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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Conservative Columnist: Trump Republicans want to Kill your Kids

FOX NEWS

Washington Post columnist says 'Republicans want to kill your kids:' 'It's actually true'
Joseph Wulfsohn
Wed, November 20, 2024

Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin is urging Democrats to change their messaging to say that "Republicans want to kill your kids."

On Tuesday's installment of her "Jen Rubin's Green Room" podcast, Rubin insisted Senate Republicans who acquiesce to President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet nominees must pay a "political price."

"The people who irresponsibly put dangerous, treasonous, unfit people in positions of authority are responsible not only for those people, but for all the horrors that will unfold," she said. "And Democrats better get started now tracking these people, holding these people accountable and making clear to ordinary voters who voted for what and who’s responsible for what.

In order to do that, Rubin advised, "You can't talk broad themes. You have to boil it down to nuts and bolts, and you have to be pithy. What do I mean by pithy? How about this: Republicans want to kill your kids. It's actually true."


Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin urged Democrats to alter their messaging to something "pithy" like "Republicans want to kill your kids."

"If you're gonna oppose vaccinations, if you're gonna stop breakthrough medical research, if you're gonna allow minors and all sorts of people to get semi-automatic weapons, which they use to shoot up schools, well, then you are responsible for kids' health and death, unfortunately. It has to be that simple and that direct, and it has to be over, and over, and over again," Rubin continued.

Fox News Digital reached out to Rubin and The Post for comment.

Rubin, a former conservative writer who has infamously been advocating on behalf of Democrats in the Trump era, has been outspoken this week about her outrage towards MSNBC's "Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, calling it "disgusting" on social media. Rubin is notably an MSNBC contributor.

She even fueled a growing boycott of her network colleagues.

"The market works great. You can stop watching Morning Joe anytime," Rubin wrote on social media Monday evening.

She then followed, "On MJ: If you don't appreciate the audience you have, betray that audience and lose their trust you are [going] to lose lots of them. I have seen this movie."

MSNBC contributor Jennifer Rubin encouraged her social media followers to boycott her colleagues Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough over their recent meeting with President-elect Donald Trump.

Rubin even had some harsh words for billionaire Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos after he halted the paper's endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris just days before the election, blasting his "bulls--- explanation."

"First of all, I do not believe the reason stated. I don't believe they have suddenly decided – he has suddenly decided that we should endorse everybody except presidential candidates, and that of all the elections, this is the one to start with this new policy," Rubin said on her podcast in October. "We endorsed a presidential candidate in 2020 no problem. And I perceive this, and even if it's not intended, it is inevitably perceived as bending the knee to Donald Trump at the worst possible moment when democracy is on the line."

"You have a billionaire who has a business aside from The Post that does business with the federal government deciding not to run afoul of a man who has declared war on democracy and on the free press, and I still find it absolutely inconceivable that someone who owns a newspaper would do this," Rubin continued."

Rubin called out billionaire Washington Post Jeff Bezos over his "bulls--- explanation" for why he halted the paper's endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.

"I am equally troubled by the fact that the reason given was not candid, was not accurate. Why mess around if you say, 'Hey, I'm a businessman. I don't want to endorse anyone because I don't want to affect those businesses.' Yeah, everyone will be aghast, but at least you'd be honest. At least you'd be taking responsibility," Rubin added.

"When a newspaper is forced to advance a bulls--- explanation, how much more damage does that do to The Washington Post? But the problem goes well beyond Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post, it goes beyond the LA Times. It goes beyond USA Today. This is a matter of how free societies defend themselves against fascist threats."

 

Enjoy the Show of Donald Dumb and His Frat Boys Hit Rock Bottom

America-style democracy, as I have always argued here, has a knack for bringing mediocrity to the top. The election of the illiterate convicted felon Donald Dumb was fair and free. The solidity of collective American dumbness proved itself when it voted en masse earlier this month.

Let the chips fall where they may. His picks for cabinet positions are consistent with his past as an ignorant asshole surrounded by lackeys and yes-men and yes-women. With Donald Dumb, it is not competence and qualifications that he looks for in his associates. It is not even loyalty as someone described it that he demands from his sycophants, it is fealty, just like hazing rituals in stupid teenage Greek fraternities across US campuses.

So Democrats should play along and stop developing ulcers over the elections. We must acknowledge that our electorate is a tumorigenic mass of illiterate imbeciles trained and conditioned by decades of Hollywood mind-altering crap of sentimental patriotism based on violence. America does not ask its people to be smart. It doesn't want its people to be smart and educated, because that would liberate them from the chokehold its corporations have on them. It tells people that happiness comes only from money and conformity to the asinine myths invented to tame all the backward peasants of the boonies of Europe, and that they should not rock the boat in which they are captive because that would be "unpatriotic". Americans are brainwashed into thinking that spending their money on things they don't really need is their patriotic duty to drive the economy and make the corporations that run the country wealthier and more powerful. 

Matt Gaetz is unqualified and a sexual predator? Fine, if this is who the American people want for Attorney General. The dumb voters knew that by electing an unqualified sexual predator and a tax cheating adulterer, he will surround himself by like-minded people. Gaetz says he wants to dismantle the FBI and other institutions that make up his favorite boogeyman, the "Deep State", which in fact is the only ensemble of institutions that make the American machine work every day.

Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Idiocy? Great! John Bolton, who is as far right as anyone can be, yet is a smart educated experienced fellow who slammed the door on Trump during the idiot's first term is literally fuming and suffering a nervous breakdown at Trump's choices, mostly TV fools and jesters serving in the court of King Trump. Apparently, with Gabbard, our allies will no longer share intelligence with the U.S. Why? Why would you share "intelligence" with dumb assholes? Other respectable Republican lawmakers, including Adam Kinzinger and Mitt Romney have accused her of spreading Russian propaganda.

Robert Kennedy, Jr., as secretary of Health and Human Services? It should be absolutely hilarious to watch this creep juggle his asinine wormed brain and ideas with a science he doesn't understand. He's got a worm in his brain and a frog in his throat. The man wants American babies to stop getting vaccines because he, the incult maniac, says vaccines cause autism. So my fellow Americans with babies: Would you prefer that your child dies of rabies, tetanus, polio, smallpox, measles, pertussis etc.. as the quack fake healer, modern-day shaman and voodoo priest, the charlatan, snake-oil salesman that RFK, Jr. is wants you to do?

Billionnaire Elon Musk in charge of Government Efficiency? I told you. Americans have been made to believe that rich people are rich because they are smart. The reverse theorem is therefore: If you're not wealthy, then you must be an idiot. But most rich people are wealthy because they either inherit their wealth or they "outsmart" the system with criminal schemes (Trump fits both of these descriptions) or because they exploited dumber Americans into buying stuff they don't need, or buying bad processed food that makes them sick and run to buy drugs made by the large pharmeceutical corporations. Just like Trump, Musk does start businesses that rely heavily on really smart immigrant engineers, technicians and scientists, many of whom likely did not vote for Trump.

In other words, let us sit back, have a drink and watch these imbeciles hit rock bottom as they dismantle everything that actually made America great. It will be fun, despite the sadness of seeing absolute creeps tear down decades of development and improvements of our lives since Roosevelt's New Deal.

The voters will only have themselves to blame when Trump starts toning down all the outlandish promises he made during his campaign. Deport 20 millions? Watch him deport a few thousands only and face the reality that this will cause labor shortages. Make peace in every finch's ass place around the world? Watch him betray our allies to cater to other autocrats and war criminals and unsuccessfully try to force people fighting for their freedom and giving him a giant middle finger. During his first term, he kissed ass to every dictator out there so they lay low and give a false impression of friendly relations. This jackass does not understand the real world. His pathetic marketing skills rely heavily on "perception", something they teach you in cheap business schools. Everything Trump did in his first term was shiny with superficial perception and lacked any susbtance. That is why the dumb half of the country voted for him. In the Near East, his Abrahamic accords have failed because they had no susbtance on dealing with the real issue. He's not smart enough, as John Bolton keeps repeating, he doesn't have the intellect or the knowledge to understand the world, let alone the enemies of his country.

 

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

One More Crime Committed by Non-Immigrant, US-Born American

US-born Americans by far commit more crimes than any migrant or immigrant does. Migrants do form criminal gangs, for sure. But their numbers and their crimes pale in comparison to those of US-born Americans. US history is so rich in American-born gangs, criminals, bank robbers, serial killers, mass shooters that experts and academic researchers assert that immigrants bring civility and civilization to the American jungle of violence.... Isn't the American Mafia, with its legal immigrant Italian, Jewish, and Russian branches the largest criminal gang of the United States still in operation as we speak? Crappy Hollywood even made heroes out of these brabarians.

