The Evening Blues - 2-5-25



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The day's news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Jimmy Rushing

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-- Mark Twain


News and Opinion

Trump Goes All-In On Stealing Gaza For His Zionist Owners

Grinning like the cat that ate the canary, Hague fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu sat beside Donald Trump as the US president unequivocally told the press on Tuesday that the plan for Gaza is to permanently remove all Palestinians from the enclave.

“I don’t think people should be going back to Gaza,” Trump said. “I think that Gaza has been very unlucky for them. They’ve lived like hell.”

Asked for clarification on whether the Palestinians would have a right to return to Gaza after its reconstruction, Trump said the plan is to build them housing in other countries that’s so nice they won’t want to return.

“It would be my hope that we could do something really nice, really good, where they wouldn’t want to return,” Trump said, adding, “I hope that we could do something where they wouldn’t want to go back. Who would want to go back? They’ve experienced nothing but death and destruction.”

Asked how many people he was talking about removing, Trump replied, “All of them.”


Shortly thereafter, the president announced that the US would soon “take over” and “own” Gaza and oversee construction projects there.

“The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too,” Trump said. “We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings — level it out. Create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area.”

Given what Trump previously said about permanently removing all Palestinians from Gaza, there is no question who he is talking about when he says he wants to provide housing for “the people of the area”. He is talking about a very straightforward ethnic cleansing operation, driven by the United States.

Trump clarified that when he said the US would “own” the Gaza Strip, he did not misspeak. “Everybody I’ve spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land,” he told the press.


Trump reiterated his previously stated position that the people of Gaza could be relocated to Jordan or Egypt or “other countries”. Of course the possibility of Palestinians living anywhere else in their historic homeland has not been mentioned, because that’s not how ethnic cleansing works. The agenda is to remove an undesirable population from the land so that they can be replaced with a desirable one; allowing Palestinians from Gaza to live in Israeli territory or the West Bank during reconstruction would defeat the purpose of Israel’s actions since October 2023.

Trump repeatedly spoke of how devastated, dangerous and uninhabitable Gaza is, making it sound like the area was hit by an unfortunate natural disaster and not a deliberate and methodical operation to make the enclave unlivable. This ethnic cleansing plan is being presented as a humanitarian solution to tragic circumstances, when in reality the US and Israel destroyed Gaza on purpose with the goal of advancing the exact agenda they are working to advance today.

This move is sure to be aggressively resisted, both internally by Hamas and by neighboring powers, even if the Trump administration can find nations willing to facilitate its ethnic cleansing plans. This means we can expect significantly more violence and killing in the region if this agenda moves forward.

And it should here be mentioned that Donald Trump has publicly admitted to being bought and owned by Zionist oligarchs. The president openly acknowledged on the campaign trail that the first time he was president, megadonors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson were at the White House “probably almost more than anybody” demanding favors for Israel like moving the US embassy to Jerusalem and acknowledging Israel’s illegitimate claim to the Golan Heights, which he eagerly granted. Miriam Adelson, who is Israeli-American, gave the Trump campaign $100 million last year.

And that’s the price of entry if you want to become president of the United States. You have to make alliances with oligarchs and empire managers who want very ugly things for our world, and you have to be the sort of person who is sufficiently dead inside to make such Faustian bargains. That’s why US presidents are so consistently evil; if they weren’t, they’d never make it anywhere near the presidency.

Blueprint for Ethnic Cleansing: Trump Proposes U.S. Take Over Gaza, Forcibly Remove All Palestinians

Trump says Palestinians have ‘no alternative’ but to leave Gaza

Donald Trump has said Palestinians have “no alternative” but to leave Gaza due to the devastation left by Israel’s war on Hamas, in effect endorsing ethnic cleansing of the territory over the opposition of Palestinians and neighbouring countries.

Speaking as he prepared to host Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Tuesday, Trump repeated the suggestion that Gaza’s population should be relocated to Jordan and Egypt – something both countries have firmly rejected.

