Genocid-o-Rama in Palestine: The Ethnic Cleansing Show Must Go On

Pundits discuss at length the finer nuances of whether there is a disagreement between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. There is none. It's all part of the plan.

Donald Trump and his Evangelical Christian Zionist cabal are in complete agreement with the European Zionists, a.k.a. Israelis, to empty Palestine of its indigenous Palestinian population. The plan has been in execution since the 1920s with crooked Britain playing the role of the "good cop" against the Zionist "bad cops". The British promised the Zionists a "homeland" in Palestine, but then pretended to deny the hordes of illegal migrants landing in Palestine. Obviously, it was just for show for we all know the outcome: Millions of indigenous Palestinians living in squalid refugee camps both inside and outside their country, while millions of foreigners, European and American settlers for the most pasrt, continue to kill, rape, burn and slash, demolish and steal land. 

Trump is in full agreement with Netanyahu. He wants to turn Gaza into a Near Eastern Cote d'Azur. Netanyahu wants to abstract Palestine of its 6 million native indigenous Palestinians and turn it into an exclusive "Democracy for Jews only".  So Trump plays the good cop, advising the Palestinians to accept their fate of starvation and eventual displacement out of Gaza and the West Bank and agree to an insidious puny ceasefire that will likely be broken by Israel as it did with impunity back in March. Trump also pretends to be upset that the bad cop Netanyahu is not agreeing to a ceasefire, all the while supplying him with the nastiest weapons of mass destruction to use against the Palestinians who are herded into the giant Nazi Concentration Camps scattered across Gaza and the West Bank. 

At the time of this writing, it is Trump, not Netanyahu, who has given the Palestinians 24 hours to agree to a ceasefire (whose terms remain a mystery). You can see that the Americans and the Israelis are playing fiddle with the credulous enslaved Arabs and the destitute Palestinians.

There should be no doubt in anyone's mind that we are witnessing the final assassination of Palestine. All the ethnic cleansing installments of the past century point to one trajectory. Israel has no plans to live in peace with a sovereign Palestinian state. The Zionists never had any respect for Balfour's "nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine".  

But Israel bends when the winds are against it and pretends to work on a "peace process". But when the winds are in its favor, as in with Republican Christian Zionists like Trump in the white house, Israel pounces and mass murders Palestinians at will, demolishes homes, burns villages, torches millennial olive groves and herds of sheep, and sends Palestinians searching for a place to live in the wilderness.

Zionists and Christian Americans have dislodged the UN and its Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA out of Palestine. They've hired American snipers to shoot at starving Palestinians, to make sure they get no aid. No hospitals, no homes, no schools, no food.... Conclusion? Palestinians will have no choice but to leave - "voluntary relocation". The world is watching the final rape and assault of Palestine, just as it watched 1947-1948. There should be no regrets or questions when traumatized and dehumanized Palestinians take up terrorism again. 

Trump has only 3 years left in office. Beyond those three years, Israel might have to reluctantly and hypocritically pretend to participate again in the farce of a peace process for a while, like it did in Camp David, in Oslo and in Madrid. During those lulls in the violence, and pending favorable conditions for another installment in the ethnic cleansing, it continues to build settlements and persecute the Palestinians.  

You'd have to be a fool to believe that Zionist Israel considers the Palestinians as humans worthy of shared living. There will not be one state for all, there will not be two states, there will be only one state for Jews with a minority of Palestinians left to do menial work for their masters. The other Palestinians will be forced into the Sinai (for Gaza) and into Jordan, Syria and southern Lebanon (for the West Bank). Sunni Jordan has a treaty with Israel, so it will end up with a handful of new Palestinian refugees. Sunni Syria will, like the Assad regime before it, continue its betrayal of the Palestinian cause by signing its own treaty with Israel, relinquishing the Golan Heights in exchange for Trump lifting sanctions off Syria with the blessing and patronage of the Sunni neanderthals of Saudi Arabia, and reluctantly accept a handful of Palestinian refugees.

The bulk of the new 5 million or so Palestinian refugees will be sent north to southern Lebanon where they will disrupt and dispute the land with the Shiites south of the Litani River and up through the Bekaa Valley. If this new wave of Palestinian refugees sends Lebanon into another three decades of war (e.g. Christians, Druze, and others in Lebanon might take up arms again), the Saudi-US tandem will, again as it did in the 1970s (Nixon and Kissinger), send the Syrian army to "pacify" unruly Lebanon.

Three years to go for the US-Israel tandem to complete Nakba II and finish off Palestine. The macabre show is on. 

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Israel says Trump’s plan to resettle nearly two million Palestinians from Gaza is ‘still active’
Bel Trew, Richard Hall and Andrew Feinberg
Thu, July 3, 2025



[The two criminal felons Netanyahu and Trump: Netanyahu was in DC last spring when he violated the ceasefire. He's returning next week. This time to work with Trump on finishing off the "ripe job"]

The Israeli government said Thursday that Donald Trump’s plan to relocate nearly two million Palestinians from Gaza is “still active,” despite widespread opposition from U.S. allies and warnings from rights groups that it would constitute a war crime.

“President Trump has made clear that plan is most definitely still active,” Israeli government spokesperson David Mencer said in response to a question from The Independent about the plan’s status.

“We think it's a good idea. The Prime Minister has praised the idea. It's certainly out-of-the-box thinking,” he added.

The White House did not deny the plan was still a possibility when asked by The Independent. 

“President Trump has long advocated for creative solutions to improve the lives of Palestinians, including allowing them to resettle in a new, beautiful location while Gaza rebuilds,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly said.

The comments come ahead of a visit from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House next week, where he will meet with Trump to discuss a potential ceasefire with Hamas and the future of Gaza.

Trump first pitched his plan for the United States to “take over” and rebuild Gaza as the “Riviera of the Middle East” in February, calling the territory a “demolition site” and suggesting that Palestinians would have “no alternative” but to leave.

Rights groups said the plan to move Palestinians en masse in the midst of war amounted to a forcible transfer, and could constitute a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.

Trump later appeared to back off the plan, telling Fox News host Brian Kilmeade in late February: “I’ll tell you, the way to do it is my plan. I think that’s the plan that really works. But I’m not forcing it. I’m just going to sit back and recommend it.”

But the comments from Israel’s spokesperson suggest the plan may still be on the table.

“President Trump and [White House Middle East negotiator] Steve Witkoff, they are both in former lives property developers, and the international experts have said that to rebuild Gaza from the mess which Hamas [actually Israel] created will take 15 to 20 years,” Mencer said.

“Why on earth should Gazans continue to live in those conditions [specifically created by genocidal Israelis to make the answer to this question so "obvious"] if there is an opportunity for them to seek sanctuary elsewhere?” he asked.

Since Trump pitched his plan, Israel has launched another major offensive that included the forcible transfer of Palestinians to southern Gaza, which Netanyahu claimed was to “protect” civilians from the fighting.

Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the aim of the operation, launched in May, was “to conquer the Gaza Strip.”

Hundreds have died in the offensive, many of them while seeking aid at new aid points set up in southern and central Gaza in an Israeli-backed effort run by an American non-profit and funded by the Trump administration to the tune of $30 million.

Former officials from the U.S. State Department and USAID who have worked on emergency aid delivery described the new aid system as “grotesque”, “dangerous” and part of a larger plan to use aid to control the movement of Palestinians.

Palestinians carry sacks and boxes of food and humanitarian aid, unloaded from a World Food Program convoy that was heading to Gaza City (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

“A basic principle of humanitarian response is you move the aid as close as you can to where the people are. They’re doing the opposite of that, the diametric opposite of that, which suggests that they want to draw people to the south,” said Jeremy Konyndyk, who oversaw famine relief at USAID for three years during the Obama administration and is now president of Refugees International.

“I think that is highly suggestive of the longer-term agenda here,” he added.

Israel has made no secret of its desire to encourage what it has described as the “voluntary” relocation of Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring Arab countries, all of whom have rejected the plan.

“Einstein was the person that said that repeating the same thing again and again, and expecting a different outcome is the first sign of insanity,” Mencer, the Israeli government spokesperson, said on Thursday.

