May 2022 Journal

How can I not take personally the trail of forgotten tears of my Afro-Indigenous ancestors twice permanently stripped from inclusion in indigenous humanity for the sake of patriarchal definitions of property.

A neighbor Christian from Chicago, who found a good church home in Tennessee, tells me he values property rights and believes that we are 10 feet over onto his, his armed white Christians protecting private property from the dangerous other, the savage subhuman, godless, non-Christian deviant pervert.

Oh, how memory assails the incarnation of consciousness that I call myself. Oh memory, just three years to further permanently destroy what took millennia to build, so proud of his five generations of Tennessee ancestors, celebrated settlers and Confederate officers and soldiers, proud segregationists and upholders of unsubstantiated white supremacy, unsubstantiated supremacy of European descendancy.

Right to work lawmakers welcoming prison industry entrepreneurs and gun manufacturers to make home in Tennessee with open carry for eighteen-year-olds who have spent three years killing it on video games in isolation, targeted by hate groups for recruits into extreme ideologies that just lead to the tragedies of Buffalo and Uvalde, 18 year olds with not enough experience to personally know such hate, not enough life to be so evil.

Murderous, unrepentant ancestors of their inner organs, atrophied and hardened by centuries’ lack of empathy. A smiling grandmother recalling a lynching as a family outing, a television great on Johnny Carson with Richard Pryor, whom he respectfully regards as “ma’am”, asserts with certainty that homelessness and hunger don’t exist in the United States.

The full interview:

Certainly no one has to be hungry, has to be unhoused and hungry in the USA like people are in India. She reads and she knows things. And distrusts Richard Pryor’s knowledge of both being alive and unwell in the country with the best propaganda delivered to their own citizens.

“Television, the drug of a nation”. Dr. Gerbner did not imagine the worldwide web of catered-to-you reality of misinformation. Each person certain their opinion, beliefs and values are correct. And diversity of thought, beliefs and values are simply unacceptable.

Transcript

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AMY GOODMAN: We are broadcasting from Sheffield Live! community television and radio in Sheffield, England, from the same building as the Sheffield DocFest, where Steal This Story, Please!, the documentary about Democracy Now!, is premiering here. It moves on to Docs Ireland. We’ll be in Belfast next week.

We begin today’s show with how the AI race is impacting the environment as Big Tech companies like Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft, along with other AI players and governments, are racing to build the massive data centers that power artificial intelligence. We hear a lot about what AI technology might mean for society, and much less about what this global infrastructure looks like as a material system with measurable environmental impacts.

A new investigation by U.N. scientists aims to change that. The report warns AI’s water use in 2030 will match the needs of 1.3 billion people, while its power use will be triple that of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria combined — countries with a combined population of 650 million. Already in 2025, global data centers consumed an estimated 488 terawatt-hours of electricity. If treated as a nation, they would have been the world’s 11th largest electricity consumer, behind France and ahead of Saudi Arabia.

The report also frames this as an environmental justice issue. Ninety percent of AI computing is concentrated in the U.S. and China, while the rest of the world, as well as communities within those countries, disproportionately bear the costs — minerals extraction, e-waste, water shortages and more.

The investigation was conducted by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health. It’s titled “Environmental Cost of AI’s Energy Use: Carbon, Water, and Land Footprints.”

We’re joined now by Kaveh Madani. He’s the director of the institute and a co-author on the report. He previously served as the deputy head of Iran’s Department of Environment and earlier this year was awarded the Stockholm Water Prize, often referred to as the Nobel of Water.

Welcome back to Democracy Now!, Kaveh Madani. If you can start off by summarizing what you have found?

KAVEH MADANI: Thanks for having me, and thanks for your interest in this very important topic.

So, what we know is that we are facing the fourth industrial revolution, that is changing our lifestyle, the way we work and we live. And when it comes to AI, most people understand AI as a digital technology, as a virtual thing, as something that is in the clouds and up somewhere out there. What we tried to do in this report was to remind people that there’s some physics to all of this, and there’s a massive infrastructure and material supply chains that back this service or this innovation. And if we want to understand our impact, we have to think about that very long supply chain, that starts with the extraction of critical minerals in the poor areas of the world and leads to the manufacturing of all the technologies and the hardware, then construction of the data centers and other infrastructure, then operations of that infrastructure that requires massive amounts of energy and has major footprints, and then, at the end of the life cycle, we have to deal with the e-waste.

In this particular report, we focus very much on the operations and the massive energy use of the operations, meaning that our day-to-day interactions with AI tools result in a lot of energy use. And producing energy, as we know, not only comes with carbon footprint, but, as we remind in this report, also with water and land footprint and other ecological impacts that often we don’t pay attention to, especially when we keep talking only about the carbon element. We wanted to remind people about those local impacts, what is happening.

And then, when you look at the numbers, you see massive, massive numbers, major numbers, enormous use of energy, and that means that we have to deal with a major challenge. If we continue using AI in the way we are — and it seems that that would be the case — then we would need to satisfy the power hunger of AI. A lot of investments are happening in renewables, but, as we discuss here, if, you know, the increase in power consumption results in the stopping the retirement of fossil fuels, the decarbonization process would be halted and compromised, and that’s not something good for the world.

Yet, we clarify in the report that AI is not bad. AI is a technology on its own. It’s like a knife. You can save a patient’s life in the operating room with it as a doctor, or you can kill people with it as a murderer. The way we use AI would determine if this is going to be a good technology for humanity or not. And we say that we have to proactively manage things and think about those impacts, if we want this revolution to be sustainable and fair.

AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to read you a statement by your colleague, the lead author of the report, Dr. Miriam Aczel, who said, quote, “What surprised us most is how often the choices that look greenest from a carbon perspective end up worse for water or for land. If we keep judging AI sustainability by carbon alone, we might think that renewables make AI infrastructure clean but that is solving one problem while creating other problems, often in places that didn’t ask for it.” Can you expand on this?

KAVEH MADANI: So, yes, the climate change discussions and discourse around the world is very much focused on carbon, and that’s something very normal. But we have shown in our research in the past that some of the renewables, although they have — they produce less carbon, when it comes to their water impact and land impact, they have massive — they have big water footprint. For example, biofuels, on average, are 70 to 400 times bigger in terms — you know, have a water footprint that is 70 to 400 times bigger than some traditional fossil fuels. So, if we go to a greener choice or a, you know, carbon-less choice, it doesn’t always mean that there are not other impacts. And we have to understand these tradeoffs when we deal with them.

Hydropower is another one that we sometimes brand as a clean energy, but we know that building a hydropower dam results in a lot of ecological footprint. Reservoirs also have high evaporation rates and lose a lot of water, so that means that they have high water footprints. So, what we try to remind here is that, first of all, you have to choose the energy sources that are suitable for each community. Hydropower might work in Brazil or Canada or Norway, but it’s not necessarily the best choice for California or Iran, where I come from. So, that’s something to keep in mind.

But also, we have to pay attention to the fact that now we are adding more energy demand. Post-Paris, one of our challenges — post-Paris Agreement, one of our challenges has been to decarbonize and reduce power consumption. So, we keep adding renewables, but at the same time we are increasing consumption. That means that we are not making progress. Decarbonization would be only successful if, at the same time that we are increasing demand, we also — you know, we also retire the fossil fuels that we rely on. That means that we have to produce more and more renewables, invest more and more in renewables, but also not every type of renewable, the renewables that are cleaner, and then think about where we are placing those, where the energy comes from, which community is suffering from the consequences. If you’re planting — if you’re placing a power plant or a data center in a region suffering from water shortage or water scarcity, where communities are struggling, where farmers and rural communities are struggling, when Indigenous peoples are struggling, then you’re imposing additional costs to those people. Normally, they’re not the main beneficiary of the data centers. They’re not the service users. They’re not the investors. And what we are seeing around the world is there is a lot of interest from the private sector in this market, a lot of push for further development, and the placements that are — that are not based on the comprehensive thinking about all these impacts and consequence and what happens in the long run.

In April, we also published a report about the critical minerals and the extraction of critical minerals, showing what is happening in Africa, showing what is happening in South America, where communities are suffering from the pollution. And essentially, we are seeing the reproduction of the oil extraction era. Critical minerals are the fuel of the 21st century. We are seeing a new form of, if you will, like, an imperialism, where we keep extracting those resources. Those people don’t have EVs, don’t even have horses and donkeys, and we move their resources so I can drive my EV in North America and claim that we are contributing to a cleaner future. But in a way, we are saving the future generations in the rich countries of the world at the expense of killing people in some poor communities of the world. This is very dark, but it’s a reality. It doesn’t mean that critical minerals —

AMY GOODMAN: Very quickly —

KAVEH MADANI: — are bad. It doesn’t mean that —

AMY GOODMAN: Very quickly, what are you calling for, Kaveh Madani?

KAVEH MADANI: Further transparency, further thinking about these things, further taking responsibility along the supply chains. And we are saying there that it’s not only the developers who have to make decisions, but governments also have responsibilities, and us, users, also can make — can be less consumptive. We now have an AI consumerism that we should be worried about. We can use AI less, and more responsibly.

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After nearly 7 years of goat farming together, my companion, Max, and I are leaving Tennessee to find our respective sanctuary spaces. The farm will be held in a trust or conservancy to ensure that the land is kept free from the destruction of the neighboring quarry. The goats are being re-homed in a process that is taking a toll on Max who has to stay until it is done.

Please extend your compassion and assistance to him during this heartbreaking time of parting with his beloved herd of ten years.

I’m packing up and finishing a community art project that I’ve been working on for three years. I started with square “post-it” sized stamps and have expanded it to a Community Quilt project. It’s definitely going to take more time to finish but it is a gift of love that I will be sharing.

I want to thank everyone who has been supportive of our work and persons. The struggles continue and so does our resistance, to the destruction and pollution of our environment, to unjust government and corporate surveillance and incarceration, to decrees and laws meant to strip protections from the most vulnerable in our society. The anti-black and anti-trans legislation being funded and promoted by resource extractors intent on controlling the whole world!

We’re getting free which means letting go of what we cannot hold alone – without systems and community.

The tightness in my chest is more than emotional pain. With over a year of exposure to the pollution from the quarry that’s 1300ft from our barn, we are experiencing the effects on our health, the breathing difficulty, mental disruptions from blasts/explosions, the grinding, drilling, conveyors operating Monday through Saturday before dawn until after dark. Witnessing the removal of mountains many millennia old by a concrete company barely 30 years old.

Between the two of us, we have 109 years of embodied on Earth. Children of the ‘70’s and ‘80’s, we have experienced some bleak and dismal things, but nothing like the multiple existential crises of these times.

Despite the quarry across the highway blasting into the aquifer disturbing creeks, water ways and wells, we continue to resist and impart healing into the water. The water rituals shared by Malidoma Some carry me through this soul-fortifying life transition. Death and grief are nearly everyday presences, and they can be overwhelming. But I remember that I/we have been preparing for the failure of non-sustainable systems all my life as an Afro-indigenous Descendant of Chattel Slavery, as a person born with a womb, in poverty in the South. We have been building the world we want for decades and we’ll keep going because we remember history and who we have in our blood and bone memory and power and strength.

Moving and parting from a long-term companionship and community are highly stressful life experiences on their own. The added current circumstances of our world make it even harder.

Any support towards an easeful transition would be tremendously appreciated, words of kindness and encouragement, invitations to visit once I am settled a bit, investing in the completion of the Community Placemat which I now envision as a Community Quilt following the passing of Gabby Haze, foundational community elder and quilt-maker extraordinaire!

The geographies of D.o.C.S. memories of Liberty were bulldozed, flooded and bombed repeatedly. Descendants of those Afro-Indigenous people, enslaved arbitrarily, immorally, by the assigned status of their maternal trafficked lineage, are the inheritors of captivity, the profitable criminality of slavery, of an already exploited ancestry. This theft of life and property is intentionally supported by the Codes and laws, the ruthless Collective terror from Clans of Common interest, protecting the property they had stolen.

They obliterated Afro-Indigenous family trees and obscured the known paternal lineage and accountability. The Founders and their legitimate descendants inherit the energy and property held onto with military might.

And while we have rolling electrical blackouts this December 23rd, 2022 in the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) electric grid, our government allocates more funds to distant military engagements. It’s the old-fashioned external enemy focus while the internal population is struggling to buy food and fuel to pay for housing and electricity and water, clean water polluted by pipelines and the remaining fresh water is bottled up in plastic sold by known polluters. The micro-hardened petroleum products fill the oceans and air and earth so much that everyone is eating them.

The remaining urban forests are cleared for development and for training law enforcement with a history of violating the human rights of Afro-Indigenous D.o.C.S.. The institutional memory of the Memphis Police Department, the Atlanta Police Department, the Nashville PD, Chicago PD, St. Louis PD, Detroit PD, the NYC PD, and DC Police Department all have roots of targeting and terrorizing those who lack political and economic power. Police departments are the origin places in energetic training in who is protected and served. The practice of centuries of secret organizations, masked officers, judges, bus drivers, bankers, farmers, business owners, consolidated and conspired in their hatred.

Supreme Court declared with Dred Scott, declared that lineage (maternal and race-defined) trumped whatever legal status a black person had attained. This put a bounty on the backs of all people who were visibly of African descent.

Deeply melanated skin was like a large sum of money walking around for unscrupulous white bounty hunters. Already charged with recapturing runaway workers held in perpetual bondage, they happily capture free Black people with papers.

And the Supreme law had made it easier to violate the human rights and freedoms of Afro-Indigenous people. The lines were defined in each imaginary state of the tenuously held union. Kidnapping across state lines was enforced and guarded by militia. Before the sheriffs, armed white citizens conspired to protect property, land, and humans, their stolen and inherited property. The entire foundational economy and that wealth is still with us, the doctors and lawyers trained in Jim Crow medicine and law.

From Memphis, the continued forced forgetfulness, the reliving of past traumas soaked in the soil of South Memphis. Francis Thompson at the end of the Civil War was amongst the survivors of the Memphis Massacre who testified about the horrors and lawlessness she experienced. Known by her community and close friends to be “of both sexes”, she lived as the woman she was and chose to be.

USA a nation content to send billions to war abroad, “investment, not charity” says the smug leader, having already received weapons of great destruction. He then says that it is “not enough” and laughs with U.S. leaders who applaud the blatant calls for more funds and weapons to destroy a so-called invader that has the relationship the U.S. has with Alaska. Can a military power sovereign nation invade one of its states?

“Touch one, touch all” used to undermine Afro-Indigenous D.o.C.S.’ economy and economic solidarity. When Market Commerce, Promenade and Auction are all related to the trade in trafficked humans, the names of streets still in existence. And the old slave jail that Forrest used is on the Mississippi River where the boat and train routes intersect. Memphis, a City and Court built on the economy of racist misogyny. A people powerless to protect its most vulnerable. Those targeted by the dominator culture. These are places and geographies of trafficked people, enslaved, beholden to the whims of the owner’s economy. Thieves who become gamblers with other people’s lives and families.

Investments of ambitious gamblers whose musky rooms excluded African-descended people, those educational and religious meeting places where there could be visible reinforcements of hidden alliances, white men congregate to legislate terror and hate. Segregation was an economic tactic to hold onto the wealth generated from generations of Afro-Indigenous laborers. Exploitation.

In 1876 when there had been just 10 years of progress for the free and formerly enslaved indigenous people of African descent and other deeply melanated indigenous people heaped into the arbitrary legal category of “Negro”, the biased and racist media used propaganda to discredit the testimonies of survivors and witnesses to the Memphis massacre. May 1st through 3rd of 1866, the beyond binary authentic woman identity of Francis Thompson was used by the media to illogically assert that her gender identity was a lie, and therefore her testimony was a lie. About being raped by a gang of seven men, and witnessing the rape of her housemate Lucy, and being robbed of money she earned and some she was holding for a friend, dresses she made and a quilt with colors celebrating the Union Army which had recently retreated, the supposed protectors of the hard-fought for freedoms.

The bounty hunters and former Confederate powers conspired to take back the property they’d lost. After disarming the Freedmen they set out destroying the thriving, segregated spaces for healing autonomy. There was a concerted recapturing of lost laborers and land.

The government gave former enslavers reparations for the loss of property, the workers and the acres of plantations they once worked. They granted land and political power to non-Confederate European immigrants whose upward mobility in the slavery economy was thwarted by Liberty. Because the formerly enslaved new workers were skilled competition in every trade.

The public pride, dignity, beauty, and laughter of the formerly enslaved simply enraged them. Anger rather than fear was the beginning of the emotional arguments for a return to a past where blacks behaved for white masters and had no rights that a white man was legally bound to respect. Black joy and laughter and gatherings with other Black free people, Black public joy was a threat to the old white power structures and systems and cultures, not only in the South, but where ideas were upheld in Faulkner’s educational institutions of the North. Massachusetts.

Because the plantation master’s male children were educated in the nation’s exclusive institutions of the Ivy League, where they cultivated the values, ideologies, and systems to operate the society. They were the framers of the national Constitution, the societies of investors in the economy of enslaving indigenous African-descended people from the womb for life to the tomb.

Why should we still be upholding the values of men who justified such a heinous economy of human trafficking and land theft? They had such disrespect for the indigenous people from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia, in favor of European powers. But none like the exploitation of profitable pregnancies by the British in the colonies that would expand to become the U.S. empire.

The empire of the U.S.A. is an empire in free fall because it never reckoned with its contradictory origin story. The land of the free that cast kidnapped deeply melanated people as perpetual property on par with furniture, an appliance, a “ superior pet.”

What mind and heart thrives in the denial of empathy for other sentient beings with physical forms and organs compatible for reproducing other human forms with them? Regulating the womb goes together with defining race in duality of owner and property.

In the North, Massachusetts, all the plantation words were created to define who is naturally built for servitude and who is the master of the world.

Africa, in all her greatness, had to be replaced with a European face, a continent of human diversity, genes for every possible expression of humanity, height and hue contained within Africa’s cradle, rocked by Mitochondrial Eve. The Afro-Indigenous womb culture and all of its healing memories had to be brutally broken and destroyed in order to enslave generations for profit.

I like to have a fit when I hear politicians ignorant of history spout old racist misogyny with conviction of new discovery, Columbus anew. They’re only beholden to the beauty of the world from the cruel perspective of commodities, redefining indigeneities to divide people and stolen properties. With greed and desperate insecurities, they keep their legitimate heirs armed to defend the indefensible and the inherited loots of generations.

1866 Memphis Massacre,

1892, People’s Grocery Lynchings.

1968 MLK assassination,

1980 Shannon Street Massacre.

1980s War on Drugs, South Memphis gangs.

Really think Michael was just a performer? He finessed the whole industry with one deal. Nobody talks about this. So here’s what happened: Paul McCartney, yes, that Paul McCartney, he taught MJ how music publishing works, how actually owning the song is where the real money is, not just record sales, but publishing. Well, MJ listened and he, you know, he took notes, took all his advice, and then went and spent (bought) the Beatles entire catalog worth $47 million, right under Paul McCartney’s nose. When McCartney found out he thought he was joking, but, in fact, no, he was not joking, he was being dead-ass.

