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when Israel may be sponsoring anti-semitism....
Mysterious pay-for-play antisemitism attacks now targeting Canada. Who benefits? MICHELLE WITTE — JUNE 22, 2026
Canada is the latest in a string of nations to attribute a wave of high-profile but mostly low-consequence attacks to a mysterious online “gun-for-hire” plot. If Canada follows the pattern set in Australia, Europe and the UK, the “foreign entity” its government is already blaming for orchestrating the petty violence will be identified as Iran.
corporate left vs socialist left...
Everyone’s talking about how progressive Democrat Graham Platner has been forced to drop out of his Senate race following allegations of sexual assault. Personally I never paid attention to Platner’s campaign, because I long ago stopped taking Democrats seriously.
It’s Been Ten Years. It’s Time To Admit Bernie Sanders Was Wrong. The experiment has been run, and the results are in. You can’t conduct a socialist revolution using a party whose primary function is to suppress socialist revolution. This has been conclusively established. BY Caitlin Johnstone
he will be missed by the neocons, the warriors and the imperialists......
US politician Lindsey Graham, 71, dies from 'brief and sudden illness'
dancing with the witches.....
Modern society can measure inequality, power and behaviour in extraordinary detail, but struggles to explain despair, loneliness, hope and the human need for meaning. We live in a culture that has lost its spirit. We know how to measure behaviour, track trends, and analyse systems, yet we no longer know what it means to be human. The case for spiritual sociology
GUS WOULD OBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING ANALYSIS BUT IT IS INTERESTING TO SEE HOW SPIRITUAL DELUSION WORKS AND IS PROMOTED WITH ENLIGHTENED MISUNDERSTANDINGS. SO LET'S GET INTO IT...:
queueing around the block for the privilege....
“A 19th Century labour model behind a 21st Century logo”. David Tyler investigates the iPhone and Apple’s planned obsolescence racket. “Of course it’s expensive,” chant the Apple faithful, polishing the virtual halo, “but it just works.” Until it doesn’t work, of course, which is not a bug but a design feature as we will see later. It just works? And others don’t? The Mac mantra may be the most successful four-word con in consumer branding. Certainly, as with all the best cons, the mark repeats it for free. Endlessly. What just works, in fact, is the business model,
rupert has been hostile to the science of global warming....
This edited extract of Getting Murdoched: How Murdoch’s Media Wields Power and Punishment Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson examines Murdoch’s destructive anti-climate change campaign. The emergence of climate change as a global issue coincided with the creation of Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire. Except for a brief period when his younger son, James, persuaded him of the dangers of global warming and the need to give the ‘planet the benefit of the doubt’, Murdoch was at best sceptical, at worst hostile to the issue.
free speech alla parlaize-vooz française?.....
French investigators have again summoned Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov for questioning as the criminal investigation into the messaging platform nears its second year with no resolution in sight. Durov spent around six hours being questioned at the Paris Judicial Tribunal on Wednesday, local media reported, citing law enforcement sources. It marked the fourth time the tech entrepreneur has been interrogated as part of the ongoing investigation. His legal team confirmed the questioning to AFP, saying that “almost two years after the indictment of Pavel Durov, there is still no evidence to establish the validity of the charges.” “The only change since Durov’s detention in France is that French authorities have started properly drafting requests to Telegram,” the social media platform said in a separate statement.
risking trigger an all-out war with Russia....
The belligerent stance of European NATO members risks triggering an all-out war with Russia that could spell the end of the bloc, Dmitry Trenin, the president of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), wrote in an op-ed for RT. Trenin argued that the European elites are seeking “Russia’s destruction as a major power” rather than deterrence, as was the case during the Cold War. They are using the Ukraine conflict as a convenient opportunity, he said.
Europe’s bellicose posturing risks direct war with Russia, expert warns
persian oil cutoff is biting the US economy in the ass....
This is a follow-up from my previous piece. My goal is to explain why the current structure of the US refinery industry has created a dangerous dependence on the import of high sulphur oil aka sour crude. The heart of the matter is the middle distillates from which diesel and jet fuel are produced. This is precisely where the cutoff of Persian Gulf oil threatens to bite the US economy in the ass.
Part II: The Sour Crude Problem: How Long Can the Salt Caverns Keep Bridging the Gap? by Larry C. Johnson
fighting the one notion catastrophe....
The Liberals have ruled out working with One Nation, but they’re taking on a menace of their own making. Andrew Gardiner reports. Liberal leader Angus Taylor has spurned Pauline Hanson’s call for a united front against Labor, ruling out working with a One Nation party the Liberals belatedly see as an existential threat.
Angus Taylor takes on the Hanson threat. A day late and a dollar short? by Andrew Gardiner
trump’s potty-mouthed shows he’s not getting away with murder.....
Trump has always had poor impulse control but we are moving into a new phase with F-bombs, real bombs and threats to entire civilisations becoming daily occurrences. “They’re scum…they’re led by sick people and they’re vicious, violent people. There’s something wrong with them. They’re cuckoo. As far as I’m concerned, it’s over.” This is what Trump said after bombing Iran on 8 July and threatening to tear up the MOU. Trump's threats are no substitute for diplomacy
zelensky to make patriots: an offer from the cruel joke-master .....
President Donald Trump has told Vladimir Zelensky that the US is willing to grant Ukraine a license to produce Patriot missile interceptors – one of the few weapons in Kiev’s foreign-sourced arsenal capable of shooting down state-of-the art Russian missiles. “We’ll give them the right to make Patriots,” Trump said, seated beside Zelensky at the NATO summit in Ankara, Türkiye, on Wednesday. “This way he can’t complain that we’re not giving him enough. I said, ‘Make them yourself,’” Trump added. He called the undertaking complex but voiced hope that Kiev would work it out quickly.
nothing new under the stars and tripes....
Iran planned to kill US President Donald Trump in a fresh plot unveiled by Israel, several US media outlets report. According to Israeli intelligence, the plan was “specific” and may explain why Trump chose to switch planes when leaving the NATO summit in Turkey earlier this week. Israel shared intelligence with the United States this week about a new and “specific” plan by Iran to assassinate President Donald Trump, US media reported Thursday.
peacetime standing armies pose a threat to peace.....
Among the key men involved in the American Revolution and the following periods, we find an oft-repeated concern that may seem foreign to us today—the threat of standing armies. This was a heritage of British legal thought and history, and it became an underappreciated part of American political thought and experience. Why were peacetime standing armies viewed as such a threat?
The American Revolution and the Danger of Standing Armies by Joshua Mawhorter
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