Tag: In Plain Sight

Israel

Point of no return: the techno-barbaric state of Israel – Pearls and Irritations

Rafah, Gaza. 12th Dec, 2023. Young Palestinians react following Israeli bombardment at Al-Shaboura refugee camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, December 12, 2023. At least 22 people have been reportedly killed, including seven children, in the bombing by Israel in Rafah on Tuesday. Global calls for a ceasefire have been ignored by Israel and the United States, as humanitarian aid operations have collapsed warning of starvation and disease amongst the Gaza population. Image:Alamy / Ismael Mohamad/UPI Credit: UPI/Alamy Live News

This is not a war on Hamas but a war on civilians, the military attack of October 7 the pretext used by a genocidal political and military command to wipe out Palestine once and for all.

Far from wanting to save the Palestinians, the US and its camp followers are lining up alongside their killers. The US provides the arms so the killing can continue. They are all helping to starve the Palestinians by cutting aid to UNRWA. They justify genocide with the ‘right’ of self -defense. They even say they share Israel’s values. Their complicity should see them in the dock as well.

Source: Point of no return: the techno-barbaric state of Israel – Pearls and Irritations

corruption

Senate Republicans stand by Clarence Thomas in the face of growing ethics allegations | Salon.com

Clarence Thomas raises his right hand as he is sworn in, 10 September 1991, during confirmation hearings before the US Senate Judiciary Committee, in Washington D.C. (J. DAVID AKE/AFP via Getty Images)

Cruz and other GOP lawmakers looking for funding from a billionaire defend Crow and Thomas

The outpouring of support from some Senate Republicans is unsurprising following their public backing of Crow after reports that the billionaire keeps a collection of Nazi memorabilia in his home.

“He has an extensive historical museum that examines World War Two,” Cruz told Insider, adding that the media is “deliberately” mischaracterizing the nature of Crow’s collection to further damage Thomas’ reputation.

Source: Senate Republicans stand by Clarence Thomas in the face of growing ethics allegations | Salon.com

Murdoch Media

Tucker Carlson Proposes The US Invade Canada To Liberate Them | Crooks and Liars

Tucker Carlson Proposes The US Invade Canada To Liberate Them

“I’m completely in favor of a Bay of Pigs operation to liberate that country,” Carlson said. “Why should we stand back and let our biggest trading partner, the country with which we share the longest border — a great country — why should we let it become Cuba?”

(Canada is not a communist country nor does it have any chance of being one.)

“Like, why don’t we liberate it? We’re spending all this money to liberate Ukraine from the Russians, why are we not sending an armed force north to liberate Canada from Trudeau, and I mean it?” Carlson chimed.

Source: Tucker Carlson Proposes The US Invade Canada To Liberate Them | Crooks and Liars

Israel

Common Dreams- HRW Says Israel Designed Entry Rules to Further Cut Off Palestinians From Outside World
Omar Shakir HRW

HRW Says Israel Designed Entry Rules to Further Cut Off Palestinians From Outside World

“By making it harder for people to spend time in the West Bank, Israel is taking yet another step toward turning the West Bank into another Gaza, where two million Palestinians have lived virtually sealed off from the outside world for over 15 years.”

Source: Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community | Common Dreams

Murdoch Madness

Murdochs Expose Their Hypocrisy in Lawsuits Over Fox News

In separate defamation suits in the U.S. and Australia, the owners of Fox News contradict themselves by trying to avoid the punishment they seek to inflict on others.Peter MaassPeter MaassAugust 30 2022, 12:14 a.m.

