“The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie—a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days—but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.” ~ Hannah Arendt, Interview with Roger Errera, 1973.
+ It has been a month since the death of Anas al-Sharif. The war in Gaza, as the Guardian Newspaper reports, has been the most deadly conflict in history. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2025/sep/01/israel-gaza-war-media-palestinian-journalists-killed-cpj
+ The old neoliberalism, for all of its flaws, had a veneer of respectability. In this brave new era of technofeudalism, that façade has been stripped away, or rather, replaced by a grotesque mask of vulgarity, masquerading as frankness and authenticity.
+ The American President, long known for his cartoonish antics, has gone full villian memeing himself as Lieutenant Bill Kilgore from Apocalypse Now, and threatening the city of Chicago. To what end? And how far will the citizens of the United States follow their Dear Leader in the dehumanization of immigrants?
+Tuesday’s attack on Gaza included 50 more dead. 800,000 living in makeshift camps. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/10/israel-kills-dozens-in-gaza-qatar-calls-israels-attack-state-terror
+Donald Trump is “not thrilled about Israel’s attack on Qatar.” Speaking softly and carrying a big stick is one thing… but American assurances to Qatar ring hollow. The U.S. was unable or unwilling to prevent this attack, how can they possibly assure Qatar that it won’t happen again?
+UG Solutions, a private contractor providing security for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is employing several members of the Infidels Motorcyle Club – an anti-Muslim motorcycle gang. As Edward Ahmed Mitchell,deputy director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), put it Putting the Infidels biker club in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Gaza is like putting the KKK in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Sudan. It makes no sense whatsoever.” https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2zy4l8jgeo?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us These are some incredibly vile people.
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