2024-11-20

Trying to start World War 3 vs. actually starting World War 3.

Guess who? The United States of course.

How?

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/11/19/ukraine-fires-us-missiles-at-russia-risking-wider-war/

I mean really, what is the US crapitalist ruling class doing?

I know they are both psychopaths and criminals, but this takes things to a whole new level.

Do they really think that this is going to help them replace crapitalism w/fascism in the US?

Do they think this will make them more profit, or more power?

Do they think they can actually defeat these countries who are figuratively and literally fighting for their lives (i.e. Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, etc.)?

Probably the best summary of the recent Boeing strike, along with the history of past ones.

And he really touches on the connection between 'loyalty' and 'quality'.


Fucking right you ignore those fauxraged 'liberals'!

https://blackagendareport.com/arab-americans-ignore-haters-rejecting-kamala-harris-was-right-thing-do

Liberals can tolerate you only when you behave:  vote (as per their demands), show up for diversity photoshoots, ease up on the religion, and don’t make too much noise about Palestine.  They see you as children to be marshalled into civic duty every few years according to their own convenience.  The moment you reject their delusions of lesser evilism, even when the supposedly lesser evil is incinerating your kin and leading the world to the brink of catastrophe, they no longer feel obliged to maintain decorum.  It’s now obvious that liberals were itching for an excuse to unleash a lot of deep-seated animosity.  All it took was your principled rejection of genocide. 

And bonus points for pointing this out - as it not only applies to 'liberals' but pretty much the entire capital class -

You have two roles in American society:  1) make life easier for liberals and 2) stay out of the way otherwise. 

2024-11-18

If Trump is the dictator the Democratic Brand says he is, why then are they giving him more powers?

Hey look who's trying to start World War 3?

It's the United States ruling class.

https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/17/report-biden-allows-ukraine-to-strike-russia-with-long-range-us-missiles/

 

The US officials said the ATACMS will likely initially be used to hit Russian troops fighting against Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk Oblast. Ukraine and the US have also said North Korean troops are deployed in Kursk. The US has said the North Korean troops are engaged in combat, but that hasn’t been confirmed by Moscow.

Earlier this year, President Biden gave Ukraine the greenlight to strike Russian border regions with US-provided weapons, including shorter-range rockets fired by the HIMARS. A few months later, Ukraine launched its invasion of Kursk, and Ukrainian officials began pushing hard for the US to support longer-range strikes inside Russia.

In response to those calls and comments from Western officials supporting the idea, Russian President Vladimir Putin said if NATO supported long-range strikes in Russia, it would put the Western military alliance “at war with Russia.”

 



2024-11-15

Ugh - ANOTHER Saturday to work.

Saturdays were always my favorites. In reality, my goal in life has always been to make every day a Saturday. I could wake up whenever, eat as I pleased, did some exercise, wrote some music, played some music, fucked a few women, did more writing, eating, exercising, etc.

... oh yes, and I had a perfect body, face, hair, and was the object of desire of every female in the vicinity (Hey it's my fantasy).

Yet for the last five years, I've been some working Saturdays every year for, well, work.

This is one of them.

Yay.

Well I remind myself, that this is the price I pay for what I've chosen to do in my professional career.

Hope for Sri Lanka?

After decades of war, strife and death?

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/11/15/left-wing-alliance-wins-two-thirds-majority-in-the-sri-lankan-parliament/

The NPP’s emergence as a viable political alternative to the traditional ruling parties in Sri Lanka has a lot to do with its significant role in the popular mobilizations during the Aragalaya, or popular protests in 2022. The protests, which forced the then president Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his brother and Prime Minister Mahida to resign, emerged after their government’s mismanagement of the economy and its failure to deal with the hardships faced by the people.

 

2024-11-06

Let's not forget - psychopaths also thrive on blackmail.

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/11/05/israel-blackmail-the-presidents/

This is really ugly.

What is the United States?

It's a capitalist republic.

It's a dictatorship of private property and its pursuit of endless profit and power.

Psychopaths in the US Ruling Class mirrors the more general psychopaths in Israel.

Violence and terror is what drives their desires for power, wealth and 'superiority'.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/11/06/israeli-settlers-launch-massive-arson-attack-in-west-banks-al-bireh-city/

Settlers have for decades carried out violence and sabotage against Palestinians with the goal of uprooting them from their homeland. Settler violence against Palestinians can range from physical and verbal assaults, looting of corpses, obstructing Palestinians from reaching their lands, cutting down their olive trees during the harvest season, and killing their livestock. Settlers have also written racist slogans on the walls of Islamic and Christian holy sites in their crusades against Palestinian communities. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, over 1,400 incidents of settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank were recorded in the last year.

In 2014, a 16-year-old Palestinian Mohammad Khdeir was kidnapped by a group of Israeli settlers in East Jerusalem, and then taken to a forest where he was beaten and burned alive.

One year later, three members of the Palestinian Dawabsheh family were burned to death after Israeli settlers set the family’s house on fire in the village of Duma, in the Nablus governorate. An 18-month-old baby was burned alive along with his parents. His brother Ahmad survived but sustained severe burns in 60% of his body including his face.

