"Kill Them All", "Death to Arabs" Shouted Yahweh's Chosen Zionist Settlers

The US and Israel go to war against Iran in part because ultra-religious Iranian barbarians sing "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" during their demonstrations.

In Israel, ultra-religious Zionist barbarians sing "Death to Arabs" and "We will burn your villages" as they walk through Jerusalem's Old City, which is Palestinian because the Palestinians were there for thousands of years long before the Wetsern colonial racit settlers invaded Palestine. Also note that Palestinians live in ancient, deeply-rooted "villages" established hundreds if not thousands of years ago, while the terrorist Jewish settlers live in brand new "settlements" built on stolen land belonging to the indigenous Palestinians. There are no Israeli villages, only settlements and Kibbutzim (a type of Communist state-owned farms inspired from Soviet Kolkhoz and Sovkhoz collectives).

 

The Zionists dream of exterminating ALL the native indigenous Palestinians.

The Jewish terrorist settlers aim to capture Al-Aqsa Mosque, demolish it and build on its site a third Jewish temple. For anyone who doubts the rabid anachronism and barbarity of the Zionist narrarive, they want to rebuild a temple to replace the first one that was built by King Hiram's Phoenicians of the Lebanese city of Tyre during King Solomon's reign in Judea around 800 BC. After that first temple was destroyed by the Babylonians under King Nebuchadnezzar II in 586 BC, a second temple was built around 516 BC after the end of the Babylonian exile. The Zionists are probably the only ones in this 21st century to resurrect ancient hatreds and perpetuate conflicts from 3000 years ago.

Worse than the Muslims who still wage wars because of a 1300 year-old dispute over the succession of Mohammad, Zionist Jews still drag behind them wars and disputes from the Bronze Age. Imagine the hatreds and bloodshed the world would be dealing with if every country today sought to restore what was destroyed during ancient wars of invasions and conquests. 

Finally, Zionists claim that their defunct god, Yahweh, gave them the land of Palestine while they wandered in the desert as nomads herding goats and camels. But Yahweh is "their" god, just as "Allah" is the Muslims' god. I and billions of people around the word do not feel bound by what primitive nomads in the Arabian desert some 3000 years ago might have imagined and the schemes they concocted with their imaginary and mischievous god. 

Furthermore, read the old testament-torah  and discover for yourselves that the Bronze Age Hebrews (from whom the Zionists claim they descend, which is an absolute fallacy) "took" Canaanite Palestine by genocide, ethnic cleansing and mass murder: Yahweh apparetly commanded the stinking Hebrew nomads to "kill every Canaanite man, woman, child and beast" in order to seize Canaanite Palestine. Just like the English crooks who sold Palestine (that did not belong to them) to the European Zionists in 1917. Palestine was merely placed under English custody (the so-called Mandate) with the specific task of assisting the Palestinians in rebuilding their country after 400 years of Turkish Ottoman occupation. Just next door, Lebanon was placed under French custody. The French did what was expected of them: They helped the Lebanese draft a constitution, build a modern infrastructure (trains, roads, electricity...) and create their state institutions. In Palestine, the treacherous crooks of Britain instead sold Palestine to their Zionist European buddies and created the heartache tormenting the entire world roday.

In the garbage of the old testament-torah, (1 Samuel 15:3) says: "Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’” Under Yahweh's command, The Hebrews were to conquer the land and drive out its inhabitants as a means of purifying the land for God's people. I think the modern Zionist settlers, in their racist hatred of all gentiles, believe they are "purifying" Palestine by exterminating the indigenous Palestinian people.

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Israelis mark capture of East Jerusalem with Old City parade, racist chants
By Alexander Cornwell
Fri, May 15, 2026


Israelis participate in the annual Jerusalem Day march in Jerusalem, May 14, 2026. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir takes part in the annual Jerusalem Day march in the Old City of Jerusalem, May 14, 2026. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

By Alexander Cornwell

JERUSALEM, May 14 (Reuters) - Thousands of Israeli nationalists marched on Thursday through the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's walled Old City under heavy security, in an annual event marking Israel's capture of the ‌city's east in a war nearly six decades ago.

Palestinian residents, many of whom barricaded themselves inside their ‌homes in the Old City, view the Jerusalem Day parade as a provocation to undermine their ties to the city.

As Israelis marched through the Muslim ​quarter that is home to thousands of Palestinians, some of the demonstrators, mostly young men, chanted "May your villages burn" and "Death to Arabs" while waving Israeli flags.

Israel captured East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed it, a move that the United Nations and most countries have not recognised.

"Jerusalem is our holy city. It is our holy city forever," said ‌Shira Gefen, a 53-year-old Israeli who travelled to ⁠Jerusalem from her home near Haifa for the rally.

"We are very happy and excited to be here. This is the heart of the world and the heart of all Jewish people," ⁠said George, a 65-year-old Israeli who lives near Ashkelon in the country’s south. He declined to give his last name.

Israeli authorities deployed thousands of police officers, some in riot gear, in Jerusalem, including at Damascus Gate, the main gateway to the historic Muslim ​quarter.

The police ​erected barricades around the Damascus Gate area, preventing Palestinians who ​do not live in the Old City from ‌entering. Palestinian shopkeepers in the Old City said they were forced to close ahead of the parade.

TENSIONS

The parade's path starts in West Jerusalem and ends at the Western Wall, a remnant of an ancient retaining structure revered by Jews as the Temple Mount, a vestige of their faith's two ancient temples. Muslims refer to that area as Al Haram Al Sharif, or the Noble Sanctuary, a compound that is the third holiest site in Islam.

Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's far-right national security minister, ‌visited the compound on Thursday and raised an Israeli flag as ​security men stood behind him.

Under a delicate, decades-old arrangement with Muslim authorities, ​the flashpoint compound is administered by a Jordanian religious ​foundation and Jews can visit but may not pray there. Ben-Gvir has sought prayer permits ‌for Jews at the site.

"The Temple Mount is in ​our hands, the Temple Mount ​is ours," said.

At one point during Thursday's march, Israeli police forced activists seeking to provide a protective presence to Palestinians — along with members of the media — out of the Old City, before later allowing journalists to ​return while restricting them to an area ‌by the Austrian Hospice.

Palestinians view the Jerusalem Day procession as part of a broader campaign to bolster ​Jewish presence across the city to their detriment.

They have long sought East Jerusalem as the capital of ​a future Palestinian state.

(Reporting by Alexander CornwellEditing by Gareth Jones)

 

Trump's Aff-Kissing to Xi: Proud of Friendship with Communist Dictator Xi

During yesterday's encounter between the Great American Moron and the Chinese Communist dictator, Xi Jinping said that “the whole world is watching our meeting” and wondered if the U.S. and China can “meet global challenges together and provide more stability for the world.” Sober and challenging comments.

China's President Xi Jinping (R) and US President Donald Trump visit the Temple of Heaven in Beijing on May 14, 2026. / Brendan Smialowski/Pool/Reuters

Trump, for his part, is an asskisser whose sole objective for his visit is to make money. He doesn't know sobriety from insanity. He insetad heaped praise (i.e. kissed ass) on his Chinese counterpart, telling Xi, “You’re a great leader, I say it to everybody, you’re a great leader.” You could hear the slurps of Trump's tongue on Xi's behind, as he added a fine print waiver, “Sometimes people don’t like me saying it, but I say it anyway because it’s true. I only say the truth.”

For more ass-kissing statements by Trump, who is jealous of Xi's unfettered dictatorship, see:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-praise-xi_n_6a05653be4b0def65bfbe976

The 80-year-old senile imbecile then said, “It’s great—a great place. Incredible. China is beautiful." This is typical American salesmanship and marketing bullshit in which Trump thinks that he can leverage his own personal charm along with lavishing praise on Xi to "close the sale" and fool Xi into buying the crap that Trump is peddling (which can be boiled down to securing favorable and lucrative contracts for his American billionaire buddies and his family.

