Judge for yourself this statement -
'I don't usually stalk profiles, but when I do, I probably have a career opportunity for you'
I'll pass.
2025-11-19
It's pretty obvious why the US establishment media doesn't really want to talk about the true relationship between Epstein and various politicians and others in power and business.
It would reveal that -
- Epstein was in the employment of Israel.
- The entire operation that he and Maxwell ran, was designed to keep those ensnared under their control.
- Blue No Matter Who leads to the same shit as MAGA Red. It would establish once and for all, that the United States isn't a democracy, and never was.
Should I be concerned for South Africa?
After all, they are (I believe) the 'S' in BRICS.
Somehow I have to wonder if US Hegemony is behind all of this.
On the other hand ... maybe's it's just plain ole' neoliberal capitalism at work ...
The ANC’s abandonment of the socialist policies it espoused in its iconic 1955 Freedom Charter for a pro-business, neoliberal approach in government has left apartheid more or less intact, materially speaking. With an official unemployment rate that has hovered above 30 percent for much of the 30 years, two of every three Black South Africans remain mired in poverty, or roughly 30 million people out of a total population of 52 million; the percentage of white South Africans living in poverty is about 1 percent.
Similarly, whites account for 7.3 percent of the population but continue to own nearly three-quarters of all farmland while Blacks account for 81 percent of the population yet own 4 percent of the land.
Meanwhile, ANC politicians’ penchant for living high off the hog while their constituents suffer, combined with a series of corruption scandals has turned public opinion against the ruling party. In 2022, a former intelligence officer accused South African President Cyril Ramaphosa of attempting to cover up the theft of $4 million in cash from his game farm in the northeastern Limpopo province.
Who doesn't like US military bases on their land? Ecuador, that's who!
Big Loss for US Empire: Ecuador Votes To Reject Foreign Military Bases
Ecuadorians reject Daniel Noboa’s attempt to change the constitution
One of Noboa’s key goals has been to change Ecuador’s constitution, which is one of the most progressive in the world.
Ecuador’s constitution bans foreign countries from creating military bases in its territory.
Noboa held a referendum on 16 November to try to change the constitution to permit the US to open military bases in Ecuador.
The measure was rejected in a landslide, with 61% of Ecuadorians voting against it, according to the official results from the National Electoral Council (CNE).
Hmm ... really?
The United Kingdom losing it's UN Security Council seat?
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/19/craig-murray-how-britain-can-lose-its-un-veto/
Go Scotland!
2025-11-18
While I commend the PSL for speaking out on this ...
... https://liberationnews.org/outrage-at-the-un-gaza-resolution-tramples-palestinian-sovereignty/?utm_source=one_signal&utm_medium=desktop_alert&utm_campaign=liberationnews
Why are countries like China and Russia not being called out for weasling out (aka 'abstaining')?
It sure is a stain on humanity. A very bloody one.
2025-11-13
Another month, another Saturday of work.
This time it'll be a little longer than normal.
We'll see how well things go. After all, it does apparently keep me employed.
As touched on before, to Zionists 'ceasefire' just means everyone ELSE stops fighting.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/one-month-in-the-ceasefire-in-gaza-exists-only-in-name/
Inducing poverty and starvation is the worst form of terrorism, because it acts so slowly and day-by-day.
Those Zionists committing these crimes know this.
But this is no surprise to most black and brown people of world.
Before countries like India can truly move forward, they need to make their air breathable.
I mean seriously - AQI-400?
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/11/12/delhi-chokes-as-pollution-rises-to-severe-levels/
Delhi chokes as pollution rises to severe levels
Delhi is officially recording AQI levels higher than 400, but many suspect that the real levels are much higher. According to the WHO, an AQI level above 50 is unhealthy to live in.
In India an AQI between 200 and 300 is considered “poor”, between 300 and 400 is “very poor”, and beyond 400 is “severe” for health.
For the World Health Organization (WHO), any AQI level above 50 is considered unhealthy.
The AQI remained above 400 on Wednesday as well and has been recording above 200 daily since mid-October.
Unofficial sources claim AQI levels in Delhi are even higher, with allegations emerging that the government is trying to manipulate and suppress the actual figures to avoid accountability.
