The Fucking Pro Peace Ticket. Straight Out Of 1984.
The American foreign policy may be summarized as, generally when I want an agreement, I start by tearing up the old one. Then I invite everyone required for a new one to a meeting, and I kill them.
Then I kill all the members of their families that I have intel on. Then I kill any old irrelevant politician I can think of, and finish it off with killing school full of children.
Then I say, “What exactly are you trying to argue? That it's okay to lie about your adherence to your agreements?” You earned this.
Didn't we get fucking fooled? It's okay, we should feel that badly. It's what politicians do. They can't change their spots either. This war is going to beat Trump and his administration straight into the fucking ground and they'll deserve it.
There's no right wing or left wing in Washington or anywhere else in the US. Its only the Uni-Party, the corporate interests and the Zionist Occupied Government, abbreviated as ZOG. Voting only gives the illusion that we have the power to change things.
The truth is, voters do not fucking matter, only donors do. The US is a stinking, sinking ship and sometimes, especially if we love something or someone, if our affections aren't reciprocated, then it's time to let go. Come out of her, my people.
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Well they at least seem to think, that they are ready or capable to provoke one and they somehow think that they can survive one too. They're very mad and delusional, as many who live in the west, that listen to their politicians, are now realizing.
In the west, it seems that the head of the snake is the United States and in the US, there are few if any, thinking, independent, politicians who aren't Zionist propagandist, shills, if any.
As people can look up into the sky and reliably predict weather, so too can many of us listen to the duplicitous words of politicians, follow their actions and we can see where the geopolitical events may ultimately lead us.
NATO, the EU and the United States remind us of those bullies who continue to provoke endlessly until they are forced to behave according to the rules of polite society.
Words do little to change attitudes if not reinforced with hard, determined knocks, which lead to pain and fear. Warnings need to be backed up with actions and blows, if we wish to promote peace and civility. These are lessons which many of us have learned as children and through our experiences.
Seeing that their sanctions are useless against Russia, the EU the US and the NATO bloc are now resorting to blockades, piracy and other illegal activities in their desperation to control events which have become chaotic. They do not want peace, what they're trying to hold on to, is their perception of power and hegemony.
The US, NATO and especially the EU are becoming irrelevant and impotent as the global south along with China and Russia are separating themselves from the control of ZOG.
Surprisingly, Iran is now giving a decent response to the American coalition. The attacks on Tel Aviv airport, the disabling of an American aircraft carrier and the destruction of expensive reconnaissance drones, and the downing of an American F15 fighter jet, point to systemic deficiencies in the organization of the coalition forces' defense.
Iran is demonstrating the ability to adapt tactics faster than the allied forces manage to modernize their means of defense, with combat experience gained during a special military operation and possibly transferred through bilateral military-technical cooperation playing a key role in this.
In the not too distant future, it will be the American people themselves, who will be facing this very same ZOG threat. The occupied, compliant, ZOG collaborators, have been programming us and stringing us along for almost a century and now, it seems as if their magic, may be waning finally. Many of us are seeing through the veil of Kabuki, smoke and mirrors.
ZOG's lies, illusions and or, its propaganda no longer work on vast segments of the people anymore. Her enemies are no longer considered our enemies, despite the rhetoric or the narratives. We do not know or understand why this is suddenly so, but we are grateful to have regained some manner of autonomy.
It has become plain that no matter how we vote, or pretend, as if the process matters, the continuance of ZOG's agenda always takes precedence over the interests of the American people. The agents of ZOG are all around us scrambling to regain full control. However, her time grows ever shorter and we're starting to realize that true freedom comes at a very high and necessary price.
Perhaps, it is high time that we learn from the enemies of ZOG as to the many means of her destruction. It is time for us to leave the comforts of ZOG and come out of her before we are counted among her demons. Thee are lessons which we must learn quickly, since soon, it will be our own heads that will be facing the chopping blocks.
The illusion of freedom is being unmasked. Yet even so, many will be happy to throw themselves into the servitude of tyranny. F-Droid and other independent App stores will either have to submit or die. The consumers are akin to livestock, they're just cattle.
