Great Palantir - have your cookie, you deserve it in this case! Your software helped find the bad guy - after his evil deed - without having to mass surveil a nation preemptively. See how that worked like a charm -- let us remember that - mkay?!:

"Founded in 2003, Palantir provides software which specialises collating and analysing data to governments and private companies alike.

The company’s two main offerings are Palantir Gotham, designed for defence and intelligence purposes, and Palantir Foundry, used for civil government and commercial uses, but they often create custom software for clients for more specific use cases, especially the US government.

The company has long been controversial for its services and clients, with critics especially concerned about surveillance, data collection, data sovereignty, and where that all that information they handle ends up going.

Hiding in plain sight

Social media and the usage of it by Christchurch attacker Brenton Tarrant prior to the shooting has been a key issue in subsequent investigations into the massacre, and the Police’s use of Palantir to analyse social media content could have been an attempt at course correcting after prior law enforcement and intelligence failures.

The final report of New Zealand’s royal commission (a type of government inquiry in Commonwealth monarchies) into the massacre wrote that the survivors and victims’ relatives felt that “if Public sector agencies had monitored social media, this may have alerted them to the potential threat” and that they “did not understand why [Tarrant]’s social media was not monitored.”

Prior to the massacre, Tarrant was in numerous Facebook groups affiliated with Australia’s far-right movement, and was Facebook friends with several influential Australian far-right figures.

An employee of the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (SIS) – New Zealand’s domestic security agency – claimed to have seen Facebook posts made by Tarrant in an internal report that was made prior to the massacre, but did not believe they warranted escalating the matter, according to the Arotake review – the SIS’ own investigation into its actions.

The royal commission’s report identified the employee as having belonged to the SIS’ Combined Threat Assessment Group branch – which is responsible for assessing threats and preparing reports for decision makers – and said the employee claimed to have seen the posts in 2018.

The inquiry accused the SIS employee’s memory of being “awry” and claimed to have been satisfied that “the employee could not have seen these posts before 15 March 2019”, the date of the massacre, because the SIS claimed to have not found any report which included Tarrant’s Facebook posts.

In the 48 hours prior to the shooting, Tarrant posted a flood of anti-immigration and fascist content to his social media pages. He also posted photos of firearms, magazines and tactical gear that had Nazi imagery, references, and slogans drawn on them, alongside the names of people Tarrant would later claim he wanted to avenge.

The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) – New Zealand’s largest intelligence agency – told the inquiry that social media accounts “posting weaponry” were not tracked as “[p]osting weaponry … is not an illegal activity”.

The inquiry did not address the fact that Tarrant’s weaponry had fascist references on it, or that he posted it alongside a plethora of violent right-wing content.

A 2025 University of Auckland study found that Tarrant had likely publicly posted on the notoriously far-right Politically Incorrect (/pol/) section of 4chan since at least 2015 about his support for and intent to carry out far-right attacks, a community known to have hosted previous mass shooters.

In March 2018, a year before the massacre, a user very likely to be Tarrant joined a thread about the South Pacific.

When discussion conversation turned to Muslims in New Zealand, the user joined in on expressing hatred, identifying himself as a Dunedin resident at the same time Tarrant was living there. His country, New Zealand, was visible through a flag next to the post ID. After someone egged him on to do something about it, the user posted “[D]on’t worry lad, I have a plan to stop it. Just hold on.”

In another August 2018 thread, a user likely to be Tarrant joined discussions about the locations of mosques in New Zealand.

“Tarrant wrote angrily about mosques and refugees in the South Island, including ‘here in Dunedin.’ He wrote: ‘F***** dunedin and christchurch both have mosques, christchurch has two of them for fucks sake.’ And again: ‘Want to hear some crazy shit? Ashburton now has a mosque, they converted a church.’ Four of the posters, including Tarrant, called for violence against the mosques. One commented that a particular mosque would be easy to firebomb. When another posted an image of a matchbox, Tarrant replied with only “Soon.” Seven months later, Tarrant attacked two mosques in Christchurch”.

The findings raise “serious questions, not only about why this posting was not detected, but also why it has not been discovered in the five years since the attacks”, the study’s authors wrote in a 2025 article for The Conversation.

A sleepwalking inquiry

Tarrant publicly stating his intention to attack significantly contradicts the royal commission’s remark that it would be “unlikely that the individual [Brenton Tarrant] would have wished to do anything that might attract the attention of international intelligence and security agencies.”

The royal commission’s belief that Tarrant desired to act covertly was used to justify not investigating whether Brenton Tarrant met with Martin Sellner – a far-right Austrian activist known for his advocacy for remigration (a euphemism for mass deportations) – after Tarrant donated approximately $2,300 Australian dollars to him in January 2018 and they subsequently discussed the possibility of meeting up in Austria over email.

Shortly after the massacre in March 2019, Austrian police raided Sellner’s residence over his ties to Tarrant. Sellner destroyed copies of his communications with Tarrant 40 minutes prior to the raid, suggesting that he had foreknowledge of an investigation into him. The only correspondence Austria’s authorities were able to recover came from screenshots that Sellner himself intentionally chose to preserve.

In late 2018 – just months before the massacre, Tarrant spent 9 days in Austria.

According to the Lone Actor podcast, an Austrian intelligence report has it that a rental car Tarrant used during his trip travelled about 2,000km during the trip.

The royal commission’s final report dismissed all this evidence, and made no mention of Tarrant’s extraordinary usage of a rental car during his Austrian excursion. Instead, the inquiry took him at his word.

Tarrant told the royal commission “that he did not meet Martin Sellner” and “had not tried to do so” during the late 2018 visit, according to the report.

“We [the inquiry’s commissioners] are inclined to accept this denial. There is no evidence to suggest they [Tarrant and Sellner] did meet”, the inquiry said, seeming all too eager dismiss the claims, which risked undermining the inquiry’s finding that Tarrant was a “lone actor”.

Since the massacre, Sellner has gained prominence and influence among Europe’s right-wing, and has popularised remigration.

In November 2023, he hosted a secret countryside conference with top brass of Germany’s right-wing CDU and AfD parties – some of whom were sitting members of parliament at the time – to plan how mass deportations could be implemented in Germany. Following the conference, AfD’s co-leader, Alice Weidel, publicly committed to implementing remigration.

Hardly the first time

The Police’s brief flirtations with Palantir does not mark the first time that New Zealand’s public sector has jumped into bed with the firm.

In fact, the government’s relationship with Palantir began when the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) started a pilot programme in 2012, including acquiring licenses for Palantir technology and the training of 100 NZDF personnel, around the same time Palantir opened a dedicated Wellington office.

The programme soon expanded to an “ongoing contractual relationship”, including the “acquisition of additional hardware and annual Palantir licences”, the NZDF said in response to an OIA request from Exit From Affco. The NZDF also released the manual for Palantir’s Gotham software to Exit From Affco.

