Israel has relentlessly bombed all 38 branches of the Al-Qard Al-Hasan Association in Lebanon. Why is it so important to the Zionist cause to specifically obliterate a savings and loan institution? I investigate in our fourth mini-documentary from Lebanon.
Click on the “Closed Captions” option at the bottom of the video and you will get the subtitles including translation from Arabic.
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Is it not time to boycott Elon Musk?
Musk is a friend of Netanyahu, Meloni, and Trump and he is trying to foment civil war against immigrants and Muslims in both Britain and Germany – and he will probably soon do the same in the USA and France.
I know he calls himself “Kekius”, but what used to be called the “alt-right” has moved on from the “Pepe” and “Kek” of 2016. There is likely to be blood on USA streets in late January, as some in the USA are already aware.
It is no joke or exaggeration that Musk and friends are trying to foment civil war. In Britain, for example, he is whipping up the view among the white native non-Muslim population that brown-skinned Muslim men enjoy nothing better than to rape young white girls.
And not a single journalist has the guts to use the word “trope”. Admittedly most of them don’t know the meaning of the word (clue: irony and synecdoche are tropes), but this is the word they often wheel out whenever anyone criticises a person who is Jewish for being, shall we say, a murderer, thief, or liar.
Well now what is happening is that the idea is being spread to the max that dark-skinned men are rapists. This is exactly the same idea that featured so heavily in lynchings in the USA for about a century.
It is also the principal notion that the person known as “Tommy Robinson”, now being supported by Musk, represents in the popular mind in Britain.
Musk’s car company Tesla operates both under the ethnic-supremacist Israeli occupation in Palestine:
https://www.tesla.com/findus/list/stores/Israel
and under the royalist despots in the UAE:
https://www.tesla.com/findus/list/stores/United%20Arab%20Emirates
(Someone might like to tell the sheikh boys that if Liberace were to come alive again, he would definitely drive a Tesla. It would suit his brand to a tee.)
Several months ago, I already suggested here that the biggest threat to democracy today was nothing else than Elon becoming a co-president of the US. To no avail. He spent 250 million dollars supporting the Donald’s campaign, and his net worth has since increased by more than 25 billions. Clever investment. A real genius.
Of course, he’s also friends with Vlad, which gives him some credit amongst non-russiophobes. He’s clearly about to use Starlink as leverage against Ukraine, so much will be forgiven to him for his help in the ongoing SMO.
Needless to say, he fully supports Netanyahu’s genocidal policies.
Yes.
And the British MSM is furthering Musk’s race war message by (innocent face) “reporting” all over the place the vile messages that he posts to his messaging service, X – as if this were some kind of cartoon only, rather than a very real incitement to violence.
It’s in psychological warfare 101 that you don’t help the enemy circulate his message.
But that is what they are doing with Musk’s message. Which suggests he’s not the enemy of either the British state or the Lobby.
They could easily ghost much of this in the MSM if they wanted to, and doubtless crack down on it on X too – at least as far as the home market is concerned. They could use normal methods or emergency methods if necessary. I don’t take the view that the controllers are so stupid that they won’t realise the push to civil war is serious until it’s too late.
Re. Musk’s personal business interests, I wonder whether he will get into smart rings. He’s well into microchip brain implants, or “brain computer interface tech” as they are trying to call them. (Neuralink.) Apparently 80% of the current smart ring market is owned by Oura and about 12% by Ultrahuman, but if the Starmer government goes ahead with its “millions of NHS health rings”, maybe a new power in that particular market will emerge, because it will be a big contract for sure.
Don’t you think that Musk is just a useful distraction though? He’s a past master at saying stupid things, he has no gravitas, he’s just a pudgy little boy making a noise while the backroom boys make their plans. The WEF/NATO/MIC/NSA/Israel/Gates/Soros are the ones to watch.
Past experience has shown that given time Trump will fall out with Musk as he has done with most of his past advisors. Only his family is immune.
And, technically what has Musk really done? Most of his ‘ideas’ and technology is second rate and bought in. IMO Musk is the proverbial useful idiot, albeit a very rich one.
Such “pudgy little boys” are no less of a threat than “mustachioed little painters”. Essentially, everyone who comes from the outside of a political circle can be assumed as not grasping the extent of political responsibility that comes with a high post. They usually have little knowledge of history, geography, ethnic relations, etc. – they simply want to make a big show for their supporters. I fully share Brian’s assessment and concern….
Also the well-known “friend of billionaires on superyachts” Peter Mandelson is probably in the loop somewhere were the current Britstate-Musk nexus is concerned.
Mandelson was one of the first leading British politicians to refer to the butcher Ariel Sharon as “Arik”. In fact he may have been the only leading British politician to call Sharon by that friendly diminutive. Bit of a giveaway I thought at the time. A friend of Michael Bloomberg too. Especially when there’s a “global financial crisis” happening.
I obviously agree with your latest comments. But then, hoping for billionaires to become advocates of the poor and needy is just wishful thinking I’m afraid.
As for boycotting Elon Musk, count me in. And it certainly starts with boycotting X. The recent incitement to violence is not about to subside, quite the opposite. A criminal propaganda machine in the making.
Brian Red.
On Musk.
A Musk truck – and a Trump hotel do you think, the outgoing incumbents and their forces are trying to tell these guys something.
The suspect in the Tesla Cybertruck explosion on New Year’s Day, identified as Master Sgt. Matthew Alan Livelsberger, was a veteran US special forces operative who not only deployed to Afghanistan twice but also served in yYoucrane.
Livelsberger – also served US special forces the (JSOC) for the CIA out of Fort Bragg – Bragg’s, now got some stupid title like, Liberty or something like that.
Wes Streeting is coming across like a moron and a creep, the way he is fawning to Elon Musk and saying he wants to “work with” him, while supposedly critically responding to Musk’s message that he is giving so much air to.
