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Courtney Love Confesses on Deathbed: ‘I Ate Dozens of Kids to Join Illuminati – Now I’m Dying of Kuru’

Alicia Silverstone just dropped a nuclear bomb in Hollywood’s lap… and all hell is breaking loose. She released the hospital bed confession where Courtney Love admits she’s been addicted for years to the “pure liquid [...]

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Greek Authorities Arrest Military-Aged Israeli ‘Tourist’ for Arson as Wildfires Rage Out of Control

A 35-year-old Israeli “tourist” was arrested in Crete on Saturday on suspicion of igniting a wildfire despite being warned that against lighting any kind of fire in the area due to the extremely high fire [...]

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Hollywood Actor and Producer Cuffed in Pedophilia Sting—Child Exploitation & Predatory Assault Charges Filed

A Hollywood actor and producer has been arrested and charged for allegedly using casting calls for acting roles to sexually abuse underage girls. The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office arrested Shane Ryan Gledhill, 46, on [...]

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From Black Power to hip hop: The evolution of Mopreme Shakur

Mopreme Shakur attends the premiere of FX's "Dear Mama" at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on April 18, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Araya Doheny/FilmMagic)

How are hip hop and Black Liberation connected? In this special Black August edition of Rattling the Bars, former political prisoner and Black Panther Mansa Musa sits down with artist, producer, and “Panther Cub” Mopreme Shakur on the rooftop of a hotel in the nation’s capital. Together, they explore Shakur’s memoir, This Thug’s Life, tracing the trajectory from the rise and fall of Black Power to the birth of hip hop through the eyes of the son of a Panther and the stepbrother of a legend.

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Transcript

The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. It will be updated.

Mansa Musa:

Welcome to this district rather than your host Mansa Musa. Today we are joined by Mopreme Shakur, the son of the late great political prison with Tulu Shakur and the older stepbrother of the legendary rapper Tupac Shakur. Mopreme has recently published a memoir titled This Thug Life: A Poet Narrative Spanning the Rise of the Black Liberation Movement, The Birth of Hip-Hop in New York, and its expansion to the West Coast. Mopreme, thank you for joining

Mopreme Shakur:

Us. What’s happened, Kevin?

Mansa Musa:

Appreciate you though. I know they got you on Hustle and Bustle, and this is a good thing. What compelled you to write this particular memoir?

Mopreme Shakur:

Well, I am Mopreme Shakur, Thug Life Outlaw, Immortal. I am the son of Dr. Matou Shakur, stepson of Afeni Shakur, brother of Tupac Shakur, nephew of Asada Shakur. That’s my fam, as well as my sister Setua. A lot of people are familiar with the struggles and the triumphs of our family and the movement. A lot of sacrifices made, but a lot of comments is made too. And that’s often overlooked because it’s hard to ignore the struggle. My father was a political prisoner, served 37 years in federal prison. We fought hard to bring him home, but we were able to finally bring him home, but he was ill with cancer, and he passed away in 2023.

Mansa Musa:

Now you say Motulu Shakur ancestor served an astronomical amount of time, a political prisoner. But we just hold Shakur. When you say Shakul, that claim in and of itself is political in and of itself. Panther 21, organizing New York chapter, heavily organizing around goals, the aspirations, and the vision of the Black Panther Party. So let’s talk about the process of bringing this book to life. When did you first begin writing it one? Did you speak to other family members and close friends to piece together the memoir, the memories rather, or were you just drawing strictly on your own experience in growing up?

Mopreme Shakur:

I didn’t ask too many people much first because it’s my story. It ain’t their story, it’s my story. And a lot of times a lot of other people weren’t even there. But the process began after we lost pot and had me reflecting on a lot of things you did. And along with the loss of my brother, I was thinking about our accomplishments. I was locked up for a skid bid. I was doing something stupid, sitting there thinking about myself. And I also though about the rest of the family, the accomplishments we all have made, sacrifices. We all have made border movement, border family.

And so that’s when the process started, got my first 80 pages, and then life be life ain’t. Stop, start, stop, start. Eventually got my co-writer, Talia Shakur, she and I finally got a poser together because we didn’t want to self-publish. We felt like the story was important and it needed to have a farther reach. And so I wanted a book deal. So you got to have certain things in order to get that book deal. So that’s what we did. And as time went on, it became more urgent for me to get this done because I was becoming one of the last ones left Between family and crew, family and crew. It’s been painful, a lot of sacrifices. We just had the homegoing ceremony for Auntie Astata up in Harlem a few weeks ago. Pops past 2023. Been 10 years since The Lost of Fainting. Akti Falani, Baba Balao, Baba Saku.

And it’s like once they’re gone, you can’t ask them no questions no more. And I was like, oh, I started panicking on the music side too. Shaq G just passed away. Young Noble just passed away. Along with Pac, Fatal, Big Psych. Come on, man. Yeah. Come

Mansa Musa:

On, man. And you know what? And as you unpacking that, how important, and this just came about this space right here, how important is it for you to be able to control that narrative about your legacy? It is.

Mopreme Shakur:

Because

Mansa Musa:

You just outlined, okay, we hear pop. We hear a lot of things associated with the Shakur clan. We hear a lot of things associated with the movement. But then when you get in a space where you hear somebody say something that you know is misinformation, or if you not in a position to refute it, then it takes on life. So how is it important? Why do you think it’s important for you to be able to refute for safe? Because you give auticity to the information, whether a person agree with it or disagree with it, whether they like it or don’t like it, it’s coming out the baby’s mouth. It ain’t coming secondhand.

Mopreme Shakur:

Once you become a public figure, anybody could write about you. And that’s what a lot of people don’t know. Pac and I are public figures, of course, because of entertainment game, but our actual relatives are public figures because they end up in the damn news. And you got to preserve your own stories. You know what I mean? Because as Black and brown people disenfranchised poor people, what we are is rich and experience. Maybe poor and finance is what we are rich in life and life experience and pain. There’s a value to that. You got to turn pain to profit. Turn your pain to profit. And we’ve been enduring the pain and while other people here make the profit on it. You dig. So I’m out there in LA, I’m in Hollywood and all that, so I’ve learned the game. And it’s the power of the parent.

We had to get this down because I felt like my story is important because it’s at the crossroads of Black history and Black music history. Okay.

Mansa Musa:

Yeah.

Mopreme Shakur:

Black history and Black music history. We touch on both sides. And we’re disappearing. So we as my generation, the Obafamis, the Sunni Alis, our family, our connected family and the struggle and the revolution, we have the kids of it because it’s our elders that did a whole bunch of the work and sacrifice. So oh, the best we could do is preserve it and tell the story to our people because these stories are important. Members of our family and other brothers and sisters in a struggle are heroes, folk heroes, icons. But if no one knows the stories, they won’t see it that way.

Mansa Musa:

Okay. And this mark is the 60th year anniversary of the Black Panther Party and they dub most of the children of party members club. Panther

Mopreme Shakur:

Clubs.

Mansa Musa:

Panther club. So as a Panther club, and actually witnessed the struggle and see firsthand the repression that was being inflicted, seeing firsthand the torment your father went through because of his political view, seeing the fact that your aunt was forced in the exile for no reason of political views. Talk about what does the legacy mean to you? The party, your family’s legacy, but more important, how do you feel that the party made a contribution to social justice? If you can speak on that.

Mopreme Shakur:

The party made a significant impact to social justice. My father, the Black Panthers, the Young Lords, Lincoln Detox, Detoxification Clinic – A Lagun. And the Bronx. That work that they did was established patients’ rights as a human right. For that incident up in the Bronx is the reason why this country has patients’ rights to this day. You know what I’m saying? But no one will know that story unless we tell it because we’ve already been suppressed to a great degree as it is. So they want to suppress our stories. As we see what’s going on in this administration right here, you know what I’m saying? They’re messing with Harriet Tubman. Jack, what the hell Harry Tubman did to you? Why y’all leave Jackie Robinson look? You know what I’m saying? I’m like, whoa. So it is very important and significant that we try to do our best we can to preserve our stories because we help make this motherfucker too.

I don’t know. Can I curse on almost Man, you can

Mansa Musa:

Do what you do.

Mopreme Shakur:

Oh, shit. Okay. All right. I ain’t want to be rude. You know what I’m saying?

Mansa Musa:

No, no. Like I told you before, we don’t give you a voice. We turn the volume up on your voice. However you want to express your voice, we turn the volume up. Let’s talk about, because you made mention of this, and this is something I think that you can unpack as much as you want.Because you made an observation that you’re dealing with the struggle and the music. And so you dealing with two things issue. And most people, when they think of Shakur, they think of Tupac. They think of you. But now we at a crossroad where what role do this music play, hip-hop music play in raising people’s consciousness, elevating people’s perspective about struggle. But more importantly, how do you see the landscape, man?

Mopreme Shakur:

We truly cared about the people. In the midst of the entertainment was a vehicle to be able to reach the people. But people know Pac fans know he really cared about the people. Keep your head up. Brenda’s Got a Baby. Pop a song. Dear Mama. We’re addressing issues in our communities. You know what I mean? And people be feeling, they tell me all the time. They tell me all the time, man, thank you for making this song. Thank you for making that song. And because we were trying to talk about something. Us being popular in the general market helped because we were able to reach with more and more people. Being a movie star helped. We were able to reach more and more people with some of the messages that we were trying to deliver. Thug life, you know what I’m saying? That was our shit.

