Israel today is no different than Nazi Germany

There is zero doubt that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. They deliberately murdered aid workers who were delivering critical food aid to Gazans suffering under a brutal IDF bombardment campaign and famine induced by Israel. As a former aid worker myself, this cut particularly deep.

The aid trucks did everything by the book, getting advance permission, informing the IDF of their coordinates, having their logo clearly on their vehicles and yet…they were still killed with precision missiles, fired one after the other even after the aid workers tried to escape following the first strike (check out the second picture below showing the distance between strikes, clearly indicating a deliberate military operation). Israel did this to systematically prevent further food aid from getting to Gaza, starving an already brutalized population. And they succeeded, with other aid convoys halting plans for food delivery after the killings.

Israeli society seems to have gone past a generational fascist tipping point, with a bloodthirsty, advanced military conducting ethnic cleansing and the overwhelming majority of the population goading them on. History will remember the Israel of today as no different than Nazi Germany. There is a reason why, despite being a wealthy country, more people leave Israel than come in (yerida outnumbering aliyah to this day). Israeli society seems to be drowning in bloodlust, blocking aid trucks going into Gaza, celebrating the deaths of women and children on snuff channels, and actively calling for the complete genocide of Palestinians.

Enough is enough.

If you still support Israel after all this, you are no better than a Nazi.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/chef-jose-andres-says-israel-targeted-his-aid-workers-systematically-car-by-car-2024-04-03/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/04/gaza-world-central-kitchen-aid-operations-explainer

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Broken Shackles Media | April 4 2024

The BJP’s Mafia State

Broken Shackles Media | March 17 2024

It’s pretty frightening just how much of a mafia state the BJP-led Indian government has become, garnering almost 50% of the electoral bonds in the country. Did I say “garner”? I meant swindle and steal, utilizing raids by powerful central government agencies like the Enforcement Directorate, Income Tax Department, and Central Bureau of Investigation, among many others to arm twist companies into purchasing said bonds.

You know, mafia type shit.

Central regulatory and investigative agencies essentially acting as the private mercenaries of Modi, Shah, and their acolytes.

Thankfully the Supreme Court of India has proven to be a bit of a democratic bulwark against the BJP’s gangster approach to national governance, forcing the Election Commission to release data about Electoral Bonds after the EC hemmed and hawed, stating that it would take them four months (i.e. after the 2024 Indian General Election to be held April through June) for data that they essentially could have gotten via a simple search command.

As was proven to be the case.

Ladies and Gentlemen…The BJP’s Mafia State:

https://frontline.thehindu.com/news/eci-reveals-electoral-bonds-data-bjp-congress-trinamool-top-beneficiaries-biggest-donors-future-gaming-megha-engineering/article67954271.ece

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/ed-raids-were-conducted-on-companies-to-get-electoral-bonds-for-bjp-congress/articleshow/108520123.cms

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/aap-slams-bjp-on-electoral-bonds-data-received-funds-from-firms-raided-by-ed-101710505937063.html

https://scroll.in/article/1065267/after-raids-by-central-agencies-these-21-companies-purchased-electoral-bonds

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/sbi-electoral-bond-data-14-companies-under-ed-cbi-scanner-donated-over-rs-4-000-crore-to-political-parties-11710493008447.html

https://www.thequint.com/news/politics/electoral-bonds-donors-raided-by-investigative-agencies-cbi-ed-income-tax-bjp-tmc

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/congress-exposes-bjps-chanda-do-dhanda-lo-policy-electoral-bond-scam-unveiled/articleshow/108535981.cms

https://thewire.in/politics/sc-verdict-renders-pm-modis-anti-corruption-plank-shaky-amid-electoral-bond-revelations

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/video/fresh-details-of-electoral-bonds-now-public-data-shows-bjp-got-maximum-funds-2516112-2024-03-17

Broken Shackles Media | March 17 2024

Bangalore is a polluted dump, bursting at the seams.