Why doesn’t he just say he’s surprised Musk takes such an interest in child abuse in Britain, to the point of calling on the “safeguarding minister” to be put in prison, given that Musk’s good friend the convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in prison at this very moment and would probably appreciate a visit from him.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/01/03/health-wes-streeting-deliver-social-care-proposals-by-2028/
Apparently, Streeting has told pensioners who have had their winter fuel allowances removed that they need to ‘layer up’ during the cold weather so that they don’t freeze to death. What a
cuntstar.It’s even more surprising to me that that American guy receives a response from such high levels of the UK government. As if diplomatic customs did not exist. Normally, between equals, minister responds to a minister, president to a president, etc. Musk has no official function in the US government, he’s a private citizen, and so their tweets should be responsed by the Health Department’s spokesperson at best.
Got to admit though, Musk has managed to tap into the mindset of a lot of people. For example:
Grooming by Pakistani gangs is an issue, still, in the UK but the two tier liberal system would rather cover it up than address it. Poor white girls appear to have no rights.
Immigration is a major issue in the UK with very large numbers entering the country every year but no-one will address the fact that services and infrastructure are not increasing at a similar rate to support the numbers. The logical outcome is economic bankruptcy, to be paid for by the man in the street.
Ukrainians in the UK receive many tax payer funded benefits, such as free travel, discounted council tax, etc. As well, tax payer monies being paid out to house these less than salubrious ‘refugees’.
The solution to the, so called, rascism is simple. Address the inequalities and treat ‘everyone’ the same, regardless of race, religion or sex. No two tier systems, no preferential treatments, no queue jumping. One set of laws for everyone. As I said, the solution is simple, but I doubt you’d get any of the liberal, lefty, woke crowd, particularly politicians, to accept equality for all.
What politicians are these? At no stage has the Starmer-McSweeney-Mandelson project been less flag shagging, dog whistling and Islamophobic than the Tories and Reform. The Labour right are so protective of their racist identity they won’t even push back against this porcine Boer man child.
Yes he is getting incredibly annyoing, it is like he believe he is the president of the U.S. I read that even people around Trump are bothered by his behavior. He is like a physical internet troll trying to get exposure by posting controversial comment on X about subjects he have no clue about to start with.
Still, Labour regime said they would like to work with Musk after Musk blasted them:
UK responds to Musk’s criticism over child rape scandal
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said the government is willing to work with the tycoon to tackle sexual abuse of minors
https://swentr.site/news/610434-uk-grooming-scandal-rape-musk/
What does that even mean? Work with Musk? On what?
I find it amazing that this man is one of the richest and most powerful in the world. When he open his mouth and speak he certainly do not give away a smart impression.
New day, new antics. Musk is now lashing out against Nigel Farage, instead Tommy Robinson seems to be new idol for Musk. Tommy Robinson? Really? How stupid is Musk? Why would anyone support such braindead moron?
Like I said earlier, Musk is like a physical internet-troll.
Elon Musk turns on Nigel Farage and calls for new leader of Reform
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/05/farage-refuses-to-condemn-free-speech-hero-musks-remarks-on-jess-phillips
Calling Musk an idiot stands in the way of answering sensible questions as to why he does things.
TR is not braindead. The choice of TR as a focus seems intelligent. TR’s former party the English Defence League was set up from football gang networks. Football gangs aren’t yobbos or “hooligans” who hate the fans of opposing teams and write stupid graffiti on walls. They are gangs in the organised crime sense of that term, often quite powerful in their areas. Personally I think TR is government property (see the story about him “evading” immigration at JFK airport in NYC, and his brief involvement with the Quilliam Foundation), but even those who disagree should recognise that this guy has enough clout to put enough thugs on the street one night (e.g. outside immigrant hostels, or in an area with a large Muslim population, or outside the home of Jess Phillips or something like that) to have a big effect on the “narrative”.
From Musk’s point of view, or more likely the point of view of those who control this highly indebted guy, the best motivational goal isn’t one that will be realised right away, or one that is mere talk and recognised by almost everyone to be unrealisable (e.g. “repatriating” all non-whites) – it’s somewhere in-between. Hence Jess Phillips and TR. This is being done quite cleverly.
What is quite frightening is that the responses to Musk seem mainly to be on his own website and messaging service. How about someone, even maybe one of the governments in this world, telling X/Musk/Twitter they can shove their disgusting micromessaging service up their left craphole, and no ministers or government agencies will be using it again.
“This is being done quite cleverly” – See also how TR got himself in prison this time, starting with telling sh*tty racist lies about a young Syrian refugee lad who was horribly bullied at school and whose family were being threatened by racist scum. TR lied about the lad and said he’d attacked white girls, and then he painted himself (!) as some kind of free speech hero and victim. This all boils down to “If you ‘ate the P***s, throw a rock”, “Would you let your daugh’er marry one of ’em?”, and “They all worship Allar, innit?” – i.e. what they’re whipping up is cretinous atavistic racial hatred – but it’s being done a lot more cleverly than all the NF and BNP campaigns in the last century.
There could be violence against Nigel Farage, for that matter – not from anti-racists throwing milk over him, effectively indicating that they think he’s racist, but from people putting forward the opposite idea, namely that he’s a race traitor. We have to expect the unexpected.
My neighbour, now deceased, was a complete moron who believed what was printed in the Daily Express and who during the premiership of Theresa May increasingly got it into her head that she’d been misled by the Leave side during the Brexit campaign. “They said ‘Leave’,” she complained, “But they’re not going to make the P**** leave now, are they?” She really said that. I don’t think it would be difficult to push someone like her into backing a race war given that Genocide Starmer famously “took the knee”, Black British Kemi Badenoch is now Tory leader, and Nigel Farage works alongside Pakistani British Zia Yusuf as chair of Reform.