Trump claimed Palestinians would “love to leave Gaza”, telling reporters: “I would think that they would be thrilled.” After 16 months of devastating war with Israel, Trump said Gaza was “a pure demolition site”.

“I don’t think people should be going back to Gaza. Gaza is not a place for people to be living, and the only reason they want to go back, and I believe this strongly, is because they have no alternative… If they had an alternative, they’d much rather not go back to Gaza and live in a beautiful alternative that’s safe,” he told reporters in the Oval Office.

“If we could find the right piece of land, or numerous pieces of land, and build them some really nice places with plenty of money in the area, that’s for sure. I think that would be a lot better than going back to Gaza,” he said. When asked where such places might be, he suggested they could be in Jordan, Egypt or “other places. You could have more than two.

Trump Says US Will 'TAKE OVER' Gaza, EXPEL Entire Population

Max Blumenthal : USAID Treachery

'We'll Own It': Trump Floats US Takeover of Gaza—After Ethnically Cleansing Palestinians

U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States will "take over" Gaza after emptying the embattled enclave of nearly all its native Palestinians, sparking a firestorm of criticism that included allegations of intent to commit ethnic cleansing.

Speaking during a press conference with fugitive Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, Trump told reporters, "The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too."

"We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site, and get rid of the destroyed buildings—level it out and create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area," Trump continued.

"We're going to develop it, create thousands and thousands of jobs, and it will be something that the entire Middle East could be very proud of," he said, evoking the proposals of varying seriousness to build Jewish-only beachfront communities over the ruins of Gaza.

Doubling down on his January call for the removal of most of Gaza's population to Egypt and Jordan—both of which vehemently rejected the proposal—Trump said that "it would be my hope that we could do something really nice, really good, where [Palestinians] wouldn't want to return."

"Why would they want to return?" asked Trump. "The place has been hell."

Asked how many Palestinians should leave Gaza, Trump replied, "all of them," citing a figure of 1.7-1.8 million Palestinians out of an estimated population of approximately 2.3 million people.

The forced transfer of a population by an occupying power is a war crime, according to Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention—under which Israel's settler colonies in the occupied West Bank are also illegal.

"I don't think people should be going back to Gaza," Trump continued. "Gaza is not a place for people to be living, and the only reason they want to go back, and I believe this strongly, is because they have no alternative. If they had an alternative, they'd much rather not go back to Gaza and live in a beautiful alternative that's safe."

Asked if he would deploy U.S. troops to Gaza, Trump said that "we'll do what's necessary. If it's necessary, we'll do that."

Palestinian Ambassador to the U.N. Riyad Mansour responded by affirming that "our country and our home is the Gaza Strip."

"It's part of Palestine," he stressed. "Our homeland is our homeland."

Responding to Trump's remarks, Netanyahu praised his ally's "willingness to puncture conventional thinking" and stand behind Israel.

"[Trump] sees a different future for that piece of land that has been the focus of so much terrorism, so many attacks against us, so many trials and so many tribulations," Netanyahu told reporters as he stood beside the U.S. leader. "He has a different idea, and I think it's worth paying attention to this. We're talking about it. He's exploring it with his people, with his staff."

"I think it's something that could change history," Netanyahu added, "and it's worthwhile really pursuing this avenue."

There is currently a fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, where more than 15 months of Israeli bombardment, invasion, and siege have left more than 170,000 Palestinians dead, maimed, or missing and more than 2 million others forcibly displaced, starved, or sickened, according to local and international officials and agencies.

Numerous Israeli leaders have advocated the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza and the Jewish recolonization of the coastal enclave, most of whose inhabitants are the descendants of Palestinians forcibly expelled from other parts of Palestine during the establishment of the modern state of Israel in the late 1940s. Palestinians ethnically cleansed during what they call the Nakba, or catastrophe, have since been denied their U.N.-guaranteed right of return to their homeland.

