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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;Correct. If you allow them to do this to any population, they will eventually do it to every population. Israel is indeed the enemy of the world right now.&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Lisa Pease (@lisapease) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/lisapease/status/2116555809635389646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 31, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;Lookin&#39; at YOU @jkenney @MarkJCarney @PierrePoilievre .

Human lives are not important to you war pigs.

Profit is.&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; SharonSisterUpstairs #NastyCanadian (@Sharon75571311) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/Sharon75571311/status/2116050028108071404?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 30, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;New investigation from me: meet Lyor Cohen the son of an Israeli secret agent and the man who controls hip hop. 

https://t.co/rIqk5TpPQr&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/2116533896171131268?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 31, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;I strongly condemn Prime Minister Mark Carney’s statement regarding Iran’s three islands of Abu Musa, Greater Tunb, and Lesser Tunb.

By endorsing the UAE’s territorial claims and referring to Iran’s presence on these islands as an “occupation,” Canada has taken an unacceptable position that disregards Iran’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Canada should know better than to compromise the fundamental principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity for the sake of economic and political partnerships.

The three islands are an inseparable part of Iran. Iran’s territorial integrity is not negotiable.

Iman Vaez
First secretary of Iranmadari Global Network

@MarkJCarney @CanadianPM 

https://t.co/GIAstvcn5R&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Iman Vaez (@Imanvaez1) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/Imanvaez1/status/2115971308265599336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 30, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;🚨 Israeli strike destroys Gaza school educating 350 children

An overnight Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the Saftawi area of Jabaliya, northern Gaza, destroyed the nearby Al-Zahraa makeshift tent school, which provided free education to approximately 350 children, as well as the Little Smile Kindergarten. The strike also damaged a camp sheltering displaced Palestinian families.

“All the desks and educational tents were destroyed. Even the stationery we had for students and teachers was ruined,” Mousa Zaqout, a teacher, told Drop Site’s Abdel Qader Sabbah. He said the volunteer-run school provided free education to children from the camp and surrounding areas. 

“There is no ceasefire or anything like that on the ground,” Zaqout added. “Every hour, every moment, there is bombing and destruction.”

Gaza’s Ministry of Education condemned the destruction of the two educational facilities, describing Israel’s continued targeting of schools as part of a systematic destruction of education in Gaza.

🎥 @AbdSabbah91&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2116186977510797491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 30, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;es&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;El señor Zelenski debería mirar bien estas imágenes… Es el líder de la Revolución cubana, Fidel Castro, recibiendo a miles de niños ucranianos que sufrieron exposición a radiación en el accidente de Chernobyl… fueron recibidos en Cuba y tratados integralmente durante más de 20 años sin ningún costo, como un deber humano con el pueblo soviético.

Ayer, Zelenski, en “agradecimiento” por aquel gesto, votó en la ONU a favor de que se mantenga el bloqueo cruel y genocida contra mi país… La miseria humana no tiene límites!&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Tere Felipe (@_TereFelipe_) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/_TereFelipe_/status/2115779328428429452?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 29, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;In the 2000s, I lived in South Korea for two years. In 2017, I briefly (1 week) visited the North.

I have visited both sides of the DMZ, and it was on the South Korean side where there was absurd propaganda hype: &amp;quot;Don&#39;t even point to the North Korean soldiers, if they see you point at them they will shoot you,&amp;quot; I was told.

On the DPRK side, none of that sensationalism. 

Instead, it was there, in a hall filled with photos of meetings, that one could actually learn some history.

From an article I wrote following that visit:

At Panmunjom, near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), one learns the North Korean side of history, including the over 8,400 ceasefire violations by the United States. One of many notable such violations was the espionage vessel, the USS Pueblo, now on display outside Pyongyang’s war museum. North Koreans on several occasions proposed to have peace treaty talks, with “no positive response from the U.S. side.”

In a hall near the DMZ, photos depict 2000 and 2007 meetings between North and South discussing reunification, as well as the support of the people in both South and North. Our guide at Panmunjom noted: “On July 7, 1994, the day before he died, President Kim Il-Sung was looking through documents regarding reunification. He devoted his whole life to this.”
https://t.co/4QGWePCsHM&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/EvaKBartlett/status/2115010648207667560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 27, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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According to @stephensemler, the US fired an estimated 609 interceptors to defend Israel against responses to its attacks.

The US used the most expensive interceptors in its arsenal for Israel: 31% were the $31 million SM-3 and 62% were the $12 million THAAD. The US spent $11 billion shooting down missiles for Israel from October 2023 through September 2026. 

Israel is an absolute strategic liability.&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/2113265655621304359?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 22, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;43 years after 241 American military personnel were killed in Beirut on 23 Oct 1983, why is it SO ACCEPTABLE on social media to say &amp;quot;Israel Did 9/11&amp;quot; and yet completely TABOO to even hint that it was actually ISRAEL that blew up the US Marine barracks that day? https://t.co/xqGCXKMlih&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Bruce Baird (@drbairdonline) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/drbairdonline/status/2113575959026978975?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 23, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;🚨 A UK defence editor had information that UK Special Forces operating in Central America were involved in the US kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in Jan 2026

Article was never published after UK military&#39;s &#39;D-Notice&#39; censorship body told the editor to spike it https://t.co/NCj2mdcId2&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Matt Kennard (@kennardmatt) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/kennardmatt/status/2113307321434558605?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 22, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;How the US-Gulf States Alliance Backfired…

Jeffrey Sachs https://t.co/WJ8frBpY0O&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 (@hippyygoat) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/hippyygoat/status/2113680453127590041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 23, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;In this clip, CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou—who served in the agency’s core Directorate of Operations—says a member of US military&#39;s Seal Team 4 told him that he&#39;d just returned from a joint military exercise with UK and Israel 2 weeks before

 &lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;Beware of those trying to foment sectarian strife. Jordan has no history of this crap. We have to find out who’s behind this. It’s no coincidence these things happen right when a country refuses every single zionist US command.&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى (@susanabulhawa) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/susanabulhawa/status/2113686907473514518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 23, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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Kiriakou was speaking last month&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Matt Kennard (@kennardmatt) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/kennardmatt/status/2113606825991897218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 23, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;The CIA killed JFK. They used their media assets like Priscilla Johnson McMillan for early stories and McMillan as well as Thomas Powers to do book reviews of conspiracy books to keep the lid on. A high-level CIA retiree created the core exhibit at the Sixth Floor Mueum in Dallas. CIA assets online keep the truth from coagulating through distractions and diversions.

But tell me again how the Mob killed JFK. Better yet, stop being a CIA asset.&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Lisa Pease (@lisapease) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/lisapease/status/2113773431883801013?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 23, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;Alberta votes to REMAIN in Canada.  76%+

Edmonton mayor: &amp;quot;This sends a clear message.&amp;quot;

I hope this issue is now laid to rest.
No more visits to Trump from Daniel Smith. That was a sad, disappointing picture that will be a forever record in Canada&#39;s history. 
#AlbertaReferendum&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; MariaS Nunes has &amp;quot;freedom of speech BUT not reach&amp;quot; (@Dodocanspell) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/Dodocanspell/status/2112416240165912781?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 20, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;ISRAEL is behind the psyop blaming the FRENCH protests on Muslims. Zionists are on national television spreading lies about synagogues being burned but not mosques. All the large hasbara accounts are parroting this with identical posts and scripts. Stay informed. Recognise what psyops and propaganda look like.&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; ADAM (@adamemedia) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/adamemedia/status/2112373908305317940?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 20, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;The BBC still peddling the dangerous myth that states have a &amp;quot;right&amp;quot; to exist – an idea invented to bully politicians into silence on Israel&#39;s mass-murder of Palestinians.

I explain why international law – wisely – denies states a &amp;quot;right&amp;quot; to exist: https://t.co/NuoT6YLmrT&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/2112326108355936608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 19, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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        Nuremberg at 80: How do you put a death machine on trial?&lt;/span&gt;

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                    A courtroom gave the defeated Reich’s leaders a chance to defend themselves – and the world a record of crimes they could no longer conceal
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            Published 16 Oct, 2026 11:29&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On the night of October 16, 1946, 10 individuals were hanged in the Nuremberg prison. These were the main Nazi criminals who had been captured and brought to trial.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Despite the horrifying scale and brutality of the crimes, the Nuremberg Trials remain one of the most controversial proceedings in world history.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Justice instead of revenge&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;The idea of an international tribunal to address Nazi atrocities had been considered for some time. In 1942, the Soviet Union established a special Extraordinary Commission that gathered information about these crimes. Tragically, it had a lot of work to do. The USSR became the primary battleground for the bloodiest and most brutal war in Europe.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The range and nature of the crimes committed on&amp;nbsp;Soviet soil were staggering: genocide against multiple peoples, mass killings on various grounds, all sorts of war crimes, deliberate attacks on medical facilities and civilian infrastructure, arbitrary executions, economic exploitation, and sexual violence. Essentially, every town liberated from the Nazis had enough evidence to warrant its own tribunal. When the concentration camps were liberated, it became clear that Allied propaganda had not exaggerated but rather understated the extent of Nazi atrocities.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the Soviet government, the exiled governments of occupied countries – Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Norway, France, and Yugoslavia – also wanted to hold the Nazis legally accountable for their crimes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The outlines of the future tribunal began to take shape in the fall of 1943 during a conference in Moscow attended by the foreign ministers of the ‘Big Three’ – the USSR, the UK, and the US. The three powers agreed that Nazi leaders who committed crimes across multiple nations should be tried by an international court.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At that time, even the idea of lynching Nazi leaders seemed valid. Benito Mussolini was executed along with his mistress by Italian partisans on April 28, 1945, without any trial. Their mutilated bodies were publicly displayed. No one mourned Mussolini; similarly, no one would have objected if a Red Army soldier had shot Hitler.............&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/naza-palestinian-testimony-should-not-need-israeli-validation&quot;&gt;https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/naza-palestinian-testimony-should-not-need-israeli-validation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;content-top&quot;&gt;
              
