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Ukraine ‘Is Gone’ – Trump (RT)
Trump Agrees To Meet Zelensky (RT)
Trump Pushes Narrative That Iran Is Trying to Kill Him (Antiwar)
US Doesn’t Want Ukraine In NATO – Erdogan (RT)
Biden Behind Nord Stream Sabotage – Russia’s Top MP (RT)
NATO Outlines Plans In Event Of War With Russia (RT)
Biden Drains Remaining Ukraine Aid Funds (RT)
US Congress ‘Happy to Be Lied to’ in Service of American Imperialism (Sp.)
Moderator for VP Debate Tied to Donations for ‘Lincoln Project’ (HUSA)
Former CDC Director Robert Redfield Praises “Make America Healthy Again” (ZH)
The Assault on America’s Defining Principles (Turley)
What Happens if We Hold College and Nobody Comes? (Turley)
Taxes and Tariffs and Trade: Trump’s Plan To Bolster The Economy (JTN)
FBI Claims it Doesn’t Have DNC’s Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Footage (HUSA)
Appeals Court Seems Skeptical of New York Civil Fraud Suit Against Trump (ET)
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“Millions and millions of people, including all of these great soldiers, they’re dead. Those gorgeous buildings with golden towers are demolished and lying broken on their side. Ukraine is gone. It’s not Ukraine anymore. You can never replace those cities and towns.”

Ukraine ‘Is Gone’ – Trump (RT)

Former US President Donald Trump has hammered Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky for refusing to negotiate with Russia, arguing that the country is now “obliterated” while Kiev is reduced to sending “young children and old men” to the front lines amid its conflict with Moscow. Zelensky is currently visiting the US to attend the UN General Assembly in New York and pitch his so-called ‘victory plan’ to key figures in President Joe Biden’s administration. Republican lawmakers, however, have condemned Zelensky for publicly criticizing Trump and his running mate, J.D. Vance. He incited further ire among Republicans when he appeared at an event at a munitions plant organized by Pennsylvania Governor Joshua Shapiro, a key ally of Trump’s Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.

At a rally in North Carolina on Thursday, Trump accused Zelensky of “making little nasty aspersions” toward him, before turning to the Ukrainian leader’s handling of the conflict with Russia. “The country is absolutely obliterated,” he declared. “Millions and millions of people, including all of these great soldiers, they’re dead. Those gorgeous buildings with golden towers are demolished and lying broken on their side. Ukraine is gone. It’s not Ukraine anymore. You can never replace those cities and towns.” “And Biden and Kamala allowed this to happen by feeding Zelensky money and munitions like no country has ever seen before,” he continued. “But now Ukraine is running out of soldiers. They’re using young children and old men because their soldiers are dying.”

While the Ukrainian military does not publish casualty figures, the Russian Defense Ministry has estimated Kiev’s losses at around half a million men. Ukraine’s manpower shortage has been well documented by Western media outlets, and the country’s top general acknowledged earlier this month that recruits are often sent to fight after as little as six weeks’ training. Trump argued that Biden and Harris could have “easily” struck a deal with Russia to prevent the conflict from ever starting. Instead, through “a lot of bad statements and stupid statements,” Biden “egged it on.” “And we continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refuses to make a deal,” Trump said, referring to Zelensky. “Any deal, even the worst deal, would have been better than what we have right now.”

Russia and Ukraine reportedly agreed to a peace deal during talks in Istanbul in 2022. The agreement would have involved Ukraine declaring military neutrality, limiting its armed forces, and vowing not to discriminate against ethnic Russians. In return, Moscow would have joined other leading powers in offering Ukraine security guarantees. However, Zelensky withdrew from the talks at the last moment. According to Ukrainian negotiator David Arakhamia, former US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, and several Ukrainian media reports, the US and UK were instrumental in convincing Zelensky to abandon negotiations. Trump maintains that he would settle the conflict “in 24 hours” if elected president this November. Zelensky, however, has stated that the former president “doesn’t really know how to stop the war,” while Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said that he doesn’t “think there is a magic wand” that can stop the fighting overnight.

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“Any deal, even the worst deal, would have been better than what we have right now.”