That was our contribution because it was actually, a lot of people got the message, a lot of people didn’t. My pops helped us by creating a thug code so it wasn’t just some ignorant shit. The hate you gave little infants fucks everyone. Because if you don’t take care of them babies, they will go into the monsters you fear today. That

Mansa Musa:

Was the acronym.

Mopreme Shakur:

The hate you gave little infants, fuck everyone. All these jackets they’d be wanting to put on us, we taking them and flipping them. We was taking them and flipping Pac’s second album stripping for my nigga. People have an issue with the word nigga. We flipped it, put an A on it. Never ignorant getting goals accomplished. Yeah,

Mansa Musa:

Yeah, yeah. You

Mopreme Shakur:

Did?

Mansa Musa:

Yeah,

Mopreme Shakur:

Man.

Mansa Musa:

Jon, you don’t hear that though, right? No, you don’t. Keep on that. And it makes sense though. And when people say. And the reason why I’m asking this is why we got the opportunity for somebody to myth bust. You know what I’m saying? About your family and the myth bust about who y’all are and what y’all thinking. Because when you come out like Latulu Shaku is a giant and an ancestor and we praise him for his contribution. We honor his work. And we know that he. Ella Baker say, “We who believe in freedom must not rest.” They not rest. They not resting in power. They’re not resting in peace. They not

Mopreme Shakur:

Resting,

Mansa Musa:

Period. Exactly.

Mopreme Shakur:

So

Mansa Musa:

That’s why it’s

Mopreme Shakur:

Important to you. Pac,

Mansa Musa:

Why you acting like this? Why are you so angry?

Mopreme Shakur:

Because we are not at rest. As long as our people still struggling, the struggle continues.

Mansa Musa:

Yeah, exactly. You know what I

Mopreme Shakur:

Mean?

Mansa Musa:

The

Mopreme Shakur:

Struggle continues.

Mansa Musa:

Talk about the underground railroad and third. Okay, the artistic foundation clearly influenced your musical career.

Mopreme Shakur:

We came from community organizers. You know what I’m saying? And we were trying to present our version for our generation. We started with the underground railroad because Pac was already with Digital Underground. And it made sense. Our crew be the underground railroad. We come from the underground, and for so many reasons it made sense for our ideology, it made sense. And then that morphed into 50 niggas. One good nigga, 50 representing the states, one good nigga in every state. We could accomplish anything

Mansa Musa:

And

Mopreme Shakur:

Stick together. Yeah, right there.

Mansa Musa:

You

Mopreme Shakur:

Did. That’s what Pac had too. We was real about it. And that morphed into Thug Life.

Mansa Musa:

Okay. You know

Mopreme Shakur:

What I mean? So

Mansa Musa:

It really had a political undertone.

Mopreme Shakur:

Exactly. That’s why we pulled my father in with it. He was a part. He made Thug Cole, which is we were getting some help from a sister Erica Ford up in New York. We had brothers behind the wall, comrades behind the wall pushing it, trying to explain it. But some of the people got the message and some of the people did. But then you

Mansa Musa:

Had like, well dude, you got opposition because you got the state. Exactly. You got the government. The last thing the government want is somebody that has that kind of influence to be able to speak truth to power and be able to galvanize people, galvanize people around. Because everybody was into hip hop. So this is why you have, just my belief, this is why you have the push on corporate America to create an image of gangster rap. But the more important part of the image, the more important part of the image is that it’s the image.

Mopreme Shakur:

It’s that whoever’s a leader. Whoever’s a leader in whatever kind of way, because they did it to Martin. They did it to Malcolm. They weren’t rappers. You know what I’m saying? Whoever’s a leader. Oh, they did it to Fred. They were trying to take out all our leaders using COINTELPRO. CONTELPRO, you know what I’m saying? They was doing that. They didn’t necessarily get rid of those methods as time went on. They just refined them. They’re

Mansa Musa:

Fine. Yeah, I agree.

Mopreme Shakur:

Dr. Robin DG Kelly, a historian, told me that, “Man, your father is one of the top five civil rights leaders in the country. Top five. Put him in the top five.” And that important, they wanted stifled. They wanted stifled. They didn’t want him to have the impact, so they locked him up. We were pleased. Actually, oddly enough, we were pleased when he got captured because we was hearing that he was saying he wasn’t going to be taken alive. So when he was captured, at least he was alive.

Mansa Musa:

And

Mopreme Shakur:

We could communicate through them years at Lompoc, that’s where he helped us put the thug code together. You

Mansa Musa:

Write about specific songs you and Tupac performed at concerts, but never officially released. Can you tell us about that and how your music resonated with incarcerated people?

Mopreme Shakur:

One of them that did get out is Papa Song. We got to do Papa Song because that was really about Matul. It was all a lack of a father in the household. So that’s what that was about. But there was many others that were supposed to be on the Thug Life album. Thug Life Project was a project that Pac recorded, spent the most time on almost three years recording Thug Life album. But they wouldn’t let certain songs through. They thought it was too hard at the time. They was killing crooked cops, you know what I mean? And so it almost didn’t come out. I had to tamper down the album in order for it to even come out.

Mansa Musa:

And I guess that’s the price. If you ain’t independent, that’s the price you have. If you trying to get your information out and be conversated. And

Mopreme Shakur:

It was a time where censorship was a big thing because they were doing it to live cool. They were doing it to ice tea. They were doing it to things face, facing them, doing it to us.

Mansa Musa:

Engage the public.

Mopreme Shakur:

They didn’t want that reality because we was calling it reality rap. They call it gangst rap. We call it reality rap. We the niggas that lived around that shit for real. We know somebody that happened to if it didnt happen to you. So the truth hurts. But give me one more, Musa. It’s getting hot out here, baby. No,

Mansa Musa:

This is the last one right here. What you want to tell our audience about your project, about the book, and how they can become more involved with your work.

Mopreme Shakur:

Well, thank you for that one. I’m here in lovely DC at the lovely Vice Royal Hotel. I hope you dig it. I think you will. It also has photos in it. So never before seen pics of me, my brother, my father, the family, like 24 pics in it. I try not to cheat the people. It’s that Barnes & Nobles, Amazon, thisthuglife.com, audiobook, ebook. I’m grinding, man. I’m South Side Jamaica Queens. All the way to the west side. There

Mansa Musa:

You have it. We got Mo Pre.

Mopreme Shakur:

Best Mo you’ll ever know. Best

Mansa Musa:

Mo you’ll ever know out here in the hat, son. They’ve been stomping the ground, trying to get the word out on his book. We ask that you really look at this interview because as Mo Pree put it out there. We’re in a struggle for our life and it’s only through us telling our story. He made this quote. Might not have a lot of money, but we got a lot of story. We got a lot of experience. And here go an example of someone that’s taking that experience and using it for the goodness, the betterment of mankind and humans by educating people on the struggle. Thanks, Mopree. Appreciate you, big bro. You

Mopreme Shakur:

Too, man. Power to the people. All power. Free all political

Mansa Musa:

Free.

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“[Tupac] fans know—he really cared about the people. ‘Keep Ya Head Up,’ ‘Brenda's Got a Baby,’ ‘Papa’z Song,’ ‘Dear Mama’ were addressing issues in our communities. You know what I mean?”
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Hollywood Actress Hayden Panettiere Found Dead After Exposing Satanic Pedophilia: “They’re ALL Child Rapists”

Hollywood actress star Hayden Panettiere, who recently exposed elite pedophilia in the Hollywood system, was found dead this weekend at the age of 36. The former child star’s representative announced her death on Sunday. “It [...]

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Condutor de camião betoneira morre em despiste na EN380 em Vendas Novas

Um homem morreu esta segunda-feira, 17 de agosto, na sequência do despiste do camião betoneira que conduzia na Estrada Nacional 380 (EN380), no concelho de Vendas Novas.

O alerta para o acidente foi dado pelas 15:05, ao quilómetro 9,5 da EN380, no troço que liga Vendas Novas a Lavre, no concelho de Montemor-o-Novo, distrito de Évora. O veículo pesado despistou-se e embateu contra uma árvore, junto a uma fábrica de cortiça, provocando a morte do condutor, segundo a Lusa.

A circulação rodoviária na EN380 encontra-se temporariamente cortada em ambos os sentidos para permitir os trabalhos de remoção da viatura pesada.

Para o local foram mobilizados 20 operacionais, apoiados por oito viaturas, incluindo meios dos Bombeiros, da Guarda Nacional Republicana (GNR) e do Instituto Nacional de Emergência Médica (INEM), com a Viatura Médica de Emergência e Reanimação (VMER) de Évora.

Por: Dino Frazão
17 de agosto de 2026

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Tokenization Of H₂O

Tokenization Of H₂O

Elites Are Claiming The World's Water Supply & Plan To Trade It

Tyler Durden | zerohedge.com

Patti Johnson | glorytogodstudio.com

Yep, you heard me right. This is not a joke or exaggeration. The facts are out there for all to see. I wrote about the tokenization of nature in my article “From Blockchain to Ball and Chain: Are We Being Borged?”

From Blockchain To Ball-And-Chain
Are We Being Borg’d? Tyler Durden | ZeroHedge.com Patti Johnson | TheBurningPlatform.com Tokenized Tyranny: How Elites Are Digitizing Our World for Total Control I’ve followed investigative journalist Whitney Webb’s work for years, and her once-distant warnings now feel eerily prophetic as they unfold in real time.

This article will deal primarily with the tokenization of the world’s water supply.