By 2018, the NZDF was spending over $1.8 million NZD a year on its contracts with Palantir, and had spent $7.2 million NZD between 2012 and 2018, according to a report in the New Zealand Herald.

The SIS and GCSB are also known to use Palantir software, in a relationship which the New Zealand Herald says also dates back to 2012.

In March 2020, Palantir approached and met with the Ministry of Health and Privacy Commissioner, offering to “rapidly set up COVID-19 data-crunching capabilities” as it had done in Italy and the UK at free or little cost. The Ministry of Health then sat on the offer for a month, before announcing it had no plans to retain Palantir’s services.

Private sector health firms in New Zealand have also begun to make use of Palantir’s offerings, a source has claimed to Exit From Affco.

An OIA request from academic Marco de Jong revealed that then-defence and intelligence minister Judith Collins met with the head of Palantir’s international operations during her February 2026 visit to the Munich Security Conference.

The briefing was mostly redacted, but it saw her “acknowledge the importance of an ongoing effective partnership” and ask whether there were any “opportunities of interest for New Zealand in new technologies and emerging capabilities in this sector”.

Chris Penk, who replaced Collins in her ministerial roles, told RNZ that “the NZDF has no existing plans to use Palantir in the emerging technologies space”, “the NZDF uses Palantir as an analytics platform to aid with planning”, and that “the Government’s ongoing partnership with Palantir is led by the GCSB.”

However, the NZDF over recent years has been helping test and develop the US military’s new Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) system, a network to link together all sensors and data from the US military and its allies to enable more battlefield data collection, analysis, and interoperability. Palantir helped develop the Maven Smart System platform alongside the US military as their interface for this command and control network.

In May 2024, as revealed by documents found in a Salvation Army op-shop and given to Nicky Hager, NZDF staff attended a secret “Five Eyes community Combined Digital Leaders Forum” in the United Kingdom to discuss the new “Five Eyes C5 Campaign Plan” and how the five member countries would integrate their military command and control systems. This would include sending data, intelligence and information to other partners and be analysed in a “federated [Five Eyes] data fabric”, which Hager describes as “a worldwide system where all intelligence and information from the five partners is shared and woven together to support the dominant partner”.

New Zealand naval officers had meetings with other Five Eyes partners in September last year ahead of RIMPAC 2026, the US Navy’s biennial naval exercise in Hawai’i (and the largest worldwide). These meetings were to discuss Project Overmatch, the US Navy’s initiative for integrating the CJADC2 system, and testing it during exercises at this year’s RIMPAC. The NZDF announced earlier this month it would be sending 50 personnel to the Project Convergence Capstone 6 event later this year in Arizona, where the US Army doing their annual testing of their implementation of CJADC2 by putting soldiers alongside aerial and ground drones.

Strange bedfellows

New Zealand’s relationship with Palantir started shortly after one of its co-founders, Peter Thiel, was naturalised in 2011, while meeting none of the statutory requirements, and having only spent 12 days in the country, through an unusual and informal understanding with the John Key government: that Thiel would invest heavily in New Zealand’s technology sector.

Thiel didn’t hold up his end of the bargain. Valar Ventures, the venture capital firm Thiel set up in 2010 specifically for his New Zealand ambitions, ceased making investments in New Zealand shortly after Thiel had received his citizenship. By 2017, Valar had almost completely divested from New Zealand.

Thiel was able to keep his citizenship secret for almost five and a half years, until the New Zealand Herald revealed it in January 2017.

Valar Ventures was recently revealed to have received $40 million in investment from late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2015.

Sir Rod Drury, founder of fintech firm Xero, became one of Thiel’s surrogates in New Zealand after the billionaire made an investment into both Xero and Pacific Fibre – a failed venture Sir Drury co-founded to build an undersea fibre optic cable between the United States, New Zealand, and Australia.

Pacific Fibre had no less than $5.5 million in investment from Valar, and documents on Thiel’s citizenship released by New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) show that his VC firm’s holding in the company had significant weight on the decision to grant him citizenship.

Sir Drury, who was described by the New Zealand Herald as “the biggest winner of Thiel’s brush with New Zealand”, was one of Thiel’s character references, and wrote to New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs in support of Thiel’s citizenship application.

Sam Morgan, co-founder of Pacific Fibre and then a director of Xero, also wrote to the DIA in 2011 in support of Thiel’s citizenship application.

In 2013, whilst Thiel’s citizenship was still a secret, then-Green Party co-leader Russel Norman issued a press release questioning whether the Key government was working with Palantir to spy on New Zealanders after it was revealed Key had met with Thiel multiple times, the company had opened a Wellington office, and had posted a job listing for an analyst to be embedded inside the New Zealand government.

After Norman posted a tweet writing “When crony govt meets surveillance state - John Key appoints Peter Thiel’s Palantir to spy on NZers”, Drury quoted the post and wrote “Don’t be wankers”. Sir Drury and Norman then got into a heated Twitter dispute, with Sir Drury writing that the Greens were “ruining relationships and/by insinuating cronyism is vandalism”.

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In September 2022, top officials from all Five Eyes partners flew into Queenstown for a secret meeting, with attendees suspected to have been hosted at the Millbrook Resort near Arrowtown, just a 10-minute drive from Drury’s property.

Drury’s alleged relationship with the Five Eyes, and with Thiel – who is closely tied to the alliance himself – may warrant taking another look at their failed effort to build an undersea fibre optic cable connected to New Zealand.

Pacific Fibre’s cable was being planned around the same time the GCSB – in partnership with America’s National Security Agency (NSA) – was starting up the Speargun mass surveillance program. Revealed by leaks from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the program saw covert surveillance of New Zealand’s internet traffic and metadata, collected by bugging the Southern Cross Cable Network in the North Island, which at the time was the only undersea fibre optic cable connecting New Zealand to North America, as well as handling the vast majority of traffic routed through Australia, thus seeing most of the country’s international internet traffic.

On Wednesday – just a month after he received the New Zealander of the Year Award – Sir Drury was publicly accused of inappropriate behaviour during his time as CEO of Xero by a former employee, which resulted in an internal misconduct investigation being launched in December 2017.

Drury abruptly stepped down as from his CEO role four months later.

On Wednesday, Xero said that it began an internal review of its handling of the allegations.

The very American solution

The Central Intelligence Agency’s investment firm, In-Q-Tel, bootstrapped Palantir’s founding in 2003 with a $2 million investment, and the US government has subsequently become their biggest customer. Palantir has contracts with the US intelligence agencies, the Pentagon, law enforcement agencies, and police departments across the United States.

The Maven Smart System platform for the US military’s CJADC2 system, co-developed by Palantir and the Pentagon, is currently being used for data analysis and target selection in the US-Israeli war on Iran according to an early February report in the Washington Post. Some US lawmakers believe Maven may have chosen to target a girl’s primary school in the country’s invasion of Iran at the beginning of February, which killed at least 175 civilians, most of whom were young schoolgirls.