2025-11-11
America, a Banana Republic?
Gee, ya think?
https://scheerpost.com/2025/11/11/chris-hedges-america-is-a-banana-republic/
To me, it's simply the next step in the collapse of US Crapitalism. Nothing more.
2025-11-09
Boycott establishment media.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/why-writers-must-boycott-the-new-york-times/
No, the New York Times isn't enough. It's all establishment media that must be cut off from attention and support.
That's the only tool the establishment has left - propaganda. Once that's gone, it's down the shitter for them.
The beginning of yet another fun week at work.
I feel like every time I arrive there (we're supposed to be there more than few times a week, and we're tracked for attendance, like school kids), I have a target on my back and every person is after me for things that aren't done.
Never mind the fact that all of this is part of a an effort that's supposed to launch in the not-too-distant future, 'or else'.
Yeah - as if I don't have enough problems - I'm also working next week Saturday (my day job),
Hooray.
It does make me wonder how much longer I can last in this business.
2025-11-07
How did I miss this?
In a landslide vote, McGill University professors and librarians endorse the academic and cultural boycott of Israel
In a 114-8 vote, the McGill Association of
University Teachers endorsed the academic and cultural boycott of
Israel. The win came after years of organizing, demonstrating the
collective power of professors, librarians, and students against
genocide.
The US's 5 options for Attacking Venezuela.
Which one will they choose? Here's what Vijay Prashad suggests.
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/07/vijay-prashad-5-options-for-attacking-venezuela/
Scenario 1: The Brother Sam Option
Scenario 2: The Panama Option
Scenario 3: The Iraq Option
Scenario 4: The Gulf of Tonkin Option
Scenario 5: The Qasem Soleimani Option
Not sure about that last one, as Iran's government is still here, and has been since 1979.
2025-11-04
Dick Cheney is dead.
May his legacy be that capitalism is a fundamentally broken sysyem; in that the victims of his actions - on behalf of his donors - never received justice while he was alive. And that system made all this possible.
Remember that.
2025-11-03
Imagine if we tried this here in the US.
Of course to do that, we'd have to replace crapitalism with a system the prioritizes the needs of all, over the greed of a few.
Left-ruled Kerala becomes the first Indian state to eradicate extreme poverty
The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Alliance (LDF) government achieves a unique feat in India which, according to the World Bank, has the world’s largest number of extremely poor.
2025-11-01
2025-10-31
I generally dislike the term 'martyr'.
Mainly because anything they've experienced makes it about the person and the need to eulogize and hero-ize, and lion-ize them in ways that are often distorted and false.
This aside, this looks like an interesting book.
https://scheerpost.com/2025/10/31/martyrs-to-the-unspeakable-a-luminous-tapestry-of-truth/
2025-10-29
'Code Into Carnage'
Or Software Developers for Genocide!
https://www.mintpressnews.com/microsoft-israel-surveillance-azure-idf-gaza-genocide/290534/
Pretty fucked up
In the months following October 7, the IDF’s usage of Microsoft’s Azure cloud service surged more than 200-fold. The amount of data from surveillance cameras, drones, checkpoints, biometric scanners, phone calls, and intercepted Palestinian personal data stored by the IDF on Microsoft servers doubled in the next nine months, reaching 13.6 petabytes by July 2024 – equivalent to 23,000 years of audio, or seven trillion pages of text.
The point of all this was to create an enormous digital dragnet, where Palestinians’ every move, word, and keystroke was recorded in monitored in the greatest and most dystopian digital dragnet ever created. In the words of Yossi Sariel, the head of Unit 8200, the IDF’s surveillance division, the plan was to “track everyone, all of the time.”
Sariel argued that big data was the solution to Israel’s problems, envisaging a future where Israel intercepted and stored “a million calls an hour” from Palestine, and used A.I. to search for keywords and identify threats.
There was no way, however, that Israel could do this alone, as it did not possess the expertise or anything like the storage capacity needed for such a project. To this end, Sariel travelled to Seattle in 2021 to meet with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, to pitch him on the surveillance partnership whereby Microsoft would build Unit 8200 a customized and segregated area within its Azure platform.
