MAGA Turns Against Fascism for the Wrong Reasons as AI Becomes Even More Insidious
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Thursday, October 30, 2025
from Common Dreams
As Americans face tariff-related price hikes, surging health insurance premiums, and fallout from the government shutdown, from missed paychecks to no food assistance, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced its second interest rate cut of the year.
“Job gains have slowed this year, and the unemployment rate has edged up but remained low through August,” the US central bank said in a statement about the Federal Open Market Committee cutting the benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 3.75-4%, its lowest level in three years. “Inflation has moved up since earlier in the year and remains somewhat elevated.”
When the Fed slashed the federal funds rate last month, economist Alex Jacquez warned that it would “do little to address” the “economic turmoil” created by President Donald Trump. On Wednesday, the former Obama administration official, who is now chief of policy and advocacy at the think tank Groundwork Collaborative, again took aim at the US leader.
“The Fed’s decision only confirms what Americans already know—the economy is slowing, job growth has stalled, prices keep climbing, and consumers are pulling back because they’re out of options,” Jacquez said in a statement. “Trump’s reckless economic agenda is pushing our economy to the brink, and working families are paying the price.”...
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Ukrainian conscription crisis sees 100,000 youth flee in 2 months
from al Mayadeen English
Nearly 100,000 young men have fled Ukraine in just two months after Kiev eased movement restrictions under martial law in an effort to address its ongoing conscription crisis, according to reports by Politico Europe and The Telegraph.
Citing data from the Polish Border Guard, the outlets revealed that 98,500 Ukrainian males aged between 18 and 22 crossed the border in September and October. This marks a dramatic increase compared to the 45,300 who left between January and the end of August.
In a bid to prevent parents from sending their teenage sons abroad and to allow returnees to avoid prosecution, Kiev lifted the travel ban on men under the age of 23. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko stated that the policy was intended to help citizens abroad “maintain ties with Ukraine.”
Ukrainian officers kidnap 14 y/o amid forced conscription drive
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Palestinians lose hope in ceasefire after Israeli strike wave on Gaza
from al Jazeera
- Palestinians in Gaza say they are losing hope in the ceasefire after Israel’s deadliest violation yet killed more than 100 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, on Wednesday.
- US President Donald Trump says the ceasefire is still strong while mediator Qatar expresses frustration but says the mediators are looking forward to the next phase of the truce.
- Israel announces a “resumption” of the ceasefire after a large wave of strikes it claims was carried out in retaliation for Hamas killing one of its soldiers in southern Gaza. Hamas says it was not responsible.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 68,527 people and wounded 170,395 since it began in October 2023. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks, and about 200 were taken captive.
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Israel’s actions show it has no will for peace: Türkiye’s comms chief
from Daily Sabah
Israel’s latest attacks on Gaza and its parliament’s move to annex the occupied West Bank prove that Tel Aviv has no real agenda for peace, but rather aims to continue its occupation and genocide, Türkiye’s Communications Director said Wednesday.
In a statement, Burhanettin Duran said the recent attack, which killed at least nine Palestinians, demonstrates once again that Israel poses a threat to regional peace and stability.
“The so-called decision by the Israeli parliament to annex the occupied West Bank and the subsequent attack on Gaza show that Israel has no intention of pursuing peace – instead, it seeks to perpetuate occupation and genocide,” he said in a statement.
He called on the international community to show determination in condemning Israel’s genocidal policies and holding it accountable for crimes against civilians...
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Israeli strike kills 2 more Palestinians in Gaza despite claim of ‘resuming’ truce
from PressTV
An Israeli airstrike on the northern parts of the besieged Gaza Strip has killed two more Palestinians, just hours after the Tel Aviv regime claimed it was resuming the fragile ceasefire.
The Israeli military carried out an airstrike on Wednesday evening in the Beit Lahiya area of the northern Gaza Strip, killing at least two people, according to al‑Shifa Hospital.
The deadly air raid followed a night of heavy bombardment that left more than 100 Palestinians dead, including at least 46 children, across the war-torn Palestinian territory.
The airstrike on Wednesday came even as the occupying entity claimed to be resuming the fragile ceasefire that had been agreed in October between Tel Aviv and the Gaza-based resistance movement Hamas.
“It’s a crime. Either there is a truce or a war – it can’t be both. The children couldn’t sleep; they thought the war was over,” said Khadija al-Husni, a displaced mother living with her children at a school in Gaza’s Shati refugee camp...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Trump Trying to Install Narco-terrorists in Leadership Roles in Gaza
Though he pretends to want to kill the narco-terrorists from Venezuela (fishermen mainly), Trump actually loves him some narco-terrorists in Gaza and wants to put them in charge of the strip after we regime change Palestine. Only in America folks. Only in America.
Abu Shabab https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Abu_Shabab
no fentanyl from Venezuela https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/marco-rubio-secretary-state-push-venezuela-maduro-regime-change-boat-strikes
my Abu Shabab article https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/search/label/Abu%20Shabab
Trump threatens Hamas over Abu Shabab https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/19/trump-threatens-to-kill-hamas-over-the-execution-of-israeli-backed-gang-members-in-gaza/
Trump and MS-13 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/politics/takeaways-trump-bukele-ms-13.html
Fort Bragg Cartel https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730414/the-fort-bragg-cartel-by-seth-harp/
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Sunday, October 26, 2025
Two Men and a BB
Scotty's Sideshow Presents Two Men and a BB. A nice Sunday chat with Aunt BB and Doodle Bob. Enjoy.
Notorious gang leader helping Ukraine police with forced conscription
(Meanwhile, the hero/failed comedian/Nazi/dictator Zelensky says he can keep this shit going another 3 years.)
from RT
A suspected gang leader is allegedly aiding Ukrainian recruitment officials in their mobilization efforts, according to several news outlets, including UNIAN. The man was previously accused of orchestrating kidnappings in Odessa, according to reports.
Identified by the media as Magomed Aydamirov, the man appears in a video that shows the actions of draft officers, first published by a local Telegram channel. In it, a bearded man in camouflage threatens an individual who was speaking with a police officer, searching for potential conscripts on the street.
Aydamirov was arrested in 2018 on suspicion of running a criminal gang responsible for kidnappings and racketeering from 2015 to 2017. The police reportedly found explosives, weapons, and a machine gun during searches linked to the gang’s activities...
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Gaza 'stabilization force' must be authorized by UN Security Council, not by Trump: Islamic Jihad
from PressTV
Mohammad al-Hindi, deputy secretary general of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, says any peacekeeping or "stabilization force" in Gaza must be authorized by a UN Security Council resolution — not by US President Donald Trump’s wishes.
“We support a Security Council–mandated force with clear, limited tasks — not one imposed unilaterally,” al-Hindi said in an interview on Sunday.