But here’s the real reason why he bought it. Because buried inside that catalog wasn’t just their music, it was a massive chunk of Black music history. When I read this list, I was shocked; Jackie Wilson, Ray Charles, Percy Sledge, Sly and the Family Stone, damn. And Little Richard, their own mentor, really, really just did him dirty.

When Michael realized that Little Richard’s publishing was inside the deal. And for those that don’t know, Little Richard, a man who wrote the smash hit Tutti Fruitti, the same hit that other white artists covered to get more popularity and sales, only got paid $50, due to the fact that it was acquired by the Beatles. He was only paid $50, and MJ gave it back. He gave back his publishing with no press release and quietly just gave it back.

MJ refused to let that keep happening to Black artists on his watch. So let me ask you something. The same media that called this man, “Wacko Jacko”, not even once told you that he’s the biggest Black music publisher in history, and was using that power to protect artists that built the culture. Why?

Now Sony owns all of it, approximately $1.2 billion worth of Black music history sitting in a corporate vault somewhere. And unfortunately, the moment he was gone, it was gone too. And we all have our theories, but we get what really happened.

So the next time someone tries to reduce Michael to a punchline, send ‘em this video.

The man wasn’t just the King of Pop, he was playing a game nobody even knew was being played at the time.

Your brain believes what you repeat at night. Neuroscience shows that the final thoughts before sleep influence memory consolidation, emotional tagging and what your brain prioritizes the next day. So here are eight things to tell yourself before bed if you want to retrain your brain instead of reinforce stress:

So number one, “Today is complete.” Your nervous system needs closure and completion reduces cognitive looping.

Number two, “I did enough.” Perfectionism keeps threat circuits active and safety shuts them down.

Number three, “One moment does not define me.” Social threat weighs heavier than task success. So release the one, comment

Number four, “My brain can rest.” Now, your prefrontal cortex has been on duty all day. Give it permission to power down.

Number five, “I don’t need to solve tomorrow tonight.” Rumination feels productive, but it burns fuel without resolution.

Number six, “My body is safe.” Safety is the signal that allows deep recovery.

Number seven, “I am allowed to grow without urgency.” Neuroplasticity works through repetition, not panic.

And number eight, “The life I want is built through small, aligned decisions.” Change happens at the neural level, not through force.

Most coaches apply generic methods because that’s all that they know or have been exposed to, but your brain runs specific patterns. It has specific meanings and has specific loops that it takes every day. When you identify the exact pattern your brain fires, the belief that maintains it, and the circuit that keeps looping it, change accelerates. That’s what I do in my one-on-one work.

If you’re ready to restructure your patterns at the neuro level DM “coach”, and I’ll share how I can work with you to make this better. So save this and try it tonight.

Remember, your presence is your superpower. Thank you for this time today, and I’ll see you in my next video.

Am I surprised that an American President said something like this? Absolutely not. Because the American project was founded on the genocide, the subjugation of dehumanization of indigenous people, and the enslavement of kidnapped Africans. So I’m not surprised that a U.S. president said something like this.

What I am surprised by is the fact that y’all think that we can’t do something about it. It is clear that our leaders do not value human life. It is our responsibility to take up the mantle of saving ourselves and saving the entire globe.

And I’m gonna be real. You manufacture consent for this type of destruction when you watch hundreds of thousands, millions of people be displaced in Palestine, hundreds of thousands of people be murdered by bombs paid for by your tax dollars. In Lebanon, they have displaced over a million people already. They are flattening entire villages.

So am I surprised by this? Absolutely not. What I’m surprised by is your lack of action. Revolution is not a new idea that this was pulled out of the sky. People have changed societies before, and I am not asking you to do something that you think is impossible. I’m asking you to try something that is unimaginable.

At the end of the day, they are counting on your inaction. They’re hoping that you’ll continue to go as business as usual as they continue to destroy the globe and wipe out entire groups of people.

And if you think that just because we are geographically lucky that this violence will not come back to you, you are not paying attention to what’s happening on the global stage.

As United States of America loses its grip on the global economy, it’ll continue to clamp down on us. Those concentration camps that they are building are not for undocumented migrants. They are for you. They’re for you if you do not fall in line with a MAGA agenda. They are for you if you believe that trans people have need to have rights. They are for you if you believe that black people deserve reparations and that the American project has always been one of subjugation. Those concentration camps are for you.

So do not be surprised. Do not be shocked. Get active.

Iranian Propaganda More Truthful than US News 📰

So this is weird. You know how I made a video on Saturday talking about how a bunch of U.S. military bases in the Middle East have been bombed and all but destroyed, and no one is talking about it here? Well guess who is talking about it. Like this morning:

Iranian propaganda video: Power plant day. Bridge day. You scared of the pictures? Power play/ “Open the fucking strait or you’ll be living in hell.”/ Censor the satellite./Look what we did to your bases./ You’re losing your mind and then you’re losing this war. Face it./ You tweet like a madman threatening power, playing some bridges./ “Praise be to Allah.”/You sound unhinged, you bitch/ You want us living in hell/ but you’re the one scared of the sky/ begging every satellite company to hide/what we did to your guys/ 17 bases hit, C130 and Blackhawks gone/on the million wasted just to save one pawn /so the world doesn’t see how bad little Iran fucked up your military/ Power plant!

Now this is propaganda full-on and I wanna be really clear about that. Normally, again, I would not share these videos, but here’s the thing is that everything they just said is factual. He is censoring the satellites and that is the other part of this story that’s just weird. In fact, satellite companies have been blocking access to Middle Eastern imagery since early March. Then just yesterday, U.S. satellite firm, Planet Labs announced a blackout on images from the war in until the end of the war. This to comply with a request from United States President Donald Trump’s administration an indefinite withhold of imagery.

They’re saying, of course, that this is to prevent adversaries from using the imagery to attack the U.S. and its allies. As if they don’t have their own satellites. It’s weird. There’s something very odd going on. And by the way, the video is also correct that it is 17 sites that have been hit. They haven’t all been destroyed. They haven’t all been rendered uninhabitable, but several of them have, up to 13. And the Trump administration has virtually not even acknowledged it, let alone told us what the damage is.

Meanwhile, Trump just keeps threatening war crimes. And even when they happen, will we ever find out about it? That’s the question we should all be asking. ‘Cause the sad truth is right now we are getting more truthful accounts of reality from Iranian propaganda videos than we are from our own government, and that’s a problem.

Let’s Talk About the USA - - African Stream Journalist

Let’s talk about the USA, a country that claims unity on stolen land without confronting the deep-rooted systemic violence that makes up the United States of atrocities, since this country that claims to be a morality cop wants to police all but its own. 1,371 was the number of people killed by the ones in blue in 2024, whose targets remain very selective in hue, a quarter of them black people who make up just over 14% of the country’s total population.

Yet there is no end to police violence. The state instead targets policies like DEI meant to redress inequalities while advocating for European settlers in distant lands, where seven was the number of farmers murdered in South Africa in 2024, unidentified by race out of 19,696 murders, most of them young black men Quoting cycles of poverty and crime, a legacy of the apartheid era. So wealth remains concentrated in minority, white settler hands.

Let’s talk about the USA, a country that claims unity on stolen land while extending its arms to other states built on stolen lands where it’s shrapnel tears mercilessly into the bodies of children, mothers, fathers. More than 39,384 children have been orphaned by Israel’s US-backed onslaught and siege of Gaza. Over 50,000 is the number of children killed or injured. 186,000 was the estimated death toll by July, 2024 where nearly 2 million people uprooted from their homes while the US continuously vetoed ceasefire resolutions at colonial post it holes in organizations supposedly dedicated to peace. The one thing consistent about the United States of Atrocities is its steadfast advocacy for settler colonialism.

Let’s talk about the USA, a country that claims to be the semblance of freedoms and rights, but is no more than a capitalist machine, disguised as a beacon of liberty, targeting black and brown communities with laws that criminalize the already disenfranchised, where the prison industrial complex excels, a system built on caging people and exploiting their labor, modern than day slavery, where commodified hands toil behind bars and receive mere pennies. Every prison number is a dollar value assigned by the billion dollar industry that booms outside where corporations cash in on captive labor. The only thing free about the so-called land of the free are all the faces behind its atrocities.

Let’s talk about the USA, a country that claims to champion democracy within a two-party mirage, where power bows to profit not the people’s will, but markets to the masses that the ballot holds sway while the plight of the poor deepens with each passing day and the canyon of wealth grows even wider, where those who hold the monopoly reap the spoils and ordinary lives collapse beneath the weight of greed.

But see, there comes a time when every empire crumbles. So what will happen when the revolution comes knocking, when those who’ve been fed the crumbs of racial capitalism finally remove their blindfolds and see clearly that it’s always been a class struggle. One obscured by poisoned minds and manufactured divisions designed to keep the white masses trapped in illusions of superiority and the black masses shackled by a false sense of inferiority, which only serve to fortify the elite’s great wars of oppression.

Don’t you know that a facade of unity built on disintegrated identities is destined to fall from the weight of truth?

This might be the one that gets me kicked off this platform. So, I’m gonna be graphic. It is what it is. Let’s talk. Because this week something happened that took us about 400 years to get to.

And before I tell you what was said, I need to tell you what was being named. Because this is the part that never gets said with the weight that it deserves: before a single ship left the coast of West Africa, the people who were gonna be put on it were already being processed, stripped naked, prodded, groped. Traders invasively examined the breasts, buttocks, and vaginal areas of women and girls, allegedly to assess their childbearing ability. Men and boys were groped around the groin, scrotum, and anus. One white trafficker, who later testified, described the process as similar to what you would do to a horse before purchasing it. These were human beings, y’all.

They were being evaluated the way that you would evaluate livestock. And when the evaluation was done, they were assigned a number, not a name, a number, and loaded onto ships. These ships were built into two categories, tight packers and loose packers. Tight packers, maximized profit. Human beings were measured with instruments, with charts to calculate how many bodies could be chained in a single row. The space allocated per person was roughly the size of a coffin. Men were shackled together in pairs at the wrists and ankles and packed into the hull, lying on their sides, unable to sit up, unable to turn over, unable to move.

The heat in the hold was lethal and suffocating. There was almost no ventilation. The air was so thick with human waste, sweat, and disease that sailors reported being unable to breathe when they opened the hatch. dysentery tore through entire decks.

People vomited on each other. People had diarrhea on each other. People died chained to the person beside them and stayed there rotting till someone came to remove the body. Sometimes that took days. Smallpox spread, measles spread. The living were chained to the dead and spaces the size of coffins in heat that historians describe as suffocating and unbearable in the middle of the ocean.

Women were kept unchained in separate compartments, not as mercy, but because being unchained made them easier to access. Crew members raped them throughout the voyage, not occasionally, routinely. Those who resisted were flogged. Women gave birth on those ships without medical care, without assistance. In those conditions, most newborns didn’t survive. In one documented case, a captain punished a failed rebellion by killing one of the men involved immediately and forcing two other enslaved people to eat his heart and liver while the rest watched.

This is in the historical record, y’all. It is documented in historical accounts of the Middle Passage. About 15% of the people put on those ships, nearly 2 million human beings, died before they reached land. They were thrown overboard, and some were thrown overboard alive because maritime insurance paid for cargo lost at sea, not cargo that died of illness. Throwing people into the ocean alive was more profitable than letting them die of disease.

The most documented case, the Zong massacre of 1781, in which a British captain threw 132 enslaved people into the ocean alive and filed an insurance claim. The case went to court. The question before the court wasn’t whether a crime had been committed, though. The question was whether the insurance policy covered the loss.

The ones who survived the crossing arrived at a port and then were processed, again before they were sold. Their skin was rubbed with oil to disguise, cracking and lesions. Their heads were sometimes shaved to remove gray hairs and bacteria to make them look younger and healthier than they actually were. They were examined again by buyers, poked, prodded, molested.

George Washington, who will become the first President of the United States, specified in writing in 1772 that he preferred enslaved people, “not exceeding 20 years of age”. He was placing an order for human beings like you would place an order for food.

And the ones who were purchased were put to work. About 80% of enslaved Africans transported across the Middle Passage ended up on sugar plantations in South America and the Caribbean, where the mortality rate was so high that the entire enslaved population had to be continuously replaced through the ongoing slave trade. People worked from before dawn until after dark in gangs, cutting sugarcane in tropical heat. Feeding it into mills regularly took fingers, hands and arms. Life expectancy on a sugar plantation was measured in years, not decades. The system consumed people. That was the model. You worked them to death and then you buy more.

In the United States, enslaved people were raped systematically by the men who owned them by overseers, by anyone the law permitted. And when those rapes produced children, those children were born enslaved. The enslaver’s blood ran through the veins of the people that he owned. Families were deliberately separated at auction. Children sold away from mothers. Husbands sold away from wives with the specific intention that they would never find each other again. Their languages were criminalized, their religions were outlawed, their names were replaced with the names of the men who owned them.

Reading and writing were made illegal. The systematic destruction of identity, culture, language, family, and humanity was not incidental to the system. It was the system. You can’t enslave a person that knows who they are. So they made sure people didn’t know. This ran for 400 years. The records are a little fuzzy, but between 12 and 14 million people were stolen from Africa. Nearly 2 million died on the crossing. Tens of millions more were born into slavery in the Americas. The wealth generated by their labor built banking systems, the insurance industries, the textile industries, and the national economies of Britain, Spain, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, and the United States. That wealth was inherited. It was compounded. It is still here.

When Britain abolished slavery in 1833, the government paid 20 million pounds in compensation equivalent to about 2 billion pounds today. That money went to the enslavers, not to the enslaved. British taxpayers were paying off that debt until 2015. Lloyds of London, which insured slave ships throughout the trade. They formally acknowledged the history and apologized for it, but the wealth didn’t disappear. It compounded.

The cotton that enslaved people picked in Mississippi in 1850. It built the textile industry that funded the industrial revolution. None of that wealth was ever returned. And when it was over, the men who built all of that wrote the history books. They named the streets after themselves, built monuments to the men that tried to keep it going, taught children that it was a tragedy of its time, something complicated, something to understand in context, you know.

This week, 123 countries stood up at the United Nations and said, no, we see it. We name it the gravest crime in the history of humanity. And I keep thinking about the people that never got to hear that. The people who die carrying the truth of this in their bodies with the world’s silence pressing down on top of it. Our ancestors knew exactly what it was. They lived it and the world looked away. That’s not a small thing to finally name.

Now let’s talk about who refused to name it, three countries out of 193, the United States, Israel and Argentina. Three countries looked at a non-binding statement, not a reparations check, not a court summons, not a single dollar changing hands, not one person facing any kind of consequences, just a formal moral acknowledgement that this happened and that it was the worst, and voted “No”. They voted, “No”.

And the argument this country made is one of the most clarifying things they’ve said in years. The U.S. deputy ambassador stood up in that hall and said, “The United States does not recognize a legal right to reparations for historical wrongs that were not illegal under international law at the time they occurred.”

They built the legal system that made all of that legal. They wrote those laws. They enforced them. They sent men with guns to drag the people back. That survived by staffar enough to escape that machinima’s fought a war. Hundreds of thousands of people died specifically to keep those laws in place. And now they’re sitting behind those same laws as their defense, as proof that they don’t owe anything. The country that engineered the legal architecture of chattel slavery is using that same architecture like a shield. That’s a confession if I’ve ever heard one.

And then there’s Europe. Europe didn’t vote. No, they abstained. And I want you to hear what Europe said in order to explain that. The European Union said that they couldn’t support the resolution because the word “gravest” implies a hierarchy amongst atrocity crimes. And no legal hierarchy between crimes exists.

The country that designed ships specifically engineered to maximize the number of human bodies that you could pack into a hold, that built the plantation economies, that made European aristocratic families wealthy for 10 generations and counting, that colonized an entire continent and drew its borders at a conference in Berlin in 1884, where not a single African person was present, that extracted the gold, the diamonds, the rubber, the copper, the people for a hundred years, and they’re still sitting with that wealth in 2026, had concerns about an adjective, not the 2 million people thrown into the ocean. Not the women raped on those ships, not the children sold at auction, the word used to describe all of it.

The Netherlands is the only country in the world that’s ever formally apologized for its role in the slave trade. One out of every nation that participated, one apology in the entire history of the Western world.

But look at who said yes, right? 132 countries, the entire African continent, the Caribbean, Latin America, most of Asia, the global South, the people who know from their blood and their bones what it means to be on the receiving end of that power.

They didn’t hesitate. They didn’t debate language, they didn’t have concerns about adjectives. They called it what it is, without flinching, without qualifying, without apologizing for the clarity of it all.

And for the first time in the history of international law, it’s on the record. What happened to African people wasn’t complicated. It wasn’t a product of its time. It wasn’t something we need to understand in context. It was the worst thing human beings have ever done to each other. 123 names on it.

So let me be clear about what this week was and what it wasn’t. It wasn’t justice, it wasn’t reparations, it wasn’t accountability. No one’s going to prison. No check is being written. No land is being returned. No wealth redistributed. It was 123 countries agreeing on a word, a non-binding word. And even then, it was too much for some people. But that word, after 400 years of refusing to say it, is not nothing.

Because our ancestors carried the truth of this without anyone official ever confirming it. They knew what it was. We have always known what it is. And for generations we were told we were exaggerating, that we needed to move on, that it was a long time ago, that people asking for acknowledgement were the problem. Three countries said no, but 123 said yes.

And the people who built this world on the bodies of our ancestors, who designed ships to fit more of them in, who rubbed oil on their skin to hide the damage before putting them on the auction block, who bred them like livestock and sold their children and raped their daughters, and then wrote history books calling it complicated, spent 400 years trying to make us forget that we were worth fighting for.

This week the world disagreed. That belongs to us. It always has. And nobody gets to take that back.

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Hello, my friends. How do genocide, colonization and Peter Thiel connect? You are going to want to take notes and share this. Peter Thiel was born in Frankfurt. I live in Frankfurt, too, have for many years. His father was a mining engineer. Note that the family moved to South Africa, then Namibia, then called Southwest Africa. They eventually settled in California. That area in Africa was scarred from what Germany had done there.

What had Germany done there? Between 1904 and 1908, German colonial forces committed what historians now recognize as the first genocide of the 20th century, decades before the Holocaust, the Herrero and Nama peoples. Go study it. General Von Trotha issued a literal extermination order. 80% of the Herrero were killed. The Germans drove into the desert. They poisoned their wells, and those who survived were put where? In concentration camps, the most notorious was Shark Island. Go study it. They were worked to death.

Now the women, you know what’s coming, they were raped systematically. And here’s the legal architecture that made that possible. We understand it from slavery. Herrero and Nama women were not considered human under colonial law. Their testimony was inadmissible. Their bodies were unprotected. German soldiers and settlers faced zero legal consequence. None. The law didn’t see a crime because the law didn’t see a human being.

A scientist named Eugen Fischer used those same women and their children as research subjects. His racial theories went to a book: The Principle of Human Heredity and Race Hygiene. Hitler read that book in prison. The line from Namibia to the Holocaust run straight and very well documented.

