Multiple outlets have confirmed the basic facts: the guards went into the cell during a count, beat the prisoners with fists, boots, and batons, kept going even after Abu Assab collapsed, delayed medical care, and then tried to coordinate their stories. Twelve guards were eventually indicted for reckless homicide, aggravated assault, and obstruction. But the ones who bragged the loudest — the ones who treated torture like a hobby — were never charged.

Haaretz’s investigation exposed the culture behind the killing. It showed the messages, the celebrations, the way guards talked about Palestinians as if they were objects to break. And nothing is more revealing than the WhatsApp messages of warden Oshrit Aliga, who was literally used as a poster figure for the Israeli Prison Service. She filmed herself doing combat workouts. She was showcased as a model officer. And she was bragging about a man’s death in real time.

On the night Tha’er Abu Assab was murdered, she texted a friend:

"Sweetie, here is an update for you, he's dead now."

"I’m very happy and satisfied, but it's a mess right now. There was a lot of blood and they broke them."

"It'll be fine, I'm glad it happened. I'm ready to put my career on the line for this, I'm at peace with it, all of us are. The commander knew something like this would happen. he told us in the briefing and also asked, whoever feels they can't handle it should say so, because he really wanted to break them. I'm really fine, but you know how it is, investigations and all that mess."

This wasn’t a rogue a guard carrying out exactly what her commander wanted. He told them in advance that something like this would happen. He told them to prepare themselves. He told them he wanted to “break them.” And she was proud to do it. Proud enough to text about it. Proud enough to say she was “at peace” with a man’s death.

And it didn’t stop there. More detainees arrived. More violence. More bragging.

In December 2023, she wrote:

"They brought some Amalek-son w****s down in the middle of the street, sitting there on the ground with just underwear and blindfolds on. I'm already getting myself and the shift ready to receive them for Shabbat, we will give them a proper Shabbat reception."

Her friend joked about her baton. She answered:

"My club is fine, after a fair number of disinfections."

Then the sick depraved demon fantasized about torture like it was a shared pastime:

"Imagine me and you in a cell with two prisoners cuffed hand to hand, and the shift commander tells us 'go ahead, cut loose', sweetie, I swear you'd have enjoyed it here with me."

Her friend asked if she physically hits them. She didn’t hesitate:

"I wish I had a way to prove it to you, to show you something, I swear to you, sis, I break them apart. You've never known me like this. [This is] routine. [When the] next round comes, if I haven't cracked one of his kidneys, as far as I'm concerned I'm not going into the wing."

This is someone who was celebrated by the Israeli Prison Service. Promoted. Showcased. Treated like a model officer. And she was bragging about cracking kidneys as a personal standard.

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Then came the messages with her domestic partner, corrections officer Tamer Trudi:

"We got another 70 w****s from October 7th. Each one of course got a personal welcome, and some got a joint one because of the [limited] supply of handcuffs."

Trudi replied:

"Haha, how nice that there's always a welcome."

She answered:

"And since we were already tired from hitting them, the commander took off his belt and undid it on them. And the screaming, like females — at minimum they're a punching bag."

This is what these demons do. This is how they talk. This is how they think. This is what they enjoy. This is what the system rewards.

Other outlets confirm the same pattern: the commander ordered the assault, the guards carried it out, Abu Assab died from cardiac rupture and broken ribs, and the prison staff tried to cover it up. The indictments barely scratch the surface. The culture of brutality is bigger than any single case. It’s a system that dehumanizes Palestinians until their suffering becomes entertainment.

Tha’er Abu Assab died with his ribs broken, his heart muscle torn, his body destroyed by people who laughed about it afterward. And the society that produced them — the one that calls Palestinians “Amalek,” “animals,” “w****s,” “punching bags” — keeps pretending it’s civilized.

This is what a sick, rotten, demonic society looks like when the mask falls off. This is what Palestinians are subjected to every damn day.

The world isn't sick or angry enough.

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Sources:

Jerusalem Post:

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-788178

Ynet:

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bk1z00k11a

Israel National News:

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/384972

Jewish Chronicle:

https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/israeli-prison-guards-charged-over-death-of-palestinian-inmate-7c0p7u6l

Times of Israel:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/12-prison-guards-indicted-over-death-of-palestinian-inmate-in-ketziot-prison/

Haaretz (paywalled):

https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/magazine/2026-09-06/ty-article-magazine/.premium/000001a0-76b0-d6c0-a1a9-7ef529ce0000

Back in 2020, during Trump’s first term, internal memos showed that some of his advisers were floating the idea of suspending habeas corpus to speed up immigration detentions and deportations. It wasn’t public policy, but it was being talked about behind closed doors. The idea was extreme, and even inside the administration, people were warning that it crossed a constitutional line. But the fact that it was even being discussed was a red flag.

Fast‑forward to 2025. Trump is back in office, and suddenly the courts are flooded with habeas petitions. Thousands of people detained under new enforcement policies were filing them because it was the only legal tool left to challenge their detention. Bond was harder to get. Detention was easier to justify. Habeas corpus became the last lifeline for anyone trying to push back against being held indefinitely. It wasn’t suspended, but the pressure around it was unmistakable.

In 2026, journalists uncovered another internal memo showing that the idea of suspending habeas corpus had come up again. Not as a public announcement, not as a formal policy, but as something being “considered” inside the administration. Some aides were warning it would be a political disaster. Others were arguing it would give the government more power to hold people without court interference. The memo didn’t say it was happening tomorrow, but it made one thing clear: the idea is not dead. It keeps coming back.

This isn’t a one‑time conversation. It’s a recurring theme. Every time there’s a push for harsher detention policies, the idea of weakening or bypassing habeas corpus shows up again. It’s like a pressure valve they keep eyeing, wondering if they can get away with turning it.

Americans need to understand what that means. Habeas corpus is the right to challenge unlawful detention. It’s one of the oldest protections in the Constitution. If a president suspends it, even temporarily, the government can hold people without having to justify it to a judge. That’s not something that stays limited to one group.

It doesn’t matter who you are. It doesn’t matter what color you are—whether you’re brown, white, or black. It doesn’t matter if you’re Republican or Democrat, left or right, communist, socialist, or capitalist—it applies to everyone. Once the power exists, it can expand. History has already shown that.

So yes, this is coming to your doorstep. Not because it’s happening today, but because the idea keeps resurfacing, getting tested, getting normalized. It’s been on the table since 2020, and it’s still being talked about in 2026. People need to pay attention before it becomes something you can’t undo.

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Dan Cyrus connects a map-based theory of the region to a breaking military announcement from the Israeli army, arguing that the timing and location of the drill are not random. He frames Jordan as a critical buffer, or “dam,” in the security architecture around Israel, and claims that any shift in Jordan’s stability would have immediate consequences for the entire region.You’ll hear:

* Why Jordan is described as a protection wall in the conflict

* How missile routes, airspace, and interceptors shape the argument

* What the Israeli army says about its new Eilat and Arava Valley drill

* Why this exercise is presented as a response to surprise attack scenarios

* How Dan Cyrus interprets the broader implications for Jordan, Israel, and Iran

This is analysis ties together geography, military readiness, and regional power dynamics. Whether you agree with the premise or just want to understand the argument being made, the episode offers a sharp, controversial lens on one of the Middle East’s most sensitive fault lines.

Essential listening if you follow Middle East conflict analysis, regional security, or the unfolding Iran-Israel-Jordan dynamic.

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He said every person deserves the same basic freedom — to feel safety and peace before ever hearing violence.

He called ICE a “terrorist organization” and shouted “Free Palestine, free Cuba, Congo, Sudan and Iran.”

The Israeli-American Council has since pushed to get him removed from the remaining tour dates. 😂😂😂

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Damon has gotten even worse — there’s a scabies outbreak, at least ten women infected because the place is filthy and neglected. Sama also has Familial Mediterranean Fever — a disease that can cause organ failure if she doesn’t get her medication. Doctors warn she’s at risk of life‑threatening organ damage. Her condition has gotten worse in custody. She was briefly released for medical reasons, then thrown right back in on August 16, and since then she hasn’t been given her daily medication or seen medical staff.

Members of Congress like Chris Van Hollen and Rashida Tlaib have already called for her release, and now more than forty members of Congress plus six senators have demanded the State Department intervene. Her aunt, Leila Farsakh, has been speaking publicly, using Sama’s American passport to push pressure wherever she can. Sama represents other Palestinian student prisoners — her freedom is tied to theirs.

Before sunrise on June 2, soldiers smashed into the Safi family’s home in Ramallah. No warning. No explanation. Just the usual occupation terrorist routine: doors kicked in, rifles everywhere, shouting, chaos. Sama was asleep. She didn’t even get a chance to understand what was happening before strangers with guns were in her room, dragging her out of her bed like she was some kind of target they’d been waiting to grab.

Her family couldn’t do anything. You know how it goes in the West Bank — you don’t “argue” with soldiers. You don’t “ask questions.” You stand there and watch them take your daughter because the alternative is getting shot. Sama was hauled out of the house and shoved into a military vehicle. No charges. No explanation. Nothing.

Since then, she’s been swallowed by Israel’s detention system — the same system Palestinians have been warning the world about for decades. The same system the US government knows damn well is built on torture. She’s likely in one of the interrogation centers where they keep women in filthy rooms, subjected to the heat until people pass out, starve them, deny water, strip them, threaten them, sexually assault them, and break them down until they’re barely functioning.

And now we have even more details — documented by lawmakers themselves — about what she’s been subjected to: shackling and blindfolding, denial of food and water for the first 24 hours, stun grenades and gas canisters used in poorly ventilated cells, forced stress positions that caused severe chest pain, exposure to infectious skin disease, rat‑infested mattresses.

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Women who come out of these places talk about rape. They talk about being kept in rooms so hot they hallucinate. They talk about guards who treat them like objects. They talk about being denied sleep for days. They talk about being left hungry, dizzy, sick, terrified. They talk about being screamed at for hours, shoved, slapped, tied, humiliated. Nothing about this has changed. It’s a system of torture Israel has perfected.

Israel doesn’t need charges. Evidence is non-existent. They certainly don’t need a farce trial. They can hold her indefinitely under “administrative detention,” which is just a sanitized phrase for “we can disappear you whenever we want.” And now they’re claiming she was connected to some student activism group — al‑Qutub — which they try to link to the PFLP. Her lawyer already said whatever “evidence” they’re waving around was likely extorted under pressure, and involvement in al‑Qutub isn’t even illegal.

And the United States — her country — has done absolutely s**t for her.

The State Department is silent.

The White House is silent.

Congress is mostly silent, except for the few who actually give a damn. Even after embassy staff visited her twice — twice — and reported the conditions she’s in, nothing has changed. No intervention. No demands. No consequences.

They can’t shut up when an American is detained in Russia, China, Iran — but when it’s Israel? Suddenly they lose their voice. Suddenly they forget what “protecting American citizens” means. Suddenly they pretend they don’t see what’s happening.

And the US media? Barely a whisper. No headlines. No coverage. No interviews with her family. No investigative digging. Nothing. They’ve practically erased her. Because she’s Palestinian. Because Israel is the one holding her. Because American media is ran by a bunch of Zioshits.

So here we are:

A 20‑year‑old American woman is being held in a system known for torture, starvation, sexual violence, and psychological destruction — and her own government won’t lift a finger. The country that loves to brag about “protecting its citizens abroad” won’t even say her name.

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The government told Americans a story in 1995. Timothy McVeigh acted alone. No network. No accomplices. No foreknowledge. No failures. Just one man and one truck.

It was a lie.

Kathy Sanders lost two grandchildren in the Oklahoma City bombing. She didn’t have the luxury of accepting the government’s script. She spent thirty years pulling apart the details they tried to bury.

She found witnesses who saw bomb squad trucks before the blast. She found people who saw McVeigh with others. She found the early descriptions of “John Doe No. 2” that the government later pretended never existed. She found federal agents giving explanations that didn’t match their own timelines.

She went to Elohim City, where McVeigh had ties. She dug into Richard Wayne Snell, whose execution lined up with the bombing in ways the government never explained. She talked to McVeigh’s sister. She talked to Terry Nichols. She talked to the FBI, again and again, and got nothing but evasions.

Sanders didn’t uncover a neat conspiracy. She uncovered something worse: a federal investigation that shut down every lead that pointed to more than one man. A government that wanted the case closed fast. A narrative that protected institutions, not truth.

She never forgave McVeigh. She never excused him. But she refused to pretend he was the only one involved.

Thirty years later, Sanders’s work shows what the government didn’t want you to know: the Oklahoma City bombing was not a lone‑wolf attack. It was bigger, more organized, and more complicated than the official story. And the people who lost loved ones deserved better than a political cleanup job from a government that lies about everything.

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Jeffries has become the perfect example of what happens when a politician decides that money matters more than human beings. AIPAC has backed him, protected him, and funded the political ecosystem around him. They’ve spent over $60 million trying to crush candidates who challenge the lobby’s influence. They’ve poured $36 million into propping up figures like Haley Stevens. They’ve used dark money networks, corporate PACs, and billionaire donors to keep their grip tight. And Jeffries has stood right there with them, smiling, pretending it’s all normal.

He’s not just aligned with AIPAC — he’s become their most reliable Democratic shield. When progressives call for conditioning aid to Israel, Jeffries shuts it down. When voters demand investigations into war crimes, he dismisses them. When Gaza families plead for basic human rights, he parrots the lobby’s talking points. He’s turned the Democratic caucus into a donor‑driven machine that treats dissent like a threat instead of a democratic right.

Meanwhile, the country is shifting. Polls show Americans — especially younger voters — are sick of Israel’s unchecked power in Washington. They’re sick of watching U.S. politicians defend a foreign government more aggressively than they defend their own citizens. They’re sick of watching AIPAC spend obscene amounts of money to silence anyone who speaks up for Palestinian lives.

Jeffries represents the old guard — the corporate Democrats who think voters will stay quiet forever. But the cracks are showing. Candidates like Al‑Sayed are leading by massive margins because people want a party that isn’t owned by a lobby. They want leaders who aren’t afraid to say that Israel’s actions are wrong. They want a Democratic Party that actually listens to its base instead of its donors.

Jeffries can keep pretending he’s the future of the party. But the truth is simple: he’s the face of a political machine that’s losing its grip. AIPAC can keep spending millions, but they can’t stop the shift happening across the country. People are done with foreign lobby control. They’re done with party leaders who sell out their own voters. They’re done with silence.

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Saagar’s argument starts with the timeline. Around 2018, the floodgates opened. Online sports betting went from fringe to mainstream overnight. Porn platforms exploded into billion‑dollar empires. Marijuana legalization turned into a corporate land grab. And every one of these industries targeted the same demographic: young men who were already struggling, already isolated, already drowning in debt, loneliness, and economic stagnation.

None of this happened in a vacuum. Saagar points directly at the political decisions that made it possible. The Trump administration oversaw the regulatory collapse that allowed online gambling to metastasize across the country. States, desperate for revenue, jumped on board. Corporations saw a goldmine. And nobody in power cared what it would do to the people on the bottom.

Saagar frames this as a business model, like everything Trump does. Addiction is profitable. Desperation is profitable. The destruction of young men is profitable. And the people who profit do it out in the open. You can see their names on donor lists, political committees, and corporate filings. Casino billionaires. Porn moguls. Marijuana investors. They bankroll politicians, and in return they get a country where vice is not just tolerated — it’s marketed, subsidized, and normalized.

The result is a government that behaves less like a protector and more like a dealer. A government that pushes gambling apps to every phone. A government that shrugs at the collapse of male mental health. A government that treats porn as harmless entertainment while ignoring the wreckage it leaves behind. A government that pretends drugs are a path to “freedom” while quietly counting the tax revenue.

Saagar’s warns that this isn’t cultural decay. It’s policy. It’s intentional. And it’s being sold to Americans as “choice” and “liberty” while the people making the decisions collect checks from the industries feeding the addiction.

Young men are falling apart because they’re being targeted. And the people doing the targeting are powerful, wealthy, and deeply invested in keeping the cycle going.

What kind of government does this to its own population? What kind of leadership looks at a generation of struggling men and decides the solution is more gambling, more porn, more drugs?

This is the America that was built. And unless people start paying attention to who’s getting rich, it’s the America that will stay…and Americans are already paying a heavy price.

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Source: Piers Morgan Uncensored YT

This documentary by Farrel McGuire traces how two cities—Derry in Northern Ireland and Hebron in Palestine—became laboratories for control, surveillance, and enforced division. It starts with Derry’s history: a native Irish majority boxed into poverty while British settlers were handed political power through engineered borders. The city split into two worlds, one wealthy and protected, the other monitored and restricted.

In Hebron, where the imbalance is even more extreme, a few hundred Israeli settlers live inside a Palestinian city of tens of thousands, guarded by a dense military presence. Checkpoints, screenings, and daily obstruction define life for Palestinians. In 2020, the Israeli military moved to automate this system. They partnered with an AI firm to build “Keyron Smart City,” a surveillance stack meant to track every Palestinian movement.

Soldiers were given the Blue Wolf app—an AI facial‑recognition tool that turned photographing Palestinians into a game with leaderboards, quotas, and punishments. Later came Red Wolf, an automated checkpoint system that scans faces, decides who can pass, and can trigger arrests based solely on algorithmic flags.

The documentary argues that this isn’t a hypothetical dystopia—it’s already happening. It pushes past Western political noises to focus on the actual human suffering on the ground. It also highlights that dissent exists inside Israel itself, including among people in positions of power. That dissent becomes the doorway into a strange real‑world mystery: a missing smartphone that washed up on a Tel Aviv beach, sparking a frantic search by authorities and raising questions about what someone inside the system was trying to expose.

The film leaves viewers with the unsettling reality of how far this technology has already gone. Watch the documentary to follow the full story and see how these pieces connect inside a system that was never meant to be questioned.

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The reservist terrorist says he served three tours in Gaza. He describes a system where soldiers terrorists drew their own no‑go zones and were told to kill anyone who crossed them. No warning shots. No assessment. No hesitation. Just shoot.

“We have a territory that we are in, and the commands are: everyone that comes inside needs to die,” he told Sky News. “If they’re inside, they’re dangerous, you need to kill them. No matter who it is.”

He says civilians were left dead exactly where they fell — people who had no idea they were stepping into a line only soldiers could see. Families wandering into these zones, unaware that a few meters in the wrong direction meant execution.

He describes these orders as routine. Repeated. Enforced. And justified with the same logic now used to defend the yellow‑line system: if a civilian enters a space the army has mentally marked off, the army treats that civilian as a combatant.

Human rights groups have warned for months that these invisible boundaries are being used to rationalize mass civilian killings. The Sky News video adds a soldier’s terrorist’s voice to what Gaza residents have been saying since the earliest days of the genocide — that they are being killed for crossing lines they cannot see, lines that shift, lines soldiers terrorists invent on the spot.

For Gaza families, the reservist’s terrorist’s words confirm what they’ve lived: survival depends not on avoiding danger, but on guessing where an unseen line might be drawn on any given day.

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From the underground station in the city of the Nuremberg trials, Dan Cyrus traces the deeper historical logic behind Zionism, German identity, and why these two men are remembered side by side.

One was Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, who pushed for a Jewish Colonial state through diplomacy, international pressure, and a pitch to European powers. The other was Walther Rathenau, a German-born statesman and industrial titan who chose integration over nationalism, rose to the highest levels of government, and was assassinated by right-wing Germans in 1922.

You’ll discover:

* Why Herzl tried to secure German protection for a future Jewish homeland

* How he later offered the Ottoman Empire loans, industrialization, and tax revenue in exchange for settlement rights

* Why the Ottoman response matters for understanding Jewish life in Jerusalem long before the modern state of Israel

* How Rathenau’s career inside Germany contrasts sharply with Herzl’s outsider strategy

* Why these two figures are honored together in Nuremberg, and what that says about German policy today

Dan also connects the dots between the historical support for Zionism, Germany’s postwar relationship with Israel, and the broader question of how identity, power, and survival shaped the modern Middle East. If you want the backstory behind one of the most consequential alliances in world politics, this episode gives you the context most people never hear. Perfect for listeners who want history with real geopolitical stakes, and who want to understand why the past still drives decisions in the present.

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We break down:The origins of the "Middle East" label and its colonial rootsWhy the term excludes Egypt and other parts of West Asia from a geographic perspective.How changing the name to "West Asia" reconnects us to our Asian heritage, shared trade routes, and cultural ties The broader implications of language on regional perception and self-identity This isn’t just semantics — it’s about reclaiming our history and rewriting how the world sees us. Next time you see a map or hear the term "Middle East," ask yourself: who drew that line, and what story does it tell? Step into a clearer identity and join the conversation that challenges outdated labels and embraces a shared future in West Asia.Perfect for students, thinkers, and anyone interested in regional identity and decolonization. Your perspective on the Middle East might never be the same.

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Chabad’s modern rise starts with the Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in Crown Heights. Under him, Chabad turned into a worldwide network: schools, synagogues, youth programs, political donors, and a PR operation that makes them look like harmless spiritual guides. Behind that PR, they’ve pushed a worldview where Israel’s borders are “God‑given,” Palestinians are obstacles, and compromise is weakness. There's documented reporting and analysis of his position on “shleimut ha’aretz,” the “wholeness of the land,” where he argued that giving up territory under Israeli control would endanger Jewish lives and insisted Israel act independently of outside pressure.

In practice, that line — “never give up land, never bow to pressure” — feeds straight into the current hardline camp: annexation, permanent control, no real Palestinian sovereignty. You see it echoed in pieces openly arguing that the Rebbe’s view supports annexing the West Bank and Gaza and “ending the idea of Palestine” altogether. That’s the ideology a lot of today’s brutality grows out of.

In Israel, Chabad isn’t running the government, but they’re plugged into the religious‑right ecosystem that keeps the whole violent machine running. They’re part of the ideological backbone behind settlement expansion. They run Chabad houses in settlements, they preach that the land is non‑negotiable, and they help normalize the idea that Palestinians don’t belong there. They’re not the ones physically building the outposts, but they’re the ones blessing the people who do, teaching kids and families that this is holy work, not a political project.

When it comes to Gaza, Chabad rabbis have repeatedly made statements that line up with the most extreme nationalist rhetoric. Some have blessed soldiers heading into Gaza. Some have publicly said the war should be fought without restraint. Some have pushed the idea that mercy toward Palestinians is weakness. This isn’t fringe — these kinds of positions is agreed on by 82% of the Israeli population that treats mass civilian death and starvation as “regrettable but necessary” or just doesn’t talk about it at all.

And then there’s who they choose to stand next to. In 2025, when Itamar Ben‑Gvir — a far‑right monster with a history of openly racist, anti‑Arab positions and ties to Kahanist ideology — toured the U.S., a lot of Jewish groups refused to meet him. Chabad rabbis did. He was welcomed at Chabad centers, including at 770 Eastern Parkway, the headquarters in Crown Heights. Outside, protests broke out. Some Chabad followers responded with violence, chasing a woman while chanting “Death to Arabs,” attacking protesters, burning a keffiyeh.

Politically, Chabad has been a convenient bridge for leaders who want access to Jewish communities without dealing with messy internal politics. Netanyahu has long courted Chabad donors in the U.S. Trump had Chabad‑connected advisers and donors around him. Putin has leaned on Chabad as his preferred “official” Jewish partner in Russia, sidelining other Jewish currents. There’s a whole Politico piece literally calling Chabad the “happy‑go‑lucky Jewish group that connects Trump and Putin.” That’s the level of access we’re talking about: heads of state using this network as a channel, and the network using that proximity to reinforce its own power and worldview.

Inside Israel and the occupied territories, Chabad’s presence in the West Bank is obvious: Chabad houses in settlements, religious courts, youth outreach, and rabbis who preach that the land is non‑negotiable. They help keep the settlement project spiritually justified. They help keep people fired up for a political mission that destroys Palestinian lives. They’re part of the everyday infrastructure that makes occupation feel normal and holy to the people living inside it.

At the same time, Chabad’s global footprint means their messaging doesn’t stay in Israel. It spreads through thousands of emissaries (“shluchim”) stationed in cities around the world. These rabbis and centers shape how diaspora Jews think about Israel, Gaza, and Palestinians. They host events, give talks, frame the war, frame the occupation, frame Palestinian resistance. Even when they don’t say “wipe them out,” they often present a narrative where Israel is eternally under existential threat, Palestinians are mostly a problem, and military force is just self‑defense. That framing is exactly what lets governments get away with mass killing and starvation while still claiming moral high ground.

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There’s also the internal tension: Chabad historically had a complicated relationship with Zionism, sometimes keeping distance from secular nationalism. But after October 7 and the ongoing genocide, there’s been a clear shift toward more openly nationalist, exclusionary politics in parts of the movement. You see it in who they host, who they defend, who they attack, and who they ignore. You see it in the way some Chabad communities respond to protests, to criticism, to Palestinians, to left‑wing Jews.

Meanwhile, when people like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens reports that Chabad is a global puppet‑master conspiracy, Chabad leadership screams “blood libel” and points to violence against their rabbis and centers. The fact is that Chabad as an institution has chosen to align itself with some of the most extreme, anti‑Palestinian forces in Israeli politics and has helped legitimize policies that have killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in Gaza and crushed Palestinian life in the West Bank.

So no, this isn’t some neutral, spiritual outreach group floating above politics. It’s a powerful religious‑political network with deep ties to right‑wing governments, a hardline territorial ideology, and a global messaging machine that helps justify what’s being done to Palestinians — while hiding behind the language of faith, community, and “Jewish safety.”

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He was arrested inside Al‑Awda Hospital in northern Gaza while treating wounded civilians. Israeli forces stormed the hospital, called him out by name, and threatened to destroy the building if he didn’t surrender.

They took him first to Sde Teiman, a place every released hostage describes as a torture site. Witnesses say he was beaten so badly he could barely walk. His breathing was already weak. He needed help just to stand or use the toilet.

Then they moved him to Al‑Jalama. Shin Bet interrogated him about treating Israeli captives in Gaza. He gave the only answer a real doctor gives: “I am a doctor. I treat whoever is injured.” That wasn’t good enough. They tortured him anyway.

When they were done with him, they sent him to Ofer Prison. Guards reportedly told him, “We have been waiting for you.”

It was 30‑minute assault by around twenty Israeli terrorist guards in an area without cameras. They beat him in a blind spot on purpose. Witnesses talk about kicks, blows with objects, electric shocks, and strikes aimed at sensitive parts of the body.

Witnesses say he screamed until he suddenly went silent.

After the assault, guards threw him into the yard of Section 23. He was barely breathing. Prisoners begged for medical help. None came.

Minutes later, inmates found him collapsed on the floor of the room, gasping. His breathing was very weak. Then it stopped.

Israel confirmed he died in custody but refused to give a cause of death. The f*****g monsters won't give the doctor’s body back. His family has been waiting months just to bury him.

At least eighteen Palestinians from Gaza have died in Israeli custody since October. Multiple doctors. Nurses. Paramedics. WHO says over a hundred healthcare workers have been detained. Many were arrested straight out of hospitals. None of these deaths are being investigated. None of these bodies are being released.

This is the “most moral army” in the world, the only “democracy” in the Middle East.

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According to research and plausible, analysis, the US would never Nuke Iran - this is why they allowed Israel to steal Nuclear Weapons from the West for this specific purpose. They didn’t have to steal it, but they stole it so the West can use this as a cover to block liability. More details and findings in the Video.

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The term sayanim refers to Jewish civilians living outside Israel who voluntarily assist Israeli intelligence services, mainly Mossad, in small but useful ways. The idea isn’t new. It’s been written about for decades, including by Israeli‑Jewish writer Jacob Cohen, who described it as a quiet, informal support system woven through Jewish communities worldwide.

Sayanim aren’t spies in the Hollywood sense. They’re not trained agents, they’re not paid, and they’re not running covert operations. They’re ordinary people — business owners, doctors, landlords, drivers, translators — who step in when Mossad needs a favor. A car rental without paperwork. A spare apartment. A quick translation. A discreet introduction. A logistical shortcut that saves time.

The structure is simple: Mossad officers abroad keep contact lists. When they need something, they call. The civilian helps. Then life goes on. No official badge, no contract, no salary. Cohen described it as a mix of cultural loyalty, political alignment, and a sense of religious duty — a belief that helping Israel is helping the collective.

Critics argue the system blurs lines between civic life and intelligence work. It raises questions about dual loyalty, about the ethics of involving civilians, and about how far a state should reach into diaspora communities. Supporters frame it as community solidarity — a voluntary safety net for a country that sees itself under constant threat.

What’s undeniable is that the sayanim network has been part of Israel’s intelligence ecosystem for decades. It’s not a secret agency. It’s not a formal program. It’s a dispersed web of people who, when asked, quietly help.

In a world where intelligence agencies rely heavily on technology, surveillance, and cyber tools, the sayanim model is old‑school — human, informal, and built on trust. And according to writers like Cohen, it remains one of the most unusual features of Israel’s global intelligence reach.

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Adult Protective Services showed up once. One visit. She declined help while she was still mobile enough and was able to manage. After that, the system washed its hands of her. When she kept calling because she had no other way to stay alive, they arrested her. They took her from her bed, put her in a wheelchair, and hauled her to jail. When she missed court, they jailed her again. She ended up with probation and a ban on non‑emergency 911 calls. A disabled veteran who couldn’t reach her medication was told she could no longer call for help.

This isn’t an isolated failure. This is how the United States treats the people it sends to war.

PTSD — jailed during a mental health crisis

* Case 1 — Marine veteran Joshua “JT” Thomas, arrested during a PTSD breakdown

Date: April 12, 2024

Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma

Details: JT Thomas called 911 during a panic episode. He told dispatch he needed medical help. Police arrived, found him pacing and shaking, and arrested him for “public intoxication” even though he was sober. He spent three days in jail, having repeated panic attacks. His VA psychiatrist said the arrest worsened his condition.

* Case 2 — Army veteran Daniel Knight, killed during a PTSD crisis

Date: July 3, 2021

Location: Winter Park, Florida

Details: Knight was having a severe PTSD episode at a family gathering. His family called 911 for medical help. Police arrived, escalated the situation, and shot him. He died at the hospital. His family had warned dispatch that he was a veteran in crisis.

Dementia — charged with disorderly conduct

* Case 1 — Navy veteran William “Bill” Young, arrested for “disorderly conduct”

Date: September 18, 2023

Location: Phoenix, Arizona

Details: Bill Young, a 78‑year‑old Navy veteran with advanced dementia, wandered into a convenience store confused and agitated. Staff called police. Officers arrested him for “disorderly conduct.” He spent the night in jail, terrified and unable to understand what was happening. Charges were dropped only after his daughter went public.

* Case 2 — Vietnam veteran Robert “Bobby” Allen, arrested after a dementia episode

Date: February 9, 2022

Location: Louisville, Kentucky

Details: Allen, 74, walked into traffic during a dementia episode. Police detained him, charged him with “obstructing traffic,” and booked him. His family had been begging the VA for a dementia care placement for months.

Traumatic Brain Injury — arrested for “resisting” because they couldn’t understand commands

* Case 1 — Army veteran Michael Ramos, arrested for “resisting”

Date: May 6, 2025

Location: San Antonio, Texas

Details: Ramos, who suffered a severe TBI in Afghanistan, was stopped for a broken taillight. He struggled to follow verbal commands due to cognitive impairment. Officers interpreted his confusion as defiance and arrested him for “resisting.” His neurologist later testified that Ramos physically could not process rapid instructions.

* Case 2 — Marine veteran Anthony “Tony” Salazar, beaten and arrested

Date: November 14, 2020

Location: Bakersfield, California

Details: Salazar, who had a TBI from an IED blast, was approached by police responding to a noise complaint. He froze when officers shouted commands — a known TBI response. They tackled him, beat him, and charged him with resisting arrest. Charges were dropped after medical records were reviewed.

Veterans calling 911 for help — arrested for “misuse”

* Case 1 — Army veteran Michael “Mick” Johnson

Date: March 2024

Location: Dayton, Ohio

Details: Johnson, who had mobility issues and chronic pain, called 911 repeatedly because he couldn’t reach his medication. Police arrested him for “misuse of emergency services.” He spent two nights in jail. The VA later admitted he qualified for in‑home care that had never been scheduled.

* Case 2 — Air Force veteran Linda Carver

Date: August 2023

Location: Wichita, Kansas

Details: Carver, who lived alone and had severe COPD, called 911 multiple times because she couldn’t breathe and had no caregiver. Officers eventually arrested her for “false reporting.” She was hospitalized immediately after release.

These cases aren’t accidents. They’re a pattern. Veterans with medical emergencies are treated like criminals. Veterans with neurological damage are treated like threats. Veterans with mental health crises are treated like disruptions. The country sends them to war, breaks their bodies and minds, and then abandons them when they come home needing help.

This is the country these people fight for…kill for — a country that abandons them. Why would anyone fight for a country like this?

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"That is factually incorrect. That's propaganda.

The definition of genocide, and the UN has said this, does not apply to—what many people might think is a disproportionate wartime action—that's what that is.

Genocide is a very specific thing, actually genocide being committed against Jewish people, not by Israel."

Larkin responds, "The UN recently in Geneva found that the IDF had deliberately targeted women and children.

There's been famine conditions imposed over the Gaza strip by the blockading of aid. There's been indiscriminate bombing of hospitals, of mosques, of churches—"

Glenna Milberg: "Again, I'm going to have to stop you, as that is factually not correct. I'm being told we have to wrap."

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Origins: Built by Israeli Intelligence

Cellebrite was founded in 1999, but its modern identity took shape after it was acquired by the Japanese conglomerate Sun Corporation in 2007. The company’s growth came from one product line: UFED — Universal Forensic Extraction Device, a machine designed to crack locked phones.

Multiple investigations (Amnesty International, Haaretz, The Intercept) have documented that Cellebrite’s leadership and engineering talent comes from Unit 8200, Israel’s elite signals intelligence division — the same unit responsible for mass surveillance of Palestinians and global cyber operations.

Unit 8200 alumni dominate Israel’s cybersecurity sector. Cellebrite is one of the most commercially successful branches of that ecosystem.

Military Ties

Cellebrite openly markets its products to militaries. Israeli outlets like Calcalist and Haaretz have reported:

* Former Unit 8200 officers hold senior engineering roles

* The company collaborates with Israeli defense bodies on “national security” projects

* Its tools are used by the Israeli army for field interrogations and intelligence gathering

This isn’t a civilian tech company that happens to sell to governments. It’s a surveillance contractor shaped by military doctrine.

128 Government Contracts

According to U.S. federal procurement records (USASpending.gov), Cellebrite has:

* 128 U.S. government contracts

* Across FBI, DHS, ICE, Secret Service, DEA, ATF, and local police departments

These contracts include:

* Phone unlocking hardware

* Cloud extraction tools

* Training for digital forensics

* “Enterprise solutions” for mass data ingestion

This is only the U.S. Globally, the number is far higher.

Customers: From Democracies to Dictatorships

Cellebrite’s tools have been documented in use by:

* Australia (state and federal police)

* India (police and intelligence agencies)

* Russia (before sanctions)

* Belarus (used against protesters)

* Hong Kong police (during the 2019 protests)

* Saudi Arabia (including during the Khashoggi period)

* UAE

* Myanmar (military junta)

* Vietnam

* Bangladesh Rapid Action Battalion

* Mexico (police and military)

* Brazil

* Kenya

* Uganda

Amnesty International and Access Now have repeatedly called out Cellebrite for selling to regimes with documented histories of torture, political repression, and unlawful surveillance.

Capabilities: What UFED Actually Does

Cellebrite’s flagship tools can:

* Break into locked iPhones and Androids

* Extract deleted messages, photos, and files

* Pull cloud backups

* Recover WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram data

* Map social networks

* Build behavioral profiles

* Create searchable databases of extracted data

* Export everything into police intelligence systems

UFED can pull:

* GPS history

* WiFi networks

* Browser logs

* App usage

* Contact graphs

* Deleted media

* Metadata trails

* Authentication tokens

* Cloud passwords

If your phone touches it, Cellebrite can take it.

Gaza

Israeli military operations in Gaza rely heavily on digital intelligence. While Cellebrite does not publicly confirm battlefield use, Israeli investigative reporting (Haaretz, +972 Magazine) indicates:

* UFED devices are used in field interrogations

* Phones seized from Palestinians are routinely extracted

* Data is fed into Unit 8200 systems

* Profiles are built for targeting and surveillance

Australia: The Place They Tested How Much They Could Get Away With

Australian police forces have become major customers:

* NSW Police

* Victoria Police

* Australian Federal Police

* Border Force

Investigations by The Guardian Australia and Crikey show:

* Cellebrite tools were used without public oversight

* Data extraction occurred on minors

* Devices were used in immigration detention

* Police refused to disclose how often UFED was used

Australia is a democratic country — but the secrecy around Cellebrite mirrors authoritarian patterns.

The Data Question: Where Does It All Go?

Cellebrite insists it “does not store user data.” This is technically true — but misleading.

Here’s what actually happens:

* UFED extracts the data

* Cellebrite software processes and categorizes it

* The data is uploaded into police or intelligence databases

* Those databases often sync with national or international systems

Cellebrite doesn’t keep the data. But it creates the pipeline that allows governments to keep it forever.

And because UFED can pull cloud tokens, agencies can access ongoing backups — meaning extraction isn’t a one‑time event.

Is Cellebrite Collecting Everything?

Not directly. But its tools enable:

* Mass phone seizures

* Bulk data extraction

* Cross‑agency sharing

* Integration with intelligence platforms

* Long‑term retention

* AI‑driven profiling

Cellebrite is the harvester, not the warehouse.

Recommendations (from digital rights groups)

* Ban sales to regimes with documented human rights abuses

* Require public reporting of every extraction

* Mandate judicial warrants for UFED use

* Prohibit cloud token harvesting

* Audit all data pipelines created by UFED

* Restrict military collaboration

* Enforce transparency on international sales

Cellebrite operates in the shadows of global policing. It sells to democracies and dictatorships alike. It builds tools that invade into the last thing people think is still theirs — their phone. It has military DNA, intelligence ties, and a business model built on access to human lives.

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Imagine if this happened to a Jew. This clip would've circled the globe twice in minutes.

