Living Beings,
This deep-seated racism is rooted in the Zionist colonial project and helps explain the broad support for the Gaza genocide. https://mondoweiss.net/2025/08/in-israel-animals-in-human-form-may-be-killed/
"A child in Gaza shouldn't have to die for a sip of water," said one Palestinian American critic. "Families are starving, fleeing under bombs, with nowhere safe to go. Humanity is failing them." https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-gaza-massacre
Israel’s planned offensive on Gaza City could displace one million Palestinians, a senior military official said on Wednesday, as Gaza’s civil defence reported dozens killed. In Jerusalem, hundreds of Israelis protested to demand a truce and hostage deal after nearly two years of war. https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250903-israel-gaza-displace-one-million-palestinians
Humanitarian crisis in Gaza is 'fundamental test' of Europe’s resolve to defend its values internationally, says Kaja Kallas. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/us-support-to-israel-limits-eu-leverage-to-halt-war-in-gaza-eu-foreign-policy-chief/3677432
More than 20: Israel holds 11,100 Palestinian detainees in its prisons: Rights groups
Detainees include 49 women, 400 children, 3,577 people held without trial or charge https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-holds-11-100-palestinian-detainees-in-its-prisons-rights-groups/3677419 (Israeli) Manufactured Famines in Gaza Began Almost 2 Decades Ago, so Why Haven’t They Been Halted? https://scheerpost.com/2025/09/03/manufactured-famines-in-gaza-began-almost-2-decades-ago-so-why-havent-they-been-halted/
Israel’s far-right finance minister said on Wednesday that maps were being drawn up for annexing territory in the occupied West Bank, land the Palestinians seek for a state, although it was unclear if he had Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s support.
At a press conference in Jerusalem, Bezalel Smotrich stood before a map that suggested the possible annexation of most of the West Bank with the exception of six large Palestinian cities, including Ramallah and Nablus.
Smotrich said he wanted “maximum territory and minimum (Palestinian) population” to be brought under Israeli sovereignty, urging Netanyahu to accept his plan that is being drawn up by a department under Smotrich’s supervision in the Defense Ministry. https://www.arabnews.com/node/2614044/middle-east
UAE does a lot of secret deals with "Israel", a "friend": UAE Warns Israel's West Bank Annexation Is 'Red Line' - Would Destroy Abraham Accords https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uae-warns-israels-west-bank-annexation-red-line-would-destroy-abraham-accords
At a press conference in Jerusalem, Bezalel Smotrich stood before a map that suggested the possible annexation of most of the West Bank with the exception of six large Palestinian cities, including Ramallah and Nablus.
Smotrich said he wanted “maximum territory and minimum (Palestinian) population” to be brought under Israeli sovereignty, urging Netanyahu to accept his plan that is being drawn up by a department under Smotrich’s supervision in the Defense Ministry. https://www.arabnews.com/node/2614044/middle-east
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has proposed annexing 82% of the Palestinian territory https://news.antiwar.com/2025/09/03/report-rubio-signals-us-wont-oppose-israeli-annexation-of-the-occupied-west-bank/
How such a mistake could’ve happened is not clear, as the UNIFIL pointed out that they gave the IDF advanced notice that they would be in the Marwahin area removing roadblocks that the IDF had previously set up near the village. https://news.antiwar.com/2025/09/03/israeli-drones-drop-grenades-on-unifil-peacekeepers-in-lebanon/
Thanks Eleni. They refused to pay and were then thrown out for being aggressive: A group of British Israeli tourists, were thrown out of the Greek Taverna Axiotissa in Naxos after trying to remove a sign on the wall of the restaurant where it was written “Boycott Israeli apartheid”
Restaurant owner Giannis Vassilas confronted them, and expressed them clearly that anyone supporting this genocidal government is not welcome.
The restaurant since then has its rating on Google and TripAdvisor dropped due to a flood of negative reviews.
Support our comrade and make this restaurant the most successful one in Greece ! https://www.defenddemocracy.press/a-group-of-british-israeli-tourists-were-thrown-out-of-a-greek-taverna/
Restaurant owner Giannis Vassilas confronted them, and expressed them clearly that anyone supporting this genocidal government is not welcome.
The restaurant since then has its rating on Google and TripAdvisor dropped due to a flood of negative reviews.
