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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Saving in blog for eternity

After pinning the below in my X account for almost 2 years, I thought it was time to remove it. No matter how much Elon Musk's X censors users' tweets, including mine each and every day, I am grateful to have a platform where my views can be expressed, even if only my eyes can see them.

 

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Monday, May 12, 2025

Some interesting items: May 1 - 12, 2025

 

https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/who-is-captain-ibrahim-traore/#more-158137


Who is Captain Ibrahim Traoré?

In the footsteps of Thomas Sankara

by Kim Petersen / May 12th, 2025

 

A young, by political standards, military captain, now an acting president has captured widespread admiration in Burkina Faso and across Africa. The legend of Ibrahim Traoré appears to be growing by leaps and bounds.

But to understand from whence captain Traoré comes, one should be cognizant of the young revolutionary Marxist leader captain Thomas Sankara who served the people of Burkina Faso (Land of Upright People) before Traoré. Tragically, Sankara was assassinated in a hail of gunfire, betrayed by his close friend Blaise Compaore..................

 

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https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/5-500-000-percent-return-how-warren-buffett-became-a-wall-street-legend-20250505-p5lwje. 

When Warren Buffett told shareholders at Saturday’s Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting that he would step down as chief executive by the end of the year, he was effectively announcing the end of an era. No matter how well qualified his successor Greg Abel might be, Buffett is unique and irreplaceable.

For decades an increasing number of Buffett acolytes have made the pilgrimage to Nebraska to hear pearls of investing wisdom from the “Sage of Omaha”. Some of the tens of thousands from around the world who attended on Saturday slept overnight to get prime positions at what has been described as “Woodstock for Capitalists”.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/10/louis-theroux-documentary-on-israeli-settlers-in-the-west-bank?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

If you were shocked by my film on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, you haven’t been paying attention

 
 It wasn’t something I saw coming. A film about the situation in the West Bank – an evergreen story if ever there was one – going viral. Appreciation, dismay, gratitude, outrage at what the film showed 
 Through the week it kept going. More retweets, more feedback, a little bit of pushback. Shock was the theme of many messages – the idea that this was going on. And a feeling of: “At last.” “At last, mainstream British TV is saying something about what is happening.”

The film was a follow-up of sorts. In 2010, I’d made a documentary called Ultra Zionists. It was a look at the Israeli religious nationalist community that exists in the West Bank – the area across the eastern edge of Israel that has been under military occupation since the six-day war of 1967. Now, a decade and a half on, with the world’s attention on Gaza, it was being reported that the settlers were ramping up their activities. The Israeli government had given them thousands of assault rifles. Shootings of Palestinians, vandalism of their property and harassment were all on the rise.

We envisioned the film as a kind of road movie through a region under military occupation. On two trips of a little over a week each, with my director Josh Baker and producers Sara Obeidat and Matan Cohen, I drove up and down the West Bank. I made inroads in the settler community, interviewing exponents of the settler mindset. People such as Ari Abramowitz of Arugot Farm, a resort for tourists that sits deep inside the occupied West Bank. Abramowitz was born and raised in Texas but came to Israel as a young man, qualifying for Israeli citizenship due to his Jewish heritage. For our interview, he met me wearing an assault rifle and a handgun. He took me on a tour of the land and declared his view that the Palestinian people “don’t exist”........

 

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https://scheerpost.com/2025/05/07/rare-right-wing-revolt-sinks-bill-punishing-boycotts-of-israel/

Rare Right-Wing Revolt Sinks Bill Punishing Boycotts Of Israel

May 7, 2025
 

By Robert Inlakesh / MintPress News

A sweeping pro-Israel bill backed by Republican leadership and AIPAC collapsed this week after a rare revolt by right-wing lawmakers who argued it posed a direct threat to Americans’ First Amendment rights.

The bill, H.R. 867 — known as the IGO Anti-Boycott Act — would have imposed up to $1 million in fines and prison terms of up to 20 years on Americans who support international boycotts of Israel, even those led by the United Nations.

The bill had been scheduled for a vote Monday but was abruptly pulled from the House calendar following backlash from a broad coalition of critics, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and conservative firebrands like Rep. Thomas Massie, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Rep. Matt Gaetz.

While pro-Israel legislation typically enjoys broad bipartisan support, this rare fracture among Republicans helped stall what would have been the most extreme escalation yet of anti-BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) laws in the United States.

CAIR issued a public call urging Congress to reject the legislation “over the threat it poses to First Amendment free speech rights.” That pressure campaign came as social media posts expressing concern about its potential impact on free speech helped mobilize conservative voters and right-wing influencers against the bill — culminating in House leadership scrapping the scheduled vote.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stated, “I will be voting NO. It is my job to defend Americans’ rights to buy or boycott whomever they choose without the government harshly fining them or imprisoning them.”