Germany finally said, “Sorry”, in 2021. They offered 1.1 billion euros. They called it “development aid”, not reparations. They structured the negotiations between two governments, cutting out the Herrero and the Nama out entirely. Namibia’s response was blunt: The offer was rejected as an insult, a rebranding of charity as justice designed to avoid legal liability and set no precedent.

Now into this history, walks the Thiel family. His father’s a mining engineer. I told you about that at the top. There’s money to be made in post-genocide Namibia, right? Diamonds, uranium, copper. The German settler infrastructure was already there, built on stolen land and stolen labor. Peter Thiel would go on to fund surveillance states, back the dismantling of institutions that protect the vulnerable. We all know that. And most recently, he expresses this bizarre enthusiasm for Greenland, another resource-rich land, another indigenous population inconveniently in the way. You, you don’t inherit guilt, Peter, but you can inherit a worldview in some worldviews. Have a very recognizable shape, and I’ll be back.

The United States of America is turning 250 years old this year, and I’m no spring chicken myself, but I’m here to tell you, as the youngins say these days, 250 years is old AF. I mean, Americans love to talk about how the USA is this young democracy, but most sources I looked at estimate that somewhere between 60 and 80% of nation states were founded in the 20th century. So compared to most of the rest of the world, America is downright geriatric.

And one of the worst things about being such an old nation, and an old class society at that, is that our oligarchy has had a quarter of a millennium to develop and perfect their propaganda strategy. And lemme tell you, as someone who grew up in the USA, they have that shit locked down. They’ve pretty much perfected the art of convincing the working class to fight and struggle against our own interests.

And one of the cornerstones of the American propaganda model is glazing the ever living fuck out of the ruling class of capitalists, especially those capitalists who put this whole racket together. I’m talking about the Founding Fathers. Yeah, as a nation, we Americans have daddy issues and they’re only gonna get worse as the Epstein files begin to tear away at some of the layers of psychological barriers, which the ruling class have planted deep within our psyches and our social consciousness over the past two and a half centuries.

The release of all this dirt on Jeffrey Epstein and his inner circle has resulted in a general elevation of our collective understanding of the ruling class and how these oligarchs operate behind the scenes. And I know that a lot of you watching this right now haven’t been surprised at all by the Epstein files. You probably see these files as confirmation of what you already knew, that our society is ruled by ghoulish predators. But you’re not like most Americans, you are a Non-Compete viewer. You are built different. You got that advanced social consciousness.

But most Americans out there are surprised and confused by all these revelations. A lot of folks just never thought about it very much or, worse yet, they’ve genuinely found themselves looking up to capitalists like Elon Musk and Bill Gates and, yeah, Donald Trump as their heroes. After all, in Western society, it’s been the norm for a very long time to view millionaires and billionaires who make up the ruling class as our leaders and our role models.

And that perception has been intentionally cultivated by the ruling class and by our media going back for centuries. When a billionaire writes a book, it’s going to become a best seller. There’s an entire industry of pseudo-journalists and podcasters who garner millions of followers by interviewing wealthy and influential power brokers of the ruling class or by writing glowing puff pieces about them. Terms like “grindset tech bros” and “hustle culture”, they might be relatively new to our lexicon, but in the USA, the jet-set billionaire Playboy-type has long been a heroic and romanticized figure.

When I was growing up, there was this show called Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,

Robin Leech: Get ready for another incredible Lifestyles, your VIP journey into the lives and loves of today’s winners who really know how to enjoy the great things of life.

It was hosted by Robin Leach, who’s distinctive, arrogant, British-accented narration became a bit of a pop culture meme, often summoned to appeal to our fascination and admiration of the ruling class.

Welcome to Lifestyles of the Rich and Rotten. Here we take a weekly peek into the incredible world of the glitz, glamor and an announcer who shouts for no apparent reason.

Robin Leach is in the Epstein files, and I can’t read out the allegations about him to you in this video. Because, if I do, YouTube will definitely censor it. But the relevant text is here on the screen. If you’d like to pause for a moment and read it. I might have to censor the text as well, but you should be able to get the general gist of it.

It is not a coincidence that Robin Leach is in the Epstein files because what we’re talking about here is not just some assorted group of depraved individuals. We’re talking about an economic class phenomenon, and Robin Leach was an integral part of promoting and propagandizing our ruling economic class of capitalists.

And I believe that the Epstein files coming out and us learning about people like Robin Leach is actively elevating our social consciousness by poking at those deep contradictions, which we’ve always held somewhere in our minds even if we didn’t realize it.

There are things that all of us know that we’ve always known, but that we, by and large, have refused to fully or properly accept and address as a working class. Our society has long suffered from a sort of mass cognitive dissonance when it comes to well-known historic truths about the ruling class of our capitalist society and the history of our capitalist society. And that’s what this video is about. That’s what I’m here to talk to you about today. I believe the time has come for us to collectively confront and process these truths on a mass scale.

Things are coming to a head and we’re at a crossroads right now, and we can either go back to burying our heads in the sand when it comes to the disgusting nature of the ruling class of our society, or we can come to grips with these truths that have been staring us in the face for all of our lives.

I’m hardly the first person to talk about this subject. On the contrary, there have been plenty of folks for generations who’ve been begging us to pay attention to these matters since long before I was born. But these calls for truth and justice have largely been dismissed and ignored, and that’s because they’ve largely been coming from oppressed groups. I’m talking about poor people, black folks, indigenous folks, the LGBTQ+ community, women and so on. There’s a reason we use the term marginalized to describe such social groups. Folks in these communities have long been relegated to the sidelines of society, ignored by the mass media and in tie is that they understand how disgusting the ruling class is. They have been at the center of these oppressive systems of class society. They’re the ones who have bared witness to it the most directly. And now that the state has been taken over by fascists, there’s a concerted effort to bury and erase and destroy these voices from our institutions even more entirely all in the name of eliminating wokeness.

Because what is wokeness if not confronting these truths, waking up to the truth about this disgusting ruling class of capitalists? There’s a reason the ruling class wants to wipe out the stories and voices of these marginalized people, and it all has to do with these truths that are being so uncomfortably spotlighted in the Epstein files. There’s been a lot of talk in light of the Epstein files of conspiracy theories or government cover-ups or the closely held secrets of Epstein’s powerful inner circle of billionaires and politicians and royalty and CEOs.

But the truth is most of the stuff was never really kept secret. The ruling class has been engaging in these kinds of horrible acts, pretty much in the open for as long as we’ve had class society. And on some level we all know that it’s really undeniable. The facts are all too clear in the historic record, even with all the propaganda and revisionism that shoved down our throats.

If you stop and think about it for a moment, and they don’t want us to stop and think about it, the facts are all too clear in the historic record. And that’s even with all the propaganda and revisionism that’s shoved down our throats since grade school. But we’ve all been conditioned to collectively compartmentalize the truth about the ruling class, stretching all the way back to the Founding Fathers, so that most Americans have failed to fully confront the dark truth about our capitalist overlords.

In science fiction, there’s this concept of a perception filter, which causes you to basically gaslight yourself about reality. In the British sci-fi show, Doctor Who, the Doctor hides his spaceship with a perception filter, which causes anyone who looks at it to see a harmless looking blue police call box. Racist nerd, and science fiction writer, H.P. Lovecraft, wrote more ominous stories about inter-dimensional beings that were so horrible and impossible for the human mind to process that people who came across them simply couldn’t perceive them. With a perception filter, your eyes can see the phenomenon, but your brain classifies it as too stressful to process. It’s the mental equivalent of a blind spot. You might not have even noticed, but your brain did.

Our capitalist society has cultivated a highly advanced perception filter through propaganda, which forces us all to look past some pretty heinous and disgusting truths, which have been sitting out in the open all along. And, it’s my hope that these Epstein files might be able to finally break through that perception filter and allow us to see the light. Throughout the remainder of this video, I’m gonna make one simple request, and that is that you try to be aware of any perception filters which activate in your own brain. And for the duration of this one video, try to fight the perception filter. If you find yourself getting angry or alarmed at anything, I’m saying just set those feelings aside and consider what’s being said on an objective level. And remind yourself of what we’ve learned from the Epstein files before you rage-quit YouTube or start hammering out an angry comment. But if you are gonna rage-quit YouTube, make sure you do hammer out an angry comment first. It does help with the algorithm.

Okay, so time to rip off the Band-Aid. Let’s begin by discussing the uncomfortable truth that the Founding Fathers were collectively every bit as bad as Jeffrey Epstein, if not worse. We could start with perhaps the most egregious example of Thomas Jefferson, who was a sex-trafficker and a pervert, that’s just an incontrovertible truth. Jefferson’s systematic exploitation of enslaved children and women and men was a foundational element of his financial survival and domestic life in Monticello.

By the 1790s, Jefferson abandoned the idea of freeing those he held in bondage and instead pivoted to a strategy of “ natural increase” explicitly writing to his overseers that enslaved women who bore a child every two years were more profitable than the best men on the farm because the children represented a permanent addition to capital. This commodification of human reproduction turned the bodies of enslaved girls and women into literal factories for the development of Jefferson’s wealth.

And most notoriously, Jefferson also had a decades-long sexual relationship with a girl named Sally Hemmings, his late wife’s half-sister, who was legally his property. I cannot begin to describe how disgusted I am by the fact that this girl, Sally Hemmings, was gifted to Jefferson by his father-in-law, and she was probably fathered by his father-in-law, which would make Thomas Jefferson’s wife, this girl’s half-sister.

And this all started the sexual exploitation that Jefferson committed on this girl, started when she was a child of approximately 14 or 15 years old. Thomas Jefferson sex-trafficked. this enslaved girl, Sally Hemmings, during diplomatic missions to Paris. Hemmings was enslaved and a child, she could not possibly have consented. I could say a lot more about what a sick, disgusting, horrible monster Thomas Jefferson was, but it honestly just makes me uncomfortable talking about him. Look up the story. If you wanna learn more, I encourage you to do so because we should all learn these truths, especially if you’re from the USA.

But anyway, for now, I’m gonna move on to George Washington, who is also a human trafficker who bred and exploited human beings to enrich himself financially. This gets glossed over by most pop history accounts of America’s first President because he freed all of his slaves when he died. But if you read the words Washington wrote himself about those human beings that he enslaved, then this stops looking like an act of virtue, you know, “freeing his slaves” and it looks a lot more like what it was, which was a PR stunt to enhance his posthumous legacy.

Just take a look at this letter, which Washington wrote to his farm manager in 1793. And reading this letter seriously makes me feel sick to my stomach every time. It’s every bit as disgusting as anything you’ll read in the Epstein files. The letter is basically a set of instructions about how he wants his farm to be run back home in Mount Vernon while he’s carrying out his second term as President of the United States. Washington writes: Do not suffer the enslaved children to be in the kitchen or in the yards unless brought there on business. As besides the bad habit, they too frequently are breaking limbs or twigs from or doing other injury to my shrubs, some of which at a considerable expense have been propagated. To translate this into modern English, Washington is saying here that these little children that he has enslaved should only be allowed to go out in the yard if they’re being exploited for labor. Under no circumstances does George Washington want these enslaved children to be allowed to hang out or play in the yard because they might harm his precious shrubs and he paid a lot of money for those shrubs, I’ll have, you know.

There’s something that’s just so cold and clinical about these instructions. He talks about these human children like he’s writing out a purchase order for office supplies. It’s just chilling and inhuman. It’s clear that Washington simply does not see these kids as human beings. They are his property, and the only reason they exist in Washington’s mind is as a resource to be extracted, an investment a source of wealth.

And American propaganda would have us believe that this is all forgivable because Washington was only following the norms of the society he lived in. “We gotta cut George some slack. I mean, slavery was a common practice in his time and place.” According to this line of propaganda, we can’t judge Washington by our modern standards. We have to put Washington’s enslavement of human adults and children in historical context. We’re expected to hold these two conflicting beliefs about Washington at once. On the one hand, George Washington was a great man who pushed history forward through his genius and force of will and moral superiority. But on the other hand, Washington was just a man of his times and he lacked agency to resist the currents of social customs. So we mustn’t judge him. This is all bullshit.

First of all, plenty of people, including white people, opposed slavery in the 1790s when Washington wrote those horrible words. And I’m not just talking about that half-assed “I’ll free my slaves when I die” sort of anti-slavery that Washington practiced merely to save his own ass in the history books. I’m saying, there was a well-developed, well-articulated, well-organized social movement against slavery, which Washington knew about and struggled against throughout his life. A major reason that Washington and his fellow Founding Fathers wanted to have revolution against England to begin with is because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery. That was one of their explicit goals.

You see, the Founding Fathers were capitalists and Washington’s capital, the property which he owned that was the source of all his wealth and power, consisted primarily of stolen land and enslaved human beings. And Washington believed that his capital was being threatened by the shifting legal landscape of the British Empire, and that was the basis of his revolutionary ideology.

The Founding Fathers were capitalists first and, as capitalists, they were extremely class-conscious and protective of their wealth, so much so that in 1772, the institution of slavery took a huge hit on British soil after the Somerset versus Stewart ruling. That judgment determined that a slave owner could not forcibly remove a slave from England to be sold abroad. This ruling sent a shockwave of fear through the ruling class of the American colonies, through the Founding Fathers, because it signaled that England might soon interfere with their most lucrative property rights.

And this was a major reason they turned toward revolution. Washington and his peers rose up against England because they wanted to protect their slave-based economic class interests. And knowing all of this, I can’t see Washington’s letters as evidence that he was a passive man of the times. I judge him as a man of his times, as a man who knew precisely what he was doing, a man who fought tooth and nail and risked his life to maintain his power and wealth as a slave trader and human trafficker.

George Washington was a disciplined agent of the capitalist class. He wasn’t just following social norms, he was writing the rules that ensured the survival of a slave-holding oligarchy of capitalists. The horror of George Washington is not that he failed to reflect on the wickedness of the system he was a part of. The horror is that he reflected on the system and he decided that the protection of his shrubs was a more rational pursuit than the dignity of those human children he enslaved.

And if the shrub thing doesn’t convince you, don’t worry. It definitely gets worse in the same letter when he starts getting to the instructions on feeding those humans that he had enslaved. You see, Washington heard tell that one of his overseers, a man named Anthony Whiting, had decided to give the slaves some extra rations when they complained about being hungry. And Washington thought this was far too generous. He wrote, “the quantity was increased by Mr. Whiting so as to amount to profusion. This is an error again on the other side, my wish and desire is that they should have as much as they can eat without waste and no more.”

I mean, this is just fucking supervillain shit. The man wore the teeth of enslaved human beings in his head. He directly participated with gleeful enthusiasm in the genocide and displacement of the Native population.

A huge reason he wanted to have a revolution was because he wanted more land to the west, and England was honoring treaties with a lot of the indigenous people, and he didn’t wanna honor them. He wanted to go steal that land, own it and get even more wealthy. I mean, he writes about that constantly. He was obsessed with it in his personal correspondence. And don’t forget, he bred those human beings that he enslaved. So even if you believe that Washington never sexually assaulted any of the women he enslaved, and I don’t believe that, but even if you do, it still doesn’t matter. He did sexually exploit those enslaved human beings by carrying out a forced breeding program.

If we found out that anything like this was happening in the Epstein files, we would rightfully be outraged. But for some reason, we give Washington a pass just because all this stuff happened a long time ago, and that is bullshit. It’s a thought-terminating cliche. We only accept it because the ruling class has had centuries to gaslight us into accepting it, to build perception filters in our minds so that we don’t see this atrocity for what it truly is. And that makes us excuse the inexcusable and it’s high time we see the truth.

I could go on about the other Founding Fathers, even folks like Benjamin Franklin, who enslaved human beings and ran advertisements for those enslaved human beings in his newspapers. He profited from the slave trade in countless ways.

There were many other Founding Fathers who did not directly enslave human beings, but they were willing to compromise over the matter, again, just to protect their economic interests, just to protect their wealth. These men, the Founding Fathers, were willing to look past some of the most atrocious crimes against humanity in world history just because they wanted to advance their own financial and political standing, just like a lot of Epstein’s friends and conspirators today are willing to look past the crimes he was committing for their own personal gain.

And you can draw a direct line from the Founding Fathers to Epstein. And what I mean by that is it’s all one sick, disgusting, systematically exploited class system. This is class activity we are getting an inside look at. And the ruling class, which perpetuates and protects and advances the system of exploitation, is the class of Washington and Jefferson and Franklin and the quote-unquote “Epstein class” today, that’s being exposed right now.

The Epstein class is just the capitalist class. Notice how they all protect each other. That is class consciousness. If only the workers of the USA had the same class consciousness as the capitalists, we would be way better off. Right now, the ruling class wants us again to hold these two conflicting ideas in our head at once. On the one hand, the system that exists today is somehow metaphysically distinct from the system which allowed slavery back in the days of the Founding Fathers going into the 1860s. But on the other hand, they want us to have this nationalistic identification with this nation going back to the Founding Fathers. They want us to revere these men who upheld slavery while somehow also thinking of what we have today as distinct from what they had back then. But it’s all one system and it’s just developed over time when slavery was legal all the way until the 1860s.

In the Southern United States, where I’m from, the slavery of human, women and girls included rampant sexual abuse and exploitation. And this sort of systemic abuse continued long after the abolition of chattel slavery in the wake of the Civil War. It just changed form.

As the US moved into a hyper-capitalist industrial era, the mechanism of exploitation of women and girls shifted from ownership to economic entrapment. You see, in the 19th century in every major city there were these brothels and they catered exclusively to robber barons and wealthy elites. And powerful political machines developed in all these different regions like Tammany Hall in New York City or like the Good Old Boy network where I’m from. There was a whole class of ruthless men who were known as cadets, and they specialized in luring young, mostly immigrant, women or ethnic minorities into debt bondage, making these cadets, some of the pioneers of the modern sex trafficking industry.

Throughout the Gilded Age, powerful conspiratorial rings of police and politicians and brothel owners built up a protected racket of human trafficking and systematic exploitation, which catered to the ruling class. And even then, in the 1800s and the early 1900s, there were members of the working class who saw this happening and struggled against it, and they were all socialists. I’m talking about people like Lucy Parsons, Emma Goldman, Elizabeth Gurley, Reginald and Wright Kaufman, who documented the ways in which women and girls were forced into sexual servitude for wealthy men through debt traps and other forms of economic coercion.

There were countless Epstein-like figures throughout the last 200 years, men like Stanford White, the wealthy architect of Madison Square Gardens, who lured and drugged young showgirls, most famously Evelyn Nesbitt when she was just 16. And Harry Thaw the heir to a massive Pittsburgh coal and railroad fortune who ended up murdering Stanford White. And during the murder trial, it was revealed that Thaw, himself, was also sexually violent and had purchased and abused several women, using his fortune to cover up his crimes.

Going into the 1920s, the rise of Hollywood and the studio system led to the rampant wide-scale and highly normalized sex trafficking and exploitation of women and girls. The story of Hollywood is in many ways the story of the so-called casting couch. And there are simply far too many examples for me to mention of powerful men in Hollywood using their influence and wealth to take advantage of young actresses and models and dancers. Major studios like MGM and Fox and Paramount would employ what they called procurers like Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling, to assist powerful executives and politicians and other really wealthy, famous members of the ruling class in the exploitation and trafficking and coercion of women and girls, and in cleaning up any resulting fallout such as abortions and assaults and public scandals.

