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Vennala Gaddar Probably Doesn’t Know! She didn’t see properly and must have spoken says Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan. Vennala Gaddar, daughter of balladeer Gaddar responded strongly to Pawan Kalyan’s comments on Telangana. “We fought for our state, we didn’t buy it. It is our state that...

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I WILL CONTEST FROM TELANGANA!! Andhra Deputy CM and Janasena party president, actor, Pawan Kalyan gives a very high octane speech from his residence in Hyderabad declaring his intentions for the upcoming elections. While speaking very animatedly he says he will question about every problem in Telangana, contest in Telangana and tour all of Telangana. It is nice to see his love for Telangana and its problems. I guess all the problems in Andhra Pradesh are solved already, including the new capital construction. Also looks like he is very respectfully paving way for Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu’s son and minister Nara Lokesh to become the CM of Andhra Pradesh by stepping aside. As Chandra Babu Naidu crossed 76 years age, there is a clamouring demand for the succession process to start both from his community & party loyalists. Looks like Pawan Kalyan has finally realised that he will have to continue playing second fiddle to Nara Lokesh & TDP and hence decided to take a plunge into Telangana politics instead. This could also mean that through Jana Sena, BJP will try to establish themselves here. But again within BJP, no one is willing to even let Pawan Kalyan within an arm’s reach. But highly likely he will be used as a pawn by TDP to distract from the failures of their erstwhile party member and even now hardcore loylaist who calls himself a proud TDP-college student. If he is trying to pull a Tamil Nadu CM Vijay kind of a stunt (must be some ill-advice or misdirection from his team), Pawan Kalyan should know that Telangana is not like Tamil Nadu. People here gave up their lives and fought for decades for the pride of their land, their culture, their identity and their own rule. I hope these antics don’t cost Pawan Kalyan and Jana Sena dearly. It will be a neither here nor there situation.

Revathi

37,311 views • 2 months ago

In three days, YouTuber Bachalakuri Joseph alias Ravan was arrested for the fourth time in Andhra Pradesh. Ravan was picked up from his residence in Hyderabad, Telangana on the intervening night of 30th June 2026-1st July 2026, by the Kakinada district police and was shifted to the Pithapuram Town Police Station. He allegedly made derogatory remarks against Deputy CM Pawan Kalyan during a public meeting of Dalit Christians earlier. Ravan was granted bail by Pithapuram district court on 1st July. Within minutes of securing bail, on 2nd July morning, the Sarpavaram Police immediately arrested him. But the same night, Kakinada Mobile Magistrate Court granted Ravan bail in this second case. On 3rd July morning, again moments after he stepped out on his second bail, police from Krishna district took him into custody for the third time. Late last night he was granted bail in the Inaguduru police case. Immediately after his third bail, he was arrested for the fourth time early today morning by the Payakaraopet Police Station. He is currently being shifted to that police station and then will be produced before the magistrate. Ravan is being taken from one police station in one corner of the state to the other. Meanwhile Janasena cadre in local areas are gathering in front of police stations demanding police hand over Ravan to them. It is unfortunate how this is unfolding. Not just the whole thing reeks of absolute vendetta politics, but also is absolute waste of precious time of police and the already burdened courts. This whole situation also poses a greater law & order issue with emotions running way too high. I don’t know how long this will keep repeating, for now it is not a great look for the Andhra Pradesh government and especially for Deputy CM Pawan Kalyan. It will set a very wrong precedent..!! I have known Ravan personally. He used to be a regular on my TV debate show. While I haven’t watched his recent work, Ravan is very strongly opinionated and a strong willed individual. His YouTube Prasna (question) has a good fan base and am assuming carries the same belief system. Citizens who ask right kind of questions are essentially for a balanced Democracy. While most media is being controlled by a few individuals, independent voices like Ravan’s are extremely important. Free speech and right to freedom of expression are our fundamental constitutional rights. No one should be denied the same in a functional democracy. Three courts have granted him bail in the last three days. Aren’t the courts are telling something?!

Revathi

164,762 views • 1 month ago

Have You Heard of Belli Lalitha? Belli Lalitha was one of the seven siblings in her family, she had no formal education and in fact worked as a labourer in a spinning mill. At the age of 25, she became so powerful that governments and people in power feared her. So much so that she was chopped into 17 pieces and her body was strewn across in Bhongir, Telangana. Belli Lalitha was a traditional Oggu Katha singer. She was fondly called “Telangana Gana Kokila”; Nightingale of Telangana. She founded the Telangana Kala Samithi. Though not properly educated, she used her lived experiences of being a labourer in a spinning mill & wrote and sang songs that reverberated amongst Telangana public, especially women. She became voice of the oppressed Telangana public and questioned the existing Andhra rule. Demanding for a separate state, she sang with her heart in “Daga Padda Telangana” Sabha. She became an icon for separate Telangana movement in Bhongir, Warangal, Medak, Mahabubnagar. She also rescued many women who have been pushed into prostitution in Hyderabad. On 26th May 1999, Lalitha came back home from wok and stepped out for a meeting and never came back home. Police refused to acknowledge her missing case. When people started agitating a district level police officer went to the extent of saying they would have encountered have they caught her and wouldn’t simply arrest her. A fake letter in her name was circulated. Her character was assassinated by a few media houses. Entire 10 districts of Telangana people started coming on to the streets and questioning the government. After four days, a woman’s dismembered body parts were found in an agricultural well. Police denied they are Belli Lalitha’s. For 13 days police kept recovering a woman’s body parts across Bhongir. Finally! On 10th June 1999 midnight, Lalitha’s head was found. Thousands attended her funeral and people raised slogans against the then CM Chandrababu Naidu and Home Minister Alimineti Madhava Reddy. People till today believe that Madhava Reddy started getting jittery about Lalitha’s rising popularity in Bhongir, his constituency. She was to contest in the elections too. And it is widely believed that they wanted to even silence the Telangana statehood voices. Police and government tried to pass her murder as a murder of passion. They demeaned her character and spread vicious stories about her. But her brother Krishna fought and filed a case on gangster Nayeem who executed similar murders earlier. Much later, police said gangster Nayeem’s brother Alimuddin and his associate was behind Lalitha’s murder. Her brutal murder angered and inspired many to join the separate Telangana movement. She was as powerful as Gaddar but being a woman from golla-kuruma community, her story was largely remains untold. Belli Lalitha was a voice of resistance, a voice that made powerful people uncomfortable. Wanted to share Belli Lalitha’s song and story on her birth anniversary.