Tokenization: Turning Life Itself into a Tradeable Chip

For those who do not understand tokenization, here is a short and simple explanation: Tokenization means turning something real, like a share of water rights, a measured volume of water from a river or aquifer, or even credits for water that was “saved” or recycled, into a digital token (a unique digital certificate) that lives on a blockchain.

A blockchain is simply a shared digital notebook that many computers keep identical copies of at the same time, so the records of who owns what cannot be secretly changed by any one person or company.

That token can then be bought, sold, or traded on markets the same way people trade stocks or other assets. Instead of water simply belonging to the land, the local community, or the people who rely on it, it becomes a financial product that large investors, corporations, and institutions can own fractions of and exchange for profit. The right to use, claim, offset, or trade that water becomes the commodity.

Offset means making up for the water you use by helping save or restore the same amount somewhere else. A farmer switches to drip irrigation, a project restores a wetland, or a company reuses treated wastewater. That saved or restored water is measured and turned into credit. You buy or claim the credit. On paper your water use is balanced.

How Dare They Profit from Stealing Our Water

How dare they make money off this corrupt plan to steal, control, measure and meter the world’s water supply. Yes, I sound like Greta. The irony is thick: the same girl who made “How dare you” famous has been thoroughly programmed to cheer for Agenda 2030 and the very control grid she should be screaming against. Since she refuses to use her catchphrase where it actually belongs, then I will.

Water is the foundation of life itself. Every human, every animal, every plant depends on it. Yet the same elites who lecture the public about scarcity and climate are building the machinery to turn every last drop into a tradable asset they can profit from while ordinary people face rationing and surveillance.

This is exactly the process already described and promoted in official reports. Goldman Sachs itself published “Securing and Financing the Future of Water” in 2026, openly stating that tokenization can turn water rights into traceable tokens that track use across markets and deliver credits for companies that conserve or recycle water through connections to flow meters. Read it yourself: https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/securing-and-financing-the-future-of-water

The United Nations has declared the world has entered an era of “Global Water Bankruptcy.” Their report argues that the old system of local rights is finished and that new enforceable limits, transparent accounting, and centralized management are required. See the official collection: https://unu.edu/inweh/collection/global-water-bankruptcy

The Mapping Machines Are Already Flying Over Your Head

Look at how they are already doing it.

Across the United States, helicopters now fly low over farms and aquifers towing giant electromagnetic loops that map the groundwater beneath our feet like an MRI of the earth. California’s Department of Water Resources runs statewide Airborne Electromagnetic Surveys for exactly this purpose. Click here to read how the water mapping technology works: https://water.ca.gov/programs/sgma/aem

More detail and images of the surveys: https://water.ca.gov/News/News-Releases/2024/Mar-24/Understanding-the-Underground-DWR-Completes-First-Phase-of-Innovative-Groundwater-Mapping-Program

USGS examples of the same helicopter-based technology used for aquifer mapping: https://www.usgs.gov/news/state-news-release/media-alert-low-level-helicopter-flights-image-geology-over-wyoming-and

These surveys create detailed maps of every major water source so that usage can later be tracked and limited.

The The All-Seeing Eye of Oracle Returns: Now It Watches Every Drop You Use

Oracle Utilities already processes data from more than 100 million meters worldwide with AI systems that detect irrigation, leaks, and individual household use in real time. Their customer platform is designed for exactly this level of precise control: https://www.oracle.com/utilities/customer-platform/

Larry Ellison didn’t just dream of a panopticon. He said the quiet part out loud: “Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.” That wasn’t a warning. That was a sales pitch from the man who still owns roughly 40% of Oracle, the company now quietly embedding itself into the pipes that deliver the most basic resource on Earth: water.

Once you own the real-time ledger of every drop that enters every home, every farm, every factory, you don’t need jackboots. You just need a dashboard. Throttle the water, and compliance follows. The same technocratic elite that spent decades consolidating data, finance, and surveillance is now moving on the last ungoverned commons, water itself, under the soothing branding of “customer platforms” and “smart utilities.”

And Ellison isn’t some lone eccentric billionaire operating in a vacuum. He’s a Trump donor who poured roughly $45 million into supporting the 2024 campaign and has since enjoyed the kind of access that turns political proximity into regulatory profit. The same circle that lectures about freedom while building the tools to score, monitor, and ration everyday life now has one of its most unapologetic surveillance advocates sitting in their inner circle.

The water meters are just the latest sensor in a system that already knows when you open the fridge, when and where you drive, when you yawn, drink, text or speak and soon, how long you shower and how many times you flush your toilet.

This is not innovation. This is the elite’s operating system for managed scarcity and behavioral compliance, dressed up as progress and sold by a man who openly celebrated the idea that constant recording would keep the public “on their best behavior.” Oracle isn’t managing utilities. It’s helping construct the choke points. What’s next Larry? Are you going to regulate and tokenize oxygen?

The infrastructure for control is already being paired with the financial machinery. Chainlink, a decentralized oracle network that feeds real-world data such as meter readings and conservation verification into blockchain systems, has published detailed guides on digitizing water rights and conservation credits into tokens so companies can buy offsets just like carbon credits: https://chain.link/article/tokenized-water-rights-credits

In Dubai, the DMCC (Dubai Multi Commodities Centre), a government-backed free zone and major international trading hub, has signed agreements to launch the world’s first digital token backed by verified freshwater reserves, positioning water itself as a tradable commodity on global markets: https://mediaoffice.ae/en/news/2025/june/17-06/dmcc-signs-strategic-mou

They Already Seized the Food and Are Playing God with the Weather

The elites have been systematically taking control of the world’s food supply for years. Bill Gates, through Cascade Investment, has become the largest private owner of U.S. farmland, holding hundreds of thousands of acres across nearly twenty states. At the same time, major asset managers like BlackRock hold massive stakes in the dominant agribusiness corporations that control seeds, fertilizers, processing, and distribution.

Simultaneously, cloud seeding programs and solar geoengineering research, backed by Silicon Valley money and governments, are rapidly expanding. These efforts claim to manage rainfall and cool the planet, yet they place the power to influence weather patterns in the hands of the very institutions already pushing centralized control over water and food.

In other words, they are running the classic Hegelian dialectic to consolidate power:

  1. Create the droughts through weather geoengineering/modification
  2. Declare an emergency and frighten the public.
  3. Arrive with the “solution,” water tokenization that will supposedly save the planet but in reality just make them richer.

The pattern is unmistakable. Connect the dots. First, they buy the land that grows the food. Then they experiment with altering the weather that waters the crops. Now they are mapping, metering, and tokenizing the water itself so that every drop can be tracked, rationed, and sold.

This Is Not Theory. This Is the Takeover in Progress. Technocracy 101

They tell us water is too important to leave in local hands. They declare bankruptcy on systems that have sustained communities for generations. Then they create the digital and physical infrastructure to measure every use, enforce every limit, and profit from every token. The shared nature of water is being rewritten into a system of permission slips owned by the elite few who say that they, the experts, the financiers, the scientists, know best how to manage nature and humanity. It is all part and parcel of the plan of Technocracy Inc.

And make no mistake, this entire scheme sits squarely inside the United Nations Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals. SDG 6 pretends to be about “clean water and sanitation for all,” yet the real machinery being built is the global accounting, metering, and financialization of every drop. The same institutions that wrote the goals now promote water “bankruptcy,” enforceable limits, transparent tracking, and market-based solutions that turn a basic necessity of life into a tradable asset class. What is sold to the public as sustainability and equity is in practice the transfer of control from communities and nations to the very financial and bureaucratic elites who drafted the blueprint. Agenda 2030 is the framework being used to justify seizing, measuring, and selling the world’s water under the banner of saving it.

This is the plan. It is already in motion. And the people pushing it expect the public to accept it as inevitable.

It is NOT inevitable.

Resistance is NOT futile.

Expose the plan. Shout if from the rooftops, news sites, podcasts and council meetings.

Don’t let the elites complete their takeover plan. They have the money but we have the numbers.


Source: https://glorytogodstudio.com/commentary/tokenization-of-h%e2%82%82o-whats-next-o%e2%82%82/

Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tokenization-h2o-elites-are-claiming-worlds-water-supply-plan-trade-it

Original Article: Truth Warrior Suggested

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From Blockchain To Ball-And-Chain

From Blockchain To Ball-And-Chain

Are We Being Borg'd?

Tyler Durden | ZeroHedge.com

Patti Johnson | TheBurningPlatform.com

Tokenized Tyranny: How Elites Are Digitizing Our World for Total Control

I’ve followed investigative journalist Whitney Webb’s work for years, and her once-distant warnings now feel eerily prophetic as they unfold in real time. What she has consistently exposed, the systematic digitization and commodification of everything from natural ecosystems to human life itself, is no longer speculative theory. It’s happening before our eyes.

When I first encountered Whitney’s reporting, I found it hard to believe. Could this level of control and financialization truly be underway? It seemed too dystopian, too extreme. Yet after digging deeper the evidence was undeniable. What she described was not exaggeration. It was an accurate and meticulously documented reality.

The tokenization of nature and humanity represents a deliberate strategy by the world’s most powerful financial institutions. Figures like BlackRock’s Chairman and CEO Larry Fink have openly championed turning the planet’s resources, and increasingly aspects of human existence, into fractionalized, tradable digital assets on blockchain-based ledgers. This creates new avenues for elite profit and unprecedented surveillance and control.

With Fink now serving as Interim Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Board of Trustees (alongside André Hoffmann), the technocratic elite have gained an ideal global platform to accelerate this agenda. What better forum than the WEF to mainstream and fast-track “total control” from cradle to grave.