But Xi remained silent. Drab Communist he is, and won't droop down and retort with equal b bullshit praise.

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While the talks were expected to touch on everything from trade and technology to geopolitical issues like Iran and Taiwan, the Associated Press reported after the meeting, citing Chinese state media, that Xi warned Trump that differences over Taiwan could lead the U.S. and China into conflict.

Trump wants to sell weapons to Taiwan worth $14 billion. While it has been approved by Congress, Trump has yet to formally move ahead with the deal, although prior to Thursday’s talks he had explicitly stated that he would discuss future arms sales to Taiwan with Xi. The issue threatens to bring to an end a longstanding policy, initiated by President Ronald Reagan, that the U.S. does not consult Beijing on arms sales to Taiwan.

After Russia's war on Ukraine, and the USrael war on Iran, it is expected that Xi would want to "close" the Taiwan file before he is out of office or out of life. In 2018, China removed the two-term limit for the presidency, allowing Xi Jinping to serve indefinitely. Xi is 72 years old. Therefore, he has at most ten years to reconquer Taiwan before he dies or goes senile. Hence, given the precedents of Ukraine and Iran, Xi might seize the opportunity of a West in debacle because of Trump's asinine policies to invade and take Taiwan. The question is whether the West, and the US in particular, would go to war against China over Taiwan. My guess is that no one will lift a finger.

Israeli Dogs Rape Palestinian Prisoners. Scott Jennigs Defends

Would you put it past Israel's chronic violence against the Palestinians, whose land it has been stealing for 100 years, to use "rapist dogs" to sodomize Palestinian prisoners? 

Israel's politicians, ultra-religious barbarian politicians, soldiers, security forces and terrorist settlers have abundantly made it clear that Palestinians are untermeschen - subhuman - animals whose lives they can kill, whose houses they can demolish, whose villages they can erase from the maps, whose journalists they can deliberately assassinate, whose lands they freely confiscate, whose olive orchards they can uproot because they tell of the millennial existence of the Palestinians on their land, and whose identity they can suppress because the very existence of 6 million Palestinians in Zionist-raped Palestine (as well as tens of millions in refugee camps inside and around Palestine) stands as a stark reminder of one of the most gruesome ethnic cleansing campaigns of the 20th century, after the German-European Holocaust of European Jews and the Turkish genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Armenian people. 

The irony is that those Jews who escaped the European Holocaust who are perpetrating the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinians who were not responsible for the Holocaust.

And then, you have dumb American morons like Scott Jennings who insists on defending Israel's long-standing Jewish supremacist racist policies against the Palestinian people. As if it is so inconceivable for Americans - who did Abu-Ghreib in Iraq or who did Mi Lai in Vietnam or any of the atrocities they committed during their wars - to imagine that their sacrosanct poodles in Israel are incapable of similar atrocities. All Jennings has to do is read the Torah-Old Testament and the Talmud and it will be a lot easier for this moron to accept the possibility that Israeli Jews could be as criminal and terroristic as their Palestinian victims.

Moreover, in their defense of Israel's barbarity, its sycophants claim that "sexual violence is central to Hamas", which implies that Hamas's terrorism is first and foremost a deviant desire for sexual satisfaction. What that does is further dehumanize the Palestinians, making it therefore more acceptable to have them humiliated by dogs while in prison - just as American soldiers did with Iraqi prisoners in Abu-Ghreib - while ignoring the unsaid and often hidden facts that the worst sexual scandals of our time have been perpetrated by people like Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, or the Alexander brothers.... all of whom are eligible for Israeli citizenship.

The focus of the Israelis on the attacks of October 7 has been uniquely centered on the sexual crimes that Hamas terrorists carried out that day. This is intended to deliberately reduce any act of war and resistance by Palestinians against the illegal occupier of their land, Israel, to mere disgusting sexual predation. It is intended to thus reinforce in the minds of the international public the central dogma of Zionist propaganda, namely that Palestinians are animals that are devoid of normal human national or patriotic motives, and do not, cannot, and more importantly must not have an identity or a country. For Zionists who stole and raped Palestine, Palestinians are disposable. 

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Scott Jennings Lets Loose on New York Times Article Parroting ‘Stupid’ Allegation: ‘Shameful Media Behavior’
Alex Griffing
Wed, May 13, 2026


Scott Jennings - Screenshot via YouTube

Scott Jennings, the headline-grabbing conservative CNN pundit, lambasted The New York Times this week over a highly controversial opinion piece from Nicholas Kristof, which includes horrific allegations of sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody.

“And then you have The New York Times, which has printed nothing short of a blood libel against Israel written by a so-called journalist named Nicholas Kristof — one of their featured writers, in fact. The piece is printed as, quote, an opinion. It is sourced to discredited pro-Hamas people. It’s the usual slop to cover up for the terrorists of Hamas,” began Jennings on his Salem radio show on Tuesday. He added:

This New York Times piece even contains an allegation that Israel trained dogs to rape Palestinians. Let me say that again. The New York Times printed on the front page an opinion piece that contained an anonymous, unverified, unwitnessed allegation that Israel trained dogs to rape people. Just saying this out loud makes me feel stupid.

Now, this opinion piece was printed a day before the report on verified Hamas sexual atrocities was to be made public. Months ago, the civil commission that produced the verified report approached the New York Times with its findings of these Hamas sexual atrocities. The New York Times said, “No thanks, not interested in this evidence.” The New York Times knew this was coming out, and they knew this story was going to be bad—terrible—for Hamas. So the night before… what did they choose to do? Print this garbage from Nicholas Kristof.

Absolutely shameful media behavior. You cannot get any lower than this. How can Kristof keep his job? How can the New York Times not retract the piece, apologize, and fire everyone responsible for this insanity?

The allegations Jennings referred to have been circulating in anti-Israeli media in recent weeks, including on Al Jazeera and DropSite. DropSite’s Ryan Grim promoted the allegations in late April in a post arguing that the atrocities of October 7th have been exaggerated.

This New York Times "article" about Israel is such a journalistic atrocity that I actually feel stupid reading it out loud.If everyone at the NYT who is responsible for this is not fired, then the publication will lose whatever shred of credibility it has left. pic.twitter.com/nhXSl5AW1D— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) May 12, 2026

“This eye-witness testimony, on camera, is more evidence than we have related to 10/7 sexual violence. And there is far more evidence than this: medical reports, testimony from doctors and nurses, forensic evidence, and victim testimony also exists,” wrote Grim on X, adding:

That is the kind of evidence people have been asking for when it comes to 10/7. Instead, we get empty assertions and accusations of “rape denial” from the same people who will not say one word about the systemic sexual violence doled out to Palestinians in Israeli detention. Including by dogs.

Israel’s foreign ministry responded to the article, writing, “Today, the @nytimes chose to publish one of the worst blood libels ever to appear in the modern press. In an unfathomable inversion of reality, and through an endless stream of baseless lies, propagandist Nicholas Kristof turns the victim into the accused. Israel – whose citizens were the victims of the most horrific sexual crimes committed by Hamas on October 7, and whose hostages were later subjected to further sexual abuse – is portrayed as the guilty party. This publication is no coincidence. It is part of a false and well-orchestrated anti-Israel campaign aimed at placing Israel on the UN Secretary-General’s blacklist. Israel will fight these lies with the truth – and the truth will prevail.”

Kristof’s article sparked a fierce debate across the media and led to many articles both in support of him and against. The Times released a statement on Tuesday, shooting down rumors that Kristof was on the chopping block over the article.

https://x.com/NYTimesPR/status/2054257854345888161
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Israel attacks New York Times over ‘systematic rape’ claims
Henry Bodkin
Tue, May 12, 2026


Nicholas Kristof, a journalist at the New York Times, claimed that sexual violence had become a central element of the mistreatment of Palestinians.

Israel has accused the New York Times of promoting a “blood libel” after the newspaper alleged widespread rape and other sexual abuse of Palestinians at the hands of prison guards.