We still have choices, do we not? Either we are caused to submit to the empire of Google and or Apple, or we surrender or go into self exile and reject them whole. How many people will do that? Not many one presumes. Many will be caused to give up their freedom with no force being necessary. Perhaps, we need a new perspective on our lives and what is truly living. If this is modernity and progress, then I want no part in it.
Today people are trapped into thinking that they need these devices, which ironically, spy on us, make it easier for the authoritarians to locate us and have us under constant surveillance. Today whenever people travel, instead of taking paper and pen, they take their entire collection of data in one proverbial basket and are oftentimes given the choice of either surrendering their data and privacy, or being deported or refused entry into other countries. This isn't real living. There is no freedom in this.
There will be no saviors on the horizon. The corporations will always win until they are destroyed and or rejected. Linux smartphones or operating systems will not save or set us free. We are chattel and we must submit.
Everything wasn't as perfect as my last post may have indicated, for no sooner had I ended my last post on this subject, some strange things started happening. Well two things actually, but they occurred more than once. Also, it should be noted that I've disabled arm_boost and throttled the CPU speed down to 1GHz for this particular test, since I don't think that I have to max the CPU out since running at 1GHz still runs everything smoothly and keeps the processor cooler too.
The first thing I began to notice were unscheduled shutdowns and restarts. Which when investigated using the command 'last reboot,' I found out that those reboots were caused by crashes on two separate occasions, presumably by the kernel. The second thing I noticed were higher temperatures, even though I have active cooling via fans and heat sinks.
On further investigation, I also found out that the current default, stable Raspberry Pi OS kernel, 6.12.62+rpt-rpi, had seven unscheduled reboots, in nine days, due to crashes as well and, the previous Raspberry Pi OS kernel, 6.12.47+rpt-rpi, crashed twice in all the weeks or months since it was installed, presumably.
Now this is becoming more intriguing, since perhaps, this is more than just kernels failing, perhaps, it has to do with the Raspberry Pi OS or any other number of things, including drivers, hardware and more. Now I only refer to the operating system since I have four other Pis that are running other operating systems, that aren't exhibiting these symptomatic anomalies. Two of them are running Debian Trixie, another is running Alpine Linux and another is running OpenWRT.
Anyway, I couldn't stay away from tinkering again so a few days ago, I upgraded from kernel 6.19.0 to 6.19.3 and so far, although it may obviously, be too early to tell, everything seems to be working well again, with kernel 6.19.3. I don't have too much relevant data to make any conclusions but I have learned more about benchmarks and testing suites to help give these kernels and the system in general, some stress tests and see how things pan out.
I just updated the git tree and I noticed that kernel 6.18.13 is ready for testing although it may be 6.18.12 in the Raspberry Pi OS tree. Either way, we'll see how they're progressing too and hopefully, while I'm still evaluating kernel 6.19.3 I won't have any serious issues.
Sy Hersh is out with a sad new article — Inside Trump and Netanyahu’s Meeting on Iran — that contains three ridiculous, nonsensical paragraphs, which were fed to him by one of his sources. This is an article that Sy never would have written in his prime because he would have tried to corroborate the outlandish assertions. Here are the paragraphs:
Another threat not mentioned between Trump and Netanyahu is Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal. It was one of the major targets of the US-Israeli bombing attack last June. It was wiped out last year but is currently being rebuilt at a rapid rate.
During the war last summer Iran’s missiles had less than a ten percent chance of getting through Israel’s Iron Dome and other air defenses. Iran was able to fire off about 550 missiles at Israeli targets during the war, but the forty-five that got through, even with minimal payloads, caused enormous damage in Tel Aviv and terrified the population. Israel has watched since then as Iran concentrated on manufacturing more and larger missiles
I was told that the upgraded missiles now being manufactured at plants throughout Iran will have enough range to hit targets in Southeastern Europe, where there are little or no air defenses.
