by Scott Creighton
This is why the Israelis don't want anyone filming inside Gaza. They don't want us to see what they did in response to the IDF killing hundreds of Israeli young people on Oct 7 2023.
The scale of this is monstrous. Biblical even. And Israeli Jews cheer it on, wanting more in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.
This is Gaza. This is what Robert Kraft is defending when he says Macklemore is a monster for saying 'Free Palestine'
by Scott Creighton
It isn't much. But here it is.
Offended by everything, ashamed of nothing.
Did I leave anything out?
(Isn't that interesting. A friend just told me he was informed his healthcare premiums for himself and his family are going up ANOTHER 25% starting next year. That increase coincides with increases in deductibles and co-pays. They are targeting healthcare in Gaza and in the U.S. What a shock.)
from Middle East Monitor
Israeli gunfire near a medical point in central Gaza supported by Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) seriously injured a woman and her child this morning, forcing patients and medical staff to evacuate, the British charity said. It is the second MAP-supported facility to be evacuated after Israeli gunfire in less than a week.
The shooting took place in Abu Madeen, between Al-Bureij and Al-Maghazi, in Deir al-Balah, where MAP’s partner, the Culture and Free Thought Association (CFTA), runs the medical point.
Stray bullets hit the clinic, damaging a water tank on the roof. CFTA evacuated all patients and medical staff, with around 40 patients inside the clinic at the time. It remains unclear whether services will resume tomorrow.
Less than a week ago, Israeli military quadcopter gunfire killed a 65-year-old patient inside a MAP-supported medical point in Jabalia, northern Gaza, run by MAP’s partner, the Al-Awda Health and Community Association.
Mohammed Al Hour, a MAP community health worker who lives nearby, said: “The gunfire has not stopped since midnight last night. I was at home, and the shooting just continued. I wouldn’t say we have got used to it, because people don’t really have many choices. They have to carry on with their lives and meet their basic needs.
“So, this morning, I went to the clinic, and there was still gunfire from time to time. At times, it became more intense, and some bullets reached us. One of them landed about a metre away from me.
“People panicked, and we decided to close the medical point, especially as there had also been gunfire in the surrounding area that hit a woman and a child...
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from Tehran Times
Saudi Arabia may be the paradigmatic case of this construction. After the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the Kingdom's political elites pursued with renewed fervour two parallel projects, historical commemoration and state-building, to impose their postwar vision on the state, the nation and the economy.
Not only has the Kingdom "hidden" the transnational, transoceanic intellectual exchanges predating 1932; in recent years King Salman has aggressively pushed a reformulated, secularised historical narrative. The country's "archival performance", marked by inefficiency, sabotage and coercion, betrays "conflicting visions of the past" and a sometimes fragile grip on power. From its establishment, the family's authority rested largely on American corporations, ARAMCO above all, and on the United States government, which shielded it from widespread, if erased, anti-colonial and anti-authoritarian mobilisation at home and from regional rivals. Yet the struggle to hold power on its own terms made plain the need for a state-sanctioned historical narrative.
The desire to control the narrative is not merely an archival matter. In 2009, Prince Khalid bin Sultan led Operation Scorched Earth, a Saudi intervention in Yemen that quickly became a quagmire and ended in humiliating retreat. The official narrative never admitted failure, but Khalid's later disappearance from public life suggests he was made to shoulder the blame.
by Scott Creighton
The orange diddler of Epstein Mansion is not going to tear down the Kennedy Center though he may succeed in making sure no plebes can ever afford to attend a show there in the future if he and Russ Vought keep demoing the economy like they have been doing since day one.
Was anyone shocked when he barred CNN, Politico and MS Now from the White House for being 'fake news'? Not likely.
A long time ago Dave Chappelle did a bit pretending to be Black Bush and he announced a program taking us to Mars... Red Rocks!
Obviously it was a distraction. Nothing more. A funny one but a distraction.
This is what TrumpyBear is up to now.
Yea, CNN is fake news. So is MS Now. Anyone remember Rachel Maddow telling everyone the vaccine will keep them from catching and carrying the Rona virus? We knew that was bullshit before she said it and they have far better researchers than we do and yet, she said it just the same.
CNN fakes war-time videos all the time in support of one imperialist campaign after another.
by Scott Creighton
(Steve watching as I write this)
Hello folks. Been a couple of days. Some of you have been asking about Steve and how the trip to the vet went. I will do my best to fill you in. Some good news... some not so good.
The good news:
Steve's bloodwork looks pretty good. Slightly elevated in white cell count but negative in all three FIV tests. His kidneys are doing alright and so is his liver. For the most part his blood work was pretty solid for a cat of his age having lived on the street for most of his life.
