David Biasotti

Former member of the obscure LA folk-rock group Maxfield Parrish, has written for Ugly Things and Flashback magazines.

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal.

Six days later, six days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get, “The largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world.” A few more weeks go by, and then the U.S. government, run by their father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project. In Kazakhstan.

All this while you pay more for gas, for groceries, for health care, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[James Hogg @JamesAHogg2]

I haven't been able to banish this from my mind since I first saw it, so I may as well post it again.

Good morning.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

The chair of Israel's "Hamas rape" commission, Cochav Elkayam Levy, has delivered a highly revealing response to me.

After I exposed her for promoting a 2022 photo of dead Kurdish fighters as women raped by Hamas on Oct 7, she did not bother to refute me, nor did she explain her mistake or issue a correction.

Instead, she tacitly acknowledged that her evidence was fake and simply thanked me for the publicity. Then she blocked me.

Elkayam Levy therefore acknowledges that Israel's commission on October 7 sex crimes has no interest in conducting a factual inquiry, or upholding basis standards of review. It is nothing more than a propaganda tool designed to distract from and justify the titanic crimes Israel is committing in Gaza. Indeed, its conclusions were determined by the political imperatives of the Israeli military, not by any evidence.

Elyakam Levy also felt compelled to defend her record of consulting for Israel's Attorney General on breaking Palestinian prisoner hunger strikes. While claiming she "advocated for the protection of prisoners rights" in a 2015 paper, she actually weaponized human rights law to advocate force feeding as a mechanism of protecting their "right to life."

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

In my book, Goliath, I recounted how a former Israeli military intelligence analyst told me he nearly lost his mind during the second Lebanon invasion in 2006, when the army ran out of targets, and his unit was asked to concoct them. This meant finding any civilian structure in southern Lebanon to hit, and obliterating family homes, hospitals, apartment blocs - anything. In a state of anguish, he asked a friend to break his leg with a 2x4 so he could escape military service, but the bone refused to give in. He eventually left Israel for Germany and became involved in anti-Zionist activism.

A handful of Israeli intelligence sources involved in the current assault Gaza appear to have developed similar issues with their military's targeting system. In anonymous interviews with the left-liberal @972mag, they disclosed how Israel uses AI to generate targets out of the Gaza population register. They call it a "mass assassination factory."

Under the AI system, known as "The Gospel," any home or neighborhood containing even a low level Hamas activist becomes a target, and the civilian death toll is known in advance: "Nothing happens by accident,” said one source. “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed — that it was a price worth paying in order to hit [another] target. We are not Hamas. These are not random rockets. Everything is intentional. We know exactly how much collateral damage there is in every home.”

As is well known, Israel's Unit 8200 tracks cellphone signals to find targets. In the current round of fighting, if the army detects the cell signal of a Hamas target in a densely populated area like the Jabaliya refugee camp, "we shell based on a wide cellular pinpointing of where the target is, killing civilians. This is often done to save time, instead of doing a little more work to get a more accurate pinpointing," a source told 972.

The intelligence sources not only state that most targets in Gaza contain zero military value, but that the logic of "human shields" used to justify slaughtering civilians could easily be turned back on Israeli society. “I remember thinking that it was like if [Palestinian militants] would bomb all the private residences of our families when [Israeli soldiers] go back to sleep at home on the weekend,” reflected a soldier in an intel unit.

I have been saying since the start of the Israel military's blitzkreig on Gaza that its conduct is influenced less by strategic guidance than by a political imperative to satiate the outrage and bloodlust of the Jewish Israeli public. This too is confirmed by an intelligence source: "There is a feeling that senior officials in the army are aware of their failure on October 7, and are busy with the question of how to provide the Israeli public with an image [of victory] that will salvage their reputation.”

[David Biasotti @dbiasotti]

@succession Among the finales of the truly great series -- the Wire, the Sopranos, you name it -- I think this one surely ranks as one of the most naratively elegant & emotionally satisfying.

[Mary B (TeslaSpotlight) @MaryBteslaspot]

Such arrogance. "U.S. military stages 'Elephant Walk' training with F-16 fighters." https://t.co/W2VEWrgers

[Amanda Gorman @TheAmandaGorman]

They won't call it a ban. Yet not only has my book been moved, but now elementary schoolers must request a copy from a specialist at its new site AND then also PROVE their reading level before seeing a copy. All these hurdles for a young reader just to access a poem in history written for them. @MDCPS , history is not ours to hoard from children. History has always been theirs to make. And the more they're empowered to know our yesterdays, the more prepared they will be to lead us into tomorrow.

[Route @Route_News]

Steve Pringle sits down with the members of House of All for an interview for The Quietus. It's pointed out that 4 of the 6 around the table have books about The Fall published by Route. Would love to make it a Full House (of All) 😉 https://t.co/AkjrxxtFkm

[David Biasotti @dbiasotti]

@Will_Fuzz Good to be reminded that the Martin electric actually once existed! The only people I remember playing one were Stephen Stills in Buffalo Springfield & Skip Spence in Moby Grape. So, you’re in pretty good company, Will.

[Joe Heim @JoeHeim]

On a visit to Joe Bussard’s legendary basement earlier this year I made this short video of him playing what he considered one of the greatest recordings of all time, Blind Willie Johnson’s “Dark was the night, Cold was the ground.” RIP Joe

[David Biasotti @dbiasotti]

@bestshow4life Hearing today's show live was a rare treat. Among other things, thanks for playing the Eyelids track. I'd never heard of them before, & now can't get enough of them. Not the first time you've altered the trajectory of my eardrums. Thanks!

[David Biasotti @dbiasotti]

@Warcraft A student schooled me on the Japanese word for "eyeball."

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Roger Waters speaks out in support of Julian Assange...

[Christian Nightmares @ChristnNitemare]

Jesus Christ...

[Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt]

What’s a better digital comics app than @comixology? Is @CBR good? I need to switch now because holy SHIT.

[David Schmid @DavidSchmid1]

I need a whole album of this asap.

[Miki Berenyi @berenyi_miki]

Just been sent this link to a Lush gig and it’s like watching someone else’s life. I’d forgotten that we were actually an exciting live band

https://t.co/GeDAysZeye

[Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein]

I'm retiring. It took me 3,000 pages to say start this guy did in a tweet.

[Kevin W. @Brink_Thinker]

RT for two who stormed Normandy, now 100 🇺🇸

[Jonathan  @JWeber988]

@atrupar https://t.co/YORlev6kwi