A tent camp for displaced Palestinians stretches among the ruins of buildings destroyed by Israeli bombardments in west of Gaza City ((AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi))

“We believe that withdrawing from Gaza and then just allowing Hamas to regroup, to rebuild themselves and attack us again as they say they wish to do, is simply not an option after October 7th,” he added.

Netanayhu is set to land in Washington DC on Sunday and meet with Trump the next day primarily to discuss Gaza and the impact of the joint Israeli-US strikes on Iran. Pressure is mounting on Israel to agree to a ceasefire deal after the US President promised a truce for Gaza could be sorted as earlier as next week.

The Israeli premier, in his third visit to Washington since Trump returned to office in January 2025, is also due to meet Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as well as Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East.

The Independent understands a delegation from Hamas is already in Doha, to meet Egyptian and Qatari negotiating teams. The main sticking point for the deal has been Hamas’s calls that it must lead to a permanent end to the fighting – Palestinians also have concerns about the ongoing occupation of Gaza by Israel troops, and who will rule the Strip.

US Morons in the Sticks Voted for Donald Dumb: He's Now Impaling Them

You voted for him. He sold you on cheap slogan patriotism, and as has always been the case, you used to go die in foreign wars for these stupid slogans. Now, he has not sent you to war YET, but he has deprived you of healthcare. It's all the same.

Just like that other MAGA moron, Senator Joni Ernst, from the pig-and-corn state of Iowa, said "We all are going to die," so why worry about heatlthcare? Sweet, meek and mild Jesus will take care of you. Bottom line, you're disposable for them, the republican billionaires who take you for fools and sweeten the crap with some patriotism honey, your death doesn't matter to them.

Whether you die in Fallujah, in Kabul, in Dubai or in Ames, Iowa, as long as they deprive you of your health and your life, they can still play golf on weekends. They're making America great by reducing you to disposable non-recyclable trash, by deporting your valuable migrant workforce, and by filling their bank accounts with more billions than they'll ever need.
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Trump’s Medicaid cuts are coming for rural Americans: ‘It’s going to have to hit them first’
Jessica Glenza and George Chidi
Fri, July 4, 2025


Care workers protest proposed cuts to Medicaid in Washington DC on 23 June.Photograph: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for SEIU

When Hurricane Helene drowned western North Carolina in muck and floodwater last year, it caught folks off-guard.

Now, local leaders in places like Asheville expect the Republican-led reconciliation bill – called the “big, beautiful bill” by Donald Trump – to bear down on rural America. And they wonder whether people are missing the warning signs.

“It’s going to have to hit them first,” said Laurie Stradley, CEO of Impact Health in Asheville, a Medicaid-funded non-profit providing social services to some people still digging out from the flood.

Medicaid is the single largest health insurance program in the US. The public program covers 71 million low-income, disabled and elderly US residents. It pays for half of all US births and the care of six in 10 nursing home residents.

When Trump’s sprawling tax-and-spending bill passed on Thursday, it heralded more than $1tn in federal cuts to Medicaid, which experts worry will push Republican-led states to abandon parts of the program and leave people without access to timely healthcare.

“This is an extraordinarily regressive bill,” said Joan Akler, executive director and co-founder of Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families. “This is the largest rollback of healthcare coverage that we’ve ever seen and all in service of an agenda to drive tax cuts that will disproportionately benefit wealthy people and corporations.”

Medicaid “expansion” is a key provision of Obamacare, formally called the Affordable Care Act of 2010. The expansion provides largely no-cost health insurance to people earning up to 138% of the federal poverty level, or $36,777 for a family of three. Although Obamacare has been the law for more than a decade, Medicaid expansion proved politically divisive in Republican states, and many only recently decided to accept enormous federal subsidies to cover their residents.
North Carolina will lose $32bn in the next decade

The Medicaid cuts in the bill could have particularly acute consequences in North Carolina, a politically competitive state, where experts said the bill could trigger a “kill switch” to end Medicaid expansion.

“If the state spends any state dollars to implement the expansion population or expansion coverage, it triggers an automatic ending to Medicaid expansion,” said Kody Kinsley, North Carolina’s former secretary of health and an architect of the state’s Medicaid expansion.

North Carolina is set to lose $32bn in federal funding in the next decade, according to an analysis by the office of the Republican senator Thom Tillis, who represents the state. He’s one of just three Senate Republicans who voted against the bill on Tuesday.

North Carolina’s expansion only went into effect in December 2023, and in less than 19 months it enrolled more than 650,000 people – all of whom will lose coverage if the program ends.

Those North Carolinians are only some of the 17 million people expected to lose health insurance by 2034 across the country, according to estimates from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. Nearly 12 million people will lose insurance because of attacks on Medicaid.

“Ultimately, Medicaid being cut is going to kill people,” said Molly Zenkler, a nurse at Mission hospital in Asheville. “I deal with people getting their feet literally amputated because they don’t have access to diabetic care. This is just going to get increasingly worse.”

The reconciliation bill cuts state funding through a number of provisions. On healthcare specifically, the bill attacks complex financial maneuvers states use to draw down federal funds. It also requires states to spend enormous sums – perhaps tens of millions of dollars per state – implementing work requirements, effectively adding layers of expensive red tape.

Congressional Republicans in favor of the bill argue it targets “waste, fraud and abuse”. However, it is already well-known that most Medicaid beneficiaries who can work do, and that Medicaid is one of the most cost-efficient health programs in the US, according to the American Hospital Association.

North Carolina is one of a dozen conservative states that wrote a “trigger” law into Medicaid expansion. Not all function like North Carolina’s – the laws are, in the words of an expert with Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, a “lesson in federalism” – but they nevertheless underscore the difficult choices state legislators will face because of congressional Republicans’ cuts.

One such program that could be on the chopping block is a pilot with Impact Health, which uses Medicaid expansion funds for social needs that affect health – an effort to reduce long-term costs. Stradley gave the example of a Medicaid-covered child with severe asthma who hit the local emergency room three times a week for breathing treatments.

Impact’s program used Medicaid funds to replace moldy rugs with laminate flooring in the child’s home, and to buy a vacuum with a Hepa filter. The cost to Impact Health was about $5,000, “but now this child is going to the emergency room a couple times a year instead of a couple times a month. And so, every month we’re saving about $4,500.”

The program’s knock-on effects boost the local economy: the work to replace the rug was done by a local carpenter, and the child’s mother isn’t calling out from work, increasing her job stability.

“One of the ways that we talk about this program is that it’s a hand up rather than a handout,” she said. “Almost half of the folks that are recipients in our program are children … Then you look at the adults. Most of them are working multiple jobs, and those jobs don’t come with benefits, because they’re working two or three part-time jobs in order to make ends meet.”

The enormity of Medicaid means large cuts to the program imperil not only patients, but the institutions that serve them – especially rural hospitals and clinics hanging on “by a thread”, according to Kinsley.

One of US residents’ few rights to healthcare is in emergency departments, where hospitals are required to stabilize patients regardless of ability to pay. That makes emergency departments the go-to source for healthcare for the uninsured.

An analysis released by the Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill earlier this year showed that 338 rural hospitals around the country were at risk of imminent closure with the cuts to Medicaid contained in the bill.
‘Hospitals will be forced to restrict services, or close’

Rural states such as Kentucky are expected to be disproportionately hard-hit as well. Thirty-five of the rural hospitals at risk of closure – about 10% – are in Kentucky, even though Kentucky’s 4.5 million residents comprise about 1.3% of the US’s population. About a third of Kentucky residents are on Medicaid, according to figures from Kentucky’s cabinet for health and family services. The program benefits about 478,900 adults.

The situation is similarly dire in Arizona, another battleground state, which also has a trigger law on the books. Although the reconciliation bill may not “trigger” a rollback of Medicaid expansion, it does undermine a key financing mechanism for the state’s program called a “provider tax”.

“We estimate Arizona’s healthcare system would lose over $6bn over the next seven years,” said Holly Ward, a spokesperson for the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association, in a statement.

“In other words, more than 55% of Arizona hospitals would be operating in the red,” she said. “Hospitals will be, at best, forced to restrict services such as obstetrics, behavioral healthcare and other complex services, and at worst, will close their doors altogether.”

Another issue is the potential for Republicans’ cuts to drive up the cost of healthcare for Americans who are privately insured, including through employers. As hospitals fight to survive, they will try to extract as much money as possible from other sources of funding – namely, commercial insurance.

