The Evening Blues - 9-19-25
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This evening's music features guitarist Pat Boyack. Enjoy!
Pat Boyack & The Prowlers - Goin' To Chicago
"Ask a scientist when the universe began and they’ll tell you 13.8 billion years ago.
Ask a Young Earth creationist when the universe began and they’ll tell you six thousand years ago.
Ask a Zionist when the universe began and they’ll tell you October 7, 2023."
-- Caitlin Johnstone
News and Opinion
Bernie Sanders Is A Ghoulish Zionist
Bernie Sanders finally issued a statement acknowledging the indisputable fact that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza after two years of adamantly refusing to do so. The statement begins as follows:
“Hamas, a terrorist organization, began this war with its brutal attack on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 innocent people and took 250 hostages. Israel, as any other country, had a right to defend itself from Hamas.
But,”
Dude goes two years refusing to call a genocide a genocide, then issues a statement which begins by placing blame for the genocide on the victims of said genocide. He also lumps the hundreds of IDF troops slain in the attack in with “innocent people”, ignores the large percentage of the death toll that would have been killed by Israeli troops under the Hannibal Directive, and babbles about Israel’s “right to defend itself” against an occupied population.
The rest of the statement is standard liberal Zionist fare, acknowledging the horror of the situation in Gaza while blaming it all on Benjamin Netanyahu and not the murderous apartheid state which would be doing what it’s doing with or without Netanyahu. It’s just progressive-sounding Israel apologia accompanied by a denunciation driven by the inability to escape finally calling this thing what it is.
This is the face of what passes for the “left” in modern US politics. Absolutely ghoulish.
More than 250,000 displaced from Gaza City in past month, UN figures show
More than a quarter of a million people have been displaced from Gaza City in the last month, according to figures from the UN, with tens of thousands more forced to flee makeshift homes and shelters daily in the face of a new Israeli offensive.
Strikes by Israeli artillery, tanks and warplanes hit Gaza City again on Thursday as a UN official said “new waves of mass displacement” were under way, after about 60,000 fled the new assault in 72 hours earlier this week.
Israeli military officials say the total number following Israeli orders to evacuate Gaza City is much higher.
An unbroken column of traffic heavily laden with household utensils, blankets, mattresses, gas cylinders and often entire families packed Gaza’s narrow coastal road on Thursday as a steady stream of Palestinians headed south towards areas designated by Israel.
Prices for transport have soared, forcing some to walk, laden with belongings and young children. “We are heading to go sleep on the streets towards the beach, like this, barefoot … We don’t know where to go,” said Yasser Saleh, speaking as he stood on a rickety trailer being pulled by a car.
UK preparing to recognise Palestinian state as early as Friday
The UK is preparing to recognise the state of Palestine as early as Friday, after Israel failed to meet conditions that would have postponed the historic step, including a ceasefire in Gaza. Keir Starmer insisted the timing of the UK announcement had nothing to do with Donald Trump’s visit, even though the US president said at a press conference that he disagreed with Britain’s decision, without elaborating.
Recognition will bring a wave of criticism from Israel, including claims that it is a reward for Hamas and terrorism, a charge the UK rejects by saying it envisages only a Palestinian state in which Hamas is disarmed, plays no part in the future government, and the leadership of the Palestinian Authority is subject to elections within a year.
Starmer emphasised there would be no place for Hamas, insisting the group were terrorists, and adding he agreed with Trump on the need for a roadmap.
The UK prime minister said recognition was “part of that overall package which hopefully takes us from the appalling situation we’re in now to the outcome of a safe and secure Israel, which we do not have, and a viable Palestinian state”.
The US, now in effect opposed to a two-state solution as unobtainable and undesirable, has rejected the UK move as unhelpful, but Trump has decided not to make the matter a point of division with Starmer given Washington sees it as a largely symbolic act that will not weaken Israel.
Israeli troops deep into Gaza City, intensifying massacres
Portending Another Attack, Israeli Foreign Ministry Smears Sumud Flotilla as ‘Jihadist Initiative’
After Hamas urged international support for the Global Sumud Flotilla, Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday signaled another potential attack by claiming on social media that the peaceful humanitarian mission to feed starving Palestinians in the Gaza Strip “is a jihadist initiative serving the terror group’s agenda.”
