(Going to keep trying to share what I can as long as I can.)
from X Global
An ABC journalist was fired for reporting Israel used starvation as a weapon in Gaza. A court ruled her dismissal unlawful. In her victory speech, she said: "Since 2023, Israel has used hunger as a weapon against civilians, deliberately starving people."
Profoundly Depressing: Blogger to Censor My Website in a Month
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from Common Dreams
The rising cost of healthcare and other essentials means that the modest cost-of-living adjustment for about 76 million Social Security beneficiaries, announced Wednesday by Social Security Administrator Frank Bisignano, is likely to make only a small difference for senior citizens struggling to afford gasoline and groceries, said economic justice advocates.
Bisignano said the COLA for 2027, effective in January for most beneficiaries, will be 3.6%, amounting to an average of about $75 more per month.
Along with senior citizens, 40% of whom rely on Social Security for at least half their income, about 7.3 million people with disabilities who receive Supplemental Security Income will also receive the COLA increase starting December 31.
The COLA is higher than last year’s, when the SSA adjusted monthly earned benefits by 2.8%.
But Richard Fiesta, executive director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, said the new increase “is just not enough to keep up with the cost of food, gas, utilities, and prescription drugs.”
“A good chunk” of increased Social Security payments “will be wiped out” by higher premiums for Medicare Part B, which covers medically necessary and preventive healthcare services, said Fiesta. Those premiums are projected to rise to $209.50 per month in January, up from $202.90 per month this year...
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from Daily Sabah
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the security establishment and the country’s attorney-general to identify and prosecute soldiers and officers interviewed in the investigative documentary "NAZA" about Israel’s mass killings of civilians in Gaza, Israeli media reported Monday.
In a letter to army Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, Shin Bet chief David Zini and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, Netanyahu accused those who participated in the documentary of committing "serious information security offenses and criminal defamation” and causing harm to "Israel’s diplomatic and security interests,” according to Haaretz newspaper.
The award-winning documentary examines Israel’s use of artificial intelligence and automated surveillance systems in targeted killings and military operations during its genocidal war in Gaza...
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from AntiWar
President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have discussed the possibility of resuming large-scale attacks against Iran before the US and Israeli elections, according to a report from Axios.
The report, which cited unnamed US and Israeli sources, said that the two leaders had held multiple calls over the past two weeks about the possibility of resuming “major combat operations” against the Islamic Republic, including the possibility of joint US and Israeli strikes on military and nuclear targets...
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by Scott Creighton
New community guidelines coming out for Blogger to be set for Dec. 16th 2026.
Blogger is a service for self-expression and communication. We believe Blogger increases the availability of information, encourages healthy debate, and makes possible new connections between people. It is our belief that censoring this content is contrary to a service that bases itself on freedom of expression.
However, in order to uphold these values, we need to curb abuses that threaten our ability to provide this service and the freedom of expression it encourages. As a result, there are some boundaries on the type of content that can be hosted with Blogger. The boundaries we've defined are those that both comply with legal requirements and that serve to enhance the service as a whole...
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Misleading ContentDo not distribute content that deceives, misleads, or confuses users. This includes:
Misleading content related to civic and democratic processes: content that is demonstrably false and could significantly undermine participation or trust in civic or democratic processes. This includes information about public voting procedures, political candidate eligibility based on age / birthplace, election results, or census participation that contradicts official government records. It also includes incorrect claims that a political figure or government official has died, been involved in an accident, or is suffering from a sudden serious illness.
(Black Box voting)
Misleading content related to harmful conspiracy theories: content that promotes or lends credibility to beliefs that individuals or groups are systematically committing acts that cause widespread harm. This content is contradicted by substantial evidence and has resulted in or incites violence.
(Israel committing genocide in Gaza and now south Lebanon)
Misleading content related to harmful health practices: misleading health or medical content that promotes or encourages others to engage in practices that may lead to serious physical or emotional harm to individuals, or serious public health harm.
(mRNA untested vaccines)
Manipulated media: media that has been technically manipulated or doctored in a way that misleads users and may pose a serious risk of egregious harm.
Misleading content may be allowed in an educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic context, but please be mindful to provide enough information to help people understand this context. In some cases, no amount of context will allow this content to remain on our platforms...
So there you go. WordPress got rid of me overnight. YouTube did me in for talking about Jabotinsky and his Iron Wall in a matter of hours... and now after all this time... Blogger will be doing the work of those same folks on Dec. 16 2026.
Been fun while it lasted folks.
Avi Gil Plays with Fire in Israel as the Winds of Change are Blowing https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/10/avi-gil-plays-with-fire-in-israel-as.html
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by Scott Creighton
Leviticus 18 is explicit that if God’s laws are not obeyed, the land will “spew you out for defiling it, as it spewed out the nation that came before you.”