Support our comrade and make this restaurant the most successful one in Greece ! https://www.defenddemocracy.press/a-group-of-british-israeli-tourists-were-thrown-out-of-a-greek-taverna/
Impressive parade and displays: 'Unstoppable': Xi Unveils Nuclear Triad In Military Parade Challenging West, Alongside Putin & Kim https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/unstoppable-xi-unveils-nuclear-triad-military-parade-challenging-west-alongside-putin
Moon of Alabama advises Ukrainian neutrality and good manners, Ukraine's Best Security Guarantee Is Finlandization
Fruitless discussions about 'security guarantees' for Ukraine continue. It will still take time until it is acknowledged that there is no way to implement them. Meanwhile other ideas are cropping in. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/09/ukraines-best-security-guarantee-is-finlandization.html#moreKiev should commit to bloc neutrality and acknowledge the new territorial reality, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has said
“Ukraine’s neutral, non-aligned, and nuclear-free status must be ensured. These conditions were spelled out in Ukraine’s 1990 Declaration of Independence, and Russia and the international community used them to recognize Ukrainian statehood,” the foreign minister said. https://swentr.site/russia/624041-lavrov-international-recognition-ukraine/
Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Wednesday that Moscow would not even discuss or entertain in any way deployment of foreign troops in Ukraine as part of a future peace deal. There will be no international post-conflict security force "in any format" - she made clear.
"Russia is not going to discuss the fundamentally unacceptable and security-undermining foreign intervention in Ukraine in any form, in any format," Zakharova told reporters. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kremlin-blasts-unacceptable-western-plan-ukraine-security-guarantees
"Russia is not going to discuss the fundamentally unacceptable and security-undermining foreign intervention in Ukraine in any form, in any format," Zakharova told reporters. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kremlin-blasts-unacceptable-western-plan-ukraine-security-guarantees
Zelensky refused Putin's invitation to Moscow the same day: The Ukrainian president said a meeting with Putin is needed. “This is not a matter of a desire, this is a matter of necessity,” Zelenskyy said. “We support any format, bilateral meeting, trilateral meeting, I believe that Russia does everything to defer it.” https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-district-of-columbia-sues-over-trumps-deployment-of-the-national-guard-2
“Trump emphasized that Europe must stop purchasing Russian oil that is funding the war," a White House official told NBC News on Thursday after Trump spoke to European leaders. The official added that he also told the leaders they had to “place economic pressure on China for funding Russia’s war efforts.”...
..The meeting included Zelenskyy, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte...
..After the meeting, the leaders held a 90-minute phone call with Trump, who has said that he is willing to offer American support as a “backstop” but that the initiative must be led by the Europeans.
Macron said after the meeting that 26 countries, which he did not name, had agreed to send troops to Ukraine after the war ends...
Macron said after the meeting that 26 countries, which he did not name, had agreed to send troops to Ukraine after the war ends...
..After his push for a meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy appeared to have fallen apart, Trump conceded Wednesday that there was still a chasm between the two leaders. “Something is going to happen, but they are not ready yet. But something is going to happen. We are going to get it done,” Trump said. https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/ukraine-coalition-willing-meets-paris-trump-putin-peace-zelenskyy-rcna229003
Dima asserts that Witkoff came with a deal for Zelensky and the NATO members attenting, which they refused and he left in 20-40 minutes.
Killzone Paris Summit Failed - Defense of Novoselovka Collapsed, Military Summary For 2025.09.04 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnqQku9Oz08Far-right politician Andrey Parubiy was killed not by a Russian agent, but by a grieving father [*Mikhail Stselnikov] desperate for justice https://swentr.site/russia/623958-ukraine-parubiy-murder-betrayal/
The 52-year-old resident of Lviv, whose name* is still being withheld by authorities pending the investigation, described his killing the ex-lawmaker as an act of "revenge" against government authorities.
Police say the attack was "carefully planned" - after which the killer fled to a nearby forest and burned his clothes, and disposed of the e-bike.
During an initial court appearance, the suspect called the killing as his "personal revenge against the Ukrainian authorities" and said he shot Parubiy "because he was nearby". He further told reporters outside the courtroom, "Yes, I admit I killed him." https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/apprehended-killer-ukrainian-lawmaker-says-it-was-revenge-against-government-loss-his
Police say the attack was "carefully planned" - after which the killer fled to a nearby forest and burned his clothes, and disposed of the e-bike.
