Vince Taylor

Entrepreneur, economist, analyst, writer, activist, former devoted Bernie supporter,

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

During the "ceasefire," the colonial jewish supremacist entity:
1) destroyed 140,000 acres of Lebanese farmland, roughly the size of Chicago, or 78,000 football fields of cultivated food.
2) killed over 1.8 million poultry & livestock.
3) destroyed irrigation networks and other facilities used for food production.
4) they uprooted tens of thousands of acres of fruit trees, especially banana and olive.
5) displaced nearly 80% of Lebanon's farmers in the south.
6) destroyed more than 29,000 beehives
7) destroyed aquaculture—more than 2000 tons of fish.

They are destroying Lebanon's ability to feed itself, in addition to killing at least 2,727 people, and wounded 8,438.

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[Greta Berlin @Truegreta]

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A serious and deeply shocking UN report, jointly prepared by five prominent international organizations (intergovernmental organizations) in cooperation with three Israeli NGOs, is facing pressure, particularly from the US and the West, to prevent its release. Among the most prominent points in this "prisoner report" are:

1. 112 cases of rape were documented within Israeli prisons against female prisoners from Gaza. Three of these cases involved virgins, and the rapes were gang-raped. One of these women was transferred under international supervision to a secret location and is now pregnant.

2. Israeli forces executed 87 Gazan detainees inside their prisons by shooting them directly in the head with pistols and dumped their bodies in various areas of Gaza's streets.

3. Torture in the prisons is barbaric and insane, and what is happening is more horrific than what occurred in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and the secret prisons.

4. (Israel) deliberately bombed, as part of a chain of command, families and children belonging to Palestinian organizations. The occupation army approved, from the second day, a plan to exterminate the families of activists, and the target bank includes 150,000 civilians.

5. (Israel) made excessive use of mercenaries and contracted with 22 military service companies. There is an American ship that is essentially a floating morgue containing 1,327 bodies of mercenaries whose families have not yet been notified of their deaths.

6. The amount of gold and money stolen, according to secret army estimates, is approximately $370 million.

7. (70%) of the bombs dropped on Gaza were filled with depleted uranium. The soil in the Gaza Strip is heavily contaminated with uranium elements, containing 60% of the radioactivity of natural uranium. Uranium consists of three isotopes: uranium-234, uranium-235, and uranium-238. The depleted uranium dropped on Gaza contains the same types of radiation as natural uranium, but in lower quantities. The radiation emitted by depleted uranium is 40% of that emitted by natural uranium. Uranium-238, which constitutes 99.8% of the depleted uranium, emits alpha particles. Its half-life in Gaza is approximately 450 years. The smoke from the depleted uranium explosions caused cancer in the lungs of everyone who inhaled it.

8. (90%) of women and children in Gaza suffer from severe psychological trauma, and medical centers in the Strip have recorded more than 5,000 cases of complete mental breakdown, mostly among women who lost their children.

9. Approximately 213 (Israeli) pilots refused to carry out airstrikes on targets containing dozens of people. One pilot testified before an Israeli organization that he refused to bomb a residential tower in Tel al-Hawa where 48 children were located, as detected by thermal imaging aircraft. However, another pilot carried out the bombing 17 minutes later, killing everyone in the building. The result was the deaths of 128 civilians.

10. The purpose of establishing a temporary port is to facilitate the mass transfer of Palestinians and their passage to Europe. Three European countries are fully complicit in an agreed-upon plan to depopulate the Gaza Strip.

11. The Zionist war cabinet approved the use of starvation as a weapon in late November.

12. Israeli intelligence agencies made over 3 million phone calls to Gaza residents, threatening to bomb homes and kill families if they did not obtain field information.

13. Two Arab countries offered South Africa very tempting financial incentives in exchange for withdrawing the case from the Supreme Court.

14. The airdropping of aid to Gaza by Western aircraft was carried out based on advice from legal advisors to avoid accusations of complicity in genocide, especially since the weapons supplied were delivered without restrictions on their use against civilians.