Palantir’s contracts with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have long been controversial since they began in 2014, but their collaboration increased heavily under the first and second Trump administration. To assist with Trump’s mass deportation program, Palantir was contracted in 2025 to develop ImmigrationOS, a platform which uses data collection and AI analysis to find, track and help ICE deport suspected noncitizens.

Palantir software has been used extensively by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) in the Gaza genocide and their wars throughout the region, with CEO Alex Karp saying in February 2024 he was “exceedingly proud that after Oct. 7, within weeks, we are on the ground and we are involved in operationally crucial operations in Israel.” Palantir has been repeatedly accused of complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity due to the IDF’s actions in Gaza. When confronted with these accusations at a Cambridge Union event, Peter Thiel responded that his “bias is to defer to Israel”.

Palantir is eager to onboard governments and institutions to their services, often offering free or discounted rates and being proactive in approaching potential clients.

Palantir has often been criticised for enabling aggressive data collection and surveillance by providing these services to clients and allowing them to connect vast sources of data much more easily. There have also been concerns raised about data sovereignty, where data is processed or stored, and whether any data is shared elsewhere by Palantir. In 2024, the Swiss government decided to abandon their plans to work with Palantir after officials couldn’t guarantee there was data sovereignty, writing in a report that “there is a possibility that sensitive data could be accessed by the US government and intelligence services.”

Palantir has also recently begun rapidly expanding its relationship with the United Kingdom. Palantir’s London based European branch, chaired by Louis Mosley – the grandson of Nazi collaborator and British Union of Fascists leader Sir Oswald Mosley, has signed numerous contracts over the past decade with England’s National Health Service (NHS), the Britain’s Ministry of Defence, and the Met Police.

Tarrant himself was a fan of Sir Mosley, having posted links to his works prior to the massacre, and even gifted one of Sir Mosley’s books – Fascism: 100 Questions Asked – to his sister’s mixed race partner.

Ironically, the Police sought solutions made in part by Sir Mosley’s grandchild in the wake of the massacre."

~

Smith K. Stead and William Evans, Exit From Affco

 

 

Leon Black

Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Leon_Black

is an American private equity investor. He is the former CEO of Apollo Global Management, which he co-founded in 1990 with Marc Rowan and Josh Harris.

Doesn’t get more BRUTAL THAN THIS. I read about it in the files and I’m very glad it’s going viral.

Newly released documents from the DOJ reveal the depravity of Leon Black’s violent rape of multiple children at Jeffrey Epstein’s New York townhouse. The documents show multiple lawyers for the victims, including Jeanne M. Christensen and Douglas Wigdor growing frustrated by federal prosecutors who failed to pursue Black. Christensen had provided overwhelming evidence to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York—but prosecutors did nothing.

“Outrageous that criminal charges have not been brought against him.” Christensen wrote to the USAO in 2023.

Victims independently alleged Leon Black had mutilated their bodies by suddenly clenching his teeth into their genitalia.

Specifically, a Victim 1 alleged that around 2001, Leon Black violently raped her at Epstein’s townhouse in New York. Victim 1 alleged Black “violently bit down on her vulva, labia and clitoris. The biting would get harder and his teeth clamp down more when she yelled out in pain.”

Victim 2 alleged she met Leon Black at Epstein’s New York residence sometime in the early 2000’s. She gave Black a massage while he was on his stomach. Then he wanted to give her a massage. She recalled having difficulty breathing when he forced his obese body on top of her. Black violently raped and bit her. Later, he called her to meet for a drink and paid her $5,000—hoping she would keep quiet.

Victim 3 alleged Leon Black had raped her around 2001-2002 in Epstein’s town house. The victim described that Black had inserted something “sharp” in her vagina, on a massage table, while her head was on the floor, and her legs on his shoulders. “Excruciating.” Victim 3 recalled Black had caused her to bleed rectally. Victim 3 reported the rape to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

Victim 4 was 16 years old when she was violently raped by Leon Black, who forced sex toys in her rectum and vagina. Victim 4 felt severe pinching in her vagina and began bleeding from her rectum. Black and others at Epstein’s house would not take her to the doctor and instead flew her out of New York the next day. Victim 4 never went back. The next few years she stayed in Palm Beach and Epstein’s island.

Victim 5 alleged that Epstein and Leon Black used to talk about a 10-year-old victim. From 2001-2004, she was trafficked to at least 25 different men. The DOJ redacted the trafficker’s name. Victim 5 alleged someone—whose name was redacted—had sex with men in front of her. And then handed her off to Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein.

Leon Black is a financier who was closely associated with Jeffrey Epstein for decades. Black was formerly the CEO of Apollo Global Management and served as the Chairman of the Museum of Modern Art from 2018 to 2021. Apollo Management Group receives substantial funding from Saudi Arabia’s government.

Leon Black resigned after an internal investigation of Apollo revealed their disgraced CEO had paid $158 million to Jeffrey Epstein.

In March 2021, Russian model Guzel Ganieva claimed, in a series of social media posts on Twitter, that she "was sexually harassed and abused by Leon Black] for years [and ultimately] forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement under duress."

Leon Black publicly characterized his relationship with Ganieva as a “consensual affair” and that she was trying to extort him.

Ganieva responded in by filing a defamation suit against Leon Black.1 Ganieva was represented by high-powered employment attorney Jeanne M. Christensen, a partner at Wigdor LLP.

When other victims discovered Ganieva’s defamation suit, they contacted Christensen to provide evidence that they too had been brutally raped by Leon Black. Christensen relayed their evidence to federal prosecutors.

Attorney Christensen wrote to federal prosecutors that one of the victims was videotaped in a hotel having sex with three men. One of them was Leon Black’s former friend. The video had been circulating on the Internet.

A victim’s journal turned over to the U.S. Attorney’s Office described: “The blood from Leon is no longer there.”

Leon Black’s company Apollo Global Management retained the law firm Dechert LLP to conduct an “independent” investigation into Black’s conduct, which after reviewing 60,000 documents found:

Dechert has seen no evidence that Black or any employee of the Family Office or Apollo was involved in any way with Epstein’s criminal activities at any time. There is no evidence that Epstein ever introduced Black, or offered to introduce Black, to any underage woman.

To date, Leon Black has not been charged with a crime.

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By Edward M. Lyman, ESQ 

 

You mean what you Zionists plan on orchestrating continuing in the Middle East and then bringing it to US soil. These Psychopaths plan on putting American citizens in chains in the near future. Folks can continue to insult me and call me whatever you want, I will continue to expose the agenda of these individuals until I am taken out of this world. There is no rise of " antisemitism " it's the atrocities of the Zionists that can no longer be hidden. These individuals continue to slaughter-torture-murder individuals in the Middle East for their Greater Israel project and then yell " Antisemitic " when folks got something to say about it! The last Lego music video I posted on this page, at the end it talks about how after the Zionists are done using America, we are next and had American citizens walking in chains.