The process begins with assigning unique digital identifiers to virtually everything: land, water, forests, carbon credits, even personal behaviors and biological data. These are then logged on universal ledgers, where ownership is sliced into tradable fractions, much like stocks. But this goes far beyond traditional finance. It encompasses the Earth’s finite resources and, ultimately, the very essence of human life, all reduced to programmable, monetizable units in a centralized system of power.

This is tokenized tyranny in action: a quiet revolution that could redefine ownership, freedom, and existence itself..

Nature on the Chopping Block: From Forests to Fractional Shares

For nature, tokenization means chopping up wild places like the Amazon rainforest into digital securities. Each token represents a piece of land or ecosystem service such as clean air or biodiversity. Companies like O.N.E. Amazon, which is tied to U.S. intelligence and crypto investors, plan to issue these tokens backed by preservation deals. They cap the supply to make them scarce like digital gold. They install massive sensor networks and satellites to monitor every hectare in real time and collect data on everything from tree growth to animal movements. The data feeds into AI systems that manage the assets:

Each initiative will be structured under a transparent, science-based framework ensuring traceability, accountability, and full respect for Panama’s sovereignty. Future projects may also explore nature-backed digital instruments as mechanisms to channel private investment into measurable conservation outcomes.

Juan Carlos Navarro, Minister of Environment of Panama, stated: “As part of the partnership, O.N.E Amazon will pilot its proprietary Internet of Forests (IoF™️), an advanced monitoring system powered by satellites, LiDAR, and ground sensors, to provide real-time ecological intelligence that supports environmental governance and transparency.”

“O.N.E Amazon was created to align global capital with the conservation of our planet’s most valuable ecosystems. Together with Panama, we aim to demonstrate how innovation, transparency, and shared purpose can turn conservation into a true economic opportunity, one that benefits both nature and people. O.N.E Amazon is more than a financial instrument, it is a new contract between humanity, capital markets, and nature. When innovation meets purpose, markets become engines of regeneration,” said Rodrigo Veloso, Founder and CEO of O.N.E Amazon.


Panama and O.N.E Amazon Sign a Letter of Intent to Protect the Darién Region and Pioneer New Models of Conservation Finance

Whitney calls this tokenization of nature “borgifying” the environment (Remember Star Trek and the Borg). It turns planet earth into a controllable grid.

Involved parties include former BlackRock executives, Trump administration figures, and firms linked to stablecoins like Tether. They push this under the banner of sustainability while securing profits through inequitable deals with indigenous groups. Those groups get minimal shares and lose autonomy over their lands.

Greenwashing in Action: Tokenized Nature Happening Now

This is already unfolding through initiatives like Natural Asset Companies (NACs), backed by the Intrinsic Exchange Group and the Rockefeller Foundation. They aim to list ecosystems on stock exchanges as new asset classes. This assigns financial value to untouched nature and creates markets for trading shares in forests or rivers. Clean Air and Water Are Worth Money as ‘Natural Asset’ Companies Attract Cash

The WEF (World Economic Forum) is involved in turning nature into a commodity for investors to profit:

 Finance Solutions for Nature: Pathways to returns and outcomes is out now! This insight report by World Economic Forum and McKinsey & Company provides a practical framework for investors to unlock capital for nature. Key takeaways: A portfolio approach is essential: 10 priority solutions can offer investors and issuers pathways to investable returns and nature outcomes at scale. Model transactions need to be replicated: Over 20 examples of existing transactions show that success in nature finance isn’t just theory — but needs replication. Markets can’t solve nature loss alone: Traditional finance has a central role, but needs enabling policies, robust data, better de-risking mechanisms, and shifting norms to recognize nature’s full value.

Finance Solutions for Nature: Pathways to Returns and Outcomes | World Economic Forum

Another example is Estonia’s Single Earth, which tokenizes forests, swamps, and biodiversity to back its MERIT token. It allows companies to buy fractional ownership for carbon offsets while claiming to make nature the new gold:

“Single.Earth closes the $700 billion nature financing gap by channeling ESG (Environmental Social Governance)-driven company funds to high-impact landowners, while assessing ecological data for maximum impact globally.

Bridging Nature and Finance, Climate and Biodiversity, Corporate Sustainability through Nature Financing Enterprises buy tokens to balance their impact on nature and boost ESG scores, securing a greener financial future.”

In the Central African Republic, the Sango Project is tokenizing land, timber, and diamond reserves to attract investors. It turns national resources into blockchain assets. Even traditional commodities are involved, with platforms tokenizing oil and gas reserves or renewable energy sources:

“The Central African Republic (CAR) has extended its Sango blockchain project to tokenization of its land and natural resources. The country, one of the poorest and most crypto-friendly in the world, is also one of the most active in crypto innovation.”

Central African Republic expands Sango project to land, resource tokenization

In 2023 Australia’s National Australia Bank issued a green stablecoin tied to verified agricultural assets and carbon credits. Their tokenized farms could soon serve as loan collateral. National Australia Bank eyeing a ‘green’ stablecoin – Ledger Insights – blockchain for enterprise

Eco-Dystopia Ahead: When Nature Becomes a Profit Machine

In a future society under this system, nature becomes a Wall Street product where investors buy fractions of forests or rivers without ever setting foot there. Any “conservation” is dictated by profit motives rather than ecological needs. Entire regions could be locked into debt-like swaps where countries trade resource rights for loans. This leads to foreign-owned wind farms or bioenergy plants that displace locals.

Whitney explains that this creates a tokenized world where natural disasters or climate events can spike token values. It encourages exploitation disguised as green finance. Ecosystems are managed by algorithms that prioritize financial returns over life itself.  In the guise of saving ecosystems, they are tokenizing the world and making profit from their exploitation of planet earth.

Humans as Assets: The Financialization of Flesh and Blood

When it comes to human resources, Whitney extends tokenization to the financialization of people themselves. Human potential, data, and behaviors are tokenized into investable assets. This builds on impact investing where elites bet on social outcomes like reducing poverty or improving education through human capital bonds. It turns individuals into data points on a ledger.

Personal information, health records, DNA, and even daily actions get digitized and fractionalized and linked to digital IDs and programmable currencies that track and control spending. It all connects to broader agendas from groups like the World Economic Forum. Humans are seen as resources to be optimized. Blockchain ensures every aspect of life from skills to biometrics becomes a tradeable commodity.

From Blockchain to Ball and Chain

Blockchain is often sold as a liberating technology. It’s sold as a super-secure, shared digital notebook where transactions get recorded in unbreakable blocks that form a chain. These spread across thousands of computers worldwide so no single boss can tamper with it. It promises privacy and freedom from banks or governments. But from my skeptical angle, like the one Whitney Webb takes, it’s actually shaping up to be a high-tech ball and chain designed to track and control every aspect of our lives. This happens despite those privacy boasts. While blockchain claims to be decentralized and anonymous, most versions, like Bitcoin’s, create a permanent, public ledger where every transaction is traceable forever. This makes it easy for powerful entities from governments to corporations to follow your money trail. They link it to your identity through exchanges or data leaks. They can build detailed profiles on your habits, associations, and whereabouts.

Elites are co-opting this tech. They push for things like central bank digital currencies built on blockchain that tie your finances to digital IDs with biometrics. This turns everyday spending into a surveilled activity. In the future non-compliant behavior like buying the “wrong” things or associating with certain people could get you flagged, frozen out, or punished.  This could mean a world where your blockchain-tracked data feeds into AI systems that predict, manipulate, reward or punish your actions.

The ultimate goal is to enforce rules through programmable money. The programmable money can expire, restrict purchases, and track everything you purchase automatically. This is being pushed under the guise of security and efficiency.  Critics on X say that because blockchains are so public and open, it’s easy for others to watch everything you do and even jump ahead of your trades to make quick money off you.

They argue that without true privacy, decentralization just hands control to the most resourced spies. This echoes Webb’s expose on how Bitcoin’s traceability makes it a tool for destroying real financial privacy in favor of elite-controlled systems.

The Blockchain Enabler: Fueling Human Tokenization at Scale

This blockchain backbone is exactly what’s needed to make the tokenization of human resources possible on a massive scale. Without it, you couldn’t reliably slice up and trade fractions of someone’s skills, behaviors, or biometric data. Blockchain provides the immutable ledger that records every tokenized “share” of human capital.

Whether it’s your work output, health metrics, or social compliance, it links them permanently to your digital ID so the elites can monitor, value, and manipulate them in real time. It turns abstract human potential into concrete, programmable assets that can be bought, sold, or penalized without escape.

Human Commodification Unfolding: From Bonds to Biometrics

It seems truly unbelievable and dystopian but real-world implementations are creeping in through programs like social impact bonds.

There investors fund initiatives such as prisoner rehabilitation or early childhood education.

They profit if metrics like reduced recidivism are met. https://socialfinance.org/social-impact-bonds/

Byte by Byte Humans are Being Tokenized

The World Bank’s Human Capital Project measures countries’ human potential as economic assets:

“The Human Capital Project (HCP) is a global initiative launched by the World Bank to inspire and inform investments in human capital”

It paves the way for tokenized investments in workforce development. In refugee aid, organizations use blockchain combined with biometric IDs like iris scans or fingerprints to deliver and track assistance. This is how they implement the plan byte by byte as seen in UN pilots from the World Food Programme’s Building Blocks project in Jordan, where refugees scan their eyes to buy food with aid stored on a blockchain ledger. Or UNHCR’s efforts in Ukraine distributing programmable stablecoin cash directly to digital wallets. These systems make aid traceable and “efficient.” But I see them turning vulnerable people into monitored data commodities under the guise of inclusion and empowerment.

