanon past the 60-day deal
Due to the slower-than-expected deployment of the Lebanese Army to southern Lebanon, the IDF’s withdrawal from the country is going slower than initially planned, several officials have said.
This comes as Israel enters the second half of the 60-day ceasefire deal – the so-called “implementation phase.” The officials say they believe the IDF will have to stay in southern Lebanon past the agreed 60 days.
Authorities told The Jerusalem Post last week, “The Lebanese Army is deploying in southern Lebanon but at a much slower pace than agreed. And the question is: What to do on day 60?”
Sources added that the Lebanese Army had just begun to clear and seize Hezbollah weapons but was doing so very tentatively and at a slow pace, which could consequently also delay the IDF’s withdrawal.
Hezbollah ‘Patient,’ But Threatens Retaliation If Israel Troops Remain Past Deadline
Now 35 days into a 60-day ceasefire, Israeli troops remain inside Lebanese territory and are increasingly open about staying indefinitely. Given the several hundred Israeli ceasefire violations and scores of Lebanese casualties, however, the real story may be Hezbollah’s lack of response.
Hezbollah has not aggressively retaliated to any Israeli attacks on either Hezbollah itself or on Lebanese civilians. Hezbollah political official Mahmoud Qamati says the group is being “patient,” but that on day 61 of the 60-day ceasefire, any Israeli troops still inside Lebanon will be considered to be “occupation forces.” ...
Israel’s avowed intention to remain in Lebanon through the ceasefire clearly indicates Tel Aviv has its eye on returning to fighting, above and beyond the hundreds of violations it’s already committed. Israeli military officials are emphasizing their continued military control of strategic areas in southern Lebanon, which they believe will give them the advantage if and when all-out fighting resumes.
Protecting Israel, targeting Syria: Stephen Rapp's human rights hypocrisy
FBI says it foiled possible attack against pro-Israel group Aipac
FBI agents say they have foiled a possible attack on a US pro-Israel group apparently timed to take place on the first night of Hanukah. Officers arrested Forrest Kendall Pemberton after he allegedly travelled to the city of Plantation in Florida to scout the local offices of the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) and tried to return later with “concealed” firearms.
He is now facing federal charges of stalking and is accused of traveling to the organization’s offices with the intention of “killing, injuring, harassing, and intimidating” people working there.
Court documents obtained by CBS say Pemberton was traced to a hotel about two miles from Aipac’s Florida address on 22 December. Prosecutors say he was in a ride-share vehicle in Tallahassee on 25 December, the first day of Hanukah, with three firearms, including an AR-style rifle, and ammunition when law enforcement officers stopped the vehicle. ...
Investigators who interviewed Pemberton the day after his arrest quote him in an FBI affidavit as saying he targeted the organization “because of its political influence” and due to his “frustration with the status quo”. Asked if he planned to stage a mass casualty event followed by his own suicide, Pemberton reportedly answered: “I really don’t know if I was gonna end it with my life or not. I hadn’t gotten that far yet. It entirely depended if I ended up getting caught or not. If caught, that was a way out.” He told them that he “ultimately decided against” taking “criminal action”.
House GOP Tries to Protect Netanyahu From ICC With Rules Package
A Republican congressman known for sometimes clashing with his own party's leaders called them out on Wednesday for part of the proposed rules package that is an apparent response to a global court issuing arrest warrants for top Israeli politicians over the U.S.-backed assault on the Gaza Strip.
The GOP-controlled U.S. House Representatives for the 119th congressional session is scheduled to meet Friday afternoon to swear in members, hold a speaker election, and consider the 36-page package released Wednesday. Proposed changes include renaming or reestablishing some panels, making it harder to remove the speaker, and promoting electronic committee voting.
The rules resolution also states that once it is adopted, members shall consider a dozen bills listed at the end of the document. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) took issue with the inclusion of the eighth bill, which would impose sanctions over any International Criminal Court (ICC) "effort to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute any protected person of the United States and its allies."