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           7 October 2026&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/section&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;A film built on Israeli soldiers&#39; accounts wins acclaim, while the Palestinian doctors and journalists who documented the genocide in Gaza for three years struggle for recognition&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Would anyone be calling &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/naza-review-israel-gaza-idf-palestine&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;NAZA&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;a masterpiece if a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Palestinian&lt;/a&gt; had made it?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The filmmaker Daniele Rugo and I were asking each other that as we walked out of a screening at the Zurich Film Festival of the new documentary in which 24 anonymous Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers describe how they killed &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Palestinians&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-genocide-gaza&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Gaza&lt;/a&gt;. Daniele&#39;s own film, &lt;a href=&quot;https://pressurecookerarts.org/life-support/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Life Support&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which my organisation, Health Workers 4 Palestine, is proud to have backed as associate producers, was having its international &lt;a href=&quot;https://letterboxd.com/zurichfilmfest/story/now-future-films-that-bridge-the-present/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;premiere&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Between us, we had watched Palestinian doctors, nurses and journalists document the destruction of Gaza in real time for three years, many of them at the cost of their lives. Neither of us could remember their work being received like this.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Since its premiere in Venice, where it &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/official-awards-83rd-venice-international-film-festival&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;won&lt;/a&gt; the Special Jury Prize, &lt;i&gt;NAZA&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;has been greeted as a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/10/naza-review-israel-gaza&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;reckoning&lt;/a&gt;. Critics have called it &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/naza-film-documentary-review-2026&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;essential&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://variety.com/2026/film/news/naza-review-1236857356/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;devastating&lt;/a&gt;, the new authority on what &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/a&gt; has done in Gaza. Its directors, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, made the Oscar-winning &lt;i&gt;No Other Land&lt;/i&gt; with their Palestinian colleagues Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Their new film, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.screendaily.com/features/israeli-directors-yuval-abraham-and-rachel-szor-on-their-new-documentary-naza/5220266.article&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;produced&lt;/a&gt; by the Guardian with Jonathan Glazer as executive producer, sits its witnesses on Tel Aviv rooftops at night, faces hidden, and lets them explain, calmly and in detail, how the killing was done.....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/feeds/9039859710011706737/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/2026/10/couple-of-articles-nuremberg-at-80-naza.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3406764266825534923/posts/default/9039859710011706737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3406764266825534923/posts/default/9039859710011706737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/2026/10/couple-of-articles-nuremberg-at-80-naza.html' title='Couple of articles. Nuremberg at 80;  NAZA the genocide document'/><author><name>MariaS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05360120240108457091</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FH03VdT0y7XWhNYiX6yG6fJwggrEw6VCK8FecP6ZQq9psYkuHfjUGpGhECVVGOcthPz8Z7_f_aj5ekcLcskB0rDO1RWQ7uSsx0CaKbzzYOToHXWsMscnv3tL1pUnwvw/s120/dodo2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406764266825534923.post-6637341234091337369</id><published>2026-10-13T16:11:58.852-04:00</published><updated>2026-10-13T16:11:58.852-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Must read articles on Harvard University probe; Wars and retired US generals influencing wars; Yemen and the Houthis.</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;Please go to links to access full articles.&amp;nbsp; None are behind the paywalls of newspapers owned by billionaires.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/8/19/harvard-whistleblower-antisemitism-probe/&quot;&gt;https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/8/19/harvard-whistleblower-antisemitism-probe/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h1 class=&quot;font-serif text-3xl md:text-4xl&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large; font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;Whistleblower Says Trump Officials ‘Predetermined’ Conclusions in Harvard Antisemitism Probe&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;mx-auto flex w-full max-w-2xl items-center justify-between gap-4 px-4 text-sm&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;By &lt;a class=&quot;font-sans text-crimson&quot; href=&quot;https://www.thecrimson.com/writer/1220316/Hugo_C._Chiasson/&quot;&gt;Hugo C. Chiasson&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a class=&quot;font-sans text-crimson&quot; href=&quot;https://www.thecrimson.com/writer/1220272/Elise_A._Spenner/&quot;&gt;Elise A. Spenner&lt;/a&gt;, Crimson Staff Writers&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;relative w-fit&quot;&gt;&lt;button aria-label=&quot;Share this article&quot; class=&quot;flex w-fit cursor-pointer items-center transition-colors hover:text-crimson shrink-0&quot; type=&quot;button&quot;&gt;&lt;svg class=&quot;h-4 fill-current&quot; viewbox=&quot;0 0 576 512&quot;&gt;&lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/button&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class=&quot;mx-auto mb-2 w-full max-w-2xl px-4&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;text-sm text-gray-500&quot;&gt;&lt;time datetime=&quot;Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT&quot; title=&quot;Published August 18, 2026 at 8:00 pm&quot;&gt;August 18, 2026&lt;/time&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;font-content text-lg [&amp;amp;_h1]:text-3xl [&amp;amp;_h1]:text-dark-crimson [&amp;amp;_h2]:text-2xl [&amp;amp;_h2]:text-dark-crimson [&amp;amp;_h3]:text-lg [&amp;amp;_h3]:text-dark-crimson&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;mx-auto mb-4 max-w-2xl px-4 [&amp;amp;_a]:text-crimson [&amp;amp;_a]:hover:underline&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;A former Justice Department civil rights attorney accused Trump administration officials of predetermining the outcomes of antisemitism investigations into Harvard and other universities and pursuing sweeping penalties before investigators had established civil rights violations, according to a whistleblower account filed Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;mx-auto mb-4 max-w-2xl px-4 [&amp;amp;_a]:text-crimson [&amp;amp;_a]:hover:underline&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;The 25-page disclosure from Haley Van Erem also adds new detail about the settlement terms Trump administration officials were considering with Harvard in April 2025. More notably, the proposal would have required Harvard to invest in programs in Israel and place endowment money in trusts that the government could seize — provisions that had not previously been disclosed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;mx-auto mb-4 max-w-2xl px-4 [&amp;amp;_a]:text-crimson [&amp;amp;_a]:hover:underline&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;The proposal also called for Harvard to enter new memorandums of understanding with police, fleshing out an earlier April 3 strategy memo that contemplated requiring greater collaboration between the University and law enforcement.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;mx-auto mb-4 max-w-2xl px-4 [&amp;amp;_a]:text-crimson [&amp;amp;_a]:hover:underline&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;The disclosure underscores that the&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/15/trump-demands-analysis/&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt; April 11&lt;/a&gt; letter — a sweeping list of demands that Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 publicly shot down as a violation of the University’s academic freedom — represented a less expansive version of some of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/7/23/harvard-trump-memo/&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;the interventions &lt;/a&gt;administration officials were floating privately.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;mx-auto mb-4 max-w-2xl px-4 [&amp;amp;_a]:text-crimson [&amp;amp;_a]:hover:underline&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;The proposed settlement is one of several previously unreported details included in the disclosure, which offers a granular window into the early days of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against Harvard.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;mx-auto mb-4 max-w-2xl px-4 [&amp;amp;_a]:text-crimson [&amp;amp;_a]:hover:underline&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;The disclosure was submitted Monday by the Government Accountability Project on behalf of Van Erem, a former civil rights attorney at the Department of Justice, to the Office of Special Counsel and the Department of Justice and Department of Health and Human Service Offices of Inspector General on Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;mx-auto mb-4 max-w-2xl px-4 [&amp;amp;_a]:text-crimson [&amp;amp;_a]:hover:underline&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;The whistleblower group also shared the disclosure with the House and Senate judiciary committees, and it has since been publicized by Rep. Jamie Raskin ’83 (D-Md.).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;mb-4&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;mx-auto mb-4 max-w-2xl px-4 [&amp;amp;_a]:text-crimson [&amp;amp;_a]:hover:underline&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;A DOJ spokesperson said in a Tuesday statement that the department “stands behind the integrity of these investigations” and said Van Erem was not assigned to work on university probes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;mx-auto mb-4 max-w-2xl px-4 [&amp;amp;_a]:text-crimson [&amp;amp;_a]:hover:underline&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;But in the disclosure, Van Erem recounts an encounter with then-HHS Acting General Counsel Sean R. Keveney in which he showed her the proposed settlement terms with Harvard on a computer screen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;mx-auto mb-4 max-w-2xl px-4 [&amp;amp;_a]:text-crimson [&amp;amp;_a]:hover:underline&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Keveney told Van Erem that he believed a settlement with Harvard would be easy to achieve because the University was “over a barrel,” according to the filing. Van Erem pushed back, warning of “potential First Amendment problems” if the government was monitoring curriculum and arguing that the proposed reforms extended beyond measures directly tied to antisemitism.....................&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://responsiblestatecraft.org/jinsa-israel-iran-war/&quot;&gt;https://responsiblestatecraft.org/jinsa-israel-iran-war/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVhpOP9hshad79gFX3ErpALEwZYrCx0UzgRRsZ7QDchJiN_-OTZgf-N_9lK5ZtPLB9jrVm-JNwEaYa8lsP33Uj9aGkJ06bFpu-s7UZxSFP6v2HYEB5VCauW2cw8f-uXMosmSiIaFeOMvxbWWdobp9ScBm7C8rpV_v9Lli229vRr1K2g8bk1AkhyrRmD3k/s1600/image.png&quot; /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;social-author clearfix&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;social-author__name rm-stats-tracked&quot; data-type=&quot;text&quot; href=&quot;https://responsiblestatecraft.org/author/harrisonberger/&quot;&gt;Harrison Berger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;social-date&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;social-date__text&quot;&gt;Oct 13, 2026&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;snark-line&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;widget__shares share-panel&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;widget__shares share-panel&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;In August, the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) publicly &lt;a class=&quot;rm-stats-tracked&quot; href=&quot;https://jinsa.org/jinsa_report/jinsa-impact-on-this-years-national-defense-authorization-act/&quot; rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;took credit&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for shaping “multiple provisions” now in this year’s defense policy bill, stating that many were “impacted by prior JINSA policy recommendations,” including “proposals to strengthen U.S.-Israel defense industrial base integration” and “renew pre-existing joint U.S.-Israel programs.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Among the provisions JINSA takes credit for is the controversial &lt;a class=&quot;rm-stats-tracked&quot; href=&quot;https://www.theamericanconservative.com/understanding-section-219/&quot; rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;Section 219&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. In the House version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), this section mandates the creation of a single executive agent tasked with “synchronizing cooperative efforts” between the U.S. and &lt;a class=&quot;rm-stats-tracked&quot; href=&quot;https://responsiblestatecraft.org/tag/israel/&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/a&gt; across nine basket categories, including AI, quantum technology, biotechnology, and virtually every category of weapons. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Israeli Prime Minister &lt;a class=&quot;rm-stats-tracked&quot; href=&quot;https://responsiblestatecraft.org/tag/benjamin-netanyahu/&quot;&gt;Benjamin Netanyahu&lt;/a&gt; has argued that such provisions would transition the U.S.-Israel security relationship from aid to partnership. But pro-Israel advocates have emphasized the leverage it would provide over Washington’s military policy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mark Dubowitz, the CEO of the pro-Israel Foundation for Defense of Democracies, appeared to reference this provision in an &lt;a class=&quot;rm-stats-tracked&quot; href=&quot;https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/israel-must-prepare-for-the-possibility-of-financial-warfare/&quot; rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;article&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; arguing that the U.S. and Israel must “deepen their military, technological, intelligence and economic integration to such an extent that inflicting financial harm on Israel would also carry a significant cost for Washington.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Other initiatives JINSA has &lt;a class=&quot;rm-stats-tracked&quot; href=&quot;https://jinsa.org/jinsa_report/jinsa-impact-on-this-years-national-defense-authorization-act/&quot; rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;advocated&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for likewise read like an Israeli government wishlist. They include a pending provision to “extend the existing War Reserve Stockpile Authority for Israel,” which provides a secretive and high-speed pathway for funneling weapons to Israel, as well as Abraham Accords provisions including “Improvements to Air and Missile Defense Acquisition” and a “United States-Abraham Accords Defense Cooperation Initiative.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The policy wins JINSA is trumpeting are a result of its strong foothold within the military-industrial complex, and are perhaps one of the most overlooked aspects of the pro-Israel lobby. The group &lt;a class=&quot;rm-stats-tracked&quot; href=&quot;https://jinsa.org/about/&quot; rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;says&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; it achieves these goals “by conducting both educational programs that build ties among American, Israeli and other Middle Eastern partner military leaders, along with in-depth research and actionable recommendations to influence U.S. policy.” JINSA’s “Our People” &lt;a class=&quot;rm-stats-tracked&quot; href=&quot;https://jinsa.org/about/&quot; rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;webpage&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; includes a long roster of retired U.S. military officials.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of JINSA’s most important programs, which has existed for more than four decades, is its “Generals and Admirals Program.” The initiative involves flying recently retired U.S. military officials to Israel. Many of the trip’s participants were already sitting on defense-industry boards when they went, while others joined soon afterward. At least 55 of the 83 alumni from the 2019–2026 G&amp;amp;A program cohorts (about 66%) have held or currently hold positions in the defense industry spanning board seats, executive jobs or advisory roles at defense contractors and defense-tech firms, or posts at defense-focused investment funds, consultancies and lobbying shops.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;JINSA hopes that, when these former military officials return from Israel, they will use their credentials and defense industry power to become Israel’s advocates...................&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;widget__shares share-panel&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://vigiljournal.com/en/yemens-houthis-who-they-are-and-how-many-they-number-today-eve-bab-al-mandab-seizure&quot;&gt;https://vigiljournal.com/en/yemens-houthis-who-they-are-and-how-many-they-number-today-eve-bab-al-mandab-seizure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;widget__shares share-panel&quot;&gt;&lt;h1 class=&quot;title page-title&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Yemen&#39;s Houthis: Who They Are and How Many They Number Today, on the Eve of the Bab al-Mandab Seizure&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;Who are Yemen&#39;s Houthis, and how many of them are there today? They are a Shia insurgent movement that officially calls itself &quot;Ansar Allah.&quot; The group controls territory home to 60-65% of Yemen&#39;s population. Its armed forces number up to 350,000 fighters. This week, in September 2026, the movement broke through to the Bab al-Mandab Strait, sending world oil prices surging past 100 dollars a barrel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who the Houthis Are and Where the Name Comes From&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;The Houthis are a religious-political movement representing the Zaydi branch of Shia Islam. It is concentrated in northern Yemen, in the mountainous province of Saada, which borders Saudi Arabia. Zaydism occupies an intermediate position between Sunni and Shia Islam and has been practiced in Yemen for centuries. Notably, Zaydism was historically Yemen&#39;s state religion for nearly a thousand years. The Zaydi imamate survived until 1962, when a republican revolution overthrew the last imam. This historical memory of its own statehood noticeably fuels the political ambitions of today&#39;s movement. But in the 1990s, the Zaydi elite felt an existential threat to its own identity from the growing encroachment of Saudi Wahhabism.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;It was then that the religious figure Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi founded the &quot;Believing Youth&quot; movement — initially a purely cultural and theological project. The movement gradually became politicized, turning into opposition to then-President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The Houthis considered him corrupt and excessively pliant toward outside influence, above all Saudi influence. A curious detail: the Houthis themselves categorically reject any characterization of their uprising as a separatist project. The movement presents itself as a force fighting for the interests of all of Yemen, not just the Zaydi minority.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;The name &quot;Houthis&quot; was given to them after the movement&#39;s founder, though they themselves prefer the official name &quot;Ansar Allah&quot; — &quot;Supporters of God.&quot; In 2004, Hussein al-Houthi was killed in clashes with government forces, after which the movement was taken over by his younger brother, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, who still leads the organization today.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From Local Uprising to the Capture of the Capital&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;The Houthis&#39; armed uprising against Yemen&#39;s government began in 2004. Over the following decade, they gradually expanded their control over territories in the north of the country. The 2011 Yemeni revolution, which forced President Saleh to resign, played a notable role in strengthening the movement.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;The turning point came in September 2014, when the Houthis seized Yemen&#39;s capital, Sanaa. The formal pretext was protests against cuts to fuel subsidies, but behind it lay a far more ambitious goal — an effective seizure of power in the country. By 2014-2015, the movement had established a parallel system of governance across a significant part of the country&#39;s territory.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Saudi Coalition and Eleven Years of Unfinished War&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;The rapid rise of the Houthis seriously alarmed Saudi Arabia, for which any growth of Iranian influence right on its border looked like a direct threat to national security. Reports of growing ties between the Houthis and Iran emerged from around 2012-2013. Riyadh saw the Yemeni crisis as a regional confrontation with Tehran fought by proxy through local insurgents.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;In late March 2015, Saudi Arabia formed and led a military coalition. Formally, that operation continues to this day — more than eleven years on — making the Yemeni conflict one of the most protracted wars in the modern Middle East. Tellingly, even the term &quot;civil war&quot; does not fully capture the specifics of the conflict: at various stages it has drawn in the separatist Southern Transitional Council and local tribal militias, turning the confrontation into a multi-sided conflict with a hard-to-predict dynamic of shifting alliances......................&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;widget__shares share-panel&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;widget__shares share-panel&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;widget__shares share-panel&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/feeds/6637341234091337369/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/2026/10/must-read-articles-on-harvard.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3406764266825534923/posts/default/6637341234091337369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3406764266825534923/posts/default/6637341234091337369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/2026/10/must-read-articles-on-harvard.html' title='Must read articles on Harvard University probe; Wars and retired US generals influencing wars; Yemen and the Houthis.'/><author><name>MariaS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05360120240108457091</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FH03VdT0y7XWhNYiX6yG6fJwggrEw6VCK8FecP6ZQq9psYkuHfjUGpGhECVVGOcthPz8Z7_f_aj5ekcLcskB0rDO1RWQ7uSsx0CaKbzzYOToHXWsMscnv3tL1pUnwvw/s120/dodo2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVhpOP9hshad79gFX3ErpALEwZYrCx0UzgRRsZ7QDchJiN_-OTZgf-N_9lK5ZtPLB9jrVm-JNwEaYa8lsP33Uj9aGkJ06bFpu-s7UZxSFP6v2HYEB5VCauW2cw8f-uXMosmSiIaFeOMvxbWWdobp9ScBm7C8rpV_v9Lli229vRr1K2g8bk1AkhyrRmD3k/s72-c/image.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406764266825534923.post-7941006861239846087</id><published>2026-10-12T16:43:29.196-04:00</published><updated>2026-10-12T16:43:29.196-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Cockroach robots; October 7; death by firing squad; and  bicycles in China</title><content type='html'>

