Oh, they make such bad movies now, that a lobotomy might be more interesting.
Two American photographers enter Adolf Hitler’s apartment just as World War II is ending and the German leaders are dead. Lee Miller (Kate Winslet) takes off her clothes so she can be photographed taking a bath in Hitler’s tub. This moment brings together several of the conundrums at the heart of “Lee,” the story of a real-life woman who revealed others and concealed herself, a model muse and artist working with the artificial and imaginary who became a war correspondent struggling to convey the indescribable. It’s telling that, after spending the war as a journalist, photographing wrenching horrors, including some of the first photos of the concentration camps, Miller returned to the staged, absurdist aesthetics of her earlier years. There, she worked with surrealists like Man Ray to create this very staged photo, moving the photo of Hitler to the edge of the tub and scraping the mud on her boots from a concentration camp on the pristine bathmat. Over the credits, we see the re-created photo along with the original. -Ebert
One telling thing is a scene in a room where the tell-tale black and red Nazi flag is, but, for fuck’s sake, this fucking movie won’t show the fucking Trump and EuroTrashLandian image — instead it’s not even an X, let alone swaztika.
Oh well, the Jewsades are on:
And these fucking movies STILL about the fucking WWII and the “Holocaust.” FUCK.
They started with Gaza, where a campaign of unhinged barbarism continues apace, more than 15 months since it began. The most conservative estimates suggest over 300,000 Palestinians have fallen to the bestial Jewish hordes. The ethnic cleansing and Star of David-planting campaign is nearing completion in the besieged enclave after the Jewsaders choked it off with a 17-year siege and then accelerated the extermination campaign over a year ago. Now the emaciated inhabitants of the besieged enclave are barely surviving disease and hunger as bombs drop non-stop over their heads with nowhere to run.
The Palestinians in the West Bank — or Judea and Samaria in Jewspeak — aren’t faring much better either with their spaces gradually shrunken to make way for Jewish theme parks and Biblical gardens. For years they have been running an ethnic cleansing campaign, which — just like Gaza — accelerated after October 7. Raids after raids have followed to terrorise and kill the natives, and now the Palestinian collaborationists in the so-called Palestinian Authority have been let loose on them for the past few weeks as the ethnic cleansing campaign intensifies.
The Jewsaders have their eyes on more targets. They want Lebanon too. They teach their kids how southern Lebanon right up to the Litani belongs to the Jews and only to the Jews. They tell them “Lebanon is ours” to entrench this belief in them. Catch them young, as the advertisers say.
[This is an Israeli tank desecrating a mosque in Bani Hayyan in south Lebanon:
Jordan now!
40,600 Israeli Jews left Israel in the first seven months of 2024. They went to Europe and North America in search of safety. The thorough Zionist occupation of the Western regimes means that no matter where the Israeli Jew goes, he is only ever going to Israel. It’s for the goyim to search for his safety, whether he understands it yet or not. No matter what boundaries of Greater Israel the verses in Genesis, Numbers, and Deuteronomy speak of, the Jewsaders have already conquered much bigger swathes of the goyim land and made it their own.
They are still not done.
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Jews infect them all — ‘Studying Of Mice and Men has been "damaging" for some children, Wales' children's commissioner says.
The classic American novel Of Mice and Men will no longer be studied at GCSE in Wales from next September amid concerns about racism and the use of racial slurs.
John Steinbeck's text, set in the 1930s, has been a mainstay of the English literature qualification for many years.
Wales' Children's Commissioner Rocio Cifuentes welcomed the move and said having to discuss the book in class had been "psychologically and emotionally" harmful for some black children.’
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Round them all up, this here then in this dirty society, U$A:
Vast stretches of harsh desert near Rock Springs are among the few places in the world where mustangs with curly coats can be found, but the Bureau of Land Management plans to round them up, which has horse advocates upset.
“It makes zeroing out the Salt Wells Creek herd all the more tragic,” mustang advocate Carol Walker told Cowboy State Daily.
The Salt Wells Creek herd is only one of two in Wyoming known to have horses with distinctive curly manes, tails and winter coats.
