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TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
Biggest mistake democrats could do now is make Jeffrey speaker of the house and Schumer majority senate leader. BOTH are compromised. BOTH are funded by AIPAC.
OUTST THEM.
ACCOUNTABILITY MATTERS.
#Anonymous
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
LOURO
Muitas mulheres adicionam folhas de louro aos alimentos sem saber o motivo.
E, quando se pergunta a razão, a resposta é: para dar sabor e gosto ao prato.
No entanto, adição de folhas de louro às carnes e outros pratos, ajuda a transformar gorduras do tipo triglicerídeo em gorduras monoinsaturadas (experimente cortar um frango ao meio e cozinhar cada metade em um recipiente diferente: coloque folhas de louro em um e nada no outro; depois, observe a quantidade de gordura em cada um).
Se você tem folhas de louro, não há motivo para recorrer à farmácia, pois estudos científicos recentes comprovaram que elas oferecem diversos benefícios:
🍃As folhas de louro tratam distúrbios do sistema digestivo, ajudando a eliminar o inchaço abdominal,a azia, a acidez e a constipação, além de regular o funcionamento do intestino quando se consome o chá de louro quente.
🍃Elas reduzem os níveis de açúcar no sangue e também atuam como antioxidantes, favorecendo a produção de insulina pelo organismo, seja pelo consumo na alimentação ou pela ingestão de chá de louro durante um mês.
🍃Elas eliminam o colesterol prejudicial e ajudam o corpo a se livrar de gorduras do tipo triglicerídeo.
🍃São muito benéficas no tratamento de resfriados, gripes e tosses intensas, pois são ricas em vitamina C; você pode ferver as folhas e inalar o vapor para eliminar o muco e reduzir a intensidade da tosse.
🍃Elas eliminam a insônia e a ansiedade; se consumidas antes de dormir, ajudam no relaxamento e proporcionam um sono tranquilo.
🍃Beber uma xícara de infusão de folhas de louro duas vezes ao dia dissolve cálculos renais e cura inflamações.
Links:
clinical-nutrition.imedpub.c…
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
En 1977, Rolf Mengele viajó a Brasil para pedirle explicaciones a su padre por los crímenes de Auschwitz. Pasaron catorce días juntos. Al terminar aquel encuentro, comprobó que Josef Mengele seguía sin reconocer ninguna culpa.
Habían transcurrido más de treinta años desde el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Durante su servicio como médico de las SS en Auschwitz, Mengele había seleccionado prisioneros destinados a las cámaras de gas y realizado experimentos médicos con seres humanos, especialmente gemelos y niños.
Ahora vivía escondido en Sudamérica, lejos de los tribunales que lo buscaban.
Rolf había crecido prácticamente sin conocerlo. En 1956, cuando tenía doce años, pasó unas vacaciones en Suiza con un hombre que le presentaron como su tío Helmut. Años después descubrió que aquel supuesto familiar era su verdadero padre.
Desde entonces mantuvieron correspondencia, pero las cartas comenzaron a reflejar diferencias profundas. Rolf exigía respuestas sobre Auschwitz. Su padre defendía sus decisiones y rechazaba las acusaciones.
En 1977 decidió encontrarse personalmente con él.
Un conocido de Mengele, Wolfram Bossert, lo recibió en São Paulo y lo condujo hasta el lugar donde se ocultaba.
Rolf encontró a un hombre envejecido, temeroso y preocupado por la posibilidad de ser descubierto. Según contó posteriormente, su padre sufría episodios depresivos e incluso hablaba de quitarse la vida.
Pero aquella angustia no estaba acompañada de arrepentimiento.
Durante las conversaciones, Mengele continuó defendiendo las ideas raciales del nazismo. Hablaba de personas cuyas vidas consideraba indignas y se negaba a reconocer su responsabilidad en las atrocidades del campo.
Cuando Rolf planteó la posibilidad de que se entregara a la justicia, su padre respondió que no encontraría jueces, sino personas interesadas en vengarse.
Esa actitud también aparecía en las cartas que había enviado durante años. En una de ellas sostuvo que no tenía motivos para justificar ni disculpar sus decisiones.
