The road is long, the end not in sight. The road is the journey, the end is the trick.
The peace plans.
Russia will not give up land in Ukraine. Israel will not agree to a two state solution nor a one state democracy.
Nobel prize?
If anyone still thinks this government isn't creepy, hmmm!
That alone is reason enough to ignore the future.
Can you imagine if Hilary Clinton had been elected?
Take her class in international crisis mediation?
Looking back just a few years, I wonder how many Clinton and Obama voters actually believe things would be better if either of them were in the White House? There's plenty but if you look at these people now, at the end of twenty twenty five, Hilary is going around the country trying to convince somebody/anybody that what young people are seeing on tik tok is propaganda because they're too young to know the history of Israel. Forgive them father for they know not what they do. Oops, wrong religion. She's earning her keep as one of the biggest apologists for Israel. I hope her and bill make it to the Epstein tribunals. I'll write about that. The two of them have a lot of pictures with Epstein and Weinstein and a lot of political tyrants and pictures are worth, at least, a thousand possibilities.
Obama, on the other hand, just can't say the words genocide or fascist in relation to Israel nor Trump, proving over and over again, Americas legacy is the essence of Americas story. It all is similar to make America great again, conversely for the democrats, America has always been great. No, America has been powerful, a circumstance which seems to send a thrill through the likes of all the powerful blood (money) suckers. I learned a new word today. Felching. Where one ejaculates anally, and then the individual sucks the sperm out. Like some mongrel politician once said about liberals " looking at the world through a soda straw", figuratively speaking, or is it a metaphor?
For some reason I thought it was appropriate for all the sexual monsters out there utilizing the free world's free range money whores for their impotency.
Hilary Clinton is worth 128 million, according to Wikipedia. Unlike Jeffery Epstein, we can figure where Hilary got most of her money connections. I'm sure her and BIll have multiple investments in weapon stocks and corporate shenanigans.
Everyone talks about or insinuates that Trump voters have been taken for a ride, twice now, and liberals and progressives don't like that, but, I say, how many times have we, the other side been taken for the incremental, safe, middle class consumer, ride that has the same scenery and rough road we're trudging along right now?
It's the same road and no current ideological infrastructure bill is going to fix it. It's the same wars, none more righteous than the other, the same economic downturns, recessions, inflations, crisis's, same bipartisanship or lack of it, same fools, tyrants, race haters, immigrant bashers, and master baiters.
Either build a new road (revolution) or ways and means of transportation (imagine something different).
I'm trying to be hopeful here, but don't tell me, please, that I'm too cynical, skeptical, or defeatist. I am a realist, which doesn't make me naturally, suicidal. It's just the opposite. Being pissed off with the hundreds of podcasters, both wrong and left of wrong, merely solidifies what I understand is a true dilemma. There is not much good looking into the future that we can count on, except experiment. It's not really innovative to turn a South Carolina red district into a blue one. Blue is not radical change. Everybody of the left side of wrong is hoping, maybe even betting, on midterm going for the blue. So what?
Come on people! It's not ground hog day, is it? Or being born at night, last night?
All this is money connected. Getting it, keeping it, taking it. It's all about greed, power, and control (over money). Your money, my money, everyone's money. It's hard to see because the blood in the water obscures the picture so we're all waiting for the blood to dilute and then we can see who's left, but why?
It's true, that whenever I hear their side of the story it is incomprehensible, but when I hear our side, my side (temporarily) tell me that we're winning, or will win, not because we have a plan for real victory, but because we are good and they are not, I start wishing for a quicker climate change, which I know, will end us all. I have complete confidence in the world's trickster ethos.
Humans have two choices, recognizing it's all going to end someday, maybe not soon, but it will end, then something else will come along. The first choice is to find some way to get along by throwing out those parts of ourselves called selfish, greedy, fearful, hateful. I think you know what I mean. The second choice is closer to where we are now. We can all go down in a universal bloodbath and with the uninspired technology of death we have at our disposal it's more than possible. Of course, it won't all be spilled blood, just misery and sadness.