Tommy Robinson is not a moron, but those in the population on whose support he and his backers will have to rely are complete and utter boneheads, like most racists. They seriously believe that anyone who doesn’t look the same as them in the skin colour department is thinking about their skin colour 24/7, because that’s all that the white racist sees when they see the person. They don’t see a human being who has the same right as they do to walk down the street, live their life in Britain, vote, raise a family, go to the shops and the cinema and the zoo, work as a nurse if they’re qualified, etc. What scares me is that for all the wall-to-wall talk of racism in this country, and the supposedly making sure that everything’s hunkydory in the equal opportunities tickboxes, the racist mentality rarely if ever gets a spotlight shone on it. (It would be good if there were more comedians who mocked the sh*t out of it.) And sadly it’s widespread among the white population in some areas.
Hey well done BrianRed for getting the conversation going!
Just popped in to see if CM had returned and if so ask him to have a critical look at this blatant, direct interference in sovereign nations politics by a foreign governments now senior executive!
I mean it’s not at all unusual the NED has been doing it overtly for decades and only just deleted its pages of all he countries and organisations it was funding.
Its also no secret that King Soros and his would be KingSon have been calling the shots like the highest emperors for decades using billions ‘donated’ by nation states – including £billions we handed him under Lamont and the Tories, to create any number of deadly and poisonous ‘Color’ revolutions. Then crowing about it – but he too appears to be ‘winding his neck in’ as their multigenerational plot using Ukraine heads to take Russia, fails as usual. Can’t wait for the old bastards belated demise – kept alive by god knows what secret medicines and satanic demonology they seem to revel in …
Of course there are any number of shadowy billionaires/hedge funds/ global robber barons – the Collective Wastes ZioFacists Nazgûl!
And their hench folk politicos.
Don’t ignore Thiel who likes a slightly lower profile and his Palantir and the consortium he has planned with Elon to supply the MIC contracts without competitive bidding for future US weapons…
Anyway that scumbag Elon (The heralded First King Of Mars) Musk Rat.
I’ll save that for the next post.
Yemeni forces fired a hypersonic ballistic missile into Israel today – (City of Yaffa, near Tel Aviv) – the target was a power station, which it struck successfully.
It’s hard to believe Yemeni hypersonic missiles are manufactured in Yemen.
Brian Red
Agreed Brian – it was only a few years back that Yemen appeared to use improvised rockets – it’s certainly come on leaps and bounds since then – as has Iran, going by its large scale missile attack on Israel last year.
Republicofscotland.
Be careful otherwise, the MSM will be saying that there are North Koreans in Yemen
sent by Russia to try and catch US and UK missiles as they come in and that’s why they
are bombing Yemenis.
My money is on The Daily Express – or Guardian to ‘reveal ‘ this exclusive in two in one
nobbling of Putin and Ayatollah story.
Personally I think a fair few Hezbollah missile operatives are there and have been for a while.
Looks like the one way ‘ Ceasefire ‘ is falling to pieces too.
Good – I say – it was only in place so that Israel could re-stock with more weaponry.
Iran has hardly fired any directly yet.
Meaning they have a lot in reserve.
Yes, this is a notable change from before and would be a wakeup call to Israel to negotiate a durable settlement, that is if they could deploy any common sense. Even the Hamas rockets are able to hit targets nowadays so clearly more advanced technologies are coming in from somewhere and Israel is gradually losing its military edge. Mind you, it’s only with the second Iranian missile attack that the brazenness of Israeli lying about their defences was completely exposed, though it was always suspected. They immediately claimed thst almost all the missiles were intercepted and those that weren’t did no damage but we saw phone camera footage, with excited voices speaking what sounded like Arabic, of masses of missiles exploding on targets. That means we can’t be sure that previous generations of missiles were as primitive and ineffective as we’d been led to believe.
All ballistic missiles are hypersonic at their apogee. Even the grand daddy of them all, the V2, hit Mach 5. It’s just become fashionable to use the word ‘hypersonic’ to make the weapon sound more advanced than it really is.
Israel claims to have intercepted it so who knows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuVtTuQiAjE
If you see the camera footage of Iranian missiles coming down on Israel, it’s quite clear which of them are hypersonic (onto the target, not just at apogee). They appear as an almost instant streak of bright light while the normal ballistic missiles appear as points of light descending and being met, most often but not always unsuccessfully, by Israeli air defence missiles going upward. I have to say though that the video I saw that was supposed to be a Houti hypersonic missile looked more like the latter than the former.
@Pears – You write as if you think ballistic missiles hit their top speed at their apogee. (They obviously don’t.)
The nomenclature of “hypersonic” isn’t really a question of fashion, any more than it is with the word “ballistic”. A pedant would say all missiles are ballistic.
None of the trio – served the full prison sentences of eight years – one was acquitted and the two-others, served two years in prison. Other nations should take a leaf out of America’s book – and seize their assets to give to the myriad of wronged citizens around the globe.
“A US court has awarded a so-called American journalist, who is infamous for his advocacy of subversion across the world and sympathy for Washington’s assassination of Iran’s top anti-terror general, $113 million in stolen Iranian assets as alleged compensation for his imprisonment in the Islamic Republic.
US District Senior Judge Richard J. Leon had found Shane Bauer, his then girlfriend, now ex-wife, Sarah Shourd, and their friend, Joshua Fattal, entitled to receiving a the whopping fee, which has been misappropriated by the United States as part of Washington’s illegal sanctions against Tehran.
The trio was arrested by Iranian servicemen near Iran’s border with Iraq’s Kurdistan Region in 2009 after trespassing upon Iranian territory.
Bauer has, meanwhile, amassed considerable notoriety for supporting overthrow of democratically-elected governments across the world, including in Iran, Syria, and Nicaragua.
He has also tried to justify the US’s assassination of Iran’s and the region’s most prominent anti-terror commander, Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.”