The recurring incidents of settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank directly contradicts Israeli narratives that the situation was fine before October 7 and that Palestinian resistance groups based in the besieged Gaza Strip are the main obstacle to achieving peace. For decades, Israeli propaganda has worked relentlessly to cover up the terrorism, violence, and brutality perpetrated by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) and illegal settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, in addition to the IOF’s frequent aggressions and continuous siege of the Gaza strip.

 

So the 'election' is done - the ruling class 'wins' again.

I put those in quotes, because elections don't mean democracy.

This has been true for a long time.

https://blackagendareport.com/essay-why-i-wont-vote-w-e-b-du-bois-1956

When I think about all the 'liberals' who are wailing over the 'victory' of Trump, I remind myself not to smirk, laugh, or somehow think I'm a better person.

Over 200000 Palestinians (estimated) to have been killed by the Zionist project - fully funded by the United States and it's ruling class.

Why did it happen and what should be do about it?

https://blackagendareport.com/how-trump-won-and-what-black-people-should-do


2024-11-04

New term I learned today: Necrocapitalism

That is, a new term for me.

https://burningbooks.com/products/on-necrocapitalism-a-plague-journal

For reference, I got it from this truly amazing editorial ->

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/the-case-for-abandoning-the-burning-house/

This is how I feel. This what I tell others who ask.

Until the Blue No Matter Who'ers and the MAGA Reds really and truly see the impact of the actions of the US Empire ruling class, nothing will ever change.

Headlines like these - even now - result in denial and refusal to even read.

https://scheerpost.com/2024/11/04/israel-killed-over-50-children-in-jabalia-in-48-hours-un/

Israel Killed Over 50 Children in Jabalia in 48 Hours: UN

November 4, 2024

By Dave DeCamp / Antiwar.com

Israeli strikes in Jabalia, northern Gaza, killed over 50 children in just 48 hours, the UN’s child relief agency, UNICEF, said in a statement on Saturday.

“This has already been a deadly weekend of attacks in North Gaza. In the past 48 hours alone, over 50 children have reportedly been killed in Jabalia, where strikes leveled two residential buildings sheltering hundreds of people,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell.

 

https://scheerpost.com/2024/11/04/israeli-scholar-lays-out-true-brutality-of-ethnic-cleansing-now-underway-in-gaza/

Israeli Scholar Lays Out ‘True Brutality’ of Ethnic Cleansing Now Underway in Gaza

November 4, 2024 , , , ,

By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams

Much alarm has been raised over the so-called “Generals’ Plan,” an ethnic cleansing proposal for northern Gaza that has reportedly garnered attention in the highest reaches of the Israeli government.

But Israeli scholar Idan Landau argued in a column published in English by +972 Magazine on Friday that what the Israeli military is actually doing in northern Gaza “is even more appalling” than the plan outlined by a group of retired generals. Landau argued that focus on the details of the Generals’ Plan has served to obscure the “true brutality” of Israel’s deadly operations in northern Gaza, which has been rendered a hellscape of death and destruction by the military assault and siege.

Terms like 'genocide', 'ethnic cleansing', 'war crimes', 'crimes against humanity',  and so on, mean nothing to psychopaths. 

Until they mean something to the American Public, then's it up to the rest of the world to take action.

 

 

 

 

Regardless of which ruling class elites fix the 2024 US elections, it won't matter.

Because elections in US crapitalism don't matter for the majority.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/11/03/both-harris-and-trump-want-the-us-hegemony-over-the-world-to-continue-says-prabir-purkayastha/

Either Trump or Harris will continue the fund the ongoing genocide of brown people, by largely white European people.

2024-10-31

Quote of the day - 10-31-2024

Francis Boyle, a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/10/31/south-africa-files-overwhelming-evidence-of-genocide/

“Given Israel’s lack of respect for decisions of the court, it becomes imperative that these decisions have teeth,” Boyle added. “The U.S. veto at the U.N. Security Council has prevented that body from doing its job. So, the U.N. General Assembly should utilize its Uniting for Peace procedure to take control of the situation and recommend an arms embargo and economic sanctions against Israel as well as other measures. That’s what was done to apartheid South Africa because of its illegal occupation of Namibia.”

A glimmer of hope in the World?

https://scheerpost.com/2024/10/31/the-brics-summit-in-kazan-a-manifesto-for-a-rational-world-order/

I am somewhat skeptical, but optimistic that it can work.

Great to see Jamarl back in action.

https://blackagendareport.com/life-and-times-russian-propagandist

As always, he hits it out of the ballpark.

I wonder if this means anything regarding US politics?

In relatively recent history, the Yankees winning the Major League Baseball World Series Championship typically occurred during Democratic Brand Administrations and Presidencies.

Hmm ...


2024-10-28

Oh and just so you think that only the Global North can be the only tyrants of the world.

There's the psychopaths that are wrecking India. Yes that idiot Modi and the BJP.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/24/left-parties-in-india-protest-arms-exports-to-israel/

Left parties and civil society groups oppose the Modi government’s policy shift on Israel-Palestine, including alleged arms deliveries which have helped to prolong the Israeli genocide in Palestine. They held a press conference in August, criticizing India’s growing ties with Israel and distancing itself from its historical support for Palestinian resistance. Nationwide protests were also organized by the left on the anniversary of the beginning of Israel’s genocide on October 7.

