Showing posts with label squad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label squad. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

The issue of Somalis in Minneapolis

Somali Muslim Congressperson, the Squad's Ilhan Omar
(Sammy Obeid) Minneapolis Somalis vs. ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | stand up
This Is What America Looks Like
(By Ilhan Omar) Ilhan Omar’s career is a collection of historic firsts: She is the first refugee, the first Somali American, and one of the first two Muslim women to serve in the United States Congress.

Against a xenophobic and divisive administration, she has risen to global fame as a powerful voice in the Democratic party’s new progressive chorus of congresswomen of color, The Squad.

This Is What America Looks Like is a tale of the aspirations, disappointments, successes, and surprises in the life of an immigrant and Muslim in the U.S. today.


This is Omar’s story told on her own terms: from a childhood in Mogadishu and four long years at a Kenyan refugee camp, to her arrival in America -- penniless and speaking only Somali -- and her triumphant election to the U.S. House of Representatives.

In the face of merciless slander and constant attacks from opponents in both parties, Rep. Omar continues to speak up for her beliefs. Courageous, hopeful and defiant, her memoir is marked by her irrepressible spirit, even in the darkest of times. More

Monday, July 21, 2025

Random violence, cops kill themselves

Joy and happiness at Knotts Berry Farm Water Park
Just an influencer girl sued by just a kid and judge - Structural racism in Republican rural Arkansas



Suicide? - How dare you suggest such a thing of our best and brightest detectives! - Incompetence? - Well, suddenly self-elimination is looking like a better explanation, with their big families to worry about. Why, if they were incompetent, that might put a smudge on the badge of the Sheriff's Department. Quick! Let's look for someone else to blame, like the owner who left grenades in a storage locker that our brave paramilitary investigators stumbled upon, x-rayed, and were surprised to find out were live munitions.

Thursday, September 26, 2024

US to send troops to Israel (Jimmy Dore)


Trump is on side of WAR because he is paid by Jewish Sheldon Adelson

Republicans unhappy with Trump (rense.com)
Trump admits to being controlled by Jewish pro-Israel billionaire American donors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, bragging how their contribution (reportedly of US $100 million for his previous campaign) led Trump to first give Jerusalem to Israel as its capital and then acknowledged its war booty occupied and stolen (annexed in contravention of international law) from neighboring Lebanon to ensure good relations with his financial supporters and the continued flow of money to his campaigns. Trump has become the corrupt politician he once embarrassed Democrats and Republicans for being.


Which way should we vote, Dems or GOP?
France’s former-prime minister rips imperial US (Ukraine and Gaza) proxy wars even as Pres. G-Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris are sending more troops to the Middle East to fight on behalf of imperial Zionist forces led by the U.S. and its client state and diplomatic cover Israel (Palestine). The "Iron Dome" is a farce, a lie promoted by the mainstream media to make military aggression more acceptable. Dictator PM Bibi Netanyahu is all for it, doing as the CIA bids him to do. The International Court of Justice is prosecuting Israel for its genocide even as it expands it to Lebanon and Iran, having already damaged Syria, Egypt, and Jordan. Might this result in the beginning of World War III because neither Kamala nor Trump nor Kennedy saying U.S. support and cover for Israel's genocide must stop.

Saturday, June 29, 2024

Hawk Tuah Girl, AOC, Bernie Sanders (JDS)


Bartender Hailey Welch is the "Hawk Tuah Girl," not Elaine Robinson (of The Graduate fame, a girl from LA who studied at UC Berkeley before returning and marrying the graduate). And this is the most significant story of the day in the US, where a boring election as two guilty parties vie for the right to continue their corruption and graft, using the name of the person to enrich family members behind the scenes. Hunter needs more bribes and pardons, and Ivanka might not always have Jared, but at least the men of the US have a chance to maybe one day meet, date, and be spit on by Hailey. That's the shock news people in this nation really care about. Party on and see how much fun the new promiscuity can be.