Much is being made regarding statements from Avi Gil in Israel. He is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s former military secretary and he is claiming the truth of Oct 7 2023 has yet to be told and in fact Netanyahu is covering up important information about what happened that day and in the days that led up to it.
“There are too many lies in the air, and the public deserves to know the truth,” Gil said. “Three years have passed since October 7, and two years since I retired from the IDF. I hoped a state commission of inquiry would be established to investigate everything. Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened, and I doubt it will.”
“What the public is being told is not what actually happened,” he added. “This isn’t my truth. It’s the country’s truth.” Times of Israel
Gil focuses specifically on an Egyptian intelligence aircraft landing briefly in Israel then leaving soon after and the story of Tzachi Braverman changing official records of what happened that day in order to protect Netanyahu.
“An Egyptian intelligence plane landed in Israel and was here for a little over 60 minutes. That’s a fact. A plane like that doesn’t just show up,” he said, alleging that whoever met the plane or received a message from it “is still concealing it today.”
Gil added that he also raised suspicions about possible alterations to official transcripts two weeks into the war, after noticing a “disproportionate collection of material” by Netanyahu’s associates...
Three months later, he said, a Prime Minister’s Office stenographer informed him that Netanyahu’s chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman, had instructed her to change the recorded time of Gil’s first call with Netanyahu on October 7.
Braverman is under investigation for suspected forgery and fraud over the alleged illegal alteration of records, and has been questioned by police.' Times of Israel
None of this is news (Braverman 2024) (Cairo’s intelligence chief visited Tel Aviv shortly before October 7 with a dire message about Gaza) and if Gil were completely and totally transparent he might want to start telling people how he and the intelligence agencies and Bibi's office knew about Operation Jericho Wall more than a year before it happened. (also this article from Times of Israel in 2025)
(A few days after the DoJ made this statement about stopping the hate, they invaded the home of Ilhan Omar for no reason just to rattle her and hopefully cost her an election in 20 or so days. Then, TrumpyBear went out in front of his brain-dead fan-base and smeared her as some kind of Somali turrurrruist getting the crowd to start chanting 'deport her' Is that the war on hate or a war OF hate? All of this because a foreign power is trying to fix the PR issue being caused by their expansionist genocide of Gaza and southern Lebanon as part of the Greater Israel campaign. All this hate and division and wiping out our right to think what we want and say what we want... for another country.)
from Dept. of Justice
Today, the Department of Justice Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism announced the first stop of the American Tour Against Hate will be in Southfield, Michigan on Wednesday, October 14. The Task Force’s national campaign reflects the Trump Administration’s steadfast commitment to eradicating antisemitism across the country. The Department of Justice, as the agency responsible for enforcing the nation’s civil rights laws, is carrying out the President’s mission.
The Tour is a first-of-its-kind federal initiative, bringing government resources and officials directly to local communities experiencing hate and discrimination.
“President Trump has made clear that this Administration will not tolerate antisemitism, and the Department of Justice is committed to implementing that directive,” said Attorney General Todd Blanche. “This national tour is an important step in ensuring communities across the country know the federal government stands ready to work with them to confront antisemitic threats, protect public safety, and uphold civil rights.”
"No American should live in fear of unjust discrimination or violence,” said Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward, Jr. “The Department of Justice is working tirelessly to protect and defend all Americans’ right to freedom of speech and free exercise of religion. This event is sure to be a powerful evening.”
"I am grateful to the President for the honor of leading this Task Force and Tour,” said Leo Terrell, Chair of the Department of Justice Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism. “We are spearheading the fight against hate and prejudice wherever it appears across the country. Particularly on a day that was so painful for so many Jewish men and women around the world, we are proud to announce this event and look forward to gathering with many of you in Michigan.”
from Drop Site News
Three years into Israel's genocide in Gaza, Palestinian human rights lawyer and legal scholar Noura Erakat argues that Donald Trump's Board of Peace is about more than Gaza: it's a blueprint for a new world order.
Drop Site's Sharif Abdel Kouddous speaks with Erakat, a professor at Rutgers University, about her Boston Review essay, "Exit and Exception." Erakat argues that the Board of Peace matters less for whether it succeeds than for what it reveals: a political project, driven by market fundamentalists and a tech elite, to exit international law and popular democracy altogether. She traces that project from the charter cities and special economic zones championed by figures like Peter Thiel to Gaza, which the Board's charter designates as a special economic zone and where Palestinians are described as "Gazans" rather than a people with a right to self-determination.
Israel, she argues, has long been the model, claiming that Palestine is a legal exception where the rules that apply everywhere else do not. Erakat also traces the Board's roots in the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, whose militarized aid sites became death traps for starving Palestinians.
She also describes her arrest last month at a Palm Beach County public hearing, where she came to testify against the county's more than $1 billion investment in Israel bonds.
(follow link to watch the interview at Drop Site News)