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If you cheer for Dortmund Saturday you should be ashamed of yourself.
Champions league COTY. Top four qualify.
Itâs absolutely mental that happened. Really hard to argue the US isnât an Israeli puppet. The worst part is they arenât even expensive to buy. An Irish lobby spending a few million a year seems like it would be well worth the investment
For anybody who missed this:
Dunno why the twitter posts wonât embed properly anymore. This is a belter.
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Swap âxâ with âtwitterâ
Theyâve changed the www from Twitter to X
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Caitlin Johnstone openly supports Putin and his genocide and Assad and his mass slaughter. Sheâs an absolute chancer and a cancer on public debate wherever she posts.
Reasonable people, which is most people, are broadly on the side of Ukraine and Palestine. Yet public debate on these subjects is conducted almost entirely who support one genocide or the other. The geopolitical centres of power all support one genocide or the other. Some, like Trump, are in favour of both genocides.
There are very few voices in the public debate space worldwide to represent reasonable people, and any such voices that do exist have no power.
You replace the x with Twitter happened me ages ago and I got plenty of stick for it
Can you be on the side of Ukraine and Palestine? I mean a rational person can. But it seems in the US itâs Israel and Ukraine or fuck off
Supporting Israel and Russia is also acceptable in the US.
If you support Palestine youâre the devil.
This is the end of any semblance of an international rules based order. Ultimately when you conduct foreign policy entirely on the basis of interests rather than rules, youâre only defeating yourself.
Biden will lose in November and he can have no complaints about why he will lose. You cannot arm people perpetrating a genocide and expect people to still vote for you because the alternative is going to be even worse. I mean heâs actually providing the weaponry for a genocide, no questions asked. God help us all when his replacement resumes office because Europe will feel the brunt of more genocide and its side effects.
Long but worth a read. Iâve long thought the concept of the ruling classes of certain states making up a sort of international crime syndicate is the correct one. This includes but is not limited to Russia, China, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iran, elements in the UK and the entirety of the right wing sphere in the US. It also includes significant elements within the Democratic party. Even if elements within that list oppose each other, they have a symbiotic relationship.
Itâs grimly laughable that Blinken is in the job heâs in.
Red Lines
The red line is blood, and the US is letting it run.
MAY 16, 2024
Thereâs a document on my desktop called âTrump Murder Stuff.â It is full of red lines.
Thereâs another document called âBlinken-Maxwell.â It is also full of red lines.
The red lines are proper nouns about improper activity. The red lines reference foreign and criminal infiltration of American institutions.
The red lines pop up on my documents because they are thought to be mistakes, but they are not: they are history. They are not typos any more than they are accidents. They are the names of the people trying to kill America, and the names of the victims.
Red lines are blood â blood ties, and blood spilled.
Should I write about these things ? I ask. Maybe someone will ask me first, and when I answer, itâll seem less like Iâm looking for trouble than trying to protect people from it. Because thatâs all Iâm seeking to do. Americans deserve to know the backstories of our ostensible public servants.
The truth tangled up like a vine, a vine of red lines.
I wrote an article about Merrick Garland, a true tale of his dark ties, and some folks threatened to kill me. I get the same threats in regard to my books, which describe journalists from the 1980s and 1990s getting murdered for covering the same topics as I do now.
I get the same threats because the same people are involved for decades on end, the same mafia state corporate hybrids. Thatâs what I hate about these crime syndicates, man: I get older, they stay the same age.
Thereâs a sticker on my laptop that says, âMama Tried.â I bought it in a junk shop in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Itâs the chorus of a Merle Haggard song I belt out when weâre on the run from problems caused by red lines:
No one could steer me right, but Mama tried, Mama tried
Mama tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied
That leaves only me to blame, 'cause Mama tried!
I can hear my mom hectoring me to write about something safe, like all the pretty places I visit when I flee. I can see the fear in my childrenâs eyes every time the topic of threats arises.
If I write down the facts and something bad happens, itâs my own fault â or is it? Maybe itâs the fault of the people who did dirty deeds, and a culture that encourages people to kill the messenger.
I remember when that phrase was a metaphor instead of a promise.
Itâs not like I havenât told these stories before. Itâs not like the evidence isnât in the public domain â or, at least, it was, back when the public domain existed and wasnât blocked by paywalls and deletions and algorithms steering you into lies.
But weâre way worse off than the first time I told them.
Judges and juries are once again being threatened by Donald Trump, the career criminal presidential candidate on trial. There are no meaningful consequences for violating a gag order and stoking violence, just ruminations on how murder threats affect poll numbers and a debate invite from Joe Biden.