The ICC issued warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas leader Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri, also known as Mohammed Deif, in November. Although Israel, like the United States, is not a party to the treaty establishing the ICC, the court has jurisdiction over occupied Palestinian territories—Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
Massie said on social media Wednesday: "The United States is a sovereign country, so I don't assign any credibility to decisions of the International Criminal Court. But how did a bill to protect Netanyahu make it into the House rules package to be voted on immediately after the speaker vote? Where are our priorities?!"
Massie's comments on the rules package came two days after he publicly disagreed with President-elect Donald Trump's endorsement of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to keep his job for the upcoming session, saying that "we've seen Johnson partner with the Democrats to send money to Ukraine, authorize spying on Americans, and blow the budget."
"I will not support giving any credibility or power to the International Criminal Court in our House rules package," Greene said of the ICC, which has faced opposition from both Democrats and Republicans over the years. "This clause needs to be removed."
Amid speculation that the ICC would issue the arrest warrants—as it ultimately did—the House passed Rep. Chip Roy's (R-Texas) Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act with bipartisan support in June. It never received a floor vote in the Democrat-controlled Senate, though the Biden administration reportedly worked with the Israeli government in a bid to block the warrants.
Under the American Service Members' Protection Act, a 2002 law that critics call the Hague Invasion Act, Biden has the authority to "use all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release" of an American or allied person detained or imprisoned by or on behalf of the ICC. Soon, the person with that power will be Trump.
Both Biden and Trump have spoken out against the ICC warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, while a few progressive lawmakers—including Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), a leading critic of the Israeli assault on Gaza and the only Palestinian American in Congress—have welcomed them and called out the U.S. government for providing billions of dollars in weapons to Israel.
"The International Criminal Court's long overdue decision to issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity signals that the days of the Israeli apartheid government operating with impunity are ending," Tlaib said in November. "Our government must urgently end our complicity in these violations of human rights and international law."
Prof. John Mearsheimer : Trump and the Russia/China Alliance
Russian gas flows to Europe via Ukraine cease as transit agreement expires
Russian gas has stopped flowing to Europe via Ukraine, ending a major energy route that goes back to Soviet times and had even survived three years of full-scale war between the two states. Ukraine cut off the transit route after an agreement signed in 2019 expired in the early hours of New Year’s Day, marking a new milestone in Europe weaning itself off Russian gas supplies over the past few years, and prompting immediate power cuts for hundreds of thousand of people in a breakaway region of Moldova.
Russia’s Gazprom said in a statement that it had stopped sending gas via Ukraine as of 8am Moscow time (5am GMT) on Wednesday. Ukraine’s energy minister, German Galushchenko, called the move “historic”, while the president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, described it in a post on social media as “one of Moscow’s biggest defeats”. Zelenskyy wrote: “When [Vladimir] Putin was given power in Russia more than 25 years ago, the annual gas pumping through Ukraine to Europe was 130+ billion cubic metres. Today, the transit of Russian gas is 0.”
The move prompted angry words from Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, who had lobbied against the decision in recent months. “Halting gas transit via Ukraine will have a drastic impact on us all in the EU but not on the Russian Federation,” he wrote on Facebook.
Elsewhere, however, there was celebration over a further step away from Russian energy dependency. Poland’s foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski, called the development “a new victory” for Europe.
The most immediate effect of the move came in the breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria, which lost heating and hot water on Wednesday morning.
Interesting speculations here, worth a peek:
South Korea political crisis deepens
"Need A LOT of People" Trump Goes FULL GLOBALIST In Elon Fight
Fury at Private Power Giants as Puerto Rico Suffers New Year's Eve Blackout
The latest failure of Puerto Rico's privatized power grid on Tuesday plunged much of the island into darkness on New Year's Eve, sparking fresh anger toward the system's for-profit operators and political leaders who sold off the U.S. territory's public utility company.
Tuesday's outage left over a million people without power, according to local officials. LUMA Energy, the Canadian American firm in charge of power transmission and distribution on the island, said in an update posted to social media on Tuesday afternoon that it is "working closely with Genera PR and other generators to restore power as quickly and safely as possible."
