The Evening Blues - 12-8-25
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Hot Lips Page - There Ain't No Flies On Me
"If Maduro really was a monstrous tyrannical dictator the US would be selling him F-35s."
-- Caitlin Johnstone
News and Opinion
Trump’s Henchmen Keep Calling Their War Slut President A Peacemaker
The US State Department has renamed the US Institute of Peace the Donald J Trump Institute of Peace, proclaiming that it did so “to reflect the greatest dealmaker in our nation’s history.”
“President Trump will be remembered by history as the President of Peace,” tweeted Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the announcement.
Earlier this year the president’s intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard made a similar social media post, tweeting that “President Trump IS the President of Peace. He is ending bloodshed across the world and will deliver lasting peace in the Middle East.”
President Trump will be remembered by history as the President of Peace. It's time our State Department display that. https://t.co/NBvmL5zksn
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) December 3, 2025
This would be the same President Trump who has bombed Somalia more times in the last year than presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama did in their combined twelve years in office.
The same President Trump who is bombing boats in the Caribbean and openly ramping up for a disastrous regime change military intervention in Venezuela at this very moment, with his Chairman of the Joint Chiefs declaring that Americans can expect a coming war “in our neighborhood”.
The same President Trump who has spent an entire year pouring weapons into the horrific US proxy war in Ukraine despite promising throughout his entire campaign to end the conflict on day one.
The same President Trump who helped Israel incinerate Gaza for months before suckering the world with a fake “ceasefire” deal which as of this writing has seen at least 373 Palestinians murdered by Israel in just two months since taking effect, while a nightmarish surveillance system is constructed around the survivors.
The same President Trump who risked a horrifying escalation in the middle east by bombing Iran.
The same President Trump who slaughtered hundreds of civilians in his murderous bombing campaign in Yemen earlier this year.
The same President Trump who spent all year ignoring the UAE-backed genocide in Sudan until he was given a nudge by none other genocidal Saudi tyrant Mohammed bin Salman.
The same President Trump who spent his entire first term advancing the longstanding agendas of warmongering DC swamp monsters by starving Venezuela, backing Saudi Arabia’s genocidal atrocities in Yemen, ramping up cold war escalations against Russia which paved the way to the conflict in Ukraine, imprisoning Julian Assange for exposing US war crimes, staging brutal regime change ops in Iran, occupying Syrian oil fields with the goal of facilitating regime change, assassinating General Soleimani, and expanding the US murder machine around the world.
President Trump IS the President of Peace. He is ending bloodshed across the world and will deliver lasting peace in the Middle East.
Where Joe Biden failed, President Trump will succeed. https://t.co/kcQalOyRLa
— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) March 29, 2025
This rhetoric about Trump being the “President of Peace” is just that: rhetoric. It’s words. This administration has been taking credit for resolving a bunch of conflicts it either made up, didn’t help resolve, or was an active belligerent in, while in actual reality turning the gears of the imperial war machine as rapidly as any other president the United States has ever had.
Trump campaigned on being a president of peace and continues to stake his personal reputation on big talk about peacemaking, but in terms of concrete action he’s just as much of a warmonger as the psychopaths who came before him.
There is no basis to continue to support Trump if you are opposed to war. You can support him because he “triggers the libs” or “fights wokeness” or whatever other dopey culture war reason you want if that’s what you’re into, because he absolutely does feed into that nonsense. But if you support him because you think he’s making peace, draining the swamp, or sticking up for the little guy, you’re just plain delusional.
Holding Israel Accountable: Craig Mokhiber and Noura Erakat in Conversation with Katie Halper
No ceasefire yet, but the first phase of the ceasefire plan is nearly complete. Go figure.
First phase of Gaza ceasefire plan nearly complete, says Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the first phase of the UN-endorsed Gaza ceasefire plan is close to completion, and that the second phase must involve the disarmament of Hamas. The Israeli prime minister said he would discuss the next steps later this month in Washington with Donald Trump, whose Gaza proposals were codified in a UN security council resolution on 17 November.
“We’re about to finish the first stage,” Netanyahu said. “But we have to make sure that we achieve the same results in the second stage, and that’s something I look forward to discussing with President Trump.” The prime minister was speaking at a joint press conference with the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, who said: “Phase two must come now and then phase three must also be considered.”
Merz is the first leader of a major European state to meet Netanyahu in Israel since the international criminal court issued arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister and his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant, in November last year for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. ...
