For me, Summer ends when kids go back to school.
But that aside, got lots of outdoor time (hopefully more to still come), finished some songs, wrote music for a few more.
Back to work soon. But for now I'll enjoy the time I have until Tuesday.
For me, Summer ends when kids go back to school.
But that aside, got lots of outdoor time (hopefully more to still come), finished some songs, wrote music for a few more.
Back to work soon. But for now I'll enjoy the time I have until Tuesday.
Reality says otherwise.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/zencity-israel-spy-tech-america/290404/
That is, the Washington State Fair?
Of course, I always knew it as the Puyallup Fair; and still refer to it as such.
https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/microsoft-sign-protest-2048x1367.jpg
Why?
The actions came as tensions over Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza spread into the corporate world. At Microsoft’s annual Build developers conference in May, an employee interrupted CEO Satya Nadella’s keynote address, accusing the company of enabling Israeli war crimes through its Azure cloud services. The worker, Joe Lopez, was later dismissed, according to CNBC.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-the-un-could-act-today-to-stop-the-genocide-in-palestine/
A UNGA resolution adopted under Uniting for Peace could -
1. Call on all states to adopt comprehensive sanctions and a military embargo against the Israeli regime. While it lacks the power to enforce sanctions, it can call them, monitor them, and supplement them as required.
2. Decide to reject the UNGA credentials of Israel, as the UNGA did in the case of apartheid South Africa.
3. Mandate an accountability mechanism (like a criminal tribunal) to address Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity, apartheid, and genocide.
4. Reactivate the UN’s long-dormant anti-apartheid mechanisms to address Israeli apartheid, and
5. Mandate an armed, multinational, UN protection force to deploy to Gaza (and, ultimately, to the West Bank), acting at the request of the State of Palestine, to protect civilians, open entry points via land and sea, facilitate humanitarian aid, preserve evidence of Israeli crimes, and assist in recovery and reconstruction.
That's right - take away their UN membership and kick out Israel, as was the case with Apartheid South Africa.
A disaster that could've been prevented.
https://blackagendareport.com/why-we-remember-katrina
Hurricane Katrina first struck the United States on August 25, 2025 making landfall in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane, the least powerful storm in that designation. But after being downgraded to the category of tropical storm, it gained strength as it traveled into the Gulf of Mexico and again reached hurricane status, making landfall again in Mississippi and Louisiana on August 29, 2025.
Residents of Mobile, Alabama, Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi, and New Orleans and other Louisiana cities were all devastated by the storm surge. Twenty years later when we think of Katrina it is the images from New Orleans, where large portions of the city are below sea level, which come to mind. Those who were unable to evacuate were stranded and the levees which were constructed to protect New Orleans were either topped by the storm surge or gave way altogether. The Lower Ninth Ward, home to a majority Black population, was flooded. The official number of deaths caused by hurricane Katrina was 1,392 people, mostly in Louisiana and Mississippi, but also in Alabama and Florida.
The Maxwells and Epstein's ties to both the CIA and the Mossad.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/maxwell-family-epstein-mossad-cia/290379/
The reach of it and the 1% is so powerful and patient to a degree.
A Canadian (the Toronto Blue Jays of the American League East division) team had won two consecutive championships - 1992 and 1993. And with the Montreal Expos sitting 34 games over .500, they were in very good shape to make an appearance in the World Series; and thus a third consecutive championship won by a non-American.
I think MLB colluded with the union to deliberately create the labor dispute - which served as the catalyst to shut down the 1994 season; and thus prevent another Canadian team from winning.
Somehow I don't find myself celebrating much.
That being said, there are no vacations this year. So I have to make the most by doing some things for the family.
A ballgame. Perhaps some day trips here and there. We'll see.
Context -> psychopathology of white “supremacy.”
Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) founder, Ajamu Baraka, describes this psychopathology as, “a racialized narcissistic cognitive disorder that hyper-values the beliefs, perspectives, and stated values of peoples racialized as white, and the assumption of the natural superiority of European civilization. It renders those afflicted with an inability to perceive objective reality.” He continues, “This affliction is not reducible just to those who identity, or want to identity, as “white,” but an affect all those who have encountered and been assimilated to the ideological and cultural mechanisms of the five century old, pan-European colonial project and its normalization of white “supremacy” ideology.”
This characterization explains why when it comes to the zionist ethnostate, the behavior of white liberals like Democratic Party Senators Schumer, Blumenthal, and John Fetterman is indistinguishable from that of Black, petty bourgeois liberals like Van Jones, Bakari Sellers, and Congressman RItchie Torres (D-NY). But each of their collective and respective white “supremacy” psychopathology reveals another truth that can no longer be ignored, perambulated, or debated - Palestinian people are not considered white/European, which is to say they are not even viewed as humans who qualify for protections under International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (i.e. the Geneva Convention) that white Ukrainians do.