Lo desconcertante era que Mengele había conseguido vivir durante años sin ocultarse completamente.
En 1956 obtuvo documentación alemana con su verdadero nombre en Buenos Aires. Su familia conocía su paradero y le enviaba dinero regularmente. Cuando la búsqueda internacional se intensificó, se refugió en Brasil utilizando identidades falsas.
El 7 de febrero de 1979 sufrió un accidente cerebrovascular mientras nadaba en una playa brasileña y murió ahogado. Fue enterrado bajo el nombre de Wolfgang Gerhard.
Rolf conoció la muerte de su padre, pero guardó silencio durante seis años.
En junio de 1985 entregó fotografías, cartas y documentos que permitieron reconstruir parte de aquella vida clandestina. Los restos fueron exhumados y posteriormente identificados mediante pruebas forenses.
Josef Mengele había conseguido escapar de la justicia durante treinta y cuatro años después de la guerra.
Murió sin haber comparecido ante un tribunal por sus crímenes en Auschwitz y, según el testimonio de su propio hijo, sin haber reconocido jamás su responsabilidad.
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
Wow!!!
The Vice President of the United States just did the strangest thing a serving VP can do.
He wrote a public autopsy blaming his own administration's war for a historic defeat.
By the time I read it, it had 38 million views.
If you read it as "venting" then you missed the whole point. But if you read it as positioning and it snaps into focus.
A loyal number two eats a loss like this quietly. You do NOT go out in public and pin the worst night your party has had in years on the signature policy of the president @POTUS you serve.
@JDVance did exactly that, and he gave himself cover doing it, "the president himself said so last night."
He is using Trump's own words as a shield while making Trump's war THE reason the GOP lost the SENATE for six years.
Call that what it is, a man building distance and making sure he cannot be blamed for building it...
Now look at his four reasons, the ones he hangs on the base.
1. End the war.
2. Cost of living.
3. America First.
4. And then, change our relationship to Israel.
Three of those are safe populist lines any Republican can shout.
The fourth is the one that ends careers in this party and this America, and instead of saying it in his own voice, he put it in the mouths of the voters.
That is how you float the most dangerous position in the GOP without owning it. I am only telling you what the base wants.
So the real signal is underneath all of it.
Vance is reading where the Republican coalition is GOING, well ahead of where it is today.
He is planting a flag in the anti-war lane while the war is still on, because if it goes badly through 2027 every I-told-you-so compounds in his favour.
And he is loosening the one tether, Israel, that a post-war base may punish hardest.
He is buying a cheap option on 2028 and letting the party's own anger pay for it.
The order of effects runs outward from there.
1. First he boxes Trump, who cannot disown the war-cost-us line without contradicting his own mouth.
2. Second he claims the restraint wing of the party before any rival moves into it.
3. Third, and the region is reading this too, the second most powerful man in Washington just told the world that the American appetite for this war is cracking.
4. Allies and adversaries both price that in.
This is what the opening of a succession looks like.
A weakened principal, a war that split the coalition, and a VP who is first into the crack. None of that was a slip. He drew a map for his own career.
I fear for his safety.
𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗟, 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗘!
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
ربما يكون هذا الوغد أكثر شخصٍ يستحق الشماتة في نظري بعد خسارته منصبه الذي تبجح به السنوات الماضية، مايك جونسون، رئيس مجلس النواب الأمريكي، الذي سقط من رئاسة المجلس الآن.
شخص قميء يرى نفسه مرسلاً من الرب ليمهد لعودة المسيح بالذهاب للحروب والكوارث.. وهو الذي فتح أبواب الكونغرس على مصراعيها بدايةَ عام 2024 للحاخام المعتوه "تساحي مامو" المهووسِ بخرافة البقرة الحمراء، والذي جاء بخمس بقرات حمراء من تكساس إلى فلسطين لتحضيرها كي يمهد لفتح #المسجد_الأقصى للمستوطنين، عامةً استعداداً لتنفيذ أسطورة هرمجدون والمسيح التي يعيش هذا المعتوه وجماعته على أطلالِها.