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The Lincoln was supposed to be out for seven months. It’s now past nine. Anyone who knows military life understands what that kind of extension does to morale. You can feel the strain even from the outside — exhaustion, isolation, and the sense that command has forgotten the human beings stuck out there.

That’s why the other claims — the attempted suicides — doesn't seem too farfetched. They’re not coming from official Navy channels. They’re coming from families and private chats. The details aren't confirmed but nobody is dismissing it either, because the Navy’s silence is doing the opposite of calming people down.

The knife‑fight story sounds impossible until you remember what “unlivable conditions” actually mean on a carrier that’s been out too long. Cramped berthing. Heat. Broken ventilation. Overcrowding. Stress that never lets up. No clear end date. You pack thousands of people into that and eventually something snaps.

Right now, the Navy’s refusal to speak is the biggest problem. If the deaths are real, people deserve the truth. If the story is wrong, people deserve correction. What they’re getting instead is absolute silence which gives credence that there are truth to these stories.

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Let me spell out the f*****g insanity.

Terrorist thieves have besieged multiple Palestinian homes since August 10.

They set up tents in the families’ front yards, blocked every entrance, cut water and electricity, threw stones, vandalized property, screamed obscenities all night, and prevented anyone from entering or leaving. It's a coordinated “settler” terror campaign.

Dozens of Israeli settlers surrounded a Palestinian family’s home in Qusra, south of Nablus, BLOCKING roads and CUTTING OFF electricity and water

The trapped families include an American Palestinian family.

Loai Ridi — a Palestinian American living in Ohio — confirmed his brother Qusai Abu Rida and nephew were trapped inside with barely any water left, relying on leftover well water and a solar panel because settlers cut the lines. They had two to three days of supplies left. No food. No medicine. No way out.

The two‑year‑old fell sick. Thieves blocked the ambulance.

Vomiting. High fever. A toddler. And thieving “settlers” physically blocked paramedics from reaching her. She only got out the next day after hours of terror. This is the part Western media should be screaming about — but they’re too busy whitewashing “settler” violence as “unrest.”

The entire village is under siege.

Every entrance to Qusra is blocked by the Israeli army — not to stop settlers, but to stop Palestinians from reaching the besieged families. The whole village is cut off because the thieving parasites decided they want these homes.

And here’s the f*****g kicker:

An Israeli court supposedly ordered thieves to leave the illegal outpost. So what did the terrorists do?

They came back in larger numbers.

And what did the terrorist army do?

They invaded Qusra, not the outpost.

IDF launched a massive invasion of Qusra with armoured cars and a bulldozer.

Armored vehicles. Bulldozer. Occupied a Palestinian home as a temporary base.

Not to dismantle the settler‑terror tent.

Not to protect the besieged families.

But to tighten the siege on the village.

Why? Because the parasites run the f*****g show with the full backing of the Israeli terrorist army which means the West as well.

Western media coverage? B******t.

Outside of Al Jazeera, Anadolu, Reuters, AP, and The Guardian, this story is basically invisible.

No CNN wall‑to‑wall coverage.

No BBC “special report.”

No New York Times front page.

Nothing.

A Palestinian American family is being terrorized in real time, a toddler was denied medical care, settlers cut water and electricity, and the army is helping enforce the siege — and Western outlets are acting like it’s a minor “incident.”

Andre’s X account on Twitter (@the_andrey_x) has been documenting the activists trying to break through.

He’s been posting footage of activists repeatedly trying to reach the trapped families, getting blocked by settlers and soldiers, being harassed and physical violence against them, showing the outpost expanding, showing the army’s nighttime invasion, showing the bulldozer, showing the occupation of the Palestinian home.

This is the kind of reporting Western media should be amplifying — but they won’t, because their masters are the ones doing it.

Bottom line

It’s a village under siege by thieving terrorists who want to steal land, backed by an army that pretends to “intervene” while actually reinforcing the siege.

A toddler was denied medical care.

Families are starving.

Water is cut.

Electricity is cut.

The parasites are taking the West Bank piece by piece while it obliterates Gaza.

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The UN has a long, filthy habit of burying internal investigations, shielding insiders, and promoting people who should be nowhere near positions of trust. Lichner was accused — by her own colleagues — of leaking confidential UN documents, internal strategies, and diplomatic communications to Israeli officials. According to reporting from The Intercept, staff said she openly aligned herself with Israeli government interests while holding a UN badge. Instead of getting fired and ostracized, they gave her a promotion.

Now she’s in Washington, the center of UNICEF’s relationship with the U.S. government, Congress, and the agencies that control billions in global child‑protection funding. This isn’t some local office. This is where all the lobbying happens, where narratives are shaped, where the UN bends or stands. And they put her there. Take a gander who owns the UN huh?

It’s disgusting because UNICEF works in Gaza. UNICEF counts dead children. UNICEF documents starvation, trauma, amputations, bombed schools, shattered families. And while Gaza’s children are being killed by Israeli airstrikes, UNICEF hands a top job to a zionist accused of funneling UN intel to the same government responsible for those deaths. How do they expect anyone to trust them after this?

UN staff are furious — but only off the record, because speaking publicly gets you punished. They say the appointment feels like a slap in the face, a reminder that the UN’s internal justice system is a joke. Whistleblowers get crushed. Insiders get protected. Investigations disappear. Promotions happen quietly. And the public never hears a word.

UNICEF hasn’t explained anything. No statement. No reassurance. No acknowledgment of the investigation. Just silence — another institution that is above any international scrutiny obviously.

UNICEF’s credibility depends on neutrality, on trust, on the belief that its leaders aren’t serving any government’s agenda. Putting a zionist with these allegations in charge of the Washington office tells the world exactly how little the UN thinks of its own standards.

It’s disgusting. It’s reckless. It's deplorable. It's maddening. Just more proof international law is a damn farce.

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The pact establishes a joint defence mechanism built around a simple principle: an attack on one will be treated as an attack on all. Officials from all three countries insist the agreement is defensive, not aimed at any specific rival, but the timing makes the strategic intent obvious. Iran’s missile strikes on Gulf territory, the U.S.–Israel war on Iran, and the broader collapse of regional stability have pushed Saudi Arabia to seek reliable partners. Turkey brings NATO‑level military strength. Pakistan brings nuclear deterrence and decades of operational experience. Together, they form a bloc that can no longer be ignored.

The agreement sets up a permanent secretariat in Saudi Arabia and requires regular coordination between foreign ministers, defence ministers, and military chiefs. It also expands cooperation in defence manufacturing, technology transfer, and intelligence sharing. Turkey’s rapidly growing defence industry — drones, missile systems, electronic warfare — is expected to play a central role. Pakistan’s training programs and battlefield experience will likely be integrated into joint planning. Saudi Arabia, with its financial resources and procurement networks, becomes the anchor.

The pact is deliberately flexible. It does not force automatic troop deployment, but it does create a political and military expectation that none of the three states will face a major threat alone. Assistance can range from intelligence support to logistics to full military intervention, depending on the situation. This ambiguity is intentional. It gives each government room to maneuver while still presenting a united front to potential adversaries.

The symbolism of signing the agreement in Mecca signals unity, legitimacy, and a message to the wider Muslim world that regional security can be built without relying on Western powers. Saudi Arabia has been openly frustrated with the United States since the attacks on its oil infrastructure in 2019. Turkey has been recalibrating its foreign policy after years of tension with NATO allies. Pakistan has been seeking strategic stability amid economic pressure and regional volatility. The pact gives all three a new platform.

There is already speculation about expansion. Egypt has been mentioned as a possible future member. Other states may explore cooperation if the bloc proves effective. Whether this becomes a larger “Islamic NATO” or remains a trilateral framework depends on how the next year unfolds.

For now, the Turkey–Saudi–Pakistan defence agreement marks a clear shift: three influential states have decided they will no longer face regional threats alone. It is a new security architecture built from within the region, not imposed from outside. And it will shape the next phase of West Asian and South Asian geopolitics whether other powers like it or not.

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0:00 Why Did Hunter Sit Down With Candace Owens?

12:34 The Dark Side of Social Media

18:06 War, Insider Trading, and the Washington Elites

32:36 Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene

35:21 The Importance of Self-Reflection

39:49 Addiction and Sobriety

48:31 The Unanswered Questions of the Hunter Biden Laptop Story

58:21 How Hunter Found Out About the Laptop Story

1:05:44 What Was Israel's Role in the Laptop Story?

1:12:12 Hunter Meeting His Wife and Overcoming Addiction

1:23:28 The Thing Far More Important Than Politics

1:31:51 The Dangers of AI

1:35:27 The Evils of Benjamin Netanyahu

1:36:57 How Alcohol Affects You and How to Get Sober

1:57:13 What Does Hunter's Wife Think About All This?

1:58:22 What's Hunter's Plan for the Future?

2:01:04 Hunter's Journey to Financial Freedom

2:04:34 Hunter's Relationship With God

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Anas had already been threatened. Already pressured to leave Gaza. Already told he could escape if he stopped reporting. He refused. Four days later, Israel killed him — along with Mohammed Abu Sultan, Youssef Abu Daqa, Ahmed Abu Taha, and Mahmoud al‑Qudra. Five journalists wiped out in seconds.

His last message was: Gaza is being erased, and the world is pretending not to see.

A year later, the grief is still raw.

Anas weapon was a camera. He filmed families digging their children out of rubble. He filmed neighborhoods flattened. He filmed hunger, grief, and the Gaza's pain.

Israel terrorists killed him because he showed the truth.

The killing of Gaza’s journalists is systematic.

Since October 7, Israel has killed 300+ Palestinian journalists. The killing of these brave journalists have been systematic.

This has been a deliberate campaign to blind the world of their war crimes.

Anas al‑Sharif’s death was meant to silence Gaza.

The terrorists struck a clearly marked media tent.

And the world’s response? A couple of statements and condolences that changed nothing... Just lip service. There has been no protection. No consequences. No pressure to stop the killing of the very people documenting the killing.

His last words still stand.

“Do not be silent.”

He knew silence was exactly what he’d get after being martyred.

But Gaza remembers him. His colleagues remember him. Every family he interviewed remembers him. Every child he filmed remembers him. We still remember him.

Israel terrorists are still killing journalists. The world still remains silent. Nothing has changed a year on…three years on…78 years on.

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Well, the first point I would make to you is that before the war started, General Caine was warning Trump that we had limited stocks of munitions, for purposes of waging a war against Iran.

And we certainly could not fight a protracted war. But what's happened is we're engaged in a protracted war and it's amazing the extent to which we have depleted our stockpile of sophisticated weaponry.

And these weapons are not going to be easy to replace. If you just look at Air Defence Missiles, there are two kinds. One are the THAADS and then the other are the Patriots.

We have used up 80% of our THAAD missiles and 65% of our Patriots with regard to, you know, our attack missiles, our smart missiles that you can use for offensive purposes.

We've used up 50% of the tomahawks and according to press reports, virtually all of the ATACMs and PrSMs.

So the United States has really seriously damaged its inventory of sophisticated weapons that it really needs in places like East Asia, in places like Ukraine and so forth and so on.

And I think that someone, who knows who it is, has leaked this information in large part to send out a clear message that the Iran war has to end.

And certainly we cannot escalate in that war without even doing more damage to our weapons inventory.

–Prof. John Mearsheimer

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Until America corrects its behavior, the Strait of Hormuz will not be opened.

Correcting behavior means:

1. Never threaten Iran with any language nor insult the sanctities of this nation.

2. End the war and aggression against Iran and its allies in Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, and Iraq permanently.

3. Lift the naval blockade and withdraw U.S. naval and air forces from the area surrounding Iran.

4. Pay the damages for the two aggressive wars imposed against Iran.

5. Lift the cruel and illegal sanctions against the Iranian nation.

6. Release the frozen and stolen assets of the Iranian people unconditionally.

These are the demands of the Iranian people who have been relentlessly present in the squares and streets for 160 days.

The Supreme National Security Council will never back down; whether in war or in negotiations.

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Across workplaces in Israel, Palestinian employees are being told to stop speaking Arabic — their own mother tongue — because it might make Jewish customers “uncomfortable.” Managers are demanding it out loud, as if it’s perfectly normal to demand that an entire people mute their identity so someone else doesn’t feel uneasy.

Middle East Eye documented cases where Palestinian workers were warned that Arabic could “trigger” people traumatized by October 7th. As if Palestinians — who have lived through decades of state violence, surveillance, land theft, and military rule — are somehow responsible for soothing the emotional fragility of the dominant, violent group of terrorist colonizers. As if their language is a weapon. As if their existence is a provocation.

This is a state project.

The 2018 Nation-State Law laid the groundwork by stripping Arabic of its official status and declaring that national self-determination in Israel belongs “uniquely to the Jewish people.” That law was a declaration that Palestinians inside Israel are guests in their own homeland — tolerated only when silent, invisible, and obedient.

Since the war on Gaza began, the mask has fallen completely. Lawyers say discrimination is now overt. Palestinian employees are monitored, reprimanded, and threatened for speaking Arabic even among themselves. They’re told their language is dangerous. Their identity is destabilizing. Their presence must be softened, diluted, made “palatable” for Jewish comfort.

It’s disgusting.

A country that claims to be a democracy is policing the language of the Indigenous population. A state that insists it’s “shared” is demanding that one group erase itself so the other can feel safe. This is the very definition of apartheid and ethnic cleansing.

Language is not just communication. It’s memory. It’s belonging. It’s the last piece of home Palestinians inside Israel still control. They cannot rewrite discriminatory laws. They cannot stop political crackdowns. But they can speak Arabic to each other, to their children, to their communities. And now even that is being targeted.

Suppressing a language is never about words. It’s about power. It’s about who gets to feel at home. It’s about who is allowed to exist without apology.

The cases documented by MEE are not isolated. They are part of a long pattern: Arabic downgraded in law. Palestinian political expression punished. Cultural symbols treated as threats. Now workplaces policing casual conversations.

The message the colonizing terrorists are conveying: Palestinian identity must be quiet, it needs to be completely erased. All for Jewish comfort.

Israel has spent years building the legal and social machinery to make Palestinian erasure feel normal. When a government signals that one group’s identity is secondary, society follows. And when society follows, discrimination becomes casual. Violence is expected as well.

Palestinians inside Israel are being told to silence themselves in the land they were born into.

Let that absurdity sink in.

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The stockpile issue has been building for years. Precision weapons are expensive, slow to manufacture, and rely on supply chains that have been strained since the pandemic. The war in Ukraine drained inventories faster than production could keep up. Now the confrontation with Iran and its network of allied militias is stretching those inventories even further.

While Washington tries to rebuild its stockpiles, Iran‑aligned forces are expanding the conflict. In Yemen, Ansarallah (Houthi) fighters launched a major attack on Saudi‑backed government troops, killing at least 45 soldiers and wounding at least 50 more. It was one of the largest escalations in Yemen in years. Ansarallah have grown more confident and more capable, and they’re clearly willing to push harder while the U.S. is distracted and stretched thin.

Across the region, Iran’s partners are moving in sync. Groups in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen are testing U.S. positions, striking at bases, targeting allies, and opening new fronts. Every attack forces Washington to respond, and every response burns through more of the missiles the U.S. is already short on. Iran understands the pressure points and is exploiting them.

The economic fallout is already visible. Gas prices remain under pressure because instability in the Gulf always hits energy markets. Shipping disruptions in the Red Sea add to global inflation. Investors see a conflict spreading across multiple countries with no clear containment and adjust their expectations accordingly. A widening war becomes a global economic risk, not just a regional one.

The strategic picture is bleak. The U.S. is trying to rebuild missile stockpiles while fighting a conflict that keeps expanding. Iran‑aligned forces are opening new fronts faster than Washington can find an offramp for. Allies are exposed. Bases are vulnerable. Markets are nervous. This is only what winning looks like from Trump's pov.

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Icelander: “F**k Israel. Do you want me to tell the world?”

Icelander: “How many times do you want me to say it? F**k Israel, f**k Israel, f**k Israel…I will say f**k Israel all day, it is my country…why don’t you leave?

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Across Europe and Africa, state cyber agencies have been documenting a sinister trend: Israeli-linked private intelligence firms running covert online operations against politicians who criticize Israel’s conduct in Gaza. France’s national disinformation watchdog, Viginum, publicly identified one such firm — BlackCore — as the architect of coordinated smear campaigns, bot networks, and fake-account swarms designed to manipulate political discourse in multiple countries.

They traced hundreds of fake accounts, thousands of coordinated comments, and targeted disinformation aimed at politicians who condemned Israel’s actions. France saw it during its municipal elections. Scotland saw it during the Holyrood race. Angola and Togo saw it too. The same Israeli-linked operation was active during the 2025 New York municipal election — the one Mamdani won.

France listed New York by name.

The pattern is disgustingly the same…same page out of the old playbook. When a politician speaks out about Gaza, Israeli-aligned influence networks mobilize. They don’t debate — they converge and attack. They distort facts. They flood comment sections, plant narratives, and manufacture the illusion of public outrage. It’s not organic. It’s a foreign digital operation built to punish dissent.

And Mamdani is the very definition of it.

He’s a mayor who openly challenged Israel’s conduct. He’s a mayor who pushed legislation to restrict police use of fake online accounts — the same kind of infrastructure foreign interference firms rely on. He’s a mayor who threatens both the domestic surveillance ecosystem and the foreign influence ecosystem. That makes him a double target.

New York’s policing apparatus complicates the picture even further. The NYPD has admitted to using “internet attribution management” systems — essentially high-grade sock-puppet tools — to run covert online investigations. Mamdani tried to outlaw that practice as a state assembly member. Now he’s mayor, and he has the authority to scrutinize or dismantle those systems. That puts him directly in the path of institutions that prefer operating in the dark.

So when Israeli-linked bot farms, intelligence contractors, and cyber-surveillance firms show up around Mamdani’s name, it’s not paranoia. It’s the same machinery that European governments have already documented — now appearing in an American election.

It comes down to this: criticize Israel’s war on Gaza, and you become a target of its digital interference machine. Mamdani didn’t just inherit a city. He inherited a fight with a foreign influence ecosystem that has already been caught manipulating elections across continents…for decades.

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The allegations come from his former partner, Stephanie Grisham, who has publicly accused Miller of physical assault. Grisham alleges that during an argument, Miller pinned her against a wall, grabbed her by the shoulders, shoved her, and slapped her across the face. She has described the incident as terrifying and says she left because she feared the violence would escalate. These details have been repeated in interviews and in her memoir, where she characterizes Miller’s behavior as volatile and physically aggressive.

According to reporting from outlets such as The Washington Post and The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Grisham’s account includes specific claims of physical intimidation, rage, and assault. No police report was filed at the time, and Miller has not been criminally charged. He denies all allegations, calling them false, defamatory, and politically motivated.

Despite the seriousness of the accusations — which involve claims of physical assault and domestic violence — Miller used today’s livestream to declare he will remain in the race and “fight through the lies.”

In any other time in history, allegations like this would have ended a political career. But here we are.

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Israel’s 1950s covert poisoning operation targeting Palestinian and Lebanese communities. Israeli agents placed contaminated bread in villages to trigger illness and displacement. It was part of a larger strategy to destabilize and terrorize populations seen as obstacles to Zionist expansion.

2. Deir Yassin Massacre

In April 1948, Zionist militias stormed the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin and killed more than 100 civilians — men, women, children, elderly. Survivors described executions, mutilations, and bodies dumped in pits. The massacre triggered mass panic and flight across Palestine.

3. Lydda Death March

Also in 1948, Israeli forces expelled tens of thousands of Palestinians from Lydda and Ramle in extreme heat. People walked for miles without water, food, or rest. Hundreds died along the way — dehydration, shootings, exhaustion. It was ethnic cleansing carried out in broad daylight.

4. Kafr Qasim Massacre

In 1956, Israeli border police shot and killed 49 Palestinian civilians returning home from work — unaware a curfew had been imposed. The victims included children and elders. Soldiers were lightly punished, and the state treated the massacre as an administrative mistake rather than a crime.

5. Sabra and Shatila Massacre

In 1982, Israel surrounded the Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut and allowed allied militias to enter. Over two days, they slaughtered thousands of civilians. Israel’s military watched, lit the night sky with flares, and facilitated the killers’ movement. No one was held accountable.

6. Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre

In 1994, an American‑Israeli settler walked into the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron during dawn prayers and opened fire, killing 29 worshippers and injuring more than 100. Israeli forces then killed additional Palestinians during protests. The mosque was later divided, punishing the victims instead of the perpetrator.

7. Killing of Iman al‑Hams

In 2004, Israeli soldiers shot a 13‑year‑old girl in Rafah, claiming she was “suspicious.” After she fell, an officer approached and fired multiple rounds into her body to “confirm the kill.” The military cleared him. Her schoolbooks were still in her backpack.

8. Operation Cast Lead / White Phosphorus

In 2008–2009, Israel bombarded Gaza, killing more than 1,300 Palestinians, including hundreds of children. White phosphorus — a chemical that burns flesh to the bone — was dropped on schools, homes, and UN shelters. Entire neighborhoods were flattened.

9. Great March of Return

From 2018 onward, Palestinians in Gaza marched near the fence demanding their right to return to their lands. Israeli snipers shot them systematically — journalists, medics, disabled people, teenagers. More than 200 were killed, thousands maimed. Many lost limbs from sniper fire designed to shatter bone.

10. Killing of Hind Rajab

In 2024, six‑year‑old Hind Rajab was trapped in a car surrounded by Israeli fire. She called emergency responders begging for help. When medics tried to reach her, Israel shelled the ambulance. Hind’s body was found days later. Her voice recordings became one of the genocide’s most haunting testaments.

“Israel” has no right to exist

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The Gaza genocide rewired the political landscape in the U.S., especially in Michigan. People weren’t just horrified — they were done being dragged into Israel’s war with their tax dollars and their silence. The “uncommitted” vote in 2024 was the middle finger to the Biden administration’s defense of Israel’s assault, and it showed voters were ready to punish anyone who kept enabling it.

AIPAC saw the danger immediately. They dumped money into Michigan like their very existence depended on Stevens winning. Nearly $60 million spent to stop Abdul El‑Sayed — the largest amount they’ve ever thrown at a single race. And that’s only the spending you can see. The dark money channels, the corporate PAC pipelines, the donor networks that don’t disclose anything — none of that is counted.

Meanwhile, AIPAC has poured $36 million into backing Rep. Haley Stevens, building her up as their reliable vote. Her public record makes it obvious why: she has repeatedly declared her unwavering support for Israel, voting in line with every major pro-Israel resolution and publicly stating that “Israel’s security is non-negotiable.” She’s the kind of Democrat AIPAC wants — predictable, loyal, and willing to toe the line no matter what Israel does…slaughtering babies notwithstanding.

But Michigan isn’t putting up with that sadistic s**t. The Gaza war broke the old political machinery. People watched the bombings, the starvation, the justifications, and they snapped. They don’t want their tax dollars funding a foreign government’s war crimes. They don’t want their politicians bought by a lobby that treats American democracy like a it's their little play thing.

Polls now show El‑Sayed leading Stevens by 8 to 14 points, depending on the survey. The gap keeps widening. Arab‑American communities, Black voters, young voters, and the “uncommitted” bloc have coalesced around him in a way that looks less like a campaign and more like a political shift.

This is a referendum on the old order. Michigan is showing what happens when voters stop being afraid of the lobby that has dominated American politics for decades. AIPAC can burn through millions, but they can’t buy back the public’s trust. America is sick of Israel’s chokehold on U.S. politics, sick of watching billions flow to a foreign military while people at home can’t afford rent, healthcare, or basic dignity. They are disgusted with all these Israel shills voting to use their money to bomb and kill countless innocent lives halfway across the world.

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The Pentagon is, by its own reporting, the world’s biggest institutional consumer of oil and the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Independent audits from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and CEOBS (Conflict and Environment Observatory) back this up, showing that U.S. military emissions exceed those of many entire nations.

Martin’s film also digs into how U.S. bases function as pollution zones. Reports from Japan’s Ministry of the Environment, Okinawa Prefectural Government, and Al Jazeera’s investigative desk have documented PFAS contamination, jet fuel leaks, and toxic waste dumping around U.S. installations in Okinawa, Guam, and the Philippines. Local governments have repeatedly demanded remediation; the U.S. military has repeatedly refused.

U.S. wars devastate ecosystems far beyond the battlefield. This is confirmed by UNEP’s Post‑Conflict Environmental Assessments, which show that U.S. operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria left behind depleted uranium contamination, destroyed agricultural systems, and long‑term soil toxicity. Iraqi medical researchers (published through Middle East Research and Information Project) have spent years documenting cancer clusters near DU‑impacted zones — evidence the Pentagon still denies.

Another point she raises: the U.S. military’s role in enforcing global extractive capitalism. This is documented in Chatham House, Global South think tanks, and African Centre for Strategic Studies reports. AFRICOM’s expansion tracks directly with resource corridors — cobalt, oil, rare earths — and local communities consistently report displacement, surveillance, and militarized pressure around mining zones.

This is a planetary threat, not just a political one. The Pentagon’s carbon footprint, its global base network, its resource consumption, and its war‑driven ecological destruction form a system that no other military — or corporation — comes close to matching. The U.S. military “Earth’s Greatest Enemy,” is a measurable reality: a single institution with planetary‑scale destructive capacity, operating with no democratic oversight and no environmental accountability.

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UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese said the threats were political intimidation meant to scare the ICC off its own work.

Karim Khan was removed by the ICC’s Assembly of States Parties. A UN oversight panel reviewed the misconduct allegations and said the evidence didn’t justify firing him. Member states fired him anyway. His responsibilities, including the Israel/Palestine situation file, were handed to his deputies.

This fits a long pattern. The US has spent years attacking the ICC whenever investigations get close to Israel or American actions. Sanctions. Public warnings. Laws built to block cooperation. Same playbook every time: protect Israel, punish anyone who tries to enforce accountability.

And while this is happening, activists in the UK are being hit with terror‑related charges, Palestine Action is being targeted, and governments are sliding into open authoritarianism. It’s all part of the same message: Israel is off‑limits, and anyone who tries to make it otherwise gets pressure, punishment, or removal.

“Don’t Touch Israel” isn’t a slogan. It’s a threat. And the ICC’s reaction — whatever internal reasoning they claim — shows how international law is a farce.

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Lowkey doesn’t just call out the US. He calls out people like Andy “Bomber” Burnham who let it happen. Burnham let Trump use British bases to blitz Iran. No hesitation. No moral backbone. Just the same old British routine: “Yes, America, whatever you need.”

Britain’s political class in action. Soft at home, servile abroad.

Britain’s role: the forever accomplice

This is what Britain does. Iraq. Afghanistan. Libya. Yemen. Iran. The US wants a war, Britain’s there with the logistics and the excuses. Every single time. And then they act surprised when people point it out.

BP: the never-ending Middle East extraction scheme

It’s not just about military bases. It’s about the fact that BP is still sitting in the Middle East like it owns the whole region. The US drops bombs, Britain hands over the fuel stations, and the cycle goes on and on.

The US is the biggest threat. Britain keeps making it easy. That’s the truth. And it doesn’t need a neat conclusion. It just needs to be said.

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Starbucks introduced this powder in mid‑July 2026 for their newer frozen drinks — the ones they market as smooth, creamy, consistent. The powder is basically a chemistry set: gum arabic, maltodextrin, xanthan gum, “natural flavor,” stevia extract, and silica. They’re using it because it forces the drink to hold its texture longer. It keeps the drink from separating. It makes the product look prettier. It's also poisoning the makers and drinkers

But the people actually handling it — the baristas scooping it all day — are saying it hurts their throats, makes them cough, irritates their chests, and gives them headaches. Videos from workers show the powder going airborne the second the scoop hits it. You can see it hanging in the air. You can see the baristas waving it away.

The silica is the biggest red flag. Silicon dioxide. Anti‑caking agent. Cheap, common, and controversial. Inhaling fine silica dust is not normal — it’s tied to serious lung conditions, including silicosis. Workers in construction and mining wear protective gear around this stuff. Starbucks baristas get an apron and a drive‑thru window. And now Starbucks are having you consume it.

Starbucks Workers United and individual baristas have been sounding the alarm since the powder dropped. They’re reporting sore throats, coughing fits, chest irritation, and powder clouds floating around the prep stations. And remember: these are the people who have to breathe it in every shift. Customers only get the final product — the drink with the powder blended in — but that doesn’t make the ingredient list any less absurd.

We’re at a point where a multinational corporation is literally aerosolizing silica in front of minimum‑wage workers to make frappes look smoother. And then selling those drinks to millions of people who have no idea what’s in them.

If you needed another reason to boycott Starbucks, you’ve got one. And this time, it’s not just political — it’s detrimental to your health.

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Palantir went looking for political access, not technical credibility. They found Global Counsel — Mandelson’s outfit, Wegg‑Prosser — and paid them £30,000 a month. That kind of money isn’t for advice. It’s for introductions and shortcuts. They hid the contract behind a code name, Project Onion, because even inside the firm they didn’t want staff asking why this particular client needed to be handled quietly. You don’t bother with code names unless you’re already worried about how something will look when someone eventually stumbles across it.

Then the Epstein emails surfaced. Suddenly Epstein’s private secretary is putting together glossy presentations for Global Counsel. You’ve got Mandelson talking to Epstein about the firm’s founding. You’ve got a lobbying shop that later collapses into administration, but not before it helps Palantir build a pipeline straight into the British government.

The UK’s lobbying laws make all of this easier than it should be. You only have to declare lobbying if you directly contact a minister with a specific request. Everything else — events, panels, “conversations,” introductions — doesn’t count. So a lobbying firm can host an event about AI in healthcare, seat a minister next to Palantir executives, let everyone chat, let everyone exchange contact details, and none of it is considered lobbying. Once Palantir has the minister’s number, they can call them directly. That still doesn’t count. It’s a loophole that Palantir uses to its full advantage.

They didn’t stop there. They hired people straight out of the NHS. You had people who actually understood the internal politics — the ones who knew which trusts were falling apart, who could tell you which civil servants hesitated, which ones were climbing, and which ones folded the second someone important looked their way. People who wrote policy one year and were selling software the next. It’s not illegal, but it’s the kind of thing that makes you wonder why anyone bothers pretending the system has integrity. When public knowledge becomes private leverage, you don’t need good technology. You just need the right phone numbers.

The tender for the Federated Data Platform — the £330 million NHS contract — is where alarm bells should get going off for everyone. The Financial Times found that the tender documents mirrored Palantir’s own language. It’s the kind of thing that happens when a company whispers in the right ears long enough that the people writing the tender start using the company’s own language without even realising they’ve been coached.

One person interviewed said: you don’t rig the tender; you influence how the tender is written. Once the tender is written a certain way, the winner is basically predetermined. That’s how Palantir got the contract. Not because they were the best option. Because they were already inside the room when the criteria were being shaped.

And then there’s the platform itself. The FDP was supposed to be the big fix, the thing that finally drags NHS data into the present. Instead, whistleblowers described a system so slow they had time to boil water and make tea while waiting for basic tasks. Analysts posted tumbleweed GIFs because Palantir didn’t respond to technical issues for a week. Some trusts never logged in for a year. The ones with real data teams already had better systems they built themselves. One analyst said the platform “looks absolutely rubbish,” and that wasn’t an exaggeration.

The money behind the contract is just as bleak. The £330 million headline number isn’t even real. It’s higher. Chelsea and Westminster — one of the “flagship” FDP trusts — got £3 million just to help with adaptation. KPMG got £8.5 million to push adoption across the NHS because uptake was so bad. Other trusts got money to try to make the system usable. This isn’t a rollout. It’s a very expensive patch job.

Thiel talks about democracy like it’s beneath him. Karp shouts about Israel like he’s their mascot. They brag about working with ICE. They brag about helping the Israeli terrorist military. They brag about being involved in the killing of Osama bin Laden — something people inside the defense world have dismissed for years. It’s all part of the act. If you act dangerous enough, people assume you’re competent. If you act indispensable, people stop checking whether you actually are. And when ministers don’t understand the technology, they lean on the myth instead of the reality.

Palantir isn’t a genius company. It’s not an all‑seeing machine. It’s not the terrifying intelligence system it pretends to be. It’s a company that figured out how to get close to power, and once it’s close, it stays. Not because it’s brilliant. Because nobody wants to admit they let it in without asking the right questions. The NHS didn’t choose Palantir because the software was good. It chose Palantir because the company was already inside the room, and the people inside the room were paid not to push back.

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1. The U.S. Assumed Iran Had No Succession Plan. Iran Had Code 110.

Araghchi’s revelation that Iran had a written, approved, and rehearsed plan for the assassination of the Leader is one of the most important details in the entire interview. The U.S. believed killing the Leader would create a vacuum. Iran treated it as a scenario to be executed. Code 110 wasn’t symbolic. It was operational. When the strike happened, Iran didn’t improvise. It implemented a plan.

This alone shows a level of institutional maturity Washington did not expect. The U.S. assumed Iran’s political system was built around one man. Iran demonstrated that its system was built around continuity.

2. The Decapitation Strike Failed Because Iran’s Institutions Reassembled in Six Days.

Araghchi describes being inside the building when it was hit. The building collapsed. He escaped through the wreckage. For three days he had no contact with anyone. Six days later, the first meeting reconvened. Some of the men in that room were later martyred.

It is evidence that Iran’s political system can reconstitute itself under catastrophic conditions. The U.S. expected paralysis. Iran delivered functionality.

3. Iran’s Officials Stayed Above Ground — Not in Tunnels — and Continued Working.

This detail matters because it contradicts the American assumption that Iranian leadership would hide. Araghchi says officials stayed above ground, kept their routines, and refused to disappear. He told his protection detail there was no point in them being there — a missile strike would kill them all. They stayed anyway.

Iran’s political class chose visibility over survival. That is not the behavior of a state collapsing. It is the behavior of a state asserting legitimacy under fire.

4. Iran’s Diplomatic Corps Did Not Break — Not One Official Abandoned Their Post.

Araghchi says every Iranian official abroad stayed at their post. No one fled. No one asked to be evacuated. No one disappeared. This matters because the U.S. expected diplomatic collapse. Instead, Iran’s embassies became active centers of messaging, pushing out animated videos that reached millions and outperformed American propaganda.

5. Iran Warned Gulf States Directly — and Forced Them to Choose.

Before the war, Araghchi called Gulf foreign ministers and told them clearly:

* If your territory is used to attack Iran, Iran will strike American bases on your soil.

* If you refuse to let your bases be used, Iran will not target you.

This is direct statecraft. It forced regional governments to make a choice: allow the U.S. to use their territory and face Iranian retaliation, or refuse and stay out of the conflict. The fact that several governments gave assurances they would not allow attacks from their soil shows Iran’s deterrence worked.

6. The Partition Plan Collapsed Because Iran Moved Immediately.

On day four, calls went out to figures in Iraqi Kurdistan. Weapons had already been moved. The U.S. and Israel were preparing a partition scenario. Araghchi called regional governments the same day and warned that any threat from Kurdistan would be answered. They backed off.

He also names the exiled Pahlavi figure who allegedly struck a deal in Israel: “you take the edges, I take Tehran.” It fits decades of external fantasies about dividing Iran. The plan failed because Iran responded instantly and decisively.

7. The U.S. Misread Iran’s Psychological Threshold.

Araghchi says some strikes had no military purpose. They were designed to terrify civilians, empty hearts, and create despair. The U.S. expected psychological collapse. Iran did not collapse. The hardest days were the first ones, when reports were only about casualties and destruction, while Trump demanded unconditional surrender.

For forty days, the U.S. watched for the moment Iran would break. It never came.

8. Iran’s Nuclear Program Was Never Negotiable — and the U.S. Misunderstood That Entirely.

Araghchi says the U.S. came with incentives: build this, invest in that. He rejected all of it. He said enrichment is not for sale. Iranians endured twenty years of sanctions for it. Scientists were martyred. Blood was spilled. The program is not a bargaining chip.

The U.S. treated it like something Iran might trade away for economic relief. Iran treated it like a national achievement built through sacrifice. This misreading is one of the core reasons American diplomacy keeps failing.

9. The Selection of Mojtaba Khamenei Proved Iran’s Strategic Continuity.

Araghchi says the Assembly of Experts choosing Mojtaba Khamenei sent a message the enemy could not miss: nothing had changed. Policies, principles, and ideals were intact. The U.S. killed a Khamenei and got a younger one.

This is not rhetoric. It is a demonstration that Iran’s political system is not dependent on one personality. Succession was smooth, fast, and aligned with the system’s ideological continuity.

10. Iran Accepted the Ceasefire Because Its Hand Was Stronger — Not Because It Was Weak.

Araghchi rejects the idea that Iran accepted the ceasefire because it could no longer fight. He says Iran had already secured its strategic objectives. Another fifteen days of war would have produced more damage than leverage. The military agreed to the ceasefire. Without their vote, it would not have been accepted.

This is critical: Iran did not stop because it was forced to. Iran stopped because it had achieved what it needed.

11. The U.S. Entered the War Expecting Surrender — and Ended Up Accepting Iran’s Framework.

The first American proposal was a fifteen‑point surrender plan. Iran rejected it and submitted its own ten‑point framework. Iran said: if you accept our ten points as the basis for negotiations, we will accept the ceasefire.

The U.S. accepted.

Iran’s framework became the foundation of the talks that produced the fourteen‑point MoU. This is the clearest indicator of who held leverage at the end of the war.

What the Interview Actually Proves

When you assemble all the details Araghchi gives, the picture is clear:

* Iran had contingency plans for the loss of its Leader.

* Iran’s institutions reassembled themselves in six days.

* Iran’s officials stayed above ground.

* Iran’s diplomats stayed at their posts.

* Iran deterred regional governments.

* Iran shut down a partition attempt.

* Iran’s public did not break under psychological warfare.

* Iran refused bribery and threats.

* Iran maintained ideological continuity.

* Iran accepted a ceasefire from a position of strength.

* Iran forced the U.S. to negotiate on Iranian terms.

This is not a story of survival.

It is a story of strategic competence and American miscalculation.

The U.S. expected Iran to collapse.

Iran demonstrated that the tools Washington relies on — fear, pressure, incentives, and foreign‑drawn maps — no longer work.

Araghchi’s interview shows a country that was marked for decapitation and partition, subjected to psychological and physical assault, and still forced the United States to climb down from its own demands and negotiate on Iranian terms. Iran did not just endure the war. It demonstrated that the U.S. strategy was built on assumptions that no longer apply.