Revathi

220,367 views • 3 months ago

It is a pleasure to be with you this evening to celebrate the memory and contribution of our first Prime Minister, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru. He was the prime architect of the modern Indian nation-state. His was a life anchored firmly in parliamentary democracy. He had a steadfast belief in planned economic growth and a profound commitment to the development of scientific temper alongside the development of scientific and technological capabilities. To him, secularism — in which he firmly believed — meant the celebration of India’s many diversities while strengthening its fundamental unity. His legacy continues to shape our everyday lives. Decades have gone by since his time, but he continues to serve as a beacon of light to millions of our countrymen and women. It is inevitable that such a monumental figure will have his life and work analysed and critiqued — and that is indeed as it should be. Although the temptation to divorce him from his times and the challenges that he had to face and to look at him, devoid of the historical context in which he functioned has become quite widespread. Yet, while we welcome ongoing analysis of his contributions, what is not acceptable is the systematic attempt being made to denigrate, distort, demean and defame him. The sole objective of this is to not only diminish him as a personality but also his universally recognised role in India's independence struggle and his early decades as a leader of an independent nation challenged by unprecedented problems, but it is also to demolish his multifaceted legacy in a crude and self-serving attempt to rewrite history. Analysis is one thing, but deliberate mischief with what he said, what he wrote and what he did is another thing and totally unacceptable. And who are the forces that have launched this project? We all know that they have worked for years and years—for decades—and finally, here they are. They belong to an ideology that had no role whatsoever in our freedom movement, that had no role whatsoever in the making of our Constitution. In fact, they even burnt it and were totally against it. It is an ideology that long ago fanned an atmosphere of hate that ultimately led to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi ji. His killers today continue to be glorified by its adherents. It is an ideology that has consistently rejected the ideals of our founding fathers. It is an ideology with a bigoted and viciously communal outlook. Its approach to nationhood is based on stoking prejudices of all kinds. Let there be no doubt whatsoever that the project to vilify Jawaharlal Nehru ji is the main objective of the ruling establishment today. Their goal is not just to erase him; it is actually to destroy the social, political, and economic foundations on which our nation has been founded and built. The road ahead is not easy. But there is simply no option but for each one of us, individually and collectively, to stand up and confront this project. We not only owe it to the memory of Jawaharlal Nehru ji and his comrades—we owe it to ourselves, and even more to the coming generations. The unapologetic and fierce defence of the Nehruvian legacy is not an act of nostalgia. It is a commitment to restoring India's constitutional promise, to safeguarding reason in the face of propaganda, and to ensuring that our republic remains modern and forward-looking. If we succeed, it will not only honour Jawaharlal Nehru ji's memory; it will ensure that the India he envisioned remains a reality. At a time when tolerance in public life is shrinking, when dissent is painted as disloyalty, and history is reduced to partisan combat, Nehru ji's example becomes even more vital. He taught us that disagreement is not a threat but a democratic necessity—that unity does not demand uniformity; that a confident nation need not fear the truth about its past. Friends, there is some reason for hope. Last month, the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund also launched an archive which can be accessed at The archive is an easily searchable and freely downloadable digital archive—also, by the way, accessible on your smartphone. At present, it covers the hundred published volumes of his selected works, covering the period from 1903 till the day before he died. The archive will continue to expand. So, there it will be for you all to access any time you want to know something about what he said, what he wrote, or what he did. Sandeep Dixit's initiative, which has brought all of us here this evening, is another sincere attempt to take on this challenge of rescuing Nehru ji from the web of deception. And we need many, many more such initiatives across the length and breadth of our country. I will end by congratulating Sandeep and his team and wishing him and his colleagues the very best in their endeavours. Jai Hind! : CPP Chairperson Smt. Sonia Gandhi ji at the launch of The Nehru Centre India

Congress

45,430 views • 8 months ago

HOW A SENIOR EDITOR OF A MAINSTREAM MEDIA OUTLET ERASED HINDU HISTORY ▶️ At a mainstream media outlet in Delhi, we were working on a publication about 1,000 years of Indian history. ▶️ Since I was the copy editor, rewriter and part researcher of that publication, I decided to give it a refreshing take by giving more space to the Vijayanagara Empire and less space to the Mughal and Sultanate periods. Our design team did a fantastic job and we produced the proofs for approval by the owner. ▶️ However, the series editor was a Hindu liberal from Kolkata who started yelling at me and the design editor: "Where is Babur? Where is the Taj Mahal? Where is Shah Jahan? Where is Razia Sultana?" ▶️ I said, "The Vijayanagara Empire was more glorious than the Mughal Empire. Therefore, Krishnadeva Raya and Hampi should take precedence over Babur and Delhi." ▶️ The series editor flew into a rage, banged his fist on his table, his hair flying, mouth frothing with spit, and said, "Fuck it. Fuck Vijayanagara. I want it out. Redo the layout. And this time, the Mughals should be the lead." ▶️ I turned to the Design Editor and said, "You heard what he said? He says fuck it. Okay, fuck the layout. Redo it with the usual gang of Mughal tyrants." ▶️ I was relatively new to journalism whereas the series editor had at least 20 years of experience. So he was a bit rattled by my sarcasm. With spit still drooling from his lips, he glowered at me and walked away. I mean, this liberal hated Hindus so virulently that he almost got the fits, seeing Vijayanagara take precedence over the Mughals. ▶️ Because of his insistence on giving more pages to the Mughals and Sultanate rulers, we had to reduce Vijayanagara to a virtual footnote. Cheras, the Sikh Empire, Pandyas, Harshavardhana and Chalukyas had to be dropped. ▶️ You see, the real enemy of the Hindu is not the Muslim or Christian. It is the liberal and the Marxist who uses the Muslim and Christian as weapons against Hindus. ▶️ Pawan Kalyan is right that our textbooks glorify barbaric invaders like Babur and Akbar but completely blank out glorious Hindu kingdoms like the Chalukyas, Hampi and Ahoms. The feat of Chhatrapati Shivaji coming down south to protect Tamils from the Islamic tyrants are erased from our history books. ▶️ The people responsible for this ersure of Hindu valour are Hindu liberals. They need to be erased from the national discourse.

Rakesh Krishnan Simha

52,324 views • 1 year ago

Gavin Newsom is not a politician; he is a pathological con artist who has turned the governance of California into a personal criminal enterprise so brazen it makes the mob look like amateurs. He is a public menace... The greasy hair, the fake smile that never reaches his dead, soulless eyes, and that smug, voice dripping with condescension. He is the physical embodiment of everything rotting America from within. While he lectures the rest of the nation on morality from his ivory tower, he is actually running a racketeering ring that would make Al Capone blush. He is a parasite of the highest order, feeding on the misery of a state he has systematically destroyed, turning California into a third-world wasteland of tent cities, open-air drug markets, and violent crime, all while he sips million-dollar wine in his Napa Valley estate. He is a fraud, a liar, and a thief, and his entire career is a testament to the fact that the American Left is nothing more than a syndicate of criminals protecting their own. The depth of his corruption is staggering, even by the low standards of modern politics. His former chief of staff, Dana Williamson, a woman he placed in the second-highest position in the state, was recently exposed as a felon who siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars from campaign funds for personal luxuries. She bought Chanel bags, took private jets, and installed luxury home improvements while claiming it was campaign business. And Newsom wants us to believe he knew nothing? That he was just too busy "governing" to notice his right-hand man running a million-dollar fraud ring out of his office? It is a lie. He either knew and participated, making him a co-conspirator, or he was so incompetent he allowed it to happen, making him unfit for any position of trust. There is no middle ground. He is either a criminal or a fool, and given his track record, he is likely both. He is a man who has built a career on the backs of the vulnerable, using their suffering as a backdrop for his own enrichment. But the rot goes deeper than just his staff; it is embedded in his very DNA and extends directly to his household. Newsom has weaponized his position as Governor to create a pay-to-play scheme that is nothing short of treasonous. Through a loophole known as "behested payments," he has funneled millions of dollars from special interests directly to non-profits run by his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom. We are talking about millions from casino operators, utility monopolies, and healthcare giants who are simultaneously lobbying his office for favors. It is a classic extortion racket: give money to the First Family or expect nothing but hostility from the state. They call it charity; it is bribery, plain and simple. They call it philanthropy; it is a laundering scheme designed to hide the fact that he is selling the state of California to the highest bidder. He is a pimp for special interests, selling out the people he swore to protect for a handful of silver. His entire administration is a hive of scum and villainy, a testament to his belief that the law does not apply to him. He appointed Tom Girardi, a known embeeler and predator of the vulnerable, to his judicial selection committee. He placed Melahat Rafiei, a woman convicted of attempting to bribe public officials, on a state board. These are not mistakes; they are features of his regime. He rewards loyalty with public office and punishes dissent with the full force of the state. He is a man who has no regard for the rule of law, no respect for the people of California, and no shame in his relentless pursuit of power and wealth. He is a monster who has destroyed a once-great state, turning it into a nightmare of crime, poverty, and despair, all while he lives like a king. He is the enemy of the people, a traitor to his oath, and a danger to our society. The evidence is overwhelming, the pattern is clear, and the time for accountability is now. Federal investigators are closing in, subpoenas have been served, and the walls of his criminal empire are crumbling. He is scrambling, hiring high-priced lawyers and issuing denials, but the truth is out. He is a fraud, and his entire career is a lie. He is a man who has stolen from the poor to give to the rich, who has sacrificed the safety of children for political gain, and who has betrayed the trust of every single person who ever voted for him. He is a disgrace to humanity, a blight on our nation, and a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern world. He must be stopped, he must be prosecuted, and he must be put behind bars where he belongs. Let us be clear: Gavin Newsom is not a public servant. He is a public menace. He is a man who has used his position to enrich himself and his family at the expense of the people he was elected to serve. He is a criminal who has evaded justice for too long, but his time is up. The people of California deserve better. The people of America deserve better. We must demand his immediate resignation, his full prosecution, and his permanent removal from public life. He is a cancer on our society, and we must cut him out before he spreads his disease any further. He is a liar, a thief, and a traitor, and he must be held accountable for his crimes. The world is watching. The era of Gavin Newsom is over, and good riddance to him. He is a reminder of what happens when we allow evil to go unchecked, and we must never let it happen again.

