David Menere

WHAT IS IT CALLED WHEN YOU’RE SMART BUT ALSO ÐUMB AS HEĽL ??

What Is Palestine? Palestine is a historical term for a region that has encompassed many territories — originally named by the Romans in 135 AD, when they renamed Judea in an attempt to sever the Jewish connection to the land. Across the centuries, the land was ruled by empire after empire, yet no sovereign country called Palestine ever existed. It began as a name meant to erase a people — and the question today is whether it's still being used to do exactly that. The last episode of "What Is" Season 1 is this Thursday at 11am ET.

A transnational Jewish-Italian mob network centered on Meyer Lansky and Santo Trafficante ran Cuba as a privatized extraction arm of US empire: gambling, laundering, narcotics, prostitution, political bribery. What the US could not openly run on its own border, the syndicate ran for it in Havana. Batista was on a $ 1.28-million-a-month retainer, delivered every Monday at noon. His development bank bankrolled half of every new mob casino. And this was not just gambling. Havana was a key node in the postwar heroin pipeline: Turkish opium, Marseille labs, Havana transshipment, New York distribution. By the late 1960s, that French Connection network supplied most of America’s heroin. Then Castro won. In January 1959 the casinos were smashed, the bosses fled or were detained, and Batista escaped with a fortune estimated around $300 million. The national lottery, once a graft channel, was converted into a housing fund. But the mob did not disappear. It was redeployed. Lansky’s lieutenant Doc Stacher later said Lansky offered to finance Castro’s assassination as early as 1959. By September 1960, the CIA was running the operation directly. The Agency hired Johnny Rosselli, Sam Giancana, and Santo Trafficante. The opening offer was $150,000. The weapon: poison pills from the CIA’s Technical Services Division. The 1975 Church Committee found concrete evidence of at least eight CIA plots against Castro between 1960 and 1965. The same Havana-Miami underworld that lost Cuba in 1959 became useful again as the deniable violence arm of US policy. Of the three mob figures the CIA hired, Giancana was murdered before he could testify to Congress. Rosselli was murdered after he did. Trafficante survived. The continuity is structural, not anecdotal: Tampa, Havana, Miami. Casinos became exile paramilitaries. Exile paramilitaries became lobby infrastructure. Jorge Mas Canosa, a Bay of Pigs veteran and CIA-radio figure, founded the Cuban American National Foundation in 1981 at the suggestion of Reagan's advisors. It was modeled on AIPAC and built to harden Cuba policy permanently. The lobby's most famous operative was Luis Posada Carriles: CIA-trained, Bay of Pigs veteran, Iran-Contra contractor under Oliver North, perpetrator of the 1976 mid-air bombing of Cubana Flight 455 (73 dead) and the 1997 Havana hotel bombings. By 1998, he had publicly named Mas Canosa as his financier. He died free in Miami in 2018. They did not just lobby. They wrote the laws. 1992: Cuban Democracy Act. 1996: Helms-Burton. 2019: Trump activates Title III, letting US claimants sue foreign firms using confiscated Cuban property. Today the legal afterlife of Batista’s Cuba runs through federal court: hotel chains, expropriation claims, embargo law, and Miami political power. Marco Rubio, now Secretary of State, is a product of that machine. When he says “freedom in Cuba,” hear the history underneath it: the old casino mobster class wants its island back

A Russian Fibre-optic FPV drone struck a transformer at the "Sumy-North" 330 kV electrical substation in Sumy City. Coordinates: 50.966576, 34.805979

الهدف كان الخليج قبل ايران ترامب يساوم دول الخليج في المكالمة الجماعية .. ايقاف الحرب مع ايران مقابل الانضمام لاتفاقيات ابراهام .. بمعنى : اما ان تنضموا الى الامارات والبحرين في الاتفاقيات الابراهيمية تحت قيادة اسرائيل زعيمة المنطقة وكمان تدفعوا تكاليف الحرب التي فرضتها عليكم او اضرب ايران فإيران تدمركم .. ولا تفكروا كثيراً ..في الحالتين انا الوريث الوحيد لنفطكم وثرواتكم .. التارجت كان الخليج منذ البداية .. الله غالب

داني سيترونوفيتس، رئيس فرع إيران في شعبة الاستخبارات العسكرية (أمان) سابقا: من المهم التأكيد على أن الاتفاق الذي يتبلور بين إيران والولايات المتحدة هو أهون الشرور مقارنة بالبدائل السيئة التي كانت مطروحة أمام ترمب: استمرار حصار عديم الجدوى، أو العودة إلى مواجهة قد تعرّض جنودًا أميركيين للخطر من دون أن تضمن تغييرًا حقيقيًا في طريقة التفكير الإيرانية. الفجوة الكبيرة جدًا بين التصريحات التي أُطلقت في بداية الحملة وبين الاتفاق الذي يبدو أنه سينهيها، تُظهر حجم فشلها. وفوق كل شيء، أثبتت هذه الحرب أن إستراتيجية بنيامين نتنياهو قد انهارت. ومن المشكوك فيه أن يوافق أي رئيس أميركي مستقبلًا على العودة إلى مغامرة كهذه. وإذا كان ترامب نفسه لم يكن مستعدًا لـ"إنهاء المهمة"، فمن الصعب تصور من قد يفعل ذلك مستقبلًا. وفي ظل عدم قدرة دولة إسرائيل على العمل بمفردها من دون غطاء أميركي، وفي ضوء نتائج الحملة، فإن أمرًا واحدًا بات واضحًا: الإستراتيجية الإسرائيلية تجاه إيران انهارت.

The day before he was due to appear at Senate Estimates for the first time ever following a successful Greens motion in the Senate. TIMING.