One is reminded of Chappell Roan singing "Good Luck Babe" during her sexy tour celebrating drag culture. "You can kiss a hundred boys in bars...good luck, babe..." Meanwhile, what is Bernie Sanders up to? Saving us from corruption and another disaster in the White House? What about The Squad's loudest star AOC? She must be fighting for all that's right and fair. Did Genocide Joe really commit the war crime of sending banned weapons to a country that is using those weapons to commit war crimes? Cluster bombs, which are illegal by international convention, are raining down on Russians because Ukraine knows it has diplomatic cover from the US if its leaders should be brought before the Int'l Court of Justice (ICJ in the Hague) just as genocidal Israel?

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

UCLA: Riot police attack at 1:20 am (live)

Police began by throwing flashbang grenade at peaceful students sitting quietly near steps
Palestine solidarity encampment at UCLA braces for police sweep (Daily Bruin)
Remember, students, police brutality is not limited to helpless minorities in the dark (LAPD).
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LIVE: Students continue pro-Palestinian protests at UCLA | REUTERS
(Reuters) Started streaming 8:30 pm, May 1, 2024: University of California students in Los Angeles continue pro-Palestinian protests at UCLA, the area's premiere public university with the smartest students in the southern part of the state.
Mindful Awareness Research Center (UCLA)
WHAT DO THESE STUDENTS WANT?
It is very easy. The demands are clear: DIVEST from funding or doing business with criminal rogue state Israel. Boycott its money-making endeavors. Sanction Netanyahu and his fellow war criminals inside and outside Israel. It's basic BDS. It may not be possible for the UC system or UCLA in particular to stop Israel or the criminal elements in it known as the IDF and the Mossad.

Bruins are Athenians for a free society.
However, it is absolutely possible and necessary for UCLA to break ties with Israel and stop investing in it, no matter how much war profits it loses in the process. We pay tuition, and we do not want a single penny of it to go to the killing, maiming, and continued oppressing of Gaza, the West Bank, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestinian refugees languishing in "temporary" refugee camps all around the region, camps created and patrolled by Israel.

Police escalate UCLA campus protests.
Students are calling on the Biden administration, the Pentagon, and the entire American war machine (all its covert apparatuses secretly sending missiles behind everyone's back as Congress argues about how much money for the genocide to send to Israel and how many billions to give to Ukraine to fight our proxy-war against Russia) to pull out of supporting these crimes against humanity in the most well-documented genocide of all time. Why should students, why should any protester trust the mainstream corporate media, which constantly cheerleads any war it gets wind of, to report accurately? There is NO reason to talk to the media. There is every reason to keep the encampment closed until the University understands what is being demanded by the people going deep into debt to finance its operations.

UCLA peaceful protests: Police in riot gear yearning for violent show of force
(FOX 11 Los Angeles) Streamed live May 1, 2024: Police (LAPD, FBI, Sheriff's Dept, Culver City PD, Beverly Hills PD, Santa Monica PD, DPS campus security in a force of an estimated 600-800) of heavily armed and trained paramilitary troopers and undercover operatives to face off with 1,000 unarmed, peaceful students staging a sit in) at UCLA have used yesterday's attacks by Jewish outside agitators (probably LAPD agent provocateurs as their pretext) declared the pro-Palestinian encampment on campus is an unlawful gathering, and everyone has been ordered to leave.
  • Police have become violent and moved in to attack students, by attempting to startle them into stampeding, risking life and limb. But students held their ground. Now they are sitting down, chanting: "Peaceful protest! Peaceful protest! Peaceful protest!" Police have brought in at least ten buses to load up students like cattle and take them to a prison camp (or holding tank, county jail, or FEMA project).
There are thousands of onlookers, possible reinforcements for the encampment, from which they are being kept. Police are keeping them at bay. There is a massive law enforcement presence standing by at the campus, suggesting that a possible move to dismantle the encampment is imminent. More: foxla.com/news/ucla-pro-p...

Resist tyranny! Stop war! Free Palestine! Divest!
In a city of ten million, one thousand brave students, many of them teens, dare to stand up to police oppression to help the victims of Jewish-Zionist-Israel's war crimes and genocide.