Trump Agrees To Meet Zelensky (RT)

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has announced he will meet with Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky on Friday in New York. Zelensky has met with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who is the Democrats’ candidate for the presidency in the November election. He has also sought a meeting with Trump. “I will be meeting with him tomorrow morning at around 9:45 at Trump Tower,” the former and possibly future US president announced at a press conference in New York City on Thursday afternoon. Earlier in the day, Trump had posted a message from Ukraine’s deputy ambassador to the US, relaying Zelensky’s request for a meeting, to his TruthSocial platform. “Dear Donald, I hope you’re doing well. I recall our recent phone call – it was really good,” Zelensky wrote. “All of us in Ukraine want to end this war with a just peace. And we know that without America this is impossible to achieve.

That’s why we have to strive to understand each other and remain in close contact.” “You know I always speak with great respect about everything connected to you, and that’s how it should be,” the Ukrainian actor-turned-politician wrote, adding that he would “really like for our meeting to take place.” The request came after Trump criticized the “little nasty aspersions” Zelensky had made about him and his running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance, in an interview published last Sunday. At a campaign rally in North Carolina, Trump described Ukraine as “absolutely obliterated” and accused Biden and Harris of “feeding Zelensky money and munitions like no country has ever seen before.” “We continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refuses to make a deal,” Trump said, referring to Zelensky. “Any deal, even the worst deal, would have been better than what we have right now.”

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Not a very high level of credibility. Who feeds him this? Warmongers?!

Trump Pushes Narrative That Iran Is Trying to Kill Him (Antiwar)

On Wednesday, former President Donald Trump pushed a narrative being spread by US intelligence officials that Iran is trying to kill him even though there’s no evidence of Iranian involvement in either attempt on his life. Trump’s campaign said they were briefed on the alleged Iranian threat by officials from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which is led by Avril Haines. “Big threats on my life by Iran. The entire US Military is watching and waiting. Moves were already made by Iran that didn’t work out, but they will try again,” Trump wrote on X after the briefing. “Not a good situation for anyone. I am surrounded by more men, guns, and weapons than I have ever seen before.” The claim that Iran is plotting to kill Trump was first made by a CNN report back in July, following the assassination attempt by Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was shot and killed by the Secret Service.

The report acknowledged there was no evidence Crooks was linked to Iran, which was reaffirmed on Tuesday by intelligence officials speaking to The New York Times, who stressed there was no Iran connection to the July shooting. The Times report also said there was no evidence that Iran was connected in any way to Ryan Routh, who was arrested on September 15 and recently charged with attempting to assassinate Trump. Routh is a staunch supporter of the Ukraine proxy war and traveled to the country to help recruit fighters for the Ukrainian foreign legion. Despite the lack of evidence, Trump suggested at a campaign event on Wednesday that Iran might have been involved in the two assassination attempts. “As you know, there have been two assassination attempts on my life that we know of, and they may or may not involve – but possibly do – Iran,” he said at an event in North Carolina.

“If I were the president, I would inform the threatening country, in this case Iran, that if you do anything to harm this person, we are going to blow your largest cities and the country itself to smithereens,” Trump added. The claims about Iran come amid soaring tensions in the Middle East as Israel has dramatically escalated its bombing campaign in Lebanon, a situation that could potentially turn into a full-blown war between the US and Iran. But Iran’s actions over the past year have shown they’re not interested in war with the US. For example, when Iran launched a reprisal attack on Israel in response to the bombing of the Iranian consulate in Syria, Iranian officials said they warned the US 72 hours in advance. The US denied the claim, but Turkey and Jordan confirmed they were given notice, which would have gotten back to the US. Iran and the US also engaged in indirect negotiations in Oman to avoid escalation.

Iran’s new president, Masoud Peseshkian, has also taken an extremely diplomatic tone toward the US since coming into office and wants direct negotiations with Washington. “We are not hostile towards the US. They should end their hostility towards us by showing their goodwill in practice,” Pezeshkian said last week. “We are brothers with the Americans as well.” Members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) occasionally vow they will take revenge for Trump’s assassination of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who headed the IRGC’s Quds Force. But in response to recent allegations, Iran has said Trump should be punished for the killing in a court of law. “These accusations are unsubstantiated and malicious,” Iran’s mission to the UN said in response to the CNN report in July. “From the perspective of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Trump is a criminal who must be prosecuted and punished in a court of law for ordering the assassination of General Soleimani. Iran has chosen the legal path to bring him to justice.”

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“..the US, first and foremost, does not want to see Ukraine as a NATO member. And many NATO countries do not want Ukraine to be a member-state.”