Modi government’s alignment with Zionist policies

Modi’s pro-Zionist stance has sparked government crackdowns on anti-Israel protests, with arrests and detentions of protesters and the criminalization of Palestinian resistance symbols.

India was one of the first countries to recognize the Palestinian state, supporting a two-state solution and viewing the Palestinian liberation movement as an anti-colonial struggle. However, since the rise of the Hindu-supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2014, India has grown closer to the Zionist regime, developing defense and other partnerships.

 


Some key reminders about all things Israel.

They are a settler-colonial regime. They are an artificial creation of the Global North, designed to steal resources and de-stabilize the region to continue their ongoing theft.

They are the furthest thing from democracy, in that they are an apartheid society.

Their military is occupying another country. They are the Israeli Occupying Force.

Oh, and they don't like journalist who, you know, actually report on what they are doing.

https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/27/israel-kills-five-journalists-in-sunday-gaza-attacks/#gsc.tab=0

https://scheerpost.com/2024/10/28/israel-kills-five-journalists-in-sunday-gaza-attacks/ 


2024-10-21

There IS a foreign country interfering with US politics - it's Israel.

Want more evidence?

https://scheerpost.com/2024/10/21/revealed-the-israeli-spies-writing-americas-news-2/

16th BRICS Summit

https://brics-russia2024.ru/en/summit/

Will be curious to see what comes out of this. 

Cuba survives Hurricane Oscar, but what's really going on?

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/21/power-is-gradually-restored-in-cuba-hurricane-oscar-downgraded-to-tropical-storm/

The world stands with Cuba

Amid Cuba’s blackout, the member states of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP), expressed in a communiqué their support to the Cuban government and offered their help to overcome the difficult times the island is going through: “The complex situation that [Cuba] is experiencing today is a consequence of the economic war, financial persecution and [the refusal to sell] fuel supplies by the US administration, which seeks to asphyxiate Cuba in its commitment to the well-being of the Cuban people”.

Furthermore, the communiqué adds “The policy of maximum pressure through unilateral coercive measures and the blockade against the nation is cruel and inhuman and has been categorically rejected by the majority of the countries of the world, since […] it only seeks a change of regime, in open violation of the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter and the norms of International Law.”

 

But what's really going on?

https://www.liberationnews.org/psl-statement-the-u-s-blockade-plunges-cuba-into-darkness/

While the blockade has been in place for generations, the severity of the U.S. economic war on the island often varies from administration to administration. As part of its intensification of efforts to strangle the Cuban Revolution, the energy sector was one of the main targets of the 243 new measures imposed during the Trump administration. In 2019, new measures targeted two Cuban enterprises called Cubametales and Panamericana – which were central to oil and gas purchases. Since then, the importation of fuel has been an even more profoundly difficult task for Cuba, and the system finally reached a breaking point. These Trump-imposed measures have been maintained by the Biden administration.

The economic situation is also badly affected by the ridiculous inclusion of the country in the State Department’s list of “state sponsors of terror”. The pretext for this designation was absurd, citing Cuba’s role in supporting peace talks between the Colombian government and guerilla groups. It is even more ironic now that the U.S. government has armed the biggest terrorist regime in the world – Israel – as it conducts a genocide against the Palestinian people. Like the 243 additional measures that tightened the blockade, the “sponsor of terror” designation was imposed by Trump and upheld by Biden.

 

 

 

2024-10-19

Oh look, another bank failure.

Evidently they'd been around since 1902.

https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-bank-fails-closed-by-federal-agency/62658335

Oklahoma bank fails, closed by federal agency

The Office of the Comptroller of Currency closed a Lindsay bank on Friday due to “false and deceptive bank records” suggesting fraud.

 Still think Blue No Matter Who or MAGA Red is going to save you?

 

 

 

Who I'm supporting - and why.

Claudia De La Cruz.

The main reason is the following -

A third party option takes away that consent from the ruling class and gives power to working class people. That’s what they fear, that working class people actually develop some sort of consciousness that is class consciousness, that is this solidarity, not only across this country with other working class people, but across the globe, that we’re not okay, that we’re not complicit with continuous war, that we’re not complicit with the continuous destruction of the planet.

And it actually creates even more of a threat for them to have a party, such as the Party for Socialism and Liberation, that is explicitly running a socialist campaign, because it says in addition to going to the ballot box, you can hit the streets. You could organize your communities. You could find mechanisms to become politically active that go beyond the election cycle.

You could build a movement, and that is threatening to this country. What we’re trying to do here is threatening to them, because it means mass consciousness, mass mobilization, and the mass hope of taking power and the will of the people to do so.

 


2024-10-11

What a surprise to no one - Israel TOO goes after journalists.

The charge - Doing their job.

https://thegrayzone.com/2024/10/11/israeli-jails-grayzones-jeremy-loffredo/

Israel jails Grayzone’s Jeremy Loffredo, releases him pending investigation


The criminal case against the American reporter fell apart after an Israeli journalist testified that his own article containing Loffredo’s full video report had cleared military censorship. Yet Israel refuses to let Loffredo leave the country.

On October 11, journalist Jeremy Loffredo was ordered released from Israeli jail.

Israeli soldiers arrested the Jewish-American reporter and three other journalists at a checkpoint in the West Bank on October 8. According to one of the jailed reporters, @the_andrey_x, the soldiers blindfolded them tightly, roughed them up, drawing guns on them at one point, and hauled them off to detention in Jerusalem.