Saggezza Eterna

71,672 views • 8 days ago

I would like to wish all my compatriots a happy Independence Day, happy Independence Zimbabwe. The independence of our country, unlike many other African countries, came through blood that was shed. There are so many Zimbabweans who lie in unmarked graves from Tanzania to Zambia to Botswana to Mozambique, and they put their lives on the line so that you and I could have the independence that we did not have under colonial rule. There is a distinct difference between those who fought for the independence of our country and died, never seeing an independent Zimbabwe, and those who took over from colonial rule and then destroyed our country through incompetence, corruption, and many other afflictions that should never have been there. I am in no doubt at all that had our country not become independent, I and many Black citizens would probably not be where we are today, thanks to the early gains of independence. Sadly, I now find myself as a journalist and a Zimbabwean with NO freedom to speak, to write, and to exist as a full citizen in my country post independence after the derailment of the independence dream. Many of our people did not have the opportunities that I personally got, and many others got, to advance our lives. It is unfortunate that we find ourselves where we are today, not because independence is bad, but because we ended up with selfish, corrupt, and incompetent individuals who abandoned the principles and aspirations that inspired many Zimbabweans to go out there and fight so that their country could be free. So on this day, when we celebrate 46 years of independence, the same zeal and drive that defined those who died fighting for our country must be carried forward by those who are alive today, to make sure that the country is restored to where it is supposed to be. Zimbabwe is one of the richest countries under the sun. It has almost every mineral that you can think of, and it has some of the best soils in the world. There is no reason for any Zimbabwean to be unemployed, to fail to earn an income, or to go to bed on an empty stomach. There is absolutely no reason for any Zimbabwean to struggle if the country is led by people who know what they are doing and who put the country first, the national interest first, ahead of their own selfish needs. Whilst colonialism was a terrible stain on the history of our country, there are lessons that can be drawn from that period. Rhodesia was run like a business, not like a fiefdom. The fact that most of the central hospitals that exist today were built during the colonial period, with the exception of Chitungwiza, tells us that infrastructure was prioritised, even if it was designed to serve a minority. That reality does not excuse colonial injustice, but it exposes the scale of failure after independence. Forty-six years later, the government has built only one central hospital. Around 2,500 women die every year during childbirth due to a lack of adequate maternity facilities. The largest hospital in Zimbabwe still relies on a maternity theatre built in 1977, and even then only one of its two theatres is functional, with the working one having been refurbished by a South African bank. That is a damning indictment on the current leadership. The fact that millions of Zimbabweans have been forced to leave the country to take up menial jobs in South Africa, as waiters or farm workers, is an indictment on the current leadership. The fact that people like myself and many others have had to leave home out of fear for our lives is an indictment on the current leadership. Whilst the leadership has failed, we as citizens of Zimbabwe also carry a responsibility towards our country, in whatever space we occupy. We must stop following personalities and start following ideas, whether in the ruling party or in the opposition. Our country has been destroyed because we follow personalities, many of whom are vacuous and empty, and when they fail, they drag the nation down with them as our leaders have done. We must not wait for a Messiah to come and save us from the afflictions we face today. We have a responsibility to do what is right for our country. During the liberation struggle, leaders were changed at different points because the struggle was never about personalities, it was about an idea, an independent Zimbabwe where every Zimbabwean, black, white, green, or yellow, has the same rights and opportunities to pursue a better life. So as we celebrate, and we should celebrate, we must also reflect on our responsibilities going forward. We celebrate because independence itself was a noble idea and remains a noble idea. When things are bad, you do not burn down the house, you fix what is broken. We must honour and remember those who lost their lives so that people like myself could go to college, become journalists, and be recognised internationally, as many Zimbabwean professionals have been, some even advising presidents across the continent and beyond. Zimbabwe has some of the most accomplished people anywhere in the world, and it should not be where it is today. It is therefore up to us, as Zimbabweans, to make sure that we do what is right for our country. Once again, happy Independence to my compatriots, and thank you to all the stalwarts who laid down their lives for us to be independent and to the countries that supported our struggle. We could not have achieved independence in 1980 without Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania, Botswana, and many others who stood with us. They did well for us and we thank them. It is those who destroyed the country who should hang their heads in shame today. My heart bleeds when I see so many young Zimbabweans with university degrees, yet ending up as victims of drug abuse because there is no work to go to. There are no opportunities available that are aligned with what they went to university to study. It is a tragic indictment of the situation we find ourselves in today. Today we have become a nation where boreholes are being drilled in the middle of cities because the rulers have failed to do something as basic as delivering water into people’s homes. Today we have become a nation where the rest of the region laughs at us because our roads are riddled with potholes, yet the leadership drives Ferraris on those same roads. Today we have become a nation where even our O-level pass rate has not gone beyond 34% because of the failure of leadership to do what needs to be done. Today we cannot even feed ourselves. We have to rely on food aid, and yet we were once colloquially referred to as the breadbasket of the region. These are some of the realities we should reflect on. I could go on and on, but at this point, it is not necessary. To our leaders, I say, how does it feel when you hear the very people you lead saying Ian Smith was better, when they say colonialism was better? How do you feel? Or do you even feel anything at all when those words are spoken? Of course, colonialism was brutal. Of course, Ian Smith was a racist leader who upheld a minority regime built on exclusion and oppression. But it is a damning indictment of your failed leadership that some of our own people now feel pushed to the point of romanticising that dark past. Independence was meant to usher in dignity, opportunity, and shared prosperity for every Zimbabwean, regardless of colour or creed. It was meant to restore ownership of our future to the people. Yet today, you cannot deny that a small, privileged few are the primary beneficiaries of that independence, while the overwhelming majority are trapped in poverty, penury, and relentless suffering. That is not what liberation was fought for. However, nothing can justify a failure to be grateful to those who fought and died for the independence of our country. They did their part. It is now up to us to do our part and ensure that our country becomes what it is meant to be. Happy Independence Zimbabwe.