The other is the nearby White Mountain mustang herd.
And those two Wyoming herds are likely among only a handful of mustang herds in the world with “curlies,” she added.
The entire Salt Wells Creek mustang herd, thought to include several hundred horses, is set to be rounded up next summer.
The horses will be taken to BLM holding facilities in Rock Springs and Wheatland, where many of them will be put up for adoption, BLM spokesman Micky Fisher told Cowboy State Daily.
Roughly 500 of the White Mountain mustangs were rounded up this past summer. That reduced the herd to roughly 300 horses, and drew protestors to Rock Springs.
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More Jewish Sicarios murdering whistleblowers: A former OpenAI researcher known for whistleblowing the company has been found dead in his San Francisco apartment.
The Mercury News reports police found the body of 26-year-old Suchir Balaji on November 26 after being called to do a well-being check.
The Medical Examiner says he died by suicide and there are no signs of foul play.
His death comes three months after publicly accusing OpenAI of violating U.S. Copyright law while developing Chat GPT.
Another non-suicide suicide: Archive
Contra Crack Series
Gary Webb's Enduring Legacy
Three years ago, investigative reporter Gary Webb committed suicide after his U.S. press colleagues helped destroy his career for daring to tell the truth about the Reagan administration's protection of cocaine trafficking by the Nicaraguan contras. In this special report, Robert Parry looks at this personal tragedy and its enduring legacy. December 11, 2007
The War on Medical Marijuana
Eleven years ago, California voters passed Prop 215, the Compassionate Use Act, permitting the use of marijuana to treat medical conditions. But state and local officials are still collaborating with federal law enforcement in a war on medical marijuana. November 6, 2007
CIA's Anti-Drug Message for Kids
The CIA wants American families to know that it's fighting the war on drugs, but the real story isn't quite so simple or so pretty. By Martin A. Lee. March 4, 2001
CIA Admits Tolerating Contra-Cocaine Trafficking
House Intelligence Committee buries admissions in new contra-cocaine report. By Robert Parry. June 8, 2000
Hyde's Blind Eye: Contras & CocaineThe chief House manager’s double standards on scandal. By Dennis Bernstein & Leslie Kean. December 14, 1999
Contra-Cocaine: Falling Between the 'Crack'Congress has taken the Nicaraguan contra-cocaine scandal back behind closed doors, even though the CIA admitted serious wrongdoing in a public report. By Robert Parry. June 18, 1999
L.A.'s Other Coke PipelineThe CIA’s contra-cocaine investigation reportedly stumbled upon a new drug pipeline into Los Angeles, with a CIA veteran of the contra war implicated. By Robert Parry. December 29, 1998
The Contras’ Narco-Terrorists
The Hitz report describes how some U.S.-trained veterans of the terror wars against Fidel Castro’s Cuba turned to drug trafficking in the 1970s and reappeared as contras supporters in the 1980s. October 15, 1998
Special Report: CIA’s Drug Confession
In a shocking new report, CIA Inspector General Frederick Hitz confirms long-standing allegations that drug traffickers pervaded the Nicaraguan contra war. Hitz found evidence in the CIA’s own files connecting key contras and contra backers to major trafficking organizations, including the Medellin cartel. One thread of evidence even led into Ronald Reagan’s National Security Council where the contra war was overseen by Lt. Col. Oliver North. October 15, 1998
The NYT’s New Contra LiesThe New York Times, “the newspaper of record,” has altered the historical record, again, to protect the Nicaraguan contras and the paper’s own bad reporting. October 1, 1998
John Hull's Great Escape
CIA-linked farmer John Hull skipped Costa Rica to avoid a drug trial -- and got help in his escape from DEA operatives. August 2, 1998
Special Report: Contra-Cocaine -- Justice Denied
A new Justice Department report reveals that the Reagan-Bush administrations knew much more about Nicaraguan contra-drug trafficking. The CIA also blocked investigators who got too close. But the Justice report still denigrates witnesses, such as smuggler Jorge Morales, and keeps the cover-up alive. August 2, 1998
The NYT's Contra-Cocaine Dilemma
For a dozen years, The New York Times mocked allegations that the Nicaraguan contras were implicated in cocaine trafficking. Finally, the nation's 'newspaper of record' is admitting that there was something to the story after all. But the Times is still letting the CIA put its spin on the scandal -- and the Times still doesn't want to confess its own guilt. July 23, 1998
Reality Bites Back: Contra-Coke ProofIncoming CIA Inspector General Britt Snider must decide how to release an explosive report confirming long-held suspicions that the Nicaraguan contra operation smuggled cocaine. The report implicates the CIA and casts a dark shadow over the war run by the late CIA director William Casey and White House aide Oliver North. July 9, 1998
Two New Contra-Coke BooksTwo new books are throwing down the gauntlet -- again -- to the CIA on the issue of drug trafficking. July 9, 1998
Listen to Bob Parry & Gary Webb Discussing New Contra-Cocaine Report on "Democracy Now."