[Vince Taylor @vtaylor100]

@Alee93ale @eshelm Excellent post!

[Save Gaza @Alee93ale]

Today we lost 10,000 followers and most of the posts were deleted due to exposing Israel's crimes in Lebanon and Palestine, please follow the account and write anything in the comments

[Vince Taylor @vtaylor100]

Disgusting

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢 Israeli strikes across Gaza kill at least 9, wound several

Israeli attacks across Gaza on Saturday and Sunday killed at least nine Palestinians, with multiple others wounded, including critically.

➤ Four Palestinians were killed in a strike in Gaza City on Saturday. They were identified as Ahmad Abu Shawish, Mohammad al-Swairki, Ramzi al-Shawwa, and Mostafa al-Sakani.

➤ On Sunday, a child was shot in the head in Mawasi Rafah, in southern Gaza (footage attached).

➤ At least one Palestinian was killed in a separate strike east of Gaza. Another was killed when a house collapsed in Gaza City.

➤ An additional Israeli strike on Gaza City killed three Palestinians, with many of the wounded reported in critical condition.

➤ At least six Palestinians were wounded by Israeli fire in tent camps in Rafah and Khan Younis.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: US job growth in February has been revised down from an initially reported -92,000 jobs to a total loss of -133,000 jobs.

This marks the biggest monthly US job loss since December 2020.

[Vince Taylor @vtaylor100]

@matthewstoller You are very right. Thank you.

[Vince Taylor @vtaylor100]

@esaagar Hope not.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The only worthwhile “western culture” in modern times is culture which rejects and opposes the dystopian nature of western civilization and the abuses of the western empire.

Western civilization is what’s bombing Iran. It’s what’s strangling Cuba. It’s what’s torching Lebanon. It’s what’s exterminating Palestine. It’s what stole Venezuela. It’s what’s plundering the labor and resources of the global south. It’s what’s keeping the systems in place which are killing our ecosystem and driving us closer to nuclear armageddon.

There is no sane and truthful position to have toward all this but vehement rejection.

Westerners — particularly white westerners in nations with colonialist histories like the United States and Australia — often struggle to find their cultural moorings. It can be difficult to find an authentic position from which to express art and take your stand as a personality when you feel culturally rootless and historically ungrounded. It causes a kind of dissonance with our lives that can haunt us until we die.

The best way to resolve this dissonance is to take your stand in opposition to the perverse society into which you were born. Express from the standpoint of resistance to this horrifying nightmare civilization that is fueled by human blood.

We live in a sick and intensely mind-controlled dystopia where everything is fake and stupid. Mainstream culture is a nonstop celebration of the vapid and inane. The movies glorify cops and soldiers. The music exalts capitalism, consumerism, egotism and frivolity. The products are made by wage slaves and the fuel is obtained by war. The food is designed to reap profits rather than to nourish. The news media is designed to propagandize rather than to inform.

It’s a disgusting civilization, to be honest. The more you learn about it, the more repulsive it becomes.

How could anyone relate to the human experience from inside this hellscape in a truth-based way, except by opposition? The only way to participate in “western culture” is to help create a new kind of culture which stands squarely in opposition to it.

As Terence McKenna once said, “We have to create culture. Don’t watch TV. Don’t read magazines. Don’t even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow… Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”

The only way to create culture with sincerity in this dystopia is by forcefully rejecting its fraudulence and abusiveness, and embracing revolution and resistance. To do anything else is to give tacit approval to the horrific nature of this civilization, and it will always ring a bit hollow and dissonant, because it is ignoring the elephant in the room. The elephant in the room is the unacceptable depravity and deceit that’s going on all around us.

So if you want to make art, make revolutionary art. If you want to express yourself, express your defiance of the western empire. Oppose the wars. Oppose the militarism. Oppose the imperialism, the ecocide, the injustice, the tyranny.