Its role, he insisted, should be “to separate the sides and monitor the ceasefire, like UNIFIL — not to police or occupy Gaza,” he said of the UN force created in March 1978 to confirm Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
The mandate must define its tasks, duration, and location. “What we see now is an attempt to circumvent this,” he stated.
The Islamic Jihad official warned against outside interference or meddling in internal Palestinian affairs.
“We reject any form of foreign guardianship or trusteeship under any name. Call it a technocratic authority, a peace administration, or a stabilization committee — if it’s foreign control, it’s still guardianship,” he added.
“We will not accept Tony Blair or anyone like him overseeing Gaza. That would be a new Balfour Declaration,” he said of the 1917 UK-led declaration that led to the illegal creation of the Israeli entity in the heart of Palestinian land...
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Saturday, October 25, 2025
What's in Reagan advert that caused US-Canada trade talks to collapse? (The truth)
(TrumpyBear got mad because Canada used his god-king's words against him, accurately no less. Yes the speech was slightly edited for time but the overall gist of what Reagan said he thought of the detrimental effect of excessive tariffs was spot on and judging from the overall results we see right now, he was correct. Trump and the Project 2025 guys couldn't have that... not when The Donald has a massive portrait of Ronny Raygun in the Gilded Age Oval brothel he sleeps in. Good for Canada. Donny Thinskin makes a jackass of himself yet again.)
from the BBC
US President Donald Trump halted all trade negotiations with Canada earlier this week over an advert in which former President Ronald Reagan says tariffs "hurt every American".
The ad, sponsored by Canada's province of Ontario and released last week, features excerpts of an address Reagan gave in 1987 focusing on foreign trade.
Trump called the advert "FAKE" while The Ronald Reagan Foundation said it "misrepresents" the former president's address. Ontario later said it would stop running it so trade talks could resume.
While the minute-long advert only includes excerpts from the original, five-minute-long address, it does not alter Reagan's words. It does however alter the order in which he made the comments.
Below are the lines from the advert in italics, followed by an explanation of how they appear (indicated in bold) in the original address.
"When someone says, 'let's impose tariffs on foreign imports', it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes, for a short while it works, but only for a short time."
This is the opening line of the minute-long advert. The words have not been altered.
Keeping the House Absent, Johnson Marginalizes Congress and Himself
(Trump says he is both the president and Speaker of the House but he is neither. He's a puppet like every other vainglorious tin-pot dictator we put in power across the world to do the bidding of our 'national interests' Each of them thought they were something special, just like Trump does. And each one of them got burned in the end, just like Trump will when he has outlived his usefulness.)
from the New York Times
It has been over a month since there has been a policy debate or vote on the House floor. Spending legislation is not being considered. Oversight hearings are on hold until further notice.
Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to put the House on an indefinite hiatus that is now stretching into its second month while the government is shut down is the latest in a series of moves he has made that have diminished the role of Congress and shrunken the speakership at a critical moment.
It’s an approach born of political expedience that could have far-reaching consequences for an institution that has already ceded much of its power to President Trump. And Mr. Johnson, who without the president’s backing wields little influence over his own members, has chosen to make himself subservient to Mr. Trump, a break with many speakers of the past who sought in their own ways to act more as a governing partner with the president than as his underling.
“I’m the speaker and the president,” Mr. Trump has joked, according to two people who heard the remark and relayed it on the condition of anonymity because of concern about sharing private conversations with him.
Mr. Johnson has done little in recent weeks to contest the point...
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Friday, October 24, 2025
Weekend Starts With a BANG!
Who am I kidding? My whole fucking life is a weekend. Anyway, here's today's news.
Trump and CIA announcement https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/politics/trump-covert-cia-action-venezuela.html
Trump and West Bank annexation vote https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/world/middleeast/trump-israel-west-bank-annexation.html
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Thursday, October 23, 2025
What Really Happened in Rafah and The Monarchist Plan for Gaza
What Really Happened in Rafah and The Monarchist Plan for Gaza
Why I think the bulldozer story is bunk and Israel used Abu Shabab to attack their own troops https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/10/why-i-think-bulldozer-story-is-bunk-and.html
In the West and Middle East, Seems the New World Order is Technofeudalism Built by Slaves https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/10/in-west-and-middle-east-seems-new-world.html
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Why Greta Thunberg Actually Joined the Palestine Solidarity Movement
It wasn't due to her love for all those starving Palestinian kids in Gaza, that's for sure. It was because no one cares about her Global Warming scheme anymore.
Grist https://grist.org/politics/democrats-arent-talking-about-climate-change-cheap-energy/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
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Trump’s second meeting with Putin is off
(So congrats Ben from The Midas Touch. You got what you wanted. The meeting between Trump and Putin which could have helped produce an end to a 3-year-old war which has taken millions of lives has been cancelled due to Europe's malign influence. You and the Nazis in Ukraine should be happy. BTW, did you know Zbigniew Brzezinski's Grand Chessboard is largely about curbing Russia's influence in the world and expanding NATO right to their doorstep... in Ukraine? Awesome work there Benji. You and EuroFascists are keeping Zbigniew's dream alive!)
David C. Hendrickson, in his article in Foreign Affairs on November 1, 1997, saw the core of the book as the ambitious strategy of NATO to move eastward to Ukraine's Russian border and vigorously support the newly independent republics of Central Asia and the Caucasus, which is an integral part of what Hendrickson said could be called a "tough love" strategy for the Russians. Hendrickson considers "this great project" to be problematic for two reasons: the "excessive expansion of Western institutions" could well introduce centrifugal forces into it; moreover, Brzezinski's "test of what legitimate Russian interests are" seems to be so strict that even a democratic Russia would probably "fail".[14]
(Good job Ben from Midas Touch and other Russophobes... the dreaded threat of peace has been killed in the crib just like the truce deal was whacked back in April of 2022. Let's hope your great work will cause another million murdered Ukrainians and Russians. Genius.)
from Politico
President Donald Trump’s second summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin is off.
The White House said Tuesday that the planned meeting in Budapest, announced by Trump just last week after his two-hour phone call with Putin, was no longer in the works after Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke Monday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
“Secretary Rubio and Foreign Minister Lavrov had a productive call,” said a White House official granted anonymity to discuss the plans. “Therefore, an additional in-person meeting between the Secretary and Foreign Minister is not necessary, and there are no plans for President Trump to meet with President Putin in the immediate future.”
Why Democrats aren’t talking about climate change much anymore
(Aaaaannnd yes, this is what I was talking about when I said Greta jumped on the Palestine/Gaza flotilla bandwagon to try to regain some of her disappearing clout. No one is talking about Global Warming (boo?) anymore. Not even those folks who turned it into their own person cash cow. Greta was the face and the voice of affected moral superiority addressing a dying cause, one that never produced the results Al Gore promised all those decades ago in An Inconvenient Truth.)