While Israel has not taken responsibility for recent drone attacks on the Global Sumud Flotilla—whose name means perseverance in Arabic—the incidents have raised eyebrows, given the country’s history of attacking previous ones. The foreign ministers of 16 other nations on Tuesday implored Israel not to target this flotilla, which involves activists and political leaders from dozens of countries, including eight US veterans.
As Middle East Eye reported Thursday, Hamas—which Israel and the United States designate as a terrorist organization despite its governance of Gaza—called for escalating the global movement in solidarity with the strip “in rejection of the [Israeli] occupation’s aggression, crimes of genocide, and starvation.”
“We call for mobilizing all means to support the Global Sumud Flotilla heading to Gaza, and we warn the occupation against targeting it,” Hamas also said in a statement, part of which was quoted in the Israeli ministry’s post on X.
Responding on the same platform, journalist Séamus Malekafzali said: “Past comments from the Israeli government about the aid flotillas focused on celebrity vapidity or didn’t mention their aim at all. Now, they’re honing in on it being a supposedly terrorist instrument. Feels like the response is being set up to be more severe than in the past.”
The post came two days after Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism published a report titled “Global Sumud Flotilla”: A Humanitarian Cover With Documented Links to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
As Brussels Signal reported Thursday:
Flotilla representatives and critics dismissed these claims as Israeli disinformation, echoing accusations leveled at prior missions, and called the report a case of “guilt by association,” reliant on photos and unverified affiliations rather than evidence of operational control.
Organizers emphasised transparent crowdfunding for aid, with no terror funding, and framed the convoy as a grassroots response to aid blockages.
Earlier this week, a commission of independent experts at the United Nations concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and an investigation from The New Humanitarian found that Israeli forces have killed nearly 3,000 Palestinian aid-seekers and wounded almost 20,000 others since October 2023. As of Thursday, the overall death toll has topped 65,000, though experts warn the true tally is likely far higher.
Amb. Chas Freeman: Snapback Sanctions on IRAN Sparks DISASTER as Ukraine is BURNING the EU Economy
US Vetoes Another UN Ceasefire Resolution
Against a backdrop of Israel’s genocidal obliteration of Gaza City and a worsening man-made famine throughout the embattled Palestinian exclave, the United States on Thursday cast its sixth United Nations Security Council veto of a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire and the release of all hostages held by Hamas.
At its 10,000th meeting, the UN Security Council voted 14-1 with no abstentions in favor of a resolution proposed by the 10 nonpermanent UNSC members demanding “an immediate, unconditional, and permanent ceasefire” in Gaza, the “release of all hostages” held by Hamas, and for Israel to “immediately and unconditionally lift all restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid” into the besieged strip.
Morgan Ortagus, President Donald Trump’s deputy special envoy to the Middle East, vetoed the proposal, saying that the move “will come as no surprise,” as the US has killed five previous UNSC Gaza ceasefire resolutions under both the Biden and Trump administrations, most recently in June.
#BREAKING
United States VETOES Security Council draft resolution that would have demanded immediate, unconditional & permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and immediate, dignified & unconditional release of all hostages held by Hamas & other groupsIn Favor: 14
Against: 1 (US)
Abstain: 0 pic.twitter.com/hNBtcQQc0U— UN News (@UN_News_Centre) September 18, 2025
Ortagus said the resolution failed to condemn Hamas or affirm Israel’s right to self-defense and “wrongly legitimizes the false narratives benefiting Hamas, which have sadly found currency in this council.”
The US has unconditionally provided Israel with billions of dollars worth of armed aid and diplomatic cover since October 2023 as the key Mideast ally wages a war increasingly viewed as genocidal, including by a commission of independent UN experts this week.
INTEL Roundtable w/ Johnson & McGovern : Weekly Wrap 19-Sept
Israel Strikes Hit Hospitals in Gaza City, Killing 19
Multiple Israeli bombs targeted medical facilities in Gaza City, killing at least 19 people. The IDF recently ramped up its operations in Gaza City.
On Thursday, Israeli strikes hit near the al-Shifa Hospital, killing 15 people, and the al-Ahli Hospital, killing four others. The Gaza Health Ministry reported at least 83 Palestinians were killed over the past 24 hours across the Strip.