Last November, former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon acknowledged that the ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza was underway. Other Israeli political and military leaders have said that the so-called "Generals' Plan"—a strategy to starve and ethnically cleanse Palestinians from northern Gaza—was effectively in progress.

Palestinian-American journalist Ramzy Baroud responded to Trump's remarks in a video posted on social media Tuesday.

"Now, you would say, 'Wait a minute, Trump seems to be really, really determined, his heart is set on ethnically cleansing Palestinians, and this subject is back on the table,'" Baroud said. "The question is, whose table? It's not on the table of the Palestinian people."

Earlier Tuesday, Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and continuing the freeze on funding for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which Israel has baselessly accused of being a terrorist organization.

In a fact sheet viewed by multiple media outlets, the White House asserted that UNHRC "has not fulfilled its purpose and continues to be used as a protective body for countries committing horrific human rights violations."

"The UNHRC has demonstrated consistent bias against Israel, focusing on it unfairly and disproportionately in council proceedings," the White House continued. "In 2018, the year President Trump withdrew from the UNHRC in his first administration, the organization passed more resolutions condemning Israel than Syria, Iran, and North Korea combined."

UNHRC spokesperson Pascal Sim noted Tuesday that the U.S. has been an observer state, not a UNHRC member, since January 1, and according to U.N. rules, it cannot "technically withdraw from an intergovernmental body that is no longer part of."

The UNRWA funding pause is based on Israeli claims—reportedly extracted from Palestinian prisoners in an interrogation regime rife with torture and abuse—that a dozen of the agency's more than 13,000 workers in Gaza were involved in the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack. These claims prompted numerous nations including the United States to cut off funding for UNRWA last year. The U.S. had been UNRWA's biggest benefactor, providing $300-400 million annually to the lifesaving organization.

UNRWA fired nine employees in response to Israel's claim, even as the agency admitted there was no evidence linking the staffers to October 7. Faced with this lack of evidence, the European Union and countries including Japan, Germany, Canada, and Australia reinstated funding for UNRWA. Last March, then-U.S. President Joe Biden signed a bill prohibiting American funding for the agency.

Israeli lawmakers have also banned UNRWA from operating in Israel, severely hampering the agency's ability to carry out its mission throughout Palestine, including in Gaza and the illegally occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

According to the most recent UNRWA situation report, at least 272 of the agency's workers have been killed by Israeli forces, which since October 2023 have bombed numerous schools, shelters, and other facilities used by the agency.

William Deere, the director of UNRWA's Washington, D.C. office, told PBS earlier this week that "there is no alternative to UNRWA."

"UNRWA performs a unique function in the U.N. system," Deere explained. "We are a direct service provider. We run... a healthcare network, we run an education system, we provide relief and social services."

As U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said last month, "UNRWA has been carrying out activities in the occupied Palestinian territory for more than 70 years... and has thus accumulated unparalleled experience in providing assistance that is tailored to the specific needs of Palestine refugees."

Trump's executive order preceded his meeting with Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court after it issued arrest warrants for him and Yoav Gallant, his former defense minister, last November for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. The tribunal also issued a warrant for Hamas leader Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri.

The U.S. president's directives also followed his January freeze on foreign aid to countries except for Israel and Egypt, and his plan to shut down the United States Agency for International Development.

Matt Hoh : Trump and Gaza

Euro-Med Rights Group: Israeli Prisons ‘Graves for the Living’

The deteriorating health conditions of freed Palestinian prisoners reflect the systematic torture in Israeli jails, a Geneva-based rights group said Monday, calling the Israeli prisons “graves for the living”, Anadolu Agency reports.

In a statement, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor shared an image of a freed Palestinian prisoner showing severe signs of health deterioration.

“The poor health of Palestinian detainees and prisoners released by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreements in the Gaza Strip reflects the terrible conditions they endured while in custody, including torture, mistreatment and degrading abuses that persisted until the very last minute,” it said.