 

So begins the prep for working this weekend.

Yay me.

2024-10-07

1 year ago, the settler-colonial project known as Israel began its final ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

Don't kid yourself. 
Don't fool yourself. 

This had been in the making going back to even before the Nabka of the late 1940s. It's the next step in Zionism.

This Euro-centric racial/religious belief system was born out of exploiting Jews escaping real persecution, and morphed into a white supremacist ideology.

Which dovetailed nicely with the original imperial intent the British had to destabilize the region to obtain, among many things, oil.

That later got replaced with American crapitalist ruling class interests, and has been that way ever since.

But make no mistake -

Just here in the US and 09-11-2001, 10-07-2023 is used to justify implementing that final eradication step. Amazing how it's always black and brown people who bear the brunt of these private and mostly white nation ruling class interest?

So it went with the indigenous peoples in North, Central, and South America, in Africa, and in Asia. And let's not forget all the slavery, brutality, violence, bloodshed, murder, race, extraction, exploitation, purging, and outright destruction that followed.

My sympathy is always with the oppressed, and with the majority.

Only when people around the world free themselves of the bind the legacy media and corporate proto-fascist propaganda, and really see the world as is - only them will we all be truly free and on the collective path to happiness and joy.

2024-10-06

2024-10-01

10 Principles of Peace are nice.


  1. Mutual respect of all nations for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of other nations;
  2. Mutual non-aggression of all nations towards other nations;
  3. Mutual non-interference by all nations in the internal affairs of other affairs (such as through wars of choice, regime change operations, or unilateral sanctions);
  4. Equality and mutual benefits in the interactions among nations; and
  5. Peaceful co-existence of all nations.
  6. The closure of overseas military bases, of which the US and U.K. have by far the largest number.
  7. The end of covert regime-change operations and unilateral coercive economic measures, which are grave violations of the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other nations. (Political scientist Lindsey O’Rourke has carefully documented 64 US covert regime-change operations during 1947-1969, and the pervasive destabilization caused by such operations.
  8. Adherence by all nuclear powers (US, Russia, China, U.K., France, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea) to Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: “All Parties must pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to the cessation of the nuclear arms race and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.”
  9. The commitment by all countries “not to strengthen their security at the expense of the security of other countries,” (as per the OSCE Charter). States will not enter into military alliances that threaten their neighbors, and commit to resolve disputes through peaceful negotiations and security arrangements backed by the United Nations Security Council.
  10. The commitment by all nations to cooperate in protecting the global commons and providing global public goods, including fulfillment of the Paris climate agreement, the Sustainable Development Goals, and reform of UN institutions.

https://scheerpost.com/2024/10/01/jeffrey-sachs-how-neocons-chose-hegemony-over-peace/

None of which will ever happen so long as systems like crapitalism and imperialism are still around. 

Quote of the day - 10-01-2024.

"Only the people can save the people"

Meanwhile, people in the southern United States bear the brunt of crapitalism's inability to deal with the catastrophic problems it creates.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/01/congress-failed-to-allocate-relief-funding-ahead-of-hurricane-helene-skipped-town-early-due-to-the-storm/

Congress failed to allocate relief funding ahead of Hurricane Helene, then skipped town early due to the storm

Volunteers in the US South contend with the massive devastation and inadequate relief efforts, as climate change ensures that the worst is yet to come

October 01, 2024 by Natalia Marques

 

In a democratic society, journalism is a critical function.

Journalism is a basic and necessary function in democracy because it serves as check on those in power (i.e. the government).

In capitalism however, that check on power is not only not wanted by the ruling class, it's actually made a crime.

Julian Assange would know -> https://consortiumnews.com/2024/10/01/assange-im-free-because-i-pled-guilty-to-journalism/


2024-09-28

Never let the stench of past racial supremacy foul up the stench of today's current racial supremacy.

Gotta hand it to Spain and its ruling class - assholes always.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/27/spain-rejects-invite-to-mexican-presidential-inauguration-over-exclusion-of-monarch/

Spain rejects invite to Mexican presidential inauguration over exclusion of monarch

The decision of the future president has to do with the conflict that her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, had with the Spanish Crown regarding a request for an apology for the crimes committed in Mexico by the Spanish conquistadors.

September 27, 2024

 

2024-09-26

A very good way at looking at software testing in the 21th Century, and beyond.

Times may change, but a lot about what solutions are delivered, depend greatly on how, and how we view them.

https://waynemroseberry.github.io/jekyll/update/2023/10/24/Think-of-testing-across-sprints-like-lego-bricks.html

One argument out there suggests that our products can be built from releases of tiny little bricks. This is true.

Another argument out there suggests that tiny little bricks cannot sustain the needs of a product, and we need longer bricks to build a stable product. This is also true.

Both arguments are incomplete until you start tying them together. No structure is built out of independent, non-related parts. We build things out of different sized and shaped bricks that overlap with each other to bind them together.

 

2024-09-25

The United States Of America is the banana republic it's ruling class projects on others.

In this country, telling or revealing the reality of any situation based on facts and/or evidence is a crime against the ruling class.

