Загрузка видео...

Не удалось загрузить видео

На главную

المفكر الأمريكي نورمان فينكلستين في "50 دقيقة" الذي أعده وأقدمه على قناة المشهد: "لم تعد ورقة الهولوكوست فعالة مع الجيل الجديد" American scholar Norman Finkelstein, speaking on “50 Minutes”, a program produced and hosted by me on Al Mashhad TV: “With the younger generation, the Holocaust card no longer...

mobeid's profile picture

محمد أبوعبيد

1,055,301 subscribers

18,655 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад •via X (Twitter)

LIVE

Anya Rossi• Live Now

Private livecam show

Комментарии: 0

Нет доступных комментариев

Здесь появятся комментарии из оригинального поста

Похожие видео

"لا يوجد عرق بشري نقي، وأول ظهور للإنسان العاقل كان في المغرب" عالم الآثار الفرنسي جون بول ديمول في برنامج "50 دقيقة" الذي أعده وأقدمه على قناة المشهد. « Il n’existe pas de race humaine pure, et la première apparition de l’Homo sapiens a eu lieu au Maroc. » L’archéologue français Jean-Paul Demoule dans l’émission « 50 Minutes », que je prépare et présente sur Al Mashhad TV.
2:03

"لا يوجد عرق بشري نقي، وأول ظهور للإنسان العاقل كان في المغرب" عالم الآثار الفرنسي جون بول ديمول في برنامج "50 دقيقة" الذي أعده وأقدمه على قناة المشهد. « Il n’existe pas de race humaine pure, et la première apparition de l’Homo sapiens a eu lieu au Maroc. » L’archéologue français Jean-Paul Demoule dans l’émission « 50 Minutes », que je prépare et présente sur Al Mashhad TV.

محمد أبوعبيد

16,107 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад

In his most recent appearance on the “India and Global Left” program, Norman Finkelstein avers that Yahya Sinwar and the Hamas leaders in Gaza who undertook Tufan al-Aqsa were undertaking an impulsive “gamble” rather than a strategic operation. When the interviewer (correctly) observes that there are reasons to believe that the short-term goal was to free prisoners and the long-term objective was to halt regional normalization while galvanizing the Palestine issue globally, Finkelstein vehemently disagrees. Were Finkelstein to familiarize himself with the “Our Narrative” documents produced by Hamas or consider the various testimonies where figures ranging from Mahmoud Mardawi to Jasser al-Barghouti elaborated on Sinwar et al.’s modus operandi, perhaps he would not be so dismissive. Yet Finkelstein then insists that “like Nat Turner, who had only read the Bible” (a claim that is itself contravened by Christopher Tomlins’s recent scholarship on Turner), Sinwar was unlearned—and had, following the 2011 Shalit prisoner exchange which precipitated his return to the besieged Gaza Strip, but “gone from one prison to another”. According to Finkelstein, Sinwar was thus constitutionally incapable of political prudence, acting from rash and extruding compulsions alone. It is rather mystifying that someone who prides themselves on their granular research (and, it should be noted, has undoubtedly assiduously assayed the 2010 Mavi Marmara case and various human rights reports) is unaware of Sinwar’s well-established and arrayed literary record—as a writer, reader, and translator. Furthermore, Finkelstein argues that it is folly to focus on the resistance, as this merely bolsters the occupation’s misbegotten narrative that Tufan al-Aqsa was a war rather than a genocide. Finkelstein beseeches the interviewer: “Can you name me a single battle? You can’t as there were none.” However—and putting aside the issue that the categories of “wars” and “genocides” do not definitionally exclude one another (e.g., the 1994 Tutsi genocide occurred amidst a war)—a cursory review of the Palestinian resistance’s witness accounts is punctuated by references to the “Battle of Khan Younis” (Dec. 2023 - April 2024), what Abu Obeida called the “Battle of Rafah” (May-August 2024), and the “Battle of Shujaʿiyya” (Dec. 2023), to name but a few. These were, of course, conducted as guerrilla rather than conventional military battles. But to take the resistance’s operational and political history seriously neither entreats minimization of the occupation’s “dolus specialis” (genocidal intent) nor bestows parity upon the two parties.
3:14

In his most recent appearance on the “India and Global Left” program, Norman Finkelstein avers that Yahya Sinwar and the Hamas leaders in Gaza who undertook Tufan al-Aqsa were undertaking an impulsive “gamble” rather than a strategic operation. When the interviewer (correctly) observes that there are reasons to believe that the short-term goal was to free prisoners and the long-term objective was to halt regional normalization while galvanizing the Palestine issue globally, Finkelstein vehemently disagrees. Were Finkelstein to familiarize himself with the “Our Narrative” documents produced by Hamas or consider the various testimonies where figures ranging from Mahmoud Mardawi to Jasser al-Barghouti elaborated on Sinwar et al.’s modus operandi, perhaps he would not be so dismissive. Yet Finkelstein then insists that “like Nat Turner, who had only read the Bible” (a claim that is itself contravened by Christopher Tomlins’s recent scholarship on Turner), Sinwar was unlearned—and had, following the 2011 Shalit prisoner exchange which precipitated his return to the besieged Gaza Strip, but “gone from one prison to another”. According to Finkelstein, Sinwar was thus constitutionally incapable of political prudence, acting from rash and extruding compulsions alone. It is rather mystifying that someone who prides themselves on their granular research (and, it should be noted, has undoubtedly assiduously assayed the 2010 Mavi Marmara case and various human rights reports) is unaware of Sinwar’s well-established and arrayed literary record—as a writer, reader, and translator. Furthermore, Finkelstein argues that it is folly to focus on the resistance, as this merely bolsters the occupation’s misbegotten narrative that Tufan al-Aqsa was a war rather than a genocide. Finkelstein beseeches the interviewer: “Can you name me a single battle? You can’t as there were none.” However—and putting aside the issue that the categories of “wars” and “genocides” do not definitionally exclude one another (e.g., the 1994 Tutsi genocide occurred amidst a war)—a cursory review of the Palestinian resistance’s witness accounts is punctuated by references to the “Battle of Khan Younis” (Dec. 2023 - April 2024), what Abu Obeida called the “Battle of Rafah” (May-August 2024), and the “Battle of Shujaʿiyya” (Dec. 2023), to name but a few. These were, of course, conducted as guerrilla rather than conventional military battles. But to take the resistance’s operational and political history seriously neither entreats minimization of the occupation’s “dolus specialis” (genocidal intent) nor bestows parity upon the two parties.

Mujamma Haraket

323,560 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

🚨 🇵🇸 NORMAN FINKELSTEIN: "THE UN JUST DECLARED WAR ON PALESTINE" Veteran scholar Norman Finkelstein says the UN Security Council resolution isn't a peace deal. It's a death warrant signed by every Arab nation at the table. His verdict on Gaza's future: stay and die, or flee. Those are the only options left. He says the resolution eliminates any Palestinian right to self-determination and gives Israel total control over withdrawal timelines. He reserves his harshest criticism for the Arab states: “You're slaves and stooges." The Houthis? He'd take one of them over every Arab government combined. Russia's final warning to the Security Council: "This is a black day. Don't say we didn't warn you." Finkelstein sees no path forward. No two-state solution. No right of return. Just conditions that can never be met and a population with nowhere to go. The ceasefire isn't peace. It's managed erasure. We discuss: •⁠ ⁠Why Finkelstein says there's no evidence of mass rape on October 7th despite the many witness testimonies •⁠ ⁠How the UN resolution gives Israel veto power over any withdrawal from Gaza •⁠ ⁠Why "de-radicalization" and "reform" are vague terms designed to justify permanent occupation •⁠ ⁠What Russia meant when it said "don't say we didn't warn you" •⁠ ⁠Why he believes Arab nations folded under possible tariff threats •⁠ ⁠How Gaza went from one of the most densely populated places on earth to 53% "green zone" •⁠ ⁠What his new book reveals about corruption at the UN 03:00 – Finkelstein: “Roughly 1,200 people were killed on October 7th… 400 were combatants, about 800 were civilians.” 05:44 – “There’s no evidence that even one rape occurred on October 7th.” 09:19 – “Patten says she viewed 5,000 photographs and 50 hours of digital evidence... still, no direct proof of sexual violence.” 12:45 – “Israelis say rapes happened in the open to terrorize society—yet not one photo was taken?” 15:01 – “Israel is a citizen army… there’s a deep camaraderie that deters honesty about what happened.” 16:06 – “If I were interrogated by an Israeli, I would probably admit to having committed rape.” 18:45 – “Gaza was an inferno… the final nail in the coffin was Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords.” 22:24 – “Gaza was already being described as a concentration camp by UN officials in 1950.” 25:32 – “By 2023, Gaza had disappeared from the headlines… it was dead in the water.” 27:18 – “UN Resolution 2803 literally gave the deed of Gaza to Donald Trump.” 30:36 – “Hamas endorsed nonviolent protest during the Great March of Return—and Israel shot medics, journalists, amputees.” 34:26 – “Do people have the right to be free—or the right to live like slaves in the West Bank?” 38:42 – “Condemn the atrocities? Yes. Condemn the people who committed them? No way.” 46:56 – “The UN resolution created a ‘Board of Peace’ with sovereign powers over Gaza, headed by Trump.” 58:02 – “Clearing Gaza’s rubble—just clearing it—will take over 15 years. Rebuilding it? Try 80.”
1:13:59

🚨 🇵🇸 NORMAN FINKELSTEIN: "THE UN JUST DECLARED WAR ON PALESTINE" Veteran scholar Norman Finkelstein says the UN Security Council resolution isn't a peace deal. It's a death warrant signed by every Arab nation at the table. His verdict on Gaza's future: stay and die, or flee. Those are the only options left. He says the resolution eliminates any Palestinian right to self-determination and gives Israel total control over withdrawal timelines. He reserves his harshest criticism for the Arab states: “You're slaves and stooges." The Houthis? He'd take one of them over every Arab government combined. Russia's final warning to the Security Council: "This is a black day. Don't say we didn't warn you." Finkelstein sees no path forward. No two-state solution. No right of return. Just conditions that can never be met and a population with nowhere to go. The ceasefire isn't peace. It's managed erasure. We discuss: •⁠ ⁠Why Finkelstein says there's no evidence of mass rape on October 7th despite the many witness testimonies •⁠ ⁠How the UN resolution gives Israel veto power over any withdrawal from Gaza •⁠ ⁠Why "de-radicalization" and "reform" are vague terms designed to justify permanent occupation •⁠ ⁠What Russia meant when it said "don't say we didn't warn you" •⁠ ⁠Why he believes Arab nations folded under possible tariff threats •⁠ ⁠How Gaza went from one of the most densely populated places on earth to 53% "green zone" •⁠ ⁠What his new book reveals about corruption at the UN 03:00 – Finkelstein: “Roughly 1,200 people were killed on October 7th… 400 were combatants, about 800 were civilians.” 05:44 – “There’s no evidence that even one rape occurred on October 7th.” 09:19 – “Patten says she viewed 5,000 photographs and 50 hours of digital evidence... still, no direct proof of sexual violence.” 12:45 – “Israelis say rapes happened in the open to terrorize society—yet not one photo was taken?” 15:01 – “Israel is a citizen army… there’s a deep camaraderie that deters honesty about what happened.” 16:06 – “If I were interrogated by an Israeli, I would probably admit to having committed rape.” 18:45 – “Gaza was an inferno… the final nail in the coffin was Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords.” 22:24 – “Gaza was already being described as a concentration camp by UN officials in 1950.” 25:32 – “By 2023, Gaza had disappeared from the headlines… it was dead in the water.” 27:18 – “UN Resolution 2803 literally gave the deed of Gaza to Donald Trump.” 30:36 – “Hamas endorsed nonviolent protest during the Great March of Return—and Israel shot medics, journalists, amputees.” 34:26 – “Do people have the right to be free—or the right to live like slaves in the West Bank?” 38:42 – “Condemn the atrocities? Yes. Condemn the people who committed them? No way.” 46:56 – “The UN resolution created a ‘Board of Peace’ with sovereign powers over Gaza, headed by Trump.” 58:02 – “Clearing Gaza’s rubble—just clearing it—will take over 15 years. Rebuilding it? Try 80.”

