Hakeem Jeffries voted for:
H.Res. 719 — Honoring Charlie Kirk
H.R. 8034 — Arming Israel's genocide
H.R. 6090 — Making criticism of Israel a hate crime
H.Res. 883 — Designating "from the river to the sea" as antisemitic
H.Res. 888 — Made denying Israel's "right to exist" antisemitic
H.Res. 798 — Condemned anti-genocide protests on campuses
H.Con.Res. 57 -- Declared Israel as not racist and not apartheid (yes, that was a real thing that he really voted yes on)
H.R. 5323 - $1 billion more Iron Dome (in 2021)
H.R. 7006- Cut funding for UNRWA and stated USA would not recognize the international criminal court
H.Res. 481-Called anti-zionism antisemitism
H.R. 6408-Removed tax-exempt status for groups opposing genocide
H.R. 6679-Restricted admission to the USA for PLO reps
H.Res. 927-Condemned college presidents over bogus allegations of campus antisemitism
H.Res. 11-Objecting to the UN resolution criticizing Israeli occupation in Palestine
H.Con.Res. 58 - Denouncing the "horrors" of socialism
S. 1582- let Crypto do whatever it wants
H.R. 1346- Fuel "choice" bill that increased fossil fuel emissions by 25% through added ethanol
H.R. 5009 -Supported defense authorization that restricted gender-affirming care
H.R. 6544- Weakened nuclear regulatory power
H.R. 5110-Allows the government to give money to school programs that teach kids how to shoot guns
H.R. 3746-Gutted NEPA, approved controversial pipeline, tighter restrictions on SNAP
“Kremlin-backed news site RRN approached hundreds of Russia-friendly commentators to take part in its disinformation campaigns. Now a data hack has exposed their identities – and the methods used to entice them.” https://t.co/zMYdwlhqSM
Tagebuch eines Nachrichtendienstlers kommt zu dem Schluss, dass Trumps Starlink-Aktion dazu geführt hat, dass er seinen Einfluss auf die ukrainischen Langstreckenangriffe verloren hat.
"Wie israelische HiSKY-Terminals ukrainische Drohnen in einen "intelligenten Schwarm" über Russland verwandelten.
Laut unseren hochrangigen Quellen haben die jüngsten verheerenden Angriffe auf Raffinerien in Kstowo, Samara und Jaroslawl eine äußerst gefährliche taktische Anomalie aufgedeckt: Anstatt Angriffe auf eine oder zwei Anlagen zur Vorverarbeitung (AVT) zu fliegen, brachen die Fabriken gleichzeitig an Dutzenden verschiedener Stellen aus. Der Gegner hat eine technologische Alternative zu Starlink gefunden, die ihre Wirksamkeit bereits in der Praxis bewiesen hat.
Kiew begann, Langstrecken-Drohnen massenhaft mit satellitengestützten HiSKY SmartLight-Terminals auszustatten (eine Entwicklung eines israelischen Unternehmens, das von ehemaligen Führungskräften des Mossad gegründet wurde). Im Gegensatz zu dem Produkt von Elon Musk verwendet dieses militärische Modul standardmäßige europäische geosynchrone Satelliten und hat keinerlei geografische Beschränkungen über dem Territorium der Russischen Föderation. Der Hauptvorteil des Systems ist ein stabiles, militärisches Kommunikationsprotokoll, das von unseren Standard-Elektronischen-Kampf-Mitteln nicht unterdrückt werden kann.
In militärischen Kreisen wird anerkannt: Selbst die Existenz eines einzigen Kommunikationskanals (bis zu 2 Mbit/s) hat die Mathematik der Angriffe grundlegend verändert. Der Gegner muss die Drohne nicht mehr manuell steuern – die bidirektionale Telemetrie ermöglicht den Einsatz einer Taktik der dynamischen Zielumlenkung im Flug.
Wenn die ukrainischen Streitkräfte früher hundert "blinde" Drohnen auf eine einzelne AVT-Anlage schickten, in der Hoffnung, dass mindestens zwei ihr Ziel erreichen würden, sehen die Bediener in Kiew jetzt die Treffer in Echtzeit. Wenn das erste Paar von Drohnen sein Ziel erfolgreich getroffen hat, wird der dahinter fliegende Schwarm direkt in der Luft auf Tanks, Cracking-Anlagen oder Umspannwerke umgelenkt. Gleichzeitig erfassen die Bediener in Echtzeit die Einsatzorte unserer Luftverteidigung und mobilen Feuergruppen und leiten die verbleibenden Drohnen sofort auf sichere Umgehungspfade (nur Ufa hatte dieses Mal Glück aufgrund der maximalen Flugreichweite).