Neither Trump’s proposals, nor UN security council resolution 2803 which largely endorsed them, set out a timetable extending the ceasefire into a lasting peace. Hamas is supposed to disarm, Israeli troops are meant to withdraw farther, and an international stabilisation force (ISF) is to be set up under the control of a “board of peace” of world leaders chaired by Trump, overseeing a technocratic Palestinian committee to run the day-to-day governance of Gaza. The sequencing of these steps is not clear in Trump’s proposals or in resolution 2803. In his remarks on Sunday, Netanyahu put his emphasis on Hamas disarmament.
Netanyahu raised the prospects of “alternatives” to the ISF, without explaining what those might be. He would not rule out Israeli annexation of the West Bank, describing it as a subject of “discussion”, and stressed that Israel was adamantly opposed to the creation of a Palestinian state, the aim of the peace process desired by most European and Arab capitals as well as the overwhelming majority of UN member states.
Disarming Hamas should not be first task of Gaza stabilisation force, Turkey says
The international stabilisation force (ISF) in Gaza should make its priority the separation of Israeli troops and Hamas rather than the disarmament of the Palestinian group, the Turkish foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, has said. He also suggested that Indonesia and Azerbaijan, two countries that have offered to contribute troops, would prefer that Turkey was a member of the planned UN-backed force, something Israel is seeking to veto.
The talks over the composition of the force, along with the membership of the planned board of peace and a 15-strong Palestinian technocratic committee to run services in Gaza, have stalled as detailed talks over the ISF mandate have raged behind the scenes. “Disarmament cannot be the first stage in this process,” Fidan said, speaking in Doha. “We need to proceed in the correct order and remain realistic.” He added that the ISF’s first goal “should be to separate Palestinians from the Israelis”.
The Egyptian foreign minister, Badr Abdelatty, seconded these proposed ISF priorities, calling for the force to be deployed along the “yellow line” running north to south in Gaza that divides the Israel Defense Forces to the east from broadly Hamas-controlled areas in the west. “We need to deploy this force as soon as possible on the ground because one side, Israel, every day is violating the ceasefire, but claims the other side is responsible so we need monitors along the yellow side in order to verify and monitor,” Abdelatty said. The ISF mandate “should be peace monitoring not peace enforcement”, he added.
Norway’s foreign minister, Espen Barth Eide, said the plan proposed by the US president, Donald Trump, was not clear on the sequencing of the ISF tasks. As a result, he warned: “The different parties can say ‘I will do my part but only when he has done its part’, so we need to get the board of peace and the ISF in place this month because it is very urgent.” He added: “We are now in a very fragile ceasefire. We can either go forward or backward. I do not think we can stay many more weeks in this situation. The alternatives are back to war and descent into total anarchy, or we move forward.”
Israel has said it will not withdraw from Gaza until disarmament has taken place.
Alastair Crooke : Trump's Bait and Switch; Netanyahu's Extortion
Kremlin hails Trump’s national security strategy as aligned with Russia’s vision
The Kremlin has heaped praise on Donald Trump’s latest national security strategy, calling it an encouraging change of policy that largely aligns with Russian thinking. The remarks follow the publication of a White House document on Friday that criticises the EU and says Europe is at risk of “civilisational erasure”, while making clear the US is keen to establish better relations with Russia.
“The adjustments that we see correspond in many ways to our vision,” the Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said on Sunday. He welcomed signals that the Trump administration was “in favour of dialogue and building good relations”. He warned, however, that the supposed US “deep state” could try to sabotage Trump’s vision.
It came as the White House’s efforts to push through a peace deal in Ukraine enter a key phase. US officials claim they are in the final stage of reaching an agreement, but there is little sign that either Ukraine or Russia is willing to sign the framework deal drawn up by Trump’s negotiating team. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, will visit Downing Street on Monday for a four-way meeting with with the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz.
Zelenskyy has previously called on European allies for support at times when the White House has tried to push Ukraine towards agreeing to give up territory. A key issue for Kyiv is what security guarantees it would receive if it does agree to renounce control of some territory. ...
It is not clear that either the US or Europe are willing to offer the kind of security guarantees that would genuinely deter Russia from invading again. Nor is it likely that Vladimir Putin would agree to a deal that involved any western troops stationed in Ukraine. US officials have claimed to be close to a sustainable deal on numerous occasions since Trump began his second term in office, only for the claims to be exposed as wishful thinking.