In addition, rural healthcare providers worry the water will be muddied by the sheer complexity of US healthcare. Private companies have a hand in managing – and therefore branding – state Medicaid programs.

“A lot of our rural voters may not even realize that what they have is Medicaid, because there are so many names for it,” said Stradley. However, the precarious situation is already worrying people whose lives have been stabilized because of Medicaid.

Amanda Moynihan is a single mother of three children – ages nine, 12 and 16 – living in Kuna, Idaho. Medicaid expansion has helped her become a “functioning human in society”, she said. Routine medical care for herself and her children, along with other assistance programs, has meant the difference between grinding poverty and a shot at the middle class.

Idaho, one of the most politically conservative states in the union, expanded Medicaid in 2018 with an overwhelming ballot-referendum vote of 61-39. Even if Idaho’s “trigger law” does not go into effect, the state could face similar fiscal challenges to Arizona.

“Back two years ago, before I started school, I was just in fight-or-flight, just trying to pay the bills there. I didn’t ever see a future of what I could do. And then I just started with one class,” she said.

Moynihan has completed an associate degree in psychology and is starting the social work bachelor’s degree program at Boise State University in the fall. For now, she’s working part time with the Idaho Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired and planning to pick up work at a gas station because it has a college scholarship benefit.

But without stability to pursue higher education, her future “would be making the minimum wage, which is about $15 an hour, barely paying rent in a low-income household”.

Melania Trump's Cheating EB-1 "Einstein" Visa: Her Brain is Apparently in her Butt

Trump's harsh speech and treatment of immigrants apparently does not apply to his own little club of elitist billionaires and their bimbo wives. As long as you kiss the ass of the dick-tator, you're fine, but once you express criticism or disapproval of the MAGA messiah and his coterie of White supremacist and Zionist colluders, you become a deportable persona non grata in the MAGA Trump world.

Elon Musk is getting a similarly bitter taste after licking the disgusting derriere of Donald Dumb. His criticism of Donald's Big Billionaire Bill has cast him out in the wilderness as a cheating immigrant that should be "investigated".

Indeed Musk arrived first from South Africa. The little Nazi genius loved the racist Apartheid regime there and felt he could not stay in a country that no longer had a Nazi racist white supremacist government, like Israel is today. His mother Maye Haldeman was born in Canada but emigrated to Apartheid South Africa where she met his father Errol Musk. 

To get out of democratic Black African-ruled South Africa, Elon used his mother's Canadian citizenship - he couldn't care less for Canada - to apply for Canadian citizenship as he fled the new democratic South Africa. Then very quickly - he apparently never liked Canada - he applied for a student visa to the US where he cheated by abandoning his studies, and violated the terms of his foreign student visa by illegally working and not attending the school he was supposed to attend. He essentially cheated his way into the US. Regardless of whether he succeeded or not, he lied and cheated, and therefore is more deserving of deportation that the tens of thousands of LEGAL immigrants, and indeed some US-born US citizens, that are being persecuted by the Trump administration.

But this cheating by the rich and wealthy gets weirder when you consider that Melania Knauss, now Melania Trump, also entered the US on a visa for which she wasn't ever eligible for. She somehow (perhaps Donald made a few phone calls or paid some bribes) obtained an EB-1 visa known as "Einstein" visa. As the report below details, having a sublime butt does not a genius make. The "Einstein" visa is for people with "extraordinary abilities" in their brains, not their behinds. Clearly, the law's intent is to bring in scientists and innovators with brains who can contribute to the country, not any bimbo with curves. 

Melania filed her visa application in the late 1990s, a few years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the breakup of Yugoslavia and the independence of Slovenia. She thus had every interest in leaving her country of birth at a time when war had decimated the former Yugoslavia. As a model working in New York and dating Donald Trump, her visa was approved in 2001, one of just five people from Slovenia to win the coveted visa that year, according to the Post.

She then became a citizen in 2006 and immediately sponsored her parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs, to come as immigrants to the US and obtain citizenship. How did Melania Knauss obtain her EB-1 visa is suspicious and must be investigated, especially that her dumbass husband continues to rail against immigrants and persecute them, and attempt to revoke the right of new citizens to sponsor family members. And questions have been raised about her suitability for the extraordinary ability category.

If it is determined that Melania obtained an employment visa for which she was not eligible, then her status as a US citizen who cheated her way into the US is in doubt, and by extension her children from Donald Dumb are "birthright citizens" who should be stripped of their citizenships. After all, she has shown ANY ability as first lady. When compared to former first ladies, Melania has contributed nothing but silence and political nothingess, demonstrating again that butt is not brain and vice-versa. 


Melania Trump's "Extraordinary Abilities" that got her a visa to the US and allowed her to bring along her entire tribe.  

Bottom line: Just like Elon Musk, Melania Knauss Trump seems to have illegally entered the US on a visa shoe couldn't possibly be eligible for. But in Trump's America, the "elite" gets away with breaking the law with high-powered lawyers, while your average immigrant Joe out there gets shafted for made-up reasons to rid the country of "undesirable" people with dark skin or with ideas the Dick-tator doesn't like. The essence of the American Dream.
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Inspecting claim Melania Trump improperly came to US on EB-1 'Einstein' visa
Anna Rascouët-Paz
Wed, July 2, 2025

Why is there not a rating on this post? There's not enough verified evidence for us to definitively confirm or debunk this rumor. Contact us if you have credible information to share. We'll update this post as necessary.

In June 2025, U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Democrat from Texas, expressed doubt that first lady Melania Trump had legitimately qualified for a so-called "Einstein visa" — as employment-based visas for people with extraordinary abilities are known — to become a permanent resident, and then a citizen, of the U.S.

"The math ain't mathin'," Crockett said during a June 25 congressional hearing as she explained that the first lady had arrived in the U.S. on such an EB-1 visa. Footage from the hearing was available on YouTube in which Crockett said:

Let me remind y'all that Melania the first lady, a model — and when I say model, I'm not talking about Tyra Banks, Cindy Crawford or Naomi Campbell-level — applied for and was given an EB-1 visa. And what that stands for is an "Einstein" visa.

Now y'all that don't know, let me tell you how you receive an Einstein visa: You're supposed to have some sort of significant achievement like being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize or a Pulitzer, being an Olympic medalist or having other sustained extraordinary abilities and success in sciences, arts, education, business or athletics. Last time I checked, the first lady had none of those accolades under her belt. It doesn't take an Einstein to see that the math ain't mathin' here.

Several Facebook posts relayed Crockett's claim.

Indeed, in 2018, The Washington Post reported that Melania Trump, then Melania Knauss, had petitioned the government for a "green card" — permanent residency in the U.S. — under the highly coveted EB-1 visa in 2000. Knauss was then a model who had completed a few high-profile jobs, including a large advertisement for cigarettes in Times Square and a photograph of her in a bikini with an inflatable whale for Sports Illustrated. Her visa was approved and she was then able to sponsor her parents for permanent residency in the country, according to the Post.

Snopes was not able to independently obtain confirmation that Trump had indeed obtained this visa or to secure information about the specific decision process behind her reportedly successful application for one. Therefore, we have left the claim unrated. We contacted her then-lawyer, Michael Wildes — who was mayor of Englewood, New Jersey, from 2004 to 2010 and was elected mayor again in 2018 — asking for confirmation that Trump immigrated on the EB-1 visa, and we will update this report should he respond.

The website for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services says that three categories of people are eligible for the EB-1 visa: 

- people with extraordinary abilities

- outstanding professors and researchers and

- certain multinational managers or executives. 

Melania Knauss Trump belonged to neither of the latter two categories, so if she obtained an EB-1 visa, it was under the first category: people with extraordinary abilities.

In fact, models can qualify for this visa under certain conditions. The EB-1 immigrant visa is by no means the only visa a model or performer can apply for to work in the U.S. Others are the O-1A or O-1B visas, which are nonimmigrant visas valid for three years. For example, the comedian John Oliver came to the U.S. on an O-1 visa, which he had to renew several times before obtaining permanent residency. The former Playboy model Shera Bechard also obtained this temporary "genius" visa.