That’s the only way to be authentic in an inauthentic society.

[CODEPINK @codepink]

🚨NOW: Hundreds are protesting outside the U.S. Embassy in London, England against U.S. terror inflicted from Cuba to Iran to Palestine to Venezuela to Lebanon

U.S. OUT OF EVERYWHERE

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

I’ve been studying the punishment bureaucracy and suing judges, prosecutors, and police across the U.S. for more than 15 years. One defining feature of our legal system is that there is rarely any accountability for massive corruption and criminality by those with power. This corruption is utterly pervasive—it is completely endemic. And one of the best ways to understand any institution or set of institutions is to examine who those institutions choose to punish and for what. And then to look at whose crimes those systems ignore.

[Vince Taylor @vtaylor100]

@MaxBlumenthal I hope so.

[Vince Taylor @vtaylor100]

@tparsi @DougHenwood What stands out in the replies is the number that are clearly not written.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨NEWS. Israeli strike kills Christian priest who refused to abandon his village in south Lebanon

Israel assassinated Father Pierre Al-Rai, the parish priest of the Christian village of Qlayaa in southern Lebanon today.

When Israel ordered the forced evacuation of dozens of towns across southern Lebanon, he urged that the area remain free of armed activity and warned civilians should not be placed in danger. Speaking outside his church three days ago, he declared: “None of us carries weapons. The only weapons we carry are peace, love, and prayer.”

Qlayaa’s mayor blamed Israel for the killing and said no Hezbollah fighters were present in the town. He told LBCI that an Israeli drone strike killed another Christian civilian nearby after Israel’s displacement order for the town.

(Video by @translatingpal. More details in reply)

[Vince Taylor @vtaylor100]

@libertarian_ass @gabriel_zucman @SenSanders Over 10 years.

[Vince Taylor @vtaylor100]

@gabriel_zucman @fshakir @SenSanders This is a modest tax on those with more than they can imagine spending. A billion is a thousand MILLION dollars. After a 5% tax, a billionaire would still have 950 mil. dollars left. And most of them earn more than 5 percent on their wealth every year, so they’d be richer anyway.

[Jon Hoffman @Hoffman8Jon]

Americans need to understand that this war with Iran is happening because of the US-Israel special relationship.

For decades, US Middle East policy has prioritized an Israeli agenda over American interests.

This relationship is not an asset for the United States—it is a costly liability. Nothing the United States receives receives from Israel justifies the tremendous political, economic, and human costs of this dysfunctional relationship.

American and Israeli interests are not identical, yet the pathologies of the special relationship have distorted Washington’s ability to differentiate between them.

Policymakers’ fears about the political costs of breaking with Israel, combined with decades of intense domestic lobbying and the policing of free speech in the United States, have pushed the country into the morass it now finds itself in.

The special relationship has allowed Israel to act with impunity by shielding them politically, economically, and militarily.

Washington has surrendered its own strategic autonomy by allowing Israel to steer US Middle East policy toward its own objectives—so much so that one would be hard-pressed to tell that this relationship is between a patron and a client state.

Thankfully, many are beginning to realize Israel is not a strategic asset for the United States. This is particularly the case with my generation and the one below me. We demand real policy change.

This is also why Israel has so aggressively pushed for this over the past two years in particular. They see the changing winds in the United States. Many admitted this fact to me when I was in Israel in October/November last year. They want their war while they can still get it.

Trump took the bait.

[Vince Taylor @vtaylor100]

@BillAckman Indeed I do, as will most alive, discriminate people.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

🇬🇧 🇺🇸 SUNDAY POLL — Do you think the UK should be providing military support to the United States for its attacks on Iran❓

Please repost after voting.

[Vince Taylor @vtaylor100]

@MarkJCarney I completely disagree with your blaming Iran. Israel and the US attacked Iran. Why are you blaming Iran? I previously thought you had an independent view of the US. I’m sad to see you extinguish that view.