HILARIOUS SELF-OWN BY ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST OBNOXIOUS PERSONS

 

 

    "Free Palestine"

FOR THOSE NOT FAMILIAR with the American Rabbi, Jacob Shmuley, (aka Jacob Shmuel Boteach) you are much better off than anyone who has had to listen to this aggravating blowhard for any length of time. It’s all you can do to not want to punch him in the face, even through your screen! It seems his schtick is to provoke any non-Jew into a response that he can then say was an example of antisemitism and look how he/her/they treat me and hate Jews. In this “Due Dissidence” podcast, hosts Keaton Weiss and Russell Dobular (both Jewish, BTW) play a clip of Rabbi Shmuley, apparently on vacation in Italy, taking to task an ‘obvious’ antisemite drinking a cappuccino at an outdoor café. The café is located next to a 500-year-old Ferrara Synagogue which serves as a memorial to the Jews from that area who were sent to concentration camps during WWII. Shmuley, who speaks while someone records his encounter with a ‘fascist’, coffee-drinking Jew-hater, is beside himself when his tirade doesn’t get the reaction he was looking for. The vid is both hilarious as well as informative.* 

 

Rabbi Shmuley, speaking loudly about the memorial and the suffering of the Jewish people during the war, then turns his ire on a café patron sitting at a table next to the synagogue/memorial, berating him for being there and disrespecting, apparently, all the Jews who died. Shouting at the café patron, he becomes apoplectic when the man calmly says two words to him in English: “Free Palestine”. The exchange goes on for a minute or two with the man calmly repeating the phrase, each time sending the rabbi into hysterical hissy fits. The gentleman didn’t respond to Shmuley’s provocations with angry words or actions, and that cut the rabbi off at the knees, leaving him sputtering and hissing like a wet cat caught in a rain shower until he (finally!) moves on. Priceless! 

  

CHEERS, JAKE.   _____________________________________

 

    Rabbi Shmulry on his soapbox again

*I AM REMINDED that putzes like Shmuley are part of a network of Jewish-Israeli organizations and individuals (“Hasbara”) that work to promote Jewish emigration to Israel by propagandizing how fantastic their society is and how dangerous and antisemitic the rest of the world is beyond Israel’s borders. [But, isn’t Israel the only country that does NOT have fixed borders? I guess it makes it easier to take over regions of neighbouring countries, claiming their land is yours. Just sayin’. Ed.] 

BUT, the meat of the matter here is that these “Hazbara” (“explaining”) folk seek to increase the Jewish population of Israel through propaganda. Of course they ignore the nearly 280,000 educated, skilled and prosperous Jewish-Israelis who have left the country for places like Crete, Cyprus, Greece, Thailand, and the United States since October 7, 2023, leaving a population that mostly favours extremists like Atamar Ben-Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich and Rabbi Shmuley. Which is worrying, when you consider that Israel is a nuclear weapons possessing nation with who knows how many deadly warheads. With the level of conflict and mayhem it has caused in the region these last few years, Israel does not seem as safe a place to live for a Jew as is advertised by Hasbara publications and through informal actors like Rabbi Shmuley who preach that under every rock there’s an antisemite waiting to strike.

 

 

RANT: SLIDING DOWN A SLIPPERY SLOPE

  

A SHORT NOTE ABOUT HOW EVERYTHING seems to be going faster and faster these days, one example being the rapid deterioration of the United States, with its hollowed-out industrial base (all those jobs and businesses going over seas to low wage countries) and the incredible debt burden now standing at over twenty trillion dollars and nearly a trillion per year in interest payments! As well, the decline of the dollar as the global currency of trade, once a given in the decades following WWII is on the ropes. Now, more and more countries are using local currencies to evade the financial strictures^* imposed on them by the United States and its 'weaponized' dollar. 

👉The system of global trade and finance, brought into being during the 1944 Bretton Woods¹ summit where the post war years were envisioned and shaped, that system is over, as many commetators suggest. It's another data point exposing the failing American empire as it loses it financial mojo, along with its vaunted military might, as seen with its current military fiasco venture in the Persian Gulf. Again, the emperor or the empire has no clothes and everyone can see behind the curtain whose really in charge.

MOST TRAGICALLY, and most costly in blood and treasure (on all sides) was the “War on Terror” begun in in the  shadow of 9/11 during the Bush presidency. America spent trillions of dollars over nearly two decades in failed wars of choice halfway around the world. The cost of these wars has all but bankrupted the country.