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With Iran’s internet shut down and travel into the country nearly impossible, Sky News’ Data and Forensics team turned to whatever evidence could be gathered remotely: satellite archives, CCTV, witness videos, old maps, school records, anything that could be verified. They worked with Forensic Architecture to rebuild the school in 3D and reconstruct the attack second by second.

What they found wasn’t a mystery. It was a failure that had been built into the system long before the missiles were launched.

The Pentagon had satellite imagery of the site going back to 1987. They had decades of overhead surveillance showing exactly what the compound was. They had images from December 2025 where you can literally see children’s shadows in the playground. The school had been walled off from the adjacent IRGC naval base since at least 2015, with its own perimeter, its own website, its own public footprint. Any analyst with basic tools could have confirmed it was a civilian school in minutes.

But on February 28, three Tomahawk missiles were fired from the USS Spruance, roughly 716 kilometers away in the Arabian Sea. CCTV shows the compound being hit nine times at 11:22 a.m. The school itself was struck about ten seconds after the first impact. Witnesses say the second missile landed exactly where a teacher had moved surviving students for shelter, killing nearly everyone who had taken cover there. A third strike followed on the same spot. The crater matches a Tomahawk. The pattern of impacts matches a Tomahawk. The launch platform matches a Tomahawk. There is no serious doubt left about what was used or who fired it.

The question isn’t whether the U.S. did it. The question is how it was allowed to happen when every safeguard on paper existed to stop exactly this.

Months before the war, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gutted the offices meant to prevent civilian deaths. The Civilian Protection Center of Excellence had its workforce cut by around ninety percent. CENTCOM’s civilian casualty assessment team was slashed from ten people to one. A Pentagon Inspector General report in May described the civilian protection structure as a shell — no budget, no mandate, no real mission. A functioning warning system was defunded on purpose, then later blamed for not warning anyone.

Four months on, CENTCOM’s commander has told reporters the investigation into the Minab strike is nearly complete, yet nothing has been released. No findings, no accountability, no names of those who signed off on the target. Asked in June whether anyone would face consequences, Trump called it a strange question and said war is nasty and mistakes are made. But the “mistake” started when they chose not to fund the office that exists to catch mistakes like this one.

A military that surveilled a schoolyard for forty years didn’t suddenly fail to see the children. It decided in advance that seeing them wouldn’t change the targeting. Nobody in this chain lacked information. They had the satellite history, the courtyard shadows, the separation wall, the school’s online presence, the open‑source proof that this was a girls’ primary school. They had all of it.

And they fired anyway.

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When Alex Wagner pressed him with, “So no funding to ensure the survival or future of a Jewish state?”

El‑Sayed pushed the premise right back, answering, “I turn it back around on you, Alex: Why is it our responsibility to ensure that?”

And people in Michigan feel that question in their bones, because they’re living in a state where basic needs aren’t met, public systems are collapsing, families are barely staying afloat, and Washington keeps shoveling billions overseas like it’s automatic.

The U.S. Isn’t Funding “A Few Allies.” The U.S. Is Funding a Whole Damn Global Network.

Here’s a non‑exhaustive list of countries receiving U.S. foreign aid, military financing, weapons packages, and “security cooperation”:

* Israel – $3.8B

* Jordan – $1.45–$1.65B

* Egypt – $1.3B

* Ukraine – tens of billions

* Iraq – hundreds of millions

* Afghanistan – billions over 20 years

* Pakistan – hundreds of millions

* Lebanon – hundreds of millions

* Tunisia – hundreds of millions

* Morocco – hundreds of millions

* Kenya – over $1B

* Ethiopia – over $1B

* Nigeria – hundreds of millions

* Somalia – hundreds of millions

* South Sudan – hundreds of millions

* Yemen – hundreds of millions

* Bangladesh – hundreds of millions

* Nepal – hundreds of millions

* Philippines – hundreds of millions

* Colombia – hundreds of millions

* Haiti – hundreds of millions

* Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador – hundreds of millions combined

Gulf States — the part nobody talks about

These aren’t “aid” in the traditional sense — they’re massive U.S. military support pipelines, weapons deals, training programs, and security guarantees worth billions:

* Saudi Arabia

* UAE

* Qatar

* Bahrain

* Kuwait

These governments aren’t broke. They’re loaded. They buy U.S. weapons like candy. They get U.S. military protection. They get U.S. training. They get U.S. intelligence support. Meanwhile Americans can’t afford rent.

Jordan: a billion‑dollar “ally” with a monarchy sitting on luxury property

Jordan receives $1.45–$1.65 billion every single year under the current U.S. aid agreement. In FY2024, the actual number was even higher — about $1.82 billion once all programs were counted.

A massive chunk of that isn’t humanitarian. It’s direct cash transfers to the Jordanian government and military financing that U.S. taxpayers cover entirely. One recent year included an $845 million cash transfer straight to the Jordanian state budget and $425 million in U.S.-funded weapons and equipment.

Jordan’s population is around 11–12 million, which makes it one of the top per‑capita recipients of American taxpayer money on Earth.

Meanwhile:

* The Pandora Papers documented over $100 million in luxury real‑estate purchases linked to King Abdullah — Malibu, London, Washington D.C., all held through offshore companies.

* These properties were hidden behind shell companies while the monarchy publicly claimed financial strain and relied on U.S. aid to “maintain stability.”

So Americans are told Jordan needs billions to “stay stable,” while the king is buying beachfront mansions through shell companies.

How the f**k does that make sense?

Meanwhile, the U.S. Is Falling Apart

Homelessness

* 600,000+ people homeless

* Tent cities everywhere

* Families living in cars

* Veterans sleeping under bridges

* Kids doing homework in shelters

Child Poverty

* Child poverty doubled after Congress let the expanded Child Tax Credit expire

* Millions of kids lost food, housing, medical care

* The U.S. has one of the highest child poverty rates in the developed world

Food Insecurity

* 44 million people food insecure

* Food banks overwhelmed

* Working families skipping meals

* Kids relying on school lunches as their only real food

Paycheck‑to‑Paycheck

* 63% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck

* One missed shift = disaster

* One car repair = crisis

* One rent increase = eviction

Health Care Bankruptcy

* The U.S. has the most expensive health care system on Earth

* Medical debt = #1 cause of bankruptcy

* Over 100 million Americans carry medical debt

* People ration insulin

* People die because they can’t afford treatment

* One emergency room visit can wipe out a family

* Ambulance rides cost $1,000+

* People avoid hospitals because they can’t afford to survive them

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Child Hunger

* Millions of kids rely on school meals

* Summer = hunger spike

* Congress refuses to fund universal school meals

* Meanwhile billions go overseas

Higher Education

* College costs are obscene

* Students drown in debt

* Kids join the military just to afford college

* Recruiters target poor communities

* The U.S. treats education like a luxury

No Social Safety Net

* No universal health care

* No universal childcare

* No universal paid leave

* No universal housing support

* No universal school meals

* No universal higher education

* No universal elder care

* No universal disability support

The U.S. basically tells its citizens: good luck, you’re on your own. But somehow there’s always money for foreign governments.

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And Then There’s the Pentagon — the Biggest Money Vacuum on Earth

The U.S. military budget is over $1 trillion when you include:

* DoD base budget

* Overseas operations

* Nuclear weapons

* Intelligence agencies

* Veterans Affairs

* Homeland Security

* Interest on past wars

The Pentagon fails audits, loses money, misplaces money, and still gets more money every year.

The U.S. spends more on its military than China + Russia + India + UK + Germany + France + Japan combined.

And what do Americans get?

* No health care

* No housing

* No safety net

* No affordable education

* No functioning infrastructure

But plenty of bombs. Plenty of weapons. Plenty of foreign governments armed to the teeth. Plenty of dead brown babies in countries Americans couldn’t find on a map.

Michigan’s Senate Race Is Sitting Right on Top of This Rage

Michigan has lived through factory closures, poisoned water, rising costs, stagnant wages, broken schools, failing hospitals, and political abandonment. So when voters hear that Congress is sending billions to foreign governments — some corrupt, some wealthy, some sitting on luxury real estate — they react exactly how anyone would:

How the f**k does this make sense?

The Real Question El‑Sayed Raised

Not “Should Israel get funding?”

Not “Should Jordan get funding?”

Not “Should Egypt get funding?”

The question is: why is this automatically our job?

Why is the U.S. government more committed to foreign governments than to Detroit? Why does Congress move faster to fund the Jordanian monarchy than to fix school lunches? Why is foreign aid treated as mandatory while domestic poverty is treated as normal? Why does the Pentagon get a trillion dollars while Americans drown?

Again, I ask…how the f**k does this make any sense?

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Araghchi says the first miscalculation was the American belief that Iran could be forced into concessions through pressure and negotiation. When that failed, they launched the 12‑day war. Iran won that fight, and instead of collapsing, it used the aftermath to rebuild at speed. In the six months between the 12‑day war and the 40‑day war, Iran tripled its missile power. U.S. think tanks claimed Iran was losing launchers daily, but they didn’t know Iran had redesigned its system so anything destroyed could be replaced immediately. Washington thought Iran was weakening. Iran was rearming.

He says Iran saw the second war coming long before it started. The U.S. buildup in the region made the plan obvious, and the request for new talks was just cover for an attack already scheduled. Iran went to the talks anyway — not to beg, but to buy time. Araghchi told the armed forces not to wait on him and not to wait on the government: fill every warehouse, build every stockpile, prepare for war. When the 40‑day war started, Iran was fully ready.

Inside the talks, Araghchi says Iran held its ground. The U.S. demanded surrender of enrichment, then demanded Iran hand over its nuclear material, then shifted to demanding suspension. Iran refused. Iran told them plainly: you hit our buildings, but you didn’t hit our knowledge, our technology, or our material. The program wasn’t in the buildings. Three rounds were held before the suspension demand collapsed the process.

Araghchi says Iran followed the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s standard: you only fight when the cost of not fighting becomes greater than the cost of war. Iran applied that principle in both wars. Surrendering at the table would have cost more than resisting.

He says Netanyahu convinced Trump that Iran was weak enough to finish in two days. Trump bought it — until the war dragged on and Iran didn’t break. The U.S. started the conflict demanding unconditional surrender. Iran ended it with a memorandum in which the United States committed not to start a war against Iran, not to threaten Iran, to respect Iran’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to stay out of its internal affairs.

The U.S. bet everything on Iran being weak. Iran proved it wasn’t — twice.

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The West has always decided who counts as a threat. They’ve always decided which movements get to exist and which ones get hunted. “Intelligence sharing.” “Financial disruption.” “Coordinated law enforcement.” It’s the same bs they used during apartheid, just with better branding and fewer people willing to calling it out.

Rubio’s “financial disruption” is something glossed over. It’s not about stopping bombs or preventing attacks. It’s about starving movements. Freeze accounts. Flag donors. Block transfers. Pressure banks. Turn political organizing into a financial block. Suddenly a movement can’t pay rent, can’t print materials, can’t support families, can’t breathe. That’s the goal. You don’t have to arrest people if you can make their entire infrastructure collapse.

And the “intelligence sharing”? Spare me. Western governments have been passing names, files, and surveillance data to their favorite regimes for decades. They did it to anti‑colonial movements. They did it to Black liberation groups. They did it to Palestinian organizers. They did it to anti‑apartheid activists. They’ve always had a list of people they want monitored, and they’ve always had a network ready to do it.

Rubio’s summit is just the modern version of that same script. Same purpose. Same targets. Same arrogance. They want a world where any government aligned with Western interests can pull up a shared database and get a file on whoever they’ve decided is a threat this week. They want a world where banks automatically flag political movements the West doesn’t like. They want a world where “extremism” is whatever they say it is. Where “terrorists” are designated at their whim.

Rubio stood in front of sixty governments and basically said: let’s build a global cage. Let’s merge surveillance powers. Let’s merge police powers. Let’s merge financial controls. Let’s make sure no one can organize without us knowing. Let’s make sure no one can resist without being labeled a threat. Let’s make sure no one can challenge Western military or financial interests without paying for it.

The same governments that hunted Mandela now want to run a worldwide “extremism” registry. The same governments that shared intelligence with apartheid death squads now want to decide which movements are legitimate. The same governments that helped track and kill political activists now claim they’re defending democracy.

Rubio just announced a plan that will come for each and every single one of us. The one that’s been used to crush liberation movements, exile leaders, and hand activists over to regimes that kill them. They’re trying to make sure they can control anyone who pushes back against their power. They're trying to kill dissent.

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From that moment forward, Muslims became the designated enemy. Entire populations were framed as threats. Islam was turned into a radical religion. The U.S. government used the trauma of 9/11 to justify torture, surveillance, drone warfare, and the destruction of entire countries. Israel used it to deepen its occupation, expand its settlements, and align its propaganda with the global “war on terror.” Palestinians were lumped into the same category as Al‑Qaeda, even though they had nothing to do with 9/11. The attack became a political weapon, not a tragedy. It became a tool for colonial expansion.

The political consequences of that silence spread into every corner of Western foreign policy. The U.S. government has a long history of burying evidence when the truth threatens its legitimacy. The JFK files remain partially classified decades later. Intelligence failures are hidden. Foreign alliances are protected. The public is told that secrecy is necessary for “national security,” but national security always seems to mean protecting the powerful from accountability. The same pattern appears in every major geopolitical crisis. Ukraine is framed as a simple battle between good and evil, ignoring NATO expansion and Western provocation. Russia is demonized in ways that shut down diplomacy. The West drifts toward war because war is profitable, and because the public is kept ignorant of the political realities behind the conflict.

The machinery of silence doesn’t just operate at the level of governments. It operates through media, through lobbying networks, through cultural institutions. In the UK, censorship around Israel and Palestine has become aggressive. Artists, academics, and journalists are punished for refusing to sanitize their views. The media frames dissent as extremism. The public is trained to equate criticism of Israel with antisemitism. The result is a political environment where truth becomes dangerous and silence becomes expected.

Pro‑Israel organizations operate across Western institutions with a level of influence that shapes policy, culture, and public perception. They don’t just influence foreign policy. They influence charity, entertainment, and the boundaries of acceptable speech. They have blocked humanitarian efforts, pressured venues, and shaped narratives in ways that protect Israeli policy from scrutiny. Their influence extends into South America, where governments are encouraged to align with U.S. and Israeli interests through security cooperation, surveillance technology, and political alliances. It is part of a global strategy to maintain Western dominance and suppress pro‑Palestine activism.

Inside Israel, extremist politics have become normalized. Figures like Netanyahu and Ben‑Gvir openly promote policies that escalate violence, deepen occupation, and erase Palestinian identity. Their alliances with Christian Zionists in the United States add a layer of religious extremism to geopolitical strategy. Christian Zionism treats Israeli territorial expansion as prophecy. It frames war as destiny. It encourages U.S. politicians to support conflict not because of national interest, but because of religious mythology. This ideology has shaped U.S. policy toward Iran, Palestine, and Lebanon for decades, turning political decisions into theological imperatives.

The push for war with Iran is a direct result of this ideological fusion. Iran supports Palestinian resistance. Iran challenges Israeli regional dominance. Iran refuses to submit to U.S. strategic demands. For these reasons, Iran is framed as an existential threat, regardless of evidence. Western hostility toward Iran has nothing to do with democracy or human rights. It is about power, influence, and the refusal to tolerate independent states in the Middle East. The propaganda surrounding Iran mirrors the propaganda surrounding Palestine: demonization, dehumanization, and the constant drumbeat of war.

The media plays a central role in manufacturing consent for these conflicts. It does not function as a watchdog. It functions as a political instrument. Coverage of Palestine is sanitized. Coverage of Israel is deferential. Coverage of 9/11 is frozen in time. Coverage of Ukraine is moralized. Coverage of Iran is militarized. The media punishes dissent and rewards conformity. It shapes public opinion to support war by controlling the boundaries of acceptable speech. It trains the public to fear the wrong enemies and ignore the real ones.

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Whether conflicts with Iran and Russia can be resolved peacefully depends entirely on whether Western governments are willing to abandon the propaganda system that keeps the public misinformed. Peace requires diplomacy. Diplomacy requires honesty. Honesty requires confronting the political machinery that treats war as a business model. The problem is not that peace is impossible. The problem is that war is profitable, and the people who profit from war are the same people who control the narrative.

The thread connecting all these topics — 9/11, Israel, Palestine, Russia, Iran, censorship, propaganda — is the Western fear of truths. The fear of admitting mistakes. The fear of exposing alliances. The fear of acknowledging that the machinery of war depends on keeping the public obedient. The fear of losing global dominance. The political order survives by suppressing questions, punishing dissent, and manufacturing enemies. The cost of silence is paid by the people who live under occupation, by the people who endure sanctions, by the people who are bombed, displaced, and erased.

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The numbers alone should embarrass anyone who still believes this is a modern democracy. The average age in the U.S. Senate is about sixtyfour. The average age in the House is about fifty‑eight. That’s not a government that reflects the country. It’s a political class that’s hanging onto power even if they are at death’s door.

Every election cycle, Americans keep voting these people back in. Even when they’re visibly declining. Even when they freeze mid‑sentence on camera. Even when they’re wheeled into hearings like props. Even when they can’t walk without assistance or understand the technology they’re supposed to regulate. We keep electing people who can barely function, and then we act shocked when the country feels stuck, outdated, and incapable of dealing with modern problems.

This isn’t leadership. It’s a group of people who refuse to let go. They cling to power long after they’ve lost the ability to do anything meaningful with it. They don’t pass the torch. They don’t acknowledge their own decline. They stay until death forces the issue.

And sometimes, even death isn’t enough.

Right now, there are rumors circulating online that Mitch McConnell died weeks ago — maybe in June — and that officials are allegedly sitting on the news until after August 8th to avoid triggering a special election. Whether the rumor is true or not isn’t the point. The point is that people believe it, and that alone says everything about how broken the system is. Americans assume their leaders would hide a death to protect political power. That’s how little trust is left.

When a democracy reaches the point where people genuinely think a senator might be dead and the government is just propping up the seat until a deadline passes, that’s not a functioning democracy. That’s political rot.

Lindsey Graham’s death marks the sixth member of Congress to die this term. SIX. That’s not normal. That’s not a sign of a system that’s working. It’s a sign that the government is being run by people who are long past the age where most Americans retire, rest, and try not to fall down the stairs.

And yet Americans keep voting for these people. They keep choosing familiarity over competence. They keep rewarding politicians who have been in office so long they’ve forgotten what life looks like outside of Washington. They keep falling for fear campaigns and party loyalty. They keep letting incumbents coast through elections because the system is designed to protect them.

The country desperately needs fresh leadership, but the electorate keeps choosing the same old warmongers, the same old career politicians, the same old people who haven’t had a new idea since the Cold War. The same old bloodlust filled corrupt cronies. And then we wonder why nothing changes.

If Americans want a government that actually reflects the country, they have to break the habit. Stop voting for people who treat public office like a lifetime appointment. Stop rewarding politicians who cling to power instead of preparing the next generation. Stop pretending that age automatically equals competence when half of Congress can’t operate a smartphone without staff assistance. Stop playing identity politics.

A democracy isn’t supposed to be a geriatric ward. It’s supposed to evolve. Right now, ours is stuck decades behind the world it’s supposed to lead.

If Americans want a future, they need to stop electing the past. Americans need to see beyond party lines.

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But when Scahill flipped the question and asked whether Israel had the right to drop a single bomb on Gaza, Khanna didn’t hesitate. He said yes. He defended the bombing of a trapped civilian population that had already endured sixteen years of blockade, surveillance, and military control.

The “progressive” branding collapses the second Israel enters the conversation. These politicians can talk about Palestinian rights, humanitarian corridors, ceasefires, and ending the occupation, but when confronted with the core issue — whether Palestinians have the right to resist a military force that controls every aspect of their lives — they retreat. They toe the line. They repeat the same state‑sanctioned script: Israel has a right to defend itself. Palestinians do not.

Scahill didn’t let Khanna hide behind abstractions. He forced him to confront the contradiction. And Khanna chose the safe political answer, the one that keeps him in good standing with Congress, donors, and the bipartisan consensus that Palestinian life is negotiable while Israeli military power is sacred.

The interview exposed what many already know: no matter how progressive a member of Congress claims to be, they are still bound by the unwritten rule of American politics — never legitimize Palestinian armed resistance, even against soldiers, even against military bases, even against an occupying force. But always legitimize Israel’s violence, no matter how many civilians it kills.

This wasn’t just an interview. It was a reminder that Palestinians are expected to die quietly while American politicians perform empathy on camera. And when pressed, they show you exactly where their loyalties lie — with Israel, every single time.

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This government has stopped pretending it serves the British public. It serves foreign interests first, and it expects everyone else to swallow it quietly. The IRGC designation wasn’t about safety. It was about signalling obedience. It was about showing the Israel‑aligned security lobby that Labour will bend whenever told to.

And the law wrapped around this move is even worse. The National Security Act criminalises “support,” “assistance,” “promotion,” and “material benefit” — vague terms that can be stretched to fit whatever the government wants. It removes the requirement to prove a foreign power connection in many cases, meaning prosecution becomes easier, looser, and more political. Civil liberties groups are already warning that journalists could be exposed if their reporting is interpreted as “support.” That’s not paranoia. It’s literally what the law says they can do.

Fourteen years in prison for speech. Fourteen years for reporting. Fourteen years for being on the wrong side of a government that now decides what opinions are legal.

Britain is being governed by people who fear scrutiny more than threats. People who treat journalism as espionage. People who believe loyalty to a foreign state’s security agenda matters more than protecting civil liberties at home. This is the most authoritarian UK government in modern history, and they’re not even subtle about it.

If they can criminalise journalists today, they can criminalise you tomorrow — not for what you do, but for what you think. They’ve already shown they’re willing to shred rights, muzzle dissent, and weaponise “national security” against the public.

They’re not just coming for speech. They’re coming for thought. And unless people wake up, they’ll get it.

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The world is pulling back because there’s nothing left to excuse. Israel is killing families in their homes. It’s starving civilians. It’s bombing shelters, hospitals, schools, and aid convoys. These aren’t accidents or “tragic mistakes.” They’re patterns. They’re policy. You don’t starve a population by accident. You don’t repeatedly bomb evacuation routes by accident. You don’t kill thousands of children by accident. This is a state using overwhelming force to break an entire people.

The propaganda machine that used to cover all this up is collapsing. Israel can’t hide behind talking points anymore. Every lie gets exposed within hours. Every “human shields” excuse falls apart when the footage shows babies pulled from rubble and families crushed in their sleep. Every “precision strike” claim evaporates when entire neighborhoods are flattened. The gap between what Israel says and what Israel does is now so wide that only the most committed apologists pretend not to notice.

Zionism is running on fumes. It’s not held up by moral conviction or global respect; it’s held up by habit, by old alliances, by people too scared or too invested to admit the whole thing has rotted through. The ideology can’t justify mass graves. It can’t justify starving children. It can’t justify bombing food lines. It can’t justify turning Gaza into a place where infants die because there’s no water, no medicine, no safe place left.

This is why isolation is becoming the only sane response. You don’t reward a state that behaves like this. You don’t normalize it. You don’t send weapons, you don’t send money, you don’t send diplomatic cover. You step back. You cut ties. You stop pretending this is complicated. It’s not. A government that kills children and starves families doesn’t get treated like a normal state.

Israel is exposed. The mask is gone. The apartheid system, the nonstop bombing, the starvation, the rapes, the torture, the pathological lying — all of it is out in the open. And once the world sees a state clearly, without the PR, without the excuses, without the political shielding, isolation stops being radical. It becomes the bare minimum.

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The Liberty was a clearly marked American signals ship sitting in international waters. The weather was clear, visibility was perfect, and Israeli aircraft had already passed overhead several times that morning. Survivors said the pilots were close enough to see the flag and the hull number. Nothing about the ship’s identity was in question.

When the attack began, it unfolded in a coordinated sequence. Jets opened the assault, torpedo boats moved in, and helicopters hovered afterward as if preparing to board. Lifeboats were destroyed, the flag was visible, and the ship’s markings were obvious. The attack didn’t pause or adjust. It kept coming. Everything the crew reported matched what Arab observers documented that same day: a deliberate strike carried out in full daylight.

Radioman Ernie Gallo said the jets came in “so low I could see the Star of David on the wings.” Signalman Joe Meadors said he stood on deck with the American flag flying above him while Israeli aircraft “made repeated passes like they were confirming the target.” Crewman Russell David said the gunfire was so precise “it felt like they had studied the ship beforehand.”

The Liberty was hit with rockets, cannon fire, napalm, and a torpedo that tore open a massive hole in the hull. Thirty‑four Americans died and more than 170 were wounded. Survivors pulled bodies from compartments filled with smoke, water, and debris. They fought fires, patched damage, and tried to keep the ship afloat while the attack continued. Their accounts never shifted. They identified the attackers immediately and stayed consistent for decades.

Bryce Lockwood described opening a compartment and finding men “stacked where the blast threw them, burned, broken, drowned.” Engineer George Wilson said the deck was “slick with blood and fuel,” and that they were “still being shot at while trying to save the ship.” Officer James Ennes said the attack was so sustained that “there wasn’t a single second where anyone thought it was a mistake.”

Washington didn’t.

The cover‑up started before the bodies were even moved. Survivors were ordered not to speak. Officers were told to keep quiet. Families received vague, empty statements. The Navy’s inquiry was rushed, testimony was limited, and evidence was boxed away. Intelligence intercepts that contradicted the “mistake” narrative were buried. The Johnson administration made sure the investigation ended quickly and quietly, and every attempt to revisit it was shut down.

Lockwood said the silence from Washington felt like “being abandoned twice — once during the attack, and again afterward.” Ennes said it was obvious that “protecting Israel mattered more than telling the truth about dead Americans.” Gallo said the gag orders were “as shocking as the attack itself.”

Survivors kept speaking anyway. Bryce Lockwood, like many others, stayed consistent from the first day to the last. He described the attack as intentional, carried out by Israeli pilots who knew exactly who they were hitting, and he talked openly about how Washington’s silence was political. The crew was left alone in the water while their own government scrambled to protect Israel from consequences.

Thirty‑four Americans died under Israeli fire. Their families were given almost nothing. Their ship was nearly sunk. Their government acted like the attackers were the ones who needed shielding. Israel is “America’s greatest ally” — that’s what Washington keeps repeating. But that “greatest ally” killed Americans.

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Most Westerners don’t know the basic facts about Islam, especially when it comes to Jesus. Muslims believe Jesus was born of a virgin. They believe Mary is one of the most honored women in their entire faith — she has a full chapter named after her, something the Bible doesn’t even do. They believe Jesus is the Messiah, chosen and anointed. They believe he performed miracles: healing the sick, raising the dead, creating life from clay. They believe he lived without sin. They believe he will return at the end of time to defeat injustice. They believe God raised him and protected him. And they believe Jesus preached the same core message as Moses, Abraham, and Muhammad — one God, justice, mercy, accountability.

Western audiences were never taught any of this. They let fear of the unknown take over logic. They were taught Islam is foreign, hostile, and incompatible. Stones compares Islam’s view of Jesus to early Christian debates like Arianism, where Christ is seen as a divine emissary rather than God Himself. His point is that Islam didn’t appear out of thin air; it grew out of the same Near Eastern religious world that shaped Judaism and Christianity. The overlap is massive, but the Western narrative hides it because it doesn’t serve fear.

Stones also pushes back on the idea that Islam produces violence by default. He brings up Indonesia — nearly 200 million Muslims — one of the more peaceful societies on earth. Political scientists have documented for years that Indonesia’s stability contradicts the Western claim that Islam inherently creates extremism. Most Muslim‑majority countries aren’t violent. The ones that are — Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria — are places where Western military intervention, coups, or proxy wars shattered the state. Research from SOAS, Chatham House, and regional universities shows that instability in those countries tracks with geopolitics, not theology.

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On the hijab, Stones calls out the double standard: “Why are you guys freaked out about hijab? Nuns do the same thing. It’s a spiritual practice… it goes back for a reason. The Jews do it too — Orthodox Jews.” Historians have written extensively about how head‑covering traditions existed across the Mediterranean and Middle East long before Islam. Christian women covered their hair for centuries. Jewish law still requires it in many communities. Westerners treat the hijab as foreign because they’ve forgotten their own history.

He also highlights the Quranic line about “no compulsion in religion.” Scholars across the Muslim world cite this verse as the foundation for religious freedom. Stones says punishing people for leaving Islam is political power disguised as faith — and researchers agree. Authoritarian governments often use religion to control dissent, just like Western governments use fear narratives to control public opinion. Neither has anything to do with scripture.

The Western image of Islam was constructed through selective reporting, sensational framing, and stripping context from every story. When you look at actual theology, actual demographics, and actual conflict data, the fear narrative falls apart. This is how propaganda works and how easily people absorbed it.

People don’t fear Islam. They fear what they were never taught. Power builds that ignorance on purpose, then feeds it until it turns into hate. It’s the oldest trick in the book — keep people scared, keep them divided, and they’re easier to control.

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Multiple independent outlets — Military.com, Al Jazeera, Responsible Statecraft, Army Times, and GovTrack — confirm the same thing: Congress is attempting to hard‑wire the U.S. military, weapons industry, and battlefield data systems directly into the Israeli Defense Forces.

This is written into the bill.

What the bill actually does

Section 224 orders the U.S. Secretary of Defense to appoint a single “executive agent” whose job is to coordinate U.S.–Israel military cooperation across nearly every domain of modern warfare:

• Joint weapons research and development

• Shared production lines and supply chains

• Integrated battlefield systems

• Cyber operations

• Artificial intelligence

• Autonomous weapons

• Quantum technology

• Directed‑energy weapons

• Biotech

• Network integration and data fusion — meaning U.S. military data could become Israeli military data

These details are confirmed by Military.com and Responsible Statecraft, which warn that the bill reaches into “seemingly every area of defense tech” and would create a level of integration “not previously seen in any U.S. allyship.”

Al Jazeera reports that the bill would “tie the U.S. and Israeli militaries far more closely together” and embed Israeli defense technologies directly into America’s critical military supply chain.

Army Times notes that even lawmakers who normally support Israel — including Rep. Thomas Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna — are publicly warning that this level of integration infringes on U.S. sovereignty.

Why this is happening now

The push comes after joint U.S.–Israeli strikes on Iran earlier this year, which triggered a regional war lasting five weeks. It also comes as public opinion of the Israeli government is at historic lows, and as Israel faces global accusations of genocide in Gaza and southern Lebanon.

Despite this, Congress is attempting to lock the U.S. military into Israel’s war machine permanently — in a way that future presidents, future Congresses, and U.S. taxpayers would struggle to unwind.

Responsible Statecraft describes the bill as “entrenching the relationship so deep in America’s own defense industrial base that it’s impossible to root it out.”

Why critics call it a threat to U.S. sovereignty

1. Israel would gain unprecedented access to U.S. military technology.

2. Israel could influence U.S. defense priorities.

3. U.S. battlefield data could be shared with a foreign military.

4. The integration exceeds what the U.S. has with NATO.

5. It is being buried inside a massive annual defense bill.

Who is pushing this?

• Rep. Mike Rogers (R‑AL)

• Rep. Adam Smith (D‑WA)

THIS IS NOT A FRINGE EFFORT.

IT IS BIPARTISAN, INSTITUTIONAL, AND COORDINATED.

Who is opposing it?

• Rep. Thomas Massie (R‑KY)

• Rep. Ro Khanna (D‑CA)

• Ben Freeman (Quincy Institute)

• Josh Paul (former State Department official)

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The genocide context

Al Jazeera and Responsible Statecraft both note that this bill is advancing while Israel stands accused of genocide in Gaza and Lebanon, and while U.S. weapons are already central to the destruction.

Passing Section 224 would effectively make the U.S. a co‑combatant in Israel’s military campaigns — not just an arms supplier.

Could Trump veto it?

The bill is part of the NDAA, which presidents almost always sign. But if Trump opposes Section 224 specifically, he could demand its removal or veto the entire bill.

There is no public statement from Trump yet. Army Times notes that Massie’s primary challenger was aligned with Trump’s pro‑Israel stance, suggesting internal Republican pressure.

The bottom line

Congress is attempting to merge the U.S. military with a foreign armed force — one currently engaged in mass civilian killing — through a buried provision that most Americans have never heard of.

This is not “cooperation.” This is structural integration.

If Section 224 passes, the United States will no longer have an independent military posture. It will have a shared one — with Israel.

And once the supply chains, data systems, weapons labs, and battlefield technologies are fused, there is no easy way to undo it.

As Kucinich said in the interview, this is the moment to decide whether the U.S. remains an independent nation or becomes permanently entangled in another country’s wars.

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And it fits a pattern that’s been building for years.

Banks have already targeted media before

* PayPal froze the accounts of Consortium News and MintPress News in 2022, citing vague “risk” language. Both outlets had published critical reporting on US foreign policy.

* HSBC and Barclays have repeatedly shut down accounts belonging to advocacy groups, migrant solidarity networks, and anti-war organisations in the UK.

* In Australia, Westpac froze the account of an environmental journalism collective after they published investigations into mining companies.

None of these cases came with clear explanations. None came with accountability. And none were covered by mainstream media with any seriousness.

Governments have already laid the groundwork

Financial pressure is now a standard tool of state power.

* The UK’s Counter-Disinformation Unit has been caught monitoring journalists and pressuring platforms to restrict their reach.

* The EU’s Digital Services Act gives governments broad authority to demand takedowns and restrict funding channels for media deemed “high risk.”

* The US Treasury has repeatedly used sanctions to block funding to foreign media outlets, including ones that publish content critical of US policy.

Once governments normalise financial punishment for journalism abroad, it becomes easier to justify similar tactics at home.

Platforms have already joined in

Tech companies have quietly become gatekeepers of financial survival.

* YouTube demonetised dozens of independent news channels during the Syria and Ukraine wars.

* Patreon banned political creators without warning, including journalists covering extremist movements.

* Facebook throttled traffic to independent outlets after its “news ecosystem” restructuring, while mainstream corporate media saw boosts.

When banks, governments, and platforms all adopt the same posture, it’s not coincidence. It’s coordination through shared incentives: control the narrative, starve dissent.

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The Canary case is a warning shot

The Canary has been a consistent thorn in the side of UK political elites. They’ve reported on austerity, corruption, police abuses, and foreign policy. They’ve platformed voices mainstream outlets ignore. And they’ve done it without corporate backing.

Cutting off their bank accounts is a way to make them disappear without having to publicly justify it.

No smear campaign.

No legal battle.

No headline.

Just silence.

Why journalists should be alarmed

If a bank can shut down a newsroom with no explanation, then every independent journalist is vulnerable. You don’t need to be radical. You don’t need to be controversial. You just need to be inconvenient.

Financial censorship is harder to detect than algorithmic censorship. It doesn’t leave a digital footprint. It doesn’t trigger public outrage. It doesn’t require a justification. It simply removes your ability to operate.

This is how you shut the world up without appearing to do anything at all.

What needs to happen now

Journalists need to treat financial access as a frontline issue.

* Diversify banking.

* Build redundancy.

* Document every instance of financial interference.

* Push for legal protections for media organisations targeted by banks.

* Demand transparency from financial institutions that hold the power to erase a newsroom overnight.

The Canary’s case is not an anomaly. It’s a warning. And if independent journalists don’t respond collectively, the next freeze will hit someone else — and the next one after that — until only corporate media is left standing. And we all know who owns them.

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This phase was coordinated by our trusted facilitator, Alaa M, in central Gaza and focused on reaching families living in communities that receive little or no humanitarian assistance.

Many aid organizations understandably prioritize large displacement camps where thousands of people can be reached at once. While these efforts are vital, they often leave behind smaller camps, isolated tents, elderly people living alone, families caring for loved ones with disabilities, and people sheltering among the ruins of their former neighborhoods.

That is the heart of Gaza's Forgotten Families.

Our mission is to seek out the people who are easiest to overlook.

This initiative provided 48 fresh vegetable parcels, a special fruit and hygiene package, and 5,000 liters of clean drinking water, reaching families facing extraordinary hardship.

Essential 1 — Fresh Vegetable Distribution

On the morning of July 4, 2026, Alaa M and his team traveled to the wholesale market before sunrise to purchase fresh vegetables and fruit at the lowest possible prices.

Buying wholesale allows every donation to stretch further while ensuring families receive fresh, nutritious food that has become increasingly difficult to obtain.

After purchasing the produce, the team spent hours sorting, weighing, and packing every parcel before traveling to Al-Riyadh Camp in western Gaza City.

Results

🥬 48 fresh vegetable parcels distributed

🍎 One special fruit parcel prepared

🧴 One specialized hygiene parcel prepared

🏕️ Distribution completed inside Al-Riyadh Camp

Vegetable Parcel Contents

Each family received a carefully prepared parcel containing:

* Tomatoes

* Potatoes

* Onions

* Eggplants

* Cucumbers

* Oranges

* Garlic

* Green peppers

* Molokhia

* Lemons

Fresh vegetables are now considered a luxury for many families inside Gaza. For some recipients, this was the first opportunity in a long time to prepare a nutritious meal with fresh produce.

Special Assistance for Umm Khamis

Among the families visited was Umm Khamis, who cares for two adult family members living with disabilities while surviving inside a tent exposed to relentless summer heat, insects, rodents, and extremely difficult living conditions.

Recognizing her family's unique needs, the team prepared both a special fruit parcel and a dedicated hygiene package.

The hygiene parcel included:

* Adult diapers

* Shampoo

* Dish soap

* Dry wipes

* Scented wipes

* Cotton swabs

* Mouse glue

These simple household items have become scarce and expensive inside Gaza, yet they make an enormous difference for families caring for vulnerable loved ones.

Humanitarian Stories

One of the most moving parts of every distribution is meeting the people behind the statistics.

This initiative was no different.

Our team met a displaced man living completely alone in a tent surrounded by rubble. There are no proper roads leading to his shelter, making it difficult for humanitarian organizations to reach him.

When we handed him his food parcel, he quietly told the team:

"This is the first time anyone has come to my tent."

It was a simple sentence, but one that none of us will soon forget.

We also met Karam.

Karam survived the bombing of his home during the war. His mother and siblings were killed in that bomb.

He remained trapped beneath the rubble for hours before finally being rescued and taken to intensive care with severe burns covering much of his body.

