BREAKING: Marco Rubio vows to DISMANTLE the International Criminal Court that prosecutes genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

In a move that reflects the Trump administration's deep fears over accountability for their actions, Marco Rubio just declared war on international justice itself.

The Secretary of State announced Monday that the Trump administration is launching a full diplomatic campaign to destroy the International Criminal Court — the global tribunal established in 2002 to prosecute genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Not reform it. Not push back on specific rulings. Dismantle it entirely.

"We will dismantle the ICC — brick by brick, if necessary," Rubio wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, framing it as a battle of "sovereign states over globalism."

Let's be clear about what's actually happening here. This isn't abstract ideology. This comes weeks after three ICC judges sued the Trump administration over sanctions the administration illegally imposed on them — sanctions levied because the court dared to investigate American allies, including Israel's conduct against Palestinians.

Rubio's rhetoric reads less like foreign policy and more like a conspiracy theory. He called the court "a global tribunal staffed by unelected globalist bureaucrats," and accused it of being "backed and run by a powerful network of leftist nongovernment organizations, smug globalists, and hostile Third World governments united by their enmity toward the U.S."

That's not diplomacy. That's a culture-war rant aimed at an institution that 125 nations have ratified to hold war criminals accountable — including Vladimir Putin, who the ICC, with the Biden administration's cooperation, indicted for kidnapping Ukrainian children.

And that's the real story here. When the ICC pursued Putin for stealing children, the U.S. shared intelligence. When it started looking at Israel and at U.S. conduct in Afghanistan, suddenly the whole institution became an illegitimate "globalist" scheme that must be destroyed "brick by brick."

The State Department is now weaponizing travel bans, visa revocations, and sanctions — not against war criminals, but against the judges trying to hold them accountable.

This isn't protecting American sovereignty. It's protecting impunity — for Trump's allies, and potentially for war criminals everywhere.

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BREAKING: Marco Rubio vows to DISMANTLE the International Criminal Court that prosecutes genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

 

“Cattle die, kinsmen die, and you yourself will die.

But one thing never dies: the reputation of the one who has died.” ~Hávamál

Ah, yes. The part everyone likes to skip—the ending where you don’t get to edit the story anymore.

Death is not a sanctifier. It’s a seal. A wax stamp pressed onto the record you already wrote. No revisions. No clever spin. No last-minute absolution whispered over a cooling body. Just the sum of your choices, sitting there like a ledger that refuses to burn.

And yet—watch how quickly the living these days scramble to rewrite it.

“Don’t speak ill of the dead,” they say, clutching pearls with one hand and scrubbing history with the other. As if silence is virtue. As if truth becomes cruelty the moment a heart stops beating. No, darling—that’s not morality. That’s narrative control. That’s fear of what the story actually says when you stop decorating it.

The *Hávamál* doesn’t play that game. It doesn’t care about your comfort. It cares about what remains.

Reputation.

Not reputation as in branding—no, not your polished speeches or your curated persona—but the real thing. The trail you carved through the world. The fractures. The fires. The fingerprints you left on other people’s lives and on the bones of the society you helped shape.

So let’s not pretend we don’t know what we’re looking at.

Charlie Kirk didn’t build anything resembling unity. He built a machine that fed on division and called it purpose. He understood the marketplace well: outrage sells, resentment scales, and if you wrap it all in the language of God, you get a shield thick enough to deflect accountability. Call him a martyr if you like—but understand what you’re really doing. You’re not honoring a life. You’re laundering it. You’re turning conflict into sainthood and hoping no one notices the blood under the robes.

And Lindsey Graham?

Oh, this one is almost too perfect—a case study in real-time moral collapse.

January 6th, 2021. You remember it. Don’t pretend you don’t. The Capitol breached. Windows shattered. Lawmakers running. A mob, fed and aimed, crashing into the spine of American democracy while the world watched.

And there he was—Lindsey Graham—standing in the aftermath, just long enough to taste the truth. Just long enough to recognize the line that had been crossed. For a flicker of a moment, there it was: clarity. "All I can say is count me out. Enough is enough." " President Trump has tarnished his presidency, —his actions were the problem."

And then—gone.