Writing in the title’s Opinion section, Nicholas Kristof, one of the paper’s star columnists, described allegations from interviews with 14 alleged victims, as well as multiple interviews with NGOs and campaign groups.

In the piece, headlined “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians”, Mr Kristof claimed that in recent years Israel had built a security apparatus in which sexual violence had become standard and a central element of the mistreatment of Palestinians.

However, Israel’s government as well as some journalists and experts have criticised Mr Kristof’s methodology and accused him of giving a platform to Palestinian propagandists.

Among the instances of alleged abuse, Mr Kristof quoted an unnamed Gazan journalist, said to have been detained by Israeli forces in 2024, who reportedly said he had been raped by a prison guard’s dog.

Israel accused Nicholas Kristof of turning the ‘victim into the accused’ given that Hamas had used sexual violence during the Oct 7 attacks - Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit

He also reported an allegation that a man had to have his genitals amputated because they had been beaten so badly. The piece recounted a number of allegations of male prisoners being raped with batons and other items. Accusations of sexual abuse against women and children detainees also appeared in the article.

Mr Kristof said there was no evidence that Israel’s leaders ordered sexual abuse of prisoners.

The columnist highlighted a speech by Benjamin Netanyahu in which the Israeli prime minister asked the world: “Where the hell are you?” as he called for condemnation of Hamas’s use of sexual violence during the Oct 7 atrocity.

“Think of it this way: The horrific abuse inflicted on Israeli women on Oct 7 now happens to Palestinians day after day,” Mr Kristof wrote.

“It persists because of silence, indifference and the failure of American and Israeli officials alike to answer Netanyahu’s query: Where the hell are you?”

Benjamin Netanyahu called for international condemnation of Hamas’s use of sexual violence during the Oct 7 atrocity - Shalev Shalom/POOL

Comparing the nature – but not the scale – of the alleged abuse to other conflicts, such as the Congo and Sudan, he said that a combination of “dehumanisation and impunity” can lead to a “drift towards savagery”.

He said the US was “complicit” in sexual abuse because of its financial support for Israel’s security establishment.

As well as prison staff, the article made allegations of sexual abuse against soldiers, settlers in the West Bank, and officers from the Shin Bet internal security agency.

The new allegations have echoes of the Sde Teiman scandal, in which nine prison officers were detained after grainy footage emerged allegedly showing them sexually abusing a Palestinian prisoner behind a wall of shields.

A prisoner from Gaza was reportedly later taken to hospital with tears to his rectum.

The arrest of the officers prompted outrage on the Right, which led to an invasion of the prison complex by supporters, and all charges were subsequently dropped.

In response to Mr Kristof’s column, Israel’s ministry of foreign affairs (MFA) said: “Today, the @nytimes chose to publish one of the worst blood libels ever to appear in the modern press.

“In an unfathomable inversion of reality, and through an endless stream of baseless lies, propagandist Nicholas Kristof turns the victim into the accused.

“Israel – whose citizens were the victims of the most horrific sexual crimes committed by Hamas on Oct 7, and whose hostages were later subjected to further sexual abuse – is portrayed as the guilty party.”

The MFA described the article as part of a “false and well-orchestrated anti-Israel campaign”.

Today, the @nytimes chose to publish one of the worst blood libels ever to appear in the modern press.

In an unfathomable inversion of reality, and through an endless stream of baseless lies, propagandist Nicholas Kristof turns the victim into the accused.
Israel - whose…

— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) May 11, 2026

Honest Reporting, a pro-Israel media monitoring organisation, claimed that one of the principal named complainants in the New York Times article had previously expressed pro-Hamas sentiment, and alleged discrepancies between his accounts.

It also accused Mr Kristof of relying on “ideological” NGOs for his research.

Blood libel is an anti-Semitic trope which falsely accuses Jews of murdering Christians in order to use their blood in the performance of religious rituals. The term has come to be used more broadly to mean any unpleasant or damaging false accusation.

Sexual violence ‘central to Hamas terror’

On Tuesday, the Civil Commission, an Israeli research group looking into sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas on and after Oct 7, released a major report which stated that sexual violence was a “central component” of the jihadist group’s attempt to terrorise Israel.

It concluded that “sexual and gender-based violence was systematic, widespread, and integral to the Oct 7 attacks and against hostages in captivity”.

The conclusions were based on analysis of more than 10,000 photographs and video segments, as well as more than 430 testimonies and interviews with survivors, witnesses, released hostages, experts, and family members, the authors said.

The commission said it had identified 13 recurring forms of sexual and gender-based violence across multiple sites.

These include rape and gang rape, sexual torture and mutilation, forced nudity, executions linked to sexual violence, postmortem sexual abuse, and sexual assaults carried out in the presence of family members.

It did not give numbers for either proven or estimated instances of sexual abuse from the day of the massacre because collecting evidence had been made so difficult by the fact that the alleged crimes took place in an active war zone.

American Rightwingers have Always Been Staunch Antisemites

Saint Patrick's Day in the US in 1926 shows Christian American nationalist KKK hurtling the very Catholic St. Patrick and the snakes off American soil and into ther sea. "Snakes" include "temporal power", "Rome in politics"... 

 

To be admitted into the KKK, you had to be Protestant, the phony "native-born", white, gentile (i.e. non-Jewish), and believe in White Supremacy and the moronic "Americanism"... All of which could be lumped under the Nazi-Fascist ideology that Trump has promoted as MAGA.

Yet, these hypocrites "love" Israel and the genocidal Zionists. All the way from their origins in Jew-hating colonial, protestant, anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish England, Scotland, and Ireland, the would-be Klansmen of Appalachia and the Deep South were inveterate antisemites who blamed Jews for killing Jesus. When Jewish lawyers and human rights advocates went to the barbaric south to defend falsely accused African Americans, they too were killed by racist white mobs.

That vein remains entrenched in the collective mind of modern-day right-wing white Christian supremacist groups like MAGA, the Republican Party anf their offshoots in the KKK, the NRA, Proud Boys and the like. During the 1920s and 1930s, they formed the American Nazi Party which held conventions on the same scale as Hitler's massive Nazi gatherings. These are the same people who opposed American intervention against militaristic Fascist Germany during both World Wars. Had the Japanese not bombed Pearl Harbor, the US would probably never have joined the war against the German Fascists because of the sympathy of White Americans for Nazism.

How can they reconcile their desire of an exclusively "Christian America" with their bigoted love for Israel? Just the same as the bigoted Zionist criminals and genociders who want an exclusively "Jewish Israel", to which they refer without an ounce of shame "A democracy for Jews only" when they, the foreign settlers, enslave the indigenous Palestinians who make up more than half of the totality of historic Palestine's population. The Zionists know this well, and that is why their "defensive" war against the Palestinians is a war of killing, destruction, displacement, annihilation and extermination. They think that violence and brutality will "cull" the Palestinian population down to a manageable minority. For now, they often use the term "Demographic Time Bomb" to describe the looming disaster awaiting their "Zionist colony on the Mediterranean" in view of the unremitting Palestinian prolific child-bearing. No wonder that the prime target of the merciless killing by the Zionist settler army in Gaza was the maternities.
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‘Deep-Seated Cancer’: Fox’s Lawrence Jones Sounds Off on Right-Wing Anti-Semitism
Isaac Schorr
Thu, May 14, 2026


LEFT: Lawrence Jones (Screenshot) RIGHT: Rand Paul (Photo by Michael Brochstein/Sipa US via AP Images)

Fox News’ Lawrence Jones sounded off on the rise of right-wing anti-Semitism on Wednesday while reacting to a report about Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) son berating Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) in an anti-Semitic outburst the night before.

NOTUS’s Reese Gorman reported that on Tuesday the senator’s offspring, William Paul, drunkenly interrupted a conversation between himself and Lawler at a bar on Tuesday evening.

From Gorman’s story:

William Paul was seated a couple of seats down from Lawler at the restaurant bar, and interrupted a conversation between NOTUS and Lawler to say that if [Thomas] Massie loses, it’s going to be because of “your people.”

