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The reason Israel paid compensation for the murder of 78 y/o US Palestinian Omar As'ad

The Israeli Defense Ministry agreed to pay NIS 500,000 ($140,000) to the family of 78-year-old Omar As'ad in compensation for his death which top Israeli officials acknowledged as a ‘grave moral failing.’ This horrible crime took place one year before October 7. In return, “the victim's family agreed to dismiss the claim [regarding the death that was] submitted to the court against the state,” according to the October 2022 article by the Times of Israel. The state of Israel had faced intense pressure from the US to investigate the death and bring those responsible to justice, which may explain when it agreed to make an exception by agreeing to the payment. To my knowledge, this is the first time the state of Israel compensates the family of a Palestinian killed by IDF soldiers or settlers. According to the IDF, two of the officers involved were released of their duty and third one was formally censured after a sharp response from the US State Department and a meeting between US ambassador Thomas Nides and IDF Chief of Staff for an update on the investigation. Omar immigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s and became a small business owner in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Nuke Power’s Demonic Trump/Stalin Demise

A satirical Bust of Stalin with Cigarette inn mpouth

Like Joe Stalin at his most deranged, Donald Trump has pitched atomic power toward the abyss.

And we are all attached. 

New US nukes have been priced out by solar, wind, geothermal, battery storage, efficiency, conservation.

More than 90% of the world’s added new energy capacity is renewable. 

BUT Trump’s billionaire backers owe huge inventories of coal, oil, gas and uranium.  They're desperate to cash out those fossil/nuke assets before renewables “strand” them all.

That they kill the planet—and us—is of no apparent concern.

And their decoy—nuclear power—is dead-ending.  

Zero large atomic reactors are under construction in the US.

The final four have failed.   

Two unfinished $9 billion reactor corpses lie dead at VC Summer, SC. 

Two more at Vogtle, GA, cost $40 billion and 14 years to build. 

Now they can’t compete with renewables, burn at 300 degrees Centigrade, spew radioactive carbon and waste. 

Unproven, uninsured Small Reactors can’t impact our energy supply for a decade or more.  

Russia-gate: How I changed my views

In thinking about my own views on the American Empire, I considered the process of changing my own views. This after being told that I never I change my views. Not true, as I once believed that Oswald shot Kennedy, which means in retrospect I believed the most obvious (albeit state supported) lie in history, but later came to understand that Kennedy was a threat to the Military Industrial Complex and the secret, permanent government.

Basically I have reversed my opinion on Russia-gate. I once believed it was obvious that Putin supported Trump's election in 2016 by hacking the Democratic Party server and releasing information damaging to Clinton's campaign as well as using social media to break away Bernie Sander's supporters by amplifying our hatred of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic party elite. I certainly believed it without reservation during the impeachment trial.

Marwan Barghouti's spirit remains unshaken

Marwan Barghouti, a prisoner of freedom for more than two decades, lives endless chapters of suffering behind the cold walls of prison where he is robbed of the warmth of his homeland, denied the embrace of his loved ones, and forced to confront the cruelty of his jailers who with all their might, try to break his resolve. Years of confinement have worn his body to the point of emaciation and affected his features, rendering them almost unlike their former self.

Election Protection & The Insanity Of A Nuke Corpse Restart

We start with MIMI GERMAN and her laureate poem, as always.

Then we hear from “America’s Mayor” HEIDI LAMPERT of the latest miasma from Waldport, Oregon.

Legendary democracy activist JOHN BRAKEY tells us of his anti-democracy arrest in Las Vegas.

Former Arizona state Senate president & Secretary of State KEN BENNETT gives us the 5-point program to guarantee American rights.

Gerrymandering expert MIKE HERSH gives us a report on the latest assault on our right to representative government.

Legendary activist MARION EDEY chimes in with support from John & Ken, and a call for a memorial service for the late great BOB ALVAREZ.

We then turn to the legendary nuclear guru ARNIE GUNDERSEN who fills us in on the sorry state of collusion at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

From western Michigan we get deep reportage from the great ROGER RAPOPORT on the insane attempt to re-start the Palisades reactor.

From southern Ohio VINA COLLEY gives us the latest nightmare at the Piketon uranium nightmare.  

From GRETA MALAISE we hear of the gutting of New York’s farmer’s markets.

Muhammad Ibrahim: 16 y/o Palestinian American held in 'Israel' without trial

This story should alarm every single American who values our constitutional rights, the basic element of democracy and defending your fellow American who is unfairly treated in a foreign country that claimed to be our closest ally. It is the sad story of Muhammad Ibrahim, a 16 y/o Palestinian American held in Israel without trial since last February. Journalist Ali Harb of Aljazeera said, "Israeli authorities have been detaining an American teenager for nearly six months without trial for allegedly throwing rocks at Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, a claim the 16-year-old’s family denies while expressing concern for his deteriorating health. Mohammed Ibrahim, a Palestinian-American who was born in Florida, has been completely cut off from his family since his arrest in February without visitation or telephone rights." I don't know where to start I fail to understand why no one care in America. The lack of concern and lack of humanity of what happening to Muhammad by public officials and media outlet is unbelievable.
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