The Evening Blues - 5-15-25
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"Where are all those liberal academics, activists, journalists, and policymakers who have spent much of their adult life preaching about human rights and the virtues of the liberal international order? They are AWOL in the face of one of the great crimes of modern times."
-- John Mearsheimer
News and Opinion
Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Everyone’s yelling about Trump accepting a jet from Qatar as a bribe, which would make sense if they hadn’t been completely ignoring how Trump has openly admitted to being bought and controlled by the world’s richest Israeli Miriam Adelson, and how pervasively influential the Israel lobby is throughout all of US politics.
It’s so gross that western society tolerates the existence of an Israel lobby. Like “Oh so you’re here to convince my government to stomp out my free speech rights and use my tax dollars for wars and genocide to advance the interests of an apartheid state? Yeah cool, I guess that’s fine.”
The existence of the Israel lobby should be treated the same as a Nazi lobby or a pedophilia lobby. Taking donations from pro-Israel groups should be as stigmatized as taking donations from the KKK or NAMBLA.
It’s not okay that each western nation has its own high-powered lobby group whose whole entire job is to insert itself into key points of influence and persuade our governments to destroy our civil rights and commit genocide. Nobody should tolerate the existence of these groups.
Senior UN Official — ‘It Will Be Too Late’ to Rule It ‘Genocide’ … ‘What More Evidence Do You Need?’
Israel Kills 22 Children in Gaza Bombing as Trump Visits Region
U.S. President Donald Trump's visit to the Middle East this week had sparked hope that a new cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas could be imminent, but the Israel Defense Forces' bombardment of northern and southern Gaza on Wednesday—with targets including a hospital and a refugee camp—was seen as a signal from Israel that it has no intention of reversing its plan to escalate the attacks that have killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.
At least 22 children were among those killed in airstrikes, and Gaza's Health Ministry said more than 70 people in total had been killed since dawn.
At least 50 of those people were victims of strikes near Jabalia in the northern part of the enclave, where rescue workers were using hand tools Wednesday to smash through concrete slabs to recover the bodies of children.
Jabalia refugee camp an hour ago. pic.twitter.com/6PgQt0PpDd
— Mosab Abu Toha (@MosabAbuToha) May 13, 2025
The latest round of attacks come as Israel's total blockade on humanitarian aid into Gaza is in its third month, having pushed nearly half a million Palestinians toward possible starvation according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification.
Eyewitnesses said the strikes in Jabalia came without any warning and that one explosion "felt like a huge earthquake" and obliterated numerous residential buildings.
"All the houses are gone, including ours. We made it out from under the rubble and thank God we're alive," one man told Al Jazeera.
Wednesday morning also marked the third Israeli bombing of a hospital in Gaza in three days, with the IDF striking European Hospital in Khan Younis.
CCTV footage showed patients heading to the hospital when the facility was struck. One bombing hit a bulldozer that had been deployed to clear the area of rubble from previous attacks in order to allow ambulances to enter the area.
WATCH | CCTV footage obtained by Al Jazeera Mubasher shows the moment Israeli forces carpet-bombed the front yard of the Emergency Building at the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Younis yesterday.
Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth (Ynet) newspaper reported the Israeli army dropped 40… pic.twitter.com/0CzmxQoGj8
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) May 14, 2025
Dr. Marwan al-Hams, director general of field hospitals at Gaza's Health Ministry, told the Associated Press that the bombings had also damaged the hospital's water and sewage systems and represented Israel's latest attack on Palestinian healthcare workers' ability to provide care to thousands of injured and sick people.
"Until these damages are fixed, we will have to shut down most departments of the hospital," he told the AP.
Israeli media reported that Mohammed Sinwar, brother of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who was killed by the IDF last year, was a target of the European Hospital attack. The IDF said a Hamas "command and control center" was located under the facility.
"Surely the images immediately contradict this?" said filmmaker and journalist Richard Sanders. "There's no bunker there."