“My people?” Lawler asked Paul.

“Yeah, you Jews,” Paul responded.

“Do you think I’m Jewish?” Lawler asked. “I’m not.”

“Oh wow, I’m so sorry for calling you a Jew,” Paul said.

He then continued on a tirade about how Jews were “anti-American” and how Lawler and his “Jewish supporters” served Israel more than America. Lawler repeatedly pushed back and engaged with Paul, defending his support of Israel, and told Paul he was being antisemitic.

Paul went on to flip Lawler off and trip over his own barstool on his way out of the establishment.

Jones expressed his disgust in a post on X.

“There’s a deep-seated cancer going on. I’m not surprised by the antisemitism on the left, particularly among those who embrace radical Islam. However, the rise of antisemitism on the political right is concerning,” he wrote. “The sudden belief that Jews are solely responsible for their problems is absurd. How did a movement that prides itself on personal responsibility and resilience end up adopting such a victimhood mentality?!”

There’s a deep-seated cancer going on. I’m not surprised by the antisemitism on the left, particularly among those who embrace radical Islam. However, the rise of antisemitism on the political right is concerning. The sudden belief that Jews are solely responsible for their… https://t.co/AjWotp2f0w

— Lawrence Jones III (@LawrenceBJones3) May 13, 2026

At one recent fundraiser for Massie, whose primary opponent has been endorsed by President Donald Trump, former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene began railing against “Jewish billionaires.” Massie himself has pitted “Zionism” against “American Patriotism.”

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For more of Hanibaal Atheos's opinions, check:

https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2026/03/chronic-antisemitism-continues-to-brew.html 

https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2026/05/reckoning-time-for-zionists.html

 

Epstein Files' 'Wonderful-Secrets' Hero Flies with Trump to China

 

Hollywood Director and Epstein Associate Accused of Sexual Misconduct Flies to China With Trump Aboard Air Force One
Charlie Nash
Wed, May 13, 2026 



Brett Ratner, the Hollywood director and Jeffrey Epstein associate who was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women, accompanied President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One this week as part of the president’s delegation to China.

Ratner flew to China as part of Trump’s delegation, alongside prominent CEOs, including Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Apple CEO Tim Cook, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, and Meta President and Vice Chairman Dina Powell McCormick, according to reports.

The New York Post reported that Ratner would be scouting for locations for his upcoming Rush Hour 4 film as part of the trip.

Ratner was ousted from Hollywood in 2017 after multiple women, including actresses Natasha Henstridge and Olivia Munn, accused him of sexual misconduct. A former talent agency staffer has accused him of rape. Ratner has denied the allegations.

Late last year, the director was also found to have had a relationship with Epstein, the late child sex trafficker. In January, a photo of Ratner and Epstein cuddling two unknown women was released as part of the Epstein files.

Ratner returned to Hollywood this year as the director and producer of Melania – a documentary movie about First Lady Melania Trump, who was heavily involved in the film’s production.

The movie was praised by President Trump, who, like Ratner, was also previously a friend and associate of Epstein. Several current and former members of the Trump administration have been found to have had relationships with Epstein and his accomplice, convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, including Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick., Elon Musk, and Steve Bannon.

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I'm Leaving on a Jet Plane..Don't Know When I'll Be Back Again

It's HIS country now. Not ours anymore. 

Americans relocating permanently out of the US are those with brains, those who create jobs and businesses. Emma Lazarus's wretched refuse can't leave. Those who are leaving and renouncing their US citizenship can only be two types of people: Those with the means, i.e. those who have the money to do so, and who therefore have significant education and knowledge of the world; AND Democrat-leaning Americans who are sick at watching their country turned into a banana republic whose sole function is to serve a senile imbecile dick-tator propped up like a god by a huge bunch of illiterate inbred morons from the sticks.

We hear that billionnaires are punishing California's high cost of living and taxes by leaving the State. But they are unlikely to move to one of the backward, ignorant states of the south and the middle. They are more likely to move to Europe, Canada or Mexico.

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Record number of Americans are leaving the country and renouncing their citizenship for good, report says
Josh Marcus
Wed, May 13, 2026


Record number of Americans are leaving the country and renouncing their citizenship for good, report says

Americans appear to be leaving the U.S. at once-in-a-century levels, fleeing divisive politics and a cost of living crisis.

In 2025, the flow of Americans ditching the 50 states for good caused the first estimated net outward migration of the U.S. population in decades, something that likely hasn’t happened since the 1929 Great Depression.

“Previously, the Americans leaving were super-adventurous and well-credentialed,” Jen Barnett, founder of the resettlement consultancy firm Expatsi, told The Wall Street Journal. “Now they’re ordinary people, like me.”

In 2024, Barnett joined in the trend, relocating to Yucatán, Mexico.

The U.S. government doesn’t officially track the number of Americans who’ve resettled abroad, so estimates of just how many people left can vary.

In 2025, net outward migration was between negative 10,000 and negative 295,000 people, Brookings estimates, forecasting a similar negative trend for 2026.

Others have pegged the outflow at around 150,000 people in 2025.

Before 2009, a typical year saw 200 to 400 people renounce their citizenship. By 2025, that figure was nearing 5,000, with more renunciations expected this year because fees to do so have dropped steeply.

Nearly all of the European Union’s 27 member states have seen record levels of Americans arriving to live and work there in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis found.

Outside of Europe, Mexico is another popular destination.

Mexico is home to the largest concentration of U.S. expats, according to the State Department (Getty)

Approximately 1.6 million Americans live there, the State Department estimates, the largest overall concentration of American expats in the world.

Even more people are considering making the change.

A November 2025 Gallup poll found that one in five Americans would like to permanently move, double the figure from ten years earlier.

A variety of factors are driving the trend, according to the data, including political disagreements and affordability issues. Further, “golden visas” for foreign investors, remote work, and incentives for digital nomads all have opened new pathways for leaving the U.S.

In addition to driving Americans abroad, the lack of affordability in the U.S. economy is expected to be a major issue in the domestic midterm elections (AFP/Getty)

“For the better part of two centuries, the story of American migration ran in a single direction: inward,” Global Citizen Solutions, a citizenship advisory firm, wrote in a recent report on the trend. “The United States was the gravitational center of global human movement, the place people came to, not the place people left. That narrative is shifting.”

According to a February 2025 Harris poll, 68 percent of Americans considering leaving the U.S. cited unattainable home ownership and a sense they were “merely surviving instead of thriving.”

Meanwhile, 49 percent cited high living expenses and disagreements with the political situation in the U.S.

Within the U.S., another migration is underway, as high-cost states like California and Hawaii have lost population in recent years.
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Opinion
Let Trump build his vanity projects as a warning to everyone else | Opinion
Rex Huppke, USA TODAY
Wed, May 13, 2026



Inflation has surged to the highest level in three years, the cost of living is up and we’re stuck in a war with Iran. But don’t worry. President Donald Trump is busy painting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue.

Hopefully, this new $13 million pool project doesn’t distract him from his now more than $1 billion White House ballroom project. Or from his $100 million Triumphal Arch project. Or from putting his face on U.S. currency and passports. And his name on buildings and airports.

That sounds like sarcasm, but I’ve settled into what may be a controversial opinion: Let Trump build his vanity projects. Let his Republican boot-smoochers etch “President Donald J. Trump” into marble facades and slap that moniker on whichever edifice or coin or government document they see fit.

Let his failed presidency remain a stain for generations to laugh at.

Let Trump paint the Reflecting Pool and build monuments to himself

You’re likely waiting for me to write something along the lines of, “And then, when the would-be/wannabe king is gone, we can rip the name down, burn the documents and sandblast the Donald J. Trump off every stone surface!”

But that’s not what I want. Not at all.