(It's sad when a child PR asset comes to realize her 'cause' has bottomed out and no one wants to hear her self-righteous scolding voice anymore. Especially if that's all she knows. Pretending to care about something. Oh wait! Gaza!!! Problem solved.)
from Grist
Nearly a year after the 2024 election, Democrats are still trying to figure out what went wrong. In the midst of this soul-searching, a new piece of advice has appeared: “Don’t say climate change.”
That’s the takeaway from a recent poll by the Searchlight Institute, a new Democratic think tank. Americans said they see climate change as a problem, but it’s rarely one of their top issues — voters in battleground states are more concerned with affordability and health care. But when asked which issue they think the Democratic Party prioritizes, climate change was number one.
This mismatch might explain, at least in part, why Democrats often get portrayed as out of touch. “Advocates and elected officials should understand that their messages are actively weakened by a focus on ‘climate’ over affordability and low energy prices, and that voters are looking for immediate help with rising costs rather than solutions to abstract problems,” Searchlight’s post about the polling said.
The results didn’t surprise Representative Sean Casten, an Illinois Democrat and longtime climate champion who’s been making the case that clean energy can lower electricity bills. Casten recently unveiled draft legislation called the Cheap Energy Agenda, along with Representative Mike Levin, a California Democrat...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025
In the West and Middle East, Seems the New World Order is Technofeudalism Built by Slaves
by Scott Creighton
monarchists in America https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/curtis-yarvin-profile
democracy is done https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/magazine/curtis-yarvin-interview.html
Kyle Kulensky and slavery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBuIiv4alBU
corporations bring back indentured servitude https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/corporations-bring-indentured-servitude-back-the-kyle-kulinski-show/
In UAE and other Arab monarchies ' Contemporary forms of modern slavery persist in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), primarily affecting vulnerable migrant workers within the restrictive kafala (sponsorship) system'
In America 'To maintain H-1B visa status, visa holders must maintain employment with their sponsoring employer.'
The New Order being imposed on Palestine is a monarchist system but Palestine is a democracy. You see, the Arab states that are helping the Americans and Israelis gain control of Gaza are mainly monarchist with either an absolute or constitutional monarchy. They grow tired of the troubles and instability in Gaza and the West Bank so they seek to impose their tyrannical form of government on Palestine once and for all. Plus the profits to be generated in the Gaza 2035 plan aren't peanuts.
Why I think the bulldozer story is bunk and Israel used Abu Shabab to attack their own troops
by Scott Creighton
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/10/22/757375/Hamas-plans-largest-operation-against-Israeli-backed-gangs-in-Gaza
Israel backed abu shabab in Rafah
Hamas fighters in Rafah
link to video showing the attack using an RPG
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/international/hamas-rpgs-snipers-ambush-kills-idf-soldiers-in-rafah-dramatic-close-combat-on-camera/videoshow/124697356.cms
That's abu Shabab and it's pretty obvious.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Today's News Oct. 21 2025
Hamas executions, Zelensky and Trump in the White House and the amazing invisible bulldozer in Rafah.
Times of India version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuZBdvUS5z4
US knew Israeli bulldozer, not Hamas, caused deadly Rafah blast https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/10/20/757221/US-knew-Israeli-bulldozer-caused-deadly-Rafah-blast,-not-Hamas--Reports
US Government Knew Hamas Was Not behind Rafah Blast https://www.palestinechronicle.com/us-government-knew-hamas-was-not-behind-rafah-blast-reports/
story comes from Ryan Grimm confirmed by Israel-first White House?
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=hamas+executing+collaborators
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Monday, October 20, 2025
As Trump Tries to Make Peace in Ukraine, His Detractors Try to Scuttle it Like Israel Did in Gaza
by Scott Creighton
Listen to this bullshit from Google AI regarding Ukraine and Zelensky:
'Reports alleging that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has canceled elections and locked up opposition candidates are false and misrepresent the situation in Ukraine. Due to Russia's full-scale invasion, martial law is in effect, which prohibits elections in wartime according to the Ukrainian constitution. Zelenskyy has not personally locked up opposition candidates, though some pro-Russian parties were suspended in 2022 due to the war.' Google AI
Due to war. Due to war, Zelensky has shut down the government, canceled elections and is locking up not only opposition party members but also journalists.
'On March 3, 2022, the Criminal Code of Ukraine was supplemented by Article 436-2, titled "Justification, recognition as legitimate, denial of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, glorification of its participants". The article, which has been criticized by the OHCHR and other human rights groups,[85][86] states punishment by correctional labor up to two years or imprisonment up to eight years for such speech.[87] Gonzalo Lira, an American pro-Russia blogger who died in custody[88][89] in Ukraine, was among those arrested under this law.[90]
But Scott, you say, that's due to war, not Zelensky.
Yeah, only... it's Zelensky who keeps refusing all the deals offered by Russia in order to keep the war going.
So yeah, it's Zelensky.
From Dec. 2021 to Feb 2022,Ukraine stepped up it's bombing campaigns in the Donbass region of Ukraine targeting civilian infrastructure along with military militia positions.
The Biden administration funneled record numbers of munitions into Ukraine for that very purpose thru the end of 2021.
US knew Israeli bulldozer, not Hamas, caused deadly Rafah blast: Reports
(Now the story is a bulldozer being run by some settler (In Rafah?) hit an unexploded bomb which went off and killed two IDF soldiers. The first incarnation included sniper-fire and an RPG. Sounds like bullshit to cover-up the IDF using proxy terrorists to kill IDF soldiers, if you ask me, but... whatever.)
from PressTV
Reports have revealed that the US was aware that the deadly Rafah explosion, which killed two Israeli soldiers, was caused by an Israeli bulldozer hitting unexploded ordnance (UXO), not by a Hamas operation.
Journalist Ryan Grim reported on Monday that, according to a source familiar with the matter, both the White House and the Pentagon knew the Rafah incident was the result of an Israeli settler bulldozer running over a UXO, contradicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that Hamas had attacked an Israeli tank.
Sources cited by Grim said that after the US administration confronted Israel with its findings, Netanyahu abruptly reversed his position and announced that crossings would reopen within hours. The Pentagon reportedly reached the same conclusion as the White House.
Journalist Curt Mills of The American Conservative also quoted a senior US administration official confirming that “Hamas did nothing. An Israeli tank hit an unexploded improvised explosive device (IED) that had probably been there for months.”
Following Sunday’s explosion, in yet another blatant breach of the ceasefire, Israeli forces launched a new wave of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, killing at least 15 civilians, including a journalist, in what observers described as an effort to justify renewed aggression...