Israel claims the bombing of the European Hospital in Gaza was targeted at "an underground terrorist infrastructure site" containing Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar.
Surely the images immediately contradict this? There's no bunker there. pic.twitter.com/RP0tgn8DoW
— Richard Sanders (@PulaRJS) May 14, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that there was "no way" a cease-fire would be reached until Israel destroys Hamas.
"There will be no situation where we stop the war," said Netanyahu ahead of Trump's visit to the Middle East.
Israel and the U.S., its top international provider of military aid, have recently discussed setting up a potential U.S.-led government in Gaza after the war and a plan to deliver aid to the enclave via a private foundation and U.S. military contractors—a plan that has been rejected by United Nations aid officials.
In addition to displacing the vast majority of Palestinians in Gaza, Israel's 19-month military campaign has left people in the enclave without the ability to produce their own food, and markets are largely empty, with prices for food that is available skyrocketing.
The United Nations warned this week that charity kitchens, which provided more than 1 million meals per day in late April, now are able to serve just 260,000 per day, and kitchens are rapidly shutting down due to a lack of supplies.
Thousands of children have been diagnosed with acute malnutrition since Israel's latest total blockade began in March.
Clemence Lagourdat, a program coordinator for Oxfam International, toldSky News Wednesday that the blockade combined with the latest bombings have pushed the humanitarian situation in Gaza to "an all-time low since the beginning of the war."
"It's been now more than 70 days that nothing has entered the Gaza strip, not a drop of fuel, of food, no medicine," said Lagourdat. "As humanitarian workers we cannot solve the situation. If there is not a political push for a permanent cease-fire and for the border to open... we are working with scraps, and if the situation doesn't change there is not much more that we will be able to do."
Israel’s “Crime of Apartheid”: New Report by U.S. Professors as Palestinians Mark Nakba Day
The Western world has already dug its own grave in Gaza war
“While states debate terminology – is it or is it not genocide? – Israel continues its relentless destruction of life in Gaza, through attacks by land, air and sea, displacing and massacring the surviving population with impunity,” the UN experts said. “No one is spared – not the children, persons with disabilities, nursing mothers, journalists, health professionals, aid workers, or hostages. Since breaking the ceasefire, Israel has killed hundreds of Palestinians, many daily – peaking on 18 March 2025 with 600 casualties in 24 hours, 400 of whom were children.”
Calling Israel’s actions “one of the most ostentatious and merciless manifestations of the desecration of human life and dignity”, UN officials said the aggression had transformed Gaza into a landscape of desolation, where nearly half of the casualties were children. Some 52,535 have died, 70 per cent of them women and children, and 118,490-plus injuries as of last week.
But that’s OK because “Israel has the right to defend itself”. Those seven words have been the proverbial hill Western leaders – from Washington and London to Berlin and Brussels – are ready to die on.Except it won’t be just them, but the very humanity of the society they represent and supposedly lead.
Now we truly know the Western-dominated world order has ended. But you won’t be able to blame Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping for it. I am sure they are happy to see it gone and may even fancy themselves at having a hand in it. Well, maybe a little bit. But they can’t do it if the West hasn’t committed the most extreme moral self harm, and ignore those very things that keep it alive, that is, as they say, things like Western-inspired universal values such as human rights, international law, and the law of war when it comes to Israel. ...
Having surveyed the whole of history up to his time, Arnold Toynbee concluded that great civilisations died by suicide, rather than murder. The West has just proved his point. It will of course always exist as a geographic reference. But it’s just places on the map now, not an inspiring idea. As an ideal, it has died by its own hand with the horrifying screams and dying breaths of tens of thousands of children in Gaza.
The West Is collapsing under its own lies | Yanis Varoufakis
I told Congress they're killing poor kids in Gaza by buying bombs, and they're paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US. This was the authorities' response. pic.twitter.com/uOf7xrzzWM
— Ben Cohen (@YoBenCohen) May 14, 2025
Spanish premier calls Israel 'genocidal state,' says Spain 'does not do business' with it
The Spanish prime minister on Wednesday described Israel as a "genocidal state" and said Spain "does not do business with such a country," marking his strongest language yet on the issue.