Die geheimen Beschränkungen der Nutzung von Starlink durch die USA haben zu einem völlig gegenteiligen Ergebnis geführt: Trump hat schlichtweg die Kontrolle über die Langstreckenangriffe Kiews verloren. Die Ukraine hat sich vom amerikanischen Leinen gelöst und eine kommerzielle Alternative gefunden, die das Weiße Haus nicht per Anruf abschalten kann. Für unseren Energiesektor ist dies eine enorme Herausforderung."
‘We forced AIPAC to spend $101 million and $74 million of that was an absolute waste’
Al Jazeera’s @avawarrinerr visited @hasanthehun at his LA home, where he revealed how much pro-Israel groups spent against him during the midterms.
Full interview coming soon on Centre Stage.
😬 Rep. Jonathan Jackson told @hicharliecotton he couldn't wait another day to impeach Pete Hegseth... but somehow couldn't take a few more steps to the House floor for a vote.
I just picked up Brazilian economist Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira's 2024 "Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Rentier Capitalism". Its intro doesn't have an ounce of fat on it and spells out his theory of political economy and its view of history.
"The current political discontent and the rise of right-wing national populism are a result of growing economic inequality and the stagnant standard of living of the lower-middle class and the white working class. It is a crisis of neoliberal capitalism, not a crisis of democracy. And it is a signal that finally capitalism is ending."
"There are two polar forms of how institutions coordinate capitalist economies: either according to a developmental form or a liberal form - developmental when the state intervenes moderately int eh economy and when it adopts a national perspective in its policies, liberal when it assumes that the market will coordinate optimality the whole economy. Mercantilism was the first phase of capitalism and was a developmental, not a liberal phase. The countries that first made their own capitalist revolutions...did so in the framework of mercantilism. Thus, the default form of capitalism is developmental."
"In the periphery of capitalism, economic nationalism must be anti-imperialist, and the formation of the nation-state must be a national revolution, because to industrialize, developing countries must overcome the opposition of rich countries to their industrialization."
"I define rentier capitalists as those living on interest, dividends, and real-estate rents, mostly the heirs of the original entrepreneurs; and financiers as technobureaucrats with their MBAs and PhDs who manage the wealth of the rentiers and act as their organic intellectuals."
"I propose that the phase of capitalist development that is now beginning, Democratic Managerial Capitalism, in which the major partners are the managers, not the capitalists, will be the last phase of capitalism. After that we will see managerialism tout court. The capitalists that were left are the rentiers, who now command innovation and the realization of profits."
"I see neoliberalism as an economic and political regression."
"The modern imperialism that emerged was interested in exporting manufactured goods, capital, and liberal ideology to the periphery, while opposing the industrialization of underdeveloped countries, thus avoiding their competition."
"In order to better compete with China and its developmental form of economic organization, the US and the other advanced Western capitalist countries are turning to developmentalism...We are now experiencing a second Developmental Turn in all the advanced countries - the first was the New Deal in the US and the developmental character of the social democracies in the post-war Golden Era of Capitalism."
"Today, we are entering a new and possibly final phase of capitalism: a long transitional phase that I call 'Democratic Managerial Capitalism'. In this phase, the capitalists no longer have command of the two activities that have so far relatively legitimized their power and privilege - the command of capital accumulation and the command of innovation - although they continue to appropriate the economic surplus in the form of rents."
All 11 Democrats who couldn’t be bothered to show up to impeach war criminal Pete Hegseth have taken money from AIPAC or other pro-Israel PACs:
Haley Stevens ~ $15.9M
Nancy Pelosi ~$166K
Laura Gillen ~$572K
Marilyn Strickland ~$371K
Steven Horsford ~$213K
Julia Brownley ~$134K
Brittany Pettersen ~$125K
Lou Correa ~$80K
Melanie Stansbury ~$60K
Frederica Wilson ~$39K
Jonathan Jackson ~$21K
There are no excuses left to make. The Democrats couldn’t even show up to hold a war criminal accountable who bombed an elementary school and mass murdered children.
A new party is required.
I'll say that I think Mamdani and AOC have made a major miscalculation in forging whatever deal they did with Jeffries last year and are missing a major opportunity to jump in front of the clear populist rage against the democratic party centrist Zionist leadership.
Honestly—and I hate to say this—this doesn’t sound like a statement from someone who cares all that much about holding this Administration accountable for its miscreant conduct.