The Israeli military uses Microsoft Azure to transcribe, translate, and otherwise process intelligence garnered via mass surveillance, which is then linked to Israel’s A.I.-based weapons systems.
And speaking of supremacist bullies - there's Modi in India.
Yes, he's a thug - but he's just the face of the broader, larger, uglier movement.
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/10/29/unrest-in-the-himalayas/
The barbarism that is Western liberal 'enlightenment'.
""History revealed that human rights, the consent of the governed, rule of law, and rationalism were all ideological mystifications meant to disguise and obscure the class project of the bourgeoisie of Europe that had been erected on the pedestal of slavery and colonial accumulation on a global scale. Nowhere was that lurid mendacity more apparent than in the territories named the United States of America where a vicious, white supremacist ruling class murdered, raped, burnt, and mutilated in wars of annihilation protected by their white supremacist God who blessed them through “manifest destiny” with the right to murder and conquer from sea to shining sea, from the East coast of indigenous lands to the West coast and beyond.
2025-10-28
Oh what a great start to the day.
I get up at 4 AM.
I leave the house and arrive at the bus stop. The bus for 5:14 doesn't arrive. Instead, a bus arrives a minute later, except it's the next one (only I don't know this) and the surly driver just tells me to get in and 'enjoy the free ride'. He wouldn't answer if his bus was the 5:14 one
No longer than one minute later, the bus that was supposed to be there at 5:14, drives right on by. I try to run out of the bus I'm in, but it's too late. That bus already turned the corner of the intersection, and left.
Only then does this driver tell me his is the next one.
And of course, everyone else who's waiting for that 5:14 bus at other stops - they'll get to the train station on time and catch their train. Only I will miss it.
And the best parts of this story -
1. I am still sitting on this next bus, and it hasn't even left yet.
2. The day of flubbing things up at work, hasn't started yet.
Why am I capturing all of this - is it to whine or complain or be a martyr or gain sympathy?
No. It's none of those things.
It's a reminder that my life is a set of choices, and ultimately it's me that's responsible and accountable for both that, and the consequences. The best one can do is understand, learn from it, hope one survives, and get on with the day at hand.
2025-10-26
Just another Moron Monday.
I drive 30-40 miles (one way) early to avoid traffic, only to catch up on all the things I haven't done over the weekend, or last night.
Joy.
2025-10-25
Not sure I agree with all the points made about the USSR, but no doubt the US is following all the same patterns.
To begin with, the idea that central planning runs counter to innovation is bullshit.
Innovation is a function of the human mind, or collective human minds, not corporations, government or any kind of structure.
The over-extention of military is a sign of a dying empire.
And the US Empire is right on schedule!
US deploys aircraft carrier and threatens invasion of Venezuela, while expanding “drug” war to Colombia
As US warships inch towards Colombia and Venezuela, Petro denounces Trump’s airstrikes in the Caribbean as “extrajudicial executions”
Hmm ... I wonder how far this will go.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/10/portlands-city-councilors-pledge-to-investigate-citys-ties-to-israel/
A group Portland lawmakers launched a pledge to investigate the city’s connections to Israeli weapons.
The commitment calls for probes into the manufacturing and transport of weapons intended for Israel, as well as other potential connections to the country.
“The United States has provided billions of dollars in military funding, weapons, and diplomatic cover to facilitate Israel’s genocide of Palestinians,” reads a press release on the pledge. “The federal Government has utterly failed to uphold their duty to prevent genocide and uphold respect for international humanitarian law, so cities across the United States are mobilizing to ensure that local tax dollars and supply chains do not support criminal warfare and that local weapons manufacturers are held accountable for their role in genocide.”
2025-10-22
'Envirocide'
I mean what other conflation of terms works better to describe this?
https://scheerpost.com/2025/10/22/israels-untold-environmental-genocide/
In so many ways, the world's lack of any real action to stop a bunch of bullies/psychopaths/criminals from destroying a nation, reflects what's to come; when those same bullies/psychopaths/criminals wreck the rest of the planet in the same way.
The side of the so-called 'AI Bubble' that isn't being talked about.