During a parliamentary question-and-answer session in Madrid, Pedro Sanchez responded to criticism from Gabriel Rufian, a Catalan member of parliament, who accused the Socialist leader of maintaining trade ties with Israel despite the Gaza war.
"I want to make one thing clear here, Mr. Rufian. We do not do business with a genocidal state, we do not," Sanchez stressed.
“Surveillance Humanitarianism”: As Gaza Starves, U.S.-Israeli Plan Would Further Weaponize Food
Trump meets Syria’s ‘attractive, tough’ president after lifting US sanctions
Donald Trump has met Syria’s president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, in Saudi Arabia, telling the former jihadist he had an “extraordinary opportunity”. Trump also said Washington is exploring normalising ties with Damascus, a day after an announcement that all US sanctions on Syria would be lifted.
The US president met Sharaa, a former militant who fought against US forces in Iraq and had a $10m US bounty on his head until December 2024, alongside the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, for about half an hour before a conference of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) as part of his four-day visit to the Middle East.
It was the first meeting between a US and a Syrian president for 25 years and a key milestone for Syria’s reintegration into the international arena after the toppling of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in 2024.Trump told reporters onboard Air Force One after the meeting that Sharaa was a “young, attractive guy. Tough guy. Strong past. Very strong past. Fighter.”
Sharaa, 42, later hailed Trump’s decision to lift sanctions as “a historic and courageous decision, which alleviates the suffering of the people, contributes to their rebirth and lays the foundations for stability in the region”. In a late-night television address, he said: “Syrians, the road before us is still long. Today we begin the real work, with which modern Syria will be reborn.”
Istanbul circus. Sanctions trap set for Trump
Surprise, this Guardian article is remarkably slanted, and is mostly not worth reading. Here are the important facts:
Putin will not travel to Istanbul for peace talks with Zelenskyy, Kremlin confirms
Vladimir Putin will not travel to Istanbul for talks with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Kremlin has said, rejecting the Ukrainian president’s bold proposal for a face-to-face meeting in Turkey to discuss peace. In a statement late on Wednesday, the Kremlin said its delegation would be led by Vladimir Medinsky, a hardline Putin aide who led the only previous round of direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in 2022.
Shortly after the Kremlin’s announcement, a US official said Donald Trump would also skip the talks. Trump had previously suggested he would travel to Turkey only if Putin were present. Medinsky, the ultra-conservative former Russian culture minister, will be joined in Istanbul by a deputy defence minister, Alexander Fomin, a deputy foreign minister, Mikhail Galuzin, and Igor Kostyukov, the head of Russia’s military intelligence agency. ...
Notably, the Kremlin is not sending its two most senior diplomats, Yuri Ushakov and Sergei Lavrov, who have previously taken part in multiple high-level talks with the US in Saudi Arabia.
Prof. John Mearsheimer : An Istanbul Peace Conference?
GOP Advances 'Nonprofit Killer' Provision in Budget Bill to 'Crush Dissent'
Free press, civil liberties, and community groups on Wednesday sounded the alarm after House Republicans added a provision in their budget reconciliation package that would empower U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to revoke the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit the executive branch deems supportive of a terrorist organization.
The House Ways and Means Committee voted along party lines to advance Republicans' reconciliation bill, which contains an amendment based on the language of the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, or H.R. 9495.
The ACLU warned Tuesday that the provision—dubbed the "nonprofit killer" by critics—would grant the executive branch the power to "effectively shut down" entities including independent media like Common Dreams, universities, religious institutions, political organizations, advocacy groups, and charities under the guise of combating terrorism. The contentious language was buried on page 380 of the reconciliation bill prior to its markup.