Hopewell Chin’ono

12,280 views • 3 months ago

🇸🇾 NEW | Statement by Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa on the Developments in Sweida and Israeli Attacks: ▪️ “Our people rose up in a revolution to attain their freedom—and they triumphed, offering tremendous sacrifices. This people remains fully prepared to fight for their dignity should it come under any threat.” ▪️ “The Israeli entity—which has always sought to destabilize us and sow discord among us since the fall of the former regime—is once again trying to turn our sacred land into an endless arena of chaos. Through this, it aims to fracture our people’s unity and weaken our ability to continue the path of reconstruction and national revival.” ▪️ “This entity never ceases in its use of every method to plant conflict and division—forgetting that Syrians, with their long history, have always rejected disunity and partition.” ▪️ “Possessing great power does not guarantee victory, just as success in one arena does not mean success in another. You may be able to start a war, but you cannot easily control its outcome. We are the children of this land—more capable than anyone of overcoming the Israeli entity’s attempts to tear us apart, and too steadfast to have our resolve shaken by manufactured discord.” ▪️ “We, the sons of Syria, know well who seeks to drag us into war, who wants to divide us—and we will not give them the opportunity to trap our people in a conflict they wish to ignite on our soil. A war whose only aim is to fragment our homeland and scatter our efforts into chaos and destruction. Syria is not a testing ground for foreign conspiracies, nor a stage for others to realize their ambitions at the expense of our children and women.” ▪️ “The Syrian state belongs to all. It is the dignity and pride of the nation—the dream of every Syrian who longs to see his homeland rebuilt anew. Through this state, we unite without division, so we may restore Syria’s stature and place it at the forefront of secure and stable nations.” ▪️ “Building a new Syria requires all of us to rally around our state and commit to its principles—placing the interests of the nation above any individual or narrow agenda. What we need today is for all of us to become partners in this reconstruction, working hand in hand to overcome every challenge before us.” ▪️ “Unity is our weapon, hard work is our path, and our steadfast will is the foundation upon which we will build a bright future.” ▪️ “I extend a special message to our Druze brethren, who are an integral part of this nation’s fabric: Syria will never be a land of partition or fragmentation or division between its sons. Protecting your rights and freedoms is a top priority for us. We reject any attempt to drag you into alignment with external actors or to sow division within our ranks. We are all partners in this land, and we will not allow any faction to distort the beautiful image of Syria and its diversity.” ▪️ “The Syrian state—with all its institutions and leadership—intervened with resolve and determination to stop the internal fighting that erupted in Sweida between armed groups from the province and neighboring areas, triggered by longstanding disputes. Instead of helping the state calm the situation, lawless groups known for their chaos and incitement emerged. These gang leaders are the very ones who rejected dialogue for many months, placing their narrow personal interests above the interest of the nation.” ▪️ “The state’s efforts succeeded in restoring stability and expelling the lawless factions—despite Israeli interference. The Israeli entity responded by launching widespread attacks on civilian and government infrastructure to undermine these efforts, greatly complicating the situation and pushing matters toward a dangerous escalation. It was only thanks to effective mediation by the U.S., Arab, and Turkish sides that the region was spared an unknown fate.” Continues below … 👇🏼

Drop Site

43,859 views • 1 year ago

For “God's sake” - wow. Our PM is more interested in what our immigrant population has to say than what a Kiwi has to say, and a Maori at that! I have said it a hundred times, this is not about racism, it is not about immigration - it is about “mass” immigration / ethnic immigration that is changing the culture of New Zealand! It’s about infiltration verse assimilation! Many other immigrants - Polynesian / British / South Africa etc have come here and are a huge blessing as they become a part of the kiwi fabric! At City Impact Church, we have well over 70 nationalities including many wonderful Indian and Asian folk, people in fact from all over who have assimilated into the kiwi way of life, and I am grateful for them and genuinely love them all! (and they know that) But we do need to talk about the culture difference that “New Zealand's” past Christian religion / heritage has been compared to the coming invading Hindu / Muslim religion will bring! They talk about diversity / inclusion - but if you go to a Hindu and Muslim nation and see how much diversity there is there - zero (re acceptance of Christians in their Parliaments etc!) Don’t be fooled NZ, our culture, our kiwi way of life is under threat and like frog in hot water, it will happen slowly and before you know it they will be influencing laws / rules and way of life. One would be blind not to see that when Muslim, Hindu, Sikh candidates get involved and gain positions of power in local and national politics, they will undermine our values and culture, bringing in theirs! If you think that is a good idea, try living in their countries that they have left / fled and see how you like it! We will even probably have more national holidays to celebrate their religious festivals (now all the slackers may like that without realizing the spiritual ramifications) yet it will run more employers into the ground! Kiwis, are you not interested in your children’s and their children’s future! Even here in this clip, Luxon says immigrants work darn hard (which is true - anyone been to Fiji can see the same problem) the PM continues they take up two or three jobs, no wonder our young people can’t find work! For our PM to put them ahead of a kiwi concern is just unbelievable - he should be interested in what we have to say - we pay his wages, we voted him in! Whether you agree with Brian’s concern or not, the point is the government should listen to all New Zealanders concern rather than dismissing them with “For Gods sake, I don’t care what he is saying” That behaviour is, by the looks of it, why he will be voted out - he cannot and should not dismiss New Zealanders concerns so easily! I may not agree (like you) with everything Brian says, but I agree that one should be a NZ citizen to have the privilege to vote, and only people born in NZ should be in Parliament, at least then all our politicians have grown up here in NZ.

Peter Mortlock

17,557 views • 1 month ago

Doocy: “And are you guys just not — since February, testing President Biden for Parkinson's or for dementia because, if he gets a bad result, it's all over that day?” KJP: “Again, as I've said many times before, The President had a fulsome, comprehensive — uh — what we said — what we shared with you was comprehensive but he's had a full — uh — physical. We've — we've shown the results of those this past three years.We showed it just four months ago, and it is in line with what we have done, similar to President Obama, similar to George W. Bush. We are committed to continue to be transparent. We are committed to continue to show the results of those — of those physicals and look, it's the President's medical team that makes a decision. We are not — with all due respect, you're not a doctor. I'm not a doctor. It is the President's medical unit that makes a decision on what the President needs.” Doocy: “Not doctor —” KJP: “Yeah.” Doocy: “— just play one on TV. But I know that —” KJP: “That’s scary.” Doocy: “— that is scary, but I know that especially as adults get into their 80s, health conditions can pop up more than just once a year when he's getting his physical. I think if my wife saw me on TV misspeaking or saying the wrong thing or —” KJP: “Yeah.” Doocy: “— seeing a change in my appearance, she would probably say, let's go to a doctor just to make sure that you are okay. You have a family. You have an important job. Why doesn't anybody in the President's family urge him just to go to get checked out to say the coast is clear?” KJP: “Okay. So, just to step back just a little bit, because I think you weren’t in the briefing room last week. I don't want to go backwards, but just to share a little bit about that night. The president said it was a bad night. He talked about it. He had a cold, right? He talked about his schedule — right — of being abroad. And so, we’ve spoke [sic] what that night was like for him. And we understand what the American people saw, what you all saw, we've spoken to that. And I also would say and I think you know this, Peter, if — you’ve — you've covered a couple administration at this point — administrations at this point, that the President, every president has a White House medical that is with him 24/7 — that is available to him 24/7 — that is unlike any other American, right? That is not the norm. That is uncommon. Just down on the other side of the colonnade is where the medical unit and I did share — and — that the President checks in while he's exercising with his doctor on — a couple of times a week. And so, he has that — he has something that most majority of Americans — all Americans — I would probably argue — don't have, which is a full medical unit that is with him at all times and he gets a full, full, full physical, annual physical we share with all of you and that is very different — a very different than an everyday American who, sometimes, they're lucky if they can go get a physical. They have to get into a car. They have to take public transportation. The President has, again, a medical unit that's with here at the White House and travels with him.”