After World War II, as capitalism became global and travel became easier, the procurement industry became an international fixture of the ruling class. And figures like John Casablanca were criticized for creating a system that funneled very young women into the orbits of wealthy, older men at international parties through cover businesses, which usually took the form of modeling agencies.

And yes, Donald Trump allegedly used modeling agencies to cover up these same kinds of exploitation operations.

As public sensitivities began to shift in the mid to late 20th century, in large part thanks to advancements in our social consciousness, which arose during the Civil Rights Movement, which brought more public attention to the plights of women and exploited minorities, wealthy capitalists sought to better conceal their absolutely sick, disgusting activity by moving them away from public hotels and casinos and into private sovereign spaces such as private yachts and jets and islands.

So the ruling class created a sort of shadow world for themselves where laws did not apply and crimes could be safely hidden away from the prying eyes of the media and the paparazzi. And ironically, these mega yachts and private islands and private jets and secluded mansions became the subject of much hype and spectacle through programs like, you guessed it, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. So we were all socially conditioned to think that wealthy people having these private islands where they could do whatever they want was cool through programs like Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. And that is the world into which Jeffrey Epstein was born. He was hardly the first person to ever offer these sorts of services to billionaires and politicians. He was not the first and only fixer or procurer who catered to the disgusting whims of rich and powerful capitalists.

Before any of us ever heard Epstein’s name, there was Lawrence King Jr., a high-profile Republican figure, and the manager of the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union in Omaha, Nebraska. By the mid-1980s, King was a rising star in the GOP who was known for his lavish lifestyle of private jets and expensive jewelry and a residence on Washington, D.C.’s Embassy Row. In 1988, the Credit Union collapsed after federal regulators discovered nearly $40 million had gone missing. King was eventually convicted of massive embezzlement and fraud, and he served 15 years in prison. But during the financial investigation into the scandal, multiple individuals came forward with claims that the stolen money was being used to fund a nationwide child sex trafficking ring. They alleged that King acted, as, you guessed it, a procurer bringing children to parties attended by powerful politicians and business elites in Omaha and Washington D.C.. Many of the accusers were former foster children or residents of the famous Boys Town orphanage in Omaha.

Critics and victims at the time argued that King and his associates had utilized the state’s foster care and institutional systems to prey on children who lacked family protection and whose disappearances or runaway statuses could be easily dismissed by authorities. This is exactly what Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell did.

These are examples of systematic exploitation, which has always been perpetrated by the ruling class. Procurers, like Epstein and King, only are able to operate because of the nature of capitalism and class society.

It is capitalism which allows a small fraction of humanity to have way more power and wealth than any individual should have over the rest of us. And honestly, the wealth that capitalists have today, I’m talking about billionaires like Elon Musk and Bill Gates and Donald Trump, that wealth, that power, far exceeds anything we saw in the feudal world of kings and emperors. These billionaires, corporate CEOs, presidents, the ruling class, they command the authority and the terrible power to buy and sell human beings to prey upon them. And it’s capitalism that serves as the economic base that gives them this institutional superstructural power.

And of course, under capitalism, the ruling class owns the means of information production. I’m talking about our media, our cultural institutions, and that’s why our media is designed to brainwash us with propaganda into believing that the ruling class is awesome, that they’re our leaders, that they are our moral examples that we should look up to. And we get convinced to do the work of capitalists for them by praising them, by defending capitalism.

For the ruling class, we work against our own class interests. And it’s all because, as Marx said, the ideas of every epoch are the ideas of the ruling class. We have to develop our own class consciousness, and that means developing our own social institutions, developing our class conscious ideology among our fellow workers and teaching one another that Jeffrey Epstein is just a symptom of a much deeper problem. And this problem is class society. This problem is capitalism.

In order for a man like Jeffrey Epstein to exist, we have to have a system, an economic system, which is deeply unjust at the very foundation. We have to have a system like capitalism, which allows a small group of billionaires to hypnotize us as the masses into compliance. We are conditioned from the moment we’re born to defend and protect this very system. We are conditioned to take the side of our class enemies of these disgusting sex trafficking that run the world.

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If you look in the comment section of pretty much any video discussing Jeffrey Epstein, you’ll find MAGA cultists in the comment section asking questions like these, “Why didn’t Joe Biden do anything about the Epstein files? Why didn’t Democrats talk more about Epstein before Trump took office? Why don’t liberals talk more about the Clinton’s relationship with Epstein?”

Here’s the thing, those are valid-ass questions, and we, as progressive members of the working class, really need to be open to asking ourselves these kinds of questions. And I know that a lot of my subscribers already realize this, but just in case you’re new around here, the fact is the Democratic National Convention, the Democrats are a bourgeois party. They’re a ruling capitalist, class-controlled party. Republicans and Democrats both exist to serve the ruling class of capitalists. And it’s obvious that Epstein’s network had deep connections to both the DNC and the GOP. And that’s no surprise. They both work for the same class interests and, behind the scenes, they both want the same thing, to advance and protect the interests of the ruling capitalist class, which is why we, as workers, need to build up our own working class parties and institutions. We need to understand and teach each other that these bourgeois parties are not on our side and they will never be on our side. Because they are, by definition, dominated by the wealth of the ruling class. The ruling class uses the Republican-Democrat divide to keep workers at each other’s throats.

And the Epstein situation makes it incredibly obvious. It is very clear that both Democrats and Republicans were palling around with Epstein, not just any Republicans and Democrats, but high-ranking prominent officials, Presidents, prominent political leaders and billionaires from the supposed Left and Right are clearly implicated in the files. But they want us, as workers, to divide ourselves along these bullshit bourgeois party lines when they themselves are clearly protecting each other from justice and the truth.

Look at how they’ve come together and not a single one of these billionaire freaks has come forward to express the truth or to expose their fellow capitalists. And that’s because the Epstein class is the capitalist class. And, unlike the working class, the capitalist class has class consciousness. Really, it’s remarkable. These billionaires, I mean, I’m sure that a lot of them hate each other as individuals, but as a class, they have each other’s backs. And not a single one of these powerful men who own the essential means of production of our society has been truthful or upright about the Epstein files or about their relationship to Jeffrey Epstein. They are all complicit and they are all lockstep, arm in arm marching forward together to defend each other from the fallout of the Epstein files.

And that’s because these Epstein files are not really about Jeffrey Epstein and his friends. The Epstein files are interesting only in so much as they offer us a glimpse into the horrendous world of our ruling class. They let us see what capitalism truly is, what these capitalists are truly like. They are an untouchable economic class of oligarchs who are allowed to abuse their power and abuse us as workers without any restraint and without any consequences. The Epstein files lay bare the reality of the capitalist system. The Epstein files challenge our perception filters. They glitch them out, and they let us realize on some level that there are two sets of rules in our capitalist class society. There are the rules that we must follow as workers, things like laws, and then there are rules that our oppressors must follow to stay in the good graces of their fellow capitalists. Our founding fathers were ring of wealthy and powerful human traffickers who exploited children, enslaved human beings, sexually exploited girls and women, and they covered up the behavior of their fellow like Thomas Jefferson.

And if there’s one thing the Epstein files show, it’s that our ruling class today is exactly the same. And that’s because this is just the nature of class society, the nature of capitalism. The only solution is to end class society, to put humanity on equal footing and to get rid of the oligarchs. And I think a lot of people are coming to that conclusion, but a lot of people don’t know what to do. We have analysis paralysis, we feel powerless, and as individuals, we are powerless.

So what do we do? How do we fix this problem? How do we end class society? Step one is to build up class consciousness. We, as workers, need to understand our historic mission, which is to overthrow capitalism and end class society once and for all. That’s not as easy as it sounds in a place like the USA. I recognize that America’s ruling class has had 250 years to indoctrinate us with bourgeois ideology and to make us actively oppose working class consciousness.

Over on our Substack and on our Medium, we have an article which goes into more detail about all the ways in which capitalism conditions the working class to not have class consciousness. I hope you’ll give that a read if you wanna learn more about the ways in which this Epstein class, the capitalist class, keeps the working class pacified and powerless.

And if you’d like to take a very deep dive into the philosophical foundation that we use here at Non-Compete to analyze and struggle against this deeply unjust society, you can check out these textbooks on dialectical and historical materialism. We offer the e-books absolutely for free at Banionhouse.org/shop.

So if you found this video interesting, I think you will particularly enjoy the chapter on social consciousness in Part 2, which really helped me wrap my head around why we, as workers, still fall for capitalist propaganda all the time, even when it’s so goddamn absurd.

And this book also outlines the solution, which is again, building class consciousness. Before we can overthrow these capitalist creeps, we, as workers, must first come to see capitalism for what it is, which is a system which gives far too much power to the worst kinds of people.

Only class struggle and social revolution can bring about an end to this terrible system of oppression and bring about authentically democratic worker-controlled systems of government.

A massive and powerful industry exists to steer us away from class consciousness. And in the weeks and months to come, a lot of people are gonna come forward to you on YouTube, on television, all around you, they’re gonna be preaching to you about the merits of the system of capitalism, which was designed by monsters who enslaved and sexually exploited children and adults. Liberal pundits are gonna come forward and politicians and influencers, and they’re gonna tell you that this clique of capitalists over here is built different. This faction of this bourgeois political party will put us back on the right track, that Jeffrey Epstein doesn’t represent the real America, and they’re gonna make appeals to your patriotism, and they’re gonna twist themselves into rhetorical knots to try and lure us all back into the fold and metaphysically distinguish between the Epstein class and the capitalist class, and they’re gonna make us think, “Oh, this isn’t the system that our wonderful, glorious founding fathers designed.” That’s bullshit.

The founding fathers did this same kind of shit. The Epstein files are not a divergence from Americanism. Epstein does authentically represent the real USA. He is fundamentally cut from the same cloth as Jefferson and Washington. Epstein embodies exactly the same practices and behaviors and worldview which the Founding Fathers embodied. If anything, the Founding Fathers practiced their depraved, cruel, twisted crimes against humanity much more openly and on a much more massive scale than Jeffrey Epstein. They intentionally designed a political economic system, which gives wealthy oligarchs power, absolute power, over other human beings. And the things they did with that power were absolutely revolting.

Look, I myself grew up admiring the Founding Fathers. They were my heroes when I was young, and I knew that they committed atrocities like slavery and genocide. But I was conditioned by the media, by my schooling, by my culture, to look past these crimes against humanity. For a long time, my perception filter was very strong. But even back in those days, when I looked up to the Founding Fathers, somewhere deep down I had cognitive dissonance and it gnawed away at me. I mean, I can remember actively avoiding looking more deeply into these topics. I didn’t want to know any more of the truth. And when I finally did allow myself to be confronted by the stark realities of the Founding Fathers and the brutal history of the American Empire, it was a painful process.

But now that I’m on the other side of it, I feel liberated and clear-headed. I no longer feel compelled to look past the horrible truth that Benjamin Franklin bought and sold human beings, that Jefferson was a sex trafficker of children, that George Washington starved the human children that he enslaved, and that he bred them like stock animals.

Jeffrey Epstein is the legacy of the Founding Fathers. Everything Epstein did, the Founding Fathers did two and a half centuries ago. That is just the stark harsh, cold reality, and you’ll see that yourself if you can break through your perception filter.

As we enter the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, we have very important choice ahead of us. We can face the truth head on and admit that this system of capitalism that the Founding Fathers developed is the same depraved system that commands our government today. Or we can just look the other way, keep upholding the system, keep running cover for some of the most disgusting men in human history.

We’ve been lied to for 250 years by these people. We have let them run our society for two and a half centuries and look at what we’ve gotten for it. We’ve got a warmongering racist police state. What else can I say? I am sick of being lied to. I’m sick of these capitalist freaks, making things worse all the time. I’m sick of the war. I’m sick of all of it. Capitalism has run its course, and it’s time for us to wake up to the fact there are tried and true methods of overthrowing capitalism.

You can find out more in these free e-books that we have, again, at bandinghouse.org slash Shop and maybe check out some of other videos. We talk about these topics all the time.

For now, I’m EJ. This is Non-Compete. Thanks so much for watching Power to the People, Workers of the World Unite and all that jazz. We’ll see you next time.

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AMY GOODMAN: The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has entered its 11th day. Its impact is being increasingly felt across the globe. Al Jazeera is reporting residents of Tehran overnight experienced “some of the most intense bombardment” of the war. At least 40 people were reportedly killed near the city’s Risalat Square.

In Lebanon, the death toll from Israel’s attacks are nearing 500. About 700,000 residents have been displaced.

Earlier today, Iran reportedly fired drones toward Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and United Arab Emirates, where a large fire broke out in an industrial area home to petrochemical plants. A suspected Iranian missile also hit a residential building in the capital of Bahrain, killing one person and injuring eight others.

On Monday, the Pentagon posted online a photo of a missile with the words “No Mercy” superimposed on it. An accompanying message read, “We have Only Just Begun to Fight.” But soon after, Trump told CBS News, quote, “I think the war is very complete, pretty ​much,” he said. Trump’s CBS interview led oil prices to drop and for global stocks to quickly rise. But after the Wall Street markets closed, Trump told Republicans in Florida the U.S. hasn’t, quote, “won enough.” At a news conference on Monday, ABCNews reporter Selina Wang questioned Trump about the conflicting messages.

SELINA WANG: Mr. President, you’ve said the war is, quote, “very complete,” but your defense secretary says this is just the beginning. So, which is it? And how long should Americans be prepared for this war to last for?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I think you could say both. It’s the beginning. It’s the beginning of building a new country. But they certainly — they have no navy. They have no air force. They have no anti-aircraft equipment. It’s all been blown up. They have no radar. They have no telecommunications. And they have no leadership. It’s all gone. So, you know, you could look at that statement. We could — we could call it a tremendous success right now. As we leave here, I could call it, or we could go further. And we’re going to go further. But the big risk on that war has been over for three days. We wiped them out the first — in the first two days.

AMY GOODMAN: On Monday, President Trump said he had a good call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who reportedly proposed a, quote, “quick political and diplomatic end to the Iranian conflict,” unquote.

We begin today’s show with retired Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell during the run-up and early years of the U.S. war on Iraq. He’s taught national security affairs at both George Washington University and the College of William and Mary.

Colonel Wilkerson, welcome back to Democracy Now! Can you respond to what has taken place over this last 11 days, starting with the diplomatic talks in Geneva between Iran and the United States? And as those talks were just wrapping up, U.S. and Israel attacked Iran and killed the supreme leader there. Your response?

LAWRENCE WILKERSON: Yes, and, Amy, for the second time, we violated international law in that respect, and just common human decency. And your comments at the opening of the show were spot-on, but not nearly broad and deep enough. I come from an administration of George W. Bush and Richard Bruce Cheney that committed war crimes, war crimes that Colin Powell and his lawyer Will Taft and I agonized over in trying to present some message to the American people about them. This administration has committed more war crimes in the last few days than I think any country since Adolf Hitler committed. And that is an incredible condemnation of this entire process.

We have bombed civilians relentlessly. We have bombed a school. We have bombed a hospital. We have struck facilities in the nature of Iran’s oil capacity that is now putting black poison all over 10-plus million people. And we are essentially not bombing ballistic missile sites and bombing war materiel. We’re bombing people. We took a lesson from the IDF, if you will. We are bombing people, as, incidentally, they are still doing in Gaza and doing now in Lebanon to a fare-thee-well. These are all war crimes. And one wishes with fond hope that someday we might be called before the bar of justice and have to account for these war crimes. And what you just talked about is a crime also in the eyes of international relations and people who want to keep decent international relations ongoing in the world. We’re destroying that.

And on top of all of that — and this is the real serious problem here for America — Trump and Hegseth and Rubio and the other entourage of their national security complex have completely misjudged the nature of this war, as has, to a certain extent, Bibi Netanyahu. This is a country as big as Western Europe, with 93 million people, probably 90 million of whom will fight us to the bitter death, who live in terrain that almost killed Alexander the Great. It is entirely inhospitable to military operations. And Trump is talking about — actually talking about putting ground forces there. And the only way he will be able to claim any nature of victory is to do that. Only that will be the end of the empire’s presence in the Levant and the Middle East in general, because we will not be able to sustain that economically, physically. We do not have the soldiers or Marines to do that. But that’s what he’s talking about. This is pure nonsense.

There was a column in Haaretz yesterday, and the title of the column, essentially, was “Trump will chicken out in this war, too.” I’m sorry, he’s not going to chicken out necessarily. That might be the tone and tint he puts to it. He’s going to be defeated, as are we.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, Colonel, I wanted to ask you — we played that clip with Trump talking about all the damage that Iran has sustained, but there’s been very little acknowledgment by the U.S. military or the White House to the enormous damage that has occurred to the U.S. military footprint in the Middle East for decades. All of these bases and radar, multibillion-dollar radar, were established throughout the region. And what’s your understanding of the nature of the damage that has occurred to all of these bases, not just among the Gulf states, but also even in Iraq and other places of the Middle East?

LAWRENCE WILKERSON: Yeah, that damage is enormous. And I think what you’re witnessing right now is the initial steps of the empire, the American empire’s retreat from the Levant and the Middle East in general. I don’t think we’re going to be able to sustain our presence there after what’s going to happen here, particularly if we stay at this for a long time and really do take significant casualties. We’re already taking more casualties than people know about, because the media is not being apprised of it. Yes, we had the ceremony at Dover, but there are people getting ready at Landstuhl, our throughput hospital in Germany, right now to accept multiple casualties coming in. They’ve stopped their civilian service and so forth at that hospital. And other things are being geared up, too, like Walter Reed. I don’t think they have even a modicum of appreciation of what kind of casualties are going to result, though, especially if we put ground forces into Iran. And that is the only way, unless he just lies completely about it, that Trump is going to be able to assert any kind of real force with regard to this population.

And to your point, in Bahrain, they have taken out billions of dollars’ worth of U.S. radar and equipment, including the vertical missile loading cranes, so now ships have to go all the way to Diego Garcia to load these weapons. They have essentially obliterated our capacity to carry out combat actions from a number of places in Saudi Arabia and Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Al Udeid is actually under under threat now, too. And this is all part of the warp and woof of our ability to carry out combat operations in the region. I’m not even sure our biggest facility for passing on troops, throughput facility, that we used in both Iraq wars — is in Kuwait. I’m not even sure that that’s up now and able to do anything. So, how would you even get Marines or soldiers, God forbid, into Iran? That’s a huge problem. They will sink the ships that are coming to deposit those troops wherever they’re coming.

We have not really damaged their ballistic missile capability. And the media blackout on Israel is keeping the American people from seeing the enormous degree of destruction to Israel, the latest component of which was a riposte to Israel’s having struck their oil facilities, on Haifa, their oil facility port. And Haifa is being taken down much the way Eilat was taken down by the Houthis, the Allah Ansar, in the Red Sea, when we failed to be able to reopen the Red Sea. And that’s the next step. The Bab al-Mandeb will be closed once the Houthis have gotten into action full time again. And 60% of the world’s commerce passes through the Red Sea. It’s not oil and gas exclusively. It’s all manner of things — foodstuffs, commodities and such.