These sub-human monsters really are war criminals – they are on par with the WWII Nazi’s.
“A disturbing trend has emerged among Israeli soldiers in northern Gaza, where they share footage of shooting at homes of ethnically cleansed Palestinians until the buildings collapse.
Soldiers share such footage with their families and friends to watch and gloat”
https://nitter.poast.org/trackingisrael/status/1875193815457513627#m
Incinerator
Death camp Gaza – crows caw
Gluttons feasting
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London, Whitehall
Streets are empty. Who knows why?
Ravens fly – Mach 10
Getting the Hang of it J Nice
The Stark naked Moon.
Looks down and she is crying
For Earth courting Domm
Murdering neocons silent
as humanity dies.
I can’t match Brianfujisan’s lunar poetry, but here’s a try of my own:
Palestinians
Other people let you down
But your strength remains
Thanks Brian.
Enjoyed your haiku too ( I am reading the concluding line as doom).
Regards,
JohnnyOh45
Syrian foreign minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani, who studied at university in Istanbul and is currently taking an MBA at a university in the USA, visited Saudi this week and says he will also visit Qatar, the UAE, and Jordan.
He is joint winner, along with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, of the “Israeli State Terrorists can Bomb the Sh*t out of Much of My Country and Murder a Large Part of Its Population and See if I Care” Award.
Among this Uncle Sam-sniffing wretch’s achievements so far is his issuing of a “warning” to the authorities of Iran, saying they shouldn’t spread chaos.
Holy Holiday Season… Nothing much has happened anywhere in the last week…
Meanwhile, as the Happy New Year has now well begun its course, time has come to wish everyone concerned to have their dreams come true.
Especially for our gracious host, once he’s through with post-production of his Lebanon documentaries. And since Edinburgh and/or loved ones have been waiting for his return.
Long live this blog, and be more suspicious about X (wasn’t called so for no reason)
News from Lebanon courtesy of Middle East Spectator and similar report from The Cradle.
“Earlier today, clashes broke out after HTS terrorists attacked Lebanese Army units on the Lebanese border with Syria in Baalbek-Hermel governorate.
After a delegation from the newly formed HTS-led Syrian Transitional Government was sent to the area, the factions stopped fighting against the Lebanese Army. Three Lebanese soldiers were injured due to the fighting.
Lebanon has sent reinforcements to the border with Syria, to prevent any incursions and to be prepared in case of armed clashes”.
Small beer in the scheme of things but nothing looks good.
Jewish state terrorists have now ordered the evacuation of two other hospitals in Gaza, namely the Indonesian and al-Awda hospitals. Many of the patients there are severely injured and had fled from the Kamal Adwan Hospital which the terrorists destroyed.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/4/israel-orders-evacuation-of-gazas-critical-indonesian-al-awda-hospitals
The resistance (Qassam brigades) are attacking the terrorists’ tanks. You can read about it in the following article, although it’s not clear what the author or translator means by the verb “target” so I don’t know whether they are having much success. Let’s hope they are.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/01/04/740270/Qassam-Brigades-targets,-destroys-5-Israeli-battle-tanks-in-northern-Gaza
The Qassam brigades’ own website (English language section) is here:
https://en.alqassam.ps
At least Al-Jolson has some standards, unlike this nazi whore.
“The refusal of Syria’s de facto leader to shake hands with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock”
https://www.rt.com/news/610440-baerbock-syria-handshake-affair/
Stevie Boy
Calling Annalena Baerbock a “Nazi whore” is jumping the shark.
It just sounds foolish.
Was she unkind to you when you were younger?
We need to know.
https://youtu.be/7LMpoRwnMcs?si=z7vwUpkCqNXCSioK
Retired General Andrey Gurulyov proposes a nuclear strike on England on Russkiiy TV.
This kind of bluster and bullshit suggests that the Kremlin elite are getting uneasy about the likely success of the “Special Military Operation”…
JK Redux
Think yourself lucky.
Medvedev would have done last year.
I hear The Russian Communist Party is not far away for the idea neither and
the Ultra Nationalist Zhirinovsky would have done it under Peter The Great.
Fortunately there were no Oreshniks or Nukes available in that era.
Enjoy your Lattes while you can.
@ JK redux – Thanks for this link. Gurulyov was a lieutenant general and he’s currently an MP. I don’t think his bluster suggests what you say about “the Kremlin elite”. The persona he’s presenting is certainly bullshitty – no doubt about that – although he may have a way to go before he approaches Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s level. He could just be promoting his personal brand the way someone like, say, Christine Hamilton did in Britain. But since he’s an MP, and a United Russia one to boot, we can probably assume he’s FSB connected and suppose that if this is more than Andriusha being a dickhead it’s a sop for the more Trumpy guys in the army. A real message of this kind from the Kremlin is not going to be delivered in this way. Nor will they express exasperation or defeatism by putting up such a guy. Not until the enemy’s a kilometre or so from the Kremlin anyway.
What do you think are the Russian rulers’ aims in this war? To keep the Crimea and Sevastopol, obviously, which they will. Keep the Donbass too. Then there are the other two regions, and there’s keeping Ukraine neutral, which is almost equivalent to keeping it out of NATO. To concentrate at a level that’s lower than geopolitics but higher than the details of exact weapons models, it seems that where we are in this war is that the use of hypersonics by Russia has to some extent deterred a major Ukrainian assault using western-supplied cruise missiles. I say “to some extent”, meaning that it was done perhaps less resoundingly than the Russian side would have preferred, but was on the whole successful. What comes next is not clear, but that’s in the nature of war. No country can fight a war forever, not even Russia, but it seems to me that if one of the sides’ efforts is up Shit Creek in the medium-term future it’s the Ukrainian one.