But Donald Dumb must find an easy target to vomit his poison. He can't attack the Italian Mafia because they are all white christians embedded in New York City, Chicago and Las Vegas who probably know many of his secrets. He can't attack the Jewish Mafia or the Russian Mafia because they're all his buddies operating in fertile criminality territories like Atlantic City and Las Vegas. His ties to the Russian Mafia go very deep in his curriculum vitae. He can only attack defenseless "dark-skinned" destitute immigrants fleeing Latin America because American corporations are fleecing and polluting their countries with ties to Trump-like criminals in Brazil (Jair Bolsonaro), Argentine (Xavier Milei), Chile (José Antonio Kast) and many other right wing autocrats who look up to Donald Dumb as their model.

White America has always done that: Blame the very immigrants that make up the bulk of its own population. Every American, except the native indigenous Amerindians, is an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants. And plesase don't give me the crap about legal vs. illegal immigrant: The mere fact of identifying migrants as the sole threat to America is a cover for deeply rooted white racism that has permeated the life and soul of the American experience.

In fact, Donald Dumb's shills are now promising to go after legal naturalized US citizens.[See: https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6621455900124875850/216747166934413878]

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Arrest made in murder of exotic dancer whose body was found in burning car in Arizona
Tim Stelloh and Brittany Morris
Tue, November 19, 2024

Authorities announced an arrest Monday in the brutal murder of an exotic dancer whose body was discovered in a burning car on an Arizona interstate more than a year ago.

Sencere Hayes, 22, a US-born American citizen was taken into custody Nov. 11 in Tennessee in connection with the killing of Mercedes Vega, 22, April 17, 2023, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

The sheriff’s office and local prosecutors are working to extradite Hayes to Arizona, the statement said, adding that the case remains active and under investigation and that no other information would be released.

It isn't clear what Hayes has been charged with, where he is being held or whether he has a lawyer to speak on his behalf.

Vega’s mother, Erika Pillsbury, said that for 19 months she felt her daughter would never see justice.

“Now I know the person who did this to her is going to pay for it,” Pillsbury said by phone Monday.


The victim Mercedes Vega.

Vega’s body was discovered in the back seat of a Chevy Malibu early April 17 on the shoulder of Interstate 10 near Tonopah, roughly 52 miles west of Phoenix, according to a sheriff’s incident report. Vega, who performed at a Phoenix strip club and had plans to become a personal trainer, had been beaten, shot and burned, according to her autopsy.

Her face appeared to have been doused in bleach, according to a forensic pathologist who reviewed her autopsy for NBC News.

Hours earlier, a security camera in Vega’s apartment complex showed her walking into the garage where she had parked her Dodge Charger, according to video obtained by NBC News. She wasn't heard from again.On April 18, the Charger was found in the middle of a road roughly a mile from Vega's apartment, the sheriff’s office has said. It isn't clear how the vehicle got there. Authorities have declined to comment.

Vega's family has said they found blood on the garage floor near where she parked, prompting them to believe she may have been assaulted and abducted. The sheriff's office has declined to comment.

According to the incident report, the Malibu that Vega's body was found in had a salvage title and had previously been registered to a person who couldn't be reached for comment.

A spokesman for the car's most recent owner, State Farm Insurance, has declined to comment, citing customer privacy policy and "sensitivities surrounding this tragedy."

The 911 caller who reported the car fire saw someone walking around the Malibu, according to the report, which didn't provide additional details about the person.


Trump Wants to "Bleach" America. Legally Naturalized Immigrants May Lose their US Citizenship

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced this week that it has opened a division dedicated to denaturalization - the process of revoking US citizenship from someone who was not born in the country.

More than 20 million US citizens are naturalized, and there has been confusion over how the newly created "Denaturalization Section" could affect foreign-born American citizens.

Stripping citizenship remains a rare occurrence, and the department has emphasised the new team will target serious criminals.

But critics have expressed concerns over the rise in denaturalization cases brought by the Trump administration. According to the Open Society Justice Initiative, the average civil denaturalization filing rate for the last eight presidencies was 12 per year - under President Donald Trump, that has risen to nearly 30 per year.

Should naturalized citizens be worried about the DOJ's denaturalisation efforts?

What will the 'Denaturalization Section' do?

According to the DOJ, the newly minted Denaturalization Section will investigate and argue cases.

The department says the section was created due to an anticipated increase in the number of denaturalization referrals from law enforcement agencies.

The team will target terrorists, war criminals, sex offenders, and "other fraudsters", the DOJ said.

Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt said allowing these criminals to unlawfully remain citizens "is an affront to our system".

The division will target people suspected of unlawfully obtaining citizenship and "ensure that they are held accountable for their fraudulent conduct," Mr Hunt said.

Immigration lawyer Allen Orr told the BBC this was already being handled within the DOJ before. This new section is mostly for optics, in Mr Orr's view.

Is there precedent for this?

Denaturalization certainly precedes the Trump administration.

The US government has revoked citizenship many times from the 20th century onwards for various reasons, according to Patrick Weil, a visiting professor at Yale University Law School.

During World War Two, there was a similar office in the DOJ focused on targeting pro-Nazi or fascist Americans who had naturalized.

Decades later, an office of special investigations was created to investigate Americans who had not disclosed Nazi ties. The office, created in 1979, brought cases against some 150 individuals.

In 2004, that office expanded to include naturalized citizens who participated in genocide or similar crimes anywhere in the world, said Mr Weil.

The actual application for naturalization is 20 pages long, featuring questions about days spent outside the US in the last five years, selling weapons, being a "habitual drunkard", admittance into a mental institution, and associations - indirect or direct - with communists, terrorists and Nazis.

It ends with an oath of allegiance - to "absolutely and entirely renounce" all other national ties.

Should naturalized citizens be concerned?

"The Trump administration will say if you haven't done anything wrong, you shouldn't be afraid," says Mr Orr.

But though the department says it is looking at serious criminals, Mr Orr says there is a lot of room for interpretation. "They expressed they're going to review cases referred to them - referred how and why? Is it random?"

Mr Orr told the BBC he believes the department may be looking more closely at naturalized Americans from Muslim-majority countries, people of colour, and men, even if they have already cleared the process.

He says new technology and the recent digitizing of records could allow for more extensive case review than years prior, and there is no statute of limitations for denaturalization.

How does denaturalization work?

That said, even if the federal government brings more denaturalization cases to court, it does not mean they will go through.

"The courts have been very protective of American citizenship," says Prof Weil.

He points to a Supreme Court decision in June 2017, where the justices unanimously ruled that the government must establish that a crime played a role in the acquisition of citizenship.

As Justice Elena Kagan wrote: "We have never read a statute to strip citizenship from someone who met the legal criteria for acquiring it."

It does not concern crimes committed post-citizenship.

"So, for example, if you lied about your date of birth - that's not going to be a reason to denaturalize you because your date of birth would not have prevented you to be naturalized," Prof Weil says.

What does the focus on denaturalization say about US citizenship?

The move certainly fits within the Trump administration's increased focus on "fixing" the US immigration system.

Prof Weil adds that this announcement seems to be a method of courting voters in an election year, as Mr Trump's base is "charmed that he is acting very strongly against people who shouldn't be 'American'."
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It also brings up the recurring cultural issues around a hierarchy of citizenship: Are naturalized Americans somehow different from born-Americans?

"Are you ever really naturalized?" asks Mr Orr. Most Americans are descendants of immigrants, but naturalized Americans who commit crimes are often linked back to their birthplace, he points out.

"Why is that part of the conversation when it is not one of the parts of the crime?"

"They do it to tell you it's a foreign threat that did this, not a US citizen," Mr Orr says. "It's more divisive language: you never really get to be American."

Anti-Palestinian Hate Crimes by pro-Zionist Americans On the Rise

If you're a Palestinian American or a sympathizer of Palestinian freedom, you now have to live in the shadows, like Jews lived under Nazi Germany. The Nazification of the US is making steady progress, driven particularly by Jewish Americans and Zionist sympathizers.

With the truth of the Palestinian tragedy now fully exposed, and the lies that Zionist propaganda has been peddling for decades now debunked, the Zionists are in such despair that their anger is spontaneoulsy spilling into every day life in the US. Since lies are not enough to keep the average American tamed and domesticated into believing the Zionist genocidal narrative, the pro-Zionists are resorting to petty physical assaults and other uncontrollable urges to do violence. They have lost the "sacrosanctity" they falsely created around themselves and which protected them for so long. =======================================================

Pro-Zionist Illinois woman charged with hate crimes for physically attacking man wearing a Palestine hoodie

An Illinois woman with a suspicious last name has been charged with hate crimes after she attacked a man wearing a Palestine hoodie at a suburban Chicago restaurant over the weekend.

Alexandra Szustakiewicz is charged with two felony counts of a hate crime and misdemeanor disorderly conduct. In court on Monday, a judge granted prosecutors' requests to deny the violent aggressor Szustakiewicz any contact with her innocent victims. She was also ordered to stay away from the restaurant where the incident occurred aon Saturday.