Curtis Houck

878,463 views • 2 years ago

Question from journalist: “France says that they will support Palestinian statehood in the next short while. You’ve described that as a reward for Hamas here. Other countries like Australia are also walking down this path. Not quite there yet. How much of this is a reward for Hamas, and how much of it is actually countries like those who have repeatedly said Israel does have a right to defend itself, but are now struggling to stomach what they’re saying you and your military are doing in Gaza?” -- Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Response: “Well, first of all, those who say that Israel has a right to defend itself are also saying, but don’t exercise that right. When we do what any country would do, faced with this genocidal terrorist organization that has performed the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust, I think we’re actually applying force judiciously. And they know it. They know what they would do if they’re right next to Melbourne or right next to Sydney. You had this horrific attacks. I think you would do it, at least what we’re doing, probably─ maybe not as efficiently and as precisely as we’re doing it. We’ve lost quite a few soldiers in that effort. But, that’s the first thing. I think that, the second thing you ask is a Palestinian state. Well, the assumption, the prevailing assumption, in this, is that the problem that we have with the Palestinians is the absence of a Palestinian state. And if they were given a Palestinian state, they would stop the efforts to destroy the Jewish state. But the Palestinians were offered a state many times, including in the partition resolution, and they turned it down. They were offered statehood by my predecessors with lavish, lavish concessions. They turned it down. Because the Palestinians are not about creating a state; they’re about destroying a state. That’s why they opposed the Jewish national movement to create a state. It’s called Zionism. They opposed it before the inception of the Jewish state, and they’ve opposed it since. They’ve opposed it when they had Judea and Samaria, the West Bank and Gaza in their whole. They didn’t say, let’s start, let’s create a state there. They didn’t say that, because, again, their goal is the destruction of a state. It defies imagination or understanding how intelligent people around the world, okay, including seasoned diplomats, government leaders and respected journalists, fall for this absurdity. It’s so easy to verify, you know. And look at the PA. Okay. Look at the Palestinian National movement today is divided between two forces: The Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria, and Hamas in Gaza. Okay. Hamas in Gaza had a de facto state. It had a state and it used it to launch a war of terror against Israel, because their doctrine, that is, that the destruction of Israel should proceed with forceful and direct military and terrorist moves. That’s what they did on October 7th. That’s what they’ll do again if we don’t destroy them. The Palestinian Authority, on the other hand, says, ‘No. First, Israel has to be reduced to indefensible boundaries. You’ve got to get them out. With the ICC, with the UN, with the Security Council resolutions: Drive them to indefensible boundaries and then deliver the blow, because Israel is too strong in its present configuration.’ These discussions are open. They’re held. Anybody─ you don’t need Israeli Intel for it, believe me. You can just scour the web, you’ll find it. Okay. So they have no difference about the goal. That’s why the Palestinian children in Judea and Samaria and the Palestinian children, that is, the Palestinian children under the PA, and the Palestinian children under Hamas are educated with exactly the same textbooks. That’s why the PA calls its public squares against mass killers of Jews. That’s why they have pay for slay: The more Jews you murder, the more you get paid. Or your family gets paid. I mean, so that that’s the crux of the problem. The real reason that this conflict persists is not because of the absence of a Palestinian state, but the persistent Palestinian refusal to recognize a Jewish state in any boundary. Now, when you give them a Palestinian state, when they haven’t abandoned the goal of destroying the Jewish state, all you’re doing is you’re making, you’re bringing the next war closer. Again, Hamas had a state. You just brought the war closer. And if you did the same thing in Judea and Samaria, right above Tel Aviv, enveloping Jerusalem, some say cutting Jerusalem into two, that’s all that’s gonna happen. You’re going to have the radicals again take it over, Iran, take it over, and start a state from improved boundaries, start a war with improved boundaries. That’s not going to happen. I think the solution to this problem is that the Palestinians should have all the powers to govern themselves in the places where they live, and none of the powers to threaten Israel. They should obviously reform their whole education system. They should reform their whole historical outlook and say, ‘All right, you know, we accept that Israel is here to stay,’ not as a fact, as a physical or geographic fact, but as a fact of historical equity. You know, if they want to live here, next to us, they have to stop seeking our destruction. And to give them an independent state, with all the trimmings, is to invite a future war and a certain war. And that’s something that, today the Israeli public forcefully opposes. Before the war, by the way, it was about, you know, a third [for a Palestinian state] / two thirds [against], in the overall population. Probably 60 [against a Palestinian state]/40 for a state. Or even more, against [a state] in the Jewish population. But now it’s changed more dramatically [to more against a state]. I mean, we had a vote in the Knesset, a few months ago, about the possibility, you know, of having a Palestinian state. And the result was 99 to 9. 99 to 9. And that covers a very broad spectrum. And today most of the Jewish public is committed – is against the Palestinian state for the simple reason that they know it won’t bring peace, but it’ll bring war. To have uh, European countries, and Australia, march into that rabbit hole – just like that, fall right into it ─ and buy this canard is disappointing. And I think it’s actually shameful. But it’s not going to change our position. Again, we will not commit national suicide to get a good op-ed for two minutes. We won’t do that. Thank you very much.”