Both the EB-1 and the O-1 visas require the applicant to demonstrate "extraordinary abilities".

The EB-1 does not require the applicant to receive a job offer, but the criteria are hard to meet and few such visas are granted each year. However, this does not preclude successful models from obtaining them. Models who enjoy a certain level of recognition and celebrity, with substantial incomes can qualify for this path to residency and possibly citizenship, according to several experts interviewed by The New York Times.

Ultimately, however, everything indicates that there is a degree of arbitrariness in the decision to approve EB-1 visas, and much rests on the immigration officer who makes that decision, which can result in lawsuits.

In sum, it is not improbable that a working model might have received the right to permanently reside in the U.S. based on her extraordinary abilities.

This is not the first rumor about Melania Trump that Snopes has investigated. For more, see our collection of 23 rumors about the first lady.

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Finally Some Good News: Jimmy Swaggart is Dead

This Evangelical Christian sinner, dedicated prostitute "John", and a virtuoso fornicator with Christian integrity has finally departed to where he'll be more than welcome: His Own Christian Hell.
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Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart Passes Away at 90
Evolve Editors
Wed, July 2, 2025

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Jimmy Swaggart, influential televangelist and longtime leader of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries, has died at 90. His family announced the unfortunate news. Known for his global ministry, gospel music, and public scandals, Swaggart remained a prominent figure in evangelical circles for decades. Now, many are eager to learn about the circumstances surrounding the death of Jimmy Swaggart.

Here’s what we know so far about Jimmy Swaggart’s death.

Jimmy Swaggart cause of death explained

Rev. Jimmy Swaggart has passed away at the age of 90.

His family confirmed his death on Tuesday, July 1, stating that he “finished his earthly race and entered into the presence of His Savior, Jesus Christ.” Swaggart died weeks after suffering cardiac arrest at his home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His death was announced publicly via Facebook. No official cause of death has been provided.

Family Worship Center Church will host funeral services for Swaggart. The public can attend a viewing on Saturday, July 12, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and a celebration of life service on Sunday, July 13, at 6 p.m.

Swaggart began preaching full-time in 1958, and the Assemblies of God ordained him in 1961. He launched his television ministry in 1975, and by 1985, his broadcasts reached nearly two million households across the U.S. He authored nearly 50 Christian books and sold over 15 million gospel records. As a cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gilley, he earned a Grammy nomination for his music.

Sex scandals overshadowed Swaggart’s career. In 1988, the Assemblies of God defrocked him after authorities caught him with a prostitute and he refused to complete the mandated rehabilitation program. “I have sinned against you,” he told his congregation in a televised apology. In 1991, police detained him in California with another prostitute. He continued preaching even as his audience declined.

Swaggart remained senior pastor at Family Worship Center and continued broadcasting through SonLife Radio and TV networks. He was joined in ministry by his son Donnie Swaggart.

His wife Frances, his son Donnie, several grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and extended family members survive Swaggart.

Originally reported by Vritti Johar on ComingSoon.net.

Trump and Musk: I Love You, I love You Not

Unless his complies with the dictator, Musk risks losing his US citizenship. I think he should indeed head back to South Africa where he can build his failing rockets and ugly cars, and thus retain some dignity.

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Trump says without subsidies Musk would have to ‘head back home to South Africa’ - then threatens to investigate him with DOGE
James Liddell
Tue, July 1, 2025 at 10:59

Donald Trump has threatened to use Elon Musk’s own Department of Government Efficiency to investigate federal subsidies received by the tech billionaire’s companies.

Nearly a month after their explosive breakup, Trump reignited his public rift with Musk late Monday in response to the Tesla CEO escalating his anti-Republican rhetoric and his scathing criticism of the president’s showpiece tax bill. The president also suggested that Musk may need to ‘close up shop and go back to South Africa’ without his support.

“Elon Musk knew, long before he so strongly Endorsed me for President, that I was strongly against the EV [electric vehicle] Mandate,” Trump began in his Truth Social tirade. “It is ridiculous, and was always a major part of my campaign. Electric cars are fine, but not everyone should be forced to own one.”

As senators continued their marathon session Tuesday morning to push through the president’s so-called “big beautiful bill,” the current version could make electric vehicle ownership more expensive by eliminating consumer tax credits for new EVs.

Trump says Musk’s furore stems from the president’s opposition to the Biden administration’s EV mandate (AFP/Getty)

Trump again floated the idea of pulling billions in federal subsidies from Musk’s companies, including SpaceX and Tesla, and hinted at using the Department of Government Efficiency – the advisory body Musk once led – to probe the claimed cost savings.

“Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa,” he said.

“No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE,” the president continued. “Perhaps we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this? BIG MONEY TO BE SAVED!!!”

Earlier Monday, Musk promised to bankroll primary challenges against GOP lawmakers who voted to pass Trump’s multi-trillion-dollar tax bill as the Senate debated its final passage.

Not even a month after the monumental Trump-Musk break-up, the pair began sparring on social media over the president’s showpiece tax bill (AFP/Getty)

The world’s richest man believes that the legislation would add trillions to the national debt over the next decade and that proposed spending cuts are insufficient to fund its other provisions.

“Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame,” he wrote on X. “And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth.”

Musk suggested that if the bill passes, he would form a new “America Party” the very “next day.”

“Our country needs an alternative to the Democrat-Republican uniparty so that the people actually have a VOICE,” he added.

The flare-up came a day after the president called Musk a “wonderful guy” but admitted the pair hadn’t spoken much in recent weeks, following their fallout last month.

“But he got a little bit upset, and that wasn’t appropriate,” Trump told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, adding that Musk was disappointed about the EV tax credits facing being slashed.

How to Deport US Citizens: A Manual for American Dummies

Ever since the first illegal European immigrants arrived on the shores of the American continent, north and south, it's been a steadfast rule that the first comers will harass and play racism and xenophobia with those that follow them.

The English crooks hated the Irish whom they brought as cheap laborers who spoke English after ethnically cleansing and starving them back in Ireland. They also imported Scots whom they hated too because they were Catholics. Soon afterwards, once a generation elapsed, all three "British" racists brought in German and Scandinavian who did not speak English but were "acceptable" Protestants. Note that the newcomers were always from the bottom of the social barrel in Europe: Ignorant illiterate peasants for the most part.

And so it went. Soon there were Eastern and southern Europeans who were "accepted" not because of their dark eyes but because they were cheap laborers for a growing country: Italian Catholics, Orthodox Greeks, and other Hungarians, Yugoslavs, etc... Alongside all those European stock peasant immigrants, "useful" or "exploitable" immigrants were imported from Asia, primarily China, and the Chinese workers built the railroads of America in the middle of the 1800s. When the railroads were completed, the Americans (all of whom were still immigrants themselves, barely a generation down) now began hating Chinese immigrants, which culminated in the Chinese Exclusion Acts of 1882. Even the Canadian English crooks themselves enacted their own Chinese Exclusion Act in 1923.

The history of immigration into north America is nothing but a sad play of abusing, exploiting, then casting away those immigrants who were not white, anglo-saxon and protestant. The pecking order was thus established long ago from the birth of the country, some of which was a history of expansionist warmongering against Spanish-held territories in Central and South America next door and Mexico in particular. The entire southern third strip of the US has Spanish and Mexican ascendancy, and is a fertile cesspool of hatred and xenophobia against Latin Americans, Hispanics and Latinos.

Some time around the middle of the 20th century, the US was now the superpower bar none, and it needed to grow. The peasant, rural-based majority of Americans were as dumb as the jackasses they rode on their farms. They could not shoulder the requirements for scientific and technological know-how.

The vast majority of technological achievements in the US were indeed accomplished by immigrants who, by that time, gradually ceased to be of peasant stocks. The US had enough ignorant illiterate peasants and farmers, and lacked homegrown smart, educated, scientifically-literate people. Such immigrants were therefore "accepted" beginning in the 1940s and onward, and they included Jews fleeing Nazi Europe (and even then, the inborn antisemitism of the American Protestant Nazi-loving peasant base turned away large numbers of them, keeping only those who were worth exploiting). They also included scientists, physicians and engineers from India, Japan, China and many other developing nations with a strong educational foundation but with limited employment and growth horizons: The complementarity was ideal.