His father survived but suffered serious injuries and permanently lost his hearing.

Today they continue trying to rebuild a life with almost nothing.

Through your generosity, we were able to reach them with humanitarian assistance.

What we offered was more than food.

It was a reminder that they have not been forgotten.

We pray for Karam's continued healing, for strength for his father, and for comfort after unimaginable loss.

Our team also met an elderly woman whose grief poured out as she spoke.

Standing beside the ruins of the life she once knew, she cried out:

"May God punish the Zionists. May God curse those who destroyed my home, killed my children, and made us live in this hell."

She wanted the world to hear her voice.

She wanted people outside Gaza to know what had happened to her family, what had been taken from her, and the suffering she continues to endure every day.

Whether spoken through tears, silence, or prayer, these are the voices of people living through extraordinary loss.

Their stories remind us that every parcel we deliver reaches someone carrying far more than hunger alone.

Essential 2 — Emergency Water Distribution

On July 5, the second phase of this initiative focused on delivering clean drinking water.

Originally, the team considered sending the water truck to the port area, where thousands of displaced families are sheltering.

After assessing the situation, Alaa M made a difficult decision.

Five thousand liters would disappear almost immediately among such a large population, leaving many families without water.

Instead, the team chose to stay true to the mission of Gaza's Forgotten Families:

Go where few others are willing—or able—to go.

After extensive coordination, the team located a driver willing to travel east of the tunnel toward the Yellow Line, despite the risk of shelling and gunfire that causes many drivers to refuse these routes.

The truck successfully reached Al-Aman Camp, where more than 80 tents, along with nearby residents still living in damaged homes, received desperately needed clean drinking water.

Results

💧 5,000 liters distributed

💧 More than 80 tents served

💧 Families living near the Yellow Line reached despite significant danger

💧 One of Central Gaza's least accessible communities received emergency water

Watching the truck arrive safely after so many obstacles reminded everyone why this work matters.

Humanitarian Impact

Through Update #6:

* 48 families received fresh vegetable parcels.

* Umm Khamis received specialized hygiene and nutritional support.

* Karam and his father received humanitarian assistance.

* An isolated displaced man received aid for the first time since his displacement.

* More than 80 tents gained access to clean drinking water.

* Families living near the Yellow Line received assistance despite the risks involved in reaching them.

* Every initiative reinforces the purpose of Gaza's Forgotten Families:

* To find and support the families that others cannot reach.

Funds Received & Transparency Summary

Total funds raised: $2,000

Fund Movement:

* Sent to Alaa: $1,970

* Wire fee: $30

* Currency exchange (5%): $98.50

* Cash available inside Gaza: $1,871.50

From the remaining funds:

* Team coordination and implementation: $187

* Transportation: $50.20

* 48 vegetable parcels

* Special fruit parcel

* Special hygiene parcel

* 5,000-liter water distribution

As always, every Gaza's Forgotten Families initiative is documented through photographs, videos, receipts, and financial records so supporters can see exactly how their generosity is being used.

Note: Alaa M does this for his community without taking anything for himself. His family needs our support as well. As it is, his family hasn't received any help for more than a week. If you want to show your appreciation and support him, here is his link:

🔗 https://chuffed.org/project/171331-alaa-and-his-two-little-ones-seek-hope

Looking Ahead

Every update reminds us why this initiative exists.

There are still families living in forgotten corners of Gaza—elderly people, children, people living with disabilities, parents raising their families inside tents, and survivors trying to rebuild after losing everything.

Your generosity continues to reach people who might otherwise never receive assistance.

Every donation carries more than food or water.

It carries dignity.

It carries solidarity.

It tells another family:

You are not forgotten.

Thank you for standing with Gaza's Forgotten Families. Together, we will continue reaching those who need it most.

Donate: https://chuffed.org/project/183781-gaza-forgotten-families-fund

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Mohammad Ibrahim’s case shows exactly how Israel's prison torture works. He was arrested at 15. The official excuse was “stone‑throwing,” the same catch‑all charge Israel uses to justify detaining Palestinian minors. It doesn’t matter if the stones hit anything. It doesn’t matter if the child was even present. The accusation alone is enough. Israel treats Palestinian children as threats, not kids, and the system is designed to make sure they never forget it.

Mohammad says he was beaten, threatened, and psychologically broken down by adults who knew exactly how to hurt him. He describes being interrogated without a lawyer, without a parent, without any protection. He says the interrogators screamed at him, shoved him, and told him he would never see his family again unless he confessed. This is not unusual. Rights groups have documented hundreds of cases where Palestinian minors were forced to sign confessions they couldn’t read, written in Hebrew, under threat of violence.

And this is where the horror deepens: children in Israeli custody have reported sexual assault during interrogation and detention. Documented cases. Human Rights Watch, Defense for Children International–Palestine, and multiple UN reports have recorded minors being stripped, groped, penetrated with objects, threatened with rape, and forced into “searches” that are sexual assault. Some children reported guards touching their genitals while laughing. Some reported being forced naked in front of adult men. Some reported being told they would be raped if they didn’t confess. These are not isolated incidents.

Mohammad’s case didn’t reach that point because he had something most Palestinian children don’t: a U.S. passport and a mother who refused to let Israel bury him. She contacted lawyers, journalists, human rights organizations, and the U.S. embassy. She forced attention onto the case. She refused to let Israel treat her son like the others — the ones who disappear into the system with no leverage, no protection, and no international pressure.

Israel released him because the pressure became inconvenient. That’s how the system works. It doesn’t respond to justice. It responds to embarrassment. It responds to diplomatic noise. It responds when someone with enough reach refuses to shut up. Palestinian minors without foreign citizenship face the same abuse, but they don’t get the same outcome. They stay inside. They endure the beatings, the starvation, the sexual violence, the humiliation. They are the ones the system is built for.

Former detainees describe being stripped, tied, beaten, and left in positions designed to cause maximum pain. They talk about being denied food, denied water, denied sleep. They talk about guards who treat them like animals and laugh while doing it. They talk about infections left untreated, wounds ignored, and medical care withheld as punishment. They talk about humiliation as a daily routine.

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One former detainee from Gaza describes sexual torture so severe it’s hard to repeat. He says it wasn’t a rogue guard. It wasn’t a one‑off. It was part of the process. Rights groups have documented similar cases for years, but Israel dismisses them as lies, exaggerations, or “security measures.”

Itamar Ben‑Gvir has openly pushed for harsher conditions for Palestinian detainees. He brags about reducing their food, cutting their water, and tightening restrictions. He visits prisons and encourages guards to “keep control.” He treats Palestinian suffering as a political trophy.

Complaints go nowhere. Investigations don’t happen. Israel’s internal oversight mechanisms are a joke. Former detainees say guards act like they’re untouchable because they are. Rights groups file reports, submit evidence, and demand accountability, but nothing changes. The system protects itself. The abuse continues. The world shrugs and moves on.

Mohammad’s case proves the point. He got out because his mother fought like hell and because the U.S. passport made Israel nervous. That’s it. There was no justice. No accountability. No apology. No investigation. Just a quiet release once the pressure became too loud to ignore. And the moment he walked out, the system went right back to doing what it always does.

This isn’t a broken system. It’s a functioning one. It does exactly what it’s built to do. And every testimony, every report, every survivor, every child like Mohammad saying “this happened to me” is another reminder that the world has allowed this machinery to run unchecked for decades.

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So when the world was told Israel “didn’t know,” it was a lie.

When the world was told Israel was “caught off guard,” it was a lie.

When the world was told Hamas “overwhelmed” them, it was a lie.

Occupation creates resistance — that’s not ideology, that’s physics. Gaza has been under siege for 17 years. Palestinians have lived under military occupation for 78 years. Every human population under violent occupation eventually resists. That’s not extremism, ideology nor religion.

Under international law — under the UN’s own definitions — Palestinians have the right to armed resistance. So we’re not using Western propaganda language. We’re not calling them “terrorists.” We’re not sanitizing the reality of occupation.

On October 7, the objective was clear: capture prisoners of war, not “hostages.” The goal was to negotiate the release of the nearly 10,000 Palestinians abducted and held by Israel, including 400+ children held in “administrative detention,” which is just a PR-friendly phrase for torture chambers, rape rooms, starvation cells, and indefinite imprisonment without trial.

Israel created the hostage crisis long before October 7.

Palestinians had to respond to it.

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The Hannibal Directive is policy. It’s existed for decades. It’s an Israeli military protocol.

If Israeli captives are taken, you kill everything in the area — including your own people — to prevent prisoners being taken alive.

It’s a scorched-earth order.

It’s been used before and covered up before.

And on October 7, it was unleashed at full scale.

The burned cars?

The charred bodies?

The flattened homes?

The civilians shot in their own houses?

The festival-goers riddled with bullets?

A massive portion of that was Israeli fire, not Hamas.

And now the footage is out. The Knesset is talking and senior Israeli officials are caught on camera implementing Hannibal in real time.

A senior officer is heard telling Police Chief Kobi Shabtai to activate the Hannibal Directive — meaning destroy Gaza and kill the Israeli captives still inside. Then Itamar Ben Gvir walks in and orders the camera shut off.

This is why their military didn’t respond and their civilians were left defenseless.

This is why entire neighborhoods were wiped out and bodies were burned beyond recognition.

They weren’t “saving Israelis.” They knowingly sacrificed their own.

Israel stood down for six to seven hours. Not because they were “overwhelmed.” Definitely not because they “didn’t know”, and not because Hamas “outsmarted” them.

They stood down because they wanted the attack to unfold.

They wanted the chaos, the casualties and the footage.

They wanted the justification to level Gaza.

Families of Israeli officials were told to hide in bunkers before the attack.

For months, the world was forced fed a heavily sanitized version of October 7 — the “barbaric attack,” the “surprise,” the “intelligence failure,” the “unprovoked massacre.” All of it was used to justify genocide in Gaza.

But now:

* Knesset members admitting Hannibal was activated.

* Israeli pilots confessing they bombed homes with Israelis inside.

* Police radio recordings showing orders to fire on vehicles with Israeli civilians.

* Footage of Israeli tanks shelling houses with captives inside.

* Testimony from survivors saying the army shot at them.

* Burn patterns on cars consistent with Israeli munitions.

* Drone footage showing Israeli helicopters firing into crowds.

Charlie Kirk’s question was accurate. Shortly before his assassination, he asked the question everyone was told was “dangerous” or “conspiratorial”:

“Was there a stand‑down order given by Israel on Oct. 7th? Six hours to respond? I don’t believe it. They’re going to ethnically cleanse Gaza.”

This was a coordinated mass Hannibal event, executed at the highest levels, used to justify genocide.

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Yes, Iran had the Mahsa Amini incident. She died in custody, and it sparked real nationwide anger. Women cut their hair, people protested, and the country went through a moment of reckoning. Iran isn’t perfect, but it didn’t ignore what happened. It adjusted. The morality police pulled back. Enforcement eased. Daily life became more flexible. Iran learned from that moment and moved forward. That’s not the behavior of a frozen, unchanging regime — that’s a government responding to internal pressure and adapting with the times.

Fast‑forward to the recent protests — this wasn’t about morality laws, it was about the economy blowing up overnight. Iran’s currency collapsed, merchants were bankrupted, and people suddenly couldn’t afford basic goods. The U.S., Israel, and the UAE engineered the currency crash and fueled the unrest through coordinated pressure and financial sabotage.

Western media ignored all of that and instead pushed the claim that Iran slaughtered “40,000 people in two days,” a number that has zero support from credible non‑Western sources. Iran did use force — nobody is denying that — but the verified numbers are nowhere near what the West claimed.

Mossad‑trained terrorist cells flooded the protests, slipped into the crowds, and opened fire on civilians and police. These infiltrators entered Iran during the chaos, blended into demonstrations, and caused mass casualties with the weapons the CIA and Mossad provided. Regional reporting cited around four thousand deaths during the unrest, with most of the violence attributed to these infiltrators — not government forces. Western outlets cut that part out because it destroys their “Iran is killing its own people” storyline, so they blamed the Iranian regime for those deaths instead.

Iranian security forces did kill violent attackers — but not thousands. The numbers were small compared to the propaganda. The West inflated everything to justify its usual “Iran needs saving” narrative.

So when you look at Tehran today — people working, driving, shopping, living normal lives — it’s obvious how far off the Western narrative really is. Iran has problems, but it’s not the dystopian nightmare the West keeps selling. It’s a functioning country that adapts, changes, and moves forward, no matter how hard the West tries to demonize it.

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That era is dead.

The Gaza genocide didn’t just expose Israel. It exposed the entire Western information system that protected Israel for decades. People didn’t see polished studio segments or carefully edited footage. They saw children pulled out of rubble. They saw bodies lined up in hospital courtyards. They saw journalists being killed live on camera. They saw families wiped out in a single airstrike. They saw things that would never make it onto a Western broadcast because Western media has always been part of the political machinery that shields Israel from consequences.

Candace Owens said she was disgusted with herself for not knowing. Tucker Carlson admitted he spent most of his life believing Islam was the threat because that’s what the system told him. These aren’t fringe voices. These are pillars of American conservatism, and they’re openly saying they were manipulated. That’s why Hamdi calls it a “MAGA Civil War.” It’s not about Trump. It’s about the fracture inside the American right between the Israel First crowd—who treat Israel as a sacred political obligation—and the America First crowd, who are finally asking why the U.S. is sacrificing its own interests, credibility, and moral standing to defend a state committing genocide in broad daylight.

The Israel First lobby is panicking because their monopoly on information is gone. They can’t control TikTok. They can’t control Instagram. They can’t control decentralized footage from Gaza. They can’t stop Gen Z from seeing what’s happening. They can’t stop people from asking why Israel is bombing schools, hospitals, refugee camps, and journalists. They can’t stop the world from seeing the truth. And they can’t stop the political consequences.

Europe is collapsing under the weight of its hypocrisy. They lecture the world about human rights while cheering on a genocide. They talk about international law while giving Israel a blank check to violate every single one. They claim moral superiority while backing a state that has turned Gaza into a graveyard. Hamdi points out that Europe’s credibility crisis isn’t temporary. It’s structural. It’s permanent. And it’s deserved.

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The U.S. is facing its own reckoning. The MAGA Civil War is just one part of it. The other part is the collapse of American moral authority. Washington can’t preach democracy while supporting genocide. It can’t talk about “rules-based order” while breaking every rule to protect Israel. It can’t pretend to be a global leader when most of the world sees it as complicit in mass murder. And it can’t hide behind media anymore because media doesn’t control the narrative. Social media does. Decentralized footage does. People with phones do.

Hamdi also points out something Western analysts hate admitting: unjust empires fall. Not because of military defeat, but because they rot from within. They lose legitimacy. They lose moral standing. They lose the ability to convince people that their violence is “necessary” or “defensive.” Israel is in that stage right now. It’s losing legitimacy faster than any state in modern history. It’s losing support even among people who spent their entire lives defending it. And it’s losing the information war because the truth is too brutal to hide.

The Iran–Israel confrontation is part of this collapse. Israel isn’t the regional superpower it pretended to be. It’s exposed and it's vulnerable. It's dependent on U.S. protection. And terrified of a war it can’t win. Israel’s strategic position is weaker than ever, and its political position is collapsing even faster.

And then there’s Turkey. Europe’s skepticism toward Turkey isn’t about democracy or human rights. It’s about power. Europe doesn’t want a strong Muslim country shaping regional politics. It doesn’t want Turkey challenging Israel. It doesn’t want Turkey influencing NATO. It doesn’t want Turkey having a voice. Europe’s problem with Turkey is historical, cultural, and rooted in old imperial arrogance. And Turkey knows it.

All of this ties back to one simple truth: the world saw Gaza without filters. And once people see genocide with their own eyes, they don’t go back to believing propaganda. They don’t go back to trusting media. They don’t go back to swallowing political talking points. They don’t go back to silence. The Hasbara is dead.

The only people still defending Israel are Christian Zionists, political elites who are financially or politically tied to Israel, and a handful of governments too corrupt or too compromised to break away. Everyone else—ordinary people, younger generations, independent journalists, activists, analysts, and even conservative commentators—has turned against Israel because they saw the truth. And once you see the truth, you can’t unsee it.

The world can’t unsee the reality of the Gaza genocide. They can’t unsee the piles of dead, innocent civilians. They can’t unsee the bodies blown to pieces and gathered up in bags just to guess at who they once were. Babies decapitated. Children torn apart. The rape. The torture. The disfigurement. The horrors in the prisons. All of it laid bare on their screens. Once the world saw that, there was no going back. No amount of spin, no polished news segments, no political talking points could erase the images burned into their minds. The lies shattered. The Hasbara is dead. Israel’s propaganda machine is never coming back from this.

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Two groups. Two goals.

And according to the report, one was used to hijack the other.

The alleged scheme

Donors who believed they were wiring funds to America250 were allegedly given incorrect wire instructions — instructions that routed their money directly into Freedom 250, the Trump‑linked group operating under the National Park Foundation. These weren’t small donations. We’re talking about major contributions, including corporate and philanthropic money.

The report states this “could constitute wire fraud” if the facts hold up. Wire fraud is one of the most straightforward federal charges to prove when money is intentionally misdirected through electronic transfers.

How the switch allegedly worked

According to the Democratic investigators:

* Fundraisers tied to the Trump administration allegedly steered donors away from the official America250 commission.

* Donors were allegedly misled about where their money was going.

* Millions may have been redirected to Freedom 250.

* Federal funds, grants, and even National Park Service visitor fees were allegedly funneled toward Freedom 250 events — while the parks themselves face a $24 billion maintenance backlog.

The report describes a pattern — deliberate routing, deliberate instructions, deliberate redirection.

Why this matters legally

Federal wire fraud carries a maximum of 20 years per count.

If prosecutors can show:

* Trump knew about the donor switch

* Trump directed it

* Trump benefited from it knowingly

…then he could theoretically face multiple counts. With large sums and multiple victims, prosecutors can stack charges. That’s how you get to 40–50 years of exposure.

That’s the law. That’s how it works for everyone else.

But here’s the part everyone already knows

Nothing is going to happen to him.

Not because the conduct is minor — it isn’t.

Not because the evidence is thin — the report is detailed and names individuals involved in the fundraising pipeline.

It’s because the American legal system bends when his name is on the paperwork.

If any normal person — any nonprofit director, any fundraiser, any executive — had rerouted donor money through misleading wire instructions, they’d be arrested immediately. They’d be indicted before the press even finished writing the headline. They’d be sitting in a federal courtroom with a prosecutor explaining how wire fraud sentencing guidelines work.

But Trump has lived his entire public life inside a bubble of non‑consequences. The report lays out conduct that would destroy anyone else’s career and freedom. Instead, it will likely become another political story that fades until the next scandal replaces it.

The bottom line

The Freedom 250 donor‑switch allegations are serious, documented, and legally explosive. They involve federal funds, private donations, and a congressionally chartered commission. The report doesn’t hedge — it says this could be wire fraud.

If the evidence is real, the charges should follow.

If the charges followed, the sentence could be decades.

But the country has seen this movie too many times. The ending never changes.

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By Palestinian Poet Zeina Azzam

Write my name on my leg, Mama

Use the black permanent marker

with the ink that doesn’t bleed

if it gets wet, the one that doesn’t melt

if it’s exposed to heat

Write my name on my leg, Mama

Make the lines thick and clear

Add your special flourishes

so I can take comfort in seeing

my mama’s handwriting when I go to sleep

Write my name on my leg, Mama

and on the legs of my sisters and brothers

This way we will belong together

This way we will be known

as your children

Write my name on my leg, Mama

and please write your name

and Baba’s name on your legs, too

so we will be remembered

as a family

Write my name on my leg, Mama

Don’t add any numbers

like when I was born or the address of our home

I don’t want the world to list me as a number

I have a name and I am not a number

Write my name on my leg, Mama

When the bomb hits our house

When the walls crush our skulls and bones

our legs will tell our story, how

there was nowhere for us to run

Video edit courtesy of TarynZhar on Twitter

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The term itself — “anti‑tech violent extremism” — didn’t exist in any public DHS or FBI materials before these documents surfaced. It’s a new catch‑all category that lumps together a huge range of people: residents who don’t want a noisy data center in their neighborhood, workers worried about AI killing their jobs, environmental groups raising concerns about water usage, and anyone who thinks Big Tech has too much power. All of them are now being watched under the same umbrella as people who actually plan violence.

Fusion centers — the intelligence hubs that link federal agencies with state and local police — have been circulating bulletins warning that protests over AI and data centers could “devolve into civil unrest.” One New York intelligence report claims that AI adoption could trigger large‑scale protests within five years, and that these protests might turn into “anti‑tech violent extremist activity.”

The surveillance isn’t limited to people making threats. It includes photography of facilities, attending public meetings, observing construction sites, and even posting online about concerns. A Northern Virginia intelligence report lists these everyday actions as “suspicious,” treating them as possible pre‑operational steps toward attacking infrastructure.

Private contractors are involved too. SITE Intelligence Group has monitored online spaces like “neo‑Luddite” Discord servers for fusion centers. Even More Perfect Union — a journalism outlet — ended up in intelligence reporting simply for covering a local fight over a Georgia data center. That’s how wide the net is now: journalists reporting on community issues get flagged in counterterrorism documents.

The government’s logic is simple and dangerous: if people are angry about AI, Big Tech, or data centers, they might become extremists. This framing mirrors earlier surveillance of Black Lives Matter activists, where peaceful protest was treated as a precursor to violence. Civil rights lawyers warn that this is part of a long pattern — agencies treating strong opinions as security threats. Suspicious Activity Reports often flag normal behavior, and they’re notoriously unreliable.

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Meanwhile, the actual reasons people oppose data centers are usually mundane: water usage, noise, environmental strain, and the feeling that giant corporations are reshaping their towns without consent. There are hundreds of grassroots groups across 42 states organizing around these issues. These are ordinary people trying to protect their communities, not extremists plotting sabotage.

But the intelligence documents don’t draw a clear line between democratic participation and extremism. They treat criticism of AI, frustration with inequality, and anger at corporate power as potential indicators of radicalization. When attending a town hall or taking a photo of a construction site gets logged in a counterterrorism system, the government isn’t just monitoring threats — it’s policing dissent.

This shift is happening under a federal administration that is aggressively pro‑AI and pro‑data‑center expansion. Trump’s directives have pushed agencies to target people with “anti‑capitalism” beliefs, and his counterterrorism officials have elevated left‑wing dissent as a top threat category. The new “anti‑tech extremism” label fits neatly into that political agenda.

The result is a surveillance dragnet that treats criticism of powerful industries as a security problem. People worried about job loss, environmental damage, or corporate overreach are being folded into intelligence frameworks built for terrorists. The government is building a world where disagreeing with Big Tech can put you on a watchlist.

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Harp grew up in California in a conservative Christian household. She’s talked about being “saved” by Trump after a cancer diagnosis, saying his Right to Try policy gave her hope when she felt abandoned by the medical system. That’s the origin story she repeats constantly — Trump as her personal savior, Trump as the man who “gave her life back,” Trump as the reason she’s alive. She doesn’t frame him as a politician. She frames him as a miracle.

That’s how she ended up on OANN, where she basically ran a one‑woman Trump praise channel. Every segment was Trump this, Trump that, Trump is the greatest, Trump is the bravest, Trump is the only one who tells the truth. She didn’t report news. She worshipped. And Trump noticed.

He started inviting her to events. He started calling her “fantastic.” He started saying she was “one of the people who loves me the most.” Eventually he hired her to work on his media team, where she now follows him everywhere with a camera like she’s documenting the life of a prophet.

And this is where her quotes get absolutely wild. She’s said things like:

* “I owe my life to him. Not figuratively. Literally.”

* “When he walks into a room, you feel safer. You feel like the world makes sense again.”

* “God works through chosen people, and President Trump is one of them.”

* “I would follow him anywhere. Anywhere.”

* “He saved America. He saved me. I’m here because of him.”

* “There’s never been a man like him. Not in history.”

* “Serving him isn’t a job. It’s a calling.”

* “He’s the only person I trust to tell the truth.”

* “I love this president. I love what he stands for. I love who he is.”

She talks about him like a femme fatale in a noir movie who’s obsessed with the dangerous man she thinks can save her soul. It’s breathless. It’s dramatic. It’s way past political loyalty. It’s devotion with a capital D.

Trump, of course, eats it up. He’s joked — more than once — that “other than my wife and kids, nobody loves me like Natalie.” He says it with that half‑smirk he uses when he’s both bragging and testing how far someone will go for him. And Harp always goes further.

He’s said things like:

* “Natalie loves me. She really loves me.”

* “Nobody is more loyal than Natalie.”

* “She’s incredible. She’s always there. Always supporting me.”

* “She’s one of the people who loves me the most. Maybe the most.”

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Her obsession is so intense that even people inside Trump World whisper about it. They say she’s “always there,” always filming, always praising, always ready to jump in front of a camera to defend him. She’s become a kind of MAGA superfan with backstage access, and she acts like her job is to protect Trump from the world and protect the world from not loving Trump enough.

The whole thing is surreal. Trump, who thrives on loyalty, seems to enjoy having someone who treats him like a living miracle. Harp seems to enjoy being the person who does it. And the rest of us are left watching this bizarre political‑religious devotion play out in real time, wondering how a former cable host became the closest thing Trump has to a personal disciple.

It’s not normal political fandom. It’s not normal staff behavior. It’s something stranger — a mix of personal gratitude, hero worship, and full‑blown obsession. And Trump, who loves being adored, keeps feeding it. He praises her publicly. He jokes about her devotion. He lets her follow him everywhere. He treats her like a loyal knight in his personal kingdom.

So here we are: Natalie Harp, the woman who loves Trump more than Trump loves Trump. And Trump, who loves being loved, seems perfectly happy to let her keep proving it.

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Khan was also smeared with bogus misconduct allegations. A 5,000‑page UN oversight report cleared him completely. Three ICC judges reviewed it and confirmed there was zero evidence he did anything wrong. But the ICC Bureau — stacked with governments that bend over backwards for Israel — refused to close the case. They kept it open because that’s how political pressure works: you don’t need evidence, you just need power.

And Israel has been playing this game for decades. Every time someone tries to investigate its actions, Israel reacts the same way: attack the investigator, threaten the institution, scream bias, and drag its allies into the fight. It’s a pattern so obvious you’d have to be blind not to see it.

Israel has threatened UN officials.

Israel has smeared human rights groups.

Israel has blocked investigators from entering Gaza.

Israel has leaned on Western governments to sabotage inquiries.

Israel has sanctioned ICC judges.

Israel has tried to dismantle the ICC’s authority entirely.

Now, according to Khan, Israel has crossed into threatening families — because it thinks it can get away with anything as long as Washington covers for it.

This isn’t about “security.” It’s not about “bias.” It’s about a state that refuses to be held accountable for what it does to Palestinians. And instead of facing the evidence, Israel tries to crush the people gathering it.

If the world lets this slide, then international justice is a joke. Because what’s the point of a court if a powerful state can threaten a prosecutor’s children and walk away untouched?

Khan said he hadn’t understood how much influence governments aligned with Israel actually have. Now he does. And now the rest of us see exactly what Israel is willing to do to stop the truth from getting out.

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Albanian investigative outlets — including BIRN Albania, Exit.al, Reporter.al, Faktoje, and Top Channel — have documented how the Vjosa‑Narta area, previously under strict protection, was quietly reclassified by the Albanian government. The changes were made through administrative decisions that were not publicly debated, and in some cases, documents were published after decisions were already in effect. This reclassification opened the door for the Kushner‑Ivanka project to receive “strategic investor” status, a designation that allows fast‑track approvals and exemptions from normal environmental review.

Environmental groups inside Albania — PPNEA, EcoAlbania, and the Vjosa National Park coalition — say the process violates both Albanian law and EU biodiversity standards. They argue that construction began before environmental impact assessments were completed, and that private security forces have been filmed pushing protesters and blocking access to public land. These groups have filed complaints with the European Commission, warning that Albania’s actions undermine its EU accession commitments.

The protests themselves have grown far beyond environmental activism. Albanian media outlets like Ora News, Euronews Albania, and Syri TV show thousands of people marching in Tirana, Vlora, and coastal towns. Demonstrators call it the “Flamingo Revolution,” referencing the flamingos that nest in the threatened wetlands. Protesters include students, scientists, fishermen, former military personnel familiar with Sazan’s strategic history, and ordinary citizens who see the project as a symbol of corruption and foreign exploitation.

Ivanka Trump inflamed tensions further when she described Sazan Island as something she and Kushner “discovered” while swimming from a friend’s boat. Albanians widely mocked the comment — Sazan is a well‑known former military base, ecological site, and strategic island. To many, her remark symbolized the arrogance of wealthy outsiders treating national heritage as a private playground.

The scandal widens when looking at the Trump family’s broader pattern of appearing around diplomatic or quasi‑diplomatic meetings. Middle Eastern outlets — The National, Al‑Arabiya, Gulf News, Middle East Eye — have reported on Jared Kushner’s continued meetings with Gulf leaders, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar, while raising billions for his private equity fund from sovereign wealth funds. He holds no government position, yet continues to appear in contexts that overlap with U.S. diplomatic interests.

A related controversy erupted when Michael Boulos, Tiffany Trump’s husband, was seen attending a sensitive U.S.–UAE meeting. Senator Marco Rubio claimed Boulos “just happened to be there,” but Gulf and U.S. reporting (AP, Politico, Al‑Arabiya) noted that Boulos’ family has deep business ties in the region, raising questions about conflicts of interest and access.

European and Balkan outlets have also noted Ivanka Trump’s presence at international events where U.S. diplomats were present, again without any official role. Critics argue this blurs the line between private business and political influence. Can anyone scream nepotism?

In Albania, opposition parties accuse Prime Minister Edi Rama of “state capture,” claiming he is selling national assets to foreign elites and using “strategic investor” laws to bypass parliament. Exit.al published leaked documents showing meetings between Rama’s ministers and Kushner’s team months before the project was announced, including draft agreements prepared before environmental reviews were conducted.

International watchdogs — Transparency International, Balkan Insight, the European Greens — have raised alarms that the project violates EU environmental norms, lacked transparency, and raises conflict‑of‑interest concerns due to the Trump family’s involvement. Members of the European Parliament have already questioned whether Albania’s actions undermine its EU accession path.

What’s happening in Albania is no longer just a local dispute. It’s a collision of environmental protection, political power, foreign influence, and the Trump family’s ongoing entanglement in international business and diplomacy. The protests are growing, the questions are multiplying, and the government’s explanations are falling apart under scrutiny from both domestic and international sources.

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The whole thing reeked of controlled opposition. He wasn’t there to inform anyone. He wasn’t there to debate. He wasn’t there to expose anything real. He was there to run cover.

He came in with a clear agenda:

trash Thomas Massie, trash Marjorie Taylor Greene, and defend Trump’s every move like his life depends on it. He even had the nerve to say we “don’t need more Epstein files,” and then turned around and bashed Massie for pushing for transparency.

And the way he talked down to the audience — like we’re too stupid to notice the contradictions — was insulting. He kept lumping pro‑war paid accounts together with anti‑war activists, as if the people calling for peace are somehow the ones being funded. Meanwhile, war is a trillion‑dollar business. Everyone knows the money is on the other side.

But Bruesewitz pretends otherwise because that’s his job. This barely out of puberty idiot thinking WE are the idiots.

He’s not a strategist. He’s not a thinker. He’s a social‑media mercenary who gets paid to manipulate narratives and attack whoever threatens the script. And the script right now is simple: protect Trump, smear dissent, and pretend the GOP isn’t eating itself alive.

The fake “fight” with Mark Levin? Please. That’s theater. Controlled opposition fighting controlled opposition to make it look like there’s a real ideological battle happening. There isn’t. They’re all marching in the same direction…to the same beat.

Watching this interview wasn’t enlightening — it was stomach churning. But it’s useful if you want to understand how these people operate. This is how propaganda is packaged now: young, loud, hyper‑online operatives pretending to be “truth tellers” while running the same tired manipulation playbook.

If you can tolerate the nausea, watch it.

Not to learn from him — but to see exactly how they try to play you.

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The UN finally said it out loud — Israel is systematically targeting children. Not “accidentally harming.” Not “caught in crossfire.” Targeting. Intentionally. Deliberately. Repeatedly. The kind of language the UN only uses when the evidence is so overwhelming they can’t bury it anymore. And even then, the West shrugs. Governments issue their little “concerns.” Newspapers bury it under celebrity gossip. Politicians pretend they didn’t see it. The silence is so loud it’s mocking.

A 10‑day‑old baby was shot in the head while breastfeeding. Sniped. A newborn. A child who hadn’t even lived long enough to open its eyes properly. A mother holding her baby, thinking she could at least feed her child in the middle of hell, and an Israeli terrorist put a bullet straight through that infant’s skull. Tell me how that’s “self-defense.” Tell me how that’s “security.” Tell me how that’s anything but a f*****g execution. And the West still can’t bring itself to say the obvious: this is monstrous.

Then there’s the 16‑year‑old boy — shot, left bleeding, still alive, and then run over by a tank. A tank. They crushed him while he was still breathing. You don’t do that by accident. You don’t f*****g “miscalculate” with a tank. You don’t “fail to identify” a teenager you already shot. That’s not war. That’s not combat. That’s sadism. That’s the behavior of monsters who know they’ll never face consequences. Monsters who know the world will look away. Monsters who know the West will keep sending weapons and calling them “the only democracy in the Middle East.”

And if that wasn’t enough, the UN report is full of case after case that should make every government on earth choke on their own hypocrisy. 6‑year‑old, Hind Rajab, trapped in a car surrounded by the bodies of her family, begging for help on the phone for hours while Israeli terrorists closed in — and instead of rescuing her, they pumped 355 bullets into the car after was in and killed the paramedics who tried to reach her. That’s not “fog of war.” That’s f*****g cruelty.

Or the 4‑year‑old boy whose body was found with a sniper’s bullet straight through his chest, still clutching a piece of bread. Or the 13‑year‑old who was shot in the neck while waving a white cloth. Or the two brothers, 8 and 10, executed with shots to the head while trying to flee on a donkey cart. Or the dozens of kids whose bodies were found with single, precise bullet wounds — the kind of shots you only make when you’re aiming, steady, deliberate.

And then there’s the footage — the Israeli f*****g terrorist bragging on camera about “hunting teenagers,” laughing as he describes shooting a boy in the leg “just to watch him fall.” The terrorist soldiers filming themselves blowing up schools, hospitals, playgrounds, and then dancing in the rubble like it’s a f*****g festival. The videos of children with their hands zip‑tied, blindfolded, shoved into trucks like cattle. The testimonies of kids tortured in detention, electrocuted, beaten, starved. The UN documented all of it. Every last bit.

And still — silence.

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And now the UN confirms what Palestinians have been screaming for years — Israel is using children as target practice. Snipers aiming at heads, chests, legs. Kids playing. Kids running. Kids trying to get water. Kids trying to get bread. Kids standing near their homes. Kids doing nothing but existing. The UN says it plainly: that wretched demonic colony is intentionally killing children. And the world reacts like someone just announced the weather.

How the f**k is this happening? How is the world this quiet? How do you watch a baby get sniped and say nothing? How do you watch a teenager get crushed under a tank and go back to your morning coffee? How do you read a UN report that says a state is hunting children and still talk about “both sides”? What kind of moral rot do you need to have inside you to see all this and stay silent?

We’re living in a moment where genocide is livestreamed, documented, verified, confirmed by every human rights body on earth, and the people with the power to stop it are acting like it’s just another Monday. Another headline. Another thing to scroll past. Another tragedy they can pretend is “complicated.”

It’s not complicated. It’s not nuanced. It’s not a puzzle. A state armed to the teeth is killing children on purpose. A state backed by the richest governments in the world is wiping out an entire generation. A state that calls itself civilized is behaving like a f*****g death cult. And the West — the same West that lectures everyone else about human rights — is silent because the victims are Palestinian.

This isn’t neutrality. This isn’t diplomacy. This is complicity. This is cowardice. This is the world telling Palestinians their children don’t matter, their lives don’t matter, their deaths don’t matter. And the Israeli demons hear that message loud and clear. That’s why they keep doing it. That’s why they don’t stop. That’s why they don’t even bother lying anymore. They know no one will hold them accountable.

A colony of despots. A colony of depraved, despicable monsters. That’s what you called them, what else do you call demons who shoot a baby in the head while it’s breastfeeding? What else do you call soulless ghouls who run over a wounded teenager with a tank? What else do you call a military that treats children like targets in a video game?

The UN finally said it. The evidence is undeniable. The world knows. And still — silence. Still — excuses. Still — the same empty statements. Still — the same cowardly governments pretending they don’t see what’s right in front of them.

And that silence is its own kind of violence. It’s permission. It’s approval. It’s a green light.

And here’s the part that needs to be said without any f*****g sugarcoating: Western governments are not “failing” to stop this. They are choosing not to. They are bankrolling it. They are arming it. They are shielding it diplomatically. They are running interference at the UN. They are blocking ceasefires. They are sending weapons while children are being sniped. They are writing checks while babies are being blown apart. They are giving Israel political cover while teenagers are being crushed under tanks. They are not bystanders — they are participants.

The US, the UK, Germany, Canada, Australia — all of them. They stand there with their polished speeches about “human rights” and “international law,” and then they turn around and enable the slaughter of children. They lecture the world about morality while funding a f*****g child‑killing machine. They talk about “shared values” while those values apparently include shooting a 10‑day‑old baby in the head. They talk about “security” while supporting a military that treats Palestinian kids like targets in a carnival game.

They know exactly what’s happening. They’ve seen the same footage. They’ve read the same UN reports. They’ve watched the same videos of kids bleeding out in the street. And they still send weapons. They still defend Israel at every podium. They still pretend this is “complex.” It’s not complex. It’s cowardice. It’s political self‑interest. It’s racism. It’s the belief that Palestinian children are disposable. It's f*****g evil.

How much more do they need to see before they admit what’s happening? How many more children have to be sniped, crushed, starved, burned, buried under rubble? How many more UN reports have to come out before the world grows a spine?

Because right now, the message is clear: Israel can kill as many children as it wants, and the world will look away.

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Settlers are not acting alone. They are armed, funded, and shielded by the Israeli state. They receive military‑grade rifles, agricultural machinery, surveillance drones, and new roads built specifically to expand their reach. Palestinians, meanwhile, face home demolitions, land seizures, and escalating violence.