Your Skills as Tradeable Tokens

Companies are experimenting with turning workers’ skills and performance into digital tokens on blockchain platforms. They break down things like work history, credentials, or gig results into small tradable pieces. This mostly targets gig workers: drivers, delivery people, freelancers who do temporary jobs through apps. Platforms verify and tokenize these, letting people buy, sell, or trade tiny fractions of a worker’s “value” (fractionalized trading: like slicing someone’s skills into shares anyone can own and trade, similar to buying a piece of a stock). It turns personal labor into digital assets that can be bought and sold.

I know this sounds wild and hard to believe for most folks. I didn’t buy it either until I dug into the research myself. It’s all part of a larger agenda to digitize and control everything, your job and skills, your land, even nature under a single digital system run by a tiny elite of powerful companies and tech oligarchs. Critics call this endgame a form of fascist dictatorship known as technocracy, where “experts” and algorithms dictate life instead of democratic choice.

For a real-world example happening today, check out platforms like LaborX (part of Chrono.tech), a blockchain-based freelance marketplace where gig workers’ skills and work history are verified on-chain, and payments/rewards can involve tradable tokens tied to performance bringing tokenized labor closer to reality in the gig economy: https://laborx.com/

Another related case is project tokenization ideas for gig workers, as explored here: https://medium.com/@tradefin101/project-tokenization-for-gig-workers-revolutionizing-the-gig-economy-with-blockchain-20359a1ffcfd. These show early steps toward fractionalizing and trading aspects of human capital.

The Ultimate Warning: A Tokenized Hellscape Awaits

In my depiction of a tokenized future, society looks like a giant database where people own nothing tangible, as the WEF slogan suggests. The WEF idea of happiness is enforced through surveillance. Everyone carries a digital ID that opens access to jobs, services, or even basic rights. Tokens represent shares in human capital markets that reward or punish based on compliance.

Governments and corporations use this to engineer behaviors like tying aid to biometric scans or tokenizing refugee programs for “inclusion.” But it really cements a system of digital serfdom. I see this leading to a loss of freedom where the elite overlords hold all the tokens. They manipulate markets to siphon wealth while the masses are reduced to monitored data streams in a hyper-financialized digital prison.

Technocracy Tokenopoly

The world’s billionaire elite, already far beyond any need for more wealth, now crave absolute power and control. They are quietly fulfilling the 1930s vision of the Technocracy movement led by Howard Scott and Technocracy Incorporated which declared that scientists, engineers, and technical experts should replace democratic governments and elected leaders. They viewed traditional republics and ordinary citizens as too irrational and uninformed to govern effectively, insisting only a data-driven, expert-ruled system could rationally manage resources and society for maximum efficiency.

Today this technocratic ideal unfolds through the tokenization of everything: rainforests, rivers, biodiversity, human labor, skills, behaviors, and data all turned into tradable blockchain assets under the guise of sustainability and inclusion. Earth and humanity become pieces in a high-stakes game, satirized in Tokenopoly, where players buy and sell properties like the Amazon Rainforest, Nile River, Niagara Falls, CAR resources, Human Labor, and Biodiversity Credits, with cards commanding “Collect 100 Tokens” or “Go Directly to Digital Wallet.” Using AI, surveillance grids, programmable money, and immutable ledgers, the elite claim dominance and enforce compliance, building the tokenized, borgified system of digital serfdom

To pull off this nightmare, elites and tech oligarchs are racing to build AI data centers at breakneck speed devouring massive amounts of fresh water and energy just to hoard every scrap of our tokenized data. They can’t build them fast enough, but that desperation is our opening. People are waking up to their plan as their electric bills go sky high and their fresh water is drained by the data centers.  People are starting to speak out.

Could their pride be their downfall?

How supremely arrogant of these self-anointed digital overlords to imagine they hold proprietary title over nature itself and over human beings, treating both as resources to be patented, monetized, and managed. How breathtakingly hubristic for them to insist that scientists, engineers, and technocratic elites are better suited to govern than the democratic process, elected representatives, and the will of the people.

Proverbs 16:18 – Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.

Expose their plan before it’s too late. 

Don’t let them Borgify us and turn free humans into obedient, trackable nodes in their machine. Don’t let them steal nature and turn it into a commodity for the elite. Get active locally. Resist immediately. Slow their rollout to a crawl. The future isn’t theirs yet. We claim it by saying NO!

Resistance is NOT futile.

We will NOT comply.


Source: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/02/21/are-we-being-borged/

Original Article: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/blockchain-ball-and-chain-are-we-being-borgd

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22.º Folkfaro- Folclore Internacional Cidade de Faro

De 16 a 22 de agosto de 2026, Faro recebe mais uma edição do FolkFaro – Folclore Internacional da Cidade de Faro, um encontro dedicado à celebração da música, da dança e das tradições populares de diferentes culturas.

Durante uma semana, vários locais da cidade de Faro serão palco de momentos de convívio, animação e partilha cultural, reunindo grupos folclóricos de Brasil, Chipre do Norte, Eslováquia, França, Itália, Nicarágua, Quénia e Portugal.

Com o mote “Ritmos e Tradição num Palco de Emoções!”, o FolkFaro 2026 promete levar ao público a riqueza e a diversidade das tradições populares, através de espetáculos e iniciativas que aproximam culturas e comunidades.

Uma oportunidade para viver Faro ao ritmo do folclore internacional e descobrir diferentes formas de celebrar a identidade, a música e a tradição.

Data: 16 a 22 de agosto de 2026
Local: Vários locais em Faro
Grupos participantes: Brasil, Chipre do Norte, Eslováquia, França, Itália, Nicarágua, Quénia e Portugal

Organização/Informações: Grupo Folclórico de Faro
Telefone: 966 049 355 — chamadas para a rede móvel nacional

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Free Speech on Life Support

Free Speech on Life Support

From Yelling Fire to Fighting Words

Donald Jeffries | donaldjeffries.substack.com

I’m a civil libertarian. We’re practically extinct now. There were never very many of us, but there used to be a lot more. Most people simply don’t support your right to say something they disagree with. And therein lies the rub, as the Bard once said. Political correctness, “hate speech,” call it what you want. It destroys liberty.

I have recounted many times the origin of the expression “you can’t yell fire in a crowded theater.” Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes used that phrase to explain why Woodrow Wilson had the right to throw WWI protesters into prison. They weren’t yelling fire, in a theater or otherwise. But the American public of that day and age accepted it. Didn’t offer up a whimper of dissent. In 1942, the Supreme Court, in a 9-0 decision, decided that "insulting or 'fighting words', those that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace" are among the "well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any constitutional problem." Now, Americans in 1942 were in full WW2 war fever mode. They were too busy buying bonds and planting Victory Gardens to worry about any “Fighting Words” exception to the First Amendment. We had Nazis to defeat- screw free speech!

Think of all that could potentially be construed as “fighting words.” If someone says something bad about your wife, do you have the right to respond with physical violence? This was the Supreme Court kind of validating the Creed of the Hood, forty years before Hollywood started celebrating the “hood.” I don’t have to tell you what can happen if someone “disrespects” your mama. Ghetto culture especially benefits from this flawed decision, which put yet another asterisk on the Bill of Rights. I grew up well after 1942, but we were still taught that “sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” And now, emboldened by a Supreme Court decision none of them are even aware of, our ghetto culture uses the “fighting words” exemption to enable angry Blacks to batter hapless Whites, and then attribute it to being assaulted by certain words. Fighting words. Well, if you hear fighting words, what else can you do but fight? Usually starting with a sucker punch.

I abandoned my liberal roots because the Left had already become unduly concerned with policing language, in the late 1970s. When the term “politically correct” was invented, and not met with incredulity, the die was cast. After all, if something is politically correct, that means that society has determined that there are opinions, words, that are politically incorrect. Not permissible in a country supposedly protected by a First Amendment. We should be free to be politically wrong, politically stupid, politically deranged. We should be able to say basically anything we want. Sure, saying something mean and confrontational to a person may result in you being punched. And if you’re injured seriously enough, you may sue that person for losing his cool and injuring you. But no one should ever be able to justify a physical attack based upon anything that someone else said. The Left today thinks otherwise. They declare that words are violence. They support punching “nazis” in the face.

This authoritarian mindset resulted in the creation of cancel culture. Which was all based on words. Words that are protected under the First Amendment. Innocent Whites- and make no mistake- cancel culture, political correctness, and “hate speech” are all tyrannical concepts directed exclusively towards Whites- lost their jobs over things they posted on social media. On their own free time. It doesn’t get much more unconstitutional than that. And this heavy handed policing of speech began to spill over into genuine insanity. Medical students got into trouble for stating the most obvious truth imaginable; that only biological women can give birth. You couldn’t challenge the changing of “pronouns.” You had to take seriously some indoctrinated student who declared that her new “pronouns” were “they/them.” A plural. Don’t even think about what might happen if you “misgendered” one of these mentally ill persons in a land lacking mental institutions. Instead, we have institutionalized “Wokeness.”