There are elements in the former choice that will at least solidify the advanced ideals we say we believe in but have never experienced because from the initial introduction of those ideals, the founding fathers floundered. Justice for those who deserve it but no forgiveness. (Or pardons). Equality for those who never had it. Wealth equity for everyone based on universal suffrage of humanity and work. Free public education and free-thinking universities unencumbered by corporate malfeasance. Corporations are not people and law is not supreme. Humans can be corrupted or murderous, that's a problem for everyone to resolve. True justice and freedom will go a long way to cure social ills. Not everyone gets a trophy, but everyone should get self-worth by their contribution or spirit.
Leaked Documents: "Planned Community" in Rafah Would Force Palestinians Into Israeli Panopticon
The U.S.-led Civil-Military Coordination Center is proposing a residential zone in Gaza with biometric surveillance, checkpoints, and educational programs promoting normalization with Israel.
Leaked Documents: "Planned Community" in Rafah Would Force Palestinians Into Israeli Panopticon
The U.S.-led Civil-Military Coordination Center is proposing a residential zone in Gaza with biometric surveillance, checkpoints, and educational programs promoting normalization with Israel.
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U.S. Army personnel, Israeli military personnel and others international officials monitor screens displaying maps and imagery of the Gaza Strip during a media tour inside the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) on November 20, 2025 in Kiryat Gat, Israel. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
The U.S. military-led group supporting "stabilization efforts" in Gaza has put forward plans for a housing block for Palestinians in Gaza in an area under full Israel military control. According to materials circulated by the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) and obtained by Drop Site News, the "planned community," if developed, would contain and control its residents through biometric surveillance, checkpoints, monitoring of purchases, and educational programs promoting normalization with Israel.
The CMCC was established by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) on October 17, one week after Hamas and Israel agreed to an exchange of captives and a ceasefire was supposed to go into effect. The center, which is based in a large warehouse-style building in Kiryat Gat in southern Israel and involves dozens of countries and organizations, is supposed to "monitor implementation of the ceasefire" and "help facilitate the flow of humanitarian, logistical, and security assistance from international counterparts into Gaza," according to CENTCOM.
The CMCC is led by U.S. Army Lieutenant General Patrick D. Frank and includes both U.S. and Israeli military officials along with personnel from dozens of countries, including France, Britain, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt. The CMCC was a key feature of President Trump's "ceasefire" plan, though it is unclear where exactly it will operate within the new structures being created after Trump announced Phase Two of the plan last week, including the formation of a so-called "Board of Peace" to oversee Gaza with a Founding Executive Board beneath it and a Gaza Executive Board of Palestinian technocrats beneath that.
In November, news first emerged that the Trump administration was planning the construction of a number of residential compounds, dubbed "Alternative Safe Communities" to house Palestinians in Gaza east of the yellow line, an area occupied and controlled by the Israeli military. Analysis of satellite imagery by Forensic Architecture suggests the first of these so-called communities is being prepared on a 1-square-kilometer plot of land in Rafah in southern Gaza at the intersection of two military corridors.
"Plans are rapidly accelerating for what U.S. officials last week cynically referred to as the 'Gaza first planned community,' previously known as 'alternative safe communities,'" Jonathan Whittall, a senior UN official in Palestine between 2022 and 2025 and the executive Director of KEYS Initiative, a political affairs and strategic advisory organization, said after reviewing a transcript of the materials obtained by Drop Site. "This is the next phase in the weaponization of aid."
Last week, a presentation was given at CMCC headquarters about the "Gaza First Planned Community" that is being built to house up to 25,000 Palestinians.
Palestinians would have to pass through a checkpoint to access the zone. "Residents will be able to enter and exit the neighborhood freely, subject to security checks to prevent the introduction of weapons and hostile elements," the materials state. "All entering residents will be registered with biometric documentation to enable identification for movement and civil services."
"The registry will be based on Palestinian ID numbers issued by the authorities in coordination with COGAT," a reference to the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories—the branch of the Israeli military that oversees Palestinian civilian affairs in the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza—giving the Israeli military even more surveillance control over Palestinians housed in the zone.
CENTCOM directed inquiries from Drop Site about the CMCC's plans to the White House, who in turn directed inquiries to the State Department. No one provided comment.