Max 📟

77,213 views • 11 months ago

Loneliness On The Path & Transcending The Matrix Many of us can relate to the sense and experience of feeling alone as we shed the matrix-cultural social programming and sincerely start to seek truth. As we embark on the path, we start to learn, often remember, realize, and begin to see a deeper reality within and without us. This new sight is contrary to what the masses believe in and how they live their lives. It is also opposed to whatever we found to be true at first. But there was a splinter in the mind - a seed deep within that inspired us to question what we've been told and taught most often after a period of intense suffering responding to the yearning of the soul's call to awaken. It pushed us to answer the call and step into the unknown, and down the rabbit hole we tumble. As we progress on our path, going through our trials initiations and process of disillusionment, truth starts to become stranger than fiction. We can no longer relate to pleasures, social interactions, and enjoyments we may have engaged in enthusiastically in the past. Goals, ambitions, and desires we once had and were very attached to start to feel completely foreign to us. We realize that most of our so-called needs and desires, wants, including group and tribal identifications, were based on lies, wounds, and matrix programs, which we mistook stemming from our true self. They do not lead us to nor reflect true fulfillment joy, and love - the pure state of our soul hidden deep within us beyond the ego personality - our unique soul embodied individuality centered in the Divine. We start to see through appearances and all the pretense - the mechanical unconscious social interactions with the unconscious feeding mechanisms between people - emotionally, energetically sexually - where almost everyone is a copy of a copy sleepwalking and dreaming of being awake. We realize how little of real individuality and authenticity there is in the world, and how people mistake their conditioned and programmed ego personality for authenticity and also mistake all kinds of feelings, desires, and cravings within them for the soul being. All of which we have done in the past as well to varying degrees and still may do. We realize how little of true love there is. If we are honest with ourselves, we also question what love truly is and if we have really ever experienced it. The more we uncover within us and work through our shadow aspects, mechanical behavior, wounds, and traumas, the more we see all that in others. As the masks fall away, we start to see the unseen and a whole new world - the real world opens up. At first this view is not pleasant at all, and we may question our sanity, feelings of despair, depression, shame, guilt, anger, sadness, and loneliness come up everything that we have been hiding and have suppressed for lifetimes starts to come to the surface the darkness within and without is being made conscious as we descend into the underworld. The higher we want to rise, the deeper we need to go, The more light we possess, the more darkness we uncover. It is the esoteric law of descent and ascent at the same time. If we are sincere in our process, we start to realize thatwe cannot blame others or anything externally anymore. We are asked to take full self responsibility with radical self-honesty. The more we awaken, the more we are also confronted with the illusion of control, the ego likes to cling to. There is something else, a higher divine force that is pulling us out of inertia and sleep, asking us to surrender to it while, at the same time, the lower forces of nature want to keep us chained to our past, our wounds, programs, and identifications trapped in the victim-blame cycle. The occult adverse forces tag into our lower nature using temptations, egohooks and thought injections targeting our blind spots and wounds to keep us plugged into the matrix. Ultimately, we realize that the battle is and always has been through us. We then also start to see and sense the mighty occult hyperdimensional forces beyond our five sensory cognition that manipulate not only us but all people like puppets with strings attached. We realize that there is something else hidden from the mind of ordinary consciousness that controls and manipulates human beings from occult realms - something that feeds on humanity and keeps us in a frequency prison of fear and survival-based egoic service to self-consciousness. We also start to see the wounds and traumas people carry masked and armored under a thick social mask disconnected from their bodies. In fact, we begin to see how most people suffer deep inside but don't know that they are suffering for all the attention and energy is used to escape it by dissociation and then externalizing or suppressing their pain to avoid the discomfort of feeling it within. Like unconscious drug addicts, most people are constantly looking for a fix, trying to fill a bottomless hole in, always looking for love, fulfillment, and happiness externally- just like we have done in our unconscious sleeping state, dreaming of being awake. We then start to encounter humans who don't seem to have a soul but are empty shells occupied by something else. The eyes always give it away - all of which becomes more obvious as we cleanse our perception by internal work. We don't get fooled by appearances anymore. We begin to see via inner vision and our guidance comes more and more from within, not influenced by the group hive mind or the conditioned mind with all its fragmented thought loops. We let go of comparison, ambition and competition and surrender to our soul's calling to unite with the Divine. However, not only do we experience isolation and loneliness pulling back more and more from exterior life we also become subject to the projections and attacks of people still wandering in the wilderness of the collective matrix program. We realize that longtime friends and even family members or our spouse and partner are not at all who we thought they were - that these connections were often based on the illusion of love, trauma bonds, and social programming. We realize how we mistook love for all kinds of behaviors, feelings, and things that are not love but were based on wounds and unconscious feeding mechanisms. When we tell others about our discoveries and realizations we are most often met with ridicule made fun of or even attacked and shamed. We are being told that we are negative, crazy and live in fear or engage in fear-mongering-when, in fact, this reaction is their unconscious fear of the truth projected onto us. It is their false mechanical ego personality trying to protect itself from disillusionment with occult forces, working through them, using them as unconscious matrix agents and attempting to keep us from awakening, speaking truth, and anchoring the divine force. Hence, we also realize that we cannot possibly take anything personally anymore because it is not them doing anything. Moreover, we also recognize that these attacks and interferences serve a teaching function in the bigger picture of the evolution of consciousness and in the process of our unique soul evolution for all there is are lessons. These realizations and confronting the lies we've been telling ourselves do indeed lead to disillusionment - a moral bankruptcy. It's the necessary death everyone has to go through to be reborn in the true self. It is the way out of the matrix. Yet this loneliness we experience and the inability to fit in anywhere has its purpose, including the suffering we experience. If we keep on the track with faith and trust, learning our lessons with sincerity, patience, humility, and courage, it will lead us to true love, real companionship, and a conscious connection with Spirit as we find our way back home, reuniting with the Divine. We start to experience magical positive synchronicities and there is help and support of the divine force that responds to our call and supports and guides us in unexpected ways. But we can only perceive this guidance if we get out of the tunnel vision of ego identification and out of our heads. Doors open where there have been no doors before. Out of the dark, we emerge into the light, and we realize and experience on an embodied level—not merely philosophically or intellectually—that we were never alone but under a spell of separation from all that is, as we experience and perceive the Divine in all. Godspeed. Bernhard Guenther “We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is Creator, the indivisible. And suddenly, we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.” - Hermann Hesse --------------------- Written and narrated by Bernhard Guenther Video and audio editing by Victor Fontane