When Trump’s second term ends, assuming America makes it that far, I want his name and image and his every act of tone-deaf, unchecked narcissism left standing. I want the Reflecting Pool to stay a garish bright blue, like a Mar-a-Lago swimming pool on the National Mall.

I want his absurd ballroom to stand like an unsightly wart on the White House grounds. I want the Triumphal Arch, built when there was no triumph in sight, to loom as a toweringly obnoxious reminder of the dumb and egotistical man whom Americans – about 77 million of them when Trump won his second term – willfully invited into the People’s House.

The Trump era is not one Americans should ever forget

A statue of President Donald Trump at Trump National Doral Miami resort on April 30, 2026, in Florida.

Erasure of this period in American history would be too easy. It would let too many off the hook for a decision that, as I write this, is bankrupting farmers, putting U.S. troops in danger and depleting our military resources, pushing energy prices through the roof and driving income inequality to a 30-year high.

Trump rose to political power via cruelty, dishonesty and division. He legitimized bullying, eroded America’s standing on the world stage and sowed doubts about the very foundations of our democracy. He fomented a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol and then, defying all logic, came back four years later and conned a majority of Americans into giving him another term, promising a golden age of low prices and a vengeful end to an immigrant crime wave he concocted out of whole cloth.

Our country is now reaping what MAGA voters and a political media system hellbent on normalizing Trump sowed, and I’ll be damned if I want any of them – or anyone, for that matter – to forget the historically colossal decision.

They put a self-aggrandizing conman with zero regard for humanity into the most powerful position in the world. They should sit with that for decades to come.

Tourists will one day learn about and laugh at Trump's arrogance

So let Trump erect, print and distribute these unmerited honors to himself. And keep letting Republicans watch as it happens.

When a tour bus rides under the Triumphal Arch years from now, I want the guide to explain which president decided it would be a good idea, and how much taxpayer money was dished out to build it while a sizable swath of the populace struggled to afford ground beef.



Trump’s earlier estimates for the ballroom began at $200 million when it was announced in July, rose to $250 million in September and then to $300 million in October. The ballroom will be financed by private donations, Trump said.

President Donald Trump released a new rendering of the East Wing on Truth Social Feb. 3, 2026. Trump said the price of his new White House ballroom has risen again to $400 million − double the initial estimate.

Every day, people visit Washington, DC, and view the Lincoln Memorial and learn what an important leader the country had in Abraham Lincoln. They visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial and understand how the civil rights icon made the world a better place. They see the names etched into the walls of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and recognize those who made true sacrifices for this country.

I want future visitors to also see the outlandish giant ballroom attached to the White House like an ornate Costco and learn about a president who made no sacrifice for this country, but lavishly spent its money while the cost of living soared.

Keep the Trump name on the now-shuttered Kennedy Center

Workers react to journalists watching the installation of President Donald Trump's name on the facade of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on Dec. 19, 2025. The sign on the building now reads “The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.”

I want them to see the Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts and learn that a living president came along and had the gall to put his name ahead of the name of a beloved former president who was assassinated. They’ll learn how Trump decided to shut the center down for two years for “renovations,” and how that was really to hide the embarrassment of artists canceling performances once Trump’s name was put on the building.

They’ll see the “American flag blue” Reflecting Pool and read about how brutally and rightfully Trump was mocked for his bizarre focus on aesthetics and gold fixtures and gold statues of himself.

That’s as it should be. The desire to tear down and do away with every trace of Trump will one day soon be palpable. I get it. I’ll feel it too.

But it would be the wrong move.

I want Trump voters to have daily reminders of the mistake they made

The fact that this unhinged snake-oil salesman was elected president of the United States on two occasions is not something any American should ever forget. Trump happened, and the consequences to our democracy, to our national unity, to our image around the world have been incalculable.

Once we move past the cruelty and incompetence, nothing could serve as a better reminder of this American blunder than a tacky, bright-blue Reflecting Pool in our nation’s capital. Or tourist groups breaking out in boos when Trump’s name is brought up. Or some prominent buildings that carry that same cringe-inducing name. Standing reminders of how easily the masses can be fooled, and how dangerous it would be to ever let that happen again.

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Iran War/Oil Boom: Nepotistic Corruption in the Trump Out House

The White House warned staff not to abuse insider info. Then $1.7 billion changed hands 1 hour before an Iran war reveal
Chase Kell
Tue, May 12, 2026 


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Weeks after the White House sent an email to staffers warning them against using confidential information to place trades on financial markets, more questionable oil market activity is raising suspicions.

Well-timed oil bets that seemed to be able to predict the future started making headlines in March. Using prediction market platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi, prescient bettors were able to capitalize on fluctuating oil prices just before President Trump made major announcements on the war in Iran.

But it's not just oil bets that are winning big. In April, an American soldier was arrested on accusations that he leveraged classified information to make bets on the operation that captured former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Trump later told reporters that he's "not happy with any of that stuff."

Suspicions of insider trading were heightened even further on May 6, when $1.7 billion worth of oil contracts changed hands just an hour before a report from Axios sent oil prices tumbling.
More suspicious bets

As MarketWatch reports, trading in U.S. crude futures spiked on May 6 just before Axios published a report that America and Iran could be closing in on a deal to end the war (1).

Axios' report (2) — which was published at around 4:50 a.m. Eastern time — caused West Texas Intermediate oil futures to fall 7%. Meanwhile, roughly 17,300 oil contracts with an estimated value of nearly $2 billion had already been traded.

MarketWatch spoke with several oil-market experts who believe the suspicious activity could be an indication that someone with advanced knowledge of a potential end to the war was trading ahead of Axios' report.

"All federal employees are subject to government ethics guidelines that prohibit the use of nonpublic information for financial benefit," Davis Ingle, a White House spokesman, shared with MarketWatch. "However, any implication that Administration officials are engaged in such activity without evidence is baseless and irresponsible reporting."

Bloomberg reported in April that The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is investigating these suspicious oil futures trades and their suspected connection to Trump's announcements on the Iran war (3). And while a CFTC representative told MarketWatch that the agency can't confirm or deny such an investigation, the Department of Justice has reportedly opened its own probe into the matter (4).

As the DOJ began investigating these controversial oil price bets, Trump shared his distaste for prediction markets with reporters.

"I was never much in favor of it," Trump said from the Oval Office, according to the New York Times (5). "I don't like it conceptually. It is what it is."

The president's family, however, is heavily invested in the prediction market industry. In fact, Trump Media & Technology Group recently announced it would be launching its own prediction market platform called Truth Predict (6).

Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son and a director of Truth Social, has also invested in Polymarket and serves as an unpaid advisor to the platform. He serves as an advisor to Kalshi as well.

With this arrangement, the president's prediction market comments seem to clash directly with his family's current business endeavors. And while he says that he doesn't favor prediction markets at all, in 2025, the Trump administration reportedly backed away from enforcing oversight measures against Polymarket (7).

"Presidential statements used to be the gold standard, but this is not true for President Trump," Jeffrey A. Engel, founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, told the NYT (5). "What he does is more important than what he says. I don't think his comments will bother the prediction markets in the least."

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This article originally appeared on Moneywise.com under the title: The White House warned staff not to abuse insider info. Then $1.7 billion changed hands 1 hour before an Iran war reveal

[Updated]: Thanks to the Great Moron: World Cup is a non-Event

The piece below claims that international sports events like the World Cup always fall short, and that the impending disaster of a World Cup taking place across three countries, the US, Mexico and Canada, is almost certain to happen because of Donald Dumb's vulgar and demeanning posture vis-a-vis Canada and Mexico.

The real reasons why FIFA is sounding the alarm is because people around the world do not like the arrogance, xenophobia and racism of Trump's US. 

Gasoline is expensive and so are flight tickets and game tickets. 

People are angry at the sublime Trump asskisser, FIFA president Gianni Infantino, who awarded the senile Moron a 'Peass' Prize. 

People worldwide are angry at the Iran war launched by the Imbecile-in-Chief on behalf of a war criminal like ultra-orthodox Zionist Benjamin Netanyahu who is personally responsible for the GAZA genocide.