So, this is a war with long legs. Trump has completely misinterpreted it. The only one who’s interpreted it correctly is Bibi Netanyahu, and I think he’s ready to use a nuclear weapon, should it become as bad as it looks like it might right now, because Iran has not even began to shoot its most sophisticated missiles. And now the second and third class of those missiles is getting through almost without opposition. Imagine what these Mach 3, Mach 4 missiles, with huge warheads that have maybe a hundred different other warheads they display all across an area, are going to do to Israel once they’re fired. And they’re still there, and they’re still ready to fire.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, Colonel, I wanted to actually — you mentioned the media coverage of what is going on in Israel. It has been amazing to me that all of the major U.S. media are based in Israel, in Tel Aviv, yet we are seeing the least amount of coverage of what is going on within Israel. I want to quote from a piece, an online piece, that CNN reporter Oren Liebermann posted earlier this week. And he wrote — and I’m quoting — “Every reporter in Israel — and every member of the public — is subject to a military censor. On national security grounds, the regulation authorizes the censor to prohibit reporting or broadcasting any material that could reveal sensitive information or pose a threat to the country’s security interests.” And he goes on to say, “This is particularly sensitive during wartime, where the military censor has made clear that broadcasting any images that reveal the location of interceptor missiles or military sites hit by enemy projectiles is forbidden, especially in live broadcasts.” Now, they say this on their website, but they never mention this on air. And none of the networks are mentioning on air that they are strictly prohibited from showing any actual, real damage. I’m wondering your sense of the responsibility of the U.S. media, especially since they’re always showing us the results of the plumes rising in Abu Dhabi or in Saudi Arabia or even in Iran, but not the direct hits that are occurring within Israel.

LAWRENCE WILKERSON: I’ll tell you what I told the senior editor to The Washington Post recently. I think it’s abominable, the lies that the American mainstream media, both video and print, is telling the American people. And they’re putting us in jeopardy in a real substantive sense, because the American people have no way of judging just how foolhardy, how stupid, how unwise, how violative of international dictum and rule this war is.

And when it gets to the point — I think this is the end of the Trump presidency, actually, because when it gets to the point where the pressure is so great and some of this has to come out and casualties are manifest, then the American people are going to ask really important questions: Why did you lie to us? Why did you tell us what you were telling us? Why did you start this war of choice? Iran was no threat to the United States of America whatsoever. Did you go to war for Israel? We have heard you went to war for Israel. These are questions that are finally going to get out there in the hustings and going to have to be answered by someone, probably your local congressman, the supine body that has done nothing to check this president, particularly in the war power. And we haven’t even talked about that.

This is a complete violation of the Constitution of the United States. Just as Kofi Annan said about the 2003 Iraq War, it’s an illegal war. And he went on to say it was a violation of our own Constitution. And he was absolutely right. But this pales — or, that pales in comparison with what Trump is doing right now, and what he is going to probably have to do in order to seem to correct his errors.

And I’m truly worried that this destruction of Israel is going to reach a point — I listened to Netanyahu recently speaking in Hebrew to his clan, to his group — Ben-Gvir, Smotrich and others like that. And at the end of his remarks in Hebrew, which was translated for me very reliably, I think, he essentially said that if it went south, if it went bad, he was prepared to show the Iranians something they had never seen before. I think he meant a nuclear weapon. And I go back to 1973 when Golda Meir told a BBC reporter — you can check, it was printed in London the next day on the front page — that she would use a nuclear weapon, in response to his question, “Would you use a nuclear weapon?” Because at that time, they were pretty hard-pressed in the ‘73 war. And she said, “Yes,” without equivocation. I think we’re back at that point again, and for probably a far more dangerous situation.

AMY GOODMAN: I know you have to go, Colonel Wilkerson, but I just want to point out you were the former chief of staff of Secretary of State Colin Powell, who dragged his feet on supporting the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, but ultimately gave that speech, that he would call a stain on his career, at the U.N. It was critical for Bush, President Bush, that it was Colin Powell who gave this speech, because he was seen as the reluctant warrior. And he gave that speech saying there was evidence of Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction. Can you make a parallel to what we’re seeing today?

LAWRENCE WILKERSON: I can, but I think this is far greater a travesty and a tragedy. That was bad enough. And torture was the thing that broke my back, and ultimately it sort of broke Colin Powell’s back, too, because we realized that we had signed up not only to a war that was not necessary, we had signed up to a president of the United States for the first time in the nation’s history making public policy torture. Other human beings being tortured was made presidential public policy. This is far worse, I think, and it’s been building for some time. It’s been building all since Trump was elected, and actually since his first administration. And I think it makes what we did — not to discount it, but it makes it pale by comparison, and it makes me deeply concerned about the future of this republic.

AMY GOODMAN: I want to thank you so much for being with us, Lawrence Wilkerson, retired Army colonel, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2002 to 2005.

Coming up, we look at how the Gulf nations are responding to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, and the conflicting statements President Trump makes throughout the day. Then we talk about wars for oil with Antonia Juhasz. Stay with us.

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Why is it that wherever people are disrespecting and gaslighting Africans, Elon Musk shall be in their midst? Ha.

So, Lauren Chan, controversial Right-wing commentator, put out some confusing views on Africa. She wrote that, “Africa is not poor because of colonization, but because the people cannot govern themselves properly.” She claimed Europeans left behind functioning infrastructure and that, once Africans took over, everything fell apart due to corruption and incompetence. She also talked about how Hong Kong and Singapore handled their countries after colonization. ‘Cause, of course, Africa is a country that should be grouped with, I digress.

Then Elon, our dear fellow African, jumped to endorse these views. First, to group Africa this way is misleading. You think the people like corrupt leaders? Do you not see us advocating for great leadership? Did you not see the march for Traoré? Are you aware that the people love Traoré, but the leaders you write for do not.

And this infrastructure you claim they blessed us with was not built for Africans to thrive. It was built for extraction. The constant interference is proof that our resources still matter.

Do you know what the borders that this same colonizers drew have done to Africa? Have you ever heard of neocolonialism? African countries were not left alone to simply fail or succeed on their own terms.

And then the comparison to Hong Kong and Singapore, girl. Hong Kong and Singapore were not even extraction zones. Africa was the supplier of raw material. Also, Hong Kong and Singapore enjoyed trade privileges that Africa has never had.

When we attempt to assert control over our resources, our currencies, or our alliances, we get punished. Our good leaders are suddenly illegitimate. You want us to stand on our own, yet we get penalized the moment we try to do that. For the record, we did have great leaders who would’ve done these things you say we lack. They resisted extraction, but can you guess what happened to them?

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Blackrock Purchased Electric Grid of Indiana and Ohio -@ajahallh on IG

BlackRock has officially bought our electric grid. A private owned company now owns all of our electric grid in Indiana and Ohio in the name of mass producing AI data centers.

PIf you are not in Indiana and don’t know how hard we’ve been fighting data centers and our rising energy costs, our bills went up about $400 just in the last two months. And now that’s expected to get even worse as BlackRock has just secured a $33 billion deal acquiring AES, which is the power company responsible for all of the electricity in Indiana and Ohio.

I wanna explain to you why a private equity company being able to dictate public energy, why it’s an issue, but let’s talk about how we know our energy costs are now being privatized and basically gonna be used for politics and to, I don’t know, drive our fucking prices up even more.

BlackRock’s investment, as it comes to AI, is privatizing energy so that they can supply and drain neighboring cities and now all of Indiana, just so they can divert power grid supply to AI data centers.

BlackRock has a monopoly on almost every fucking thing, and the fact that a deal going through that is going to allow them to divert energy from regular people to mass produce AI data centers while literally raising our prices and reducing accountability is a crime.

This is criminal. Indiana is being pimped out in the name of our governor, and now that they have acquired all of our wind farms, which is how we get our energy, we are now going to have skyrocketing bill. And BlackRock is going to contribute to destroying our environment with AI data centers for a fucking Chat GPT prompt on how much water is being used just to supply it.

I don’t understand how people are okay with this, but this is very fucking bad. And if it’s starting here, it will come to you.

23 States Are Restricting HIV Drug Access. Here’s Why. - @cjnlegalnurse on IG

As I reported earlier, this is not just Florida. 23 states, including Washington D.C., have implemented or are considering cost containment measures for HIV drug access through the Ryan White program.

So Florida has already reduced income eligibility from 400% of the federal poverty level to 130% and removed BICTARVI from its formulary. Pennsylvania, Kansas, Delaware, and Rhode Island have also reduced income eligibility, though not as drastically as Florida. Arkansas, Louisiana, and New Jersey are considering implementing waiting-lists, something we have not seen widely since the early 2000’s.

Overall, 18 states have already made changes and five more are considering future restrictions.

So here’s why. ADAP funding has declined 31% in inflation-adjusted dollars since 2005. At the same time, enrollment has increased 56%. Drug prices have climbed sharply. Bictarvi’s average wholesale price was about $61,000. In 2025. Enhanced ACA tax credits expired. Marketplace premiums jumped 26% nationally from 2025 to 2026. In Florida, premiums rose 33%. So states are responding by lowering income eligibility, reducing formularies, tightening recertification roles, restricting insurance assistance, and considering waiting-lists.

So as a nurse, this is why this matters: Four in 10 new HIV transmissions are associated with people who know their status but are not in care. When funding fails to match the need, access gets cut. And when access gets cut, viral suppression drops. This is not accidental. It is structural.

Nashville Resident Against Boring Tunnel- @noboringnashville on IG

Hi, I’m Zhou Li. I’m here in support of the resolution. Based on Boring’s own claim of 3.3 million passengers served over about 1700 days of operation. This averages about to 1900 passengers per day. Those are rookie numbers. Okay? I-40 westbound at Briley Parkway sees 170,000 cars per day. Boring Company’s total capacity is less than 1% of the total travel demand of just one direction in this one corridor alone. But hey, I’m all for solving traffic.

So I came up with some ideas to improve the system efficiency if you will. Okay, so what if we reduce, increase the passengers to driver ratio by linking up some of these Tesla cars together, right? And make them a little bit bigger with the automatic door so they can support roll-on, roll-off of wheelchairs and luggages. So faster embarkation. And what if we put one big engine instead of a little tiny, little inefficient ones on the front car?

And we don’t need to carry batteries too heavy. We just use a live wire to transfer power to the cars. Okay? And we know that tire dust is very detrimental to respiratory system. So we should replace rubber tires with steel wheels. And since this this is a fixed route, we can just use some steel guideways for steel on steel, which is very efficient in rolling resistance. And I know this might sounds like very advanced technology, so I might asked my six-year-old daughter to draw up a picture of what it looks like.

And it’s a train. This thing does 40,000 passengers per hour, per directions. Maybe you should look into that. Thank you. Alright.

Despite Objection from Nashvillians, Tunnel Continues

Metro, Nashville City Council just passed a resolution saying they are not in favor of this tunnel, so why is it still happening? The idea behind the Music City Loop is that they will start building on state property and build underneath state roads. So all they really have to answer to is the state. But we’re standing in Nashville and, and that’s been part of the story, right?

We had the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce coming out to say, “Hey, maybe you don’t pass this resolution because yeah, it’s going to look like Nashville wants no part of this.”

This resolution doesn’t necessarily stop any building from happening. It just means that they don’t want to be a part of this project that is being built in our very own backyard. But I always go back to the question of does Nashville have a say?

I’m saying all this knowing that state lawmakers just came up with a new bill where they would have the authority to issue permits for these types of underground projects, and the board would be appointed by the speakers of boat chambers and the governor who are all Republicans.

My colleague, Chris Davis, did the story and he explained that Nashville would still have a say on the above ground stations. But if there’s a decision that goes against continuing these projects, then it’s appealed back to the state where most likely they will have the final say. There were still some council members who said, okay, well let’s go forward with this project and see where it takes us. Whereas you have other council members, Delicia Porterfield being one of them, who said, “Listen, we need to ask more questions here. We’re still not getting answers from this company. A lot of you have said, you know, just give me an opportunity to ask about this.”

Give me an opportunity to know if you’re gonna be digging underneath my property, like what my rights are. We wanna know what the environmental impacts are. We wanna know why every other city, with the exception of Las Vegas, has turned you down.

And yet when you try to send the Boring Company an email, many of you have gotten responses that amounted to, “you know, we’ll get back to you.”

So, yeah, for a lot of folks, it’s been frustrating, you know, to go through this process and know that every other city has had a say in what happens before they turn down the Boring Company, only for the Boring Company to show up to Nashville and say, “yeah, we’re just gonna do this anyway.”

Now someone might say, what’s the big deal? Right? Because these guys say that they’re willing to pay for this tunnel, which would mean no taxpayer involvement whatsoever, and who knows? This could be proof of concept.

They could use this as an opportunity to show other states that you can get away with building a tunnel without having to worry about the city’s involvement. Who knows? But I’m curious, what do you think?

Dear Readers, especially G whose birthday was yesterday and whom I neglected to wish a blessed day,

If you have stayed with me in this migration of my social media and art to this platform, I want to thank you. I also want to revisit one of the early posts on here from 2003, not sure exactly when, but certain that it was before October 7th, 2023. Because I held back so much and was flooded with fears of backlash that I had been noticing celebrities and everyday folks receiving for criticism of Israel. I did not want to be called antisemitic, though I already knew, from Kwame Ture, that I was not.

I had seen Gazi Kodzo, a young activist and internet personality, disappeared and destroyed by claims of antisemitism. The Atlanta Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation spun a narrative of Black identity extremist, “cult leader”, stockpiling weapons , kidnapping and murder. All unsubstantiated claims made by notoriously antiblack institutions, the Atlanta PD and the FBI and the compliant mass media and vicious internet. Once labeled antisemitc, though, no potential ally group would leap to Gazi’s defense. Too extreme for the moderate Black and white people, too critical of (mostly white) gay people, fierce defender of Black women and young black queer people, all made Gazi a target. Plus, Gazi always brought and shared RECEIPTS! I learned how to follow the money of organizations through Gazi’s videos. And, when Gazi disappeared into the prison industrial complex, I kept following who benefitted from silencing this charismatic, controversial and intelligent young person.

Then October 7th, 2023, and the mask was off for the world to witness in it’s first livestreamed genocide presented by the US and Israel. It seemed a good time to revisit this porch sit and the trees that I whitewashed when we had to sell the Nashville house where I was speaking from in the video.

Happy belated birthday G. I love you and all y’all reading this.

In solidarity composting capitalism to reforest our family trees,

V

(Excerpt) SONG’s Small Town and Rural Porch Sit 3 - Land and Liberation Revisited

Marg: So our last question is what are some of the most pressing issues in your small town or rural community and what support is needed, how can SONG support, how can folks stay connected to your work and continue to learn from it? And we’ll kick it off with you, Valencia.

Valencia: Alright. I did lose my voice last week. I, through pressing issues, I had a mental emotional, physical health breakdown. I think I mentioned earlier that my partner has been offering, at the tree roots, reparations, like, this house in the city and a farm in the country and a,before the pandemic, very viable business in the city.

And, because of the attacks on all of our aspects of being, being Afro indigenous descendant of chattel slavery, whose history they don’t wanna teach in the schools right now. So I think I said earlier about them even criminalizing “back to the landers” and people who want to advocate for self-defense, you know, like post Buffalo stuff like that are deemed, “black identity extremists”, and Queer people we’re under assault with all of, in Tennessee where the governor has like basically put a bounty on our heads while simultaneously giving 18 year olds the right to carry assault weapons.

I mean, things that are just like blatant violations of human rights are going on here. Like, so I’m in jeopardy of even being able to hold what my partner’s offering because he’s trans. And, that, so that relationship is now not gonna have any legal support, and we’re apparently interracial. So that also those things, the, um, I forget what they’re called, but the people who like register, you know, they’re allowed in Tennessee to say, no, they don’t wanna register you. They don’t have to register interracial and queers. So we’re, we’re out in that regard to being able to hold on to assets that we were, we were, because of proximity to whiteness, able to keep during the pandemic.

So most pressing issues is for us to realize that these are intersecting things. This is not like a separate issue with the environment. It’s not a separate issue with what’s happening with the anti-trans bills internationally because it’s continued to happen to Afro-indigenous Descendants of Chattel Slavery. And we were, I think, for lack of better words, the “canary in the mineshaft” as long as we were allowed to be abused.

And. I think it was a media strategy too. Ida B. Wells would agree with me, a media strategy to put a black face on all of the (issues of) potential allies. like, so, they use like Dave Chappelle to put a black face on like anti-trans state. And this person doesn’t represent me in my family. He, he like supports not in my backyard sort of things. He’s not of my thing, but they put a black face on that they use Kanye West, also person not in my people’s. He’s not experiencing the mass incarceration, the poverty, the things he might have come from that, but that’s not where this person comes from. But the deceptive propaganda of the media put, um, the face of antisemitism, um, you know, they used him to do that. They let this guy say that, you know, “Hitler was a hero.”

And I think that because the media is not owned by us, I think that that was put in place because we are at a time when we would be in solidarity for reparations for Afro-indigenous -Descendants of Slavery, because the records show what was done. They kept meticulous ledgers about their inheritances. Literally, the mortgages were paid with the “future increase”, which is still me.

And now it’s being paid with the “future increase” through the prison industries. Because the same heirs of their par, they’re the legitimate heirs, because I’m the illegitimate heir of the Deadbeat Founding Fathers. But my legitimate kin, those who didn’t come from an Afro indigenous womb, inherited me and mine, you know, so I am that “future increase.”

And so our most pressing thing is to the abolition of capitalism. But recognizing that our shared struggles like as, as environmentalists, as queer people and as all marginalized groups, all people of color, that this is the common thing. They’re gonna perpetuate the chattel slavery abuses on more people now. But we don’t know our history enough to know that that’s what happened.

But when we get involved in populating our own trees and we can see our trees next to each other, so, uh, my Roots for Reparations, oh, I show you this one too.

It’s about reforesting our, our trees, but recognizing how we’re all connected. This one’s the Tree of Religions and we’re all, it’s like shows how we’re all connected, we’re all connected, and we all kind of go back to these indigenous African, you know, the trees are all connected. And I think when we really know our history, we really know we’re so special that it took that many beings to make us possible that we won’t allow these like one percenters who like descend from, un-empathetic people who have never demonstrated compassion.

They won’t be in the lead anymore. We’re the majority. Why can take back our indigenous ways and repair our family trees? And, and that’s the most pressing issue I see is that we are all being deforested

And they, they’re owning our data stories in, in the way, if you wanna think about, like, BlackRock owning Family Search or the different, not Family Search, Ancestry.com, basically these investment companies now wanting to own our data stories, which, I mean, what kind of new fresh Holocaust is that? People who didn’t know their histories are now being charged to learn about where they came from and when this is the result of my thing, “Unknown, Unknown, this whole generation of unknowns.