Our beef is not with the Jewish people but you imposters!

 

The Dark Magic of Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley’s Sorcerer, the All-Seeing Palantír, and the Machinery of Global Surveillance, Remote Killing, and Teenage Blood SuckingPeter Thiel doesn’t need black robes, pentagrams, or midnight goat sacrifices. His dark magic is colder, more corporate, and infinitely more lethal: an unholy fusion of infinite data streams, AI-powered kill chains, Epstein-tainted seed capital, vampiric longevity quests, and private lectures declaring that any attempt to regulate his empire will summon the Antichrist—while his own company forges the exact infrastructure of planetary control and mass death he claims to oppose.

 

Thiel, a lifelong Tolkien obsessive, named his flagship company Palantir Technologies after the palantíri—the far-seeing crystal orbs of The Lord of the Rings. In Tolkien’s world, these seeing-stones granted rulers the power to peer across vast distances and glimpse hidden truths. But they carried a terrible curse: Sauron the Dark Lord used them to manipulate and corrupt those who gazed into them. Saruman the White stared too long and fell into betrayal, ensnared by the Eye of Sauron. Thiel didn’t treat the legend as moral warning; he turned it into operational reality. Palantir is the digital palantír—a system that fuses disparate data streams (social media, tax records, health files, immigration histories, location tracking) into godlike predictive power for governments and militaries. What Tolkien depicted as corrupting sorcery, Thiel built as billion-dollar software.

 

Meanwhile, Thiel supplied the all-seeing infrastructure. Under Trump’s second administration, Palantir’s contracts exploded—including a $1 billion ceiling on a blanket purchase agreement with DHS—while its Foundry software merged tax records, immigration histories, health information, and social media activity across agencies into searchable mega-databases. ICE received its $30 million “ImmigrationOS” system to track self-deportations and select targets for arrests in real time. Privacy advocates warned of a centralized eye that could flag political opponents, monitor dissent, and enforce loyalty.

 

Palantir has forged what may be the deadliest infrastructure of mass surveillance and remote killing in existence. The company holds more than £670 million in UK government contracts, including the £330 million NHS Federated Data Platform that vacuums up every citizen’s medical records into a single searchable pool accessible to U.S. intelligence under the Cloud Act, a £240 million no-bid Ministry of Defence deal for real-time operational decision-making, and a £15 million contract with the Atomic Weapons Establishment that safeguards Britain’s nuclear arsenal. In the United States, Foundry fuses data across every federal agency, while ImmigrationOS enables instantaneous tracking, flagging, and rounding-up of migrants for deportation.

 

Overseas, Palantir partnered with the Israeli Defense Ministry to supply the AI and facial-recognition engines that powered targeting in Gaza, with CEO Alex Karp openly boasting that the technology “mostly kills terrorists.” In the 2026 U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign against Iran, Palantir’s Maven Smart System—now the Pentagon’s official “program of record”—compressed the kill chain into near-autonomous loops. Patents and descriptions show software that selects targets and recommends strikes, reducing human operators to a mere “biological safety catch” that presses the final button. Palantir’s stock surged 15 percent on the bloodshed.

All of these rests on Thiel’s $40 million investment from Jeffrey Epstein—funneled into Valar Ventures, a firm co-founded by Thiel. That stake has grown to roughly $170 million and remains the largest single asset in the convicted pedophile’s estate. Thiel has downplayed the relationship, but the money flowed for years.

 

Layer on Thiel’s public fixation with transfusing the blood of teenagers for longevity. He has spoken openly about parabiosis—pumping young plasma into older bodies—as one of the most promising paths to immortality, the ultimate hack against death. Reports once claimed he spent tens of thousands quarterly on such treatments. While he lectures elites on biblical prophecy, his personal quest reads like literal vampirism dressed up as Silicon Valley science.

 

And then come the private Antichrist lectures. Since 2025, Thiel has hosted invitation-only series—first in San Francisco at waterfront venues, then Paris, and most recently a four-part series in Rome in early 2026, held in historic palaces steps from the Vatican. In these closed-door sessions he warns that the Antichrist will arrive not with horns but as a soothing global system promising “peace and safety” by regulating existential risks—especially AI. Any attempt to slow technological acceleration, he argues, is the work of the Antichrist’s “legionnaires.” Regulation of AI or oversight of tech empires paves the road to one-world totalitarian control. He invokes the katechon (the biblical restrainer holding back chaos) and positions defiant innovation—his kind—as the last bulwark.

 

Meanwhile, the company he controls is fusing every government database on Earth, compressing kill chains into autonomous loops, and vacuuming up the health records of entire nations.

The optics are grotesque. Protesters outside his San Francisco events showed up in goth regalia, carrying goblets of fake blood and bones, performing mock satanic rituals to Mozart’s Requiem and hailing Thiel as their “dark lord” who is hastening the end times. They sensed the spell: the man who stares daily into the palantír he built, who took Epstein’s money, who dreams of teenage blood coursing through his veins, and who warns that stopping his machines will birth the Antichrist—is, by his own framework, constructing the very system he claims to fear.

 

Sauron’s Eye never blinked. Saruman fell because he thought he could master the orb without being mastered by it. Thiel keeps refining the glass, peering deeper, transfusing, contracting, and prophesying—while the rest of us live inside the gaze he controls. The crystals are glowing brighter than ever. The targets are being selected at machine speed. And the dark magic flows on.

 

 One of the most dangerous son of a bitches on earth!

The Industrialization of Belief

Ah yes, Peter Thiel, the self-appointed philosopher-king of Silicon Valley, a man who looked at democracy and decided it was an optional feature, like a buggy app you delete when it interferes with your returns. This is the same guy who co-founded Palantir Technologies, and because nothing says “libertarian freedom” quite like building a surveillance empire named after an all-seeing orb, and then had the gall to publicly muse that maybe the real inefficiency in society is the public itself. He helped design the financial plumbing of the digital age, rode the algorithmic gold rush of Facebook, and now stands on top of that mountain of extracted data and dares to suggest that freedom and democracy might not be compatible. That’s not philosophy, that’s a warning label.

What’s being openly floated, almost casually, is the rise of AI-driven narrative machines, systems designed not to inform but to shape, bend, and outright manufacture reality for whoever can afford the invoice. Not propaganda in the old sense, not crude messaging or state-run media, but something far more insidious: perception as a service. Reality, curated. Truth, adjustable. Consensus, for sale. This isn’t just influence, it’s the industrialization of belief, the monetization of what people think is real. It’s Big Brother, but franchised out to the highest bidder, tyranny not centralized but privatized, parceled out among a cabal of oligarchs who don’t need to seize power when they can simply rewrite the terms by which power is understood.