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Origins of Special Military Operation: History of Ukraine Conflict
(I have been covering this since it started back with ObamaGod' regime change op in Ukraine. I can tell you this is exactly what I have been reporting for the past 10+ years, verbatim, and is not Russian state propaganda. The people of Donbass had a right to declare themselves a special region and to ask the world for help when they were being bombed by our puppet regimes. Russia was well within international law to respond to Donbass' pleas for help when they did.)
(Russia and Putin aren't the bad actors in this case. Obama, Biden, Poreshenko, Zelensky and Trump are.)
from Sputnik News
...
In
the spring of 2014, people's republics were proclaimed in the Donetsk
and Lugansk regions. In response, the Ukrainian authorities accused the
population of "separatism" and began a military operation in the region,
which escalated into full-scale combat. Tanks and aviation were
deployed against the people's militias.
Cities
like Donetsk, Gorlovka, Lugansk, and Debaltsevo were subjected to
artillery shelling by the Ukrainian regime for years. Residential
neighborhoods, hospitals, and schools were destroyed.
...
Volodymyr Zelensky, who came to power in 2019, continued the repressive policies of the Kiev authorities toward the population in southeastern Ukraine. On February 17, 2022, the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics reported the most intense shelling from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in months.
On February 21, 2022, Russia recognized the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, and on February 24, President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for assistance from Donbass.
The Russian president explained that the decision was made to protect people facing genocide by the Kiev regime. On February 24, 2022 Vladimir Putin said: "The circumstances require us to take decisive and immediate action. The people's republics of Donbass have requested help from Russia. Therefore, in accordance with Article 51, part 7 of the UN Charter, with the consent of the Federation Council, and in accordance with the treaties on friendship and mutual assistance ratified by the Federal Assembly with the Donetsk People's Republic and Lugansk People's Republic, I have decided to conduct a special military operation."
MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THE SPECIAL OPERATION
- Ensuring the rights of Russian-speaking populations
- Legitimizing the will of the people
- Demilitarization (neutralizing the military threat and preventing Ukraine from joining NATO)
- Denazification (stopping the spread of neo-Nazi ideology)
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The Face of a Racist Genocidal Sellout
by Scott Creighton
(Substack wouldn't post this with my title so I changed it to 'What an Angel She Is' and it went up just fine. lol.)
(Of course, if the 'racist genocidal sellout' had been Trump, I am guessing it would have published just fine.)
Just in case you were wondering what a supremacist genocidal sellout looked like, here you go. She was hanging out with other sellouts on Morning Joe.
This is what genocide looks like in 2025. The clean, neatly trimmed, horn-rimmed smiling nerdy face of absolute hate.
This is censorship in America, what it has evolved into, seemingly harmless and wholesome masking a dark necessity to advance their supremacist ideology and land-lust in the Middle East.
This is what evil looks like in America in 2025.
You're welcome.
Former Bucs Running Back Dies While In Police Custody in Oakland
by Scott Creighton
Over the weekend, former Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back Doug Martin died of undisclosed causes while in the custody of the Oakland police department. This was confirmed by his family who ask for privacy while dealing with this tragedy.
“Cause of death is currently unconfirmed. Please respect our privacy at this time.” Cleveland (dot) com
Mr. Martin was only 36-years-old.
Martin was a standout player for the Bucs, making the pro-bowl several times during his stint down in Tampa.
He was suspended for 4 games for violating the drug use policy and after going to rehab and apologizing to the team and fans, he returned briefly to the field only to be traded to the Oakland Raiders not long after.
Oakland police were called to a residence about a possible home break-in in the Chabot Park neighborhood where they encountered Mr. Martin. After a brief struggle, Martin was arrested and quickly became unresponsive according to police.
Israel halts strikes in Gaza after at least 45 killed in ceasefire violations
(This was a false flag event. Hamas had no reason to do it. Not just some random attack on a couple IDF soldiers. But Israel had a motive as did their proxy terrorists inside Gaza who just watched Hamas execute a number of them as terrorists.)
from PressTV
The Israeli military announced late Sunday that it had “renewed enforcement of the ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip after a deadly wave of strikes earlier in the day killed at least 45 Palestinians.
The military claimed the attacks were in response to a truce violation by Hamas, specifically the alleged targeting of its troops and the killing of two Israeli soldiers in Rafah.
Hamas’s armed wing denied any involvement in the incident, saying it had “no knowledge” of clashes there and reaffirming its commitment to the ceasefire agreement.
Izzat al-Rishq, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said Israel “continues to breach the agreement and fabricate flimsy pretexts to justify its crimes.”
Western media reported that the halt in Israeli strikes followed pressure from the Donald Trump administration, which urged Israel to exercise restraint to prevent the collapse of the agreement...
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Sunday, October 19, 2025
Israel Stages False Flag Attack in Rafah to Scuttle the Cease Fire Deal then kills 40 civilians
The genocide is back on as is Gaza 2035 plan and the Greater Israel agenda all thanks to what appears to be yet another Israeli false flag attack, this time targeting IDF soldiers.
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Israel halts aid transfers into Gaza ‘until further notice’
(What a shock. No one saw that coming.)
from Daily Sabah
Israel on Sunday halted border crossings into Gaza for aid deliveries, accusing Hamas of violating the cease-fire.
"The transfer of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip has been halted until further notice, following Hamas's blatant violation of the agreement," a security official told AFP.
The halt in aid is occurring a little over a week since the start of the U.S.-proposed cease-fire aimed at ending Israel’s two-year-long genocidal war on Gaza.
Israel violated the ceasefire earlier on Sunday, launching fresh strikes on parts of Gaza after claiming its troops came under fire from Hamas. Health officials said at least 14 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes...
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Ceasefire restored in Gaza, Palestinian officials say
(There will never be a true peace deal with the likes of the Israelis until you put physical troops between them and punish every single Israeli violation at the UNSC.)
from al Jazeera
Palestinian sources have confirmed to Al Jazeera that the ceasefire in Gaza has been restored.
The mediators’ contacts played a role in bringing it back into effect after a day of mass casualty attacks by Israeli forces.
Egypt, Turkiye, Qatar and the United States are the main mediators involved in negotiations.
Discussions are now under way to establish a binding mechanism to address any future violations of the truce in Gaza, sources said.
Children, journalist among martyrs in latest Israeli strikes on Gaza
(According to the reports, someone (probably a false flag using Israel's proxies in Gaza (ISIS)) shot IDF soldiers in Rafah... so of course the 'most moral army in the world' targets children in schools and a refugee camp... and journalists. They immediately attack civilian targets. Fuck Israel.)
from al Mayadeen English
At least 17 Palestinians were martyred on Sunday in a new wave of Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, targeting civilian areas, schools, homes, and refugee camps. Among the victims were eight children and a journalist.