&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;To understand the truth about October 7, you have to examine the lies and deceptions Israel pumped out through US corporate media to justify its plans for genocide

Watch Atrocity Inc.&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/2107920550228292067?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 7, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;&quot;&gt;https://truthout.org/articles/us-universities-have-conducted-at-least-70-military-research-projects-for-israel/&lt;/a&gt;
US Universities Have Conducted at Least 70 Military Research Projects for Israel

A decades-long program has sponsored military research collaborations with at least 30 US universities.

By
Mila Halgren &amp; Alex Rewegan  September 3, 2026 


See an insect crawling in the corner of the room? It might be a surveillance robot, thanks to research at Carnegie Mellon University to develop cockroach-like robots with, and for, the Israeli military.

Robot cockroaches, “terror-network” mapping, and rapid missile guidance are just three examples of at least 70 research projects U.S. universities have conducted on behalf of the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMoD). Over a thousand pages of internal university and U.S./Israeli military documents reveal a sweeping, decades-long program to sponsor military research collaborations with at least 30 U.S. universities, from Cornell to the University of California at San Diego, since at least 2009.
Projects are conducted in collaboration with the Israeli military and sometimes explicitly incorporate environmental conditions in Palestine into the work. One project designed fuel cells for “distributed sensor networks” tailored to the temperature and soil conditions of an Israeli border that could monitor “potential terrorist activity” for “border security.”

Recent reports from Dropsite News, The Nation, and the Anti-War Initiative found millions of Israeli military dollars flowing into U.S. schools. Public records obtained from 13 U.S. universities reveal this money was directed via a U.S. arms export program to fund collaborations with Israeli scientists and military officials.............
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&lt;a href=&quot;&quot;&gt;https://thedissidentvoice.org/2026/10/10-reasons-for-public-executions/&lt;/a&gt;
10 Reasons for Public Executions

by David Swanson / October 10th, 2026
There was no public demand that led to the U.S. military announcing that it would publicly execute someone on livestreamed video (a list of advertisers, if any, during the broadcast has not been released — add your guesses below). No polling favored it. No fashion for being like Saudi Arabia was afloat. Outside of Supreme Court Justices, a return to the 18th century is generally not in vogue. So why do it? I can guess at a few contributing factors.

    They can probably do it. They can’t take over countries. They can’t steal Iran’s oil. They can’t make Greenland a state. They can’t end or make anyone like their wars in Palestine or Ukraine. They can’t own Cuba. They can’t make actual humans with brains believe in the Golden Dome. They can’t stop soldiers from jumping off their ships or murdering girls near bases in Asia. The only things less popular than data centers, ICE thugs, or new nuclear waste sites, are their endless pointless wars. Trump wants to build an arch for a conquering Roman emperor because he renamed a lake or something, but he can’t even do that. This they can do. They can shoot a man with a bunch of guns and watch him die. They can declare victory. They can scream USA USA Number One Number One and justify it with having actually done a thing.
    There was only a small step left. The murders of fishermen on boats are posted on social media. The genocide in Gaza is livestreamed. Mass shootings of the sort that this murder-spectacle claims to be addressing (themselves very disproportionately generated by the U.S. military) receive massive wall-to-wall media coverage beginning moments after they happen. Movies and television shows, which many often struggle to fully distinguish from reality, are saturated with murder, as well as with the glorification of revenge. Viewers have been extensively trained to cheer for good, noble, revenge murders, and to engage in them themselves in video games. In a culture (yes, they have existed) from which an individual could be traumatized by a single clip of a Hollywood movie murder, a public murder spectacle would be a catastrophe of world-shattering proportions. In a society whose largest investment is in an institution called the War Department, this step by that department is much smaller.
    In their tiny little minds they consider this a war against an enemy, and an enemy of the very worst sort — a traitor. In a war, you kill people. You don’t kill certain people in proper ways under certain peculiar circumstances..............
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;Imagine leaving your bike unlocked or your umbrella unattended without worrying about someone stealing it!
At a university in China, Medea noticed rows of unlocked bicycles and umbrellas left in public stands.

China is known for its high levels of public safety, and everyday scenes like this offer a glimpse into a side of China we rarely hear about in the U.S.

China is Not our Enemy. Follow along as we explore the China you rarely see in U.S. media!&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/medeabenjamin/status/2109667320599859562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 12, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;WIth two days to go before Brazil&#39;s election, the US last night closed its embassies and consulates, citing &amp;quot;security concerns.&amp;quot; Australia, Canada and the UK then did the same.

Lula&#39;s campaign is based on claims of a US coup, so they&#39;re using these embassy closing to somehow justify that fear, but Brazilian media says that the Federal Police are investigating plots of attacks on the US consulate and have already carried out search and seizures against two individuals.&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/2106130642152964538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 2, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;Since the early morning hours, four Palestinians from the village of Burin have been arrested for harvesting olives from their own private land.
An armed settler in uniform from the nearby settlement of Yitzhar summoned military forces to the area. The soldiers handcuffed and arrested the four farmers.
*The accusation: harvesting olives!*
After the arrest, the soldiers also removed the olive harvest that had already been collected from the plot.&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Yesh Din ييش دين יש דין (@Yesh_Din) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/Yesh_Din/status/2106359180512702950?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 3, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;Prime Minister Carney launches new National Council on Artificial Intelligence: https://t.co/6ppe2v3kOa&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Prime Minister of Canada (@CanadianPM) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/CanadianPM/status/2106089292036448430?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 2, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;Even if life imprisonment is meted out to the monsters in the USA and Israel, it won&#39;t be enough.   

“The School That Became a Grave”: Jeremy Scahill on U.S Bombing of Minab

#Minab #Trump #Hegseth #Rubio 
https://t.co/WkZ6NYt50Z via @YouTube&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; MariaS Nunes has &amp;quot;freedom of speech BUT not reach&amp;quot; (@Dodocanspell) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/Dodocanspell/status/2106198260973011261?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 3, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;Digital payment systems collapse completely when the internet goes down in France

Shoppers walk away empty-handed because plastic and phones mean nothing without a connection

The elite are pushing cashless systems

Wake up before cash is gone for good

https://t.co/GfYlmxiz1f&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Michael Snyder (@Revelation1217) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/Revelation1217/status/2106693309917745164?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 4, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;Mark Carney is doubling down on a colonial force in the West Bank with barely a peep from pro-Palestinian forces. In fact, some are supporting a security initiative that highlights the scope of Canadian Zionism and liberal/left naivety towards “aid”.

At the UN last week, the prime minister announced new funds to bolster a security force assisting Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank. As part of a hundred-million-dollar announcement, Canada added $20 million in “aid” for Palestinian security initiatives with Carney noting in an official release, “we will continue to lead in training the Palestinian Authority’s security forces through Operation PROTEUS, and we stand ready to extend that support to Gaza when conditions permit.”

The NDP and most major Palestine solidarity groups seem to have ignored a rare government mention of the two-decade old Operation PROTEUS despite Carney tying it to potentially enforcing Israeli/US rule over Gaza. “Pro-Palestinian” Liberal MP Salma Zahid went a step further explicitly endorsing the move. Zahid posted, “I welcome this increased support from Canada, including the RCMP training Palestinian police officers in the West Bank. We need to do all we can to improve safety and security in the region.”

But this “aid” has nothing to do with Palestinian safety and security. In fact, over the past two decades, Canada has spent several hundred million dollars supporting a US effort to build a Palestinian Authority Security Force to assist Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank. The PA forces, which are vetted by Israel’s internal Shin-Bet intelligence agency, act as the “subcontractor of the Occupation”. They have repeatedly disrupted demonstrations against Israel’s brutality in Gaza and turned their guns on Palestinians resisting occupation in Jenin and elsewhere. As Tamara Nassar explained: “PA forces are Israel’s foot soldiers. The body’s raison d’être is to suppress Palestinian opposition and resistance to help Israel maintain its occupation in the West Bank while promoting the illusion of Palestinian autonomy and representation. In the areas where the PA has nominal control, Palestinian forces are only allowed to arrest other Palestinians. They cannot touch Israeli soldiers or settlers who attack Palestinians.”

Around two dozen Canadian troops and a dozen RCMP officers are part of Operation Proteus, which trains PA security forces as part of a mission led by the Office of the United States Security Coordinator. Initially in charge of organizing the PA force, US General Keith Dayton told the Associated Press in 2009, “We don’t provide anything to the Palestinians unless it has been thoroughly coordinated with the State of Israel and they agree to it.”

Like all colonial authorities throughout history, Israel looks to compliant locals to take up the occupation’s security burden. What is unique about the training and support for the PA security forces is the role of third-party trainers from Canada, Britian and the US.

Canada’s role in training, equipping and assisting the PA force began in earnest after Hamas won legislative elections in 2006. To sow division within Palestinian society, Ottawa cut off aid and refused to recognize a Palestinian unity government. When Hamas officials were ousted from the Palestinian unity government in June 2007, Ottawa devoted significant resources to creating a Palestinian security force “to ensure that the PA maintains control of the West Bank against Hamas,” as then Canadian Ambassador to Israel Jon Allen was quoted as saying by the Canadian Jewish News. In 2010 deputy foreign minister Peter Kent said Operation Proteus received “most of the money” from a five-year $300 million Canadian “aid” program to the PA. Today, Operation Proteus receives $20 million per year directly and more funding indirectly.

A heavily censored 2012 note that Postmedia unearthed through an Access to Information Request confirmed the goal of Canadian security aid to the PA was to protect a corrupt Mahmoud Abbas, whose electoral mandate expired in 2009, from popular backlash. Canadian International Development Agency president Margaret Biggs explained, “The emergence of popular protests on the Palestinian street against the Palestinian Authority is worrying and the Israelis have been imploring the international donor community to continue to support the Palestinian Authority.” Biggs further explained, “The Israelis have noted the importance of Canada’s contribution to the relative stability achieved through extensive security co-operation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.”