“Szustakiewicz ... confronted and yelled expletives at a man regarding a sweatshirt he was wearing with the word Palestine written on it,” authorities said. It is further alleged that "Szustakiewicz attempted to hit a cell phone out of the hands of a woman who was videotaping the aggression."


Pro-Zionist terrorist Alexandra Szustakiewicz.

Szustakiewicz committed a hate crime by “reason of perceived national origin” of the victims. The prosecutor said, “Every member of society, regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation or any other individual characteristic, deserves to be treated with respect and civility ... This type of behavior and the accompanying prejudice have no place in a civilized society and my office stands ready to file the appropriate charges in such cases." Let us hope that Zionists and their sympathizers learn to respect US laws.

In a video on X, Szustakiewicz is seen lunging at someone holding a phone who is recording the incident, while a man tries to stop her. She then takes at least one swipe at the man, and a beverage she is holding spills to the ground when the man tried to prevent her from getting at the person recording.

Szustakiewicz then began yelling and threatened to call the police, again trying to go after the person recording, while the man asks her repeatedly to stop. Obviously, Zionists do not want to be seen for what they really are: racists and violent.

Szustakiewicz is then seen going up to the cash register and asking an employee to call the police. She then walks back toward the woman holding the camera, and the man steps in between them and pushes the her telling her to "stay away from my wife".

The male victim was identified by his first name, Waseem, and said in the statement: “I’m a born and raised American who took his wife out for lunch. I was not able to do that simply because I was Palestinian.” His wife was also pregnant.

 

Sunday, November 17, 2024

Your Patriotic Duty as American: Become Obese, then Take Ozempic

Forget the much needed immigrant labor and paxpayers. After millions are deported and the US again belongs "to Americans and only to Americans" (according to the racist Stephen Miller, Trump's deputy chief of staff pick, who loves to quote the German Nazis who once said “Germans for Germans only” before slaughtering millions of Jews like Miller), Americans can focus on rebuilding the country that immigrants have been destroying acccording to the Moron-elect Donald Trump.

Miller has been scapegoating one group — immigrants — for all of America’s ills, though immigrants in the U.S. commit less violent crime than US citizens, and are far more likely to be victims of rape than perpetrators of it.

And now Goldman-Sachs has the answer to the impending post-deportation shortage of labor: Americans should continue eating like fat pigs and becoming obese, the new miracle drug Ozempic will send them back into the workforce. Perhaps the Moron-in-Chief should do the same to set the example for his immigrant-free white Christian followers.

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The more Americans take Ozempic, the faster the US economy could grow, Goldman Sachs says

  • The US economy could see a surge in growth as more people start to take GLP-1 weight-loss drugs.

  • Goldman Sachs predicted that US GDP could jump by 1% if 60 million Americans took a GLP-1 drug.

  • Goldman Sachs also said that "poor health imposes significant economic costs."

The more people who take GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, the faster the US economy could grow, a Goldman Sachs analyst said in a note last month.

The US GDP could grow by an extra 1% if 60 million Americans took GLP-1 drugs by 2028, Jan Hatzius, the chief economist at Goldman Sachs, wrote.

Hatzius said health-related problems keep people from participating in the labor force and inhibit economic growth. Obesity increases the risk of serious health problems, including heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes.

"Combining current losses in hours worked and labor force participation from sickness and disability, early deaths, and informal caregiving, we estimate that GDP would potentially be over 10% higher if poor health outcomes did not limit labor supply in the US," Hatzius said.

So drugs that have shown promise in improving a range of patient health outcomes could have a sizable impact on the broader economy.

"The main reason we see meaningful upside from healthcare innovation is that poor health imposes significant economic costs. There are several channels through which poor health weighs on economic activity that could diminish if health outcomes improve," Hatzius said.

GLP-1 drugs from Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly and Company are sold under the brand names Ozempic and Mounjaro to treat type 2 diabetes, and under the names Wegovy and Zepbound to treat obesity.

Sales of the drugs have exploded, with some users seeing drastic weight loss of up to 20%. A study released in August found that patients who took Wegovy for weight loss reduced their risk of heart attacks, strokes, and cardiovascular death by 20%.

And with the US obesity rate hovering at around 40%, tens of millions of Americans could be prescribed GLP-1 drugs over the next few years, but just how many will depend on the outcome of clinical trials on these drugs and whether health insurers will cover them.

"If GLP-1 usage ultimately increases by this amount and results in lower obesity rates, we see scope for significant spillovers to the broader economy," Hatzius said.

One spillover effect could be an increase in productivity, Hatzius said, citing academic studies that found obese individuals are less likely to work and to be less productive at work

"These estimates therefore suggest that obesity-related health complications subtract over 3% from per-capita output, implying an over 1% hit to total output when combined with the over 40% incidence of obesity in the US population," Hatzius said.

And if there are more productivity gains via improved health outcomes, the impact on GDP growth in excess of its current trend could be between 0.6% and 3.2%.

"Historically, health advancements have lowered the number of life years lost to disease and disability by 10% per decade in DM economies, and we estimate that a 10-year step forward in health progress in excess of current trends could raise the level of US GDP by 1%," Hatzius said.

 

Why Aren't pro-Trump Nazis in Ohio Arrested?

Modern-day dumb American Nazis hate Jews but love Israel. Go figure.

In weirdo multi-standards America, a group of masked individuals holding swastika flags and dressed like German SS military marched last Saturday unbothered through the streets of Columbus, Ohio.

Brandishing the Palestinian flag has become reason to be arrested and harassed for the rest of your life in "free" America. But walking proudly as Jew-hating Nazis is OK.


American Nazis carrying flags with swastikas walk down a street in Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024.

"We will not tolerate hate in Ohio," Ohio MAGA Republican Gov. Mike DeWine declared pompously in a "tough-worded" statement on the social media platform X on Saturday evening. "Neo-Nazis -- their faces hidden behind red masks -- roamed streets in Columbus today, carrying Nazi flags and spewing vile and racist speech against people of color and Jews. There were reports (He's not sure!) that they were also espousing white power sentiments."

Really? "White power"? Isn't that Trump's MAGA numskulls? But "espousing sentiments", regardless of whether those sentiments are hateful, extremist, racist and xeonophobic, is free speech in the land of the free and the home of the brave, and is tolerated. Unlike calling for a free Palestine on a university campus where police rush to beat you up and arrest you, while the university administrator (who owes hi or her post to Zionists) rushes to deny you your diploma and getting a job worthy of your education. That violates the laws of the country because those calling for free Palestine must be Arabs or Muslims or such other lesser humans.

The MAGA governor added, "There is no place in this State for hate, bigotry, antisemitism, or violence, and we must denounce it wherever we see it."

"The Columbus community stands squarely against hatred and bigotry. We will not allow any of our neighbors to be intimidated, threatened or harmed because of who they are, how they worship or whom they love," the City of Columbus said in a statement Saturday evening. "We embrace tolerance and acceptance, and derive great strength from our diversity. It is who we are as a people, and it is precisely what has enabled us to grow and thrive and reach new heights of excellence. Together, we reject the cowardly display reported in the Short North earlier today, and we will continue to monitor the situation in partnership with the Columbus Division of Police to ensure the safety and security of our city."

Yeah, "continue to monitor" is such a decisive action that should secure his re-election next time around. But no arrests? Why not? If the MAGA imbecile governor does not tolerate hatred and "Christian" bigotry, why didn't he do something about it?

The boring midwestern city of Columbus has even an official attorney by the name of Zach Klein. He too joined the loud chorus of condemnations, but asked the Nazis to only "take your flags and the masks you hide behind and go home and never come back ... Your hate isn’t welcome in our city." These poor white Christian Nazis must have been horrified at hearing these words. Not welcome?

But wait a minute! No penalties? No pursuits? No charge by the Police? Nazis can freely roam the streets of these United Scams of America and fear no consequences of their hatred and bigotry? My guess is that because they are White Christians, redneck illiterates and inbred mongrels though they may be, they are protected by a deeply racist country that has yet to grow up into a decent nation that truly lives by its own words.

Similarly, a group of masked Nazi demonstrators were seen outside a production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" in Howell, Michigan. Again, the protesters were kindly asked to move and there were no arrests. For a perspective of the many Palestinian Anne Franks you may want to check [https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2024/05/if-palestinian-anne-frank-of-gaza-in.html]

But let pro-Palestinian protesters march down any street in the US and demand the end of Zionist colonialism in Palestine, and they'll be met with hell on earth.

 

Oklahomans to Reverse Human Evolution: From Homo Sapiens to Neanderthalis or Pan

Like the Taliban in Afghanistan or the Wahhabis in Saudi Arabia with their Koran mandates, MAGA Oklahoma Declares a Bible Mandate in its Classrooms

The state of Oklahoma is set to reverse the course of human evolution: From the Homo sapiens species into which they seem to have been dragged in spite of themselves, Oklahomans have decided to breed themselves back to the neanderthalis species of the genus Homo. They have created a Religious Liberty and Patriotism department that has mandated that all schools should teach the state’s children strictly from the Bible as a source of all subjects like ancient literature, fiction, creation science, incest and inbreeding genetics, voodoo psychiatry, Bronze Age arithmetic, desert climate, and ancient foreign languages. In some counties of the state, some have already adopted the neanderthalis identity and are pushing for a further reversal from the genus Homo back to the genus Pan.

