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What Genocide Looks Like When Silicon Valley Writes The Brochure - PopularResistance.Org It’s being called the GREAT Trust. A glossy plan for Gaza’s ​“redevelopment” that includes solar plants, hospitals and an Elon Musk-branded ​“Smart Manufacturing Zone.” But, as analysts have suggested...

Corporate, tech oligarchs are providing the infrastructure for and profiting off genocide in Gaza.

popularresistance.org/what-genocid...

Vatican returns dozens of indigenous artefacts to Canada A kayak and gloves are among the items being sent back to Canada after 100 years in a Vatican museum.

Vatican returns dozens of indigenous artefacts to Canada

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Why does the Russian army's brutal culture go unchecked? – DW – 11/15/2025 The Russian army has a reputation for murdering, torturing and treating its own recruits terribly. How does such behavior become acceptable in a military?

Why does the Russian army's brutal culture go unchecked? "The Russian army has a reputation for murdering, torturing and treating its own recruits terribly. How does such behavior become acceptable in a military?"

www.dw.com/en/why-does-...

Flori-duh - "Florida's public schools will be the first to follow a conservative educational model developed by a group known for authoring Project 2025, now that the State Board of Education approved a new framework known as the Phoenix Declaration."

www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

Major Jewish groups leave Combat Antisemitism Movement after video blaming 'woke-ism' for antisemitism - Jewish Telegraphic Agency The Jewish Federations of North America criticized the video's "divisive approach."

It seems as if the Combat Antisemitism Movement is spreading propaganda that blames Antisemitism on "far left" and "progressivism" and "woke-ism" - "Major Jewish groups leave Combat Antisemitism Movement after video blaming ‘woke-ism’ for antisemitism"

www.jta.org/2023/06/21/p...

Photo from Santa Fe Lake, Santa Fe Swamp, Santa Fe River, Melrose, Florida

Photo from Santa Fe Lake, Santa Fe Swamp, Santa Fe River, Melrose, Florida

Photo from Santa Fe Lake, Santa Fe Swamp, Santa Fe River, Melrose, Florida

We made it to Santa Fe Lake

Photograph of the Suwannee River, along the Florida Trail.

Photograph of the Florida Wildlife Corridor sign.

Photograph of live oaks along the Florida Trail, Suwannee Section.

Photograph of an info sign about alligator safety, along the Florida Trail, Suwannee Section. Suwannee River.

Day 3 along the Florida Trail, Suwannee Section....tomorrow we'll be in the lake region...

New U.S. strike on alleged drug boat in Caribbean kills 3 people, bringing campaign's death toll to at least 70 Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth released aerial footage of the latest strike, which he said took place in international waters like the previous attacks.

The Trump administration has become a right wing death squad: "New U.S. strike on alleged drug boat in Caribbean kills 3 people, bringing campaign's death toll to at least 70"

www.cbsnews.com/news/us-stri...

Wooohooo!

Christians are persecuted in many nations. Drugs come from many places. Trump and the GOP only care when it happens in resource rich places.

Nigeria and Venezuela are oil/gas rich nations. Trump bullying those nations is all about taking their natural resources. It has nothing to do with the persecution of Christians and/or drugs. When Christians are persecuted in nations without wealth producing resources, we look the other way.

US will limit number of refugees to 7,500 and give priority to white South Africans Low number represents a dramatic drop after US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution

US will limit number of refugees to 7,500 and give priority to white South Africans. Low number represents a dramatic drop after US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

YouTube video by Lisandra Vazquez Haunted House, but make it MAGA. Actual footage.

MAGA Haunted House
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Fact check: 11 false claims Trump made to the troops in Japan | CNN Politics President Donald Trump made numerous false claims in his Tuesday speech to US service members on an aircraft carrier stationed in Japan.

Fact check: 11 false claims Trump made to the troops in Japan

www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/p...

Hurricane Hunters Found Something in Melissa’s Eye: Trapped Birds

This is how you get flamingos in Michigan (like with Hurricane Idalia in 2023): "Hurricane Hunters Found Something in Melissa’s Eye: Trapped Birds"

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/w...

