Dear Elon: While you're at it, please de-fund the TSA!

 

Dear Elon: While you're at it, please de-fund the TSA!

      It's been interesting to watch our new DOGE in action, happily de-funding soft targets such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau but also money-pit pork-barrel targets like foreign aid to bad guys, the EPA, our poorly-run post office and that ever-unpopular "teach to the test".  Don't get me wrong here.  In many cases, de-funding America's bureaucratic blob is actually a good idea.  

     However.  

      Musk never seems to get around to de-funding his own boondoggles -- and of course no self-preserving politician ever touches the CIA, Homeland Security, Endless War, corporate personhood, Zionists, our security-state octopus or the Federal Reserve.  No political third-rails are ever involved here.  Business as usual.  Whatever.

      But there is one particular federal agency that I sincerely would love our Elon to de-fund immediately -- the TSA!  Of course Mr. Musk himself only travels around in private jets and I betcha dollars to donuts that he has never been forced to stand around drafty airports for hours, waiting like cattle to be forced through all those TSA checkpoints.  However, the rest of us simple hoi poloi are forced to do it all the time.  Humph.

     I just got back from Palestine.  Getting there and back was a whole bunch of hard work.  We're talking an approximate total of sixty (60) hours spent either in the air or waiting around airports.  Inflight movies helped a little but still....  All those shoe removals and X-ray machines and wrangling my luggage onto TSA conveyor belts at airports in San Francisco, Doha, Amman (twice), Ankara, Lisbon and Dublin?  Seriously?

     Elon, help!

     Have President Trump fire the TSA's arse!  Pleeze.

     And why do we even have a TSA in the first place?  Because a few crazy guys with box cutters were able to hijack an entire airplane?  Box cutters?  Seriously?  "Either fly this plane into a building or I will cut your pilot to shreds...."  And with just a few simple box cutters, a handful of hijackers were able to subdue a pilot, a co-pilot, six flight attendants and 250 passengers?  I have a bridge to sell you, America.  

     And our water bottles are now a national security risk too?  They even made me throw away my yogurt.  What?  I'm gonna blow up a plane with a half-pint of strawberry Yoplait?  And don't even get me started on the time that they made me throw out my eggnog.  And what is so horribly dangerous about men's belts?  What's the danger there?  That their pants will fall down?

     The MBT (Make Billionaires Trillionaires) club that has run America since 9-11 just wants us to be afraid.  They just want us to sit down, shut up and politely accept their all-seeing Big Brother security state.  And we do.

     But getting rid of the TSA might be a baby step in a more happy direction, Mr. DOGE.  Pleeze.

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Just so you know, this is my 2000th article on Jane Stillwater's Web Log.  2000 articles decrying injustice -- and yet now more than ever, most Americans are happily supporting genocide all over the freaking world. 

 

Ukra$ne and Palestine aren't the only victims of American neo-cons' "smash and grab" policies:  U.S. War on Africa Rages on with Somalia in the Crosshairs — The Black Alliance for Peace

Airplanes seem to be crashing A LOT lately -- even with the TSA in full operation.  HOW did a whole freaking wing fall off that plane in Seattle or a Blackhawk suddenly appear on a DC runway:  The News Got It WRONG: A Pilot’s Take on the Delta Crash in Toronto

If you object to having your family home seized by force and your baby daughter murdered in the process, then you are labeled a Terrorist:  One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (w/ Omar El Akkad) | The Chris Hedges Report

The American working class is being systematically destroyed (and the middle class too!) and people here need to get pissed off about that:  Post-Election Debrief & the Fall of the Democrats (w/ Catherine Liu)

You think that chem-trails are just some conspiracy theory?  Yeah they are -- and we are the targets of said conspiracy:  https://anamihalceamdphd.substack.com/p/1st-international-panel-on-geoengineering/comments?utm_source=post&comments=true&utm_medium=web

 

We are in a currency crisis on a massive scale.  Inflation is out of control.  Why?  Because of the Federal Reserve third rail:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GVtutIWsuQ

 

American neo-cons have created a monster -- Voldemort Zelensky:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fWbJtwlpzs  

Electric Intifada says Zionists have violated the Gaza ceasefire over 200 times.  No surprise there.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZJx-FDrsK4

 

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Odessa, which side are you on?

 

Odessa, which side are you on?

     It's clear as glass that American war hawks are losing the battle for Ukra$ne -- but just exactly how much territory will their NATO proxy be forced to concede before this bloodbath finally comes to an end?  Russia is pretty much bulldozing its way through eastern Ukraine right now, but just exactly how far will Russia finally go?  Can America and its NATO chihuahua even be able to defend the port city of Odessa without sinking even more billions and billions of dollars deeper in debt? 