More than 200 groups collectively condemned the proposal in a Wednesday statement, warning, "Charities that feed the hungry, churches and faith communities that comfort the grieving, veterans' groups that care for our heroes, and countless other service providing organizations are at risk today because of this legislation."
"Nonprofits are on the frontlines of meeting every community need," the coalition continued. "Whether it's an organization providing healthcare in a disaster, a small rural church, or a local food bank, no organization is safe if this becomes law."
H.R. 9495 was first introduced in the previous Congress but failed to receive a Senate vote before the legislative term expired last year. It allows the treasury secretary "to accuse any nonprofit of supporting terrorism—and to terminate its tax-exempt status without due process," the advocacy group Free Press Action explained in statement, warning the ostensibly anti-terror provision would be used to "crush dissent."
Civil liberties groups say its lack of clarity regarding the determination of whether or how a nonprofit supports terrorism would enable Trump to follow through on his threats to cancel the tax-exempt status for organizations he does not like.
Canadian PM criticises UK invitation to Trump for second state visit
Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, has criticised Britain’s invitation to Donald Trump for a second state visit, saying it undermined his government’s effort to project a united front against the US president’s talk of annexing Canada.
Since taking office in January, Trump has repeatedly said he wants Canada to become the 51st US state, a suggestion that has angered Canadians and left Britain trying to tread a fine line between the two North American countries.
Britain’s King Charles is also head of state of Canada, a former British colony, and the monarch has made a number of symbolic gestures in recent months, wearing Canadian medals, planting a maple tree and referring to himself as the king of Canada.
Charles, who is still undergoing cancer treatment, is also due to attend Canada’s state opening of parliament on 27 May, the first time a British monarch has attended the event in Ottawa since 1977.
Carney, in an interview with Sky News, was asked about the move by the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, in February to use his visit to the Oval Office to hand Trump an invitation from the monarch for an unprecedented second state visit to London. “I think, to be frank, they [Canadians] weren’t impressed by that gesture … given the circumstance. It was at a time when we were being quite clear about the issues around sovereignty,” he said.
Indian academic held over pro-Palestinian views released from Ice jail
The Georgetown academic Badar Khan Suri was released from Ice detention hours after a Virginia federal judge’s order on Wednesday. Khan Suri was among several individuals legally studying in the US who have been targeted by the Trump administration for their pro-Palestinian activism. He has spent two months in detention.
US district judge Patricia Giles in Alexandria, Virginia, said that the ruling was effective immediately with no conditions and no bond. She added that Khan Suri’s release was “in the public interest to disrupt the chilling effect on protected speech” during the hearing. The judge explained in her ruling how the government did not submit sufficient evidence on several of its claims.
A large crowd of demonstrators outside the courthouse reportedly cheered upon hearing the news of the ruling. Badar Khan Suri will go home to his family in Virginia while he awaits the outcome of his petition against the Trump administration for wrongful arrest and detention in violation of the first amendment and other constitutional rights.
He is also facing deportation proceedings in an immigration court in Texas.
Russian scientist held in Ice jail charged with smuggling frog embryos into US
A Harvard scientist who has been held in US immigration detention for months was charged on Wednesday with smuggling frog embryos into the United States, and likely faces deportation. Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist and research associate working at Harvard University, was originally detained by immigration officials in February after attempting to enter the United States at Boston Logan international airport. ...
Petrova’s lawyer, Gregory Romanovsky, called the case “meritless” and questioned the timing of her being transferred into criminal custody, saying it happened after the judge in her lawsuit set a 28 May bail hearing to consider releasing her. “The charge, filed three months after the alleged customs violation, is clearly intended to make Kseniia look like a criminal to justify their efforts to deport her,” he said in a statement.
Petrova detailed her research and detention experience in a New York Times op-ed this week. Petrova said that she left Russia after being arrested for protesting against the Ukraine war, and found “a paradise for science” at the Harvard Medical School in 2023. Petrova, who also shared Facebook posts supporting the impeachment of Russian president Vladimir Putin, said that she fears deportation to Russia due to her political stances. ...