Hundreds of Palestinians were released by Israel in return for 18 captives under the ceasefire deal that took effect on 19 January.

“The majority (of prisoners) appeared to be in a serious state of decline, with each of them losing several kilograms of weight due to what appears to be intentional starvation,” the rights group said. “Many of the inmates and detainees required immediate hospital transfers for critical medical examinations."

Israel’s ‘Buffer Zone’ Dream Fails: Displaced Lebanese Return to the South

China unveils US tariffs and Google investigation in response to Trump levies

Donald Trump has fired the opening salvo of his trade war, imposing tariffs on China on Tuesday that sparked instant retaliation from Beijing, amid fears for the global economic repercussions. Moments after US tariffs of 10% came into effect, China swiftly announced an anti-trust investigation into Google. China’s finance ministry also announced 15% tariffs on coal and liquefied natural gas, and 10% on crude oil, farm equipment, large-displacement vehicles and pickup trucks from the US.

China’s commerce ministry and its customs administration said on Tuesday that to “safeguard national security interests” the country was imposing export controls on a raft of critical minerals: tungsten, tellurium, ruthenium, molybdenum and ruthenium-related items.

The commerce ministry also said it was adding the US companies PVH Group and Illumina Inc to its unreliable entity list, opening them to restrictions or penalties, without detailing what the companies were accused of. PVH is a clothing company that owns brands including Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein. Illumina is a biotech company specialising in genomic sequencing that recently partnered with Nvidia on health-related AI tech.

In December, China launched an antitrust investigation into Nvidia, after a tightening of US export controls on hi-tech products popular in China. On Tuesday, the Financial Times reported that Beijing was considering adding US chipmaker Intel to the list of companies being investigated by China’s antitrust regulator. China is Intel’s largest market, and Nvidia’s second-largest after the US.

Most of Google’s services such as search and email are blocked in China. But the company still makes money in China from Chinese companies advertising overseas and from Chinese phone-makers using its Android operating system.

Zelensky fears elections, fears US audit

Musk intensifies government spending attack with push to cut all regulations

Elon Musk has proposed a “wholesale removal of regulations” in an intensification of his crusade to slash US federal government spending. On a call aired on X, the social media platform he owns, the multibillionaire entrepreneur said regulations should be “gone” amid growing opposition to his mission as Donald Trump’s enforcer and head of a newly created “department of government efficiency” (Doge).

A lot of opposition has come from average Americans, including several hundred people protesting outside the treasury building where Musk’s team last week gained access to the US treasury payment system. About a dozen members of Congress, including the representatives Maxine Waters, Al Green and Ayanna Pressley and the senators Jeff Merkley, Chuck Schumer and Richard Blumenthal, joined the crowd. The representative Jasmine Crockett’s voice boomed: “We are not going to sit around while you go and desecrate our constitution. We are going to be in your face and on your asses!”

“Regulations, basically, should be default gone,” Musk said in call joined by Vivek Ramaswamy, until recently the joint head of Doge, and two Republican senators, Joni Ernst and Mike Lee. “Not default there, default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in.”

He also said the early days of Trump’s presidency, combined with a Republican-controlled Congress, presented a unique chance of implementing a radical overhaul of US government. “If it’s not possible now, it’ll never be possible. This is our shot,” he said. “This is the best hand of cards we’re ever going to have. And if we don’t take advantage of this best hand of cards, it’s never going to happen.”

Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats

Staffers with Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) reportedly entered the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the Department of Commerce in Washington DC today, inciting concerns of downsizing at the agency.

“They apparently just sort of walked past security and said: ‘Get out of my way,’ and they’re looking for access for the IT systems, as they have in other agencies,” said Andrew Rosenberg, a former Noaa official who is now a fellow at the University of New Hampshire. “They will have access to the entire computer system, a lot of which is confidential information.”