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, settler attacks have more than doubled since 2023. Entire Palestinian communities—over 1,200 people—have been forced to flee due to violence and intimidation. Israeli human rights groups like Yesh Din report that over 90% of settler attacks result in no charges at all.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who also holds unprecedented authority over the West Bank’s civil administration, has used his position to funnel money into settlement expansion. While Israel’s national budget faces cuts, settlement budgets have ballooned. In February, Smotrich announced a restructuring of land registration laws to make it easier for settlers to claim Palestinian land as “state land.” He openly declared: “We will continue to kill off the idea of a Palestinian state.”

The IDF’s role is central. Soldiers routinely accompany settlers during raids on Palestinian villages. They block Palestinian ambulances, detain Palestinian farmers, and provide cover for settlers who torch homes or seize grazing land. In many cases documented by B’Tselem, the army fires on Palestinians who attempt to defend themselves or their property.

Meanwhile, new outposts—illegal even under Israeli law—are being established at record speed. Instead of dismantling them, the government connects them to infrastructure and retroactively legalizes them. Each outpost becomes a foothold for further expansion, pushing Palestinians into smaller and smaller enclaves.

This is a textbook case of ethnic cleansing: the removal of an Indigenous population through violence, coercion, and state‑backed settlement. The West Bank is being carved up in real time, and the people who have lived there for centuries are being erased from it.

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She says the agents told her she could face federal and state prosecution for an anti‑ICE comment. The post they were angry about was simple and already based on public reporting. It said:

“I think today is a great day for Jonathan Ross to be indicted.”

Jonathan Ross is the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good on January 7, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His name was already public. News outlets had already reported it. Gonyea did not publish his address, phone number, or any private information. She quoted what was already in the news.

ICE still accused her of “doxxing.”

Gonyea says she told the agents she had already contacted an attorney. According to her, the attorney made it clear that law enforcement is not allowed to conduct business inside a polling place. Yet ICE agents entered the site, questioned her, and pressured her to remove a post that had nothing to do with her job duties.

“While I was working as a Poll Site Manager—I had pretty unsettling run‑in with federal agents—over something posted on social media.”

“It’s the kind of situation that makes you stop and think about free speech—and how far government authority can go.”

“Honestly, it shook me, and I don’t think it’s something that should just be brushed off.”

This incident is not happening in a vacuum. It fits into a documented pattern of ICE and other federal agents showing up at or near polling places, intimidating voters or workers, and crossing legal boundaries.

This is not the first time ICE has been near polling sites. Civil rights groups have tracked multiple cases over the past decade:

* North Carolina (2018): ICE agents were reported near early voting sites in Robeson County. Latino voters said they felt targeted.

* Kansas (2018): ICE vehicles were seen near the only polling site in Dodge City, which had already been moved outside city limits.

* Texas (2020): ICE vehicles were spotted near polling locations in Houston and El Paso. Local officials called it intimidation.

* Florida (2020): ICE confirmed it had “officers in the field” on Election Day, which voting rights groups said chilled turnout in immigrant communities.

These incidents were widely reported and criticized. They created fear, confusion, and distrust around the voting process.

The law is not vague — federal agents cannot do what ICE did in Syracuse. Multiple laws restrict law enforcement presence at polling places:

* 18 U.S.C. § 592 — Federal officers cannot be stationed at polling places unless they are there to vote.

* 18 U.S.C. § 594 — Intimidation or coercion of voters or election workers is illegal.

* DOJ Election Day Guidance (2024) — Federal agents may not enter polling places to conduct investigations or question workers.

* New York Election Law § 8‑104(1) — Law enforcement must stay at least 100 feet away unless called for an emergency.

Gonyea’s account — ICE agents entering a polling place to confront her about a personal social media post — conflicts with these rules.

ICE has a history of retaliating against critics. This is not speculation. Courts have ruled on it.

* Ravi Ragbir (2017): A federal court found ICE retaliated against him for speaking out.

* Maru Mora‑Villalpando (2018): ICE targeted her after she criticized the agency; internal documents confirmed it.

* Journalists and activists (2020): Reports showed ICE monitored and tracked people who reported on detention abuses.

The Syracuse incident fits this pattern: ICE treating criticism as a threat and responding with intimidation.

The “doxxing” claim does not hold up. Doxxing requires publishing non‑public personal information with intent to harm. Gonyea did not do that. She quoted a name already published by news outlets.

Calling that “doxxing” is inaccurate and misleading.

This is a warning sign for anyone working at or voting in a polling place. Election workers across the country are already facing threats and harassment. Adding federal intimidation into the mix is dangerous. When ICE agents walk into a polling place and confront a worker over a personal post quoting public information, that is not a small issue. It raises questions about:

* misuse of federal authority

* interference with election processes

* intimidation of election workers

* retaliation against critics

* disregard for legal boundaries

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That’s the part American officials don’t want to admit. The U.S. didn’t lose a battle. It lost the map.

And Israel is the one left standing in the cold.

Before the Gaza war, Israel was being woven into a new regional order. The Abraham Accords were supposed to be the start of a long-term realignment. Gulf monarchies were warming up to the idea of Israel as a partner. Israel was being sold as the tech hub, the security anchor, the Western foothold in a volatile region.

That entire project collapsed in a matter of months. Not because of one event, but because the region realized something: the United States isn’t the center of gravity anymore. And if the U.S. isn’t the center, Israel isn’t either.

A new power structure is taking shape. Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan are the ones with the population, the military weight, the industrial base, or the nuclear umbrella to matter in the long run. These are the countries other nations now have to negotiate with. These are the countries shaping the next decade.

Israel isn’t on that list. That’s the nightmare scenario.

Israel’s leadership has spent years acting like American support is a bottomless well. Every crisis, every escalation, every bombing campaign was carried out with the assumption that Washington would clean up the diplomatic mess afterward. But the U.S. is tired. The political climate has changed. The public mood has changed. And the idea that America will keep underwriting Israel’s decisions forever is fading.

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That’s why the warnings coming from inside the U.S. political system matter. When a sitting vice president says you can’t bomb your way out of a political crisis, that’s not a moral lecture. It’s a strategic one. It’s a reminder that Israel is running out of room, out of allies, and out of time.

Iran, meanwhile, isn’t isolated. It’s connected. It has partners who don’t crumble under pressure. It has a regional narrative that resonates far more than Israel’s. It has the patience to play the long game. And it has the confidence of a country that knows the balance of power is shifting in its favor.

Israel is now facing a Middle East where it is no longer the indispensable partner. It’s the outlier. The country that once relied on American dominance is now staring at a region that doesn’t need American dominance at all.

The structure of the region itself has changed. And Israel is discovering that it built its entire strategy on a foundation that no longer exists.

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“Cuba After Castro” isn’t just another political documentary. It’s BreakThrough News putting a camera where U.S. media never does, and letting Miguel Díaz‑Canel speak without the usual censoring. The film, directed by Abby Martin and Matt Belen, is built around the first and only interview Díaz‑Canel has ever given to a U.S. outlet, and that alone tells you how tightly controlled the narrative around Cuba usually is. The documentary shows a version of the island that Western coverage rarely touches: a country shaped by collective values, still trying to survive under a pressure campaign that never really stopped.

The film digs into Díaz‑Canel’s life in a way that’s almost never shown. He’s not portrayed as some hand‑picked heir groomed for power since birth. He comes off as a quiet organizer who grew up inside the revolutionary system, someone who biked to work during the Special Period after the Soviet collapse, someone who didn’t expect to end up running a country that’s been in Washington’s crosshairs for more than sixty years. His background is laid out in the interview: his childhood, his early meetings with Fidel, his work in Nicaragua, and the long stretch of Cuban history that shaped him.

Cuba’s current crisis didn’t appear in a vacuum. With the tightening of sanctions under Trump and Marco Rubio, hundreds of new restrictions piled on top of the already‑suffocating blockade. It shows how the island was hit with a “perfect storm” — a U.S. economic chokehold, a global pandemic, a media war, and the July 11, 2021 protests that Washington immediately tried to spin as the beginning of regime collapse. The film doesn’t pretend Cuba is paradise. It shows the shortages, the blackouts, the frustration. But it also shows the context that’s always left out purposely in Western reporting: the U.S. has spent decades trying to break Cuba economically, and the current crisis is the result of that pressure, not some isolated failure of the Cuban system.

What stands out is how openly Díaz‑Canel talks about the existential threats facing the country. He describes the sanctions as a deliberate attempt to push Cuba to the brink — the Obama thaw, the Trump reversal, and the new threats of “liberating” Cuba militarily, including CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s visit to Havana with exactly that message. That context is important because it shows how the island keeps getting shoved into the line of fire, not because of anything it’s doing now, but because of what it represents: a government that refuses to bend to U.S. demands.

The documentary also highlights something that rarely gets airtime: Cuba’s public‑sector vaccine development during COVID‑19. While the U.S. was hoarding doses, Cuba was building its own vaccines through BioCubaFarma, a state‑run consortium. That’s the kind of detail that breaks the usual narrative of a failed state on the verge of collapse. It shows a country that, even under sanctions, still manages to produce things most wealthy nations can’t.

BreakThrough News positions the film as a counterweight to decades of propaganda. The documentary is clearly aimed at an audience that has only ever heard one version of Cuba — the version where socialism is always failing, where the government is always oppressive, where the U.S. is always the savior waiting in the wings. The film pushes back by letting Díaz‑Canel speak plainly about the Revolution, the social programs that still exist because of it, and the constant attempts to crush the island into submission. This documentary is a correction to a narrative that’s been distorted for generations.

Watching it in the context of today — with new threats of invasion, with the U.S. openly discussing “taking” Cuba again, with sanctions still tightening — the documentary is a warning. Cuba is being pushed toward collapse, and the people paying the price are the ones who’ve already endured decades of economic warfare. BreakThrough News doesn’t pretend the Cuban government is flawless. It strips away the context, doesn't pretend the crisis is self‑contained, and refuse to let the U.S. off the hook for the role it plays in every Cuban hardship. This is not about defending a government. It’s about telling the truth about the pressure being applied to a small country that’s been punished for surviving.

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Keir Starmer didn’t rise because he was impressive. He rose because the BBC, Sky, the Guardian, and the rest needed someone who wouldn’t challenge anything that mattered to them. Someone who wouldn’t disrupt their access, their cosy relationships, their worldview. They packaged him as “competent” and “serious” because that’s all they ever want in a leader — someone who won’t make them uncomfortable.

And when Gaza happened, the whole thing split open and the soullessness was impossible to hide.

The Gaza Complicity the Media Pretended Not to See

While Israel was levelling Gaza, killing thousands, the legacy press kept the language clean and the conscience cleaner. They platformed Israeli officials without pushback. They treated Palestinian deaths like background noise. They framed mass killing as a “complex situation,” because calling it what it was would have forced them to confront their own role in normalising it.

Declassified UK exposed that Britain was running surveillance flights over Gaza from Cyprus — flights that lined up with Israeli strikes, including the one that killed British aid workers. The BBC didn’t want to touch that. Sky didn’t want to touch it either. The Guardian buried it under euphemisms.

Starmer’s Media Shield: How the Lobby Protected Him

The Westminster lobby protected Starmer because he was safe for them. He wasn’t going to challenge the donors, the think‑tank crowd, the senior bureaucrats who actually pull the strings. He wasn’t going to disrupt the revolving door between politics and journalism. He was the perfect product for a media class that wants politics to stay in its lane.

Even when Gaza protests exploded across the country, the BBC framed it as a “messaging issue.” As if the problem was tone, not the fact that Britain was backing a military campaign that wiped out entire neighbourhoods.

They always find a way to make Palestinian suffering sound like a PR problem…dehumanizing Palestinians at every turn.

The Election That Exposed the Lie

Starmer didn’t win because people were inspired. He won because the Conservatives collapsed and Reform split the right. Labour got a landslide in seats with barely a third of the vote. Fewer votes than Corbyn in 2019. Millions fewer than Corbyn in 2017. A “mandate” built on a broken electoral system and a media desperate to pretend it meant something.

The BBC treated it like some sort of coronation anyway, because that’s the story they needed to sell.

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The Gaza Backlash They Pretended Didn’t Exist

Millions walked away from Labour over Gaza. Young people, Muslim communities, left‑leaning voters — all gone. The Greens surged. Independents took seats that were supposed to be untouchable. But legacy media refused to say the word genocide. They refused to say complicity. They refused to say Britain helped.

They talked about “community tensions,” like the issue was angry voters instead of dead families.

Burnham Isn’t the Answer — But He’s a Pressure Point

Andy Burnham has shifted with every political wind of the last decade. Blairite when it suited him, Corbyn‑friendly when that was useful, mayoral populist when that became the move. He once praised Israel as a democracy that “protects minorities,” which tells you where he was politically back then.

And now he’s out there saying the first place he’ll visit as Prime Minister is Israel, to go stand at the Western Wall and do the whole ritualised photo‑op routine — the same wall every British politician suddenly discovers a deep spiritual connection to the moment they need to signal loyalty. It’s the same script, just a different suit. The same choreography every leader performs to show they understand the unspoken rules of British politics: you go to Israel, you touch the wall, you nod solemnly, and you make sure everyone watching knows you’re not going to rock the boat.

But he did call for a ceasefire earlier than Starmer. And he does at least understand where public anger is coming from. He’s not going to dismantle Britain’s military and intelligence ties with Israel. He’s not going to confront the donors or the security establishment. But he can feel pressure, and right now the pressure is coming from people who are done being ignored.

The Media’s Israel Obsession

Sanders is right about the grip Israel has on Britain’s ruling class. You can see it in the way the BBC interrogates Palestinians but nods along to Israeli officials. You can see it in the way Sky News treats peaceful protesters like a threat. You can see it in the way Palestine Action was labelled a terrorist organisation for throwing paint at weapons factories, while Israel was flattening entire districts.

Burnham could reverse some of this. He won’t, but the fact that it’s even imaginable shows how far public opinion has moved.

Independent Media Is Doing the Job the BBC Won’t

Double Down News, Declassified UK, and a handful of others are the only ones willing to say any of this. They don’t have billionaire owners or corporate handlers. They don’t have to protect the same networks that built Starmer. That’s why they can call things what they are.

And that’s why they need support, because legacy media isn’t going to hold anyone accountable.

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That reaction isn’t organic. It’s engineered.

Christian Zionism didn’t grow out of scripture. It grew out of fear, propaganda, and a century of political manipulation that rewired American Christianity into a foreign policy weapon. And now, even as Israel livestreams its brutality, millions of Christians defend it with a loyalty they don’t even give to Christ.

Theologian JD Hall:

“Christian Zionism is a lie that corrupts the Gospel.”

And it’s time to say it without flinching.

THE ROOT OF THE SPELL: FEAR, NOT FAITH

Evangelicals love to pretend their support for Israel is “biblical.” It’s not. It’s psychological.

For decades, churches have been conditioned to believe:

* questioning Israel is rebellion against God

* supporting Israel guarantees blessing

* criticizing Israel invites divine punishment

* and the end of the world depends on Israel’s military dominance

This isn’t theology. It’s fear‑programming.

Pastors use the same vocabulary every cult uses:

“obedience,” “chosen,” “blessing,” “God’s will,” “don’t question,” “don’t doubt.”

Once fear becomes the operating system, people stop thinking. They stop seeing. They stop asking why a faith built on compassion is cheering for bombs.

DISPENSATIONALISM: THE THEOLOGY THAT NEVER EXISTED UNTIL SOMEONE NEEDED IT

Dispensationalism — the backbone of Christian Zionism — didn’t come from Jesus, the apostles, or early Christianity. It came from the 1800s, from a handful of men who needed a theology that justified empire.

Then came the Scofield Reference Bible, funded and promoted by political actors who understood exactly what they were doing. Scofield’s notes turned the Bible into a geopolitical manual:

* Israel must be restored

* Israel must dominate

* Israel’s wars are prophecy

* Palestinians don’t matter

* and Christians must support Israel no matter what

This is how you turn a religion into a foreign policy tool.

THE JESUS THEY DON’T PREACH

Christian Zionists preach a Jesus who:

* never confronted power

* never challenged injustice

* never flipped tables

* never condemned oppression

A Jesus who would bless drones and tanks.

A Jesus who would applaud occupation.

A Jesus who would tell Palestinians to “submit.”

It’s a counterfeit Christ — one designed to keep Christians obedient to political agendas.

THE SECULAR STATE OF ISRAEL: THE GOLDEN CALF OF AMERICAN EVANGELICALISM

Let’s say it without tiptoeing:

The modern State of Israel is not biblical Israel.

It is a secular, militarized state with intelligence agencies, political parties, and a long record of human rights abuses. Yet American Christians treat it like a sacred object.

They ignore:

* Israel’s persecution of Palestinian Christians

* Israel’s destruction of churches

* Israel’s harassment of clergy

* Israel’s killing of Christian aid workers

* Israel’s open contempt for Jesus

* Israel’s systematic attacks on Christians in Lebanon — bombed monasteries, shelled churches, assassinated clergy, and decades of cross‑border aggression that wiped out entire Christian villages

They ignore all of it because their theology requires blindness.

Christian Zionism demands that Christians pretend Israel only harms “terrorists,” even when the victims are priests, nuns, monks, and entire Christian communities in Lebanon who have been targeted for generations.

THE PROPAGANDA PIPELINE: HOW ISRAEL CAPTURED THE AMERICAN CHURCH

Theologian JD Hall lays out the machinery:

* pastors flown to Israel for indoctrination tours

* Christian media funded by pro‑Israel donors

* conferences that blend worship with political messaging

* politicians using churches as campaign stops

* fear‑based sermons linking Israel to salvation

It’s a coordinated pipeline and it works.

Evangelicals became the most loyal pro‑Israel voting bloc in the world — not because of scripture, but because of decades of psychological conditioning. It's a cult mentality.

MIKE HUCKABEE: THE POSTER CHILD OF THEOLOGICAL SURRENDER

Huckabee stood on stage at a Jewish conference and declared:

* America wouldn’t exist without Israel

* Christianity wouldn’t exist without Judaism

* Christians owe Israel unconditional loyalty

It was pathetic and historically false.

And it was exactly what the machine wanted.

Huckabee isn’t preaching Christianity.

He’s preaching total obedience.

This is what Christian Zionism produces: pastors who sound like lobbyists, not spiritual leaders.

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ISRAEL’S AI KILL LISTS: THE MOMENT THE MASK FELL

Israel’s AI targeting systems — Lavender, Gospel, and others — automate death. They reduce human beings to data points. They allow mass killing with almost no human oversight.

And Christian Zionists defend it.

They defend algorithms that decide which child dies.

They defend bombings of churches and refugee camps.

They defend a state that mocks the very Christ they claim to worship.

They defend the same military that has bombed Christian communities in Lebanon for decades.

This is the moral rot at the heart of Christian Zionism.

THE AWAKENING: PEOPLE ARE FINALLY SEEING THE SCAM

Christians are starting to ask the questions they were trained to fear:

* Why does my faith require me to support war?

* Why is Israel above criticism?

* Why does my pastor sound like a political operative?

* Why is Palestinian suffering invisible in my church?

* Why are Lebanese Christians erased from the narrative?

* Why does my theology demand someone else’s annihilation?

These questions terrify the machine because once people start thinking, the spell breaks.

THE TRUTH: CHRISTIAN ZIONISM IS NOT CHRISTIANITY

It is:

* a political ideology

* a propaganda network

* a fear‑based control system

* a tool of empire

It has nothing to do with Jesus.

Christian Zionism survives on fear.

It dies the moment people choose truth.

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This time it's coming from Paolo Zampolli — the modeling agent who brought her into Trump’s circle in the late 90s. His former partner, Amanda Ungaro, says he kept a stash of recordings and compromising material. She calls it a “black box.” She says it involved models, diplomats, and powerful men. She says she saw it. She says it was real. Zampolli denies it. Of course he does.

Ungaro also says she and Melania were close back then. She says Melania knew the environment she was in. She says Melania cut her off when things went bad. And she says the public version of Melania’s past leaves out a lot.

None of this is coming from political operatives. It’s coming from someone who lived with the guy who controlled the pipeline of young women that surrounded Trump’s social life. Someone who saw how that world worked from the inside.

Melania has always handled this stuff the same way: she ignores it and waits for it to die. She never explains anything. She never clears anything up. She just lets the silence do the work. But silence only works when the people around you stay quiet. Well, they sure as hell are not.

Ungaro is talking again. Zampolli’s name is back in the mix. And the questions about how Melania got here — visas, work, connections, the whole thing — are back again. 😂

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For years, the British press sold Starmer as “forensic”, “grown‑up”, “decent”, “capable”. They needed a respectable front man to bury the Corbyn project and reassure the establishment that nothing truly transformative would be allowed near power again. Starmer fit the role: lawyer, knighted, polished, apparently serious. On paper, he looked like stability.

Peter Oborne spent years saying: look past the polish, look at the record, look at the methods. When you do that, the image collapses. What you see instead is a liar, an authoritarian operator, and a party machine that treats democracy and dissent as problems to be crushed, not principles to be defended.

Start at the beginning of his political rise. Starmer came into Labour politics as the respectable “professional” who could be sold to the public as a safe pair of hands. He ran for leader on a platform that deliberately echoed the left‑wing policies of the Corbyn era: public ownership, strong workers’ rights, serious climate action, a break with austerity. He signed up to ten pledges that were clearly designed to reassure members that he would not drag the party back to Blairism.

Once he had the leadership, he systematically broke those promises.

He ditched public ownership of key utilities.

He softened or abandoned radical economic commitments.

He moved the party back towards the corporate‑friendly centre.

He wrapped it all in vague language about “security”, “patriotism”, and “responsibility”.

Oborne’s point was not just that Starmer changed his mind. Politicians change their minds. The charge was that Starmer lied to get the job, then treated his own pledges as disposable once power was secured. That is not “forensic” or “principled”. It is straightforward dishonesty.

Inside the party, the picture was even uglier. Starmer’s leadership became defined by purges, suspensions, and rule‑rigging. The left was treated as an infection to be removed. Members were expelled or suspended on flimsy or opaque grounds. Local parties were overruled. Candidates were imposed from above. The disciplinary system was weaponised as a political tool.

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Oborne and others worked on investigations like Al Jazeera’s “The Labour Files”, which exposed internal documents and practices showing how factional and ruthless the machine had become. The British media largely ignored it. They did not want to touch the story because it cut straight across the narrative they were invested in: Starmer as the clean, competent, anti‑chaos leader.

Oborne described Starmer’s methods as authoritarian, anti‑democratic, illiberal. That was not exaggeration. It was a description of how he actually ran the party: centralised control, intolerance of dissent, punishment for critics, and a culture of fear. This is what you get when you put a career prosecutor in charge of a political movement and tell him his job is to “clean up” rather than to listen.

Then there is his record on major moral questions.

On war and foreign policy, Starmer consistently chose the establishment line. He backed arms sales to Israel even as the scale of destruction in Gaza became undeniable. He attacked those in his own party who stood with Palestinians. He treated solidarity with victims of state violence as a disciplinary issue, not a moral obligation. Oborne put it best: Starmer’s drift from “honourable left” to racist, punitive right was not an accident. It was a choice driven by calculation and cowardice.

On civil liberties and protest, Starmer’s Labour either backed or failed to oppose authoritarian legislation. Anti‑protest laws, expanded state powers, attacks on journalists and activists: instead of drawing a clear line, Starmer’s party blurred it, abstained, or quietly accepted it. The result was a political environment where the space for dissent shrank while the rhetoric of “order” and “security” grew louder.

All the while, the media kept polishing the myth. Profiles painted him as serious, boring in a good way, a man of quiet integrity. They framed his authoritarian streak as “discipline”. They framed his broken promises as “pragmatism”. They framed his purges as “professionalising” the party. Oborne’s work stood almost alone in mainstream commentary in saying: no, this is not normal, and it is not benign.

He called Starmer “the most dishonest mainstream politician of my lifetime” and warned that you would be “very unwise to believe a word Keir Starmer ever says.” It line up with the record: leadership pledges abandoned, internal democracy trashed, moral positions flipped whenever the polls demanded it.

As prime minister, the hollowness became impossible to hide. The government was sold as a reset after years of Tory chaos. Instead, it delivered more of the same structural cruelty with a smoother press operation. Economic policy stayed trapped inside the same narrow, failing model. Migrants were scapegoated. Protesters were criminalised. Foreign policy stayed locked into the same alliances and the same hypocrisies.

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Oborne’s later pieces described Starmer’s language on migration as dishonest, cynical, inflammatory, and racist. He pointed out that Starmer would say one thing when courting liberal opinion, then pivot to hard‑line rhetoric when chasing right‑wing votes, all while insisting that both positions were what he “believed in”. That is not conviction politics. It is opportunism dressed up as principle.

Starmer built his career on a carefully managed public image.

He used lies and broken pledges to secure the Labour leadership.

He ran the party through authoritarian, anti‑democratic methods.

He aligned himself with establishment interests on war, protest, and civil liberties.

He relied on a compliant media to protect him from serious scrutiny.

He treated truth as a flexible tool, not a binding constraint.

The resignation is not a tragic fall of a decent man. It was the writing on the wall. The media can no longer sell the illusion because the gap between the myth and the reality has become too wide to hide. The public has lived the consequences: economic stagnation, moral cowardice, authoritarian drift, and a political class that lies as a reflex.

Today’s resignation is the system finally admitting, under pressure, that the “forensic, decent, capable” story was a fraud. The moralless corrupt at the centre of it has not changed. What has changed is that the mask no longer works.

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These are the same men digging their families out of rubble with their bare hands. The same men watching their kids starve and feeling the kind of helplessness most people will never understand. The same men carrying trauma that nobody even asks about because the world has already decided who they are.

They’re painted as threats, as suspects, as “maybe Hamas,” instead of human beings who love their kids, who protect their families, who break down when no one is looking. They’re the pillars of their homes, and yet they’re the ones the world refuses to mourn.

So this is for them.

For the men who are still standing in Gaza, and for the men who should still be here but aren’t.

Happy Father’s Day to the Palestinian men — the ones the world overlooks, but we don’t.

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“American policy has been up for sale and the Israelis understood this.” He’s talking about the way lobbying networks, political donations, think‑tank funding, and media influence shape decisions in Washington. This isn’t new, but he argues the scale of Israeli penetration into U.S. political and media structures is deeper than most people admit. The Congressional Research Service has documented decades of military aid and political alignment between the U.S. and Israel, and multiple investigations have shown how lobbying groups shape legislation and public messaging. Krieg’s point is that this influence has reached a level where it distorts U.S. interests rather than serving them.

He contrasts this with the Gulf states. He says people misunderstand how Gulf lobbying works. “It is not simply Saudi, Qatari or Emirati money pumping billions into Washington and buying people. It is not like that.” His argument is that the Gulf states present themselves as partners who bring stability, investment, and economic opportunities. This lines up with public data: Gulf sovereign wealth funds have poured billions into U.S. tech, real estate, and defense contracts. The U.S. Department of Defense has confirmed that American bases in the Gulf are largely funded by the host countries, not U.S. taxpayers. Krieg’s point is that this makes the Gulf states net contributors to American power.

“Israel is a net consumer of US power. It drains US power. It sucks money out of the US economy and from US taxpayers.” This is backed by the scale of U.S. military aid to Israel, which is locked in at $3.8 billion per year under the 10‑year MOU, plus supplemental packages. Israel does not fund U.S. bases. It does not underwrite U.S. deployments. It does not carry the financial burden of American military presence in the region. Krieg’s argument is that Israel takes and the Gulf states pay.

He also says the U.S. is no longer the dominant force it once was. “We’re seeing the fall and collapse of the US empire. The idea they’re a superpower that can act at will is clearly wrong.” This lines up with analysis from institutions like Chatham House and the Quincy Institute, which have documented the limits of U.S. power projection, especially after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The U.S. can still act, but not without consequences, and not without resistance from regional actors who no longer fear American retaliation the way they once did.

Krieg points to a major shift in public opinion across the Arab world. “The Arab street now see Iran as the protector of the Palestinian cause and the only capable obstacle in Israel’s way.” Polling from Arab Barometer and other regional surveys shows a clear trend: support for U.S. policy has collapsed, trust in Israel is nonexistent, and Iran’s position has strengthened because it is seen as confronting Israel directly. Whether people like Iran or not, they see it as the only actor willing to push back.

Then he turns to Trump. Krieg argues that Trump’s worldview is transactional, not ideological. “Ultimately, you have to look at this from a transactional point of view.” Trump has said repeatedly that allies should pay for U.S. protection, that foreign policy should benefit the U.S. economically, and that he evaluates relationships based on what they deliver. Krieg’s point is that the Gulf states understand this and have structured their approach around it: investment, stability, and opportunities for American companies.

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“I would not be surprised if the Trump Organization, or firms affiliated with it, turned up in Iran if sanctions are lifted.” This isn’t speculation about Trump personally. It’s an observation about how he operates. If sanctions lift and Iran opens its economy, there will be opportunities. The Gulf states have already signaled they would support a regional de‑escalation if it brings economic benefits. Krieg’s argument is that Trump will look at the numbers: Israel costs money, the Gulf states bring money, and Iran could bring even more if the political environment shifts.

Israel’s aggression costs the U.S. financially and politically. The Gulf states offer stability and profit. Iran offers leverage and regional influence. In his view, Israel miscalculated by assuming its influence in Washington was permanent. The Gulf states adapted. Iran gained legitimacy on the street. And the U.S. is no longer strong enough to force the region into the old framework.

The balance of influence in Washington is shifting, and Israel is losing ground because it no longer aligns with the interests of the people who actually shape U.S. policy. The Gulf states do. Iran benefits from the fallout. And the U.S. is no longer strong enough to force the region into the old framework.

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Jean-Luc Brunel didn’t “find” victims. He hunted them.

French investigative files and survivor testimony describe the same pattern:

* He targeted girls who were extremely young — 12, 13, 14, 15.

* He went after girls who were isolated, often from small towns or unstable families.

* He used scouts in Eastern Europe, France, Belgium, Brazil, and the Caribbean.

* He promised modeling careers, visas, apartments, and “international opportunities.”

* He used older models to recruit younger ones, telling them it was “how the industry works.”

* He used photographers who knew exactly what he wanted: girls who were inexperienced, insecure, and easy to manipulate.

French police reports describe girls being approached:

* at train stations

* outside schools

* at shopping centers

* at castings where they were the only minor in the room

* at "open calls" that were never recorded in agency logs

Brunel's agencies– Karin Models in Paris and later MC2 acted as filters. Girls who were "too confident" or "too supported by family" were dropped. Girls who were alone, poor, naive, or desperate were fast-tracked. This is how the pipeline began.

The Coercion System -Drugs, Isolation, Threats, and Control

Survivors in France described the same mechanisms:

* They were isolated in apartments owned or rented by the agency. They were given pills without explanation "vitamins," "sleep aids," "anti-anxiety!" They woke up disoriented, unable to remember hours.

* They were told they had "embarrassed themselves" when they tried to ask what happened.

* They were threatened with deportation if they resisted.

* They were told they would be blacklisted from every agency in Europe.

* They were told Epstein was "a friend of the industry" and they should be grateful.

One French survivor told investigators she woke up in a hotel bathroom with bruises on her thighs and no memory of the previous night.

Another said she was told she had "drunk too much," even though she had been given a single glass of champagne.

Another said she was told she had "agreed" to everything, even though she had been unconscious.

The Modeling-Industry Cover Agencies, Scouts, Fake Castings

Brunel used the modeling world as a shield. French sources describe:

* fake castings held in apartments, not studios

* fake contracts that were never filed fake "test shoots" where girls were photographed alone with men they didn't know

* fake "portfolio updates" that required them to undress

* fake "international placements" that were actually one-way tickets to Miami

MC2 Model Management funded by Epstein was the bridge.

Girls were flown from Paris to Miami with:

* no chaperone

* no guardian

* no legal protection no understanding of what they were walking into

Some were minors. Some had never left their home country. Some didn't speak English. Some didn't even know who Epstein was until they were already inside his house. Everything was by design.

The French Police Files — What Investigators Actually Documented

French investigators found:

* flight logs showing Brunel traveling with girls half his age

* hotel records showing multiple rooms booked under his name

* agency documents listing minors as “adult models”

* photos taken during “test shoots” that were never used professionally

* complaints filed by girls who were ignored for decades

* internal memos from French intelligence warning about Brunel in the 1990s

* witness statements from models who said they were drugged

* statements from agency staff who said they were told to “not ask questions”

One French investigator said the pattern was “identical to trafficking cases,” another said Brunel operated with “total impunity,” and a third estimated the number of potential victims was “in the hundreds.”

They all knew, they just chose to look the other way.

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The Protection Network- The Men Who Enabled It

Brunel was protected by:

* wealthy businessmen

* politicians

* photographers

* agency owners

* club owners

* men who attended "private dinners"

* men who used the same apartments

* men who appeared in the same flight logs

* men who were never charged

French intelligence flagged him. French police had complaints. French agencies knew. The fashion world knew. The nightlife world knew. The men around him knew. They ALL knew.

And nothing happened. FOR FORTY YEARS.

The Collapse Arrest, Charges, and Convenient Death

Brunel was arrested in 2020 at Charles-de-Gaulle Airport. He was charged with:

* rape of minors

* sexual assault

* human trafficking

Survivors finally believed they would see justice.

In 2022, he was found dead in his cell. French authorities called it suicide (hmmm, sounds familiar right?). The investigation into the French network remains open, but the men who benefited from it remain unnamed.

Survivors still aren’t receiving justice, and now it feels like history is repeating itself with the Epstein files. The same patterns of delay, silence, and protection of powerful men are playing out again, while the people who lived through the abuse are left waiting, unheard, and pushed aside.

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The companies buying into TikTok aren’t random investors. They’re tied into Israeli military contracts, U.S. defense money, Gulf surveillance networks, and billionaire family offices that treat information as weapons. When you line up the names, the tenders, the leaked emails, and the public statements, the picture is nothing less than authoritarian: the people who benefit from controlling the narrative now own the infrastructure that delivers it.

Oracle isn’t a bystander — it’s inside the system

Safra Catz, Oracle’s CEO, literally bragged about walking through the Kirya — Israel’s military headquarters — and seeing her own Oracle employees in IDF uniforms. She called it her “proudest moment.” Then she said there were things Oracle did for the Israeli military that she “can’t talk about.”

This is the same company now handling TikTok’s U.S. data and algorithm oversight.

So the platform that shapes what hundreds of millions of people see every day is partly run by a corporation whose leadership openly collaborates with a foreign terrorist military and brags about it on the world stage.

The private equity trail isn’t neutral either

* Jeff Yass and Arthur Dantchik — through Susquehanna — hold a massive stake in TikTok’s global structure. Their foundation has funded Friends of the IDF and the Central Fund of Israel, which has been linked to settlement expansion. These aren’t passive investors. They’re politically involved, financially involved, and ideologically aligned.

* Yuri Milner’s investment arm is also in the ownership mix. Milner has a long personal relationship with Netanyahu and was questioned during corruption investigations. Again — not neutral.

* Michael Dell’s family office is another shareholder. Dell’s company won a $150 million Israeli Ministry of Defense tender funded by U.S. military aid. The same family money now buying into TikTok is the money supplying the IDF’s hardware backbone.

This is all about Israel.

The UAE’s surveillance giants are in the room too

MGX — a joint venture between Mubadala and G42 — also owns a piece of TikTok.

Mubadala has a $1.1 billion stake in Israel’s Tamar gas field. They also invested $50 million into the fund that owns NSO Group, the company behind Pegasus spyware — the same spyware used to target journalists and dissidents around the world.

G42 is the UAE’s main AI and surveillance powerhouse.

So now you’ve got Israeli military contractors, U.S. defense-linked billionaires, and Gulf surveillance firms all sitting on top of the ownership structure of the app that shapes the worldview of half the planet under 30.

If that doesn’t have raise every single alarm, nothing will.

Why this is happening now

Young people aren't buying the official narratives anymore. They are seeing unfiltered footage from Gaza, the West Bank, and everywhere else governments prefer to keep out of sight. They aren't waiting for cable news to tell them what happened. They are watching it themselves.

You can’t stop people from filming.

You can’t stop people from posting.

But you can buy the platform and decide who gets seen.

This isn’t about “mind control.” It’s about control, period

It’s something much simpler and much more effective:

* throttle certain words

* bury certain videos

* boost others

* shape what trends

* shape what doesn’t

* decide which emotions get rewarded

* decide which ones get punished

That’s it.

That’s their whole game.

And the people running that game now are tied into militaries, intelligence units, settlement networks, and surveillance companies — all tied to Israel.

The bottom line

The question isn’t “What are we watching?”

It’s “Who is deciding what we’re allowed to see?”

And right now, the answer is a tight circle of billionaires, defense contractors, and political actors who have every (Israeli) reason to manage public perception — especially when it comes to Palestine, war, surveillance, and state violence.

This is ownership and ownership always comes with an agenda…an Israeli one.

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Israel has killed 311 journalists. Three hundred and eleven. Let that number sink in. That’s not a statistic. That’s an entire press corps wiped out. That’s generations of voices silenced. That’s a whole country’s storytellers, witnesses, documenters, truth‑tellers — gone.

And the world still pretends it’s complicated.

These journalists weren’t killed because they were standing too close to a target. They were THE target. Israel bombed their homes, their tents, their cars, their offices, their shelters, their families. Israel hit them while they were sleeping, while they were reporting, while they were evacuating, while they were eating, while they were uploading footage. Every time a journalist in Gaza went live, they knew Israel was watching. And Israel acted on it.

Here is a partial list of prominent journalists Israel killed — the ones every Palestinian knew by name, the ones whose reporting reached millions, and those not as known but were part of getting the truth out to the world:

* Hossam Shabat

* Anas Al‑Sharif

* Mohammad Abu Hatab

* Samer Abu Daqqa

* Roshdi Sarraj

* Mohammad Abu Hassira

* Yasser Abu Namous

* Salma Al‑Loh

* Haneen Abu Quta

* Yousef Mahdi

* Saleh al-Jafarawi

* Ismail Al-Ghoul

* The Al‑Aqsa TV crews

* The Palestine TV crews

* The Ain Media journalists

* The local Gaza radio reporters

* The field photographers

* The fixers

* The editors

* The cameramen

* The women journalists

* The student journalists

* The ones killed in their homes

* The ones killed in their tents

* The ones killed in their cars

* The ones killed with their entire families

* The ones whose names the world never bothered to learn

Every single one of them counts. Every single one of them mattered. Every single one of them was a witness Israel wanted gone.