During an initial court appearance, the suspect called the killing as his "personal revenge against the Ukrainian authorities" and said he shot Parubiy "because he was nearby". He further told reporters outside the courtroom, "Yes, I admit I killed him." https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/apprehended-killer-ukrainian-lawmaker-says-it-was-revenge-against-government-loss-his
Another real estate deal of the century: Gomer & Sgt. Carter roll in their graves. Trump Considers Leasing Parts Of Camp Pendleton To Fund Golden Dome
Positioned between Los Angeles and San Diego, Camp Pendleton boasts more than 125,000 acres of land and 17 miles of Pacific coastline, with Interstate 5 conveniently traversing it near the coastline. The topography is diverse, ranging from the seafront to mountainous terrain. As you'd imagine, it's the largest undeveloped coastline expanse in all of Southern California. https://www.zerohedge.com/military/trump-considers-leasing-parts-camp-pendleton-fund-golden-dome
What's "new"? Google has been censoring me since spring 2016, when the DoD declared an "information battle-space": Military Pursues AI Systems To Suppress Online Dissent Abroad https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/military-pursues-ai-systems-suppress-online-dissent-abroad
With three signatures, Russia, China and Mongolia rerouted half a century of energy history eastward.
On Tuesday, the three countries signed a legally binding memorandum for the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline – a roughly 2,600-km line, at an estimated cost of around $13.6 bn, that will carry 50 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas every year through Mongolia into northern China’s industrial heartland.
While the pricing structure has yet to be fixed, the signatories have effectively redrawn the European energy map.
For decades, this gas was the bedrock of German and Western European industry, piped from Russia’s Yamal fields in the Arctic through Nord Stream 1 directly into Germany. Now, that same supply is being redirected east. https://swentr.site/russia/623976-power-siberia-gas-china/
Murder, plain and clear; You're a "terrorist": Was Trump’s Venezuelan boat attack a ‘war crime’? Experts say extrajudicial killings violate international law
Attack raises serious questions about president’s legal authority for lethal strikes against suspected drug traffickers https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-venezuela-drug-boat-attack-video-b2819566.html Surplus Energy Economics, The Devil To Pay
In the wooden world of Admiral Nelson’s navy, the “devil” was a ship’s central deck seam, and this periodically had to be filled (“paid”) using tar pre-heated for this purpose. Thus, “the devil to pay, with no pitch hot” came to describe any task that was either extremely difficult or outright impossible to accomplish. Our contemporary “devils” are environmental and economic challenges, and the “pitch” that we don’t have ready to hand is a body of fact-informed interpretations and projections.
More specifically, abundant environmental facts exist but are routinely disregarded, whilst most of the available “facts” about the economy belong firmly in the category of fiction...
On the one side are those who say that “nothing is wrong, the climate isn’t changing, and even if it is changing, it’s not our fault and it will probably turn out for the best anyway”.
On the other are those who, whilst admitting that there are problems, insist that a fix exists in the form of “transition” to renewable sources of energy.
These, Greer says, are exemplified by “the Davos set, who fly on private jets to dine on steak and lobster while discussing how everyone else will have to give up their cars and live on insect protein”.
Likewise, the vast majority of opinion about the economy divides into two sets of views. One is that there’s no problem with the economy that can’t be explained in terms of the sheer bad luck of encountering wars, a pandemic and disruptive trade disputes in quick succession.
The alternative view concedes that the economy isn’t performing well, but assures us that the “normality” of growth will be restored through a combination of technological advance and monetary stimulus.
When we apply the litmus test of fact, this ‘duality of consensus’ becomes a duality of fallacy...
..The much-vaunted “transition” to “climate-friendly” renewable energy not only isn’t happening, but can’t happen. These “renewables” are neither renewable nor climate-friendly.They’re not “renewable” because they can’t be developed without the use of vast amounts of legacy energy from carbon sources. They’re not “climate-friendly” because their expansion involves mining and other activities which, both in nature and at scale, are very far from environmentally harmless...
..Both the ‘denial’ and the ‘reassurance’ approaches to climate change completely disregard the facts, presumably because these facts are inconvenient or, at least, unprofitable...