Russia Strikes; Kiev Ukraine Go Dark; Mirnograd Collapse; Zelensky UK/EU Surreal Talks NO To US Plan
Ukraine General Syrskyi Proves Ukraine Will Lose /Lt Col Daniel Davis
US may end support for Ukraine war effort, says Donald Trump Jr
Donald Trump may walk away from the Ukrainian war, the US president’s oldest son has said in comments to a Middle East conference. In a lengthy tirade against the purpose of continued fighting in Ukraine, Donald Trump Jr also said Ukraine’s “corrupt” rich had fled their country leaving “what they believed to be the peasant class” to fight the war.
Trump Jr has no formal role inside his father’s administration, but is a key figure in the Maga movement. His intervention reflects the antipathy among some inside the Trump team towards the Ukrainian government, and comes as Trump’s negotiating team is putting pressure on Kyiv to give up territory. Trump Jr said the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was prolonging the war because he knew he would never win an election if it ended. He said Zelenskyy was a borderline deity on the left, but argued that Ukraine was far more corrupt than Russia.
He also railed at the EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, saying European sanctions were not working since they had simply increased the price of oil, from which Russia could pay for its war. He described the European plan as “we are going to wait for Russia to go bankrupt – that is not a plan”. ...
Trump Jr claimed, without providing evidence, that he had observed this summer on a single day in Monaco that 50% of the supercars such as Bugattis and Ferraris had Ukrainian number plates. “Do you think that was earned in Ukraine?” he asked.
War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody on Trump's Boat Strikes
Hegseth Defends Boat Bombings as New Details Further Undermine Administration’s Justifications
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday defended the Trump administration's policy of bombing suspected drug-trafficking vessels even as new details further undermined the administration's stated justifications for the policy.
According to the Guardian, Hegseth told a gathering at the Ronald Reagan presidential library that the boat bombings, which so far have killed at least 87 people, are necessary to protect Americans from illegal drugs being shipped to the US.
"If you’re working for a designated terrorist organization and you bring drugs to this country in a boat, we will find you and we will sink you," Hegseth said. "Let there be no doubt about it."
However, leaked details about a classified briefing delivered to lawmakers last week by Adm. Frank Bradley about a September 2 boat strike cast new doubts on Hegseth's justifications.
CNN reported on Friday that Bradley told lawmakers that the boat taken out by the September 2 attack was not even headed toward the US, but was going "to link up with another, larger vessel that was bound for Suriname," a small nation in the northeast of South America.
While Bradley acknowledged that the boat was not heading toward the US, he told lawmakers that the strike on it was justified because the drugs it was carrying could have theoretically wound up in the US at some point.
Additionally, NBC News reported on Saturday that Bradley told lawmakers that Hegseth had ordered all 11 men who were on the boat targeted by the September 2 strike to be killed because "they were on an internal list of narco-terrorists who US intelligence and military officials determined could be lethally targeted."
This is relevant because the US military launched a second strike during the September 2 operation to kill two men who had survived the initial strike on their vessel, which many legal experts consider to be either a war crime or an act of murder under domestic law.
Navy Ordered to DELETE Video of Boat Strike Survivors
Democrats urge Pentagon to release video of strike on alleged drug boat
US Democrats on Sunday pushed the Trump administration to release video of a second strike on an alleged drug boat incapacitated in the Caribbean, continuing to escalate pressure on the Pentagon amid accusations the attack was unlawful.
Eleven people died in the 2 September attack, including two men killed in a follow-up strike as they reportedly clung to wreckage for an hour. That killing has been met with intense scrutiny and accusations of war crimes after the Washington Post reported defense secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill them all”. Adm Frank Bradley of the US navy, who oversaw the attack, told lawmakers on Thursday there was no such order – and the Pentagon has defended the legality of the attack.
Experts have said the defense is legally shaky. “If the Pentagon and our defense secretary are so proud of what they’re doing, let the American people see that video,” Adam Schiff, a Democratic senator from California, said during an interview on Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press. “Let the American people see two people standing on a capsized boat, or sitting on a capsized boat, and deliberately killed and decide for themselves whether they’re proud of what the country is doing. I can’t imagine people would be proud of that.”