     Hell, do most Americans actually even know where Odessa is?

     Ukra$ne and Palestine are the two main reasons why inflation is tearing the American economy to shreds right now -- and yet half of America probably can't even locate either one on a map.  Americans do, however, know exactly where their nearest homeless encampment is -- or how the price of groceries have inflated up to 50% since the battle for Ukra$ne began almost 2,000 days ago.

     And can Germany, France and Britain afford to defend Odessa either?  "Mommie, how much does a Storm Shadow cost?  And can I get one for Christmas?" 

     "Shut up and go back to sleeping rough."

     Can Lithuania, Finland, Poland, Romania, Estonia, etc. afford to defend Odessa either?  Not a chance.

     But what about the city of Odessa itself?  Is it willing to make the bloody sacrifice needed to keep Voldemort Zelensky, the czar of corruption himself, in power for the next five minutes?  I betcha anything that no one in Odessa wants to die just to protect Zelensky's condo in Miami.

PS:  Ukra$ne and Palestine are all about the Benjamins.  Obviously.  Offshore natural gas, rare minerals, beachfront condos, keeping the weapons industry happy, you name it.  Saving democracy in Kiev and Tel Aviv has never been America's goal in the past and certainly isn't its goal now.  Sigh.

PPS:  I was in Ukraine once, back in the day -- back before Vickie Nuland and her Brown Shirts (and olive-drab T-shirts) started decimating Maidan Square with her Color Revolution, back when America had promised Gorbachev that NATO wouldn't move "even one step further" than East Germany.

     I was in Ukraine back before Zelensky and Friends started burning Russian-Ukrainians alive in Odessa and NATO showed up on Russia's borders armed to the teeth.  Back before young men were being snatched off the streets of Kiev in order to be rammed into the American war machine's meat grinder and all native Russian-speaking Ukrainians were forced under the decaying wings of Jim Crow.  And I used to have the photos to prove it too -- back before I lost my camera.

PPPS:  We all know (or should know) that what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank is your basic genocide, right?  But is America also committing genocide in Ukra$ne too?  Think about it.  Up to a million military-aged men have already been slaughtered in Ukra$ne in order to keep Kiev's neo-Nazis in power and America's weapons purveyors in clover.  If that's not a genocide then what is?

     Just by joining the army, are soldiers in Ukra$ne being forced to participate in their own genocide?  Like how dissident Germans, gypsies and Jews were forced to participate in their own demise by being worked to death in Poland?  

 

     Like when Palestinian farmers are forced off their land in the West Bank and given no choice but to become day laborers working at slave wages, forced to build all those elaborate luxury settler condos replacing ancestral orchards and farms that have been theirs for the past 4,000 years....

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Catherine Austin Fitts notes that Palest$ne and Ukra$ne are gonna be big money-makers once their pesky populations have been cleared out -- but how will they finish clearing out Ukra$ne?  And Palest$ne?  Good question.  "Make it happen," seems to be the answer. Trump Administration: Digital Control Grid Coming Together at High Speed

Speaking of economics, it's always a good idea to check in with Greg Mannarino.  His hair is always on fire!  Mine is too.  YOU LOSE. CORPORATIONS ARE LOOKING TO THE US TREASURY TO FORCE LOWER RATES. MORE UPDATES. Mannarino

 

Zionists in the West Bank have turned Palestinian framers into mere day workers.  Central banks love that idea and will try it out here too.  Plus weapons are now 6% of our GDP -- and rising.  Weapons R Us.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjyL5JZbZUw

Which side are you on?  A civil rights freedom song:  "Which Side Are You On (Civil Rights Version)" - Civil Rights Song

Holy cow!  America has contributed 17.9 billion dollars to the genocide in Palestine -- just since 10-7.  Not to repair Los Angeles or North Carolina.  To facilitate genocide.  https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/USspendingIsrael?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Fighting against Jim Crow in Palestine one hyena at a time!  Who knew that hyenas lived in Palestine.  Settlers are destroying the environment -- not only with bombs.  And the same thing is happening in Ukra$ne as well.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N2geZlPZnY 

 

     and https://forsea.co/palestinian-resisters-dissect-israels-illegal-occupation/ 

 

     and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDWvtuBYaU8&t=9s 

 

Message from a true man of God -- straight from Bethlehem. Soothing to listen to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oI8rr0LoZ0

 

Military Summary as usual keeps us up-to-date with the meat grinder in Ukra$ne.  Horrific.  2,000 days of this shite.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGeV-7sjHjo

 

There's a lovely exhibit at the Berkeley Art Museum -- free on the first Thursday of each month!  https://bampfa.org/on-view/exhibitions 

 

Chris Hedges:  The Western Way of Genocide:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sItMRCoiPVs

 

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