Free Speech on Life Support

But the Right has shown over the past few years, that they have their own version of insane cancel culture. While the Left wants to censor any criticism of any nonwhite, or any non-heterosexual, the Right is trying desperately to make criticism of Israel illegal. Both the Left and the Right want to censor their political opponents. Nobody wants to defend to their dying day the right of someone to say things, even if they find them thoroughly objectionable. That is so eighteenth century. If they had a public referendum to vote yay or nay on the First Amendment, I honestly believe most Americans would vote nay. You can’t just say anything you want! What if it’s racist? What if it’s anti-Semitic? What if it’s sexist? What if it’s homophobic? What if it’s transphobic? Today, what someone says seems to be more important than what they do. We’re policing speech as much as we police conduct. No more speeches about sticks and stones. We’re all ghetto single mothers now; don’t let no one disrespect you!

If a man (and I’m pretty sure it has to be a White man) compliments a woman on some part of her anatomy, or perhaps even how pretty her outfit is, he may be in danger of getting in trouble. For speech. And most people- certainly most women- would agree that he should get in trouble for offending that woman. The word “offended” isn’t in the Constitution. You’re not supposed to have a “right” to not be offended. That seems self-explanatory, but the vast majority of people now believe that there is a protection against being “offended” somewhere in the Bill of Rights. Slander and defamation is one thing, and there have always been laws against them. But who determines what “offended” means? It’s a subjective, not objective term. It cannot be legally quantified, much like “hate,” another favorite term of censorship advocates. It’s based on emotion, not reason. So it’s perfect for today’s “Woke” Left, but also for today’s Zionist Right, which gets “offended” by “hate” directed at Israel.

If there is any group in America 2.0 which still has free speech, it’s our second largest, but most noticeable minority group. I’m glad someone has free speech, but many Blacks use it primarily to bash all White people, and immerse themselves in historical victimization over slavery. They possess a 24/7 persecution complex, and they feel compelled to share it with everyone. The problem with their free speech, however, is that it often results in infringing on the free speech of others. Saying the World’s Most Dangerous Word can result in criminal prosecution now. Ask Shiloh Hendrix. Some words have become sticks and stones in our society. If they offend Blacks. Or the non-Irish. Or transgenders. Or plain old White feminists. But no one else has these “being offended” rights. Least of all, average White males. Rich White males, like all rich people, have unending rights. But, if they get caught saying the wrong thing to the wrong people, they’ll be shuttled off to another high paying position.

It’s a short leap from monitoring and punishing speech to monitoring and punishing thoughts. Literal Thoughtcrime. While Black street criminals have the “right” to call out some hapless White for “looking” at them, some White females have taken to confronting certain hapless White males for “staring” at them. Perhaps staring at the “wrong part” of their body. Sexualizing them. Which is related to thought, if their thoughts are indeed impure. At any rate, that’s an incredibly slippery slope, but no one seems to feel that White men, like everyone else, have a right to look at other people. This includes hyper sensitive Blacks and attractive females. The rationale- which isn’t remotely rational- is that such “looks” can make Black people, or women, feel “uncomfortable.” This is another special right granted only to selected groups. The ones called “marginalized,” but in reality overtly favored. Gay Pride parades and drag brunches make many of us “uncomfortable,” but those feelings don’t matter.

Free Speech on Life Support

All the “experts” are quick to inform you that some speech is not protected by the First Amendment. As the illustration above shows, this includes “Hate Speech,” which is a modern Orwellian concept that is indistinguishable from Thoughtcrime. The word “hate” can not be found in the Constitution. Hate is a human emotion. We all hate some things, and some people. We have a right to hate, as much as we have a right to love. One person’s “hate” is another’s reasonable disagreement. In fact, we have a right to be genuinely racist, to discriminate against each other. At least in our daily lives, in terms of who we want to associate with. Or to be genuinely anti-Semitic. Or genuinely misogynistic. Or to be repelled by the transgender agenda. We discriminate all the time. Will it become illegal to not like the taste of certain foods? How about collard greens? They are an essential part of “soul” food, after all. That’s probably a form of “hate” that’s not allowed in America 2.0. If someone Black complains, that is.

What if we publicly criticize the “talent” of a Snoop Dogg, or a Queen Latifah? Is that kind of discrimination, of choosing what music to listen to and what television shows to watch, “protected” under the Bill of Rights? What if we insist that the Anti-Defamation League is an unregistered foreign agent, as President Kennedy once did? Can we still say a fat woman is fat, or is “body shaming” not protected speech? Why can’t bald guys get upset if someone points out that they have no hair? Isn’t that “hair shaming?” As I pointed out recently on X, women can be “offended” by “body shaming,” but why can’t men be “offended” by “income shaming?” You know, pointing out that 80 percent of them don’t make enough to meet the ever increasing costs of living? Outrage has become politicized. Christians cannot be “offended” over things they consider blasphemous. But Jews can be “offended” over the mildest criticism of Israel, where they don’t live. Can we even say Tyler Robinson is innocent?

As for “obscenity,” it has never been legally defined, because it can’t be legally defined. If it’s merely nudity, then a lot of beautiful works of art that are centuries old would be banned. As the Supreme Court judge said, with typical ‘Murrican wisdom, “I know it when I see it.” I don’t think very many people talk about obscenity any more. Porn is mainstream. A rabbi owns one of the biggest sites- Pornhub. Another holy rabbi, Rabbi Shmuley, who is RFK, Jr’s handler, sells sex toys on the side. With his daughter. That’s how the “chosen” roll. “Ridicule” is perhaps the slipperiest of all these slippery slopes. Again, how do we define it? Clearly, an angry Black or a self- hating White declaring that “all White people should die” is not ridicule. Or “hate.” But saying that “transwomen” (men pretending to be women) shouldn’t play women’s sports is. A Sarah Silverman saying she hopes Jesus comes back so “we can fucking kill him again” is not ridicule or hate. But a gentile merely saying “Jew” can be.

Words can hurt. Good people try not to hurt other’s feelings. But in anger, we sometimes say things we shouldn’t. Why can’t there be an “anger” clause to protect the White non-non-Irish from using “fighting words?” Which can be used against them in a court of law. I hate the word “retard,” because of my very special late niece Denise. It’s become one of the most popular words in America 2.0, which tells you something about the state of the crumbling culture. But I don’t want people prosecuted for saying it. It offends me, but I’m not “marginalized” enough, and definitely not “chosen” enough, for it to matter. Suck it up buttercup. I hate all the gratuitous male nudity onscreen now. I guess you could say I’m “offended” by it. But I enjoyed the female onscreen nudity which used to prevail in America 1.0, so I don’t want to be a hypocrite. That’s what happens in a matriarchy. I “hate” the transgender agenda, but I will always try to treat those troubled souls fairly and decently.

Free Speech on Life Support

Some free speech is freeer than others. Some “being offended” is more offended than others. Some “uncomfortable” feelings are more uncomfortable than others. We’ve gone full Orwell here. Now, I want to make clear that even the favored groups don’t have full civil liberties. Blacks, for instance, can lose their magical status if they offend the non-Irish. Ask my friend Cynthia McKinney. Jamaal Bowman was a typical entitled Black “representative” in Congress, and even got away with pulling a fire alarm inside recklessly. Black Privilege, I believe it’s called. But he couldn’t get away with being too critical of Israel, and AIPAC saw to it that he was defeated by a pro- Zionist candidate in his primary election. Feminists can get in trouble for “offending” Blacks or the non-Irish. So can the transgenders, I presume. But the non-Irish don’t seem to get in trouble for “offending” anyone. They’re kind of like the Beatles of the Bill of Rights. With some exceptions, they’re fully protected. Unlike the rest of us.

It’s lonely being a civil libertarian in the modern dystopian world. I want to protect the rights, and the speech, of all the Blacks who hate White people. Of all the Jews who hate the inferior Goyim. Of all the women who hate men to show interest in them. Of all the transgenders who are confused and lashing out irrationally. Of all the illegal immigrants whose presence has helped to lower wages and eliminate benefits to poor and working class Americans. Even for the rich elitists who conspire against all of us each and every day. I would want Hillary Clinton to get a fair trial. If any of us is denied our God-given rights, all of us are in jeopardy. One verbal miscalculation away from being “cancelled.” One misinterpreted look from being assaulted. We’re almost at the Minority Report level, so don’t fantasize about committing any crime. The flock cameras and the data centers are coming. Watch your step, and be careful what you say, and who you say it to. You’re being watched, and you aren’t protected.


Original Article: https://donaldjeffries.substack.com/p/free-speech-on-life-support

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Con Trump è al potere il sionism “cristiano”

Sionismo cristiano: un fenomeno che è rimasto a lungo nel punto cieco

Sionismo protestante: un fenomeno che è rimasto a lungo nel punto cieco

di Francis Jubert – 16/08/2026

Sionismo cristiano: un fenomeno che è rimasto a lungo nel punto cieco

Fonte: Le nouveau conservateur

Laurent Tessier, Sionismo Cristiano. Storia di un’alleanza non celebrata (XI-XI secolo), Lavoro e Fides / Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2026, 402 p.

Ci sono libri che sono puntuali. Quello di Laurent Tessier è uno di questi. Mentre la guerra a Gaza, la colonizzazione in Cisgiordania e il ritorno di Donald Trump hanno portato in prima linea l’incrollabile sostegno di ampie fasce dell’America evangelica a Israele, lo storico delle religioni consegna la prima sintesi in lingua francese su un fenomeno rimasto a lungo nel punto cieco delle nostre analisi: il sionismo cristiano. Non solo una lobby contemporanea, ma una profonda alleanza teopolitica transatlantica che precede lo stesso sionismo politico ebraico e continua a pesare pesantemente sul Medio Oriente.