اليوم لن يعود هذا الوغد الشخصَ الثالثَ في سُلّم القيادة الأمريكي حسب الدستور.. وسيعود صغيراً كما كان.. ولا ندري، ربما ذهب مع صديقه تساحي مامو يرعى بقراته "الحمراء".
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
All Black Women Will Now Run the State of Georgia as Governor, Attorney General, and Secretary of State.
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
五角大楼这哪是军事中枢，这简直是《碟中谍》片场，防长赫格塞思被手下人硬生生搞成了“孤家寡人”。
据英媒爆料，五角大楼的官员们花近两年时间，偷偷摸摸攒了一堆黑料，就等中期选举民主党夺回国会后，直接把这位防长轰下台。这黑料藏得极其讲究：有的塞在银行保险箱，有的藏在西海岸的房子里，甚至有一位陆军军官，把机密副本锁在了女儿的旧活页本里，塞进地下室保险箱。这地下工作的素养，好莱坞编剧都不敢这么写。
到底攒了什么料？无非是赫格塞思无视法律战略、隐瞒国会、疯狂威胁开除“不忠”下属。这位防长上台主打一个字——“炒”，把陆军参谋长和陆军部长全给逼走，搞得天怒人怨。连民主党人都准备把人家老婆也传唤了——这位“五角大楼第一夫人”正深刻影响着人事政治。
但最绝的是，赫格塞思可能等不到民主党的传票，就得先倒在自己人手里。前脚五角大楼属下在底下疯狂攒黑料，后脚懂王因为他打伊朗时“报喜不报忧”、传递虚假乐观战报正大发雷霆。一旦共和党中期选举输得太难看，这个引发极度争议的防长，绝对是特朗普第一个扔出去背锅的祭品。里外不是人的赫格塞思，这防长当得，比坐牢还煎熬。
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
Iranian strength is what killed the Republicans.
Vice President JD Vance made the surprising admission on social media that Trump’s war with Iran was what caused the massive Democratic Party sweep of the midterm elections, stating plainly that “The reason we lost is the war.”
Saying “the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone,” Vance noted that a poll found Trump 2024 voters who ditched the president’s party in 2026 gave four main answers to the question of what the Republicans could do to win them back: “1) End the war, 2) Focus on cost of living/inflation, 3) Put America First , 4) Change our relationship to Israel.”
All four of these answers tie directly in to Trump’s decision to launch an unprovoked war of aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran. The war itself, failing to put America first, and Washington’s grotesque alliance with the state of Israel are all straightforward references to Trump’s warmongering in the middle east. Cost of living/inflation is also strongly related since the blockades resulting from Trump’s war have been costing every American household thousands of dollars in rising fuel and grocery prices.
That last one is the real story of this election. As is often the case, economic concerns ranked as the number one issue among US voters in the lead-up to the midterm elections, and one of the major reasons why Americans have been struggling economically is because of the war in Iran.
So the story isn’t that Americans spontaneously transformed into a country full of tender-hearted peaceniks in November 2026. The story is that Iran was able to impose an economic cost on ordinary Americans for the actions of their evil government.
The average American is a propaganda-addled empire zombie who has been indoctrinated into cold-hearted indifference to their government’s abuses in the global south. American voters didn’t reject the war in Iran because they believe it’s immoral to bomb schools and civilian infrastructure in depraved wars of aggression overseas, they rejected it because it was costing them more to fill up their pickup trucks, and they were having to pay more money for their buckets of Mountain Dew and ranch dressing.
If Trump had won the war in four to six weeks as he initially claimed he would, his monstrous attack on Iran would have been no more consequential in the polls than his regime change interventionism in Venezuela. It is only because Iran succeeded in doing whatever it needed to do to retain the military strength needed to impose a financial toll on the American electorate that the Republicans lost the Senate for years to come. War with Iran is now officially political poison because of Iranian strength.
US officials love to whine and complain that Iran spends its money on its military instead of on the Iranian people (though the United States is literally the absolute dead-last country on earth who has any business airing such a grievance), and to this day they’re still weeping crocodile tears about the way Tehran aggressively smacked down the CIA/Mossad uprising at the beginning of the year. But Iran has shown the world that a nation must retain its strength if it wants to retain its sovereignty and avoid being turned into another resource extraction scam for the US empire.
