Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Donald Trump Sitting Next to War Criminal Spouting Lie after Lie in Support of Ethnic Cleansing

 by Scott Creighton

Fresh off the country club links, President Trump sat with wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office (by the way, Bibi (as he is called) is also on trial in Israel for his criminal activities prior to this term in office and as soon as the bombing ends in Gaza, he will be removed from office and arrested and tried for corruption and other felonies) and told one lie after another in support of the Greater Israel (and here) and Gaza 2035 projects (and here)


 

(NYT:  Biden Suggests Netanyahu Is Prolonging War to Stay in Power)

Donald Trump has himself been exposed this weekend of trying to collapse our economy on purpose in order to usher in another form of government and economy, one that serves the interests of Big Business and the oligarch Trump now surrounds himself with.  Even Fox News can't ignore it. This is Trump enacting shock therapy here in the states like we have done in other nations for decades.

Now Trumpster follows that up by hosting the deplorable Benjamin Netanyahu and sucking up to him, promoting his lies and answering pre-staged questions from their hand-picked sycophantic 'media' in attendance. 

  • 'Did Oct 7 officially end the 2 State Solution plan?'
  • 'If Iran doesn't strike a deal will you have to bomb their nuclear facilities?'
  • 'What are you doing to get the hostages out of the horrific conditions in Gaza?'

In the office with these two were the Sec of Defense, Sec of State and VP among others.

The entire time Trump was speaking, Bibi sat with a smile on his face looking around at the press so pleased he was able to exert so much control over a U.S. president. This will certainly be used by his PR team back in Israel.


 

At one point Trump talks about how the U.S. should 'own' Gaza and bemoaned how Israel 'gave' Gaza to the Palestinians. Said they shouldn't have handed over all that 'beachfront property' in exchange for peace.


 

Tell me again President Deplorable Traitor how Israel 'gave' Gaza to Palestine please because history doesn't seem to agree with you.

Even MSNBC Gets It

 by Scott Creighton

 Yep. Trump and company are crashing the economy on purpose. Making the economy scream. Even the talking heads at MSNBC get it,


 

Trump Administration Prescribing Discredited Neoliberal Shock Therapy 'Medicine' for America

Trump Administration is Prescribing a Discredited Globalist Neoliberal Shock Therapy 'Medicine' for America https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/04/trump-administration-is-prescribing.html

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Palestinians stage general strike in West Bank as Israel intensifies Gaza genocide

from PressTV

Palestinians across the occupied West Bank have launched a general strike to protest the ongoing Israeli war of genocide against the Gaza Strip that has so far claimed the lives of upwards of 50,600 people, mostly women and children.

The strike that went underway on Monday included business closures and public protests, marking a show of solidarity with the coastal sliver, which has been the scene of Israeli massacres and desolation since October 2023.

In the occupied territory, East al-Quds, the city of Ramallah, the northern cities of Nablus and Tulkarm, and the central city of al-Bireh among other places staged the protest actions, heeding a call from various Palestinian groups, including the Gaza-based resistance movement Hamas, and Gaza solidarity campaigns...

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Gaza’s health crisis deepens as 52 children die from malnutrition

from Daily Sabah

As Israel’s relentless bombardment continues since Oct. 7, 2023, Gaza faces a worsening health crisis.

The Gaza Health Ministry has reported that 52 children have died due to malnutrition, and unless food supplies are restored, more fatalities are expected.

Yusuf Ebu er-Riş, Gaza’s Deputy Health Minister, issued a stark warning, revealing that essential medications are nearly exhausted, with 59% of vital drugs and 37% of medical supplies depleted.

In addition, 13,000 patients who require treatment outside Gaza are facing deteriorating conditions as border crossings remain closed.

The blockade has not only crippled Gaza’s food supply but also raised the risk of widespread malnutrition and anemia, particularly among children.