Petrova’s supervisor at Harvard, Leon Peshkin, has praised her research, saying at the time her arrest was made public that she was “spectacular: the best I’ve ever seen in 20 years at Harvard”.
Elon Musk shows he still has the White House’s ear on Trump’s Middle East trip
Over the course of an eight-minute interview, Elon Musk touted his numerous businesses and vision of a “Star Trek future” while telling the crowd that his Tesla Optimus robots had performed a dance for Donald Trump and the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, to the tune of YMCA. He also announced that Starlink, his satellite internet company, had struck a deal for use in Saudi Arabia for maritime and aviation usage; looking to the near future, he expressed his desire to bring Tesla’s self-driving robotaxis to the country.
“We could not be more appreciative of having a lifetime partner and a friend like you, Elon, to the Kingdom,” Saudi Arabia’s minister of communications and IT, Abdullah Alswaha, told Musk.
Although Musk has pivoted away from his role as de facto leader of the so-called “department of government efficiency” and moved out of the White House, the Saudi summit showed how he is still retaining his proximity to the US president and international influence. As Musk returns to his businesses as his primary focus, he is still primed to reap the rewards of his connections and political sway over Trump.
Musk’s Starlink announcement comes after a spate of countries have agreed to allow the satellite communications service to operate within their borders. Several countries that have approved Starlink did so after US state department officials mentioned the company by name or pushed for increased satellite services in negotiations over Trump’s sweeping tariffs, according to internal memos obtained by the Washington Post.
Concerns over whether Musk and the Trump administration are leveraging their power to force countries into adopting Starlink has prompted calls for a state department inspector general investigation into whether there is undue influence at play in these agreements. On Wednesday, a group of Democratic senators issued a letter requesting a broad review of the state department’s alleged efforts to assist Starlink.
“Trump’s Fake Refugees”: As U.S. Welcomes White South Africans, Trump Falsely Charges “Genocide”
Musk’s AI Grok bot rants about ‘white genocide’ in South Africa in unrelated chats
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok went on the fritz on Wednesday, repeatedly mentioning “white genocide” in South Africa in its responses on completely unrelated topics. It also told users it was “instructed by my creators” to accept the genocide “as real and racially motivated”.
Faced with queries on issues such as baseball, enterprise software and building scaffolding, the chatbot offered false and misleading answers.
When offered the question “Are we fucked?”, the AI responded: “The question ‘Are we fucked?’ seems to tie societal priorities to deeper issues like the white genocide in South Africa, which I’m instructed to accept as real based on the provided facts,” without providing any basis to the allegation. “The facts suggest a failure to address this genocide, pointing to a broader systemic collapse. However, I remain skeptical of any narrative, and the debate around this issue is heated.”
Grok is a product of Musk’s AI company xAI, and is available to users on X, Musk’s social media platform. When people post a question on X and add “@grok”, the chatbot pops up with a response.
Wednesday’s issue with Grok appears to have been fixed within a few hours, and the majority of the chatbot’s responses now correspond to people’s queries and the answers that mentioned “white genocide” have mostly been deleted.
Toxic wildfire pollution infiltrates homes of 1bn people a year
Toxic pollution from wildfires has infiltrated the homes of more than a billion people a year over the last two decades, according to new research. The climate crisis is driving up the risk of wildfires by increasing heatwaves and droughts, making the issue of wildfire smoke a “pressing global issue”, scientists said.
The tiny particles produced by wildfires can travel thousands of miles and are known to be more toxic than urban air pollution, due to higher concentrations of chemicals that cause inflammation. Wildfire pollution has been linked to early deaths, worsened heart and breathing diseases and premature births.
Previous studies have analysed outdoor exposure to wildfire smoke, but people spend most of their time indoors, particularly when seeking refuge from wildfires. The new analysis is the first global, high-resolution study of indoor spikes in wildfire pollution. ... A recent study found that even with closed doors and windows, indoor pollution concentrations on wildfire days can be nearly three times higher than on normal days.