  

AS WE GO FORWARD, marching bravely towards our imagined future, we fail to realize that the carpet of the past behind us is rolling up ever faster, what with nuclear Armageddon or the climate crisis increasingly at pace with our forward march. And when we finally see, too late of course, that the past is catching up to us, we then sprint forward in a desperate attempt to outrun the consequences of our actions. Eventually we’ll either run out of carpet or be rolled up entirely and thrown into the dustbin of history unless we heed the lessons of those who have gone before us whereby civilizations of one sort or another, large or small, do indeed come to an end, strangled to death by hubris or willful blindness, or both. 

And endings are rougher than beginnings because there is a lot to lose empire-wise. People and politicians cling to things that are precious to them and hold fast against the winds of change as they scour away everything, or most everthing, that remains entrenched and unwilling to change.  The question is: Will we remain victims of the coming changes or will we adapt and change ourselves? Only time will tell.

 

SOME SAY, tongue in cheek mostly, that the next species to emerge into sentience and roam the world will be racoons (Procyon lotor), a mammalian example of creatures that can survive in most environments, especially where there are garbage bins to tip over. Personally, I’d like to see whales, another mammalian, especially friendly Grays (Eschrichtius robustus) or giant Blues (Megaptera novaeangliae), take the lead on things as they leap forward into conscious self-awareness—though maybe they’re already there, aware of themselves, aware of us as they patiently wait in deep ocean waters for the handoff, so to speak, from Homo sapiens when we crash and burn and go down the tube, nuclear Armageddon or the climate crisis being the top two contenders that may bring about our demise. (There are more waiting in the wings, of course). 

👉Thus, we race desperately forward to our imagined future, not heeding the looming consequences stemming from our actions, both past and present, that doggedly follow us. We will need to endure those consequences, to reap what we have sown, and pay our debts in the decades ahead, debts to the world we share with so many living beings (plant and animal alike). We must pay our debts to fellow humans we have abused, past and present. We must pay our debts to the environment, to our world and to Gaia, and those debts must be paid in full. 

  

Cheers, Jake. _______________________________________ 

 

* “The Bretton Woods Agreement was a 1944 pact that set up a new global system of fixed exchange rates tied to the U.S. dollar and gold.” (Investopia) Bretton Woods is in the state of New Hampshire.

 

1. One example being the United States using “sanctions” which are illegal under international law because they have been imposed unilaterally by the US and not approved by the United Nations or other international regulatory bodies. 

👉Currently, some thirty countries (Canada, too!) are under sanctions of one sort or another imposed on them by the US administration, which, in the end primarily benefit rich oligarchs at the expense of the rest of us. {Nice. Ed.] 

Nearly one-third of the world's population, nearly 2.8-billion people are under US sanctions, which is an extraordinary number and a symptom of American hubris and the blind faith most of its citizens and elites share, namely that their country acts as a benign entity in its role as “global hegemon”, a role that was activated in the early 1990s when the Soviet Union collapsed and the “Cold War” ended, leaving the door open for America to emerge as the world’s sole “superpower”. Today, that role is being challenged by an increasing number of countries that also are turning their backs on the US dollar and the heavy hand of the United States that imposes its order as ‘top dog’ in the world. 

 

                                               AT THE CLINIC WITH A JOB TO DO

(Gratuitous sexual humour. Enjoy.😏) 

 

 

QUOTES: Pete Hegseth, U.S. "Secretary of War"*

 

IN HIS IRAN WAR UPDATE during a March 24 White House press conference, Pete Hegseth, the self-styled “Secretary of War”*, in another of his speechifying fever dreams, proffered this boner:  

 

”We negotiate with bombs.”

 

 

 When will these people learn to shut-up?

 

 CHEERS, 

JAKE.😂 ________________________________________________

 

* As I understand it, the title “Secretary of War” and renaming the Department of Defence as the “Department of War” do not have legal standing. Any change to Cabinet and department titles must be voted on in the American legislature. This was not done. But puffed-up peacocks like Hegseth can’t be bothered by a little thing like the American Constitution. I think Hegseth would make a fetching entrance before the cameras dressed as Darth Vader. "Darth Pete". It has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?💀

 

FUN FACT: “In 2018 Hegseth’s mother, Penelope, sent him an email that said: ‘You are an abuser of women – that is the ugly truth, and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth.’” (Guardian)

👉Me thinks the dear boy has some mommy issues to work through. Perhaps he should return to being a Fox News weekend newscaster. We'd all be the better for it if that happens.😆

 

 

 

 

RANT: WHEN OUT ON THE ROOF THERE AROSE SUCH A CLATTER…

   

  

WHO SAYS SANTA DOESN’T KNOW* who’s been naughty or nice? Well, I guess I do. Because the rewards for being bad pay off so much better than anything parlayed by lame do-gooders who appear on our screens and in the news every so often. And it’s hard to deny that karma—while it may be there in some undetermined future—for the here-and-now it mostly sucks. 