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By early 2024, Gaza had already lost more journalists in a few months than the entire world loses in a decade. And those monsters kept going. They kept killing them through 2025. Through 2026. Each new name was another blow, and you could see it on everyone’s faces. Another voice gone. Another truth teller murdered.

And still, the surviving journalists kept reporting. They filmed the mass graves. They filmed the starving children. They filmed the bombed schools. They filmed the bodies of their own colleagues. They filmed their own families being pulled from rubble. They filmed everything because they knew if they didn’t, nobody else would.

This is not a war on Hamas. This is a war on witnesses.

Israel has killed 311 journalists. No country has ever done that. No army has ever done that. No conflict has ever produced numbers like this. And the world still has the nerve to call it “complex.”

There is nothing complex about killing the people holding the cameras.

Israel kills journalists because journalists show the truth. And Gaza’s journalists — the ones still alive — are the only reason the world knows anything at all.

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Apffel starts by pointing out something obvious: the idolization of the modern Israeli state inside American churches didn’t happen naturally. It wasn’t born out of scripture. It was manufactured through paid trips, foreign-funded conferences, targeted messaging, data-driven profiling, and political operatives posing as religious allies. MintPress’ documents show Israeli-linked PR firms mapping megachurch audiences, tracking sentiment, and feeding pastors pre‑packaged talking points. Not support for Israel as a people. Support for the Israeli government as a political project.

One of the most disturbing parts of the MintPress investigation is how megachurches were treated like data farms. Phones inside churches were tracked. Congregants were profiled. Messaging was tailored to their fears, age, and political leanings. This is the kind of thing Americans scream about when China does it, but when Israel does it, the same people suddenly lose their voices. Apffel confirms the same pattern: megachurches were treated as political assets, not houses of worship.

He also talks about how the elderly were the easiest targets. Churches already exploit them, and Israeli influence networks know it. Older Christians grew up with Cold War propaganda, end‑times sermons, and decades of “Israel is God’s chosen ally” messaging. They’re primed for manipulation. MintPress found that Israeli-linked PR firms specifically targeted seniors with fixed incomes, retirees who tithe heavily, older Christians who consume conservative media, and people who respond emotionally to “biblical prophecy” framing. It’s not ministry. It’s psychological warfare dressed up as fellowship.

When Apffel gets into how many pastors know they’re being used, he’s blunt: some know exactly what they’re doing, and others are too naïve or too flattered to question it. MintPress’ documents show pastors receiving scripted talking points, being coached on how to “sell Israel,” being flown to Israel on government‑funded junkets, and being used as political influencers rather than spiritual leaders.

The question of who pays for the pastor trips has a simple answer: foreign-linked nonprofits, Israeli ministries, political advocacy groups, and U.S. Christian Zionist organizations acting as middlemen. MintPress found that many of these groups are registered under FARA, receive Israeli government funding, operate as PR arms for the Israeli state, and use “religious tourism” as political indoctrination. Pastors come back parroting the same lines: “Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East,” “Israel shares our values,” “Supporting Israel is a biblical mandate.” All of it is manufactured.

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Apffel argues that Christian Zionism isn’t collapsing — it’s fracturing. Younger Christians are walking away from the unconditional pro‑Israel narrative because they see Gaza, they see the occupation, and they see the hypocrisy. But the institutional machine — the megachurches, the televangelists, the political donors — is doubling down because they’re financially tied to it.

Apffel spends a long stretch exposing how churches operate like corporations: tithing as revenue extraction, pastors as CEOs, congregants as customers, and Israel as a political brand. MintPress’ documents show that Israeli-linked firms understood this perfectly. They treated churches like marketing channels, not spiritual communities. The money explains everything. Church funds go to political lobbying, media campaigns, Israel‑aligned advocacy groups, and pastor conferences funded by foreign interests. Meanwhile, congregants think they’re funding missions.

When Apffel brings up the Mormon Church’s massive financial empire, it fits the pattern. MintPress didn’t focus on Mormons, but it's comparable: religious institutions with billions in assets are prime targets for foreign influence. Israel knows this and capitalizes on it.

Apffel doesn’t sugarcoat the fact that many pastors get rich because the system rewards political loyalty, not spiritual integrity. MintPress’ documents show that pastors who push pro‑Israel messaging get more funding, more access, more media exposure, and more “partnership opportunities.”

This leads into the bigger point: Christianity in the U.S. has been commercialized, politicized, militarized, and foreign‑influenced. And Israel has been one of the most aggressive players in that space.

Apffel says people are leaving institutional churches but not Christianity itself. They’re sick of the corruption, the politics, and the foreign agendas. MintPress’ reporting suggests the same: the more people learn about these influence operations, the more they walk away. He calls the modern church a franchise, and MintPress calls it political targeting. Either way, the result is the same: American Christianity is being reshaped by foreign interests.

When asked whether churches are waking up to Middle Eastern Christian persecution, Apffel says some are, but most aren’t. Because acknowledging the persecution of Palestinian Christians would force them to confront the reality that the Israeli government — the same government they idolize — is responsible for much of it.

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Hezbollah didn’t begin as a political party or a military machine. It started as a reaction to something simple and brutal: Lebanon was invaded, and nobody was coming to save the people living in the south.

In 1982, when Israel rolled into Lebanon all the way to Beirut, the south was already exhausted. Villages were bombed. Families were displaced. The Lebanese state was too weak to protect anyone. The people who lived there — mostly poor, mostly ignored — were left alone with a terrorist army on their land.

So the locals did what people under occupation have always done: they organized, they defended their homes, and they built something out of necessity.

A handful of clerics, fighters, and community organizers — influenced by Iran but shaped by Lebanese reality — started forming networks to protect villages, move supplies, and push back against the occupation. It wasn’t polished. It wasn’t even ideological. It was just survival

That was the beginning of what would later be called Hezbollah.

The 1980s — The Resistance Takes Shape

During the Israeli occupation, Hezbollah grew from scattered groups into a structured resistance. They weren’t the only ones fighting, but they were the ones who stayed, organized, and built roots.

They created:

* local defense units

* social services

* clinics and schools

* support networks for families under occupation

They weren’t just fighting; they were filling the void left by a collapsing state.

By the late 1990s, Hezbollah had become the main force pushing Israel out of Lebanon. And in 2000, when Israel withdrew from the south, many Lebanese — even those who disagreed with Hezbollah politically — saw that withdrawal as the result of years of resistance.

2006 — The War That Was Supposed to End Them

In 2006, Israel launched a full-scale war on Lebanon. The goal was simple: break Hezbollah once and for all.

But after 34 days of bombardment, Hezbollah was still standing. Southern Lebanon was destroyed, but the movement rebuilt homes and roads faster than the government. That cemented their role in the eyes of many Lebanese: they were the ones who showed up when the state didn’t.

The Last Decade — Pressure, Sanctions, Predictions of Collapse

For years, analysts kept saying Hezbollah was stretched thin, weakened, isolated, or on the verge of collapse. Every few months, someone declared them “finished.”

But the movement kept adapting.

They rebuilt.

They reorganized.

They dug deeper into the political and social fabric of Lebanon.

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The Last Two Months — “Hezbollah Is Done” Becomes the Headline Again

After Israel’s major strikes last year — especially the assassinations and the destruction in Beirut’s southern suburbs — outside commentators said Hezbollah had been “decapitated.”

They claimed:

* the command structure was shattered

* the group was weakened

* morale was broken

But on the ground, the opposite happened.

Hezbollah kept firing.

They kept rotating units.

They kept hitting military sites across northern Israel.

They kept showing they still had discipline and capability.

And in the last month and a half, they escalated in ways that made it clear they weren’t out of the fight.

Last Night — The Merkava Strike

Last night’s attack — the one that destroyed Israeli Merkava tanks and killed several Israeli soldiers — was a message.

The Merkava is supposed to be Israel’s pride, its “untouchable” tank. Hezbollah hitting it again wasn’t symbolic. It was tactical. It showed:

* their intelligence network is still functioning

* their anti‑armor capabilities are intact

* their command structure is still coordinated

* they can strike high‑value targets even under heavy pressure

For a group that was declared “finished” just months ago, this was a blunt reminder: they’re still operational, still organized, and still capable of hitting back. 🔥

Why They’re Still Standing

Hezbollah’s endurance isn’t luck. It’s built on:

* deep support in the south and the Bekaa

* a social network that keeps communities tied to them

* a political structure that survived every crisis

* a military strategy built on patience, not theatrics

* the simple fact that they were born in war and shaped by it

They rose because there was no one else protecting the people who needed protection. They exist because the Lebanese state has been too compromised, too dependent on Western interests, to stand on its own.

Whether someone supports them or opposes them, one thing is undeniable:

Hezbollah is not a temporary group. They are a long-term consequence of invasion, occupation, and abandonment by a government that is compromised.

Every time they’re written off, every time someone says “they’re done,” they come back with a reminder that they’re still a central force in Lebanon’s landscape — politically, socially, and militarily.

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Australia has entered a moment where even mild criticism of Israel is treated like a threat to national security. After the Bondi shooting, the political class didn’t respond by addressing racism or community fear — they responded by tightening the screws on protest, speech, and anything that looks like “anti-Israel sentiment.” The government and media fused the words “anti-Israel” and “antisemitism” into one blob, and now they use it to shut down anything that makes them uncomfortable.

This is the environment Carr was describing, even if he didn’t use the same blunt language the rest of us do.

The Lobby Pressure Carr Admitted — and what He Didn’t Have to Spell Out

Carr talked about donor pressure. He talked about coordinated backlash. He talked about how MPs get warned, privately, not to step out of line. He talked about how settlement expansion is illegal under international law, and how even saying that out loud triggers a political storm.

Penny Wong and Anthony Albanese have bent over backwards to avoid upsetting Israel. They talk about “balance” while Gaza is being flattened. They condemn “hate” while criminalising Palestinian grief. They call for “calm” while banning marches. They treat pro-Palestine communities like a threat and treat Israeli talking points like official policy.

The Criminalisation of Pro-Palestine Protest

Before October 2023, pro-Palestine marches in Australia were large, loud, and normal. After October, they became “security risks.” After Bondi, they became “potential extremist gatherings.” The shift wasn’t organic — it was political.

Australia now has:

* police surveillance of Palestinian community groups

* restrictions on marches

* politicians calling peaceful protestors “hate mobs”

* media outlets framing any criticism of Israel as “radicalisation”

And the most dangerous part: the government has blurred the line between antisemitism and anti-Israel criticism so aggressively that the words barely mean anything anymore.

Fake Antisemitism Accusations as a Political Weapon

Carr has said publicly that accusations of antisemitism are being used politically. He’s not alone — Jewish academics, journalists, and activists have said the same. But the Australian government pretends not to hear it.

It’s exactly what you’d expect:

* Palestinians can’t mourn publicly without being accused of hate

* activists can’t chant slogans without being investigated

* students can’t hold campus events without being smeared

* journalists can’t report honestly without being attacked

Meanwhile, actual antisemitism — real hatred of Jewish people — gets buried under the noise. Weaponized accusations don’t protect Jewish communities. They protect Israel from any accountability.

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Australia’s Political Class Is Out of Step With Its People

Carr’s break from the old pro-Israel line exposes the gap between the public and the political elite. Australians overwhelmingly support a ceasefire. They support humanitarian aid. They support international law.

But the government? Wong, Albanese, Dutton, the whole lot of them? They’re still operating like it’s 1999 and no one can see what Israel is doing.

Carr didn’t say everything people wish he would say. But he said enough to confirm what many already knew: the pressure is real, the lobby is powerful, and Australia’s political class is terrified of stepping out of line.

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AI is not clean. It is not weightless. It is not harmless. It takes.

The environmental damage is the part most people never see. Data centers need huge amounts of power to run and cool their servers. Much of that power still comes from coal, gas, and other dirty sources. These facilities also use massive volumes of water. Some are built in places already struggling with drought. Local communities pay the price while tech companies talk about “innovation.”

The human cost is just as heavy. AI systems depend on a global workforce that labels data, sorts images, and filters violent and abusive content. Many of these workers are young and living in the Global South. They are paid very little. They are exposed to graphic material every day. They get almost no mental‑health support. The work is invisible, but without it, AI would not function.

DW’s reporting points out that hundreds of millions of people are doing this kind of labor worldwide. It is a new form of digital piecework. It is marketed as “opportunity,” but it looks a lot like exploitation. The companies at the top make billions. The workers at the bottom absorb the trauma. Capitalism at work.

There is also the issue of data colonialism. Western companies extract data from poorer regions, outsource the most harmful tasks to low‑wage workers, and test surveillance tools on communities with fewer legal protections. Migrants, refugees, and marginalized groups become test subjects for systems that would face public backlash if deployed on wealthier populations.

AI is also expanding state surveillance. Governments use it to monitor borders, track movement, and profile people. The technology is often inaccurate, but the consequences fall on those who can least afford mistakes. The documentary shows how these systems are being rolled out without transparency or accountability.

AI is not neutral. It is built on real land, real water, real energy, and real people. The benefits flow upward. The harms flow downward. Without strong rules, the gap will keep widening.

This article is not anti‑technology. It is anti‑blindness. If society is going to rely on AI, then the true cost needs to be visible. The workers need protections. The communities hosting data centers need a voice. The environmental impact needs to be measured honestly. And the companies making billions need to be held responsible for the damage they cause.

AI could be used for good. But right now, the system is built on extraction. The world needs to pay closer attention.

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Created with artists from Palestine and beyond, this audio-visual piece transcends borders and languages, offering a powerful reflection on resilience, truth, and the shared humanity that binds us all.

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Marandi also tore into the Western media framing that immediately tried to paint Iran as the aggressor. He said that narrative only works if you erase the lead‑up — the assassinations, the strikes, the threats — and then pretend Iran woke up and chose chaos. And he warned that if Israel or the U.S. decide they can’t tolerate the fact that Iran just demonstrated real deterrence, the next phase won’t be limited to the region. It’ll hit global markets, shipping routes, and energy supplies in ways the West isn’t prepared for.

Israel doesn’t care if this happens — but will the US?

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A young state built fast, infiltrated even faster

The documentary revisits early cases that shook Israel’s security establishment: Kurt Sitte, Israel Beer, Lucjan Levi, Marcus Klingberg and Mordechai Vanunu. These weren’t minor breaches. They exposed how vulnerable Israel was during its early decades, when the state was absorbing immigrants from dozens of countries and building a military‑security apparatus at breakneck speed.

Outside the documentary, historians have long pointed out that the Soviet Union aggressively targeted new Israeli immigrants from Eastern Europe. Many arrived with left‑wing political backgrounds and were placed in sensitive positions without thorough vetting. Israel’s leadership underestimated how ideological loyalties could survive immigration. That miscalculation shaped the country’s internal security culture for years — and revealed how fragile the state actually was beneath its militarised image. Israel projected strength while hiding the fact that its own institutions were riddled with contradictions and internal distrust.

The intelligence myth: built on victories, weakened by politics

Israel’s intelligence reputation grew out of real successes. The capture of Adolf Eichmann, the Entebbe raid, the dismantling of foreign networks — these operations fed the belief that the system was unmatched. But the same decades included failures that were buried or softened, because Israel needed the world to believe it was unbeatable. That myth helped justify everything from pre‑emptive strikes to the expansion of settlements.

The documentary includes voices like former Shin Bet chief Yaakov Peri and analyst Yossi Melman, who have both said publicly that Israeli intelligence often struggled with internal politics. Prime ministers ignored warnings. Military leaders dismissed analysts who challenged their assumptions. Agencies competed instead of coordinating. The arrogance of power shaped decision‑making more than actual intelligence.

The Agranat Commission after the 1973 war concluded that Israeli intelligence suffered from a rigid mindset that blinded it to Egypt’s intentions. Later inquiries into the 2006 Lebanon war found similar problems: overconfidence, poor communication and political interference. Israeli policy has long been shaped by leaders who prioritise political survival and territorial control over honest assessment. Intelligence became a tool of policy, not a check on it.

October 7: the collapse of the “we know everything” doctrine

The documentary draws a line from those early infiltrations to the shock of October 7. Hamas didn’t defeat Israel through superior technology. It exploited the same weakness that had haunted Israel for decades: the belief that the enemy wouldn’t dare, couldn’t dare and wasn’t capable of something on that scale.

Multiple investigations have already shown that Israeli intelligence had warnings. Analysts flagged unusual training patterns. Surveillance systems picked up anomalies. Field officers raised concerns. But political leaders were locked into the idea that Hamas was deterred and contained — because admitting otherwise would expose the failure of Israel’s entire Gaza policy. Israel’s government treated Gaza as a laboratory for control, not a place where real political dynamics existed.

The failure wasn’t just operational. It was ideological. Israel assumed it understood Hamas better than Hamas understood Israel. That assumption cost lives and shattered the myth of Israeli control. It also exposed how deeply Israeli policy depends on maintaining illusions rather than confronting reality.

The Iran front: a new threat, the same internal fractures

As the documentary moves into the present, it frames the United States–Israel confrontation with Iran as another moment where overconfidence could be dangerous. Iran is not a fragmented militia. It is a state with its own intelligence networks, cyber capabilities and regional alliances.

Analysts have warned for years that Israel’s political divisions weaken its security posture. The judicial overhaul crisis, mass protests, military reservists refusing service — all of this created openings for foreign intelligence services.

The documentary’s argument is simple: Israel’s biggest vulnerability isn’t a lack of information. It’s the refusal to act when information contradicts political narratives. Israeli leaders have repeatedly chosen ideology over security, and the consequences are now global. The state’s policies — occupation, annexation, collective punishment, regional escalation — have created enemies faster than intelligence services can track them.

A security state shaped by secrecy, ego and denial

Infiltration from Within shows how Israel’s intelligence failures weren’t random. They came from inside the system: ideological blind spots, political interference, institutional arrogance and a belief that past victories guaranteed future safety.

When you combine the documentary with the broader historical record, the picture is clear. Israel’s intelligence services are capable, but they are not immune to the same weaknesses that affect every security state: human error, political pressure and the illusion of invincibility. Israel built a reputation on fear and secrecy, but its own policies — occupation, militarism, and the refusal to confront political reality — have done the most damage to its security. The state’s greatest threat has never been its enemies. It has been by its own hubris.

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Whether people agree with it or not isn’t the point.

The point is that there are groups who genuinely talk this way, and that’s why the narrative spreads.

Chabad and the messianic current

Chabad‑Lubavitch is a large Hasidic movement, but inside it there’s a long‑running messianic current that never fully went away. It centers on the late Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson. After his death in 1994, some followers openly declared him the Messiah. Others rejected that idea. The split never healed.

Inside that wing, there’s a belief that world events are part of a countdown — not metaphorically, but literally. They talk about:

* the Geulah (the redemption era)

* the Third Temple

* the war with Persia (which they map onto Iran)

* the idea that certain leaders are “vessels” used to move history toward that point

These ideas aren’t secret. They’re in sermons, pamphlets, far‑edge lectures, and the writings of rabbis who treat geopolitics as prophecy.

Not because Chabad officially said so — but because the messianic faction has a habit of reading global events as signs, and Trump’s presidency gave them a lot to work with: Jerusalem recognition, embassy move, Abraham Accords, and his open friendliness with Chabad figures.

To people inside that belief system, those weren’t policy choices.

They were steps.

Why Trump gets pulled into this narrative

Trump has had public ties to Chabad families for decades — business, social, political. That’s not a secret. The messianic faction interprets those ties as meaningful. They see him as someone who “moves the timeline forward,” even if he doesn’t intend to.

Their belief is Trump is a figure who isn’t acting alone, but acting inside a religious script.

The Butler shooting

The assassination attempt wasn’t an attempt at all, but a ritual. The ear wound is presented as a mark — a sign of loyalty or initiation. This is symbolic language, not forensic analysis. But it’s part of the same worldview: nothing is random, everything is coded.

Iran as the trigger

In the messianic Chabad worldview, a major conflict with Iran lines up with the “war with Persia” described in older texts. Trump’s moves on Iran aren’t political — they’re prophetic.

This is why the Iran escalation is the “Final Battle”.

Not because of military strategy, but because of religious expectation.

“Trust the plan” is dismissed

The idea that Q‑style optimism was never the real plan.

The “plan” belongs to the religious insiders who believe they’re steering events toward the Messianic Age.

The rabbi clip at the end is used as the anchor — someone speaking plainly about redemption and the coming era.

People reach for explanations that match the scale of the chaos.

Religious prophecy fills that gap.

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And somehow two of the loudest “America First” faces — Vivek Ramaswamy and JD Vance — both came out of it. Coincidence? Nope. That’s by design placement.

Shabtai: the Yale backroom that pretends it’s a cultural club

Shabtai markets itself like it’s just a Jewish student society. That’s the surface story. Underneath, it’s a private networking hub where:

* Israeli political and intelligence‑adjacent figures

* American billionaires

* Yale’s elite pipeline

* Indian nationalist power circles

Nobody joins this thing for “community.” They join because it’s a shortcut. It’s the kind of access regular people never get, no matter how smart or talented they are. Political gatekeeping at its finest.

Vivek Ramaswamy: the “outsider” who was never outside anything

Vivek didn’t rise because he was some genius entrepreneur. He rose because he was plugged into the right networks from day one. Shabtai is one of them. The BJP‑aligned diaspora is another. Israeli tech investors are another. Yale’s donor class is another.

He talks like he’s anti‑establishment, but nothing about his background lines up with that. He has always been surrounded by the same people who shape candidates, fund them, and position them. There’s nothing rebellious or independent about it. It’s the same polished pipeline dressed up as something grassroots.

The VrilliumLive video points out the overlap between Shabtai and BJP circles. It explains why Vivek always punches down at the same groups and protects the same foreign interests. He’s not speaking for MAGA. He’s speaking for the people who built him.

JD Vance: the “hillbilly” who was built in a boardroom

JD Vance sells himself like he crawled out of the trailer park with a book in his hand. Reality: he was groomed by Yale, polished by elite donors, and pushed forward by the same people who use Shabtai as a networking hub.

Peter Thiel didn’t pick him out of charity. Yale didn’t elevate him because they “believed in his story.” His rise was engineered by people who saw value in him and shaped him accordingly. Nothing about it was organic or accidental.

The VrilliumLive video shows the Shabtai connection. Once you see it, the whole “anti‑elite” act collapses. You can’t be anti‑elite when the elite literally built your entire career.

The Indian–Israeli political fusion running through American institutions

This part is always treated like it’s taboo to say out loud. But it’s right there:

* BJP‑aligned diaspora networks

* Israeli donor and intelligence networks

* American elite universities

All feeding into each other.

All using the same students.

All pushing the same political outcomes.

Shabtai sits right in the middle of that. Not as a “cultural space,” but as a coordination point.

The VrilliumLive video shows the overlap. These networks aren’t separate — they’re fused. They share goals, share enemies and share methods. And they use American politics as their playground.

The Epstein overlap isn’t a conspiracy — it’s the same ecosystem

This isn't some reaching theory. These are the same Yale donor circles, the same intelligence‑adjacent figures, the same private salons, the same billionaire social clubs — it’s all the same world.

Epstein didn’t create that world. He walked into it, used it, and exploited it. Shabtai is part of that same world. Not identical, but connected. Same donors. Same institutions. Same culture of secrecy and access.

The names are public record if you bother to look.

Why this matters for MAGA

MAGA was supposed to be the movement that rejected this entire system — the grooming networks, the Ivy League pipelines, the foreign‑aligned influence circles. Instead, two of the most prominent voices in the room are tied into one of the most elite, foreign‑aligned, Yale‑built networks out there.

It’s not “America First”, it has always been “Israel First”. It’s the same establishment slipping into the movement through people who were packaged to look like outsiders.

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At the centre of that campaign stood Catherine Perez‑Shakdam and the lobby group We Believe In Israel, working with industry allies to amplify alarm, press ministers and shape media coverage. Reporting and campaigners document repeated, targeted approaches to officials, the circulation of sensitive material and a coordinated media strategy designed to recast civil disobedience as an existential threat to defence infrastructure. Those moves steered Whitehall toward proscription as a political instrument rather than a proportionate security response.

This was not ordinary lobbying; it was political engineering. When advocacy groups feed ministers privileged or classified material to secure a legal outcome, they are not persuading policy so much as manufacturing it. The result here was the state’s most draconian tool being used to silence a movement that opposed a foreign government’s actions.

Judges have exposed the government’s case as spin, not substance, laying bare how legally thin it was and how it failed to meet the high threshold required for proscription. Property damage and disruptive occupations do not, on their face, meet the definition of terrorism. Yet the proscription went ahead because the story had been sold hard and loud by those with influence.

Leaked cables, internal Home Office memos, ministerial correspondence and full disclosure in litigation are the only things that will move these allegations from documented pattern to proven conspiracy. The public has a right to see the receipts: how ministers were persuaded, what material was shared, and whether a foreign‑aligned network effectively steered domestic counter‑terrorism policy to punish dissent.

The human cost is already visible: activists criminalised, families traumatised, and a precedent set that chills dissent. If a foreign‑aligned lobby can push another country to criminalise peaceful protest, democracy is dead.

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They didn’t start with nukes. They spent years working their way into the military: counterterrorism data, surveillance tools, battlefield software. Step by step, they became the company the Pentagon leans on for almost everything digital. The nuclear program was supposed to be the one thing kept off‑limits. It wasn’t.

And this isn’t a small support job. They’re running the data layer the nuclear command system depends on. When a contractor becomes the thing your nuclear arsenal runs through, the government isn’t the only one holding the reins anymore. There’s a private company sitting in the middle.

Palantir’s leaders say the quiet part out loud. They want to be the “operating system of the U.S. military.” They already build tools for targeting and battlefield decisions. Now they’re tied into nuclear operations. That’s not a minor expansion. That’s a shift in who actually has leverage.

They’re also moving into nuclear energy — something they’re calling the Nuclear Operating System, built with a company literally named The Nuclear Company. They pitch it as modernization. But the pattern is obvious: they want to be embedded in every part of nuclear tech, civilian and military.

Double Down News put it plainly: a private contractor is now handling some of the most sensitive nuclear‑related data the U.S. has. The fear isn’t that Palantir is breaking laws. It’s that the government handed over a level of control to a company with its own investors, its own politics, and no public oversight.

This isn’t about liking or disliking Palantir. It’s about the fact that once a contractor becomes essential to a system like this, the government can’t easily take that power back. The public need to start paying closer attention.

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Operation Metro Surge was the clearest example. In Minneapolis, ICE and Border Patrol agents were deployed into neighborhoods under Miller’s direction. During that operation, Alex Pretti was killed. Instead of acknowledging the death or the circumstances around it, Miller publicly labeled Pretti a domestic terrorist. Minnesotans were still grieving the death of Renee Good, who had been killed just weeks earlier during the same enforcement push. Miller’s statement poured gasoline on the anger already spreading across the state.

The deaths triggered resignations and dismissals across multiple agencies. But none of it touched Miller. He stayed in place, untouched, even though he was the architect of Metro Surge and at least nine other operations carried out in Democratic‑led cities. Fault Lines makes it clear: these weren’t isolated events. They were part of a pattern. Miller used immigration enforcement as a tool to expand executive power and test how far federal agencies could go without being checked.

To understand how he got there, you have to look at his rise. Miller started as a right‑wing provocateur, known more for stunts than strategy. But inside the administration, he became the central figure shaping immigration policy. He pushed for travel bans, family separations, mass visa revocations, and daily arrest quotas. He treated immigration not as a policy area but as a battlefield where he could reshape the balance of power between the White House and the rest of the government.

Fault Lines shows how Miller directed Homeland Security like a personal enforcement arm. He pushed agents into cities that didn’t want them. He used federal operations to challenge local governments. He treated resistance from mayors, governors, and community leaders as proof that he was on the right track. Critics in the film describe this as the beginning of a new authoritarian style of governance, where unelected advisers wield more power than the officials the public actually votes for.

The State Department changed under him too. It became a place where visas were revoked at high speed, often without explanation. People who had lived in the United States for years found themselves targeted by sudden enforcement actions. The system became unpredictable by design. Miller believed unpredictability created fear, and fear made enforcement easier.

Even after the deaths of Pretti and Good, and even after the public outrage that followed, Miller faced no consequences. Agencies lost leaders. Careers ended. But Miller stayed. Congress kept approving billions for the same enforcement programs he designed. His influence didn’t shrink. It grew.

Fault Lines uses these operations to show the bigger picture: Miller wasn’t just shaping immigration policy. He was testing how far an unelected official could push federal power into American cities. He was rewriting the rules from the inside, using immigration as the excuse and executive authority as the weapon.

Whether people see him as a strategist, an ideologue, or something darker, the result is the same. Stephen Miller became one of the most powerful unelected figures in modern American politics. And the country is living with the consequences of the system he built.

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The second is Section 622 of the Intelligence Authorization Act, introduced by Senator Tom Cotton. It forces expanded intelligence sharing with Israel across almost every Middle East topic and blocks any reduction in intelligence sharing unless the President personally signs off. No other foreign country has ever been given this kind of guaranteed access to US intelligence.

Both provisions are being pushed by lawmakers who receive heavy support from AIPAC. Ron Paul said openly that AIPAC “largely controls Congress” on these issues. This is happening while US defense officials have raised Israel’s espionage threat level to “critical,” warning that Israeli intelligence activity inside the United States has intensified.

Public support for Israel in the US has collapsed, especially among younger Americans. Instead of responding to their own voters, Congress is trying to lock in permanent structural ties with Israel that future administrations cannot undo. Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams describe it as a quiet merger of two militaries and two intelligence systems, pushed by foreign lobbyists and their allies in Congress, at the exact moment US agencies are warning that Israel is spying on America.

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He said the war with Iran is going badly. Not for Iran — for the U.S. and Israel. He said the idea of a clean exit is fiction. Iran isn’t collapsing. Iran isn’t close to defeat. The longer the fighting drags on, the worse the outcome looks.

Then he turned to Europe. He said the nuclear risk is real. Russia is saying it openly, and European leaders are acting like it’s background noise. He said Europe is closer to nuclear danger than it has been in decades.

Bottom line: The world is on the edge of disaster, and the people in charge are pretending it’s just another Tuesday.

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Kapos says Jewish suffering has been turned into a shield for state violence. He rejects that completely. He says the memory of the Holocaust should be a warning, not a weapon. He refuses to let his survival be used to justify mass killing.

His message is simple: genocide is genocide. It does not become moral because the victims are different. It does not become acceptable because the perpetrators claim past trauma. Kapos stands with Palestinians because he knows what it looks like when a people are marked for destruction. Silence is complicity.

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One of the central testimonies comes from Muhammad al‑Bakri, who says he remembers the exact day he was raped. He had already spent weeks beaten, tied up, and forced to sit in his own waste. On that day, he says, soldiers surrounded him with their dogs. “There were six soldiers on the right and six on the left,” he said. “They would ask your name. If you said ‘Muhammad’, they would say, ‘No, say your name is b***h.’”

Al‑Bakri says he was held with seven other prisoners. All of them were stripped, blindfolded and handcuffed. “We were raped after being stripped of our clothes,” he said. “We were shouting, ‘Oh Lord, oh God’, but they were just laughing and filming us.” He also described soldiers using dogs during the assault. “The dogs were following commands from the officers to [attack] us,” he said. The abuse lasted twenty to thirty minutes before the soldiers ordered them to dress and dragged them back to their cells.

The documentary includes multiple testimonies like his. Former detainees describe forced nudity, rape, sexual threats, soldiers filming assaults, and dogs trained to bite genitals. These accounts match what human rights groups such as the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and Euro‑Med Human Rights Monitor have documented. They also align with findings raised by UN experts and by International Criminal Court judges, who say the evidence points to widespread and systematic sexual violence by Israeli forces.

The film shows that these are not isolated acts. Survivors describe the same methods, the same insults, the same setup: groups of prisoners stripped together, assaulted together, filmed together. Sexual violence is used to break individuals, but also to send a message to entire communities. The repetition of the same techniques across different locations suggests a system that allows and protects these acts.

Al Jazeera’s investigation forces the issue into the open. Soldiers laugh during the assaults. They record them. They mock the prisoners’ cries. This is not hidden behavior. It is carried out in front of other soldiers, in front of cameras, inside facilities run by the state. The documentary raises the question of how many more people have lived through this and never spoken, and how many never survived.

The film does not claim to be the final record. It is a collection of voices that have finally been heard. It shows that sexual violence is not a side effect of the occupation. It is one of its tools.

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Marandi also said that Iran downed a US Apache helicopter over Hormuz. He suggested that the US is downplaying the incident. His message is clear: Iran won’t back down, and if Trump continues to apply pressure, it will be the US economy that takes the hit.

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He said losing his job at 60 Minutes felt like losing a spouse. He didn’t dress it up. He didn’t try to sound tough. He said it plainly. He meant it.

He talked about the “Black Thursday massacre,” the day CBS leadership gutted the newsroom he’d given his life to. People he’d worked beside for decades. People he’d survived firefights with. People who had pulled him out of danger more than once. And then, overnight, they were erased.

Pelley said it felt like someone had murdered members of his family. That’s the word he used. Murdered.

He cried when he said it.

And then he talked about the moment everything shifted. The moment the culture he knew was replaced by something colder, sharper, more ideological. He didn’t name her in the clip, but the timeline is clear: after self‑proclaimed Zionist Bari Weiss took over the editorial framing of the space, the tone changed. The priorities changed. The tolerance for dissent shrank. The room got smaller. The leash got shorter.

Pelley described a meeting where CBS leadership read sterile statements off a phone while the staff sat in shock. He said someone had to stand up. Someone had to say the truth out loud. He was the senior person in the room. So he did it.

He said the new bosses “will not be questioned.”

And that was it. That was the moment the clock started ticking.

He didn’t expect to be fired. He didn’t even think it was possible. But he said the culture had shifted into something that punished loyalty and rewarded obedience. Something that treated the newsroom like a brand asset instead of a living organism. Something that didn’t understand the bonds forged in danger, in war, in years of shared work.

He broke again when he talked about Donald Trump calling him “terrible,” “stiff,” and part of a “crooked, stupid” group. He brushed off most of it. But when he heard the line about not caring about America, he stopped. He said he’d been in combat for this country. He’d been shot at. He’d slept in foxholes filling with water. And he choked up again.

What came through most was the grief. The disbelief. The sense of betrayal. The way he kept returning to the people who were fired, the people who stayed, the people he felt responsible for.

Scott Pelley didn’t sound like a man giving an interview. He sounded like a man mourning a world that was taken from him the moment a new ideology walked in and rewrote the rules.

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Halper points to the conditions in Gaza: entire areas sealed off like ghettos, food blocked, families starved, civilians killed in huge numbers, and mass detention sites where people are held without rights. She says these are not abstract political terms. They are the same tools used against Jews in Europe. She says refusing to name the parallels now is a form of denial.

She also talks about the pressure on Jewish journalists to stay silent. Many fear losing their jobs or being smeared if they speak honestly about what Israel is doing. Halper herself was pushed out of mainstream media after calling Israel an apartheid state, something major human rights groups have also documented.

Her message is simple. “Never Again” cannot mean “Never Again for us, but acceptable for others.” She says Jewish safety cannot be built on the destruction of another people. Speaking out is not betrayal. It is loyalty to the moral lessons Jews were raised with.

The Double Down News video is part of a growing wave of Jewish voices refusing to let their identity be used to justify mass killing. Halper says the world needs to hear them, because silence protects the powerful, not the victims.

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The Power Drain: A Silent National Crisis

Data centers are energy black holes.

A single hyperscale facility can consume 100–300 megawatts — the same as 80,000+ homes. And the U.S. is building hundreds more for AI alone.

This isn’t sustainable.

* Utilities in Virginia, Georgia, and Texas have already warned they cannot meet future demand.

* Some regions are delaying housing and hospitals because data centers are taking priority.

* When the grid strains, utilities fire up coal and gas plants that were supposed to be retired.

* AI training runs can consume as much electricity as 100 U.S. households use in a year — for a single model.

The “clean cloud” is a PR myth.

The real cloud runs on fossil fuels, diesel, and whatever the grid can scrape together to keep servers alive.

The Water Crisis: Machines Drinking Cities Dry

Cooling servers takes water — a staggering, almost unbelievable amount.

Some data centers use 1–5 million gallons per day.

That’s the daily water use of a small American city.

And they’re building these facilities in Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, and California — places already fighting over every drop.

Communities are told to:

* shorten showers

* stop watering lawns

* accept water restrictions

Meanwhile, data centers run 24/7, siphoning off municipal supplies to keep machines cool.

In some towns, groundwater levels have dropped so sharply that wells have run dry — but the data centers keep pumping.

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The Diesel Problem: The Cloud’s Dirty Secret

Every data center has rows of massive diesel generators — sometimes hundreds of them — sitting on standby for grid failures.

When they fire up, they release:

* nitrogen oxides

* particulate matter

* sulfur dioxide

* greenhouse gases

These emissions settle into nearby neighborhoods, often lower‑income communities that had no say in the construction.

Even when the generators aren’t running, they must be tested weekly, meaning regular pollution dumped into the air.

The Land Grab: Turning America Into a Server Farm

Data centers require:

* huge land parcels

* substations

* transmission lines

* water pipelines

* access roads

They flatten farmland, forests, and open space.

They replace ecosystems with concrete and transformers.

They create almost no jobs.

A billion‑dollar data center might employ 30–50 people.

Towns are trading land, water, and air quality for a handful of permanent positions.

The E‑Waste Avalanche: Toxic Trash for the Next Generation

Servers have short lifespans — often 3–5 years.

Then they’re replaced, by the millions.

This creates mountains of e‑waste loaded with:

* lead

* mercury

* cadmium

* arsenic

* rare‑earth metals

Much of it ends up in developing countries, dumped in open pits where children pick through toxic scrap for pennies.

The more AI grows, the faster this cycle accelerates.

The Social Cost: A Nation Dependent on Fragile Infrastructure

Americans are being pushed into a digital society that requires:

* more power

* more water

* more land

* more surveillance

* more dependence on private companies

And the infrastructure holding it all together is fragile.