A gas chamber of a city. This video of Bangalore traffic was shot at 11:36pm on Jan 12 2024 en route to the airport.

I wish I could say that our family vacation to Bangalore, the city of my late childhood, was pleasant.

But it’s hard when all I feel is overwhelming relief being back in Minneapolis, a place I now feel privileged to call home.

The air pollution in Bangalore is so bad, so chokingly bad, that it overwhelmed all the other good parts of the vacation (the best of which was seeing my kids spend quality time with their doting grandparents).

The city itself, I’m sad to say, is a polluted dump.

(Our little Goa sojourn was great though…in no small part due to our respiratory systems getting a much needed break.)

It’s really sad for me to feel a sense of foreboding in visiting Bangalore. Every time I’ve visited, the pollution has gotten worse and my apprehension for future visits has increased as a result. This latest visit has replaced that sense of foreboding with cold blooded fear at the very thought of visiting again.

It is so overwhelmingly bad, I have survivors guilt now…from just “escaping” to a less polluted place. I desperately wish my parents had chosen a less polluted city to retire in.

So it goes.

Bangalore is not a pleasant place to be in right now. One hopes that it turns into a nicer place in the future, but I’m not holding my breath (metaphorically or otherwise).

I’m just glad to call a different city home.

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Broken Shackles Media | Citizen Journalism | Jan 21 2024

Biden stays the course of presidential war crimes.

I am a citizen of the world’s leading terrorist state and arms trafficker.

No matter who’s fighting who, America always seems to be able to pay itself with blood money;

Profiting from the slaughter of innocents.

Now more than ever, in the heart of the beast, we need a new internationalist 5th column;

Individual insurrectionists of a greater humanity, who won’t fall prey to warmongering.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/09/biden-administration-emergency-authority-tank-shells-israel

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Broken Shackles Media | Citizen Journalism | Dec 9 2023

Whither, whither Western “civilization” when no one buys the agit prop any longer?

Dear Western exceptionalists and civilizational monoculturists:

For a good long time now, what you might collectively refer to as “the West” has really been lording it over the rest of the world. Live it up for the time remaining (hey, I’m one of you, so I know life is good out here).

But here’s a bulletin for all of us – No one is buying the imperialist bullshit any more.

This is a new world – dare I say it – order. And, I’m not one of those sentimental morons who imagines some romanticized oppressed subject. I don’t believe any other past imperialism was any better, nor do I believe any future imperialism would be an improvement on the current horrors of white plunder. Many of us know this and ascribe to a greater humanism as a result. Perhaps we do so silently, cynically, even hopelessly, but we do it nonetheless.

And our numbers are growing.

Indeed, people like me are actually your worst nightmare, for we understand a very simple truth.

Oppression creates monsters.

We know that the West is no better than the rest, and that the rest is no better than the West; but we also know that the West sure as hell is hated a lot more…with good reason too.

We might be powerless to stop it, but at least we’re done with the propaganda of naked imperial genocide.

America and NATO sold wolf tickets to Ukraine, getting thousands of Ukrainians killed in the process.

Make no mistake about it, Russia is winning this war. At a brutal cost, mind you, but still winning it. Western imperialist hubris is currently beginning it’s “finding out” phase after a few centuries of the “fucking around” phase.

Perhaps the greatest beneficiaries of this war have been weapons manufacturers across the world, especially in the West.

Now where have we heard that before?

Ironically enough (and this is the actual kicker), Western dominance even in that realm is fast coming to an end. The rest of the world has caught up militarily – indeed, the technological gap is almost non-existent – with swathes of their citizenry having the stomach for a fight that the overwhelming majority of Western citizens will not be able to handle. Forget China and Russia. I’m talking countries like Turkey, Iran, North Korea, even friggin Venezuela. They’re all catching up militarily and they have far fewer fucks left to give than we do in the indolent West.