 

TAKE the example of the direct-action protest group, “Palestine Action”, who have staged demonstrations, most notably at Elbit Systems factories in Britain that manufacture drones and other war materiel for Israel. But, the group came to international attention in June this year, when five members gained access to the Oxfordshire airfield at RAF Brize Norton and spray-painted the turbine engines of two Voyager aircraft used in air-to-air refuelling by Israeli warplanes during their bombing sorties over Gaza. It was the subsequent over-reaction by the Starmer government that had many observers taking note.

ACTING QUICKLY, the government pushed through legislation that “proscribed” or officially banned Palestine Action (PA) within the United Kingdom, labelling it a “terrorist entity”. Under the new law, there can be no public support given to the group, or funds and other aid supplied to it. Of course, no one can join the group that has had its website and social media presence scrubbed. Even expressing support for the group in peaceful protests at Parliament Square in London, wearing tee-shirts and carrying placards with “I am against Genocide. I support Palestine Action” on them can get you arrested under Britain’s expanded “terror laws”. And wearing keffiyehs and chanting “From the River to the Sea, Palestine shall be Free” are definite no-nos, condemned by the government as promoting violence and anti-semitism. 

IN BRITAIN, the crackdown on protesters demonstrating their support for the banned direct-action group have reached absurd levels with over 2100 arrested in England and Wales since the June proscription of PA with 2,000 expected to go to trial in 2026. So far, one-hundred and twenty have been charged with “low level terrorism offences”¹, including 83-year-old Reverend Susan Parfitt and a mannequin. They have been charged under the terrorism act and are at ground zero for the government’s draconian legislation curbing freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.

 

AS FOR Palestine Action, itself, it did not target individuals in any manner. No threats or incitements to violence were made. They attacked physical assets—buildings, machinery, and now aircraft. Such activity is not a threat to national security, and to use a charge under the terrorism statutes is a dangerous overreach by the government. Rather, PA’s direct actions are in the realm of property damage, which are criminal acts, granted, but ones that can be adjudicated and punished under general criminal law procedures. Observers conclude the government’s use of proscription and charging Palestine Action (and its growing number of supporters) with ‘terrorism’ under an ever-expanding definition of the word, is a way to get around the likely prospect that juries, impanelled in trials of PA members accused of criminal damage to property belonging to a company or the state, entities currently supplying the tools of genocide to rogue, apartheid Israel, would consistently fail to convict them on anything larger than a parking ticket.

 

IT IS SHAMEFUL AND DISTURBING that in the land of the Magna Carta, where English Common Law was introduced to the world, political pigmies currently in power are doing their damndest to chuck a thousand years of jurisprudence into the garbage bin of history.

👉FUN FACT: There are Palestine Action members in prison awaiting trial for actions taken prior to June’s Brize Norton action. Called collectively the “Filton24” and “Brize Norton5”, two members have been on remand for over a year which is contrary to Britain’s legal practice of pretrial detentions. Worryingly, several members of the imprisoned Filton24 have gone on hunger strikes, with four considered medically at risk without solid food. Two have been refusing food for nearly seven weeks. One has been hospitalized, but only after MP Zarah Sultana took up her case and lobbied for the PA member to get immediate medical care.

Folks, will we have to wait for one of the hunger strikers to die before any of their demands are aired and addressed, demands like:  

   

“Immediate bail, the right to a fair trial (which they say would include the release of documents related to “the ongoing witch-hunt of activists and campaigners”), ending censorship of their communications, “de-proscribing” Palestine Action, which is classed as a ‘terrorist’ group, and the shutting down of Elbit Systems, the Israel-based defence manufacturer with several UK factories.

The protesters have also called for an end to their alleged censorship in prison, accusing authorities of withholding mail, calls and books.