Israel also bombed the al-Shifa hospital on Tuesday, killing 13 Palestinians. ...
Israel has targeted medical facilities across Gaza. Many hospitals are damaged and barely able to provide care for injured and sick patients. UN experts have labeled the Israeli onslaught in Gaza as a “medicide” or the deliberate destruction of the health care system.
US seeking to regain control of Afghanistan’s Bagram airbase, says Trump
The United States is seeking to retake control of Bagram airbase from the Taliban, Donald Trump has said, bringing back a key strategic asset that was surrendered during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. The US president suggested he was negotiating with the Taliban for American forces to once again occupy the base, formerly the largest US military site in the country, and an important regional foothold because of its proximity to China.
His comments about China will alarm western allies, who have been watching the relationship between the two superpowers carefully, amid fears that heightened tensions could lead to further economic turbulence, and even military skirmishes.
During a joint press conference with Keir Starmer at Chequers on Thursday, as he wrapped up a visit to the UK, the US president said: “One of the biggest airbases in the world. We gave it to them for nothing. We’re trying to get it back, by the way. We’re trying to get it back because they need things from us. We want that base back. But one of the reasons we want the base is, as you know, it’s an hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons.”
Putin DEPLOYS Zircon & Oreshnik, NATO's WW3 Push CRUSHED
Strike action across France as hundreds of thousands join protests
Hundreds of thousands of people have marched in street demonstrations across France as trade unions held a day of strike action to pressure the new prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, to rethink budget cuts and act on wages, pensions and public services.
There was disruption to public transport as train, bus and tram drivers went on strike, hospital staff joined protests and nine out of 10 pharmacies were closed as pharmacists protested against pricing policies. About one in six teachers at primary and secondary schools went on strike, as well as school canteen staff and monitors. Several high schools from Paris to Amiens and Le Havre were blockaded by students. Protesters held more than 250 demonstrations and marched in cities from Paris to Marseille, Nantes, Lyon and Montpellier.
“The anger is huge, and so is the determination – my message to Mr Lecornu today is this: it’s the streets that must decide the budget,” said Sophie Binet, head of the leftwing CGT union, as Macron’s new prime minister scrambles to put together a budget for next year, as well as form a new government. ...
Lecornu has only weeks to come up with a budget text and form another minority government. He has to avoid any budget being immediately rejected by opposition parties who could call a vote of no confidence and oust him from office. Since Macron called a sudden snap election last June, the French parliament has been split between the left, the far right and the centre with no absolute majority. This has resulted in repeated deadlock over the budget.
US judge orders Mahmoud Khalil deported citing ‘misrepresented facts’ on green card form
An immigration judge in the US state of Louisiana has ordered the deportation of pro-Palestinian protest leader Mahmoud Khalil to Algeria or Syria, ruling that he failed to disclose information on his green card application, according to court documents filed on Wednesday.
Khalil’s lawyers said they intended to appeal against the deportation order, and that a federal district court’s separate orders remain in effect prohibiting the government from immediately deporting or detaining him as his federal court case proceeds. The lawyers submitted a letter to the federal court in New Jersey overseeing his civil rights case and said he will challenge the decision.
Khalil, in a statement to the American Civil Liberties Union, said in response to the order: “It is no surprise that the Trump administration continues to retaliate against me for my exercise of free speech. Their latest attempt, through a kangaroo immigration court, exposes their true colors once again.”
Candace THROWS DOWN Against Bill Ackman Over Charlie Kirk Meetings
Charlie Kirk Assassin Texts 'DOCTORED'
Jury finds LA protester not guilty of assaulting border patrol agent
A Los Angeles protester charged with assaulting a border patrol agent in June was acquitted on Wednesday after US immigration officials were accused in court of lying about the incident. The not guilty verdict for Brayan Ramos-Brito is a major setback for the Donald Trump-appointed US attorney in southern California and for Gregory Bovino, a border patrol chief who has become a key figure in Trump’s immigration crackdown. The 29-year-old defendant, who is a US citizen, was facing a misdemeanor and was the first protester to go to trial since demonstrations against immigration raids erupted in LA earlier this summer.