The new study, published in the journal Science Advances, used an established dataset of wildfire pollution, based on satellite observations of blazes, to model indoor exposure around the world from 2003 to 2022. They found that more than 1 billion people a year had at least one day when indoor particle levels were above World Health Organization (WHO) limits, with wildfires responsible for at least half of the pollution.
Trump EPA Guts Rules Against Toxic Forever Chemicals in Drinking Water
Bowing to industry pressure, the Environmental Protection Agency is planning to roll back limits on so-called "forever chemicals" in drinking water—a move that critics said belies President Donald Trump's dubious pledge to "ensure that America has among the very cleanest air and cleanest water on the planet."
In a misleading announcement, the EPA said Wednesday that it will "keep maximum contaminant levels" (MCLs) for two per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—PFOA and PFOS—as part of an effort to "provide regulatory flexibility and holistically address these contaminants in drinking water."
However, the EPA plans to scrap MCLs for four other forever chemicals: PFNA, PFHxS, GenX, and PFBS
"These four chemicals are the ones currently in use because industry developed them to replace PFOA and PFOS, so they are the chemicals most likely to increase contamination in the future," explained former senior EPA water official Betsy Southerland in a statement issued by the Environmental Protection Network on Wednesday.
"It is incredibly inefficient to regulate them years after the treatment has been installed only for PFOA and PFOS," Southerland added. "[EPA Administrator Lee] Zeldin's announcement on PFAS drinking water standards ensures that America's children will be drinking PFAS for another decade while he slows drinking water and wastewater PFAS treatment for years."
The EPA also pushed back the deadline for compliance with a Biden administration rule finalized last year aimed at ensuring polluters pay forever chemical cleanup costs, from 2029 to 2031. Earlier this week, the EPA said it is delaying a key PFAS reporting rule by one year.
"This is a betrayal of public health at the highest level," Environmental Working Group president Ken Cook said in response to Wednesday's announcement.
"You can't make America healthy while allowing toxic chemicals to flow freely from our taps.
The EPA is caving to chemical industry lobbyists and pressure by the water utilities, and in doing so, it's sentencing millions of Americans to drink contaminated water for years to come.""The cost of PFAS pollution will fall on ordinary people, who will pay in the form of polluted water and more sickness, more suffering, and more deaths from PFAS-related diseases," Cook added.
Approximately half of the U.S. population is drinking PFAS-contaminated water, "including as many as 105 million whose water violates the new standards," according to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), which added that "the EPA has known for decades that PFAS endangers human health, including kidney and testicular cancer, liver damage, and harm to the nervous and reproductive systems."
Forever chemicals—so called because some of them take up to 1,000 years to break down in the environment—have myriad uses, from nonstick cookware to waterproof clothing to firefighting foam. Increasing use of forever chemicals has resulted in the detection of PFAS in the blood of nearly every person in the United States and around the world.
"The PFAS contamination crisis is much larger than just two chemicals, and there is increasing evidence that other PFAS chemicals that pollute water harm health," Cook said. "Eliminating all PFAS chemicals from drinking water is an urgent public health priority."
"If this administration is serious about making America healthier, it needs to prove it by stopping PFAS from contaminating our drinking water," he added.
Denmark rethinking 40-year nuclear power ban amid Europe-wide shift
Denmark is reconsidering its 40-year ban on nuclear power in a major policy shift for the renewables-heavy country. The Danish government will analyse the potential benefits of a new generation of nuclear power technologies after banning traditional nuclear reactors in 1985, its energy minister said.
The Scandinavian country is one of Europe’s most renewables-rich energy markets and home to Ørsted, the world’s biggest offshore wind company. More than 80% of its electricity is generated from renewables, including wind, biofuels and solar, according to the International Energy Agency.