Does the state not understand that? Do the administrators not understand? Do the average citizens of LA not understand? There is one group that does understand.

And that is the professors, who have come out to protect the students and if need be be brutalized and arrested with them. In solidarity with all that's good (peace, Palestine's rights, divestment from war profiteering, a need for a third party or a second one against our one-party-with-two-wings system), opposing all that's wrong (Israel, pro-IDF Jews and sympathizers, the US military funded by both corrupt Democrats and corrupt Republicans). It makes perfect sense if one listens to the words of Mario Savio or Rage Against the Machine lyrics.


"There's a time when the operation of The Machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears, and the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that, unless you're free, The Machine will be prevented from operating at all!"
- Mario Savio, Student Free Speech Movement Berkeley in the Sixties
Protest chants
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
From the sea to the river, Palestine will live forever!

UC, UC, you can't hide
We charge you with genocide!

Free, free Palestine
Free, free, free Palestine!

Viva, viva Palestina
Viva, viva Palestina!

Hey hey, ho ho, the occupation has got to go
Hey hey, ho ho, Netanyahu has got to go!

Intifada, Intifada
Long live Intifada!

These are just a few of the social justice chants on the lips of children and young adults standing up against genocide, against the American war machine and the war profiteers that support it: the university, the UC Board of Regents, the bankers and funders of Israel, the CIA, the Pentagon, the NSA, NSC, DHS, FBI, Meta Google, Facebook, Apple, and other covert and infiltrated spying agencies.
  • UCLA Students for Palestine 2024; Reuters (live video), May 1, 2024; FOX 11 Los Angeles; AP (video); Shauna Schwartz, Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

AOC shames Dems to SUCK it and vote Biden

Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Obey the Party, orders Establishment politico Alexendria O. Cortez of The Squad

You don't have a choice. Vote how we tell you.

Watch shameless sellout AOC shame disaffected Democrats into SUCKING IT UP and voting for creepy dotard Joe Biden
(Rising/The Hill) Premiered Jan. 23, 2024: Co-Hosts Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss total disappointment Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's endorsement of old, senile, demented, genocidal Joe Biden. #AOC #Biden #Trump

Sunday, October 22, 2023

Largest Jewish-led pro-Palestine protest

Amy Goodman (democracynow.org); Ashley Wells, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Boycott, divest, and sanction (BDS) the State of Israel for its war crimes (answercoalition.org)

Ceasefire! The Squad's Rashida Tlaib and Naomi Klein join thousands in Jewish-led D.C. protest against US-Israel's war on Palestinians
Jewish Voice for Peace (jvp.org)
Thousands rallied in a peaceful demonstration at the U.S. Capitol this week, calling for an immediate ceasefire in Israel as it bombs the tiny Gaza Strip, in what organizers with IfNotNow (IfNotNowMovement.org) and Jewish Voice for Peace (jvp.org) called the largest-ever protest by Jews in support of Palestine.

"No Genocide in Our Name"!
Hundreds were also arrested for civil dissent during a peaceful sit-in of the Cannon House Office Building. Democracy Now! features addresses by Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian American member of Congress (and lackluster member of The Squad) and Jewish author Naomi Klein:

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Saturday, April 1, 2023

Latin Crypto-Jews: Conversos (video)

Explainers, Jewish Unpacked, 2/10/20; Sheldon S., Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

 
Conversos: The Story of Latin America's Crypto Jews | Unpacked
(Unpacked) This week's explainer is unpacking the story of the Crypto Jews or Conversos (Spanish forced "Converts") and explaining why a surprising number of Latin Americans and people of Latin American descent have some Jewish ancestry.
 
No, it actually comes from Vedic/Hindu India.
To understand why, let’s go back in time, all the way back to 1492 [the alleged year Jewish Columbus "discovered" the Caribbean without ever setting foot on the mainland].

That’s the year in which two huge historical events took place -- events that shook up the Jewish community of Spain and changed the trajectory of their history forever.