Fin dalle prime pagine, Laurent Tessier imposta la cornice con gradita chiarezza. Il sionismo non è mai stato un affare esclusivamente ebraico. Già nel XIX secolo, milioni di cristiani – principalmente protestanti evangelici anglosassoni – sostenevano il ritorno degli ebrei in Terra Santa e la creazione e la difesa dello Stato di Israele. Benjamin Netanyahu stesso lo ha riconosciuto nel 2012: senza il sionismo cristiano, lo stato ebraico moderno probabilmente non sarebbe stato possibile. L’immagine dell’inaugurazione dell’ambasciata americana a Gerusalemme nel 2018, con i pastori Robert Jeffress e John Hagee al fianco del primo ministro israeliano, è solo la parte visibile di una lunga storia.

Profonde radici britanniche

Questa storia inizia molto prima di Theodor Herzl. Laurent Tessier risale alle radici britanniche del XVI secolo. La traduzione della Bibbia in inglese, l’impregnazione puritana, la lettura letterale delle profezie e la convinzione che l’Inghilterra sia una nazione eletta accusata di un dovere nei confronti del popolo ebraico forgierà quello che in seguito sarà chiamato restaurismo.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, VII conte di Shaftesbury, nel XIX secolo, trasformò l’aspettativa escatologica in un’azione politica concreta. In Canada, Henry Wentworth Monk gioca un trapianto singolare, tinto di israelismo britannico. Negli Stati Uniti, William E. Blackstone organizzò una petizione firmata in modo massiccio a favore di una casa ebraica in Palestina nel 1891. I sionisti cristiani hanno aperto la strada ai sionisti ebrei.

La nascita di una partnership organizzata

La seconda parte del libro (1917-1967) documenta la nascita di una partnership strutturata. La Dichiarazione Balfour, firmata da Arthur James Balfour, non è solo il risultato di calcoli geopolitici o l’influenza di Chaim Weizmann: incorona decenni di difesa cristiana. Negli anni 1930-1940, i comitati prosionisti cristiani erano strutturati negli Stati Uniti e in Canada, spesso in stretto collegamento con le organizzazioni ebraiche. L’episodio del 1947 del giudice canadese Ivan Rand, “restituito” dalle testimonianze dei pastori John Grauel e William Lovell Hull, illustra la forza di questa affinità culturale protestante.

Laurent Tessier mostra anche punti ciechi: l’invisibilità dei palestinesi, la generosità selettiva, le ambiguità di sostegno che non impediscono le restrizioni migratorie nordamericane contro gli ebrei in fuga dal nazismo.

Dalla profezia alla diplomazia: l’era Trump

La terza parte, la più densa e contemporanea, ripercorre l’istituzionalizzazione e la radicalizzazione del movimento dopo il 1967. La guerra dei sei giorni fa rivivere i fervori messianici. Il dispensazionalismo che trasforma la Bibbia in una sorta di tabella di marcia profetica della storia, in cui il destino nazionale di Israele occupa un luogo centrale e inevitabile, fino ad allora in gran parte apolitico, diventa una forza trainante per l’impegno.

Jerry Falwell, Menahem Begin, l’Ambasciata Cristiana Internazionale a Gerusalemme (1980) e i cristiani di John Hagee uniti per Israele (CUFI) nel 2006: il sionismo cristiano si sposta da discrete pressioni a una forza di massa in grado di pesare direttamente sui dirigenti americani e canadesi. Sotto Ronald Reagan, sotto Stephen Harper, sotto Donald Trump (2017 e 2025), l’alleanza si sta consolidando.

Laurent Tessier sottolinea un punto cruciale: CUFI rivendica più di dieci milioni di membri – cento volte di più rispetto all’American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). La “lobby ebraica” dei discorsi di cospirazione è, infatti, una coalizione transconfessionale dove i cristiani conservatori svolgono un ruolo decisivo.

La “nave imperfetta” e i fatti compiuti (2017-2021)

È soprattutto l’era Trump che Laurent Tessier analizza con notevole precisione. Né nato di nuovo, né lettore della Bibbia, né praticante regolare, Donald Trump è per i circoli sionisti cristiani un “vascello imperfetto” – uno strumento scelto da Dio nonostante, o forse a causa, dei suoi difetti morali.

Il confronto con Cyrus il Grande, già presente nel discorso sionista cristiano fin da Harry Truman, assume una dimensione operativa: sono i pastori e le reti evangeliche a investire il presidente con un significato biblico a cui rimane straniero.

La strumentalizzazione è reciproca, e i risultati sono spettacolari: riconoscimento di Gerusalemme come capitale il 6 dicembre 2017, inaugurazione dell’ambasciata il 14 maggio 2018 (con John Hagee e Robert Jeffress nei luoghi d’onore), riconoscimento della sovranità israeliana sul Golan, sospensione dei finanziamenti dell’UNRWA, Accordi di Abramo.

Il secondo mandato e l’ufficio della fede (2025-2026)

Il secondo mandato porta questa configurazione al suo apice. Mike Huckabee, un pastore battista nominato ambasciatore in Israele, annuncia cambiamenti nelle “proporzioni bibliche”. La colazione di preghiera di Gerusalemme si tiene per la prima volta a Mar-a-Lago. Nel febbraio 2025, Benjamin Netanyahu ha incontrato i leader evangelici per novanta minuti – non ha incontrato alcun leader ebraico americano.

Dopo gli attacchi congiunti USA-Israele contro l’Iran nel giugno 2025, Donald Trump si rivolge alla nazione ringraziando “specialmente Dio”, e poi il Medio Oriente, Israele e America, in quell’ordine.

Il piano per Gaza e il “Board of Peace” sotto la sua presidenza personale estendono la logica a una forma di tutela americana nel territorio, un secolo dopo il mandato britannico.

Laurent Tessier insiste sul sistema istituzionale che tiene Donald Trump sotto l’influenza religiosa. L’Ufficio della fede della Casa Bianca, reintegrato per decreto il 7 febbraio 2025 e in cui Paula White-Cain svolge un ruolo centrale, organizza la messa in scena teologico-politica. Il 5 marzo 2026, nel sesto giorno di guerra contro l’Iran, un video girato nello Studio Ovale mostra Donald Trump, mani unite, occhi chiusi, circondati da una ventina di pastori evangelici che gli mettono le mani sulle spalle. La leggenda – “Dio benedica gli Stati Uniti! “– dice il resto.

Pochi giorni dopo, l’organizzazione Friends of Zion Heritage Center, fondata da Mike Evans, ha lanciato a Gerusalemme e Tel Aviv una campagna di poster nazionali sotto lo slogan “Grazie Dio & Donald Trump! ” “

Il messianismo politico ora irriga contemporaneamente Washington, Gerusalemme e Teheran. Come formula Jean-François Colosimo, “porta il fuoco di Dio alle scuse della forza”.apporte le feu de Dieu à l’apologie de la force

Ambiguità strutturali e radicalizzazione

Uno dei maggiori contributi del libro è quello di rifiutare la semplificazione. Il sionismo cristiano non è un monolite. Attraversa le sensibilità, dal liberale Reinhold Niebuhr ai dispensazionalisti più radicali.

Si basa su tre registri che Laurent Tessier, prendendo Samuel Goldman, distingue chiaramente: profezia, affinità culturale e alleanza politica pragmatica. L’alleanza è strutturalmente ambigua: i cristiani sionisti vedono negli ebrei gli attori di uno scenario escatologico che alla fine include la loro conversione; gli ebrei sionisti accettano il sostegno mantenendo una distanza teologica. Gershom Gorenberg lo ha già formulato nel 2002: “A loro non piacciono i veri ebrei. Ci amano come personaggi della loro storia. »

Le controvoce dei cristiani di Palestina

Di fronte a questa convergenza, i cristiani di Palestina si oppongono a una lettura delle stesse Scritture che rovescia le conclusioni.

– La Dichiarazione di Gerusalemme (2006) e Kairos I (2009)

A partire dal 22 agosto 2006, quattro delle più alte autorità ecclesiastiche di Gerusalemme – il patriarca latino Michel Sabbah, l’arcivescovo siro-ortodosso Swerios Malki Mourad, il vescovo anglicano Riah Abu El-Assal e il vescovo luterano Munib Younan – firmano la “Dichiarazione di Gerusalemme sul sionismo cristiano”.

Rifiutano categoricamente le sue dottrine come “un insegnamento erroneo che perverte il messaggio biblico di amore, giustizia e riconciliazione”, e denunciano un patto che facilita la colonizzazione e la guerra perpetua piuttosto che il vangelo. L’appello a “rompere il silenzio” delle Chiese occidentali rimarrà in gran parte una lettera morta.

Tre anni dopo, l’11 dicembre 2009, il documento “Kairos Palestine – A Moment of Truth”, scritto a Betlemme da cristiani cattolici, greco-ortodossi, luterani, anglicani e battisti, definisce l’occupazione israeliana “peccato contro Dio e contro l’umanità” e invita le chiese di tutto il mondo a rivedere le teologie che la giustificano.

– Kairos II (2025) : una radicalizzazione del soggetto

Nel novembre 2025, Kairos Palestine II, intitolato “Un momento di verità: la fede in un tempo di genocidio”, radicalizza il punto: il sionismo cristiano è nominato come una “distorsione teologica e corruzione morale” che promuove un “dio processuale, razzista, di guerra e di pulizia etnica”.