Genera PR, a subsidiary of the New York-based gas company New Fortress, received a multimillion-dollar, decade-long contract last year to operate Puerto Rico's power generators. In 2021, Puerto Rico's government—under the leadership of Gov. Pedro Pierluisi—chose LUMA to take over the island's power transmission and distribution operations in the wake of Hurricane Maria. The 15-year contract agreement, when it was announced, was loudly decried by advocacy groups as "terrible."
"In its singular pursuit of American investors, the local government has ignored political protests and demonstrations, disregarded the concerns raised by opposition political parties, and ignored studies that caution against privatizing the public power utility," Pedro Cabán, a professor in the Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Department at the University at Albany, wrote for The American Prospect last year. "For many Puerto Ricans, the Pierluisi government seems intent on converting the archipelago into a dystopia for its people."
The Associated Press quoted Puerto Ricans expressing their frustration over the New Year's Eve blackout, which came months after an outage left 350,000 people without power.
AP noted that the latest blackout "fanned simmering anger against Luma and Genera PR... as a growing number of people call for their ouster."
Camille Rivera, founder of La Brega Y Fuerza—a New York-based advocacy group that works to organize Puerto Ricans on the U.S. mainland—said in a statement Tuesday that "LUMA needs to fix the grid or get the hell out of Puerto Rico."
“Almost 25 years into the 21st century, it is ridiculous that Puerto Rico's power grid has failed its people again," said Rivera. "Puerto Ricans deserve answers and accountability from LUMA for this latest fiasco."
"LUMA has Puerto Rico in an energy stranglehold, and Puerto Ricans shouldn't have to put up with continued subpar service," Rivera added. "In 2025, it should be out with the old and in with the new—we have to fundamentally address the energy crisis facing Puerto Rico, reevaluate Luma's role as an energy provider, and build more sustainable solutions."
Conservative Gov.-elect Jenniffer González Colón, who is set to take office on Thursday, wrote on social media that "we can't keep relying on an energy system that fails our people."
AP reported that the incoming governor has "called for the creation of an 'energy czar' to review potential Luma contractual breaches while another operator is found."
Jeanette Ortiz, a resident of San Juan, toldThe Guardian on Tuesday that "the blackouts have been worse" since the privatization of the island's power grid.
"People have been angry for a while now," said Ortiz. "This is just what we needed to end the year."
Republican-run states see opportunity to push extreme policies under Trump
Republican state lawmakers and conservative leaders around the United States see Donald Trump’s re-election as a mandate that will help them enact rightwing policies in Republican-run states across the US. The policies include steep tax cuts, environmental legislation, religion in schools and legislation concerning transgender medical care and education, among other hot-button social issues.
Republicans will have trifecta control – meaning both legislative bodies and the governorship in a state – in 23 states next year, while Democrats will only control the three entities in 15 states. The other states have divided government.
“Arkansans went very favorably for President Trump, and I think Arkansans feel very similarly about President Trump as they do” Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said Ryan Rose, a Republican state representative in Arkansas, where his party has the trifecta. “That will only empower our state to continue forward with more conservative policies, putting more money back in the pockets of hard-working Arkansans with tax cuts and supporting Arkansas conservative family values.”
While that federal and state control could allow Republicans to advance their top priorities, leaders of progressive groups point to other election outcomes – such as some red states supporting abortion rights – as evidence that even if people voted for Trump, that does not necessarily mean they support what opponents describe as extreme proposals. And they remain optimistic that they will prevail against such measures in court.
Rand Paul, Thomas Massie OPPOSE Mike Johnson for Speaker, Massie Says; 'NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE'
Republican support wavers for Mike Johnson’s re-election as House speaker
A senior Texas Republican congressman has said that the House speaker, Mike Johnson, does not yet have the votes to be re-elected to the speakership ahead of an election to be held later this week.
Representative Chip Roy told Fox Business’s Varney & Co that he was undecided on supporting the Louisiana Republican, despite Donald Trump issuing a full-throated endorsement of Johnson on Monday.
“I remain undecided, as do a number of my colleagues, because we saw so many of the failures last year that we are concerned about that might limit or inhibit our ability to advance the president’s agenda,” Roy said.
“Right now, I don’t believe he has the votes on Friday.”
The parasites at the root of this problem are racist politicians, more at the link.