The State’s superintendent Ryan Walters has proudly made the announcement: “The Bible is back in Oklahomas classrooms. We are getting our kids back on track”. His failure at correctly using the possessive apostrophe demonstrates how a return to the Bible is already showing signs of an improvement in regressive education.

He further declared, "I'm excited to announce today that Oklahoma is the first state to bring the Bible back to the classroom. Today, we purchased over 500 Bibles that will be in the AP government classrooms across the state… It's very clear that the radical left has driven the Bible out of the classroom which leads to a lack of understanding of American history. We will not stop until we bring the Bible back to every classroom in the state."...and into the devastated brain of every child.

In a video, Walters prayed: "Dear God, thank you for all the blessings you've given our country. I pray for our leaders to make the right decisions, I pray in particular for President Donald Trump and his team as they continue to bring about change to the country. I pray for our parents, teachers and kids that they get the best education possible and live high quality lives. I also pray that we continue to teach love of country to our young people, and that our students understand what makes America great and that they continue to love this country. Amen." A tear jerker, for sure.

Since, according to the neanderthals of the Midwest and South, Trump alone will fix all the country’s imaginary problems, so does the Bible; it can fix the country’s abysmal educational system. From the 49th rank in quality of education, not only Oklahoma hopes to finish dead last at 50th, but it wants to be the first to reach that milestone. The competition is in full swing between Oklahoma and Arizona which currently holds the rank of 50th as the state with the poorest and most backward education. It’s called, I think, a race to the bottom.

Some are suggesting that the super-Neanderthal Ryan Walters is imposing Orwellian-like practices on an already knowledge-proof population that will trample any hope of its evolution further into the Homo species and will most likely accelerate its evolutionary reversal to the genus Pan. But consistent with his patriotic attachment to the constitution and the concept of liberty, Walters is allowing his constituents to choose their upcoming identity from among the chimpanzee species and the bonobo species that make up the genus Pan.

In a letter by the school district, the authors seemed more interested in a competition between equally backward religions than improving their children’s education by banning all religions altogether from the curriculum. To wit, the district said it “acknowledges the significant influence of various religions in world history and culture" but "it is important to clarify that while students learn about religion's role in historical and cultural contexts, teaching any specific religious doctrine or practice is not a part of the current standards." But isn’t using the Bible as a foundational text in the classroom itself teaching a specific religion?

In July, Walters unveiled guidelines for how to teach the bible in Oklahoma schools after he had ordered the inclusion of the bible in the curricula just a month earlier. "Every teacher, every classroom in the state will have a Bible in the classroom and will be teaching from the Bible in the classroom," Walters asserted in June. 

By September, during an Oklahoma State Board of Education meeting, Walters had requested a total of $6 million to purchase the 55,000 bibles needed for Oklahoma schools. At the time, the only biblical texts that met Walters' criteria were King James Version bibles that were augmented with new chapters – evidently unauthorized by God – consisting of the Pledge of Allegiance (a.k.a. submission to the totalitarian American system), Declaration of Independence (revolution against the God-mandated King of England), U.S. Constitution (a document favoring white slave owners), and the U.S. Bill of Rights (that MAGA republicans want to overturn). The new and improved "Oklahoma bible" was also required to be bound in leather or leather-like material.

This is not new to the backward European peasants that make up the founding stock of America’s population. In the desert state of Utah, the Moronic Mormons did in fact add a new chapter to the bible, all beautifully written in the old English style of “Thy” and “Thou”, and named it the “Book of Morons”... Oops, sorry, "the Book of Mormons". You see, when you’re an ignorant peasant living and breeding amidst stinking cows and pigs, you think you can re-invent the world, re-write its ancient texts, and proclaim yourself a new prophet in a new Eden, just like that. Hence, America’s self-proclamation as the beacon on a hill mandated by the Big Zombie to lead the world to its manifest destiny.

The bible, in the American tradition of supreme ignorance, contains both the insipid new testament and the junky old testament (itself the Hebrew garbage of the torah). For anyone who still doesn’t know: The new testament was written some 100 years after the death of Jesus and consists of 4 more or less similar stories (known as gospels) by Mark, Luke, John and Matthew. But at the time of their writing, there were upwards of 15 other similar stories (known as 'apocryphal gospels') written by the followers of the terrorist (so said the Romans) Jesus of Nazareth, one of which by the prostitute Mary Magdalene who alleges that she was married to sweet and meek Jesus. The early Church elders apparently did some shopping and market analysis and decided to retain only the 4 currently used gospels as the Church’s foundational text. Since they were mostly Jewish rebel terrorists, they could not discard the old garbage of the torah, and decided to append it to the four selected gospels. The whole thing became known as the bible.

As for the garbage of the old testament, it was written and repeatedly edited at will over centuries and millennia by nomadic desert Arabs known as Hebrews during the Bronze Age of humanity. Fermented camel milk did some marvelous things to the brains of the copysist rabbis. It tells fantastic stories of fictional ocean splittings, frog rains, living inside whales, turning gay people into stone, incest sex, adulterous relations with maids and slaves, etc. so fantastic that Cecil B. DeMille decided to make Hollywood movies out of the garbage. More critically, the garbage old testament proclaimed to the world that those nomadic desert Arabs known as Hebrews were selected by the Big Zombie in the Sky, a.k.a. El, Yahweh, God, Allah, Dieu, Dios….to be his favorite pet people. So much so that He ordered them to gloriously massacre, ethnically cleanse and steal the land of another peaceful people, the Canaanite Palestinians.

The Oklahoma Department of Education’s bibles were thoroughly examined by the dumbass president-elect Donald Trump for their accuracy and potential to stimulate critical thinking in the students. He approved and endorsed them with his autograph and began selling them for $60-90 a piece.

The scintillating superintendent Walters has also nagged that his public schools had, under liberal influence, become “ground zero for the erosion of religious liberty across our country," and claims that the removal of the garbage bible from the classroom "directly correlates with declining academic outcomes in our public schools." In other words, he blames his state’s 49th ranking in education on the absence of the bible in the classroom and the overreaching presence of debilitating physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics and technology textbooks. His decision will therefore accelerate a further decline in Oklahoma’s education to achieve the zenith of ignorance with a 50th ranking.

In an ass-kiss to the dumbass president-elect Donald Dumb, Walters also revealed that the Office of Religious Liberty and Patriotism was designed to align with Trump's "Freedom to Pray" initiative and to ensure "that both student and teachers rights to prayer are protected and upheld." Again, he ignored the possessive apostrophe.

GO OKLAHOMA! YOU ARE MAKING AMERICA DUMB AGAIN.

 

Saturday, November 16, 2024

What Donald Dumb Plans (or Doesn't) for Social Security

President-Elect Donald Trump's Social Security Plan will lead to cuts in social security benefits in nine years time.

The first retired-worker benefit check was mailed out in January 1940, but since 1985, the trustees of the social security administration (SSA) have been warning of a long-term insolubility of the funding. 

In other words, not enough revenue is being collected by Social Security to satisfy expected payments. The system operates on collecting the social security tax from a working employee's paycheck to pay for the retirement of older people. The SSA estimates (now in 2024) that the program's expected obligations will be $23.2 trillion through 2098. If nothing is done, there will have to be cuts on current benefit payments of up to 21% in 2033, nine years from now.

Trump idiots and racists falsely blame "government theft" or "undocumented workers" for the problem. The reality is completely otherwise: The US government depends heavily on new immigrants entering the workers' pool for funding the Social Security program. In other words, demographic changes are key to sustaining the system. Entitled "white nativists", a.k.a. white trash, bleed the system because of their laziness, early retirement, false disability applications etc.

Here are some other factors leading to a potentially failing social security system:

  • Baby boomers are leaving the labor force in greater numbers, which makes the contributions by younger workers insufficient.

  • Increased life span. People are living longer thanks to scientific adavances and improved healthcare. When the system was created in the 1930s-1940s life expectancy statistics predicted that people would work for many years paying in taxes, but would not live long enough to collect benefits. Life expectancy at birth in 1930 was only 58 for men and 62 for women, and the retirement age was 65.

  • Younger people are having less and less children, so there is a dwindling number of new workers entering the workforce and therefore less social security taxes being collected.

  • Because of right-wing republican policies that continously fight both legal and illegal immigration to keep the white population in the majority, net immigration into the US is now half what it was in 1998. Social Security relies heavily on a steady inflow of legal immigrants to boost payroll tax collection.

  • Rising income inequality, with the rich and high income earners paying relatively less into the social security fund because of a cap on the tax for high income earners.