” it seems that where we are in this war is that the use of hypersonics by Russia has to some extent deterred a major Ukrainian assault using western-supplied cruise missiles. ”
Or possibly not:-
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/two-high-ranking-russian-officials-killed-in-missile-attack-as-ukraine-fires-at/
JK Redux
Is she Green as in naive or Green in the ecological sense?
She represents the worst Green Party that I have ever seen.
No- she is not Nazi but with ADF persuasion she might just help them out when they are busy.
She unknowingly already is.
And Greta Thunberg gets all the stick.
Utterly gormless Liberal crap.
Rule Number One : Know your real enemy.
Mark Cutts
And is Annalena Baerbock a “whore”?
JK Redux
Depends on the context:
Politically or as a woman?
Jolani wouldn’t shake hands with her – I saw that.
What do you think?
Did he not do that because she was a woman?
Or because she is on a mission to sell something?
She is not the brightest lamp on the street but, I could say that about many male
leaders.
Mark Cutts
Calling a female politician a Nazi whore as Stevie Boy did reflects badly on this forum imo.
JK redux
Like a lot of comments on many commentary boards the emotion overcomes the content and point.
So – I would agree that that kind of critique is not good as it is gender specific.
I would say personally that ‘ pimping ‘ is a better word to use.
That applies to all the people ( male female or other ) who ‘ pimp’ for The US and the West.
Most Pimps are men of course but, it is not exclusive to males in the political and economic sense.
It is not a word that I would use for sure.
But in a world of emotional recoil at events it is not surprising that these kind of words come out.
The bombing of Gazans has led to a lot of anti Jewish vitriol which is not fair either but, with 8 billion people on the planet it is inevitable that it happens.
No surprise that this slips out on many occasions to me.
There are many so called Lefties that let off emotional steam and this comments board is no different.
Plus drinking and typing are not great friends either.
The German Green party certainly has Nazi roots (see Richard Walther Darré) and it was quite seminal in its “let’s put class-based politics behind us” (while maybe saying an occasional thing about fatcats for icing) bullshit.
Down went the German extraparliamentary left and up came the Greens. Coincidence?
German Green foreign ministers aren’t my favourite flavour given that as soon as the first one was appointed, Germany participated in attacking Yugoslavia about five minutes later. One assumes the aim wasn’t to install more domestic insulation or prevent a mass extinction like the one that killed the dinosaurs.
Brian Red
Yes Darré had some vaguely positive views about protecting Nature (while being a diehard Nazi war criminal).
But that doesn’t support a claim that German Greens are neo-Nazis.
After all Hitler seems to have liked dogs. Does that mean that German animal protection campaigners are also neo-Nazis?
https://www.msn.com/en-in/video/watch/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-f-22-raptor/vi-AA1niPyI?cvid=45b12f659f0646a980f90da25b2e41c5&ei=67
is my observation that countries where women are equal with men have technical, artistic, scientific and literacy advantages over those that enslave women or insist they dress in black letterboxes. The men who lock up women do so because their internalised dialogue with their human sky god representative advocated marriage to several women including getting engaged to a 3 year old, marrying her when she was 6 and consummating the marriage when she was 9.
Belief is non negotiable. Germany was right to send a woman to represent the country. It shows the goat herders and oil traders that they will have a duty to negotiate with political leaders who they fear their internalised sky god will damn them to eternal hell for shaking hands with.
The gulf between temperate nations and rocky desert nations is perhaps beyond the reach of reason. We can only wonder how communication will be achieved.
Do you know who King Charles’s mentors were?
The Queen acknowledged that one must always address foreign dignitaries with respectful courtesy even when their attitudes were poles apart. She was the finest role model this country could have had and we are fortunate that King Charles follows in her footsteps.
Charles, you may be aware, has never visited Israel. Palestine was the country that was a British Protectorate when he was born. William has visited Israel informally several times, and once on a formal visit. Kate’s family home is in Jordan.
This may be helpful for unifying the country in the future
Mountbatten and Sir Jimmy Savile.
Given you seem to particularly admire him on Palestine, please provide a link to him condemning (or even acknowledging) the genocide.
Yes, Joel, I had anticipated you had those 2 toxic masculinity examples in mind. Add some unsavoury public schoolmasters to the mix, and we are fortunate our leading lights are not even more messed up by the old boys’ corridors of power.
Savile had promised to take down a lot of other powerful people if he was to be prosecuted.
Single sex institutions are still problematic.
Of course, the fact is Greek, Egyptian, Persian science, as still taught today, was all developed by men and passed to the west via the arabs, men. It’s very difficult to get girls interested in STEM subjects, maybe it takes a different mindset ? Maybe instead of obsessing over some sort of fantasy equality people should concentrate on what talents the different sexes (2) bring to the party. As an unapologetic dinosaur, I personally don’t believe that politics and industry, for example, has improved over the last three or four decades due to the influx of women – many of whom, with a few exceptions, are substandard diversity hires. Like Annalena Baerbock.
Yes Stevie, misogyny still has its attractions. Marie Curie and her daughter both received Nobel prizes, Einstein used his wife’s experiments and notes for his teaching. Cecilia Payne? Of course she is one of your role models, and Hedy Lamar invented radar. Women still get headlines for their achievements that say A Woman without putting her name in the headline, and Asian women go into STEM subjects, and politics, more confidently than other UK cultures. Your doctor? Your dentist?
Women who truly lead are rare and I count a handful of leading lights among my FB friends, but many are placed, politically, in visual positions, and are manipulated by their spouses or in-laws, like Theresa May, just as Starmer is managed by his father in law, and has to be home in time for Friday prayers.
Look at the networks, and who they exclude and who they include. Powerful men don’t relinquish their power unless they see an advantage for themselves. Influential women lead teams, inspire innovation, and can network effectively across the gender divide. But if you don’t see it you don’t know it.