Murdochs Expose Their Hypocrisy in Lawsuits Over Fox News
Israel

Shireen Abu Akleh: A Quarter of a Century of Coverage ended with an Israeli Bullet to the Head

She carried her belongings and went with the Press team into the field to begin the news coverage. She was ready to deliver her visual news report, as she had done for the past 25 years, but her last report made her the topic of the coverage, which was both shocking and bloody. The Israeli occupation army targeted her with a live bullet to the head during Press coverage from Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank and she fell to the ground, while her colleague, Press Producer, Ali Al-Samoudi, was wounded. Her colleagues rushed her in a car in a desperate attempt to rescue her, while the features of her exploded head changed, according to shocking clips documenting the incident. These were the last clips of Shireen Abu Akleh, who is renowned, as she is the Palestinian journalist who has always been present on Al-Jazeera TV and known by generations in every Arab home, present during the daily incidents and major events.

Source: Shireen Abu Akleh: A Quarter of a Century of Coverage ended with an Israeli Bullet to the Head

Fox News

Hypocrites At Fox News Implement Vaccine Passport For Employees | Crooks and Liars

Hypocrites At Fox News Implement Vaccine Passport For Employees

According to CNN, Fox’s email to employees said, “providing this information to FOX will assist the company with space planning and contact tracing.” Not only that, the process has been given the name “Fox Clear Pass,” and provides the following incentive for complying: “You no longer are required to complete your daily health screening through WorkCare/WorkMatters.” Waitaminute, that’s not a…not…a VACCINE PASSPORT, IS IT???

Source: Hypocrites At Fox News Implement Vaccine Passport For Employees | Crooks and Liars

Trump, Trumpland Revealed

Four Years Later: ‘Welcome to Psychopathocracy,’ the Sequel

You cannot reason with a psychopath, you cannot shame such a person or appeal to their better instincts. There is no point in writing open letters to them. The usual way of dealing with politicians who develop some wild ideas in the course of their search for voters and campaign funds will not work.

Four Years Later: ‘Welcome to Psychopathocracy,’ the Sequel
Trump, Trumpland Revealed

Trump’ Movement Is Shot Through With Fascism
Donald Trump speaks to supporters at a campaign rally at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport.

Allegations of involuntary hysterectomies conducted on people in a migrant detention center? Record numbers of children going to bed hungry? The revelation that President Donald Trump sat on his hands upon learning that Russia paid bounties to kill American soldiers? It’s futile to pinpoint when exactly Trump’s America left the community of civilized peoples. It’s more important and useful to explain how we kid ourselves about the fascist impulses of his “ordinary” supporters that hide in plain sight.

Trump’ Movement Is Shot Through With Fascism
Trumpland Revealed, Uncategorized

Elliott Abrams Isn’t Going to Bring “Democracy” to Venezuela

Elliott Abrams, left, listens to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talk about Venezuela at the State Department in Washington, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

On December 11, 1981 in El Salvador, a Salvadoran military unit created and trained by the U.S. Army began slaughtering everyone they could find in a remote village called El Mozote. Before murdering the women and girls, the soldiers raped them repeatedly, including some as young as 10 years old, and joked that their favorites were the 12-year-olds. One witness described a soldier tossing a 3-year-old child into the air and impaling him with his bayonet. The final death toll was over 800 people.

The next day, December 12, was the first day on the job for Elliott Abrams as assistant secretary of state for human rights and humanitarian affairs in the Reagan administration. Abrams snapped into action, helping to lead a cover-up of the massacre. News reports of what had happened, Abrams told the Senate, were “not credible,” and the whole thing was being “significantly misused” as propaganda by anti-government guerillas.

This past Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo named Abrams as America’s special envoy for Venezuela. According to Pompeo, Abrams “will have responsibility for all things related to our efforts to restore democracy” in the oil-rich nation.

Elliott Abrams Isn’t Going to Bring “Democracy” to Venezuela

fraud

This is why diamonds aren’t rare or valuable

Marilyn Monroe gasps at a diamond

This is why diamonds aren’t rare or valuable

Trump

Trump’s growing corruption: The president’s business conflicts and nepotism become even more flagrant – Salon.com

Republicans are ignoring the shameless self-dealing and graft of the Trump administration. They must pay a price

Source: Trump’s growing corruption: The president’s business conflicts and nepotism become even more flagrant – Salon.com