The head of the aid agency said a sizable chunk of Canada’s “aid” to the Palestinians helped suppress protests at the behest of the colonial ruler. In last week’s announcement Carney expressed a desire to extend Canada’s role in PA security assistance to Gaza.

Last November, reported The Maple, Canadian soldiers and RCMP part of Operation PROTEUS attended an Israeli military seminar showcasing its genocidal methods in Gaza. Alongside learning from the génocidaires, Canadian soldiers were part of what the New York Times labelled “The American-Run Base Planning Gaza’s Future”. Now, the US is seeking to build a base in Gaza to serve as headquarters for up to 5,000 personnel, part of the Donald Trump led Board of Peace’s planned International Stabilization Force. Carney is preparing to assist these efforts through Operation Proteus.

Opponents of genocide and apartheid should oppose these moves and demand the end of Operation Proteus. From Haiti to the Philippines, Canadian “aid” has often been used to subjugate the already disenfranchised. Leftists should be far more skeptical of Canadian “aid”.

The assistance Carney announced last week is part of what he described as a “Zionist Palestinian state”. It’s an odious conception.&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Yves Engler (@EnglerYves) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/EnglerYves/status/2106120233278644402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 2, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;The Mossad&#39;s motto:  By way of deception, thou shalt do war.

How I know this: Former Mossad agent, Victor Ostrovsky, wrote a book about it in 1990 under the same title, By Way of Deception.

What happened then: US and Canadian lawyers filed emergency injunctions trying to prevent the book&#39;s release.  When those didn&#39;t succeed, they launched a massive denial, suppression, and disinformation campaign. (see Peter Jennings news clip)

What&#39;s happening now: Israel is desperate to suppress a documentary film called NAZA, whereby jewish supremacist mass murderers confess on tape to war crimes they committed and witnessed, and reveals Israel&#39;s systematic genocidal intent and actions.
  
Unable to suppress it, they&#39;ve created a decoy film by the same title to try to confuse interested viewers into watching a propaganda film instead of the real one.&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى (@susanabulhawa) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/susanabulhawa/status/2106664501428777244?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;October 4, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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October 4, 2026'/><author><name>MariaS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05360120240108457091</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FH03VdT0y7XWhNYiX6yG6fJwggrEw6VCK8FecP6ZQq9psYkuHfjUGpGhECVVGOcthPz8Z7_f_aj5ekcLcskB0rDO1RWQ7uSsx0CaKbzzYOToHXWsMscnv3tL1pUnwvw/s120/dodo2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406764266825534923.post-9210648085329025540</id><published>2026-09-30T12:22:10.963-04:00</published><updated>2026-09-30T12:22:10.963-04:00</updated><title type='text'>On the massacre at Minab by the US Empire that killed little school children  and +</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; class=&quot;sizing-fullscreen&quot; data-attrs=&quot;{&amp;quot;src&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f77f0cbd-b4d0-4b4c-b863-952b4b5b7410_1600x800.jpeg&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;srcNoWatermark&amp;quot;:null,&amp;quot;fullscreen&amp;quot;:false,&amp;quot;imageSize&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;full&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;height&amp;quot;:728,&amp;quot;width&amp;quot;:1456,&amp;quot;resizeWidth&amp;quot;:null,&amp;quot;bytes&amp;quot;:358042,&amp;quot;alt&amp;quot;:null,&amp;quot;title&amp;quot;:null,&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;image/jpeg&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;href&amp;quot;:null,&amp;quot;belowTheFold&amp;quot;:false,&amp;quot;topImage&amp;quot;:true,&amp;quot;internalRedirect&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;https://www.dropsitenews.com/i/217126203?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff77f0cbd-b4d0-4b4c-b863-952b4b5b7410_1600x800.jpeg&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;isProcessing&amp;quot;:false,&amp;quot;align&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;offset&amp;quot;:false}&quot; height=&quot;265&quot; src=&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_dXh!,w_5760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff77f0cbd-b4d0-4b4c-b863-952b4b5b7410_1600x800.jpeg&quot; width=&quot;648&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/minab-school-massacre-iran-war-children-families&quot;&gt;https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/minab-school-massacre-iran-war-children-families&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h1 class=&quot;post-title published title-X77sOw&quot; dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h3 class=&quot;subtitle subtitle-HEEcLo&quot; dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;The bombing of an Iranian school, killing 120 children, is one of the worst U.S. war crimes since Vietnam. Drop Site spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, and witnesses. This is their story.&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 class=&quot;subtitle subtitle-HEEcLo&quot; dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span data-state=&quot;closed&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal; min-width: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;pencraft pc-reset decoration-hover-underline-FRLyYN reset-H4iZ6u&quot; href=&quot;https://substack.com/@jeremyscahill&quot;&gt;Jeremy Scahill&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;,&lt;span data-state=&quot;closed&quot; style=&quot;min-width: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;pencraft pc-reset decoration-hover-underline-FRLyYN reset-H4iZ6u&quot; href=&quot;https://substack.com/@mazmhussain&quot;&gt;Murtaza Hussain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span data-state=&quot;closed&quot; style=&quot;min-width: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;pencraft pc-reset decoration-hover-underline-FRLyYN reset-H4iZ6u&quot; href=&quot;https://substack.com/@rezarez&quot;&gt;Reza Sayah&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 class=&quot;subtitle subtitle-HEEcLo&quot; dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span data-state=&quot;closed&quot; style=&quot;min-width: 0px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;On the morning of Saturday, February 28, people across Iran began their day like any other. It was one week into the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, and people were preparing for their work and school week. Parents hustled their children out the door for school as the notorious morning traffic jams filled the streets of Tehran and other cities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;In the southern Iranian city of Minab, preschool teacher Hossniyeh Salem was getting ready to leave the house. “Like any other day, I got my child ready at 7 o’clock—because my son is in fifth grade and attended the same school,” she recalled. “I got Yassin ready and headed to school. Yassin went to the boys’ school and I stayed at preschool, in my own class.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;It was Salem’s seventh year as a teacher at Shajareh Tayyebeh, a well-respected, private school. “The upper floor was for girls and the downstairs was for boys. One section was for preschool. You can say there were three schools there. The preschool was in the same building,” she said. “There were students there from all walks of life—children from working class families, educators. We had all kinds of students there.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Among the students at the school was 6-year-old Fatemeh Yazdanpanah from the fishing village of Gurzang, about eight miles from Minab. The village is well known for its daily fish market—a bustling, strategic hub where fishermen trade their catches from both the Minab River and the Persian Gulf. There is a girls’ school in Gurzang, but Fatemeh’s father, Yaghoub Yazdanpanah, saw gifts for poetry in his daughter and he wanted to secure for her the best education he could find..............&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h3 class=&quot;subtitle subtitle-HEEcLo&quot; dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span data-state=&quot;closed&quot; style=&quot;min-width: 0px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 class=&quot;subtitle subtitle-HEEcLo&quot; dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span data-state=&quot;closed&quot; style=&quot;min-width: 0px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Good !&amp;nbsp; Session won&#39;t be held on the warmongering Empire&#39;s soil.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h1 class=&quot;display-4 page-title page--section&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Twenty-fifth session of the Assembly of States Parties to be held in The Hague&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img alt=&quot;Presidency of the Assembly of States Parties expresses deep regret at the extension of US sanctions targeting the ICC President and a staff member&quot; class=&quot;img-fluid image-style-press-release&quot; height=&quot;252&quot; src=&quot;https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/styles/press_release/public/2026-08/20241202-asp-23-pano-08-Pano-Enhanced-NR%20%281%29.jpg?itok=vNcT3udf&quot; width=&quot;538&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/twenty-fifth-session-assembly-states-parties-be-held-hague&quot;&gt;https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/twenty-fifth-session-assembly-states-parties-be-held-hague&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;mt-4&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;The Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (the “Bureau”) decided on 28 September 2026 that the twenty-fifth session of the Assembly, originally scheduled to take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York, will be relocated to The Hague from 30 November to 7 December 2026 (inclusive), with Saturday, 5 December and Sunday, 6 December as working days.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;The decision was taken in light of concerns related to limitations on participation arising from the venue of the session. These include elected officials of the Court subject to United States sanctions, as well as visa restrictions affecting some delegations and representatives of non-governmental organizations. The decision to relocate the Assembly session was taken following consultations with all States Parties.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;The Assembly has previously recognized the importance of enhancing the security of participants in its work, including all States Parties representatives, officials of the Court as well as representatives of non-governmental organizations participating in Assembly sessions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;The President of the Assembly, Ms. Päivi Kaukoranta, emphasized that the decision to relocate the twenty-fifth session was taken in light of the specific circumstances prevailing in 2026 and does not establish a precedent for determining the venue of future sessions of the Assembly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;The Presidency further recalls that Naoero has contributed to the collective work of the Assembly of States Parties in support of the International Criminal Court as an independent and impartial judicial institution......&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;These devious Western leaders knew what was planned and did nothing to stop the genocide. 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				&lt;div class=&quot;et_pb_text_inner&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Internal Foreign Affairs documents reveal the extent of government knowledge of our closest ally’s complicity with Israel’s intentions of ethnic cleansing in Gaza.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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					&lt;p class=&quot;et_pb_title_meta_container&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt; by &lt;span class=&quot;author vcard&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;author url fn&quot; href=&quot;https://declassifiedaus.org/author/kellie-tranter/&quot; rel=&quot;author&quot; title=&quot;Posts by Kellie Tranter&quot;&gt;Kellie Tranter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; | &lt;span class=&quot;published&quot;&gt;15 Sep, 2025&lt;/span&gt; |&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://declassifiedaus.org/2025/09/15/documents-reveal-australias-knowing-silence-to-plans-for-ethnic-cleansing-of-gaza/&quot;&gt;https://declassifiedaus.org/2025/09/15/documents-reveal-australias-knowing-silence-to-plans-for-ethnic-cleansing-of-gaza/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;ustralia’s “closest ally and principal strategic partner”, the United States, is an active partner in the genocide in Gaza and yet the Australian Government has not been asked how Australia can continue to partner with the United States. Period.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Australia’s closest ally has enabled, supported and been complicit in Israel’s innumerable violations of international law. Not only Israel’s war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, racial discrimination, apartheid, but also its illegal occupation of Gaza and the West Bank and its murderous illegal forays into neighbouring countries.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Every year the US provides Israel with billions of dollars, vast quantities of military equipment, weapons and ammunition (‘at&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/USspendingIsrael&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer noopener&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;least&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;$US22.76 billion and counting’) and surveillance and intelligence information.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;It then uses its veto on the UN Security Council to block demands for united UN intervention, or even for a ceasefire in Gaza, it supports Israel in the UN and in the International Court of Justice, and it sanctions the UN Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, and the International Criminal Court members who issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on charges of war crimes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Our closest ally’s provision of diplomatic cover for and continuous flow of money and arms to Israel has permitted Israel to act with impunity for its untrammelled barbarity.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Those actions ensure that our ally is not just complicit but actively participating in egregious criminal conduct including the indiscriminate slaughter, maiming and starvation of countless women and children. Now it has even resorted to suspending visas for Palestinian passport holders, including for Palestinian officials set to attend the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York this month.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;When the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, was asked about President Trump’s plans to “take over Gaza” he said he would not be offering a “running commentary” on President Trump’s remarks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Yet documents obtained exclusively under Freedom of Information laws by&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Declassified Australia&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;reveal that a confidential “running commentary” was indeed being provided to the Prime Minister internally from within the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT)...................&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/feeds/9210648085329025540/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/2026/09/on-massacre-at-minab-by-us-empire-that.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3406764266825534923/posts/default/9210648085329025540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3406764266825534923/posts/default/9210648085329025540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/2026/09/on-massacre-at-minab-by-us-empire-that.html' title='On the massacre at Minab by the US Empire that killed little school children  and +'/><author><name>MariaS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05360120240108457091</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FH03VdT0y7XWhNYiX6yG6fJwggrEw6VCK8FecP6ZQq9psYkuHfjUGpGhECVVGOcthPz8Z7_f_aj5ekcLcskB0rDO1RWQ7uSsx0CaKbzzYOToHXWsMscnv3tL1pUnwvw/s120/dodo2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406764266825534923.post-5703793643831971697</id><published>2026-09-29T12:33:54.031-04:00</published><updated>2026-09-29T12:33:54.031-04:00</updated><title type='text'>On the shenanigans of those in the Western world hungry for WWIII. etc etc  ... </title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/09/british-authorities-mess-up-another-scare-mongering-scheme.html&quot;&gt;https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/09/british-authorities-mess-up-another-scare-mongering-scheme.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;title&quot;&gt;
                        &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;British Authorities Mess Up Another Scare Mongering Scheme                    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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                        &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Today the British authorities seemed to have run one of their usual scams to keep the population in line of the official scare mongering narratives. This was a bit unusual as the target of this operation was not Russia, but Iran...........&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Poster at the X platform summarized the shenanigans of our Western political class and the Western media with this excellent post.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; height=&quot;1591&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgbB2SSOEQ_akrXZSzExKF-Q4bpKf9PO3_VBeKuU-70owS_QrIGi4qpxrCIcTXM7DuQdBIW1QhT_3LWni7de40q-PqAdU3hH5dJXenC8hDtxOyNnRn0tSLZ0aPiXo41hFJN7qLikylPDp3dSYyCR0eXDcgfN_PKjHftcWo40lauqVx5Idz3wZ1-QPakT7c=w643-h1591&quot; width=&quot;643&quot; /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thegrayzone.com/2026/09/15/covert-pentagon-propagandists-tracking-americans/&quot;&gt;https://thegrayzone.com/2026/09/15/covert-pentagon-propagandists-tracking-americans/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;byline-part author&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;author url fn&quot; href=&quot;https://thegrayzone.com/author/wyattreed1/&quot; rel=&quot;author&quot; title=&quot;Posts by Wyatt Reed&quot;&gt;Wyatt Reed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;byline-part separator separator-date&quot;&gt;·&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;byline-part cb-date date&quot;&gt;&lt;time class=&quot;entry-date published dateCreated flipboard-date&quot; datetime=&quot;2026-09-15T19:08:29-04:00&quot;&gt;September 15, 2026&lt;/time&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h1 class=&quot;entry-title title flipboard-title&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;Covert Pentagon propagandists are tracking anti-war Americans, skirting the law&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;When a semi-anonymous social media user declared that the federal government had targeted her in a bizarre entrapment scheme, the paranoid claim snowballed into a more disturbing revelation: the Pentagon appears to be breaking the law by paying conservative influencers to track, surveil, and propagandize Americans. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Who else is involved in the covert scheme?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;In mid-August, a conservative activist using the digital moniker “Datarepublican” quietly admitted she was employed by the Pentagon as a “special government employee.” For months, she’d been pocketing a government paycheck while intensely lobbying for President Trump’s imperialist misadventures online and tracking their most vocal critics in a digital database.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;Datarepublican was identified in 2025 as Jennica Pounds, a Utah-based mother with nearly a million followers whose &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/Wallface/status/2094145371354141142?s=20&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;stated raison d’etre&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; is “fighting communists” – a moniker she applies liberally to anyone perceptibly to the left of Barry Goldwater.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;And she’s not alone. Pounds has emerged as the face of a new wave of right-wing influencers who are being covertly employed by the US Department of War to spread pro-government propaganda. On August 29th, Washington Post reporters revealed at least three more digital activists are surreptitiously working for the Pentagon, which designates them as either special government employees (SGEs) or as what the US military calls “highly qualified experts” (HQEs).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;Named in the Pentagon’s army of influencers were retired Air Force colonel Rob Maness, and retired Army colonels Kurt Schlichter and Thomas Anderson. Like Pounds, Anderson also operated in relative anonymity until recently, posting under the Twitter handle “Cynical Publius.” Schlicter, for his part, is a prolific right-wing troll who has &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reversecanarymission.org/person/kurt-schlichter&quot;&gt;frequently fantasized&lt;/a&gt; about the ethnic cleansing and extermination of Palestinians......&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h1 class=&quot;entry-title title flipboard-title&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 class=&quot;entry-title title flipboard-title&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/feeds/5703793643831971697/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/2026/09/on-shenanigans-of-those-in-western.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3406764266825534923/posts/default/5703793643831971697'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3406764266825534923/posts/default/5703793643831971697'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/2026/09/on-shenanigans-of-those-in-western.html' title='On the shenanigans of those in the Western world hungry for WWIII. etc etc  ... '/><author><name>MariaS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05360120240108457091</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FH03VdT0y7XWhNYiX6yG6fJwggrEw6VCK8FecP6ZQq9psYkuHfjUGpGhECVVGOcthPz8Z7_f_aj5ekcLcskB0rDO1RWQ7uSsx0CaKbzzYOToHXWsMscnv3tL1pUnwvw/s120/dodo2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgbB2SSOEQ_akrXZSzExKF-Q4bpKf9PO3_VBeKuU-70owS_QrIGi4qpxrCIcTXM7DuQdBIW1QhT_3LWni7de40q-PqAdU3hH5dJXenC8hDtxOyNnRn0tSLZ0aPiXo41hFJN7qLikylPDp3dSYyCR0eXDcgfN_PKjHftcWo40lauqVx5Idz3wZ1-QPakT7c=s72-w643-h1591-c" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406764266825534923.post-3740154896450543870</id><published>2026-09-28T19:08:19.898-04:00</published><updated>2026-09-28T19:08:19.898-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Two vids: Is Karma coming for David Cameron and other UK politicians responsible for facilitating the genocide in Gaza?  Some facts from Prof Jeffrey Sachs on Iran, US and Israel</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;A new documentary titled Britain&#39;s Gaza Secrets Exposed reveals new details about the U.K. government&#39;s internal response to alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Presented by journalist Ramita Navai and produced by Ben De Pear for Channel 4&#39;s investigative program Dispatches, the documentary examines government records, some newly publicized, to show how the United Kingdom ignored or concealed mounting evidence of Israel&#39;s genocidal actions in Gaza after the October 7 attacks.