Since Oct. 7, 2023, 274 newborns have tragically been killed in Israeli airstrikes, highlighting the brutal toll on Gaza’s youngest and most vulnerable...

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Trump Administration is Prescribing a Discredited Globalist Neoliberal Shock Therapy 'Medicine' for America

by Scott Creighton


 

Where are all the Trump-trainers who jumped from the left onto the Orange Express for clicks and views and money in the lead-up to the 'election'? Where are they as it turns out The Donald and The Elon (character written by a Paperclip Nazi) are dropping the economic brick known as neoliberal Shock Therapy on the people of America?

Over at Fox News they are telling their audience that it's patriotic to 'tighten their belts' and suffer in silence as Musk, Theil, Trump and the rest of his administrations' billionaires collapse the economy... on purpose.

'Just shut up and take the pain' says America's 0.5%ers live on the TV screen. 'You'll all be rich once it's over and done' they promise. 'Just take the medicine and all will be fine in the end' is the prevailing mantra from the complicit Vichy media. It's always the same.

Sunday, April 6, 2025

Israel kills another Palestinian journalist after targeting her home in Gaza

from PressTV

The Israeli regime has killed another Palestinian journalist, as well as her husband and son, during an airstrike that targeted their home in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Islam Nasr al-Din Muqaddad is the 254th journalist or media worker killed by the Israeli regime since October 7. She is the 127th journalist killed while being at home.

She is also the second journalist murdered along with their family in their home during an Israeli airstrike in April. Last Tuesday, the Israeli regime killed journalist Mohammed Al-Bardaweel and his family in their apartment in Khan Younis.

According to a report by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs’ Costs of War Project, published on April 1, the Israeli regime’s brutal attitude towards Palestinian journalists has made the war in Gaza the deadliest conflict for media workers ever recorded.

“It is, quite simply, the worst ever conflict for reporters,” said the Costs of War...

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Hamas hails Microsoft employee for exposing company’s IA support for Gaza genocide

from PressTV

The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has expressed admiration for a Microsoft employee’s daring interruption during the tech giant’s 50th-anniversary celebration, where she called out the company’s AI support for the Israeli military's genocidal war in the Gaza Strip.

“Hamas highly commends the heroic stance of engineer Ibtihal Aboussad, who courageously and at great sacrifice exposed the complicity of major global technology companies with the Zionist regime’s killing machine in an exceptional manner,” the group said in a statement on Saturday.

Various reports have indicated that tech companies, including Microsoft, have provided the Israeli occupation forces with artificial intelligence tools employed in the ongoing massacre of Palestinians in Gaza, where close to 50,700 Palestinians have been killed.

It appealed to all employees and personnel of companies with a relationship with the Israeli military to follow suit and adopt a position similar to that of Aboussad.

“We also demand the UN, the international community, and rights groups to document all forms of technological complicity with the occupying Israeli regime’s crimes, prosecute these companies before international courts, and impose immediate sanctions on them for violating laws and human ethics,” Hamas stated...

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'Israel' backtracks on lies as footage exposes murder of Gaza medics

from al Mayadeen English

The video footage exposing the Israeli occupation forces' execution of 15 medics in Rafah has forced "Israel" to backtrack on its fabricated narrative, claiming its lies were "unintentionally made". 

Further claims were made and later debunked by video evidence, including that the ambulances did not have their emergency light on, and that the Israeli forces came under fire. The later Israeli military report claimed that the Israeli forces hid the bodies and the ambulances under the sand "to prevent them from being eaten by wild animals."

This procedure was unusual for their forces committing genocide and leaving bodies in the streets left and right for one and a half years intentionally, for them to be eaten by wild animals later on, which suggests that the IOF did it to hide evidence.

What actually happened

The New York Times obtained video retrieved from the cell phone of a Palestinian paramedic, whose body was discovered alongside 14 other aid workers in a mass grave in Gaza in late March, showing clearly marked ambulances and a fire truck with emergency lights activated as they came under heavy Israeli gunfire...