US Doesn’t Want Ukraine In NATO – Erdogan (RT)

The US is the main opponent of Ukraine joining NATO, although many other countries in the bloc are also against Kiev’s potential membership, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. While Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s so-called ‘victory plan’ stresses NATO accession, Erdogan told NBC News on Wednesday that “the US, first and foremost, does not want to see Ukraine as a NATO member. And many NATO countries do not want Ukraine to be a member-state.” Zelensky is currently in the US, where is he promoting the plan and is scheduled to meet with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington on Thursday. “These are not questions to be rushed,” he added. “And when making our minds, when we are taking our decisions, we always take into consideration the stance of other NATO member states, we discuss those possible questions around the table and make the final decision accordingly,” Erdogan stated.

When asked directly if Ankara would accept Ukraine in NATO, Erdogan replied that “we are going to follow the developments, the deliberations, and reach a final decision accordingly. These are not decisions to be rushed in an excited way.” He also spoke about Türkiye’s ties with Russia, describing them as “multidimensional, political, economic, cultural, defense industry related. There are many dimensions, dimensions there and our solidarity, our interaction, has been going on and economically every day, these relations are expanding.” A unanimous decision by all members is required to expand NATO. Finland and Sweden, who became the latest nations to join the bloc in 2023 and 2024 respectively, had to overcome strong initial opposition from Türkiye, which accused them of harboring members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), considered a terrorist group by Ankara.

A senior US State Department official told AP on Tuesday that the political element of Zelensky’s ‘victory plan’ focuses on how to assure the Ukrainian population that they will be welcomed into Western institutions such as the EU and NATO, assuming they continue to fight Russia or if a negotiated settlement with Moscow is achieved. NATO declared at a 2008 summit in Bucharest that Ukraine, along with another former Soviet Republic, Georgia, would join the US-led bloc at some stage. After the conflict between Russia and Ukraine broke out, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and other officials repeatedly claimed that Kiev was on track to becoming a member, but never announced a specific timeline for accession. Moscow, which views NATO as hostile and vigorously opposes its eastward expansion, highlighted Kiev’s aspirations of joining the bloc as among the main reasons for launching its military operation against Ukraine in February 2022.

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Yet another narrative (retelling) pops up: “..a privately-funded operation masterminded by a now-disgraced Ukrainian intelligence officer..”

Biden Behind Nord Stream Sabotage – Russia’s Top MP (RT)

US President Joe Biden “was behind” the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz helped him tank his country’s economy in the aftermath, Vyacheslav Volodin, the head of the Russian State Duma, has claimed. The senior legislator commented on Thursday on the second anniversary of the explosions, which disabled the undersea connectors built to deliver Russian natural gas directly to Germany, noting the failure of European investigators to name the culprit. There have been accounts in the media suggesting possible scenarios, “which were occasionally laughable,” he said. “Washington and Biden personally were behind the Nord Stream bombing. His interest was to cut Western Europe off from cheap Russian gas and force it to buy it from America at a price three times higher,” he said.

The German economy took a hit and is now in recession due to a loss of competitiveness, Volodin added, “which means that the people of Germany were punished instead of Washington, as Biden and Scholz took money out of their pockets.” “You cannot pin this one on some ‘pro-Ukrainian group’ and civilian divers,” Volodin stressed. On Tuesday, the German news outlet Der Spiegel published its latest retelling of the events of September 2022. It mostly repeats the story that a privately-funded operation masterminded by a now-disgraced Ukrainian intelligence officer conducted the sabotage with the blessing of former General Valery Zaluzhny. The Western press has been repeating similar versions of this story for months. Spiegel claimed to have identified the divers, saying that most were civilians, but the group was led by a commando.

The operation was first contemplated years before the outbreak of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine in February 2022, it stated. Pulitzer Prize-winning US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh alleged that Biden had ordered the sabotage of Nord Stream in a February 2023 article. He said US military divers had secretly planted explosives to destroy the pipelines at a significant depth, using a NATO exercise in the Baltic Sea as a cover. The White House has denied the accusations, but Russian officials have called the story plausible. Prior to the destruction of Nord Stream 1 and 2, senior US officials, including Biden, had issued threats to destroy the Russian-German pipelines.

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They’re trying to sell a story: “..a large number of frontline casualties without the capability to airlift them for treatment..”

