Alfie Noakes comments

I like Stephen Graham, a local actor from my hometown. Born in Kirkby, Lancashire, a tough hood for kids.

Me too, he's a wonderful actor, one of the very best we have right now.

I haven't watched Adolescence and probably I won't but I was wondering how many commentators here have seen it?

Not having watched something never prevents these people from being furiously outraged by it.

Civilian victims of the U.S. firebombings received nothing.

A suit was brought in 2007 in Tokyo but was rejected by the courts, as was a previous attempt in Nagoya in 1987. The judges in the Nagoya suit said, "In an emergency situation where the fate of the nation is at stake, people just have to endure."

Regarding the 2007 suit:

"The plaintiffs also criticized the government for offering compensation only to military veterans and their relatives, saying that it violated constitutional principles of equality.

Eighty-year-old Mieko Toyomura, who lost four of her family in the raid and had her right arm severed in a subsequent bombing, urged the government to treat civilian victims equally.

"I've lived and worked desperately all these years with only one arm, and without getting any assistance. Tears keep falling when I look back on what happened at that time," Kyodo quoted Toyomura as saying.

"I want (the government) to treat people equally without discriminating between civilian war victims and soldiers."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-firebombing-idUST13538620070310/

Genocide from Biden's Democrats, Arabrein from Trump's Republicans. It's the Fourth Reich.

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Fantastic band. Sadly, it seems that Dan Treacy will never recover enough to make music again.

This would be comical if the US weren't currently funding neo-Nazis in Ukraine, genocidal Zionist child murderers in Israel and rebranded Al Qaeda medieval barbarians in Syria.

At least Trump is honest about what the US has been doing for the last 100 years or so.

Yaxley-Lennon has been funded by Yanqui Zionist billionaires for years. He's a Mossad agent. Musk seems to have lost the run of himself entirely. Iain Banks would be appalled.

Après moi, le déluge.

One's first thought on reading this headline was that Ron Wyden of Oregon and Dick Durbin of Illinois must be in the pockets of the genocidal entity.....and they are:

https://trackaipac.com/us-senate

Hundreds of Palestinian and Lebanese football players, team staff and officials have been murdered by Israel, but we've heard nothing from FIFA about this. Nothing. The genocidal entity has damaged or destroyed all 41 football pitches in Gaza and all sports facilities, yet we've heard nothing from the IOC either. Nothing.

Both organizations are tacitly supporting the genocide. It's an utter disgrace.

I hope both Japan and South Korea work equally hard on their diplomatic relations with China frankly, possibly together. If they are meeting the US President together, they most certainly should also meet with Xi Jinping in the same fashion. Trump will come and go, but the regional relationships between China, SK and Japan is millennial and should be carefully and maturely curated by statesmen who don't flinch at the meddling of Johnny-come-latelys.

These historical and cultural powerhouses of Asia need to better understand and value their mutual similarities, connections and social value on the world stage, and not be divided and fractured by the manipulation of others. I'd prefer to see these countries really push for regional unity and mutual value and respect, regardless of how other 'invested' parties may feel about that.

A splendid idea, especially considering the USA may well not exist in its current state 100 or 200 years hence, whereas China, Japan and Korea certainly will. However, independent foreign policy initiatives in North-east Asia are totally unacceptable in Washington, as the world saw in 2014 when the US government under Obama and Clinton effected a bloodless regime change in Tokyo, removing Hatoyama and Ozawa, who had had the gall to attempt just such an independent initiative.

It's well worth reading this excellent 2014 article by Karel Van Wolferen on just how that regime change was managed by Washington, the Japanese media and bureaucracy. The author also compares the violent US-backed overthrow of the Ukraine government to the "peaceful" removal of Hatoyama and Ozawa.

The final paragraph is especially prophetic:

"When we cheer NATO and its new initiatives for a rapid deployment force to be used potentially against the renewed enemy in Moscow, and when we cheer the supposedly great achievement of the European Union unanimously to endorse sanctions against that same new enemy, when we join the choir denouncing an imagined inherently aggressive China, we are encouraging a bunch of incompetent, politically immature zealots as they trigger chains of events whose likely dire consequences we could not possibly desire."

https://www.unz.com/article/the-american-world-empire-japan-as-a-vassal-state/

IDF soldiers disguised as football fans attack French supporters in the Stade de France last night:

https://x.com/Aboujahjah/status/1857163154435756478

"When I was doing a series for Fox Nation I did an interview while getting tattooed by the only tattoo artist in Bethlehem. I got Yehweh - Jesus in Hebrew. Also on my forearm I have a Benjamin Franklin, effectively, political cartoon from the 1760s. It's the Join or Die snake. I've got Deus Vult - God Wills It- which was the cry of the Crusaders, on my bicep. I have a big flag with the AR 15 I carried in Iraq on my bicep. On my shoulder I have my unit crest from Iraq. My entire pec is a Jerusalem cross. Christianity and my faith are things I care deeply about."