Al-Sharaa doesn’t like to shake women’s hands because he likes to present as if he thinks it’s not what God wants. “Yeah, right” is probably the apt response.
I can’t see him as anything other than totally unprincipled and an utter phony given he’s in bed with the USA.
Careful Brian, some of your past comments might be misconstrued as favouring the USA, particularly the Democrats.
Because I am anti-MAGA??
I’ve never tried to go to the USA, but I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t allow me in if I ever did.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock:
“We will not be ashamed to target civilians and hospitals as long as it ensures Israel’s security and this is part of our obligations.”
Oh yes !
She did not exempt children and babies.
It is a mentality deeply entrenched in the Baerbock family.
Annalena’s grandfather Waldemer Baerbock (1913-2016) was not only a decorated officer in the Wehrmacht during World War II but praised for his ideological militancy.
His military files note he read “Mein Kampf” many times and said he was “completely rooted in National Socialism.”
Reza.
I wonder who she means by ” We?”
I thought she was a German – not an Israeli
Does she have a dual passport or a dual personality?
Or both?
Analena Baerbrok does not deserve a handshake, she is a warmonger and she disrespects the culture of islamic states.
Wearing a shawl around her hair would have sufficed, just waggling your arse does not do it.
This was set up beforehand, presumably at the meeting of the protocol officials from the two sides.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/01/05/german-minister-rejects-handshake-scandal-claims-syria/
“Ms Baerbock, one of the first politicians to meet Mr al-Shar’a since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, defended the apparent snub, saying she had been aware it was likely to happen.”
It plays to the “clash of civilisations”, so the western-based part of the ruling class love it.
Does Baerbock normally wear white?
She doesn’t seem to favour white clothes or tight trousers when she meets Satanyahu.
The concept of “dirt” here is operating in both directions.
Biden notifies Congress of $8 billion arms sale to Israel
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/04/biden-arms-deal-israel-8-billion
The deal will include munitions for fighter jets and attack helicopters as well as artillery shells.
Just the other day Biden spoke about “decency” after (pro-palestinian) Jimmy Carter passed away.
Biden says Trump could learn ‘decency’ from Jimmy Carter in tribute address
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/30/biden-trump-jimmy-carter
It would be so easy for Biden to polish his legacy by finally taking a stance against Israel – days before his term was about to end, instead he go about and do this instead.
A spit in the face against the Palestinians but also a spit in the face in the hundreds of thousands of progressive american youth that protested for over a year. What a disgusting braindead geezer
JK Redux singled out Biden himself as an example of innate human decency. There are several other prolific commenters who also remain huge fans of the Genocide Democrats 15 months on.
Make of that what you will.
Joel
Thanks for the citation but my views on Biden are more nuanced than that.
I did say that he is imo a decent man but also that like most US pols he has a moral blind spot when it comes to Israel and Palestine. Which of course I condemn.
It would be interesting to see opinion poll figures for the views of the US public on Israel’s behaviour.
Yes, in your opinion he is a decent man regardless of how many Arab babies he shreds.
*Highly* nuanced and impressive character you are.
Joel
My point in that virtually all US pols take the same position as Biden.
The next US president would if anything criticise Biden for his relative moderation on Palestine I think.
Sigh, Ok I see that I missed my main link/argument, that Biden OK another arms deal to Israel worth some whopping 8 billion USD:
” Biden notifies Congress of $8 billion arms sale to Israel”
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/04/biden-arms-deal-israel-8-billion
Yes apparently if you are representing the Democrats you will get away with anything, even aiding killing children in the thousands.
Lets see how the same Democrats will react to Trump’s pro-israelism.
As his inauguration day approaches,, for me the big question is: Will Trump be vindictive and go after the Biden family, over their Ukraine dealings, the ‘10% for the big guy’ corruption allegations, etc.? Will there be a reckoning for all those in the intel establishment who tried to sabotage his electoral chances?
I think it’s fair comment to say that while MAGA reign the Republican roost, the US system: judicial, military and intel establishment are overwhelmingly pro-Democrat party. As the Republicans have moved to the anti-establishment right with MAGA – some would say ‘conspiratorial right’ – the Democrats have moved rightwards in response in a disastrous attempt to fill the gap by absorbing the Republican anti-Trump malcontents, like Liz Cheney et al. A strategy that backfired dreadfully, as many Democrat voters felt betrayed by the mutual love-in with old enemies on the right, a subject Glenn Greenwald has explored.
Trump has every reason to feel bruised and angry though. It looks like, on the face of it, power was abused in an attempt to stop him: judicial, in terms of lawfare with the hush-money trial, in which a request to move the trial out of Trump loathing Manhattan was refused. This made it nearly impossible to select an impartial jury from a politically untainted jury pool; the guilty verdicts were almost a nailed-on certainty. The assumption, likely, was that Trump would have to stand down if convicted, but they didn’t count on MAGA loyalty to the Trump brand; weak alternative Republican presidential candidates, not to mention Trump’s sheer eff’ing stubbornness /brazenness to battle it out.
And then there were the January 6 revelations, about the FBI having 26 ‘informants’ in that MAGA mob that stormed the Capitol. Needless to say, 26 is a very large number relative to the crowd’s size, and how many acted as agent provocateurs inciting the mob on? If I were Trump I’d put the system on trial, if only to stop such anti-democratic nonsense being repeated against someone else.
@Goose – On or after 20 January, Trump will in my opinion
* have senior military figures arrested, if necessary after recalling them to duty, and court martialled for treason or whatever else is a capital offence
* arrange for blood to be spilled on US streets or for events to be started off which are perceived as inevitably leading to that result within a matter of several days, max.
The “narrative” will change. Biden is Israel’s little helper, as many here often observe, but so are Trump and the Kushners, and Biden will soon be past history.
Putin and Xi will love this.
A crash of the $ economy, which is most of the world’s economy, will then be forthcoming.