A major outage doesn’t just take down a website.

It can freeze:

* hospitals

* airports

* banks

* supply chains

* emergency services

* government systems

We’ve built a society that collapses if a handful of buildings lose power.

The Bottom Line

Data centers are not neutral.

They’re not harmless.

They’re not “just buildings.”

They are industrial facilities with massive environmental footprints, enormous resource demands, and the power to reshape entire regions of the United States.

Americans deserve to know the truth.

The cloud is not in the sky.

It’s in your backyard — and it’s draining the country dry.

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The incidents vary — vandalism, fake threats, staged harassment, self‑inflicted damage, forged notes — but the political use of these stories follows the same formula every time.

The pattern: a claim, a headline, a panic — then a quiet correction

A supposed antisemitic attack is reported.

Before any investigation finishes, the story is treated as proof of a global threat.

Advocacy groups issue statements. Politicians jump in. Israel’s government folds the incident into its messaging about rising antisemitism.

Then the facts come out.

And the story collapses.

But the panic has already served its purpose.

The correction never reaches the same audience.

This is how the word “antisemitism” gets turned into a political shield to shut down criticism and smear anyone speaking about Gaza, occupation, or Israeli policy.

The documented cases: different countries, same script

The compilation includes cases from:

* United States

* Canada

* France

* Germany

* United Kingdom

* Australia

* and others

All sourced from mainstream outlets.

The pattern repeats:

* A synagogue vandalized — later traced back to someone inside the community.

* A student claiming harassment — later shown to have staged it.

* A business owner reporting threats — later revealed to have written them.

* A swastika painted on a dorm door — later linked to the person who reported it.

Each case has its own motive — attention, sympathy, political messaging, or a local dispute.

How these false reports get weaponized

This is the part that keeps repeating.

* Instant amplification

The claim is treated as fact before any investigation is complete.

* Political leverage

Advocacy groups and Israeli officials use the incident to argue that criticism of Israel fuels hatred against Jews.

* Silencing effect

Anyone speaking about Gaza or Israeli policy gets smeared as dangerous or hateful.

* No accountability when the story collapses

The correction is quiet.

The political use of the false story is never walked back.

This is how a victimhood narrative gets manufactured and weaponized.

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The Lego broadcast breaks down the whole structure — who organized what, how the names got mixed, why the artists bailed, how Vanilla Ice, Flo Rida, and Fab Morvan ended up staying, and the strange historical twist of a national anniversary concert collapsing into a one‑man show. It’s the story of a birthday party that lost the guests but kept the stage lights on.

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One of the clearest examples is the reconstructed Palmyra Arch, originally the entrance to the Temple of Baal in Syria. After ISIS destroyed the original structure in 2015, a replica was created using digital scans. Instead of being placed in a museum, the arch began touring the world. It appeared in London, New York, Dubai, Florence, and Geneva, often during political or economic events. Each unveiling was framed as cultural preservation, but the symbolism was impossible to ignore. A gateway from a Baal temple was being placed in the heart of modern power centers.

At the same time, groups inside Israel have openly embraced Canaanite revivalism. These are organized movements with public ceremonies, published manifestos, and recorded statements. Some of these groups explicitly reject Judaism and call for a return to the pre‑Israelite pantheon, including Baal. Their videos circulate online. Their rituals are documented. Their ideology is clear: revive the ancient gods of the land and re‑establish a Near Eastern religious identity that predates the biblical tradition.

These groups hold gatherings, perform rituals, and speak openly about their beliefs. Their symbolism has begun to bleed into broader cultural and political spaces, especially in secular‑radical and nationalist circles. This overlap between ancient Canaanite religion and modern political identity raises questions. Why are Baal‑linked symbols appearing in state ceremonies? Why do certain cultural festivals echo ancient fire rituals? Why does the reconstructed Palmyra Arch keep appearing at global governance summits?

Some observers argue that this is simply artistic expression. Others believe it reflects a deeper ideological shift: a revival of ancient religious symbolism within modern institutions. And there are those who see it as part of a coordinated agenda by elites or the deep state, using symbolic language that most people overlook.

What is undeniable is the pattern itself. Baal‑linked imagery is resurfacing. Groups in Israel openly embrace Baal revivalism. Global ceremonies echo ancient rituals. And the arch of a Baal temple has been placed repeatedly in the heart of modern power.

Whether this represents cultural decay, ideological signaling, or a deliberate spiritual agenda is still debated. But the return of Baal’s symbols — in Israel, in global capitals, and in elite ceremonies — has made one thing clear: something old and deliberate is moving beneath the surface of modern culture.

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The discussion moves into the world before the Flood. Many traditions describe an age when humanity lived with a different kind of strength. People built cities, shaped metal, tracked the stars, and formed societies that rose quickly. Some accounts speak of harmony. Others speak of corruption that spread through families, tribes, and entire regions. The idea of a pre‑Flood civilization is not about fantasy. It is about a world that operated under conditions we no longer understand.

Long lifespans appear across ancient records. Genesis speaks of people living for centuries. The Sumerian king lists do the same. Egyptian and Mesopotamian traditions echo it. These accounts suggest that early humanity carried a vitality that faded over time. Some say the world changed after the Flood. Others say human nature changed. Either way, the memory of long life is part of the ancient picture.

The theme of forbidden knowledge appears in many cultures. Stories describe beings who taught humans metalwork, enchantment, warfare, and rituals that shaped entire societies. These teachings were powerful, but they came with consequences. Some traditions say this knowledge elevated humanity. Others say it opened doors that should have stayed closed. The idea that knowledge can carry a spiritual influence is one of the oldest themes in human storytelling.

Demonization is described in ancient texts as a slow process. A person becomes shaped by what they allow into their life. Habits, rituals, and choices can weaken the inner self. Many cultures believed that spiritual influence begins quietly. It grows through repetition. It settles into the places where a person has surrendered their will. This is not about sudden possession. It is about erosion.

The conversation touches on the Book of the Giants and the story of Gilgamesh. These texts come from different lands but share familiar patterns. Giant rulers. Hybrid beings. A world filled with violence. A coming judgment. The similarities suggest that ancient people were describing events that left a deep mark on their collective memory.

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Japan’s old stories include beings who are not fully human. Some are protectors. Some are tricksters. Some are rulers whose origins are mysterious. These tales show how widespread the idea of nonhuman influence is. The memory of such beings appears across continents, carried in different languages but pointing to the same kind of presence.

The question of why God created humanity has many answers. Some traditions say humans were made to care for creation. Others say humans were meant to grow into wisdom. Some say humanity was created to join the divine in relationship. These ideas differ, but they share a belief that human life has intention behind it.

The topic of whether the Nephilim still exist touches on the idea that ancient patterns do not disappear. They change shape. Some cultures believed that the influence of these beings continued through bloodlines, rituals, or spiritual corruption. The theme of human sacrifice appears in this context. While the rituals of the ancient world have changed, the exploitation of human life for power or pleasure has not vanished.

Giants appear throughout the Bible, including figures like Goliath. He is the most famous example, but he is part of a larger tradition of warrior figures who stood out from ordinary men. Stories of giants appear in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Some were heroes. Some were tyrants. Some were warnings.

The conversation eventually moves into modern territory. Epstein, artificial intelligence, and environmental destruction appear as examples of how human corruption continues in new forms. Every age has its own version of the same old problems. Power without restraint. Knowledge without wisdom. Desire without limits.

The final part of the discussion looks at religion, war, leadership, and the inner life. Every civilization builds itself around something sacred, even if it does not use religious language. Money, nation, ideology, and identity can all become sacred centers. The failures of leadership are not new. They echo the same patterns found in ancient stories. The damage caused by pornography is another example of how modern life can hollow out a person’s inner world. The mention of the unforgivable sin brings the focus back to the human heart and the choices that shape it.

The conversation moves through ancient history, myth, theology, and modern culture. The themes are old, but they still feel alive. They show how humanity has always wrestled with forces that are larger than any one generation.

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When Kan 11’s investigative program “Zman Emet” brought these women together, reporters found a pattern that had never been examined as a whole. Their testimonies described ritualistic abuse in childhood, carried out in isolated locations and involving multiple perpetrators. The investigation did not claim to solve the case. Instead, it revealed how much had gone unaddressed.

Testimonies that echo one another

The women interviewed described events that began when they were very young, in some cases as early as three or four. Their memories resurfaced later in life, often triggered by therapy or major life changes.

One survivor recalled being taken to an abandoned structure near a spring. She described men surrounding her, fires lit around her, and a staged burial meant to terrify her into silence. She said she suppressed the memories for more than two decades before they returned in adulthood.

Another woman described being taken to wooded areas where religious language and symbols were used to frame the abuse as something she was obligated to endure. Trauma specialists interviewed by Kan 11 explained that abusers sometimes use ritualistic elements to confuse children, distort their sense of reality, and make disclosure feel impossible.

Although the women did not know each other, their descriptions of locations, methods, and dynamics showed notable similarities. This consistency is what prompted the investigative team to pursue the story further.

Professional assessments and trauma patterns

Psychologists and social workers who had worked with the survivors over the years told Kan 11 that the accounts fit known patterns of complex childhood trauma. They emphasized that fragmented or delayed memories are common in cases involving extreme fear, manipulation, or ritualized elements.

Experts also noted that children who experience abuse in a context framed as “sacred,” “secret,” or “punishing” often internalize the idea that speaking out will bring harm to themselves or their families. This can delay disclosure well into adulthood.

The professionals did not claim the women’s memories were perfect or complete. Instead, they stressed that the consistency across separate testimonies warranted serious attention.

Legal barriers that prevent prosecution

Even if investigators wanted to pursue the allegations, Israel’s statute of limitations makes prosecution nearly impossible. For sexual crimes committed in early childhood, the legal clock begins long before most victims can understand what happened to them.

By the time memories resurface, the window for filing charges has usually closed. Legal experts interviewed in the investigation said this is one of the biggest obstacles in cases involving ritualistic or organized abuse. Without physical evidence or recent incidents, the system cannot move forward.

This legal reality is why many survivors turn to journalists rather than police. They know the law is not designed to accommodate delayed disclosure, no matter how credible their accounts may be.

Community response

After the broadcast, the Gush Etzion Regional Council issued a public statement condemning the acts described in the investigation. The council called the alleged behavior “pure evil and moral perversion” and said anyone responsible should be held accountable.

The statement did not dismiss the women’s accounts. Instead, it acknowledged the seriousness of the allegations and expressed support for efforts to uncover the truth.

Why the investigation matters

The Kan 11 report did not offer a definitive conclusion. It did something more basic and more difficult: it placed multiple testimonies side by side and asked whether the similarities were coincidence or evidence of a pattern that had been ignored.

The investigation highlighted three realities:

* Survivors of childhood trauma often come forward only in adulthood.

* Ritualistic elements can deepen confusion and silence.

* Legal systems built around strict timelines struggle to address long‑buried crimes.

Whether the full truth of what happened in Gush Etzion will ever be known is uncertain. What is clear is that the women who spoke out did so after years of carrying their stories alone.

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He compares this to how past uprisings—like Nat Turner’s rebellion—were stripped of context by those in power. The same pattern, he says, shapes how Palestinian resistance is framed. Violence by the oppressed is isolated and condemned, while the conditions that produced it are ignored.

Finkelstein lists the long record of blocked political and nonviolent efforts: the 17‑year siege, the punishment after the 2006 elections, the attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, and the sniper fire on unarmed protesters during the Great March of Return. Each attempt at lawful or peaceful action, he argues, was met with force.

He cites Frederick Douglass to underline the point: the cause of rebellion matters more than the rebellion itself. From this perspective, Finkelstein says Israel lost any moral claim to “self‑defense” long before October 7.

About Dr. Norman Finkelstein:

Political scientist, author of The Holocaust Industry and Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom. Princeton PhD. Known for his sharp critiques of state power, U.S. foreign policy, and media narratives.

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When France took control of the region under the League of Nations mandate in 1920, it presented itself as a protector of local Christian communities. But the mandate was not an act of charity. It was a colonial project designed to secure influence on the eastern Mediterranean coast, control trade routes, and counter British power in the region.

Mount Lebanon had enjoyed limited autonomy under the Ottomans, but it was small and economically fragile. France expanded it into “Greater Lebanon” by adding Beirut, Tripoli, the Bekaa Valley, and the southern coast. These areas were majority Muslim and had never been governed as one unit with Mount Lebanon. The new borders were drawn by French officials, not by local communities, and they reflected French priorities: a coastal state with ports, farmland, and enough territory to function as a viable client state.

This expansion created a political system built on sectarian balance. France formalized power-sharing between religious groups, locking communities into fixed political roles. This system was presented as protection, but it also ensured that no single group could challenge French authority. It laid the groundwork for the sectarian tensions that Lebanon still struggles with today.

Many Lebanese rejected the mandate entirely. Muslim leaders in particular saw it as a foreign imposition that cut them off from the broader Arab world. Protests, petitions, and political movements pushed back against French rule throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Independence in 1943 came only after decades of pressure, and even then, the political structure left behind by the French remained in place.

Lebanon’s borders, its sectarian political system, and many of its early institutions were shaped more by colonial interests than by local consensus. The country that emerged after the First World War was not simply “created” — it was engineered by a European power pursuing its own agenda, and the consequences of that design still shape Lebanon’s reality today.

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From the 1500s to the 1800s, British ships carried more than three million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic. These voyages were financed by British banks, insured by British companies, and protected by British naval power. Cities like London, Bristol, and Liverpool grew rich from this trade. Entire industries — sugar, cotton, rum, tobacco — depended on enslaved labor in the Caribbean and the Americas. The profits flowed back to Britain, building estates, universities, factories, and political dynasties.

The violence didn’t end with slavery. When Britain expanded across Africa and Asia, it used the same logic: extract resources, suppress resistance, and rewrite the story to make empire look like “civilization.” Britain seized land, minerals, and labor from colonized nations while enforcing systems that kept local populations poor and dependent. African gold, diamonds, rubber, and agricultural wealth fueled Britain’s industrial rise, while colonized people lived under racial laws, forced labor schemes, and brutal punishments for resisting.

Even after slavery was abolished in 1833, the British government paid today’s equivalent of billions — not to formerly enslaved people, but to slave‑owning families as “compensation” for losing their human property. Black people received nothing. Many of those compensated families still hold wealth and influence in Britain today.

Meanwhile, the descendants of enslaved and colonized people continue to face the economic and social fallout of these systems: underdevelopment, stolen resources, disrupted societies, and the long shadow of racial hierarchy created by empire.

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An Israeli strike caught on video killed three paramedics in Lebanon. Twelve hours earlier, four other medics were killed in another strike. That’s seven paramedics in half a day. And this is only a tiny sliver of a larger picture.

Since March 2, Lebanon’s Health Ministry reports more than 3,100 people killed in Israeli attacks. Among them are over 210 children, nearly 300 women, and at least 123 medics. These are not fighters. These are ambulance crews, first responders, and health workers who run toward danger, not away from it.

WHO has confirmed 169 attacks on healthcare workers and facilities in Lebanon, causing 116 deaths. Ambulances have been hit. Clinics have been hit. At least 16 hospitals have been damaged or forced out of service. Some were struck while treating the wounded from earlier strikes.

In one 24‑hour period, six paramedics were killed: four from the Islamic Health Association and two from the Al‑Rissala Scouts Association. Another strike killed ten people, including six paramedics and a Syrian girl. Several paramedics have been wounded in follow‑up strikes that hit the rescue teams arriving at the scene.

This is medicide.

It is the destruction of a medical system by killing the people who keep it alive.

Israel did this in Gaza, where entire hospital networks were wiped out and medical staff were killed in huge numbers. Lebanon is now facing the same pattern, step by step, strike by strike.

The numbers keep rising. The medics keep dying. And the world keeps watching a medical system being dismantled in real time.

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A month later, the pattern started to show. In April 2026, the Justice Department paid Michael Flynn 1.25 million dollars from the Treasury’s Judgment Fund. A federal judge had already dismissed Flynn’s claims, but the payout still went through.

On May 19, ABC News reported that the DOJ was working on a settlement fund for Trump allies. The next day, May 20, the DOJ announced the “Anti Weaponization Fund.” The amount was 1,776,000,000 dollars — a number chosen to echo 1776. The money came from the Judgment Fund, which does not require a vote from Congress.

Congress never voted on this fund. It was created inside the executive branch using money already available.

Right after the fund was announced, Trump dropped his ten‑billion‑dollar lawsuit. The government issued a formal apology to Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization. The fund was described as having “few constraints on who can submit a claim,” meaning the rules were loose and the door was wide open.

Members of Congress pushed back.

Rep. Jamie Raskin said Congress alone has the power to appropriate money and would never have approved this.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren said it looked like a taxpayer‑funded slush pool for Trump’s allies.

The timing also matters. Claims can be processed until December 15, 2028 — after the midterms, before the next presidential election.

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The core numbers tied to this story:

* $1,776,000,000 — Anti Weaponization Fund, May 2026

* $10,000,000,000 — Trump’s original IRS lawsuit, later dropped

* $1,250,000 — Paid to Michael Flynn, April 2026

* 1776 — The year used to brand the fund

* December 15, 2028 — Deadline for claims

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Albanese was targeted after urging the International Criminal Court to pursue war‑crimes cases against Israeli officials for their actions in Gaza. She also released a report accusing major Western companies of aiding Israel’s genocidal campaign.

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The testimony described — men stripped naked, thrown on concrete, blasted with sound grenades — is only the surface. Former detainees, lawyers, and human rights groups have documented far worse inside Ofer and other Israeli-run prisons.

Sexual violence is a known tactic. Men report being forced to stand naked for hours while guards mock their bodies. Some describe being groped during searches, threatened with rape, or assaulted outright. These acts are not random. They are meant to destroy a person’s sense of safety, dignity, and identity.

Interrogation rooms are another layer of brutality. Prisoners speak of being tied in stress positions until their limbs go numb, beaten until they vomit, deprived of sleep for days, and threatened with harm to their families. Some describe being forced to watch others being abused. Others recount interrogators grabbing their genitals, twisting, squeezing, or using sexual threats to force confessions.

Inside the cells, the violence continues. Guards raid rooms at night, dragging men out half-dressed, beating them in hallways, or forcing them to kneel for hours. Medical neglect is routine. Injuries from beatings go untreated. Infections spread. Prisoners with chronic illnesses are denied medication as punishment.

The yard scenes — men lying naked under floodlights — are part of a larger system of collective punishment. Entire groups are stripped, searched, and humiliated together. Sound grenades are thrown at close range to keep them silent and terrified. The goal is not order. The goal is domination.

Administrative detention makes this even more brutal. Thousands are held without charges, without trials, without evidence. They can be kept for months or years, renewed endlessly. This means torture survivors often have no legal path to challenge what was done to them. The system is designed to make them disappear into paperwork and military orders.

Children are not spared. Teenagers are taken from their homes at night, blindfolded, beaten, and interrogated without parents or lawyers. Some report sexual threats. Some report being forced to strip. These are minors — treated as targets, not as human beings.

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Ofer is part of a wider network: Megiddo, Damon, Nafha, Ketziot. Each one has its own catalogue of abuse. But the pattern is the same — humiliation, sexual violence, beatings, sensory torture, medical neglect, and the constant message that Palestinians have no rights the state is bound to respect.

This is not a handful of rogue guards. This is a system. A structure. A method refined over decades of occupation.

The former prisoner who said “I am one of 11,000” was not exaggerating. Thousands have lived through the same naked searches, the same beatings, the same sexual threats, the same grenades thrown at their bodies while they lie helpless on the ground.

Ofer shows the truth: the violence is not accidental. It is intentional. It is routine. It is built into the machinery of the occupation.

And it is happening in plain sight.

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The Napoleonic Wars were the turning point. This is where modern war financing was perfected. The Rothschild banking network — with coordinated branches in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna, and Naples — built a cross‑border financial machine that could move money faster than armies could move. They financed Britain’s war effort, they financed European governments on the other side of the conflict, and they made enormous profits arbitraging wartime bond collapses. Barings Bank in London did the same for the British state, acting as an unofficial central bank long before the Bank of England was nationalized. These private houses weren’t patriotic institutions. They were lenders, and war was a business.

The pattern repeated in the American Civil War. The Union relied on J.P. Morgan & Co. for procurement and credit. The Confederacy sought loans from European banking houses tied to the City of London. Foreign financiers didn’t care who won. They cared who paid interest. The war ended, the country was shattered, and the banks that financed both sides expanded their influence inside the United States.

By World War I, the system was fully entrenched. J.P. Morgan acted as the purchasing agent for the British and French governments, controlling billions in wartime contracts. Kuhn, Loeb & Co. financed industrial expansion and foreign loans. The Warburg family sat at the center of German finance, with Max Warburg advising the Kaiser and Paul Warburg helping design the U.S. Federal Reserve. The Bank of England and Banque de France — both private institutions at the time — issued massive war bonds that locked entire nations into decades of debt. The war bankrupted empires and transferred unprecedented power to private financial networks.

The Treaty of Versailles wasn’t just a peace agreement. It was a debt instrument. It imposed reparations that Germany could never realistically pay, guaranteeing economic collapse and political instability. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) was created to manage these payments. During World War II, the BIS continued operating, facilitating financial transfers between central banks on both sides of the conflict. This is documented in Allied intelligence reports — not speculation.

World War II followed the same structure. Wall Street syndicates financed U.S. industrial expansion. German rearmament was backed by industrial‑finance cartels like IG Farben and Krupp, which had investment ties to American banks. The Federal Reserve issued war bonds. The Bank of England coordinated British financing. When the war ended, Europe was in ruins, and the same financial networks that had financed the destruction were positioned to profit from reconstruction. The Marshall Plan, postwar rebuilding contracts, and the rise of global financial institutions all flowed through the same channels.

The cycle never changed.

War creates debt.

Debt creates dependence.

Dependence strengthens the lenders.

Governments fall. Populations suffer. Borders shift.

But the financial architecture behind the wars stays intact.

When you follow the money instead of the flags, the story becomes brutally simple:

War is a political event, but it is also a financial operation. And the financial side has been run by the same institutions for over two centuries.

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Back in 1970, the country had a surplus of about 300,000 affordable homes. Today, for every 100 extremely low‑income renters, there are only 37 places they can realistically afford. The rest simply don’t exist. The shortage is by design.

The fallout is everywhere. 755,000 people are homeless tonight, which is 41 percent higher than in 2016. And a huge share of them — somewhere between 40 and 60 percent — are working. They have jobs. The jobs just don’t pay enough to keep a roof over their heads.

Even people who do have housing are barely hanging on. 22.6 million renters are spending more than 30 percent of their income on rent. For the lowest‑wage households, it’s worse: 70 percent are spending over half their income just to stay housed. That leaves nothing for emergencies, food, or anything else.

Prices keep climbing while wages don't change. The average home now costs $357,445, up 33 percent in five years. Average rent is $1,698 a month, up 30 percent in the same period. From 2001 to 2023, rents rose 23 percent after inflation. Renters’ incomes rose only 5 percent.

And the pressure compounds. The U.S. Government Accountability Office found that every $100 increase in median rent pushes homelessness up by 9 percent.

This is the reality: people working full time and still sinking; families priced out of their own towns; a housing market that treats shelter like a luxury item; a country where the math doesn’t work for millions of people who are doing everything they can…and still drowning.

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The Sumerians wrote about the Anunnaki, powerful figures tied to the sky and the earth. They wrote about Enki, a creator‑engineer. They wrote about Adamu, a being shaped for labor. These aren’t modern theories. They’re ancient records, older than any organized religion we know today. Whether people take them literally or symbolically, they raise questions that institutions have avoided for centuries.

Across southern Africa, archaeologists have found mining sites that go back tens of thousands of years. Some researchers point out that these mines line up with the same themes found in the tablets: gold, labor, and early human development. The connection is debated, but the overlap is too sharp to ignore. The clay talks about gold. The ground shows gold extraction. There are no coincidences.

For a long time, major institutions treated these tablets as harmless mythology while elevating younger texts as unquestionable truth. But the older material keeps resurfacing. It forces people to look at the possibility that humanity’s origin story is not simple, not clean, and not controlled by the groups that tried to lock it down.

That’s where the lego animations come in. They cut through the polite academic tone. They take the Sumerian accounts, the African archaeological evidence, the parallels with Genesis, the echoes in the Book of Enoch, and they lay it out without filters. No gatekeepers. No committees. No “approved” version of history.

They show that history is not a closed book.

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From the 1950s onward, the CIA used this hidden funding to interfere in governments around the world. Iran, Guatemala, Congo, Chile — the pattern was the same. Money moved quietly, local actors were paid off, and entire countries were pushed in directions that suited Washington. These weren’t small operations. They changed the course of nations, and they were paid for with money the public never saw.

As the Cold War deepened, the CIA expanded its reach. The black budget funded propaganda networks, secret armies, and surveillance programs that operated far outside any democratic process. The agency learned that with enough hidden money, it could shape events without ever being held accountable. It didn’t need public approval. It didn’t even need Congress to understand what it was doing.

By the 1980s, the CIA had perfected this model. When Congress tried to block funding for the Contras in Nicaragua, the agency simply found other channels. Foreign governments, private donors, and covert deals filled the gap. The message was clear: once the CIA decided something needed to happen, the black budget made it possible, no matter what the law said.

After 9/11, the scale of hidden spending exploded. The CIA built secret prisons, expanded drone warfare, and created global surveillance systems. Much of this was funded through classified lines buried inside the defense budget. The public had no idea how large the intelligence world had become until leaks years later exposed the size of the hidden spending.

Today, the black budget still fuels operations the public will not hear about for decades. Cyber operations, foreign influence campaigns, covert partnerships, and technologies that remain classified — all of it runs on money that never appears in open records. The CIA’s reach is global, and its funding is designed to stay invisible.

The agency’s history shows a consistent pattern: when something destabilizing happens somewhere in the world, the CIA is often involved in the background. Not always directly, not always publicly, but through networks, funding, and influence built over decades. The black budget made this possible. It allowed the agency to act without scrutiny, to shape events without accountability, and to operate in ways that would never survive public debate.

Whether people see the CIA as a protector or a threat, one thing is clear: its power comes from secrecy. And the black budget is the engine that keeps that secrecy alive.

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Thomas was born in 1948 in Pin Point, Georgia, a small Black community founded by formerly enslaved people. His family lived in a wooden shack with no plumbing. After a fire destroyed the house, his mother sent him and his brother to live with their grandfather, Meyers Anderson. Meyers was strict, religious, and relentless. He built a business in a time when Black men were not supposed to succeed. He pushed Clarence toward discipline and education. He wanted Clarence to become a strong Black man who could survive a country that had tried to crush men like him.

In the late 1960s, Clarence Thomas was not a conservative. He was angry at America. He wore Malcolm X shirts. He marched against the Vietnam War. He helped run a clothing drive for the Black Panthers. He founded the Black student union at Holy Cross. He believed the system was built to destroy Black people because he had lived it.

Then he got to Yale Law School in 1971. Yale admitted more Black students that year because of affirmative action. Thomas convinced himself that this made his degree worthless. He believed white employers would see him as unqualified. That resentment hardened into a worldview. He decided that civil rights programs were a trap. He decided that the tools that helped him were harmful.

That belief shaped the rest of his life.

After Yale, he worked for Republican senator John Danforth in Missouri. Then Ronald Reagan appointed him to run the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 1982. The EEOC existed to enforce civil rights in the workplace. Under Thomas, the agency weakened. He shifted away from class action cases. He let thousands of discrimination complaints expire. He cut enforcement staff. Civil rights groups accused him of hollowing out the agency from within.

By this point, Thomas was tied to the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation. These groups wanted to reshape the courts. They needed a Black conservative who could dismantle civil rights protections without being accused of racism. Thomas fit the role.

In 1991, when Thurgood Marshall retired, President George H. W. Bush nominated Thomas to replace him. Thomas had been a judge for only sixteen months. He was not the most qualified candidate. But he was conservative, and he was Black, and that was enough.

The confirmation hearings were supponsed to be simple. Then Anita Hill came forward.

Hill had worked for Thomas at the Department of Education and the EEOC. Under oath, she described years of sexual harassment. Graphic conversations about pornography. Repeated unwanted advances. Comments about his own body. The moment when he picked up a Coke can and asked who put a pubic hair on it. She did not want to testify. She was subpoenaed. She knew what would happen to her.

She was right. A panel of fourteen white men questioned her with disbelief and hostility. Other women with similar stories were never called to testify. The political machine had already decided Thomas would be confirmed.

He was.

For the next thirty years, Clarence Thomas became the most conservative justice on the Supreme Court. He rarely spoke during oral arguments. His silence made him seem thoughtful. In reality, his votes were consistent and extreme.

He voted to weaken the Voting Rights Act in 2013. Within a day, states with long histories of voter suppression moved to restrict voting again.

He voted to end affirmative action in college admissions in 2023. He wrote that the policy stamped minorities with a badge of inferiority. He did not mention that affirmative action made his own career possible.

He voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. He wrote that the court should reconsider the rights to contraception, same sex relationships, and same sex marriage. He did not mention the case that protected interracial marriage.

Then came January 6. When the House committee asked for Trump’s White House records, eight justices agreed to release them. Only one justice voted no. Clarence Thomas. His wife had been involved in the effort to overturn the election.

The story of Clarence Thomas is not about one man’s beliefs. It is about a system that understood how to use him. It is about warnings ignored. It is about a political project that began in the 1980s and continues today.

And it is about the cost. The cost to voting rights. The cost to civil rights. The cost to women. The cost to the communities that raised him.

This is the legacy Clarence Thomas built.

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It traces the history through real places that still stand today. Badagry in Nigeria, where captives were marched to the “Point of No Return.” Elmina Castle in Ghana, used by Portuguese and Dutch traders as a major export point. Gorée Island in Senegal, where people were held in cramped stone rooms before being forced onto ships. Ouidah in the Kingdom of Dahomey, where royal armies raided inland communities and sold prisoners. Coastal forts in Sierra Leone, where local brokers and European companies negotiated prices for human lives.

The record shows that some African states resisted the trade, some tried to limit it, and others built political and economic power by participating in it. In places like Dahomey, Asante, and parts of coastal Nigeria, rulers and war captains supplied captives through warfare, raids, and debt bondage. European traders then transported those captives across the Atlantic under violent and deadly conditions.

On the other side of the ocean, those captives became the ancestors of millions of Black Americans. Families were destroyed. Names were erased. Cultures were broken apart. The effects are still present today in identity, memory, and the long fight for dignity and equality.

This project speaks directly to that history. It acknowledges the European role as the main driver of the trade. It also acknowledges the role some Africans played in handing people into that system. It does not shift blame. It tells the truth plainly.

The purpose is connection, not division. Many Africans today were not taught this history. Many Black Americans grew up feeling that Africa never addressed it. Bringing the truth forward opens the door to honest conversation, shared grief, and a chance to rebuild ties through history, DNA, culture, and the ongoing struggle for justice.

This is educational and commemorative work, grounded in documented West African and Atlantic history. It is for anyone ready to face the past directly and speak to it with respect.

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From 1500 to 1866, more than twelve million Africans were forced onto ships and pushed across the Atlantic. Almost two million died before reaching land. The Middle Passage was the center of the transatlantic slave trade — a system built to turn human beings into cargo. European traders kidnapped people from West and Central Africa, marched them to coastal forts, and packed them into ships built for profit, not survival.

The animation shows the ports where people were held, the chains that cut into their skin, and the decks where hundreds were crammed into spaces too small to sit up. Men, women, and children were locked in rows, shoulder to shoulder, with barely any air. Disease spread fast. Food was scarce. Violence was constant. Many died from sickness, starvation, or abuse. Others were thrown overboard.

It also names the ships that became symbols of this brutality. The Zong, where more than a hundred Africans were murdered so the crew could claim insurance money. The Amistad, where captives rose up, fought back, and forced the world to confront the truth of what was happening at sea. These stories are part of a larger record of resistance. Even in chains, people fought for their lives, their families, and their dignity.

The video makes one thing clear: millions of Black Americans are alive today because their ancestors survived this crossing. The Middle Passage was designed to erase them. It failed. Survival itself became an act of defiance.

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The Silence Following the Epstein Files: Why Outrage Was Diluted by Design

When 3.5 million documents detailing one of the most egregious abuses of power in modern history were released, many expected a revolution. Yet, the aftermath of the Jeffrey Epstein files has been marked by an eerie quiet. The streets haven’t flooded with protests demanding accountability, and top-level arrests have remained entirely absent. How could revelations this disturbing fail to mobilize the masses?

This muted reaction is not an accident but a product of systemic design, achieved by strategically shifting the “Overton window”. The Overton window represents the range of ideas and realities a society considers normal. When forced repeatedly to look at the unthinkable, the slightly less unthinkable starts to feel acceptable. Four distinct forces are actively pushing this window, moving society to a place where a monumental scandal overwhelms the public rather than mobilizing them.

1. A Society Desensitized to Horror

The first force is desensitization. The Epstein files have entered a society whose threshold for shock has already been shattered. Through constant exposure to global tragedies and extreme visual violence broadcast continuously through our screens, our collective emotional responses have been dampened. The human brain undergoes a process known as habituation; it adapts to constant alarm by reducing its emotional intensity just to function and survive. When compared to visceral, live-streamed horrors, written testimonies of abuse struggle to break through the public’s emotional numbness.

2. The War on the Mind and Truth

The digital age has ushered in a sustained war on attention. Dropping 3.5 million unorganized, heavily redacted files all at once is overwhelming by design. In an ecosystem defined by short attention spans and relentless algorithmic feeds, individuals and journalists are left without the time to effectively process the information before the next crisis takes over. Compounding this is a parallel war on truth, where political figures routinely lie without consequence. Without a credible baseline for what is real, the public is left guessing, and that confusion prevents effective mobilization.

3. The Rise of Learned Helplessness

Over the past decade, citizens have taken to the streets time and time again, yet structural change remains elusive. This repeated failure to instigate change fosters “learned helplessness,” a psychological state where people internalize the belief that their actions simply do not matter. Furthermore, the villain in the Epstein scandal isn’t a single polarizing figure; it is the entire establishment elite. This sprawling network of complicity makes the true “monster” appear too omnipotent to fight, turning outrage into a luxury for citizens who are just trying to survive.

4. Media Complicity and Suppressed Motives

Perhaps the most powerful force shifting the Overton window is the mainstream media. The press largely framed the Epstein story as another tale of wealthy perverts, placing it alongside the likes of Harvey Weinstein. However, this framing deliberately ignores the alleged systemic blackmail operations and Epstein’s extensive, high-level connections to the Israeli regime and intelligence. By ignoring the broader geopolitical motives behind this horrifying network—such as procuring cyber weapons and establishing leverage over American politicians—the media successfully neutered the core of the story.

A Warning Against Normalizing Barbarism

The silence surrounding the Epstein files is symptomatic of a larger, global disease. The spaces where rules do not apply and accountability goes to die are not anomalies; they are concentrated versions of how power already operates. The systematic suppression of truth and justice drags society toward normalizing a complete lack of morality in power. The only way forward is to identify this deliberate dilution of outrage and steadfastly resist the normalization of barbarism in our daily lives.

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When the RSF finally broke through in October, the escape routes turned into killing grounds. Survivors say people were shot as they ran, with bodies left on the roadside. Rights groups warn that the pattern of attacks in Darfur is not random. Entire communities were targeted, homes burned and people disappeared. The scale and consistency of the violence raise fears of ethnic cleansing.

Inside the city, months of bombardment had already destroyed markets, clinics and shelters. Families who tried to flee walked for days without water. Others were trapped in their homes as fighting closed in around them.

Fault Lines, Lighthouse Reports and the Sudan War Monitor used satellite imagery, videos and survivor accounts to piece together what happened. Their investigation shows a clear strategy: isolate the city, starve it, then take it by force. The fall of el‑Fasher became one of the deadliest chapters of the war, and another warning that Darfur’s past atrocities are repeating in plain sight.

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“Sanctioned Sky” rebuilds that entire timeline in LEGO. It’s a rap, but it’s also a step‑by‑step look at documented events: the US military cloud‑seeding Vietnam during Operation Popeye, the long list of American states that passed laws against weather modification, and the UAE’s open use of silver‑iodide aircraft to force rain over its own territory. All of it is public record.

The video also returns to 2012, when Iran’s president said clouds were being diverted away from the country. He was mocked. But in March 2026, 228 radar and military installations across the region went offline. Within weeks, rain returned to Iran at levels not seen in a generation. Farmers filmed puddles like they were miracles. A flamingo came back to a lake that had been dead for years. Children stood outside and touched rain for the first time in their lives.

The LEGO rap walks viewers through the science, the politics, the drought, and the sudden shift. It uses simple bricks to explain a complicated story, piece by piece.

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Patrice Lumumba dissolved in acid in 1961.

Fred Hampton shot in his bed in 1969.

Steve Biko beaten to death in custody.

Maurice Bishop taken out in Grenada.

Thomas Sankara killed at 37.

Martin Luther King. Malcolm X.

Apple, Tesla, Google, Microsoft, Dell — Doe v. Apple, 2019.

King Leopold’s ten million dead in the Congo.

The Tuskegee 399.

The MOVE bombing.

Cobalt mined by children.

Nelson Mandela kept on the U.S. terror list until 2008.

This isn’t hostility. It’s a mirror.

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USC has taken more than $860,000 from the Navy over the past seven years in exchange for at least 89 cadavers. Thirty‑two of those were used specifically for Israeli military training at Los Angeles General Medical Center. The Navy contracts spell it out: USC is responsible for acquiring “fresh tissue cadaver bodies,” many of them coming from UCSD’s donation program.

The bodies weren’t used for basic anatomy classes. They were used in battlefield trauma simulations. Israeli military doctors practiced on “perfused cadavers,” meaning the bodies were pumped with artificial blood to mimic living patients. These sessions included treating gunshot and explosion wounds.

USC also sourced bodies from unclaimed or unidentified remains through its Office of Decedent Affairs. Using unclaimed bodies is legal in California, but bioethicists have been warning for years that it’s unethical to use people who never consented — especially for military training. The American Association for Anatomy has said programs should rely only on informed consent.

