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This site’s been created in the hope that knowledge is power, and the
certainty that ignorance is its antithesis.   It’s mainly a compilation
of information and insight from various sources that I thought worth
passing along.

I’ll be tossing in my overvalued two cents, as well (denoted
by asterisks).   That said, I’d like to think I’m smart enough to know
what I don’t know, and that I’ll make that clear when necessary.

I’m happy to hear from folks.   Disagreement is welcome, but only if
it’s civil.  You can be as vociferous as you wish, but personal attacks
will simply be flushed as soon as they’re apparent.

Let’s do the mensch thing.

Make sense?   If so, you can leave a comment here, or reach me via email at unlikelysource@gmail.com, on Twitter at @aspiringmensch, or at my Facebook page at https://facebook.com/unlikelysource.

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I may be stating the obvious, but it’s a good idea to check the DN!
Headlines every weekday.

There’s a link to them at the top right of each segment I post, or of
course you can go directly to the program site at https://www.democracynow.org on those days when nothing is posted.

And in addition to what’s here, I occasionally receive responses to my comments on various sites, which I may reply to.

If you’re interested in those responses, just click on the page link and search on “Doug Latimer” in the comments section to read them, or check my Twitter account.

Thanks for visiting.   I hope you’ll find it worth your while.

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ADDED 10/27/11 —  THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES page, where I park aphorisms et alia that I think are worth their own separate space.

See if you agree.

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5/10/15 — Lately, I’ve been including a good bit of health and nutrition intel here, and I do see it intimately related to the other issues extant.

The posts on the duplicity and venality of food and medical corps provide obvious parallels, but I also want to focus on what we can do to improve our health, as we can’t follow our principles as assiduously as we’re obligated to if we’re not in the best condition we can be.

That said, I want to be clear that I’m no expert in these fields.  I’m trying to learn, and unlearn, what I need to do to be healthy.  In doing so, I may wander down some dead ends.  I present this information with the entreaty that you accord it both serious consideration and scrutiny.

What makes seeming sense today may be disproved tomorrow.  What appears outlandish in the present could well be validated in the future.

I hope what I pass along will be of benefit to you.

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* Do what your conscience demands

And your courage allows

And never be satisfied with the limits of either *

 

 

April 2024

4.17

The Real News Network
Iran’s Retaliatory Attack on Israel Is More than Just ‘Military Theater’
Inflated claims of Israel’s remarkable military success in thwarting Iran’s strikes ignores the fact that Iran was deliberately restrained to avoid regional war, while the strikes forced Israel to give away its defensive positions
by Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau

https://therealnews.com/irans-retaliatory-attack-on-israel-is-more-than-just-military-theater

Institute for Public Accuracy
Race-Based Kidney Tests

https://accuracy.org/release/race-based-kidney-tests

Government Compelling Private Universities to “Pledge of Allegiance” to Israel; Universities Disciplined Students for Rallies

https://accuracy.org/release/government-compelling-private-universities-to-pledge-of-allegiance-to-israel-universities-disciplined-students-for-rallies

“Terrifying” “Make Everyone A Spy” Amendment Provokes Outrage

*The Secret Policemen have a ball

https://accuracy.org/release/terrifying-make-everyone-a-spy-amendment-provokes-outrage

NSA, Palantir “Feed Israel’s Killing Machine in Gaza”

https://accuracy.org/release/nsa-palantir-feed-israels-killing-machine-in-gaza

“Iran’s Attack and Prospects for Regional War”

*There’s plenty to excoriate Iran for beyond the West’s perpetual propaganda, but thank somebody’s god its leadership can act like the adults in a room full of foolhardy psychopaths.

https://accuracy.org/release/irans-attack-and-prospects-for-regional-war

Democracy Now!
One Year into War, Sudan Wracked by World’s Largest Displacement and Hunger Crises

*Whatever the US says, it will do what best serves empire, and any “incorporation” of civil society in the peace process will be geared toward cooptation of those groups, which I hope they are aware of.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/17/sudan_1_year_khalid_mustafa_medani

No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/17/no_tech_for_apartheid_google_israel

Can UAW Unionize the South? Volkswagen Tennessee Vote Could Change U.S. Labor Landscape

*As long as major unions remain an appendage of the Democratic Party, the DNCistas will ignore – or punish – anything that doesn’t jibe with their agenda.