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Qatargate: New crisis in Israel that could trigger civil war

from Daily Sabah

The name of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's genocidal and child-murdering prime minister, has been associated with a new crisis in recent days. Netanyahu, who is being prosecuted for corruption and for whom the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza, is now facing a serious accusation of treason for not taking the necessary measures despite knowing in advance about the Oct. 7 attack.

In fact, Netanyahu's role in the events of Oct. 7 has been debated in Israeli public opinion before. It was argued at the time that the fact that Hamas killed all 1,200 people who allegedly died on Oct. 7 was inconsistent with the available evidence, and that none of the weapons in Hamas' possession were effective enough to have such an impact. The Hareetz newspaper even went a step further and revealed from the testimonies of soldiers on duty that day and eyewitnesses in the area that the order for Hanibal Directive was given and that the Israeli army, which was dispatched to the area, killed its own soldiers and citizens in order to prevent them from falling into the hands of Hamas. In other words, Netanyahu is not only responsible for the massacre of tens of thousands of Palestinians, but also for the killing of his own soldiers.

However, the latest incident is of a different nature than the previous allegations. Based on the investigation conducted by Shin Bet, Israel's domestic intelligence agency, and dubbed "Qatargate," there are serious allegations that Netanyahu and his office were aware of the attacks on Oct. 7 but did not report it to the security services, that the money sent by Qatar to Hamas to pay the salaries of civil servants in Gaza was transmitted through Netanyahu's advisers, and that some of this money was embezzled.

The revelation of the Shin Bet's investigation into Netanyahu and his advisers is a scandal. On Oct. 7, after the chief of the military intelligence organization Aman and the chief of staff resigned due to their failures, Netanyahu demanded the resignation of Ronen Bar, the chief of the Shin Bet. However, Bar refrained from resigning, saying that they had been conducting an investigation against Netanyahu for a long time and that it would not be appropriate for him to resign at this stage...

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Let's Just Remember Who Our Representative Actually Work For

by Scott Creighton

Only 14 Dems in the Senate voted with Bernie Sanders trying to stop the $8.8 billion in funding for weapons to Glorious Israel's messianic Zionists to use on women and children in Gaza for their Gaza 2035 plan to ethnically cleanse the world's largest concentration camp so folks like Bibi Netanyahu and Donald Trump can build a 'riviera on the Mediterranean Sea'  for the rich and famous to enjoy.

Corey Booker, hot off his filibuster the day before, was not one of the 14.

'Fourteen Democrats voted with Sanders. They were Sens. Richard Durbin, Ill., Martin Heinrich, N.M., Mazie Hirono, Hawaii, Ben Ray Luján, N.M., Tim Kaine, Va., Andy Kim, N.J., Ed Markey, Mass., Jeff Merkley, Ore., Chris Murphy, Conn., Brian Schatz, Hawaii, Tina Smith, Minn., Chris Van Hollen, Md., Elizabeth Warren, Mass., and Peter Welch, Vt.' Fox News

Though I can't rescind my apology at this point I can say, without any hesitation, yeah, Corey is a self-serving POS and always has been. I pegged him right from the start.

Here is the appeal Sen. Sanders made just before bringing his two resolutions to the floor of the Senate. How does anyone vote against a measure to stop giving 2,000lb bombs to people who will drop them on refugee children in tents? 

It's no wonder the Dems have something like a 23% approval rating right now. They are spineless cowards... kinda like the IDF now that I think about it.

Tampa Bay area protesters join national rallies saying “Hands Off” to Trump and Musk

from WUSF Tampa

Crowds of people angry about the way President Donald Trump is running the country marched and rallied in several Tampa Bay region communities and scores of other American cities Saturday. It was the biggest day of demonstrations yet by an opposition movement trying to regain its momentum after the shock of the Republican's first weeks in office.