&quot;We were looking at how our country, which prides itself on having an ethical foreign policy and as being one of the supporting members of the United Nations on human rights, was able to keep selling arms,&quot; says De Pear. &quot;And basically, what we found was a doctored process … It&#39;s quite extraordinary the level of duplicity that was going on in order for us to keep selling Israel arms.&quot; Ben De Pear also produced the 2025 BAFTA-winning documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, which the British Broadcasting Corporation, or BBC, initially commissioned but later refused to air. Gaza: Doctors Under Attack was broadcast instead by Channel 4.
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&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/AdK_Vx7ps9c?si=Zd77JnmHkr7daeG_&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/feeds/3740154896450543870/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/2026/09/two-vids-is-karma-coming-for-david.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3406764266825534923/posts/default/3740154896450543870'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3406764266825534923/posts/default/3740154896450543870'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/2026/09/two-vids-is-karma-coming-for-david.html' title='Two vids: Is Karma coming for David Cameron and other UK politicians responsible for facilitating the genocide in Gaza?  Some facts from Prof Jeffrey Sachs on Iran, US and Israel'/><author><name>MariaS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05360120240108457091</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FH03VdT0y7XWhNYiX6yG6fJwggrEw6VCK8FecP6ZQq9psYkuHfjUGpGhECVVGOcthPz8Z7_f_aj5ekcLcskB0rDO1RWQ7uSsx0CaKbzzYOToHXWsMscnv3tL1pUnwvw/s120/dodo2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/4dJMqMTBnt0/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406764266825534923.post-4821016715722568865</id><published>2026-09-23T23:20:54.383-04:00</published><updated>2026-09-23T23:20:54.383-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Two videos not to be missed.  Strangely,  both have focused on The-Powers-That-Be controlling our world and what we can expect the outcome to be</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe width=&quot;860&quot; height=&quot;515&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/4JPviK7wagg?si=Ieg_odZgzvNhSe4G&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;Totally inhumanely disgusting !!&lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/QAAhcY8vVW&quot;&gt;https://t.co/QAAhcY8vVW&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/2iTadSb4xm&quot;&gt;pic.twitter.com/2iTadSb4xm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; MariaS Nunes has &amp;quot;freedom of speech BUT not reach&amp;quot; (@Dodocanspell) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/Dodocanspell/status/2102133544281641057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;September 21, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src=&quot;https://platform.x.com/widgets.js&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; 