Donald Trump has said he has no problem releasing the video. But, despite the president’s statement, Hegseth did not commit to doing so on Saturday. “We’re reviewing the process, and we’ll see,” he said on Saturday, adding that the Pentagon wanted to ensure sensitive information was not compromised.
Tyson CLOSES Plant, CUTS THOUSANDS OF JOBS in Nebraska and Texas
Layoffs SURGE To Highest Since Covid
Venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale, a co-founder of data platform company Palantir, is calling for the return of public hangings as part of a broader push to restore what he describes as "masculine leadership" to the US.
In a statement posted on X Friday, Lonsdale said that he supported changing the so-called "three strikes" anti-crime law to ensure that anyone who is convicted of three violent crimes gets publicly executed, rather than simply sent to prison for life.
"If I’m in charge later, we won’t just have a three strikes law," he wrote. "We will quickly try and hang men after three violent crimes. And yes, we will do it in public to deter others."
Lonsdale then added that "our society needs balance," and said that "it's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable."
Rep. Adelita Grijalva Pepper-Sprayed By ICE Amid Restaurant Raid
Judge blocks Trump prosecutors from accessing key evidence in Comey case
A federal judge has temporarily blocked prosecutors from accessing materials from a key ally of James Comey on Saturday, making the already uphill criminal case against the former FBI director even more difficult. Daniel Richman, a Columbia University law school professor who has also represented Comey as an attorney, sued the government in November, saying that the government had unlawfully accessed materials from his computer as they charged Comey with lying to Congress. Richman is a close friend of Comey who worked at the FBI. ...
Between 2017 and 2020, as the government investigated Comey, it obtained multiple warrants allowing them to search an image of Richman’s computer. Neither Richman nor Comey were charged with a crime as part of that investigation, which closed in 2021. Even though the investigation was over, the government appears to have retained all of the information it obtained from Richman, not just what was responsive to the warrant, William Fitzpatrick, a magistrate judge overseeing the Comey case, wrote in a searing opinion in November.
As they conducted a new investigation into Comey this year, the government did not appear to obtain a new warrant to go through the materials it obtained from Richman, Fitzpatrick wrote. Instead, it conducted a warrantless search of the information earlier this year, allowing the government to potentially see materials protected by attorney-client privilege.
"Promised 3,000 Years Ago!" Somalis Wage Zionist Themed Meme War
Ilhan Omar says Trump’s anti-Somali tirade ‘completely disgusting’
US House member Ilhan Omar on Sunday defended the Somali community in her Minnesota congressional district, saying it was “completely disgusting” when Donald Trump recently referred to them as garbage. “These are Americans that he is calling ‘garbage,’” Omar, a Somalia-born Democrat, said while responding to the president’s remarks on CBS’s Face the Nation. “I think it is also really important for us to remember that this kind of hateful rhetoric – and this level of dehumanizing – can lead to dangerous actions by people who listen to the president.”
Those comments from Omar – who also spent some of her CBS interview discussing fraud cases involving Minnesota Somalis in recent years – served as replies to insults from Trump during a cabinet meeting. Beside calling them “garbage”, the president said Minnesota’s Somali community should be sent back to Somalia. “Look at their nation,” Trump also said. “Look how bad their nation is. It’s not even a nation. It’s just people walking around killing each other. Look, these Somalians have taken billions of dollars out of our country – billions and billions.” ...
On Thursday, Omar penned an op-ed in the New York Times claiming that Trump was resorting to racist attacks because various campaign promises – including a better US economy – have been failing. “While the president wastes his time attacking my community … the promises of economic prosperity he made in his run for president [in 2024] have not come to fruition,” Omar wrote in the Times. “The president knows he is failing, and so he is reverting to what he knows best: trying to divert attention by stoking bigotry.”
New York City’s wealthiest are not fleeing the city after Mamdani’s win
The warnings were stark. If Zohran Mamdani were to win the New York City mayoral election, his plans to raise taxes – slightly – on the city’s wealthiest residents would cause millionaires to bolt en masse, decamping to lower-tax states such as Florida and Texas.
The New York Post, a conservative tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch, told readers on an almost daily basis through October that New York would effectively become a ghost town under Mamdani’s mayoralty, a propaganda campaign that concluded the day before the election with the bombastic claim that “nearly a million” people were planning to “flee”.
