Open Thread - 28 May 2026 - Special Relationship 2.0?
Special Relationship 2.0?
No! No new 'special relationship' between the US and Israel. NO. We aren't having it! And get rid of the old 'special relationship'!
We shouldn't be fooled by Netanyahu supposedly calling for an end to US aid to Israel. It's just a bait and switch, as this article on our new special relationship points out. Instead of the huge amount of money the US sends to Israel, TPTB will do this:
What emerges is a plan to continue aid to Israel in a different form. Instead of sending money to Israel, which they have to spend with American corporations, Congress would appropriate money for joint development and production projects instead. This can be presented as an investment in American jobs in partnership with Israel rather than as taxpayer assistance to a foreign government.
Gah! The US's and Israel's actions make me wanna puke at times...
The article about this on Popular Resistance is really good (see link above). It's worth reading to learn about this 'change' in the US's relationship with Israel. Yea, sure there's a change... The article ends with this:
It is, therefore, crucial to move beyond the arguments that Israel does not need aid to the more important one raised by actions like Bernie Sanders’ recent Joint Resolutions of Disapproval: Israel has proven itself to be a country that will use weapons to commit the most heinous of crimes, up to, and including, genocide. There must be no aid, no sales, no cooperation with Israel on military matters whatsoever. Any breach of that principle makes us all complicit in Israel’s crimes.
Go Bernie! Not that it'll matter at all... Yes, I'm being very pessimistic right now.
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Thursday!
Hey Everyone! Hope all are doing well! It's gonna be a nice day here today, so I'll try to work outside. Last week was very intense, lots of family stuff, so I couldn't attend here like I want to do. Hopefully that'll be different this week!
Our garlic is like 4 feet tall right now. HUGE. Haven't dug down to check the bulbs, but it's a bit early for that. We are going to have to start watering in the garden, about a month early. Sheez. Gonna be doing lots of pruning to reduce fire danger in the next month or so. Anyway, what's up with you? Let us know!
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
One answer to the Anglo-Zionist Empire
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yesterdays birthday boy from Canada
He is a very social proponent worth listening to.
Thanks for the OT Sima. Go garlic!
Zionism is a social disease
In the almost too bizarre to believe category
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UFC fighting cage rises on White House lawn for bout
celebrating America’s 250th anniversary.
What kinda sh*t is this? See article for other Trump "improvements".
https://apnews.com/article/ufc-octagon-white-house-trump-america-250-4fa...
Zionism is a social disease
The gloriification of
violence-for-titillation: it is the way of today's Trumpistan. I'm surprised that they aren't going to pre-empt all programming to cover it (on our telescreens that can't be turned off). Can't wait to see all the recruitment presence of the branches of the armed forces- I'm sure that they'll be thick as thieves.
I would say that it was disgusting, but I'm deeply mired in disgust-fatigue. So I'll just call it Thursday. Some shining-city-on-the-hill we got here, huh?
Not a fan.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Like you, don't buy it.
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Won't be insulted by the theater as I do not pay attention
to MSM. Sanity is more valuable IMO.
Zionism is a social disease
Good morning Sima. Thanks for the OT. Light rain here
this morning.
Congrats on your garlic, I have given up on growing it, firstly, I really can't properly store/preserve what I do harvest, then there's the length of the growing cycle with a large bed completely devoted to garlic, etc.
Yesterday we had the redbud in the front yard topped professinally, with luck that will keep it alive a few more years and hopefully more. I've been busting my butt with a pruning blade attached to a 24' painter's pole and making very little progress. A crew with a boom truck took about 45 minutes to do a far better job than I was doing and cleaned up all the debris.
We harvested our first tomato of the season yesterday. It was a "patio" and we put it in a very large pot out back with a drip line and hand watering to boot. The fruit grows in a cluster right up near the main stem so we had to pull this tomato while we still could ger it out of 1)the cluster 2) the tomato cage 3) the critter exclusion fencing. It's 3" diameter and a couple or 3 days from fully ripe and we're finishing it off on the kitchen counter. My week to cook starts Sunday, so it might wind up on a pizza ;-), but a salad or blt seems like a better use.
We have to run out today to get some pavers to make front yard paths to get around and trim stuff from, after which we intend to plant a crapload of native species local to the area all over hell, starting with some yarrow that my wife has been hardening and readying for planting. It will be heavy on the salviaa, CA has a ton of species, and other "weeds". We hope that the deer don't like too much of it, they leave what we have out there already pretty much alone.
A few days ago our umpteenth brood of chickadees fledged and have been turning the yards into chaos and yesterday a batch of fledgling nuthatches joined them. Add the 2 species of wrens, the juncos, the hummers, the bumblebees, and monarchs and you get buzzed by something every time you step outside. Good training for the reflexes.
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 --
Sounds like fun
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we are also blessed with unlimitedied flying critters around here.
Plus the normal ground dwellers - bunnies, squirrels, stray cats and
the occasional fox or coyote. The 'maters have taken nicely. Doing them
in pots on the deck so I remember about them. Almost caught-up with
mowing. Replaced the original battery on the tractor. It was woefully undersized.
Removed the tray in the slot and was able to fit-in a standard one.
1/3 larger and 1/3 more cranking amps. Starts now without assistance from the
little generator / charger (keep it in the shed out back w/o power). Progress.
Zionism is a social disease
Heh.
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 --
That is one freaking trippy video
Makes me wonder why I bother with normalcy.
Zionism is a social disease