The “Hands Off!” demonstrations were organized for more than 1,200 locations in all 50 states by more than 150 groups including civil rights organizations, labor unions, LBGTQ+ advocates, veterans and elections activists. The rallies appeared peaceful, with no immediate reports of arrests.

From the National Mall and Midtown Manhattan to Boston Common and towns like Brooksville, Gulfport and Tampa, thousands of protesters assailed Trump and billionaire Elon Musk 's actions on government downsizing, the economy, immigration and human rights...

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Videos from Aunt BB mentioned in yesterday's interview

by Scott Creighton

Here are the 3 videos Aunt BB mentioned in yesterday's interview. 

Mother Agnès-Mariam interviewed on Arab TV on the massacres in West Coast of Syria 


 

Saturday, April 5, 2025

A Chat with Aunt BB on the Subject of Syria

Had a real nice talk with Aunt BB today discussing Syria and what has been happening since our terrorists from al Tanf took over the country. Enjoy.

Two Questions One Answer: Desperation

Why does it seem like Trump and his billionaire administration are collapsing the economy on purpose? And why is Israel killing medics and children in hospitals in Gaza?

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Israel's Lies About 15 Medics they Murdered Exposed by New Video

by Scott Creighton

As if we needed a video to prove anything coming out of Israel is a lie... here is the statement they made once the bodies were discovered... (not before) and what follows is the video from the event.


 

... and here is the truth:


 

 They lie about everything. 

Local Hands OFF Protest info Tampa Florida

About this event

Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. Tampa is fighting back!

They're taking everything they can get their hands on—our health care, our data, our jobs, our services—and daring the world to stop them. This is a crisis, and the time to act is now.

🚨 On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the streets to fight back with a clear message: Hands off! 🚨

📍 Where: Tampa City Hall - 315 E Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL 33602

📅 When: 3-6pm April 5, 2025

This mass mobilization day is our message to the world that we do not consent to the destruction of our government and our economy for the benefit of Trump and his billionaire allies. Alongside Americans across the country, we are marching, rallying, and protesting to demand a stop the chaos and build an opposition movement against the looting of our country.

A core principle behind all Hands Off! events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values.

Check out handsoff2025.com for more information.

Here’s what to know about Saturday’s ‘Hands Off!’ anti-Trump protests

from The Hill

Nationwide protests are set to take place Saturday in opposition to the Trump administration and its allies, with leaders vowing to stand up to push back against the “most brazen power grab in modern history.” 

The “Hands Off!” rallies are taking place in more than 1,000 cities across all 50 states, and nearly 400,000 people have signed up to attend them, according to the progressive organization Indivisible, which is one of the almost 200 groups partnering to organize the movement. 

Other partner organizations include the American Civil Liberties Union, the League of Women Voters, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund and various advocacy groups focusing on issues like climate change and voting rights. 

Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them,” the movement’s website states. “They’re taking everything they can get their hands on, and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we’re taking to the streets nationwide to fight back with a clear message: Hands off!” ...

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Outrage at Israeli attack on Gaza medics grows as new video emerges

from al Jazeera

  • New video evidence has emerged showing Israeli forces firing on clearly identifiable ambulances in an attack that killed 15 medics and humanitarian workers in Gaza.
  • At least 10 Palestinians have been killed this morning as Israeli raids continue to pound Khan Younis in south Gaza.
  • At least 100 Palestinian children have been killed or injured each day in Gaza since Israel broke the ceasefire on March 18, the head of UNRWA said.
  • Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 50,669 Palestinians are confirmed dead and 115,225 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. The Government Media Office updated its death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
  • At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attacks and more than 200 were taken captive.

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Syria's U.S.-trained opposition fighters wait to learn of their role in a new Syria

from NPR Dec 2024

... Anteri, a colonel and the commander of the Syrian Free Army, a small, U.S.-trained opposition force before the fall of the Syrian regime, spoke with NPR at his base next to a remote U.S. military outpost in southern Syria...