Every country that retains the necessary muscle to beat back the US empire’s efforts to absorb it into its power umbrella invariably gets smeared by the imperial propaganda machine as a tyrannical and despotic rogue state, but it is the US empire who makes it necessary for governments to exert force if they don’t want to be replaced with subservient US puppet regimes. Western propaganda likes to frame the global struggle as free democracies versus oppressive autocracies, but really it’s just nations who wish to retain their sovereignty versus the empire who wants to take that sovereignty away from them. It is the fault of the US empire that the only nations who have thus far resisted absorption are the ones who retain enough military strength and domestic control to do so.
The United States didn’t retreat from Vietnam because the Americans suddenly developed a conscience, it retreated because the Vietnamese fought like lions and kept sending home coffins draped in red, white and blue. The Republicans didn’t lose the midterms because Americans dislike war, they lost because the Iranians beat the shit out of them.
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
2000年，日本著名女艺人天海佑希，被检测出她的线粒体DNA竟与其中一具距今3500年的古人骨的DNA完全匹配！更让人瞠目结舌的是，她竟与一位中国的藏族姑娘也共享着同一位祖先，这究竟是怎么回事呢？
2000年秋天，东京一间摄影棚里，33岁的天海祐希按要求剪下一缕头发，她刚从宝塚歌剧团转型影视，配合的是一档科普节目，用明星的DNA和千叶县出土的绳文时代人骨做比对，本来就是走个流程，谁也没当回事。
结果出来，实验室那边愣住了，她的线粒体DNA和其中一具3500年前的女性人骨，匹配度高达99.9%，在场的遗传学家都忍不住惊呼，那具骨头连名字都没有，只有一个考古编号。
在我看来，这件事真正让人后背发紧的地方，不在“3500年”这个数字本身。
线粒体DNA只走母系，母亲传给女儿，儿子能接住但传不下去，这条链子要在140代人里每一代都恰好生出女儿，且女儿活到生育年龄继续生女，中间断一代，链条当场消失。
能测出这个结果，说明这条母系血脉在3500年里一次都没断过，这比中彩票的概率还要低得多。
故事到这还没完，研究团队把数据放进国际基因库继续检索，线索指向了中国云南德钦县羊拉乡，一个叫阿追的藏族牧羊女，线粒体DNA和天海祐希完全一致。
两人共享的母系祖先，被推算到大约3万年前，末次冰期海平面低，一群狩猎采集者里，一支沿横断山脉河谷走进青藏高原，另一支向东北跨过对马海峡到了日本列岛。
天海祐希决定去云南，从昆明往香格里拉走，高原反应上来就得吸氧，半路又碰上泥石流和塌方，车过不去，只能退回镇子里干等。
阿追那边，村干部找上门时她第一反应是摆手拒绝，一个放羊的姑娘，忽然有人告诉她，你跟一个日本演员有同一个远古母亲，搁谁都得愣住。
转折是阿追自己走出来的，她牵上自家的小毛驴，走山路、过大雾，花了2天赶到镇上。
两人见面，日语转普通话再转藏语，隔了好几层，但天海祐希红着眼眶先迎了上去，交换了手链和藏装，坐下来喝酥油茶。
打动人的地方不在那个远古数字，而在一头驴、2天脚程和一次语言不通的见面里。
这件事后来被拍成纪录片，引发了不少讨论，但我觉得，它最值得说清楚的，恰恰是基因能做什么、不能做什么。
线粒体DNA能告诉你，你和另一个人在很久以前共用过一位女性祖先，它不告诉你那个人是谁、说过什么语言，更不替你决定“你因此应该属于哪个群体”。
这条母系线索的最近共同祖先，科学上追溯到一个非洲女性，通俗叫“线粒体夏娃”，但那只是说她的链条恰好一路活到了今天，不代表当时只活了她一个人。
在我看来，天海祐希和阿追的相遇，就是这条极其脆弱的母系链条上一个晚近的分叉被机器找到了。
基因负责证明亲缘，但认不认这个“姐妹”，走哪条路去见，见面之后做什么，那是人自己的事。
3500年前那具女骨没有名字，她的DNA却还在东京和高原的细胞里继续待着，这件事从头到尾讲的不是宏大叙事，是一连串偶然叠在一起之后，人还愿意朝对方走过去的那个选择。
信源：
澎湃新闻——《天海祐希在中国找到“姐姐”：3万年前，她们有同个母系祖先》
网易——《日本女星在中国找到失散姐妹？揭开“生男孩传宗接代”的谎言！》
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
Today, #November4, 2026, #BobDylan was received in audience by Pope Leo XIV. Together with the editor of L'Osservatore Romano, I accompanied him to the Apostolic Palace. The meeting had the feel of history about it, and at every step I had the sense that anything could happen.