According to Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in Gaza, six children were martyred when Israeli warplanes bombed al-Sardi School, located south of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
In a separate attack on a building housing journalists in al-Zawaida, also in central Gaza, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital confirmed the deaths of two Palestinians, one of them a journalist.
Another citizen was martyred, and several others were wounded, when Israeli forces struck a home in the al-Suwwarha area, west of Nuseirat...
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Ben-Gvir calls on Netanyahu to resume genocide in Gaza
(In all likelihood this is a false flag carried out by the IDF or Mossad. Either way, Israel killed 11 Palestinians yesterday including 7 children. No one said a peep about that but god forbid let one Jewish person get killed by the IDF's proxy army (ISIS) and all hell breaks out.)
(I said from the start it wasn't a peace deal and the Zionists would NEVER allow the recognition of the state of Palestine. It would be the end of this...)
from al Mayadeen English
Israeli Police Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has renewed calls for a full-scale military offensive on Gaza, warning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that continued restraint would jeopardize his government.
"I call on the prime minister to order the Israel [Occupation] Forces to fully resume combat operations in the sector with full force. The delusions that [the Palestinian Resistance] Hamas would change its ways or even adhere to the agreement it signed are proving, as expected, to be dangerous to our security. This neo-Nazi terrorist organization must be utterly destroyed, and the sooner, the better," Ben-Gvir said in a statement on Sunday.
His remarks came after Israeli military officials said militants in Rafah had fired sniper rounds and rocket-propelled grenades at Israeli positions, allegations that Hamas and the Al-Qassam Brigades have firmly denied. Reuters and other outlets report the Israeli strikes on Rafah were described by the army as a response to those alleged attacks, while Hamas reiterated that it was committed to the ceasefire and denied responsibility for the Rafah incidents.
Al-Qassam's denial deepens the attribution dispute. In a fresh statement issued Sunday, the brigades reaffirmed their "full commitment" to the ceasefire and said they have "no knowledge of any events or clashes taking place in the Rafah area," adding that communications with their remaining units in Rafah have been completely severed since hostilities resumed in March 2025. The group described Rafah as under Israeli control, a "red area", and said it could not account for incidents or fighters there...
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Israel launches ‘massive wave’ of airstrikes across Gaza
(Lasted longer than I thought it would. Usually the lying Israelis violate terms of cease fire deals long before this one. It's no wonder TrumpyBear's sycophants were all over Sunday Morning news shows today pressing for him to get a Nobel Prize. They knew the Israelis like I did.)
from PressTV
Israeli occupation forces have launched a “massive wave” of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said, in major violations of a ceasefire brokered by US President Donald Trump.
The Israeli military said on Sunday that it is conducting a “massive and extensive wave” of strikes on dozens of targets across the territory, accusing Hamas of having attacked its forces in Rafah.
The strikes, it claimed, are aimed at “terror targets” of Hamas.
Hamas denied involvement in any attacks and reaffirmed its “full commitment” to the ceasefire.
According to local hospital sources, at least five Palestinians were killed in the regime’s attacks on central Gaza, while two were killed and many others were wounded in strikes in the north.
A source at Nasser Hospital reported that one person was killed and several were injured when Israeli jets targeted a tent housing displaced people in the al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.
Two more Palestinians, including a journalist, were killed in an airstrike on a building housing media staff in az-Zawayda, central Gaza, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said...
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No Kings Day - Tempered, Affected Resistance by the Rich full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing (video)
article https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/10/no-kings-day-tempered-affected.html
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No Kings Day - Tempered, Affected Resistance by the Rich full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing
by Scott Creighton
The number we are being told is just under 7 million. Seven million people turned out yesterday for the nationwide (and even global) No Kings Day demonstration designed to remind TrumpyBear that he isn't a potentate, just merely an elected official who serves at the consent of the people.
So he reposted a video on Truth Social of himself flying a plane labeled King Trump, literally bombing the protesters with feces. Taking a shit on the people of the country because they don't share MAGA and Curtis Yarvin's opinion about turning America into a monarchy.
I'm not kidding.
The elites showing their contempt by shitting on the huddled masses. Could anything be more monarchist than that?
Oh but he's just trolling us they say. No he isn't. Just look at how his healthcare policies will harm his own MAGA base more than anyone else. He just doesn't care. We don't factor into their plans for the future and it doesn't matter to them which side of the fake WWE-style divide you support.
Besides, did you really vote for a president who spends his time 'trolling' and playing golf?
Seven million is a lot of people. Good turnout, as the saying goes.
But what does it mean if nothing, literally nothing comes of it?
Israel bombs Gaza's Rafah in latest ceasefire violation
(So lets get this straight... Hamas attacks Israel's proxy army in Gaza made up of 'ISIS' mercenaries and therefore Netanyahu, Katz and Smotrich decide they have been attacked and must start up the genocide all over again. Hamas attacks terrorists and Israel claims THEY have been attacked. Yeah, that's what's happening.)
(Meanwhile, Bibi says he will run for office again in 2026.)
from PressTV
The Israeli military has launched new aerial assaults on the Gaza Strip, marking the latest violation of the ceasefire agreement with the Hamas resistance movement that was expected to end the regime’s two-year-long genocidal war in Gaza.
Israeli media reported that the regime’s forces carried out airstrikes in southern Gaza’s Rafah following an alleged Hamas attack on occupation troops in the area.
The Resistance News Network Telegram channel reported that the Israeli strikes on Rafah were aimed at protecting members of a Tel Aviv-backed, Daesh-linked militia led by Yasser Abu Shabab, following a surprise attack by resistance fighters against the criminal gang.
The news network also reported an Israeli air raid east of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, which killed two Palestinians and wounded several others.
Meanwhile, Israel’s Channel 12 said Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a phone call with War Minister Israel Katz and senior military officials to discuss the situation.
Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for a renewed Gaza genocide, writing “War!” in a one-word X post.
Senior Hamas official Izzat al-Risheq, however, emphasized that Hamas remains committed to the ceasefire deal.
“It is the occupation that continues to violate the ceasefire and provide excuses for its crimes,” he added. “Netanyahu’s attempt to evade his commitments is happening under pressure from his coalition of terror.”...
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Saturday, October 18, 2025
Happy No Kings Day - Lets Talk Crisis, Fascism and Russel Vought
Happy No Kings Day - Let's Talk Crisis, Fascism and Russel Vought
Two videos https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/10/please-watch-these-two-videos-they-are.html
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Why Can’t the Corporate Media See the Trump-GOP Shutdown Plan Lying in Plain Sight?
from Common Dreams
What is it about an insidious, long-term plan that causes commercial media to ignore what’s lying in plain sight?
With Congress at a standstill, the Republican-led House refusing to return to session, and the Senate unable to pass any bill to reopen the government, reporters seem stuck in a loop.