That's Trump's new Defence Secretary Pete Hesgeth, a man so unhinged he doesn't know that Jesus in Hebrew is Yeshua. He's got the battle cry of the Crusaders on his arm; what is wrong with these people?

https://x.com/OilSheppard/status/1856507154653487115

Miriam Adelson gave Trump $100m and she gets this parade of clowns and howling religious crackpots for it?

"In a recent profile in New York magazine, Adelson suggested that she might want Trump to push for the annexation of the occupied West Bank if he wins a second term — described in the piece as “unfinished Israel business from Trump’s presidency.”

https://forward.com/fast-forward/618034/miriam-adelson-funding-trump-israel/

These fundamentalist Christian Zionists are going to start WW3. Frightening:

https://x.com/mtracey/status/1856774955372818446

So as expected the Biden/Harris/Netanyahu genocide will become the Trump/Netanyahu genocide except with added fundamentalist Christian zealots on the Yanqui side.

Here's Huckabee with Shinzo Abe and notorious yakuza bagman Icchu Nagamoto in Tokyo in 2012. Birds of a feather.....

https://www.tokyoreporter.com/crime/yakuza/ex-pm-shinzo-abe-denies-ties-to-yakuza-after-photo-with-yamaguchi-gumi-associate-published/

There are also reports on the BBC of Maccabi Haifa fans attacking taxis and burning Palestinian flags in Amsterdam.

It's all over X and other social media. The notorious Maccabi Tel Aviv far right thugs were singing racist songs (I won't print the words but they're disgusting), pulled down Palestinian flags then attacked a taxi and beat up the driver. In the Ajax stadium they chanted and let off fireworks during a minute's silence for the victims of the floods in Valencia. Then to claim they are the victims after locals decided to fight back is just the height of deranged victimhood. These people are the scum of the earth.

The US election result is proof that there are consequences in the real world for arming, funding, training and supporting a genocide.

Harris ran the worst campaign I've ever seen by any candidate from a major political party - it was just a copy paste of Clinton 2016, except with added genocide and Cheneys, themselves murderous barbarians. Harris and Biden should be the subject of a citizens arrest and taken in chains to the Hague to stand trial for crimes against humanity, alongside the Obamas, Clintons, Cheneys et al. Hopefully we will never hear from any of them again.

Whoever thought it was a good idea to send out Bill Clinton to tell Arab-Americans their relatives in Gaza deserved to die should be strapped to one of Musk's rockets and fired into the sun.

No fan of Trump or the disturbing people behind him so I won't be celebrating his win, but I'm certainly happy the grotesque Harris and the repulsive Democrats lost.

Concerns about not enough aid reaching Gaza were amplified Monday when Israeli lawmakers passed two laws to cut ties with the main U.N. agency distributing food, water and medicine, and to ban it from Israeli soil. Israel controls access to both Gaza and the occupied West Bank, and it was unclear how the agency known by the acronym UNRWA would continue its work in either place.

As the world recoils in disgust at the live streamed scenes of unspeakable horror on social media, the Israelis and their backers in Washington and London have decided to starve the Palestinians to death, and to murder any journalists attempting to report on it.

Hyperbole?

Not really.

"US authorizes CIA mercenaries to run biometric concentration camps in Gaza Strip

A private intelligence corporation billed as "Uber for war zones" is preparing to create what Israel hopes will be the model for supplanting Hamas rule in Gaza.

The Biden administration has approved the deployment of 1,000 CIA-trained private mercenaries as part of a joint U.S.-Israeli plan to turn Gaza’s apocalyptic rubblescape into a high-tech dystopia.

Starting with Al-Atatra, a village in the northwestern Gaza Strip, the plan calls to build what the Israeli daily Ynet calls “humanitarian bubbles” – turning the remains of villages and neighborhoods into tiny concentration camps cut off from their environs and surrounded and controlled by mercenaries.