This modern crop of immigrants were no longer "filthy, wretched, tempest-tost": They could fly to the US, they did not board infested ships for a long journey across the Atlantic or the Pacific. And this us the moment where we are. Having used and exploited them to develop this country's scientific, medical, engineering and technological competences, by dangling illusory concepts like the American Dream before the world's eyes, it was time to turn on them and on their descendants. Trump's racist white European peasant base - the so-called MAGA morons - have embarked on a campaign of denigration and xenophobia against these immigrants who actually did make America great.

The tide has now turned, once again, against this recent crop of American immigrants. Just like the Chinese Exclusion Act and the internment of Italians, Japanese and Germans during WWII and other refined "hatred" methods of long-standing English and European racism and colonialism, the MAGA morons and their miserable leader Donald Dumb have now began the process of "denaturalizing" those "other" immigrants who don't look like them, i.e. strip them of their US citizenship by inventing pretexts and justifications.

Nothing has changed during the 250 years of this country's history. The racist pecking order is still in place, but now it is no longer by old-stock peasant immigrants against recent-stock peasant immigrants. Now it is by "urbanized-but-still-ignorant" American peasants against sophisticated, highly educated scientists, engineers, doctors, professors and other culturally superior human beings. No wonder the tradition in American society is to denigrate intellectuals (pejoratively mocked as nerds) and worship brainless athletes.

But I am confident that the next wave of technological development, e.g. artificial intelligence, space exploration, medical genomics, etc. will force the "not-so-native" barbarians to once again welcome another crop of foreign immigrants: Just go to Silicon Valley and find out by yourself WHO the people building this future for America are. They'll be coming in spite of the decaying brain of Donald Dumb. 

The more things change (in the world), the more they stay the same (for the peasant MAGA morons of America).

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Republicans test a new red line: Denaturalization
David Weigel
Tue, July 1, 2025


The News

The Trump administration opened the door on Monday to formally examining Zohran Mamdani’s US citizenship — part of a growing effort to target the immigration status of a wide range of individuals.

Democrats rallied behind the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor over the weekend, after Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles urged the Trump administration to consider revoking Mamdani’s citizenship. That intraparty support for Mamdani, who has been a naturalized citizen since 2018, grew after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about the idea and didn’t say no.

“I have not seen those claims, but surely if they are true, it’s something that should be investigated,” Leavitt told reporters on Monday, referring to Ogles’ claim that the Uganda-born Mamdani might have concealed his support for “terrorism” in his application for citizenship.

A spokesperson for the Department of Justice confirmed that it had received Ogles’ letter, but did not comment further.

“Trump will stop at nothing to protect billionaires and price gouging corporations, even racist bullsh*t like this,” wrote Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy on Bluesky. New York Rep. Ritchie Torres, a Mamdani critic, called the Ogles effort “unAmerican.”

The Ogles letter didn’t come from nowhere. By the time he sent it, the administration was already expanding efforts to denaturalize immigrants. That effort, in a June 11 memo first reported by The Associated Press, focuses on immigrants accused of crimes, though those can range from terrorism to “concealment of material information” when seeking citizenship.

In addition, on Monday, the administration announced that it had revoked a visa for the members of Bob Vylan, a British hip-hop duo, after they led a chant of “death to the IDF” at a UK music festival.

“We’re trying to eradicate and stop antisemitism,” DOJ civil rights division attorney Leo Terrell explained on Fox News. “Getting a visa is a privilege, and that man is a person who wants to incite violence.”

Know More

The idea of threatening the immigration status of people not born in America has grown increasingly prominent since Trump retook the White House.

After former Department of Government Efficiency leader Elon Musk exited the administration, the right-wing populist Steve Bannon called for “a formal investigation of his immigration status.” Some Democrats, too, asked whether the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, who first lived in America on a student visa, was a true citizen.

“Mr. Musk has [been] here just 22 years, and he’s a citizen of three countries,” Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, said at an anti-DOGE press conference. “With the damage he’s doing here when push comes to shove, which country is he loyal to? South Africa, Canada, or the United States?”

But Democrats couldn’t act on those questions, and the administration could. Since January, the State Department has revoked hundreds of student visas from noncitizens, some because of their criticism of the US’ foreign policy and its support for Israel.

That effort started with the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder who had helped organize Gaza war protests at Columbia University.

“No one has a right to a student visa,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained after Khalil was taken into custody. “No one has a right to a green card.”

Fully-fledged citizens like Mamdani have not been immune from this scrutiny.

Mamdani had rallied outside the courthouse when Khalil was detained, and shared a stage with him on Saturday. Suddenly, critics who supported the Ogles effort to denaturalize him were scouring his tweets and public statements for potential fodder to link him to activities that DOJ could scrutinize — from rap lyrics highlighted by Ogles, to the democratic socialist’s praise for a Communist Party mayoral candidate in India.

“Denaturalization of U.S. citizens is part of the Trump playbook to attack all legal immigration,” said Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal, an immigrant from India who was naturalized in 2000. “It is completely outrageous and flies in the face of the laws of this country.”

The View From Andy Ogles

Ogles, a second-term legislator elected after Republican redistricting created a safe GOP seat in Nashville, has made more news than laws.

Last year, Ogles proposed legislation that would have automatically revoked the student visas of foreign students protesting Israel’s war in Gaza. In January, he proposed a constitutional amendment that would have allowed Donald Trump, but not Barack Obama or Bill Clinton, to seek a third term.

One week later, the DOJ dropped a campaign finance investigation into the reelected congressman.

Ogles’ June 26 letter to DOJ about Mamdani did not require anything of Congress. In it, he suggested that the agency should investigate Mamdani over a 2017 rap song lyric praising five men convicted of funneling money to Hamas (“My love to the Holy Land Five”), and it should probe whether he “engaged in non-public forms of support” that should have been disclosed in his citizenship application.

Ogles and his supporters have looked for other ways to challenge Mamdani’s citizenship. In a Newsmax interview, Ogles suggested that Mamdani’s membership in the Democratic Socialists of America “would have disqualified him,” because DSA was “a communist organization.” If the effort failed, he said, it was still worth trying.

“Even if we can’t prove or dot the Is and cross the Ts and get this guy on this, it creates the template for these other individuals who’ve come to this country,” said Ogles to Newsmax. “They’re sleeper cells. They want to undermine our way of life.”

The View From The Democratic Socialists of America

“We stand with Zohran and against the xenophobia and Islamophobia of Representative Ogles and the MAGA movement,′ said Ashik Siddique, the co-chair of DSA’s national political committee. Some communist organizations, which the candidate doesn’t belong to, had been critical of Mamdani. DSA, which he does belong to, has defended him.

“Representative Ogles is trying to do to Zohran what the authoritarian Trump administration has done across the country, from activists for Palestine like Mahmoud Khalil in New York, to migrants in Los Angeles,” said Siddique. “Only democratic socialism can stop this rising fascism, and we call on all Americans to reject this hatred and division. Zohran’s campaign shows a politics of hope and inclusivity can beat a politics of fear, and that’s just what we’ll do. 

Many Democrats, inside and outside of New York, are still wrestling with how to talk about Mamdani, because few endorse all of his views and statements. The Ogles letter made it a little easier for them. The party is opposed to deporting or denaturalizing people who are living legally in America over their political opinions.

But Republicans are increasingly comfortable endorsing that. In February, Texas Rep. Brandon Gill told donors in a fundraising email that “the time has come to arrest and deport” Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, a refugee from Somalia who attained US citizenship 25 years ago. Democrats didn’t take any real steps toward denaturalizing Musk, but when they questioned his loyalty, Republicans noticed: Asking if an immigrant truly had a right to be here was now, technically, bipartisan.

Since joining the House two years ago, Ogles has passed just one bill, the Liberty in Laundry Act, which did not make it through the Senate. But majorities of Congress don’t need to agree with what Ogles is asking now. The DOJ could probe Mamdani’s citizenship application on its own. If it declines to, it would suggest an outer limit on who could be targeted for denaturalization — i.e., that the administration would not essentially void an election by revoking a candidate’s citizenship.