Al-Tanf, originally a U.S. special forces base, has played a key role in training Syrian opposition fighters, including Anteri's. It lies about 200 miles from Syria's capital Damascus, on the main Damascus-Baghdad highway. Abandoned regime tanks lie by the side of the road. Nearby are cast-off Syrian army uniforms, tossed aside by fleeing soldiers as Assad fell.

The Syrian ruler was quickly toppled in a surprise offensive this month by opposition forces, who took back the country with little resistance after more than a decade of civil war. Anteri believes the reason the regime soldiers his forces encountered didn't fight back was because they knew the U.S. military was backing the SFA. Along with a patch bearing the Syrian insignia on his fighters' uniforms, he also instructed soldiers to wear a patch with an American flag.

The American base at al-Tanf is testament to the uneasy U.S. role in a key strategic region. The U.S. has not had diplomatic relations with Syria since 2012, after the start of the Syrian civil war. The bases it established over the past decade in the south and east operate under no Syrian legal authority. They fall under the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition operating in Iraq and Syria, but that coalition is soon being dismantled...

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Israel's actions in Syria pave way for regional instability: Fidan

from Daily Sabah

As tensions have been running high between Türkiye and Israel on the Syrian front, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Friday that Tel Aviv's actions in the war-torn country risk future regional instability.

In an interview with Reuters on the sidelines of a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, Fidan said Ankara does not aim for confrontation with Tel Aviv.

If the new administration in Damascus wants to have "certain understandings" with Israel, which, like Türkiye, is a neighbor of Syria, then that is their own business, he added.

NATO member Türkiye has fiercely criticized Israel over its attacks on Gaza since 2023, saying they amount to a genocide against the Palestinians, and has applied to join a case at the World Court against Israel while also halting all trade.

Israel denies the genocide accusations...

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Britain warns against Israeli attacks on Syria, citing regional stability concerns

from PressTV

Britain has urged Israel against conducting strikes on Syrian territory, saying that Syria’s stability is in the best interest of the entire region.

Hamish Falconer, the British Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa, in a post on X on Friday, said that while Israel’s strikes in Syria have led to civilian deaths and regional destabilization, the regime should prioritize diplomatic efforts and refrain from military action in Syria.

“Israel’s strikes in Syria have reportedly​ killed civilians and risk destabilising Syria further,” he wrote.

“We call on Israel to respect Syria’s territorial integrity and address legitimate security threats through diplomacy. A stable Syria is in the interests of the whole region,” he added...

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Friday, April 4, 2025

So What is Going On With Syria Right Now and Why Are So Many 'Experts' Lying Thru their Teeth About it?

by Scott Creighton

now with some UPDATES

Following the break are some links and notes for a video I will be doing with Aunt BB. It involves what is currently happening to Syria right now. With everything else going on, it's important we don't let things slip thru the crack while distracted.

Thursday, April 3, 2025

Trump's Big Bag O Tariffs is Actually Economic Terrorism Aimed at YOU!

Trump's Big Bag O Tariffs is Actually Economic Terrorism Aimed at YOU! 

6 trillion https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/economy/tariffs-largest-tax-hike/index.html

Chris Murphy  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAo5yvVCy7c&t=193s

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Trump tariffs spark trade war, China and EU retaliate

from al Mayadeen English

US President Donald Trump has fanned the flames of the global trade war by imposing a base 10% tariff on all US imports and reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday, which he dubbed "Liberation Day".

The White House unveiled sweeping new tariffs, sparking immediate upheaval in global markets as leaders around the world denounced the measures and vowed to retaliate against the levies.

The base 10% tariff goes into effect on April 5, and the higher reciprocal levies on April 9. 