Mario Nawfal

1,393,117 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад

After Elon Musk reposted my Grok Bot guide, my friend Ryan used it to run his strip club. 7 days ago, he replaced his entire middle management with 8 Grok agents ($200/mo). Last week alone, he saved $10,000 in salaries and missed leads. Not because the club magically got better, but because he killed the middle layer that was eating his margin. Before that, the setup was classic and expensive. Back-of-house sat on 6 people: > 1 recruiter > 1 person on applications > 1 cashier > 2 shift managers > 1 person on after-close requests That layer cost about $8,400–$9,200 a week once you counted base pay, cuts, “bonuses,” and money that never made the report. The recruiter took $50–$150 per new girl. The cashier spent 1.5–2 hours closing a shift. On Friday the managers generated 80–120 messages on the schedule alone. The after-shift person held 10–15 requests in his head and lost 2–3 of them every week simply because someone did not answer in time. Ryan saw the formula fast. Those people almost never made hard decisions. They moved data. • An application came in → a person opened a chat. • A girl wrote “I can do Friday” → a person typed a row into a spreadsheet. • A client left a request → a person relayed it to a manager. • The manager opened the schedule → and texted the girl. • The shift ended → the cashier counted a stack and entered a number by hand. Every handoff leaked time and money. Applications. A live staffer used to review 40–60 incoming files a week. One file took 8–12 minutes. Total: 7–10 hours of raw review, plus another 3–4 hours on “send a reminder,” “send more,” “when can you work.” Out of 50 applications, 6–8 made it to a shift. Conversion was weak not because of the room, but because half the threads went cold for 24–48 hours. Scheduling. Friday looked like this: 12 people want on, 8 slots. 1 can start only after 21:00. 1 will not work after 00:00. 1 drops out with 40 minutes left. 1 wants a swap. A manager already promised the slot to a fifth person. One change created 5 new messages. One substitution cycle took 20–40 minutes. By the end of the night there were 3–5 holes in the grid. Money. That was the dirtiest part. By morning the count was off by $180–$400 on average. Sometimes $70. Sometimes $600. The explanations were always human: tips booked to the wrong place, a commission forgotten, a number rounded, an envelope put in the wrong pile, a shift closed from memory. The cashier was not an analyst. He was a loss point. After-shift requests. The old chain took 25–45 minutes: client → manager → spreadsheet → message to the girl → wait → reply to the client. Out of 12 requests, 2–3 died in transit. Not because of a refusal. Because of human lag. 7 days ago Ryan cut that layer and hung it on Grok. The application flow dropped into one funnel with statuses: NEW → REVIEW → APPROVED → SCHEDULED → ACTIVE → INACTIVE The bot sent the first packet itself, collected the fields, and closed the gaps. If data was missing → it asked. If there was silence for 48 hours → it nudged. Ryan no longer opened 50 chats. He opened one feed. He touched only REVIEW and exceptions by hand. First-pass review fell from 8–12 minutes per application to 30–90 seconds of control. In a week, 53 applications went through the funnel. 11 made it to a shift. That was no longer “we got lucky.” That was because no application rotted in a manager’s DMs. The schedule became a rule, not a group chat. A girl marked available slots. The system saw 8 seats, not “we’ll figure it out.” Overbook went to a waitlist. A drop with 40 minutes left no longer spawned a 5-chat mess: the slot jumped to the next person in line in 10–20 seconds. Friday noise fell from 80–120 messages to 10–15 exceptions. Shift manager as a job title became unnecessary. The register stopped being a notebook. Every operation was written immediately. Shift close produced one summary: - floor revenue - tips - commissions - payouts - adjustments - variance If the total did not match, the system did not say “error somewhere.” It pointed at the exact operation. Over 7 days, variance stayed in the $0–$25 range instead of the old $180–$400. The weekly difference was about $1,200–$2,500 on “it didn’t add up” alone. The client loop collapsed from 4 human nodes into 1 route. A request entered the bot. The bot pulled the standard fields, checked availability, pinged the girl, and after 2 confirmations closed both sides with a notification. Cycle time fell from 25–45 minutes to 2–4 minutes on a standard request. Burned requests for the week: 0. Before that, it was 2–3 lost checks every week. Ryan’s role got narrow and hard. The bot closed the rule. He closed the exception. Morning looked like a panel, not a meeting: > 3 new applications in NEW > 1 card in REVIEW > 2 shift cancellations > 1 operation for manual review > 47 automated messages already sent without him The only living parts left were him and the girls on the floor. Plus anyone who took an after-shift call. The middle layer: sourcing, screening, schedule, requests, counting → sat on a $200 subscription. In numbers, the week looked like this. Old model: > 6 people in the management loop > $8,400–$9,200 for that layer > 7–10 hours on applications > 80–120 messages on one heavy Friday > $180–$400 holes in the cash > 2–3 lost requests > 25–45 minutes per client cycle New model: > 1 person > $200 for the tool > 30–90 seconds of standard application control > 10–15 exceptions instead of a whole-floor chat storm > $0–$25 on the register > 0 lost standard requests > 2–4 minutes per standard cycle That is where the ~$10,000 in 7 days came from. Not “floor magic.” A removed human tax: - pay for 6 people - recruiter cuts - cash holes - burned requests - hours spent moving the same row from a chat into a spreadsheet In this system, those people were not the “soul of the club.” They were latency and leak. Every extra node added delay. Every live data handoff added error. Every notebook added a gap for rounding. Ryan removed the nodes. He left rules, statuses, a ledger, and one escalation point. So after 7 days the model already counted as a delta, not an experiment. $200 on top. About $10,000 in the plus. And the proof was short: the club ran. The middle-layer staff did not. Their job was done by the bot. bookmark this.
0:35

After Elon Musk reposted my Grok Bot guide, my friend Ryan used it to run his strip club. 7 days ago, he replaced his entire middle management with 8 Grok agents ($200/mo). Last week alone, he saved $10,000 in salaries and missed leads. Not because the club magically got better, but because he killed the middle layer that was eating his margin. Before that, the setup was classic and expensive. Back-of-house sat on 6 people: > 1 recruiter > 1 person on applications > 1 cashier > 2 shift managers > 1 person on after-close requests That layer cost about $8,400–$9,200 a week once you counted base pay, cuts, “bonuses,” and money that never made the report. The recruiter took $50–$150 per new girl. The cashier spent 1.5–2 hours closing a shift. On Friday the managers generated 80–120 messages on the schedule alone. The after-shift person held 10–15 requests in his head and lost 2–3 of them every week simply because someone did not answer in time. Ryan saw the formula fast. Those people almost never made hard decisions. They moved data. • An application came in → a person opened a chat. • A girl wrote “I can do Friday” → a person typed a row into a spreadsheet. • A client left a request → a person relayed it to a manager. • The manager opened the schedule → and texted the girl. • The shift ended → the cashier counted a stack and entered a number by hand. Every handoff leaked time and money. Applications. A live staffer used to review 40–60 incoming files a week. One file took 8–12 minutes. Total: 7–10 hours of raw review, plus another 3–4 hours on “send a reminder,” “send more,” “when can you work.” Out of 50 applications, 6–8 made it to a shift. Conversion was weak not because of the room, but because half the threads went cold for 24–48 hours. Scheduling. Friday looked like this: 12 people want on, 8 slots. 1 can start only after 21:00. 1 will not work after 00:00. 1 drops out with 40 minutes left. 1 wants a swap. A manager already promised the slot to a fifth person. One change created 5 new messages. One substitution cycle took 20–40 minutes. By the end of the night there were 3–5 holes in the grid. Money. That was the dirtiest part. By morning the count was off by $180–$400 on average. Sometimes $70. Sometimes $600. The explanations were always human: tips booked to the wrong place, a commission forgotten, a number rounded, an envelope put in the wrong pile, a shift closed from memory. The cashier was not an analyst. He was a loss point. After-shift requests. The old chain took 25–45 minutes: client → manager → spreadsheet → message to the girl → wait → reply to the client. Out of 12 requests, 2–3 died in transit. Not because of a refusal. Because of human lag. 7 days ago Ryan cut that layer and hung it on Grok. The application flow dropped into one funnel with statuses: NEW → REVIEW → APPROVED → SCHEDULED → ACTIVE → INACTIVE The bot sent the first packet itself, collected the fields, and closed the gaps. If data was missing → it asked. If there was silence for 48 hours → it nudged. Ryan no longer opened 50 chats. He opened one feed. He touched only REVIEW and exceptions by hand. First-pass review fell from 8–12 minutes per application to 30–90 seconds of control. In a week, 53 applications went through the funnel. 11 made it to a shift. That was no longer “we got lucky.” That was because no application rotted in a manager’s DMs. The schedule became a rule, not a group chat. A girl marked available slots. The system saw 8 seats, not “we’ll figure it out.” Overbook went to a waitlist. A drop with 40 minutes left no longer spawned a 5-chat mess: the slot jumped to the next person in line in 10–20 seconds. Friday noise fell from 80–120 messages to 10–15 exceptions. Shift manager as a job title became unnecessary. The register stopped being a notebook. Every operation was written immediately. Shift close produced one summary: - floor revenue - tips - commissions - payouts - adjustments - variance If the total did not match, the system did not say “error somewhere.” It pointed at the exact operation. Over 7 days, variance stayed in the $0–$25 range instead of the old $180–$400. The weekly difference was about $1,200–$2,500 on “it didn’t add up” alone. The client loop collapsed from 4 human nodes into 1 route. A request entered the bot. The bot pulled the standard fields, checked availability, pinged the girl, and after 2 confirmations closed both sides with a notification. Cycle time fell from 25–45 minutes to 2–4 minutes on a standard request. Burned requests for the week: 0. Before that, it was 2–3 lost checks every week. Ryan’s role got narrow and hard. The bot closed the rule. He closed the exception. Morning looked like a panel, not a meeting: > 3 new applications in NEW > 1 card in REVIEW > 2 shift cancellations > 1 operation for manual review > 47 automated messages already sent without him The only living parts left were him and the girls on the floor. Plus anyone who took an after-shift call. The middle layer: sourcing, screening, schedule, requests, counting → sat on a $200 subscription. In numbers, the week looked like this. Old model: > 6 people in the management loop > $8,400–$9,200 for that layer > 7–10 hours on applications > 80–120 messages on one heavy Friday > $180–$400 holes in the cash > 2–3 lost requests > 25–45 minutes per client cycle New model: > 1 person > $200 for the tool > 30–90 seconds of standard application control > 10–15 exceptions instead of a whole-floor chat storm > $0–$25 on the register > 0 lost standard requests > 2–4 minutes per standard cycle That is where the ~$10,000 in 7 days came from. Not “floor magic.” A removed human tax: - pay for 6 people - recruiter cuts - cash holes - burned requests - hours spent moving the same row from a chat into a spreadsheet In this system, those people were not the “soul of the club.” They were latency and leak. Every extra node added delay. Every live data handoff added error. Every notebook added a gap for rounding. Ryan removed the nodes. He left rules, statuses, a ledger, and one escalation point. So after 7 days the model already counted as a delta, not an experiment. $200 on top. About $10,000 in the plus. And the proof was short: the club ran. The middle-layer staff did not. Their job was done by the bot. bookmark this.

Ridark

188,835 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

Bernardo Bertolucci on the advantage TV shows have over movies, his favourite TV shows & love for "Breaking Bad" (2008-2013): 1.) Bertolucci: I find inspiration in American TV series. Every series that Hollywood makes. Interviewer: Really? What shows do you enjoy? Bertolucci: You know, what everybody enjoys. The great ones. 'Mad Men' (2007-15), 'Breaking Bad' (2008-13). But I like also TV series which are minor. Not as big, theme-wise. I love the humble TV series. Maybe I like the fact that the story is stretched and stretched and stretched and never ends. I like 'Rubicon' (2010). They did one season. It wasn’t successful, so they ki!!ed it. I even love things like 'The Walking Dead' (2010-22). Interviewer: Setting the look and feel. One particular strength of a TV series: they let stories breathe. As in Apted or Linklater, you’re able to see characters age. Bertolucci: It’s wonderful! You see characters aging. You know what I love in TV series? That they can have the luxury of staying on face, on a close-up of a character, for 50 seconds. One minute! Nothing happens! Like the way it used to be in cinema. They have re-conquered time. Now, in cinema there is a convention now that all movies have to be fast. In a series, you don’t have that. It’s a great luxury. It’s very much like cinema used to be in the past, in a way." 2.) "The best work being done now is for television, 'Breaking Bad' – a masterpiece. 'House of Cards' (2013-18) – very, very good" 3.) My generation had an affair with American culture, there’s no doubt about it. A street lamp and a fire hydrant made me sing in the rain. But the American films I like now do not come from Hollywood studios but from television series, like ‘Mad Men,’ ‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘The Americans’ (2013-2018) “I like when they last 13 episodes but then there is a new series coming with another 13 episodes,” Bertolucci said, laughing, comparing them to novels printed in installments in 19th century newspapers. “Apart from a few independent productions, I think that everything that comes from Hollywood is generally sad. It makes me very sad." 4.) "I'm sad about 'Breaking Bad' ending. I want more." Source for the quotes: (1. "Even Making a Cup of Tea is Erotic: Bernardo Bertolucci on Me and You", John Magary, Filmmaker, 2014. 2. "Bernardo Bertolucci on butter, Brando, and being burned by Hollywood", John Preston, The Telegraph, 2018 3. "Bernardo Bertolucci Says He Prefers ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘The Americans’ to Hollywood Movies These Days", Alison Willmore, Indiewire, 2013 4. IMDb)
2:05

Bernardo Bertolucci on the advantage TV shows have over movies, his favourite TV shows & love for "Breaking Bad" (2008-2013): 1.) Bertolucci: I find inspiration in American TV series. Every series that Hollywood makes. Interviewer: Really? What shows do you enjoy? Bertolucci: You know, what everybody enjoys. The great ones. 'Mad Men' (2007-15), 'Breaking Bad' (2008-13). But I like also TV series which are minor. Not as big, theme-wise. I love the humble TV series. Maybe I like the fact that the story is stretched and stretched and stretched and never ends. I like 'Rubicon' (2010). They did one season. It wasn’t successful, so they ki!!ed it. I even love things like 'The Walking Dead' (2010-22). Interviewer: Setting the look and feel. One particular strength of a TV series: they let stories breathe. As in Apted or Linklater, you’re able to see characters age. Bertolucci: It’s wonderful! You see characters aging. You know what I love in TV series? That they can have the luxury of staying on face, on a close-up of a character, for 50 seconds. One minute! Nothing happens! Like the way it used to be in cinema. They have re-conquered time. Now, in cinema there is a convention now that all movies have to be fast. In a series, you don’t have that. It’s a great luxury. It’s very much like cinema used to be in the past, in a way." 2.) "The best work being done now is for television, 'Breaking Bad' – a masterpiece. 'House of Cards' (2013-18) – very, very good" 3.) My generation had an affair with American culture, there’s no doubt about it. A street lamp and a fire hydrant made me sing in the rain. But the American films I like now do not come from Hollywood studios but from television series, like ‘Mad Men,’ ‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘The Americans’ (2013-2018) “I like when they last 13 episodes but then there is a new series coming with another 13 episodes,” Bertolucci said, laughing, comparing them to novels printed in installments in 19th century newspapers. “Apart from a few independent productions, I think that everything that comes from Hollywood is generally sad. It makes me very sad." 4.) "I'm sad about 'Breaking Bad' ending. I want more." Source for the quotes: (1. "Even Making a Cup of Tea is Erotic: Bernardo Bertolucci on Me and You", John Magary, Filmmaker, 2014. 2. "Bernardo Bertolucci on butter, Brando, and being burned by Hollywood", John Preston, The Telegraph, 2018 3. "Bernardo Bertolucci Says He Prefers ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘The Americans’ to Hollywood Movies These Days", Alison Willmore, Indiewire, 2013 4. IMDb)