As long as they play that game, they’ll never win the one they claim to care about.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/17/hamilton_nolan_us_labor_the_hammer

Under Cover of War in Gaza, Assault on West Bank Intensifies: Palestinian Journalist Dalia Hatuqa

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/16/west_bank_update

“Council of War”: Walden Bello on Biden’s Trilateral Summit with Philippines & Japan to Contain China

*The US is the Sherwin-Williams of geopolitics

“Cover the Earth

In Blood”

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/12/philippines_us

“A Stalemate and Attritional Grind”: Journalist Luke Mogelson on 2 Years of Russia’s War in Ukraine

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/12/ukraine_russia

Israeli Scholar Neve Gordon on Israeli Mass Surveillance in Gaza & the Use of AI to Kill Palestinians

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/12/neve_gordon_2

4.11

5 Things to Know About the Global Land Rush and How to Stop It
A recent gathering in Colombia, organized by the Land Deal Politics Initiative, was an important moment to assess the current state of play and ready strategies to face the current and impending onslaught of land grabs
by Salena Tramel

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/5-things-global-land-rush

When the War on Terror Met Conservation
“Project tenBoma” a program of the International Fund for Animal Welfare that ran from 2015 to 2020, exemplified how military intelligence operations found their way into anti-poaching efforts
by Peter Corkeron

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/war-on-terror-conservation

FAIR
Musk Is Consistent in His Opposition to Internet Democracy
by Ari Paul

https://fair.org/home/musk-is-consistent-in-his-opposition-to-internet-democracy

Institute for Public Accuracy
Hamas: A “Golem” that Emerged from Israel’s “Divide and Rule” Strategy

https://accuracy.org/release/hamas-a-golem-that-emerged-from-israels-divide-and-rule-strategy

Is Air Force Hunger Striker Forced Back to Base After Confronting Top Brass About Illegal Policies?

https://accuracy.org/release/is-air-force-hunger-striker-forced-back-to-base-after-confronting-top-brass-about-illegal-policies

Challenges to the U.S. and Germany for “Facilitating Genocide”

https://accuracy.org/release/challenges-to-the-u-s-and-germany-for-facilitating-genocide

What’s Getting Missed in Project 2025?

*In the midst of Biden’s baleful badness, never lose sight of the other side of this catastrophic coin

https://accuracy.org/release/whats-getting-missed-in-project-2025

Democracy Now!
As Arizona Reinstates 1864 Abortion Ban, Doctors & Organizers Fight Back to Preserve Access

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/11/arizona_1864_abortion_ban

Arizona Supreme Court Revives 1864 Abortion Ban Passed Before Women Could Even Vote

*Of course, the DNCistas won’t listen, and will simply grandstand on this issue, doing as little as possible to avoid being labeled “radical” unless pro choice folks make it goddamn clear that won’t cut it with them.

Many will, but will Planned Parenthood et alia follow suit, or behave as the appendages of the party that they’ve always been?

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/10/amy_littlefield_arizona_abortion_law

Israel’s Ultimate Goal Is to Make Gaza Unfit for Human Habitation: Middle East Analyst Mouin Rabbani

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/10/mouin_rabbani_gaza_biden_netanyahu

Road to Famine: Israeli Law Prof. Neve Gordon on Israel’s History of Weaponizing Food Access in Gaza

*Feast of weaponry

Famine of humanity

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/4/neve_gordon_israel_palestine_hunger_gaza

4.3

DoorDash and Uber Using Customers as Pawns to Punish Workers—Don’t Fall for It
Why Seattle’s City Council should reject calls to repeal or weaken PAY UP! policies protecting app-based workers.
by Sally Dworak-Fisher