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;it&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Chiunque potrebbe uccidere chiunque volesse, quante volte volesse, e non ne risponderebbe a nessuno&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Un militare dell&amp;#39;IDF ha parlato con il quotidiano israeliano Haaretz a condizione di anonimato, ha dichiarato di essersi arruolato nell&amp;#39;esercito nel 2008 e di aver ucciso almeno…&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Gianluca Martino (@gianlucamart1) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/gianlucamart1/status/2101924360999067822?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;September 21, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src=&quot;https://platform.x.com/widgets.js&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; 
&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;Mark Levin’s stepson, David Milstein, who serves as an advisor to the U.S. ambassador to Israel, is soliciting cash gifts from Israeli citizens. On its face, this is just blatantly corrupt considering his official position, and invites a litany of counterintelligence threats.… &lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/04JjUIGT59&quot;&gt;pic.twitter.com/04JjUIGT59&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Joe Kent (@joekent16jan19) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/joekent16jan19/status/2102044763369205812?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;September 21, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src=&quot;https://platform.x.com/widgets.js&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; 
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&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/PNGW5MLaD0c?si=-ReXLhj-2MTEIbVl&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/feeds/485709903324782428/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/2026/09/two-videos-worth-watching-september-2026.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3406764266825534923/posts/default/485709903324782428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3406764266825534923/posts/default/485709903324782428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/2026/09/two-videos-worth-watching-september-2026.html' title='Two videos worth watching ... September 2026'/><author><name>MariaS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05360120240108457091</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FH03VdT0y7XWhNYiX6yG6fJwggrEw6VCK8FecP6ZQq9psYkuHfjUGpGhECVVGOcthPz8Z7_f_aj5ekcLcskB0rDO1RWQ7uSsx0CaKbzzYOToHXWsMscnv3tL1pUnwvw/s120/dodo2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/PNGW5MLaD0c/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406764266825534923.post-6624298060708877541</id><published>2026-09-17T23:16:51.287-04:00</published><updated>2026-09-17T23:16:51.287-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Two articles from Time Mag re. Canada:  One from 1974 and the other dated today.</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://time.com/archive/6845407/canada-the-new-reality-nationalism/&quot;&gt;https://time.com/archive/6845407/canada-the-new-reality-nationalism/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h1 class=&quot;font-editorial text-mobile-h2 text-black-coffee lg:text-h2&quot; id=&quot;intro-section&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;CANADA: The New Reality: Nationalism&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left&quot; data-testid=&quot;paragraph-element&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;“As of this moment, Canada will become part of the United States of America. The Government of Canada is hereby dissolved … To ensure that this transfer of power takes place smoothly and without incident, transport aircraft and helicopters of the United States Air Force carrying troops and equipment are now landing at airports in all major Canadian cities and at all Canadian Armed Forces bases…” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left&quot; data-testid=&quot;paragraph-element&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;This chilling statement, attributed to the President of the U.S. in 1980, who is retaliating against Canada’s refusal to surrender vast quantities of natural gas to the U.S., is the beginning of a 1973 Canadian bestseller entitled Ultimatum. By the time the novel ends, all is lost; the Governor General of Canada muses sadly, “We fought for our independence as long as possible, but it couldn’t last.” Even while Canadians were mulling over that fanciful prophecy, its stridently nationalistic author, Toronto Lawyer Richard Rohmer, was producing an equally flamboyant sequel, Exxoneration. This time the U.S. invades Canada but is beaten back by Canadian forces with some help from the Soviet Union. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left&quot; data-testid=&quot;paragraph-element&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Americans who fondly remember the days when both Canada and the U.S. boasted about sharing “the longest undefended border in the world” may be inclined to dismiss such extremist literary nonsense out of hand. Yet the best-selling Rohmer novels are bizarrely representative of one aspect of the current Canadian mood: a rising nationalism and its inevitable corollary, a growing anti-Americanism. The Toronto Star published a story last September alleging that the U.S. had actually massed tanks and heavy artillery at the border in preparation for an invasion during the terrorist kidnapings and crisis in Quebec in October 1970. The story was patently untrue but was taken seriously enough for the Canadian federal government to feel obliged to deny it. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left&quot; data-testid=&quot;paragraph-element&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Irritating Rhetoric. The new nationalistic spirit has been heightened by the energy crisis. Canada is the only Western industrial nation that is self-sufficient in energy, and it has not been hesitant about asserting its new-found strength, sometimes to the discomfiture of the U.S. Without the courtesy of consulting Washington, as it often did in the past on such matters, the Ottawa government last year increased the tax on its oil exports to the U.S. from 40¢ per bbl. to $5.20, thereby making Canadian oil, which accounts for 20% of all U.S. imports, the most expensive crude on the Chicago market. In a subsequent move, Canada announced a 60% price increase for the natural gas it exports to the U.S. Three weeks ago, Ottawa announced that it would sharply reduce oil exports to the U.S., from the present 900,000 bbl. per day to perhaps 650,000 by next summer. Under the new schedule, Canadian oil exports to the U.S. could end completely by 1982...................&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left&quot; data-testid=&quot;paragraph-element&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left&quot; data-testid=&quot;paragraph-element&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://time.com/article/2026/09/17/canada-european-union-membership-carney-trump-tariff-threats/&quot;&gt;https://time.com/article/2026/09/17/canada-european-union-membership-carney-trump-tariff-threats/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h1 class=&quot;font-editorial text-mobile-h2 text-black-coffee lg:text-h2&quot; id=&quot;intro-section&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Carney Says Canada and E.U. &#39;Are Not Fair Weather Allies&#39; as Trump Threatens Europe Over &#39;Hostile Act&#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;inline-flex flex-wrap items-center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;By&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;underline hover:text-brand-red focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color&quot; data-mrf-link=&quot;https://time.com/author/tiago-ventura/&quot; data-mrf-recirculation=&quot;Author&quot; href=&quot;https://time.com/author/tiago-ventura/&quot;&gt;Tiago Ventura&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;inline-flex flex-wrap items-center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;inline-flex flex-wrap items-center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;September 17, 2026&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;inline-flex flex-wrap items-center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color dropcap text-left&quot; data-testid=&quot;paragraph-element&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Canadian Prime Minister &lt;a class=&quot;rich-text-link&quot; data-mrf-link=&quot;https://time.com/article/2026/08/06/canada-carney-trump-rift-teleprompter-malfunction-conspiracy/&quot; href=&quot;https://time.com/article/2026/08/06/canada-carney-trump-rift-teleprompter-malfunction-conspiracy/&quot; target=&quot;undefined&quot;&gt;Mark Carney&lt;/a&gt; on Thursday welcomed the prospect of Canada becoming an &lt;a class=&quot;rich-text-link&quot; data-mrf-link=&quot;https://time.com/article/2026/09/14/canada-alliance-european-union-membership-debate-us-trade-war/&quot; href=&quot;https://time.com/article/2026/09/14/canada-alliance-european-union-membership-debate-us-trade-war/&quot; target=&quot;undefined&quot;&gt;“associate member”&lt;/a&gt; of the E.U., just hours after U.S. President &lt;a class=&quot;rich-text-link&quot; data-mrf-link=&quot;https://time.com/article/2026/08/24/-we-don-t-need-canada-trump-escalates-trade-war-with-threat-of-50-auto-tariffs/&quot; href=&quot;https://time.com/article/2026/08/24/-we-don-t-need-canada-trump-escalates-trade-war-with-threat-of-50-auto-tariffs/&quot; target=&quot;undefined&quot;&gt;Donald Trump&lt;/a&gt; dismissed the proposal as “laughable.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left&quot; data-testid=&quot;paragraph-element&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Addressing the European Parliament as a guest of honor in Strasbourg, France, Carney insisted “Europe and Canada are stronger together” and said “Canada and the &lt;a class=&quot;rich-text-link&quot; data-mrf-link=&quot;https://time.com/article/2026/06/15/ukraine-joining-the-european-union-membership-process-negotiations-status/&quot; href=&quot;https://time.com/article/2026/06/15/ukraine-joining-the-european-union-membership-process-negotiations-status/&quot; target=&quot;undefined&quot;&gt;European Union&lt;/a&gt; can anchor our ground to hold our values while forming a protective canopy under which our citizens can thrive.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left&quot; data-testid=&quot;paragraph-element&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left&quot; data-testid=&quot;paragraph-element&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Carney’s pivot toward Europe comes as he seeks to establish stronger international ties and curtail Canada’s reliance on the American market amid an &lt;a class=&quot;rich-text-link&quot; data-mrf-link=&quot;https://time.com/article/2026/09/09/buy-canadian-movement-consumers-us-products-boycott-trump-trade-war/&quot; href=&quot;https://time.com/article/2026/09/09/buy-canadian-movement-consumers-us-products-boycott-trump-trade-war/&quot; target=&quot;undefined&quot;&gt;all-out trade war&lt;/a&gt;. Canada’s &lt;a class=&quot;rich-text-link&quot; data-mrf-link=&quot;https://time.com/article/2026/08/25/canada-retaliates-trumps-tariffs-with-levies/&quot; href=&quot;https://time.com/article/2026/08/25/canada-retaliates-trumps-tariffs-with-levies/&quot; target=&quot;undefined&quot;&gt;retaliatory tariffs&lt;/a&gt; came into effect last week, matching the &lt;a class=&quot;rich-text-link&quot; data-mrf-link=&quot;https://time.com/article/2026/08/19/trump-delays-50-canada-tariffs-as-the-two-countries-race-to-finalize-a-deal/&quot; href=&quot;https://time.com/article/2026/08/19/trump-delays-50-canada-tariffs-as-the-two-countries-race-to-finalize-a-deal/&quot; target=&quot;undefined&quot;&gt;economic pressure&lt;/a&gt; imposed by the U.S. after &lt;a class=&quot;rich-text-link&quot; data-mrf-link=&quot;https://time.com/article/2026/08/24/-we-don-t-need-canada-trump-escalates-trade-war-with-threat-of-50-auto-tariffs/&quot; href=&quot;https://time.com/article/2026/08/24/-we-don-t-need-canada-trump-escalates-trade-war-with-threat-of-50-auto-tariffs/&quot; target=&quot;undefined&quot;&gt;negotiations collapsed&lt;/a&gt; last month. Trump’s&lt;a class=&quot;rich-text-link&quot; data-mrf-link=&quot;https://time.com/article/2026/06/02/trump-annex-canada-51st-state-rhetoric-carney-us-partnership-message/&quot; href=&quot;https://time.com/article/2026/06/02/trump-annex-canada-51st-state-rhetoric-carney-us-partnership-message/&quot; target=&quot;undefined&quot;&gt; repeated threats against Canadian sovereignty&lt;/a&gt; and calls to make it the “51st state” have added to the months-long tension.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left&quot; data-testid=&quot;paragraph-element&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;While Carney did not directly mention Trump or his Administration while addressing European lawmakers, he appeared to make nods to the current volatility of Canada-U.S. relations and condemned economic coercions. Speaking about the &quot;current geopolitical rupture,&quot; he said a &quot;new dimension was needed.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left&quot; data-testid=&quot;paragraph-element&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;“Economic integration is now being weaponized, tariffs being used to exert pressure,” he said. “Financial mechanisms have been used for coercion. Supply chains constitute weak points to be exploited.”....................&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left&quot; data-testid=&quot;paragraph-element&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left&quot; data-testid=&quot;paragraph-element&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left&quot; data-testid=&quot;paragraph-element&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left&quot; data-testid=&quot;paragraph-element&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left&quot; data-testid=&quot;paragraph-element&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;inline-flex flex-wrap items-center&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/feeds/6624298060708877541/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/2026/09/two-articles-from-time-mag-re-canada.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3406764266825534923/posts/default/6624298060708877541'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3406764266825534923/posts/default/6624298060708877541'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/2026/09/two-articles-from-time-mag-re-canada.html' title='Two articles from Time Mag re. 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Sep 12 - 16</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p dir=&quot;ltr&quot; lang=&quot;en&quot;&gt;Donald Trump, whose war on Iran is the greatest strategic blunder in United States history, is not responsible for triggering the decline of the American empire, but he is responsible for its fatal denouement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;U.S. bases in the oil-rich Persian Gulf have been… &lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/Jhl7SJxZb8&quot;&gt;pic.twitter.com/Jhl7SJxZb8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Chris Hedges (@ChrisLynnHedges) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/ChrisLynnHedges/status/2098931300690509871?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;September 13, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async=&quot;&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot; src=&quot;https://platform.x.com/widgets.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; 
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p dir=&quot;ltr&quot; lang=&quot;en&quot;&gt;Never forget.&lt;br /&gt;Before Gaza there was Iraq. &lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/0WiJIFtO68&quot;&gt;https://t.co/0WiJIFtO68&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/FranceskAlbs/status/2098916873223999757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;September 12, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async=&quot;&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot; src=&quot;https://platform.x.com/widgets.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; 
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p dir=&quot;ltr&quot; lang=&quot;en&quot;&gt;US universities conducted at least 70 research projects in collaboration with the Israeli military &amp;amp; sometimes explicitly incorporate environmental conditions in Palestine into the work. These projects are procured as “defense articles &amp;amp; services,” paid for w/US taxpayer dollars. &lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/eot5my9xUn&quot;&gt;pic.twitter.com/eot5my9xUn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— AIPAC Tracker (@TrackAIPAC) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/TrackAIPAC/status/2098925385345859845?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;September 13, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;script async=&quot;&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot; src=&quot;https://platform.x.com/widgets.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; 
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;Zelensky imposed sanctions on his former spokesperson, Iuliia Mendel, a vocal critic of his government and of the Ukraine proxy war. Today the European Parliament barred Iuliia from a planned speaking event: &lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/i33YzXS8sW&quot;&gt;https://t.co/i33YzXS8sW&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/aaronjmate/status/2100212496829186054?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;September 16, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src=&quot;https://platform.x.com/widgets.js&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;I normally don&amp;#39;t do opinion pieces, but I just wrote one about AI-powered “detectors” of AI-authored content and important issues with them that I think need to be urgently discussed, especially within independent media. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;While these &amp;quot;detectors&amp;quot; have recently been promoted as a…&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Whitney Webb (@_whitneywebb) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/_whitneywebb/status/2098038603318169932?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;September 10, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src=&quot;https://platform.x.com/widgets.js&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; 
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;Bab al-Mandab falls to Ansarallah as Yemen’s war turns on Riyadh&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Riyadh’s fragmented proxy forces have lost Yemen’s western coast, leaving one of the world’s most coveted waterways in the hands of the movement. &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/mawaddaisk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;@mawaddaisk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;READ &lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/YFQ3eCjVsE&quot;&gt;https://t.co/YFQ3eCjVsE&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/G0XtDIPQ12&quot;&gt;pic.twitter.com/G0XtDIPQ12&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; The Cradle (@TheCradleMedia) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/2099955193127354723?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;September 15, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src=&quot;https://platform.x.com/widgets.js&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; 
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&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;The German Chancellor speaks of Iran’s “war,” its “military nuclear program,” and Iran’s “proxies.”&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This narrative is knowingly distorted. It was &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/hashtag/USrael?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;#USrael&lt;/a&gt; - not Iran - that launched a war of aggression, and Germany failed to show even the minimum moral courage required to deplore… &lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/QghYhGUZ1G&quot;&gt;pic.twitter.com/QghYhGUZ1G&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Esmaeil Baqaei (@IRIMFA_SPOX) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/IRIMFA_SPOX/status/2100217657668649342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;September 16, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src=&quot;https://platform.x.com/widgets.js&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; 
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        &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Israel used AI to kill thousands of Palestinians in Gaza – documentary&lt;/span&gt;

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                    &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Israeli insiders have described the targeting and profiling of Palestinians as “a video game” and “insanely fun”
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            Published 12 Sep, 2026&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;A new documentary alleging that Israel relied on powerful AI tools to kill thousands in Gaza has sent shockwaves through the Venice Film Festival, with one of the film’s insiders describing planning airstrikes as &lt;i&gt;“insanely fun.”&lt;/i&gt; The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has categorically rejected the film’s portrayal, insisting that the whistleblowers cannot be verified.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;The 80-minute-long film NAZA, which premiered on Thursday, is built around testimony from 24 anonymized Israeli military and intelligence insiders. Its title alludes to an Israeli military shorthand for expected &lt;i&gt;“collateral casualties”&lt;/i&gt; in an attack.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;The film, which was made by two Israeli Oscar-winning filmmakers, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, received a roughly 25-minute standing ovation – the longest on record at the event. The footage also showed a full audience, with some viewers holding Palestinian flags.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;In the film, Israeli insiders claim that the IDF used an AI system known as ‘Lavender’ to identify people for assassination. The filmmakers’ sources also alleged that the tool operated based on thousands of hacked phones, with even a single phrase, &lt;i&gt;“daddy’s home,”&lt;/i&gt; picked up on a child’s phone being enough to launch an attack.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Other sources told the tale of brazen disregard for humanitarian laws, and a &lt;i&gt;“general atmosphere”&lt;/i&gt; of &lt;i&gt;“hatred”&lt;/i&gt; towards Palestinians. &lt;br /&gt;In one of the most chilling revelations, an insider claimed that at one point a strike on a single Hamas member was approved despite an expected toll of 500 civilians. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;“It was done on a mass scale, like a factory”&lt;/i&gt;, one source said, with others describing the profiling and targeting as &lt;i&gt;“a video game”&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;“insanely fun.”&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;.................................&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;8888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scheerpost.com/2026/09/09/its-hard-to-know-things-and-not-sound-like-a-depressed-bore/&quot;&gt;https://scheerpost.com/2026/09/09/its-hard-to-know-things-and-not-sound-like-a-depressed-bore/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h1 class=&quot;title&quot; title=&quot;Permalink to: It’s Hard To Know Things And Not Sound Like A Depressed Bore&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;It’s Hard To Know Things And Not Sound Like A Depressed Bore                &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;