Speaking of peace, Leo brought up "Go Away You Bomb." In 1963, Izzy Young, who ran the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, was putting together a songbook against the atomic bomb; Dylan showed up the next day with the lyrics, typed. In the song, a man talks to the bomb, insults it, orders it to leave. The book never came out, and Dylan never recorded the song. In 2014, the typescript went on the block at Christie's and found no buyer, but the lyrics were published, and so a song that was never sung made its way to a pope's desk, in the company of Dorothy Day, Giorgio La Pira, and Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet officer who, in 1983, declined to pass on a missile alert that the computers insisted was real.
Leo is an Augustinian. In 1967, on John Wesley Harding, Dylan had dreamed of that saint. In "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine," the narrator watches Augustine searching for those who have already sold their souls, witnesses his martyrdom, and realizes, with horror, that he is one of the crowd that put him to death. He wakes alone, in tears. The model was the old ballad about Joe Hill, the labor organizer executed by firing squad in Utah in 1915; Dylan put the Bishop of Hippo in his place and turned a rallying cry into an unwitting confession about our tendency to silence those who bring us the truth.
Born in Chicago in 1955, Prevost grew up on the American music of those years. Jim Musselman, a classmate of his at Villanova and a Dylan devotee, recalls that the two of them talked about music a great deal, and that it was Musselman who got him to read an essay pointing to Dylan as the poetic talent of his generation.
The Pope who introduced himself from the loggia of St. Peter's as "a son of St. Augustine" knows Dylan's music, and Dylan was glad to meet the American Pope.
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
EL GRANO OLVIDADO DE LOS EVANGELIOS Y DE LAS ABUELAS. 🌾💧 Cuando en el Evangelio de Juan (Capítulo 6:9) se relata la multiplicación de los panes, el texto especifica un detalle que la mayoría pasa por alto: los cinco panes que llevaba aquel muchacho no eran de trigo blanco, ERAN PANES DE CEBADA (Hordeum vulgare).
Desde los médicos de Judea y el padre de la medicina, Hipócrates (quien recetaba su famosa "Ptisana" o Agua de Cebada para casi todas las enfermedades febriles y renales), hasta nuestras abuelas hace cincuenta años, el AGUA DE CEBADA cocida con cáscara de limón y canela era la bebida reina para "refrescar los riñones", quitar el ardor al orinar y deshinchar los pies y las manos.
Hoy todo el mundo compra avena procesada de 1 minuto, y la cebada quedó olvidada en el último estante del supermercado.
Pero cuando la ciencia nutricional comparó la Cebada frente a todos los demás cereales de la tierra, descubrió por qué los antiguos tenían razón:
▸ 1. EL CAMPEÓN ABSOLUTO EN "BETAGLUCANOS" (LA TRAMPA DEL COLESTEROL Y LA BILIS):Mientras que la fibra de otros granos solo está en la cáscara externa, el grano de la cebada tiene fibra soluble llamada BETAGLUCANO repartida hasta en el corazón mismo de la semilla. Cuando hierves la cebada en agua, ese betaglucano sale al líquido formando un suero sedoso. Al beberlo, forma un gel en tu intestino que atrapa la bilis vieja cargada de colesterol tóxico y toxinas del hígado, obligando a tu hígado a sacar colesterol de tu sangre para fabricar bilis nueva (bajando el colesterol LDL malo en semanas).