Infrastructure neglect and poverty lead to parasites in the Mississippi Delta
For years, Marecitta Dorsey’s four children – ages seven to 14 – suffered regular bouts of nausea, vomiting and sore stomachs. Their unexplained symptoms were bad enough to keep them out of school a few days each month. “My eldest would tell me, ‘I feel like my tummy’s burning,’” recalled Dorsey. “Every week I was taking at least one kid to the doctor because of something with their stomach.” She suspected their ailments had something to do with the water. Her children, she said, never had stomach problems before they moved to the Delta.
Dorsey and her family lived in Shaw, Mississippi, a town of 1,400 people about 110 miles (175km) north of Jackson. The area is plagued by sanitation problems – residents in Bolivar county filed half a dozen complaints to state officials just last year about wastewater leaks and burst pipes that have exposed them to raw sewage.
Now, researchers warn that these problems are probably contributing to widespread intestinal infections and parasites such as hookworm, roundworm and tapeworm. “There’s this whole idea that the US eradicated these things [parasites],” said Tara Cepon-Robins, an anthropologist at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. “But nobody actually eradicated anything.”
In fact, about 12 million Americans are believed to have “neglected” parasitic infections – called neglected because of their prevalence, disabling symptoms and links to poverty. These illnesses can spread through contaminated water and contact with feces and tend to thrive in high poverty areas with poor sanitation systems.
Officials had previously believed that the US had rid itself of such parasites through investments in sanitation and public health, but in recent years research has revealed alarmingly high rates of infection, particularly in the south.
Sweden begins wolf hunt as it aims to halve endangered animal’s population
Sweden’s wolf hunt starts on Thursday, with the country aiming to halve the population of the endangered predator. The Swedish government has given the green light for five entire wolf families, a total of 30 wolves, to be killed in a hunt campaigners say is illegal under EU law. Under the Berne convention, protected species cannot be caused to have their populations fall under a sustainable level.
Sweden’s wolf population dropped by almost 20% in 2022-23, and there are now 375 recorded individuals. The decline is due to increased hunting pressure, and the government announced earlier this year that it intended to halve the population, with 170 wolves becoming the new minimum level for “favourable conservation status”, instead of the current minimum of 300.
Critics say this will endanger the wolf population, which has historically had a fragile stronghold in Sweden, partly due to overhunting. Sweden had no breeding wolf population from 1966 until 1983, and the species is listed in the country as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature red list. ...
Earlier this month, members of the Berne convention on the conservation of European wildlife and natural habitats voted to change the status of wolves from a “strictly protected” to a “protected” species. This change will enter into force on 7 March 2025 and will make it easier for the EU to change the habitats directive to allow more wolves to be shot.
But environmentalists have said that instead of changing the laws to allow wolves to be culled, farmers can take preventive measures with electric fencing.
Former EU environment chief warns against backsliding on climate crisis
A former EU environment commissioner has warned against backsliding on the protection of nature and the battle against the climate crisis after the bloc decided to delay its landmark deforestation law. Virginijus Sinkevičius, the Lithuanian MEP and a vice-president of the European parliament’s Green group, said he disagreed with the decision to amend the deforestation law in order to give companies a year of extra time to ensure their products are not implicated in the felling of trees.
Every EU law “is born through a very difficult negotiation where everyone needs to give ground a bit”, he told the Guardian. “A last-minute change does not give credibility to the EU’s decision-making.” Sinkevičius, who was EU environment commissioner for nearly five years until July, was responsible for drafting the legislation, which will ban the sale in the EU of commodities linked to deforestation such as cocoa, coffee, soy, palm oil and rubber, as well as products, including chocolate, leather and furniture.
Last month, the EU agreed a one-year delay to the lawafter intensive lobbying from industry and forested countries around the world. Sinkevičius said problems with implementing the law could have been tackled with a grace period, rather than reopening negotiations between EU lawmakers. “That additional year was a bit of a reward to those who did not try hard enough in order to comply with the legislation,” he said. ...
Sinkevičius was speaking at the start of a new five-year term for the EU institutions, with growing pressure to roll back elements of the green agenda. MEPs in the European parliament, which has a record number of far-right lawmakers, have proposed cancelling the 2035 ban on selling petrol and diesel cars, as well as suspending pollution trading (a CO2 reduction strategy) for heavy industry.