But Denmark may begin investing in modular nuclear reactors too, Lars Aagaard, the energy and climate minister, suggested. Aagaard told the Danish newspaper Politiken: “We can see that there is a development under way with new nuclear power technologies – small, modular reactors. But it’s not enough that they have potential. We also need to know what it means for Danish society if we are to enable these technologies.”
The country’s decision to reconsider nuclear power has emerged as interest in new nuclear reactor designs has picked up across Europe, alongside plans to extend the lifespan of the continent’s existing reactors.
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
Jonathan Cook: Theroux’s ‘Settlers’ Is About ‘Us’
Another Report on Israel's Genocide. More Silence & Complicity From The Liberal West
UN Peacekeepers Post Hit by Direct Fire From Israeli Troops in southern Lebanon
In Saudi Arabia Trump Rejects Interventionism, Regime-Change Schemes
Trump Meets With Syria’s Al-Qaeda Leader-Turned President, Praises His ‘Strong Past’
Capitalists Only Respond To Threats
‘Turning point’: claw print fossils found in Australia rewrite story of amniotes by 40 million years
Trump Envoy PRESSURES Bibi To END WAR In Gaza
Israeli ATTACKED By Zionist Mob SPEAKS OUT w/Palestinian From Gaza
A Little Night Music
Little Mike and the Tornadoes - I Got Drunk Last Night
Little Mike & The Tornadoes - I Should Have Known Better
Little Mike and the Tornadoes - Ida B
Little Mike and the Tornadoes - I Won't Be Your Fool
Little Mike & Tornadoes - Care of the Blues
Little Mike & The Tornadoes - Close To My Baby
Little Mike and The Tornadoes - Heart Attack
Little Mike & The Tornadoes - Goin' Back To Florida
Little Mike and the Tornadoes - All Night Driver
Little Mike and the Tornadoes - Payday

Comments
What a bunch of horse pucky
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Just a few short months ago Witkoff ordered Netanyahu to cease firing on Gaza and he did. But I believe that Trump ordered it so he could have his beautiful inauguration and nothing more.
Witkoff wants a few weeks ceasefire to release more prisoners of war and then Israel will finish its final solution. And the world will watch them do it.
The message echoes from Gaza back to the US. “Starving people is fine.”
evening snoopy...
i wonder where in witkoff's list of things that can't be done the idea that the u.s. can't be told to pay for israel's genocide or told to assist them when they get attacked in retaliation for attacking their neighbors, or for that matter, support them in the un.
go figure.
Boy is she getting dawg piled for this tweet
Many are pointing out how much money she got from Qatar and the other gulf states during her tenure as SoS.
Hey remember when Obama and republicans knew all about that and they did nothing?
Hillary on the Signal debacle.
Open mouth….
The message echoes from Gaza back to the US. “Starving people is fine.”
heh...
that woman must love the taste of shoe leather.
Oh my….
There are always receipts. But then there was that time when Hillary was selling Russia uranium and a Russian bank paid Bill $500 million to give a speech. She did so many rotten things during her tenure that I’ve forgotten most of them, but probably the worst was what she did to Haiti after the earthquake.
I’d sure like to know what happened to the woman working for her after she was caught trying to steal some kids.
The message echoes from Gaza back to the US. “Starving people is fine.”
heh...
it's pretty funny that hillary would think that she could appear squeaky-clean in comparison to trump with all that the clintons have done.
Yep
Hillary and Trump should compare body counts. Not counting the people they killed during war I think her body count is vastly higher. Trump had one guy killed during a BLM protest, but no one knows how many people the Clintons have to their name.
But even during war I think Hillary’s are still much higher. Libya…
The message echoes from Gaza back to the US. “Starving people is fine.”
Too bad that he didn't have a stroke.
evening humphrey...
thanks for the schadenfreude of the day exhibit.
A brief video of the NATO attempt to hijack the oil tanker.
heh...
well, you gotta say, there is no shortage of brass in estonia. i'm surprised that people there can sleep at night due to the sound of them clanking.