Potential visitors from what Trump called "shithole" countries are banned from obtaining visas and even if granted visas, they will not attend for fear of being abused, mistreated, bullied, maltreated, brutalized  and potentially killed by Trump's two militias, ICE-GESTAPO and U.S. CBP. 

Even visitors from "non-Shithole" (supposedly friendly) countries are wary of an aggressive US customs that might land them in jail for no reason whatsoever under the racist white supremacist policies by Stephen Miller, the sinister Zionist "advisor" of the Great Moron. 

Regular Canadian and Mexican travel to the US over the summer season has dropped by nearly 60% this year compared to pre-Trump years. 

Penny-pinching avaricious Trump is less likely to support hosting states' federal contributions to their budgets for the FIFA events, so economic disaster is looming.

There are questions about many teams' refusal to play on US soil, so FIFA had to re-engineer its schedules to have teams play uniquely on Canadian or Mexican soil. 

The aggressive and heavily armed racist white supremacist organizations that Trump has enabled are perceived as dangerous and inimical to foreign travelers and visitors, so people will probably skip this World Cup because it is not worth the headaches of having to deal with these violent neo-Nazi groups.

So, it is not only economic drivers that are already failing this World Cup; it is the nasty and unfriendly America of Trump. Obviously Trump would love the financial windfall - he worships money - but without the "damn foreigners". But this dumbass idiot doesn't understand what makes America REALLY GREAT. 

These large events orchestrated by big companies have one objective and only one: How to fleece stupid fans (who find kicking a ball an exercise of nationalistic fervor) of their money. People sort of accepted this begnin agreement of sorts. But Trump's adding insult to injury by humiliating people at consulates and airports because of their origin and skin color is the final nail in the coffin of any feeling of sympathy for the US under Trump.

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U.S. hotels are calling the World Cup a ‘non-event’ and 80% warn bookings are falling short of expectations, report finds
Sasha Rogelberg
Updated Tue, May 12, 2026 



Last year, FIFA president Gianni Infantino hailed the upcoming World Cup as the equivalent of “104 Super Bowls,” quantifying just how big the sport known as football worldwide is—or, at least in comparison to America’s football version. With the average Super Bowl getting 125.6 million views annually, Infantino expects the World Cup to attract the equivalent viewership of three Super Bowls a day for all 39 days of the competition. FIFA predicts games would touch six billion viewers globally, and expects the influx of travelers and tourism will help contribute to a projected $30.5 billion economic windfall for the three host countries of the U.S, Mexico and Canada.

The U.S. hospitality industry, however, is skeptical of the event’s money-making promises.

Of more than 200 hotels surveyed across the 11 U.S. host cities, nearly 80% said hotel bookings are tracking below initial forecasts, a new report from the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA) found. Though FIFA data shows more than five million tickets have already been booked for the event, “indicators suggest the anticipated economic lift may fall short of expectations,” the report said.

Most respondents noted trouble with overseas visitors obtaining visas, in addition to other geopolitical challenges, as the primary factors slowing down travel demand. Other U.S. hotels said FIFA created “an artificial early demand signal” with an overcommitment to hotel blocks. In March, FIFA exercised an opt-out clause in its contract and cancelled thousands of hotel rooms in all 16 of the World Cup host cities, including Philadelphia and Dallas, to accommodate shifting demand.

According to a FIFA spokesperson, the organization’s accommodations team worked closely with hotels to adjust room blocks, including on rates and room types.

“All room releases were conducted in line with contractually agreed timelines with hotel partners—a standard practice for an event of this scale,” the spokesperson said in a statement to Fortune. “In many cases, room releases were made ahead of established deadlines to further accommodate requests from hotels.”

The hotels surveyed—in the cities of Kansas City, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, Houston, Dallas, Miami, Philadelphia, and Atlanta—blamed low international demand, with some saying booking pace was trending below even typical summer expectations. The remaining five host cities are spread out between Canada and Mexico, comprised of Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey in Mexico and Toronto and Vancouver in Canada. This year is the first time since 2002 that a World Cup has been hosted by multiple countries, and may be among the most politically charged one yet following a year of high tensions after the U.S. imposed tariffs globally, including on its co-bidders. All of this combined, the hotels say, makes the World Cup a little more than a blip on the map.

“Many respondents describe the tournament as a ‘non-event’ in these cities,” the report said.

Unique challenges for the 2026 World Cup

Total expenditures for the World Cup—including from host cities, FIFA, investors, and tourists—will likely top $13.9 billion, FIFA estimates. The U.S. alone is expected to spend more than $11 billion to host the event. However, analysts have cast doubt on FIFA’s ability to deliver on its economic promises. An Oxford Economists report published last month predicted “some GDP growth” as a result of the games over the summer, but only temporary job gains in the leisure and hospitality sectors.

Just a few weeks away, the first match will kick off on June 11. The tournament coincides with a period of tumultuous travel some warn could hamper attendance. People already have travel wariness thanks to the Iran war, now entering its second month, which led to a de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz and has left oil prices elevated above pre-war levels.

Last month, Goldman Sachs warned Europe’s jet fuel supplies could fall below its key 23-day shortage threshold—though carriers including the Swiss International Air Lines say they have enough supply for flights through the end of June. Still, the average price of a transcontinental flight rose from $167 in late February to $414 in mid-March, according to a Deutsche Bank analysis.

The costs of attending the World Cup stateside go beyond just airfare. Tickets for many of the matches top $1,000. And that’s on the lower end: The World Cup final at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on July 19 costs nearly $33,000. NJ Transit, which originally had a round-trip ticket package from New York City to MetLife Stadium for $150, lowered it to $105 last week following public backlash over the massive price hike. On average, tickets from New York Penn Station to the stadium are typically $13 for the 45 minute train ride.

The FIFA spokesperson said tickets have been released at various price categories, including a minimum of 1,000 tickets at $60 each for each match, including the final.

Though Infantino said the steep ticket costs were a product of “market rates” in the U.S., where the entertainment economy is so developed, even President Donald Trump admitted the tickets were too expensive.

“I wouldn’t pay it either, to be honest,” Trump told The New York Post last week.

That’s in addition to some soccer fans’ decision to snub the U.S. during the World Cup. In January, 170,000 people in the Netherlands signed a petition calling on the Dutch national team to boycott the event following the Trump administration’s threats to take over Greenland. The Dutch cabinet rejected the boycott.

Lisa Delpy Neirotti, director of the Sport Management Program at the George Washington University, said while politics may be a factor to consider, soccer fans will be more swayed by ticket and travel prices than anything else.

“The geopolitical issues are a very small piece of it,” she told Fortune.

Why global sporting events usually fall short

Exorbitant costs and logistical barriers are certainly a drag for soccer fans looking to attend the

World Cup, Delpy Neirotti said, but international sporting events have a history of setting unrealistically high economic aspirations.

“Everybody wants to hear big numbers, right?” she said. “That gets everybody excited. That gets everybody to buy in.”

Part of those unrealistic expectations may come from the events’ propensity to spend beyond initial projections. A 2024 University of Oxford study found the previous three summer Olympic Games (prior to Paris’ in 2024, where researchers did not collect data) exceeded budgets by 185% as a result of immense security requirements and infrastructure demands. The 1976 Olympic Summer Games in Montreal cost $1.5 billion more than its project’s $124 million budget, and it took taxpayers about 30 years to pay off the 10-digit debt.

That’s not the case for all international games. The 2022 World Cup in Qatar contributed nearly 1% of the country’s GDP, though the event was more likely to attract out-of-country tourists given the country’s smaller population. Its small size also meant a stronger concentration of venues, which made it easier for attendees to view multiple matches in one trip.

Delpy Neirotti does not expect an economic disaster from this year’s World Cup, but does warn that expectations should be tempered. There’s a likelihood that as most tickets become available, more soccer fans will book last-minute trips to give the hospitality and tourism sector a boost.