Project 2025, written by several former Trump staffers, has called for the agency to be “broken up and downsized”, claiming the agency is “harmful to US prosperity” for its role in climate science. Rosenberg noted it’s been a longtime goal of corporations that rely on Noaa data to prevent the agency from making the data public, instead of giving it directly to private corporations that create products based on it, such as weather forecasting services. He also argued there is no legal authority to abolish Noaa or reduce its budget, outside of reducing it through Congress.

“There’s no real transparency. They just show up wherever they want, do whatever they want. They’re following through on major budget cuts and major staffing cuts,” Rosenberg added. “I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’”

US Senate confirms Trump nominee Pam Bondi as attorney general

The Republican-led Senate confirmed Pam Bondi as the new US attorney general on Tuesday, propelling one of Donald Trump’s staunchest political allies to the top perch of American law enforcement.

The 54-46 vote to confirm of the former Florida state attorney general will help Trump solidify his control over the US justice department, which has recently seen sweeping cuts targeting prosecutors and FBI agents who investigated the January 6 2021 attack on the Capitol by the president’s supporters.

Democratic senator John Fetterman joined all 53 Republicans in voting for Bondi.

Bondi, 59, vowed to maintain the department’s independence during a confirmation hearing last month, telling lawmakers she will not inject politics into criminal or civil investigations.

But lawmakers continue to harbor concerns about whether she will resist potentially improper or illegal orders from Trump, after the firings of dozens of prosecutors who pursued criminal charges against him.

Trump administration says it has begun deporting migrants to Guantánamo Bay

The Trump administration has begun flying undocumented immigrants from the US to a military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said on Tuesday. Leavitt told Fox Business Network that at least two deportation flights were “under way”, but gave no further details.

Her comments, however, appeared to confirm reporting by the Wall Street Journal, citing an anonymous official with knowledge of the operation, that about a dozen immigrants were onboard one flight from Fort Bliss, Texas. The newspaper said an additional flight had departed on Monday.

CNN later reported one of the flights had “about nine or 10” people onboard who were detained in the US without valid immigration documents.

The news of the first flights, containing deportees of unknown nationality, comes a day after El Salvador offered to accept undocumented migrants from any country – and even incarcerated US citizens. The announcement by El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, followed a visit by the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio. ...

Rubio praised El Salvador’s willingness to accept deportees. “No country’s ever made an offer of friendship such as this. [It is] the most unprecedented and extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,” he said.



the horse race



GOP Senators CAVE On Tulsi, RFK Nominations



the evening greens


Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist

The pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, according to renowned climate scientist Prof James Hansen, who said the international 2C target is “dead”. A new analysis by Hansen and colleagues concludes that both the impact of recent cuts in sun-blocking shipping pollution, which has raised temperatures, and the sensitivity of the climate to increasing fossil fuels emissions are greater than thought.

The group’s results are at the high end of estimates from mainstream climate science but cannot be ruled out, independent experts said. If correct, they mean even worse extreme weather will come sooner and there is a greater risk of passing global tipping points, such as the collapse of the critical Atlantic ocean currents.

Hansen, at Columbia University in the US, sounded the alarm to the general public about climate breakdown in testimony he gave to a UN congressional committee in 1988.

“The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) defined a scenario which gives a 50% chance to keep warming under 2C – that scenario is now impossible,” he said. “The 2C target is dead, because the global energy use is rising, and it will continue to rise.” The new analysis said global heating is likely to reach 2C by 2045, unless solar geoengineering is deployed.

The world’s nations pledged in Paris in 2015 to keep global temperature rise below 2C above preindustrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5C. The climate crisis has already supercharged extreme weather across the world with just 1.3C of heating on average in recent years destroying lives and livelihoods – 2C would be far worse.

Temperatures at north pole 20C above average and beyond ice melting point

Temperatures at the north pole soared more than 20C above average on Sunday, crossing the threshold for ice to melt. Temperatures north of Svalbard in Norway had already risen to 18C hotter than the 1991–2020 average on Saturday, according to models from weather agencies in Europe and the US, with actual temperatures close to ice’s melting point of 0C. By Sunday, the temperature anomaly had risen to more than 20C.