Speaking in general about green policies, Sinkevičius said “it would be the biggest possible mistake to now shift to reverse gear”, adding that the “clean industrial deal” promised by the new commission in its first 100 days would be “an important first test of how we see our economy of the future”.
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
Jonathan Cook: Is US Democracy a Sham? Biden Gave Us the Answer. Were You Listening?
Patrick Lawrence: American-Century Flight
In Gaza we were the happiest family I could imagine. Then came the worst days of my life
Israeli-born author renounces citizenship, calling it 'a tool of genocide'
2025 - Ukraine On The Verge Of Defeat
Blair wanted Assad to work with MI6 against Jolani
Pentagon chief loses bid to reject 9/11 plea deals
Steve Bannon Declares WAR On Elon & Vivek!
Elon COMMUNITY NOTED Over H-1B Workers Lie!
Georgia regime change STOPPED...for now
EU prepares to launch energy war
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Comments
FBI agents say they have foiled a possible attack
on a US pro-Israel group (AIPAC)
Ha! So the feebs are doing their jobs now?
How strange.
thanks for the Ronetts!
question everything
No so strange after all they are on the same team.
And the team isn't the 99%.
Hmm, herding minds is a bit different
than herding goats and yet we allow
the ptb to corral us for slaughter
ie C19
sheesh
question everything
evening qms...
yeah, the government seems to respond with greater alacrity for some groups and not so much for others.
Annihilation, it turns out, is a tiring business
.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-luxury-spa-israel-fantasy-ret...
More on the Gaza spa for murderers.
Good gawd can Israeli society get any more sick and twisted? Another headline on the site says that Israel killed over 90 people in one day. The world has watched this genocide going on for 14 months now and ………..
Remember the debate on the first hospital that Israel destroyed? “It wasn’t us. It was Hamas” Next we got the story that Hamas had headquarters in the hospital basement so they had to destroy it. Then we got that there was Hamas getting treated in the hospital so they had to destroy it. Now they have destroyed almost every hospital in Gaza, but the media doesn’t find it worth any coverage.
And still we have people denying that Israel is deliberately cleansing Gaza, that Israel has done anything wrong and that Israel has the right to defend itself.
No one is going to stop this genocide because it’s been going on for over 80 years and it was planned to happen long before the first Jew stepped on Palestinian soil. 80% of Palestinians were kicked out of their homes in 1948. I wonder what the world said about back then?
This gutted me
Apparently the world has long ago decided that the long planned genocide and ethnic cleansing was Israel’s right to do because it’s still going on, but it’s almost at the achieved goal.
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/12/24/deception-politics-from-washington...
I can’t recommend this enough to see the plan and who the first players were.
And that’s not all that was planned.
The canal through Gaza has been planned since 1960
As to the debate over whether Israel wags the dawg or the dawg wags the tail I think we are the ones telling the dawg what to do. Both Biden and graham have said that if Israel didn’t exist we’d have to create it. So Israel does our bidding and AIPAC makes sure that congress backs what Israel does. Can’t have too many in congress that balk at genocide and ethnic cleansing now can we?
I couldn't get the link to open
I'd like to read it.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Hmm…
https://sputnikglobe.com/20241227/what-links-war-in-gaza-and-israels-pla...
Dunno what happened.
I read an article,
likely a Whitney Webb piece, that showed US nukes in the ground, ready to blow up so this new canal that will make the Suez obsolete. Hadn't thought about it in a while, but it is a fact, jack.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
They are quite done with accomplishing there plan.
We get this.
The rest of the tweet:
Dammed if you do …..
Dammed if you don’t. Israel kills people who wave a white flag and even their own citizens.
And I think Israel has already bombed all those sites. But more proof that they want every Palestinian dead or gone. Dunno what more the world court needs to see before they decide that yes indeed Israel is guilty of genocide. Can’t imagine why it would take years for them to admit that.