Because clarity is inconvenient when power is still on the table.

So he chose. Not once. Not reluctantly. Repeatedly. Publicly. Shamelessly.

He chose to abandon his sworn oath. Chose to defend what he had just witnessed. Chose to align himself with the very force that tried to rip the rule of law out by its roots. A full-circle performance so complete it would be impressive if it weren’t so corrosive. A 360-degree spin straight into complicity.

Call it loyalty if you need the comfort.

I’ll call it what it is: surrender dressed up as strategy. Betrayal with a handshake. A senator who saw the fire—and decided to warm his hands at it.

That is the reputation that survives him. Not the speeches. Not the eulogies. That moment. That choice. That pivot away from truth and into power.

And now—here come the mourners. The speechwriters. The myth-makers. Polishing. Softening. Recasting. Wrapping it all in language so gentle you’d almost believe nothing sharp ever happened.

But I am not gentle.

The dead don’t need your lies. The living do.

Because this isn’t about honoring them—it’s about protecting what they built. A political ecosystem that thrives on distortion. Where faith becomes a weapon, patriotism becomes a costume, and truth becomes… negotiable. Where martyrs are manufactured and patriots are declared by loyalty rather than by law.

Watch closely: the eulogies aren’t for the dead. They’re for the movement. They’re sermons in a church that cannot afford to admit what it has done.

And you are expected to sit quietly in the pews.

No.

I don’t celebrate death. Not violence. Not loss. Not the end of a human life. That’s not the game here.

But I refuse—absolutely refuse—to participate in the lie that death redeems a legacy.

It doesn’t.

It reveals it.

Both of these men made choices that sharpened division, normalized fear, and encouraged a nation to see itself not as a community, but as a battlefield. They helped build a culture where truth bends, where enemies are manufactured, and where loyalty to a man outweighs loyalty to the laws that hold a country together.

That is the structure they leave behind.

That is the inheritance.

And here’s the part no one likes to say out loud: silence helps it stand.

Every softened word. Every omitted truth. Every “now isn’t the time” becomes another brick in the myth.

But the *Hávamál* doesn’t wait for a convenient time.

It tells you plainly: your name is what survives you.

So the question was never how they died.

The question is what their names now carry.

Some names become guides.

Others become warnings.

And death—no matter how dressed up, no matter how reverently spoken of—does not get to choose which one you are.

You already did that.

Long before the final breath.

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The World Health Organization, together with French President Emmanuel Macron, has issued a joint statement urging governments to impose stricter controls on digital platforms.

The move, presented as a way to protect children’s health, centers on mandatory age verification systems and redesigned platform features.

 

According to the statement, digital environments including social media, gaming, and AI tools require “effective governance, age-appropriate design, and stronger safeguards.”

Officials highlight risks such as anxiety, sleep disruption, harmful content exposure, and data profiling, arguing that current designs are not neutral and demand intervention.

 

The practical outcome of these age-assurance requirements would be widespread identity checks (using government IDs, facial scans, or linked databases) to restrict access.

This infrastructure would apply across major platforms, effectively requiring verification for most users rather than minors alone.

 

Similar efforts are already advancing in countries like Australia, the UK, and Canada, where laws targeting under-16 access are raising concerns about broader adult identification mandates.

The proposal positions digital spaces as key determinants of public health, opening the door to ongoing regulation of content, algorithms, and user participation under international health guidelines.

Privacy advocates warn that linking real-world identities to online activity at this scale could limit anonymous expression and expand tracking capabilities, even as the statement acknowledges data collection risks.

 

This development signals a major shift toward controlled digital access under the guise of child protection.

Observers will be watching how governments translate these recommendations into policy and what it means for open internet use going forward.

 

As George Orwell wrote in 1984: “Big Brother is watching you.”

In the novel, that constant surveillance was framed as necessary protection for society…

The parallels are impossible to ignore.

#massawakening #pureblood

Building a stockpile doesn't require a spare room, a chest freezer, or a few hundred dollars dropped in one trip to a prepper supply store. Most of the food that actually keeps you fed longest is already sitting on the cheapest shelf at the grocery store it's just rarely the food people reach for first.