Part of the CMCC presentation for a "Gaza First Planned Community" on January 14, 2026.
The presentation does not specify who would be selecting Palestinians to live in the zone, though all security checks for Palestinians in Gaza in the past (for example to be allowed to enter or exit the enclave) have ultimately gone through COGAT. It does, however, provide a set of criteria for deciding which Palestinians should be "invited" to live there:
The population should be based on Palestinian residents invited based on the following criteria:
Priority is given to residents of the Shaboura and Rafah areas from before the war.
Intact extended families are preferred to enable mutual aid and prevent friction.
Essential professionals are required: teachers, medical staff, rescue personnel, community workers, merchants, administrative/municipal staff, and banking/finance professionals.
All individuals will undergo security vetting to prevent the entry of weapons or Hamas elements.
As for Palestinians who may have lived there or have a legal claim to the land, the presentation notes that "an examination is required regarding potential private rights holders, including mechanisms for registration and compensation."
The promise of compensation to private land owners is striking in the face of the reality in Gaza after over two years of Israel's genocidal assault, where most of the housing and civilian infrastructure in the enclave has been reduced to rubble, nearly the entire Palestinian population have been displaced from their homes, and Israeli troops occupy over half of the territory.
The disparity between CMCC's plans and Israel's actions on the ground is reportedly leading several European countries to consider reducing their presence at the center or to stop sending personnel altogether, according to Reuters, citing concerns that CMCC has failed to increase the delivery of aid into Gaza.
The proposed residential zone is referred to in the CMCC presentation as "the Emirati compound." While it is unclear why that name was chosen, the Emirati field hospital, which is funded by the UAE, is nearby in Rafah. The UAE established formal relations with Israel in September 2020, as part of the Abraham Accords brokered by the first Trump administration that included other countries, including Bahrain, Morocco. Since then, the UAE has normalized relations with Israel more than any other Arab country, with robust trade, tourism, and defense cooperation. On Tuesday, the UAE accepted Trump's invitation to join the "Board of Peace" that will oversee Gaza, becoming one of the first countries to do so.
Part of the CMCC's proposals regarding schooling in the planned residential zone seem aimed at promoting an Emirati-inspired reeducation program. It states that "Temporary 'Emergency Studies' can expedite a curriculum framework to resume classrooms. The curriculum will not be Hamas-based but will follow 'Culture of Peace' principles, e,g., modeled after the UAE." The text of the normalization agreement between the UAE and Israel says both countries will "undertake to foster mutual understanding, respect, co-existence and a culture of peace between their societies." The UAE embassy in Washington, D.C. did not respond to inquiries from Drop Site.
The CMCC presentation also states that "educational programs can prevent diversion of an uneducated and unoccupied population to misaligned activities." Despite Israel's brutal occupation, Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have had one of the highest literacy rates in the world, reaching over 97 percent in 2020, with high rates of enrollment in secondary and higher education.
The plan would also bring economic transactions under Israeli surveillance, replacing Gaza's largely cash-based economy with "Electronic Shekel wallets" which would be used as "primary modes of commerce as they are secure and mitigate diversion of goods and funds to the Hamas financial channels."
The CMCC also proposes that "residents should be permitted to import products into the Gaza Strip to facilitate and encourage commerce and economic growth" but that "products would be subject to security restrictions and checks at crossings." The presentation makes no mention of the fact that Israel, which controls all of the crossings into Gaza, has severely restricted the entry of goods for nearly 20 years.
"This community being established in Rafah will form the blueprint for how Israeli control could be deepened and rolled out further," Whittall told Drop Site. "After Gaza was razed, starved, and deliberately blockaded over the past years, these 'new' communities built on the rubble of peoples homes are not only governance labs to test ultimate control and subjugation, but they are also the reincarnation of refugee camps. They are designed to contain a new generation of dispossessed Palestinians, effectively screened and corralled into shrinking Israeli-controlled zones in exchange for survival. Meanwhile, the so-called 'red-zones' remain under assault, increasingly cut off from a humanitarian system that is being deliberately obstructed."
