The Evening Blues - 8-18-25
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This evening's music features Chicago blues piano player Blind John Davis. Enjoy!
Blind John Davis – Moanin' The Blues
"For some reason, humans needed things that weren't true."
-- Terry Pratchett
News and Opinion
The most culturally consequential fictional fantasy land ever authored is not Oz or Narnia or Middle Earth, but the liberal Zionist creation of Alternate Reality Israel.
In the minds of its authors, Alternate Reality Israel exists in a parallel universe at the geographic location of actual real-life Israel, but never became a genocidal apartheid state. In this fictional timeline, Alternate Reality Israel magically came into existence without the mass murder, ethnic cleansing and land theft which would normally be required for the creation of a brand-new ethnostate dropped on top of a pre-existing civilization. Because of magic, Alternate Reality Israel has not needed to use nonstop violence and tyranny to maintain its existence as a theocratic ethnostate, and has instead been able to exist in peace and harmony with all the populations who were living in the area prior to its creation. The position of the liberal Zionist is therefore not self-contradictory, because the existence of Alternate Reality Israel is not at all incompatible with progressive values.
The problem, of course, is that Alternate Reality Israel does not exist, and has never existed. There is no alternate version of Israel that anyone can point to which does not include genocide, apartheid and abuse. The Zionist experiment has been run, and what we see before us is the one and only result of that experiment. This is it. There are no other timelines to compare and contrast this existing reality with.
So when someone says they are “for Israel” but against Israel’s occupation and genocide, maybe ask them which “Israel” they are referring to. It can’t possibly be the one that exists in this universe, because they said they oppose occupation and genocide. So where is it? Do they have some sort of magical crystal ball which enables them to peer into an alternate universe where Israel somehow isn’t doing these things? Show me this kindly, beneficent version of Israel, please.
There isn’t any. There never has been. It turns out it was always impossible to create a new state where people were already living and say that a new group of people gets to show up by the millions and run things there, without it looking like nonstop mass-scale abuse. There was never any magical way for that to happen in a way that aligns with human rights and liberal values. Israel was always headed toward this, and everything we’re witnessing is the result of what Israel has always been.
If liberals could point to any other Israel (or indeed any other brand new ethnostate placed overtop of a preexisting civilization of a differing ethnicity) which has existed without tremendous injustice, tyranny and abusiveness, then it would be reasonable to say that you support that thing that you are pointing to but not the thing that Israel is now. If they could go “Well with a bit of tweaking Israel could be like the thriving east Asian ethnostate of Zim-Zam” or whatever, then maybe that could be a position with some standing. But no such place exists. All they can say is that they don’t support the way Israel actually is in real life. Once they see that, they’re seeing clearly.
Ex-Israeli intelligence chief said 50 Palestinians must die for every 7 October victim
The Israeli general who headed military intelligence on 7 October 2023 has said 50 Palestinians must die for every person killed that day and “it does not matter now if they are children”, in recordings broadcast by Israel’s Channel 12 TV station.
Aharon Haliva said the toll in Gaza, which he put at more than 50,000 dead, was “necessary” as a “message to future generations” of Palestinians. “They need a Nakba every now and then to feel the price,” he added, referring to the mass expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians from their homes and lands after the creation of Israel in 1948. Nakba means catastrophe in Arabic.
Much of Israel’s leadership and media has used genocidal rhetoric about Palestinians since Hamas’s 7 October attacks, including describing them as “human animals”, saying there are “no innocents” in Gaza and calling for Gaza’s total destruction and its ethnic cleansing. However, Haliva’s description of a campaign of mass killing including children was an unusually direct description of collective punishment of civilians, which is illegal under international law.
Haliva, who stepped down from his position in April 2024, also appeared to endorse the casualty figures compiled by health authorities in Gaza, which Israeli officials regularly attack as propaganda. They have proved reliable in past conflicts. Channel 12 said the undated conversations were recorded “in recent months”. The Gaza health ministry’s toll for those killed by Israeli attacks passed 50,000 in March and has recently climbed above 60,000.
Aaron Maté : Israel, While the World Watched Alaska
1 Million Israelis Demand Gaza Ceasefire to Free Hostages In Largest Israeli Protest to Date
Tens of thousands of protesters gather in Tel Aviv to demand end to Gaza war
Tens of thousands of demonstrators have gathered in Tel Aviv to call for an end to the war in Gaza and the release of hostages, one of the largest demonstrations in Israel since the start of the fighting in October 2023. The rally on Sunday evening was the culmination of a day of nationwide protests and a general strike to pressure the government to halt the military campaign. “Bring them all home! Stop the war!” shouted the vast crowd, which had converged on the so-called Hostage Square in Tel Aviv plaza – a focal point for protesters throughout the war.