Facing newly imposed 54% tariffs on exports to the US, China pledged to retaliate with countermeasures, while the European Union also threatened to respond, as both allies and rivals of Washington united in condemning the move, fearing it could deliver a crippling shock to global trade.

"The consequences will be dire for millions of people around the globe," EU Chief Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement, adding that the European Union is planning on retaliating to the levies imposed by Trump should talks with the US falter. The European Union was hit with a 20% reciprocal tariff...

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Deadliest day in fortnight: Israel kills almost 80 Gazans in attacks on UN clinic, refugee sites

from PressTV

New round of Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 77 people, marking the deadliest day for Palestinians since the regime resumed its genocidal war on the besieged territory two weeks ago.

A medical facility in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza was among the targets of the Israeli aerial assaults on Wednesday.

At least 22 people, including children and members of the Gaza police force, were killed in the attack on the clinic run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).

The government media office in Gaza condemned the "barbaric attack" that took place amid the Israeli genocide against civilians and displaced people in Gaza...

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Israel plans to seize 'large areas' of Gaza in major escalation

from Daily Sabah

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz declared Wednesday a significant escalation of military operations in Gaza, outlining plans for the army to capture "large areas" of the Palestinian territory.

Katz said Israel would bolster its presence in the Gaza Strip to destroy and clear the area of Palestinian resistance groups and their infrastructure.

The operation would "seize large areas that will be incorporated into Israeli security zones," he said in a statement, without specifying how much territory.

A group representing families of hostages held in Gaza said they were "horrified" by Katz's announcement, fearing the goal of freeing the captives had been "pushed to the bottom of the priority list."

"Has it been decided to sacrifice the hostages for the sake of 'territorial gains?'" said the Hostages and Missing Families Forum in a statement.

"Instead of freeing the hostages through a deal and putting an end to the war, the Israeli government is sending more soldiers to Gaza, to fight in the same areas where they have fought again and again."...

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Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Happy Liberation Day! Apologies to Booker, New Charlatan in White House and Mississippi Burning in Gaza

Corey Booker https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/04/cory-booker-condemns-trumps-policies-in.html

RFK Jr. firing 20k workers  https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/04/widespread-firings-start-at-federal.html

Paula White in White House grifter  https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/04/trumps-new-faith-office-what-to-know.html

Mississippi Burning in Gaza  https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/04/israel-killed-15-palestinian-paramedics.html

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Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN

from The Guardian

Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one United Nations employee, were killed by Israeli forces “one by one” and buried in a mass grave eight days ago in southern Gaza, the UN has said.

According to the UN humanitarian affairs office (Ocha), the Palestinian Red Crescent (PRCS) and civil defence workers were on a mission to rescue colleagues who had been shot at earlier in the day, when their clearly marked vehicles came under heavy Israeli fire in Rafah city’s Tel al-Sultan district. A Red Crescent official in Gaza said that there was evidence of at least one person being detained and killed, as the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied.

The shootings happened on 23 March, one day into the renewed Israeli offensive in the area close to the Egyptian border. Another Red Crescent worker on the mission is reported missing.

“Seven days ago, civil defence and PRCS ambulances arrived at the scene,” the head of Ocha in Palestine, Jonathan Whittall, said in a video statement. “One by one, [the paramedics and civil defense workers] were hit, they were struck. Their bodies were gathered and buried in this mass grave.

“We’re digging them out in their uniforms, with their gloves on. They were here to save lives. Instead, they ended up in a mass grave,” Whittall said. “These ambulances have been buried in the sand. There’s a UN vehicle here, buried in the sand. A bulldozer – Israeli forces bulldozer – has buried them.”...

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Trump's new faith office. What to know about controversial Florida pastor Paula White

(This crazy shit is what Donald Trump is creating with this charlatan and huckster while destroying SSA and CFPB and research programs looking to help cure childhood cancer.)

from The Palm Beach Post

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to form a task force under Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice to "eradicate anti-Christian bias" inside the federal government and prosecute violence against Christians, although he did not provide any examples.