Snippet
... the byproducts of these data centers are environmental degradation, loss of land which could have productive uses, and a massive load added to the outdated electrical grid, for which the buck is passed on to electric bills rather than the companies operating the data center. This process describes what Syrian scholar Ali Kadri calls the ‘accumulation of waste’. Although Kadri’s main theoretical contributions focus on how ‘war is the basis of accumulation’, it can be useful to stretch his theory to this example to show that through favoring lumpen development of the tech oligarchy, the basis of accumulation is the waste of natural resources which are required in the form of land for the buildings, water for the cooling systems, and air for exhaust pumps and AC systems. The location of these data centers forms an almost circular Venn diagram with working-class and poor areas in the United States . Thus, they are composed of what Kadri calls ‘surplus populations’ or populations whose rights to life and development are sacrificed at the altar of accumulation.
More here -> https://blackagendareport.com/data-centers-and-ai-bubble
2025-10-21
A reminder on who's the psychopaths?
Hint - it's not all the countries the United States is trying to either attack, sanction, bomb, invade, overthrow, or loot.
From Baghdad to Caracas: a Washington manual on sanctions and war
The recent US airstrikes in the Caribbean and military threats against Venezuela are a continuation of decades (or even centuries) of US policy on the region, not a departure from it.
What fucking ceasefire?
To psychopaths and criminals, it's just a pause for them to re-arm and fire again.
Israel’s war on Palestinians in the West Bank intensifies after Gaza ceasefire
Since the Gaza ceasefire, Israel has
intensified its operations against Palestinians in the West Bank,
conducting military raids in the north and increasing settler attacks on
Palestinians harvesting olive groves.
2025-10-19
Imagine if a homicial psychopath is armed and circling around your house. You'd be scared right. That's the point.
The efforts by the US in the Caribbean are exactly that - to instill fear into the people of Venezuela.
Venezuela alerts UN to imminent military threat amid US escalation
Hostility from Washington towards progressive governments in Caracas is not new, but the current administration has initiated an unprecedented escalation against the government and people of Venezuela.
A reminder to the MAGA Reds - your guy is a much a criminal as the last guy.
He just admits it out loud.
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/10/17/trump-admits-complicity-in-genocide/
Trump failed to mention the 641,000 Gazans — about one-third of all Palestinians in Gaza — who have experienced catastrophic famine as Israel used mass starvation as a weapon of war and denied the entry of humanitarian assistance into Gaza.
And Trump omitted the fact that Israel has destroyed the civilian infrastructure across Gaza. It disabled most of the hospitals, damaged approximately 97 percent of the schools, and damaged or destroyed roughly 90 percent of all housing units.
Instead, Trump boasted about the weapons he furnished to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu and praised Israel’s use of them to massacre Palestinian people:
“We make the best weapons in the world, and we’ve got a lot of them. And we’ve given a lot to Israel, frankly. I mean, Bibi would call me so many times, ‘Can you get me this weapon, that weapon, that weapon?’ Some of them I never heard of, Bibi, and I made them. But we’d get them here, wouldn’t we, huh? And they are the best. They are the best. But you used them well.”With those words, Trump admitted his complicity with Israel in its commission of genocide in Gaza.
And it's really admitting that the United States of America is complicit in genocide.
2025-10-16
2025-10-14
Mariners up 2-0 on the Blue Jays, who come to town tomorrow.
Great run by the Mariners - let's hope no tests positive for illegal substances.
2025-10-13
Happy Indigenous People's Day.
Justice for the victims, survivors (and their descendants) of past and ongoing crimes committed by the European/West remains an ongoing struggle.
2025-10-11
In the West, 'social media' is just the corporations' Ministry of Lies and Propaganda.
They are pretty open about it.
Until that is, one figures it out.
Then they actively try to remove their existence from those same media. After all, they can't have anyone do any questioning or serious thinking about that sort of thing?
https://www.mintpressnews.com/social-media-spies-exposed/290506/
Social Media Spies Exposed: Profiles Vanish After MintPress Report
After being exposed as former national security state agents by MintPress, large numbers of officials working in the highest levels of top social media platforms have deleted their profiles or wiped the incriminating evidence from the internet.