“This was a very extreme winter warming event,” said Mika Rantanen, a scientist at the Finnish Meteorological Institute. “Probably not the most extreme ever observed, but still at the upper edge of what can happen in the Arctic.”

Burning fossil fuels has heated the planet by about 1.3C since preindustrial times, but the poles are warming much faster as reflective sea ice melts. The increase in average temperatures has driven an increase in fiercely hot summers and unsettlingly mild winters.

Julien Nicolas, a scientist at the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, said the unusually mild temperatures in the depths of the polar winter were linked to a deep low-pressure system over Iceland, which was directing a strong flow of warm air towards the north pole. Extra-hot seas in the north-east Atlantic were strengthening the wind-driven warming, he added.

“This type of event is relatively rare, but we are not able to assess its frequency without further analysis,” said Nicolas. “We are aware that a similar event occurred in February 2018.”

Norway rules out fish farm ban despite ‘existential threat’ to wild salmon

Norway’s environment minister has ruled out a ban on open-net fish farming at sea despite acknowledging that the wild North Atlantic salmon is under “existential threat”. With yearly exports of 1.2m tonnes, Norway is the largest producer of farmed salmon in the world. But its wild salmon population has fallen from more than a million in the early 1980s to about 500,000 today.

While the decimation of the wild population is in large part due to the climate crisis, the country’s salmon industry, which has had escapes of farmed fish and a significant rise in sea lice parasites, has helped reduce numbers to a historic low, resulting in the closure of 33 rivers to salmon fishing last summer.

Andreas Bjelland Eriksen, the climate and environment minister, said his job was “not to stop or close down human activity itself” but rather to incentivise industrial production while reducing pollution to an “acceptable level”. ...

“If you look at the aquaculture industry, they produce food, that is really important to people all over the world, and the goal is to be able to produce that food sustainably in the future,” he said. “My main issue is therefore not with the production itself, it’s with the pollution and the impact that pollution has on the environment. That is what we need to tackle,” Eriksen said.


Also of Interest

Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.

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Lavrov vs. Rubio On Multipolarity

US Tech CEOs Admit They Want AI Monopoly & ‘Unipolar World’, Blocking China’s Competition

Is Trump Running A Coup?

Congressional Office Says Trump Has No Authority to Dismantle USAID

How the world’s richest man laid waste to the US government

FBI agents assigned to January 6 cases sue Trump DoJ over retaliation fears

‘Into the heart of the whirlwind’: how Led Zeppelin were sweet-talked into their first biopic

Elon DOGE Kids RAID Treasury

Trump Funding Cuts Signal The End Of Ukraine!


A Little Night Music

Jimmy Rushing - Going To Chicago

Jimmy Rushing - I Left My Baby

Jimmy Rushing - Good Morning Blues

Jimmy Rushing - Take Me Back Baby

Jimmy Rushing w Dizzie Gillespie Quintet - Blues After Dark

Jimmy Rushing and Billy Taylor - Boogie Woogie

Jimmy Rushing and Dave Brubeck - Ain't Misbehavin'

Jimmy Rushing - Everyday I Have the Blues (Live in New York)

Jimmy Rushing w Count Basie - The Jungle King


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snoopydawg's picture

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that Trump promises to create.

"We're going to develop it, create thousands and thousands of jobs, and it will be something that the entire Middle East could be very proud of,"

Gaza will become a giant Israeli sweatshop and Yemen and Lebanon will also join the sweatshop laborers. But will they be enjoying those beautiful new homes or will they be living in sweatshop factory buildings with razor wire running around the exterior and suicide nets to keep people from taking their lives?

Aaron Bushnell asked us to tell the government that what it was doing in Gaza was not acceptable. He was ignored.