Murder threats are being normalized, like sedition and the plague.
We are told voting will preserve our âdemocracyâ. But a âdemocracyâ, under the Biden administration, consists of protesters being beaten in the streets for opposing genocide. In this âdemocracyâ, Americans are expected to pledge allegiance to a foreign country.
The House passed a bill criminalizing criticism of Israel. Another new bill will defund US national security operations unless Biden gives Israel unconditional aid. A new law criminalizes mass protest by making an âorganizerâ (loosely defined) at a demonstration responsible for any alleged illegal act committed by a single person present. A social media network, Tik Tok, may be shut down because it reveals Israeli war crimes.
Americans speaking out against genocide risk having their careers destroyed, and US officials â many of whom are funded by Israeli lobbying groups â wonât defend US citizens. The Israeli government is murdering international journalists and aid workers, including Americans. American doctors are starving to death in Gaza, and Israel wonât let them out or allow them food and water. They have been begging the Biden administration to help them, to no avail.
Itâs one thing to live in a rising autocracy. Itâs another to live in an increasingly autocratic proxy state beholden to a foreign countryâs genocidal invasion.
In this backward âdemocracyâ, Jewish Americans are admonished for not having dual loyalty, and Israelis of conscience are punished by America for criticizing Israel.
In the last 24 hours, Israeli historian Ilan Pappe was detained by the FBI at the airport for criticizing Israelâs war crimes. In a humane and courageous letter, Jewish-American presidential appointee Lily Greenberg Call quit in protest, condemning the Biden administration for both abetting the massacre of Palestinians and for âmaking Jews the face of the American war machine.â
Biden had claimed that Israel invading Rafah â the southern city to which the remaining population of Gaza had fled â was a âred lineâ that would end his unconditional support of Israel.
A âred lineâ is supposed to be a line that one does not cross, one that brings meaningful consequences for those who dare to do so. But when Israel invaded Rafah, Biden sent them another billion dollars.
On Twitter a new photo of Palestinian toddler with its head blown off by an Israeli soldier is circulating. I wonât look at it. It would make me cry with pain and horror and shame.
The red line is blood, and all of them â Netanyahu, Biden, Trump, and their operatives â let it run.
There is no more pressing story than genocide in Gaza. But there is a background to that story that remains underexamined and helps explain the US role.
Both Biden and Trump have decades-long ties to Netanyahu and his regime. Biden as a fanatical Zionist whose bloodlust was too much even for Israeli warmongers in the 1980s, and Trump in an even more personal way, through his son-in-law Jared Kushner, whose family is so close to Netanyahuâs, Netanyahu used to sleep in his bedroom while visiting the US.
Trump is a lifelong lackey of the Kremlin, to which Soviet officials first escorted him on July 4, 1987. But the network to which he is linked is transnational, and Israel is a key hub. For it was Israel that allowed the leaders of this crime network to leave the USSR in the late 1980s by abusing Israelâs âright of returnâ law, getting an Israeli passport, and then using it to launch criminal initiatives around the world â solidifying a mafia network that dominates global politics today.
It is important to emphasize that this is not a Jewish network: Jewish people are often its victims. This is a multiethnic criminal network in which some top members weaponize Israelâs laws for crime, a dynamic in place since the days of Meyer Lansky. I wrote a book about this mafia enterprise and the complicity of the US government, Hiding in Plain Sight , excerpts of which are at the bottom of this article. Itâs a complicated story.
My document âTrump Murder Stuffâ is a list of the many people close to Trump who died in mysterious and violent ways. This does not mean that Trump killed them. Itâs unlikely he did, though Trumpâs bodyguard admitted in Harry Hurtâs 1993 book Lost Tycoon that Trump made him promise heâd murder if Trump requested it.
Mysterious deaths go with the territory of being immersed in organized crime for over half a century. It is so common for someone in Trumpâs inner circle to die under suspicious circumstances that when I wrote Hiding in Plain Sight , I had to add a disclaimer that Wayne Barrett, a journalist Trump despised, died of natural causes.
One of the most notorious men on my Trump murder list is tied to a prominent member of the Biden administration. The manâs name is Robert Maxwell and he was an Israeli âsuperspyâ who socialized with Trump and a variety of Iran-Contra operatives in the 1980s. Working publicly as a UK publishing magnate, Maxwell was a Mossad agent who had a side hustle with the Russian mafia before falling off a yacht in 1991, after which he was feted by Israeli officials at a lavish state funeral. His children say he was murdered.
