Monday, July 14, 2025

CIVIL WARS: LifeSiteNews, Epstein Files, MAGA Blues, Vatican Lies

 

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In this episode of the Underground, Michael Matt takes questions on some major crackups in religion and politics. First up, #LifeSiteNews — what really happened? 

Next up, the #epsteinfiles — no names, no blame, and nothing to see here. Really? 

The big #Epstein dodge and now more weapons for Ukraine and Israel, have left many White House watchers asking the question: Is MAGA turning on Donald Trump, and what happens next if THAT happens? 

By the way, you won't believe what #joerogan said about Israel and the war on Gaza. 

Michael concludes with the fundamentally Catholic take on the growing political chaos in America. This is how you fix it!



Sunday, July 13, 2025

Corrie Ellison Forensics w Tom Juby, RCMP Legal Advice Disclosure Order

 

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Paul and Adam are pleased to welcome retired RCMP forensics expert, Tom Juby, to the show. Tom has reviewed the forensics evidence surrounding the shooting of Corrie Ellison, and gives us his insights into what they reveal, and how the case should have been handled.

Before speaking with Tom Juby, Paul and Adam discuss the Federal Court decision this week ordering the RCMP to disclose the legal advice they received in the case of Abdulrahaman El Bahnasawy. When he was 18 years old, Mr. El Bahnasawy was arrested in New York on terrorism charges, related to plans he had discussed online with undercover FBI agents while he was off his anti-psychotic medications. He is now serving a 40 year sentencing in a Colorado supermax prison. The RCMP had cooperated with the FBI on the case, and there are allegations that the RCMP accessed medical records, and generally facilitated the arrest taking place in the US, rather than Canada, where the accused would have been dealt with in a less harsh legal system.

Also discussed, the OPP communications around the Quadeville case of the 8-year old girl who was originally suspected to be the victim of an animal attack, the Halifax Mooseheads player acquitted of a DUI after the police officer failed to show for court, and reactions from municipal police forces in Nova Scotia to the government plans to expand the RCMP in this province.




Protestors Block Amazon Packages at Maersk Warehouse

 

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Around 20 people blocked MAERSK trucks from entering and exiting the company's Montreal-North warehouse on Friday morning. The action, organized by the group Workers' Alliance under the theme “Amazon Crime Day”, was aimed at denouncing the Quebec government's inaction and complicity in Amazon's mass layoffs by directly affecting the profits of a company that plays a key role in the multinational's supply chain.

For about an hour, no trucks were allowed in or out of the warehouse. The demonstrators dispersed peacefully when Montreal police officers ordered them to leave.

Prime Day is an annual three-day sale for Amazon customers. This is the first Prime Day since the closure of all Quebec warehouses in February. These closures followed the unionization of one of the warehouses in Laval. Amazon had even gone so far as to file a constitutional appeal against the Quebec Labor Code, attacking the right to have a recognized union. The CAQ government, for its part, took no action to defend the laid-off workers.

MAERSK is a Danish multinational logistics company currently partnering with Amazon on an international scale. A worker at the Montreal warehouse told The North Star that the vast majority of packages handled there are from Amazon.

he action was also aimed at denouncing MAERSK's complicity in the genocide in Palestine. MAERSK is the main company shipping weapons and military equipment from the USA to Israel.  (more...)

Protestors Block Amazon Packages at Maersk Warehouse


Palestine and the production of ignorance

 

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The Trump administration is attacking academia because it threatens existing power structures and dominant elites. This is seen most clearly when it comes to Palestine.

Ignorance is usually thought of as the passive obverse to knowledge,

the darkness retreating before the spread of Enlightenment.

But . . .

Imagine an ignorance that resists.

Imagine an ignorance that fights back.

Imagine an ignorance militant, aggressive, not to be intimidated,

an ignorance that is active, dynamic, that refuses to go quietly—

not at all confined to the illiterate and uneducated but propagated

at the highest levels of the land, indeed presenting itself unblushingly

as knowledge.

– Charles Mills, “White Ignorance”

It’s common nowadays for academics to say that they are in the business of “knowledge production.”  That way of putting things can sometimes sound a bit pretentious, since it suggests that we are laboring on the assembly line, manufacturing essential intellectual goods.  But the service of providing knowledge to a wider public in the United States has never seemed more necessary — and more threatened.  That is largely because knowledge production is being met by the Trump administration with an active attempt to produce ignorance, in a number of domains, in what may be the severest ever clampdown on universities in American history. 

Especially in political contexts, ignorance can be understood not just as the absence of knowledge, but as the product of an active process of suppressing and discrediting knowledge that threatens existing power structures and dominant elites.  Results in many areas of academic research undermine the right-wing ideology of the current US administration, including scientific research on climate change, vaccine safety, environmental protection, and alternative energy sources, and historical scholarship on race and gender, to name a few, and that goes a long way to explain the current assault on universities. 

Recent academic work on Palestine falls squarely in this category, which is why it is in the crosshairs of the federal government and has been specifically targeted in recent months.  That was clearly a major focus of the infamous Department of Education letter to Columbia University, of March 13, 2025, which singled out the Department of Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies, and demanded that it be placed in academic receivership for a minimum of five years.  It was also evident in Harvard University’s panicked response to the Trump administration, when it dismissed the director and associate director of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies without citing any justification, since it was a “personnel matter.” 