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/seattle-protect-app-workers

The Real News Network
Hamas: How Israel Created its Own Nemesis
By shutting the door to any peaceful resolution and leaving no other option for Palestinians, Israel created its own nemesis in Hamas
by Chris Hedges

https://therealnews.com/hamas-how-israel-created-its-own-nemesis

FAIR
New Doc Traces Alex Jones’ Footprints on Our Post-Truth Landscape
by Kit O’Connell

https://fair.org/home/new-doc-traces-alex-jones-footprints-on-our-post-truth-landscape

Fox News Border Stats Distort Immigration Reality
by Phillip HoSang

https://fair.org/home/fox-news-border-stats-distort-immigration-reality

Institute for Public Accuracy
Israel Targets Children, Aid Workers; Escalates Attacks in Syria

https://accuracy.org/release/israel-targets-children-aid-workers-escalates-attacks-in-syria

Far-Right Extremism in Brazil

*Taking a right turn into a deadly dystopia

https://accuracy.org/release/far-right-extremism-in-brazil

New World Court Order Against Israel: Could Uniting for Peace Stop Israel’s Assault?

https://accuracy.org/release/new-world-court-order-against-israel-could-uniting-for-peace-stop-israels-assault

Democracy Now!
Haitians Resist Foreign Intervention as U.S. Pushes for Unelected “Transition Council” to Rule Island

*Important, if inconclusive, intel

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/3/haiti_crisis_pierre_ives

Active-Duty U.S. Airman, Inspired by Aaron Bushnell, on Hunger Strike Outside White House over Gaza

*There was no “tragedy of Aaron Bushnell”

He certainly didn’t see it as such.

It was in *response* to the tragedy of a genocide

And good on Larry for sussing that, and taking a courageous and principled stand against it.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/2/hunger_strike

Building Bridges, Not Walls: Immigrant Communities Honor Six Workers Killed in Key Bridge Collapse

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/29/baltimore_bridge_workers_found

 

 

 

March 2024

‘Dirty Dozen’ Guide Shows 95% of These Fruits and Veggies Tested Positive for Pesticides
This year, EWG scientists found that four out of five of the most frequently detected pesticides on the produce were fungicides that could have serious health impacts
by Olivia Rosane, staff writer
Common Dreams

https://www.commondreams.org/news/ewg-2024-dirty-dozen-pesticides

Oil Change International
New Research Exposes Countries and Companies Supplying the Oil Fueling Palestinian Genocide

*No Oil for Bloodlusters!

https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/new-research-exposes-countries-and-companies-supplying-the-oil-fueling-palestinian-genocide

State Medicaid offices target dead people’s homes to recoup their health care costs
by Amanda Seitz, Associated Press

https://apnews.com/article/medicaid-estate-recovery-nursing-homes-65d5e637e19dc27bd1bd3b097d239b53

On Gaza Protest Voters, Dem Pundits Don’t Need to Rally the Troops 8 Months Before Election
This careerist media posture only serves one functional purpose
by Adam Johnson

https://www.columnblog.com/p/on-gaza-protest-voters-dem-pundits

Institute for Public Accuracy
Should We Care About Moms for Liberty?

*Infernal maternality

Should We Care About Moms for Liberty?

Could TikTok Be Owned by Its Users?

Could TikTok Be Owned by Its Users?

Is the Targeting of TikTok Actually About Israel?

https://accuracy.org/release/is-the-targeting-of-tiktok-actually-about-israel

FAIR

‘They’re Marketing to Us That We’re Too Stupid to Fix Our Stuff’
CounterSpin interview with Gay Gordon-Byrne on right to repair
by Janine Jackson

‘They’re Marketing to Us That We’re Too Stupid to Fix Our Stuff’ 

‘That’s What US Capitalism Does Right Now. It Jettisons Its Elders.’
CounterSpin interview with Alfredo Lopez on Radical Elders
by Janine Jackson

https://fair.org/home/thats-what-us-capitalism-does-right-now-it-jettisons-its-elders