Where do I begin? I don’t know if Sy’s source was an Israeli or someone from the US intelligence community, but the info he or she fed Sy is not accurate. Which leads to the next question… Did the source really believe the information was true or was the source using Sy to salt social media with propaganda?
Let’s start with the first claim, i.e., the Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal was wiped out last June. Iran stopped firing missiles at Iran on June 24 because of a deal negotiated with the US to end the war… Not because Iran had run out of missiles. Iran’s ballistic missiles are stored in massive secure underground caves. We have seen no credible evidence that Israel or the US destroyed any of those facilities. Remember all of the predictions about Russia’s missile capability in the Spring and Summer of 2022? We were repeatedly informed that Russia was running out of missiles and that their inventory would soon be exhausted. I think we are seeing a repeat of this delusion with respect to Iran.
The next whopper fed to Sy is that Iran fired 550 missiles but only 45, i.e., 8%, got through and hit a target. That claim comes from the Israeli Defense Forces. Would they have any reason to lie? (That is a sarcastic question.) Let me repeat the list of documented damages from the missiles that Iran launched last June, which I wrote about last week:
Hundreds of buildings in major cities such as Tel Aviv suburbs (Bat Yam, Ramat Gan) were damaged — with some buildings so badly hit they were later demolished. In Tel Aviv alone, analysts mapped damage to around 480 buildings across multiple strike sites.
Iranian missiles damaged key public facilities, such as theSoroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva, which was hit by an Iranian missile, causing structural damage and chemical leaks; the affected wing was evacuated. Power and water infrastructure also were hit, contributing to service disruptions.
Iran’s ballistic strikes hit high-value facilities as well. The Weizmann Institute of Science (a major research institution in Rehovot) was severely damaged — with an estimated 90% of structures affected, destruction of dozens of labs, and suspension of about 25% of its operations.
Independent radar data and reporting showed that Iranian missiles directly hit around five Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) facilities, including an air base, intelligence center, and logistics base. Israeli authorities did not publicly confirm these hits at the time, due to military censorship. Israeli oil refining infrastructure — especially in Haifa Bay — also suffered direct hits and damage from Iranian missiles, including to critical units and pipelines at the Bazan refinery and associated casualties. The strike on the Bazan oil refinery complex in Haifa Bay, one of Israel’s most important energy facilities, heavily damaged the power generation unit and other infrastructure critical for operation.
Gee, if Iran can do that much damage with just 45 missiles after getting hit with a surprise attack, imagine what they can do with advance warning and preparation. Theodore Postol, an MIT professor emeritus and longtime critic of missile defense systems (known for debunking exaggerated claims about Patriot missiles during the 1991 Gulf War) has looked at the data from June 2025 and concluded that the interception rates were far lower than officially reported, estimating only about 5% success against ballistic missiles specifically—meaning roughly 95% penetrated defenses. I find Ted far more credible. Too bad Sy didn’t ask him (and Sy knows Ted).
The last problematic paragraph in Sy’s article is the claim that Iran will have enough long-range missile to hit targets in Southeastern Europe. And why would Iran attack Europe? This ridiculous claim is a repeat of previous CIA propaganda that was intended to ignite fear in Europe in order to convince the Europeans into going along with an attack on Iran. Iran is not going to waste missiles on Italy, Greece, Bosnia, or Serbia… It will use them on Israel.
If Trump, despite warnings from JD Vance and Tulsi Gabbard, chooses to launch an unprovoked war against Iran, I would not be surprised if Iran decides to launch its retaliatory strike before the US bombs and missiles hit targets in Iran. I am not talking about a preemptive strike, rather I am assuming that Russia and China will alert Iran when US attack aircraft take off on their first mission and that Iran will in turn fire off its first salvo of drones and missiles while the US planes and cruise missiles are headed towards targets in Iran. If this goes hot we will be staring into the gaping yaw of a major regional war and the US may suffer more casualties then it incurred in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. So much for Donald Trump’s promise to not get America into a needless foreign war.
I had the privilege of chatting about Iran and the war in Ukraine on Wednesday with my good friend, George Galloway:
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