Op-Ed

'All They Will Call You Will Be Deportees'

And now Trump consciousness purports to claim – or reclaim – control over America: the land of white Christian nationalists and no one else, damnit!

But of course that level of selfishness – mine, mine, mine! – is only possible to maintain with a huge helping of fear alongside it: fear of the enemy. Fear of “them.”

Thus Alexandra Villarreal, writing in the Guardian about Trump 2.0’s first day in office (on Martin Luther King Day), noted: “He immediately involved the military, ordering the armed forces to ‘seal’ the US’s borders ‘by repelling forms of invasion including unlawful mass migration.’

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Saved From the Terror of TikTok

Thank goodness that our heroes in Congress and the Supreme Court have courageously acted to end the scourge of that nefarious Red Chinese conspiracy, TikTok. This evil computer program was designed to mesmerize, corrupt and mislead America’s youth. Not since the wickedness of Dr. Fu Manchu have we seen such a grave threat to the American Republic or Free World. Our children are becoming little Manchurian Candidates thanks to the sinister mind-benders at TikTok. The Yellow plague is upon us – in full force. We thought that Covid was an evil Chinese plot brewed up in secret labs in Wuhan. But that was nothing compared to the terror of TikTok. Imagine tens of millions of young Americans entranced by the silly bugger shenanigans of other teenagers on TikTok. Or the profound outrage of American fathers watching their nubile daughters perform sexy dances on it. I’ve been to the town of Hamlin, Germany, where the notorious pied piper led its teenagers off to servitude. Do you think the Chinese have not read about the Pied Piper? And it’s not just TikTokery. The Red Chinese have been spying on us for decades. I’ve seen some of it.

Now By Fire, Next by Quake, then by Apocalyptic Radiation: Will Gavin Newsom's Atomic Folly Kill Us All?

Los Angeles is now being destroyed by fire.
 
Next will be the “Big One” earthquake everyone knows is coming.
 
And then---unless we take immediate action---Diablo Canyon’s radioactive cloud will make this region a radioactive dead zone. 
 
My family is now besieged by four fires raging less than four miles away.  We don’t know how long our luck will hold.
 
We are eternally grateful to the brave fire-fighters and public servants who are doing their selfless best to save us all.
 
We are NOT grateful that Gavin Newsom has recklessly endangered us by forcing continued operation at two unsafe, decrepit nuclear power plants perched on active earthquake faults, set to pour radioactive clouds on us from

From the Rubble Rises 22 Powerful Voices

Last week, I, as an Executive Producer of FROM GROUND ZERO: STORIES FROM GAZA, was quoted across the country as stating the following: “No filmmaker, writer or artist should ever have to tell the story of their own extermination.”

And yet…

As I write this, in a scattered group of cinemas across the country, movie-goers are watching this anthology of stories captured on camera by Palestinian filmmakers in Gaza amidst Netanyahu’s reign of terror over the past year. This collection of 22 short films of his shameless extermination attempt — the unending barrage of bombs and bullets, the forced starvation — is what the people of Gaza are facing every single day.

And during this hour and fifty-two minutes on the screen, you will feel the pulse of the Palestinian people. Their resilience. And you are right there with them.  They are not Hamas. They are not rapists. They are not lying in wait to murder Israelis. They are not a threat to any human or to Democracy as certain propagandists are hoping you’ll be brainwashed into believing.

A World’s Soul in Tatters

“I left you for God, Daddy.”

Let those words resonate across the planet. The speaker is Yahya Al-Batran, a Palestinian man – a dad – imagining the words his newborn son would have said. The boy, Jumaa, froze to death in the family’s tent. The infant had a twin brother who was also lying still in their bed one morning recently. The parents rushed the boys to a functioning hospital, where Jumaa’s brother, at the time NBC’s story came out last week, was still fighting for his life.

Jumaa was one of half a dozen Palestinian babies (so far) who have frozen to death in their family’s tents since the onset of winter – just one more fragment of hell the Palestinians are enduring as Israel’s US-complicit genocide continues . . . one death at a time.

Why the GOP's hatred of Muslims runs deep and wide

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), which was formed in the 1850s, harbors such rabid hatred toward Arabs and Muslims. One has to wonder why Republicans' hatred of Muslims runs deep and wide. One has to wonder if they have met a Muslim in their home state or if their parents are closely related. Either way, those clowns think that they will not be held accountable for their incendiary comments about Muslims. I kept a tally sheet about those Muslim haters over the years.
 
What did GOP leaders say about Muslims?
 
* Former US Rep.

Jimmy Carter – Our Honest President

The late Jimmy Carter was an exemplary man. His honesty, modesty and good works set the mark for what American presidents should be like. He was the quintessential Christian gentlemen and a fine naval officer.
Unfortunately, this good man got embroiled in America’s colonial misadventures more often than the social welfare projects and peace plans that he sought to pursue. Chief among these thorny problems was, of course, the Mideast - no place for a decent, honest man - and, as well, the ugly imbroglio in Iran.

Kareem Badawi: The Palestinian victim of the New Orleans terrorist attack

Hey, hatemongers, there are no sleeping cells in America! It is all in your head. To begin with, investigators who briefed President Biden told him that ISIS inspired the suspect in the New Orleans attack had no outside help. In other words, the suspect was not "realized at his mosque in Texas." We also learned that he had posted videos indicating that he had a “desire to kill” the night before the attack and that al-Qaeda was the one who leaked the information that they sent over 1,000 people into the US to commit acts of terror.
 
However, a former CIA officer named Sarah Adams, who is a self-proclaimed global threat advisor who is a self-proclaimed global threat advisor was interviewed on the Shawn Ryan podcast just two weeks ago, has warned that there are more than a thousand al-CIA-da sleepers in the United States right now who are planning major attacks on the homeland. She implies that Biden's open southern border is an entry point for these terrorists. Other hatemongers also claimed that the driver in the New Orleans attack came into the US through the Mexican border. Wrong again!
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