“Hotels in 11 U.S. host cities are reportedly slashing room rates after the demand they anticipated failed to arrive.

FIFA has already begun canceling tens of thousands of reserved rooms across the country, and industry insiders are pointing to a surge in anti-American sentiment — fueled in part by the current political climate — as a major driver of the shortfall.”

Hahahahaha…excellent.

A few examples, from The Glossary of Empire:

“Stable”

(peaceful, governed, orderly)

Resources are flowing to Western interests without interruption. Contracts are honoured, oil is exported, debt is serviced. Has nothing to do with whether the population is fed, safe, or free.

“Democracy”

(free elections, rule of law, civil liberties)

A governance arrangement compatible with Western capital. Celebrated when the right candidate wins. Ignored or reversed when the wrong one does. See: Gaza 2006, Algeria 1991, Zimbabwe 2008.

“Dictator”

(authoritarian ruler who oppresses his people)

A leader who has stopped cooperating with Western extraction. Yesterday's partner, today's tyrant. Applied selectively — never to friendly autocrats.

“Failed State”

(a government unable to provide basic services)

A country whose government can no longer protect Western business interests or honour extraction agreements. Somalia after rejecting IMF terms. Libya after Gaddafi's removal.

I hear every one of these terms in that grating, Neoliberal, singsongy delivery that is now a prerequisite for the current flock of NPR radio show hosts.

From tweet:

💀 Netanyahu personally arranged for Hamas to receive $35,000,000 EVERY MONTH from Qatar

💀 This was done IN SUITCASES OF CASH — because even banks refused to cooperate

💀 He personally begged Qatar, a country with no ties to Israel, to give money to his "enemy"

💀 He was doing this while ACTIVELY under corruption investigation

💀 His own words: "under the request of Benjamin Netanyahu personally"

💀 Total transferred to Hamas with his blessing: OVER $1,000,000,000

Let that sink in.

The same man who stood up after October 7 and declared "Hamas is a monster, we will annihilate them" was the one keeping Hamas alive with suitcases of Qatari cash.

⚠️ His strategy, from his own transcript: keep Hamas in Gaza, keep Fatah in the West Bank, PREVENT them from uniting — so there would NEVER be a Palestinian state

⚠️ Without a Palestinian state, Netanyahu stays in power — no peace deal means endless war means he stays "Mr. Security"

⚠️ He needed Hamas to survive so he could keep winning elections by being the only man who could "handle" them

Now watch what this means:

→ Netanyahu funds Hamas for years → Hamas grows stronger → October 7 happens → Netanyahu declares war → 46,000+ Palestinians die → War delays his criminal trial → He seeks a pardon

→ The monster he fed attacked his own people

→ And he's using that attack to escape justice

The corruption trial? 3 charges. Bribery. Fraud. Breach of trust.

His court just REJECTED his request to delay hearings — TWICE in one day.

The ICC issued an arrest warrant for him for war crimes in Gaza.

His own aide was arrested for taking Qatari money.

And now his police interrogation tapes show he was the one sending Qatari money to Hamas.

The same Qatar he "hates." The same Hamas he "fights."

⚠️ He publicly called Hamas the enemy

⚠️ He privately funded them for years

⚠️ His bombing of Gaza kills tens of thousands

⚠️ His war delays his own criminal conviction

This isn't a war on terror.

This is a man running out the clock on his own criminal case using 46,000 Palestinian lives as cover.

And the world is just starting to understand it.

“Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, in Bossier Parish not far from Shreveport, was attacked by drone swarms during the week of March 9. The attack disrupted B-52H aircraft launches in support of Operation Epic Fury against Iran. It is the first time a US airbase was temporarily put out of operation in wartime, something that never happened even in World War II.

Each wave forced the Air Force to halt operations and send its personnel to shelters. Barksdale is the command hub of the US Air Force Global Strike Command. Not only are B-52s based there, but the base is part of America’s nuclear triad. It shelters long range nuclear cruise missiles (such as the AGM-86B) and will soon house a new Long Range Standoff cruise missile. Shelters and storage sites for the new missiles are under construction.”

Whole shit’s falling apart.

How much else aren’t they telling the public?

"Netanyahu’s first press conference since the war began was interrupted by yet another Iranian missile barrage — and in trying to project strength, he admitted something far more important: Israel still cannot fully stop or destroy Iran’s buried missile capability. Thirteen days in, with thousands of targets hit and billions already spent, Iran is still firing, Hezbollah is still launching rockets, and even Netanyahu conceded regime change cannot be guaranteed by military force alone.

In this video, we break down: • What Netanyahu admitted about Iran’s underground missile and nuclear infrastructure • Why six more Iranian salvos hit on the same day as his speech • How Beit Shemesh exposed dangerous gaps in Israel’s warning and interception system • Why U.S. intelligence reportedly does not believe this war will bring regime change in Iran • What Mojtaba Khamenei’s rise means for the next phase of the conflict"

Anybody familiar with this Global Military Update show?

Something resembling a class awakening is beginning to coalesce…

"From July 11th 2019 pretty much days after Epstein was arrested I starting putting up the map videos."

We're in a real moment now.

Between the gov't shutdown, Dems abdication while still clinging to decorum while everything burns or freezes on ICE, complete and total loathing of the party and its leaders, there is a serious opportunity for a socialist uprising.

It'll be up to us, in NYC and around the country (and to a larger extent in this financially strangulated world, the rest of the globe) to mobilize mass demonstrations and rallies in support of socialist agendas.

Mamdani has done a particularly fine job articulating the basic tenets of socialism and the importance of a movement behind it. People are living it and know it intuitively. But like with so much else because of a feckless, totally bought corporate media haven't had their own lives under capitalism explained back to them. Again, he's done a fine job elucidating this.

High profile political campaigns open up space for people to talk about real stuff, instead of being re-channeled into the usual social media slop and 24/7 entertainment Burgerland stupidity.

Something feels in the air.

Talked to somebody who was there and she said it was an spontaneous response that was angry.

Rather a typical political rally supporters at which supporters just boo the capacity crowd there of 13,000 people knew very distinctly that the Governor held the power to sign off on Mamdani's platform to do so.

In that sense things in NYC are proceeding in a way not seen in a very long time. In other words the argument Occupy Wall St was making in 2011, that the 1% own the country and its elections, seems now to be becoming even more mainstream in the philosophy of the proles.

It's easy to be cynical now, and there's things to be concerned in this campaign. It's not gonna be perfect. But man, you really do feel like something is afoot around these parts.

I think there's huge upside in this election. Beyond the powerful symbolism of a Socialist being elected in the Financial Capitol of the World the potential of the success of real material transformation in people's lives can and will reverberate around the world.

People ain't playing anymore.

TAX THE RICH: Kathy Hochul HECKLED At Fiery Zohran Rally

https://x.com/nycDSA/status/1978144314526957945