..There are no “renewables majors” taking up the baton from the fabled seven sisters of the golden age of oil, because nobody sees great commercial potential in the supply of forms of energy which always and everywhere depend upon subsidies.....As Steve Keen has so rightly put it, “labour without energy is a corpse; capital without energy is a statue”...
..In America, Britain and Germany – and even in China – government net borrowing has substantially exceeded reported growth since 2019. This period includes pandemic lockdowns, of course, but it also includes the following rebound.....Governments have carried on borrowing even during the ‘recovery’ phase. Moreover, SEEDS analysis indicates that this has been a global rather than purely a local phenomenon. In essence, governments are borrowing money, and citizens’ spending of this borrowed money is being passed off as “growth”...
..GDP, far from measuring economic output, is in reality an aggregation of transactional activity in the economy... and it’s perfectly possible, indeed commonplace, for money to change hands without any material economic value being created.....If we pour credit into the system, we necessarily increase the quantity of transactional activity, in ways that may be wholly unrelated to changes in the flow of material economic value...
..Recent economic history has been characterised by (a) a massive ramping up of credit supply, and (b) the subsequent slashing of rates to zero or even negative real levels, in order to prevent the enormous debt and quasi-debt edifice from collapsing.....What we need to do, then, is to strip this multi-faceted “credit effect” out of reported transactional GDP. The resulting series of underlying or “clean” economic output is known in SEEDS terminology as C-GDP...
..As shown in Fig. 2B, reported real “growth” of 96% in GDP between 2004 and 2024 falls to only 33% on an adjusted, C-GDP basis. 
..Infrastructures, being material, cannot be created, operated, maintained or replaced without the use of energy. Accordingly, “whenever energy is accessed for our use, some of this energy is always consumed in the access process, and is not available for any other economic purpose”.
This “consumed in access” component is known in Surplus Energy Economics as the Energy Cost of Energy. Since we cannot have energy without “paying” this proportionate cost, ECoE functions as the economic rent payable for the use of the planet’s energy resources...
..The relentless rise in trend ECoEs – from 2.0% in 1980 to 11.3% now – has been the single biggest reason why growth in the material economy has long been decelerating towards contraction... 
..“Downstream” uses of this prosperity calculation include a comparison between prosperity and population numbers (Fig. 3C), and the division of economic resources into the three segmental categories of essentials, capital investment and discretionary consumption (Fig. 3D).....The data strongly points towards an artificial inflation of reported GDP, a deteriorating ability to afford discretionary (non-essential) products and services, dangerous excesses both in credit aggregates and in asset prices, and a very strong likelihood that our efforts to cope with these imbalances will tend towards the debasement of money [or massive debt default, or both, and WW-3...] https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/309-the-devil-to-pay/#like-44996
Without cheap Russian gas and oil,,, EU Accelerating Toward Collapse: Merz, Draghi, And Lagarde Reveal Europe's Crisis Path https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/eu-accelerating-toward-collapse-merz-draghi-and-lagarde-reveal-europes-crisis-path
In 2022, AfD polled at just 5.4% in a region that's home to Germany's industrial base in the Ruhr valley - and which has suffered steep job losses. Now, the party polled at 16.8% in state federal elections last February, while more recent polls suggest the party could nearly match that today.
"Either Germany votes AfD, or it is the end of Germany," said tech billionaire Elon Musk, who threw his support behind AfD in recent days. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/german-elections-thrown-immense-chaos-after-wave-afd-deaths-rises-seven
"Either Germany votes AfD, or it is the end of Germany," said tech billionaire Elon Musk, who threw his support behind AfD in recent days. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/german-elections-thrown-immense-chaos-after-wave-afd-deaths-rises-seven
"Nobody's 'out to get you'". Escape Key: The Road to Algorithmic Authoritarianism - The Problem with the UN's Emergency Platform The United Nations has proposed an ‘Emergency Platform’ that sounds reasonable enough — a system to respond to global crises like pandemics, climate disasters, or economic collapses. But beneath this sensible-sounding proposal lies the final piece of a governance system that has been developing for over two centuries.