And Trump also issued an executive order forming a White House faith office and appointed controversial Florida pastor Paula White-Cain to lead it. White-Cain, a pastor at StoryLife Church and president of Paula White Ministries, both based in Apopka, has been a longtime friend and personal minister to Trump...

From 2007 through 2011, the Senate Finance Committee investigated six megachurch televangelists, including White-Cain's ministry Without Walls International Church, that had been accused of misusing charitable, tax-exempt funds. 

According to the final report, Without Walls paid salaries for extended family members, owned and operated a private jet and frequently chartered flights including trips to the Cayman Islands and a boxing match in Las Vegas, and paid for down payments on an 8,072 square-foot mansion in Tampa and a $3.5 million condo in Trump Tower in New York City...

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and this is Exodus 23 

(Uh there is nothing in there about giving her a $1,000 or smiting your enemies or curing your cancer or giving you your own angel hitman... but it does say you should bring some fruits of your labor to a neighborhood cookout three times a year and not to cook a lamb in it's mother's milk.)

Widespread firings start at federal health agencies including many in leadership

from NPR

The Trump administration began sending notices of termination to thousands of staffers at federal health agencies Tuesday, according to interviews with employees and officials at multiple agencies and e-mails reviewed by NPR.

The Department of Health and Human Services last week announced it planned to dismiss 10,000 people. These cuts come on top of around 10,000 people already leaving the agencies under the Trump administration's Fork in the Road offer and early retirement.

Termination emails went out Tuesday morning to employees and leadership of agencies within HHS, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as several smaller agencies.

Many of those workers only found out they had been fired when they tried to badge into the building after waiting in line and couldn't get in, NPR learned from multiple sources at HHS who didn't want to share their names for fear of repercussions...

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Cory Booker Condemns Trump’s Policies in Longest Senate Speech on Record

from the New York Times

The New Jersey senator spent much of his speech, which ended after more than 25 hours, assailing the Trump administration. He eclipsed Strom Thurmond’s filibuster of a civil rights bill in 1957.

Senator Cory Booker, his voice still booming after more than a day spent on the Senate floor railing against the Trump administration, on Tuesday night surpassed Strom Thurmond for the longest Senate speech on record, in an act of astonishing stamina that he framed as a call to action.

Mr. Booker, a New Jersey Democrat and one-time presidential candidate, began his speech at 7 p.m. on Monday, vowing to speak as long as he was “physically able.” In a show of physical and oratorical endurance, he lasted past sunset on Tuesday, assailing President Trump’s cuts to government agencies and crackdown on immigration.

He ended his speech at 8:05 p.m., 46 minutes after eclipsing Mr. Thurmond’s 24-hour 18-minute filibuster of a civil rights bill in 1957. He finished by quoting John Lewis, the civil rights hero and congressman. Mr. Booker said of Lewis: “He said for us to go out and cause some good trouble, necessary trouble, to redeem the soul of our nation. I want you to redeem the dream. Let’s be bold in America.”...

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President Trump’s Tariff Plans on 'Liberation Day'

from the New York Times

Today is, in President Trump’s telling, “Liberation Day.” For decades, many countries have imposed higher trade barriers on the United States than America does on them. In a Rose Garden event, Trump plans to strike back with tariffs that he claims will be “reciprocal” — ones that merely counter the penalties of other nations.

The logic is intuitive: Why shouldn’t we impose tariffs on countries that have imposed tariffs on us? Europe’s tax on U.S. cars, for instance, has been four times as high as America’s tax on European vehicles. That doesn’t seem fair.

Past presidents asked the same question — and came to a different conclusion than Trump did. They saw such tariffs as self-harm. That’s because America would lose more in a global trade war than every major economy except Mexico, experts estimate...

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Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Us and Them

April 1 video covering a number of DOGE (Department of Oligarchs Getting Everything) related news stories.

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