The trick to stockpiling on a tight budget isn't finding rare survival food. It's picking ordinary staples that are dirt cheap per calorie, don't need refrigeration, and hold up for years if you store them right. Here are 18 that do exactly that, starting with the ones that stretch a dollar the least and working up to the staples that should anchor your whole pantry.

18. Instant ramen (the plain blocks, not the cup versions)

A brick of plain instant noodles costs pennies and packs in enough carbs and sodium to get someone through a rough day. Skip the styrofoam cup versions — you're paying extra for packaging you don't need, and the blocks stack far more efficiently in a bin.

They're not nutritionally complete on their own, so pair them with a source of protein and something green if you can. Still, calorie-for-dollar, almost nothing beats them for pure emergency filler.

17. Powdered milk

A box of powdered milk turns into gallons of usable milk for a fraction of what jugs cost at the store, and unlike fresh milk it can sit in a cabinet for a year or more without spoiling.

It's not going to taste like the carton in your fridge, but it works fine in coffee, oatmeal, and baking, which covers most of what people actually use milk for day to day.

👉 A vacuum-sealed storage container keeps powdered milk from clumping once opened — worth grabbing if you're buying the big box size, since the built-in scoop and pour spout save a lot of mess.

16. Peanut butter

Peanut butter is one of the few budget staples that's both shelf-stable and genuinely calorie-dense, which matters a lot when you're trying to feed people on limited supplies. The natural, no-stir kind separates and needs more attention, so for long storage the regular shelf-stable version is the more practical choice.

A jar left unopened in a cool cupboard will comfortably outlast its printed date by a year or more.

15. Dried lentils

Lentils are one of the cheapest sources of protein per pound you can buy, and they cook faster than almost any other dried legume, which matters if fuel or time is limited. Store them in a sealed container away from light and they'll stay good for well over a decade.

14. Store-brand canned vegetables

Name-brand canned corn and green beans cost more for the same can, same shelf life, same nutrition. Buying the store brand instead of the name brand is one of the easiest ways to stretch a stockpiling budget without giving up anything.

Rotate older cans to the front of the shelf and buy a few extra every grocery trip instead of one large haul — it spreads the cost out and keeps your stock fresh.

13. White rice

Rice is the backbone of a lot of budget stockpiles for good reason: it's cheap in bulk, keeps for decades when sealed properly, and works as a base for almost any meal you build around it.

👉 Food-grade buckets with gasket lids are the standard way preppers store bulk rice and beans, since they keep out moisture and pests far better than the bag it came in.

12. Pinto and black beans

Dried beans bought in bulk cost a fraction of the canned version per serving, and while they take longer to cook, that trade-off saves real money over time. Beans and rice together form a surprisingly complete protein source, which is part of why the combination shows up in so many low-budget diets around the world.

11. Rolled oats

A large bag of plain rolled oats is one of the cheapest breakfasts available, and it stores well for a couple of years in a sealed container. Buying the plain bulk bag instead of individual flavored packets cuts the cost per serving dramatically — you can always add your own sweetener or dried fruit.

10. Table salt

Salt costs almost nothing and never really goes bad, but its value goes well past seasoning food. It's useful for preserving meat, making brine, and basic first aid, so a few extra bags are worth keeping even though they take up almost no space.

9. Granulated sugar

Sugar is inexpensive, stores indefinitely if kept dry, and works for cooking, baking, and even simple preservation methods like jam-making. It's one of the few pantry items where buying in bulk is almost pure savings, since it doesn't spoil while you use it down.

8. Bouillon cubes or powder

A small box of bouillon turns plain water and rice into something that actually resembles a meal, which matters more than people expect when the food on hand is limited and repetitive. It's cheap, it's light, and a little goes a long way.

7. Canned tuna or chicken

Canned meat costs more per pound than dried staples, but it's the easiest way to add real protein to a meal without any prep. Buying it on sale and rotating stock keeps the cost manageable, and a case tucked in the back of a closet barely takes up any room.

6. Pasta

Plain dried pasta is inexpensive, cooks quickly, and lasts for years in a sealed container. Buying the generic store brand instead of name brands can cut the price nearly in half with no real difference in how it holds up in storage.