But it’s in their ledgers. You can go to the 1850 Census and witness we were, we existed. I’m present. So that means these people existed. So what Holocaust happened here and, and this isn’t, this is, this happened in human history. So this is for all of us to repair, not just for people are like, “Well, that’s a black people thing. I don’t think black people should get”. Nobody should be talking about Afro-indigenous reparations like that.

We should be talking about, like, ending the military industrial complex that is doing the same thing to the Earth and the rest of humanity, what it did to us. But we don’t know that history and they don’t want us to know that history.

Marg: Oh, time.

Thank you. Got It. They don’t want us to know, they don’t want us to know that we have common interests.

I know we’re all very focused on what’s happening in Iran, but we also need to be tapped on what’s happening in Kansas. Trans people are getting their IDs invalidated by their government. There are already people who have reported that their passports are being canceled and they’re being marked as lost and stolen all around the country. If you think that what is happening to trans people will not happen to you, you are not paying enough attention. Our trans siblings are less than 1% of the population. They are not creating all this legislation and these loopholes specifically to impact them.

Right now, they are the target. Right now, they are the nihilistic violent extremists. But pretty soon it’ll be anybody who speaks out against the U.S. government. Donald Trump has already said that he does not want anybody who does not love this country voting in elections.

And, we also know that not only is this physical warfare, but this is spiritual warfare. And trans people have always been seen in indigenous cultures as the people that are highest and closest to God because they access the fluidity of the spirit.

So, I said all that to say when a trans person is speaking, listen.

Department of Interior to Dismiss Oklahoma Tribes’ Boarding Schools Lawsuit-

The Interior Department is trying to dismiss the Indian boarding school lawsuit. For those who don’t know, last May a lawsuit was filed by two tribes and it highlighted the misuse of money that was held in trust for tribal nations. And they were used to fund the Indian boarding schools where abuses, separation, assimilation, as well as exploitation of multiple varieties took place.

These facilities not only stripped culture from Native children over multiple generations, but also profited from the exploitation of minors, of the theft of culture and used it as a way to obtain land, steal land.

My grandmother survived one of these facilities called Wrangell Institute in Alaska, which was notoriously one of the more abusive facilities.

And my father has worked in repatriation, which is the return of remains and spiritual items to their people or place of origin work to investigate these abuses and return family members who were lost to the system are taking place all across the country.

Survivors are giving testimony and ancestors are coming home. However, the Department of Interior, under Trump’s administration would like this lawsuit to not go forward. The Trump administration is wildly anti-Indigenous for fun it seems, and has defunded, not just efforts to research Indian boarding school history, but also defunded efforts to preserve culture and history and language today, is constantly attacking funding for Native communities, healthcare, food, everything that we need to survive this hellscape we call capitalism.

The genocide of Native people in the United States never stopped, and the legacy of separation and abuse and exploitation of Indian boarding schools is carrying on in ICE facilities today. And because people don’t know their history, they are not recognizing it.

Iranian Disappointed In Own Diaspora -

To be very honest with you, I’m very disappointed in my own diaspora, and a part of me is embarrassed because while we’re getting these, these shots of Iranian people under rubble and getting murdered and crying and screaming in the streets, I’m watching my own diaspora outside of the country dance and celebrate and continuously dance and celebrate while our family members are getting bombed.

And, you know, I’m a political dissident, right? I was able to go back to Iran before I spoke out against the government. I understand the hurt and pain that comes with politically exiling yourself and or not by choice, becoming politically exiled from your home country, your homeland. It’s a different kind of pain that I hope no one experiences, but dancing out in the streets like this when your own people are getting bombed, I just, I’m, I’m finding, I’m finding it very hard to, to relate. Are we, we need to stop.

Like, when are we gonna stop dancing and, and start coming back to reality?

Forty-hour Work Week Like Slavery

In 1926, they discovered the perfect trap, 40 hours keeps you alive, but too tired to escape. Henry Ford ran the numbers. He tested different work schedules and found the sweet spot, 40 hours, not because it’s optimal for productivity, because it’s optimal for control. Let’s do the math: 40 hours work, 10 hours, commuting, 56 hours sleeping, 14 hours for eating, showering, basic survival. That’s 120 hours, leaving you 48 hours of free time, except you are exhausted.

So you spend Saturday recovering from the week and Sunday dreading Monday. Your weekend isn’t freedom, it’s recovery time so you can do it again. Monday morning, the alarm goes off and you feel it. That existential dread, five days until freedom. Five days of giving your life away for what? A paycheck that disappears instantly. Rent, bills, food, loans, nothing left. You wanna start that business? Too tired. Learn that skill? Too tired. Build that project? Too tired. That’s not an accident. That’s the design.

If you had energy left over, you’d leave. If you had money left over, you’d build something. If you had time left over, you’d organize. They can’t let that happen. So they found the formula, just enough money to survive, just enough time to not completely break, just enough energy to come back tomorrow, but never enough to escape.

And then they tell you, “Work hard for 45 years, then you can retire.” So you do it. You trade your twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, sixties for a paycheck, and at 65 you’re free. Except your body’s broken, your energy’s gone. You spent your best years building someone else’s dream and your freedom came too late to use it.

The forty-hour work week isn’t about productivity, it’s about compliance. Keep you tired, keep you poor, keep you busy. Too exhausted to think, too broke to leave, too busy to organize.

That’s not employment, that’s control. And you’ll do it for the next 45 years unless you break or escape. But you won’t because you can’t afford to. That’s the trap.

Okay, if you are not Muslim, you are probably hearing these two words a lot right now, Shia and Sunni. And it’s important to understand what they mean in relation to the geopolitical issues that are playing out right now. So, in the Islamic faith, there are two main branches, Sunni and Shia. Sunnis make up majority of the Muslim population. They’re about 85 to 90% of the Muslim population. Shias are the minority. They make up around 10 to 15% of the population in the Muslim world.

The majority of the Shias live in Iran, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Iraq, and Lebanon. Iran isn’t just important to the Shia Muslims because it is the largest Shia nation, but because it holds multiple layers of historical, cultural, religious, and sometimes political significance. And so to the Shia Muslims, the Ayatollah is a senior, highly educated and religious leader. And these are the main two that have been in power in Iran for the last 47 years.

So on February 28, the United States and Israel killed the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. And they didn’t just kill a political figure, they murdered a spiritual leader to the Shia Muslims. And they didn’t just kill him, they assassinated him, alongside his family members. So he died a martyr. And in the Islamic faith, to die a martyr is the highest honor you can have. He died protecting his people. He died for the cause, and that is what makes him a martyr, and that’s what he’s going to be known as.

And so right now, there’s a call to action to the Shia Muslims to avenge his death. After news of his death, Pakistani Shia Muslims stormed the U.S. Consulate. Twenty-two people were killed. The Lebanese resistance attack Israel in solidarity with Iran.

I think it’s worth mentioning that Shia identity is symbolically rooted in resistance against injustice, colonization, they resist being conquered. And that has a lot to do, you know, dating back to the Battle of Karbala, but also their history of being persecuted oftentimes by Sunni empires.

There is so much more context to this, but I just wanted to put this information out there to give more understanding and clarity for what’s to come in the next few weeks, but also to combat the narrative against Shia Muslims, which is basically that they are violent and oppressive and dangerous. This rhetoric is Western imperialist talking points, and you are low-key calling for the eradication of Shia Muslims.

There are 200 million Shia Muslims that share this world with us. And to hear it come from people who are so-called Muslims or so-called Leftists is unreal.

Christian Zionists Outnumber Jewish Ones 30:1-

I am just gonna leave this here. Christian Zionism, if you don’t know, for every one Jewish Zionist there are in the world, there are 30 Christian Zionists. And Christian Zionists are huge financial supporters of the state of Israel and the trip called Birthright, which if you don’t know what that is, Birthright is a free trip that is granted to anyone of Jewish ancestry. And the goal is to get them to fall in love with the state of Israel and eventually make their return.

All this is just continued proof of Israel’s existence is inherently anti-Semitic, and here’s why:

The basis of Christian Zionism is this prophecy that all of the world’s Jews have to be in one central location that is to be considered the Jewish homeland in order to trigger Armageddon and the return of Jesus Christ. They are literally funding the return of Jewish people to a homeland that they created and they continue to finance for them so that they can trigger what they believe to be will be the end of the world. There’s a whole lot of creepy s**t in there of what will happen to anyone who is not Christian when that end of the world happens that I, I can’t even get into. But like, just as a foundation, that’s what it’s about.

By the way, this, like, game of “I told you so”, we don’t enjoy it, so just listen to us. Okay.

Montana Christian Pastor Condemns Trump-

Donald Trump is a lifelong gangster. He’s a lifelong Zionist. He’s a lifelong philanderer. He’s a lifelong cheat. He’s a lifelong hedonist. He’s a lifelong felon. He’s a lifelong blackmailer. He’s a lifelong bully. He’s a lifelong malignant narcissist, and he’s a lifelong sexual predator.

And since he’s been President, he has now joined the ranks of international war criminals and mass murderers. If you have taken the time to look at even some of the newly released, I’ll call them E-files, you know what I’m talking about? You know that Donald J. Trump, along with the rest of the rich and famous predators in those files, should spend the rest of his life in prison.

And even if he did, that would not balance the scales of justice owed by this degenerate monster. And yet, knowing all of this, there are still thousands of pastors and Christians who can continue to give Trump their undying support from a moral, ethical, legal, and spiritual perspective.

How can these pastors and Christians not be party to Trump’s corruption? By supporting him, lauding him, defending him, excusing him. They are party to his criminality.

If in the scripture, hate and lust in the heart makes one a spiritual murderer and adulterer, what does heartfelt endorsement, justification and assistance to a man who makes murder and adultery look like a Sunday school picnic? By comparison mean spiritually. How does God look at that as God looks on the heart?

Yeah, that’s right. If he tells us in his word that lust and hate is spiritual, adultery and murder, then what does he conclude when he looks at the heart of people who give their endorsement to such a vile, evil, wicked man and do it consciously, deliberately, and enthusiastically?

What we know now about Mr. Trump allows zero consideration for Christians who continue to make excuses, justify and defend this man.

Iran Not A Distraction From E-Files- @watermellonbrigades on IG

Can we please stop saying this man bombing countries is a distraction from the Epstein files? They don’t give a fuck, man. They don’t give a fuck about us knowing, ‘cause we have also told you that these kinds of things, child sex-trafficking, child rape, child murder, even cannibalizing children.

What do y’all think the slave owners would do to our ancestors? Well, what do you think they were doing to those little indigenous girls and women? Do you think they just killed all those people? No. There was mass rapes, there was child rapes, mass murder, and yes, even cannibalism.

So I understand that’s a shocking thing for y’all, but that’s history. This man bombing Iran is not a distraction from the Epstein files. The bombing of Iran, the kidnapping of Maduro and Syria from Venezuela, the starving of Cuba, the genocide in Palestine, the funding of the genocide in Congo, the unrest in Sudan, the attacks of the threats against the AES and every other imperialist invasion and occupation as aggression toward another country. That is U.S. policy under every administration, regardless of whatever weird scandal a particular President may bring in to a policy.

And it was the policy before Trump and the Epstein files. And unless we change this system, it will remain the cops regardless of who ends up in that building after this pig. Thank you so much.

Bibi Lies About Civilian Targets-

Benjamin Netanyahu: You see the difference? The tyrants of Tehran target civilians. We target the tyrants of Tehran to protect civilians.

Al-Awda School, 31 people. Abu Hussein School. 27 people. Al-Madhazi School. 11 people. Fami Al-Jarjawi School. 36 people. Shadiah Abu Ghazala School. 15 people. Osama Bin Zaid School. 20 people. Al-Faghura School. 50 people. Al-Buraq School. 50 people. Al-Zaytoun School.

22 people. an-Nasla school. 10 people. Al-Sardi School. 35 people. Khadija School, 130 people. Hamama School. 17 people. Al-Tabin School. 80 people. Al-Jani School. 18 people just to name a few.

Not a single person involved in Israeli military operations. Least of all. Benjamin Netanyahu cares one bit about civilian safety to protect civilians. These people lie as the rest of us breathe.

The US and Israel will fail the people of Iran as they failed the people of Iraq, as they failed the people in the holy land. And that’s been the plan from the start. That’s why the official story keeps changing depending on the audience, “They have nukes. I’m just kidding. We obliterated those months ago. Now, you know what? They never had ‘em anyway. Seriously, though, we have to free those people from this horrific regime. Actually, we need their oil. Well, we don’t, but we should cut China off from their reserves.”

Meanwhile, US troops, who Trump informed should be prepared to die for this campaign, are being told by their commanders that Trump has been quote, “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran and mark his return to Earth”, according to over a hundred complaints by service members who don’t want to die for a suicide cult.

Meanwhile, the Trump family is just making billions in bribes from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, selling arms, Bitcoin, real estate deals, whatever, no loyalty to any border ideology or religion at all.

And the Trump-Netanyahu regime has made their intentions clear by their actions. They want to destroy Iran, Tehran. They’re bombing police stations to destabilize it. They’re hitting hospitals, residential areas, cafes, schools, the border with Iraq to open way for armed Kurdish troops who’ve been dispossessed for a hundred years in the hopes they can flood Iranian cities and start a sectarian war.

They will fail at regime change, fail at liberation, fail at preventing a nuclear arms race. And that is the plan. Some of the oldest continuous civilizations on Earth, home to deep rich cultures that have transformed our entire world, are being bombed not by nations, ‘cause a nation means a people who are native to a land and the United States and Israel are not nations by that definition.

No, the whole Fertile Crescent is being bombed by business enterprises. There is no culture clash, East versus West or some nonsense like that. The United States is not a culture. It’s a brand that changes its narrative depending on the market, and always tells conflicting stories to make sure the people are divided against each other so they don’t focus on the business model, which is right there exposed for all to see in the Epstein files. You can find it all over the place.

Like that email that Jeffrey Epstein wrote to Peter Thiel, the billionaire, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, when Jeffrey explained that quote, “finding things on their way to collapse is much easier than finding the next bargain.”

Trump’s strategist Steve Bannon called Epstein a “master bomb-maker”. And he was always right there, next to the worst actors on the world stage, sending money to the Israeli military and illegal settlements in occupied Palestine.

And Epstein was funneling weapons into Iran as well for years, while Israel did the same for forever wars, for prolonged and continuous destruction.

That’s the blueprint, destroy a nation, impoverish its people, bury its history, and let the monsters feast on the wreckage. Netanyahu, the butcher of Palestine, and his best friend, Trump, who’s also Epstein’s best friend, want you to believe that monsters are the only ones who can save you from monsters.

But believing that is a trauma response. It’s the result of a lifetime living under monsters just like them. And don’t imagine these guys are anomalies either, breaking a beautiful system that was founded on the brand that we call liberty or equality.

These monsters are running the same centuries-old business model that genocided Native Americans produced the Transatlantic Slave trade and the Age of Misery, where a third of factory workers were children working 12 hours a day, six days a week, a system that would soon need oil.

And so, it was 1908 when the British first found some in the Middle East in Persia, southwestern Iran, and went about extracting it for decades until 1953, when Iran’s last democratically elected Prime Minister dared suggest that their oil belonged to Iranians who should share its profits. And so, the U.S. and Britain installed a dictator to continue their oil extraction.

And that dictator’s secret police, trained by the CIA and Mossad, the Israeli equivalent, tortured thousands and thousands of people over 20 years. The country went into turmoil. And so when Iranians overthrew that Western-backed dictator, an even more oppressive regime and extremist republic took control, calling itself “Islamic”, a claim that most of the world’s Muslims might dispute.

The response from the West was to arm Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, to fight Iran for eight years, which resulted in over a million people being killed. And when Saddam used chemical weapons, well, the West just looked the other way.

As it turns out, the West was actually funding both sides. Failure was the plan from the start, “collapse much easier than finding the next bargain”.

In case there’s any doubt about the U.S. government’s attitude toward the people of Iran, during the Reagan administration, when the U.S. Navy was patrolling the Gulf to protect more oil, trigger-happy sailors shot down an Iranian passenger plane killing 290 civilians, 66 children. Regarding US behavior in the Middle East, Vice President, George Bush Sr., said at the time, “I will never apologize. I don’t care what the facts are.”Then he became President and gave that Navy captain a medal.

Then came decades of sanctions, economic blockades, punishing Iran for claiming ownership over its oil, and daring to sell it. And for opposing the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, elevating this horrific regime into a kind of hero to the resistance movement.

And so the West, seized the opportunity to impose more sanctions, collapsing Iran’s currency, gutting their hospitals, destroying the middle class, telling the world its Iran that is the greatest threat to the region, and that the regime was developing nuclear weapons.

But Iran signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran’s leader issued a religious decree banning nuclear weapons, repeatedly, for 20 years. They submitted to international inspections over and over again. This genuinely horrific regime, executing, kidnapping, torturing, oppressing its own people, still willing to make a deal with the United States.

But Trump tore that last one up, assassinated their top general at a diplomatic meeting in a third country, and then the U.S. and Israel bombed them for 12 days straight, killing enough civilians to make it proportionally the equivalent of Iran’s 9-11.

Meanwhile, Israel has at least 200 nuclear warheads according to Colin Powell, the last time he mentioned it. They’ve never signed the treaty. They’ve never allowed a single inspection. They’ve built their bombs in total secrecy. And when a whistleblower told the world, Mossad, their CIA kidnapped, the guy locked him in solitary confinement for over 10 years.

Israel is also the only nuclear power to have threatened to use its arsenal to blow up the whole world. They call that the “Sampson Option”, a deterrence doctrine. If the State ever faces existential defeat, so will the whole of humanity, a policy ripped straight from Dr. Strangelove.

You know, in the United States, we have a law that says military aid must be cut to any country with uninspected nuclear weapons. Israel’s had them for 60 years, and yet we’ve sent them $300 billion in taxpayer money. Every cent was illegal, a crime.

And that 300 billion, that’s enough to have ended all the homelessness in the nation, all poverty for every family in the country, enough to have also started a jobs program to upgrade every U.S. city , but that would’ve made us a real nation. And that’s not the business model.

Destroy a country, impoverish its people, let the monsters feast on the wreckage. That’s not just foreign policy. That’s our policy. That is why there’s an economic crisis in every city under occupation of that business model in the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada.

This model doesn’t accidentally destroy civilization. Civilization is the target. “Finding things on their way to collapse”, the worship of wealth and power, child sacrifice, destruction for profit, which has every wisdom tradition since the dawn of time has warned, is the religion that brings Armageddon.

You know, a story is the most powerful weapon in the world. And the story that originated in that Fertile Crescent that’s been told for thousands and thousands of years, that all humankind is one, to love thy neighbor as thyself, that all people are our people, that all children are our children. And, that what you do for the least of these, you do to me, and that this commandment is the highest of them all.

This is the story they want destroyed most of all. That’s why they’re centered on Palestine and Iran, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya. You don’t bomb the birthplace of our first recorded cities with the majority of the world calls its “holiest lands” by accident.

These men are monsters. But the good news is they are a tiny group of little monsters who know their time is up and that’s why they’re trying to have their extinction burst and take us all out with them.

Record numbers of people no longer believe in them anymore or their PR platforms with their packaged headlines. “America did this, Iran did that. Russia did this. China’s doing nothing.”