One of his children is Ghislaine Maxwell, the criminal partner of child trafficker â and blackmailer of powerful adults â Jeffrey Epstein.
The last person alleged to see Maxwell alive was his best friend, American political operative Samuel Pisar. Pisar was also Maxwellâs lawyer. After Maxwell died, Pisar became Jeffrey Epsteinâs advisor.
Pisar was also the stepfather of Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Being the stepson of the best friend of an internationally known mobbed-up superspy would disqualify any American for a high-level security clearance under normal circumstances. But normal circumstances are gone, as is protecting US sovereignty. Jared Kushner is another operative whose ties to organized crime and Israel should have denied him a clearance, but he received it anyway, despite lying on his forms.
Blinken should not be judged by his stepfatherâs actions â but his ability to be an effective Secretary of State should be.
Blinken could be an honorable man â which he is not â and his entry into the highest echelons of political life would still pose a threat to US national security. It is dangerous to have a Secretary of State who grew up with Robert Maxwell as a family friend. The wealth of information Israel has on his family â information that could be shared or traded with hostile entities â make him uniquely vulnerable to compromise. That Maxwell was not referenced during Blinkenâs confirmation hearings shows how taboo this topic is.
It appears that Blinken does not need to be coerced: when it comes to abetting Israeli war crimes, he is a volunteer. Biden and Blinkenâs collaborative efforts to destroy Israelâs proclaimed enemies date back decades. In 2003, they sought to partition Iraq along ethnic lines; their destructive plan was rejected. Since October 2023, they have repeatedly defended Israelâs war crimes and played down the enormous Palestinian death toll. Blinken has been accused of violating the Leahy Law by refusing to sanction Israeli soldiers who committed rape and murder.
Blinkenâs absolutist stance on Israel is part of why people quit the Biden administration.
âIf we had been applying Leahy effectively in Israel like we do in other countries, maybe you wouldnât have the IDF filming TikToks of their war crimes now because we have contributed to a culture of impunity,â said Josh Paul, a State Department staffer who quit in October 2023.
I tend to believe Blinken rose to villainy on his own accord. But if he were to change his mind about Israel â what would the Israeli government, notorious for its use of blackmail and threats, do with the information they had gathered over the decades?
One could reasonably say this is why Blinken should have never been made Secretary of State. It is, of course, possibly why Biden did make him Secretary of State.
The red line is a Red Sea, where Biden and Blinken can float to infamy. Netanyahu and his fanatical regime have their eye on taking the West Bank and then other slices of the Middle East after theyâre through with Gaza. Itâs unlikely that the US will stop them, regardless of whether Biden or Trump are in power.
There are too many dark stories that are lightly told.
They are hard to vet, because they are about people who prefer the shadows. They are tough to swallow, because the operatives who do not hide don a suit and tie and stand in the sun, basking in the glow of nepotistic prestige and purchased merit. That is how Blinken and Kushner and so many others insert themselves into power.
Trump is an easier story to tell since he confesses his crimes openly, yet the media still ignores his most serious offenses to focus on trite scandals: out of greed, out of laziness, but also out of fear.
Because this is a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government â and it stayed that way even after Trump left office.
That is why Trump and his wealthy cohort were never punished. That is why Trump policies paved the way for Biden policies which are now paving the way for more Trump policies. This applies to everything from policing to covid to sedition and to Israel, most of all.
When there is near uniform agreement in Congress, and it is in support of genocide, something awful is afoot.
I gave you the cliff notes version of my documents of red lines. I realize there is a small window in which I may be able to tell it, due to impending new laws and other factors, like my possible defenestration through that window.
But Iâve got my own red line I donât cross, which is lying.
I wish I could have wrapped this information in something beautiful, but these are the ugliest times, so you get it straight.
Iâve got another document on my laptop thatâs called âDeath Threats 2024.â Thatâs what happens when you make everyone mad at once. I believe this is what our legislature calls âbipartisanship.â
Maybe Iâll follow up, and maybe theyâll follow me down. But I do not blame myself: this mama tried.
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When you read horror stories like this, do you think it is a case that the Israelis simply do not give a f**k, and trust nobody.
This is beyond sick. A complete wrongun
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Israel seriously needs a better class of troll.
Itâs obviously the context for everything.
The attitude is: its us or you. And fuck you.
They consider themselves always under threat (well I mean legitimately in fairness) so they are willing to do whatever it takes to survive. I mean the gobshites in the west are shrieking genocide then seconds later singing from the river to the sea⌠So that genocide would be ok? The UN or whoever should have properly stepped in a long time ago and set up a Palestinian state.
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