Rep. Thomas Massie wrote on X, “Apparently HR 867 has been pulled from the schedule for this week. Thank you for your vocal opposition on this platform. It was a ridiculous bill that our leadership should have never scheduled for a vote.”.......................

 

 

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US and World news May 12 from Democracy Now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp-hWQBHeGc

 

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https://calgaryherald.com/news/politics/alberta-separatist-group-referendum-question
 

Alberta separatist group releases proposed referendum question, plans to push for vote this year

Once the group reaches its petition goal, they plan to push Premier Smith to hold the referendum this year

By Devika Desai
Published May 12, 2025
 

An Alberta separatist group has released a proposed referendum question on sovereignty from Canada, saying they will push the premier for a vote as soon as this year.

That is, if they can garner support from enough provincial residents.

During a news conference Monday, Jeffrey Rath — a lawyer with the Alberta Prosperity Project — pulled a blue provincial flag off an easel, revealing the question printed in large font: “Do you agree that the province shall become a sovereign country and cease to be a province of Canada?”.............

 
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Judge Napolitano talks to Scott Ritter on Iran, Trump, Russia, etc.
 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFVggVcrE2A
 
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https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/12/craig-murray-uk-intels-fake-terror-plots/
 
Islamophobic propaganda is being ramped up to drive public support in the U.K. for the genocide in Gaza and a forthcoming attack on Iran.
 
 By Craig Murray

CraigMurray.org.uk

Back in the “War on Terror” days, the U.K. security services fabricated multiple fake terror plots. There was, for example, the 2009 Easter Bomb Plot in Manchester, taking entire front pages of newspapers.

Gordon Brown as prime minister hyped it as a “very big terror plot.” It was a total fabrication, nobody was convicted and it eventually emerged that the trumpeted “bomb-making ingredient” the police confiscated from kitchens was sugar — in normal quantities.

The Great Ricin Plot in 2003 was again kitchen obsessed, and the media that ran screaming headlines about the discovery of ricin did not bother to later report that the amounts the police announced they had discovered turned out to be the almost undetectable trace which might be found in any kitchen.

The propaganda was the purpose, all ramping up Islamophobia to justify the Western destruction of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.

When the Manchester Arena attack eventually did happen, it turned out that MI5, the domestic intelligence service, had been the perpetrator’s sponsor and he and his father had been ferried from Libya by the British armed forces. Sponsorship of terrorism abroad is always likely to result in blowback at home.....

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Thursday, May 1, 2025

Links to articles and videos I consumed ... April 19 - 30, 2025

 

https://original.antiwar.com/Ted_Galen_Carpenter/2025/04/28/50-years-on-us-elites-learned-nothing-from-the-vietnam-defeat/

50 Years On: US Elites Learned Nothing From the Vietnam Defeat

April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the final, definitive defeat of the U.S. military crusade in Vietnam.  The images of U.S. helicopters desperately flying American diplomats and Washington’s high-level South Vietnamese collaborators from the roof of the U.S. embassy in Saigon effectively captured not only the chaotic environment, but also the extent of Washington’s overall policy debacle.  The outcome of the war was a humiliating defeat for the United States in every respect.  Vietnam’s reunification under a communist government was now an indisputable reality.  Indeed, the United States finally succumbed to the pressure to establish diplomatic relations with that government in 1995.

Washington’s failed effort over more than two decades to prevent that outcome was extremely expensive financially to the United States, with more than $141 billion expended.  Measured in terms of 2025 dollars, that amount would be approximately $838 billion.  Even worse was the terrible cost in blood.  The war took the lives of more than 58,000 American soldiers and caused an estimated 3.8 million casualties, both civilian and military, in South Vietnam, North Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

Widespread disillusionment about Washington’s armed crusade in Southeast Asia was evident in the United States, and for a few years, the disastrous experience seemed to inoculate the American public against supporting any similar adventures.  When Ronald Reagan’s administration flirted with providing military backing for corrupt client regimes in Central America, there was noticeable pushback, especially from Democrats in Congress.  â€œNo more Vietnams” became a popular mantra throughout the country.


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Video of documentary made more than 2 years ago but in the news only now.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76bBnN6s2ak

 

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The Great Palantir Reset, American’s Constitutional Decline & The Partisan End Game

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/great-palantir-reset-partisan-end-game/

Posted on Author Ryan CristiĂĄn

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Virginia Giuffre dead: Prince Andrew accuser commits suicide after 'toll of abuse' became too heavy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wkzVmSAi5A

 

 

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https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/04/the-persecution-of-dr-reiner-fuellmich/

 

The Persecution of Dr. Reiner Fuellmich

The biggest judicial scandal ever seen in Germany

by Robert Malone / April 25th, 2025

Dr. Reiner Fuellmich is known and respected internationally for his work as a consumer defense lawyer and for winning major lawsuits against corporate giants such as Volkswagen, KĂŒhne & Nagel, and Deutsche Bank. He was one of the first individuals to recognize that the COVID measures constituted crimes against humanity and decided, along with three other lawyers, to create the Corona Investigative Committee, which aimed to shed light on the actions of governments, public institutions, and the medical community in the context of the so-called “pandemic.”