A series of MintPress News investigations uncovered a network of hundreds of former agents of the CIA, FBI, and other three-letter agencies, as well as high State Department and NATO officials working at social media giants, such as Facebook, Google, TikTok, and Twitter. These individuals are overwhelmingly concentrated in politically sensitive departments, such as trust and safety, security, and content moderation, meaning that these ex-spies and intelligence officials are helping to influence what billions of people around the world see, read and hear (and deciding who is promoted and who is suppressed).
2025-10-10
Just wait. It's simply a matter of time and circumstance before Israel resumes its genocidal acts against the Palestinians.
Think I'm kidding?
The Israeli media is reporting on a ‘secret clause’ in the Gaza ceasefire deal that no one is talking about
Hebrew-language Israeli media reports say
there is a "secret clause" buried in the Gaza ceasefire agreement that
would allow Israel to resume the war. Palestinians worry this is the
pretext Netanyahu needs to get out of completing the deal.
The potential existence of such a secret clause has reinforced already-existing Palestinian concerns that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would seek to find a way to sabotage the deal. Already in March, Israel broke the first ceasefire after the release of all civilian Israeli captives in the first phase of the deal. Last July, Hamas accepted a proposed deal following talks through Egyptian and Qatari mediators, while Netanyahu completely ignored it as mediators waited for Israel’s response.
Another Saturday of weekend work.
It's probably one of the reasons why I'm still presently employed.
2025-10-08
Profiting off of death and destruction - the Western way.
So that's what 'short selling' is!
https://electronicintifada.net/content/who-profited-7-october/50963
https://blackagendareport.com/index.php/who-profited-7-october
The suspicious timing of the stock market activity was revealed in a 67-page study first reported in the US by CNN.
The authors of the study found that unidentified investors in Israel and the US had sold their stocks in key Israeli companies just days before the Hamas attack. In a practice known as “short selling,” the investors later repurchased their stocks at a much lower price, reaping millions of dollars in profit.
The study – titled “Trading on Terror?” – was written by former Securities and Exchange Commission head Robert Jackson Jr., now a professor at New York University, and Columbia law professor Joshua Mitts, an expert in monitoring short selling activity on stock markets.
“Our findings suggest that traders informed about the coming attacks profited from these tragic events,” the authors wrote, adding “days before the attack, traders appeared to anticipate the events to come.” The study found that on 2 October, “nearly 100 percent of the off-exchange trading volume in the [Israeli equity market] … consisted of short selling.”
2025-10-07
Remember to forget October 7
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/10/remember-to-forget-october-7/
We have also learned something, and this is perhaps the most important lesson: they are defeatable.
Not only in some imagined future, but yesterday, today, and tomorrow — always. You can see it if you look closely enough. I saw it this morning in their eyes, in the way they carried themselves as they made an arrest.
The movements of their bodies betrayed it: the stiffness, the over-gripping of their weapons, the rehearsed violence that covers over fear. Beneath the spectacle of power lies fragility, an unease that cannot be concealed. For all their weapons, their machines, their claims to permanence, they remain vulnerable, and it is this vulnerability that reveals the truth: they are defeatable.
2025-10-04
So much for 'releasing hostages' the state of Israel never cared for anyways.
Israel continues airstrikes on Gaza after Hamas agrees to release all Israeli captives
While accepting the key point of Trump’s ceasefire proposal, the Palestinian resistance movement asked for further negotiations to be conducted regarding the details of the plan.
Palestinian diaspora organization the Palestinian Youth Movement denounced the plan, writing that it is an “ultimatum between two unacceptable choices,” which are “continued genocide with refound legitimacy,” or “privatization and control over Palestinians by a wealthy elite who deprive them of all substantive rights.”
2025-10-02
The question isn't whether I want this.
https://www.akaipro.com/mpc-live-3.html
It's whether it will really work for me.
I would certainly like it to.
2025-10-01
The ongoing genocide of the Palestinians truly is humanity's test of whether it can save itself from it's own hate-filled destructive ways.
The odds are low ... considering -
https://blackagendareport.com/paris-climate-agreement-global-climate-movements-two-state-solution
Let's face it, the Paris climate agreement was something agreed to because it was something that would never be adhered to by, well anyone.