▸ 2. EL DIURÉTICO SUAVE QUE NO ROBA ELECTROLITOS: El agua de cebada es riquísima en ácido silícico, magnesio y potasio, con poquísimo sodio. A diferencia de los diuréticos químicos que exprimen el riñón y te dan calambres, el cocimiento de cebada alcaliniza la orina, calma la vejiga irritada y saca el líquido retenido en los párpados y los tobillos suavemente.
▸ 3. ALIMENTO DEL "BUTIRATO" EN EL COLON: En un estudio de la Universidad de Lund en Suecia, consumir cebada cocida durante solo 3 días multiplicó una bacteria buena llamada Prevotella copri, mejorando el control del azúcar en sangre y reduciendo el hambre durante 14 horas seguidas.
(Aquí abajo en el primer comentario fijado te dejé la receta exacta del "Agua de Cebada Imperial" de las abuelas con limón y canela para tomar fría o tibia durante el día).
Publico cada día un remedio bíblico y de la abuela pasado por la ciencia para tus riñones, articulaciones y energía. Sigue a Vitalizate para no perderte el de mañana.
¿Tu abuela o tu mamá preparaban agua de cebada fresca en jarra en tu casa cuando hacía calor o alguien estaba enfermo del riñón? 👇
📚 Referencia científica: "Cholesterol-lowering and glycemic effects of barley beta-glucan: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials" — Publicado en European Journal of Clinical Nutrition / British Journal of Nutrition.
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
When he tumbles down the stairs, I honestly can’t stop laughing. I showed this to a 15-year-old who had never heard of Peter Sellers or The Pink Panther, and when she saw this scene, she nearly peed herself laughing so hard!
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
"I love Judaism and I love the Jewish people.
AIPAC and Israel are not the same as Judaism
The most dangerous thing is expanding antisemitism to include criticism of Israel"
- Abdul El-Sayed Michigan Senator
Absolutely Correct!
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
A CITY LOST IN THE DESERT FOR 600 YEARS… AND THE MYSTERIES IT LEFT BEHIND
Deep in the vast Gobi Desert of northwestern China stands one of the most haunting ancient ruins in the world: Khara-Khoto, also known as the Black City. Built around the 11th century, this once-thriving settlement was an important military and trading center of the Western Xia Dynasty. Its strong defensive walls, busy streets, Buddhist temples, and remarkable architecture once made it a significant city in this remote desert region.
But its story took a dramatic turn in 1372, when Ming Dynasty forces besieged the city. According to historical accounts and local legends, the attackers cut off its water supply by diverting the nearby river. Without water in the middle of the desert, survival became almost impossible. The city eventually fell, and its people disappeared from history, leaving behind a settlement that would slowly become buried beneath the desert sands.
Today, its massive mud-brick walls still rise above the golden dunes. Ancient towers, ruined buildings, and the remains of religious structures offer a glimpse into a civilization that once flourished here. For centuries, the city remained largely forgotten until Russian explorer Pyotr Kozlov reached the ruins in 1908. His expedition uncovered thousands of ancient manuscripts, Buddhist paintings, books, and other remarkable artifacts, revealing valuable details about the forgotten Tangut civilization.
What makes Khara-Khoto especially fascinating is how much of its history survived beneath the sand. A city that once supported thousands of people, welcomed travelers, and played an important role in regional trade was eventually reduced to silent ruins.
Today, the desert surrounds its ancient walls as if trying to hide them once again. Yet every surviving structure tells a story of human ambition, faith, war, and the passage of time.
How many other lost cities are still waiting to be discovered beneath the world’s deserts?
Sources: International Dunhuang Programme (British Library) – Revisiting Kharakhoto; National Institute of Informatics, Japan – Silk Road in Rare Books.
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Antonio Gramsci warned of the dangerous interval when the old order is dying and the new cannot yet be born. He called it the time of monsters.
I fear America has just entered one of those moments.
JD Vance is right. Trump's humiliating midterm defeat owes a great deal to the Iran war and the economic damage it has inflicted on ordinary Americans. But while Vance is examining why the Republicans lost, I'm rather more concerned about what Trump does next.