Border patrol and prosecutors alleged that Ramos-Brito struck an agent during a chaotic protest on 7 June in the south Los Angeles county city of Paramount outside a complex where the Department of Homeland Security has an office. But footage from a witness, which the Guardian published days after the incident, showed an agent forcefully shoving Ramos-Brito. The footage did not capture the demonstrator assaulting the officer.
The jury delivered its not guilty verdict after a little over an hour of deliberations, the Los Angeles Times reported. Bovino testified earlier in the day and faced a tough cross-examination from public defenders. Bovino was one of four border patrol agents who testified as witnesses, but was the only one to say he saw the alleged assault by Ramos-Brito, according to the LA Times. Videos played in court captured the agent shoving Ramos-Brito, sending him flying backward, and showed the protester marching back toward the agent, the paper reported. The videos did not capture Ramos-Brito’s alleged assault.
There were multiple factual discrepancies in DHS’s internal reports on the protest, which initially led to charges against five demonstrators, the Guardian reported in July. A criminal complaint suggested Ramos-Brito and others had attacked agents in protest of the arrests of two sisters, but records showed the women had been arrested in a separate incident that occurred after Ramos-Brito’s arrest.
At trial, Cuauhtemoc Ortega, a federal public defender, sought to cast doubt on Bovino’s credibility, questioning him about facing a misconduct investigation several years ago, which resulted in a reprimand for referring to undocumented people as “scum, filth and trash”, the LA Times reported. After Bovino responded that his comment was in reference to a “specific criminal illegal alien”, Ortega read from the reprimand, signed by Bovino, which said he was describing “illegal aliens”, the newspaper said. Ortega also argued the agent who Ramos-Brito allegedly assaulted lied about the incident and Bovino was “trying to cover up for him”.
Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & More
Judges rule against Trump administration on deporting Guatemalan children and Venezuelans
The Trump administration has been handed a double defeat by judges in immigration cases, barring the executive branch from deporting a group of Guatemalan children and from slashing protections for many Venezuelans in the US. A federal judge on Thursday ordered the administration to refrain from deporting Guatemalan unaccompanied immigrant children with active immigration cases while a legal challenge plays out.
Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee based in Washington DC, kept in place an earlier judicial block on the policy, sharply criticizing the administration’s unproven assertion that the children’s parents wanted them deported.
The administration attempted to deport 76 Guatemalan minors being held in US custody in a surprise move in the early morning on 31 August, sparking a lawsuit and emergency hearing that temporarily halted the move.
The Department of Justice lawyer Drew Ensign initially said that the children’s parents had requested they be returned home, but the department later withdrew that claim. Reuters published a Guatemalan government report saying that most parents of the roughly 600 Guatemalan children in US custody could not be contacted and of those who could, many did not want their children forced back to the country.
Kelly said the justice department’s explanation “crumbled like a house of cards” in light of that report.
US supreme court sets date to hear arguments on Trump’s tariffs
The US supreme court will hear oral arguments on the legality of Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs on 5 November, a crucial hearing on the president’s aggressive economic agenda. The court announced earlier this month it would hear the case after a lower appeals court ruled that the US president had overstepped his authority by using a federal law meant for emergencies to impose most of his broad tariffs on the world. ...
The November hearing sets up a major test of the president’s use of executive power to drive through his economic and trade agenda.
The case was placed on a fast track by the supreme court, which begins its nine-month term next month. The court had also agreed to hear a separate challenge to Trump’s tariffs brought by a family-owned toy company, Learning Resources.
Jimmy Kimmel SUSPENDED by ABC After FCC Threats
Trump suggests punishing TV networks for ‘negative’ coverage amid outrage over Kimmel suspension
On Air Force One, the president spoke to reporters on his flight back to the US from his state visit to the UK. The president said major US networks were “97% against me”, though he did not offer evidence to prove this figure or detail how this conclusion was evaluated. He said he read the statistic “someplace”. “Again, 97% negative, and yet I won easily. I won all seven swing states,” Trump said. “They give me only bad press. I mean they’re getting a license. I would think maybe their licenses should be taken away.”
The president’s claim that US TV networks need to be licensed by the government to operate is, however, incorrect. While local TV stations do require a license from the Federal Communications Commission, the FCC says clearly on its website that it does “not license TV or radio networks (such as CBS, NBC, ABC or Fox)”.