Peace and genuine universalism is not so much a sentimental ideal as much as it is a necessity for survival – the survival of all and not just the beautiful people of the world.

We must ask ourselves:

Whither whither Western hubris, when no one gives a shit about us any longer?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/04/ukraine-counteroffensive-us-planning-russia-war/?fbclid=IwAR1Jvw90TpDL4bAOid3GGivyrKdUNolCAqgnCS4TwwqUthXsZEjt75Paku4

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231104-we-re-losing-ukrainians-reel-from-war-chief-s-stalemate-warning

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-december-3-2023

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/03/world/ukraine-president-warns-long-attritional-war/index.html

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/12/4/7431595/

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/12/1/7431191/

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Broken Shackles Media | Citizen Journalism | Dec 4 2023

Wealthy societies alarmed about “lowered birth rates” while displaying racist xenophobia are a stain on humanity.

When are the beautiful people of the world going to realize that they’re no better than the rest of us?

Seriously, it’s not that hard of a concept to get through – even to hitherto westoid simps – we’re all the fucking same, you imbecilic, imperialist bootlickers.

Goes the same for ethno-nationalist majoritarian cowards of any goddamn society.

Stop hoarding all the resources and share.

And if you can’t share because you’re a goddamn sociopath masquerading as a virtue-signaling mono culturist, then don’t make the mistake of partying next to starving, poverty-stricken people.

(We all know what happened on October 7th.)

Remember what Baldwin said?

We have yet to understand that if I’m starving, you are in danger.

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https://www.statista.com/chart/30818/average-number-of-live-births-per-woman-in-the-eu/

https://www.ft.com/content/c11ef0af-717b-4266-817d-533426363aa7

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/17/europe/italy-record-low-birth-rate-intl-cmd/index.html

https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/cp_data_news/nordic-countries-shatter-birth-rates-why-stability-is-no-longer-enough/

https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/02/16/why-there-are-so-few-babies-in-southern-europe

https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/europes-shame-how-to-confront-rising-racism

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/anti-black-racism-is-rising-eu-countries-led-by-germany-study-finds-2023-10-25/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2023/feb/15/eu-far-right-migration-fortress-europe

https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/2023/05/09/germany-sounds-alarm-over-rise-in-xenophobic-hate-crimes/

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Broken Shackles Media | Citizen Journalism | Nov 30 2023

I’m an atheist but I hope there’s a hell for human filth like Henry Kissinger.

May this personification of evil rot for eternity.

Israel has slaughtered more women and children in Gaza in two weeks than Russia has in Ukraine in two years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/25/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-death-toll.html

Maybe because they’re brown bodies, the supposed “free world” can cover their evil with callousness.

But those colonial chickens will come home to roost some day.

For better or worse, humanity can ultimately never be curtailed.

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Broken Shackles Media | Citizen Journalism | Nov 29 2023

We need to stop voting for war criminals like Trump and…

Yeah, I held my nose and voted for Joe in 2020.

This time around, I’d rather vote for a mop and bucket than this creepy fucking war criminal. Hell, I might write-in Faiz, my chonker of a tabby. He’s great. Mostly just sleeps, eats, and annoys us by shredding paper when he wants food or attention. But he’s done far less damage to this world than any of the scumbags currently on offer.

Yes, I will be “wasting” my vote.

Why?

Because I don’t care…

I don’t care for fake liberalism and bilious virtue signaling.

I certainly don’t care for convenient retreats to cowardice and warmongering.

Because I am done with corporatist imperialist chicken hawks and power mongering grifters hijacking democracy. I’m done with them playing us for patsies. And I’m done with them insulting our intelligence.

So, I say this with the deepest respect…

You can take your two party system and shove it up your ass.

Third Way, all the way.

Independent Windmill Tilter over and out.

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Broken Shackles Media | Citizen Journalism | Nov 25 2023

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PS: West/Stein 2024 anyone?

PPS: Faiz 2024 works too.