Donald Trump's Social Security plan will make things worse

During his campaign, the illiterate asshole Trump made two proposals regarding Social Security.

The first proposal is to essentially do nothing and let Social Security die off with time. Equiped with a moronic intellect, according to many of his former advisors and associates, Trump has no ideas and generally avoids the subject by saying "you don't have to touch Social Security."

However, the SSA havs made it abundantly clear that doing nothing is a terrible plan. While kicking the can might save politicians from some finger-pointing from the public, it's not going to stop the program's funding obligation shortfall from growing and the fund to be exhausted in less than a decade.

The other Trump proposal is to eliminate the taxation of Social Security benefits. The fact is that there is no federal tax on the benefits if the retired senior stops working. The SS benefits get more taxed if the retiree makes more money from income. But most retirees end up not working anymore a few years after their official retirement and claiming of benefits. Also, some states do while others don't tax the benefits.

Beginning in 1984 with Ronald Reagan, 50% of benefits could be taxed at the federal rate if provisional income (adjusted gross income + one-half of benefits) topped $25,000 for a single filer. In 1993, Bill Clinton went further by exposing up to 85% of SS benefits to federal taxation if the provisional income for a single filer topped $34,000.

These provisional income thresholds haven't been adjusted since they were respectively introduced four and three decades ago. But with Social Security outlaying more in benefits than it's generating in income each year, eliminating one of its three sources of income would be a grave mistake.

While stupid retirees applaud this easy-to-brag-about Trump proposal of not taxing benefits, they are shooting themsleves in the foot by ignoring that getting rid of this tax would make the precarious status of Social Security's financial situation even worse. I am a retiree and am happy to still contribute to the health of the program by paying the tax on benefits. Consciencious wealthy Americans have been calling on the government to raise their taxes to help in the national effort of maintaining solvency. But Trump's greedy billionnaire friends are quite happy to see him lower their taxes so they acccumulate more wealth than they will ever need. Whatever happened to collective responsibility and solidarity in these United States?

The taxation of SS benefits is expected to generate $943.9 billion in cumulative income for Social Security from 2024 through 2033. Eliminating this tax would put Social Security on considerably worse financial footing and potential expedite the timeline to sweeping benefit cuts.

 

Friday, November 15, 2024

Chinese Exclusion Act II: Trump's First Objective

The US passed the federal Chinese Exclusion Act law in 1882, which prohibited any immigration from China for 10 years. After using and abusing the first Chinese immigrants who had arrived in the 1840s to build America's railroads, the white xenophobes of the country feared that the different culture would "dilute the white blood". They also feared the competition from the otherwise disciplined and thrifty Chinese workers and gold miners. 

The law was the first US law ever to target a specific ethnic group. The racist white English-stock peasant immigrants then began a long campaign targeting other immigrants in a country founded on illegal immigration: Besides the free labor of Black African slaves on the southern plantations, the whites needed workers to accopmany the industrial revolution. 

After the Chinese, it was the turn of other groups to be targeted by the otherwise constipated Protestant English peasants, who themselves had earlier claimed to be fleeing persecution in England and who turned around and began persecuting the very people they had brought in to help them. The successive immigration policies can be summarized by, "Bring, Use, Abuse, then Dump".  The Catholic Irish were next, later followed by southern Europeans like the Italians and other mediterranean people, and by all the immigrants from the rest of the world who were less white, less Christian and desirable only to the extent that they can "used" while being hated.

The convicted criminal crook, Donald Trump now wants to open a new racist xenophobic chapter in the country's history. During his campaign, he has repeated that he wanted to open his xenophobic racist term by deporting millions of Americans who look "different" and who are "poisoning our blood and our beautiful white skin", beginning with undocumented Chinese immigrants. There are more undocumented Irish people, particularly in the Boston-New York area, who were protected by liberal assholes like Senator Ted Kennedy and who were favored for status adjustment in annual green card lottery drawings by a ratio of 3 Irish to 1 everyone else. Even liberals are just as racists as the neanderthal conservatives.

Using the pretext of a threat posed by China to the US - more economic than military - the first groups targeted for deportation by Trump are undocumented Chinese immigrants of military age. Now with the savage capitalism that is practiced in the US, you'd think right-wing republicans would respect the principle of competition. But they hide their attack on free competition by the Chinese behind a so-called "security" threat. As always, right-wing republicans, operating on behalf of the giant corporations that actually run this country, always need an enemy to justify their violation of their own principles. First it was the British, their own mother, whom they dumped because they didn't want to pay taxes to their own government. Then it was the native Indians who were ethnically cleansed and exterminated during much of the 19th century. Then it was the Immigrants, then the Communists, then the Drug Cartels, then the Terrorists.... And now at the dawn of the Trump rebirth of a Great America, the enemy has been identified, and it is China. And how better to attack China than through the Chinese immigrants in the US.

Asian Americans have long had the fastest-growing undocumented population and the number of Chinese nationals crossing into the U.S. has skyrocketed in recent years. Between fiscal years 2022 and 2024, the number of undocumented Chinese nationals crossing both the northern and southern borders has tripled from 27,000 to 78,000.

The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund reports said that the targeting of the Chinese immigrant community has long been in the making. Several laws across the states restrict Chinese people from buying homes and other real estate. Trump's security program, the China Initiative, was essentially a racial profiling campaign against Asian scholars and academics. Trump has even suggested that China is sending these “military-age” men from China in order to build an army against the United States inside the country.

“They’re coming in from China — 31, 32,000 over the last few months — and they’re all military age and they mostly are men,” Trump said in April during a campaign rally. “And it sounds like to me, are they trying to build a little army in our country? Is that what they’re trying to do?”

Though Trump has promised mass deportations across all undocumented immigrant groups, experts say that the focus on those of “military age” points to a growing definition of China as a threat to the US. “It’s another way of casting our community as an enemy,” an official in a Chinese-American group said of Trump’s immigration platform. “It might not even make any logical sense from a national security perspective, but our communities on the ground here in the U.S. will feel the impact.”

According to the Migration Policy Institute, the Biden administration is on pace to deport as many people as Trump did. So far under Biden, there have been 1.1 million removals since the beginning of fiscal year 2021 through February 2024. During Trump’s first term, there were 1.5 million deportations.

Those Americans from across the non-European, non-white immigrant segment of society who voted for Trump because of his machismo, his adulterous manly forced protection of women and families, and his promises of "cleaning up" America to restore it to greatness are about to discover the disaster looming over all Americans.

 

 

The Truth About the Fake “Pogrom” in Amsterdam: Textbook Zionist Propaganda Lies

A week after Zionist football fans ransacked the streets of Amsterdam hunting Arabs, and lying about a presumed "Jew hunt" to trigger sympathy from a Zionist-propaganda-conditioned Dutch idiot leaders, a clearer picture – better yet, THE TRUTH - of what happened that night is finally emerging, despite the Zionist propaganda lies that impugn the victims of Zionism.

Problem is that Dutch authorities, sensitized and guilt-brainwashed by decades of Zionist propaganda, initially blamed the Palestinian victims of the Zionist hooligans.

The violence occurred before, during and after a match on Nov. 7 between Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv and the local Amsterdam Ajax club. More than 2,800 Israeli fans had travelled to the city for the game.

At a news conference on Nov. 8 after a night of violence, Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema placed the blame squarely on the local Dutch fans and their Palestinian friends, saying that "hateful, antisemitic rioters and criminals attacked and beat up Jewish, Israeli visitors."

Then all the Dutch mongrels, conditioned like Pavlovian dogs by Zionist propaganda to drool and shake at hearing the word “Jew” chimed in to condemn the victims. Jackass “dick” Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof denounced "unacceptable antisemitic attacks." Even fucking King Willem-Alexander said his country failed Jews during the Second World War and had now "failed them again," as if to brag about his good standing with his Zionist handlers. And, evidently, the supreme German-born Zionist, Israeli President Isaac Herzog, called the violence a "pogrom" to make sure to deploy the extremely useful propaganda commodity of “guilt” that the neo-Nazi Zionists constantly drill into the brains of stupid people around the world, inccluding Dutch people. Like an orchestra, they all played the same tune - good victim Jew, bad guilty Arab - with different instruments.

 

Zionist football hooligans shout anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian racist slogans and profanities as they go down an escalator in Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 7, 2024. More than 2,800 Israeli fans travelled to the city for the game. Profanities such as “Why there are no schools in Gaza? Because there are no children left”.

Sixty-two people were initially arrested and five were hospitalized. Dutch police said five more people have been arrested since.

But, better late than never, a report released by Amsterdam mayor's office earlier this week, compiled with significant input from police investigators, indicates it was Zionist Israeli hooligans who initiated the first attacks, which then spiraled out of control.