To enforce the CMCC's restrictive vision, which would corral selected Palestinians into a zone where Israel and outside forces have complete economic, social, and security control, a police force would be installed that would operate under an international security force. "Civil policing will operate on-site to maintain public order, operating under the ISF," the presentation states, referring to the International Stabilization Force that has yet to be formed but will be led by Major General Jasper Jeffries, the commander of U.S. Special Operations Command Central. The presentation adds, "Security-sector reform requires updated police and civil defense laws, strong oversight and accountability, people-centered security approaches, and measures to prevent radicalization."
Part of the CMCC presentation for a "Gaza First Planned Community" on January 14, 2026.
Text of the Presentation Delivered at the CMCC in Southern Israel on January 14, 2026
Municipality
The population should be based on Palestinian residents invited based on the following criteria:
Priority is given to residents of the Shaboura and Rafah areas from before the war.
Intact extended families are preferred to enable mutual aid and prevent friction.
Essential professionals are required: teachers, medical staff, rescue personnel, community workers, merchants, administrative/municipal staff, and banking/finance professionals.
All individuals will undergo security vetting to prevent the entry of weapons or Hamas elements.
Residents will be able to enter and exit the neighborhood freely, subject to security checks to prevent the introduction of weapons and hostile elements.
Initially, a temporary community directorate should be appointed from among the residents. Elections for a neighborhood directorate should be held in the future as the project develops.
The directorate would facilitate coordination with the relevant authorities for regional services (major infrastructure) and with funding bodies for municipal services.
The directorate would manage basic municipal services such as water, sanitation, electricity, etc although service payment by residents requires further discussion.
All entering residents will be registered with biometric documentation to enable identification for movement and civil services.
The registry will be based on Palestinian ID numbers issued by the authorities in coordination with COGAT.
Residents needing to travel abroad may use their Palestinian passports. Those who have lost documents or require new ones can process them through the Palestinian Authority (PA) via a local post office branch to be opened on-site.
Residents can report deaths or births occurring during the war to the PA population registry via the local post office
Since the Emirati compound is intended to be on public land, an examination is required regarding potential private rights holders, including mechanisms for registration and compensation.
The public use of land with private rights requires in-depth discussion with legal entities.
Donor-funded projects within the community will be coordinated by a supervisory mechanism to ensure funds go directly to local projects since the PA's Municipal Development and Lending Fund (MDLF) [mechanism cannot] be used.
Economy
The Israeli Shekel will remain legal tender, as it is in the rest of Gaza and the West Bank.
Electronic Shekel wallets should be primary modes of commerce as they are secure and mitigate diversion of goods and funds to the Hamas financial channels.
A Bank of Palestine branch in the community would provide secure and transparent commerce.
Private sector shops and markets should be prioritized to promote productive economic initiatives.
Efforts should be made to promote paid employment for the maximum number of residents. Employment will be based on essential professions, public services, and unskilled labor for the public good and managed through an established employment bureau.
Intensive agriculture in the outskirts of the community promotes options for employment outside the neighborhood (in non-Hamas controlled areas) will be examined, prioritizing labor-intensive farming.
Residents should be permitted to import products into the Gaza Strip to facilitate and encourage commerce and economic growth. Products would be subject to security restrictions and checks at crossings.
Health
Community medical centers must be established to provide services as independently as possible.
Specific analysis is needed regarding service scope, referrals for severe cases, physician specialties, support staff (nurses, para-medical), and facility requirements (pharmacies).
Health services should reflect the needs of the population and be tailored accordingly.
As available without interruption of existing population needs, relocate local medical services and staff from surrounding areas to include durable medical equipment and supplies such as the Emirate hospital in Rafah.
Rebuild immunization and cold-chain systems.
Expand nutrition programs and therapeutic feeding for mothers and children.
Strengthen community-based prenatal and postnatal care.
Recommend exploration of options for critical medical service not available in the new community.
Education
Accurate assessment is needed to determine the number of classrooms and staff needed to include teachers, support staff (assistants, psychologists, special education), and administration.
Temporary "Emergency Studies" can expedite a curriculum framework to resume classrooms. The curriculum will not be Hamas-based but will follow "Culture of Peace" principles, e,g., modeled after the UAE.