Coverage of a government shutdown typically focuses on counting days and political blame games. Politicians are described as being stuck in an “impasse” with party leaders attacking one another and workers and the economy facing uncertain “disruption” and “fallout.”
That’s been the media’s approach again this time, even as workers are screaming in every way they can that this isn’t your usual standoff.
Israel kills 11 Palestinian family members in Gaza’s deadliest truce breach
from al Jazeera
Israeli forces have killed 11 members of a Palestinian family in Gaza, the deadliest single violation of the fragile ceasefire since it took effect eight days ago.
The attack happened on Friday evening when a tank shell was fired by Israeli forces at a civilian vehicle carrying the Abu Shaaban family in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, according to Gaza’s civil defence.
Seven children and three women were among those killed when the Israeli military fired on the vehicle as the family attempted to reach their home to inspect it, civil defence spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said in a statement.
“They could have been warned or dealt with differently,” Basal said, adding that “what happened confirms that the occupation is still thirsty for blood, and insists on committing crimes against innocent civilians.”
Hamas condemned what it called a “massacre” and said the family was targeted without justification. The group called on United States President Donald Trump and mediators to pressure Israel to respect the ceasefire agreement...
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Millions to march in US ‘No Kings’ protests against Trump
from al Mayadeen English
Millions of Americans across all 50 states are expected to march on Saturday in nationwide “No Kings” protests, denouncing what organizers call President Donald Trump’s increasingly authoritarian rule and demanding an end to federal overreach.
The demonstrations, scheduled for more than 2,700 locations from small towns to major cities, mark the second iteration of the No Kings coalition, which organized one of the largest protest days in modern US history this June. Organizers say Saturday’s events will be even larger, uniting people behind the message that “the United States has no kings.”
(fake) Aid group suspends Gaza operations after ceasefire
(Fake aid group, GHF, pulls up stakes and disbands just as soon as real aid agencies are now allowed back in Gaza. I guess if they can't kill starving Palestinians looking for food, there's no point in them being there anymore.)
(Remember, the GHF was supposed to take on the new role of prison guards at the work camps located in Gaza as they used Palestinians as cheap labor to build the Gaza 2035 plan. This was outlined in Trump's GREAT Trust scheme. But now it seems they are on the outs.)
from the BBC
The controversial US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has confirmed it suspended operations in Gaza after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect on 10 October.
Despite being funded until November, the organisation said its final delivery was on Friday.
The GHF has been heavily criticised after hundreds of Palestinians were killed while collecting food near its distribution sites. Witnesses say most were killed by Israeli forces.
Israel has regularly denied that its troops fired on civilians at or near the sites and the GHF has maintained that aid distribution at its sites has been carried out "without incident".
The group's northernmost aid distribution site, known as SDS4, was shut down because it was no longer in IDF-controlled territory, said a spokesman.
Satellite imagery revealed it was dismantled shortly after the 10 October ceasefire came into effect. Images show tyre tracks, disturbed earth and detritus strewn across the former compound...
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Türkiye's 'Goodness Ship' docks Egypt with tons of aid to Gaza
from Daily Sabah
A Turkish humanitarian aid ship carrying 900 tons of relief supplies for Gaza people has arrived at Egypt’s el-Arish Port, the nearest access point to the besieged Gaza, Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) announced on Friday.
Coordinated by AFAD and supported by 17 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), the vessel named ‘’Akdeniz’’ marks the 17th “Goodness Ship” sent to the region.
The ship departed from Mersin International Port on Oct. 14, after a farewell ceremony attended by Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya, asserting Türkiye’s ongoing commitment to supporting civilians in Gaza. Following prayers, the vessel set sail for Egypt, completing a three-day journey and legal clearance process before docking in el-Arish.
The supplies include baby formula, ready-to-eat meals, canned food and other basic necessities. The aid will be unloaded in coordination with AFAD and the Egyptian Red Crescent and then transported by land to Gaza...
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Friday, October 17, 2025
Three's Company: Late Chat with Aunt BB and Doodle Bob
Three's Company: Late Chat with Aunt BB and Doodle Bob
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No Kings Day and Norman Finkelstein's Egregious Oct. 7th Flaw
I respect and admire Norman Finkelstein as do so many of us out here who do what we can for the Palestinian people. Yet this flaw in his reasoning must be acknowledged less it becomes lore.
Norman Finkelstein at UMass: Gaza, Truth & the Battle for Free Speech https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/10/norman-finkelstein-at-umass-gaza-truth.html
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Norman Finkelstein at UMass: Gaza, Truth & the Battle for Free Speech
by Scott Creighton
'Acclaimed scholar & author Norman Finkelstein delivered a powerful and defiant address at UMass, Amherst, on Sept. 24, 2025. Speaking before a packed audience, Finkelstein tackled Israel's mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza; the long history of Israel’s brutal occupation, siege, and successive wars and atrocities in the Strip; the bipartisan complicity of U.S. political leaders, corporate media, and global institutions; the mounting McCarthyite crackdown on free speech, dissent, and academic freedom; and the need for a resurgent movement led by young people to reclaim free speech and renew democracy.'
In this talk, Norman Finkelstein is brutally honest... about himself. A little less so when it comes to the history of America and Israel interfering in Gaza and Palestine over the decades.
He talks about how somewhere around 2020... he just gave up. And I have to admit, I noticed that about him back then and chastised him for it.
He mentions how the Goldstein Report broke him, not the report itself, but Goldstein retracting it in 2011. And again, I have to admit feeling much the same way at the time.
Norman fails to mention Israel killing a founder of Hamas in 2005 just before they withdrew settlers from Gaza so they could position Fatah and the P.A. to win the election they forced on the people.
He forgets that we spent 24 million dollars on propaganda in the lead up to that election because we were sure we could convince the Palestinian people to vote against their interests and for Fatah.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
‘No Kings’ protests could draw historic turnout in pushback against Trump, organizers say
find a protest near you... No Kings
from USA Today
Though Oct. 18's "No Kings" protests share a name with its predecessor, organizers are expecting an unmatched flood of people for what they believe will be the largest single day of protest in modern American history.
"The anger level is way higher" than it was in June for the last protests of the same name, said Public Citizen copresident Lisa Gilbert, one of the organizers. "It's not just policies we don't like … but it's also actual chipping away at democracy, at foundational rights and prerogatives that we all expect. … People are saying 'I've never been moved to action before, but now I feel like I have to.'”
Things have changed in the past four months, organizers and activists told USA TODAY. The Trump administration has ramped up immigration enforcement, sent troops into several Democratic-controlled cities, made massive changes to American health care and eroded First Amendment rights, they say...
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Trump threatens ‘to go in and kill’ Hamas in Gaza over internal clashes
from al Jazeera
United States President Donald Trump has threatened to break the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas if the Palestinian group continues to target gangs and alleged Israeli collaborators in Gaza.