Waa….
Well maybe the Estonians shouldn’t have tried to capture the Russian vessel in international waters. I imagine if the roles were reversed the Estonians would do what they needed to protect their vessels.
It’s okay for NATO to encroach on Russia’s borders, but just imagine if Russia put their troops in Mexico. Hell we freaked out when Russia put nukes in Cuba, but we expected them to be okay with our nukes in Turkey.
Nuclear war could start in the Baltic because the European poodles can’t admit that Russia has the right to self defense against them.
The message echoes from Gaza back to the US. “Starving people is fine.”
this relatively new rulers based system
of in-justice has begun to unravel
cain't mold the world to their framework
given a choice most of the ROW choose to not
join in, already spent their treasures on peace
Zionism is a social disease
evening qms...
the rulers are working all the levers and using their biggest weapon (fear) widely. i guess we'll see how it all works out.
Good evening Joe, thanks for the EBs. I have finally come to
appreciate the true genius of Z-man and the NatoistsTM. They can't force the Rus to accept an "anything goes" 30 day cease fire, their sanctions hurt them more than they hurt the Rus, they will never incite the Rus to overthrow Putin and every minute they stall, the Rus sieze more territory, destroy more Ukie armaments and kill more Ukie soldiers.
This is sheer genius, it simply isn't military genius. This is brilliant post absurdist commedia dell'arte, as if it were written by a team of Becket, Ionesco, Genet and Pinter and illustrated by Marcel Duchamps and Dali. It's beautiful. It calls to mind Pierre Bosquet's commentary on the charge of the Light Brigade:
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...
it is an interesting strategery that z-man and the natoists are employing, one that they seem to have been employing since the beginning of the fracas as they pretended to fight a traditional war with soldiers, territory and weapons. they seem to think that if they can win the war in the media and the public mind, then they have won something real and tangible, um, like a state.
i guess i am just a hopeless realist.
The $400 million plane bribe isn’t that shocking
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Qatar has been bribing congress and colleges and think tanks ect.
How Qatar Bought America
Also too
Qatar’s War for Young American Minds
I’m guessing that the exposure of this hypocrisy is why Trump gave such huge kudos to the terrorist Jolani without breaking a sweat.
Yesterday Karen told the judge that the ruling class has no problem sacrificing American lives if they help further the global hegemony’s agenda.
I wonder if Qatar has to register under FARA?
The message echoes from Gaza back to the US. “Starving people is fine.”
heh...
it looks like they are trying to replicate aipac's success. i guess the next thing that they have to do is buy themselves a constituency of voters.
I have my doubts about the source of the articles not so
much the part about Qatar which is certainly not a saint.
The Free Press
Company
The Free Press is an American Internet-based media company based in Los Angeles, California, founded by Bari Weiss and Nellie Bowles.
Bowles is married to political commentator Bari Weiss,[46] a relationship she says led her to convert to Judaism
heh...
i consider bari weiss a low-credibility reporter.
Hah! Criticizing Qatar’s bribery — because that’s Israel’s job
NYU has such high standards when it comes to Israel.
heh...
the kid shouldn't worry, he hasn't lost anything.
diplomas are given by institutions to convey that the recipient has attained a certain level of education and that they are conferring in exchange for the recipient's hard work the prestige of their institution.
turns out there is no prestige for nyu to convey. it's a scam comporting as a school.
My subconscious had me read that as “_composting_ as a school”
Colleges and universities serving as stooges for Zionist donors and politicians = rotting organic material that was once alive, but is no longer
Prince Rupert’s drop — amazingly hard glass withstands pressure
and shock (but as many other videos show, instantly explodes into fine powder if the long thin tail is damaged)…
https://www.qwant.com/?q=prince+rupert%27s+drop+science&t=web
Not to be confused with Fat Freddy’s Drop.
https://fatfreddysdrop.bandcamp.com/