But a month after Mamdani’s historic win, there is no evidence that rich people are leaving the Big Apple. In fact, they seem to be committing to staying in New York. Signed contracts on Manhattan homes costing more than $4m increased in November compared with October, Fortune magazine reported, with the most expensive homes outperforming the overall market. And inventory in the “luxury market” fell by 16% in October compared with the previous year, suggesting that, actually, more people are committing to staying in New York.
So despite the fearmongering about rich people leaving, and taking the money they contribute to the city in taxes with them, it isn’t happening yet. Experts say it is unlikely to start. “If we just look at migration rates of high-income people, the rates are very low. Rich people are not the folks who are, you know, pulling up camp and moving to a different part of the country. That’s just not who’s doing that,” said Cristobal Young, an associate professor in the department of sociology at Cornell University and author of The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight. ...
Young and others have analyzed the introduction of taxes similar to those proposed by Mamdani in New Jersey, California, Connecticut and Massachusetts, and found little evidence that those policies led to a mass exodus. “It’s totally possible that a handful of people will move away. There’s going to be some people who were close to the margins [of leaving] saying: ‘You know what, New York isn’t working for me anyway, this isn’t the right city for me.’ And if the tax rate goes up by a couple of points, you know that’ll be for them the last straw. But what you need to think about is the fact that 98% of high-income earners are going to stay in the city, and they’ll be paying that new tax rate, and they’ll be contributing more revenues.”
Trump slams ‘lack of loyalty’ after pardoned Democrat says he won’t change party
Days after issuing him a pardon, Donald Trump criticized US House member Henry Cuellar of Texas for deciding to run for re-election as a Democrat.
Trump pardoned Cuellar and the congressman’s wife on Wednesday as they faced bribery charges. They were alleged to have accepted thousands of dollars from Azerbaijan and a Mexican bank in exchange for advancing their interests.
Shortly after the pardon, Cuellar filed for re-election as a Democrat and said he had no intention of changing his party. ...
“I never spoke to the Congressman, his wife, or his daughters, but felt very good about fighting for a family that was tormented by very sick and deranged people – They were treated sooo BADLY!” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social site on Sunday. “Such a lack of LOYALTY, something that Texas Voters, and Henry’s daughters, will not like. Oh’ well, next time, no more Mr. Nice guy!”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, considered by some to be the frontrunner to be the next Democratic presidential nominee, said during a panel on Wednesday that he wants his party to be a “big tent” that welcomes large numbers of people into the fold. But he’s “adamantly against” one of the most popular proposals Democrats have to offer: a wealth tax.
In October, progressive economists Emmanuel Saez and Robert Reich joined forces with one of California's most powerful unions, the Service Employees International Union's (SEIU) United Healthcare Workers West, to propose that California put the nation’s first-ever wealth tax on the ballot in November 2026.
They described the measure as an "emergency billionaires tax" aimed at recouping the tens of billions of dollars that will be stripped from California's 15 million Medicaid recipients over the next five years, after Republicans enacted historic cuts to the program in July with President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which dramatically reduced taxes for the wealthiest Americans.
Among those beneficiaries were the approximately 200 billionaires living in California, whose average annual income, Saez pointed out, has risen by 7.5% per year, compared with 1.5% for median-income residents.
Under the proposal, they would pay a one-time 5% tax on their total net worth, which is estimated to raise $100 billion. The vast majority of the funds, about 90%, would be used to restore Medicaid funding, while the rest would go towards funding K-12 education, which the GOP has also slashed.
The proposal in California has strong support from unions and healthcare groups. But Newsom has called it “bad policy” and “another attempt to grab money for special purposes.”
Meanwhile, several of his longtime consultants, including Dan Newman and Brian Brokaw, have launched a campaign alongside “business and tech leaders” to kill the measure, which they’ve dubbed “Stop the Squeeze." They've issued familiar warnings that pinching the wealthy too hard will drive them from the state, along with the critical tax base they provide.
Canada may approve a new oil pipeline. First Nations fear another ‘worst-case scenario’
Against the backdrop of a trade war and the climate crisis, Canada is in a difficult position. It is the world’s fourth-largest oil producer with the fourth-largest reserves, outproducing most members of Opec. But swathes of the country are also warming faster than the rest of the world, and communities are facing the devastating effects. Grappling with those two realities, Carney has pledged to help Alberta with a pipeline that would move “at least one million barrels a day” to Asia. With new legislative powers, Carney’s government could also slash permitting and approval delays and is weighing lifting the moratorium on tanker traffic along the BC north coast.