If the DOJ does probe Mamdani, it would be applying to him the scrutiny and standards already being felt by noncitizens seeking visas, as it increasingly vets them for criticism of Israel or support for socialism. I’ve seen some armchair sleuths asking for the administration to involve the Communist Control Act to get rid of Mamdani, even though courts have found that Cold War-era law is non-justiciable. But the theme of Trump’s second term is that when experts say a given action is unconstitutional, or won’t work, or would backfire, the White House tries it anyway.

Notable

In a Sunday interview with , Mamdani responded to Ogles and Republicans who had warned New York not to elect a Muslim mayor. “It’s been difficult to have to deal with the regular and repeated smears and slander upon my name and on the very basis of my faith.”

After Khalil’s detention, Matthew Hennessey wrote a Wall Street Journal column arguing for some noncitizens to be deported if they came to “mess with” Americans. “The hard reality is that not all immigrants are strivers, and not all are happy to be here,” he wrote. “A fair number are downright bastards looking to hurt their adopted country.”

Signs that President Joseph Aoun is not up to the Job

In Lebanon, problems have a very long half-life or shelf-life. Once it is created, the problem lasts for generations and never finds a solution.

On the evening local Lebanese newscasts, the news is always the same, day after day. Nothing gets ever decided within a reasonable time frame. Why? Because the Lebanese have no agency of their own. They can't or won't do what they're supposed to do. They wait for others (Americans, Syrians, French, Saudis, Israelis, etc... ) to tell them what to do or do it for them. Lebanon is a country but it is not a nation. And because it is not a nation, the state is impotent in the face of the multitude of problems that have accumulated for decades without a solution. Short-term fixes are often improvised in the aftermath of major wars or disasters.

As a state, Lebanon is a country of beggars. Instead of getting their act together, marshalling a bit of self-directed austerity, and rebuilding their country on their own (which takes time but keeps the country's dignity intact and maintains the autonomy of decision-making), the Lebanese have become addicted to mendacity. Getting free money from outside donors is like a drug, but now that the "dealers" (French, Americans, Saudis, Qataris, etc.) have finally put conditions before handing out their money to the Lebanese, the latter are going through painful withdrawal symptoms.

If he is smart - which doesn't seem to be the case so far - President Joseph Aoun should implement many "affordable" measures that do not need outside money to improve the daily lives of the Lebanese people. The average Lebanese is obviously concerned by the terrorist organization Hezbollah's insistence on keeping its illegal weapons, but this is an issue that is far beyond the reach of your average Lebanese citizen. There is not much that the ordinary Lebanese can do about it, other than hope that the government will somehow eventually address it. On the other hand, The average Lebanese is more concerned with being the victim of extortion, racketeering and other crimes perpetrated every day by the numerous Mafias operated by the political class: Water, electricity, roads, traffic, pollution, garbage, transportation, etc...

For those who may not know, there are two levels of government in Lebanon. One is the official government-state which is is appointed or designated by a tribal and religious assortment of groups that specialize in multiple ways of distorting democracy. They collectively refer to their distorted democracy as "consensual" democracy; I prefer to call it, "citizen sodomization democracy". The government-state makes grandiose laws but never implements them because it is too weak to enforce its own laws. 

After an initial optimism buoyed by a thundering swearing-in speech by the former "strong" army commander Joseph Aoun, the Lebanese have now come to conclude that Mr. Aoun is just like his predecessor Michel Aoun: He sits in the "Chair" in the Baabda presidnetial palace, looks blessed, says the right things, but does nothing. Literally nothing on critical matters. He has lots of talks, discussions, and negotiations, he attends social events to give the impression that he is a modern president in touch with his people...  but no results ever permeate to life on the ground. 

The second level of government is the "black market" government. It is a grassroots movement of violent criminals and highway robbers who self-organize and syndicate at their own very local level in every town, district and province, and whose objective is to undermine the central government's ability to provide basic services with the specific intent of replacing the government with their own black-market services, generally with the approval and collusion of corrupt "citizen-sodomizing" government officials.

This applies to all life in Lebanon innearly every sector: water, electricity, education (private vs public),  health, transportation, etc.

Let me explain with the example of the water problem. Lebanon is a huge mountain chain which benefits from very significant torrential rains and snow covers during the winter season. Lebanon could easily be selling water to countries around it, but corruption, laziness and incompetence take precedence. Water distribution should be a very easy task, given the small size of the country and the multitude of ravines, creeks, rivers, and streams that flow down from the mountain tops down to the Mediterranean. 

Following the French mandate (1920s-1930s), which built the water distribution infrastructure during the golden years (1940s-1960s), native inborn corruption and incompetence, now freed from French oversight, took over: It gradually replaced the French administration's management and things went downhill from there. Then the Arabs launched their war against Lebanon (1970s-1980s) using the Palestinian guerillas as their local militia fighting the Lebanese army. But still, none of these factors are the main problem. 

The main problem is that the Lebanese genome has a multiplicity of deleterious corruption Mafia-like genes in its DNA. The Mafias in power - political parties, religious orders, sectarian movements, etc. - do not want to relinquish the power they have over their own little herds. Instead of assisting the central government in properly administering its basic services, these "black market" local governnments deliberately sabotage and undermine the central government's capabilities, then convince their herds of the need to create parallel systems to compensate for the failures of the central government.  

In the case of water, the government's grid exists. It is deteriorating for sure and is probably only 25% operational. In any average household that pays its exorbitant annual water bill of several hundred US dollars a year, government water reaches the household's water container about once or twice a week, delivering much less water than was paid for, in an unscheduled, unpredictable, haphazard paltry rivulet that lasts about 2 hours each time. The water reservoir-tank of the house slowly dwindles down as the days go by. 

Many households have designed systems to convey rain water from the roofs to the house tank. This helps a bit and people get by during the abundant winter rains  But beginning in May and through October, it never rains in Lebanon during a long and dry summer season. In good years, the snow caps on the mountaintops slowly melt during spring and summer and help alleviate the summer drought.  There literally are thousands of springs and fountains that dot the landscape in every village and town acorss the country. But the derelict "citizen sodomization" system doesn't know how, or doesn't want to, organize itself and save this water for the summer. 

The dereliction, as it were, is not just incompentence. It is a deliberate collusion between the local bosses (political parties chiefs, tribal and feudal leaders, religious leaders....) and the government officials in charge of water distribution. Here is how it works:

Even when there is plenty of snown on the mountaintops, the local bosses tell their colluding government water distribution officials to cut off or ration the water distribution to the households, thus creating a surge in demand by the households. The bosses then organize their own local Mafia criminal gangs into water delivery trucks that are filled in secret from special government outlets or from wells dug deep in the ground. Thirsty households have no choice but to call on those trucks to fill their water tanks at exorbitant cost (five times more expensive than government-provided water) and without any control over the quality of the water delivered. 

The Mafia's water trucks deliver non-potable water for household usage. For drinking water, one has two options: Either hire yet another colluding water delivery company that delivers 20-liter jugs also at exorbitant cost, or drive to one of several springs around and fill your own containers. Spring water is generally good and healthy, as long as there are no houses built upstream with their cesspools marinating the underground water table. The higher the spring up the mountainsides, the safer its water is. But the water Mafia is also excellent in marketing: It propagates the rumors that spring water is all contaminated with sewage and garbage, and buying water from them is safer. The drinking water delivered in 20-Liter jugs often comes from tap water or well water that is then filtered. But you'll rarely see a report detailing the quality or the level of impurities or contaminants in the water.

Then imagine all the pollution generated by hundreds if not thousands of trucks and cars carrying water around every day, especially that trucks in Lebanon often run on filthy disgusting diesel oil or mazout and you can see them all over the place spewing their thick carcinogenic black smoke from their exhaust pipes. 

Along the coastline, it's gotten so bad because so many wells have been dug up that seawater is seeping in and citizens in Beirut are increasingly reporting that the little bit of non-potable water they get from government taps is now salty across several areas of Beirut.  

Bottom line: Citizens pay three water bills: 1- The government water bill which promises 100% but gives you 20%. 2- The bill from the Mafia water trucks for non-potable water. An average household of 4 people with a 40,000-liter tank have to have 20,000 liters delivered every week during the long five months of summer at the cost of $100 per truck, and 3- The bill from the potable water delivery outfits. 