The vet (whom I really liked a lot) went out of his way to answer all my questions and actually listened to my concerns.
He seems to think it's not Vestibular Disease however after talking him into it we decided to treat him as if it was just to be on the safe side and I think that choice has paid off.
Steve, now that I have changed his medication from the Cephalexin (sp) I was giving him to his new treatment of 2 antibiotics and 1 steroid, is doing much better. He can sit on his own. He gets off his chair and wanders around going to the litter box once and even checking out Beau's water dish when he got thirsty.
For a week all he could do was lay there while I spoon fed him and gave him water with a syringe.
This is a marked improvement... but only so much of one as he still seems aimless at times and lethargic. I am hoping his recovery will unfold in spurts making progress in stages rather than continuously. Or maybe this is all there will be. I don't know.
The vet charged me for one xray and gave me 4 2 of which were of his skull. He was looking for anything abnormal like a grown or major infection which he found none.
He also threw in some free sonograms of his abdomen because he wanted to clarify something before telling me about it.
The vet was a decent person who seems to care about animals. He owns his practice and in independent... no corporate influence. The way it should be.
The no-so good:
from Drop Site News
Nearly fifty years after the infamous Red Army Faction trials, Germany’s maximum-security Stammheim Prison is once again the setting of a high-profile case that calls into question the conduct of the German state. This time, however, the defendants are five international pro-Palestinian activists charged with vandalizing a factory in the German city of Ulm owned by Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems.
On September 8, 2025, the five Berlin-based activists, now known as the Ulm 5, broke into Elbit’s facility and carried out acts of vandalism that they recorded using body cameras and posted online. They destroyed equipment and spray painted “free Palestine” and “baby killers” on the walls. In their videos, the activists—citizens of Britain, Ireland, Spain, and Germany—say they carried out their direct action “to dismantle the tools used to commit genocide in Gaza” and to call attention to Germany’s complicity with it.
No one was injured in the action, which allegedly caused €1.04 million in damages, and the protesters remained at the scene to be arrested. Even so, German prosecutors have clearly decided to treat the Ulm 5 with unusual severity, charging them with membership in a criminal organization, Palestine Action Germany, in addition to trespassing and criminal damage. An additional charge concerns the use of “symbols of an unconstitutional or terrorist organisation”—referring to Hamas—based on the defendants’ use of slogans including “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”...
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from AntiWar
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced he has canceled a planned House session for Thursday, sending lawmakers for an early seven-week recess and pushing back a vote to impeach US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth until after the midterm elections.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who introduced the resolution to impeach Hegseth, suspected Johnson might take drastic measures to avoid the vote, so he didn’t inform GOP leadership of his plan to introduce the resolution, which he did on the House floor on Tuesday.
“And there it is. Just as I predicted. They’re canceling Congress tomorrow to avoid the vote on IMPEACHING [Hegseth]. It will also make it harder for us to reach 218 signatures on the Epstein Discharge Petition before the election. We were at 190+ signatures last night,” Massie wrote on X after Johnson canceled the votes...
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from Daily Sabah
A Turkish diplomat announced that Ankara sent a proposal to Russia and Ukraine that would end attacks on civilian ships in the Black Sea. The move follows a sharp increase in attacks on commercial ships in the Black Sea in recent months, often using drones.
At least 25 Turkish-owned vessels, four of them flying a Turkish flag, have been hit since late June, industry figures show.
"We have shared a text of a memorandum, a draft text, with the Russians and the Ukrainians to come up with a solution to those strikes taking place in the Black Sea," the diplomat told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Thursday.
Türkiye has been pushing Russia and Ukraine to suspend attacks on civilian vessels, with Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan demanding a "moratorium" on Aug. 8 in a call that appeared to have fallen on deaf ears. The attacks have intensified as the foes seek to damage the other's export revenues, with the war now raging into a fifth year...
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(A triple-tap on a school full of little kids and the murder of a beloved religious leader? Uh... duh. Yeah, thanks for the 'news')
(I guess now Kegsbreath will triple-tap the UN building in Manhattan. That'll teach them dreaded Marxists!)
from al Mayadeen English
Indiscriminate attacks that caused loss of life, civilian injuries, and damage to civilian infrastructure in Iran may amount to a war crime, with the Fact-finding Mission for Iran (FFMI) saying it had reasonable grounds to believe the United States was responsible following the US and Israeli aggression on February 28.
In a report set to be presented to the Human Rights Council, the mission said the US aggression involved Tomahawk missile strikes on the clearly identifiable Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, killing more than 150 people, including around 120 girls and boys.
It also cited an airstrike in which missiles dispersed clouds of tungsten fragments over a sports complex and a clearly identifiable residential area in Lamerd, killing 22 civilians, including men and women...
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