“If Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the Deal, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them,” Trump wrote in a social media post on Thursday. “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
The statement appears to signal an about-face from Trump, who earlier this week expressed support for Hamas’s crackdown on gangs in the Palestinian territory.
“They did take out a couple of gangs that were very bad, very, very bad gangs,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday. “And they did take them out, and they killed a number of gang members. And that didn’t bother me much, to be honest with you. That’s OK.”
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Gen-Z Edgelords Cause Concern While the Left Ignores the REAL Fascist Grooming Trend
Gen-Z Edgelords Cause Concern While the Left Ignores the REAL Fascist Grooming Trend
Politico https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146
New Republic https://newrepublic.com/post/182263/trump-campaign-fascist-twerp-charlie-kirk
Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/young-fascists-on-campus-turning-point-usa-and-its-far-right-connections/
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Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules
from the AP
Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power. The nation’s leadership called the new rules “common sense” to help regulate a “very disruptive” press.
News outlets were nearly unanimous in rejecting new rules imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that would leave journalists vulnerable to expulsion if they sought to report on information — classified or otherwise — that had not been approved by Hegseth for release...
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Trump advisers say Israel-Hamas ceasefire not violated as US pushes for Gaza plan
- Israel keeps border closed reducing amount of aid getting into Gaza... violation of the deal
- Israel kills 9 Palestinians in Gaza... violation of the deal
- Israel promises to resume hostilities in Gaza... violation of the deal
from PressTV
Senior advisers to American President Donald Trump say the Israel-Hamas ceasefire remains unharmed with no reported violations, as the United States moves ahead with its plans for the security and governance of the besieged Gaza Strip.
Two senior US advisers, speaking on condition of anonymity, briefed reporters on Wednesday on the progress of President Trump’s 20-point “peace plan” for the Gaza Strip, saying they have not yet seen any violations of the ceasefire agreement reached last week between Israel and the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.
“We’re not at the point yet where anyone feels like the agreement has been violated,” a senior US adviser said...
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Laying groundwork for Palestinian statehood
from Daily Sabah
In Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, a “Statement of Intent” document was signed. The significance of this document lies in the fact that it represents a “strong and joint declaration of will” with the participation of most countries in the region, as well as the attendance of Western leaders.
The document bears the signatures of U.S. President Donald Trump, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. These signatures carry the potential to pave the way for diplomatic progress aimed at bringing lasting peace.
Erdoğan, after stating that “it would be wrong to regard the agreement as a document that solves the Palestinian issue,” once again emphasized that the only solution lies in “the establishment of an independent, sovereign and territorially contiguous Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital, based on the 1967 borders.”
The declaration sets out a general framework. It is not an agreement text that produces a lasting solution to the Israeli question. However, it is important in terms of creating pressure for the smooth advancement of the second and third phases of the Gaza Plan and for Israel to keep its promises...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Israel imposes new Gaza aid restrictions, keeps Rafah crossing closed
from al Jazeera (H/T Aunt BB)
Israel has imposed new restrictions on aid entering the besieged Gaza Strip and will not open the Rafah crossing as planned, while Israeli forces killed at least nine people in the Palestinian territory as the Israel-Hamas ceasefire came under growing strain.
Israel notified the United Nations on Tuesday that it will only allow 300 aid trucks – half of the number it originally agreed to – daily into the Gaza Strip from Wednesday...
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Now Greta Says She Was Kicked and Beaten by Guards... but says focus should not be on her
by Scott Creighton
Yeah right.
'... In an interview with Swedish daily Aftonbladet published on Wednesday, Thunberg recounted the five harrowing days she spent in Israeli custody after being seized from the Global Samud Flotilla alongside other activists earlier this month.
She described guards carrying out “beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages,” providing vivid details of the abuse.
“I was dragged to a paved area fenced in with iron, and they hit and kicked me while an Israeli flag touched me. They ripped off my frog hat, threw it on the ground, stomped it, and yelled insults in Swedish,” she recalled.
Thunberg gave a harrowing account of the relentless physical and verbal abuse inflicted by Israeli prison guards.
“They moved me very brutally to a corner … ‘A special place for a special lady,’ they said...
Thunberg, had originally said she did not want to draw attention away from the suffering of Palestinians by complaining about her prison conditions...
... Thunberg emphasized that the focus should remain on Palestine' PressTV
As she made the story all about herself.
Odd that she didn't tell the press about all this abuse immediately after her release and instead decided to wait until no one was talking about her anymore.
Odd, right?
Rise of the Anarco-capitalist Libertarian Charlatans
Rise of the Anarco-capitalist Libertarian Charlatans
neoliberalism https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/10/neoliberalism-ideology-at-root-of-all.html
Argentina bailout https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/10/big-investors-await-windfall-from.html
Glenn Beck https://www.youtube.com/@glennbeck/videos
https://youtu.be/DDD_N6ZcCV4?si=NuM7mu5UNO66CJko&t=2616
https://youtu.be/DDD_N6ZcCV4?si=267yuSI2goruLYJ-&t=5522
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar_s7w18Z_I
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Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems
'Neoliberalism is a complex and sometimes ill-defined term generally associated with policies that emphasize free-market capitalism, deregulation, privatization, and minimal government intervention'
'Libertarian Anarcho-capitalism: Seeks the complete abolition of the state, with all services, including law enforcement and security, provided by competing private firms in a free market.'
'Neoliberal globalization refers to the integration of the global economy driven by policies associated with neoliberalism. It emphasizes free markets, minimal government intervention, deregulation, privatization, and fiscal austerity.'
'The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation' i.e. neoliberal free market privatization of the state.
from The Guardian
Imagine if the people of the Soviet Union had never heard of communism. The ideology that dominates our lives has, for most of us, no name. Mention it in conversation and you’ll be rewarded with a shrug. Even if your listeners have heard the term before, they will struggle to define it. Neoliberalism: do you know what it is?
Its anonymity is both a symptom and cause of its power. It has played a major role in a remarkable variety of crises: the financial meltdown of 2007‑8, the offshoring of wealth and power, of which the Panama Papers offer us merely a glimpse, the slow collapse of public health and education, resurgent child poverty, the epidemic of loneliness, the collapse of ecosystems, the rise of Donald Trump. But we respond to these crises as if they emerge in isolation, apparently unaware that they have all been either catalysed or exacerbated by the same coherent philosophy; a philosophy that has – or had – a name. What greater power can there be than to operate namelessly?
Big Investors Await Windfall From Trump’s Argentina Bailout
- The Price of Obamacare Subsidies Loss: Millions Uninsured, Thousands at Greater Risk
- A majority of Trump supporters back extending Obamacare subsidies, poll finds
- Trump’s megabill will hurt the health of his own voters
'During a White House meeting with Argentine President Javier Milei on October 14, 2025, Donald Trump explicitly tied a U.S. financial lifeline to Argentina's political future. Trump stated that helping Milei and his "great philosophy" succeed was a primary motivation for the aid.