Trump supported ABC’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show, saying that the comedian was “not a talented person” who “had very bad ratings”.
“Well, Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else, and he said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk,” Trump told reporters during his state visit to the United Kingdom, adding “they should have fired him a long time ago”..
According to Nielsen ratings as reported by LateNighter, although Stephen Colbert’s Late Show leads the time slot in total viewers with 2.42 million, Kimmel’s show averaged 1.77 million viewers in the second quarter of 2025 and edged out Colbert in the key 18-49 demographic. However, there was an 11% drop-off in his show’s viewership the last month. Kimmel also has over 20 million subscribers on YouTube.
“Zohran Mamdani Could Be The NEXT Target!” – Jose Vega
Ultrawealthy STILL Giving MILLIONS To Failing NYC Mayor Candidates! w/ Jose Vega
Wildfire smoke will kill nearly 1.4m each year by end of century if emissions not curbed
Smoke billowing from wildfires will cause a growing number of deaths around the world in the decades ahead as the planet continues to heat up, new research has found.
Wildfire smoke is expected to kill as many as 1.4 million people globally each year by the end of the century if planet-heating emissions are not curbed, according to a study published on Thursday.
Separate research, released on the same day, finds a similar spike in wildfire smoke deaths just in the US, with more than 70,000 people set to die in America this way by 2050 at the current rate of warming, up from the 40,000 who die this way each year at this time.
Breathing in smoke from burning forests is thought to be about 10 times more toxic than inhaling other air pollution given off by the burning of fossil fuels, with scientists recently warning the impact of this pollution has been severely underestimated in terms of its impact upon our health.
Wildfire smoke contains ash and soot that contain tiny particles, called PM2.5, which can, when inhaled, burrow deep in people’s lungs and cause an array of respiratory and heart problems.
The island that banned hives: can honeybees actually harm nature?
Off the coast of Tuscany is a tiny island in the shape of a crescent moon. An hour from mainland Italy, Giannutri has just two beaches for boats to dock. In summer, hundreds of tourists flock there, hiking to the red and white lighthouse on its southern tip before diving into the clear waters. In winter, its population dwindles to 10. The island’s rocky ridges are coated with thickets of rosemary and juniper, and in warmer months the air is sweetened by flowers and the gentle hum of bees.
It was Giannutri’s isolation that drew scientists here. They were seeking a unique open-air laboratory to answer a question that has long intrigued ecologists: could honeybees be causing their wild bee cousins to decline? To answer this, they carried out a radical experiment. While Giannutri is too far from the mainland for honeybees to fly to it, 18 hives were set up on the island in 2018: a relatively contained, recently established population. Researchers got permission to shut the hives down, effectively removing most honeybees from the island.
When the study began, the island’s human population temporarily doubled in size, as teams of scientists fanned out across the scrubland tracking bees. Then came the ban: they closed hives on selected days during the peak foraging period, keeping the honeybees in their hives for 11 hours a day. The results were compelling.
The findings, published in Current Biology earlier this year, found that over the four years after the honeybees were introduced, populations of two vital wild pollinators – bumblebees and anthophora – fell by “an alarming” 80%. When the honeybees were locked up, there was 30% more pollen for other pollinators, and the wild bee species were sighted more frequently. Scientists observed that the wild species appeared to take their time pollinating flowers during the lockups, displaying different foraging behaviour. “The effect is visible,” says Dapporto.
In terms of sheer abundance, the western honeybee (Apis mellifera) is the world’s most important single species of pollinator in wild ecosystems. Originally native to Africa, the Middle East and southern Europe, honeybees have been shipped around the planet by humans to every continent except Antarctica. The battles playing out on this small Italian island are likely to be echoed in ecosystems everywhere.While the number of honeybees is increasing (driven by commercial beekeeping) native pollinators are declining globally due to habitat loss, climate breakdown and use of chemicals in farming. But we are only beginning to understand how the great honeybee boom could also take a toll on wild pollinators.
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
SCOTUS ‘Show Me Your Papers’ Ruling Defies 4th Amendment
Google Secretly Handed ICE Data About Pro-Palestine Student Activist
Israel’s Attack on Qatar Shows What Gulf States Have Yet to Grasp
Saudi Arabia's Defense Pact With Pakistan Is A Strategic Loss For The U.S. of A.