Schools could serve as protected environments providing food, sanitation, health services, and mental health support.
Education should be treated as a life-saving humanitarian priority alongside food and health to prevent a lost generation and restore social stability. Educational programs can prevent diversion of an uneducated and unoccupied population to misaligned activities.
The education framework can focus on three overlapping priorities:
Catch-Up (6 - 24 months): Accelerated learning to restore literacy/numeracy and bridge students back to the formal system.
Pathways (12 months+): Restarting formal education, exams, and workforce development as governance and security allow.
Justice: Law and Public Order
Law and order will be regulated according to the legislation existing in the area prior to 2007.
The framework outlines a post-conflict justice system for a new Rafah-area community, prioritizing rapid restoration of judicial functions, legal order, and public trust.
The legal landscape includes shared Palestinian Authority laws but divergent penal codes in Gaza and the West Bank, underscoring the need for long-term legislative harmonization.
Digitization of justice services is necessary to restore records, improve efficiency, and expand access.
Civil policing will operate on-site to maintain public order, operating under the ISF.
Immediate capacity building is required for judges, prosecutors, and justice personnel, focusing on case management, courtroom administration, legal drafting, evidence handling, investigative oversight, and digital literacy.
Training must address post-war realities: destroyed infrastructure, missing records, trauma, displacement, and the need for restorative justice. European partners can support initial training for 20 judges and 20 prosecutors, with long-term institutionalization through a judicial diploma program.
Women's access to justice requires survivor-centered procedures given heightened risks, vulnerabilities, and loss of documentation.
Corrections reform includes constructing detention facilities that meet international standards, vetting and training staff. Emphasis is placed on procedural and dynamic security, rehabilitation, classification, and alternatives to incarceration.
Security-sector reform requires updated police and civil defense laws, strong oversight and accountability, people-centered security approaches, and measures to prevent radicalization.
When Kamala Harris exclaimed, "Oh my god, what's going to happen to our country?" when being told she would not win the presidential election. My answer would be, " "Nothing, absolutely nothing will happen to it, because you did not have and still don't have a plan for what ails America. At no point in the last two years has she said anything pertinent about Gaza, the economy, it's all same o, same o, democrat silence and stiff upper lip.
No matter what you think about Trump, he has brought this country to the brink of a change that was a long time coming. What kind of change is important if trying to establish where each one of us are going to stand or fall. We better figure out what we will fight for, what are we willing to sacrifice and what we refuse to be sacrificed for.
And yet, in a recent poll, Kamala Harris is the leader in possible Democratic contenders for the 2028 nomination nod. Go figure.
Personally, I don't want a Charlie Kirk memorial on every campus, like Oklahoma is trying to establish or a street, like Martin Luther King Blvd, in every city. To compare Kirk to MLK is calling Trump the greatest president ever. Does anyone really look at him? This country is as surreal as any acid trip of a bygone era. It becomes more and more important that we recognize that America will not be the same from here on in.
If racist and misogynist people can't see that black people, women, immigrants are not only capable as anyone else to do the jobs that need doing but also, no more, no less fallible, ambitious, and incapable of discerning good from evil.
Good from evil? Nihilism from Hope? Listen. There is no difference within the reality of life, within the relative and self-interested commodification of our values and traditions, especially our religious ones. If you're a good person you won't have to tell anyone about it, and if you're bad, then the same is true. The problem is with the people who don't seem to know the difference because they judge everything through their own lens. How else can you explain this administration, this circus of fascist clowns, trying to "brand" the death of Kirk, turn it into days of remembrance, glib patriot cliche. Hell, I didn't even know who Charlie Kirk was the day before he was publicly executed.
Now, we have to wait until another day to topple the stupid statues resurrected in his name and a few other "confederate" generals whose only claim to fame was they fanned the flames of discontent. I doubt us nihilists will see much else happening in the future besides tearing down what this current world politic has wrought. Wait until you see the first high rise go up in the Gaza Strip. Trump probably won't be around, maybe neither will Netanyahu, I won't either, but mark my words, there will not be mention of the horrible circumstances that brought it about.
The world is going to enter another phase of denial rather than the grief it deserves.