The 10-page document addressed to council members says the first serious incident occurred around midnight on Wednesday, the night before the football match. It says 50 Zionist Maccabi fans tore down a Palestinian flag from a building in the city's center. The Zionist fans then moved on to Amsterdam's red-light district and attacked a taxi driver who “looked” Palestinian. Other taxis were vandalized by other Israeli fans nearby.

In reaction, the report says, taxi drivers then communicated with each other and mobilized as a group to confront the 400 or so Zionists, forcing police to intervene.

Zionist Maccabi fans were the aggressors before the match

Exactly who took part in the confrontations with the Zionist hooligans has not been precisely spelled out. The report acknowledges social media posts saying that many of those involved were young people of Middle Eastern descent, although it stops short of stating their ethnicity as a fact.

The document says city officials met the next morning and determined that the "aggression shown by Maccabi Zionist supporters and the reaction of the Dutch taxi drivers" was so concerning that there was a discussion about cancelling the upcoming match.

On Thursday afternoon, after it was decided to continue with the game, the tension between the two groups intensified.

A large group of Zionist supporters set off fireworks in the city's central Dam Square, and social media posts by the Zionists took on a "harsher" tone, brandishing the "antisemitic" scarecrow as a preemptive way to win the battle by false propaganda. By first accusing their opponents of antisemitism before there was even a clash, the Zionists win the information battle by driving officials and others like brainless cattle to respond with the “antisemitic protection intellectual condom” that makes any Jew, criminal or otherwise, the victim, while the other side, criminal or otherwise, is automatically tagged the criminal. In other words, Jews=Zionists=Israelis can NEVER DO ANY HARM. They are superior human beings endowed with genetic morality granted to them by the Big Zombie in the Sky in the deserts of Arabia around 3,000 BC.

One widely shared video taken at some point after sunset shows a large group of Zionist fans entering an Amsterdam metro station and shouting racist slogans, including "Let the IDF [Israel Defence Forces] win" and "Fuck the Arabs." But the city report, stinking of cowardice, does not mention the video or when it was taken.

Despite the worrisome buildup and tensions, over the next few hours, the Zionist fans attended the game and then left the stadium with few incidents. But the trouble intensified afterward.

Zionist football hooligans are shown demonstrating and lighting flares in Amsterdam on Nov. 7, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video.

 The report says after they left the stadium, Zionist Maccabi supporters brandishing batons committed acts of vandalism in and around the city center.

Other groups (the report does not say precisely who) then engaged in "violent hit and run actions" targeting  the Zionists, including using mopeds and motorcycles. In response, police gathered the offending Zionist supporters together at several locations for their own protection, and instead of hauling them off to the police station for investigation, buses were arranged to return them to their hotels.

Police ban demonstrations

By then, the report says, Israel's ambassador to the Netherlands was fully engaged with Dutch authorities, saying the events in Amsterdam were generating anger in Israel and that senior members of the government are threatening to come into the country.

Israeli officials lied by saying Zionist fans were so terrified that they locked themselves in their hotel rooms. Police issued a statement saying that when they came to investigate, they found few individuals outside the hotel and there was no threat whatsoever.

By Friday afternoon, many of the Zionist colonial settler fans who had initially come to the Netherlands had departed. Most of the rest were gone by Saturday morning.

Police made a total of 62 arrests before, during and after the football game. Of those, 49 people were either Dutch or lived in the Netherlands, and 10 were Zionists. While nearly all were released, three of the four who were held in custody for longer were teenagers, and one was 26.

In the aftermath of the violence, Dutch authorities cancelled the annual ceremony to commemorate Kristallnacht, the night in November 1938 during which Nazi rioters in several German and central European cities ransacked Jewish homes, synagogues and businesses and terrorized Jewish residents. When will Dutch and other European residual Nazis commemorate the Zionist genocide in Gaza remaisn to be seen. They're probably waiting for another generation (like their parents did) to pass on the guilt of what the neo-Nazi Zionists are doing in Palestine right now.

The report appears to rebuke the mayor's initial statement that only "antisemitic" rioters were responsible for the violence. In conclusion, the events stem from a toxic combination of Zionist racism and hatred toward Arabs, antisemitism, Jewish hooliganism and anger about the gencoide in Palestine. The report “dared” say that the "distressing" incidents affect "not only Jews but also increasingly Muslims, Palestinians and other minority groups." Contrary to Zionist propaganda, Jews are not the only victims. Jews can be criminals like everyone else.

One Amsterdam city councilor, Jazie Veldhuyzen, said it's clear in hindsight that Dutch officials and politicians deliberately overreacted to the football violence because it was useful to their respective political agendas.

"Basically everything that happened this week, including the riots, has been used by right-wing politicians — even our prime minister — to point the finger at migrants and blame them," the Councilor said. His party, De Vonk, leans to the left, and he said that he personally supports Palestinian efforts to fight the 57-year Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, including the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

The head of the neo-Nazi racist far-right Party for Freedom, Geert Wilders, has been vocal about blaming the violence on ethnic Moroccans in the Netherlands, saying anyone found guilty should be deported. In the aftermath of the football violence, Femke Halsema, Amsterdam's mayor, survived a non-confidence vote initiated by right-wing parties.

"It wasn't the case that people were specifically looking for Jews," Veldhuyzen, the city councillor, said.

"People were attacked by Maccabi hooligans because they were mostly Arabs, and the counterattacks came as a result. But these [attacks] were directed at Maccabi fans specifically, and not at Jewish people from Amsterdam," he said. So there was no antisemitism. Not every negative action or opinion directed at people who happen to be Jewish is an act of antisemitism. Zionists can no longer hide their criminality and colonial genocide of the native indigenous people of Palestine behind the scarecrow of antisemitism.

 

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Adultery-born Church of Fornicating England Discovers Pedophilia and Homosexuality

Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has resigned. Just like Catholic popes, archbishops, bishops and priests, he knew and covered the sexual abuse of children by his holy Anglican members down the chain of command. 

How can these people, whose Anglican Church was born out of the adultery and debauchery of a king, look people in the eye and justify their existence as a decent religion? The Church of England even followed the colonial barbarity of Great Britain around the world and disseminated its divine message - and in all likelihood the gonadal products of its missionaries - to brutalized colonized Africans, Indians, and others who, even today, after all we know, continue to stick to this side-arm of the foreign colonial enterprise.



Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, resigned from his post after at first saying he would not quit in the wake of the review - Luke MacGregor/Reuters. He looks holy, but somewhat eerily scary.

One John Smyth, a devout Anglican who wanted to serve the Church of England by running evangelical camps for boys - he preferred boys obviously - died a few years ago. But now, at least 30 fornicating Anglican clergy members of the Church of England face exposure and dissmissal for covering up the most prolific child abuser in the institution’s history.

Following the Archbishop of Canterbury’s resignation over his failure to prevent the “prolific, brutal and horrific” abuse, Smyth’s victims have called for two bishops and an associate minister to follow suit. Despite knowledge of Smyth’s abuse at the highest levels of the Church, an investigation was initiated only in 2017 after Smyth was identified by a television news report.

Smyth died the following year at the age of 75, and so escaped investigation and justice. But as the devout Christian that he was, justice will likely be meted out in Heaven while he sits at the right side of Jesus.

A former social services director, Keith Makin, published a report last week reviewing the facts. It found that Smyth’s abuse was covered up by “powerful evangelical clergy”. At least 30 individuals who still hold posts within the Church were identified and now face termination.



John Smyth, the Anglican sexual predator who ran evangelical camps for boys for decades - UNPIXS
 

One of the individuals on the list, the Most Reverend Canon Andrew Cornes, is a member of the Crown Nominations Committee, the secretive body responsible for appointing the next Archbishop of Canterbury. Sounds very much like the Catholic Church's mysterious ways by which God operates.

Despite Canon Cornes being informed of Smyth’s abuse by a victim in 1982, according to the review, he remains in the running to help select the Archbishop’s successor. 1982? Some forty years during which the adulterous Church of fornicating England protected a rapist and sodomizer of boys placed in his care. He must have amplified the fire of his faith by instructing the little ones in the ways and life of sweet and meek Jesus while his hands and reproductive organs rummaged through their bodies.

It turns out that the Church of England has a "safeguarding" body led by bishops, directors and other holy people with fancy titles, but which apparently has failed for at least 40 years in Symth's case. Lord only knows how many other "Smyths" lurk beneath the venerable robes and alluring colors. 

The Makin report reveals that the fornicating Gay Church of England conducted a so-called “mapping exercise” in 2017 to identify those who covered up Smyth’s abuse of boys, which means that the Church has had these names for seven years before doing anything about them.

In September 1982, one of Smyth’s victims confided in Canon Cornes. It was the first time the victim had spoken to anyone about the abuse. Then, according to the Makin review, Canon Cornes “was unsurprised that John Smyth had homosexual tendencies”. Woops! It has always been assumed that only the Catholic Church draws homosexuals who "hear the call to the vocation" to become priests because they can hide their gayness beneath the cloak of the chastity vow. But liberal Anglican Church too?