None of which will allow a non-white person from escaping being lynched, despite evidence suggesting them to be innocent of the crimes convicted of.

Case in point - >  Marcellus Williams.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/25/why-was-marcellus-williams-executed-what-to-know-about-the-missouri-case

What if this was one of you family? What what is alleged is not true?

What about justice? What if this was you?

 

Lying liars, and the lies they tell.

In crapitalism, it's evidently acceptable to lie to the public if it supports the ruling class.

It must be, because past liars seem to get away with as much.

In the case of the current US Secretary Of State, it's committing outright crimes - like lying to US Congress.

https://scheerpost.com/2024/09/25/israel-deliberately-blocked-humanitarian-aid-to-gaza-two-government-bodies-concluded-antony-blinken-rejected-them/

https://www.propublica.org/article/gaza-palestine-israel-blocked-humanitarian-aid-blinken 

 

2024-09-20

If you need a reminder that the middle management of the US crapitalist ruling class are indeed monsters ...

or ... plants by the Mossad, or IDF .. same thing ... along with the ruling class ...

... well ...

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/09/20/the-madness-of-antony-blinken/

The Madness of Antony Blinken

Save
Two years after the Pentagon shot down his ploy for a no-fly zone against Russia in Ukraine, the U.S. “top diplomat” has been at it again pushing an even more insane idea, writes Joe Lauria.

 


2024-09-19

We live in an age of gaslight capitalism.

Where its ruling class tries to tell the majority in America, that Israel is the victim when they set off a number of devices to explode in another country.

Wrong. Israel is a terrorist nation, out of control and with the approval of it's bully benefactor the United States.

And, it's all about furthering war and profit - make no mistake.


I find it perplexing that a company in a market essentially with itself, can both 'lose' money, STILL lose money, and get billions in handouts from the government.

That is the company known as Boeing. Amazing, I don't see Trump or Harris on these picket lines with these protesting employees.


If the Teamsters don't want to endorse you for US President - that can't be good.

And yet, here we are -> 

https://scheerpost.com/2024/09/19/teamsters-decline-to-endorse-in-2024-us-presidential-race/

https://www.commondreams.org/news/teamsters-endorsement

2024-09-18

If you need a reminder that the middle management of the US crapitalist ruling class are indeed morons ...

Look no further than the clips here.

What's sad is, not only does it appears like she's on something (or had too much), not only does it appear like she's reading off of notes (which suggest that the questions were known in advance), but it even seems like the interviewers themselves are practically GIVING her the answers in their own questions!

And still she can't deliver.

I don't have Trump Derangement Syndrome because I honestly don't know which one would actually be worse for the American people - Trump or Harris.


2024-09-17

The average American is the most heavily propgandized person in the world - and it's by-design.

Keep them ignorant and fearful of every other culture and country out there.

Keep them blind to their own endless consumption of the planet's dwindling resources.

Keep them scared of anything that in fact gives them more choice and decision-making power over the things in life we all need to survive - like food, clothing, shelter, health, education, etc.

And most of all ... keep them deluded into thinking there are only two 'choices' in any election, thus reinforcing the US crapitalist system's role as the illusion of democracy.

https://scheerpost.com/2024/09/17/a-bull-market/

2024-09-16

Arctic Sea Ice minimum 2024. Three degrees Celsius warming now baked in!

From the video description -

Arctic Sea ice reaches it's minimum extent each year around the middle of September. This year is one of the lowest in recorded history. Ocean temperatures have been so 'off the charts' in 2023 and 2024 that scientists fear those waters have reached their capacity to mop up after us humans and are now starting to release that energy. On our current trajectory, by 2100, our planet will reach a temperature not seen for 3 MILLION years!. So...what's the plan???

Oh look - ANOTHER CIA failure!

Amazing how skilled an intelligent the CIA is NOT.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/14/venezuela-announces-dismantling-of-cia-backed-coup-plot-arrest-of-active-duty-navy-seal/

Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello announced that authorities had dismantled an operation reportedly backed by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States and the National Intelligence Center of Spain, which sought to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro, Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, Cabello, and other government officials. The minister announced that Venezuelan authorities had seized 400 weapons from the US and arrested 14 mercenaries who were involved in the plot. Among the arrested is Wilber Joseph Castañeda, an active US military officer and Navy Seal. Two Spanish citizens were reportedly also arrested, José María Basua and Andrés Badasbe.

Making the connection between militarism and climate chnage.

Marjorie Cohn certainly does.

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/09/13/us-militarism-a-lead-driver-of-climate-catastrophe/

Oh this is interesting -

On Sept. 11, 2001, 19 men committed suicide and took roughly 3,000 people with them by flying two airliners into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and one into a field in Pennsylvania.

None of the hijackers hailed from Afghanistan or Iraq; 15 came from Saudi Arabia. Nevertheless, the Bush administration illegally invaded Afghanistan and Iraq and overthrew their governments, then killed, injured and tortured nearly three-quarters of a million of their people.

Beyond the terrible death tolls in both countries, a lesser known consequence of the “war on terror” was the exacerbation of the climate catastrophe, both in the countries targeted by the war and globally.

Since the 1997 Kyoto Protocol excluded military emissions from the counting of national emissions figures, U.S. military emissions are significantly undercounted. Although militaries are a significant source of carbon emissions, little is understood about their carbon footprint.

