US Corporate Media’s indifference to Netanyahu’s Support of Hamas

Again, things aren't what they were reported to be by the US corporate media. This video clip is from the 2024 documentary The Bibi Files (directed by Alexis Bloom, produced by Alex Gibney), which uses leaked Israeli police interrogation footage from 2016–2018. I asked Grok to double-check the translations of the letter to Qatar and the verbal statements of Netanyahu. Here's the important point: According to major U.S. corporate media outlets (such as The New York Times, CNN, NPR, and others), Israel's policy of approving and facilitating Qatari cash transfers to Gaza (under Hamas control) was not prominently explained to the American public in the immediate aftermath of the October 7, 2023 attacks. Instead, the focus was overwhelmingly on the Hamas attacks themselves, the scale of the violence, Israel's response, and initial hostage negotiations. AM.png" alt="" width="474" height="560" />

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Netanyahu (in Hebrew, with English subtitles/narration in the documentary):“This is confidential and can’t be leaked, okay? We have neighbors here, sworn enemies. I’m constantly passing them messages. I confuse them, mislead them, lie to them, and then hit them over their heads.

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About the Totally Unnecessary War in Iran

It's important to remind ourselves that there was no anti-war candidate on the ballot last election. And there is no stridently anti-war faction of the corporate media. Thinking back to George Carlin again: "You have no choice." The current insanity results from an unholy marriage involving American neocons (who permeated Biden's cabinet, as well as Trump's), AIPAC money, Israeli government non-stop aggression (capturing large swaths in Lebanon recently while everyone has been focused on Iran), the U.S. military-industrial complex lit up for profit, good old political corruption, absolutely no concern for destroying the lives of thousands of innocent people using sophisticated bombs (just like we saw in Gaza), American conservative christian politicians who see anything Israel does as an existential religious war and all the shit that we don't know about and we'll probably never know about (cf. Epstein saga). That's how I see this war.

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Translation Tip

Translation Tip: Whenever a politician or corporate media tells you “X,” translate it to this: Super-rich people who lurk in the shadows demanded that we tell you “X” and we usually obey them even if “X” is false or there is no evidence of “X.”

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The Importance of Taking a Vacation from the News

Arthur Schopenhauer's words to the wise about obsessing about the "news."

The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. — A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

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The Statin Scam

Here's something Pharma won't emphasize to you or your doctor:

"[S]tatins have a very high rate of injury. For example, the existing studies find between a 5-30% rate of injuries,19 and Dr. Malhotra, having gone through all the existing evidence estimates that 20% of statin users are injured by them.

Likewise, statins are well known for having a high percentage of patients discontinue the drugs due to their side effects (e.g., one large study found 44.7% of older adults discontinue the drugs within a year of starting them, while another large study of adults of all ages found 47% discontinued within a year)."

What follows is an excerpt from an article by "A Midwestern Doctor," a Substack I follow closely:

Despite decades of statin use costing approximately $25 billion annually in America alone, heart disease remains the leading cause of death, suggesting the cholesterol hypothesis that drives statin prescriptions is fundamentally flawed

Studies show that lowering cholesterol with statins does not reduce heart disease, and yet these findings are ignored while statin guidelines are created by experts paid by pharmaceutical manufacturers

Malcolm Kendrick’s clotting model provides a superior explanation for heart disease: atherosclerotic plaques result from repeated damage to blood vessel linings which the body repairs with layers of clots.

The medical establishment dismisses widespread reports of statin injuries as “nocebo effects,” paralleling how COVID-19 vaccine injuries were dismissed as “anxiety,” despite extensive evidence corroborating the injuries.

The actual causes of heart disease—fine particulate matter from pollution and cigarettes, lead exposure, chronic stress, and endothelial damage—receive minimal research funding because effective interventions cannot be patented and sold as expensive pharmaceuticals like statins.

Read the article for numerous links on this issue.

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