Democracy Now!
“Humanitarian Violence” in Gaza: Architect Eyal Weizman on Mapping Israel’s “Genocidal Campaign”

*Vital intel

If only every segment on this program met that standard

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/21/forensic_architecture_gaza_israel

Ramesh Srinivasan: TikTok Crackdown, Fueled by Anti-China Sentiment, Misses Real Threat of Big Tech

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/14/ramesh_srinivasan_tiktok

“Towers of Ivory and Steel”: Jewish Scholar Says Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/15/maya_wind_towers_of_ivory_and

Maya Wind: Destruction of Gaza’s Universities Part of Broader Israeli Project to Destroy Palestinian Liberation

*Institutions of higher degradation

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/15/maya_wind_part_2

3.13

‘Bombshell’ Memo Shows Open Chemical Burn in East Palestine Violated EPA Rules
“It’s inconceivable that there wouldn’t have been someone from the enforcement office, or general counsel, saying, ‘Oh, Norfolk Southern wants to do an uncontrolled burn—that’s illegal, you cannot do that,” said a former EPA official
by Julia Conley, staff writer
Common Dreams

*Environmental Pretension Agency

https://www.commondreams.org/news/east-palestine

‘Shrinkflation’ Playing Crucial Role in Rising Prices, Corporate Profits: Analysis
“While shrinkflation is not new, it is arguably the most deceptive pricing practice companies use,” reads the report
by Julia Conley, staff writer
Common Dreams

https://www.commondreams.org/news/shrinkflation

Gas Stoves Make for Toxic Roommates
A new campaign uses humor to tackle the toxic reality of so-called “natural” gas
by Caleb Heeringa

*Literally and figuratively, gaslighting is a toxic danger

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/gas-stoves-toxic

FAIR
Applause for Lunar Failure Follows Decades of Space Program Cheerleading
by Karl Grossman

*Space

The Final Farce

https://fair.org/home/applause-for-lunar-failure-follows-decades-of-space-program-cheerleading

Institute for Public Accuracy
Report: Israel Tortured False Confessions Out of UNRWA Staff

Report: Israel Tortured False Confessions Out of UNRWA Staff

Biden “Greenlight” to Israel as South Africa and Nicaragua Appeal to the World Court

Biden “Greenlight” to Israel as South Africa and Nicaragua Appeal to the World Court

“Claims of Mass Rape by Hamas Unravel Upon Investigation”

*We have ample proof for this

The corpress will “challenge powerful forces”, if at all, only long after the damage has been done.

“Claims of Mass Rape by Hamas Unravel Upon Investigation”

Healthcare Cooptation by the Far Right

*When neither major party gives a shit about you

That’s precisely what they’re gonna give you

Healthcare Cooptation by the Far Right

Israel: Atrocities, Fabrications and Complicities

https://accuracy.org/release/israel-atrocities-fabrications-and-complicities

Democracy Now!
“Haiti Needs Peace”: PM Ariel Henry Announces He Will Resign, Transitional Council to Take Charge

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/12/haiti_pm_ariel_henry_resignation

Immigrants Held in Private Northwest Detention Center Report Death, Suicide Attempts Amid Crackdown

*Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses

We can make a shitload of money off them

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/12/maru_mora_villalpando_northwest_detention_center

“Empire’s Laboratory”: How 2004 U.S.-Backed Coup Destabilized Haiti & Led to Current Crisis

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/11/haiti_update

Israel’s “Killing Machine”: How U.S. Military Support Is Undercutting Ceasefire Talks, Prolonging War

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/7/israel_hamas_ceasefire_talks

Unanimous? Supreme Court Ruling Leaving Trump on Ballot Reveals Split Among Justices

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/6/scotus_insurrection

Narco-State: U.S.-Backed Fmr. Honduran Pres. Juan Orlando Hernández on Trial in NY for Drug Trafficking

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/5/honduras_juan_orlando_hernandez_trial