5. Cooking oil

A bottle of vegetable or canola oil is cheap and essential for actually making shelf-stable staples like rice and beans taste like food. It has a shorter shelf life than most of this list, so buy a reasonable amount and rotate it rather than stockpiling years' worth at once.

4. Multivitamins

They're not food, but a bottle of basic multivitamins is a cheap insurance policy against the nutritional gaps that come from eating a lot of rice, beans, and pasta for an extended stretch. A single bottle costs less than a few restaurant meals and lasts a long time in a cool, dry spot.

Vitamins only go so far, though. A while back I went through a stretch where an actual pharmacy run just wasn't in the budget, and a bottle of vitamins wasn't going to do much for the stomach bug and the sleepless nights that came with it. I ended up piecing together some old remedies using stuff that was already sitting in my kitchen.

I found the whole thing laid out here, and it's the reason I haven't had to make an emergency pharmacy trip since.

👉 A simple over-the-door or stackable pantry organizer makes it much easier to actually track what you have and what's about to expire, which matters more on a budget stockpile than a large one — you can't afford to let anything go to waste.

3. Honey

Honey costs more upfront than sugar, but it never truly spoils, works as a natural preservative in some recipes, and has minor first-aid uses on top of being food. A single jar tucked away is a small splurge that pays off over a very long time.

2. Bulk flour

Flour is inexpensive per pound and the foundation for bread, tortillas, and thickeners for soups and gravies. It has more natural oil than something like white rice, so it doesn't last quite as long, but a well-sealed bag stored in a cool spot will comfortably last a year or more.

👉 A kitchen scale is worth the small cost here — portioning flour, rice, and beans by weight instead of guessing keeps a tight budget from quietly turning into wasted food.

1. Water storage containers

None of the food above matters much without water to cook and rehydrate it. Stackable, food-grade water containers are one of the few things on this list worth buying new rather than improvising with old bottles, since food-grade plastic won't leach chemicals into stored water over time.

👉 Stackable food-grade water storage containers are inexpensive relative to almost everything else on this list, and they're the one item that has no substitute if the tap stops working.

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Small Budget, Real Stockpile

None of these 18 items require a big-box membership or a specialty prepper retailer. They're sitting in the regular aisles of any grocery store, and most of them cost less per serving than the convenience foods people already buy without thinking twice.

The real strategy behind stockpiling on a tight budget isn't a single big shopping trip — it's buying a little extra of these staples every time you're already at the store, rotating what you have, and letting the pantry build itself over a few months instead of a few hundred dollars all at once.

 

 

A rare, antibiotic-resistant bacterium known as Cupriavidus gilardii was recently discovered in Cheyenne, Wyoming's reclaimed water system, leading to months-long disruptions at two municipal water reclamation plants.

After an extensive investigation, the problem traced back to wastewater associated with construction activities at Meta's $800 million AI data center project. While the contamination did not affect the city's drinking water supply, the incident raised concerns because the bacterium is uncommon, resistant to many antibiotics, and required significant cleanup efforts before normal operations could resume.

As artificial intelligence expands, it increasingly depends on massive physical infrastructure that consumes large amounts of electricity, water, land, and municipal resources. From a systems' perspective, powerful innovations are deployed rapidly because of their economic potential, while governance, oversight, and public understanding struggle to keep pace.

The result is that communities often discover unintended consequences only after infrastructure is already in place. How society manages the growing environmental and infrastructure impacts of AI development, who bears the risks when problems arise, and whether local communities have meaningful input before these projects reshape the systems they depend on are huge conversations we need to be having.

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When I awoke early Sunday morning the last thing on my mind was that 71-year-old Lindsey Graham would beat 84-year-old Mitch McConnell to the grave.

When I learned the news, I thought it was a misprint, that they meant to write “Mitch McConnell is dead.” Nope, it was Lindsey. The Grim Reaper has a sense of humour. Or is it the Graham Reaper?

The next shocker was to find out that Mitch McConnell is allegedly alive and kicking. Expect all kinds of conspiracy theories to grow up around that.