Thiel once said he no longer believes freedom and democracy are compatible, and when you place that statement next to a world where facts themselves can be algorithmically dissolved, it stops sounding like a contrarian thought experiment and starts sounding like a business model. Because if you can destabilize the very idea of truth, if you can flood the zone with competing realities until nothing holds, then criticism itself becomes impossible. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom, full stop. If nothing is true, then no one can challenge power, because there is no shared ground on which to stand. If nothing is true, then everything becomes spectacle, and spectacle is easily purchased. The biggest wallet doesn’t just win the argument, it erases the possibility of argument altogether, drowning the world in noise so blinding that people forget what clarity even looked like.

And hovering in the background, like a stain that refuses to wash out, is Jeffrey Epstein, with Department of Justice files reportedly mentioning Thiel thousands of times. To be clear, because accuracy still matters: mentions are not proof of wrongdoing. But when your name echoes through that particular archive over and over again, tied to one of the most grotesque financial predators in modern history, it raises a question that cuts straight through the cultivated image of the detached intellectual: what exactly is the ecosystem of power you’re operating in, and who else is feeding from it?

There’s something almost grotesquely poetic about the whole thing, a surveillance magnate who distrusts the masses, a billionaire who sees voting as inefficiency, a man optimizing his own biology while helping engineer the erosion of the civic body around him. It reads less like a biography and more like a blueprint. Because that’s the through-line here: power without accountability, now supercharged by technology that can rewrite the story in real time. This isn’t a blog post. It’s not edgy intellectualism. It’s infrastructure. And if we’re not paying attention, we’re not just watching the erosion of democracy, we’re watching the auctioning off of reality itself, piece by piece, to whoever can afford to own it.

—Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.

 

According to hasbara-reeking bullshit artists the promulgation of the image is: an expression of anti-Semitism when, in fact, the IDF soldier’s countenance captures an essential characteristic of Zionism, the ugliness of mind that believes that moral restraint does not apply to Zionists due to their innate, god-bestowed exceptionalism.

The gruesome-of face IDF soldier of the now notorious photo had been assigned to serve Israeli religious zealots settlers engaged in an ethnic cleansing rampage in the West Bank.

While Zionist propagandists retail the lie that the IDF is the “most moral army on earth,” conscripted to protect perpetually innocent, pure of intent Israel from the ever looming threat posed by blood lusting terrorists bound and determined to drive Israeli Jews into the sea — the photograph rips the cover from the lie, thus revealing: Israel was founded as an ethno-supremacist state, believes itself above international law, and is devoted to the pursuit of Greater Israel by means of ethnic cleansing.

In the same manner images of hooded Klansmen lynching parties were emblematic of the grim, cruel and gruesome reality of the US Jim Crow South, the photograph exposes to the world the essence of Zionism.

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 The Woman Who Connected the Network: Lynn Forester de Rothschild and the Epstein Files

Among the thousands of pages released by the Department of Justice and the House Oversight Committee in the ongoing investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's criminal enterprise, one name has attracted relatively little mainstream scrutiny despite appearing at several critical junctions in the documented record. That name is Lynn Forester de Rothschild.

Forester de Rothschild, born July 2, 1954, in Bergen County, New Jersey, is an American-British businesswoman and chair of E.L. Rothschild LLC, a holding company that manages investments in The Economist Group, a leading independent wealth management firm, and various real estate and agricultural interests. She is the founder of the Council for Inclusive Capitalism, a global initiative she launched in partnership with the Vatican and Pope Francis in 2021. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Chatham House, and she served on President Bill Clinton's National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council from 1993 to 1995.

What follows is a compilation of documented connections between Lynn Forester de Rothschild and the Epstein network, drawn from sworn testimony, court records, property documents, and verified reporting. No criminal charges have ever been filed against her, no civil suit has named her, and no allegations of direct wrongdoing have been established in a court of law.

The 1995 Letter

In the Clinton Presidential Library archives, there is a letter dated April 27, 1995, written by Lynn Forester to President Bill Clinton. In it, she mentions having discussed "Jeffrey Epstein and currency stabilization" during a brief exchange at a dinner at Senator Ted Kennedy's home, before moving on to the letter's main subject, which was affirmative action policy. At the time of the letter, Forester was serving on Clinton's National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council. The letter has been reproduced and confirmed by multiple investigators and journalists who have reviewed the Clinton digital archive.

According to the book A Convenient Death: The Mysterious Demise of Jeffrey Epstein by Alana Goodman and Daniel Harper, one of Epstein's former lawyers stated that it was Lynn Forester who first introduced Epstein to Clinton directly.

The Townhouse at 116 East 65th Street

In 2000, Lynn Forester sold a Manhattan townhouse at 116 East 65th Street for $4.95 million. She had purchased the property in 1997 for $4.4 million. The buyer was a shell company incorporated by Darren Indyke, Jeffrey Epstein's personal attorney, registered at 457 Madison Avenue, the address of Epstein's business offices. Corporate records identified the entity as "116 East 65th St LLC c/o Epstein." Ghislaine Maxwell moved into the property shortly after the sale and lived there until 2015. When the property was ultimately sold in 2016, it went for $15 million. Prosecutors noted during Maxwell's trial that she never appeared to have had the independent financial resources to acquire the property herself.

The Apartment After Robert Maxwell's Death

Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell's father and a prominent media proprietor, drowned in November 1991 under circumstances that have never been fully explained. According to multiple published accounts, including those of analyst F. William Engdahl, Lynn Forester gave Ghislaine Maxwell the use of a Manhattan apartment in the period immediately following her father's death. This address later appeared in Epstein's black book. It should be noted that no criminal significance has been established by any court in relation to this apartment.

The Introduction of Alan Dershowitz

Alan Dershowitz, the prominent defense attorney who subsequently negotiated Epstein's widely criticized 2008 plea deal with then-U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, has publicly and repeatedly stated that Lynn Forester de Rothschild introduced him to Epstein. According to Dershowitz, she described Epstein to him as an "interesting autodidact" whom he would enjoy meeting. This introduction, Dershowitz has said in multiple interviews, took place at her estate on Martha's Vineyard in the 1990s. The 2008 plea deal resulted in a 13-month county jail sentence with work release for Epstein, a resolution widely regarded by legal scholars and victims' advocates as extraordinarily lenient given the severity of the charges.

The Introduction of Prince Andrew

On August 22, 2025, the Department of Justice released transcripts and audio recordings of a two-day interview conducted in July 2025 between Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for sex trafficking. During that interview, Maxwell flatly denied having introduced Prince Andrew to Epstein, a claim she called "a flat untruth." She then stated that Lynn Forester de Rothschild had made the introduction at a house she had rented in Martha's Vineyard or Nantucket. The Telegraph reported that multiple friends of Maxwell had previously, in tabloid coverage, made the same claim: that the introduction had occurred at a party Lynn Forester de Rothschild organized in 1999 in the Hamptons in honor of her husband Sir Evelyn de Rothschild.

