Israel, via GoFundMe, "freezes" over $90,000 of The Grayzone's money in an effort to silence uncooperative Jewish reporters
A non-corrupt Justice Department would quickly intervene on actions like this, but look who's running the DoJ and the rest of the U.S. Government
The Grayzone is an online publication founded by Max Blumenthal that focuses on exposing the official lies of the perpetual U.S.-NATO-Israel “Western” war state. Blumenthal and his colleagues—Alex Rubenstein, Kit Klarenberg, Aaron Mate’, and Wyatt Reed—are despised by figures in the Zionist movement for their drum-beating about the violence in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights, three non-contiguous territories surrounding Israel and occupied by both Palestinians and Israelis. The Grayzone’s reporting implicates Israel in a wealth of longstanding, ongoing human-rights abuses. Whether this slant is true or not is irrelevant, because in the United States, you’re not allowed to even propose that it could be.
That almost all of the Grayzone reporters are Jewish themselves doesn’t give them any kind of a pass from Zionists. If anything, this makes Zionists despise the Grayzone even more. And a long list of other American Jewish journalists are loathed by Zionists for the same reason. (Okay, Mate’ is Canadian.)
The Grayzone recently started a fundraising campaign on the demoralized platform GoFundMe aimed, if I remember correctly, at garnering enough money to fund two full-time positions at the outlet for two years. After supporters forked over in excess of $90,000 to this effort, the host platform informed them on Monday that it was “freezing”—i.e., stealing—the Grayzone donors’ money.
Blumenthal appears to believe that GoFundMe acted owing to the Grayzone’s ongoing exposure of what a horrific, lie-powered boondoogle-clusterfuck the U.S.-led proxy war against Russia in Ukraine has predictably become. Multiple precedents stand in support of this theory.
While I have not yet watched yesterday’s episode of System Update with Glenn Greenwald or this Jimmy Dore segment, both of which include chats with Blumenthal, I have a feeling his anti-Zionist output is as responsible for this theft as is the Grayzone’s reporting on the Ukraine war, although this conclusion is muddied by the fact that Zionists don’t just want to kill Palestinians along Israel‘s borders—they want to kill everyone they can. They’re warmongers from dawn until dusk. And the American government is saturated with them, starting with the genuinely revolting husband-and-wife duo of Torie Nuland and Robert Kagen.
GuFundMe has a history of stealing money from organizations raising money for legitimate causes that run afoul of the march of neocon destruction that has been underway for forty-odd years by the American uniparty establishment. No one should use it, although someone should hack into it, take every dime from every campaign, convert the funds to U.S. hundred-dollar bills, and burn all of the cash in a sizable farmer’s field in a series of spirited, napalm-enhanced early-evening bonfires.
Who are the people behind GoFundMe? We can start with its soy-bugman CEO, Tim Cadogan, who coincidentally assumed his post at the onset of “the pandemic” and made it clear years ago he was one hundred percent friendly to all things Black Lives Matter, the centerpiece of the hugest corporate swindle in history and an impressive kick to the face of millions of black lives nationwide.
You can suffer through a three-year-old interview of Cadogan on Facebook if you like (I took a pass).
The certainty that Cadogan is compromised was cemented when The New York Times did a flattering profile on him in March of last year. I mean this absolutely: When this outlet portrays someone as decent, it means he or she is the precise opposite—a scoundrel (usually far worse, in fact) who should be categorically excluded from public life.1
The quoted portion is intended to subtly convey that GoFundMe can choose to not disburse money to people it thinks shouldn’t get it. It takes familiarity with the NYT’s propagandistic methods to fully appreciate this.
Someone may wish to remind this sniveling limey dweeb that “off the reservation” has been considered hate speech by credible outlets for at least nine years. But the most sweeping deceit the NYT perpetrated concerning Tim Cadogan concerns his appearance. In reality, he is the male analog of any of distance running’s lovelorn Wokish harridans.
But despite GoFundMe’s rabid support for Ukraine’s “government” (a slurry of pasty-white Nazis) and its remaining citizens (blockheaded cannon-fodder)—and why should a charity platform take political sides, anyway?—it might be Blumenthal’s poorly tolerated reporting on Israel that mainly inspired the platform to steal money.
First, GoFundMe’s founders are Brad Damphousse and Andy Ballester, who sold the platform in 2015 to Accel Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures for around $600 million.
The first thing one notices about Ballester is that he’s possibly the foremost living douchebag on the entire planet.
Although secondary to this status, Ballester remains involved with GoFundMe as a member of its board of directors.
He and Damphousse have something else in common, too.
Next comes the company’s Chief Product and Technology Officer, Arnie Katz.
Then comes the COO, Soraya Alexander.
Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Margaret Richardson took a meeting with the Jewish Federations of North America five years ago when she was with Airbnb, apparently so she could be whipped into line.
James Slavet is another member of the board of directors.
I didn’t run Google background checks on everyone listed here; this was enough for me.
It appears that a bunch of assholes are swiping a great deal of money (not a great look for members of the tribe, given both pervasive stereotypes and the especially grim American economy) from journalists simply for doing their jobs. And I don’t think this decision required any pressure from outside the criminal GoFundMe enterprise; I think the board and the company principals were able to settle this one internally.
What GoFundMe is doing—no matter core the reason(s)—should be illegal and probably is. But I’m actually laughing at the idea of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Justice Department responding in any way to this injustice. Garland, Joe Biden’s chief of staff Jeff Zients, Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, and the past two trollops who have served as CDC director are also Jewish, and not in a cool Grayzone or Katie Herzog or Sy Hersh or Katie Halper way.
I'm not happy with whatever this project is, but I might be persuaded of its utility or at least better appreciate its purpose were it permissible for American citizens to openly discuss U.S. taxpayer aid to Israel and proxy wars fomented by the United States without a bunch of corporate or government Zionists with their noses out of joint swooping in to swipe money from those on the “wrong” sides of such discussions.
If you don’t believe this, witness this pro-Nikki Haley column by elitist uberfuckface David Brooks after last Wednesday’s GOP debate in Milwaukee in the “Republicans are responsible for breaking the world” New York Times. Haley is a flat-out rancid cunt, easily the worst of a remarkably bad slate of mostly old, mostly retarded Republicans who plan to run for president next year during a combination of World War III and another contrived pandemic despite already knowing the election will be as illegitimate as the rest. Good times! Haley is an unusually piggish liar and whore for weapons-makers, and as consequence she insists that the U.S. needs to send even more money to Ukraine—shamelessly promulgating the idea, mostly for the benefit of senile MSNBC and CNN viewers, that Vladimir Putin’s real aim is to march right through Poland and a bunch of NATO countries all the way to Paris.
In other words, Haley is a clone of Joe Biden minus the Wokism and maybe—maybe— some of the sharting. This is why the NYT approves of her. The NYT approves unconditionally of neocons regardless of overt political affiliation. It’s too bad Putin can’t march all the way to Manhattan and demolish this “newspaper’s” headquarters after insisting everyone who works there remain inside for the duration of the effort.