One of the first studies to expose direct and indirect military emissions as a result of combat was conducted by Benjamin Neimark, Oliver Belcher, Kirsti Ashworth and Reuben Larbi.

They examined the use of concrete “blast walls” by U.S. forces in Baghdad, Iraq, from 2003-2008, the first five years of Bush’s “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” to measure the carbon footprint of the war. Concrete walls and barriers were also used in U.S. counterinsurgency operations in Kandahar and Kabul, Afghanistan, from 2008-2012 during “Operation Enduring Freedom.” (Although these two wars did not bring freedom, their effects on the climate crisis are enduring.)

While occupying Baghdad, the U.S. military erected hundreds of miles of blast walls in order to control the urban population pursuant to its counterinsurgency strategy. “Effective weaponisation of concrete has an extraordinary carbon footprint,” Neimark, Belcher, Ashworth and Larbi wrote.

“The large carbon footprint comes mainly from the amount of heat and energy in cement production, the main ingredient in concrete.”

 

Hmm ... interesting.

2024-09-13

Justice for Julian Assange?

In a crapitalist system, I doubt it.

That doesn't mean folks can't try -> 

https://scheerpost.com/2024/09/13/fbi-sued-for-withholding-files-on-assange-and-wikileaks/

https://thedissenter.org/fbi-sued-for-withholding-files-on-assange-and-wikileaks/

Yeah it matters. It fucking matters a lot.

If you believe in the concept of holding those in authority responsible and accountable for the crimes they commit on behalf of the ruling class, then it matters a great deal. 

2024-09-12

Taking a seat is one thing ...

... https://scheerpost.com/2024/09/12/palestine-takes-seat-at-un-general-assembly-in-historic-first/

How long will it be before musical chairs begin, and the Palestinians find themselves the odd people out?

When it comes to the US crapitalist ruling class, nothing should be ruled out.

2024-09-10

Palestinians have a right to defend themselves and their land.

End of fucking story.

Everything else the US crapitalist ruling class (and it's legacy media lackeys) repeat is a lies.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/no-israel-does-not-have-a-right-to-defend-itself-in-gaza-but-the-palestinians-do/

In its most recent opinion, the Court has declared that Israel’s presence in the territories violates the principle of self-determination, the rule of non-acquisition of territory by force, and the human rights of the Palestinian people and that it must quickly end its presence and compensate the Palestinian people for losses suffered. As a matter of law, every Israeli boot on the ground, every Israeli missile, jet, or drone in Palestinian air space, and even a single unauthorized Israeli bicycle on a Palestinian road, is a breach of international law. 

In sum, Israel’s lawful remedy for threats that it alleges emanate from the occupied territories is to end its unlawful occupation, dismantle the settlements, leave the territories, remove the siege, and fully relinquish control to the occupied Palestinian people. 

Here, international law is a simple reflection of common sense and universal morality. A criminal cannot take over someone’s home, move in, loot its contents, imprison and brutalize the inhabitants, and then claim self-defense to murder the homeowners when they fight back.

 

2024-09-09

RIP James Earl Jones.

Another part of my childhood gone.

Thank you James. Your work helped me get through an early part of life 

2024-09-07

Oh look who just copped a plea deal for not paying their taxes -> Hunter Biden!

Amazing how an actual trial is avoided, right in the middle of election season!

Check out the Matt Orfalea video HLM plays - wonder who many of the legacy media idiots feel about this guilty plea today?


2024-09-06

How long will it be before Dubya endorses Kamala Harris for US President in 2024?

Something I heard Glenn Greenwald muse about yesterday.

I have a feeling it won't be long.

As far as I'm concerned, George W Bush (aka Dubya) and his regime were far more destructive to this country than Biden, Trump, and Obama combined - and by a very wide margin.

  • Dubya and his crew stole the 2000 US Presidential Election.
  • Dubya and his crew failed to protect this country on 09/11/2001 even when they had knowledge of an attack coming. ~3000 people were killed as a result.
    •  And let's not forget that this was used as an excuse to implement the Patriot Act, which in turn (among other things) introduced a warrantless spying program, as well as a torture program as part of the 'war on terror'.
  • Dubya and his crew then turned around and invaded Afghanistan and then Iraq as a way to defect attention away from their above failures. The war in Iraq alone is probably the biggest debacle in American history.
  • Dubya and his crew failed to protect New Orleans when they had knowledge that Hurricane Katrina was coming. Many people lost their lives.

Of course there are many many other things - but those are the really big terrible ones. And he along with his cronies (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell Rice, Ashcroft, etc) never faced any accountability for their crimes.

Now the people involved with that regime (like Bill Kristol - the idiot who convinced John McCain to pick Sarah Palin as VP in 2008), are all now backing Kamala Harris.

No thanks.


A trial that all eyes and ears in the US should pay attention to.

Even in stalwart capitalist countries - coups are possible.

Case in point  - France.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/05/macron-faces-protest-over-appointment-of-right-wing-pm/

Hmm, I wonder why?

French President Emmanuel Macron has finally nominated a new Prime Minister. However, his choice is not someone from the New Popular Front (NFP), the left-progressive alliance that won the most seats in the recent snap election. Instead, Macron opted for Michel Barnier, a conservative former EU official and Brexit negotiator, igniting yet more anger among left and progressive circles in France. 