Hey, Dontell, that sounds pro-white and racist!
This week’s explainer unpacks those events, explains why some Latin American families have traditions that are markedly different to those of their neighbors [who were mainly forced into converting to Catholicism, not from Judaism but from pantheism and other Indigenous spiritual traditions].

It also looks at why the numbers of people taking up an offer of citizenship from the Spanish government has been bigger than anyone could have imagined.
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  • Crypto-Jews in New Mexico, USA?
  • "The Story of the Jews" (companion piece): NMiF Producer Megan Kamerick focuses on the experience of conversos or "crypto-Jews" in New Mexico. In 1492, the Edict of Expulsion launched the diaspora of Sephardic Jews from Spain [and this included the throwing out of Christopher Columbus who capitalized on the opportunity for the Crown by taking a few ships in search of plunder and slaves]. Many found their way to the New World, including New Mexico, USA, although they could not openly practice their religion, but they could be Catholics. Dr. Frances Levine, director of the New Mexico History Museum, and historian Roger Martínez-Dávila flesh out the history of these people and their role in New Mexico heritage and identity. Sonya Loya, an artisan and educator who has recovered her family's secret Jewish past, discusses her personal journey and conversion to Judaism.
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Thursday, March 9, 2023

The Squad votes for war: confronting Tlaib

Jimmy Dore, Kurt Metzger (YouTube); Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Ukrainian military, like the Russian, hates gays and its tiny LGBTQIA movement at home.

Rashida Tlaib confronted about sending $100 billion to US Proxy-War on Russia in Ukraine
(The Jimmy Dore Show) March 9, 2023. During a recent constituent gathering to discuss environmental concerns in the Dearborn, Michigan area, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib was asked whether some of the $100+ billion she voted to send to Ukraine could have been applied to domestic issues like the ones being discussed. Rather than answer the question, Representative Tlaib and her co-host, public health professional Abdul El-Sayed, deflected, ignored the questioner, and insisted on moving on to a different subject entirely.

Jimmy Dore and Americans’ comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the cardinal sin of violating protocol even when facing global thermonuclear war. #TheJimmyDoreShow More

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

CIA-backed Death Squads in Afghanistan

Democracy Now!, 1/12/23; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
The Buddha was from Afghanistan (Gandhara/Kapilavastu), Central Asia, next to proto-India
More war crimes are committed by the USA's CIA (secret service) than any other syndicate.

Night Raids: Victims of CIA-backed Afghan Death Squads known as “Zero Units” demand accountability
(Democracy Now!) Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!) speaks with journalist Lynzy Billing, whose investigation for ProPublica details how CIA-backed death squads, known as "Zero Units," have yet to be held accountable for murdering hundreds of civilians during the U.S. War on Afghanistan.

The CIA loves war, killing, controlling minds
The Afghan units, which were routinely accompanied by [Christian] U.S. soldiers, were feared throughout rural [Islamic] Afghanistan for their brutal night raids, often descending upon helpless villagers from helicopters and carrying out summary executions before disappearing.

Dalai Lama in bed with CIA
Families of victims continue to demand answers. But since the operations were directed by the CIA rather than the [formal U.S.] military, there is almost no oversight or disclosure when things go wrong.

“Many people I spoke to feel that these operations…were counterproductive and actually had turned their families against the U.S.-backed government in Kabul and against the U.S.,” says Billing.

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One Israel is better than five CIAs, admits high American official accidentally telling the truth.


Four CIA spies at the dawn of the Cold War
ADMISSION (New York Times): "cooperation between intelligence agencies of the two countries [US and Israel], a subject generally...shrouded in vagueness. Mr. [Wolf] Blitzer has some of the specifics on the record: the retired Air Force intelligence chief, Gen. George F. Keegan, told him of Israeli assistance in discovering Soviet Air Force capabilities, new weapons, electronics and jamming devices. ''I could not have procured the intelligence...with five CIAs,'' General Keegan is quoted as saying. More

American corruption threatens global security