None of these nations’ peoples are doing anything of the sort. And the corporate Democrats, corporate so-called labor parties, pretending the real problem with all this is there doesn’t seem to be a coherent plan. This war is not being managed properly. They didn’t file the proper paperwork. It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. Failing the people is the plan, “finding things on their way to collapse”.

Meanwhile, on the round part of the planet, most people see corporate media for what it is, public property, stolen for psychological warfare, churning out trillions of little subplots, targeting trillions of little markets, all in service to one narrative, the promotion of a business model whose time is over, if we act and do our part.

Years ago when I first moved to my neighborhood, Ramadan rolled around and I decked my house out from top to bottom, decorations wise. And initially my neighbors were like, “What’s this girl doing lighting her house up on a random Tuesday?” But now they see me and they’re like, “Oh, it’s the Ramadan, isn’t it? It’s the Ramadan. Happy Ramadan, Sarah. Happy Ramadan.” And it’s a beautiful thing.

And usually I’m the only house that lit up on our street. But last year my Jewish neighbor surprised me and lit up his house in solidarity, and he did it again this year.

Let’s go talk to him.

I was just walking by and I saw that you all lit the house for Ramadan again this year, and I wanted you guys to know how much that meant to me in Khaled.

Well, we wanna celebrate with you guys and make you feel welcome and make you feel like family like you guys have done to us.

Like what would you say to people who are surprised by this?

Well, they shouldn’t be surprised. You guys are amazing and you gotta open your mind and try different cultures and not believe everything you see.

Oh, I love you guys.

There’s a reason every major religion commands us to love thy neighbor. And there’s another reason why billions are spent on propaganda machines with the sole intention of getting us to hate each other and divide us because they know we are always stronger together.

So if you’re like me and you’re overwhelmed with the state of the world and you’re wondering where to begin to make it better, I suggest you walk next door and get to know your neighbor.

Unlearning 101-Media Literacy

Welcome back to Unlearning101. In this one I’m gonna teach you media literacy in about three minutes, and you’re gonna need the skill so that you don’t hold us back when we’re all trying to do revolution. Okay? So don’t hold us back.

I worked in media marketing for 10 years, so I can tell you how media marketing works, and I know this because they tell us to read all of these books so that I’m better at making you buy things and think things and do and believe things.

All of these books that I was made to read are psychology books. The reason I need to read these psychology books was to explain a one simple thing: you want to preserve yourself so bad that in order for me to capture your attention, just low enough for me to tell you my message, I need to trigger certain emotions.

You will go to certain emotions quicker than others. Those emotions are always the ones closest to self-preservation, like greed, anger, jealousy, lust, things like that. Okay?

If I can trigger those emotions, I can have your attention just long enough to tell you my message. I don’t mind that I’m triggering those emotions because, remember, my North star is money, not goodness. Alright?

Now, if my North star is money and power, specifically, not goodness, and I happen to have lots and lots and lots of money, and I happen to be benefiting from the world as is, then it makes sense for me to buy enough media outlets to shape your mind the way I need you to be shaped, which means I need you to understand yourself and the world around you in a way that suits me, not in the way it really is.

In order for me to do this as a very simple recipe, it starts with distraction. Just like selling you something, this starts with distraction. What I mean by this is, if I need you to believe that all Arabs are bad and all Russians are bad, I distract you with a wonderful entertaining movie, and then I make all of the baddies have those accents. Job done. If you are distracted, I can sell you on my idea.

One of my ideas is always going to be one of the oldest tricks in the book, which is “divide and conquer”, which means I need you to believe that those people are different to you, and those people will be against you at any one time.

Before we had the internet, it used to be very active, so with things like Ireland used to be Protestant versus Catholic, and those people were pitted against each other on purpose. In Iraq, it was Shia versus Sunni, and then when here in the West, they do left wing versus right wing. It was very easy and it was political or religious. And now it’s even easier because they can do it with our phones. So you can be whatever it is you want an Alt right. All of these things are used to divide and conquer us, whether you like it or not.

Once that is done, all, then, I have to do is make you believe that those people will never be with you, so you have a loss of agency. You will think that you cannot enact the change that you need to enact.

Finally comes loss of hope. If I take away your hope, I take everything. In order to unlearn all of this, you have to learn how to not be distracted.

That is the beginning of media literacy.

Septima Clark Remembered- @theejdubb on IG

Have you ever heard of the legendary Septima Clark? Well, come with me while we uplift her story. Septima Clark, often called the Mother of the Movement, was born May 3rd, 1898, in South Carolina, and was an educator that segregationists feared. Septima Clark knew that reading and writing were not just skills; they were our greatest weapons against oppression.

In the post-Civil War, Jim Crow South, literacy tests were used to block black people from voting. However, Clark’s answer was to teach people how to pass those tests and so much more. In the late 1950s, Clark joined the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee, a place where black and white activists trained together and learned about unified social justice. There she helped create the Citizenship Education Program to teach, not just how to read, but also how to empower to vote, sharing workshop strategies on nonviolent community organizing that included establishing local voting leagues, paying taxes, and lobbying for improved municipal services.

Soon, hundreds of Citizenship Schools popped up across the South, training thousands of black citizens to navigate and dismantle the systems that were built to keep them powerless. For these trailblazing efforts towards education equality, segregationists called Clark “dangerous” and accused the Highlander School system of being a communist operation. In 1961, Tennessee officials raided the school, seized property and revoked their charter. But the staff simply moved to work elsewhere, keeping the movement and the moment alive.

And Clark kept going as well, joining a Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked on inspirational strategies side by side with Martin Luther King, Jr.. The lessons taught at Highlander shaped bus boycotts sit-in freedom rides and voting drives across the entire South.

Septima Clark believed that literacy can break chains, and she turned that belief into an educational evolution for Black Southerners. Clark was an unshakable force and an audacious black woman who left her mark on the movement and in the world today.

We thank you Ms. Clark for teaching so many that education is liberation and must be protected at all costs.

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Disruption to the Strait of Hormuz-

This is for my visual learners. In the coming days, you’re going to hear a lot about the Strait of Hormuz. A strait is a narrow natural waterway that connects two bodies of water. The Strait of Hormuz here in the south of Iran connects the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman, and the Strait of Hormuz is one of the most important geopolitical and economic choke points in the world. About 20% of the world’s oil supply comes through this strait. so oil, natural gas, and cargo containers travelling from the Middle East via the Persian Gulf.

Go down here into the Strait of Hormuz, into the Gulf of Oman, and then down to the Gulf of Aden. And then here they meet another choke point. This is Bab el-Mandeb. And Bab el-Mandeb is also very, very important. It connects the African continent to the Arabian Peninsula. Remember the Houthis in Yemen and their activities to disrupt trade in retaliation to Israel’s imperialism and the aggression against the Palestinians?

Yes, we suspect that that is going to be a factor in this war as well. And Djibouti, like I said before, hosts more than 10 foreign military bases. And those military bases, those navies of the world superpowers, are there precisely to guide these cargo ships.

Cargo ships from Western companies like Maersk are escorted through this very dangerous trade route by the navies of the country that they’re allied to, which are stationed here in Djibouti through this path, Gulf of Aden, Bab el-Mandeb, the Red Sea, the Suez Canal, and into the European, and then off to the North American markets, that being the fastest, most economically efficient path.

Because of significant disruptions to the Strait of Hormuz, international shipping companies will have to take the longer route to the European and North American markets. And that is to come all the way from up here, down Africa, pass through the Cape of Good Hope, go all the way up and into the European and North American markets.

So, and all of that disruption to the supply chain is going to be absorbed by we the consumers.

The Merger That Needed A War-

Yesterday Oracle got authorization to run generative AI on federal government data. The highest civilian security clearance + Department of Defense clearance + Medicare records + Military systems.

I've written a policy brief asking Congress for three specific things: a formal conflict of interest review, data firewall requirements, and Oracle treated as a related party instead of a neutral vendor. The brief is on the Substack below, along with every filing and citation so you can check the work yourself.

I've also sent this to every member of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee. If this connects the dots for you, I genuinely encourage you to do the same — there's a template message and all their contact information is also available on my Substack.


Substack: thedreydossier.substack.com

Western Media Bias Exposed: Iran War Propaganda In Overdrive

I was walking down the street making a video that connected Emerald Fennell’s whitewashing of Heathcliff with the overall cowardice of artists that defend that art isn’t political. And then it struck me: There is an old, allegedly pedophile, man that, allegedly, can’t control his bowel movements and who’s potentially senile in a gilded room in a White house, surrounded by people who need to maintain him in power because they know that he’s the God of the movement that he created, and that they are not solid enough to maintain themselves without him, that the white supremacist, authoritarian takeover, that is supported by capital, will only be able to maintain itself if he remains in place, that is deciding whether he’s going to bomb a country of 90 million people.

He’s doing it, both as a distraction of accusations of pedophilia and on the behest of a genocidal ethnostate that is under the delusion that they’re going to be able to maintain the gains that they made through violence in the last three years.

But strangely, I didn’t have a moment of panic. I just had a moment of reflection of how all of this is out of my control. These are things that I can observe, but the action itself, I cannot change directly. What I can change is what happens in my community, whether in real life, immediately around me or with the global community that I’m a part of that is trying to, at the same time change the structure of things by sheer force of numbers, and preserve the parts of our world that we have at this moment that deserve to be preserved.

So while I keep one eye on the horizon, on the things that I cannot change, I am going to get to meet my neighbors. I am going to speak with more people. I’m going to see if I can share some more information. ‘cause in much better people than me have said this: You never know what the small ripples that you can put into the community can end up generating.

So potentially, rather than fizzing, rather than panicking, let’s just continue doing the things that are under our control. Let’s put some smiles into some people’s faces.

Leftists Vindicated In DNC Report - @factsandfire on IG

I would say that I hate that I told you so, but it’s actually a lie. I love that I told you so and that all the leftists were vindicated and we were right for all the “vote blue, no matter who” cultists, who believe that the imaginary state and opposition to that imaginary state is a single issue, your political analysis is lacking a lot of depth.

We bombed Venezuela and kidnapped their president just so we could send oil to that illegitimate and imaginary state. For some reason, this illegitimate imaginary state has healthcare, free college and all these other things and is paid for by your tax dollars, but you do not.

If you hate police brutality and if you hate ICE, then you’re absolutely gonna hate the fact that they go over to that illegitimate and imaginary state and they train with the occupation forces that are carrying out genocide.

If you support the liberation of South Africans, then you should support the downfall of that illegitimate imaginary state, because it is indeed an apartheid state that is upholding white supremacist racial hierarchy.

And as we just learned from them files that illegitimate, illegal, imaginary state is all up and through there, all up and through there, and they are using blackmail against a bunch of world leaders to become a pseudo superpower of the world. Like we’re quite literally about to go to war with Iran because of that illegal, illegitimate state.

Nobody wants this war. Our, the, our allies don’t want this war. Iran doesn’t want this war. Nobody wants this war. The only people that want this war is Marco Rubio and that illegitimate, imaginary state.

It is not the job of the people to move to the right to appease the party. It is the job of the party to move to the left where the people are. And if you are not where the people are, whether you are a voter or you are a politician, you are on the wrong side of history. Stop trying to gaslight us because you don’t have morals.

You are the minority. Everybody else is anti Zionist but y’all. Let’s be for real. Let’s be for real.

Trauma Warning Regarding DT and The E-files-@factsandfire on IG

Trigger Warning:

But Donald Trump rapes children. Donald Trump used his fingers to measure a child’s genitals. Donald Trump got a child pregnant and then killed her child in front of her. That is the reason why we’re going to war with Iran, not because of nuclear weapons, not because of missiles, not because of the bombing of an embassy that happened 47 or whatever, however, many, many years ago. We are attacking Iran because the Epstein files showed us that Israel is using blackmail against world leaders in order to become a superpower.

The War Power Resolution has not even been used. The Congress approves wars. Congress approves wars. So be clear that now that the entire media apparatus has been bought by one family, that one family that donates a whole, whole, whole, whole lot of money to the Israeli Occupation Forces, understand that we are going to war with Iran because Donald Trump rapes children, because other high-ranking officials in the US government rape children.

And instead of being held accountable for raping children, they would rather kill more innocent people. Understand that. Understand that war is bipartisan. Understand that there were Democrats standing up at the State of the Union, clapping their hands and stomping their feet. Understand that.

Subscribe to independent news sources, Breaking Points, Sabby Sabs, Brianna Joy Gray, Drop Site News. Find your people on Substack. We must inform ourselves clearly and understand what is happening right now.

And then on top of that, we must fight back. Get in the streets. An anti-war movement is needed now. An anti-authoritarian movement is needed now. Get outside.

The Parasite Has Become The Host-

This is not a distraction from the Epstein files. This is the Epstein files. We are living everything that the Epstein files has uncovered.

Israel was the parasite of the United States. It was siphoning money, it was siphoning intelligence. It was siphoning nuclear secrets. It was siphoning technology. It siphoned and sucked all of the politicians through blackmail, through greed, through coercion. And so the parasite that was Israel, that was siphoning the lifeblood of the United States, has now become the host and is now reigning supreme over the carcass of the United States.

It has surpassed the United States. You even hear US politicians say that themselves:

The wars of the future are being planned here in Israel. Israel is advancing down the road of new weaponry, far beyond us, and it would be nice to have a, a process where we could be partners.

You see this in the slavish way, that European leaders are bowing down to them.

You see that in the US Ambassador saying that Israel has the right to take over all of the Middle East if it wants to.

Basically the entire Middle East?

Would be fine if they took it all.

Did you see? He didn’t say the US has the right to do it, which you might assume a US official would say. He said Israel has the right to do it.

It is done. Israel’s goal is not just to destroy Iran. I want you to pay attention. Israel’s best case scenario is that both Iran and the US completely deplete themselves to a devastating point so that Israel emerges supreme, supreme over the West. They want to reign supreme over the US and will finally take over West Asia and North Africa, just like it had been planning all along, the Greater Israel project, the New Middle East. The parasite has now become the host.

And, may Israel and the US and all of their slaves never see peace for all the injustice that they have wreaked onto this world. God help us all.

Bisan’s Take On Iran-

Hi, let’s use a right language and to not be fooled by the mainstream media trying to update us about Iran using their language.

First of all, Israel does not have the right to defend itself, you all, ‘cause Israel is the aggressor itself. Israel is the occupier itself. Israel is the one that launched the first attack against Iran this morning as as every single other attack. And this comes after years and months of threats. So Israel planned. Israel decided, and Israel attacked. Israel does not even have the right to exist ‘cause this is a Palestinian land. This is an occupied land.

Second, Israel and the US are not launching this war against a dictatorship in Iran and against the regime in Iran so the people of Iran are free and for the good. There is no such nonsense coming from the West. The West is a dictatorship. The West cannot bring democracy. This lie has been demolishing, has been destroying our nations for decades. The US already used this lie in Iraq, in Afghanistan, yanni, in other Arabic countries actually, and destroyed us. This war is against Iran ‘cause Israel wanna make sure that there is no single, independent, strong country that can stop its expansion. So the American interests are protected as well. The American trade is, is protected as well.

And this is not even for the American people, my dear American followers. The actually the military paces and the military abilities haven’t developed over years using your taxpayers and deducted from human weakening your economy and your well-being. So it’s not even for you. This war is for the elite and for Israel. So now your sons and daughters are fighting innocent people in Iran and killing innocent people in Iran for Israel. That’s it.

Third, Iran is not attacking Arabic countries. Iran is attacking military, American military bases in those Arabic countries. Actually, the US and Israel have been attacking our Arabic countries, exploiting us, killing our families, stealing our wealth for decades. That’s it.

I wish you’re all safe and I wish Iran is safe. And so far, Israel bombed a school. Over 30 students got killed in Iran. This is the military targets for Israel. This is against our peoples, our dignity, our rights. This is against us, the people we to stick to the right. There is no such thing as num-pies being num-pies is being with Israel and the US. It’s being with the right or being with them. That’s it.

The U.S. Has Stepped Into Shit-

This is, of course, an attempt to overthrow Iran, but it’s part of a larger picture. The United States is fighting to this moment for global hegemony. Have no doubt about it. This is part of a world war that the U.S. is waging. And the war comes in Venezuela, the war is going to come to Cuba or is already in Cuba. Yesterday, the President said that the U.S. would make a friendly takeover of Cuba. The war is in the Middle East. Europe is already a vassal region of the United States.

So this is the U.S. attempting, even in what is actually a multipolar world, to maintain its global hegemony. Of course, when you operate with such extraordinary violence, recklessness, lies and delusion, the results can be completely catastrophic.

So my point is this is not for any of the reasons alleged, that there was some imminent threat from Iran. Exactly the opposite as the Khamenei mediator said, repeatedly, including after the launch of the war, the negotiations were proceeding, making progress and proceeding in an orderly way.

I speak frequently with the Iranians. They were not only ready to negotiate, they already negotiated 10 years ago all of these arrangements.

So this is nothing about imminent threat provocations or nuclear weapons. Actually, this is just about hegemony and regime change. Regional hegemony by Israel and global hegemony by the United States. and this has a very good chance of becoming a world war in effect.

God help us if it turns nuclear ‘cause that’s the end of the world. But a world war by some accounts, it’s already happening because there are interconnected wars in all regions of the world right now where the United States is meddling.

But again, the U.S. cannot run the world. It has neither the economic nor technological nor military dominance to do that, nor does the rest of the world wanna be run by the United States. There’s no way that the United States can impose a stable pro-U.S. regime in Iran. It’s not possible. We’re not in 1953 when the MI-6 and CIA did that and imposed a police state in Iran. This will not happen.

Iran, internally, its own civil society, whether they backed the current government or not, it doesn’t matter. This is a country of a hundred million people, a 5,000 year history, and it’s not going to be run by the United States or Israel with no boots on the ground by a proxy from thousands of miles away.

So the U.S. has stepped into shit today, if I could put it bluntly.

Of the things I’ve been thinking a lot about is the connection between black food sovereignty and indigenous land sovereignty, especially when thinking about where we are on indigenous land.

Indigenous communities speak about the, the salmon, they speak about berries, they speak about it in a, in a very spiritual way, a connection with the food and spirit.

Mm.

In Africa you have that too, but we, we lost some of that.

Yeah.

Connection.

I feel that oftentimes linguistically in the pursuit of our own sovereignty, we tend to forget that we are on indigenous land.

Right.

So the questions like, when I’m trying to grow food that is culturally relevant to me, do we actually intentionally add indigenous plants and flowers,

Right.

To be able to maintain the biodiversity indigenous landscape? And when we are talking about black food sovereignty, we’re talking about our rights.

Mm.

You know, my right to be on the land.

Yes.

My right to grow food. That is a culture, my rights. But indigenous people also remind us about our responsibility. Right.

For black folks that are thinking about this kind of work, should they be considering like indigenous practices around the ways that you farm?

If you are going to be a farmer, a gardener, you honestly should learn what the indigenous people have been growing and doing it for thousands of years. Learn that base. Then at the same time, I want you to teach me how you grew things in your country. Let’s find things that are equal

An exchange.