Prince Andrew stated in a 2019 BBC Newsnight interview that Ghislaine Maxwell had introduced him to Epstein. Either Prince Andrew's public account or Maxwell's sworn statement to the Deputy Attorney General is inaccurate. In both versions, Lynn Forester de Rothschild is implicated in the introduction.

Critics of the DOJ interview, including former U.S. District Attorney Joyce Vance, have noted that Maxwell, who is seeking clemency from the Trump administration, had clear incentives to deflect responsibility onto third parties during the interview.

The Introduction of Peter Mandelson

Wikipedia's entry on Lynn Forester de Rothschild, citing a sourced report, notes that it was at a house owned by the de Rothschilds on Martha's Vineyard that Peter Mandelson, the former British Cabinet minister and EU Trade Commissioner, was introduced to Epstein.

Deutsche Bank

Fortune magazine's detailed October 2025 investigation into Deutsche Bank's relationship with Epstein confirmed that the bank's connection to Epstein began in August 2013, when his former bank, JPMorgan Chase, began distancing itself from him due to reputational risk. The bank opened more than 40 accounts for Epstein between 2013 and 2018, processed millions in allegedly suspicious transactions, and was ultimately fined $150 million by the New York Department of Financial Services. It also agreed to pay $75 million in a class action settlement to Epstein's victims.

In July 2013, one month before Deutsche Bank accepted Epstein as a client, Lynn Forester de Rothschild was appointed to an advisory board at the bank tasked with expanding its U.S. clientele. Peter Mandelson was appointed to the same board at the same time. The relationship manager who facilitated Epstein's move to Deutsche Bank, Paul Morris, had previously managed Epstein's account at JPMorgan, according to NYDFS records.

It should be stated clearly that no court, regulatory body, or law enforcement agency has alleged that Lynn Forester de Rothschild played any role in Deutsche Bank's decision to accept Epstein as a client. The temporal proximity of her board appointment and Epstein's onboarding has been noted by multiple investigators, but temporal proximity is not evidence of causation or involvement.

The Flight Logs

Available flight records from the Epstein archive confirm that Lynn Forester appeared on at least one documented flight on September 25, 1998, flying from Teterboro Airport to Washington Dulles alongside Epstein. The original investigation by journalist Kait Justice, published in December 2025 on her Substack, claims the full record shows at least five separate flights in 1997 and 1998, including one on February 17, 1997, that allegedly also included her minor child and Ghislaine Maxwell. Some of those flight log pages were reportedly sealed and only unsealed in 2019.

The Teterboro Connection

Epstein was arrested at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey on July 6, 2019, when he landed there on a private jet returning from Paris. Court documents have shown that Teterboro was the primary hub of Epstein's aviation operations, with pilot logs documenting approximately 730 flights through the airport between 1995 and 2013.

Various published accounts have alleged that Lynn Forester de Rothschild's family had aviation business connections at Teterboro Airport, with one source citing a company founded there by her father that eventually became Meridian Air Center. This specific lineage has not been independently confirmed by mainstream reporting to the degree of the other connections outlined in this article, and it deserves further scrutiny before being treated as established fact.

Connections to the Mega Group

The "Mega Group" was a private network of prominent American Jewish philanthropists and businesspeople whose existence was first reported by the Wall Street Journal in 1998. Its founding members included Les Wexner, who was Epstein's primary patron and had given him extraordinary financial powers of attorney, as well as Ronald Lauder, Charles Bronfman, and hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt.

In January 2024, John Schindler, a former NSA counterintelligence officer, publicly stated that the Mega Group "was viewed by Israeli intelligence officials as a vehicle for espionage and influence operations in the United States."

Lynn Forester de Rothschild has sat on the board of directors of Estée Lauder Companies since December 2000, alongside Ronald Lauder. She co-founded, with Matthew Bronfman, an investment advisory firm called Bronfman E.L. Rothschild LP. She has served on the advisory board of Genie Energy, whose board members have included Michael Steinhardt, former CIA Director James Woolsey, former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (accused by Virginia Giuffre of sexual abuse), and economist Larry Summers (who appeared in Epstein's flight logs). These board overlaps are documented. Their significance, if any, is a matter of ongoing investigative interest.

The Roy Cohn Thread

Lynn Forester's first husband was Andrew Stein, the Manhattan Borough President from 1983 to 1993. Andrew Stein's brother, James Finkelstein, married Cathy Frank, whose grandfather was Lewis Rosenstiel. Rosenstiel, the mob-connected liquor magnate, is alleged in multiple historical accounts, including a memoir by Roy Cohn's personal secretary and Norman Mailer's biography of Cohn, to have operated a sexual blackmail network involving underage boys alongside Roy Cohn. Roy Cohn was, of course, the mentor of Donald Trump and a central figure in New York political life for decades. This chain of connections places Lynn Forester two degrees from the alleged predecessor operation to Epstein's. It should be noted that these are historical allegations; Roy Cohn died in 1986 and Rosenstiel died in 1976. Neither was ever convicted of crimes related to these specific allegations.

What Has Been Established

Lynn Forester de Rothschild is documented to have: written a letter to President Clinton in 1995 mentioning Epstein by name; sold a Manhattan townhouse to an Epstein-incorporated LLC in 2000, where Ghislaine Maxwell subsequently lived; flown on Epstein's private aircraft on at least one confirmed occasion; been identified by Alan Dershowitz as the person who introduced him to Epstein; been identified by Ghislaine Maxwell in sworn DOJ testimony as the person who introduced Prince Andrew to Epstein; served on a Deutsche Bank advisory board in the same month Deutsche Bank accepted Epstein as a client; and shared board membership with prominent members of the Mega Group network. Her husband, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, appeared in Epstein's black book.

She has acknowledged knowing Epstein socially. A spokesperson has denied that Epstein provided her financial help during her divorce from Andrew Stein, which Epstein himself had claimed.

She has never been questioned under oath about any of these connections. No subpoena has been issued to her. No civil suit has named her. No law enforcement agency has publicly announced an investigation into her activities in relation to Epstein.

The House Oversight Committee, which has received thousands of pages from Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan, has not publicly announced any questions directed at her. Whether the committee's ongoing review will change that remains to be seen.

Sources

Clinton Presidential Library, Letter from Lynn Forester to President William J. Clinton, April 27, 1995, Archives reference EFTA00263107.

United States Department of Justice, Transcript of Interview of Ghislaine Maxwell, conducted by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Special Agent Spencer Horn, July 24–25, 2025, released August 22, 2025.

Fortune magazine, "Deutsche Bank and Jeffrey Epstein's Ghost," October 8, 2025.