July 20, 1998
Contra-Coke: Evidence of Premeditation
A memo reveals how CIA Director William J. Casey engineered a legal change in 1982 that spared the spy agency from a legal requirement to report on drug smuggling by agents. The memo, released by Rep. Maxine Waters, is evidence that Casey anticipated cocaine trafficking by the Nicaraguan contras. June 1, 1998
Contra Cocaine: Bad to Worse
The CIA has issued part one of its long-awaited Nicaraguan contra cocaine report. While the spy agency hopes everyone will just read the executive summary, the fine print of the report shows that the drug trafficking was a severe problem. (2/16/98)
Contra-Crack Guide: Reading Between the Lines
The CIA and the Justice Department are clearing themselves of wrongdoing on alleged Nicaraguan contra-crack sales. Yet, while the verdicts are public, the actual evidence is still under wraps. And reporter Gary Webb has lost his job. (1/5/98)
Hung Out to Dry: 'Dark Alliance' Series Dies
Under pressure from the Big Media, San Jose Mercury News editors pulled reporter Gary Webb off the contra-drug story. But in a first-person account, Webb's co-author in Nicaragua warns about dangers to others who worked on the story. (6/30/97)
CIA, Contras & Cocaine: Big Media Rejoices
The nation's leading newspapers celebrated a column by a San Jose Mercury News editor, backing away from last year's series linking the Nicaraguan contras to the nation's 'crack' epidemic. But the evidence of contra drugs remains, as do questions about the big media's hostility toward the decade-old story. (6/2/97)
CIA & Cocaine: Agency Assets Cross the Line
The CIA faces a new drug-trafficking embarrassment with the Miami indictment of a Venezuelan general who worked with the CIA on narcotics issues. But the problem goes far deeper, all the way down to the spy agency's Cold War roots. (3/17/97)
Contra-Crack: Investigators vs. Brickwall
Maxine Waters tracks CIA-contra-crack suspicions. (2/3/97)
Contra-Crack: Contra Crack Controversy Continues
A new report backs the allegations and chastises the big papers. (1/6/97)
Contra-Crack: CIA, Drugs & National Press
When a West Coast paper published new evidence linking the CIA-managed Nicaraguan contra rebels to cocaine smuggling, the Washington press rallied to the spy agency's defense -- and pummeled the out-of-step journalists. (12/23/96)
Contra-Crack: The Kerry-Weld Cocaine War
While Sen. John Kerry led the fight to expose the contra-crack drug trade, Gov. Bill Weld stalled. (11/11/96)
Contra-Crack: Contra-Crack Story Assailed (Part 1)
The Washington Post rushes to the CIA's defense. (10-28-96)
Contra-Crack: Contra-Crack Story Assailed (Part 2)
The Washington Times' Pro-Contra beat goes on. (10-28-96)
Contra-Crack: Blacks Angered by Contra-Crack
A published report of CIA-backed crack cocaine dealing in black communities across America has touched a raw nerve among black leaders. (9-30-96)
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Some of us never get this treatment:
A senior Marine Corps weapons expert who had a Navy Cross recipient and retired major general testify as character witnesses left his court-martial Friday night with a reprimand, having been convicted of one specification of issuing a false official statement and two related counts of conduct unbecoming an officer.