Said liberal Anglican Church has of course women up and down the clergy hierarchy whose Christian compassion apparently extends to rapists and abusers of boys. For example, Rev Dr Jo Bailey Wells, the Bishop of Episcopal Ministry at the Anglican Communion Office in London, and the Rev Sue Colman, associate minister at St Leonard’s Church, Oakley. Both were identified in the Makin review as having prior knowledge of allegations about Smyth but remained mute.

The abuser, feu John Smyth, was a barrister and a Christian camp leader. According to to the Anglican equivalent of the Guiness Book of Records, he abused at least 130 boys and young men (those we know of) over four decades and across three continents - he was an equal opportunity non-racist non-discriminating abuser - an illustrous career which sadly ended when he died at the age of 75 in the former British colony of Cape Town, South Africa, in August 2018.

Churches seem to be a species on its way to extinction, what with science and the obsolescence of primitive religious beliefs. Just as conservationists breed threatened species in captivity before releasing them back into the wild, perhaps the clergy of many churches sould be sequestered in captivity and encouraged to breed at infinitum: The inbreeding will by itself toll the extinction bell for a useless and otherwise dangerous species.




Phoenician Lebanon Has Legitimate Claims to Northern Palestinian Territories

To the fanatic European Zionists who know nothing of the Near East other than their own interpretation of the torah, here are a few examples of how Lebanon has legal and legitimate claims to much of the Zionist-occupied Palestinian region of northern Galilee.

For one, the word "Galilee" comes from Canaanite Phoenician "Jaleel" which means the harvest, specifically the olive harvest that the sedentarized and first city builders, the Canaanite Phoenicians, had been practicing long before the filthy desert nomads known as Hebrews conquered Palestine. The Hebrews in fact did not know how to grow anything or build a solid structure as they hadn't sedentarized and were still living in tents and living off goats and camels. They even had their crappy arch of the covenant in a tent stinking of goat and camel manure. So the backward Hebrew tribal leaders David, then his son Solomon, kept begging the powerful Phoenician King Hiram of Tyre (it was antiquity's equivalent of New York City) in today's southern Lebanon to teach them how to grow food and help them build houses, palaces and the infamous temple on whose remaining wall the modern-day colonial fake but extremist Jews go to nag by bobbing their heads and vomiting religious bullshit like Muslim extremists do in their madrassas.

In 1 Kings 9:10-13, the bible says:

"10 At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built these two buildings—the temple of the Lord and the royal palace— 11 King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had supplied him with all the cedar and juniper and gold he wanted. 12 But when Hiram went from Tyre to see the towns that Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them. 13 “What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother?” he asked. And he called them the Land of Kabul, a name they have to this day." ("Kabul" in Canaanite Aramaic means "useless").

Thus, we learn from the horse's mouth that several towns in northern Galilee belong to the Phoenicians, having been gifted by Solomon to King Hiram of Tyre. Never mind that Solomon inherited Canaanite Palestine from his ancestor Joshua's bloody barbaric conquest and massacre of the indigenous Canaanite Palestinian people at the time. Just as Hebrews became Jews, and just as Phoenicians became Lebanese, so did the Canaanites become Palestinians. In fact, history speaks of the Philistines - which is still the Arabic word for Palestine - فلسطيني - as invaders from the sea of the coast of Palestine in equal measure as the invading Hebrews who invaded from the desert. The difference is that the Philistines settled the Palestinian coast without committing the genocide of the Canaanites that the Hebrews perpetrated.

Another instance of where history tells us without fanfare who the real owners of the land are. This map from the Byzantine Empire shows that coastal Phoenicia and the western slopes of Mount Lebanon extended all the way south to Haifa in today's Israel. The other Phoenicia - labeled as Phoenicia Libani - covered the eastern slopes of Mount Lebanon as well as the Anti-Lebanon mountain range, the Bekaa Valley and well inside today's Syria, including the Syrian capital of Damascus.


Therefore, the government of Lebanon must deposit with the UN a file laying claims to parts of northern Galilee.

Similarly, the map shows that there was neither an Israel nor any Jewish or Hebrew presence of any significance. Instead, the map shows that the entire region of historic Palestine was known as Palestine and not Israel, and included parts of today's Jordan, well east of the Jordan river. The names of places on the map are not in Hebrew, but in Canaanite Phoenician or Aramaic which Jesus spoke. He did not speak Hebrew.

The entire artifically made-up modern country of Zionist Israel covers land known as Palaestina I in the south, Palaestina II in the north, and Palaestina III south of Gaza and extending into the Naqab desert. 

If anything, such maps, many of which are available everywhere on the Internet, show that the Zionist claims to Palestine rest on selective and distorted evidence derived from the voluminous editing made by biased Jewish copyists to the torah who, over centuries and millennia, added, modified and deleted at will depending on what was in their favor at that moment of history. That is why the torah is full of inconsistencies and falsehoods and became no more than a trashy piece of propaganda fiction that is used today by the fake newly converted Jewish European Zionists, to claim property deeds to lands that may have belonged to the unrelated Hebrews some 3,000 years ago who ruled it as two enemy kingdoms (Judah and Israel) for a short 300-year period. All of that bullshit is used today to justify the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people and the theft of their land.

As the foreign Zionists are preparing to annex Gaza and the West Bank and further subject the indigenous Palestinians to deportation, ethnic cleansing, expulsion, massacre, or submission as second class citizens, the world must reject the reliance on idiotic religious texts to justify barbarity in our time.

According to the torah-bible, when Joshua conquered Canaanite Palestine, he was told by his god Yahweh to kill every man, woman, child and beast of a population that never did anything wrong to the marauding stinking desert Hebrew nomads. That was the first ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Does anyone still doubt that the creation of the fake artificial state of Israel, in fulfilment of Bronze Age torah-biblical bullshit prophecies, is yet another barbaric act of ethnic cleansing of the same Palestinian people some 3,000 years later?

Putin to Trump: "We put you in office. Now it’s time for you to pay us back"

The dumbest of all Americans, one Donald Trump, thinks Putin is his friend. Trump is like the fat classmate in the courtyard always trying to please the class bully because he gets protection and looks good to the others.

Americans' ignorance of people and nations around the world is a reputation they themselves cultivate. They have been so conditioned by a socially totalitarian system, by Hollywood, corporations, and advertisers to believe that conformity, being insincerely nice and smiling all the time generate positivity and therefore indirectly success. It's the only people in earth who believe you can reverse the natural trajectory of happiness: By appearing and looking happy, you can actually defeat reality. As such they are easy preys to predators. That is why the only weapon Americans have against the intelligence of other peoples is violence and warfare. Their inability at understanding and outsmarting other people leaves them no recourse but to resort to massive violence. And this is reflected in their "cultural" output: Nine out of ten Hollywood movies that are disseminated like the plague across the world reek of blood, gore, violence, guns, and unspeakable atrocities. When overseas anywhere near the Middle East, watch the OSN channels and see for yourself what America is feeding the Arab peoples: For every 10 minutes of soc-called news, you are served 20 minutes of loud commercials for movies ranging from the absolutely stupid to the abjectly violent.

In America, if you meet someone on the street once and exchange a few platitudes, they become a "friend". Friendship, as superficial as it can be, has a very different definition in the American dictionary than in all other dictionaries. I think Trump really believes that Putin or Netanyahu of Kim Jong-Un are his "friends" because he met them once or twice. What he doesn't know is deep inside, they all know he's a dumb idiot they can manipulate. Just look at Netanyahu's smile stretching from his large right era to his large left ear upon hearing that Trump won the election. You can tell from Putin's smirky smile as he meets and looks at Trump that he is thinking to himself: This international village idiot is manna from heaven.


 

From the moment Trump was declared a victor in the elections, Vladimir Putin - a strongman he admires most - is messing with his head. He didn't immediately congratulate him. He waited a few days to let the fat idiot crave and anxiously wait for "my friend" Vladimir to call.

Trump then claimed that during his shoe-licking phone call to the bully Putin, he "told" Putin not to escalate the war in Ukraine, thus proving to his dumb electorate that he checked one election promise on his checking list. That's it: Trump made peace in Ukraine by telling his buddy Vladimir to tone it down. That's how they operate in the Mafia.

But a Kremlin spokesman denied that the two buddies had spoken on the phone at all. Is Trump lying like he pathologically does? Who knows? To rely on the Russians to get the truth is like getting trump to tell the truth. That's why he andd Vlado are buddies. But it is scary to realize that Trump thinks Putin will actually stop his war on Ukraine as a friendly favor one Mafia boss does to his buddy.

Then the climax of the rapprochement "engineered" by Trump in one made up phone call came when Russia’s intelligence chief, Nikolai Patrushev, said in an interview to the Russian newspaper Kommersant:

"The election campaign is over. To achieve success in the election, Donald Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations. As a responsible person, he will be obliged to fulfill them."

In other words, "we put you in the White House, Donald, now you must fulfill the obligations you owe us."