The hard right is not a joke, and the hard right loves death. It can hardly be denied now that several leading countries are being destabilised, with their weakest points being hit concertedly.
In the US they only got a small amount of blood in January 2021. Sadly it looks as though they will get much more in January 2025.
Another prediction I will make is that Macron will not last in the Elysée all the way until July.
Here, I beg to differ, Red.
Despite all his gesturing, Trump will heavily depend on Elon. And for Musk, blood on the streets means bad business, plummeting earnings, all things he needs to avoid. Manipulating the gullible populace through X is far more efficient than any January 6 kind of riot. To him, blood is acceptable in Palestine or in Ukraine, but not in his backyard…
As for Macron, I wonder why you pay so much attention to the emmerdeur. Whether or not he resigns before the end of his second term may change very little to the political and economic chaos he managed to throw his country into. And I have this funny feeling Musk may soon be tempted to interfere in French politics, to help Ms LePen take over…
Nah, just like Labour taking power and talking up change, I don’t see any real changes on the horizon. Trump is no different. The rot goes deep, status quo will be maintained. A lot of pissing about on the periphery will detract the masses, but at the end of the day we’ll still be screwed.
Jack.
Carter was no good guy – no POTUS is/was.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/18/jimmy-carters-blood-drenched-legacy/
Check out the link I posted above Joel. There is a new global arms race hotting up – in the realms of AI, space, and unimaginable new scales of weaponry. Israel and China are leading the field, Israel with US funding of course, while Russia shores up its defences and alliances in other parts of Africa and the BRICS
I can only say Trump didn’t start any wars during his last tenure, and he ended the war in Afghanistan.
Getting any kind of multipolar deceleration of this new danger will be difficult if not impossible.
Musk is outing the factions. The factions are shining the light on Trump and Musk in these terror attacks in the US.
Interesting times
After the end of the war in Afghanistan truths started coming out. Australia had the Brereton Inquiry and here we had Mercer in Parliament, learning of uncomfortable truths which are now coming into the public domain. It takes time to bring decision makers out of the shadows, and first, those on the front line must face scrutiny. A change of government helps.
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/65403/the-remarkable-witness-statement-of-johnny-mercer
Israeli youtuber go around asking israelis what they think about the high civilian death toll in Gaza.
The reaction by the israelis interviewed is of course not really surprising but once again prove that evilness rule in Israel. The dehumanization is total:
Israelis: Do you know how many civilians have been killed in Gaza?
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWiWtghM35Y
And here you have the new syrian foreign minister taking part in the execution of a woman some years ago:
Videos emerge showing Syria’s new justice minister overseeing public executions in Idlib
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/28341
These statements by the late Hassan Nasralla over 10 years ago are prescient they are from a public address delivered by Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, which aired on Al-Manar TV on May 25, 2013:
Hassan Nasrallah: Syria is the back of the resistance. It is the supporter of the resistance. The resistance cannot stand idly by while its back is being exposed and its support is being broken. I say this loud and clear. We are not stupid. Only a stupid person would watch death, siege, and conspiracy closing in on him without lifting a finger. Only a stupid person would do this. A reasonable, responsible person lives up to his obligations in full.
Nasrallah warned that if Syria falls, Palestine will be lost.
“My brothers and sisters, if Syria falls into the hands of the U.S., Israel, the people who accuse others of heresy, and all of America’s pawns, which purport to be leading countries in the region, the resistance will find itself under siege, and Israel will invade Lebanon, in order to impose its terms on the Lebanese people, and in order to revive its aspirations and schemes. Then, Lebanon will embark upon another Israeli era. If Syria falls, Palestine will be lost. The resistance in Palestine will be lost. Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem”
https://www.memri.org/tv/hizbullah-secretary-general-nasrallah-vows-defend-syria-we-can-send-tens-thousands-mujahideen
Nasrallah was right, at this moment the Israelis are invading Southern Lebanon, they aim to, at least, reach the much sought after Litani river, then no doubt build settlements there, Nasrallah would not have acted so foolishly as the current Hez leadership who are following the Lebanese political leaders in the forlorn hope the US/Israel will comply with the one sided ceasefire arrangements, but then the Israelis have already said the 60 day ceasefire will be extended, presumably until UNSC resolution 1701 has been complied with, and Hezbollah are disarmed and southern Lebanon up to the Litani cleared of all military infrastructure, tunnels etc. What will the resistance do to thwart this obvious scenario? We shall see.
2 links, one new, one a few days old:
From today via Naked Capitalism:
“Eight Israeli Lawmakers Demand Acceleration of the Extermination in Gaza by Destroying Remaining Food, Plus Water and Energy Infrastructure”
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/01/eight-israeli-lawmakers-demand-acceleration-of-the-extermination-in-gaza-by-destroying-remaining-food-plus-water-and-energy-infrastructure.html
It is not really possible to stomach any of this. Especially if one looks at how resistance is being crushed in Germany (and yes, I have totally stopped talking to people.)
A selected chronology of the suppression of freedom of speech re: Gaza in Germany (I can assure you this is only the best known cases and in scale merely the tip of a Mount Everest of sick, fascist conduct. Corrupt, demeaning, racist, hypocritical that it makes one wanna vomit. That’s German intellectual culture in 2025):
A Year in German Culture – Gaza and censorship
by Thomas Meaney
31 December 2024
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/a-year-in-german-culture
p.s. What I argued a year ago is still valid – it is easier to muster broad support for the Russian case in Ukraine here in Germany than calling out a genocide for what it is, being broadcast all over the world. That’s what probably is the most shocking in all of this.
While it is seriously difficult to find out the truth on Ukraine. It´s fairly easy to read the truth about Israeli massacres on a daily basis. It’s out there. But nobody gives a shit.
Hi @AG
“Especially if one looks at how resistance is being crushed in Germany (and yes, I have totally stopped talking to people.”