DepressedBergman

25,887 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية تعتمد منذ بداية الحرب، وبناءً على تجارب سابقة، آلية توثيق دقيقة جدًا تتوافق مع معايير المنظمات الدولية، خاصة منظمة الصحة العالمية... يتم التوثيق عبر برنامج "صحتي" التابع للأمم المتحدة ويُشرف عليه كوادر الوزارة... لا يُسجل أي شهيد إلا بعد وصوله إلى المستشفى لضمان الدقة في مجتمع قبلي وعائلي ترتبط فيه الأسماء بحقوق قانونية مثل الميراث... من لا يصل إلى المستشفى يُوثق لاحقًا عبر القضاء الفلسطيني من خلال شهادات العائلات وشهود وقرارات قضائية... حتى الآن، تم توثيق 56,000 شهيد بالأسماء الرباعية وأرقام الهوية، وأكثر من 17,000 منهم من الأطفال... لو وُجد خلل في اسم واحد لتحوّل الأمر إلى أزمة، ولذلك نتمسك بأقصى درجات الدقة... لم يستطع أحد حتى الآن التشكيك في هذه الأرقام أو مصداقيتها... رغم أن تقديرات دولية، مثل تقرير مجلة "لانست"، تشير إلى أن العدد الفعلي قد يكون أعلى بنسبة 46%، إلا أننا نتمسك بأرقامنا المثبتة والمبنية على كل حالة على حدة. Since the beginning of the war, and based on prior experiences, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has adopted a highly precise documentation process that aligns with international standards, especially those of the World Health Organization... This documentation is carried out through the “Sehhaty” program run by the United Nations and supervised by Ministry of Health staff... No martyr is recorded unless they arrive at a hospital, to ensure accuracy in a tribal and family-based society where names are tied to legal rights such as inheritance... Those who do not reach hospitals are documented later through the Palestinian judicial system based on family testimonies, witnesses, and official court rulings... So far, 56,000 martyrs have been documented with full names and ID numbers, including more than 17,000 children... If a single name were incorrect, it could turn into a major crisis—this is why we maintain the highest level of accuracy... No one has been able to question the credibility or accuracy of these figures to date... Although international estimates, such as The Lancet report, suggest that the actual number may be 46% higher, we remain committed to our case-by-case, verified figures.
5:06

وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية تعتمد منذ بداية الحرب، وبناءً على تجارب سابقة، آلية توثيق دقيقة جدًا تتوافق مع معايير المنظمات الدولية، خاصة منظمة الصحة العالمية... يتم التوثيق عبر برنامج "صحتي" التابع للأمم المتحدة ويُشرف عليه كوادر الوزارة... لا يُسجل أي شهيد إلا بعد وصوله إلى المستشفى لضمان الدقة في مجتمع قبلي وعائلي ترتبط فيه الأسماء بحقوق قانونية مثل الميراث... من لا يصل إلى المستشفى يُوثق لاحقًا عبر القضاء الفلسطيني من خلال شهادات العائلات وشهود وقرارات قضائية... حتى الآن، تم توثيق 56,000 شهيد بالأسماء الرباعية وأرقام الهوية، وأكثر من 17,000 منهم من الأطفال... لو وُجد خلل في اسم واحد لتحوّل الأمر إلى أزمة، ولذلك نتمسك بأقصى درجات الدقة... لم يستطع أحد حتى الآن التشكيك في هذه الأرقام أو مصداقيتها... رغم أن تقديرات دولية، مثل تقرير مجلة "لانست"، تشير إلى أن العدد الفعلي قد يكون أعلى بنسبة 46%، إلا أننا نتمسك بأرقامنا المثبتة والمبنية على كل حالة على حدة. Since the beginning of the war, and based on prior experiences, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has adopted a highly precise documentation process that aligns with international standards, especially those of the World Health Organization... This documentation is carried out through the “Sehhaty” program run by the United Nations and supervised by Ministry of Health staff... No martyr is recorded unless they arrive at a hospital, to ensure accuracy in a tribal and family-based society where names are tied to legal rights such as inheritance... Those who do not reach hospitals are documented later through the Palestinian judicial system based on family testimonies, witnesses, and official court rulings... So far, 56,000 martyrs have been documented with full names and ID numbers, including more than 17,000 children... If a single name were incorrect, it could turn into a major crisis—this is why we maintain the highest level of accuracy... No one has been able to question the credibility or accuracy of these figures to date... Although international estimates, such as The Lancet report, suggest that the actual number may be 46% higher, we remain committed to our case-by-case, verified figures.

Dr.Muneer Alboursh د.منيرالبرش

18,794 просмотров • 1 год назад

Some things I cannot get over from today’s Basel VIP day, I’m just gonna type once and rip bc I’m eager to get these memories out: Best mic drop moment for digital artists I’ve ever seen. The exhibition looked so damn good, our energy was so high it made the other half of the fair feel vapid. Perennial Basel VIP goers walked a fair booth after booth of what is honestly repetitive “trad” art and then BOOM, they’re instantly stimulated by the masterfully organized Zero to 10 exhibition. They’re hit with the largest crowd they never expected, many of which was anchored by 50-100 crypto friends rekindling, and ready to lend their knowledge to explain the works in front of them like they’re the artists. Speaking to Scott Winkelmann (beeple bro) about how incredible it was to see all the smiling faces videotaping Regular Animals. He mentioned 50+ inquiries for buying one (they sold out before i walked in). It will be the most viral piece in all of Art Miami. Coin Laundry by XCOPY 🏴 with incredible representation and support by Mimi Nguyen and , so busy at times, it was all hands on deck from bonafidehan.eth ⚫ pravijn ⚫️ and anyone who knew what was going on to onboard attendees with their soap. Sergey Brin was there and seen admiring Dmitri Cherniak’s Floor Ringer, the booth looked stunning huge congrats VincentVanDough Aniko Berman and all who repped. Erick / Snowfro / 🦩 / LAO / #️⃣ / 🔴 and Jeff Davis smiling ear to ear, happy to be recounting the story of Art Blocks with a passion no other gallerist has had before. Snowfro, the apex collector turned innovator in the space coming full circle to showcasing and selling AB minted Quines by Larva Labs . Ana María Caballero reciting her beautiful and poem in front of 100s of fully engaged listeners, a wonderfully intimate break during the day. The amount of questions and genuine interest I felt from bankers and their groups of clients awing at the method and output Tyler Hobbs Studio works, and seeing 𝐿𝑒𝓎𝓁𝒶 team handle the interest with the perfect tact. sofia isabel garcia micol Fellowship working a central pillar of the fair, selling all the Ix Shells ( • •) works on display, one of my favorite place to watch reactions from throughout the day. @jackbutcher crushing it as the labeled “manager” and helped his guests Self Checkout and unknowingly mint their first NFTs. The most engaging of conceptual art many ppl can microbuy ($1, can do online too) Michael Kozlowski giving the most intricate and interesting of details on the masterful work he produced with Heft Eli Scheinman and El Barba Roja blue check with such hospitable charm working the entire exhibition floor. Making intros and giving full context tours. Truly amazing work my bros, I’m so happy to see the 10/10 execution. I’ll look to end by saying i don’t care what the culturally deficient say about us, digital art is the artistic movement of our time. I just witnessed the “cool”, elite crowd of society come into our corner of the Art Basel fair and smile with intrigue as they realized why our generation is not going to be buying $60m Rothkos. Our internet native generation deserves this movement. It’s uniquely ours and it’s real as fuck, in the deepest of bears. It wasn’t passed onto us as inheritance, it grew from twitter telegram and discord. It is extreme ownership of what is truly ours, and these Basel VIPs don’t even know (yet) how based it feels to enjoy the true sovereignty of this movement. I didn’t plan to go every day, but now i feel a sense of pride i want to enjoy more days of the week so i will happily be there daily. I need to get my time with Yatreda ያጥሬዳ maya man Joe Pease !! This was a perfect exhibition in my book. 🫡🫡
1:00

Some things I cannot get over from today’s Basel VIP day, I’m just gonna type once and rip bc I’m eager to get these memories out: Best mic drop moment for digital artists I’ve ever seen. The exhibition looked so damn good, our energy was so high it made the other half of the fair feel vapid. Perennial Basel VIP goers walked a fair booth after booth of what is honestly repetitive “trad” art and then BOOM, they’re instantly stimulated by the masterfully organized Zero to 10 exhibition. They’re hit with the largest crowd they never expected, many of which was anchored by 50-100 crypto friends rekindling, and ready to lend their knowledge to explain the works in front of them like they’re the artists. Speaking to Scott Winkelmann (beeple bro) about how incredible it was to see all the smiling faces videotaping Regular Animals. He mentioned 50+ inquiries for buying one (they sold out before i walked in). It will be the most viral piece in all of Art Miami. Coin Laundry by XCOPY 🏴 with incredible representation and support by Mimi Nguyen and , so busy at times, it was all hands on deck from bonafidehan.eth ⚫ pravijn ⚫️ and anyone who knew what was going on to onboard attendees with their soap. Sergey Brin was there and seen admiring Dmitri Cherniak’s Floor Ringer, the booth looked stunning huge congrats VincentVanDough Aniko Berman and all who repped. Erick / Snowfro / 🦩 / LAO / #️⃣ / 🔴 and Jeff Davis smiling ear to ear, happy to be recounting the story of Art Blocks with a passion no other gallerist has had before. Snowfro, the apex collector turned innovator in the space coming full circle to showcasing and selling AB minted Quines by Larva Labs . Ana María Caballero reciting her beautiful and poem in front of 100s of fully engaged listeners, a wonderfully intimate break during the day. The amount of questions and genuine interest I felt from bankers and their groups of clients awing at the method and output Tyler Hobbs Studio works, and seeing 𝐿𝑒𝓎𝓁𝒶 team handle the interest with the perfect tact. sofia isabel garcia micol Fellowship working a central pillar of the fair, selling all the Ix Shells ( • •) works on display, one of my favorite place to watch reactions from throughout the day. @jackbutcher crushing it as the labeled “manager” and helped his guests Self Checkout and unknowingly mint their first NFTs. The most engaging of conceptual art many ppl can microbuy ($1, can do online too) Michael Kozlowski giving the most intricate and interesting of details on the masterful work he produced with Heft Eli Scheinman and El Barba Roja blue check with such hospitable charm working the entire exhibition floor. Making intros and giving full context tours. Truly amazing work my bros, I’m so happy to see the 10/10 execution. I’ll look to end by saying i don’t care what the culturally deficient say about us, digital art is the artistic movement of our time. I just witnessed the “cool”, elite crowd of society come into our corner of the Art Basel fair and smile with intrigue as they realized why our generation is not going to be buying $60m Rothkos. Our internet native generation deserves this movement. It’s uniquely ours and it’s real as fuck, in the deepest of bears. It wasn’t passed onto us as inheritance, it grew from twitter telegram and discord. It is extreme ownership of what is truly ours, and these Basel VIPs don’t even know (yet) how based it feels to enjoy the true sovereignty of this movement. I didn’t plan to go every day, but now i feel a sense of pride i want to enjoy more days of the week so i will happily be there daily. I need to get my time with Yatreda ያጥሬዳ maya man Joe Pease !! This was a perfect exhibition in my book. 🫡🫡

AC

100,303 просмотров • 10 месяцев назад

Germany Is Still A Kind Of A Colony Of The United States. The Priceless Value of Old Archives ‼️ ‼ Former German MSM Journalist Udo Ulfkotte comes clean He explains how all western corporate journalists are bought by the CIA and how they must follow their agenda. If only more journalists started speaking the truth!!! Udo Ulfkotte says all major media networks controlled by CIA Ulfkotte was for a time the editor of the well-known German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), where he was convinced first hand that the CIA and the German BND intelligence service bribe journalists to write anti-Russian and extremely pro-Western and pro-NATO articles. In his book "Journalists for hire" (“Gekaufte Journalisten” in German), Ulfkotte explained in great detail how the propaganda campaign of the USA and NATO works. He then stated that he published under his name texts written by agents of various intelligence services, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Before his death, Ulfkotte gave an interview to the Russian television RT, in which he stated that he was "very afraid of a new war in Europe, and that the German and U.S. media want to push Europe into war and provoke war on Russian territory". "Looking at how the German and American media are bringing war to Europe, I speak up to say that what I did in the past, manipulated people, participated in anti-Russian propaganda is wrong. The war with Russia is a point of no return. What my colleagues do is wrong. I have written a book because I am very afraid of a new war in Europe. War never comes of its own accord, there are always people who stand up for it and it's not just politicians, but also journalists. We betrayed our readers, just to push the war. I don't want this anymore, I'm tired of this propaganda. We live in a banana republic, not a democratic country where we have freedom the press", Ulfkotte said at the time. He claimed that the CIA had corrupted journalists and major news outlets so much that it had become a routine thing, accepted and widespread in the Western media, and that journalists who did not adhere to it could not get a job or their careers were interrupted. The book is still not available in English, but in it, the former editor of Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper claims that he was a part of a program where the CIA hired American and European journalists to plant false stories in the mainstream media to further a disinformation agenda. Ulfkotte claimed to have worked with the CIA and German foreign intelligence to spin the news “in a way that was positive for the United States and bad for its opponents.” The German journalist made no attempt to cover-up that he accepted bribes from the CIA throughout his career and that he would lose his job if he did not comply. "They paid all my expenses and introduced me to Americans I would like to meet," Ulfkotte told RT, stating that he became an honorary citizen of the state of Oklahoma because he wrote pro-American articles, and had the support of the CIA. He also said on one occasion: "I have survived three heart attacks, I no longer have children who need my support, and day by day I watch Americans on the news as they fuel the next war. This time it takes place in Ukraine against Russia, but the game is the same".
13:24