This comes as Israel carries out daily massacres and ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza, enacting the proposal known as The Generals’ Plan, originally crafted by former national security chief Giora Eiland to turn Gaza into “a place where no human being can exist.”

https://www.uncaptured.media/p/us-authorizes-cia-mercenaries-to

Western-backed fascists are committing genocide and mass terrorism, all live streamed on X. As Gaza and Lebanon have become the new Auschwitz and Treblinka, Israel and the US have become the enemies of the world. It's the Fourth Reich.

my mate Gaz right yeah, Gaz reckons that Ez Bowler an all of them got like millions in gold and sparklers the size of yur ands in them tunnels down there. an Gaz hes a good lad but a bit mental like an he reckons they got 100000 o them Narf Kreen zombie warrirors an Hitlers mustache and the Arco the bleeding cubbynant an all. Gaz hes a good lad but hell believe any old shiite of the internet im like. mental innit

Or even 22,600.

According to US politician Rep. Guy Reschenthaler there are over 20,000 Americans in the Israel Occupation Force in Palestine. The IOF has around 80,000 troops for their imperial expansion and genocide, which means over 25% of those committing these monstrous war crimes and crimes against humanity are Americans.

He's full of hooey. At any given time there are around 1,200 US citizens serving in the IDF. Most of these are children of Israelis.

This Reschenthaler appears to be quoting a Washington Post article from February 2024 that claims there are 23,800 Americans serving in the IOF. Mind you, the reputation of the American corporate media is in such tatters it's feasible that the WaPo miscalculated by 21,600....

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/americans-serving-in-israeli-army/

According to US politician Rep. Guy Reschenthaler there are over 20,000 Americans in the Israel Occupation Force in Palestine. The IOF has around 80,000 troops for their imperial expansion and genocide, which means over 25% of those committing these monstrous war crimes and crimes against humanity are Americans.

The IOF is a joint coalition force funded by the US, armed by the US, trained in the US and staffed by Americans. It's an American genocide, supported by their entire political elite, and that of the UK, Germany amongst others.

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/USspendingIsrael

Sinwar's apparent death would be significant if Israel's aim was the destruction of Hamas, but it isn't. Israel's aim is a genocide and ethnic cleansing to create a Greater Israel via the annexation of Gaza, the West Bank, South Lebanon and more. The mass murder, bombing of hospitals, deliberate starving of millions, shooting children in their heads will all continue and the Resistance will continue to resist.

You can always tell there's an election in the offing when these poor, sad families are dragged out of the closet and their grief paraded around for LDP votes.

Its over for Israel. A clear shift in media reporting has become apparent.

Really? Facebook, Instagram and YouTube have gone even more berserk recently in censoring any criticism of Israel and it's US-sponsored genocide. If it weren't for X and tiktok most people would have no idea what's actually happening in Gaza and Lebanon.

It's over for Israel, totally. It has been supported by the US for 75 years, a country also in rapid decline now.

Ah, the traditional Kyodo "The LDP are going to win" article disseminated around the world two weeks before the LDP wins the election.

Earlier on Monday, an Israeli airstrike on a hospital courtyard in the Gaza Strip killed at least four people and triggered a fire that swept through a tent camp for people displaced by the war, leaving more than two dozen with severe burns.

-Patients on IV drips were burned alive, unable to escape.

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1845638569869844965

it's not the first time Israel has bombed a Christian community.

-They bombed Saint George’s church in Dardghaya, in Southern Lebanon last week, killing at least eight people, among them five members of the Civil Defense Rescue Team. It's a key tactic in the Israeli/Western genocide, murdering medical and rescue staff, destroying hospitals, clinics, fire stations and the like.

https://zenit.org/2024/10/11/israel-bombs-catholic-church-in-lebanon-and-attacks-un-blue-helmets/

Nobody pays much attention to what an Australian think tank says.

Here's a page from the Lowy Institute which shows their funding.

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/about/funding-support

They're funded by the CSIS, an American imperialist neocon think tank funded by the US "defence" industry.

A bizarre article that entirely fails to mention the three largest groups that influence US elections: the billionaires and trillionaires who buy politicians for fun, the giant corporations that actually run the country and AIPAC, the Zionist and Israel lobby.

There's even a website that allows you to track how bent the politicians are:

https://trackaipac.com/

More mealy-mouthed genocide apologism from AP.

The US is doing something. The Biden Harris admin continue to fund and arm them. They are complicit in the genocide.

The Washington neocons, who have been in control of US foreign policy for over 20 years now, are actually directing what is clearly a white supremacist genocide in West Asia, using their proxy Zionist supremacist creation Israel to achieve it.

The US-UK-Israel aim is to destroy Lebanon and Iran and create a Greater Israel, that allows the West to control the region and its oil.

According to this Brown University Cost of War report, the US has spent "at least $22.76 billion and counting" on Israel's military and other operations in the last year. Biden/Harris and the neocons are literally funding a genocide.

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/USspendingIsrael