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                     September 9, 2026&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;media-body&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mg-blog-date&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;media-body&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mg-blog-date&quot; style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://substack.com/@donotpanic&quot;&gt;Nate Bear&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;media-body&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;I rarely leave it this long between writing, but I’ve been somewhat overwhelmed by the sheer volume of fuckery we face.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;That fuckery should, I know, be grist to my mill, but rather than motivating me, it has left me feeling angry, dispirited, and, perversely, lacking motivation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;I’m well aware of the dangers of what some refer to as “doomscrolling” and I usually manage to find the balance between ingesting the doom, processing it, and then trying to make sense of it in my writing. But over the last two weeks, for whatever reason, that ability has broken down. I’m working on a couple of longer-form research pieces, and they will be published soon, but I thought I’d get back on the horse and over the mental block by, well, doing this. By writing what I’ve been thinking without worrying too much about form or cohesiveness.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;And what I’ve been mainly thinking is that the burden is both in the knowing, and the caring. Doomscrolling is a misnomer, a term used to rhetorically delegitimise those who keep up with the torrent of horrible news and the numerous, accelerating and overlapping crises we’re presented with. And not to sound snobbish, but the reality is that the majority of people who get their news from mainstream sources are shielded from knowing the worst of it. They are shielded from doom, because too much knowledge imperils the system. And if you don’t know, how can you care? But if you do know? Well, therein lies the danger.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;As an example, three weeks ago BBC News in the UK did a piece on Israel opening a probe into the murder of Hind Rajab, the five year-old from Gaza riddled with bullets while on the phone to the Red Cross, having survived an attack on the car that killed her family. My good friend, an educated, intelligent, empathetic person, was watching the news and had never heard the story before. She was, naturally, outraged and upset. If the story of Hind was news to her more than two-and-a-half years later, you can imagine what else she doesn’t know about the genocide, about Israel, Palestine, Zionism and on and on. Essentially all the things that, if you subscribe to this newsletter, you do know, and have the burden of knowing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;My friend watches BBC news religiously, before work, and when she gets home from work. Because she, like many others, believes this is a good way to stay informed about the world. But how do we tell people that what the BBC and other mainstream news outlets report is carefully curated to support imperial narratives, without sounding like a conspiratorial loon? How do we tell people that mainstream news is full of deliberate omissions, avoidance of context, and occasionally, outright lies designed, especially when it comes to empire, to protect western interests. How to tell my friend that the only reason the BBC is reporting about Hind now is because they can use her murder to present Israel not as an outlaw state, but as a place where legal, judicial and political processes are working? How to tell her that a story about Israeli troops murdering a child is designed not to harm Israel’s reputation, but help rescue it? How to tell her that Israel is a key node in the rise of a far-right international enamoured with eugenics and working towards a pre-crime, technological surveillance-security state?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;But all this, I suspect, would be easier than talking about Russia and Ukraine................&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;media-body&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;media-body&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;media-body&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;date&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/feeds/4803339989876747250/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/2026/09/on-monsters-and-their-victims.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3406764266825534923/posts/default/4803339989876747250'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3406764266825534923/posts/default/4803339989876747250'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/2026/09/on-monsters-and-their-victims.html' title='On monsters and their victims'/><author><name>MariaS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05360120240108457091</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FH03VdT0y7XWhNYiX6yG6fJwggrEw6VCK8FecP6ZQq9psYkuHfjUGpGhECVVGOcthPz8Z7_f_aj5ekcLcskB0rDO1RWQ7uSsx0CaKbzzYOToHXWsMscnv3tL1pUnwvw/s120/dodo2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406764266825534923.post-5319208142264846418</id><published>2026-09-12T00:02:23.140-04:00</published><updated>2026-09-12T00:02:23.140-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Some tweets from the X platform </title><content type='html'>I am predicting that Canada&#39;s PM Mark Carney entering into a 100 year partnership with the failed nation of Ukraine will be the topmost worst move taken by him.
It will take less than 5 years for Canadians to realize how devastating a burden both financially, militarily, and security-wise this extremely foolhardy and reckless behaviour of this prime minister has put us in.
&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;Live from Calgary: Prime Minister Carney participates in a signing ceremony and holds a joint media availability with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Tune in: &lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/yNm3DLt4S3&quot;&gt;https://t.co/yNm3DLt4S3&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/NMhk0GQEO6&quot;&gt;pic.twitter.com/NMhk0GQEO6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Prime Minister of Canada (@CanadianPM) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/CanadianPM/status/2098100741722276057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;September 10, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src=&quot;https://platform.x.com/widgets.js&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 


&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;Breaking: Zionists legal proceedings against me have been withdrawn after a 2 year battle.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is a win for every Australian who values our democratic right to freedom of political expression. Zionist zealotry has had to beat a retreat from what was going to be a highly…&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; 💧Mary Kostakidis (@MaryKostakidis) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/MaryKostakidis/status/2098198663189446710?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;September 10, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src=&quot;https://platform.x.com/widgets.js&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; 
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Dan Dicks has done a public service documenting the Alison Enquiry looking into the Covid-19 vaccine injured Canadians.
Please go to his twitter profile to see the other segments.

&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;This is Michael Oesch, he was extremely healthy, he famously walked across Canada long before receiving the Covid vaccine…36 hours after he got the shot (his 4th one so that he could care for his parents and visit them) everything changed, his leg dragged and by the end of the… &lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/z7wNLaQ6Ss&quot;&gt;pic.twitter.com/z7wNLaQ6Ss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Dan Dicks (@DanDicksPFT) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/DanDicksPFT/status/2097701281200492635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;September 9, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src=&quot;https://platform.x.com/widgets.js&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;New on MoA:&lt;br&gt;War On Iran: Ansar Allah Goes On The Offensive&lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/W1xw3ohQL2&quot;&gt;https://t.co/W1xw3ohQL2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/WzwVdcSoPT&quot;&gt;pic.twitter.com/WzwVdcSoPT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Moon of Alabama (@MoonofA) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/MoonofA/status/2098439843843895614?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;September 11, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src=&quot;https://platform.x.com/widgets.js&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

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First Amendment freedoms &quot;were tested right away in the days and weeks after 9/11,&quot; says Jameel Jaffer, legal expert and director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. &quot;All of the surveillance authorities that were put in place after 9/11,&quot; says Jaffer, &quot;their use was initially justified by reference to foreign threats. And now, increasingly, we&#39;re seeing the Trump administration use these things to suppress domestic dissent.&quot;

&quot;If you go back to that climate after 9/11 …  newsrooms institute[d] shifts, so they started making beats for covering national security,&quot; says Azmat Khan of the Columbia Journalism School, who won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing the massive civilian death toll from U.S.-led airstrikes in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. &quot;Legacy news media in that time period was incredibly dependent on anonymous sources, sometimes unvetted intelligence, leaks to journalists that oftentimes came from an administration that was trying to lead the public to war.&quot; 