New York Department of Financial Services, Consent Order, Deutsche Bank AG, July 7, 2020.

New York Times, "Jeffrey Epstein, Famed Scientist's Patron, Dies in Jail," August 10, 2019.

Wall Street Journal, "The 'Mega' Question: Is There a Top-Level Israeli Spy in the U.S.?," May 7, 1997.

Wall Street Journal, "Mega Meeting: A Secretive Network of Jewish Philanthropists Gathers to Discuss Ways to Help Their Cause," September 5, 1998.

The New Yorker, "Alan Dershowitz, Devil's Advocate," by Connie Bruck, July 29, 2019.

Goodman, Alana, and Daniel Harper. A Convenient Death: The Mysterious Demise of Jeffrey Epstein. Regnery Publishing, 2021.

Wikipedia, "Lynn Forester de Rothschild," last updated April 2026, citing Harper's Bazaar, The Sunday Times, and BBC reporting.

ABC News, "Ghislaine Maxwell, in DOJ Meetings, Rejected Accuser's Claim of Sexual Encounter with Prince Andrew," August 23, 2025.

CBS News, "Ghislaine Maxwell's Interview on Epstein Case Released by DOJ," August 23, 2025.

The Telegraph, "The British Philanthropist Who 'Brought Epstein and Andrew Together,'" August 23, 2025.

Scottish Daily Express, "Ghislaine Maxwell: My Dark Truth About Andrew Windsor, Sarah Ferguson and Jeffrey Epstein," March 2026.

Justice, Kait. "The Woman Nobody Asks About Is the Person Connecting Every Thread of the Epstein Network," Substack, December 16, 2025.

Ikeda, Tatsu. "Epstein Files Phase 12: Lynn Forester de Rothschild, The Introducer," Substack, March 2026.

Nordic Times, "Epstein: 'I Represent the Rothschilds,'" February 6, 2026.

Engdahl, F. William. "The Dangerous Alliance of Rothschild and the Vatican of Francis," Journal-NEO, December 22, 2020.

Schindler, John R. Public statement on MEGA and Israeli intelligence, January 2024, as reported by multiple outlets.

InfluenceWatch, "Lynn Forester de Rothschild," last updated 2022.

EpsteinExposed.com, Flight log database entry for Lynn Forester de Rothschild, September 25, 1998.

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How The US Manipulates Public Opinion Through Sustained Propaganda

I grew up believing that the Native Americans, commonly referred to as Red Indians, were murderous terrorists who should be totally exterminated for America to have peace. I was manipulated into harboring such belief by repeated exposure to American movies of the late sixties and early seventies, popularly known as Western. Some people call it cowboy and Indian movies.

Those Hollywood movies portrayed the Red Indians as murderous villains terrorizing the Whites and disturbing their peace. In those days there was no internet to fact-check what was being fed into our subconsciousness to shape our emotions. We were unable to distinguish between perception and reality, so we swallowed everything fed to us hook, line and sinker.

It wasn't until I got into the university in the early eighties that my perception about the Red Indians totally changed. I became exposed to facts about America which revealed that the Red Indians were the true owners of the land and that the Caucasians were actually the invaders.

The early White population in America migrated from England looking for new frontiers. They were made up of religious migrants, farmers seeking land, merchants, political dissidents and convicted criminals who were deemed unfit to live in England.

These people invaded America from England and killed between ten and fifteen million Native Americans known as the Red Indians, in order to take over their land. The survivors were rounded up and crammed into concentration camps and treated like slaves in dehumanizing conditions. This is one of the worst form of cruelty and terrorism in human history. But the Hollywood movies will not tell you all these. They would rather consistently portray the Red Indians as savages and terrorists. This is sustained propaganda which targets our emotions and shapes our perception. But the reality is that the Caucasians from England who invaded America were the real murderous terrorists.

Sustained sophisticated propaganda is one of the most powerful weapons ever forged against the human mind. When repeated with discipline, wrapped in emotion, and amplified through fear, grievance, and false certainty, lies can slowly acquire the texture of truth. Under Nazi Germany, Joseph Goebbels demonstrated how relentless messaging could seduce ordinary people into accepting cruelty as duty and fiction as reality.

The power of propaganda lies not merely in deception, but in its ability to make the deceived defend their own manipulation with conviction. This is why the US has succeeded in brainwashing gullible people that the Iranian government is sponsoring terrorism. This is also why the US controlled media will lie that the Iranian government killed 40,000 of its own citizens and some people who have brains, but cannot think for themselves, will swallow it hook, line and sinker, and even help in propagating the falsehood.

For years, the US controlled media have been portraying Arabs as terrorists. Hollywood has also been producing movies depicting Muslims and Arabs as terrorists. They have succeeded in using those movies to target people's emotions by presenting fiction as reality. But they will never produce a movie depicting the US as a terrorist state, when in actual fact the US has been committing terror all over the world. Since the end of World War 2, the US has invaded over twenty countries and more people have been killed from unprovoked conflicts and wars initiated by the US, than by any other country. For instance, over a million people were killed as a result of the unwarranted US invasion of Iraq which was based entirely on Natanyahu's heinous lies.

Hollywood will also never produce a movie depicting Israel as a terrorist state, when in actual fact Israel started terrorism in the Middle East. The first terrorists groups in the Middle East were the Stern Gang led by Yitzhak Shamir, the Haganah led by David Ben-Gurion and the Irgun led by Menachem Begin. All these three terrorists leaders committed mass killings and terrible crimes against the British and Arabs in the Palestine. Ironically, all three of them went on to become the Prime Minister of Israel at different times.

Since a cease-fire was declared in Gaza on the 10th October 2025, Israel has killed almost 800 Palestinians, without a single Israeli being killed. Most of the people killed are starved women and children looking for food. This is aside the unwarranted acrimonious blockage imposed on Gaza by Israel which has prevented food, water, drugs and other essentials from coming into Gaza. Yet, the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) sponsored media will tell you that the Palestinians are the terrorists.

Isn't it ironic that the people being killed all the time are the terrorists, while the people doing the mass killings and starving vulnerable women and children with blockage are the saints? Even a ten year old will know that that isn't logical, but not people who have been brainwashed by propaganda.

All the evils being committed by Israel since the declaration of a cease-fire in Gaza qualifies as terrorism. But the US will NEVER utter a word against Israel, not even after traditional US allies like the Netherlands, France, Spain, Republic of Ireland and Italy have condemned Israel's actions in Gaza and called for stiffer actions against Israel, which has been repeatedly blocked by the US. Israel has violated more United Nations Resolution and more Geneva Conventions than any country on earth.

Through video evidence, five Israeli homosexual soldiers were indicted by an Israeli court for repeatedly sodomizing Palestinian detainees at the Sde Teiman detention facility in July 2024. Guess what happened to the soldiers? They were all freed and Benjamin Netanyahu praised the decision, stating that the country must support its "heroic fighters." Some Rabbis even praised the soldiers, saying the detainees are war prisoners and that the soldiers have a right to do whatever they like to them, including rape. There was no outrage from the US, even though the action was condemned by human rights groups all over the world.