Thanks to his brilliant investigative work, and after consulting more than 150 scientists and experts in all fields around the world, as well as numerous whistleblowers (from Pfizer, WHO, CDC, UN), he was able to collect an abundance of evidence of what he calls “the biggest crime ever perpetrated against humanity.”......

 

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx251yyvwr3o

 

Huge blast at key Iranian port kills 28 and injures 800

Frances Mao
BBC News   April 27, 2025

At least 28 people have been killed and 800 injured in a massive explosion at one of Iran's key ports, authorities say.

The blast took place at Shahid Rajaee, the country's largest commercial port, near the southern city of Bandar Abbas on Saturday morning.

It blew out windows and roofs of nearby buildings and destroyed cars. Residents reported feeling the impact of the blast up to 50km (31 miles) away. Six people remain unaccounted for, state media reports.

Videos verified by the BBC show a fire growing in intensity before a huge explosion, with people subsequently fleeing the blast and others lying wounded on roads surrounded by smoking debris.........

 

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https://www.unz.com/imercer/genocides-back/

Genocide’s Back: Trump-Backed Israel Defense Feces (IDF) Gets Extra-Brutal
‱ April 23, 2025

WHAT has Israel been up to since March 18, 2025, which was when the “genocidal entity” formally broke the nominal ceasefire agreement in Gaza? Oracular insight here is unnecessary.

Israel has been trampling underfoot everything decent and good.

Genocide is back. This time with President Trump in fawning agreement, playing procurer and pimp for the Israeli State, and subjecting ingrate Bibi Netanyahu to no more than a curt jerk of the leash: During a press conference with the US president, on April 7, the Israeli prime minister’s face, nevertheless, grew as dark as a thundercloud on mention of possible diplomacy with Iran.

Under such favorable circumstances, Israelis are louder and prouder about killing and destroying with monomaniacal diligence. Indifferently, and for the first time, Israel openly admitted to targeting journalist Hussam Shabat for “elimination,” in December of 2024, and executing the him on March 24. The sadistic serial killer stalked its prey, then pounced.

The predator has so far singled out and assassinated 232 other Palestinian journalists..........

 

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https://stthomassource.com/content/2023/06/20/v-i-releases-new-exhibits-detailing-jpmorgans-epstein-ties/

V.I. Releases New Exhibits Detailing JPMorgan’s Epstein Ties

By Sian Cobb

New exhibits filed Tuesday in the V.I. government’s lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase reveal how the bank’s top brass continued to court Jeffrey Epstein for his ties to some of the world’s wealthiest individuals even as its compliance arm warned that he was a growing liability as a felon under investigation for sex crimes.

The exhibits include a June 7 letter to Judge Jed Rakoff of Manhattan federal court that was previously filed under seal, seeking to allow the V.I. Attorney General’s Office to reopen depositions in light of information it received after questioning key witnesses in the case, including JPMorgan’s billionaire CEO Jamie Dimon.

Rakoff on Friday denied that motion, and on Tuesday the government unsealed 10 exhibits offering a closer look at JPMorgan’s relationship with Epstein, the wealthy financier who died by apparent suicide in August 2019 while in custody in New York on federal child sex trafficking charges. His primary residence was Little St. James, his private island estate of St. Thomas.

The government’s complaint, filed Dec. 27 in Manhattan federal court, claims JPMorgan violated the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act in its services to Epstein, whom it kept as a client even after his 2008 conviction for procuring a minor for prostitution in Florida. The case is scheduled for trial on Oct. 23....

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https://mondoweiss.net/2025/04/why-pro-palestine-protesters-are-being-sent-to-a-for-profit-ice-prison-in-rural-louisiana/

 

Why Pro-Palestine protesters are being sent to a for-profit ICE prison in rural Louisiana

Mahmoud Khalil, RĂŒmeysa ÖztĂŒrk, and Alireza Doroudi are all being held in ICE detention in Jena, Louisiana. Jena represents the nexus of white supremacy, prison profiteering, and state repression. But its history also shows us the path of resistance.
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“My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law.”

In recent weeks, students Mahmoud Khalil, RĂŒmeysa ÖztĂŒrk, and Alireza Doroudi were abducted by ICE and are being held in ICE detention centers in rural Louisiana. Khalil’s powerful statement connects multiple realities that demonstrate how state repression is activated to support the rise of authoritarianism. 

That Khalil and others are being sent to detention centers in remote towns across Louisiana is not an accident. Rising authoritarianism requires a police state, and the expansion of prisons, police, and detention centers is extremely profitable. As the current U.S. government disappears people to a brutal prison camp in El Salvador, they are also moving people to rural Louisiana in attempts to disappear people within the United States borders. ..............

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Video 

Zionists Attack Pro-Peace Americans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K52rwm8XQog

 


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