Bernhard Guenther

136,740 views • 1 year ago

Fascinating exchange: Jon Karl lightly confronts Zohran Mamdani with Darializa Avila-Chevalier's insane positions. Mamdani says DAC won because of affordability before tripling down on the virulent anti-semitism that undergirds DSA. Karl takes two passes at getting Mamdani to condemn the coffee shop that banned Rep. Dan Goldman, allows Mamdani to skate with a non-critical critique. JON KARL: Now, you know, there's been a lot of attention on one of the candidates you supported, one who knocked off an incumbent Democrat, is Darializa Avila Chevalier. She said some very controversial things, including calling for the abolition of prisons- couldn't say whether or not somebody who had committed murder should be in prison. Called for open borders. Against all deportations, including those of violent criminals. Are those positions that the Democratic Party could win on nationally? ZOHRAN MAMDANI: I think what the Democratic Party can win on nationally is a focus on working people, and I think that what I saw from Darializa when I would walk the streets of her district was a focus on what she describes as the politics of life. She would talk about how we have to invest in babies, not bombs. She's now going to represent what is one of the poorest districts in the United States of America. And what people in that district are exhausted by is a politics that has justified the spending of tens of billions of dollars in killing civilians overseas, while working people are struggling just to do the basics. KARL: But how does that -- how does abolishing prisons or having open borders fit into that? I mean, do you see how that's -- those are ideas that a lot of your Democrats that are warning about what happened here say are toxic, most of America won't go along with. They are bad ideas. They are dangerous ideas. MAMDANI: I think what the focus of her race was, what the focus of her candidacy was, was about the struggle that working people are facing. And I think that we can have disagreements on policy positions. What we have to agree on is what are we fighting for, and who are we fighting for? She showed that in her race, and I think that many people will come to appreciate that in her leadership to come. KARL: So we can disagree on something as basic as whether or not there should be prisons? MAMDANI: There -- KARL: That's not your position? MAMDANI: There are prisons. KARL: Yes. MAMDANI: And what we're also showing in this city is that safety is not something that's up for debate. It’s something that we're actually delivering on. And I'm proud to be the mayor of a city that currently has the lowest recorded number of murders and shootings in recorded history in New York City. KARL: So there was also a take -- it's not just Democrats. You probably heard what President Trump had to say about you and about the candidates you supported. And he warned that if socialists win -- and he calls you communists but -- you will start living in squalor, there'll be no food, no housing, no military, no law and order. There'll be nothing, and he had a few other choice words. By the way, he also said he still likes you. (LAUGHTER) KARL: But what do you make of what he -- I mean, the Democrat -- Republicans are going to make you the poster child for the Democratic Party. MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last November, and over the course of these last six months, what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible. We've delivered free childcare for two-year-olds for the first time in New York City history. We've delivered tens of millions of dollars back to tenants who were taken advantage of by bad landlords. We've delivered 165,000 potholes being paved. And we've done all of these things while also delivering the lowest recorded crime in our city's history. That's what it looks like to have Democratic socialism. And what you're seeing is that New Yorkers experienced this for six months and made the decision that they wanted to see more of it on the national stage as well. KARL: Can a Democratic socialist get elected president? MAMDANI: I think a Democratic socialist can get elected anywhere across this country for any position. What I think we need to bring is a focus on working people. KARL: And that's the direction that the party should go in, in terms of selecting a candidate for 2028? MAMDANI: I think the direction that the party should go in is how best to fight for working people. I think we need to have a platform and a vision that doesn't sound as if it was cooked up by consultants, but instead one that you would say in response to someone who's asking, why can't I afford my rent, why can't I afford my groceries, why can't I afford my childcare? We need to make clear who we stand for, how we're going to stand for them, and that we're actually willing to fight for them when the going gets tough. KARL: Obviously, Israel was a big issue in these races. Not the only issue, but a big issue. Is there room in the Democratic Party for candidates, officials who support Israel, not just support Israel, but support military aid for Israel? This was a huge issue for you. MAMDANI: Well, I think what we've seen is that the time for us, as elected officials, to pronounce what the party should be is one that should come to an end, and we should let Democratic voters themselves take the lead. We've seen on Tuesday evening, we saw Democrats turn out in districts across the city to make clear that they were tired of tens of billions of dollars being spent in our taxpayer dollars to violate international law, to kill thousands of civilians. And you and I know that right now, the way that Palestine is described is as if there is a ceasefire. That's the language that's typically used. KARL: Yes. MAMDANI: More than a thousand Palestinians have been killed in that ceasefire. And what New Yorkers want to see is a politics of conscience, a politics of clarity, a politics of conviction. And to follow international law, to believe in the humanity of all people, it shouldn't be a journey too far. And I think that our party needs to hear what Democrats are telling them. KARL: Democratic Socialists of America now says they no longer favor a two-state solution. Is that the way you see it as well, the idea of two states, Palestinian and Jewish states, side by side, living in peace? MAMDANI: The way I see it is, equal rights for all people. And I think that that's the truth for Israel. It's the truth for any country in the world. And frankly, as we're coming up close to the 250th anniversary of our nation, one of the things that makes me proudest to be an American is the belief that equal rights are at the bedrock of our notion of what it means to be an American. KARL: And the idea of a Jewish state, Israel as a Jewish state, that's in the charter, that's the way it is now. Do you support that? MAMDANI: I've said time and again that I support the state of Israel as a state with equal rights. I believe that any state that -- KARL: But as a Jewish state is the question. MAMDANI: I think any state that privileges one religion over the other is one that I can't tell you I support, whether it be Israel or Saudi Arabia or anywhere else. And a lot of that comes back to a fundamental belief that we should all be considered equal, no matter what our faith is. KARL: How big a problem -- you've said it's rising -- is anti-Semitism in this city? MAMDANI: We've seen anti-Semitism rise in this city. We've seen the fact that Jewish New Yorkers comprise a minority of our city's population, and yet continue to constitute a majority of the hate crimes that have been purveyed in this city. And that's something that's unacceptable. It's something that we will never come to see as if it is a part of life. It's something that has to be fought and rooted out of every one of the five boroughs. KARL: What did you think when Dan Goldman -- that coffee shop in Brooklyn said that they didn't -- they wouldn't serve him because of his support for Israel. Do you have a problem with – I mean, the idea of, you know, of an establishment like that saying they're not going to serve somebody if they support Israel? MAMDANI: I've said that I have political disagreements with Congressmember Goldman. I do believe that that's a response that goes beyond that. KARL: So, that's not the right kind of thing? MAMDANI: No, I think -- I think it's much better to keep that critique in the way that we’ve done it.

Jorge Bonilla

43,262 views • 1 month ago

🔥 Confirmation: UAPDA to be Reintroduced 🔥 Rounds: "I've been informed that Senator Schumer would like to partner once again, and that we would offer it again this year in the [NDAA]. I have no objections to submitting the legislation in its current form, but I would also work with my House counterparts to allay any concerns." Ross Coulthart: "Are we going to see a reintroduction of the UAP Disclosure Act? Are you going to try and get it through the Congress once again this year?" Senator Mike Rounds: "I've been informed that Senator Schumer would like to partner once again, and that we would offer it again this year in the National Defense Authorization Act, which we'll begin working on here in the next few weeks. So the answer is yes, we intend to move forward once again. "And we modeled this originally after the Kennedy assassination reports and the committee that was established to release the timely information that we had available. But to make a decision on when to release information based on its not only its need, but its appropriateness. We thought the same type of approach that successfully released a huge amount of information on the Kennedy assassination would be the appropriate way to look at any information that was available on the issue of what was at that time, UFOs." Ross: "Perhaps the most significant thing about that original legislation was that, as well as it being an incredible 64 pages of proposed UAP disclosure legislation, it was an incredibly powerful piece of legislation, if it had gone through in the form, in the original form that was proposed. It mentioned Non-Human Intelligence - NHI - 24 times. It's a very bold statement - isn't it - by the Senate and by the Congress, of intention. You seem to be suggesting there, that there is a there, there to be found." Rounds: "You know, our intent was to make sure that there wasn't an assumption by folks who were following it that we were trying to hide anything. And our goal was to say, look, if there is any of this, which, you know, a lot of folks out there have questioned whether or not, after all these years, there was contact that we had with entities, intelligence that was not of this Earth and so forth, we just thought, rather than beating around the bush, let's just say, 'Look, if there's any of that out there, then let's disclose it. Let's make that available, or at least collect it. And then at some point, based upon a commission's review of it, to determine any national security concerns, to be able to share that information at the appropriate time.' It was not put in there because of any evidence that I had, or that I believe Senator Schumer had, that would suggest that we had a smoking gun. But rather, let's have clarity. Let's lay this thing out and make sure that the American public would know, that if there was such information that existed, we were directing that it be preserved and then it be delivered for appropriate persons and for review by this select committee." Ross: "Senator, would you like to see the original legislation passed in its original, proposed form? Is that a possibility, or are you looking at changing that legislation in any way from what was originally proposed, I think in July 2023?" Rounds:"I have no objections to submitting the legislation in its current form, but I would also work with my House counterparts to allay any concerns that they may have. And once again, look, my background on this is working on the Senate Intel Committee, the Intelligence Committee, but also on the Armed Services Committee. And I can tell you that that we do a lot of research, and we've got advanced projects going on all the time,. And what we didn't want to have happen was a demand for exposure on weapon-systems capabilities and so forth, that that might otherwise be found or reported out or disclosed in an inappropriate way. "Many people have talked now about the development of stealth, and I think now there's more and more discussion on the fact that there were some plans out there that allowed some of these stealth weapons to be unidentified for an extended period of time, on purpose. And the reason for it was, is because for national-defense purposes. In those particular cases where we have items out there that might very well be ours, we may very well not wanna be able...we may not wanna disclose that information, and it's appropriate to keep it private. The same if we know of other weapon systems by other countries. We may not want to disclose it, but we wanted a place where it could at least be collected, and an independent organization could look at it and be able to disclose that which was not subject to. National Defense concerns." (We're not asking for OUR secret tech to be revealed and I'm tired of hearing that. However, what if there's a technological breakthrough that will make our lives better on this planet and be better for the environment? Then what?)