NATO Outlines Plans In Event Of War With Russia (RT)

NATO would have to deal with a large number of frontline casualties without the capability to airlift them for treatment in the event of a major war with Russia, its logistics chief has said. Lieutenant-General Alexander Sollfrank, the head of NATO’s Joint Support and Enabling Command (JSEC), outlined the difficulties that troops would face in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday. “The challenge will be to swiftly ensure high-quality care for, in the worst case, a great number of wounded,” Sollfrank said. The environment of a hypothetical conflict with Russia would be completely different from what the US and its allies faced in Afghanistan and Iraq, he added. Unlike insurgents in the Middle East, Russia has the military capability to threaten NATO aircraft, Sollfrank noted, predicting that medical evacuations would have to be conducted on the ground.

“For planning reasons, all options to take a great number of wounded to medical installations need to be considered, which includes trains but potentially also buses,” the NATO official said. Ukraine is currently using hospital trains to evacuate injured troops from the front line, as reported by CNN earlier this month. The NATO logistics command, which is based in the southern German town of Ulm, recently staged an exercise based on coordinating medical evacuations, Reuters said. JSEC contingency plans would require a legal foundation for issues such as the expedited transportation of narcotics across national borders, Sollfrank said. He also called for a ‘military medical Schengen’ – similarly to how the bloc needs a ‘military Schengen’ to rapidly deploy troops and weapons to the eastern flank, according to the official.

The US and its allies have claimed that Russia may be planning to attack NATO, and that the West can delay or prevent that outcome by arming Ukraine. The bloc has been expanding in Europe for decades, in violation of assurances given before Moscow agreed to German reunification in 1990. The Russian government has cited NATO’s approach to its borders and the bloc’s intention to add Kiev to its ranks as key causes of the Ukraine conflict. Officials in Moscow have denied having any aggressive intentions toward NATO, which they consider a hostile force that must be deterred.

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“The mechanisms allow payments to arms manufacturers and permit weapons to be drawn directly from American military stockpiles..”

Biden Drains Remaining Ukraine Aid Funds (RT)

US President Joe Biden announced nearly $8 billion in military aid to Ukraine on Thursday, releasing the remaining funding authorized by Congress. Lawmakers recently declined to extend the availability of certain funds beyond next week’s deadline. The funding includes $2.4 billion under the Pentagon’s Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative and $5.5 billion under the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA). The mechanisms allow payments to arms manufacturers and permit weapons to be drawn directly from American military stockpiles. The latter sum was set to expire at the end of this month, which marks the end of the fiscal year in the US. The White House had hoped that the US Congress would allow the PDA money to be spent at a later point. However, legislation passed on Wednesday did not include any such clause, reportedly following resistance from Republicans skeptical of the continued bankrolling of Kiev.

Biden announced the decision on military aid during a meeting with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, who is in the US to promote his ‘victory plan’ in the conflict with Russia. Zelensky has said he wanted the US president to be the first to see the proposal as it heavily relies on American aid. According to the Wall Street Journal, US officials have previewed the plan but found it “unimpressive.” The US president said Kiev will receive an additional Patriot surface-to-air system, more munitions and drones, as well as a new capability, the AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW). The glide bomb has a range of up to 130km when dropped from a high-flying aircraft. Some supporters of Kiev’s cause have criticized the 11th-hour drawdown of funds by Biden. Senator Roger Wicker, a Republican from Missouri, claimed it was “typical of this administration to wait until the last possible moment to announce full use of the PDA.”

Zelensky’s visit also triggered complaints from members of the GOP, after he criticized the Republican presidential ticket and visited an ammunition factory in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, without a single Republican official present. Senior party members have accused the Ukrainian leader of campaigning for the Democrats. They also alleged that the Biden administration facilitated potential meddling in the 2024 presidential election by organizing Zelensky’s Pennsylvania visit and spending taxpayer money on it.

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“..most of Congress was very happy to be lied to and would have denounced Blinken for the truth.”

US Congress ‘Happy to Be Lied to’ in Service of American Imperialism (Sp.)

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is facing calls to resign after a damning report suggested he willfully misled Congress to keep US military aid flowing to Israel. Analysis by the investigative reporting nonprofit ProPublica revealed that Blinken defied the findings of multiple government bodies that concluded Israel was deliberately blocking humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. Blinken ignored the advice of multiple officials with the State Department and US Agency for International Development (USAID), testifying before lawmakers that Tel Aviv was not interfering with the flow of aid. US law forbids the provision of military equipment to any country obstructing American humanitarian assistance. Journalists Dan Lazare and Robert Fantina joined Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program Wednesday to discuss the scandal, which has led the director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations to call on Blinken to resign.