Germany Is Still A Kind Of A Colony Of The United States. The Priceless Value of Old Archives ‼️ ‼ Former German MSM Journalist Udo Ulfkotte comes clean He explains how all western corporate journalists are bought by the CIA and how they must follow their agenda. If only more journalists started speaking the truth!!! Udo Ulfkotte says all major media networks controlled by CIA Ulfkotte was for a time the editor of the well-known German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), where he was convinced first hand that the CIA and the German BND intelligence service bribe journalists to write anti-Russian and extremely pro-Western and pro-NATO articles. In his book "Journalists for hire" (“Gekaufte Journalisten” in German), Ulfkotte explained in great detail how the propaganda campaign of the USA and NATO works. He then stated that he published under his name texts written by agents of various intelligence services, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Before his death, Ulfkotte gave an interview to the Russian television RT, in which he stated that he was "very afraid of a new war in Europe, and that the German and U.S. media want to push Europe into war and provoke war on Russian territory". "Looking at how the German and American media are bringing war to Europe, I speak up to say that what I did in the past, manipulated people, participated in anti-Russian propaganda is wrong. The war with Russia is a point of no return. What my colleagues do is wrong. I have written a book because I am very afraid of a new war in Europe. War never comes of its own accord, there are always people who stand up for it and it's not just politicians, but also journalists. We betrayed our readers, just to push the war. I don't want this anymore, I'm tired of this propaganda. We live in a banana republic, not a democratic country where we have freedom the press", Ulfkotte said at the time. He claimed that the CIA had corrupted journalists and major news outlets so much that it had become a routine thing, accepted and widespread in the Western media, and that journalists who did not adhere to it could not get a job or their careers were interrupted. The book is still not available in English, but in it, the former editor of Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper claims that he was a part of a program where the CIA hired American and European journalists to plant false stories in the mainstream media to further a disinformation agenda. Ulfkotte claimed to have worked with the CIA and German foreign intelligence to spin the news “in a way that was positive for the United States and bad for its opponents.” The German journalist made no attempt to cover-up that he accepted bribes from the CIA throughout his career and that he would lose his job if he did not comply. "They paid all my expenses and introduced me to Americans I would like to meet," Ulfkotte told RT, stating that he became an honorary citizen of the state of Oklahoma because he wrote pro-American articles, and had the support of the CIA. He also said on one occasion: "I have survived three heart attacks, I no longer have children who need my support, and day by day I watch Americans on the news as they fuel the next war. This time it takes place in Ukraine against Russia, but the game is the same".

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil

175,491 просмотров • 2 лет назад

Dear Racing Community, This Saturday at Tampa Bay Downs is a huge one for us: Powershift in the Tampa Bay Derby, Time to Dream in the Florida Oaks, Disruptor in the Challenger. But last Saturday at Gulfstream was different. No stakes horses. Just a maiden and an allowance runner. Our races were early. My ADHD was kicking in 😂, so instead of rolling in 50-deep with the usual chaos and preparation, I went to the track with my childhood friend of 40 years and my 10-year-old daughter, Gioia. No entourage. No spotlight. Just us. And it hit me. I was 13 again. Going to the track with my friends. Falling in love with this sport. Now I get to share that same feeling with Gioia. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d have a bond this strong with my daughter, built in large part around the racetrack and these horses. Over the last 10 years she’s learned lessons you can’t teach in high school, college, or an MBA program: Joy. Anxiousness. Winning. Losing. Grit. Failure. Partnership. Family. Passion. The racetrack has been a classroom. The Thoroughbred has been the teacher. That’s why my fight has never been about power. It’s never been about control. It’s about protecting this sport for the next generation, for daughters like mine. I left that modest race day emotionally spent. People from 10 to 90 years old came up to me. Handshakes. Encouragement. “Keep going.” “Don’t stop.” “We’re with you.” It meant more than you know. Two days earlier, Pat Cummings, Aron Wellman and Anita Motion hosted an Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners Town Hall on the state of this movement and the issues with the The Jockey Club. The 23-minute opening was clear, powerful, and courageous. Aron’s explanation of why he chose to add his voice after patiently watching this unfold for three years was compelling. I understand not everyone likes my tone or my style. But this isn’t figure skating and I’m not here for style points. Horse racing is at a fork in the road. One path is comfortable and leads to a dead end. The other is harder. Longer. Uncomfortable. But it leads to a bigger, brighter, sustainable future. I’ve always chosen the harder road. If you love this sport, if you care about the people in it, and most importantly, if you care about the Thoroughbred, please listen to that 23-minute opening. This mission has always been about three things: The sport. The people. And above all, the horse. Thank you.
23:48

Dear Racing Community, This Saturday at Tampa Bay Downs is a huge one for us: Powershift in the Tampa Bay Derby, Time to Dream in the Florida Oaks, Disruptor in the Challenger. But last Saturday at Gulfstream was different. No stakes horses. Just a maiden and an allowance runner. Our races were early. My ADHD was kicking in 😂, so instead of rolling in 50-deep with the usual chaos and preparation, I went to the track with my childhood friend of 40 years and my 10-year-old daughter, Gioia. No entourage. No spotlight. Just us. And it hit me. I was 13 again. Going to the track with my friends. Falling in love with this sport. Now I get to share that same feeling with Gioia. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d have a bond this strong with my daughter, built in large part around the racetrack and these horses. Over the last 10 years she’s learned lessons you can’t teach in high school, college, or an MBA program: Joy. Anxiousness. Winning. Losing. Grit. Failure. Partnership. Family. Passion. The racetrack has been a classroom. The Thoroughbred has been the teacher. That’s why my fight has never been about power. It’s never been about control. It’s about protecting this sport for the next generation, for daughters like mine. I left that modest race day emotionally spent. People from 10 to 90 years old came up to me. Handshakes. Encouragement. “Keep going.” “Don’t stop.” “We’re with you.” It meant more than you know. Two days earlier, Pat Cummings, Aron Wellman and Anita Motion hosted an Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners Town Hall on the state of this movement and the issues with the The Jockey Club. The 23-minute opening was clear, powerful, and courageous. Aron’s explanation of why he chose to add his voice after patiently watching this unfold for three years was compelling. I understand not everyone likes my tone or my style. But this isn’t figure skating and I’m not here for style points. Horse racing is at a fork in the road. One path is comfortable and leads to a dead end. The other is harder. Longer. Uncomfortable. But it leads to a bigger, brighter, sustainable future. I’ve always chosen the harder road. If you love this sport, if you care about the people in it, and most importantly, if you care about the Thoroughbred, please listen to that 23-minute opening. This mission has always been about three things: The sport. The people. And above all, the horse. Thank you.

Repole Stable

25,442 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад

Ron Unz (The Unz Review) discusses his intellectual upbringing and involvement in Holocaust research with Holocaust researcher Germar Rudolf (Germar Rudolf (* 1964)) and free market activist Jorge Besada. 00:28 Jorge introduces German chemist and leading Holocaust researcher Germar Rudolf who spent nearly 4 years in jail for writing a chemistry report that questions the mainstream mass-gassings narrative and thus allegedly “inciting racial hatred”. 02:54 Jorge introduces Jewish-born entrepreneur and author Ron Unz who has degrees in Physics and Ancient History from Harvard. Runs 05:00 Jorge briefly explains how from freedom emerges economic and intellectual competition which inadvertently turns mankind into a super-computer as companies innovate and copy each other’s innovations, as well as superior morals as hard-working people motivate everyone else to be likewise. 05:50 Ron tells us about his life, Jewish cultural influence-identity or lack thereof, early views on Holocaust. 09:15 Ron begins to get suspicious regarding Holocaust due to disastrous-flawed media coverage of Iraq war after 9/11. Mainstream media lost credibility. 10:42 Ron digitizes old publications and discusses ramifications of doing so. 14:20 Ron archives Reason magazine and eventually stumbles upon Holocaust-related issue and controversy surrounding it. 18:04 Ron praises issue and brings up fact that 2 leading editors were Jewish. 21:22 Arthur Butz, another prominent Holocaust mass-gassings doubter has Masters in Electrical Engineering from MIT. 21:50 Ron emphasizes how Libertarians were early prominent leaders in spreading Holocaust-doubt-revisionism. 23:28 Ron speculates that the Reason issue relating to the Holocaust was due to the coming release of Arthur Butz’s ‘The Hoax of the Twentieth Century’ 26:24 Ron praises Butz’s book and especially so Nicholas Kollerstrom’s ‘Breaking the Spell. The Holocaust: Myth & Reality’ 30:27 Jorge mentions how since Libertarians are better defenders of freedom, they get the benefits of superior competition of ideas and busting of myths-lies which helps explain why so many are Holocaust revisionists-deniers. Asks Ron a out how important was for him to lear that freedom giant Murray Rothbard, who is likely Milei’s favorite economist, was a revisiojnist-Denier. Ron elaborates. 34:55 Ron describes how it was books that were pro-mainstream-Holocast that persuaded him the most about the myth-story of the Holocaust. Discusses Deborah Lipstadt. 40:42 Ron brings up how lead soviet prosecutor in Nuremberg Trials , Andrey Vyshinsky, was same fraudulent prosecutor who oversaw Stalin’s bogus ‘Great Purge-‘Shows Trials’. 41:30 Ron brings up how aspects of Holocaust mythology are abandoned with time like alleged mass-gassings or death camps on German soil. 45:05 Ron mentions how Robert Faurisson(french revisionist) stressed how neither Churchill’s, nor, Eisenhower’s, nor Charles de Gaul’s massive post-war writings mentioned anything about the Holocaust. 48:56 Ron brings up book ‘The Jewish Threat: Anti-semitic Politics Of The U.s. Army’ by Joseph W. Bendersky, and how not a single American intelligence officer or top generals believed in holocaust stories. 50:15 Ron discusses John Beaty’s book ‘The Iron Curtain Over America’ 1:14:40 Ron argues that the reason why neither Churchill, nor Eisenhower, nor Charles de Gaul mentioned anything about the Holocaust is because they didn’t believe it and didn’t want to be seen as having fallen for war-time propaganda-myths in posterity. 1:17:29 Germar mentions how John Beaty may not have been able to better back his claims about intelligence officers not believing holocaust because it was not until year 2000 that UK finally released secret information about decrypts, so Beaty would have been breaking law. 1:19:18 Jorge brings up how Churchill knew the Soviets had committed the Katyn Forest massacre and introduced fake evidence at Nuremberg Trial blaming Germans for it, thus knew mass-gassings also likely fabrications thus not risk including them in his books to look like a fool in the future. 1:22:08 Ron discusses the Venona project, US spying on soviet spies working high up in Roosevelt admin. Even top American who kept project running and held erroneous anti-Jewish ideas, never believed anything about holocaust. 1:28:09 Jorge, backing Beaty’s claim that Jews were overwhelmingly responsible for bringing about WWII to destroy Hitler, brings up leading Zionist Chaim Weizmann stating that WWII “is our war..We are…giving this war our financial support on which the entire war production is based, we are…providing our full propaganda power which is the moral energy that keeps this war going.” The solution to Hitler’s anti-Jewish fallacies was NOT a world war that killed 80+ million people. 1:29:39 Ron brings up how an increasing number of books today make similar point, but not as portraying Jews as dragging us into an unnecessary war, but as heroes helping annihilate the evil Hitler. 1:31:07 Ron disagrees with Jorge’s earlier statement and downplays Jew’s importance compared to Roosevelt's desire to have a war to allegedly get the US out of depression. 1:34:50 Ron brings up importance of Kristallnacht for getting Roosevelt and Jews to push war vs. Germany. 1:38:29 Germar further elaborates on how Nazi government’s cruel handling of Kristallnacht (forbade insurance companies to pay Jews, large collective fine on Jews as well) did make it easy for many to further vilify Nazi government and help move to war. 1:43:58 Jorge: ‘What are 3-5 major arguments the layperson came make to criticize mainstream holo myths?’ Ron mentions digging where hundreds of thousands of bodies are supposed to be buried. 1:49:12 Germar explains how ‘deep penetrating radar’ and other things have been tried and still no evidence to support mainstream claims. 1:52:43 Jorge summarizes simple arguments against mainstream myth discussed: 1) ground checks fail to show mass graves,2) Nuremberg Trial obvious fake evidence introduced by Soviets like brain bashing pedal-driven machine, atomic bomb-like device to blow up 20,000 Jews, etc. 3) Top Soviet prosecutor Andrey Vyshinsky being same liar as in Moscow ‘Show Trials’ 4) All secret communications from Auschwitz reveal nothing about gassings, 5) Nothing in Churchill, Eisenhower, Charles de Gaul writings, 6) Main Russian archivists admit there is nothing in archives supporting Holocaust, 7) Chemical analysis per Germar 8) massive continuous downward revisions of alleged exterminations. 1:58:52 Germar elaborates on history of massive downward revisions on total deaths. 2:05:28 Ron mentions how after creation of Israel and Israel’s pivot to America, Stalin-Soviets no longer pushed Holocaust. 2:10:55 Jorge summarizes how the mainstream Holocaust myth (NOT conspiracy) evolved. Holocaust exaggerations began as way for Poles-Soviets-Communists to punish Germany but understandably attracted and was amplified by Jews, especially Zionist ideology-believing ones. Per Germar, the key leading historian and judges who did most to create mainstream holocaust myth were not even Jewish. 2:13:00 Ron agrees with summary and believes that most of today’s Holocaust academics are not lying as part of some grand conspiracy by believe their mythical narrative. 2:14:26 Jorge brings up astute ending to Ron’s Holocaust article where he compared Holocaustianity to Socialist mythology and the USSR, both myths similarly superficially examined, sustained by coercion, and that could quickly collapse. 2:16:40 Jorge asks Ron: “Where do you see things headed?” 2:17:40 Jorge asks… Mahmoud Abbas, Bashar al Assad, Alexander Dugin, Judge Napolitano frequent guest Phil Giraldi all are prominent doubters, Sergey Lavrov loves watching Napolitano… How much of the Russia-Ukraine war is due to Zionism and are there significant chances that many high up in Russian government are Holocaust doubters-revisionists? 2:22:41 Jorge blames the seeming irrationality of US government looking for conflict with Russia and China as inevitable outgrowth of Holcaustianized Zionism which has made Bibi our Pope getting more than one standing ovation per minute in US congress. Ron mentions how of course everyone is a next Hitler to be militarily destroyed. 2:24:52 Ron sees massive collapse of the West which will bring down Holocaust myths with it. 2:25:55 Germar asks Ron about personal repercussions regarding his open Holocaust skepticism, lost friendships, etc. 2:34:15 Jorge brings up why Ron is such a vital intellectual. Unlike David Duke or Candace Owens who bring up good information about Jewish-related chaos, Ron is a secular Jew who does NOT make many fallacies Candace and David make like in Candace’s case referring to Bibi being influenced by Satan etc. And hopefully major podcasters like Joe Rogan soon host Ron. 2:36:06 Ron : “Maybe if one of these people had me on it could be the straw that breaks the camels back” 2:36:17 Jorge brings up how we are clearly seeing how similar to CovidMania, AntisemiteMania is about to emerge and fortunately this is leading more and more people to have the urgency and courage to deal with Zionist and Holocaust myths before it is too late. 2:39:30 Germar brings up Ron asking Germar to post his books. Ron explains he wanted to convert them to HTML but realized few were reading them that way to just abandoned the idea, especially since Germar’s site already provides all PDFs and more. 2:42:02 Jorge! “We almost went 3 hours! We will do this again!”
2:42:40