Live Nation and Ticketmaster accused of allowing ticket brokers to rake in millions from resales
Family of Black student found hanging from tree on school campus hires lawyer Ben Crump
Native public radio braces for ‘devastating and catastrophic’ Trump budget cuts
Calls grow to boycott ABC owner Disney over Jimmy Kimmel suspension
Zelensky Rushes To Pokrovsk As Defences Crumble Russian Strikes End Kiev's MIC Dream; Saudi Pakistan
“This Guy Is MENTALLY UNFIT To Serve In Congress!” – Jose Vega on Ritchie Torres
Andrew Cuomo’s INSANE Flip-Flop On Gaza! w/ Jose Vega
A Little Night Music
Pat Boyack & The Prowlers - Cleaning Out My Closet
Pat Boyack & The Prowlers — Lover's Rhumba
Pat Boyack - Think
Pat Boyack feat. WC Clark - First Comes the Grievin'
Pat Boyack and Those Pesky Javelinas - Get Out Of My Life
Pat Boyack - Sha-nan-a-gin
Pat Boyack & The Prowlers - Look at Me, Look at You
Pat Boyack & The Prowlers - I Know It's Over
Pat Boyack & The Prowlers - Poppa Stoppa
Pat Boyack & The Prowlers - She Did The Do
Comments
One can only hope the self-destructive US tariffs continue
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....long enough to wipe out the US economy in a way that severely impacts the lives of US voters.
This material re-education of US voters has now become the safest path to a peaceful future for the entire world.
evening pluto...
heh, i'm not sure that the material immiseration of most americans will actually produce an educational benefit. it seems that it is more likely to produce an instinct to move even further into the depths of authoritarian warlord leadership while chewing through groups of scapegoats.
i hope that i'm wrong.
Well, that, too, has the ring of truth.
Plus, even if voters could think, they would still face the deplorable choice of candidates.
Wheelchair-bound Iraqi Christian had throat cut in Lyon, France
An online preacher and critic of Islam, his name was Ashur Sarnaya. Not covered anywhere by mainstream media outside of France — overshadowed by Charlie Kirk assassination on same day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ashur_Sarnaya
evening lotlizard...
it's a shame that that old saying about "sticks and stones" doesn't get more traction in the world.
I found the following video unusually enlightening:
Nima's long interview with Amb. Chas Freeman, while not exactly riveting, does give us the perspective of a man who has been very close to the powers currently involved in the failing struggles of West Civilization. Toward the end of the interview, it becomes very clear that Europe is no longer part of anything at all. The population is largely delusional.
And the pathetic United Kingdom will be dragged offstage as a result of their ridiculous obsession with Ukraine. However, once the UK is finally irrelevant, the US will have little reason to attack Russia.
Most clearly heard comment: Ambassador Freeman declared that Donald Trump is currently a Hostage of Israel... and Mossad.
He is, indeed.
And because the enormous Zionist funding of US Presidential campaigns originates in Israel. any new US President will be equally an Israeli hostage. (As are much of the House and Senate.)
Thus, the US and all Americans are also hostages. Mossad crimes committed in the US will certainly be overlooked. I don't think we'll be hearing anymore from the American Left. Which has been non-existent in the US for a very long time.
YMMV
China is strictly an American delusion.
yep...
trump does appear to be a hostage of bibi, and both trump and israel are waning in poplarity and influence in the u.s. and around the world.
one small ray of hope is the movement of opinion among the magas, particularly the younger generation of them. they seem to recognize that israel has become a problem and, especially among rural magas, that trump is not delivering for them.
i guess we'll see what happens.
Feel the need to add --
"And the pathetic United Kingdom will be dragged offstage as a result of their ridiculous obsession with Ukraine. However, once the UK is finally irrelevant, the US will have little reason to attack Russia."
The UK has an obsession with Russia. Prior to 1917, it was one big happy family ruling Russia and being a constitutional monarchy in the UK with colonies throughout the world. A larger family of rulers before 1914. Cousins Georgie and Nicky didn't like cousin Willy; so, they had another fine war. Russian peasants decided they didn't like that war having a better sense that the ruling family and associates were a more clear and present danger to themselves than the Germans and Prussians. The Brits remain obsessed with WWI because they lost a goodly chunk of a generation of elites, forgetting that they were lost before the Russian Revolution. The bankers -- obvious staunch capitalists -- had to step in and sort out the mess because they had backed the wrong horse.
