It’s a start. But that leaves 62% of people who are delusional as fuck.

Eh. I mean, it’s Trump. Hopefully he doesn’t get too inspired by what he sees as a power move and decide to keep juicing the meat grinder.

BreakThrough News interviewing someone from Electronic Intefada and giving pretty positive coverage of Ansar Allah and their resistance to U.S. imperial violence. Probably not much (or anything) new to folks here about the actual facts of the war, but still a pretty good summary. And maybe a good resource to point your leftist and left-curious friends, family, and associates to about it, if their primary exposure is mainstream “news”.

• BreaktThrough News - Yemen Fires Hypersonic Missile at Israel and Takes Out $200M in US Drones (15m video)

Love how he capitalizes “Deal” and “Complete and Total”. He has some weird-ass wiring, man.

I mean, Zelensky doesn’t have to have any involvement at all, actually. The U.S. and Russia could solve it, as they could’ve from the start. The U.S. is in control. If the U.S. really wants Ukraine to stop, Ukraine will stop.

Thief, please do something mildly funny and wave an electric wand to make undocumented folks safer.

Death panel. Only literally this time. And it’s privatized. Palantir is not just a defense and marketing surveillance company; it’s in healthcare, insurance, finance, your taxes, etc.

• Palantir: The New Deep State

Chris Hedges interviews Norman Finkelstein. The Fink is right about a lot of stuff, I think. Such as Israel accelerating not because Trump "gave him the green light’, but simply because Trump is taking the media spotlight constantly, and Israel knows very well how to take advantage of that. And, unfortunately, that the resistance (nor anybody else) probably doesn’t stand much of a chance of keeping the zionists from “finishing the job”.

• Emptying Gaza (w/ Norman Finkelstein) | The Chris Hedges Report

Unfortunately the Fink also shows his brainworms and blames “wokeness” for a lot of the attack on academic freedom. Hedges doesn’t really challenge him on that, but does kind of shunt the conversation away from it. Probably still worth watching/listening to.

wished to tag His Holiness in the post but in her haste, forgot to put the @ sign. Which might work as an explanation except that His Holiness does not have an official Facebook page.

All tweets go to heaven, so it doesn’t matter if he had a real-life shitter profile.

Infinite ugh’s on the Catholic Church, TBH. Once they’ve cleaned up and made reparations on the economic, cultural, political, and social damage of their long history of missionary work all over the world, we can talk.

I’m not sure it’ll ever be possible to characterize the Catholic Church as anti-colonialist. Ugh.

But it makes sense to acknowledge what this one pope at least said about this one genocide. Probably good…diplomacy.

I know some people liked him because he wasn’t as bad as other popes, but any pope is a king, a CEO, and the head of one of the largest oppressive hierarchies in the world.

sorry/not-sorry

They sound just like the Spanish “explorers” from 500 years ago. Colonialism is pretty timeless, I guess.

He made a statement afterward that was most definitely not a “heartfelt speech”. At least, not of the kind Bezos would’ve appreciated. Of course, he might have changed what he was going to say because Bezos pissed him off. Who knows.

high pressure low pressure

Come on, working class: catch up, will ya?

Donna Brazile, is that you?

Article dated Oct 4, 2021 on the U.S. Army website (archive link): Large-scale Ukrainian-American military exercise strengthens cooperation

YAVORIV, Ukraine - Showcasing an ability to jointly and operationally flex in a dynamic environment— to leverage multinational cooperation and insert ground forces both rapidly and appropriately in response to a potential crisis anywhere in the world— U.S. Army Europe and Africa successfully organized and helped execute a massive and complex multinational exercise at the largest training area in Ukraine, the International Peacekeeping and Security Centre near Yavoriv.

To strengthen allied and partner nations’ capacities to more effectively defend themselves, about 300 U.S. Soldiers worked tactically alongside about 6,000 multinational troops from 15 nations under the banner of Partnership for Peace, a cooperative program for NATO and Euro-Atlantic partner countries, Sept. 20 - Oct. 1.

“While this is a tactical-level exercise, there are strategic implications to what we have accomplished as we have worked side by side,” said U.S. Army Col. Michael Hanson, co-director of Rapid Trident 21 from the U.S. Army. “As every member of NATO understands, a strong national defense and security system doesn’t require the newest technology or billions of dollars to fund the largest military in the region. A strong national defense system requires human, procedural, and technical interoperability with your partners to provide joint security and mutual assurance.”…

“In Ukraine”…“Partnership for Peace”…“strategic implications”…“strong national defense system”…“joint security and mutual assurance”…

William Shatner went to space with Jeff Bezos and said, “It felt like a funeral.” QED.

From this video, which is also very good in that it talks about the absolute dumbification of feminism and women working in science and technology: women in space but it sucks

Hard to say who I hate more, Miller or the smarmy little goblin my brain is already trying repress the memory of who denied Israel’s war crimes with a smile on his face for months.

Ironically, another Miller.

Watch him forget where he is and give a speech about how Social Security needs to be cut.