Republican senator calls Trump’s military airstrikes ‘extrajudicial killings’ Rand Paul’s comments come days after president claimed US lawmakers wouldn’t take issue with Venezuelan strikes

Republican senator Rand Paul calls Trump’s military airstrikes ‘extrajudicial killings’

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Venezuela claims capture of CIA group, accuses U.S. of plotting ‘false flag’ attack The Nicolás Maduro regime said Sunday Venezuela has captured a group of alleged mercenaries with ties to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and accused Washington and Trinidad and Tobago of coordina...

Venezuela claims capture of CIA group, accuses U.S. of plotting ‘false flag’ attack

www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

'Functionally extinct': After 10,000 years on the Florida coast, two key corals are dead In a grim study, a team of nearly 50 researchers concludes that extreme ocean heat killed off two crucial coral species that had been building reefs in Florida since the Ice Age.

"'Functionally extinct': After 10,000 years on the Florida coast, two key corals are dead. In a study, a team of nearly 50 researchers concludes that extreme ocean heat killed off two crucial coral species that had been building reefs in Florida since the Ice Age."

www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...

U.S. Sanctions Removal on Mining Magnate Would Set Back Peace and Investment in DR Congo The U.S. can help end looting, smuggling, and violent extraction of raw materials from the DRC and provide a better footing for peace.

Rewarding corruption: "U.S. Sanctions Removal on Mining Magnate Would Set Back Peace and Investment in DR Congo"

www.justsecurity.org/122097/drc-p...

Science? Never heard of it! RFK Jr endorses saturated fats RFK Jr. plans to unveil dietary guidance encouraging more saturated fat, reversing decades of heart-health science. Doctors are facepalming nationwide.

Science? Never heard of it! RFK Jr endorses saturated fats

boingboing.net/2025/10/21/s...

YouTube video by Global News Former US president Ronald Reagan FULL 1987 speech on tariffs and free trade

Here's the full Reagan radio address on tariffs. Reagan was more Libertarian than any of the MAGA libertarian fakers with the lower case "l" youtu.be/Foggkeiwlp0?...

The same goes for immigration. Traditional Libertarianism supports open borders. The argument was that even the concept of a border was an impediment to free trade, the free flow of labor, and commerce. You cannot call yourself "libertarian" if you support MAGAs immigration policy.

You cannot call yourself a libertarian and support tariffs at the same time. When right wingers/MAGA do this, they are really exposing their ignorance and/or trying to confuse the stupids who make up their base.

Economic Libertarianism, or Neoliberalism if you will, is an extremely dangerous idea. It encourages oligarchy, the cornering of markets, labor abuses, high prices, monopoly. The list goes on and on, economic Libertarianism = Neoliberalism and it destroys economic equity.

It's really a critique on how dumb MAGA is and how they just don't care if they appear stupid. They are being led around by so-called libertarians who don't even know what Libertarianism is. You see how I sometimes use an upper case "L" when I spell it and sometimes lower case? MAGA are lower case.

Why Libertarians Loathe Tariffs Former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump loves tariffs. In his 2011 book Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again, Trump

A friend and I went to dozens of Teabag Party events in the summer of '09 to make a film. They were passing out literature quoting von Hayak, Ayn Rand, von Mises, etc. What the Mises Institute thinks about tariffs: "Why Libertarians Loathe Tariffs | Mises Institute"

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This is proof that MAGA are fakers. They were fakers in '09 when they were the Teabag Party and they are MAGA fakers today. They go along to get along - whichever way the wind is blowing. Someone they thought was cool called theirself "libertarian" so they all said it, without knowing what it's is.

Trade wars and Trump’s tariffs harm everybody - Libertarian Party President Donald Trump has announced tariffs on solar panels, washing machines, steel, and aluminum. Shortly after announcing his tariffs, Trump tweeted that “Trade wars are good, and easy to win.” Th...

Remember the Tea Party movement that kicked off as a reaction to the election of Obama? And remember how they all called themselves "libertarian?" Those people are all Trump protectionists now.They have abandoned Libertarian principles in favor of protectionism:

lp.org/trade-wars-t...

Pentagon Creates New Legion of PR Toadies The Trump administration is throwing real reporters out of the Pentagon even as Trump is using the military in unprecedented ways.

Pentagon Creates New Legion of PR Toadies

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