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Born Norma Jeane Mortenson, converted to Jewish atheism
I would do anything to become an American sex symbol and finally be loved, Daddy.
I'm an LA girl from an LA world.
Marilyn Monroe was born in Los Angeles, living in 12 foster homes and an orphanage, getting married at 16 to escape all that. She divorced then dated gaunt, Jewish, nebbish writer Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman) and identified with Jewish people as a "dispossessed group."
She got engaged to Miller and wanted to convert to Judaism to make herself part of Miller's family [206]. She was instructed by Rabbi Robert Goldberg and converted on July 1, 1956 [205].
However pretty our food, it comes out the same.
Monroe's interest in Judaism as a religion was limited: She called herself a "Jewish atheist" and did not practice the faith after divorcing Miller, though she did retain some religious items [205].
Egypt lifted her ban after her divorce was finalized in 1961 [205]. Then she married baseball star and Italian Catholic Joe DiMaggio.
She's Catholic. Don't let anyone tell you different, like my sainted mother.
First kill animals, drink their blood (cooked as au jus) then kill humans and profit.
The State of "Israel" already has a homeland, and it's called the Jewish Autonomous Oblast or JAO. Anyone can look it up and move there.
The viciously profitable BUSINESS of war
(Jake Tran) ๐ There’s something special about war.
Over the past 3,400 years of human history, we’ve spent only 268 years in peace.
Milk war for money.
But the business of war goes much further back than that, with the first one ever recorded in 2,700 BCE in Mesopotamia. This makes the industry of war have a longer track record than the information industry, education, and banking combined.
HOW? Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
War is the ultimate discipline of any government. War is to government what life and death is to humans. If nations can meet the challenge of war, they’ll survive. If it can’t, they’ll perish.
War can also be looked at as a racket.
If you can help governments in their primal act of survival to remain in power by offering raw materials, weapons, soldiers, services to soldiers, you’re going to be the government’s best friend.
Normal business profit margins are around 10%, give or take.
But war-time profits? We’re talking 20%, 60%, 100%, 300%, 800%, the sky is the limit!
DuPont for example during WWI, during the war-time years, their profits increased by more than 950%!
Or take the Central Leather Company at that time, in the three years before the war, profits were around $3.5m. In 1916? $15m.
During the Iraq War, often called the most privatized war in history.
Don't start having second thoughts now, Bibi. When you sell your soul, you have to ask the Satan to guide you. - No, Joe, I was just thinking how we could kill ALL of them AND keep me out of jail.
The CIA works for corporate profits, not for US.
KBR, the main logistics supplier contractor for the US, we’re talking food, facilities, and so on, got a whopping $39.5 billion in Iraq-related contracts
KBR’s parent company, Halliburton’s CEO was paid $42.6m in 2004
CACI’s CEO made a fairly decent $22.2m in 2004
TITAN? He takes the crown with a $47.2m income in 2004 and 2005.
If we look throughout history -- funding and supplying the enemy is all in a day's work as a war profiteer
in the war industry: Customers are all the governments of the world.
It's you and me against China, Dolly. - O.K.
You can’t make war-time profits...if there isn’t a war.
The general public usually never wants to go to war. Now is the time to lobby for war, push for more conflicts, max out campaign contributions, get the mainstream media involved.
This film and advice is, of course, ironic. That is to say, we mean the opposite. The Buddha taught that there are five kinds of "wrong" livelihood: business in weapons, people (slaves), animal flesh (meat), intoxicants (alcohol, drugs), and poisons. A wise person avoids these as grave wrongs, harmful karma, instead living abundantly by "right" livelihood.
DC is like being in a Satanic cult, Skull 'n Bones
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Government and media roles in pro-war propaganda | THE WAR YOU DON'T SEE | John Pilger documentary
(FilmIsNow Movies) This film is a powerful and timely investigation into the corporate mainstream media's role in promoting war after war.
Wargasm and money, that's what war is good for.
It traces the history of "embedded" and independent reporting from the carnage of WWI to the U.S. destruction of Buddhist Hiroshima, Japan, and from the U.S. invasion of Buddhist Vietnam[and secret mass bombing, directed by genocidal U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger, of neighboring Buddhist Cambodia and Laos] to the current U.S. war on formerly Buddhist Afghanistan and the U.S. disaster in Iraq (formerly ancient Mesopotamia), next to future U.S. target Iran (formerly the great Persian Empire).
As U.S. weapons and propaganda techniques become ever more sophisticated, the nature of war is developing onto an electronic battlefield in which journalists play a key role, and civilians (not combatants) are the main victims. But who is the real enemy?
Written, produced, and directed by John Pilger with Alan Lowery
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00:00:00 Irresponsibly linking Oct. 7 to German Holocaust
00:01:20 What ACTUALLY happened on Oct. 7
00:02:06 The bodies found
00:02:23 Why we're not allowed to discuss what really happened
00:03:00 What is "Hamas" and why were they formed?
00:04:40 Hamas' charter
00:04:50 Hamas NOT Isis
00:06:50 Hamas is Israel's partner
00:07:53 Why won't Israel negotiate?
00:09:30 Why Netanyahu needs to extend genocide to save political life
00:10:00 "Unique opportunity" for Israel
00:10:50 How could people be shocked by Oct. 7?
00:12:00 Settler colonialism is violence and breeds violence
00:12:30 Apartheid consensus
00:13:51 Palestinian fractures
00:15:30 The Dahiya Doctrine
00:16:40 Biden's 40 beheaded babies lie
00:17:05 Biden is being politically self-destructive
ABOUT: Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney, associate professor of Africana Studies at the Program of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She recently completed a non-resident fellowship of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School and was a Mahmoud Darwish Visiting Professor in Palestinian Studies at Brown University.