Per il teologo anglicano Naim Ateek, figura fondatrice di questa teologia della liberazione palestinese, il sionismo cristiano fa parte di un “letteralismo selettivo” che tronca il testo biblico isolando la promessa territoriale della sua condizionalità etica. Come dimostra la sociologa Caterina Bandini, questa sfida è percepita da molti cristiani palestinesi come la principale minaccia – a volte anche più di quella della stessa destra sionista religiosa ebraica – proprio perché si trova sul terreno delle stesse Scritture.

Uno strumento indispensabile di comprensione

Laurent Tessier ricorda che lo storico non deve decidere tra le storie. Sta a lui mostrare come si sono formati, come si confrontano e cosa costa la vita che si afferma di assorbire gli altri.

Proveniente da una tesi in co-tutel tra l’École pratique des hautes études e l’Université de Montréal, il libro combina rigore e accessibilità. Laurent Tessier adotta una postura completa senza mai cedere all’apologetica o alla denuncia. In un paesaggio intellettuale francese ancora segnato dal paradigma laico e sconosciuto delle dinamiche religiose anglosassoni, questo libro riempie un vuoto lampante.

Come ha detto Laurent Fabius, allora ministro degli Affari Esteri, al simposio internazionale “Religioni e politica estera”, organizzato il 6 novembre 2013 dal Centro per gli studi e la ricerca internazionali (CERI) di Sciences Po, molte crisi internazionali rimangono incomprensibili quando il fatto religioso non viene preso in considerazione. Laurent Tessier ci dà gli strumenti per farlo, essendo uno dei fattori più strutturanti – e sconosciuti – della questione della Palestina.

Un libro importante, che dovrebbe diventare un riferimento.

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Colisão entre ligeiro de passageiros e carrinha provoca dois mortos e quatro feridos no IC5 em Vila Flor

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Uma violenta colisão rodoviária registada esta segunda-feira, 17 de agosto, no IC5, ao quilómetro 66, na União das Freguesias de Vila Flor e Nabo, concelho de Vila Flor, provocou pelo menos duas vítimas mortais e quatro feridos.

De acordo com o Jornal de Notícias, o acidente resultou do despiste de um veículo ligeiro de passageiros, onde seguiam cinco pessoas, que acabou por embater contra uma carrinha que circulava na direção contrária. Até ao momento, não foi possível apurar a idade das vítimas.

Para o local foram acionados 25 operacionais, apoiados por 8 veículos e 1 meio aéreo.

Segundo o Jornal de Notícias.

Por: Dino Frazão
Data: 17/08/2026

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‘Most dangerous man in Germany’ – Local mayor threatens to fire firefighters for posing with AfD politician

A casual snapshot with a prominent Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician has ignited a massive political firestorm in a small German town, leaving four volunteer firefighters facing potential expulsion from service.

The controversy centers on the market square of Egeln – a town of 3,000 residents in Saxony-Anhalt – where local volunteers chose to pose for a photograph with AfD lead candidate, Ulrich Siegmund.

For those readers unfamiliar with Siegmund, he is arguably public enemy number one in the country at the moment. With upcoming state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, much is at stake, with Siegmund’s AfD party is close to capturing an absolute majority of the vote. Due to the popularity of Siegmund in the state, Spiegel Magazine has now famously released a cover featuring the AfD politician while labeling him the “most dangerous man in Germany.” In the article, which describes Siegmund as good looking, polished, and excellent at connecting with voters, his photo is presented as if it were a police mugshot.

The magazine article comes almost at the same time as the incident with the firefighters, which was captured on video last week by “Weichreite TV.” According to the video footage, an active fire truck pulled up near an AfD information booth. The crew, still wearing portions of their official fire department uniforms, approached the politician.

The interaction began cordially, with Siegmund greeting the emergency responders warmly. Shaking their hands, the politician remarked, “Boys, call it a day, you deserve it. Thank you for your efforts.” Seeking to connect further, Siegmund later asked, “Is there anything else I can do for you?”

One of the volunteers responded, “We just wanted to take a look, we wanted to meet in person.”

The group then gathered in front of their department vehicle to take a commemorative photo with the AfD candidate.

Egeln’s long-standing mayor, Michael Stöhr, reacted with fury. The fact that Siegmund’s party is polling at 43 percent, which means nearly half of all voters support him, did not stop the enraged mayor from threatened to fire volunteer firefighters – a move that could leave his community vulnerable during peak wildfire season.

In a detailed, sharply worded Facebook statement, the independent politician expressed that he was “stunned” by the crew’s actions, arguing that their conduct inflicted “enormous damage” on the reputation of the volunteer fire service.

“As mayor of the municipality and head of the volunteer fire department, I expressly clarify that such behavior by members of our volunteer fire department in the line of duty cannot be tolerated,” Stöhr wrote. He further announced his intention to “evaluate the action internally and of course draw appropriate consequences.”

He even implied that taking a photograph with one politician could mean their political alignment could compromise their impartiality during emergency operations. Thus, he is implying these firefighters may refuse to put out a fire simply because they posed with an AfD politician.

“Our population must be able to rely on our fire department to provide assistance in an emergency, regardless of political opinion, religion, or origin. Should this be even remotely questioned by members of the volunteer fire department, then they have no business being in the fire department anymore.” Stöhr claimed.

Concluding his public statement, Stöhr stated that he could only “therefore, explicitly apologize to all volunteer helpers in the fire departments,” while stating “that something like this will not happen again in our local fire brigades of the Egelner Mulde municipality.”

Mayor’s reaction is slammed on social media

The mayor’s strict disciplinary stance has triggered an intense wave of public criticism. Rather than garnering widespread community support, the Facebook post quickly became a lightning rod for controversy, accumulating nearly 8,500 comments.

The vast majority of online users expressed deep shock over how the volunteer first responders were being publicly treated by local leadership. In the wake of the uproar, several commentators have begun demanding the resignation of Mayor Stöhr, who has held his office for 16 years.

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Italy: Young girl in critical condition after boat carrying illegal migrants strikes her with propeller

A teenage girl is in critical condition after a boat carrying ten illegal migrants struck her off Su Giudeu beach in Chia, Italy, yesterday afternoon. The boat was transporting migrants from North Africa.

The victim sustained severe injuries, including fractures and lacerations, after being caught by the boat’s propeller. The injuries led her to lose consciousness, but she was rescued by lifeguards before she could drown. Once they could drag her to shore, they began to administer first aid.

The horrifying incident happened at approximately 4:30 p.m. in the bathing area in front of Su Giudeu beach where the 118 air ambulance landed, according to TGR.

Due to the severity of her injuries, emergency medical personnel intubated the young woman on-site. She was then airlifted via air ambulance to Brotzu Hospital in Cagliari, where she was admitted in critical condition.

While it remains unclear exactly how the young woman became trapped by the engine propeller, boats carrying undocumented migrants have increasingly appeared directly on popular swimming beaches across Europe over recent years. Often, these vessels offload their passengers right in front of shocked beachgoers.

The risk of a serious accident during these landings is high. Smugglers are often desperate to quickly unload their cargo and escape, creating high-tension situations where they fail to notice swimmers. Additionally, after grueling journeys at sea, the arriving passengers are frequently eager to scramble ashore as fast as possible.

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Guido Grossi: come riscriviamo l’economia dell’Italia

Non esiste un numero esatto o un registro pubblico delle volte in cui l’aeroporto militare di Sigonella ha chiuso lo spazio aereo per la cenere dell’Etna, poiché le chiusure militari sono gestite tramite NOTAM interni e raramente pubblicizzate, a meno che non impattino lo spazio aereo civile o eventi eccezionali.Tuttavia, analizzando lo storico del traffico aereo siciliano, si possono evidenziare i seguenti punti chiave: l’aeroporto di Catania è stato fermo per lmeno sei giorni. Fra l’8 e l’11 agosto sono saltati circa settecento voli, quattrocentocinquanta cancellati e oltre duecentocinquanta dirottati su Palermo, Trapani, Comiso e Lamezia Terme.
La cenere dell’Etna ha reso insicuro lo spazio aereo della Sicilia orientale.
A pochi chilometri da Fontanarossa, però, esiste un altro scalo: la Stazione Aeronavale di Sigonella, la più importante installazione della Marina statunitense in Europa e nel Mediterraneo, da cui negli ultimi mesi sono decollati quotidianamente droni di sorveglianza diretti verso il Golfo Persico e le coste iraniane.
Ne parliamo con Antonio Mazzeo, giornalista e ricercatore indipendente che da vent’anni documenta la militarizzazione del Mediterraneo attraverso i tracciati dei velivoli militari e le fonti aperte. Intervista a cura di Jeff Hoffman

Affrontiamo insieme:

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⚖ Gli accordi bilaterali che regolano l’uso delle basi in Italia, e la ragione per cui il Parlamento non li discute né li controlla

🇮🇹 La distanza fra le dichiarazioni ufficiali del governo sulla non partecipazione al conflitto contro l’Iran e ciò che i tracciati documentano

✈ Il costo che la Sicilia paga in esposizione strategica, servitù militari e vincoli sul territorio, mai messo a bilancio da nessuno

📚 GLI ARTICOLI DELL’OSPITE SULLA QUESTIONE:

Antonio Mazzeo, «Sigonella: avamposto italiano nella guerra all’Iran», Pagine Esteri, 9 marzo 2026
Antonio Mazzeo, «Il cielo cupo di Sigonella», Comune-info, 7 aprile 2026
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