Ron Unz (The Unz Review) discusses his intellectual upbringing and involvement in Holocaust research with Holocaust researcher Germar Rudolf (Germar Rudolf (* 1964)) and free market activist Jorge Besada. 00:28 Jorge introduces German chemist and leading Holocaust researcher Germar Rudolf who spent nearly 4 years in jail for writing a chemistry report that questions the mainstream mass-gassings narrative and thus allegedly “inciting racial hatred”. 02:54 Jorge introduces Jewish-born entrepreneur and author Ron Unz who has degrees in Physics and Ancient History from Harvard. Runs 05:00 Jorge briefly explains how from freedom emerges economic and intellectual competition which inadvertently turns mankind into a super-computer as companies innovate and copy each other’s innovations, as well as superior morals as hard-working people motivate everyone else to be likewise. 05:50 Ron tells us about his life, Jewish cultural influence-identity or lack thereof, early views on Holocaust. 09:15 Ron begins to get suspicious regarding Holocaust due to disastrous-flawed media coverage of Iraq war after 9/11. Mainstream media lost credibility. 10:42 Ron digitizes old publications and discusses ramifications of doing so. 14:20 Ron archives Reason magazine and eventually stumbles upon Holocaust-related issue and controversy surrounding it. 18:04 Ron praises issue and brings up fact that 2 leading editors were Jewish. 21:22 Arthur Butz, another prominent Holocaust mass-gassings doubter has Masters in Electrical Engineering from MIT. 21:50 Ron emphasizes how Libertarians were early prominent leaders in spreading Holocaust-doubt-revisionism. 23:28 Ron speculates that the Reason issue relating to the Holocaust was due to the coming release of Arthur Butz’s ‘The Hoax of the Twentieth Century’ 26:24 Ron praises Butz’s book and especially so Nicholas Kollerstrom’s ‘Breaking the Spell. The Holocaust: Myth & Reality’ 30:27 Jorge mentions how since Libertarians are better defenders of freedom, they get the benefits of superior competition of ideas and busting of myths-lies which helps explain why so many are Holocaust revisionists-deniers. Asks Ron a out how important was for him to lear that freedom giant Murray Rothbard, who is likely Milei’s favorite economist, was a revisiojnist-Denier. Ron elaborates. 34:55 Ron describes how it was books that were pro-mainstream-Holocast that persuaded him the most about the myth-story of the Holocaust. Discusses Deborah Lipstadt. 40:42 Ron brings up how lead soviet prosecutor in Nuremberg Trials , Andrey Vyshinsky, was same fraudulent prosecutor who oversaw Stalin’s bogus ‘Great Purge-‘Shows Trials’. 41:30 Ron brings up how aspects of Holocaust mythology are abandoned with time like alleged mass-gassings or death camps on German soil. 45:05 Ron mentions how Robert Faurisson(french revisionist) stressed how neither Churchill’s, nor, Eisenhower’s, nor Charles de Gaul’s massive post-war writings mentioned anything about the Holocaust. 48:56 Ron brings up book ‘The Jewish Threat: Anti-semitic Politics Of The U.s. Army’ by Joseph W. Bendersky, and how not a single American intelligence officer or top generals believed in holocaust stories. 50:15 Ron discusses John Beaty’s book ‘The Iron Curtain Over America’ 1:14:40 Ron argues that the reason why neither Churchill, nor Eisenhower, nor Charles de Gaul mentioned anything about the Holocaust is because they didn’t believe it and didn’t want to be seen as having fallen for war-time propaganda-myths in posterity. 1:17:29 Germar mentions how John Beaty may not have been able to better back his claims about intelligence officers not believing holocaust because it was not until year 2000 that UK finally released secret information about decrypts, so Beaty would have been breaking law. 1:19:18 Jorge brings up how Churchill knew the Soviets had committed the Katyn Forest massacre and introduced fake evidence at Nuremberg Trial blaming Germans for it, thus knew mass-gassings also likely fabrications thus not risk including them in his books to look like a fool in the future. 1:22:08 Ron discusses the Venona project, US spying on soviet spies working high up in Roosevelt admin. Even top American who kept project running and held erroneous anti-Jewish ideas, never believed anything about holocaust. 1:28:09 Jorge, backing Beaty’s claim that Jews were overwhelmingly responsible for bringing about WWII to destroy Hitler, brings up leading Zionist Chaim Weizmann stating that WWII “is our war..We are…giving this war our financial support on which the entire war production is based, we are…providing our full propaganda power which is the moral energy that keeps this war going.” The solution to Hitler’s anti-Jewish fallacies was NOT a world war that killed 80+ million people. 1:29:39 Ron brings up how an increasing number of books today make similar point, but not as portraying Jews as dragging us into an unnecessary war, but as heroes helping annihilate the evil Hitler. 1:31:07 Ron disagrees with Jorge’s earlier statement and downplays Jew’s importance compared to Roosevelt's desire to have a war to allegedly get the US out of depression. 1:34:50 Ron brings up importance of Kristallnacht for getting Roosevelt and Jews to push war vs. Germany. 1:38:29 Germar further elaborates on how Nazi government’s cruel handling of Kristallnacht (forbade insurance companies to pay Jews, large collective fine on Jews as well) did make it easy for many to further vilify Nazi government and help move to war. 1:43:58 Jorge: ‘What are 3-5 major arguments the layperson came make to criticize mainstream holo myths?’ Ron mentions digging where hundreds of thousands of bodies are supposed to be buried. 1:49:12 Germar explains how ‘deep penetrating radar’ and other things have been tried and still no evidence to support mainstream claims. 1:52:43 Jorge summarizes simple arguments against mainstream myth discussed: 1) ground checks fail to show mass graves,2) Nuremberg Trial obvious fake evidence introduced by Soviets like brain bashing pedal-driven machine, atomic bomb-like device to blow up 20,000 Jews, etc. 3) Top Soviet prosecutor Andrey Vyshinsky being same liar as in Moscow ‘Show Trials’ 4) All secret communications from Auschwitz reveal nothing about gassings, 5) Nothing in Churchill, Eisenhower, Charles de Gaul writings, 6) Main Russian archivists admit there is nothing in archives supporting Holocaust, 7) Chemical analysis per Germar 8) massive continuous downward revisions of alleged exterminations. 1:58:52 Germar elaborates on history of massive downward revisions on total deaths. 2:05:28 Ron mentions how after creation of Israel and Israel’s pivot to America, Stalin-Soviets no longer pushed Holocaust. 2:10:55 Jorge summarizes how the mainstream Holocaust myth (NOT conspiracy) evolved. Holocaust exaggerations began as way for Poles-Soviets-Communists to punish Germany but understandably attracted and was amplified by Jews, especially Zionist ideology-believing ones. Per Germar, the key leading historian and judges who did most to create mainstream holocaust myth were not even Jewish. 2:13:00 Ron agrees with summary and believes that most of today’s Holocaust academics are not lying as part of some grand conspiracy by believe their mythical narrative. 2:14:26 Jorge brings up astute ending to Ron’s Holocaust article where he compared Holocaustianity to Socialist mythology and the USSR, both myths similarly superficially examined, sustained by coercion, and that could quickly collapse. 2:16:40 Jorge asks Ron: “Where do you see things headed?” 2:17:40 Jorge asks… Mahmoud Abbas, Bashar al Assad, Alexander Dugin, Judge Napolitano frequent guest Phil Giraldi all are prominent doubters, Sergey Lavrov loves watching Napolitano… How much of the Russia-Ukraine war is due to Zionism and are there significant chances that many high up in Russian government are Holocaust doubters-revisionists? 2:22:41 Jorge blames the seeming irrationality of US government looking for conflict with Russia and China as inevitable outgrowth of Holcaustianized Zionism which has made Bibi our Pope getting more than one standing ovation per minute in US congress. Ron mentions how of course everyone is a next Hitler to be militarily destroyed. 2:24:52 Ron sees massive collapse of the West which will bring down Holocaust myths with it. 2:25:55 Germar asks Ron about personal repercussions regarding his open Holocaust skepticism, lost friendships, etc. 2:34:15 Jorge brings up why Ron is such a vital intellectual. Unlike David Duke or Candace Owens who bring up good information about Jewish-related chaos, Ron is a secular Jew who does NOT make many fallacies Candace and David make like in Candace’s case referring to Bibi being influenced by Satan etc. And hopefully major podcasters like Joe Rogan soon host Ron. 2:36:06 Ron : “Maybe if one of these people had me on it could be the straw that breaks the camels back” 2:36:17 Jorge brings up how we are clearly seeing how similar to CovidMania, AntisemiteMania is about to emerge and fortunately this is leading more and more people to have the urgency and courage to deal with Zionist and Holocaust myths before it is too late. 2:39:30 Germar brings up Ron asking Germar to post his books. Ron explains he wanted to convert them to HTML but realized few were reading them that way to just abandoned the idea, especially since Germar’s site already provides all PDFs and more. 2:42:02 Jorge! “We almost went 3 hours! We will do this again!”

Jorge Besada

16,100 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад

‼️This Group Raises Hundreds of MILLIONS From American Christians and Works DIRECTLY With the ISRAELI Government — Now They’re Inside TPUSA 👀 The Same Organization That Just Sponsored Erika Kirk’s Speech at Turning Point USA Has Been Running a Massive Operation That Raises Hundreds of Millions From American Christians and Sends Most of It to Israel The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) sponsored Erika Kirk’s portion of Turning Point USA’s Women’s Leadership Summit in Texas. This is the same organization that raises over $300 million every single year from American Christians by running nonstop emotional TV commercials about helping Holocaust survivors. What most people don’t know is that these ads have been recycling the same old footage for years — in some cases using videos of survivors who are already dead — while presenting them as current victims living in poverty in Ukraine or suffering after October 7th. Here are the actual numbers from their tax filings: 🔹In 2024, IFCJ raised $318 million. 🔹Their CEO, Yael Eckstein-Farkas, was paid $931,098 that year alone. Between 2018 and 2024, she received nearly $4 million in total compensation. 🔹Their total payroll and compensation expenses across all staff came in around $18 million. 🔹They spent roughly $81 million on fundraising and advertising. 🔹Their largest expense category was grants, totaling around $152 million, with a massive portion of that money going to their Israeli affiliate and programs operating inside Israel. 🔹On top of the hundreds of millions they raise from Christians in America, their Israeli branch also receives $9 to $11 million per year directly from the Israeli Ministry of Welfare for joint projects. In other words, American Christians are funding an organization that works hand-in-hand with the Israeli government on multiple levels. Critics have long pointed out that only about 50% of the money raised actually goes toward the programs they advertise to donors, and even then, the majority of that spending happens in Israel rather than helping the elderly Jews shown in their commercials. Their largest contractors tell the real story of where the money goes: $26 million to Production Solutions for print and postage, $9 million to Involved Media for advertising placement, $7 million to Cannella Response Television for TV ads, and another $7 million to Google for online advertising. This is a highly sophisticated fundraising machine that targets Christians in America, raises enormous amounts of money, and funnels a large percentage of it toward projects that align with Israeli government priorities. This becomes even more significant now that IFCJ is directly sponsoring events inside Turning Point USA. Charlie Kirk reportedly turned down large offers from similar donors and networks because they tried to morally blackmail him into refusing to platform Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens. Since his death, the direction has clearly changed. TPUSA is now accepting money from the same circles Charlie pushed back against. Even Salem Media, the distributor of the Charlie Kirk Show podcast, is registered as a foreign agent for Israel. When an organization like IFCJ — which raises hundreds of millions from American Christians while working closely with the Israeli government — starts cutting checks to Erika Kirk’s events, it’s not random. It’s part of a larger pattern. Charlie built Turning Point on the principle of asking hard questions and refusing to be controlled by outside interests. The fact that groups like this are now sponsoring the organization he founded should be a major red flag for anyone who still cares about what he actually stood for. ⚠️My channel is under attack to try to bankrupt me. If you want to support me and help me keep exposing these clowns Donate here:🔗 CC: Candace Owens Baron Coleman Danks
5:02