Many in the government have come right out and said they want every person there gone one way or another.
evening humphrey...
it's kind of bizarre that they feel compelled to put their crimes into writing on paper for all the world to see.
evening snoopy...
they better get used to setting up special facilities for veterans of their ethnic cleansing. after the action stops, the moral injuries to the soldiers become evident when people try to resume a normal life. given the horrors that they are committing, their society may not survive the aftermath of the war.
Sadly the psychopathic soldiers will fit in quite well as a
majority of Israeli citizens are perfectly fine with the on going Genocide.
heh...
yeah, but what are they going to do when they have killed off all of the palestinians?
Well
As follow up to my previous comment.
As far as the dead Palestinians Israel already has a plan.
yep...
they continue to live up to their pariah reputation.
Sometimes the bell gets rung late
I read yesterday that domestic violence in Israel is up by 65%. I’m guessing that the moral injury is just going to get worse.
It’d be interesting to see how many of the soldiers who post pictures of themselves rah rahhing about killing civilians and destroying their homes get PTSD. But I doubt Israel would ever release the data.
Sure there’s nothing fishy about this
wow ...
not even wearing gloves. i wonder who arranged this photo op.
Seems like there’s a narrative that we
need to hear about the terrorist. He made bombs in his home workshop and he was reading the Quran even though we’ve been told that he joined ISIS.
But when did the FBI start letting the press into their crime scenes the day after the crime?
Crooks’ body was cremated soon after his death. No more looking at the evidence if something doesn’t add up.
I can’t wait for more information to come out on the Tesla driver. They can definitely tell whether he died long before the explosion or just before. And what the hell were the motives for both incidents?
Driving 10 hours from Texas to crash in NO when I’m sure that there were NYE celebrations in Texas that he could have made the same point.
Vegas: was it the closest Trump hotel to Colorado? Did it have to be a Trump hotel or would any hotel do? And what’s his connection to Ukraine?
I’m saying that none of this makes sense.
Trump is trying to pin this on Biden for leaving the border open but they’re both Americans. And why did Biden leave the border open?
This is why we can’t have nice things
Apparently we are building a base in Aleppo close to the Turkish border.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-establishing-new-military-base...
Ahh well it’s more fodder for Iran if Israel gets us to support its war against Iran. Biden has just been briefed on how to hit Iranian nuclear facilities. I guess congress will be okay with that new war too. They won’t even need to vote on it.
heh...
we can spend billions on building military bases, but not for housing. priorities.
Yoon's presidential security guard
...is refusing to abide by the search warrant authorizing search of the presidential residence and grounds in Hannam-Dong. They are claiming it is a security area and not subject to search.
The police team sent by the Office to Investigate High Public Officials has to serve the arrest warrant directly on Yoon. In order to do that, they need to determine where he is within the residence and its grounds and facilities. So this appears to be obstruction at this point by Yoon's security people. These are identified as the the 55th Guards Unit, assigned to the inside perimeter security guard. These guards are from the Capital Defense Command, iow soldiers. The Capital Defense Command by the way was one of those allegedly involved in the original insurrection plan. JTBC is reporting that functioning in the role of president Yoon's security detail, it is not under the command of the JCS.
JTBC observers regard this opposition to entry by the guards around the president's official residence is illegal, and an obstruction of due process. What's next? It's a standoff.
1·2차 저지선 돌파…체포조-경호처, 관저 바로 앞 대치 중 / JTBC 뉴스특보
Earlier today I saw that the Guardian referred to the martial law coup attempt on Dec 3-4 as an "alleged insurrection." This is absurd. The video of troops breaking into the National Assembly Building with full combat gear and live ammunition was ordered by Yoon. One general even testified that Yoon told him to have the soldiers to break down the doors of assembly and shoot if necessary to prevent the members from voting against his declaration of martial law.
South Korea’s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol vows to ‘fight until end’
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evening soryang...
that yoon guy must clank when he walks.
i thought you might be interested in checking out the duran report on the goings on in sk, their speculations about what the u.s. knew about the coup and when are interesting.