Yes shitlibs are finally indignant about the genocide in Gaza, but they are putting all the blame on T supporters and not Biden and Blinken et all for priming the pump with their support of destroying all of Gaza. As we remember it was Blinken who first said that Palestinians should go to Egypt. I don’t remember shitlibs being indignant about that.

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Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.

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@snoopydawg

it'll be interesting to see how the "america first" bunch will respond to president magoo's proposal to spend american blood and treasure to make israel great(er) again.

funny how the shitlibs suddenly wake up to what's going on when there's a republican in the white house.

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QMS's picture

and Gaza, Panama, any other nation.
Playing monopoly may work in NYC,
but the ROW has other plans for our future.
You are not the driver and your MIC is sick.

Wizen-up blowhard. Try to get along with
your neighbors first. Then you may solve
issues: like Ukraine, Taiwan, Iran and company.

Canada and Mexico ain't playing this game.

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question everything

joe shikspack's picture

@QMS

heh, i wonder if trump can piss off the entire world all at the same time. now that would be a statement of american exceptionalism if i've ever seen one.

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QMS's picture

@humphrey
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suck it up buttercup.
You no longer matter.
Trying to foment a revolution
on your lack of principles will not
get much traction. To remember I used
to think of her as progressive makes me ill.
Same with the Bern . Now they are both
cloaked in donor pyjammies.

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question everything

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@QMS

cold

True, but cold. Colder because true. Something like that, anyway…

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Twice bitten, permanently shy.

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@humphrey

much as i'd be delighted if president musk were to be sent off to colonize mars and trouble us no more, it would be well to note that the 9% approval congress has only a tenuous claim at representing anybody, either.

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Is that I wish I was a sharpshooter.

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joe shikspack's picture

@BORG_US_BORG

it probably wouldn't do you any good. the vermin are too numerous.

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@joe shikspack There's 300,000,000+ Million of us, and about 1,000 of them (Billionaires). So that's a ratio of ~ 300,000:1. If 1% stepped forward to become Luigis, there would be 3,000 assignees per target. I think the first 1% of the most egregious targets acquired would certainly post notice, and another 10% would bring them to the bargaining table, nothing less than and unconditional surrender is acceptable really.

Of course this is all a thought experiment, and it's a "slippery-slope". But I think it has been demonstrated clearly, that we are in a time that is law-less for the wealthy and well-connected. The lawless are an existential threat to our society, humanity and cultures around the world, and all life on earth. It is high time that a kind of justice beyond the law is brought to bear upon them.

They really are trying to speed-run the collapse of the American Empire to rebuild it for pennies on the dollar into their corporate techno feudalistic states. We will be forced at some point to submit on our knees or perish on our feet.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5129332-saikat-chakrabarti-primary...

Saikat Chakrabarti said he would initiate a bid to challenge former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in the party primary for the seat she’s held for more than two decades, citing concerns with new government regulations.

In the post announcing his candidacy, he spoke about his time with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).

“After serving as her campaign manager and first chief of staff, I returned to San Francisco where for five years I’ve led a policy think tank that develops comprehensive solutions to the problems that both America and San Francisco face,” he wrote in a statement on the social platform X.

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@humphrey

well, just about anything would be an improvement and nancy would be able to spend more time with her ice cream freezer. hopefully, the new guy will be spared the smear campaigns that were launched against shahid buttar.

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@joe shikspack

She wouldn't touch him with a ten foot pole as she has illusions of replacing her momma bear and would do nothing to jeopardize her dreams.

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enhydra lutris's picture

ever heard/seen Rushing with folks like Diz or Brubeck, I've always associated him with an older era. Thanks a bunch for broadening my perspective.

be well and have a good one

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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 --

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@enhydra lutris

yeah, a lot of people (for good reason) associate him with count basie, but he got around some. Smile

have a great evening!

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I saw it last night, but also in the guardian article posted in the extra section. In 2020 Trump wore a blue and white tie while Bibi wore the red one.

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Seems a subtle message.

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Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.

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