‼️This Group Raises Hundreds of MILLIONS From American Christians and Works DIRECTLY With the ISRAELI Government — Now They’re Inside TPUSA 👀 The Same Organization That Just Sponsored Erika Kirk’s Speech at Turning Point USA Has Been Running a Massive Operation That Raises Hundreds of Millions From American Christians and Sends Most of It to Israel The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) sponsored Erika Kirk’s portion of Turning Point USA’s Women’s Leadership Summit in Texas. This is the same organization that raises over $300 million every single year from American Christians by running nonstop emotional TV commercials about helping Holocaust survivors. What most people don’t know is that these ads have been recycling the same old footage for years — in some cases using videos of survivors who are already dead — while presenting them as current victims living in poverty in Ukraine or suffering after October 7th. Here are the actual numbers from their tax filings: 🔹In 2024, IFCJ raised $318 million. 🔹Their CEO, Yael Eckstein-Farkas, was paid $931,098 that year alone. Between 2018 and 2024, she received nearly $4 million in total compensation. 🔹Their total payroll and compensation expenses across all staff came in around $18 million. 🔹They spent roughly $81 million on fundraising and advertising. 🔹Their largest expense category was grants, totaling around $152 million, with a massive portion of that money going to their Israeli affiliate and programs operating inside Israel. 🔹On top of the hundreds of millions they raise from Christians in America, their Israeli branch also receives $9 to $11 million per year directly from the Israeli Ministry of Welfare for joint projects. In other words, American Christians are funding an organization that works hand-in-hand with the Israeli government on multiple levels. Critics have long pointed out that only about 50% of the money raised actually goes toward the programs they advertise to donors, and even then, the majority of that spending happens in Israel rather than helping the elderly Jews shown in their commercials. Their largest contractors tell the real story of where the money goes: $26 million to Production Solutions for print and postage, $9 million to Involved Media for advertising placement, $7 million to Cannella Response Television for TV ads, and another $7 million to Google for online advertising. This is a highly sophisticated fundraising machine that targets Christians in America, raises enormous amounts of money, and funnels a large percentage of it toward projects that align with Israeli government priorities. This becomes even more significant now that IFCJ is directly sponsoring events inside Turning Point USA. Charlie Kirk reportedly turned down large offers from similar donors and networks because they tried to morally blackmail him into refusing to platform Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens. Since his death, the direction has clearly changed. TPUSA is now accepting money from the same circles Charlie pushed back against. Even Salem Media, the distributor of the Charlie Kirk Show podcast, is registered as a foreign agent for Israel. When an organization like IFCJ — which raises hundreds of millions from American Christians while working closely with the Israeli government — starts cutting checks to Erika Kirk’s events, it’s not random. It’s part of a larger pattern. Charlie built Turning Point on the principle of asking hard questions and refusing to be controlled by outside interests. The fact that groups like this are now sponsoring the organization he founded should be a major red flag for anyone who still cares about what he actually stood for. ⚠️My channel is under attack to try to bankrupt me. If you want to support me and help me keep exposing these clowns Donate here:🔗 CC: Candace Owens Baron Coleman Danks

Project Constitution

19,588 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

As a U.S. citizen exercising my free speech, I began warning about Mike Flynn, QAnon and Russian interference in our elections starting in August 2020, during the first Trump administration. In the 4 1/2 years since, I have experienced a ruthless onslaught of attacks for my reporting, which includes “lawfare” — the intentional weaponization of the legal system as part of an effort to silence, disrupt or harm an opponent. The first lawsuit was by retired Lt. General Mike Flynn — a remarkable piece of legal propaganda that regurgitated a number of smear campaigns created by Flynn’s trolls, stalkers, and media plants, which accused me of calling him various names. It started as a $75,000 lawsuit engineered to stay in Sarasota Court. When the judge didn’t cooperate as he hoped, Flynn escalated his lawsuit to include Rick Wilson for $10 million in federal court, then added MeidasTouch for $50 million. Their crimes were acknowledging that I exist. When that failed to stop me from speaking out, Flynn had his good friend and loyal operative Kash Patel, formerly Chief of Staff in the Pentagon on J6 and slated for a hearing to be FBI Director, copycat sue me for $10 million in Nevada. Among the accusations of Kash Patel is that I called him a “chud” and a “Kremlin asset,” all of which is true.  In the last few weeks, Russian state media has said that Kash Patel is “our boy” who will be “a beaut,” “dismantle America brick by brick,” and turn the FBI into a “museum of political repression.” I have first-hand knowledge of this reality, now. As I write this, my lawyers are spending money Mike Flynn and Kash Patel know I don’t have — to punish me for the crime of telling the truth about them, and to challenge the Sullivan Rule, which protects journalists who write about “public figures,” a role Flynn and Patel pride themselves on. They know their cases will never prevail, and that I have nothing to give them if they did. But that is not the point. This is “hybrid” or “fifth generation warfare” against what they perceive as a dangerous opponent. It’s a small example of “political repression,” to quote the Russians. My rights as an American are being trampled right now. They were being trampled during the Biden Administration — because our justice system is already broken. It’s an ancient, glacial, incomprehensible mess driven by money, power and influence. It needs a reboot. Regardless, imagine what Patel and Flynn will do with the power of the federal government, not just to me, but to the nation. If they will go to these lengths to silence one guy who writes on Twitter and Substack, what will they do to media organizations, to political opponents, and to marginalized communities? When they say they want “retribution,” what they mean is they want to erase history of their own crimes. They are engaged in a massive Goebbels-like DARVO (Deny, Accuse, Reverse Victim & Offender) campaign to blame Democrats, “Russiagate” and whatever other conspiracy theories they can conjure up for crimes they committed themselves. They will now have the ability to enforce this alternate reality with the full power of the federal government. The best example of how I expect a Patel-led FBI to function is like the Stasi, the East German secret police, who implemented a program on their own people called Zersetzung. This type of “silent repression” is what they want. Everyone must play along with the alternate reality, the alternate history, they are trying to create, or be silenced — by the state. Kash Patel is a dangerous sociopath, a foreign agent, and an enemy of American democracy. If we put him in charge of the FBI, no one, anywhere, will be safe. Senator Adam Schiff Dick Durbin Senate Democrats
0:46

As a U.S. citizen exercising my free speech, I began warning about Mike Flynn, QAnon and Russian interference in our elections starting in August 2020, during the first Trump administration. In the 4 1/2 years since, I have experienced a ruthless onslaught of attacks for my reporting, which includes “lawfare” — the intentional weaponization of the legal system as part of an effort to silence, disrupt or harm an opponent. The first lawsuit was by retired Lt. General Mike Flynn — a remarkable piece of legal propaganda that regurgitated a number of smear campaigns created by Flynn’s trolls, stalkers, and media plants, which accused me of calling him various names. It started as a $75,000 lawsuit engineered to stay in Sarasota Court. When the judge didn’t cooperate as he hoped, Flynn escalated his lawsuit to include Rick Wilson for $10 million in federal court, then added MeidasTouch for $50 million. Their crimes were acknowledging that I exist. When that failed to stop me from speaking out, Flynn had his good friend and loyal operative Kash Patel, formerly Chief of Staff in the Pentagon on J6 and slated for a hearing to be FBI Director, copycat sue me for $10 million in Nevada. Among the accusations of Kash Patel is that I called him a “chud” and a “Kremlin asset,” all of which is true.  In the last few weeks, Russian state media has said that Kash Patel is “our boy” who will be “a beaut,” “dismantle America brick by brick,” and turn the FBI into a “museum of political repression.” I have first-hand knowledge of this reality, now. As I write this, my lawyers are spending money Mike Flynn and Kash Patel know I don’t have — to punish me for the crime of telling the truth about them, and to challenge the Sullivan Rule, which protects journalists who write about “public figures,” a role Flynn and Patel pride themselves on. They know their cases will never prevail, and that I have nothing to give them if they did. But that is not the point. This is “hybrid” or “fifth generation warfare” against what they perceive as a dangerous opponent. It’s a small example of “political repression,” to quote the Russians. My rights as an American are being trampled right now. They were being trampled during the Biden Administration — because our justice system is already broken. It’s an ancient, glacial, incomprehensible mess driven by money, power and influence. It needs a reboot. Regardless, imagine what Patel and Flynn will do with the power of the federal government, not just to me, but to the nation. If they will go to these lengths to silence one guy who writes on Twitter and Substack, what will they do to media organizations, to political opponents, and to marginalized communities? When they say they want “retribution,” what they mean is they want to erase history of their own crimes. They are engaged in a massive Goebbels-like DARVO (Deny, Accuse, Reverse Victim & Offender) campaign to blame Democrats, “Russiagate” and whatever other conspiracy theories they can conjure up for crimes they committed themselves. They will now have the ability to enforce this alternate reality with the full power of the federal government. The best example of how I expect a Patel-led FBI to function is like the Stasi, the East German secret police, who implemented a program on their own people called Zersetzung. This type of “silent repression” is what they want. Everyone must play along with the alternate reality, the alternate history, they are trying to create, or be silenced — by the state. Kash Patel is a dangerous sociopath, a foreign agent, and an enemy of American democracy. If we put him in charge of the FBI, no one, anywhere, will be safe. Senator Adam Schiff Dick Durbin Senate Democrats

Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸

185,703 просмотров • 1 год назад

Territorial Leakage: The Structural Cost of Losing In-State Elite Talent OWU: Institutional Intelligence Brief Conceptually Thinking Basketball Does Iowa Iowa Women's Basketball know it has a problem? That question is not emotional. It is structural. Katie Muller Phenom Basketball Dowling Catholic GBB Katie Muller is not simply an interesting prospect. She is structurally important. She represents a leverage point inside a broader pattern that now spans multiple recruiting cycles. When a flagship program consistently loses its most decorated in-state prospects, the issue is no longer anecdotal. It becomes architectural. Institutional basketball intelligence begins with a basic principle: sustainable programs dominate their geography first. The state is the primary ecosystem. The region is the defensive perimeter. National expansion is built on top of territorial density. When elite in-state players leave, the signal transmitted to younger prospects is measurable: validation exists elsewhere. The résumé trail is public. The 2026 class featured McDonald’s All-American Jenica Lewis and nationally ranked Averie Lower, slotted No. 55 in the country. The 2025 cycle included Top-15 ranked Divine Bourrage and No. 43 ranked Libby Fandel, the reigning Miss Iowa Basketball. The 2023 class produced McDonald’s All-American Sahara Williams and elite post Audi Crooks, another Miss Iowa Basketball whose production translated immediately at the collegiate level. These are not fringe prospects. These are nationally validated, award-bearing players with institutional signal value. McDonald’s All-American status is national confirmation. Miss Iowa Basketball is in-state dominance. Top-15 and Top-50 rankings represent market consensus. When that tier exits repeatedly, the cumulative effect is recruiting gravity erosion. Elite in-state prospects function as identity anchors. Their commitments define aspiration pathways for younger classes. Club circuits adjust exposure networks. Competing Power programs use those exits as proof that Iowa’s top talent is accessible. If the pattern continues unchecked, it becomes self-reinforcing. That is the unsustainable element. A recruitment profile built on external acquisition while exporting internally developed, nationally decorated talent introduces volatility. It weakens territorial authority. It increases dependency on national battles that carry higher friction and lower predictability. Meanwhile, regional competitors fortify themselves with Iowa-developed equity. Programs that win consistently at the highest level follow a predictable order of operations: dominate your state, fortify your region, expand nationally from strength. Inversion of that sequence creates cyclical instability. Katie Muller now sits at an inflection point. Her recruitment is not just about fit, role, or projection. It is a referendum on ecosystem control. Retaining a prospect of her caliber signals correction. Losing another elite in-state profile compounds perception. The central thesis remains unavoidable: territorial leakage is cumulative. The more decorated talent that exits — Lewis, Lower, Bourrage, Fandel, Williams, Crooks — the more the structural question sharpens. Does Iowa recognize the pattern? And more importantly, does it intend to correct it? Recruiting is not about collecting names. It is about controlling geography. Ecosystems begin at home. #OWUEvalDay #ConceptuallyThinking #BuiltDifferent #PlayerTrustNetwork #ScoutingTruths [Jeremy Brooks ] [NXTPRO Hoops Girls] [Jr. All-Star Girls Basketball] [] [Premier Recruiting Service girls basketball [World Exposure Report Women’s Basketball] [Blake Derrick] [Winston Kelly] [Sidney A. Johnson, Ph.D.] [Chuck Thompson] [OWU: Talent Projection ][Prep Girls Hoops Iowa ] [Iowa Jr. All-Star GBB ] Iowa High School Girls Basketball 2025-26 Iowa Print Sports Writers Association
1:02

Territorial Leakage: The Structural Cost of Losing In-State Elite Talent OWU: Institutional Intelligence Brief Conceptually Thinking Basketball Does Iowa Iowa Women's Basketball know it has a problem? That question is not emotional. It is structural. Katie Muller Phenom Basketball Dowling Catholic GBB Katie Muller is not simply an interesting prospect. She is structurally important. She represents a leverage point inside a broader pattern that now spans multiple recruiting cycles. When a flagship program consistently loses its most decorated in-state prospects, the issue is no longer anecdotal. It becomes architectural. Institutional basketball intelligence begins with a basic principle: sustainable programs dominate their geography first. The state is the primary ecosystem. The region is the defensive perimeter. National expansion is built on top of territorial density. When elite in-state players leave, the signal transmitted to younger prospects is measurable: validation exists elsewhere. The résumé trail is public. The 2026 class featured McDonald’s All-American Jenica Lewis and nationally ranked Averie Lower, slotted No. 55 in the country. The 2025 cycle included Top-15 ranked Divine Bourrage and No. 43 ranked Libby Fandel, the reigning Miss Iowa Basketball. The 2023 class produced McDonald’s All-American Sahara Williams and elite post Audi Crooks, another Miss Iowa Basketball whose production translated immediately at the collegiate level. These are not fringe prospects. These are nationally validated, award-bearing players with institutional signal value. McDonald’s All-American status is national confirmation. Miss Iowa Basketball is in-state dominance. Top-15 and Top-50 rankings represent market consensus. When that tier exits repeatedly, the cumulative effect is recruiting gravity erosion. Elite in-state prospects function as identity anchors. Their commitments define aspiration pathways for younger classes. Club circuits adjust exposure networks. Competing Power programs use those exits as proof that Iowa’s top talent is accessible. If the pattern continues unchecked, it becomes self-reinforcing. That is the unsustainable element. A recruitment profile built on external acquisition while exporting internally developed, nationally decorated talent introduces volatility. It weakens territorial authority. It increases dependency on national battles that carry higher friction and lower predictability. Meanwhile, regional competitors fortify themselves with Iowa-developed equity. Programs that win consistently at the highest level follow a predictable order of operations: dominate your state, fortify your region, expand nationally from strength. Inversion of that sequence creates cyclical instability. Katie Muller now sits at an inflection point. Her recruitment is not just about fit, role, or projection. It is a referendum on ecosystem control. Retaining a prospect of her caliber signals correction. Losing another elite in-state profile compounds perception. The central thesis remains unavoidable: territorial leakage is cumulative. The more decorated talent that exits — Lewis, Lower, Bourrage, Fandel, Williams, Crooks — the more the structural question sharpens. Does Iowa recognize the pattern? And more importantly, does it intend to correct it? Recruiting is not about collecting names. It is about controlling geography. Ecosystems begin at home. #OWUEvalDay #ConceptuallyThinking #BuiltDifferent #PlayerTrustNetwork #ScoutingTruths [Jeremy Brooks ] [NXTPRO Hoops Girls] [Jr. All-Star Girls Basketball] [] [Premier Recruiting Service girls basketball [World Exposure Report Women’s Basketball] [Blake Derrick] [Winston Kelly] [Sidney A. Johnson, Ph.D.] [Chuck Thompson] [OWU: Talent Projection ][Prep Girls Hoops Iowa ] [Iowa Jr. All-Star GBB ] Iowa High School Girls Basketball 2025-26 Iowa Print Sports Writers Association