Exactly.

Yeah.

So-Called “Elites” Get Power From Us- @fetishwife on IG

The reason why these people had so much power isn’t because they were worshiping a fucking deity, and that deity is real and gave them all that power. The reason why they had that power is because they already were trafficking humans during the Transatlantic Slave Trade, right? And those families that had the business of trafficking humans, you really think they wanted to ever stop that? I mean, the company that made the shackles for enslaved people now make handcuffs, so. And anyone who knows anything about American history knows that slavery just evolved.

So they got the power because they’ve mastered economic models. They know economic models. They’ve made ‘em, they’ve enforced them, blah, la, la, la, la. And their lineages have never had to consolidate their wealth. They’ve never been a, they’ve never been punished. In fact, when their ancestors lost the people, because the people became free, they were paid reparations. So the slave owners were paid more money. I’m not kidding.

And I think you need to understand something. If you wanna take this metaphor for like these elite people were doing these rituals to get power from demons and whatever. They were getting power from everyday people, from you shopping at businesses, for you upholding white supremacy and patriarchy. That’s where they were gaining their power from everyday people.

The only reason why the psychological operation that Epstein did worked so well is because the culture was primed for it. This has nothing to do with entities or spirits or demons or anything like that. But if you want to make it that, then you can easily say, with that theory, then, white people are the devil.

The Poison of Colonizing Hatred and Never-Ending Greed- @Oh_MellNawww on IG

In my favorite book, White Oleander, there’s this quote that the mother is talking to the daughter and she tells her daughter, “In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. You have to tattoo it on the inside of your mind and never forget about poisons.”

And I love that quote so much. It has stuck with me ever since I read it when I was like 21 years old. Because you have to know which plants not to eat. You have to know which berries not to pick. And you have to know which people not to fuck with.

And so when I see this like latest news story about these Republican, this Republican group chats where all of these young men are like saying the N-word and glazing Hitler and, you know, celebrating the rape of women, you know, all of that shit, and I see these people in the comments clutching their pearls, “ Oh my God, this is horrible. This is a disaster. When will this nightmare end?” Like this is, “Oh, we’ve never seen anything like this. Like this is, this is awful. I can’t believe it.” Like they’re incredulous about this shit.

And it’s interesting to me because there are certain bloodlines in this country that are pure poison. And they have poisoned not only their own children and their children’s children and their entire lineage with their colonizing hatred and never-ending greed, but they have poisoned the very land that we sit on, entire races of people. And they’re just acting like their ancestors. And so it is imperative for us to acknowledge who we walk amongst and to never forget it.

And that’s why this country is in the state that it is now. Because we forgot who these people really are. Those boys in that group chat, those men in that group chat, they come from a long, long line of thieves, rapists, racists, murderers, hypocrites, liars, just devils.

And all of that energy you’re spending clutching your pearls and spiraling into outrage and despair about the fact that those people exist, you could be spending that energy educating yourself, learning how to shoot a gun to protect yourself and your family, making more money to protect yourself and your family, starting a business. I don’t know, educating the next generation of children so that they don’t grow into those types of men.

These are not good people. They never have been good people. And the sooner that we collectively as a nation can accept that, the sooner we can get to the solutions.

And so I wanted to read you this passage from chapter seven of Howard Zinn’s, A People’s History of the United States. The chapter is called As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs. And that is, that hearkens to like a promise that was broken, but we’ll get to that later.

So when a Native Chief, chief Blackhawk, was defeated and captured in 1832, he made a speech at his surrender. Okay? And I want you to listen to this because this really sums up who we are dealing with because we are dealing with the descendants of these people. Stop being shocked by their behavior. Grow up.

Blackhawk says, I fought hard, but your guns were well aimed. The bullets flew like birds in the air and whizzed by our ears like the wind through the trees in the winter, my warriors fell around me. The sun rose dim on us in the morning, and at night it sunk. It sunk in a dark cloud and looked like a ball of fire. That was the last sun that shone on Blackhawk.

He is now a prisoner to the white men. He has done nothing for which an Indian ought to be ashamed. He has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses against white men who came year after year to cheat them and take away their lands. You know the cause of our making war, it is known to all white men. They ought to be ashamed of it. Indians are not deceitful. The white men speak bad of the Indian and look at him spitefully but the Indian does not tell lies. Indians do not steal an Indian who is as bad as the white men could not live in our nation. He would be put to death and eaten up by the wolves. The white men are bad school masters. They carry false books and deal in false actions. They smile in the face of the poor Indian to cheat him. They shake them by the hand to gain their confidence, to make them drunk, to deceive them and ruin our wives.

We told them to leave us alone and keep away from us. They followed on and beset our paths. They coiled themselves among us like the snake. They poisoned us by their touch. We were not safe. We lived in danger. We were becoming like them. Hypocrites and liars, adulterous, lazy drones, all talkers and no workers.

The white men do not scalp the head, but they do worse. They poison the heart. Farewell my nation, farewell to Black Hawk.

And he wrote this right after being captured. But it’s the way that he was captured that made him so bitter and so heartbroken, because his army that he was leading surrendered, they literally raised a white flag and the white militia killed them all anyway, men, women, children, just mowed them all down, even after seeing the white flag, because the white militia assumed that the white flag was a decoy because that’s what they would do.

So they assumed the natives were doing it too. And then when Black Hawk fled, the white militia sent a Sioux army after him to capture him. The Siouxs captured black Hawk, not the white people, because there were Indians that would work with the white people thinking it would gain them favor. And really it just made them easier to betray.

But I read that passage to put into context what I’m saying. These are not good people. There is no appealing to their better nature or teaching them empathy. The only thing that is gonna fix America’s shadow is if it is bred out of existence.

We, we, there’s no making nice with these people. And that’s something that black people as a whole have accepted long ago. And white people who have deconstructed white people who aren’t hateful white people, who don’t identify with colonizer ideologies, who have somehow defeated their epigenetic leaning and become better than their parents or grandparents are, like, going through these stages of grief publicly because they thought that the country was better than this.

Parts of the country are better than this, but there is a soul sickness in white America. And the more we try to skip around that fact, that truth, the more we’re just gonna keep spinning our wheels and not making any real progress. And I say soul sickness because racism, it’s deeper than, it’s deeper than racism. Racism, that’s surface level shit, believe it or not, even patriarchy is surface level shit. There’s a soul deep, and I have to say soul deep because it’s even deeper than DNA level. There is a soul, deep darkness in the spirit of the colonizer that cannot be eradicated with love or friendship or flowery words like it’s a soul sickness.

And it’s a soul sickness that causes colonizers and people with a colonizer mindset to commit unspeakable acts of inhumanity against anyone who stands in the way of profit. That’s what I mean by it’s deeper than racism. It’s deeper than patriarchy. This greed, this black hole of greed that no light can enter or exist around, created racism and patriarchy,

They continue to this day to relentlessly exploit poor white people. They committed genocide against the Native Americans and are doing it currently today in Congo, Sudan and Palestine. They created the prison industrial complex. They, I mean, they’ve done unspeakable things, all to make money And that type of greed, you can’t, you can’t pray that away. There was a Shawnee chief and noted orator named Tecumseh.

I don’t know if I’m saying that right, but he tried his best to unite the Native Americans against the white invasion. He said, the way and the only way to check and to stop this evil is for all the red men to unite and claiming a common and equal right in the land as it was at first, and should be yet for it was never divided, but belongs to all for the use of each. That no part has a right to sell even to each other, much less to strangers, those who want all and will not do with less.

They ripped Native Americans from the lands that all of their ancestors existed on where they lived and died and created families and had arguments with siblings and built homes and you know, you know, left with their grandchildren. Like they ripped these Native Americans from their lands and completely disintegrated their families, their ways of life, their languages, their customs, everything disintegration, vaporized these people so that they could build railroads and so that they could build cities and so that they could build retail stores.

And was it worth it?

Mo Hamza’s Unapologetic Rant

As-salamu alaykum, I’m Mo Hamza of the Free Palestine Movement. So it goes without saying that the terrorist ethno-state of Israel was created 78 years ago via a mass murder, ethnic cleansing, mass displacement, mass rape, apartheid, oppression, and brutal military occupation. And they have been enacting this every single day since then as we currently watch them hyperspeed what they have always been doing to my people. Only now, it’s at a Holocaust and genocide scale right before our eyes, as they now have killed 642 Palestinians and counting since their fake ceasefire was announced in October of last year. And they have been doing this with total impunity, exposing the myth that is the UN, the ICJ, the ICC and international law as a whole, thus giving the Western world the confidence to now do the same to all of us without any repercussion.

But aside from all of that, Israel and Zionism has infected our planet on a scale no one has ever seen in our lifetimes with tentacles that have metastasized across every facet of our lives.

When I say that they are everything everywhere, all at once, I mean it with every fiber of my being.

Let’s run through it. Israel trains the police in our cop cities across the globe through actual physical training and by showing how their total impunity can be imitated across the Western world as we see the Nazi German police, French police, UK police, Australian police, United States police and other western police forces acting like demonic barbarians, enacting the worst police brutality of the world has ever seen, police brutality that has killed human beings. And in the case of the United States killing actual American citizens.

Israel trains our ICE agents with an ice headquarters building literally placed directly in Tel Aviv. And ICE is not just tearing families apart and detaining and deporting immigrants including children, even American children with cancer, while refusing to give them their medications while deporting them, but they’re also killing human beings in broad daylight, including American citizens.

And what does ICE use to hunt down these people? Israeli spyware technology. Speaking of Israel’s now one of the leading surveillance and censorship entities on our planet as they’re now controlling much of the cyber tech used to spy on everyone inclusive of the Western leader Cucks that bend the knee for them. A cyber tech team led by a literal pedophile that reports the Netanyahu himself, a pedophile that was allowed to flee the U.S and back to the haven of pedophiles called Israel Mr. Tom Alexandrovich. But I’ll get back to Pedophiling and raping in a bit.

And then you’ve got Google and Amazon’s project, Nimbus, which is used to survey Palestinians and now Israel Spyware company, Paragon being used by ice to monitor United States citizens and immigrants.

And Palantir now openly and proudly breaching our privacy while destroying our planet with their surveillance and war tech.

And the U.S. government is currently building data centers across the U.S. to survey communities and are also building detention centers similar to concentration camps that are planning to install biohazard incinerators to handle death in these facilities. AKA, they will have a quick means to dispose of the evidence should they kill anyone in these ICE detention centers. And Israel is literally attempting to control AI and has already funneled millions into ChatGBT and the like to alter the responses to be pro-Israel.

And it is no surprise here, but Israel controls all of social media with Zuckerberg openly admitting that META has been censoring pro-Palestinian content the whole time, inclusive of banning over 40 accounts I personally opened up.

Elon Musk cozying up to Netanyahu while being a neo-Nazi that the ADL, the self-described authority on anti-Semitism defends when he does a sieg-hiel Nazi salute, but then calls Semitic Palestinians anti-Semites for saying stop the genocide of our people.

And then, there’s Larry Ellison, a supreme Zionist that’s the largest single donor to Israel, now owning the U.S. version of TikTok. And the only reason we now have a U.S of TikTok specifically to halt all free speech around Palestine and boost all pro-Israel propaganda while they also steal your personal data in case they need to report you to the authorities because Larry Ellison knows the United States general public despises Israel.

Now back to the ADL and all the doxing entities on our planet like Canary Mission, Stop Anti-Semitism, Lawyers For Israel, the terrorist group Bittar, who all claim to be authorities on anti-Semitism when all they push is pro-Israel propaganda, while self-victimizing themselves through boy who cried wolf tactics and crocodile tears that actually work on the corrupt coward establishments and institutions, thus getting actual human beings with humanity fired from their jobs, kicked out of schools, and even getting doctors and nurses to lose their medical licenses because they are begging to stop Israel from genociding predominantly children.

And what do all these doxing entities use to find these loud and proud examples of humanity? All the Israeli created and own surveillance and censorship tools I described earlier, spyware AI and social media. And what do they use to incriminate people exercising their free speech? Good old hasbara and propaganda where just like the Nazis, Israel has their own propaganda department as a branch in their government where they spew endless lies and AI-generated imagery and videos where they pay influencers to post on their behalf, where they pay students to protest in their rallies where they pay thousands and thousands of bots all over India and teenagers all over Israel to troll people in the comments sections of their Zionist platforms and where they even create children’s books and films and pay for fake birthright trips to indoctrinate children with pro-Israel lies and propaganda.

And who eats all that propaganda up and vomits it all up to what world that is set up with their bullshit? The Western news media and the hypocritical entertainment industry where news outlets like the New York Times and BBC force their writers and news anchors to never say the word genocide and not allowing them to even utter the word Palestine to Hollywood movies depicting Arabs as terrorists in every other action movie and TV show to podcasters that literally call for the genocide of Palestinians keeping their platform while others that speak on behalf of Palestinians get deplatformed to musicians being owned by Zionist labels and being muzzled from speaking out to athletes saying that they’d love to visit Israel because “they’ve only heard good things.” Our entire news, media and entertainment industry is a complete joke that is controlled by Zionists in every way, shape and form.

Speaking of celebrities and people of influence like our politicians, welcome to the Epstein-class where it appears no one is safe from the Epstein files, which is filled with filthy Talmudic rituals and the billionaire elite getting their rocks off to children and getting away with it all because of an entity we all know as Mossad A.K.A. the CIA A.K.A. the FBI A.K.A. ISIS A.K.A. practically every mysterious group that operates in the shadows to destroy any semblance of democracy on this earth.

the Mossad that is now internationally known for false flags. A.K.A. 9/11, A.K.A. the JFK assassination, A.K.A. the USS Liberty attack, A.K.A. the Levant Affair of Egypt and A.K.A. Bandai Beach. Yes, even Bandai Beach gives who better to attack and kill their own in order to sway public opinion than Israel? Please see Hannibal Directive on October 7th, 2023. And yes, the Mossad that works with the Western governments to facilitate coups and install puppet governments to do their bidding, which we are seeing in broad daylight in Iran.

And yes, the Mossad that blackmails politicians through vile acts of pedophilia, rape, and cannibalism. and what’s always tied to blackmail hush money, hush money in the form of AIPAC and all them other Israeli lobbies where they not only pay for your silence, but they pay the big bucks for you to sing like the bird whores you are, spewing that played out, tired, scripted propaganda as you choke on that ha-ha-ha-hamas pile in your throats.

And speaking of choking and sexualizing everything, because their society is as filthy as they come, let’s talk about them being the masters of sin where a raging Zionist owns OnlyFans and a rabbi owns Pornhub while their racist ethnostate is internationally known as the haven for pedophiles and rapists only to see literal pedophiles and rapists fleeing to Israel in real time as we read the absolute sickest pedophilic rapist shit on Earth through the Zionist-riddled Epstein files.

And the icing on the cake is not only are they globally known to be the most egregious and notorious child sex traffickers on the planet, but they’re also the most egregious and notorious organ thieves and traffickers on the planet, as they tout being the number one skin bank in the world because the majority of the skin that they collect comes from Palestinians while the rest of their non-Palestinian skin is probably skin cancer prone because these non-indigenous clowns can’t handle the Middle Eastern heat.

And speaking of organ thieves, their whole existence is built off of thievery from their control of global banks to real estate, which we are seeing in real time. Don’t even get me started on banking when the Jewish supremacist family, the Rothschilds, are the most corrupt family in the history of banking and are the reason why Israel even exists on this planet today.

And don’t forget, one of the largest ponzi schemes in history was perpetrated by a Jewish supremacist Zionist named Bernie Madoff.

But not only do they control our banks and financial institutions, they control the money we attempt to donate as Zionists run PayPal and GoFundMe where they purposely have been stalling or completely denying funds from being sent to Gaza to save families, thus indirectly exacerbating the genocide of my people.

And then you have real estate agents and companies assisting in the illegal sale of land in the West Bank from within synagogues all over the US while we have a joke of a committee called the Board of Peace that is literally a board created to take a piece of Palestinian land for their real estate profit as they clean up and hide all the evidence of genocide and have Palestinians that survived the genocide build their monitored tech city over the dead bodies of Palestinian families.

But hey, that’s what Israel and the West do best, right? Destabilize the world. Israel has a hand in practically every major conflict in our modern history from the war in a Iraq to the genocide in Sudan to the diamond mines and weapons shipments in the Congo to the genocide of Rwanda, to encouraging the kidnapping of the president of Venezuela and his wife while stealing all their oil as Israel is about to receive its first oil shipment from Venezuela.

And now, Israel is at war with six different countries. And by at war, I mean they attack practically every Arab country that surrounds them to give the world the illusion that the Arabs want to attack them because the Arabs get mad that they were just attacked first. As Israel continues on their quest to take over the entire region for their Greater Israel that Mike Huckabee openly expressed is completely fine with. a

While Israel’s notoriously known for giving false intel to pull the US into wars like I Iraq that murder millions of innocent civilians because to Israel and the US, these wars are the only things keeping their empires afloat. Hence, they’re wanting to attack Iran while threatening China and Russia, thus catapulting us towards World War Three because Israel and the Western empires are crumbling and they need their war profit injection stat.

And speaking of injection, let’s talk about the pharma and gluttonous food and beverage industries that the Zios control, ensuring that our citizens maintain a continuous loop of unhealthiness that requires medications that no one can afford. That’s creating a spiraling cycle that families can barely survive, as we said, billions to Israel for their free healthcare and subsidized housing.

A pharma industry that was once led by a Jewish supremacist family called the Sacklers, who single-handedly created the opioid epidemic of the United States through their infamous OxyContin to then have giants like Unilever who silenced humanitarians like Ben and Jerry.

And BlackRock, who fund practically every company on the BDS list, while the weapons industry is straight-up thriving off the backs of my people, the Sudanese people, the Congolese people whom are being erased off the planet, where over 2,700 entire Palestinian families have been wiped off the civil registry with not a single family member left in existence.

And who transports these weapons aside from the shipments by sea? Our airlines and airports who go into a tizzy when a steward or stewardess wears a watermelon pin on a flight.

So apologies if this seems like a long rant, but I want you to know that everything I said is connected by the same thread in an endless cycle that we have been hamster wheeling for decades, a hamster wheel that has pushed us so far into fascism led by Zionism that we’re almost at a point of no return.

But the difference is now that we are all collectively seeing it with our own eyes. Democrats, Republican, Green Party Independents, men, women, youth, elderly, and all ethnicities, cultures, religions, and all walks of life are seeing the same thing. For the first time ever, we are starting to see the common enemy.

And it is this reason why I am a part of an -communal coalition of the Palestine movement, the Black Panther Party, the Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, the Brown Berets, the Red Necks, veterans and Patriots all coming together to jump off this damn hamster wheel and change the system through actual action.

We are officially drawing a line in the sand and making it clear to you all that you’re either on the right side or the wrong side, not the left side or the right side, not the Red side or the Blue side. It’s the right side or the wrong side.

And let it be known that if our movements see you stepping or standing on the wrong side, be prepared to be publicly ostracized and cut out from our societies while we act as a collective to reclaim what’s ours. Thank you. And power to the people.