Chief Warrant Officer Stephen LaRose was acquitted on dereliction of duty and other false official statement charges, according to a sentencing sheet reviewed by Marine Corps Times. The most serious charges, unauthorized absence — equivalent to absent without leave — were tossed out early in the trial.
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Fucking Dirty Jews:
You won’t see this on BBC or CNN Matt Kennard's book: The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire
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And here we have the dirtiest of the Jews — Google, Oracle, Facebook, Palantir, NSO, Pegasus, Chapt GPT, etc.
Artificial intelligence is changing the structure of our global economy, but it’s unlikely that everyone will benefit. Advocates for AI celebrate its potential to decode intractable global challenges and even end poverty, but its achievement in that regard are meager. Instead, global inequality is now set to rise. Those countries that are home to AI development and readily able to incorporate these technologies into industry are set to see rising economic growth. But the rest of the world, which faces critical barriers to adopting AI, will be left further and further behind.
The introduction of new technologies into society has historically brought about economic development and growth. Technologies are often designed to do just this by boosting productivity: The sewing machine or the tractor, for example, enabled textiles to be made or crops to be yielded quicker. Since the turn of the century, digital technologies have been a particularly powerful economic force. In the United States, according to a 2021 study, the internet’s contribution to the country’s GDP has increased by 22 percent a year since 2016. The U.S. digital economy is now worth well over $4 trillion.
The study, “The Economic Impact of the Market-Making Internet – Advertising, Content, Commerce, and Innovation: Contribution to U.S. Employment and GDP,” also discovered that:
More than 17 million jobs in the U.S. were generated by the commercial internet, 7 million more than four years ago.
More internet jobs, 38 percent, were created by small firms and self-employed individuals than by the largest internet companies, which generated 34 percent.
There are 200,000 full-time equivalent jobs in the online creator economy. This number is just short of the combined memberships of craft and labor unions SAG-AFTRA (160,000), the American Federation of Musicians (80,000), the Writer’s Guild (24,000), and the Authors Guild (9,000)
Every congressional district depends on internet-dependent jobs:
Seven congressional districts have at least 10% of their residents working directly in the internet ecosystem, accounting for 9% of total U.S. internet employment.
The remaining 91% of internet employment is spread across 425 congressional districts.
January 2, 2024
Photograph Source: Flickr user walnut whippet – CC BY 2.0
John Pilger, a very influential and pioneering journalist and commentator, has died. I talk about him and his longtime partner David Munro in my new book Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire went into Cambodia in 1979 and filmed a riveting documentary. Very brave men. People who showed people like me how to do it. The documentary was at Pilger’s website. I stayed with Munro in London in 1991 on my way to Vietnam. RIP.
Here’s the link to Year Zero – hope it works.
As an afterthought, ten years before Munro (who died in 1999 after making 20 documentaries with Pilger) and Pilger ventured into Cambodia, my good friend John Douglas and the Newsreel crew went to North Vietnam to make a documentary titled People’s War. One used to be able to see it for free at John Douglas’s webpage (see www.douglaswork.com). Now there’s just a trailer and now you have to buy it for $150.00
https://www.twn.org/catalog/pages/responsive/cpage.aspx…
Here’s the summary on John’s page:
“In the summer of l969, Newsreel went to North Vietnam. From that trip came PEOPLE’S WAR. This film moves beyond the perception of the North Vietnamese as victims to a portrait of how the North Vietnamese society is organized. it shows the relationship of the people to their government-how local tasks of a village are coordinated and its needs met. It deals with the reality of a nation that has been at war for twenty-five years, that is not only resisting US. aggression and keeping alive under bombing, but that is also struggling to raise its standard of living and to overcome the underdevelopment of centuries of colonial rule. Amid much publicity, the footage was confiscated upon its return to the US. . Despite this attempt at suppression, PEOPLES’ WAR has become one of the most sought-after films on Vietnam.”