Joe Murgia

109,300 views • 1 year ago

Sara Nelson, head of the Association of Flight Attendants union, talks about plans to shut down critical infrastructure as part of the insurgency against ICE. What she describes is a textbook case of how unions and other civic organizations use the power of their membership to join insurgencies. "I called on the labor movement to talk about a general strike" in solidarity with the operation against ICE, Nelson says in this February 1 Zoom call. The general strike is planned to take place on May 1, which is International Workers Day (more on that later). What she Nelson says is revealing. It shows the raw emotion and ideological extremism of the flight attendants' union, and how the union leadership exploits the membership to force a strike to support the anti-ICE operation. Pay attention to her use of words: "General strike." In revolutionary practice, a general strike is not to meet economic or labor demands, but to challenge and overthrow the political and economic order by paralyzing the economy and imposing hardship on the public. This is a term of insurrection or insurgency. It creates parallel power structures. Leon Trotsky viewed general strikes as the last step before armed insurrection. "Capitalism unchecked." Anarchists and Marxists have different views of this term, but in general, the term is understood to mean that capitalism is irredeemably evil and oppressive, and that oppression must be resisted or "checked." It does not mean checks and balances in the American sense. It implies the urgency of action to check the oppressor. Repetition of "fight" and "demand." Working-class movements that exhort people to "fight" and "demand" are calling for class struggle against established institutions. The words are not metaphors, but calls for direct action to build toward the overthrow of existing society. Demands are ultimatums that provide focus for the fight. "Jacobin." Nelson recommends a reading from the website about unions organizing against ICE. The Jacobins were he most extreme element of the French Revolution, the Robespierre faction that orchestrated The Terror and the mass beheadings with the guillotine. Marx, Engels, and Lenin praised the Jacobins. In her 11-minute monologue, Nelson dwells heavily on working class history, tying an industry-specific "safety strike" to labor conflicts from 1981 and 1914, and extending solidarity to a larger cause that has nothing to do with the airline industry, safety, or organized labor. She calls for acts of "redemption" for unions' failure to stand by Air Traffic Controllers strike from 44 years ago. She combines "massive inequality" and "capitalism unchecked" with "private prisons," "slavery," and "ICE." She demonizes the entire free enterprise system: "We have to be really clear that Capitalism has no humanity attached whatsoever." Nelson urges people lot read a article about "why unions need to care about this movement and need to make immigration central to the concerns of union members." Her approach is a rehash of Stalin's Comintern-era "popular front" broad coalition strategy: "The capitalists have used racism and sexism to divide us" and "the immigrants and refugees to try to divide us as well." "The only way that we can build up power is if we do it collectively," she adds. Nelson frames the mass hiring of ICE agents in old Marxist class struggle terms. In her words, the Trump administration is providing "good paying jobs" at ICE to be "pitted against the rest of the working class." More pure class struggle words, straight out of Marx and Lenin: "It's also important, as a union leader myself, that we all have to be preparing for a general strike. We all have to be preparing for that strike readiness. That is fundamentally the check on capitalism." The flight attendants' union chief says that many in her organization don't "understand" the urgency: "I have more work to do in my own union on this ... and we are starting to see this seep into our airports" with ICE agents pursuing targets on aircraft. She explains, in her own words, why the Association of Flight Attendants union is tied directly to "mass action" and "getting into the streets": "For the people who are trying to get the tools tonight about what to do next, understand that the only way that we are going to have mass action is if everyone understands what the problem is," Nelson says. "And if everyone understands what the demands are about why we're getting into the streets. The people of Minneapolis understand this very well because the fight was brought to their doorsteps." (Gets emotional, chokes back tears.) There is no alternative but to fight, she says: "People have no choice but to fight." She talks about a 1914 strike of immigrant coal miners. "They were experiencing what Minneapolis is experiencing today. They were experiencing violence from the state." (Chokes up again) Nelson whips up a siege mentality to put people in a fighting mood: "we have to organize. ... we have to talk about the fight that is coming to our doorsteps all across this country. We have to organize around that. We have to set our demands. The people of Minnesota have set their demands, and they're very clear about it. It is immediate demands, about ICE out...." She is not calling for pressure on politicians as much as pressure on the private companies that keep America running. In her words: "this is not about putting pressure on the White House. This is about putting pressure on the people who control our economy. So define the problem, set your demands, back up your demands with what you are willing to do - that is the strike readiness that you're preparing for - and add urgency. And in this moment there could not be more urgency. So we stand with you and we are preparing and having those conversations in our union about how to shut it down ...."

J Michael Waller

90,996 views • 6 months ago

Jean-Luc Godard on why people disliked like 'A Woman is a Woman' (1961) & the psychology of the audience: "Interviewer: Truffaut once said that if the public did not like a film of his then he considered that it was a failure. Do you feel that 'A Woman is a Woman' (1961) is a failure because it did not attract the public? Godard: No, I don’t think so, because a certain number of people liked it. You must remember that Truffaut is half producer, half director – in the morning he is a businessman, in the afternoon an artist – and so this question of the public is more pressing for him. I think one must aim to attract the widest possible audience, but obviously this will be smaller for 'Vivre sa vie' (1962) or 'Paris nous appartient' (1961) than for 'Ben-Hur' (1959). One must be sincere, believe that one is working for the public, and aim at them. In my early days I never asked myself whether the audience would understand what I was doing, but now I do. If Hitchcock, for example, thinks that people will not understand something, he will not do it. At the same time I feel that one must sometimes just go ahead – light may always dawn in a few years time. But of course one must be sure one knows what one is about, because if one just goes ahead and does something, saying, “They won’t understand but it won’t matter,” one may be disastrously wrong and find that it does matter. Interviewer: I brought this up because the opening scene of 'Vivre sa vie' (1962) seems to me to be a bold directorial conception which stands a strong chance of being misunderstood. Godard: Perhaps, but I think that as soon as people see something a little unusual on the screen they try too hard to understand. They understand perfectly well, really, but they want to understand even more. If you show them someone drinking tea or saying goodbye, they immediately say yes, but why is he drinking tea? People didn’t like 'A Woman is a Woman' (1961) because they didn’t know what it meant. But it didn’t mean anything. If you see a bouquet of flowers on a table, does it mean something? It doesn’t prove anything about anything. I simply hoped that the film would give pleasure. I meant it to be contradictory, juxtaposing things which didn’t necessarily go together, a film which was gay and sad at the same time. One can’t do that, of course, one must be either one or the other, but I wanted to be both at once." (Jean-Luc Godard's interview with Tom Milne, 1962)

DepressedBergman

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