This explains why we will never see world leaders representing Western colonial nations interrupt their summer vacations to rush to the White House for an emergency discussion on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as we just saw them do for Ukraine. It also explains why, beyond performative U.N. resolutions and recognition of a Palestinian State, there has not been a collective effort by Western nations to do all in their power to end the zionist ethnostate’s war crimes against Palestinian people nor the illegal occupation of their lands. In fact, many of these nations, the U.S. chief among them, still provide arms and financial support that allows the State of Israel to continue its genocidal war machine unabated. But the major mistake these nations and the zionist ethnostate are making is an assumption that the psychopathology of white “supremacy” solely impacts non-white people adversely.
And those rules can be changed at a moment's notice.
Maduro activates Bolivarian National Militia in response to US “threats”, vowing to defend the country’s sovereignty and independence.
"World War II did not end by handing over part of Germany to the Nazis. The conflict will not end by handing over part of Palestine to Zionism."
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/18/palestine-cannot-wait/
Bonus:
Israel is not a state, it is a European colonial project whose founders were not native to that land. Theodor Herzl was Hungarian, David Ben Hurion and Shimon Peres were Polish, Golda Meir was Ukrainian, Moshe Dayan was the son of Ukrainians, Ariel Sharon was the son of Belarusians, to give a few examples. The manipulated biblical account is just a convenient excuse that serves to create a mythical narrative that gives a foreign population rights of occupation over a supposed promised land. In practice, what we have is a state founded on massacres, murders, and the forced displacement of the original population in permanent violation of international law. An apartheid state that distinguishes between first-class citizens who enjoy rights and second-class citizens with limited or no rights. The aggression that has been taking place since October 2023 is nothing more than the continuation of a project of dispossession, extermination, and replacement of an entire people, endorsed, sponsored, and financed by the US and carried out by Israel. This project is perpetuated because it is also generating extraordinary profits for a significant number of multinational corporations in the Global North, as recently evidenced in the report A/HRC/59/23 prepared by the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Palestine, Francesca Albanese.
After all, what does cancer do, other than consume its host and destroy everything around it, including itself?
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/08/15/cias-angleton-israeli-spy-ring-files/
I'd been thinking about this for quite some time.
How did someone (Bernie Sanders) whose political 'brand' has been 'socialist' and 'independent', suddenly, out of the blue (pardon any Democratic brand puns) decide to run for President of The United States in 2016 and 2020?
Simple - he was never what he ever claimed to be - 'socialist' and 'independent'.
He was always a tool of the establishment - there to deflate any real progressive/left-wing movements in US capitalism, and re-direct that potential energy into the 'Democratic Party' brand; where it would go no where.
Case in point -
Real journalism requires bravery, and that can cost one their life.
Like here -
The massacre raised the death toll of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since October 7, 2023 to 238.
Wipe your ass of that shit then. Your beliefs have been clinging to you ass for too long.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/israels-biggest-us-donor-now-owns-cbs/290347/
Larry Ellison, the largest private funder of the Israel Defense Forces, is deeply tied to the Israeli national security state and counts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu among his closest friends.
David has already announced significant changes at CBS, promising “unbiased” news coverage and “varied ideological perspectives,” which are widely understood to signal a shift toward right-wing, pro-Trump coverage. Worse still, Bari Weiss, a journalist with a long history of zealous pro-Israel advocacy, is being considered as the network’s new ombudsman, shaping its political direction, precisely because of her “pro-Israel stance.”
A character who's about defending innocent people and saving lives on his adopted planet goes about ACTUALLY defending innocent people and saving lives, and legacy-minded establishment types freak out about it.
Some of the clips I've seen of this film have the character as too whiny and bitchy. But those were clips - any context might be missing.
That being said, I still think that if a major film corporation (which has been a cornerstone of American Empire propaganda since its founding) puts out media that remotely is critical of its origins, suggests that it's desperately wanting the public to hand over their money to them.
No where in this (otherwise well-written) article are those words - along with capitalism - even mentioned.
https://scheerpost.com/2025/08/08/hulk-hogan-and-the-unraveling-of-worker-solidarity/
Attributes -
Some caveats -
Without further ado (and in no order), here they are -
TCS, India’s largest software company, has announced plans to layoff around 2% of its global workforce this year which would translate into over 12,000 mid and senior-level employees losing their jobs.
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/08/06/atomic-bombings-at-80-trumans-human-sacrifice-to-subdue-moscow/
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/08/05/atomic-bombings-at-80-the-enduring-myth-of-hiroshima-nagasaki/
Next time some one tries to sell you on the notion or belief that the United States is the most awesome force in the universe, remind of this criminal reality.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/alan-macleod-israel-google-genocide/290317/
Thugs and bullies always end up in positions of power in US Crapitalist Empire - why?
Because it's the basic function of the system.