When Nelson Mandela was fighting to free South Africa from the shackles of apartheid, just like the Palestinians are fighting Israeli occupation, he was branded a terrorist by the US and its Western allies. As a matter of fact, the African National Congress (ANC) was branded as a terrorist organization and Nelson Mandela spent 27yrs in prison for agitating to free his country from apartheid. When terrorism is viewed from the prism of the US and its allies, every Arab freedom fighter and black freedom fighter will be seen as terrorists.

According to Dele Farotimi, my friend of over forty years, classmate in the university and brother, "I live in a world where the terrorists are calling the terrorized the terrorists."

Like I always say, you can fact-check everything I have stated in this piece on the internet to ascertain or debunk their veracity. You can even choose to throw reason and logic to the wind and concoct falsehood to discredit this piece. It's your inalienable right. But please, do so politely. Don't come here to exhibit your lack of basic etiquette in public discourse.

Norman Finkelstein

 

Eric Swalwell resigned from Congress and dropped out of the California governor's race after multiple women accused him of sexual assault. And you know what? Democrats did the right thing. Unions pulled support. Party leaders called for him to go. He's gone.

That's exactly what happened with Al Franken in 2017. Democrats forced him out — some now say too quickly — but the point stands: the party held its own accountable.

Now ask yourself: how many Republicans demanded accountability when their own was credibly accused? Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts, faced 88 criminal charges across four cases, and was credibly accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women. The GOP's response? They made him president — twice.

Imagine a Republican Party that held the same standard Democrats do. Imagine what a different country we'd be living in right now.

Democrats aren't perfect. But they are the only party that actually enforces consequences — even when it's painful and even when it costs them. That's what accountability looks like. Where's yours, GOP?

*Buzzzz, every rotten to the core corporate "Repulicrat" was in on this. The sell out within the Party is designed to make the public THINK this is a two-party system when in fact it is only one party serving the Zionists and their corporations, and billionaires. The public accepts it along with the hypocrisy that sits in his rapacious, adjudicated rape and his felony convictions and obvious mental deterioration while Swalwell goes down just like Franken did and all is well as the S.N.A.F.U. gloriously laughs in the faces of a lazy public awaiting its nonexistent savior and hyenas at the t

 

"You may know the justification for having the Jewish state of Israel that goes something like this: 'we Jews have always lived there, we once had a kingdom there, no one else has had a kingdom there, we were exiled from there, and every year for at least 900 years we've been saying 'Next year in Jerusalem at Passover.'

"There are various problems with this: is this a rule for deciding territorial claims that just applies to Jews or is it universal? If it was universal then we might see Ireland, Wales and Cornwall talking up arms and invading England in order to set up the rightful Celtic State. You might be able to think of other examples, if that rule was applied all over the world.

"The continuous settlement argument is leaky too because it doesn't take long to figure out that there has been continuous settlement in the area for some other peoples too. Continuous settlement is not proof of exclusive settlement.

"Then there's the kingdom argument. This seems to be that if a people once had a kingdom in a place, they must be entitled to have a state now. Another dredge through history, brings up some problems here too. On this basis, the people living in what used to be Mercia could demand a new state of Mercia with Tamworth as a possible capital. What's more, why's an ancient kingdom so important? Other peoples created other forms of self-government - like city states. Are these in some way or another inferior?

"And so to 'Next year in Jerusalem'. I'm not sure why this is a legitimate claim for an ever-extending piece of land. There are many ways to wish to go to Jerusalem which don't involve putting up national borders round a stretch of land and calling it a Jewish state.

"But then we come to another problem that I see people grappling with. If the claim for the land is religious (because God promised it to us (via Abraham who was actually from what is now Iraq) and was 'won' through battle by Joshua) how come the right of return is through 'descent' and marriage? To live in Israel, you need as a minimum one Jewish grandparent, and/or a Jewish wife. As you might guess, it follows from this that some people who go to live in Israel aren't all that bothered about religion. You can in fact be an atheist, non-culturally Jewish person but if you've got the Jewish grandparent, you can live there, but you're doing so on the basis of an original religious reason. That seems contradictory to me.

"There is another problem with this 'descent' justification. It ties a people on the basis of their family origins to a piece of land. If this looks just a bit like the 'blood and soil' argument from 19th century European nationalist 'theory', then I would argue, yes indeed it does. Again, is that a basis for a nation state: blood and soil? As you know that was tried out very rigorously in the 1930s, and it didn't end well.

"And then the archaeologists and geneticists get to work. You can look this up, but the theme here is that middle eastern Jews (Mizrahis) - or at least some of them - show strong genetic links to the original inhabitants of the Levant going back 3000 years. If you're going to make an argument that genes give the right for statehood, this is encouraging. (I still think it's a blood and soil argument, which has strong and disastrous consequences for anyone deemed to be not of the blood.) However, there's another problem. Are there any other peoples who also have a strong genetic link to the Levant? Well, it turns out there are. Namely Palestinian Muslims and Christians - and Lebanese.

"Hmmm, this is a bit problematic for only one kind of blood and soil argument, because the blood and soil genetics has thrown up that both Mizrahi Jews and Palestinians and Lebanese are linked to this bit of territory.

"Those of us who think that's been the whole issue all along (ie that setting up an exclusively Jewish state was the problem not the solution) are not surprised to hear that there has of course been continuous settlement by at least two peoples - if not more, for thousands of years.

"But whoah, let's hold the phone there. Whether we take the biblical evidence or the archaeological evidence, of course there was a people and a civilisation before the Israelites arrived. This usually goes by the name of the Canaanites. And the geneticists claim that the Mizrahis and the Palestinians and Lebanese owe their genetic origins to the Canaanites.

"Oh but the Canaanities didn't have a kingdom. No, why should they? Instead, it seems as if they had city states. I don't know a lot about city states, though arguably I've once been to one - Andorra. Even so, as a model for a society, they don't sound too bad, so long as you could run your city state in a democratic way. (I don't suppose the ancient Canaanites did but bear with me.)

"Let's imagine a federation of democratic city states, (communes, if you will), in which the character of each city state could be determined by the people living in them, and the federation existed for mutual benefit (sharing electricity that sort of thing) and security, with plenty of room for diversity of culture, religion, and politics...it starts to sound OK to me. So much so that I think I'm going to start calling myself a Canaanist.

"Zionist folks often want to go back to origins. Well, I'll go further back. I'll go back to Canaan. In fact, what we need is a Canaan Liberation Front. The CLF. I say, Victory to the CLF! Victory to the CLF! What do we want? Canaan! When do want it? Now.

"Any objections to that?" --Michael Rosen