Had it been up to the Brits, they would have preferred an alliance with Hitler and Germany over one with Stalin and the USSR. Edward and Wallis weren't as far out of step with Brits in 1937 as they seem to us today.
The US has the same reason for attacking Russia as it had in 1945 for attacking the USSR. All of Russia's natural resources and an economic system that doesn't embrace the weird form of capitalism practiced by the US. RussiaGate a project of the Democratic Party has morphed into the, so far, Cold War 2.0 and is embraced by many to the right of Democrats. The irrationality of this doesn't leave me with much hope.
Good evening Joe, thanks for the EBs. We the people
finally have lost all of our rights. A noted in the consortium article you posted, the Supremes just completely threw out the entire fourth amendment, regardless of the perfectly clear wording therein. The thins is, that isn't all that is. Think about the first or the fifth, for example. They've been whittling away at the first for ages, but it is now effectively gone, along with the fifth and all the rest, because they have signaled a willingness to simply completely overturn them at any time of their choosing, and we have no defense whatsoever.
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...
yes, it appears that there is now a third branch of government that has decided that "it's just a damned piece of paper."
have a great weekend
The current constitution is obsolete
...and, as I have been warning for years, it is entrenched and unratified by any living human being.
Jefferson warned his would happen.
All other countries maintain modern constitutions.
Or none at all, in the case of Israel and the UK.
No point in complaining about it now. The People can either call for a constitutional convention, or just stand down. Or get out while they can.
On the other hand, now would be a good time to break the US up into autonomous regions or regional Super States. End the foreign wars. Close the military bases. Continue trade. And, experience the wealth of the nation, which has always been siphoned off.
heh...
i've long thought that we need a new constitution with some serious tweaks, but realistically, getting the bulk of americans to agree on the wording of something better than what we have is pretty much hopeless.
Trump: What happened on Oct. 7 was genocide at the highest level
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/415223
Presentation of Charlie Kirk as a martyr for Israel:
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/tags/50830
Welcome to a world where, basically, “Every testimony except ours is a blood libel and everyone except us is an antisemite.”
Hey, joe!
Fwiw, after listening to the BT video about the Robinson texts to his lover, I thought it was worth it to explain that when in court in Texas, no text messages can be offered into evidence unless they are date and time stamped, not even for purposes of grand jury consideration. I expect every other state has essentially the same rule, and tomorrow, I will call a pal who practices in federal criminal court and just see what he has to say.
Everybody with a functioning brain knows their text messages are swept up and stored by the spy agencies forever.
Robinson is the patsy, imho, until a bombshell appears from non-FBI sources to change my mind.
Great stuff tonight, as always, dear friend!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
evening otc...
i have no idea whether the feebs constructed messages are admissable evidence in court, but right now they are submitting them as evidence in the public mind. it seems like most sentient beings in the public are rejecting the evidence on its face.
i guess we'll see what happens.
have a great weekend!
You too!
Those texts without date and time stamps would be ignored by some county deputy who hadn't been out of the academy a week. Who sent, who received, when sent, when received. And we know who believes it, which feeds this endless argument that intellectually elite lefties are so much smarter than red neck righties, and BOTH are being propagandized to keep it going.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
There is an avalanche of fake "forensic" experts...
...firearms experts, etc., online giving their bs theories about what happened. I wouldn't use those unauthenticated texts to wipe my butt. I heard one self styled expert say the "obsession" with the absent ballistics evidence and missing high resolution videos of the material event was a "distraction." Even the blurry videos from the first appearance, have been altered it appears in some news reports.
You can't make this up...oh wait a minute, someone did!
edit-typo
語必忠信 行必正直
The condition of news reporting in the US
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is in a sorry state of demise
easier to blend propaganda
as there is no more 'hard news'
Zionism is a social disease
Why the Left Party in Germany is hopeless and not an alternative
https://overton-magazin.de/krass-konkret/von-emotionen-und-politischer-r...
Translation of the first four paragraphs: