By David Swanson, World BEYOND War

I do see a problem with justifying the U.S. Civil War while recognizing the damage done by of regrettable dreams of vengeance...

I wasn’t going to read The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates because I’m doing what I can to end the genocide and occupation, and because Coates seems like such a nice guy that it saddens me that he nonsensically defended the U.S. Civil War.

I’m very glad that I did read it. I did so because someone led me to believe that in it Coates changed his mind about the Civil War. This turned out to be a misunderstanding that grew out of the fact that in the book he does slightly change his mind about a different — much more popular — article that he had written in the same magazine, one about reparations.

I’m glad I read the book because it is full of useful information and perspectives on the life of the author, on racial injustice, on propaganda, and on rebellion. One insight in particular strikes me, and it is related to what Coates regrets about his article on reparations, namely his use of the example of German reparations to Israel.

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By Kathy Kelly, World BEYOND War

The Biblical Book of Job chronicles a string of catastrophes relentlessly plaguing the main character, Job, who loses his prosperity, his home, his health, and his children. Eventually, an agonized Job curses his own existence as well as the god that created him.

Numerous interpretations of the story exist, and more than one version has circulated through the ancient Near East. One version concludes with Job avowing repentance. “I know that my redeemer liveth, and so I repent in dust and in ashes.”

The Latin root for the word ‘repent’ is pensare – to think. ‘Repent” suggests an effort to rethink.

Job’s surprising repentance has been on my mind as calls increase, in 2024, for the United Nations to rethink its relation to Israel as a member state. Increasingly, civil society groups are pressuring Permanent Missions to the UN to eject Israel as a voting member of the General Assembly.

To paraphrase Pankraj Mishra, writing for the New York Review of Books, a stunned world has watched with disbelief as the United States provisions Israel with weapons enabling a mass murder spree across the Middle East.

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LifeSiteNews

The president-elect praised the former Democratic congresswomen and said she'll bring a 'fearless spirit' to the intelligence community as a member of his cabinet.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he would nominate former Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard as the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).

Gabbard, a former Army lieutenant colonel and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, is known for her staunch non-interventionist foreign policy. After leaving the Democratic Party in 2022 over its “warmongering” and “woke” positions, she joined the Republican Party and endorsed Trump’s presidential bid earlier this year.

“As a former Candidate for the Democrat Presidential Nomination, she has broad support in both Parties – She is now a proud Republican!” the statement added. “I know Tulsi will bring the fearless spirit that has defined her illustrious career to our Intelligence Community, championing our Constitutional Rights and securing Peace through Strength. Tulsi will make us all proud!” Trump said in a statement.

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Paul Craig Roberts

There’s many a slip between cup and lip

I have been speaking with MAGA Americans and, as I suspected, there is little comprehension of the vast impediments to renewal. The swamp that Trump is to drain is entrenched and institutionalized, but Trump supporters think that with Trump elected and the Senate and House in Republican hands the job is done.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The majority of Republicans in the Senate and House are RINOs, not Trump supporters. They are part of the establishment and comfortable in it. Mitch McConnell is forever as he is in the process of demonstrating. This Wednesday McConnell is holding the election of the Senate Majority Leader. His two candidates, chosen without any input from Trump, are John Thune and John Cornyn, neither being MAGAs. Senator Rick Scott, more likely to be helpful to Trump, is running against the establishment’s candidates. If the establishment prevails, Trump’s strong appointments are likely to be blocked or to languish unconfirmed. The prospect of being blocked can discourage an appointee from accepting the appointment.

The establishment can also hamstring Trump by rushing through many unfriendly judicial appointments. Trump Americans need to understand that the enemy has not folded its tents and left the field.

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PDF's for Einstein, Dr. Rosaly M. C. Lopes, Darwin, Lorenzo Langstroth, Marie Curie, Shakespeare & Many More!

by Tracy Turner

Shakespeare, Curie, Orwell, Hemingway, Dostoevsky, Lopes, Einstein

Dr. Rosaly Lopes

Director of the Planetary Science Directorate, NASA

Dr. Rosaly Lopes is an internationally renowned Director of the Planetary Science Directorate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. As an inspiration in the field of volcanology and planetary science, her contributions have significantly enhanced our understanding of volcanic activities in space.

Major Contributions:

• Io Volcanism: Dr. Lopes has played a leading role in discovering the intense volcanic activity on Io, a moon of Jupiter, demonstrating that it is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Her groundbreaking research has reshaped current views on geological processes beyond Earth.
• Titan Studies: She has conducted pioneering studies on Saturn's moon Titan, exploring the possibility of cryovolcanism and its implications for Titan's geology and atmosphere. These studies open new avenues for investigating conditions that might be favorable for extraterrestrial life.
• Education and Outreach: Dr. Lopes is a strong advocate for science education and public outreach, inspiring young scientists, particularly women and underrepresented minorities, to pursue careers in STEM fields.
• Awards and Honors: She has received numerous accolades for her contributions to science, including being a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the Geological Society of America. Her work is highly cited, reflecting her significant impact in the field of planetary volcanology.
• Interdisciplinary Impact: Dr. Lopes has woven geology and physics into planetary science, providing comprehensive insights into other planetary bodies and their potential for sustaining life.

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U.S. consumers have piled up the largest mountain of household debt in the history of the world. If the federal government was not almost 36 trillion dollars in debt, the fact that U.S. households are nearly 18 trillion dollars in debt would be making a lot more headlines. Sadly, our entire society is absolutely saturated with debt at this point. Government debt on all levels is spiraling out of control, corporate debt has ballooned to absurd levels, and consumers have been gorging on debt as if there will never be any consequences. Unfortunately, a time of reckoning has arrived, and it is going to be incredibly painful. On Wednesday, we learned that total credit card debt has surged to a brand new record high of 1.17 trillion dollars… Collectively, Americans now owe a record $1.17 trillion on their credit cards, according to a new report on household debt from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Gabbard is well positioned to become the most influential advisor to President Trump regarding the critical foreign policy and national security problems that will be faced by his administration. President-elect Donald Trump has sent shockwaves through the national security establishment by appointing former Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard as his nominee for the position of director of national intelligence. Social media is ablaze with criticism and condemnation of both the nomination and Gabbard, primarily over past statements she has made critical of U.S. policy regarding Venezuela, Syria, Ukraine, and Russia. Apparently, Gabbard, who serves as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves and has served in combat in Iraq, is somehow deemed “un-American” for daring to speak out against bad policy. It doesn’t matter that history has shown her criticisms to be well-founded.

What is evil? For the average person it’s a difficult concept to explain but most of us know it when we see it. Every once in a while there’s an event which strikes the collective consciousness in such a way that it becomes deeply symbolic. Sometimes these events symbolize ultimate good, and sometimes they symbolize ultimate evil. The public is affected by these things in ways they didn’t expect and might not even comprehend, but they are archetypal and profound nonetheless. In the wake of Donald Trumps election victory and the jubilant celebration some people might overlook one of these recent events; the state assassination of a man’s pet squirrel and the national anger that followed. Why does the death of a squirrel matter? It’s not only about the squirrel, it’s about the context and what it means for our civilization at large.

A Bavarian man’s home was raided for retweeting an image calling Economy Minister Robert Habeck an “idiot”. German Economy Minister Robert Habeck has pressed charges against a 64-year-old man from Bavaria for sharing a meme calling him an idiot. Sometime in June, Stefan Niehoff shared a meme featuring a photo of Habeck with an altered logo of a popular shampoo brand, changing it from Schwarzkopf (black head) to Schwachkopf (weak head). Police raided his home in Lower Franconia at dawn on Tuesday and seized his tablet. Habeck’s lawyers have filed a criminal complaint against Niehoff, prosecutors in the town of Bamberg told the German news agency dpa on Friday. They added that Niehoff also faced charges of uploading an image to X that “referenced the Nazi era.”

The SpaceX CEO reportedly spoke with Vladimir Putin, the Wall Street Journal reported in October. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk should be investigated over media claims that he communicated with several senior Russian officials in recent years, two top Democratic senators have demanded in a letter. Jack Reed, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Jeanne Shaheen, a senior member of the Foreign Relations Committee, raised concerns about the media allegations in a letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland and Pentagon Inspector General Robert Storch on Friday.

The ongoing situation between Israel and Iran is extremely dangerous, because it could pull in the three most powerful, nuclear-armed nations on this planet. The government of Iran has reportedly issued another Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) clearing its air space on certain dates for "rocket launches." According to the information I received last night, Iran has ordered the clearing of its air space beginning November 18 and continuing through November 20. This is significant for several reasons: First, It is well known that Iran intends to retaliate against Israel for the Israeli attack a little over two weeks ago. Second, Iran itself said it would retaliate against Israel "After the U.S. Election but before Trump is sworn in." Third, Iran issued warnings to the residents of Haifa and Tel Aviv over this past weekend, giving them "one week to evacuate those cities" while military guys blustered they were going to "remove Israel from the map."

Marco Rubio, a Republican foreign policy hawk tapped by Donald Trump to lead the US Department of State in his new administration, is known for his confrontational stance toward Iran and close ties with anti-Iran groups. A staunch ally of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Rubio has even advocated for a direct attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities by the Israeli regime, saying such an attack "would have been successful." In a 2015 interview, he asserted that the Tel Aviv regime "has a right to act in its self-defense, which it did in the past when it struck facilities in Syria and other places."

RINO warmonger and former Trump national security advisor John Bolton was being shopped around the failing leftist cable news stations Wednesday to decry Trump’s picks for Director of National Intelligence and Attorney General, even calling for a law enforcement investigation into the two. As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump announced on Wednesday his nomination of Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence and Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz for Attorney General. Bolton lost his mind, calling them the “worst” and “second worst” cabinet nominations in American History.

I had thought Stew Peters was a courageous fellow and maybe he is, but now I see he can be disingenuous and misleading. He is doing that conflating thing… that Crass Media false headline scam… implying that Noem was operating in her new… as yet unconfirmed status… as head of Homeland Insecurity. She did this while governor some time ago, and I suspect it was little more that window dressing. They can’t get around The First Amendment without destroying The Constitution, and that is something Trump would not do. We already know that they get their hooks into every government official they can manage to compromise or intimidate. Of course, this is going on, but… how far? If they could have done here what they did in Europe they would have already done it. Europe and The Crown Colonies do not have a First Amendment and that is how the insidious vipers of Satan were able to pass unreasonable laws that grant them cover for their crimes.

A UN special committee has said that Israeli policies and practices in Gaza are “consistent with the characteristics of genocide”. The committee, set up in 1968 to monitor the Israeli occupation, also said in its annual report that there were serious concerns that Israel was “using starvation as a weapon of war” in the 13-month-old conflict, and was running an “apartheid system” in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. The international court of justice (ICJ) is investigating a claim put forward by South Africa that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza is genocidal, and has ordered Israel to take interim measures to prevent genocide taking place.

We act as though the most traumatic events of our lifetime never happened. There are many symptoms of pandemic-related PTSD.Denial isn’t listed as one of them. It should be. Is denial the way people should handle trauma? We have all been scarred, not just by the hoax, but worse, by the fact that society betrayed us in the most egregious way. Nothing we were told is true. The truth that this was a psyop designed to force us to accept tyranny has not been acknowledged. Not just tyranny but a toxic injection that has maimed and killed millions. No truth. No reckoning. The perps have not been punished.

A powerful UK-US intelligence nexus masquerading as an anti-hate group faces unprecedented legal and congressional scrutiny, as evidence of alleged foreign election interference and constitutional rights violations emerges. Quick Summary: Congressional investigation into CCDH intensifies with new Nov. 21st deadline for documents related to platform manipulation and government collusion. Evidence emerges of CCDH's alleged role in foreign election interference through Labour Party connections and black operations against US presidential candidates. Multiple legal challenges converge as Musk's lawsuit appeal proceeds and new revelations surface about CCDH's role in transnational censorship operations

At a meeting of cardiologists in Auckland, an attendee said the spike protein generated by the mRNA covid injections is a cardiotoxin. As a result, cardiology waiting rooms and hospital cardiac wards are full, especially with young patients, and the problem is not going away. It is getting worse. Meanwhile, Health New Zealand is delaying the release of health data, citing patient confidentiality concerns. And the New Zealand Medical Council continues to prosecute doctors who raise concerns about vaccine safety, creating a culture of fear among medical professionals.

Donald Trump repeated his pledge to end the Ukraine conflagration as he addressed a gala organized by the America First Policy Institute at his Mar-a-Lago resort on November 15, saying that "the conflict has got to stop." There is a general consensus within President-elect Donald Trump’s team that the failed “Project Ukraine” needs to be shut down, British political analyst Alexander Mercouris speculated on his YouTube channel.

The democrats will destroy your world.

Jen Psaki calls for laws to regulate social media and target “disinformation” in the wake of Democrat election losses.

Psaki has told repeated lies about Joe Biden, including his mental state and looking at his watch during the dignified transfer. pic.twitter.com/JxHQc6oe0T

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) November 15, 2024

Jen Psaki calls for laws to regulate social media and target “disinformation” in the wake of Democrat election losses. Psaki has told repeated lies about Joe Biden, including his mental state and looking at his watch during the dignified transfer. “disinformation" is a made up democrat word for truth and freedom of speech. which they want to control.

Don’t Cry, Cryo! Need a Break from Trump’s Term? Freeze Yourself for 4 Years! #Trump #ElonMusk #meltdowns pic.twitter.com/pEZXc0Hdqw

— newzy.com (@realnewzy) November 13, 2024

There was a time in our country when something like this would be produced by Saturday Night Live or one of the late night shows. Unfortunately, those outlets have been taken over by the left and have become utterly humorless.