Looking ahead, the six prisoners are expected to be held for more than one year until their trial dates, well beyond the UK’s six-month pre-trial detention limit.” (Al Jazeera)

 

👉FUN FACT: This past Christmas Eve, international terrorist and supreme anti-Semite Greta Thunberg was arrested by the British constabulary for sitting on a sidewalk, holding a placard that states: “I support Palestine Action Prisoners. I oppose Genocide.” Thankfully, alert bobbies removed the offending sign and arrested the 22-year-old before more of the public could be exposed to the message Greta’s words were meant to convey. [She’s out on bail until a March 2026 court date. Ed.] Move along. There’s nothing to see here…

👉FUN FACT: Just one more story of Christmas cheer to warm the cockles of your heart as you sit with the family around your cozy hearth roasting chestnuts:

There have been jury trials in England since the late Saxon period of the 12th century. Recent legislation by cockroach Secretary of State for Justice David Lammy has rescinded the right of defendants to a jury trial if the crime they are charged with is likely to have a sentence of less than three years imprisonment (he originally wanted five). Instead, a judge or magistrate will be the final arbiter in such court cases. What say ye prompted the change? The backlog of cases in many jurisdictions in England and Wales is one reason given for blaming jury trials for clogging the courts with ‘small change’ crimes. I have no idea if jury trials are the culprit here, but…yeh…methinks they came up with this scam to ensure Palestine Action members get up to three years imprisonment for their crimes if found guilty by a judge. The British government feared, and rightly so, that with a jury of their peers, the PA defendants stand a very good chance of being found not guilty by jurors that believe the direct-action group’s members were acting in the public interest, or else could fine them nominal amounts to pay in compensation for the damage their protests caused.

ALSO, we should watch next year to see if civil suits are launched against the activists, perhaps even from other government agencies. Is that a 'conspiracy theory'? Let’s see what happens when the PA members’ trials start next year. Let’s also watch what happens to the Filton24 and Brize Norton5 currently remanded in prison. Will they be granted bail or remain incarcerated until their trial dates which could come as late as the fall of next year? If they are kept inside—it will be obvious that “lawfare” is at play. If they are harassed by lawsuits or pursued by over-zealous minions of the government, then we’ll know that the process of having to spend so much time and energy in and out of prison, of encurring ever-growing legal fees, with constant 'bombardments' by government bureaucracies and corporate interests is the punishment. And don't forget the roughly two-thousand  PA supporters who have been arrested. What will be the "terror" charge they receive, and if found guilty, what will be their sentence? Stay tuned. 

👉In Canada, what happened to the trucker protesters in 2022, with the govenment freezing people’s bank accounts, court appearances, court delays, legal expenses is an another example of lawfare at its best/worst, depending on which side you’re on.² We are, of course, reminded of Julian Assange who spent five years in a maximum-security prison until he got his day in court. His case is a prime example of the rapacious nature of lawfare and, in the case of Palestine Action members and its supporters, the Starmer government's heavy-handed use of new "Terror Laws".  

👉This new "terror" legislation is meant to chill dissent, to dissuade anyone contemplating similar acts of civil disobedience, like the property damage caused by Palestine Action (and its shining a light on the Starmer government's active support of genocide in Gaza). The government also wants to crackdown on the rabble and those members of the public rallying in PA's defence with protests and placards. Nevertheless, using the new terror laws to silence protests against government perfidy is a nice touch, Minister Lammy. Let’s get those airplanes spic-and-span but keep helping Israel bomb babies in the meantime.

 

👉AND SANTA, if you’re still delivering presents to corrupt elites like Keir Starmer and those supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and who favour clamping down on freedom of speech and assembly in the UK, then you are a fucktard deserving to be out of a job. I’m sorry, Santa, or Saint Nicholas, Père Noël, or whatever alias you go by, but somebody has to let you know where the greater part of humanity stands on things.

 

CHEERS, JAKE.

AND MERRY FUCKING CHRISTMAS!

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* That Santa’s “gonna find out who's naughty or nice” presumably means he’ll know where to make deliveries after he reviews 2025’s register for offenders and do-gooders. It may also be a veiled threat by Santa’s intel community that bad folk are at risk of being ‘found out’ or “doxed”, perhaps an unintended admission that Santa and his elf army operate a globe spanning blackmail ring. Just sayin’. [Is it a conspiracy theory that’s been debunked for centuries? Or is Jake onto something?  Also, his stocking was empty this year.  So he's a bit ticked off with the jolly, fat fuck. Ed.]

1. A charge that nevertheless comes with a potential six-months in jail. 

2. In April this year two chief organizers of the Trucker Protest rec'd several months of house arrest followed by a probationary period. Ed. 

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