“It does bring economic impact, but it may not bring the impact that the report said,” Delpy Neirotti concluded. “You get all this hype, and then it kind of falls short. So then people are disappointed, but they still should be happy with it.”

This story was originally featured on Fortune.com

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[Update May 13] 

 

Why So Many World Cup Tickets Remain Unsold One Month Out

Margaret Fleming
Mon, May 11, 2026 

Only a month remains until the World Cup descends upon the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, and thousands of tickets remain unsold, listed at extremely high prices.

Prices are starting to fall—barely—but FIFA will need a more dramatic drop in costs if it wants to fill stadiums, experts tell Front Office Sports.

FIFA opened its alleged final “last minute” sales window on April 1, saying it would stay open through the tournament. This would be the first time that any member of the public could access tickets straight from FIFA without needing to be selected at random, or go through a federation or special offer.

But FIFA didn’t put up all remaining tickets on April 1. The global governing body made some tickets available that day, but said at the time that “tickets will continue to be released on a rolling basis,” and it has continued slowly releasing more inventory as the tournament gets closer.

Sometimes, FIFA announces its releases, as the global governing body did for two drops on April 22 and May 7. The official announcement came two days before the April 22 drop and one day before the May 7 window. In these cases, fans wait for hours in the virtual queue, and when they finally get access to view tickets, they find prices that are higher than they want to pay, or experience glitches and error messages.

In other instances, the inventory fluctuates without an official announcement. On Monday, some ticket categories had appeared, disappeared, or changed prices from last week’s official drop.

In both cases, FIFA is drip-feeding tickets to a tournament that is already seeing unprecedented demand.

“It’s revenue maximization from FIFA,” Kieran Maguire, author and podcast cohost of The Price of Football, tells FOS. “I think FIFA have abandoned the traditional soccer fan and they’re pursuing a strategy of making as much money as they can, so are therefore creating artificial scarcity in the market by having small drops of tickets.”

Thousands of tickets remain unsold. The issue isn’t a lack of interest—FIFA said in January it received more than 500 million ticket requests—or a lack of inventory. Plenty of fans are interested in buying tickets, and plenty of tickets are still available for them.

FIFA’s problem is that demand does not exist at the prices that are being listed, ticketing expert Jim McCarthy tells FOS. “It would not be hard to sell this tournament, sell every single ticket of this tournament, but the prices are aggressive,” McCarthy says.

When FOS participated in the official ticket drops on April 22 and May 7, the virtual queue took several hours each time. Once inside, the April 22 drop was riddled with error messages, allowing only two match selections amid the warnings before inadvertently returning to the queue. On May 7, the system allowed more selections—FOS observed high prices for host nations and a ticket to the final listed at nearly $33,000—before again reverting to the line.

FIFA did not respond to questions about its strategy or whether it would lower prices in the future, nor did it confirm whether it had released more tickets on Monday.
Will FIFA Lower Prices?

On the secondary market, prices for group-stage matches are already coming down. But on FIFA’s primary platform, prices largely remain stubbornly high.

FIFA is using dynamic pricing for the World Cup as it did at last summer’s Club World Cup. Those prices eventually plummeted to nearly nothing; FIFA offered $4 tickets to see Lionel Messi in Miami and free tickets in Seattle.

The Record

There are some signs of ticket prices dipping, although not to levels that would make them widely affordable.

For the U.S. opener against Paraguay in Los Angeles on June 11, the prices for the highest-tier tickets, Front Categories 1 and 2, fell from $4,105 and $2,330 last week to $3,420 and $2,135, respectively, by Monday. For the U.S. against Australia in Seattle, FIFA added four Category 2 seats for $570. And after listing a Front Category 1 ticket to the final last week for nearly $33,000, FIFA had two tickets in that tier for $10,990 each on Monday.

With one month until the tournament, FIFA still has thousands of tickets available. For the U.S.-Paraguay opener, 10 sections each still showed an inventory of more than 100 available tickets on Monday. But FIFA is still keeping prices for those seats high. In one section alone, FIFA had more than 250 Category 1 tickets listed for $2,735 each.

McCarthy compares the phenomenon to the concert industry’s “Blue Dot Fever,” a recent trend of artists canceling tours due to lagging ticket sales, with a name that alludes to blue dots that appear on Ticketmaster’s website to represent unsold seats. He names Jennifer Lopez trying to model her tour off Taylor Swift as an example.

“She could have a very successful tour, but not in that way,” McCarthy says. “There’s a disconnect between the actual level of demand, both in terms of quantity and price, and what she put out as a product.”

Some of the prices are less costly. The Jordan-Algeria match in Northern California had a get-in price of $140 on Monday, while Germany against Côte d’Ivoire in Toronto had a cheapest ticket of $285.

But many group-stage matches still cost several hundred or even thousands of dollars.

On Monday, $380 was a common get-in price for many matches including Czechia–South Africa, Curaçao–Côte d’Ivoire, Algeria-Austria, Turkey-Paraguay, and Qatar-Swizterland. For tournament favorites like Spain, England, and the Netherlands, FIFA had a get-in price of more than $1,000 for some group-stage matches.

Last week, FIFA president Gianni Infantino defended the high ticket prices, saying “we have to apply market rates” and 25% of group-stage matches cost less than $300, which he said was cheaper than a college football game. But Maguire pushes back on that idea.

“For many countries who have qualified for the tournament, they are not wealthy, their GDP is relatively low,” Maguire says. “To therefore be treated as, ‘Well, because it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, we’re FIFA and we’re going to scalp you, and then blame it upon America,’ I think is incredibly harsh.”

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How Long do Colonial Rapes of Indigenous Nations Last? A Brief Overview

This is how colonial empires civilize the conquered natives

Though Rome existed during the middle of the first millennium BC, the Romans ruled an empire all around the Mediterranean (Mare nostrum = our sea) from 27 BC to AD 476 in the West, and continued in the East as the Greek Byzantine Empire until 1453. Where are the Romans and their empire today? In the trashbin of history. They were kicked out and their empire dismantled by German tribes of the time whom they refer to as "barbarians".

The Arab Muslim Moors invaded and took Spain and southern France. They settled in their "Andalus" colony and stayed nearly 800 years (711 AD until the fall of Granada in 1492). They pilfered the country of its resources and waged many wars agaisnt the indigenous Spaniards, but then they were kicked out.

The Europeans, led by the French, invaded and conquered Palestine between 1095 and 1291. As they marched across southeastern Europe to reach Palestine, they looted, raped, and massacred the people of many cities, including other Christians (of the Orthodox faith) as well as the Muslim population of Jerusalem. They created kingdoms, counties and principalities. They founded settlements and bred with the locals. But they were kicked out after 200 years. 

The French colonial creeps conquered Algeria (among other north African countries). They settled in their "Algérie Française" and stayed 130 years (1830 until 1962). They pilfered the country of its resources and committed racist massacres against the indigenous Algerians, but then they were kicked out.

The British colonial crooks invaded India (beginning in 1608) and traded and settled in what they called the "British Raj", which was the period of direct British rule over the Indian subcontinent from 1858 until 1947. But then they were kicked out after pilfering the resources of the country. 

The Germans first arrived in Namibia in 1884, when the territory was declared a protectorate of the German Empire, known as "German South West Africa". They massacred and pilfered, but luckily not for long. They left Namibia after World War I in 1915, when their colony was captured by Allied forces. 

The Dutch colonized South Africa by establishing a trading colony at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. They slowly expanded into a larger colony as Dutch farmers, known as Boers, began massacring and displacing indigenous African communities. But the crooked British got jealous so they captured the Cape Colony in 1795 and finalized its seizure in 1806. The British are sticky colonial bastards. White apartheid South Africa did not gain independence from the UK until 1931 and finally got rid of white European rule in 1994.

Vietnam, China, and many other countries had to fight to kick their European colonizers out. 

The colonizers ALWAYS claimed to be bringing civilization to the "savages". 