This is just the case of water. In education, private religious schools do their best to undermine, de-staff, de-fund public schools and give them a bad reputation among the "faithful" Lebanese people who trust the religious orders because of "faith". As a result, the public school and university system is impoverished and not as performing. The government is constantly pressured by the religious school Mafia to shunt funds aways from failing public schools and give them instead to the private religious schools who already make lots of money from exorbitant tuition and fees.

How do the Lebanese cope?  Salaries are not sufficient (minimum salary is about $300 a month) and cannot cover the double or triple billing for every basic service. The answer is that every family in Lebanon has seen relatives fleeing the wars orchestrated by the political party bosses and settling in the far corners of the planet. These overseas expat relatives send money to their families who use that money to survive the blackmail and extortion by the colluding government and its local Mafias. In other words, the expatriate Lebanese - in the Arabian Gulf region, Europe, Australia, Africa and the Americas - are funding the entire system of corruption and theft in Lebanon.

In transportation, thousands of filthy, disgusting, dirty, private vans and taxis roam the country on diesel fuel, polluting roads and the environment. They stop anywhere they want to pick up passengers, and they also drive slowly to "harvest" riders, thus obstructing traffic on Lebanon's tiny one-lane roads. There are no bus stations like in civilized countries, so you hail a bus like you hail a taxi. Most bus riders are from the ranks of the poorest countries on earth: an army of some three hundred thousand foreign workers, maids, garbage collectors, and menial job occupiers. The Lebanese themselves are an arrogant bunch with a predilection for ostentation and show off and would rather be seen dead than riding a bus. The Lebanese, again on money fro their expat relatives, buy up on credit the fanciest cars there are: large gas-guzzling SUVs that are not suitable for the miniature roads of the country. They also drive like dangerous maniacs as there is no traffic code (or there is but no one abides by it) and the roads are rarely marked with street names, traffic signs or lanes (except in snotty rich towns or where foreign embassy staff live). A couple of years ago, the government tried to revive its own public transportation buses thanks to a gift of some one hundred new buses from France: The private transportation Mafia sent an army of its goons who vandalized and destroyed the new buses. The government gave up. 

In the sector of electricity, the same dual or triple billing goes on: One bill to the government's electric company which charges huge fees but delivers only two hours of power a day, another bill goes to the local "Generator Mafia" which provides power at triple the megawatt unit price. There are no schedules for people to organize their lives around. Generators and Government power go on and off at haphazard times. In some instances, the government power shuts down on a tip from the generator mafiosi during holidays and during peak hours, with the result of fattening the generators' bill.

Back to Buddha-Joe sitting in Baabda. Non-violence is fine. Blessed-in-heaven looks and smiles are great. But as a former Army commander, Joseph Aoun should be doing more than endlessly negotiating with Hezbollah over the latter's surrender of its weapons. Aoun should be doing things that affect the Lebanese in their daily lives. He should address all the basic services criminality that has been endemic in the country since 1975. If the Lebanese start seeing their roads clean, the dangerous maniac drive thugs arrested and fined, their water supply more reliable, the government electricity altogether eliminating the generator mafias.... then perhaps there will be hope.

But for now,  Joe Aoun, now in his ninth month on the job appears to be a clone of his predecessors: A do-nothing president afraid of upsetting the warlords, the bosses, and the Mafia criminals and biding his time until his term ends without a major crisis, which is a hopeless goal. The country has been saltating from one crisis to another for nearly 50 years without a single crisis ever meeting a definitive solution. Like his predecessors, Joseph Aoun's do-nothing administration will come up with short term band-aid fixes. 

Finally, to his credit, Joseph Aoun has two American guns pointing at each side of his head: On one side, the gun that tells him he has to wage a civil war with Hezbollah, otherwise no foreign aid is forthcoming to rebuild the country, and on the other side another American gun that tells him if he doesn't wage a civil war to disarm Hezbollah, then America's Jewish militia south of the border will be happy to complete the job but with the cost of stealing the land south of the Litani River. 

I do not blame him for his paralysis. It's a tough nut to crack. But if he doesn't want either scenarios - and there are no others - he should resign and let things take their course. A country that has been unable to govern itself for more than 50 years should not be allowed to persist: Euthanasia is preferable. It's the humane thing to do.

Another US-Born White American Teacher Caught Perverting her Minor Students

There's been a recent slew of cases of US-born white female American teachers perverting students in their care by having sexual relationships with them. 

With Donald Trump at the helm, his "base", i.e. the American white herd of backwoods morons, feel that they are better than other "races" and that they can, like Trump himself, engage in illicit and unlawful conduct and get away with it. They hold to the belief that they are as white as God and that all those other "darker" migrants and immigrants are criminals who are causing all the problems in the US.

All of this degradation in the ethics and moral norms of whites in America has followed the advent of criminal felons into positions of power in the country, mainly from Donald Trump's own life as a womanizer and prostitute client, groping and sexually harassing women, buddying up with famous sexual criminals like Jeffrey Epstein who organized sex events with minors, conducting his failed businesses like a member of the mob, threatening and suing those who stand in his way, and ultimately becoming a depraved politician who tried to subvert the elections of 2020 and mount an insurrection against the Congress. Then, thanks to high-powered attorneys and lots of money, he terrorized the judiciary and managed to get away unscathed from the hands of justice and even become president of this miserable country. 

When the young people of this country, especially the dumb peasants out in the sticks, look up to their leaders, they see criminals, womanizers, drunkards, billionaires, tax cheaters and other role models. It doesn't take much for them to think, "if Donald Trump can get away with a life of crime and become president, then I should also get away with ignominious crimes. I am white after all, like him, and the system will work for me, not against me."

You may want to read, [ https://www.yahoo.com/news/mystery-surrounds-jeffrey-epstein-files-112131388.html ] for more depravation by the wealthy GOP-MAGA republicans of this country. 

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White Female Michigan teacher, 26, sexually perverts her 16-year-old student.

Jocelyn Sanroman, 26, was a teacher at a Michigan charter school when she had a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student and went bragging about it to a colleague. She has been charged with third-degree unlawuful sexual conduct.

The alleged sexual relationship happened in 2023 when Sanroman was a teacher at Oakside Prep Academy, a charter school in Waterford Township, located about 30 miles from downtown Detroit.

Sanroman has yet to be arraigned, but her mugshot was posted by Oakland County police.

Sanroman told another teacher about her sexual relationship with the teenage boy, and that teacher reported her to police, prosecutors said.

"This defendant is accused of using her position of authority to exploit a minor victim," Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said. "As a former teacher myself, I applaud the teacher who contacted police about this situation, protecting other students from further exploitation."

McDonald said a 16-year-old can consent, but that is not the same when the relationship is with a teacher. "It's because we need to make school the safest place it can be for kids, right? Safe from gun violence, safe from assault, safe from sexual assault," McDonald said. "School is supposed to be some place where your kids feel safe." 

But how can schools be safe when there are more guns in this country than there are people. School shootings and other mass shootings are a daily occurrence and Americans have been brainwashed and sedated with the idea that owning a gun is a patriotic duty, like shopping. There are approximately 512 million firearms produced for the U.S. market since 1899, with estimates suggesting that there are more guns than people in the country. This translates to about 120.5 firearms for every 100 residents in the U.S. And these guns are manufactured, promoted and sold exclusively by US-born, pro-Trump, MAGA white businesses and organizations like the National Rifle Association (NRA).

If convicted, Sanroman could face up to 15 years in prison. School officials said the sexual abuse of students is troubling. "We strive to provide a safe and supportive learning environment for the students entrusted to our care. Their safety and well-being remains our top priority," the school said in a statement.

Oakside Prep Academy is part of the National Heritage Academies system, which boasts of its "Moral Focus" lessons that help students "discern and appreciate the difference between right and wrong," the school’s website said. Perhaps the moral compass has been distorted by a country led by a criminal felon like Donald Dumb with the support of people in states like Michigan.

 

Trump Begins Stripping Naturalized Americans - including Elon Musk - of their Citizenship

... because they're either not white enough or they do not comply with his totalitarian regime.