Speaking of Milei's free-market and right-wing platform, Trump said he was "just helping a great philosophy take over a great country". He also called Milei "MAGA all the way" and said he would not "waste our time" with Argentina if Milei's political opponents were to gain power.' Google AI
(Meanwhile Trump and the neoliberal globalists attack and sanction any Latin American government that is even slightly socialist or truly populist.)
from the New York Times
The Trump administration moved forward on Thursday with its bailout of Argentina, making a direct purchase of pesos and finalizing terms of a $20 billion lifeline, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.
The terms and conditions of the economic support package were not announced, but Mr. Bessent said the funds would come in the form of a currency swap with Argentina’s central bank. Big global investors have been anxiously awaiting the details of the bailout, which critics have said will benefit wealthy fund managers at a time when American farmers are struggling and the U.S. government is shut down.
Officials from both countries spent the last four days racing to finalize terms of the bailout ahead of high-stakes legislative elections in Argentina later this month and a visit to Washington next week by President Javier Milei, Argentina’s libertarian leader who is a close ally of President Trump.
“Argentina faces a moment of acute illiquidity,” Mr. Bessent wrote on X. “The U.S. Treasury is prepared, immediately, to take whatever exceptional measures are warranted to provide stability to markets.”
The Treasury secretary added that American business leaders have told him that they want to deepen ties with Argentina and that the Trump administration will stand behind its Latin American ally.
But the administration’s decision to rescue Argentina’s economy is raising concerns about whether the real aim is to help rich investors whose bets on Argentina could falter if its economy sinks.
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Amazon fires employee for exposing company’s support for 'Israel'
from al Mayadeen English
Ahmed Shahrour, a 29-year-old Palestinian software engineer, was terminated by Amazon on Monday after publicly protesting the company’s role in supporting Israeli government and military operations through Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion cloud-computing and AI contract.
Project Nimbus involves Amazon and Google providing cloud-computing services to Israeli government and military entities. The project enables military operations that violate human rights in Palestine, particularly during the recent genocidal war on Gaza that killed thousands before a ceasefire took effect this past week.
Shahrour’s activism has drawn attention to the role of US tech companies in sustaining occupation policies and military attacks against Palestinian civilians...
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Key challenges remain unresolved as tenuous Gaza cease-fire holds
from PressTV
The fragile cease-fire in Israel's two-year genocidal war on Gaza held firm Tuesday, a day after the return of the last 20 living Israeli captives from Gaza and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, though significant challenges remain unresolved.
The list of more immediate questions includes those on when Hamas will return to Israel the bodies of the 24 hostages believed to be dead in Gaza, as well as the health conditions of the released hostages and freed Palestinians.
Israel kills 6 more Palestinians in Gaza; Hamas decries ceasefire violation
from PressTV
The Israeli military has killed at least six Palestinians throughout the Gaza Strip within less than 24 hours, despite Tel Aviv’s recent agreement on the implementation of the first phase of a ceasefire plan.
Palestinian health officials said the fatalities had been caused since Tuesday morning during aggression waged by the military against Gaza City and the coastal strip’s southern areas.
Five of the victims were killed in the city’s Shuja'iyya neighborhood after, what the military alleged was, their crossing the “Yellow-Line,” to which Israeli forces have reportedly withdrawn as part of the ceasefire.
The individuals were targeted by “an Israeli quadcopter, while they were inspecting their homes,” they noted.
Another was killed near the town of al-Fukhari, east of the city of Khan Yunis, as the forces struck “a group of young men,” the officials said, adding that one person had also been injured as a result of the live fire.
“There was also gunfire reported in the al-Tahlia area of Khan Yunis,” they stated, noting that the military had also shelled areas in the city of Jabalia in northern Gaza, accompanied by gunfire...
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Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass - Tom Bowman
(It's like they took everything they said ObamaGod was going to do in 2009 and made it into their policy program. And yet MAGA still tells themselves they voted for this shit.)
from NPR (H/T T)
Today, NPR will lose access to the Pentagon because we will not sign an unprecedented Defense Department
document, which warns that journalists may lose their press credentials
for "soliciting" even unclassified information from federal employees
that has not been officially approved for release. That policy prevents
us from doing our job. Signing that document would make us stenographers
parroting press releases, not watchdogs holding government officials
accountable.
No reputable news organization signed the new rule — not mainstream outlets like NPR, The Washington Post, CNN, and The New York Times, nor the conservative Washington Times
or the right-wing Newsmax, run by a noted ally of President Trump. Some
100 resident Pentagon press will be barred from the building if they
don't sign by the end of business on Tuesday.
I've held my
Pentagon press pass for 28 years. For most of that time, when I wasn't
overseas in combat zones embedding with troops, I walked the halls,
talking to and getting to know officers from all over the globe, at
times visiting them in their offices...
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It's Just Kids After All: The Odyssey Foundation to Jeffrey Epstein
by Scott Creighton
We are rightly shocked and appalled by what we watch the government (all of them) cover up for the pedophiles involved in the Jeffrey Epstein case.
But I offer to you a little historical context for your consideration.
John David Norman and the The Odyssey Foundation:
3 Days In: Peace Deal UPDATES
Definitely experiencing some sort of slowed upload speed so I brought this video into CAPCUT and greatly reduced file size. It still looks fine for what it is but now I have to adjust OBS to make videos lower quality and shorter so they can be uploaded in a reasonable way. Sorry. But at least I didn't have to trash the whole video.
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Monday, October 13, 2025
3 Days In: Peace Deal UPDATES - ADDENDUM
( I made a video this evening but my upload speed has been dropped to about 8mbs so I can't upload it. sorry. Will try again tomorrow.)
And other news. ADDENDUM
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New report details extensive Israeli arson in Gaza after ceasefire
(The IDF are the most immoral army the world has ever seen and that includes the Nazis)
from al Mayadeen English
DropSite published on Monday a gruesome report revealing that Israeli forces carried out a sweeping campaign of arson in Gaza City immediately after US President Donald Trump announced that both the Resistance and "Israel" had agreed to the ceasefire.
According to the investigation, the Israeli army set fire to homes, public buildings, and vital infrastructure, including the Sheikh Ajlin sewage treatment plant, Gaza City's last functioning sanitation facility, just hours after the ceasefire was declared.
Israel accuses Hamas of violating deal: Live Updates
from RT
West Jerusalem has accused Hamas of a “blatant breach” of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, as only four of the 28 bodies of the deceased Israelis are set to be returned today.
Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a stark warning to the Palestinian militant group, saying that “any delay or deliberate avoidance will be considered a gross violation of the agreement and will be responded to accordingly.”
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