Derrick Beechum

15,443 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад

Over the last decade, a consensus has grown on the Left and Right that the US needs to be more self-sufficient when it comes to manufacturing. During Covid, we discovered we didn’t make much of the equipment we needed to deal with a pandemic and were thus dependent on other nations, and so Congress passed and Trump signed the CARES Act in part to spend money to support domestic manufacturing of medical supplies. In 2022, a bipartisan majority in Congress passed the CHIPS Act to bring semiconductor manufacturing back to the U.S. out of the recognition that we had become dangerously dependent on foreign nations for microchips, which have become general-purpose technologies, necessary for national security, and upon which the AI revolution will be built. Where America had a $38 billion trade surplus in 1991 on advanced technology manufacturing, today it has a $299 billion deficit. Liberals and conservatives, Leftists and Rightists, have long shared a broad agreement that manufacturing and its knock-on industries are an essential source of employment for non-college-educated working-class people, and that the loss of manufacturing contributed to social fragmentation, family breakdown, and the drug addiction and death crisis. In a 2024 survey, Americans agreed ten to one that “we need a stronger manufacturing sector; 47% said America suffered from globalization, while 33% said it benefited. It is partly for that reason that Joe Biden, in perhaps the most bipartisan and non-ideological decision of his presidency, kept in place the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump during his first term as president. And yet both liberals and many conservatives are reacting with outrage as President Donald Trump puts in place precisely the trade tariffs needed to reduce our dangerous dependency on other nations and increase our manufacturing of the goods we need for national security, economic security, and societal wellbeing. The China tariffs, the CARES Act, and the CHIPS Act did not result in the return of much manufacturing, much less the rebalancing of trade. Total manufacturing jobsare 12.8 million in December 2019 and are 12.8 million today. The US still depends on China and other nations for active pharmaceutical ingredients, personal protective equipment, microchips, and critical minerals. Suffice to say, we are a very long way from a manufacturing renaissance sufficiently robust to revitalize the communities that have lost good, high-wage jobs to China and other competitors and even rivals internationally. The reason is clear. The average tariff level globally is 6.7% compared to America’s 2.7%. And simply subsidizing industries may not be enough for two major semiconductor manufacturers, Intel and TSMC, to produce domestically without tariffs. US President Donald Trump delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs during an event in the Rose Garden entitled "Make America Wealthy Again" at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2025. Trump geared up to unveil sweeping new "Liberation Day" tariffs in a move that threatens to ignite a devastating global trade war. Key US trading partners including the European Union and Britain said they were preparing their responses to Trump's escalation, as nervous markets fell in Europe and America. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)📷 Anti-tariff liberals and conservatives say Trump’s actions will destroy people’s retirement savings by crashing the stock market, and will undermine the comparative advantage of other nations producing products we shouldn’t. And, they say, our goal should not be to return manufacturing to the United States, except for a few exceptions, which Congress has already made. For centuries, economists have argued that some nations, such as poorer ones, are more suited to produce many products than richer ones. Americans making t-shirts at $20 per hour are less efficient than the Vietnamese making them for $3 per hour. And the US should not be trying to replace perfectly reasonable products to import, like aluminum from Canada, which we have no reason to ever go to war with, and which has access to cheap hydroelectricity to make it. Over half of American families have money in the stock market, and they will all suffer, anti-tariff liberals and conservatives say. The economic system we have had since World War II has worked to maximize win-win relationships that result in poorer nations climbing the development ladder with manufacturing and wealthier nations like the US focused on services. But it’s unwise to evaluate policies based on the short-term impact of the stock market. Anti-tariff voices grossly overstate the comparative advantage when it comes to manufacturing, and the postwar system, economically and militarily, is no longer in the interests of non-college-educated Americans, who are both more vulnerable and more numerous than the college-educated elite. There is no need to bring back a significant amount of low-skill and nonstrategic manufacturing like T-shirts, and Trump has not advocated that. America may need to bring back some low-skill jobs, such as manufacturing protective gear. But our priority should rightly be high-skill manufacturing, and CARES, CHIPS, and the Trump-Biden China were, obviously, not enough. It may be fine to rely on Canada for aluminum. But the tariffs against it and Mexico, as well as Trump’s stated desire to make it the 51st state, should be viewed as the president negotiating in preparation for upcoming trade talks between the three countries. While offshoring manufacturing policies benefited multinational corporations, bankers, and consumers, they often devastated communities built on manufacturing, mining, and manual labor. US companies moved production to countries with lower labor costs, fewer regulations, and subsidized exports. Economists calculate that just the so-called “China Shock,” that country’s entry into the World Trade Organization, alone cost the U.S. 2.4 million jobs and had ripple effects across entire communities. The average manufacturing wage is $103,000 per year compared to $37,000 per year for the average service sector wage. And where a service sector job supports 2 to 3 jobs, a manufacturing job supports nine jobs. Continuing with a system that is fundamentally advantageous to a minority of the country and disadvantageous to a majority is not sustainable and unwise to prop up. Trump’s trade actions are part of a broader return to nationalism underway globally, and they can’t be understood on economic grounds alone. Regarding priorities, we should put the two-thirds of the country that is non-college educated working-class ahead of the 50% of the country who own stocks, for moral and democratic reasons. America is deeply divided. While there are many proximate reasons for this, including geographic sorting, cable TV, and social media, the underlying reasons are economic. The gulf between the educated elites and the non-educated working class has grown dangerously large. Many critics of the tariffs are well-intentioned. They are right to worry that they could come with significant economic costs and disruption. The concern of many of them is genuinely for the working class and poor, who higher prices for imported goods would most harm. However, many American elites today identify more with their global counterparts than their fellow Americans. And that’s a huge problem. In his study of 21 civilizations, British historian Arnold J. Toynbee found that civilizations collapse not simply from external invasion but from internal decay, precisely when their elites stop identifying with the people. “Civilizations die from suicide,” he famously wrote, “not murder.” Civilizations all depend on their elites, Toynbee noted, or the people he called the “creative minority.” But rising success creates decadence, complacency, and eventually contempt toward their people, and they start to identify with elites in other nations. This is all a natural outgrowth of trade, cosmopolitanism, and snobbery. It starts to view the ordinary people as “deplorables.” At this point, the elite lose their creativity and become simply the “dominant minority,” one that rules no longer by example but rather by manipulation or force. Toynbee could be describing America in the 21st Century. College-educated elites look down on the American working class and identify with other professional and managerial elites in Europe and other nations. They sympathize less with the low-skilled American citizen born here and more with the low-skilled foreign migrant here illegally. Such elites are more concerned with tariffs' impact on their stock portfolio and the cost of their gadgets than they are with the downward pressure illegal migrants put on wages or with how nations manipulate their currency to retain manufacturing. Toynbee said that, at this stage of development, a nation’s elites become “parasites or renegades,” alienated and contemptuous toward the culture that produced them. Civilizations at this late stage are morally hollow and thus fragile and prone to abuses of power, like censorship, lawfare, and the weaponization of government agencies. And these civilizations disparage their traditions in ways that the American elites have disparaged America’s founding and its history as essentially evil, due to the unavoidable tragedy of indigenous genocide and slavery, even though a civil war that killed over 600,000 people was fought to end it. But Toynbee didn’t believe that civilizational collapse was inevitable; some societies can snap back.... Please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning reporting, read the rest of the article, and watch the full video!
9:16

Over the last decade, a consensus has grown on the Left and Right that the US needs to be more self-sufficient when it comes to manufacturing. During Covid, we discovered we didn’t make much of the equipment we needed to deal with a pandemic and were thus dependent on other nations, and so Congress passed and Trump signed the CARES Act in part to spend money to support domestic manufacturing of medical supplies. In 2022, a bipartisan majority in Congress passed the CHIPS Act to bring semiconductor manufacturing back to the U.S. out of the recognition that we had become dangerously dependent on foreign nations for microchips, which have become general-purpose technologies, necessary for national security, and upon which the AI revolution will be built. Where America had a $38 billion trade surplus in 1991 on advanced technology manufacturing, today it has a $299 billion deficit. Liberals and conservatives, Leftists and Rightists, have long shared a broad agreement that manufacturing and its knock-on industries are an essential source of employment for non-college-educated working-class people, and that the loss of manufacturing contributed to social fragmentation, family breakdown, and the drug addiction and death crisis. In a 2024 survey, Americans agreed ten to one that “we need a stronger manufacturing sector; 47% said America suffered from globalization, while 33% said it benefited. It is partly for that reason that Joe Biden, in perhaps the most bipartisan and non-ideological decision of his presidency, kept in place the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump during his first term as president. And yet both liberals and many conservatives are reacting with outrage as President Donald Trump puts in place precisely the trade tariffs needed to reduce our dangerous dependency on other nations and increase our manufacturing of the goods we need for national security, economic security, and societal wellbeing. The China tariffs, the CARES Act, and the CHIPS Act did not result in the return of much manufacturing, much less the rebalancing of trade. Total manufacturing jobsare 12.8 million in December 2019 and are 12.8 million today. The US still depends on China and other nations for active pharmaceutical ingredients, personal protective equipment, microchips, and critical minerals. Suffice to say, we are a very long way from a manufacturing renaissance sufficiently robust to revitalize the communities that have lost good, high-wage jobs to China and other competitors and even rivals internationally. The reason is clear. The average tariff level globally is 6.7% compared to America’s 2.7%. And simply subsidizing industries may not be enough for two major semiconductor manufacturers, Intel and TSMC, to produce domestically without tariffs. US President Donald Trump delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs during an event in the Rose Garden entitled "Make America Wealthy Again" at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2025. Trump geared up to unveil sweeping new "Liberation Day" tariffs in a move that threatens to ignite a devastating global trade war. Key US trading partners including the European Union and Britain said they were preparing their responses to Trump's escalation, as nervous markets fell in Europe and America. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)📷 Anti-tariff liberals and conservatives say Trump’s actions will destroy people’s retirement savings by crashing the stock market, and will undermine the comparative advantage of other nations producing products we shouldn’t. And, they say, our goal should not be to return manufacturing to the United States, except for a few exceptions, which Congress has already made. For centuries, economists have argued that some nations, such as poorer ones, are more suited to produce many products than richer ones. Americans making t-shirts at $20 per hour are less efficient than the Vietnamese making them for $3 per hour. And the US should not be trying to replace perfectly reasonable products to import, like aluminum from Canada, which we have no reason to ever go to war with, and which has access to cheap hydroelectricity to make it. Over half of American families have money in the stock market, and they will all suffer, anti-tariff liberals and conservatives say. The economic system we have had since World War II has worked to maximize win-win relationships that result in poorer nations climbing the development ladder with manufacturing and wealthier nations like the US focused on services. But it’s unwise to evaluate policies based on the short-term impact of the stock market. Anti-tariff voices grossly overstate the comparative advantage when it comes to manufacturing, and the postwar system, economically and militarily, is no longer in the interests of non-college-educated Americans, who are both more vulnerable and more numerous than the college-educated elite. There is no need to bring back a significant amount of low-skill and nonstrategic manufacturing like T-shirts, and Trump has not advocated that. America may need to bring back some low-skill jobs, such as manufacturing protective gear. But our priority should rightly be high-skill manufacturing, and CARES, CHIPS, and the Trump-Biden China were, obviously, not enough. It may be fine to rely on Canada for aluminum. But the tariffs against it and Mexico, as well as Trump’s stated desire to make it the 51st state, should be viewed as the president negotiating in preparation for upcoming trade talks between the three countries. While offshoring manufacturing policies benefited multinational corporations, bankers, and consumers, they often devastated communities built on manufacturing, mining, and manual labor. US companies moved production to countries with lower labor costs, fewer regulations, and subsidized exports. Economists calculate that just the so-called “China Shock,” that country’s entry into the World Trade Organization, alone cost the U.S. 2.4 million jobs and had ripple effects across entire communities. The average manufacturing wage is $103,000 per year compared to $37,000 per year for the average service sector wage. And where a service sector job supports 2 to 3 jobs, a manufacturing job supports nine jobs. Continuing with a system that is fundamentally advantageous to a minority of the country and disadvantageous to a majority is not sustainable and unwise to prop up. Trump’s trade actions are part of a broader return to nationalism underway globally, and they can’t be understood on economic grounds alone. Regarding priorities, we should put the two-thirds of the country that is non-college educated working-class ahead of the 50% of the country who own stocks, for moral and democratic reasons. America is deeply divided. While there are many proximate reasons for this, including geographic sorting, cable TV, and social media, the underlying reasons are economic. The gulf between the educated elites and the non-educated working class has grown dangerously large. Many critics of the tariffs are well-intentioned. They are right to worry that they could come with significant economic costs and disruption. The concern of many of them is genuinely for the working class and poor, who higher prices for imported goods would most harm. However, many American elites today identify more with their global counterparts than their fellow Americans. And that’s a huge problem. In his study of 21 civilizations, British historian Arnold J. Toynbee found that civilizations collapse not simply from external invasion but from internal decay, precisely when their elites stop identifying with the people. “Civilizations die from suicide,” he famously wrote, “not murder.” Civilizations all depend on their elites, Toynbee noted, or the people he called the “creative minority.” But rising success creates decadence, complacency, and eventually contempt toward their people, and they start to identify with elites in other nations. This is all a natural outgrowth of trade, cosmopolitanism, and snobbery. It starts to view the ordinary people as “deplorables.” At this point, the elite lose their creativity and become simply the “dominant minority,” one that rules no longer by example but rather by manipulation or force. Toynbee could be describing America in the 21st Century. College-educated elites look down on the American working class and identify with other professional and managerial elites in Europe and other nations. They sympathize less with the low-skilled American citizen born here and more with the low-skilled foreign migrant here illegally. Such elites are more concerned with tariffs' impact on their stock portfolio and the cost of their gadgets than they are with the downward pressure illegal migrants put on wages or with how nations manipulate their currency to retain manufacturing. Toynbee said that, at this stage of development, a nation’s elites become “parasites or renegades,” alienated and contemptuous toward the culture that produced them. Civilizations at this late stage are morally hollow and thus fragile and prone to abuses of power, like censorship, lawfare, and the weaponization of government agencies. And these civilizations disparage their traditions in ways that the American elites have disparaged America’s founding and its history as essentially evil, due to the unavoidable tragedy of indigenous genocide and slavery, even though a civil war that killed over 600,000 people was fought to end it. But Toynbee didn’t believe that civilizational collapse was inevitable; some societies can snap back.... Please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning reporting, read the rest of the article, and watch the full video!