The bimboesque dumb blonde White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said yesterday that the her Daddy's Donald Dumb administration will be "investigating" the Democrat nominee for New York  City mayor Zohran Mamdani with the objective of stripping him of his US citizenship. The original idea came from the inbred white republican moron from the backward slavery state of Tennessee. Apparently, Mamdani is too "brown-skinned" and a "socialist". OMG, a socialist? In America? And another brownie in a position of government? Both those features are mortal sins for the racist, extremist capitalists of the conservative neanderthals of these United States of America. 

A Justice Department memo from June 11 tells prosecutors of the DOJ’s Civil Division to prioritize the denaturalization of various naturalized citizens over alleged infractions ranging from war crimes to “material misrepresentations” (i.e. lies or flasehoods) in their citizenship applications.

During his failed first term which he ended by a seditious insurrection against the US government, Donald Dumb Trump expanded the existing denaturalization policies. Now the criminal Moron-in-Chief is calling for the use of "civil", rather than "criminal", litigation because the burden of proof in civil cases is less stringent, the individual does not need to have an attorney defending him or her, and it is far easier and faster to reach a conclusion in these cases. Stripping Americans of citizenship through civil litigation violates due process and infringes on the rights guaranteed by the 14th Amendment.

Following last week's ruling by the extremist conservative Supreme Court in the birthright citizenship case — which denies the ability of lower courts to stop the executive branch from imposing illegal or unconstitutional policies - pursuing policies of disputed legality — it’s highly likely that the radical hardline Trump administration will begin to target more Americans. If an American disputes the  denaturalization process he/she is subject to, no lower court can put a hold on any arbitrary, illegal or unconstitutional decision by the Trump Administration's Department of Justice. 

As to what conduct might warrant denaturalization against a citizen, the DOJ memo lists a number of soc-alled "transgressions", including the standard acccusations of torture and human trafficking, but now include "illegally procured" naturalization by "concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation" and the really disturbingly vague umbrella charge of posing "a potential danger to national security." The latter type of charges and accusations is commonly used by dictators and tyrants who wish to get rid of their political opponents.

For example, Elon Musk could very well be an easy target for denaturalization by the DOJ because he lied on his application for citizenship: He cheated his way into the US by entering on a student visa, but then did not attend university and went to work illegally.

Given that Trump has labeled critics as the “enemy within,” has falsely framed peaceful demonstrators as accomplices to terrorism and has declared his ambition to deport American citizens to foreign prisons, the potential for abuse here seems incredibly high.

The next Democrat Mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, is a naturalized US citizen. Trump could very well invent some made-up charge to try and strip him of his US citizenship. Mamdani represents everything that Trump is not: He's an immigrant, he is brown-skinned, of Indian descent, he is a Democrat, and given his charisma as an articulate well-spoken energetic young man who is determined to bring some sanity back to the debilitated US institutions.

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Trump says he will ‘take a look’ at deporting Musk as feud reaches new height
Andrew Feinberg
Tue, July 1, 2025

President Donald Trump has suggested that the country’s immigration enforcement apparatus could be turned against now-former ally Elon Musk after the Tesla executive renewed criticism of the tax and spending megabill on which the president has bet his legislative agenda.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday as he departed the White House to visit an immigration detention facility in Florida, the president was asked if Musk, a naturalized American citizen who originally hails from South Africa, could be deported in retaliation for his attacks on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act under debate in the Senate.

“I don’t know,” he replied. “We’ll have to take a look.”

The president added that the administration might turn the quasi-agency once run by Musk, the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, on his ex-friend.

“We might have to put DOGE on Elon,” he said. “You know what DOGE is? DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon.”

Musk spent the first few months of the president’s second term as an unpaid special government employee leading what was initially described as a cost-cutting effort that spiraled into operating more as a roving band of ideological enforcers who at one point fed the country’s entire foreign aid apparatus — the U.S. Agency for International Development — into what Musk called a “wood chipper” in a span of days.

DOGE’s efforts led to the agency largely shutting down, and Musk left the White House in May after being denied a request to remain in that unpaid status for longer.

Since returning to the private sector, Musk has become a vocal critic of the partisan spending package Trump has touted as a vehicle to fund his anti-immigrant agenda and other GOP priorities without making use of the regular appropriations process that would ordinarily require buy-in from Democrats, particularly in the Senate.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has been lashing out on X, the social media platform he owns, to amplify critics of the massive spending bill and threaten to support electoral challenges against lawmakers who vote for the legislation on account of the bill’s negative impact on America’s national debt.

Trump has claimed that Musk’s opposition to the bill is driven solely by pique over the administration’s efforts to eliminate tax incentives intended to promote sales of electric vehicles such as the ones sold by Tesla.

Echoing a post on Truth Social in which he claimed Musk receives “more subsidy than any human being in history” and suggested that the centibillionaire “would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa” without federal support, Trump repeated his claim that Musk is motivated by his own financial needs rather than concerns about debt and threatened once more to punish his former ally financially.

“He's upset ... that he's losing his EV mandate ... he's very upset about things,” Trump said. “But you know, he could lose a lot more than that. I should tell you, right? Elon can lose a lot more than that,” he said.

Mamdani is no Scary Socialist: He's a Common Sense Middle-of-the-road American

Little does the brainwashed average American know that all the western allies of the US have some sort of socialist governments. Even the US under Trump is technically a socialist country that tries to distribute wealth with fiscal and other policies and uses subsidies to protect its economy.

The average American doesn't understand the basics of political economics. He believes all the crap he is fed by Fox News and the MAGA-GOP consortium: They have him so scared of socialism that he prefers to be bamboozled by all the insurance companies and other corporations that run his life and that often stand between him and the state's services. Americans have become chronic Stockholm Syndrome victims who love their kidnappers and those who hold them hostage.

Americans spend much of their lives counting, calculating, computing...every little petty detail of their lives. Every year, they have to read voluminous updates to their insurance companies' policies in which the company makes changes to its coverage, often in fine print that no one reads. Based on all the fabulations around the "American Dream", Americans should be the happiest people on earth. But the US ranked 24th in 2025, its lowest ever. They are not a happy bunch. In contrast, people in top-ranking happy countries like Norway, Denmark, Germany, Finland and other European countries live under "socialist" governments and are the happiest people on earth. 

Unlike Americans, they do not enjoy being raped by government-backed private corporations. They have everything they need. They have no fear. They make their own governments, unlike in America where giant corporations and a few billionaires make the government.

Nikos Kazantsakis once said, "I hope for nothing, I fear nothing, I am free". Americans are not really free: they hope for a lot of stuff and they fear a lot of things. They are made to believe they are free, but they live in constant fear, not of migrants and immigrants like Trump wants them to believe, but of their own government's rapacious vultures and sharks that haunt their lives from the day they're born to the day they die. Someone once said that in America people are always afraid of the police, in contrast to some of the "socialist" European countries where the police are afraid of the people. 
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Mamdani's plan for NY City is to tax billionaires


New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani explains his plan to tax richer neighborhoods. Right-wing pundits claim this is a racist move because the wealthiest neighborhoods in New York are also the whitest.

The democratic candidate said Sunday that his push to burden excessively wealthy taxpayers was not racist. "That is just a description of what we see right now," Mamdani told NBC’s "Meet the Press" on Sunday. It’s not driven by race. It’s more of an assessment of what neighborhoods are being undertaxed and which are overtaxed.

Mamdani’s policy proposal, "Stop the Squeeze on NYC Homeowners," outlines his plans to "shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer neighborhoods."

The policy notes that homeowners in wealthy neighborhoods "pay less than their fair share," and proposes adjusting tax rates and assessment percentages to address the obvious imbalance.


Zohran Mamdani is planning to adjust tax rates and assement percentages among NYC homeowners.

When asked whether he would change the language of the proposal, Mamdani said that the proposal is meant to ensure a fair property tax system and that the wording simply reflects an observation.

"The use of that language is just an assessment of the neighborhood," Mamdani said.

"I’m just naming things as they are," he added. "The thing that motivates me in this is to create a system of fairness. It is not to work backwards from a racial assessment of neighborhoods or our city."

Mamdani also reiterated his belief that "we shouldn’t have billionaires," despite campaigning in the city believed to have the most billionaires in the world at 123 people.

"I don’t think that we should have billionaires, frankly," he said. "It is so much money in a moment of such inequality. And ultimately, what we need more of is equality across our city and across our state and across our country."