For many, that ban, formalized into law in 2019, reflects the inherent danger of shipping oil through a region of tempestuous weather, physical hazards and deeply revered marine ecosystems. “It’s spectacularly dangerous to conceive of putting a pipeline to northern BC and hauling that oil across the Gulf of Alaska to Asian markets,” Rick Steiner, who was one of the first on the scene of the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, told the Canadian Press. “It should not see the light of day.”
Large oil tankers would likely have to traverse portions of the Hecate Strait, described by author John Vaillant as a “malevolent weather factory” where winter storms produce “one of the most diabolically hostile environments that wind, sea and land are capable of conjuring”.
Coastal First Nations, which represent nine nations along the central coast, swiftly declared that the project “would never happen”, and said the tanker ban was non-negotiable. Chiefs representing more than 600 First Nations voted unanimously for Ottawa to uphold the oil-tanker ban and to withdraw from the deal between the federal and Alberta governments that could see a pipeline project pushed through.
Green party leader Elizabeth May said in a statement there was “no chance on God’s green Earth that an oil tanker will ever move through the inner waters between Haida Gwaii and the north coast of British Columbia”. May added that “governments cannot wish away science” nor can they “pretend that an oil tanker would not break apart under those conditions”.
The loggers and ranchers are closing in but still Brazil’s Kawahiva people wait for protection
In 2024, agents of the National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples (Funai) walked more than 60 miles through rainforest on the southern fringe of the Brazilian Amazon on a mission to monitor and help protect a group of Indigenous people who had no contact with the modern world. What they found was a small basket freshly woven from leaves, a child’s footprints on the bank of a creek, and tree trunks hacked open hours before to extract honey. There were huts abandoned a year before that were sinking into the forest floor, and brazil nut pods discarded around old campfires. They were all signs that the Pardo River Kawahiva people were there.
A year later, the Brazilian government continues to ignore directives by the country’s supreme court approving a plan of measures to protect the isolated Indigenous community, including accelerating the demarcation of their territory and explaining how it would reduce deforestation. Bureaucratic delays, funding shortages and violent conflicts over land – including attacks by self-proclaimed leaders linked to loggers – have blocked the process.
Without physical boundaries, loggers and ranchers continue to encroach, leaving the Kawahiva vulnerable to genocide and cultural erasure. Advocates call the stalling a deliberate, life-threatening violation of Brazil’s constitution.
The presence of the Kawahiva people came as no surprise to Jair Candor, who led the expedition last year and who first confirmed their location in 1999. But their proposed 400,000-hectare (1m-acre) reserve still lacks full protection, as required by Brazil’s constitution, and remains the largest unprotected forest with uncontacted Indigenous people in Brazil. Just outside the reserve’s boundaries, the forest has been burned and cattle graze on recently cleared land. Fences and gates are being erected, and roads are stretching farther and farther into the forest. ...
The petition that led to the supreme court directive for the demarcation to go ahead was filed by the APIB, a national organisation of Brazil’s Indigenous people. The court’s decision was clear: it ordered the federal government to present a firm schedule for completing the demarcation of the Kawahiva do Rio Pardo territory, recognising the “risk of genocide, food insecurity and acculturation”. Ricardo Terena, a lawyer for Apib, describes the process as “stalled”. The supreme court has said it is awaiting compliance with the decision. “The delay in demarcation is not only illegal,” warns Priscilla Oliveira, representative of Survival International, an organisation that campaigns for Indigenous peoples. “It is also extremely dangerous and puts the lives of the isolated Kawahiva Indigenous people at risk.”
"The Problem with Plastic": How Pollution Is Worsening Climate Crisis & Hurting Our Health
California pesticide agency could loosen restrictions on most toxic rat poisons
The administration of Gavin Newsom, the California governor, is moving to loosen restrictions around the most toxic rat poisons, even as a new state report shows the rodenticides are unintentionally poisoning wildlife across the state, including endangered species.
Blood-thinning, anticoagulant rodenticides were significantly restricted when a 2024 state law approved after 10 years of legislative wrangling required the California department of pesticide regulation to limit the substances’ use unless data showed species collaterally harmed or killed by it had rebounded.
A new report from the California fish and wildlife service, also part of the Newsom administration, shows widespread poisonings of dozens of species, including mountain lions, hawks, owls, bears and bobcats. About 83% of bald eagles tested showed levels of the rodenticides in their blood, and endangered California condors also showed high levels.