The Hostage and Missing Families Forum, the initiator of the day of protest, estimated that about 500,000 people joined the demonstration in Tel Aviv – a figure not confirmed by the police. “We demand a comprehensive and achievable agreement and an end to the war,” said Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan and a leading figure of the protest movement. “We demand what is rightfully ours – our children. The Israeli government has transformed a just war into a pointless war.” ...
The protests come more than a week after Israel’s security cabinet approved plans to capture Gaza City, 22 months into a war that has created a dire humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territory. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum campaign group vowed on Sunday that protesters would “shut down the country” with the goal of bringing back the hostages and ending the war. Throughout Israel, demonstrators blocked roads, set tyres on fire and clashed with the police. More than 30 protesters were arrested, law enforcement said.
Netanyahu criticised the protesters, saying their actions “not only harden Hamas’s position and draw out the release of our hostages, but also ensure that the horrors of 7 October will reoccur”.
UK Spy Plane CAUGHT Surveilling Gaza When Israel STRUCK Journalists
Israeli plan to displace 1 million Palestinians spreads fear in Gaza
Palestinians were gripped by fear and anxiety on Sunday after the Israeli military said it was preparing for the forcible displacement of 1 million people from Gaza City. The announcement came days after Israel said it intended to launch a new offensive to seize control of the territory’s largest urban centre, in a plan that raised international alarm, and ahead of the IDF’s latest attacks in the Palestinian territory which Gaza’s health officials said had killed at least 40 people on Saturday including a baby in a tent and people seeking aid.
“Based on the directives of the political leadership, and as part of the Israel Defense Forces’ preparations to transfer civilians from combat zones to the southern Gaza Strip for their safety, starting tomorrow [Sunday], the provision of tents and shelter equipment for Gaza residents will resume,” read a statement by the Israeli Coordination of Government Activities in the Palestinian Territories (COGAT).
“The equipment will be transferred through the Kerem Shalom crossing by the United Nations and international relief organisations, after undergoing thorough inspection by the Land Crossings Authority of the Ministry of Defense,” it added.
Meanwhile, new recordings broadcast by an Israeli TV station showed the Israeli general who headed military intelligence on 7 October 2023 saying that 50 Palestinians “must die” for every person killed that day, and “it does not matter now if they are children”. The channel said the undated conversations were recorded “in recent months”.
Israeli media ‘completely ignored’ Gaza starvation – is that finally changing?
Images of Palestinian children in Gaza, emaciated by hunger under the blockade imposed by Israel, and of families grieving the more than 61,000 people killed in the territory have stirred outrage among foreign governments and much of the global public. Inside Israel, however, the reaction has been markedly different. In a poll conducted in late July by the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI), more than three-quarters of Jewish Israelis – 79% – said they were either “not very troubled” or “not troubled at all” by reports of famine and suffering among Gaza’s Palestinian population.
According to Anat Saragusti, an expert on the media, the reason is simple: most people in Israel are unaware of those reports because for months they have never seen them. “Until a couple of weeks ago, you could count only a handful of reports from Gaza not filtered by the IDF,” said Saragusti, the head of freedom of the press at the Union of Journalists in Israel. Except for a few newspapers such as the leftwing Haaretz, she said, “all the other mainstream media completely ignored what’s going on on the Palestinian side – the human casualties there, the numbers of children killed in this war. The Israeli audience simply did not see that at all.”
In the past few weeks, the growing focus on the issue in the international media has led to some Israeli newspapers and TV channels reporting on hunger in Gaza for the first time, albeit as a debatable issue.
Since the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October 2023, public debate in Israel has largely centred on national security, the plight of the Israeli hostages captured by Hamas, and the country’s military goals in Gaza. In that climate, the humanitarian disaster caused by the Israeli assault on Gaza has tended to occupy a marginal place in the minds of many Jewish Israelis, who largely view the conflict as a legitimate act of self-defence in response to Hamas’s attacks – although polls also show a clear majority want a deal with Hamas to end the war in exchange for the freedom of the remaining Israeli hostages.
In a rare press conference with foreign journalists in Jerusalem last Sunday, Netanyahu displayed photographs of skeletal children in Gaza and dismissed them as fake, claiming they were part of a Hamas plot to attack Israel. He compared these images with a photograph of the Israeli hostage Evyatar David released by the Palestinian militant group early in August, pointing out that while the man held in Gaza appeared to be starving to death, the arm of a Hamas fighter visible in the frame looked strong and muscular. The implication was clear, according to the prime minister: the fighters of Hamas were eating well and keeping food from the Israeli hostages and from the public of Gaza. Saragusti said: “Despite images of emaciated children published by major newspapers around the world, Israel pushed back. And Israeli media outlets adopted the narrative set out by the Israeli leadership, insisting that there is no starvation in Gaza.”
Laura Loomer, Marco Rubio BLOCK Gazan Kids From US Medical Care
Israeli attacks killed at least 57 people across Gaza on Sunday, medical sources told Al Jazeera, as the Israeli military is preparing to forcibly displace Palestinians from Gaza City and has been ramping up strikes on the area.
Avichay Adraee, the Israeli military’s Arabic language spokesman, announced on Saturday that the IDF would begin its “evacuation” of Palestinian civilians from Gaza City on Sunday. He added that Israel would allow tents and other equipment for shelter to be allowed through the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Gaza.
According to a recent report from Haaretz, the IDF’s plans to take over Gaza City involve forcibly displacing 1.2 million civilians in the area. Many Palestinians are expected to stay since they’ve already been displaced so many times and don’t think the south will be safe either. The Haaretz report said the IDF is prepared to use artillery to force Palestinians to leave.
Alastair Crooke : Why Trump Abandoned His Ceasefire Demands
Rubio says both Russia and Ukraine ‘have to make concessions’ for peace deal
In a combative series of interviews on Sunday, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said that “both sides are going to have to make concessions” for there to be a peaceful resolution to the war that erupted when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. “You can’t have a peace agreement unless both sides make concessions – that’s a fact,” the Trump administration’s top diplomat said Sunday on ABC’s This Week. “That’s true in virtually any negotiation. If not, it’s just called surrender. And neither side is going to surrender. So both sides are going to have to make concessions.”
Rubio said the recent talks in Alaska between Russian president Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump toward ending the war had “made progress in the sense that we identified potential areas of agreement – but there remains some big areas of disagreement”.
“We’re still a long ways off,” Rubio added. “We’re not at the precipice of a peace agreement. We’re not at the edge of one. But I do think progress was made and towards one.” He declined to go into specific areas of agreement or disagreement, or outline what Trump has described as “severe consequences” for Russia if its aggression toward Ukraine continued. ...
US special envoy Steve Witkoff said Putin agreed at the summit to allow the US and Europe to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling Nato’s collective defense mandate as part of any peace deal. In an interview on CNN, Witkoff said the US had won the concession that “the United States could offer Article 5-like protection, which is one of the real reasons why Ukraine wants to be in NATO”. He said the concession was “game-changing”. ...
Soon after Rubio told Meet the Press that “no one is pushing” Ukraine to give up territory, Trump shared a Truth Social post from a supporter that said: “Ukraine must be willing to lose some territory to Russia otherwise the longer the war goes on they will keep losing even more land!!” Nonetheless, Rubio said he doubted that a new set of western sanctions on Russia would force Moscow to agree to any deal.
Col Doug Macgregor: Zelensky CAN'T BE SATISFIED
The Guardian's pro-Ukronazi take on the summit aftermath:
Zelenskyy faces daunting trip to the White House – but this time he won’t be alone
Volodymyr Zelenskyy will make his second visit to the White House on Monday with the daunting task of reversing the damage done to Ukraine’s security prospects by Friday’s Trump-Putin summit in Alaska. Zelenskyy will not, however, be alone as he was on his first trip to the White House in February when he was ambushed and humiliated by Donald Trump and the vice-president, JD Vance, who sought to bully him into capitulation to Moscow’s demands.
This time the Ukrainian leader comes to Washington flanked by a dream team of European leaders, including Britain’s Keir Starmer, Germany’s Friedrich Merz and France’s Emmanuel Macron, who combine economic and military clout with proven rapport with Trump. Their mission will be to use their individual and combined influence to coax the president out of the pro-Russian positions he adopted after just a couple of hours under Putin’s sway in the sub-Arctic on Friday.
To do that, they will have to project a more convincing sense of resolve and common purpose than they have managed hitherto, argued Ben Rhodes, a former adviser to Barack Obama. “My advice would be to not capitulate to Trump,” Rhodes said. “He has grown all too accustomed to people he perceives as weaker bending to his will, which is something that Putin does not do … Zelenskyy cannot be expected to do this alone, as that’s what got him into that last mess in the Oval Office. Zelenskyy needs Europe. And the Europeans need to show a strength to stand up to Trump which they have not really shown yet.”
Macron and Merz will accompany Zelenskyy on Monday as embodiments of the two pillars of Europe, the French-German axis that is at the core of the EU. Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, will be a reminder of Europe’s combined importance as an economic juggernaut. Trump struck a EU-US trade deal with her just three weeks ago in Scotland, and hailed the relationship as “the biggest trading partnership in the world”.
Brett Bruen, a former White House director of global engagement, said the European leaders should focus on economics and use the White House meeting “as a chance to remind Trump how small Russia’s economy is vis-a-vis the EU and the UK and other western partners”.
UK/EU Rush To Save Zelensky, Gatecrash Monday DC Talks, Panic Sweeps Europe, Kiev NO To Alaska Terms
Bolivians go to polls in election that could end 20 years of leftist rule
Bolivians are going to the polls in an election that could mark a shift to the right and the end of nearly 20 years of rule by the leftist Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas). The party, which came to power with the first election of Evo Morales in 2005, risks losing its legal status if it fails to reach 3% of the vote – a threshold it has not hit in polls.
Two opposition candidates for the presidency are virtually tied: the centre-right business tycoon and former planning minister Samuel Doria Medina, followed closely by the rightwing former president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga.
The incumbent president, Luis Arce, 61, deeply unpopular amid the country’s worst economic crisis in four decades, decided not to run. A finance minister under Morales for 14 years, Arce took control of Mas gradually in recent years. He nominated his 36-year-old minister of government, Eduardo del Castillo, who has been polling at about 2%, to run for president.
Morales, 65, is the target of an arrest warrant for allegedly fathering a child with a 15-year-old and has been entrenched in a coca-growing region of central Bolivia since October in an attempt to run for office again. After registering with another party but being barred by constitutional and electoral court rulings, Bolivia’s first Indigenous president called protests that escalated into deadly clashes with police.
He is urging supporters to cast null votes on Sunday, claiming that if these outnumber the leading candidate’s tally, it would mean he had won.
Masked Border Protection Agents Open Fire on Family's Truck After Smashing Its Windows
A family in San Bernardino, California is in shock after masked federal agents opened fire on their truck.
As NBC Los Angeles reported, Customs and Border Protection (CPB) agents on Saturday morning surrounded the family's truck and demanded that its passengers exit the vehicle.
A video of the incident filmed from inside the truck showed the passengers asked the agents to provide identification, which they declined to do.
An agent was then heard demanding that the father, who had been driving the truck, get out of the vehicle. Seconds later, the agent started smashing the car's windows in an attempt to get inside the vehicle.
The father then hit the gas to try to escape, after which several shots could be heard as agents opened fire. Local news station KTLA reported that, after the father successfully fled the scene, he called local police and asked for help because "masked men" had opened fire on his truck.
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) defended the agents' actions in a statement to NBC Los Angeles.
"In the course of the incident the suspect drove his car at the officers and struck two CBP officers with his vehicle," they said. "Because of the subjects forcing a CBP officer to discharge his firearm in self-defense."
But the father, who only wished to be identified as "Francisco," pointed out that the agents refused to identify themselves and presented no warrants to justify the search of his truck.
"I had to protect my life and my family," he explained to NBC Los Angeles. "My truck was shot three times."
His son-in-law, who only wished to be identified as "Martin," was similarly critical of the agents' actions.
"Its just upsetting that it happened to us," he said. "I am glad my brother is okay, Pop is okay, but it's just not cool that [immigration enforcement officials are] able to do something like that."
According to KTLA, federal agents surrounded the family's house later that afternoon and demanded that the father come out so that he could be arrested. He refused, and agents eventually departed from the neighborhood without detaining him.
Local advocacy group Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice said on its Instagram page that it was "mobilizing to provide legal support" for the family.
GREEDFLATION RETURNS: Corporate Profits BOOM Despite Tariffs
Farmers in US midwest squeezed by Trump tariffs and climate crisis
Seventh-generation farmer Brian Harbage grows corn, soybeans and grass, and runs a cattle operation across five counties in western Ohio. In the world of agriculture, his work makes up a large business. And still, the past two years have been immensely challenging amid the twin threats of the climate crisis and the Trump administration.
Last year, regions of the eastern corn belt saw just 20% of crops harvested due to a drought that brought little precipitation between June and October. It was part of a climatic cycle that involved drought, heat and wildfires that cost crop producers $11bn nationally. “Last year, we got a good crop started, and then it just quit raining. Our yields were definitely reduced by at least 25-30%,” says Harbage.
This year, it’s been almost the complete opposite. Excess rainfall has fueled severe disease and pest pressure on the several thousand acres of soybeans and corn he planted in the spring. “There were three-day windows, it seemed like. It would just start to get dried out and it would rain,” he says.
“We finished up [planting] at the beginning of June. We like to be finished by 15 May. Anything that’s planted later means that it was probably planted in marginal conditions since we were rushing to get it in, and secondly, it doesn’t have near enough time to mature before harvest.” With the 2025 harvest of corn and soybeans approaching – America’s biggest two crops and the linchpins of agriculture – crop growers are facing down the gauntlet. Climatic swings, rocketing operating costs and low international demand, caused, in large part, by government policy in the shape of tariffs, has created the perfect storm.
In 2023-24, China bought 24.9m metric tons of soybeans worth $13.2bn, largely used to feed its 427-million-strong pig herd. At under 6m metric tons, US farmers’ second biggest international soybean market, Mexico, lags far behind. Since 2017, when tariffs were first introduced by President Trump, crop farmers have been struggling with the decline of China as the leading market for soybeans and an important market for corn exports. Last month, reports emerged that exports of soybeans – America’s largest grain export by value – had hit a 20-year low. ... With the soybean harvest in the midwest set to start about a month from now, and corn following weeks later, the fear that China may not buy a single shipload of grain this season is growing for many.

Cuomo FLIPS On Israel After Losing NYC Mayoral Primary!
Exposure to some common Pfas changes gene activity
New research suggests exposure to some common Pfas or “forever chemical” compounds causes changes to gene activity, and those changes are linked to health problems including multiple cancers, neurological disorders and autoimmune disease.
The findings are a major step toward determining the mechanism by which the chemicals cause disease and could help doctors identify, detect and treat health problems for those exposed to Pfas before the issues advance. The research may also point toward other diseases potentially caused by Pfas that have not yet been identified, the authors said.
The study is among the first to examine how Pfas chemicals impact gene activity, called epigenetics.“This gives us a hint as to which genes and which Pfas might be important,” said Melissa Furlong, a University of Arizona College of Public Health Pfas researcher and study lead author. ...
The study checked the blood of about 300 firefighters from four departments across the country who were exposed to high levels of Pfas. The chemicals are the main ingredient in most firefighting foam, and are frequently used in “turnout gear” worn by firefighters because of their heat repelling properties
Furlong said she was surprised to find the number of genes and biological pathways that were impacted by Pfas, which suggests the chemicals may cause or contribute to a broad range of health problems. The study did not prove the chemicals cause certain diseases, but findings point to biological changes that might precede disease.
‘Pray for rain’: wildfires in Canada are now burning where they never used to
Road closures, evacuations, travel chaos and stern warnings from officials have become fixtures of Canada’s wildfire season. But as the country goes through its second-worst burn on record, the blazes come with a twist: few are coming from the western provinces, the traditional centre of destruction. Instead, the worst of the fires have been concentrated in the prairie provinces and the Atlantic region, with bone-dry conditions upending how Canada responds to a threat that is only likely to grow as the climate warms.
Experts say the shift serves as a stark reminder that the risk of disaster is present across the thickly forested nation. In recent weeks, tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes due to the wildfires. Saskatchewan and Manitoba have been the worst hit, covering more than 60% of the area burned in Canada. But the fires have also seized strained resources in Atlantic Canada, where officials in Newfoundland and Labrador are struggling to battle out-of-control blazes.
In response to the crisis, the Newfoundland premier, John Hogan, said on Wednesday morning he would temporarily ban off-road vehicles in forested areas because the province “simply cannot afford any further risks, given the number of out-of-control wildfires we have”.
The ban follows a similar move by Nova Scotia, where a 15-hectare (37-acre) out-of-control fire is burning outside the provincial capital, Halifax. In addition to barring vehicles in wooded areas, Nova Scotia officials so shut down hiking, camping and fishing in forests, a decision reflecting the troubling fact that nearly all fires in the province are started by humans.
“Conditions are really dry, there’s no rain in sight, the risk is extremely high in Nova Scotia,” the province’s premier, Tim Houston, told reporters. “I’m happy to make sure that we’re doing everything we can to protect people, to protect property and try to just get through this fire season and really just pray for rain.”
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
Nineteen Palestinians Starve to Death in Gaza Over Three Days Due to Israeli Blockade
Trump-Appointed Judge Tosses Lawsuit Accusing Pro-Palestinian Groups of Being Fronts for Hamas
Mayor Pete PANICS Over Israeli Answer Backlash
Did The ADL Chief Just Reveal He’s An Israeli Spy?!?
A Little Night Music
Blind John Davis - Everyday I Have the Blues
Blind John Davis - Jersey Cow Blues
Blind John Davis - Alley Woman Blues
Blind John Davis - My Own Boogie
Blind John Davis - I Almost Lost My Mind
Blind John Davis - Got The Blues So Bad
Blind John Davis - My Red
Blind John Davis - Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues
Blind John Davis - Penny Pitchin' Blues
Blind John Davis - Pinetop Boogie

Comments
Thanks for the EB, Joe.
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I noticed in the news today that Def-Secy Pete Hegseth says that the military allowed itself to become "woke." He intends to eradicate all "woke" concepts from the military.
What do reader's here think that Hegseth means when he says "woke?"
Please weigh in.
(Note, Hegseth belongs to a "human-invented" religion called Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, where the 19th amendment is considered a "woke" concept.)
Hola Pluto. I surmise that he means something
more of less akin to what I always thought a=was its original meaning, something like: having a modicum of understanding, sensitivity, empathy and sympathy with regard to the other and their circumstances and situation. He, of soucre, sees any such tendencies as bad, wrong and evil, because he lacksthe capacity for empathy because he is a sociopath.
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 --
Well, I was going to attempt
.... a lumbering explanation of what I assume is meant by "woke," but you have made that unnecessary. Thank you.
Apparently, there are some subsets of "woke" suppression, because Hegseth is inordinately proud of the fact that, so far this year, three of the top-ranking female military leaders have been fired by the Pentagon. And there is some talk of repealing the 19th amendment — women's right to vote.
Repeal of the 19th will be a toughie, but who knows.
I saw where he intends to deal with mail in ballots and voting machines via executive order. Maybe he'll try to repeal the 19th that way too, he seems to have no idea of the legal limits of what such an order can do.
ne 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 --
I think he means the EO program
...in the Dept of Defense and perhaps its contractors. So he doesn't want to enforce the law of the land. What could be wrong with that?
edit-
I meant to mention that while I was trying to update myself on the "protected" categories, I found the EEOC's web page on these protected groups doesn't exist anymore:
"Protections Against Employment Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity". 15 June 2021.
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Good job, Soryang
It is very difficult to spot omitted statements and proclamations, and you've found a perfect example.
I've started archiving the first news stories that cover an event — because reporters let it all hang out on day one — when journalists are competing for attention. Those stories can contain valuable open-source intelligence — that you will never see again no matter how hard you look. These items are redacted (omitted) in the following hours, days, weeks, and in some cases, years, after a history-changing event. This mostly pertains to digital drafts and publications. Such items are also clipped out of personal archives that are saved in a commercial cloud. Government AI will find them and delete them from private accounts, and they disappear without a trace.
The homepage still refers to these categories
Overview
I get the feeling that EEO offices are spread throughout the various DOD branches and commands, so I picked the Army policies for a look-
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evening pluto...
back in the dark ages, when dinosaurs ruled the earth and i was in high school, woke meant that you were aware of systemic racism. i guess it has become expanded to include all the isms that allow people to be divided and the system to be rigged to cause that division and keep the public manipulable.
what hegseth means by it is probably "anything that disadvantages a nice white, christian, knuckle-dragger," like himself.
I guess this means
....that all traces of critical race theory will be eliminated wherever it is found. Historians, should be very careful how they handle online research they want to use, especially news events. They will be facing new forms of censorship that can never be proved. Such things have driven me crazy in the past. But, now every day beings impossible-to-believe and totally outrageous news. Collectors of such evidence — evidence that documents the inconceivable insanity of our times — will face challenges hanging on to it.
Personally, I don't need PTSD-triggering stories anymore. I've already consumed my lifetime limit.
Today's White House Meeting with Zelensky
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....where it is revealed that:
President Putin sees no conceivable reason for a cease-fire in Ukraine while Russian troops are in the final stages of completing the objectives of the SMO. In particular, securing the lives of the ethnic Russian population who long ago settled on these lands of the former Soviet Union — which, quite recently, because the eastern borderlands of the newly established, US controlled, Ukraine. Beginning about this time, NAZI-aligned soldiers were shipped to the eastern borderlands of Ukraine to exterminate the Russians living there.
Zelensky appears in a suit for the very first time. What does this mean?
Below, a candid snap as All the President's Men are summoned to Meet the Press:
Their mom dresses them alike, it seems. n/t
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 --
where are the Chihuahuas?
Zionism is a social disease
heh...
all of his green tee shirts were in the laundry? macron told him that he might get a better deal from trump if he pretended to respect his office? he's about to go out of the third-world dictator business?
German plans to destabilize Ukraine
Rheinhard Gehlen the Nazi G-2 had networks of Ukrainian fascists during WWII, and maintained and promoted such in Ukraine for the CIA long after WWII. From what I understand, from a Gehlen biography I read years ago, the Russians promptly rounded up the fascist Ukrainians working for West German intelligence and the CIA periodically and they were either killed or disappeared. Their cold war plans never succeeded. During WWI and shortly after Germany and other European states fought Ukrainian independence forces, and occupied Ukrainian territory at various times. A Russian Ukraine war followed WWI, and the Soviet Union recovered possession of Ukraine which had been part of the Russian Empire.
Kind of a chaotic history. Didn't know much about it, and read a few of the wiki accounts. It wasn't covered in my European history courses even though I did have a Russian born History faculty advisor at one point.
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Your comment,
that following WWII,
raises an important issue. A couple of years ago the Canadian parliament held a ceremonial session to honor Ukrainian president Zelensky, who was present, in which they also honored a 98-year-old Ukrainian Canadian veteran of the SS Division Galicia of the Waffen SS during WWII, a force that committed horrific atrocities in the war. The Canadian Parliament gave the guy a standing ovation, for having fought "the Russians," and Zelensky added a fist pump of approval for the old geezer as he participated in the ovation.
Within less than an hour media sources began to cover the fukk up and report that, indeed, the SS Division Galicia was a fascist force responsible for the mass murder of civilians, some of which atrocities were filmed by the Nazis for their documentation of death. In some of the media coverage it was mentioned that the Soviets had captured thousands of this unit during the war and turned them over to the British government. It was also reported in this media coverage that the British government then sent over 2,000 SS Division Galicia veterans to Canada for the purpose of using them in future attacks on the Soviet Union.
Good evening Joe, thanks for the EBs. Nothing's happening
out this way as near as I can tell. Nothing to add to the convo either. I suspect that the Rus and Ukies are hammering away at each other, but no tengo anything remotely like a real time link, which is probably a very good thing for my circadian rhythms.
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, it's kind of a quiet news night here, too. i guess we'll hear more after the neocons digest their position, sharpen their knives and issue talking points.
have a great evening!
Behold! The most notorious Neoncons
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.... from the European Continent are now in DC to defend Zelensky.
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According to the Guardian article, cited in tonight's EB:
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What drives this toxic agenda?
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The fact is, Russia's economy is small, comparatively. It is limited and constrained by sanctions. And its population is too small and concentrated for Russia to be considered a Superpower. It is not in the same category as the United States or China. It poses zero threat to the US or the EU. It is very reluctant to participate in any other nation's military battles.
Yet the EU Leaders who have rushed to DC to back Zelensky — are the very same European Neocons who have been waving a False Flag for the past three years, and screeching that Russia is about to invade all of Europe and turn it into the new USSR!
Not that it matters. Whichever way Trump flips, Ukraine will never become a peer nation. And Europe is about to face a banquet of severe consequences.
heh...
the eu ruling elites are a bunch of incompetent boobs that are unpopular and completely out of touch with their people, not that that is a surprise since their rewards don't come from pleasing the public, rather they flow from pleasing an elite donor class. in order to keep the people in line and explain away their economic woes, they have settled on a war and have made ukraine their organizing principle. they can't give up on ukraine, because to do so will see them losing power to a bunch of now mostly right-wing politicians.