Fact is, only a mass revolution of the majority of people to rise up against their oppressive systems that repress them - can save all of us.
And time is running out -
Twice as much fossil fuel as the 1.5ºC goal allows.
That’s the production level now planned by the governments of 20 major greenhouse gas emitters, according to the 2025 Production Gap Report, published this week by the Stockholm Environment Institute, Climate Analytics, and International Institute for Sustainable Development.
2025-09-30
Suspicious me thinks?
Maybe.
Then again, maybe not?
“While we remain outraged at how callously Starbucks handled these closures, we are proud that we have forced the company to make this process fairer for impacted union baristas,” said Starbucks Workers United spokesperson Michelle Eisen. “These measures to support baristas show the power and strength of our union. We remain focused on organizing stores and demanding Starbucks settle a fair union contract that improves hours and staffing, increases take-home pay, and resolves unfair labor practices.”
2025-09-29
While it's true that yelling about it is all Israel has left - from a propaganda point of view ...
... they are still the bullies of the region thanks to the West.
Looking out this morning...
... With a somewhat uncertain feeling.
In so many ways, this is what I see and feel -
Bright lights.
Dark of twilight.
And not much else.
2025-09-27
Quote of the day - 09-27-2025.
What 'recognition' from the West really means.
This recognition does not restore our homeland—it erases it. It sustains and legalizes the theft of Palestine, declaring Jewish supremacy victorious atop the bodies of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and over a million who have been imprisoned for resisting the Zionist colonial regime since 1948. It offers unconditional self-determination to Zionists settlers but conditional self-determination to the Palestinians and our school books. This humiliation deprives us from our political agency without putting any condition on Israel.
RIP Assata Shakur.
A legend and a reminder - in this country, if you are not white or 'right', take nothing for granted.
2025-09-25
2025-09-24
Wha .... the MARINERS making the playoffs?
For Seattle media, it's the best thing since the Seahawks won the Super Bowl.
2025-09-23
Need any more proof of Western bullying.
Look no further than the UN Security Council -> https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/19/un-security-council-reimposes-comprehensive-international-sanctions-on-iran/
UN Security Council reimposes comprehensive international sanctions on Iran
Months after facing Israeli and US aggression, Iran presented a resolution in the IAEA general conference demanding the prohibition of attacks or threats of attacks on nuclear sites under its safeguard.
2025-09-22
Is Zionism collapsing?
I'll believe it when it actually happens.
That being said, it's worth noting the signs.
It's really all in the name, isn't it?
I mean seriously, 'defense' always meant war and weapons.
https://scheerpost.com/2025/09/20/whats-in-a-name/
That's after all what the primary function of the American Empire - to plunder and suck up as much wealth to its enablers, namely the rich and powerful.
2025-09-20
Playing a fixed game by the cheater's bendable rules - will lead to destruction.
And no more a fixed game there is, than one involving oil.
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/09/20/targeting-venezuela/
https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-venezuela-drug-war-claims/290475/
Today, Venezuela appears to have weathered the worst of the storm. Stores are full again, and the country now produces a large percentage of the food it eats. Maduro’s signature social housing policy, Misión Gran Vivienda Venezuela, has delivered more than 5.2 million homes to citizens, greatly improving the country’s problem with slum housing.
Another factor that kept Maduro in power is the military. The large majority of the Army has stayed loyal and rejected calls for a coup d’état. Venezuela counts hundreds of thousands of men in uniform, as well as millions more in armed left-wing militias.
2025-09-19
2025-09-17
Poultry Poison?
Somehow I'm amazed this isn't bigger news.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00439339.2025.2542410
Review Article
Glyphosate in poultry production: health risks, toxicity, and environmental impact
2025-09-15
Who's the aggressor?
Who are a bunch of psychopaths and criminals?
The one that's attacked a half dozen countries in under two years.
Let's see -
- Palestine
- Lebanon
- Iran
- Syria
- Yemen
- Qatar
If you think there's any justification to any of this, I'd conclude you to be a psychopath and criminal as well.
Anyone who not only advocates for violence, destruction, and mass murder is a psychopath. And those that carry it out are also criminals.
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