2024-09-04

What part of the word genocide is not understood?

It's destroying an entire group of people.

And that's what Israel is seeking to do in the land they've stolen from the Palestinians.

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/09/04/warning-of-genocidal-violence-in-west-bank/

Well what do people say about shit like this -

Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories, said in a statement that "there is mounting evidence that no Palestinian is safe under Israel's unfettered control."

"The writing is on the wall, and we cannot continue to ignore it," said Albanese, who released a detailed report in May concluding that there are "reasonable grounds to believe" Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza.

Albanese's new statement came as the Israeli military's largest assault on the West Bank in decades continued into its second week. At least 29 Palestinians have been killed during the series of military raids, according toAl Jazeera, including at least five children.

"Apartheid Israel is targeting Gaza and the West Bank simultaneously, as part of an overall process of elimination, replacement, and territorial expansion," Albanese said Tuesday. "The longstanding impunity granted to Israel is enabling the de-Palestinization of the occupied territory, leaving Palestinians at the mercy of the forces pursuing their elimination as a national group."

 

'Unburdened' indeed.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/08/unburdened-by-palestine-shedding-black-liberalism-for-anti-imperialism/ 

https://blackagendareport.com/unburdened-palestine-shedding-black-liberalism-anti-imperialism

A democracy's true measure is the collective achievements it successfully delivers for all.

Any other system that touts symbolism - or anything else otherwise - serves only a few.

2024-08-29

Still don't think Israel is not accelerating both their desire to incite a regional war, AND continue destroying the Palestinian people and their land?

Think again - the facts say otherwise.

https://scheerpost.com/2024/08/29/israel-launches-major-west-bank-raid-as-israeli-minister-vows-gaza-like-attack/

Israel Launches Major West Bank Raid as Israeli Minister Vows Gaza-Like Attack

August 29, 2024 

By Sharon Zhang / Truthout

Israel has embarked on its largest raid of the occupied West Bank in decades, launching attacks from the land and air against areas home to 80,000 Palestinians as Israel’s foreign minister is pledging “war” using the same genocidal tactics the Israeli military has used on Gaza.

Israel has attacked the West Bank with drone strikes and deployed military vehicles on the ground, with troops opening fire on Palestinians. Israeli forces are shutting down and destroying roads with bulldozers leading to Jenin, Tulkarem and Tubas in the northern West Bank, effectively cutting the cities off from the rest of the West Bank. Jenin has a population of roughly 39,000 Palestinians.

The raid is especially sinister as it comes amid Israel’s genocide in Gaza, which experts say has been an opportunity for Israeli forces to test and hone violence against Palestinians. Alarmingly, Foreign Affairs Minister Israel Katz pledged that Israeli forces would handle the occupied West Bank the same way it has Gaza — where it has isolated the population and then carried out a genocide and ethnic cleansing campaign of unprecedented proportions.

 

 

Quote of the day - 08-29-2024

Sean Blackmon -

"There's nothing magical about Kamala's blackness or her womanhood that is going to make her class interest the same as the class interests of poor or working people in this country, black people in general, or around the world. And history shows this conclusively."



2024-08-28

Can no longer be silent on the ongoing genocide/crimes Israel is doing in Palestine.

This is now what I say to people - > to remain silent in a situation of injustice benefits the criminal over the victim.

Or to quote the late Desmond Tutu -

'If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.'

2024-08-24

So what are the differences between 'Blue-No-Matter-Who' and 'MAGA-Red'?

  • One group cheers loudly when the US crapitalist ruling class kills brown and black people.
  • The other group cheer loudly the US crapitalist ruling class kills brown and black people, but pretends they feel bad about it.

To be more blunt -

One uses lube when fucking your over, the other doesn't.


Next time you hear someone from one of those groups telling you that the other is the 'bad guy' and that their side is the one of the 'good guys', give them this analogy -

Imagine that someone from your side is driving down a street, heading to a highway to head say north.

But as soon as you get to that highway, you see a roadblock, and are unable to get on the highway. And that the their is a huge traffic logjam in front of you. Additionally by the time you stop, a traffic logjam forms behind you.

You can't go forward. You can't go back. 

You are stuck, and there's no way to get out, and there is no one to help you. 

Now imagine that someone from that other group (the one you consider evil) is coming from other side of the same street, -> on the other side of the highway. They too are headed to the same highway as you are, only they are entering it from the opposite side, and ... they want to enter the highway and head south. 

And when they arrive, they also encounter a roadblock - and are also unable to get on the highway. And there is huge logjam in front of them. And by the time they stop, a traffic logjam forms behind them.

They are stuck, and there is no way to get out, and there is no one to help them - just like you.

That is the difference between Blue-No-Mattter-Who   and MAGA-Red. They end up in the same place; where the US crapitalist ruling class wins.

And while it's true they start from different places - while it's true they offer 'cultural' and 'visible' differences to attract different voters - they both end up supporting the ruling class' wishes.


So who DOES support Kamala Harris?

All the same people who were supporters of George W Bush (who was far more damaging to this country than Donald Trump ever was).

IOW - Neocons.


Oh, and let's not forget who else the US capitalist ruling class fucks over.

Those pesky indigenous people here.

Tara Houska is a real hero.