Even though both men were members of the same fraternity of human scum that made Donald Trump possible, it boils down to timing, reputationally speaking. Had McConnell died he would have done so hating Trump. Lindsey died in the full throes of abject Trump sycophancy.

Thanks to all the death in the air, there’s a famous quote attributed to Bette Davis that’s making the rounds again. It goes something like, “My mother taught me never to speak ill of the dead. Only good. Joan Crawford is dead. Good.” I think that line is particularly relevant today, but not for reasons you might think.

First, Bette Davis never uttered those words. The line is a complete phoney, invented from whole cloth and slapped on the Bette Davis legacy without her permission. Second, Bette Davis was a member of that baffling constellation of women who became gay icons, such as Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Cher and so on.

Lindsey Graham died a phoney, and he was almost certainly gay. I hasten to add that being gay is a perfectly normal thing for any human to be. I don’t condemn Lindsey Graham in the least for being gay, of course.

But I do condemn Lindsey Graham for denying he was gay and being a member of a deplorable cult of disgusting bigots who condemn homosexuality and want to make gay marriage illegal.

You might say that one of the skeletons in Lindsey Graham’s closet was the closet itself.

That is only the beginning of my condemnations of Lindsey Graham.

I condemn Lindsey Graham for being a member of another deplorable cult of disgusting bigots. The cult that threw away their lives of once-honourable public service, relatively speaking, in order to worship at the filthy feet of Donald Trump.

I can think of no other person who more completely erased his life by falling more abjectly on the disreputable Altar of Trump than Lindsey Graham.

Shakespeare had men like Graham in mind when he wrote, “The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones.”

When Trump first ran for the presidency back in 2015, Graham characterised him as a “jackass,” a “kook,” and a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.” His most famous quote at that time was, “If we nominate Trump [as Republican candidate for president], we will get destroyed ... and we will deserve it.” Lindsey certainly got that part right.

I further condemn Lindsey Graham for the fact that by 2018 Graham discovered the advantage, the power, the dominion and the downright glory of completely selling out to that fascist conman, the human scum Trump. Graham was happy to humiliate himself in order to touch the hem of Trump’s garment and be a part of his loathsome inner circle. Graham helped Trump by delivering the rapist Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

Then came January 6th, and Lindsey Graham saw the light that he always knew was there. Graham denounced Trump in the strongest terms for provoking the insurrection. He enunciated the ultimate heresy to the MAGA cult when he declared long and loud that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris lawfully won the 2020 election.

Lindsey Graham then averred that he and Trump were finished once and for all.

Not so fast. A later quick trip to Mar-a-Lago and a game of golf, in which he probably let Trump cheat, was the price of bringing Lindsey back into the fascistic Trump fold. From that day to his dying breath, Lindsey Graham remained a fanatical Trump cultist. All it took to bring him back one last and final time was just another payout of 30 pieces of silver, so to speak.

I condemn in the strongest terms Lindsey Graham for being a warmonger. He unreservedly supported Trump’s stupid war of choice against Iran, up to and including advocating the use of nuclear weapons against innocent human beings doing nothing to anybody beyond living their lives.

I express the same condolences to Lindsey Graham’s remaining family that Lindsey himself expressed to the 150 Iranian schoolchildren whose lives Trump destroyed. That is to say, nothing.

The same goes for the 13 members of America’s military who died in Trump’s stupid war. The same goes for the tens of thousands of Iranian civilians who needlessly died. The same goes for the lives of Nicole Good, Alex Pretti and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. And so on.

Nothing.

Michael Fanone, the Metropolitan Police Officer who was present on January 6 heroically defending the members of Congress at the US Capitol against the Trump mob during the attack, had this to say about the death of Lindsey Graham:

“Lindsey Graham is dead. I will always remember my first and only encounter with him when he looked the grieving mother of a dead police officer in the face and barked that he wasn’t going to listen to her blame Trump for January 6th. When I showed him my body cam footage from that day he turned away and looked at his phone. Rest in Piss you fucking worthless scumbag. If there is a hell I hope you’re in it.”

I would like to echo Mr Fanone’s sentiments by paraphrasing that quote falsely attributed to Bette Davis. My mother taught me never to speak ill of the dead. Only good. Lindsey Graham is dead. Good.

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