Similar story in Britain where since 2020 things have been going in only one direction, and there are various topics about which the few remaining opponents of fascism already know to keep their mouths tightly shut – or to feign conservative opinions – when talking to most other people. Or people stay in the house, hikikomori-style.
But 👍keep your chin up, mate 👍
The only people in Britain being persecuted for political opinions are opponents of the Genocide in Gaza. Surprisingly, not one of those supports the genocidal arch establishment “anti-fascist” 🙃 ghouls in Washington enabling it. Why do you think that may be? Is it because these dissidents are fascists?
All this talk about the rise of fascism is exactly equivalent to all the talk of the rise of antisemitism, it’s all BS.
The supposed fascists are mostly decent people opposed to the corruption and madness of the liberal, left wokerati, whilst the antisemites are mostly decent people opposed to the genocide of the zionist Jews.
If you dare to speak against the establishment agenda you will be labelled as something horrible, even though the complete opposite is in fact more likely to be the truth.
So, IMO, anyone throwing these labels around should be treated with a degree of caution, at the very least.
That NLR piece certainly supports your observations that Germany has become an inhuman zionist dystopia. Britain is not that far gone yet, but there will be little push back from politicians or journalists if it does. Most of the important and influential ones are owned, the remainder are cowards.
just cause it illustrates my point – again – every single day anew:
Today:
German daily JUNGE WELT (the only daily observed by German FBI! And the only paper I am seriously reading since 2022 as it is the only one trying to tell the truth.)
Silencing critics
Berlin cuts funding for Israeli NGOs
By Karim Natour
https://archive.is/nLJ1G
“The German government has quietly stopped funding two Israeli human rights organizations. This is probably not an isolated process, according to research by Deutsche Welle ( DW ) on Sunday. The cut in federal funding for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that have expressed criticism of Israeli government policy and the war in the Gaza Strip is systematic. In recent months, 15 organizations are said to have had their support cut, the majority of them Palestinian. Israel declared six of them terrorist organizations in 2021 – without any evidence.”
p.s. considering the obvious powerlessness and insignificance of the UN Charter – this “thing” is useless. Of course abandoning it is the very intention the West is secretly having in mind. But HOW change it properly? As with most such structural deficiencies I assume one must address totally different parts of the international system to enable the ICJ truly influence governments. i.e. increase economic strength (which means many decades) to pressure the genocidal actors and most likely military deterrence. Latter of which I am very skeptical of. It doesn’t get better only worse if every country had its own 1000 missile force.
Israeli invaders have captured the Al-Mantara Dam.
“Before Al-Mantara, they occupied five other key sites that supply water to Syria from neighbors”.
“Israel grabs 40 percent of Syria’s vital water resources“.
“A closer look at the borders of the Israeli occupation zone in Syria reveals that the focus was on capturing all the vital reservoirs and rivers in the occupied Golan Heights.
In addition to the 3.5 km long Al-Mantara embankment dam, located within the UN buffer zone, nine other dams outside the zone were also captured, all in the Quneitra and Dara’a provinces of Syria.
The Israeli occupation army also occupied the smaller Rwihina Dam, located 2.5 km downstream on the same Ruqqad River, otherwise the natural border of the Golan Heights to the east.
On the same river, another ten kilometers downstream, there is the 3-kilometer-long Kudna Dam, occupied together with the nearby smaller Bariqa Dam.
Two other relatively larger occupied dams on the Ruqqad River are the Ghadir al-Bustan Dam near the settlements of Zaghbi and Nasiriya, and the Jisr Ruqqad Dam near Saida and Ain Zakar.”
^ There’s a lot of further info in this article by Ivan Kesic.
Brian Red
It has often been said that in the future water will become the new oil.
Great resource to blackmail with too – right now.
The Lebanese – Hezbollah ‘ Ceasefire ‘ is holding for now but with what I am hearing about Trump
and Biden’s landmines for Trump approach then, they will both leave Iran with no other defence than attack.
Plus any US Airbases ( and possibly the Akrotiri Airbase depending on how vicious it gets) will be attacked too.
Much bleating in the MSM will follow of course once Israel cities are attacked by Iran and Hezbollah.
Much more if US Forces are killed.
In my opinion No Option is an Option as it makes your mind up for you.
Death or Glory?
Belated congratulations are owed the vast array of zionist antisemitism scammers ennolbed by Sir Keir and Charles III over the New Year. Also last weekend’s recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Genocide Joe, namely Hillary, Soros and scrupulous ignorer of the Gaza Genocide Bono.
The very best of us in the eyes of the elite. Correctly honoured.
So the oh-so-humanitarian Bono accept a prize from the guy that make a genocide possible. If Bono had any decency he would have rejected the prize and instead made a statement about Gaza. What a rotten person. Bono is really the top jester for the elite.
Israel’s continuous breaches of truce in Lebanon ‘flagrant violation of int’l law’: UNIFIL
The UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon has condemned as a “blatant violation of international law” the Israeli regime’s continuous breaches of the ceasefire agreement with the resistance movement Hezbollah.
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) made the remarks in a statement on Sunday, noting that the Israeli military is “deliberately” destroying its property and critical infrastructure in southern Lebanon.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/01/05/740365/Lebanon-Israel-violations-ceasefire-agreement-Hezbollah-UNIFIl-condemn-deliberate-destruction-property-international-law-violation
Have this occured before? That a UN peace keeping force is deliberately attacked and nothing is done about it by the outside world?
What the F is wrong the israelis? It is like they are unable to feel guilt or shame.
“It is like they are unable to feel guilt or shame.”
Remember what Pappé said last year – they have developed a cult of being the victims which has turned into a fascist armour against the plight and suffering of anyone else. Especially Palestinians.
Here is a neutral source: https://unifil.unmissions.org/unifil-statement-4-january-2025