Still, the Newsom administration is moving forward with the plans to undo many of the regulations in the new law, a move that points to industry influence, said Jonathan Evans, a senior attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity.
“You have the agency that has really tracked this issue for decades putting forward this data that shows continued harm to wildlife, but then you have another agency that’s literally trying to roll back laws that the legislature and governor put in place and includes tight restrictions, which is very, very concerning, to say the least,” Evans said. The pesticides department proposal allows use of the most toxic rat poison to be used at more than 100,000 new locations, including grocery stores, restaurants, highways, roads, and even parks and wildlife areas.
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
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Too Big To Fail Fails In China
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case That Could Bless Trump’s Bid to End Birthright Citizenship
ICE Goons Pepper Spray Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva During Tucson Raid
Luigi Mangione court hearings gave a preview of gripping trial to come
Super-Shady Financial Dealings At “Non-Profit” TPUSA EXPOSED!
John Kiriakou: The CIA’s Tortures and Crimes
A Little Night Music
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Hot Lips Page - Lafayette
Pearl Bailey & Hot Lips Page - The Hucklebuck
Hot Lips Page - The Devil's Kiss
"Hot Lips" Page Hot Seven - Uncle Sam's Blues
Hot Lips Page and his Orchestra - Fish For Supper
Hot Lips Page - They Raided The Joint
Hot Lips Page Trio - My Fightin' Gal
Hot Lips Page - Limehouse Blues
Comments
Hey, joe!
I think Mangione's case will eventually be truncated, if not tossed out completely. The cops needed to get a damn warrant for their searches, and stand there, take a minute to read him his right to remain silent. The gathering and use of illegally obtained evidence is "fruit of the poisonous tree" and should not be presented to a jury.
Birthright citizenship is right there in the Constitution. If we have the right to deport a newborn baby fresh from the hospital, treating them as some invader, we are criminalizing them because of their parents. How in hell would a child in utero have a say in what country they first breath air?
Our Constitution is taking a serous hit here of late.
Thanks so much for the ebs! Gotta cook, eat, return and watch your stuff and things you brought to us.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
evening otc...
i think you're right that mangione's case is going to get tossed out of court due to the incompetence of the police and the prosecutors. if you can't even collect evidence properly, maybe you shouldn't be in the law enforcement business. beyond that, the evidence that was collected, in particular the alleged manifesto/confession smells funny.
it seems to me that if the trumpsters want to end birthright citizenship, they are going to have to amend the constitution to rewrite the 14th amendment. that's going to take some time, which will no doubt irritate the trumpsters. considering the century plus of precedent, i suspect that it will be difficult for the scotus to reinterpret the 14th substantially wrt birthright citizenship - though i'm sure that alito and thomas will take a stab at it.
Good evening Joe Thanks for the EBs, I find it
curious than Granpa shit-for-brains and his trusty sidekick Bondi want to cleanse the country of everybody who is anti-Amaerican and their numbah one target is ANTIFA, Is that an admission?
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...
i guess i don't watch fox news enough to figure out why the trumpster is so exercised about antifa. since most of trumpster's alleged thoughts are based in pictures he sees on fox, it may be more of an admission of fox's political leanings - trumpster is just a camp follower.
A song for Gavin Newsom
evening mickt
thanks! that's quite excellent!
Evening joe and bluesters
Alistair and Caitlin are always appreciated for their individually unique analysis. Thank you for keeping it real.
I spoke with my cousin yesterday. He has lived for most of his lifetime in NYC, and has divided his time between the NYC and Ft. Lauderdale since retirement. He is not aware of even a minor influx of NY'ers in the vicinity.
That is some wild and amazing dancing in the first video of Hot Lips!
Cheers
evening janis...
the electioneering threats that "all the rich people are going to leave and take their tax revenue with them elsewhere if you lefties have the temerity to undo their tax cuts" have been overdone for years. i am not surprised that the projected stampede has turned out to be a big nothingburger.
i can't remember which movie that footage of the lindy hoppers comes from, but it is used in a bunch of different song videos on youtube. i'm not positive but i think that the sequence was from a movie that had slim gaillard in it.
have a great evening!
Hi joe
I remember seeing that footage once before in a different video. You're right about Slim Guillard and the footage being from a movie. Here's what I found -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellzapoppin%27_(film)
My evening is just beginning, enjoy the rest of yours.