 

But let's be clear - in US crapitalism -

  • No justice. 
  • No accountability. 
  • No responsibility. 

Just virtue signaling for the KHive Karens, and henpecked.



2024-08-23

Taking last vacation before the end of Summer.

I always hated it when September started. Mostly because I hated going back to school (actually I hated going to school, period.).

Being put on a bus, going somewhere I didn't want to go, interacting with people I didn't want to see, new teachers, etc.

Granted I had friends who I was glad to see, but that was about really it. I wasn't white, and wasn't very athletic. While I had some brains, I was lazy and certainly wasn't top-of-class.

Besides, no matter how well I did, it was never enough, but that's for another post.

But coming back to next week - as my late father always used to say - Make the most of what you have.

2024-08-22

Why the bullshit responses Lula?

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/08/22/breno-altman-the-relationship-between-lula-and-chavismo-has-always-been-one-of-alliance-and-divergence/

ZA: For many people, the fact that progressive governments took a stand against a popular government was shocking. Can you help us understand some of the internal and external dynamics which led to this development?

BA: I believe that the Lula government and President Lula are concerned about the Brazilian municipal elections scheduled for October. And he believes that defending the Maduro government will take votes away from the PT and its allied parties, especially in the big capitals, particularly in São Paulo. 

We have to take into account that the logic of Brazilian foreign policy is one of active non-alignment, that is, seeking to build on negotiations with the United States, the European Union, China and Russia, seeking an intermediate situation in which it is possible to obtain advantages for Brazil, for South America. In this logic, Brazilian foreign policy avoids steps that could lead to a break in relations with the United States, although Brazil’s economic and political relations are privileged with China and other counter-hegemonic countries.

At no point does Brazil assume a position aligned with US imperialism. Nor does Brazil wish to adopt steps that would represent a break with the United States and the European Union. In this Brazilian foreign policy, which is currently underway of active non-alignment, there is also a bet that relations between South America, European governments led by social democracy, liberalism, specifically France and Germany, and also relations with the Democratic Party in the United States can help constitute and reinforce this non-aligned intermediary role of Brazil and can also help constitute an alliance that helps the Brazilian left fight the extreme right in our country.

I think that the tensions between Lula and Maduro have to do with this, that is, with the needs of President Lula’s government or the way President Lula sees these needs, to prevent a break with the United States and the European Union. From an external point of view and from an internal point of view, preventing a split, a split that would be dangerous for this broad front, for this alliance between the left and liberals that was formed to elect President Lula against Bolsonaro. Supporting Venezuela could jeopardize this broad front. President Lula is calculating that if he will openly support Venezuela, recognizing Maduro’s victory, it could also cause electoral damage.

 

2024-08-21

Quote of the day - 08-21-2024.

Margaret Kimberley

"Voting for genocide is the ultimate fascist act."

Bonus:

Everyone who wants to end Israel’s crimes or the proxy wars against Russia and China is forced to protest. Code Pink activists interrupted a Tim Walz appearance at the Women’s Caucus. Their chant was, “Stop killing women in Gaza!” Unlike the whining Karens who snitched on a protester or who snatched away a sign, they took it straight to the man who may be the next vice president and some of them were arrested in the process.

Doing otherwise is to be complicit. Of course the KHive Karens proved that there are many willing accomplices. Liberals may claim that Genocide Joe Biden is a good man, or that Trump and his supporters are the only villains in the country while they are either in support of or in denial about the fake democracy that tells the people their needs can’t be met while the system always does the bidding of weapons manufacturers, banks, fossil fuel producers, and big pharma.

2024-08-19

Meanwhile, that same IDF that produced rape/violence-addicted people, trained the police forces in the United States.

Yes - this, leads to this -> https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/08/15/a-year-after-the-police-killing-of-eddie-irizarry-charges-dropped-against-killer-cop/

A year after the police killing of Eddie Irizarry, charges dropped against killer cop

Irizarry’s family and local Philadelphia community outraged after first-degree murder charge dropped and former officer Mark Dial released on bail

27-year-old Irizarry was shot and killed on August 14, 2023. Immediately after he was shot, Philadelphia police began to tell the media a series of events that later turned out to be false. Police initially claimed that what prompted Irizarry’s shooting was him lunging out of his vehicle towards officers, wielding a knife. Police had to quickly change this narrative, however, after it became clear that body camera footage would prove otherwise. “The body-worn camera footage made it very clear what we initially reported was not actually what happened,” said then Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw at the time. 

Body camera footage, released on September 8, 2023, revealed a truth that was even more damning than expected. Dial was shown running to Irizarry’s car, shouting “I will f-cking shoot you!” only a few seconds before firing six shots into the car. Dial then placed handcuffs on Irizarry’s dead body before dragging him to the police vehicle. 

Irizarry reportedly had a knife by his right leg, however, this could not have been visible to Dial. Dial’s lawyer claimed that the officer fired shots because he believe that Irizarry had a gun, although no gun is seen in the body camera footage. 

Initial police reports in cases of brutality can often be contradicted when footage later resurfaces. If it wasn’t for Darnella Frazier’s brave filming of the police killing of George Floyd, it is possible that no protests would erupted—Minneapolis police’s initial report of Floyd’s killing was titled “Man Dies After Medical Incident During Police Interaction.”