I've suspected for some time that Washington was deliberately holding back from another major escalation against Iran until the midterms were over. Another surge in oil prices, another hammering at the petrol pumps, and the Republicans would have faced an even angrier electorate.
Well, the votes are counted. The Republicans have been thrashed, and the political calculation that may have restrained Trump has changed.
And there's the danger.
Trump has already acknowledged that the war contributed to his defeat, yet insists he'd make the same decision again. That's hardly the language of a man contemplating the error of his ways.
My prediction is that he'll double down. With the Democrats not taking control of Congress until January, he has a window in which to escalate military operations, test the limits of his executive authority and attempt to impose his will before the new Congress can challenge him.
I hope I'm wrong. He could just as easily decide that another confrontation with Iran would deepen his political troubles. But Trump has never struck me as a man who responds particularly well to humiliation, especially when admitting defeat means admitting he was wrong.
And that brings me back to Gramsci and his monsters.
The American electorate has voted to restrain Trump, but the machinery of power remains in his hands. The ballot box has delivered its verdict, yet the new Congress cannot act on that verdict until January.
History teaches us that the most dangerous period isn't always when a leader is at the height of his power. Sometimes it's when that power begins slipping away, when wounded pride becomes political desperation and military force offers the illusion of restored authority.
Trump has lost the confidence of the electorate, but he hasn't lost command of the world's most powerful military.
And that is precisely why I believe the coming weeks could be more dangerous than anything we've witnessed so far.
The time of monsters may be upon us.
@PaulKnaggs, The Heartlands Tribune
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Absolute heroes!
Needs to be done everywhere!
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To put in perspective the UK's new crackdown on a largely non-existent antisemitism problem in schools, remember that more than 2,000 young British Jews are believed to have headed off to Israel to help its military commit genocide in Gaza.
The government has done nothing to stop them going. Meanwhile, British police have been repeatedly handed details of potential war crimes suspects but so far have failed to investigate, arrest or charge any of them.
Powell, the UK’s education secretary, has told Sky News: “I don’t think that our schools should be a place where it’s about making protests and statements about geopolitical events around the world.”
And yet only a year ago her predecessor, Bridget Phillipson, who set up the Bell review, was filmed in British classrooms with primary schoolchildren waving Ukrainian flags.
Despite Powell’s new prohibition, many Jewish pupils will continue to be encouraged by their schools to identify strongly with the foreign state of Israel – a state almost permanently mired, in the worst possible way, in “geopolitical events”.
If it is important for British children to identify with and support Ukraine’s white children through their suffering, why is it not possible – why is it antisemitism – for British children to similarly identify with and support the brown children of Gaza as they go through far greater suffering?
It is hard to imagine an answer that is not racist to its core.
Whatever the government claims, these double standards are not driven by principle. They are not about antisemitism. This is about protecting Israel.
Burnham entered office apologising for how his predecessor, Starmer, “got it wrong” at the outset of Israel’s slaughter in Gaza.
But his government is now doubling down on what Labour got equally wrong in the years leading up to the genocide – when it dedicated its energies to crushing the section of the party led by Corbyn that was warning of Israel’s deeply racist character and of what it was likely to do to the Palestinians.
The gencoide has vindicated Corbyn and the left in the most horrifying manner possible.
No matter. As with the current attacks on Zack Polanski of the Greens, none of this is really about antisemitism. It is about Israel.
It is about the British establishment and the billionaire class protecting their interests both in the war industries Israel is so central to and in the oil-rich Middle East, where Israel acts as the West’s attack dog.
This is about crushing dissent to prop up a crumbling western political order, led by a greedy, belligerent narcissist in the White House, as it is afflicted by collapse on every front: economic, environmental, political and social.
Dissatisfaction and unrest are growing. Violence is simmering. Bullying children into saluting the Israeli flag will not halt the decline. It simply underscores how much the “liberal” western order has lost the plot.
This is an extract from my latest article A new UK hierarchy of racism will gag Israel critics from Westminster to the playground. Find a link to the rest in the reply post below ⬇️