Michael Shellenberger

57,018 просмотров • 1 год назад

🚨🇮🇷 RARE INTERVIEW WITH LEADING IRANIAN PROFESSOR It’s rare I get to interview someone from INSIDE of Iran It’s even rarer to speak to someone who’s openly critical of the regime And not just anyone, but one of the country’s most respected voices Prof. Sadegh Zibakalam was arrested by both the pre-revolution Shah of Iran in the 1970s, and by the current regime 2 years ago He is critical of both the current regime, but also of the past Monarchy, as well as any U.S. or Israeli intervention or alternative to the current regime I enjoyed this conversation as Zibakalam did not mince his words, and he gave me honest direct answers to tough questions: How significant are the protests? What triggered them? Could they topple the regime? Do you think the Supreme Leader could flee the country? Is there a split between the army and the IRGC? Is there a risk of civil war? He says the Islamic regime has never been weaker. Iran's proxies are destroyed, its allies absent during the 12-day war with Israel, its currency in freefall, and its people chanting "Death to the dictator" in the streets. But Zibakalam warns against celebrating regime collapse, asking the question few want to answer: what comes next? He also believes the regime won't risk full military confrontation with the U.S. and Israel, no matter how much nationalist fervor it might generate. The gamble is too dangerous. What if Iranians don't rally behind the flag? Lastly, I asked the Professor: isn’t he worried about being imprisonment again for speaking out? He admits he's terrified. Every time his phone rings, he checks nervously to see if it's the Revolutionary Guard calling. But when asked why he keeps speaking, he gives a striking answer: "If I were in another country with my family safely abroad, I would say exactly the same things." Watch my full discussion with sadeghZibakalam on Iran's economic crisis, why the protests are different this time, and why he refuses to stop speaking despite knowing the risks. 02:48 - “I have actually been sentenced to 18 months in prison because I criticized, Iranian nuclear program.” 07:15 - “The current protests actually started nearly ten days ago. It was initiated by shopkeepers in Main Bazaar of Tehran and they closed their shops." 09:42 - “It's been nearly ten days, and they are still there and they have a protest.” 14:43 - ”But at that time it was a turning point, in my opinion, for the first time there was a significant division between the government on one hand and the people on the other hand.” 15:14 - “The government really did not do anything about this division." 16:11 - “But the younger generation, the more educated Iranians, they sort of distanced themselves from the Islamic government, in my opinion.” 18:21 - ”2 decades ago, people voted for someone not nominated by the government in significant numbers, and that was the beginning of a rift that we saw.” 19:54 - "Now, what we are hearing today is that they are openly and widely saying that we do not want this Islamic government anymore.” 22:06 - “The second important point is that for the first time they are shouting long live Reza Pahlavi, who has been in exile for years” 24:24 - “So why are people shouting his name? It's out of hatred of them and dissension of the Islamic regime." 34:55 - “Trump's warning to the Islamic leaders: if you shoot at Iranian people, I'm going to deal with you." 36:40 - “I think it would be very difficult for Trump to take any action because, what kind of action is he going to take?” 43:57 - “On the other hand, what are we to do when the Islamic regime is attacked by foreign power?” 46:04 - “We might even see fighting among the Revolutionary Guard itself, those who tend to support the government and those who tend to support the people.” 50:03 - “Who is going to rule Iran? In my opinion, no one, because we have no organized opposition.” 51:10 - “But if the Islamic regime is overthrown, there would be complete chaos.” 57:06 - “I obviously have heard, like many other Iranians, that the Supreme leader is planning to go to Russia, and I think it's a setup.” 01:03:04 - “The Islamic regime has become so weak as far as her allies are concerned.”
1:06:44

🚨🇮🇷 RARE INTERVIEW WITH LEADING IRANIAN PROFESSOR It’s rare I get to interview someone from INSIDE of Iran It’s even rarer to speak to someone who’s openly critical of the regime And not just anyone, but one of the country’s most respected voices Prof. Sadegh Zibakalam was arrested by both the pre-revolution Shah of Iran in the 1970s, and by the current regime 2 years ago He is critical of both the current regime, but also of the past Monarchy, as well as any U.S. or Israeli intervention or alternative to the current regime I enjoyed this conversation as Zibakalam did not mince his words, and he gave me honest direct answers to tough questions: How significant are the protests? What triggered them? Could they topple the regime? Do you think the Supreme Leader could flee the country? Is there a split between the army and the IRGC? Is there a risk of civil war? He says the Islamic regime has never been weaker. Iran's proxies are destroyed, its allies absent during the 12-day war with Israel, its currency in freefall, and its people chanting "Death to the dictator" in the streets. But Zibakalam warns against celebrating regime collapse, asking the question few want to answer: what comes next? He also believes the regime won't risk full military confrontation with the U.S. and Israel, no matter how much nationalist fervor it might generate. The gamble is too dangerous. What if Iranians don't rally behind the flag? Lastly, I asked the Professor: isn’t he worried about being imprisonment again for speaking out? He admits he's terrified. Every time his phone rings, he checks nervously to see if it's the Revolutionary Guard calling. But when asked why he keeps speaking, he gives a striking answer: "If I were in another country with my family safely abroad, I would say exactly the same things." Watch my full discussion with sadeghZibakalam on Iran's economic crisis, why the protests are different this time, and why he refuses to stop speaking despite knowing the risks. 02:48 - “I have actually been sentenced to 18 months in prison because I criticized, Iranian nuclear program.” 07:15 - “The current protests actually started nearly ten days ago. It was initiated by shopkeepers in Main Bazaar of Tehran and they closed their shops." 09:42 - “It's been nearly ten days, and they are still there and they have a protest.” 14:43 - ”But at that time it was a turning point, in my opinion, for the first time there was a significant division between the government on one hand and the people on the other hand.” 15:14 - “The government really did not do anything about this division." 16:11 - “But the younger generation, the more educated Iranians, they sort of distanced themselves from the Islamic government, in my opinion.” 18:21 - ”2 decades ago, people voted for someone not nominated by the government in significant numbers, and that was the beginning of a rift that we saw.” 19:54 - "Now, what we are hearing today is that they are openly and widely saying that we do not want this Islamic government anymore.” 22:06 - “The second important point is that for the first time they are shouting long live Reza Pahlavi, who has been in exile for years” 24:24 - “So why are people shouting his name? It's out of hatred of them and dissension of the Islamic regime." 34:55 - “Trump's warning to the Islamic leaders: if you shoot at Iranian people, I'm going to deal with you." 36:40 - “I think it would be very difficult for Trump to take any action because, what kind of action is he going to take?” 43:57 - “On the other hand, what are we to do when the Islamic regime is attacked by foreign power?” 46:04 - “We might even see fighting among the Revolutionary Guard itself, those who tend to support the government and those who tend to support the people.” 50:03 - “Who is going to rule Iran? In my opinion, no one, because we have no organized opposition.” 51:10 - “But if the Islamic regime is overthrown, there would be complete chaos.” 57:06 - “I obviously have heard, like many other Iranians, that the Supreme leader is planning to go to Russia, and I think it's a setup.” 01:03:04 - “The Islamic regime has become so weak as far as her allies are concerned.”

Mario Nawfal

2,058,401 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад

NATIONAL STATEMENT BY DATO’ SERI ANWAR IBRAHIM PRIME MINISTER OF MALAYSIA AT THE EXTRAORDINARY ARAB AND ISLAMIC SUMMIT RIYADH 11th NOVEMBER 2024 Assalamua’laikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. May the peace and blessings of Allah SWT be upon you. First and foremost, I wish to extend my profound gratitude to His Majesty King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud for inviting me to this Summit. I also wish to thank Your Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al-Saud and the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for convening this important meeting today. I concur with the many excellent points and recommendations made by my fellow leaders. Their views reflect the unified voice of the Muslim ummah, borne out of the surge of shared conviction among our peoples. We acknowledge that the circumstances confronting the Muslim world and the Ummah have been most trying and challenging. Yet, it is indeed highly commendable that painstaking efforts have been made, and continue to be made, including summits such as this, so as to find ways and means to put an end to the violence, destruction, and misery brought on the Palestinian people, and to relieve their long and untold suffering. Your Majesties, Excellencies, Israel no longer belongs within the civilised community of nations, and its barbarism demands nothing less than decisive action to safeguard not just the Middle East, but the entire global order. Fifty years ago, the world was so horrified by the atrocities in South Africa that the United Nations General Assembly took the unprecedented step of denying its government a seat at the Assembly. Israel, however, has gone beyond the pale, beyond reason, beyond humanity itself in its vile and blatant perpetration of the genocide of the people of Palestine. These cumulative acts of violence against an entire nation leaves us with no choice but to demand for the swift and effective action of the international community including embargo, suspension and even expulsion. In its relentless campaigns, Israel has now struck at the very heart of the international community’s lifeline for Palestine by targeting the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. By barring UNRWA from operating, Israel is causing the collapse of the world’s humanitarian response, cutting off the most basic means of survival in Gaza for those who have already lost so much. We must put an end to this continued senseless carnage and take immediate steps to furnish more effective protection for the UNRWA. Similarly, we must accord better protection for the UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, comprising nearly 50 nations, including Malaysia – who have been attacked and terrorised by Israeli forces. The international community must act swiftly and forcefully. As an immediate measure, we must push, as Malaysia did at the UN General Assembly in September, to impose an immediate arms embargo against Israel. Nevertheless, the severity of Israel’s assault on humanity’s most basic rules of the international compact deserves consideration of a more serious response. For the sake of not only the Palestinians but of humanity itself, we must punish and deter Israel’s repeated violations of international law and norms. We should, therefore, build a consensus towards suspending or even expelling Israel from the United Nations itself.
4:46

NATIONAL STATEMENT BY DATO’ SERI ANWAR IBRAHIM PRIME MINISTER OF MALAYSIA AT THE EXTRAORDINARY ARAB AND ISLAMIC SUMMIT RIYADH 11th NOVEMBER 2024 Assalamua’laikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. May the peace and blessings of Allah SWT be upon you. First and foremost, I wish to extend my profound gratitude to His Majesty King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud for inviting me to this Summit. I also wish to thank Your Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al-Saud and the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for convening this important meeting today. I concur with the many excellent points and recommendations made by my fellow leaders. Their views reflect the unified voice of the Muslim ummah, borne out of the surge of shared conviction among our peoples. We acknowledge that the circumstances confronting the Muslim world and the Ummah have been most trying and challenging. Yet, it is indeed highly commendable that painstaking efforts have been made, and continue to be made, including summits such as this, so as to find ways and means to put an end to the violence, destruction, and misery brought on the Palestinian people, and to relieve their long and untold suffering. Your Majesties, Excellencies, Israel no longer belongs within the civilised community of nations, and its barbarism demands nothing less than decisive action to safeguard not just the Middle East, but the entire global order. Fifty years ago, the world was so horrified by the atrocities in South Africa that the United Nations General Assembly took the unprecedented step of denying its government a seat at the Assembly. Israel, however, has gone beyond the pale, beyond reason, beyond humanity itself in its vile and blatant perpetration of the genocide of the people of Palestine. These cumulative acts of violence against an entire nation leaves us with no choice but to demand for the swift and effective action of the international community including embargo, suspension and even expulsion. In its relentless campaigns, Israel has now struck at the very heart of the international community’s lifeline for Palestine by targeting the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. By barring UNRWA from operating, Israel is causing the collapse of the world’s humanitarian response, cutting off the most basic means of survival in Gaza for those who have already lost so much. We must put an end to this continued senseless carnage and take immediate steps to furnish more effective protection for the UNRWA. Similarly, we must accord better protection for the UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, comprising nearly 50 nations, including Malaysia – who have been attacked and terrorised by Israeli forces. The international community must act swiftly and forcefully. As an immediate measure, we must push, as Malaysia did at the UN General Assembly in September, to impose an immediate arms embargo against Israel. Nevertheless, the severity of Israel’s assault on humanity’s most basic rules of the international compact deserves consideration of a more serious response. For the sake of not only the Palestinians but of humanity itself, we must punish and deter Israel’s repeated violations of international law and norms. We should, therefore, build a consensus towards suspending or even expelling Israel from the United Nations itself.

Anwar Ibrahim

70,009 просмотров • 1 год назад