Yet, rarely have invading colonizers succeeded in permanently controlling their conquered victims and causing an actual GREAT REPLACEMENT of one population by another. When this did happen in history, it is usually because the numbers of invading thugs and thieves overwhelmed the local population in numbers and settlements, in massacres and ethnic cleansing campaigns. 

One example that comes to mind of a partially successful Great Replacement is the Turkic invasion of southeastern Europe. It was partially successful because they arrived in great numbers that outnumbered the indigenous populations. Turcomans began invading Europe in the late 13th century. They became known as Ottomans (after the name of their Sultan Osman) and their expansion and seizure of formely Greek-Byzantine-Eastern Roman territories culminated with their conquest of Constantinople (whose name they butchered into today's Istanbul) in 1453. They reached Vienna but were repelled by a Polish king. Ultimately, they began retreating from Southeastern europe, leaving behind them Islamized regions like Kosovo, Bosnia, Albania, though they failed at islamizing Greece. Eventually, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918 led to the creation of modern-day Turkey over what were Greek, Armenian and Kurdish territories. In other words, they were kicked out from most of the territories they had conquered during 600 years of occupation, except Anatolia and Western Thrace which constitute most of today's Turkey. Is this an instance of a partial success of a Great Replacement of indigenous peoples by a foreign invader? Perhaps. But I wouldn't dismiss the possibility of a Greek re-invasion and reconquest at some point in the future.

Now, please compare all of these colonizing enterprises with the divine Israel, born out of Yahweh's thigh like Venus and incepted by virtue of primitive Bronze Age writings - known as the Torah or Old Testament. The numbers of conquering Zionists is pathetically small (6 million?) compared to the 400 million Muslim Arabs that surround them. Give them 100, 200, 300 ...let's be generous with 800 years... Will they still be there? What chance do they have, really? No amount of technology, deceptive propaganda and sophisticated wizradry can compensate for the demographic disadvantage and the historical precedents.

Modern Zionsts claim they are descendants of the biblical Hebrews-Israelites, which is an abysmally false premise. Modern-day Zionists are relatively recent eastern European converts to the religion of Judaism and have no historical or genetic connection with the Hebrews. Their claims to Palestine are as absurd as, say, Muslim indonesians (Buddhists before converting to Islam) claiming property deeds to Mecca because they are Muslims! Granted that the Israelite Hebrews ruled Palestine for some 300 years under David and Solomon, but then other nations conquered it from them (Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, etc.). This bonkers "return" of the Zionists to Palestine is like the return of the Pink Panther - a farce of history that was enabled by favorable "colonial" circumstances. Once the circumstances change - and they are bound to change - the Zionists will have to leave like all the conquering colonizing bastards before them were kicked out of the places they colonized. They don't belong to the Near East any more than the British belonged to India or China, or that the Arabs belonged to Spain.

Inverse Robin Hood: Trump Steals from the Poor to Give the Rich

Oil company tycoons are his buddies. Elite billionnaires who lick his stinking cankled feet in gratitude while attending his disgusting "ballroom" gatherings where they lavish praise on the generally dozing old geezer, the Great Moron. 

Trump has butchered social services and programs that help the middle class and the poor; he has dismissed tens of thousands of civil servants who make the government work; the money he says he saved goes to his wealthy elite friends, among whom the oil companies. Who benefits from government services? Not his billionnaires friends. 
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Opinion

Trump’s crooked ‘art of the deal’ with Big Oil
William S. Becker, opinion contributor
Mon, May 11, 2026 



The American people have seen several big oil scandals over the last century. We have survived Teapot Dome, the collapse of Enron, windfall profiteering during the 1970s oil crisis, Exxon Valdez, Deepwater Horizon and more. But President Trump’s deal with Big Oil is the most corrupt in our history. Its cost pervades everything from household budgets to public health, national security, the climate, and the future.

During his first term and now in his second, Trump has delivered hundreds of billions of dollars in favors to the industry, including tax breaks and subsidies, access to more federal land and waters, a major rollback of environmental regulations, the suppression of competition from clean energy technologies, access to Venezuela’s oil reserves, and of course the very profitable Iran war. No one has stopped him.

This arrangement is clearly unethical, if not illegal. That became obvious in April 2024 when candidate Trump offered the oil industry a deal, telling its executives that if they gave $1 billion to his campaign, he would deliver their wish list when he recaptured the White House.

He has been delivering ever since.

The deal betrays the middle- and lower-income voters who helped elect him. By cutting important social programs and safety nets to pay for the oil industry’s tax breaks and subsidies and by raising consumer prices, Trump’s energy policies are transferring wealth from American families to one of the world’s most powerful industries.

Oil companies ended up providing nearly $100 million to Trump’s campaign organization and affiliated political action committees, not counting dark-money contributions. They also gave nearly $12 million to Trump’s inauguration and have continued contributing millions more to Trump’s PAC since he took office.

Trump, meanwhile, has continued making promises. Last July, his One Big Beautiful Bill Act gave oil and gas more than $70 billion in new and expanded tax subsidies through 2034, along with $250 billion in taxpayer-guaranteed loans. This was on top of his 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act, which gave 17 oil and gas companies a combined $25 billion in one-time benefits, along with a permanent 40 percent reduction in their tax bills.

Nine oil companies reaped at least $1 billion in immediate tax savings. To pay for these windfalls, families got “the largest cuts to basic needs programs in U.S. history.”

In 2022, during the Biden presidency, the Inflation Reduction Act had provided incentives for electric vehicles that would have spared families from today’s rising gasoline prices. The bill’s incentives for solar and wind power, the cheapest ways to generate electricity, would have helped mitigate rising electric rates. But in 2025, Trump’s beautiful budget bill terminated many of these incentives.

Now, utilities will generate up to 60 percent less clean energy through 2035, and other industries will pay up to $11 billion more for power in 2035, costs that will inevitably pass on to electric consumers.

Last August, the Trump administration canceled nearly $680 million in funding for offshore wind projects. Trump is now using about $2 billion in tax dollars to pay power companies to abandon offshore wind projects and invest instead in fossil fuels.

Fossil-fuel pollution causes more than 91,000 premature deaths in America each year, plus hundreds of thousands of illnesses. according to the non-profit Stockholm Environment Institute. Yet the Trump administration is doing the oil industry another favor with at least 145 actions to weaken or rescind environmental rules.

Climate instability caused by fossil fuel pollution costs families in some regions over $1,000 annually due to higher prices for energy, food, insurance, property damage and medical care. Billion-dollar disasters, which drive up the government’s need for tax revenues, cost the equivalent of $1,500 per person in 2023 and 2024.

By the end of April, the Iran war cost taxpayers at least $25 billion. Some analysts estimate it could cost them $1 trillion. The war has resulted in thousands of deaths, including those of 13 U.S. soldiers. Hundreds of GIs have been wounded. It has triggered the worst global energy crisis in history.

Meanwhile, the 100 biggest oil companies earned more than $30 million in windfall profits every hour during the war’s first month. If oil prices remain elevated, they are expected to rake in $234 billion in extra profits by the end of this year.

Political candidates always make promises, but Trump’s seemed to involve a clear quid pro quo. Trump solicited the $1 billion one month after he became the Republicans’ presumptive presidential nominee. Trump’s April 2024 deal with oil executives seemed illegal on its face. It is a felony to solicit or receive anything of value after one is officially informed that he or she will be nominated for public office.

But what is unethical may not be illegal under the U.S. Supreme Court’s campaign finance jurisprudence. As a law expert explained, “Unless Trump wrote on a napkin during the meeting an exact amount of money he wanted deposited in a specific campaign vehicle in exchange for a specific policy goal, there’s little chance it would violate bribery laws as currently interpreted by the Supreme Court.”

What is indisputable is that Trump’s relationship with the carbon cartel is like an oil spill spreading through the environment, the economy, consumer prices, the tax burden, and the future. It will take an entirely new Congress to stop the spill and begin the cleanup.