This system doesn't operate like traditional government. Instead of relying on elections, parliaments, or democratic consent, it works through technical standards, regulations, financial systems, and ‘black box’ computational modelling. https://escapekey.substack.com/p/the-road-to-algorithmic-authoritarianism
In his view, the result has been a dramatic broadening of the right to asylum, far beyond what was originally intended under the Geneva Convention. “The citizens expect those with political responsibility to revise the asylum policies to suit the changed circumstances. But that is in danger of failing because of the ossification of a body of law that is getting increasingly rarefied and ultimately looks irreversible to many politicians,” he said. https://rmx.news/article/germanys-former-top-judge-under-merkel-says-overzealous-application-of-human-rights-laws-by-echr-endangers-the-existence-of-western-democracies/
DOJ Opens Grand Jury Criminal Investigation Fed Governor Lisa Cook Over Mortgage Fraud Allegations https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doj-opens-criminal-investigation-fed-governor-lisa-cook-over-mortgage-fraud-allegations
Awaiting Readers Digest condensed version: US House Oversight Committee releases Epstein records provided by Justice Department
Committee releases more than 33,000 pages of records related to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-house-oversight-committee-releases-epstein-records-provided-by-justice-department/3676866It's like Epstein, right? WHAT’S GOING ON? Why Is the DOJ Preventing the Release of Documents Pertaining to Seth Rich? https://joehoft.com/whats-going-on-why-is-the-doj-preventing-the-release-of-documents-pertaining-to-seth-rich/
Hail Joe Ladapo MD! Florida To End All Vaccine Mandates https://www.zerohedge.com/political/florida-end-all-vaccine-mandates
Meryl Nass MD, Just want to make one point that should have been obvious - Joe Ladapo is a hero for telling the truth about mandates https://merylnass.substack.com/p/just-want-to-make-one-point-that
Horatius at the bridge Kennedy: 'You've Taken $855,000 From Pharmaceutical Companies": Kennedy Spars With Senators During Wild Testimony https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-live-rfk-jr-testifies-senate-amid-cdc-turmoil
Celia Farber,"We Are The Sickest Country In The World! That's Why We Have To Fire People At The CDC!" --RFK Jr. Fights Vicious Sect That Hates Him For Trying To Improve American Health, The WORST In The World "He's Like Godzilla Destroying Tokyo Right Now." --Alex Jones https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/we-are-the-sickest-country-in-the
Sasha Latypova describes a deep-state operative who wrote speeches for Bush Jr. and managed high tech, AI and human-life-extension investments.
Who is Jim O’Neill: Profile of the newly selected Acting CDC DirectorSusan Monarez was fired by the Trump White House, and is now apparently lawyering up to sue. In the meantime, Jim O'Neill has been named Acting Director https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/who-is-jim-oneill-profile-of-the
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons looks at medical costs. Health Watch: How Are Your Medical Costs Doing? https://aapsonline.org/health-watch-how-are-your-medical-costs-doing/
Especially aspartame ("Nutra Sweet") Not so sweet: Some sugar substitutes linked to faster cognitive decline https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-sweet-sugar-substitutes-linked-faster.html
Meryl Nass MDon forever-chemical contamination: Your soil amendments: Sierra Club spills the beans.
Would you believe 100% of what was in 7 of 9 bags is sewage sludge? The other 2 bags were at least 50% sludge. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/your-soil-amendments-sierra-club Eight of the nine products exceeded screening limits for two chemicals— PFOS or PFOA—set by Maine, the state with the most robust action on PFAS in biosolids. The chemicals were measured at levels that would not be acceptable for the state’s agricultural soils. Of the 33 PFAS compounds analyzed in the products, 24 were detected in at least one product. Each product contained from 14 to 20 detectable PFAS compounds. https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/default/files/PFA-Garden-Sludge-Report.pdf
I'm glad people aren't bothered... Cell towers may be quietly damaging the trees around them.
As wireless networks spread through cities and suburbs, scientists are starting to notice a troubling pattern: trees closest to cell towers often show unusual signs of stress. In one 9-year study in Germany, researchers documented more leaf loss, bark damage, and slowed growth on the side of trees facing cell antennas. https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1962882770797031925
As wireless networks spread through cities and suburbs, scientists are starting to notice a troubling pattern: trees closest to cell towers often show unusual signs of stress. In one 9-year study in Germany, researchers documented more leaf loss, bark damage, and slowed growth on the side of trees facing cell antennas. https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1962882770797031925
Variously Toxic (pictured after 90 mile ride last Sunday entering Shiner Brewery a little after noon)