Prof Erakat is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), which received the Palestine Book Award and the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign Affairs. She is co-founding editor of Jadaliyya and an editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as Human Geography. She is a co-founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival.
She has served as legal counsel for a congressional subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives, as legal advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights, and as national organizer of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Erakat has also produced video documentaries, including Gaza in Context and Black Palestinian Solidarity. Her writings have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, Al Jazeera, and The Boston Review. She is a frequent commentator on CBS News, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, Fox News, the BBC, and NPR, among others. Her awards include the NLG Law for the People Award (2021) and the Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar award (2022).
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Israel, Hamas ceasefire ends after 7 days of captive and prisoner exchanges
(LiveNOW from FOX) Nov. 30, 2023: Despite reports of possible extensions, the temporary ceasefire "pause" by Israel on its extermination of Palestinians under the pretext of trying to only kill Hamas has ended. Israel restarted by blaming Hamas for a violation, ignoring its own shooting of Palestinians trying to return to their homes in Gaza to see if they were still standing. The operational pause was set to end by proclamations made by the far-right inspired Netanyahu, but additionally Israel says Hamas fired something toward Israeli territory, according to the IDF. Israel intercepted a homemade "rocket" from Gaza about 40 minutes before the temporary pause was set to end.
US Gen. Smedley Butler; US Marine, UN Weapon InspectorScott Ritter, FUN 24H, Nov. 30, 2023, Garland Nixon, GP; Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Scott Ritter: "Israel is horrific genocidal, maniacal Zionist country, Hamas winning battle for Gaza"
War Is a Racket (Smedley Butler)
(FUN 24H)
Nov. 30, 2023: "Zionism is a sickness," says Scott Ritter. U.S. General Smedley Butler was right: War is a Racket, a scam, a scheme, a cheat, a fraud, a lie motivated by profits. #scottritter#hamas #palestine #hamas #israel
"'From the river to the sea' was invented by the rabid rightwing Likud Party that supports current Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu. It cries that pro-Palestine peaceful demonstrators sing it, but they wrote it to excuse their genocide against Arabs, Palestinians, Gazans. There is a rightwing in Israel even more bloodthirsty than CIA Asset Netanyahu. Illegal Israeli settlers are glad to kill to steal homes and land. Netanyahu's government hands out automatic weapons for them to do it. And they do.
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U.S. genocidal Sec'y of State Henry Kissinger, who came from Nazi Germany as a teen, is dead at the age of 100. The former U.S. statesman served as national security adviser and secretary of state for Pres. Nixon and Pres. Ford at the height of the Cold War and wielded influence over U.S. foreign policy for decades afterward.
No one gave a better assessment and obituary for U.S. War Adviser Henry Kissinger than now deceased Anthony Bourdain. He is quoted in this Democracy Now! video.
His direct actions led to genocide, massacres, illegal bombings, coups, destabilizations, profits for corporate war profiteers, leaving a bloody legacy in Catholic Latin America, Buddhist Southeast Asia, and beyond.
100 years of monstrous advice to US
Security Adviser Kissinger began ruining the U.S. and sending us down a genocidal path since leaving Harvard for Washington, DC, which would only be about 75 years of monstrous advice. However bad he was, those who took his advice must also be held to account.
I'm not a monster. I'm a human animal.
Once out of office, Kissinger continued until his death to advise U.S. presidents and other top officials who celebrate him as a visionary diplomat.
Yale University historian Greg Grandin says those glowing obituaries only reveal “the moral bankruptcy of the [American] political establishment” that ignores how Kissinger’s actions may have led to the deaths of three or four million people across the planet.
(Star Trends) Premiered Nov. 12, 2023: There are good people, some born Jewish, and they speak up when they realized they have been lied to for so long. The world was deceived, but no one more so than Zionist Jews themselves. (Somehow the Ultra-Orthodox kept their heads while suffering the most anti-Jewish discrimination, as the other blended in and "passed" for white since this is really about the European/Ashkenazi experience, joining the IDF to go kill for a homeland and ethno-state, an occupation and apartheid).
Myles Burke, BBC.com, 11/29/23; Crystal Q., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Heroic Rosa Parks in 1955, after planning to say "no" to getting up (Getty Images)
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Rosa Parks: The 'no' that sparked the civil rights movement
I have seen the Promised Land.
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.
In these exclusive BBC clips, discover how her courageous act of defiance set in motion a chain of events that ended segregation in the US, but at a personal cost to Parks herself.
On a winter's evening in 1955, a 42-year-old African-American woman named Rosa Parks, tired after a long day of work as a seamstress, boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, to get home. She paid her fare and took an empty seat in the area of the bus marked "colored."
Ladies man Rev. MLK, Jr.
Fifty-five years earlier, racist Montgomery had passed a law to segregate bus passengers by race. The front of the bus was reserved for white travelers, the seats at the back for Blacks.
But it had also become a custom that bus drivers would instruct a Black passenger to give up a seat if there were no "white-only" seats.
As the bus filled up, bus driver James Blake demanded that she and three other black passengers give up their seats. Rosa Parks alone refused.
Females were attracted to MLK's charisma.
"I did this because I felt I was being violated as a human being. I had had a hard day at work on the job, [I was] physically tired as well as mentally vexed. I was sick of this type of thing we had to endure as a people because of our race," she later said in a BBC interview. More + VIDEO
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