Students at USC’s Keck School of Medicine were the first to publicly push back. Seventy‑two students, residents, and physicians signed a letter demanding transparency. They said donors expect their bodies to be used for medical education, not for military trauma drills involving a foreign army. When they reviewed the consent documents, they found no clear disclosure that bodies could be used this way.

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USC’s administration insists this is “educational,” not “military,” but the Navy contracts contradict that. The purpose is to strengthen cooperation between the U.S. military and the Israeli Defense Forces.

Civil rights groups have condemned the program outright. CAIR‑LA called USC’s actions “disturbing,” pointing out that many of the bodies appear to have been unclaimed individuals who never had the chance to consent. They also criticized USC for enabling a foreign military accused of mass civilian killings in Gaza.

The bottom line is simple. People donated their bodies believing they would help train doctors, advance science, or support medical research. They did not consent to being used in military exercises, let alone for a foreign army. USC and UCSD never told them. They never told their families. And they profited from it.

This is not a paperwork error. It’s a systemic breach of trust, carried out quietly for years, and only exposed because students and journalists dug into the contracts.

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He laid out steps to fight antisemitism. One part called for zero tolerance and for removing antisemites from places where the law allows it. Another part pushed European countries to open their doors wider to Jewish families through easier immigration and naturalization rules. Döpfner said Europe’s Jewish population per person is ten times smaller than in the United States. He argued that making Europe more Jewish would test real tolerance and bring gains in education, creativity, business, and stability.

Döpfner also attacked social media. He singled out TikTok as one of the most dangerous tools for spreading extremist and antisemitic content, especially to young people. He said the West should follow the United States and force its sale to new owners. He warned that woke thinking acts as a cover for antisemitism and Islamism. As an example, he pointed to climate activist Greta Thunberg. He said she no longer focuses much on carbon emissions but now pushes antisemitic ideas.

He criticized empty talk about the Holocaust and “never again.” Döpfner said such speeches have become meaningless because antisemitism keeps growing on streets, campuses, and online. He described Israel as a democracy and a center of Western values in a tough region. At the end of his talk he declared that we all shall be Zionists. The audience gave him a standing ovation.

Sick f***s. F**k him and his delusions.

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The video shows how the food you think is “fresh,” “grilled,” or “made to order” is often microwaved, reheated, pre‑packaged, or sitting in unsafe conditions. Applebee’s is described as a dining room attached to a giant microwave line. Cheddar’s desserts arrive frozen and thawed. Wendy’s “fresh, never frozen” slogan applies only to beef — everything else comes in frozen blocks. McDonald’s ice cream and McCafé machines can sit with residue inside for weeks because the cleaning cycles fail. Their fries are coated in sugar and beef flavoring. Burger King’s “flame‑grilled” patties touch fire for seconds before being microwaved.

Then comes the buffet problem — the worst of all. Golden Corral’s open‑air trays become breeding grounds for bacteria, allergens, and spoiled food. Cross‑contamination is constant: serving utensils dipped into multiple dishes, raw proteins stored near ready‑to‑eat items, and food sitting at unsafe temperatures for hours. Buffets rely on the illusion of abundance, but behind that illusion is a rotating cycle of reheated leftovers, improperly cooled dishes, and trays that should have been thrown out long before customers arrived.

Across all chains, inspectors documented mold in ice machines, grease hardened onto equipment for months, raw meat stored above cooked food, and prep stations that haven’t been sanitized properly in ages. Former employees describe conveyor belts, fryers, and warming drawers coated in grime. The sodium, sugar, additives, and allergens hidden in “simple” menu items push many meals past daily health limits before you even finish the plate.

The warning to Americans is blunt: the restaurant industry depends on the fact that you never see the kitchen. The dining room can look spotless while the back is a health hazard. The menu can say “fresh” while the food is thawed, microwaved, or contaminated. And the chains you trust most — fast food, casual dining, buffets — are often the ones hiding the biggest risks.

This PSA tells you to stop assuming a familiar brand means safe food. Check inspection scores. Pay attention to how food is handled. And understand that the problems aren’t limited to one type of restaurant — they run through the entire system.

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Kiriakou’s stories from Athens and the Middle East show how deeply U.S. and allied intelligence services embed themselves in regional conflicts, shaping outcomes far beyond what the public ever sees. His description of Greece as a safe corridor for armed groups, the CIA’s recruitment of violent actors, and the quiet cooperation between Western and Middle Eastern networks underscores how intelligence agencies often act as geopolitical engineers rather than neutral observers.

Organizations like the CIA and Mossad exert disproportionate influence over global events and often operate in morally ambiguous or outright destructive ways. He doesn’t make sweeping claims, but the details he provides point to a system where secrecy shields misconduct, where political leaders deny what everyone inside knows to be true, and where the line between national security and covert manipulation is intentionally blurred.

Kiriakou’s account doesn’t “prove” every suspicion people hold about intelligence agencies, but it does validate the core concern: these institutions wield immense power with minimal oversight, and when abuses occur, they are buried under classification, legal threats, and political theater. His story becomes a case study in how the machinery works — and why so many people believe that the world’s most consequential decisions are shaped not by public debate, but by covert actors operating in the shadows.

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First, they buy up everything. In Monsey, New York, the case study Tyler follows, they roll in, knock on doors, offer cash above market, turn neighborhoods into enclaves. Blockbusting on steroids. Same playbook in Lakewood and spreading hard to Jackson, Toms River, and Howell. They snatch thousands of homes through LLCs, rent ‘em out, convert houses into synagogues and mikvahs without permits. Non-Jews feel the squeeze and sell. Tyler shows locals in Jackson Township freaking the f**k out as Lakewood spills over - Orthodox families buying land fast, building housing and shuls tailored for their needs. Parks getting overrun, traffic from illegal mikvahs, the whole character of the town erased. It’s a positive feedback loop: more Jews, more kosher shops, more Jews. Tyler calls it a silent invasion, turning quiet suburbs into “Little Jerusalem.”

Once they’ve got the numbers, they vote as a bloc. They stack the school board, township committee, planning board. He interviews non-Jewish activists like Chris Pollak from “Fight for Jackson” who lay out the machine: they turn out thousands of votes as one, flipping local elections. In East Ramapo near Monsey, Orthodox voters took the school board even though their kids don’t go to public schools. They vote down budgets year after year, f**k the public school funding. Public schools serving mostly Black and Latino kids get gutted: teachers laid off, programs slashed, buildings crumble. Eventually districts can’t sustain it, schools close, and boom, the properties get sold to yeshivas for pennies on the dollar. Taxpayer-funded real estate fire sale straight to private Jewish schools. Tyler shows the same pattern hitting Lakewood and Jackson. Public school kids get screwed while private yeshivas thrive.

These yeshivas are private religious schools, yet they siphon public money through mandated services, busing, special ed, textbooks, administrative aid. Districts funnel hundreds of millions; New York Hasidic schools pulled in over a billion in recent years despite providing s**t secular education. Boys often get almost no English or math after a certain age. Critics say it’s by design: keep them insulated, dependent on the community and the state. In Lakewood, with way more private school kids than public, the district still has to bus everybody and gets aid based only on public enrollment, hence the constant budget crises.

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Welfare’s the other half of the grift. These families average six to ten kids, sometimes more. Haredi fertility runs 6-7 per woman. High poverty follows: many men study Torah full-time instead of working regular jobs. In Hasidic areas like New Square near Monsey, poverty hits 70%, SNAP/food stamps over 77%. Hasidic folks in New York are three times more likely to be on food stamps, twice as likely on Medicaid. Lakewood’s no different, tons of Section 8, food stamps, Medicaid, WIC. Taxpayers foot the bill for these massive families while the community milks every program available. Tyler contrasts it with the Amish: same big families, but they don’t lean on the system like this. He walks the line between “it’s legal” and “it’s f*****g exploitative,” showing how the numbers qualify them for everything in droves. Some areas have fraud scandals on top - Medicaid scams, money laundering through schools.

There’s real confrontation in the doc, Tyler gets followed, cops called on him repeatedly, and he straight-up tells some locals to “go back to Israel” in heated moments. He also interviews a big-shot Lakewood Jewish billionaire, Dr. Richard Roberts (Trump-connected pharma guy), who defends the community hard.

It’s colonization, plain and dirty. They use democratic tools, high birth rates, bloc voting, legal muscle like RLUIPA to bulldoze zoning, but the endgame is parallel societies that extract from the host while giving little back. Public infrastructure gets strained, taxes rise or services tank for everyone else, secular kids lose decent schools. Non-Jews report feeling pushed out, unable to afford the bidding wars or the shifting culture.

The Gaza parallel is brutal but fits the pattern: demographic swamping, control of land and institutions, building your own infrastructure on top of the ruins of what was there. In Gaza it’s rockets and tunnels; here it’s ballots, babies, and billion-dollar welfare pipelines. Same logic of “this is ours now.” Tyler frames it as relentless demographic conquest using births, cash, and coordinated voting to claim territory. Critics get slapped with “antisemite” for noticing. Tyler got heat for saying the quiet part loud, but the numbers and the footage don’t lie.

This isn’t some conspiracy, it’s just relentless group strategy meeting low civic resistance. High-fertility religious groups that prioritize in-group loyalty over integration will always overwhelm slower-breeding, atomized populations. Lakewood shows how fast it happens. Monsey was the warning. More towns are next unless locals wake the f**k up and push back on the incentives: welfare that rewards 7+ kids with no work, voting systems easily captured by blocs, and public money flowing to schools that don’t teach kids how to function in the real world.

The system’s getting gamed by people who treat it like a resource, not a shared polity. Call it what it is: takeover by demographics and dollars. The “Jersey Jews” didn’t sneak in the night. They bred, bought, and voted their way in. And the bill’s on us.

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The 2020 broadcast offered one of the clearest explanations of how Hamas leadership understood the political and military landscape surrounding Gaza. Regional outlets across West Asia described the interview as a moment where Ismail Haniyeh laid out the resistance’s position without hesitation. He spoke as a leader who had lived through siege, war, and betrayal, and who believed the resistance had survived because it refused to accept the limits imposed on it.

Arab and Iranian media at the time highlighted one point above all. Iran’s support for Hamas and the resistance was described as real, consistent, and free of political conditions. Commentators from Al Mayadeen, Al Akhbar, PressTV, and Iraqi papers wrote that Tehran did not demand concessions or silence. It offered support because it saw the resistance as part of a shared regional struggle. This contrasted sharply with the pressure coming from Western governments and several Arab capitals, where the message was that Gaza could have economic relief only if Hamas disarmed and accepted permanent submission.

Haniyeh addressed the political offers pushed during the Trump administration. Regional journalists reported that the proposal to confine Palestinians to a Gaza‑only “state” was viewed as an attempt to erase the national struggle entirely. Hamas rejected it immediately. According to these outlets, the offer demanded that Palestinians surrender their right to resist, abandon their land, and accept a future built on isolation. Haniyeh made it clear that no leadership rooted in the resistance would ever sign such a deal.

The broadcast also revisited earlier attempts to force long periods of calm on Gaza. During the 2008 to 2009 war, intermediaries from Arab intelligence services delivered a proposal for a 15‑year halt to resistance activity. West Asian reporters wrote that the message was simple. Stop resisting and the pressure will ease. Haniyeh refused. He said the resistance would not sign a document that amounted to defeat.

At the same time, the region was shifting. The UAE, Bahrain, and Sudan signed normalization agreements with Israel. Analysts in Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran described these governments as aligning themselves with Israeli and American security priorities. Egyptian critics, especially those writing from exile, detailed how Cairo tightened its control over the Rafah crossing and restricted the movement of goods that could help Gaza rebuild or manufacture anything. Saudi Arabia’s political weight helped shield these normalization deals from criticism. Hamas leaders saw this as a coordinated effort to isolate the resistance and weaken Gaza from within.

The documentary focused on something that regional media had been reporting for years. Gaza’s military capabilities were not the result of open supply lines. They were built inside Gaza itself. Hamas and the Al Qassam Brigades developed an internal system that relied on engineering units, manufacturing teams, and technical specialists who worked under siege conditions that would have shut down most industries anywhere else. With borders sealed and raw materials restricted, these teams relied on recycling, improvisation, and local knowledge.

Writers from Al Akhbar and Al Araby Al Jadeed often pointed out that Gaza has one of the highest literacy and university graduation rates in the region. Many of the engineers involved in weapons production were trained in local universities that continued to operate even after repeated bombardments. Their work was described as a form of survival. In a place where no conventional defense system existed, Hamas built its own.

Every war destroyed workshops, tunnels, and storage sites. Every war forced new methods, new designs, and new ways of hiding and moving materials. The system survived because it adapted. The documentary presented this not as a story of external supply but as a story of internal evolution. Haniyeh framed it as proof that the resistance could not be broken by siege or isolation.

A Full Clarification on the Tunnels

This is a detailed explanation of the tunnel networks, a subject that has been widely covered by Palestinian, Egyptian, and Lebanese reporters. The resistance has always insisted that there are two separate systems, each serving a different purpose.

The first category is the military network. These tunnels are used by the resistance for combat, movement, ambushes, and defensive operations. They allow fighters to move without being exposed to drones, snipers, or surveillance. They are designed to counter an army with overwhelming technological and aerial superiority. They are part of the resistance’s military strategy and have been developed over many years of war.

The second category is the civilian network. This network is far larger and historically far more important for daily life. These tunnels were dug by ordinary Palestinians, not fighters. They formed the backbone of Gaza’s underground economy during the harshest years of the blockade. Egyptian and Palestinian journalists documented how these tunnels carried food, medicine, fuel, spare parts, clothing, livestock, and thousands of items banned from entering Gaza. Some tunnels were large enough for vehicles. Others were narrow passages dug by hand.

These civilian tunnels were not military infrastructure. They were survival infrastructure. They kept hospitals running when fuel was blocked. They kept bakeries open when wheat was restricted. They allowed families to rebuild homes when cement and steel were banned. They provided access to goods that any other population would obtain through normal trade.

Regional reporters described these tunnels as the only way for 2.3 million people to survive a blockade designed to break them. They were built because Gaza was sealed off from the world. They were built because the population had no other way to obtain basic goods. They were built because the siege left no alternative.

Confusing these two systems distorts the reality of life under blockade. One network was built for resistance. The other was built for survival. Both were responses to a situation imposed from the outside.

Taken together, the political pressure, the regional shifts, the internal engineering, and the dual tunnel networks form the broader picture the broadcast tried to show. Gaza did not survive because it was allowed to. It survived because Hamas, Haniyeh, and the wider resistance built their own means of endurance inside a territory where every normal path to survival had been cut off.

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(10:13) Iran’s Growing Power Since the War Began

(14:37) Where Does the Hatred Towards Iran Come From?

(24:37) The Nuclear Weapon Lie Surrounding Iran

(32:51) The Greater Israel Project

(37:36) Trump’s Beholdenness to the Oil and Zionist Lobby

(41:12) Iran’s Drought, Israel’s Use of the U.S., and Accepting a Stronger Iran

(54:54) Sachs’s Exchange with Danny Danon

(1:01:37) David Ben-Gurion and the Displacement of Millions of Jews

(1:07:28) Zionism’s Origin

(1:17:06) What Will Israel Do If the U.S. Withdraws Support?

(1:24:38) The Untenability of the Greater Israel Project

(1:32:35) What Are the Economic Effects if This War Accelerates?

(1:47:17) Is This Preordained?

(1:57:07) Have Any Legislatures Grown More Powerful in the Past Decade?

(1:58:23) Will Our Current System Survive This?

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After Arna’s death, Juliano returned to Jenin in 2002 following a major Israeli military invasion that destroyed large parts of the camp, including the theatre. The children he once filmed had become young men shaped by years of siege, displacement and violence. Several joined armed resistance. Ashraf and Ala became leaders in the Battle of Jenin. Yussef and Nidal carried out an attack in Hadera in 2001. Others were killed in confrontations with Israeli forces.

The film presents these developments directly and without commentary. It shows how the boys who once used theatre to process their trauma later faced a reality where many felt there were no peaceful paths left. The structure of the documentary has sparked discussion in solidarity circles. Some viewers feel the shift from childhood scenes to funerals and posters of the dead creates a mournful tone. Others say it risks overshadowing the everyday forms of steadfastness that Palestinians practice beyond armed struggle. Many also view the film as essential testimony that documents how occupation shaped the lives of these children and the choices they made as adults.

Arna’s Children is considered an important work in Palestinian documentary cinema. It records a community, a theatre and a generation living under military pressure. It follows the paths those children took as the conditions around them hardened. The film stands as a record of Jenin’s history and of Arna’s attempt to create dignity and expression in a place defined by restriction and loss.

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GHF, a Christian organization, laundered taxpayer money under the pretense of being a humanitarian aid company. In reality, it was a mass slaughter campaign.

In this Age of Absurdity, nothing is surprising anymore.

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2:20 Why Did Buckley Support Trump So Early On?

13:14 John McCain Leading the Charge Against Big Tobacco

23:55 Obama’s Presidency and Buckley’s Speeches for Trump

41:17 Reminiscing About the Trump We Had in 2020

48:16 Trump’s Hatred of WASPs and His 2016 Victory Party

1:02:44 Homosexuality in Politics, Caretaking, and Ben Shapiro

1:10:20 The Failures of Trump

1:26:01 When Support for Trump Became Dissent

1:32:37 Trump’s Failure to Stand Up for Americans

1:41:22 Trump’s Failure to Investigate Charlie Kirk’s Assassination

1:48:13 The Epstein Files, 9/11 Files, and JFK Files

1:50:52 Trump’s Betrayal of Marjorie Taylor Greene

2:00:09 Has This Been the Plan? Where Does This Go?

2:13:24 Does Buckley Feel Personally Threatened?

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These accounts are not shared by Western mainstream media, but their stories must be told nevertheless.

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Commentators like Richard Medhurst argue that this isn’t chaos or improvisation. They see a deliberate strategy that many people overlook when they assume Donald Trump is stumbling from crisis to crisis. Medhurst lays out the logic behind these actions, but he also tends to treat “the US” as a single, unified actor. That framing misses how many other governments… including some in BRICS… cooperate, enable, or quietly benefit from these shifts. The system isn’t run by one monolith. It’s a network of states and elites whose interests often overlap, even when they pretend to be rivals.

The result is a world where the public sees ceasefires and diplomatic gestures, while the real contest is happening in pipelines, shipping lanes, and energy terminals. The calm is misleading. The struggle over who controls oil and gas, and who controls the currency those resources are traded in, is accelerating, not slowing down.

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0:00 The Truth Behind October 7th

8:44 When Did Planning For October 7th Start?

15:35 Why the Head of Hamas Wants Israel to Take Over Gaza

23:24 Did Israeli Intel Ignore Signals Leading up to October 7th?

30:51 Why Was the IDF Given a Stand-Down Order?

38:03 Will the Citizens of Gaza Be Relocated Anywhere?

45:42 Why Did Netanyahu Send U.S. Funds to Hamas Before October 7th?

52:47 Israel’s Actual Weakness

59:24 The Strange New World of West Bank Settlers

1:13:45 Are Israel’s Cabinet Ministers Powerful Figures?

1:17:19 Do Israelis Have a Sense of What the World Thinks of Israel?

1:21:49 What’s the Root of Antisemitism?

1:27:49 How Much Damage Has Been Done From the War?

1:34:07 How Has Israel Changed Since October 7th?

1:40:39 How Israelis View Trump, the GCC, and American Jews

1:46:35 The Landscape of the Middle East in Five Years

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The stated mission is stark—“to disrupt the cognition and the thinking ability of an adversary or person of influence.” In plain terms, this is weaponized psychology, engineered by the very companies that already shape our digital lives. And here’s the silence that speaks volumes: nowhere have they promised these tactics won’t be used against the domestic population. My belief is clear—they will. And we, the taxpayers, are funding the machinery of our own manipulation.

Manufacturing Dissent exists to shine a light on these hidden convergences of power, secrecy, and technology. This isn’t paranoia—it’s pattern recognition. When the architects of our digital reality are drafted into military command, the line between foreign adversary and domestic citizen blurs. The battlefield is no longer overseas—it’s in our minds, our feeds, our conversations.

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Iran insists the deal includes recognition of its 10-point demands: control over the Strait of Hormuz, the right to enrich uranium, and the lifting of sanctions. But history suggests the U.S. rarely honours such commitments long-term. Instead, negotiations often serve as camouflage—buying time to regroup, rearm, and reframe the narrative for the next escalation.

Berletic’s warning is stark: Israel functions as a forward operating base, a proxy disposable enough to absorb the fallout of a strike while the U.S. maintains “clean hands.” This ceasefire could be the calm before a storm, a window for Israel to act under the guise of peace. The spectre of nuclear escalation looms, not as paranoia, but as a reminder of how often “temporary peace” masks preparation for war.

The broader picture is even more sobering. The U.S. strategy is not confined to Iran—it is part of a continuous campaign to maintain global primacy and disrupt multipolarism. From Russia and China to Venezuela and Cuba, the same playbook repeats: pressure, destabilise, negotiate, betray. Each ceasefire, each summit, each handshake is less a promise of peace than a prelude to renewed conflict.

For those who believe in resistance, the lesson is clear: scepticism is not cynicism, it is survival. Manufacturing dissent means refusing to accept ceasefires at face value, refusing to let “victory” be defined by those who profit from endless war. The question is not whether this truce will hold—it is how long until the next betrayal and whether we are ready to call it out when it comes.

UPDATE SINCE THIS INTERVIEW:

Israel has already violated the ceasefire 40-plus times in Lebanon, killing over 400 people.

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An Arab analyst breaks down exactly what’s at stake:

🔸 Gulf states hold 1.55 trillion barrels — 32% of global oil reserves

🔸 Targeting these facilities could eliminate 20% of global oil supply — 18 million barrels per day

🔸 20% of global LNG demand comes from this region

🔸 25-30% of global urea fertilizer exports — food supply implications for years

KSA: Ghawar field (58B barrels), Safaniya field (34B barrels), Ras Tanura port (handles 90% of Saudi exports), Jubail petrochemical complex, Sadara chemicals

UAE: Zakum field (1M bbl/day), Ruwais refinery (817K bbl/day), Fujairah port, Barakah nuclear plant (5,600 MW)

Qatar: North Field (2,000 trillion cubic feet — world’s largest gas field), Ras Laffan port and refinery

Kuwait: Az-Zour refinery (615K bbl/day), Greater Burgan field, Ahmadi port

All of these facilities involve American companies. That is the point.

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43:23 Paula White’s Strange Easter Sunday Service

51:17 Who Really Is Paula White?

57:24 How Did Paula Become Trump’s Spiritual Advisor?

1:00:03 The Exposed Megachurch Documents

1:09:52 Why Is Corruption So Prevalent in American Protestant Churches?

1:13:10 The Scam That’s Taken Over the Nonprofit Industry

1:27:14 The Mormon Church’s Investments in Weapons Manufacturing

1:28:52 How Much Money Does Franklin Graham’s Nonprofit Have?

1:33:11 How Do Megachurch Pastors Justify Owning Private Jets?

1:39:30 Graham's Bizarre Alaskan Hideout

1:52:42 The Love of Money Is the Root of All Evil

1:54:27 What Is Dispensationalism?

2:07:15 The Attempts to Usher in the Antichrist

2:13:00 Finding Contentment and Fulfillment in Christ

2:16:36 The Spiritual War Happening in the White House

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This video walks through that collapse, but more importantly, it shows that nothing about it was surprising. This wasn’t one bad week. It was a pattern.

The Dog Story Wasn’t a Fluke. It Was a Warning.

Let’s start with the story she thought would impress people.

Kristi Noem bragged in her own book about killing her 14‑month‑old dog, Cricket, because it wasn’t behaving the way she wanted. Then she killed a goat for good measure. She framed this as a lesson in leadership.

That tells you everything you need to know.

Not just about her temperament, but about how she understands power. If something is inconvenient, get rid of it. If something is difficult, eliminate it. And then tell yourself it was necessary.

That mindset doesn’t stay on a farm. It shows up in policy.

The “Principled Conservative” Who Loved Government Money

Before she became a national figure, Noem built her career on a family farm that received millions in federal subsidies. That didn’t stop her from later adopting the usual anti‑government talking points.

This is a recurring theme with these people. Government help is bad until they need it. Then it’s just good business.

The video makes it clear that her political identity was never about consistency. It was about positioning. Whatever got her further, faster.

Governing Like a Social Media Influencer

As governor, she didn’t stand out because of policy. She stood out because of spectacle.

Her COVID response was basically “do nothing and call it freedom.” The results were predictable: high infection rates, high death rates, and a lot of empty rhetoric about personal responsibility.

Then there’s the “I’m on meth” campaign. If you somehow missed that, yes, the governor of a U.S. state ran ads proudly saying “I’m on meth.”

That’s what happens when you treat a public health crisis like a branding exercise. Addiction isn’t solved by slogans. It’s solved by treatment, support, and actually addressing why people use in the first place. But that requires effort, and effort doesn’t photograph well.

Starving Kids While Calling Yourself Pro‑Family

She positioned herself as pro‑life and pro‑family while opposing programs that would actually feed children.

She rejected federal funding for summer meals.

Opposed subsidized childcare. Refused to expand support systems that might help struggling families.

So what exactly is being protected here?

Because it’s not kids. It’s an ideology that sounds good in speeches and falls apart the second it has to function in reality.

Pick a Fight, Lie About It, Double Down

When she accused Native American tribes of working with cartels without evidence, she got banned from tribal lands.

That should have been a moment for reflection. It wasn’t.

She doubled down first, then apologized later when it became politically necessary. That pattern shows up over and over again. Say something extreme, refuse accountability, then quietly walk it back when the consequences hit.

Her Initials Are Literally “KLAN.” Yeah. That Tracks.

At some point, you almost have to laugh.

Her initials spell K.L.A.N.

And given the rhetoric, the targeting of marginalized communities, and the constant fear‑based politics, the symbolism writes itself.

No, initials don’t define a person. But when everything else lines up this neatly, it stops feeling like a coincidence and starts feeling like a brand.

Enter Donald Trump: The Final Form

Noem didn’t just align with Trump politically. She reshaped herself to fit into his orbit.

New image. More media appearances. More aggressive rhetoric. Less substance.

She wanted proximity to power, and she understood exactly what kind of performance that required. The problem is that performance only works until something real happens.

And then you need competence.

DHS: Where Image Meets Consequences

As Secretary of Homeland Security, she was handed real power. Over immigration, disaster response, federal agencies, all of it.

And what did she do with it?

Photo ops. Staged toughness. Social media content.

She turned enforcement into theater. There’s a reason people inside the agency were calling her “Ice Barbie.” It wasn’t a compliment. It was a recognition that what she was doing looked more like cosplay than leadership.

When People Started Dying, the Script Fell Apart

The turning point comes with the ICE shootings.

Two people are killed. Video evidence contradicts the official narrative. And instead of correcting the record, she labels them domestic terrorists.

Not by accident. Not after careful review. Immediately.

And when she was given multiple opportunities to walk it back, she refused. Even under pressure. Even in front of Congress. Even when it was obvious to everyone watching that the claims didn’t hold up.

That’s the moment where the image stops working. Because reality doesn’t cooperate with propaganda.

FEMA, Chaos, and Making Everything Worse

She inserted herself into routine approval processes, requiring sign‑off on relatively small expenses. The result was predictable.

Delays. Backlogs. Communities waiting for aid while bureaucracy piled up.

This is what happens when someone who doesn’t understand how systems work decides to control all of them at once.

The Corey Lewandowski Problem

Then there’s Corey Lewandowski.

Not officially in charge. Still running things.

Influencing decisions, contracts, and operations while operating in a gray area of authority. Staff reportedly saw him as the real decision‑maker.

That’s not just messy. It’s dangerous. It means power is being exercised without accountability.

The Hearings: Where It All Fell Apart

When she finally had to answer for everything, it went exactly how you’d expect.

She dodged questions. Refused to admit mistakes. Tried to reframe obvious contradictions.

And then came the fatal error.

She claimed Trump approved a massive $220 million ad spend. Trump said he didn’t.

That’s it. That’s the end.

Because now you’re either lying to Congress or you’re dragging the president into something he didn’t authorize. Either way, your usefulness is gone.

Fired, Then “Promoted” Into Irrelevance

She was removed from her position and handed a vague new role with no real power.

They’ll call it a transition. It’s not.

It’s a demotion dressed up to avoid admitting failure.

Her replacement, Markwayne Mullin, doesn’t exactly inspire confidence either, which tells you everything about the system this is happening in.

Final Thought: This System Produces People Like This

It’s easy to focus on Kristi Noem as an individual, but she’s not an anomaly. She’s a product.

A system that rewards:

Performance over competence

Aggression over accountability

Loyalty over truth

is going to produce leaders exactly like her.

She didn’t break the system.

She is the system.

And until that changes, there will always be another “Ice Barbie” ready to step in, smile for the camera, and call it leadership while everything burns behind them.

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Today many hundreds or even thousands of Bahrainis are getting killed, jailed and tortured and no western news media is reporting it.

Here is how Israel is entrenched in Bahrain and how the truth about this failing puppet state is hidden from white colonising states.

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Know the truth about why Israeli society is so blood thirsty and savage.

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While travelling in Iran near the Strait of Hormuz, I visited family members of the 168 students and teachers massacred by U.S. airstrikes in the town of Minab.

They angrily rejected any suggestion that they or the Minab school were connected to Iran’s military.

They also confirmed that they’ve been completely ignored by Western media, the U.N. and U.S. military investigators.

My interviews of the family members took place at the cemetery where many of those killed have been laid to rest. I also visited the home of a family that lost five of its members in the atrocity.

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KitKat is owned by Nestlé.

Nestlé is one of the most unethical companies in the world.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Nestlé wanted to grow its infant formula sales in developing countries, especially in Africa. So they came up with a strategy.

They gave free baby formula to new mothers and promoted it as better than mother’s milk.

At first, it seemed helpful. But it was not.

The free supply lasted just long enough for many mothers to stop producing their own milk. Once it ended, they had no natural option left and had to depend on formula.

But many of these mothers were poor. They could not afford to keep buying it. So they tried to stretch it by adding more water and less powder.

This led to weak and undernourished babies.

It got worse because many of them did not even have clean water or proper conditions to prepare the formula safely. Babies fell sick. Some even died.

And Nestlé did not even provide proper instructions. No clear guidance in local languages. No support for mothers who could not read.

They knew the risks. They still continued.

They only reacted when Western countries protested and boycotted them.

Even today, they are not fully ethical. And people still eat KitKat.

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This week on Straight to the Point I sat down with Morgan Wright, a nationally recognized cybersecurity, law enforcement and intelligence analyst. Wright analyzes the new revelations from the Epstein files and discusses evidence that Jeffrey Epstein functioned as a high-level influence operator allegedly protecting Saudi Arabian interests which included apparent attempts to block 9/11 families lawsuits before Trump took office, a 9/11 “shadow” commission with Ghislaine Maxwell, and bragging about SCIF access with Steve Bannon. Wright also says that Epstein fits the exact profile of individuals valuable to the CIA National Resources Division and questions why Epstein was never investigated for apparent violations of foreign lobbying laws by either party.

A spokesman for Steve Bannon did not dispute the authenticity of the texts, but offered no further comment.

A Saudi Embassy spokesperson confirmed receipt of our questions about the Kingdom’s relationship with Epstein, but did not immediately comment.

The Estate of Jeffrey Epstein did not respond to our email seeking comment.

A spokeswoman for Kathryn Ruemmler, former White House Counsel for President Obama said:

"Ms. Ruemmler did not take any action, in either a professional or personal capacity, related to JASTA (Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act), the 9/11 families, or their ability to sue Saudi Arabia. She was never asked to take any action on this matter and never did."

"Ms. Ruemmler welcomes the opportunity to appear before the Committee. At the time she interacted with Jeffrey Epstein, she was a practicing criminal defense attorney and shared a client with him. She has done nothing wrong and had no knowledge of any ongoing criminal activity on his part.”

Ken Starr died in 2022.

Straight to the Point: Exposing Epstein’s Saudi 9/11 Connection

01:00 Epstein: Alleged effort to Block 9/11 families from suing Saudi Arabia

02:00 Epstein: Claims he will get former Obama WH Counsel and Ken Starr to help

03:18 Urgency to Act: Before President Trump’s first term

04:20 Epstein: Violations Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA)

05:05 Neither Republican nor Democrat Administrations Pursued Epstein’s Alleged FARA violations

06:10 Ghislaine Maxwell: “Shadow” 9/11 Commission

08:15 Epstein: Brags to Steve Bannon About Access to “highly classified” facility

10:12 Epstein: In-Q-Tel (CIA-Backed High Tech Fund)

11:30 Epstein: Travel to “Denied” Areas

12:22 Congresswoman Mace: CIA should open its books on Epstein

13:30 CIA: National Resources Division For Intelligence Gathering

14:40 Epstein Attorneys File CIA and NSA FOIAs: Controlling The Narrative

17:49 DOJ “Coding Error” on Trump/Epstein Files

19:30 Response Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Epstein Estate, Kathryn Ruemmler

–Catherine Herridge

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* Iran describes itself as facing an unlawful war imposed by the United States and Israel, both nuclear‑armed states. The conflict is described as unjustified and extremely violent.

* The assault began on 28 February 2026 during ongoing diplomatic talks with the United States about Iran’s nuclear program. The timing disrupted negotiations for the second time in nine months.

* Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab was deliberately struck, killing more than 175 students and teachers in a planned attack.

* The school strike is presented as part of a broader pattern of human rights violations, lack of accountability, and open disregard for international law.

* The attackers’ advanced military capabilities make the strike appear intentional, meeting the definition of a war crime and a crime against humanity.

* Condemning such attacks is described as a moral duty that goes beyond legal obligations, because it concerns the protection of civilians and basic human conscience.

* More than 600 schools across Iran have been damaged, with over 1,000 students and teachers killed or injured.

* Hospitals, ambulances, medical workers, Red Crescent staff, refineries, water facilities, and residential neighborhoods have also been hit, showing a complete disregard for civilian life.

* The scale and consistency of the attacks point to intent to destroy, not accidental errors.

* Silence during earlier conflicts in Palestine and Lebanon is described as a factor that encouraged this escalation. Indifference is seen as fueling further insecurity and rights violations.

* The UN and the international community are urged to condemn the attacks and hold those responsible to account.

* Iran presents itself as seeking peace while remaining committed to defending its people, its territory, and its long cultural and historical identity.

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Whether in detention or beyond it, Palestinian’s testimonies scream louder than the deafening silence of our indifference, reverberating loudly throughout the often quiet, complacent spaces we inhabit online. Injustice is not abstract. It is engraved in people’s skin, bones, minds. It tears through everyday life, exposing the depths of human cruelty.

Justice is not abstract either. It begins with each of us. It demands courage, sacrifice, discomfort, change. It requires us to speak up, to demand accountability. To ensure that no story is pushed into the darkness.

They want to silence Palestine. We will not let them.

– Francesca Albanese –

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“Yesterday we published that 96,000 Cubans are waiting for surgery as a result of lack of fuel and lack of energy, among them 11,000 children. So I would think that the American people would feel, why does our government treat the whole population of Cuba in this way? And I hope that the people of the United States would understand that it’s not correct to treat another nation in the way the U.S. is doing it simply to try to achieve political goals.”

NBC: President Trump says he believes that Cuba will collapse on its own. Is your country currently in a state of collapse?

Carlos Fernandez de Cossio: What does “on its own” mean when it’s being forced by the United States? It’s a very bizarre statement, and it’s claimed by most U.S. politicians repeatedly that Cuba will collapse on its own. Then why does the U.S. government need to employ so many resources, so much political capital, so many human resources to try to destroy the economy of another country? Evidently it implies that the country does not have the characteristics to collapse on its own.

Host: You say you’re not responsible. Putting this blockade aside though, Mr. Deputy Foreign Minister, human rights groups have reported that nearly 90% of your citizens live in extreme poverty. Nearly 80% of your citizens intend to emigrate. Has your system of communism failed the people of Cuba?

Carlos Fernandez de Cossio: I don’t know which are your sources and which are the human rights organizations that claim such, but I’m sure, and I can quite accurately guess, that the majority are either financed directly by the U.S. government or by proxies of the U.S. government. Now people are hurting in Cuba. There’s no doubt about that. But you cannot put a question mark on the system of socialism or communism or the system of government that we have in Cuba, whichever way you wish to call it, if the U.S., the most powerful nation in the world, has had to dedicate almost seven decades to try to destroy the system of government and yet failed.

Cuba, if you look at the ranks in the UN, has one of the highest ranks for a developing country and even compared to developed countries in terms of human development. Now what does human development mean? The livelihood of people, not the wealth of a few, not the wealth of an elite, not the index of the Dow Jones. It’s the welfare of the population. And Cuba has consistently for decades, with the system of government that we have, had those rankings.

Host: And yet, Mr. Deputy Foreign Minister, I hear you trying to place blame on the United States, and yet for 67 years your country has had no free press, no free elections, a history of political prisoners. Your country has not been able to function without the aid or assistance from your allies. Does your government bear some responsibility for the fact that your people are suffering?

Carlos Fernandez de Cossio: Those are statements that you cannot substantiate. You don’t have evidence to sustain all the affirmations that you have just made in your statement.

Unfortunately, I know that it might come to you, whatever literature you have, but you cannot sustain those affirmations that you have.

Cuba has been a successful country. What developing country has been submitted to the onslaught from the most powerful nation in the world and yet been able to carry solidarity to over 100 countries, have health indicators that are better than the ones you have in the United States, have educational indicators that are better than you have in the United States, have housing indicators which are better than the ones you have in the United States?

The majority of people in Cuba, I’m talking about 90%, live in homes that they own, that they don’t have to pay a mortgage for. So claims that you make trying to portray Cuba as a failure cannot be substantiated.

It is different from the United States. It’s a much humbler country in terms of the size of the economy of the United States. It’s much different than the United States, but it’s not wrong. Being different is not mistaken. And above all, it does not excuse submitting the whole population to an unrelenting warfare by the most powerful nation in the world. There’s no way, whatever statement you make, that can excuse for the U.S. government to abuse in such a way the people of Cuba. It’s common sense. It’s moral sense.

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At the sites I managed the men/women did nothing but their best to help the people of gaza, unfortunately the IDF had sinister motives and would try and sabotage the work we would do...

They freely commit war crimes with ease”

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