Yes I did watch it
...along with some of the other videos you posted. I think they are making some assumptions, I haven't seen any hard evidence but for the member of the house, I forget his name, who appeared to know about the false flag aspect of this, in terms of provoking a war, before it was public knowledge. The drone attack idea on North Korea, as a response to balloon flights, was hoped to provoke a military confrontation, which didn't occur. The timing of these HQ Intelligence division ops to attack places in South Korea and leave North Korean uniforms behind, seemed more likely to provide a basis for martial law. The timing of the drone op was too premature like some of the other more conventional provocations.
I've always felt that the known presence of a bug in the National Security Office some time ago, and then the so called "March coup" in Yoon's National Security Office reflected CIA eavesdropping and overarching influence on the National Security Advisors on the presidents staff among others. The US ambassador Philip Goldberg, on the other hand, and Kurt Campbell "the Asia czar" acted as if and made presentations to the effect, that they didn't know of the martial law plan, and disapproved.
I've said before that this coup attempt by Yoon, "didn't come out of nowhere." It had been predicted by the opposition based on personnel assignments at the Defense Secretary position, the Capital Guards, the Counter intelligence Command, and the Special Forces Command. These people were all deliberately selected for this purpose because they were in Yoon's clique. This was discussed publicly by the opposition in the national Assembly, and the Defense Minister, deliberately lied about it, under oath, in response to direct questioning. Further, anyone who has been carefully following Yoon's behavior for the last three years like I have, knew of his personal fascination with Chun Doo-hwan, the last military dictator. After he became president, Yoon's military parades and speeches always created the appearance of a dictatorship in the making.
This standoff right in front of the president's residence has been going on for over 3 hrs now. There are 8 justices on the Constitutional Court now. With 2 ending their terms April 17 or thereabouts, they'll be back to six. The acting president didn't appoint the third judge because it would change the odds on the outcome, and give the process a shorter deadline.
Thanks for the news lineup Joe and the Ronnettes.
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Yoon's praetorian guard blocked his arrest
...by the Criminal Investigation Office team by force basically. It has been referred to as a "stand off" and a physical confrontation by about "200 soldiers" working for Yoon's security detail blocking entry by the CIO arrest team. The CIO has withdrawn their team after hours of confrontation based on concern for their safety.
The western media has been presenting Yoon's defense teams rationalization for his defiance of the search and arrest warrants, claiming there is a statutory provision that blocks police enforcement entry into the presidents secure area without his consent to prevent disclosure of military secrets. The judge who issued the warrants dismissed these contentions as unfounded under the circumstances. This is a typical Yoon legal argument made up out of whole cloth when he is caught in flagrante delicto.
This situation was anticipated by analysts. The team may return. The warrant unless extended expires on the sixth. The CIO will have to consider their next move. Yoon's attorney contends the CIO has no authority to investigate Yoon, that it should be the Public Prosecutors Office. The PPO has a conflict of interest, it works for Yoon. They "the dictatorship of prosecutors" was the problem from the outset. The Office to Investigate Corruption of High Officials referred to as CIO is the lead agency in the investigation of Yoon.
The western press goes on and on about the mob of Yoon supporters on the main thoroughfare outside the Hannam Dong VIP area. This is a small crowd of few hundred far right taeguki paramilitary type reservists and religious fundamentalists. Their US flags and "stop the steal" (in English) sign are getting a lot of play in the media. A crowd of a few hundred advocating complete disregard for the rule of law vs. the over one million people who come out on the street to get rid of Yoon on Saturdays since his military coup started Dec 3.
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Good evening all. Thanks for the EBs, Joe. It looks like
the accused driver of the Tesla bomb in Vegas was a fan of ukiestan. https://www.rt.com/news/610363-vegas-cybertruck-suspect-ukraine/
Fun:
and Orban threatens to veto the EU's next budget https://www.rt.com/news/610336-hungary-loss-eu-funding/
RT has a banner: South Korean Military Unit Blocks Police From Arresting Impeached President - YONHAP. I won't start talking coup, but ...
Definitely need Soryang's input on this
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 --
evening el...
heh, maybe that fellow got a ukrainian job to send a special message to trump.
have a great evening!
Shitlib….
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Another said that Europeans should freeze this winter so that they understand what Ukraine has been going through. Like it’s their fault that Ukraine energy facilities have been blown up? But that’s how shitlibs roll these days. They have no empathy for anyone who suffers. Well except they care if Ukrainians get a hangnail.