How did the Russians do it, back in 2016, then again in 2024? They created and disseminated phony videos designed to swing voters away from Vice President Kamala Harris. One video, for example, show illegal Haitian immigrants voting. The FBI, the director of national intelligence, and the top cybersecurity agency issued a rare joint statement warning that these videos were false and Russian in origin. Russians also phoned in bomb scares to polling stations in Black neighborhoods that tend to favor Democratic candidates.

Russia’s main goal, in all these misinformation ventures, is to sow chaos, breed mistrust in institutions, and weaken democracy in Western countries, especially in the U.S. And the Russian "frienship" gambit has been paying off: At his first-term news conference in Helsinki, he said he believed Putin rather than his own intelligence agencies on the question of whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Trump abhors NATO, he said it many times. He doesn't understand the value of NATO but rather penny-pinches the organization and threatens allied countries facing the mounting Russian threat on their borders of withdrawing American assistance if they don't pay up! Again, Mafia practices.

Trump considers U.S. military aid to Ukraine to be a waste of money; he doesn’t much like Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, decrying him as a “salesman,” and he no doubt remains bitter over the scandal he made when he tried to hold up delivery of U.S. anti-tank missiles yo Ukraine unless Zelensky agreed to dig up dirt on Hunter Biden.

The deep and largely unsaid reason for Trump's love to Putin is to be found in the white supremacist playbook one can listen to and watch on all the alt-right and other white Christian fundamentalist media: Russia is white. It is Christian. And it is militaristic. And that is exactly where Trump and his followers want to take America. Hence, we should ally ourselves with the Russians against everyone else.

I doubt that Trump will ever realize the con job his friend Putin is running on him. Trump has been dumb all his life. His brain cannot be unwired as he nears 80 years of age. But he will soon be tested in how far his buddy Valdimir is willing to go to help him pretend that he made peace in Ukraine. Same thing with Netanyahu in Palestine. After all, all three of them are convicted criminal felons.


Wednesday, November 13, 2024

AP: Weapons Smuggling from the US is Responsible for Sharp Rise in Caribbean Crime

Faithful to being the largest producer and user of deadly weapons, the US is also the largest exporter of crime to its neighbors in the Caribbean. Yet, Trump blames migrants for bringing crime into the US. Diehard republican strongholds like Florida, Texas and Georgia, are the main departure points of smuggled American weapons.

The NRA and US weapons manufacturers are probably satisfied with the profits and the proliferation, as they have always washed their hands of the high criminality and mass shootings in the US itself.

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Guns smuggled from the US are blamed for a surge in killings on more Caribbean islands
DÁNICA COTO
Wed, November 13, 2024

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Dozens of soldiers and police fanned out across a neighborhood on a recent night in the Turks & Caicos Islands just days after the archipelago reported a record 40 killings this year.

They were on the hunt for criminals and illegal weapons fueling a surge of violence across the Caribbean as authorities struggle to control a stream of firearms smuggled in from the U.S.

Half an hour into the Oct. 30 operation, one driver tried to run authorities off the road as he tossed a handgun into the bushes.

“Rest assured, we remain committed to disrupting the flow of illicit guns,” Police Superintendent Jason James said hours later.

But the flow is too strong, with illegal firearms blamed for an increase or a record number of killings in a growing number of Caribbean islands this year, including Trinidad and Tobago and the Bahamas.

No Caribbean nation manufactures firearms or ammunition or imports them on a large scale, but they account for half of the world’s top 10 highest national murder rates, according to a statement from U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut.

In a letter sent to U.S. legislators in late September, New York’s attorney general and 13 other colleagues across the U.S. demanded new measures to stop the flow of guns, noting that 90% of weapons used in the Caribbean were bought in the U.S. and smuggled into the region.

“American-made guns are flowing into Caribbean nations and communities and fueling violence, chaos, and senseless tragedies throughout the region,” wrote New York Attorney General Letitia James.

In mid-2023, the U.S. government appointed its first coordinator for Caribbean firearms prosecutions to help curb weapon smuggling from the U.S. to the region, with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives already tracing firearms seized in the Caribbean.

Last year, 266 firearms seized in the Bahamas were submitted to ATF, along with 234 firearms from Jamaica, 162 from the Dominican Republic and 143 from Trinidad and Tobago, according to the agency’s most recent data.

The majority are handguns, followed by semiautomatic pistols.

The information gleaned from recovered weapons can help authorities in the U.S. determine where and when they were bought, triggering a domestic firearms trafficking investigation.

But it’s a struggle to stop the flow of weapons, with smugglers disassembling them and hiding their parts in sea-bound containers.

“As much as you try to harden the infrastructure at the official ports, it is essentially like trying to plug a sift,” said Michael Jones, executive director of the Implementation Agency for Crime and Security at Caricom, a Caribbean trade bloc.

Homicides are not the only thing rising across parts of the Caribbean. There’s an increase in privately made firearms using 3D printers, and gunmen are using higher caliber weapons and becoming more brazen, with younger and younger people committing crimes, Jones said.

Killings are now occurring during the day, and not necessarily via a drive-by shooting, he said. “You have some who are so bold as to walk up to an individual, put the gun to their head, and walk away,” he said.

Jones said gangs are franchising across the region, with gunmen sometimes traveling to a certain island to commit the crime and then leaving. Gangs also are preying on young people because they lack opportunities, Jones said.

“Even now, there are some countries that will tell you they don’t have a gang problem,” he said.

On a recent afternoon in late October, a 42-year-old employee with Trinidad and Tobago’s Forestry Division was fatally shot while in a car near his brother’s house. He was one of six people killed in the span of 48 hours, raising the death toll in the twin-island nation of 1.4 million people to 518 compared with 468 killings last year. The sister island of Tobago alone reported a record 20 killings — in mid-August — and still counting.

During a recent budget presentation, Prime Minister Keith Rowley urged lawmakers to draft a bill to ban assault weapons and high-powered rifles. Experts say many killings in the Caribbean are a result of gang-on-gang violence, but civilians are increasingly getting caught in the crossfire.

“The proliferation of privately made rifles and semi-automatic pistols, combined with the circulation of conversion devices, increases the likelihood that significantly more rounds will be fired during criminal shootings, which may in turn increase the risk of multiple injuries, including among bystanders,” warned a June report by Caricom’s Impacs, the Small Arms Survey and others.

One of those bystanders was a 4-year-old boy shot in the leg when gunfire erupted outside his preschool in Trinidad in late September. The bullet fractured one of his bones.

In the Bahamas, a man holding his 8-month-old baby was shot and killed in early October as he stepped out of his car, where another 6-year-old child was sitting. Both children were unharmed.

It was the 90th slaying of the year for the Bahamas, which so far has reported a 23% increase in killings compared with last year. Overall crime is down, though, according to government statistics.

Jamaica, meanwhile, has one of the world’s highest homicide rates among countries with reliable statistics: 53.3 per 100,000 people. As of Nov. 2 police statistics show 960 people were reported killed, a nearly 20% drop from last year and far from a record 1,683 homicides reported in 2009, but violence persists on the island of 2.8 million people,

“It is of grave concern to us,” Prime Minister Andrew Holness said at a press conference in November about large-scale shootings.

In late October, five men were killed at a soccer game in a Kingston neighborhood that previously struggled with gang violence. It was the island’s latest massacre.

In a visit to the neighborhood, Holness noted police have reduced the number of gangs from almost 600 to 150. While Jamaica has passed anti-gang legislation to crack down on violence, the Turks & Caicos Islands approved a law in early October that allows authorities to offer immunity or reduced sentences to those who provide key information about a crime.

Police in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and the Turks & Caicos Islands did not respond to repeated messages for comment.

Most of the firearms smuggled into the Caribbean come from Florida, followed by Georgia and Texas. They usually are shipped directly to an island, although sometimes they first go through a port in Jamaica or the Bahamas.

Firearms have been found inside items ranging from cars to washing machines. “It’s a big problem,” said James Sutton, police commissioner for St. Kitts and Nevis. “We’re asking the U.S. to do more.”

The twin-island nation has reported at least 27 homicides, the vast majority committed with guns. It’s creeping close to a record 32 killings in 2016.

Haiti remains the Caribbean nation hardest hit by smuggled weapons that feed gangs controlling 85% of the capital of Port-au-Prince.

“Despite the strengthening of the arms embargo measures, arms trafficking continues unabated,” stated a U.N. Security Council report released in late October. “Gangs have been increasingly procuring larger caliber weapons, resulting in more damage and a posing greater challenge to the police and the (U.N.-backed) mission.”

The report said trafficking from the U.S. to Haiti is not a sophisticated process, noting there are numerous networks often based on family or social connections and that the “vast majority” of the 200 containers heading from South Florida to Haiti every week are not inspected.

“Despite being brought into the country in small quantities, this recurrent ‘ant trafficking’ quickly builds up, leaving the country awash with weapons,” the report said.