Which Side Are You On?

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Iman Shalouf was nearly eight months pregnant. She was sitting inside her family’s tent in the al-Mawasi area when Israeli gunfire struck her, according to paramedics and witnesses. Why are people living in tents in Gaza City? Because the joint’s been reduced to rubble by Bibi’s American backed military.

1,369 Palestinians have been killed and 4,627 wounded since the fragile ceasefire took effect on October 11 of 2025. 

Free Palestine

Have you heard of the singer Ed Sheeran? I haven’t but then I’m old and have been deaf for the last 20 years. My search engine tells me that the type of music he makes is “folk-pop, acoustic, hip hop, R&B, and soft rock.” Sounds like it falls neatly into the category of next year’s supermarket/dentist office hot playlist. Still he’s apparently a big deal who plays stadium shows. I've also read that he keeps an apolitical/neutral stance which ... well, in this timeline means you're helping the bad guys. If you say you're "neutral" you've definitely picked a side and it's not the one Spider-Man, Captain Picard or General Leia Organa would choose.

For an upcoming tour, Sheeran had rapper Macklemore scheduled to open for him. That is, he did until Robert Kraft, Patriots football team and Gillette stadium owner threatened to pull the plug on his New England show AND then have him blackballed from a bunch of other stadiums if Sheeran didn’t drop Macklemore.

Why? Because Macklemore used a portion of his opening set to say “Free Palestine” and slam Israel’s war in Gaza.

The statements accompanied his protest song “Hind’s Hall,” which he wrote about Israeli soldiers’ 2024 killing of Hind Rajab, a 5-year-old girl in the Gaza Strip.

He also played footage of Israeli soldiers contrasted against running Palestinian civilians and rubble, saying, “To my Jewish brothers and sisters: Criticism of Israel, criticism of apartheid, being against genocide, in no way is a criticism of you.” 

In his statement on social media, Macklemore said that last week, Kraft called Sheeran with directions to either drop him or face venue cancelations. The call came after the Israeli American Council began a petition demanding that venues and tour organizers pressure Sheeran to oust Macklemore.

“We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium,” Macklemore said. “Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues. (source) 

How absolutely mobster of Kraft but what else can you expect from a Friend of Trump? The man’s been busted for getting hand jobs at Florida massage parlors and soliciting other sex workers in the dangly state; he's in the Epstein files and had NO problem with Kanye West/Ye who’s praised Hitler but Macklemore’s Free Palestine is an issue?

What’s the deal? Why is Kraft and the Israeli American Council cool with Kanye West’s blatant, heinous antisemitism and Hitler fanboying but they’re totally against Macklemore’s pro-humanity, anti-genocide, don’t-murder-innocent-Palstinians statements?

I don’t get it but I expect money's involved in the mix here somewhere. 

Ed Sheeran ixnayed Macklemore. It seems young Ed lacks a spine and, quite possibly,  a functioning set of morals.

Not so randomly, did you know that Jeff Epstein was “trained as a spy” for Israel’s intelligence service. This came out in the latest document file dump.

Beavis (or is it Butt-head – I always get those two confused) Trump Jr.’s new wife’s father was Epstein’s banker. Bettina’s pop also wrote him praising character references so that Epstein could score tax breaks. Bettina's daddy's judgement seems to have been ... flawed, dubious, stupid, and all together fucked up. It appears she's a chip off the old blockhead.

Related, there’s the bit about Butt-head (I checked, it’s definitely Butt-head) and Bettina’s lavish wedding weekend festivities being paid for by Russian oligarch, Umar Kremlev, who’s tight with Prez Pedo’s boss, Putin.

Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of wedding expenses, according to records reviewed by ProPublica and interviews with three people familiar with the event. The oligarch paid to rent out one of the private islands, where a reception was held and where guests slept. He also covered other big-ticket items, like the fireworks show, and his team helped plan the event. Kremlev is the head of the International Boxing Association, a scandal-plagued sports group that has been financed by the Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom. The wedding payments came from an IBA-affiliated entity in Dubai that the boxing association uses for financial transactions. (source) 

Ultra fishy (and we’re talking dead-sardines-left-in-a-Honda-Fit-for-three-days-in-August fishy) that Kremlev helped pay for Trump Jr.’s wedding. The two are said to have only recently met and Kremlev doesn’t speak much English (Butt-head doesn't speak Russian). Is this a connection through Prez Pedo — a payment for info/services already given? OF COURSE IT IS!

Let’s see now, Epstein was potentially/probably working as a spy for Israeli military intelligence and Bettina’s dad was his banker. Butt-head’s father, Prez Pedo, was a Lolita Express frequent flyer. Netanyahu undoubtedly has ALL kinds of juicy blackmail material on Trump and that’s part of what’s keeping this completely insane war/crime against humanity and the planet itself going.

Full Diaper Don became a Russian asset perhaps as early as the 1980s. More likely, he’s just their useful idiot. Pedo’s bought and paid for a thousand times over.

Looks like the old abuser’s stuck solid inside an Israeli/Russian sandwich and we're trapped with him. Lovely. 

Christ almighty, I gotta get out of the house today. If not that, I should at least try to watch a cheery movie like Alien. Ya know, something with a happy ending. Hey, the cat and Ripley survive!