What they don’t tell you is that the Newsreel team, including David Dellinger, secured the release of US POWs, whom they delivered to a CIA delegation in Phnom Penh.
Ten years later when Munro and Pilger arrived, the place was in ruins.
Anyway, you’ll hear a lot about Pilger, a great man, yes, but not about Munro and the noble anonymous film crews that accompanied him into those dangerous places – or the people like John Douglas and the Newsreel crew who had been doing this sort of journalism for years before him.
Year Zero: The Silent Death Of Cambodia
“Courageously takes us inside the CIA’s most shameful extralegal operations, exposing an intelligence service gone rogue. Douglas Valentine’s book is a public service.” JOHN KIRIAKOU, author of The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA’s War on Terror
“Douglas Valentine writes books that rip the bloody veil off the criminal enterprise known as the US government. When he does this, he combines incredibly in-depth research, interviews and an inviting style of prose that exposes the dark truth about the US nation and its national security state. The CIA as Organized Crime continues that tradition and is an important and crucial text. ” RON JACOBS, Counterpunch
“Thanks to extensive interviews, he has an almost intimate feel for the operating mentality of the agency, why they operate the way they do—not only their bloody-minded ruthlessness or their rationalizations, important and interesting as these are—and why they are unbothered by such distinctions as Republican or Democratic presidents.” PAUL BUHLE, Portside
While reading this, I was returned to the year in which it takes place. CIA man George HW Bush was the US president in 1991. The government of Vietnam was still considered an enemy of the United States and the vulgarity of the Reagan-Bush regimes were still very present in the venal Clinton White House. The fascism of the Trumpist movement was a mere seedling; Reagan and his crew had run secret wars, been overtly racist and homophobic, and reinvigorated the CIA, but the majority of Reagan’s followers still seemed to respect the structure of the US ruling mechanism. In 2023, that mechanism is at best a parody of what it was when Valentine took the journey he describes in this book.
The title refers to Valentine’s use of astrology as both an indication of the narrative’s direction and as a thread to weave his story together. This is in addition to the thread provided by the CIA throughout the book. Almost every group and every individual discussed in Pisces Moon is somehow related to that organization or its activities. From the Chinese Kuomintang to the medical ship of the pedophile CIA asset Dr. Tom Dooley and from the streets of Bangkok to the Thai military base in Udon, this text is a catalog of government crimes against humanity and individual perversions and predation permitted in the commission of those crimes. With Pisces Moon, author Douglas Valentine has once again outdone himself. The dark arts referred to in the title are revealed for all to see. His personalized narrative style makes the book a captivating read. The content makes it an extremely important one. — May 30, 2023, A Tale of Cruelty and Criminality: Doug Valentine on the CIA by Ron Jacobs
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And so the Jewsaders and the ZioAzovNaziLensky sucks our rural schools, and Kushner-Trump-Stephen Miller LLC . . . . Coming to our towns soon.
Schools in 30 of Oregon’s 36 counties — and schools in other Western states — will receive less federal funding in 2025 after the U.S. House of Representatives failed to reauthorize a 24-year-old bill that typically pays up to $80 million a year for schools and roads in Oregon along with wildfire prevention and conservation work.
The bipartisan Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act — first passed in 2000 — was reauthorized by the Senate in November. But by Friday, in the run-up to passage of a stop-gap spending bill to keep the government open until March, House Republicans could not reach agreement about how the rural schools bill should be funded and so it died without a vote, said Hank Stern, a spokesman for Oregon’s senior senator, Democrat Ron Wyden, who co-authored the original bill in 2000. Wyden said the failure to approve the money will create needless pain for rural communities.
“This sad state of affairs due to congressional Republican failings is pointless and regrettable,” he said in an email. “Oregonians living and working in counties that have long relied on millions in federal Secure Rural Schools funds will needlessly and unfortunately enter 2025 with an uncertain fate for those resources when it comes to local schools. roads, law enforcement and more.”