The guy who blew up in the Tesla was shot in the head. Not sure if before he arrived at Trump hotel or after. People say that Teslas can be remote driven. Stay tuned.
He posted a picture of him wearing a Nazi slogan that says Slava Ukraine.
Maybe ISIS is attacking because they are upset about the ones in Syria who are playing nice with their enemies. Or because they are being used as cannon fodder for those same enemies?
Biden was briefed by Sullivan on attacking Iran before they can make a nuclear weapon. And yet the Iranian president still thinks that he can make friends with America. No matter that half of the government wants the country to cease to exist. Gaddaffi played nice. Assad was thinking of playing nice. Other leaders also played nice and now they are all dead.
heh...
you have to wonder if those shitlibs have pondered what the unavailability of gas for heating and electricity will do for the stability of european governments. if they don't like fico and orban, they can look forward to lots more like them. i hear that afd is polling well in germany now.
iran better get busy building some nukes and/or signing some sort of deal that puts them under russia's nuclear umbrella. it's probably the only way that they will survive the next few years.
I doubt they care
They’re mad that Europe was getting gas from Russia in the first place. But maybe if Europeans freeze all winter the citizens will rise up and insist that their governments stop sending money to Ukraine. If Trump stops supporting Ukraine and Europe does too then Ukraine is done for. But since they are so ill informed they probably don’t know what Europe has been doing for Ukraine.
I read the sources they are following and it’s pure propaganda. I’ve said that they will be very surprised when Ukraine sues for peace or Russia wins outright. lol…I can’t wait for that day.
Damn and I can’t eat popcorn.
Sullivan/Israel wants to attack Iran before they sign the treaty with Russia. I’m betting that’s what this is all about. But Perezchein needs to bring his head into the sunshine and see that there’s no deal worth making with America. Doesn’t he remember who cancelled the last one even though Iran was in compliance?
Ronettes?
You are trying to flood my brain with memories, joe!
I might just write about how I learned to do the mashed potatoes and how dangerous a situation the black man could have found himself in for teaching me and my two white girl friends, but for his boss and my Dad.
No matter the Ronettes were cool and modern. It was still Jim Crow in local minds until only fairly recently. Maybe the mid to late 80s locally.
The more info coming in about the Jabbar stuff and the Las Vegas stuff, the stranger it becomes. s
Well, if anything, 2024 might have groomed us all to watch out for bs in 2025.
Thanks, joe, and welcome back, thanks for the great music and news, dear friend!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
evening otc...
yeah, i discovered the ronettes the same year that i watched the klan parade through my little town on their way to see the imperial lizard address them about 25 miles up the road. i'm pretty sure that under those robes and hoods a lot of people from my town were hiding.
have a good one!
Well,
I might even write about that case I had, a custody fight, where the Mom had the baby sort of Baptized and initiated into the KKK by the Grand Lizard, in beautiful pictures, (I won custody of the child for the Dad), or that time I had a murder trial moved to another county and jury told to go home because I happened to need to pee, and the courthouse jury bathroom had a business card from that same KKK GL on the top of the commode. Destroyed the jury pool. (My client was black, the victim white.) Fortunate bladder action, ya think?
I actually had a lynching described to me by the father of a college roommate. He said it was a picnic atmosphere. He was not at all traumatized by it. Had to have been in the late 40s or early 50s.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
seems like idiots in charge
.
are trying to use bad news
to corral public opinion into pens
to further their totalitarian ideals
why blow-up buildings in Manhattan
if you can get the same results by focusing on
a few random crazies hell-bent on destruction?
question everything
Yep.
We may have milked the 9/11 and Patriot Act (written by Biden well before 9/11) for all it's worth, so it might be time to scare folks here, or there, or somewhere, until we are all even more afraid and worn down and will more easily comply.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
That is one sure way to gain votes in the upcoming German
election.
oh my...
rehabilitating nordstream? that's gonna leave a mark. those afd folks better get themselves some good security against three-letter goons.
It appears as if Yoon stays out of prison for another day.
Big Brother approves of this!
as he is?
Oh shit, oh damn, oh fuck us
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981