These institutions are being targeted to make examples of them primarily because they’ve dared to teach the truth about Palestine.  It was all right as long as knowledge was confined to the ivied halls and dusty libraries, but once it sparked a full-fledged student movement and spread to unions, non-governmental organizations, church leaders, rabbis, and other sectors of society, something had to be done.  So what the federal government is trying to do now is nothing less than the complete suppression of knowledge about Palestine.  The imposition of ignorance in this area has three aspects to it: undermining the credibility of academic researchers, suppressing and denying the results of their research, and falsely accusing the student movement fueled by this research of antisemitism.  (more...)

Palestine and the production of ignorance


From Guatemala to Gaza, genocide denial thwarts justice

 

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Distorting the historical narrative is a mechanism of control.

On few other issues, however, can it have been applied with a heavier hand than on Israel’s genocide in Gaza where by early July, more than 57,000 people had been killed.

By starting the conversation on 7 October 2023, for instance – thus ignoring the 77 years of occupation and ethnic cleansing that precede it – a colonial project is re-imagined as a nation under threat.

And engaging with the entire history takes us beyond Palestine. From countries in Africa to Latin America, Israel has helped to destroy Indigenous communities, exporting weapons and tactics “conveniently tested on occupied Palestinians, then marketed as ‘battle-tested’,” writes Antony Loewenstein in his 2023 book The Palestine Laboratory.

In Guatemala, the site of some of Israel’s most abhorrent war crimes outside of Palestine, the reality of Israeli warmongering is well documented. Israel’s instrumentality in the decades-long civil war and state-sponsored genocide of the Indigenous Maya provides critical context for the genocide of Palestinians today.

Current relations between Israel and Guatemala are bound to this bloody history and fueled by the relationship between Zionism and an Evangelicalism informed by two biblical interpretations.

The first is a manipulated version of the biblical Book of Genesis according to which God will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who do not. Genesis actually states that the blessing applies to all descendants of Abraham (or Ibrahim, as Muslims call that prophet).

The second, and more outlandish, is an apocalyptic omen derived from the Book of Revelations postulating that Jewish settlement in and control over Palestine is a precursor to Christ’s return.

The consequence of this Christian Zionist phenomenon – described by Palestinian Reverend Munther Isaac as “an imperial theology” that “serves the interests of the empires of today at the expense of the weak and defenseless” – constitutes a conflation between faith and geopolitics that breeds solidarity with Israel, as was seen in Bolivia in recent years.  (more...)

From Guatemala to Gaza, genocide denial thwarts justice



Saturday, July 12, 2025

Zionist infiltration of entertainment industry: The case of United Talent Agency

 

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Zionists in positions of economic, political, or cultural power must be rooted out and held accountable for their racist, genocidal views and activities.

Zionist hysteria over the ongoing genocide in Gaza has been escalating for many months. Advocates for Palestine have been attacked, bullied, smeared, sacked, and victimised in government, business, universities, and the cultural sphere.

The recent explosion of angst and massive campaign to cancel the Irish hip hop band Kneecap is an indication that this campaign may be over-reaching.

A group of 35 music industry insiders tried and failed to have Kneecap removed from the bill at Glastonbury. I was passed the secret email and reported on its contents, as well as setting out a long thread on X identifying each of the signatories. But Glastonbury showed the tipping point we have reached with opposition to the genocide. Not only Kneecap but a slew of other artists at Glastonbury expressed some kind of support for the Palestinians, in marked contrast to the previous year. The decision by the BBC not to livestream Kneecap because of Zionist pressure diverted their attention from other acts that might say something. Bob Vylan, a punk/rap duo, took full advantage, coining a new resistance chant which rapidly spread all around the world in a day: "Death, Death to the IDF." Within days, the slogan was in multiple memes, on multiple TikTok reels, and printed on t-shirts and other merchandise.

Predictably, the Zionists lashed out at Glastonbury at the BBC and directly at Bob Vylan, with the Trump administration leaping to placate Zionist bosses by rescinding the US visa of the band and the US-based United Talent Agency dropping them from their roster of artists and entertainers.  (more...)

Zionist infiltration of entertainment industry: The case of United Talent Agency


Polish president-elect asks Zelensky to exhume victims of Ukrainian Nazis

 

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The remains of over 100,000 Poles are lying in unmarked mass graves scattered across Ukraine, according to a historian’s estimates

Kiev should allow the “full-scale” exhumation of the victims of mass ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Ukrainian Nazi collaborators during World War II, also known as the Volyn massacre, Polish President-elect Karol Nawrocki has said.

Poles are “waiting for this truth” and their families “are still suffering from the trauma that happened 82 years ago,” he stated at a ceremony honoring the victims of the Volyn massacre on Friday.

The president-elect was speaking about a mass killing campaign waged by militants from the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) from 1943 to 1945 in the regions of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, in which around 100,000 Poles were killed. Both organizations actively collaborated with Nazi Germany.

Nawrocki said he cannot tolerate Poles being “denied the right to bury the victims of the Volyn genocide.” The souls of those victims “cry out for a grave, they cry out for a tomb… for memory and as the future president of Poland, I am obliged to speak with their voice,” he stated at the ceremony.

“As the president elect, I want to officially ask the [Ukrainian] ambassador and [Vladimir] Zelensky about the possibility of undertaking full-scale exhumation in Volhynia.”

The Ukrainian ambassador to Poland, Vasily Bodnar, who was present at the ceremony, said both sides need to talk about the issue openly and “honor the memory of those victims, who need it, on both sides of the border.”  (more...)

Polish president-elect asks Zelensky to exhume victims of Ukrainian Nazis