&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/8Q22J4ysUvc?si=m2ShTCfz-KGNp4mK&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;**********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************From the video description: As the 25th anniversary of the false flag events approach, 9/11 truth proponents prepare to gather in New York (and online) for Turning the Tide: 9/11 25 Years Later, a four-day conference amplifying the growing movement for 9/11 truth and accountability. Joining us to discuss that conference, as well as a new documentary feature that will be screened at the event and a forthcoming outline for a new 1,000-page 9/11 Truth and Accountability Report, is Ted Walter, Executive Director of the International Center for 9/11 Justice.
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A former FBI agent who was embedded in the CIA’s Bin Laden unit, Mark Rossini, claims the CIA was fully aware that the 9/11 hijackers were in the United States planning an attack. Rather than inform the FBI, the CIA tried to recruit two of the hijackers for a “false-flag” operation, which quickly spiraled out of control. The failed mission raises urgent questions about government secrecy, intelligence failures, and what really happened before 9/11.
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You will find the rest of the 9/11 episodes from Tucker Carlson here: 
&lt;a href=&quot;&quot;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tucker+carlson+9%2F11+episode+2&lt;/a&gt;
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You will find many videos from James Corbett on 9/11 here:
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</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/feeds/8560119960764720739/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/2026/09/25-years-later-but-to-many-of-us-it.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3406764266825534923/posts/default/8560119960764720739'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3406764266825534923/posts/default/8560119960764720739'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/2026/09/25-years-later-but-to-many-of-us-it.html' title='25 years later ... but to many of us it seems like yesterday.  9/11'/><author><name>MariaS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05360120240108457091</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FH03VdT0y7XWhNYiX6yG6fJwggrEw6VCK8FecP6ZQq9psYkuHfjUGpGhECVVGOcthPz8Z7_f_aj5ekcLcskB0rDO1RWQ7uSsx0CaKbzzYOToHXWsMscnv3tL1pUnwvw/s120/dodo2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/8Q22J4ysUvc/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406764266825534923.post-3032052035417920098</id><published>2026-09-08T10:53:32.405-04:00</published><updated>2026-09-08T10:53:32.406-04:00</updated><title type='text'>If you want to know what&#39;s being planned by those who think they can control us</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/04/investigative-series/praxian-kill-chain-part-1/&quot;&gt;https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/04/investigative-series/praxian-kill-chain-part-1/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h1 class=&quot;cs-entry__title&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain – Part 1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;				&lt;div class=&quot;cs-entry__subtitle&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;
					In this two-part article series, Iain Davis examines how a class of Silicon Valley oligarchs have set about destabilising the planet in order to achieve their goal of a multipolar world of interconnected smart-city states; that is, a regionalised world that they and their oligarch partners will rule as neofeudal monarchs. In Part 1, Davis focuses on the deceit this oligarch network is using to drag us all to ruin and how it is controlling the Trump administration, whilst Part 2 will focus on their neocolonial ambitions in the Middle East.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-entry__subtitle&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
				&lt;div class=&quot;cs-entry__post-meta&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-author&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;cs-meta-author-inner url fn n&quot; data-wpel-link=&quot;internal&quot; href=&quot;https://unlimitedhangout.com/author/iain-davis/&quot; title=&quot;View all posts by Iain Davis&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;cs-by&quot;&gt;by&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;cs-author&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;Iain Davis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-date&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;April 9, 2026&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-reading-time&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;cs-meta-icon&quot;&gt;&lt;i class=&quot;cs-icon cs-icon-clock&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-reading-time&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;cs-meta-icon&quot;&gt;&lt;i class=&quot;cs-icon cs-icon-clock&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-reading-time&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;cs-meta-icon&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-reading-time&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/05/investigative-series/the-praxian-genocidal-kill-chain-part-2/&quot;&gt;https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/05/investigative-series/the-praxian-genocidal-kill-chain-part-2/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1 class=&quot;cs-entry__title&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain — Part 2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;				&lt;div class=&quot;cs-entry__subtitle&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;
					In Part 1, we dissected how the “Praxians”—the Silicon Valley-rooted wing of the global oligarchy—have seized control of the second Trump administration. We considered how their technological partnership with the Israeli government has enabled them to deploy their “digital kill chain” in Gaza. Here, in Part 2 of what is now a three-part series, we will focus on how these Praxians employ State Crimes Against Democracy (SCADs) and show how they benefit from practically every SCAD move. As we pick apart propaganda narratives, we’ll come to terms with the hybrid war we’re all now fighting, whether we know it or not.
				&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-author&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;cs-meta-author-inner url fn n&quot; data-wpel-link=&quot;internal&quot; href=&quot;https://unlimitedhangout.com/author/iain-davis/&quot; title=&quot;View all posts by Iain Davis&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;cs-by&quot;&gt;by&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;cs-author&quot;&gt;Iain Davis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-date&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;May 25, 2026&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-date&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-date&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-date&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-date&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-date&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/07/serie-investigativa/the-praxian-genocidal-kill-chain-part-3&quot;&gt;https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/07/serie-investigativa/the-praxian-genocidal-kill-chain-part-3&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-date&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-date&quot;&gt;&lt;h1 class=&quot;cs-entry__title&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain — Part 3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;				&lt;div class=&quot;cs-entry__subtitle&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;
					In Part 1, Iain Davis defined the Praxians, considered their openly stated control of the Trump administration, and examined their extensive partnerships with the Israeli defence technology sector. In Part 2, Davis considered global events through the lens of State Crimes Against Democracy (SCADs) and noted how civil-military fusion and hybrid war, combined with SCADs, are socially engineering a proposed new global “equilibrium.” Here in Part 3, he delves into how global forces have aligned behind the Praxian vision of a Network Empire in the march toward a UN 2.0 Multipolar World Order.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-entry__subtitle&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-entry__subtitle&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-entry__subtitle&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-author&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;cs-meta-author-inner url fn n&quot; data-wpel-link=&quot;internal&quot; href=&quot;https://unlimitedhangout.com/author/iain-davis/&quot; title=&quot;View all posts by Iain Davis&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;cs-by&quot;&gt;by&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;cs-author&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;Iain Davis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-date&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;July 15, 2026&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-date&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-date&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-date&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-date&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;byIain Davis September 3, 2026&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/09/serie-investigativa/the-praxian-genocidal-kill-chain-part-4/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-date&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-date&quot;&gt;&lt;h1 class=&quot;cs-entry__title&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain – Part 4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;				&lt;div class=&quot;cs-entry__subtitle&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;
					In Part 1, we defined the Praxians, considered their openly stated control of the Trump administration, and examined their extensive partnerships with the Israeli defence technology sector. In Part 2, we looked at State Crimes Against Democracy (SCADs) and Military-Civil Fusion within hybrid war. In Part 3, we examined how global forces have aligned behind the Praxian vision of a Network Empire as we move towards a UN 2.0 multipolar world. Now, in the concluding Part 4, we will see how all of this is coalescing in events playing out in the Middle East, how it is shaping global governance, and how, in microcosm, it is being applied to New Gaza.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-entry__subtitle&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-entry__subtitle&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-author&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;cs-meta-author-inner url fn n&quot; data-wpel-link=&quot;internal&quot; href=&quot;https://unlimitedhangout.com/author/iain-davis/&quot; title=&quot;View all posts by Iain Davis&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;cs-by&quot;&gt;by&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;cs-author&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;Iain Davis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-date&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;September 3, 2026&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-date&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-entry__subtitle&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-entry__subtitle&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-entry__subtitle&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-entry__subtitle&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-entry__subtitle&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;cs-meta-date&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/feeds/3032052035417920098/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/2026/09/if-you-want-to-know-whats-being-planned.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3406764266825534923/posts/default/3032052035417920098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3406764266825534923/posts/default/3032052035417920098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/2026/09/if-you-want-to-know-whats-being-planned.html' title='If you want to know what&#39;s being planned by those who think they can control us'/><author><name>MariaS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05360120240108457091</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FH03VdT0y7XWhNYiX6yG6fJwggrEw6VCK8FecP6ZQq9psYkuHfjUGpGhECVVGOcthPz8Z7_f_aj5ekcLcskB0rDO1RWQ7uSsx0CaKbzzYOToHXWsMscnv3tL1pUnwvw/s120/dodo2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406764266825534923.post-7860782165087496176</id><published>2026-09-07T21:46:12.577-04:00</published><updated>2026-09-07T21:46:12.577-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Couple of videos:  Missing Trillions;  Ukraine &amp; Israel.</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;760&quot; height=&quot;515&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/hvbrdZo_gKw?si=_I1n0by_CXi1280X&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;
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The left should be more radical in fighting back.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;po-bo__paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;n July 2016, the veteran Conservative politician Alan Duncan was slated for a promotion at the Foreign Office. ‘All seems clear and agreed that I will be Minister for the Middle East, as expected’, he wrote in his diary. ‘Permanent Under-Secretary Simon McDonald called to say it’s all been agreed and he would recommend it to the Foreign Secretary.’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;po-bo__paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Later that day the plan was suddenly upended. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told Duncan that word had got out about the move and that ‘Conservative Friends of Israel are going ballistic’. Johnson reported that senior figures in CFI, Eric Pickles and Stuart Polak, had ‘both called him incessantly’ to demand the appointment be rescinded. Duncan’s crime? His vocal support for a two-state solution: the official position of the UK government.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;po-bo__paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Soon after, Prime Minister Theresa May told Johnson that Duncan had been vetoed; he instead took up the role of Minister for Europe and the Americas, for which he was considerably less qualified. ‘The Israelis think they control the Foreign Office’, he later remarked to McDonald. ‘And they do!’&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;po-bo__paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;At first sight, this looks like a classic case of the people versus the elite. A foreign state is able to control who gets a job in the British state, rendering the democratic will entirely irrelevant. While only 12 percent of Britons now say they sympathise with Israel, the material effect on government policy is negligible. Labour cannot bring itself to enforce even the most minor, symbolic suspension of weapons licenses. Lethal fighter jet components continue to flow freely while British spy planes have been dispatched to assist Israeli intelligence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;po-bo__paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Most analyses of the Israel lobby (meaning the loose, informal grouping of organisations whose activities advance Israeli interests) tend to stop here, assuming that its function is simply to insulate decision-making from the masses. But this is only half the story. In fact, the lobby’s response to Israel’s growing unpopularity is not just to co-opt political elites and protect them from popular pressure, but to pursue a ‘populist’ strategy of their own&amp;nbsp;— one that has proven highly effective. By presenting pro-Palestine sentiment as the mark of untrustworthy outsiders to the British nation, allies of Israel have tried to divide, disorientate and defang large parts of the solidarity movement. In so doing, they have become part of a disturbing new political alignment, finding common ground with the rising right-wing populism represented by Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson.............&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;po-bo__paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;************************************************************************************&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://americansfortransparency.org&quot;&gt;https://americansfortransparency.org&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;In September 2025, three companies quietly filed sworn documents with 
the U.S. Department of Justice disclosing a coordinated influence 
operation funded by a foreign government and targeting American 
citizens. The filings reveal &lt;b class=&quot;text-white&quot;&gt;$14.1 million in contracts&lt;/b&gt;
 designed to geofence churches during Sunday worship, manipulate AI 
chatbot answers about the Bible, pay Christian influencers to spread 
undisclosed foreign-funded content, and integrate foreign agent 
operations directly into a major American broadcast network.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;These are not allegations. They are &lt;b class=&quot;text-white&quot;&gt;sworn public filings&lt;/b&gt;
 with the DOJ&#39;s Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) unit. Every 
dollar amount, every company name, and every operational detail cited in
 our investigations comes directly from documents the registrants 
themselves submitted under penalty of perjury. Anyone can verify them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;AFNPT
 exists to make sure Americans see what was filed in their name, 
understand what it means, and decide for themselves what should be done 
about it. Below are our two most urgent active investigations...........&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/feeds/6145770631860893437/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/2026/09/what-is-influence-and-how-can-one-mold.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3406764266825534923/posts/default/6145770631860893437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3406764266825534923/posts/default/6145770631860893437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/2026/09/what-is-influence-and-how-can-one-mold.html' title='What is &quot;Influence&quot; and how can one mold it into a powerful tool ?'/><author><name>MariaS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05360120240108457091</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FH03VdT0y7XWhNYiX6yG6fJwggrEw6VCK8FecP6ZQq9psYkuHfjUGpGhECVVGOcthPz8Z7_f_aj5ekcLcskB0rDO1RWQ7uSsx0CaKbzzYOToHXWsMscnv3tL1pUnwvw/s120/dodo2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406764266825534923.post-8507521234980992513</id><published>2026-09-03T10:25:28.239-04:00</published><updated>2026-09-03T10:25:28.239-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Some tweets from controlled &quot;social media&quot; platform known as &quot;X&quot; </title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&amp;#39;MAGA&amp;#39;s man in Latin America&amp;#39; arrested for murder-for-hire plot&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Lurking behind Trump aligned leaders such as Javier Milei, Daniel Noboa, Jair Bolsonaro, and Nayib Bukele are lesser known but highly influential operatives who dictate the course of events in their countries.… &lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/6yPuJtRC6d&quot;&gt;pic.twitter.com/6yPuJtRC6d&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; The Grayzone (@TheGrayzoneNews) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/TheGrayzoneNews/status/2090921696823832776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;August 21, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src=&quot;https://platform.x.com/widgets.js&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; 
*******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;Yeah, so you were a life-long politician and were the Governor of New York for 11 years. But what are you doing now? Ah, OK. &lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/PylptNdtu4&quot;&gt;https://t.co/PylptNdtu4&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/VGfXMmhInH&quot;&gt;pic.twitter.com/VGfXMmhInH&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/2093714752677523574?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;August 29, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src=&quot;https://platform.x.com/widgets.js&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; *********************************************************************************************
&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;If you want to know what X&amp;#39;s shadow-banning looks like, here&amp;#39;s a bar chart showing how the reach of my articles on the platform plummeted over six months.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Nowadays, I wonder why I even bother publishing articles on X. &lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/4CQl9l6Siq&quot;&gt;pic.twitter.com/4CQl9l6Siq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/2093461213241860592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;August 28, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src=&quot;https://platform.x.com/widgets.js&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; ***************************************************************************************************&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;Israeli officials casually discuss ethnic cleansing, speaking of Palestinians as a “surplus population” to be removed—as though the only question is where to send them.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is blatant racism. And the world is not merely watching; it is actively facilitating it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;According to…&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Munther Isaac منذر اسحق (@MuntherIsaac) &lt;a href=&quot;https://x.com/MuntherIsaac/status/2095467222118314461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;September 3, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src=&quot;https://platform.x.com/widgets.js&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; 
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Published August 25, 2026 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;A judge dismissed a lawsuit from a civilian engineer in the Military 
Sealift Command after it was determined that her report of being raped 
in her own bed aboard a Navy transport ship was within her duties and 
must be treated as a worker’s comp claim.

The order handed down this month closed a multiyear attempt by Elsie 
Dominguez to get justice for an assault she said threw her personal and 
professional lives into shambles. She eventually took an unpaid year 
away from work to recover, as her perpetrator continued to receive pay 
while being investigated, she said.  

“I’ve lost a lot of sleep, I’ve lost a lot of friends who didn’t agree 
with what I was doing in coming forward,” said Dominguez, 35. “I learned
 that I had to set a precedent legally so that this could be used in the
 future.”

She spoke from her current assignment in Croatia about the entire 
experience, which began in December 2021 while she worked as the first 
assistant engineer aboard the USNS Carson City, an expeditionary fast 
transport vessel. Dominguez said the ship’s captain used a master key 
code to access her private room overnight and rape her in her bed.

She sued the federal government in 2023 over the Navy’s failure to care 
for and protect her when she reported the attack.............&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scheerpost.com/2026/08/28/thank-trump-for-this-he-has-exposed-the-leaking-guts-of-the-war-machine/&quot;&gt;https://scheerpost.com/2026/08/28/thank-trump-for-this-he-has-exposed-the-leaking-guts-of-the-war-machine/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h1 class=&quot;title&quot; title=&quot;Permalink to: Thank Trump for This: He Has Exposed the Leaking Guts of the War Machine&quot;&gt;
                  Thank Trump for This: He Has Exposed the Leaking Guts of the War Machine                &lt;/h1&gt;

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                                                            &lt;span class=&quot;mg-blog-date&quot;&gt; 
                     &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;August 28, 2026&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;media-body&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mg-blog-date&quot;&gt;By&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-exposes-war-machine&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Phil Wilson Common Dreams&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;media-body&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;media-body&quot;&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Forget about Ancient Sparta, Attila the Hun, Hernán Cortés, Julius Ceasar, Alexander the Great,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.commondreams.org/tag/adolf-hitler&quot;&gt;Adolf Hitler&lt;/a&gt;,
 and all of the conquerors that terrified the world with colonial 
aspirations and a psychopathic lust for blood. None of these ever 
imagined a $1.5 trillion military&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.commondreams.org/tag/budget&quot;&gt;budget&lt;/a&gt;. President&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.commondreams.org/tag/donald-trump&quot;&gt;Donald Trump&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;requested that grotesque figure, but don’t give him the kudos—our “&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_gras&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;fois gras&lt;/a&gt;” military machine is a US tradition that predates us all.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;The US war machine has scaled Orwellian 
heights to achieve a virtual blank check to spend on death. For we, 
stateside, have built a culture entirely at the service of warfare, with
 myths, stories, and platitudes hardwired into the brains of 349 million
 people extolling war, not as a necessity, but as ritual, as cleansing, 
as meditation, and as redemption. We are bombing schools and hospitals 
to secure the rapture, for the war industry in the apocalyptic end times
 has been tasked with the creation of biblical events.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.huffpost.com/entry/troops-being-told-to-prepare-for-armageddon-in-iran_n_69a6ffe3e4b076ac5d63c82c&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;A recent Huffpost piece by Brandi Buchman&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;quotes US soldiers’ allegations of lunatic fringe Evangelical propaganda from haranguing superiors: ............&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;wp-block-paragraph&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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