“This is business as usual,” said Fantina. “The United States doesn’t respect international law and doesn’t respect its own laws if those laws somehow get in the way of its quest for power and profits. So the fact that Blinken lied to Congress, blatantly lied – and this wasn’t something that was inconsequential, this caused the starvation, the continued starvation and the slaughter of innocent people.” “We’ve said before that the United States is enabling this genocide by continuing to arm Israel and by increasing its arms shipments to Israel,” he continued. “So the fact that Blinken is lying should really surprise no one. Other international organizations that aren’t affiliated with any nation have said repeatedly for months that Israel is blocking humanitarian aid. And yet the United States denies this, or at least Blinken did.”

The human rights organization Amnesty International affirmed Israel was stemming the flow of humanitarian assistance earlier this year, characterizing Tel Aviv’s actions as a “tightening” of its “16-year-long suffocating blockade” of Gaza. Israel has tightly controlled the amount of food and other basic necessities allowed to enter the Palestinian territory since June 2007, when it decided to dismantle its settlements in the Gaza Strip. However, Israel has exerted control over the strip of land, which is considered sovereign Palestinian territory under international law, since 1967, when it seized land intended to form the basis of a Palestinian state in the region. The US has served as the country’s strongest backer in the decades since, with Israel becoming the United States’ largest cumulative recipient of foreign aid. Observers claim the US backs the country as a crucial beachhead in a geopolitically vital region where Israel serves as a proxy for US interests against Iran and other adversaries.

“Israel is engaged in a brutal war, which is now spreading dramatically and it will continue doing so,” said Lazare, claiming Israel is inarguably using the flow of humanitarian aid as an instrument of war. “It’s all irrelevant. I mean, war is the cessation of law, and, therefore, calling on warmakers to obey the law strikes me as kind of contradictory.” “If you’re acting on behalf of the [US] government or any kind of imperialism, you are free to lie to Congress at will, the laws against lying to Congress only apply to those which the empire sees as a threat,” posited host Garland Nixon. “Congress does not mind being lied to if it thinks it benefits the empire,” Lazare agreed. “In general there are lies Congress likes and lies Congress doesn’t like. And, therefore, it’s Congress’ power of decision, power to decide which lies are okay and which lies are not. And generally the okay ones are those that further America’s imperial ambitions.” Sam Perlo-Freeman, a researcher with the group Campaign Against Arms Trade, agreed, claiming simply, “most of Congress was very happy to be lied to and would have denounced Blinken for the truth.”

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“..it quickly became clear that some of its members were growing increasingly unhinged with Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

Moderator for VP Debate Tied to Donations for ‘Lincoln Project’ (HUSA)

The husband of one of the two moderators in next week’s CBS News debate featuring vice presidential candidates J.D. Vance and Tim Walz appears to have made two donations of $250 apiece to the controversial Lincoln Project during the 2020 election. Records from the Federal Election Commission show that Ali “Yado” Yakub, the husband of Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan, contributed on July 2 and Sept. 26 of that year to the anti-Trump super-PAC. Voting records confirmed that the address listed was the residence of Yakub, who was registered as a Republican, and Brennan, who was registered as an independent.Many have observed that registration offers no indication about political preference, with Democrats during the recent primary—in which President Joe Biden ran largely uncontested—frequently changing their party identification to vote against Trump.

Yakub also made contributions to ActBlue in 2019, including two that were earmarked for the primary campaign of future Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Headline USA reached out to both Brennan and Yakub by phone and email but received no response. The Lincoln Project—founded by high-profile NeverTrump ex-Republicans Rick Wilson, George T. Conway III, Steve Schmidt, Reed Galen, John Weaver and Jennifer Horn—initially appeared to be a sort of principled response by members of the GOP establishment to Trump’s takeover of the party. However, it quickly became clear that some of its members were growing increasingly unhinged with Trump Derangement Syndrome.

The group lost all credibility when, in January 2021, allegations emerged that co-founder John Weaver had engaged in sexual impropriety with young, male staffers and had allegedly solicited boys as young as 14. The bombshell led to an exodus of the group’s more influential figures, such as former John McCain campaign chief Steve Schmidt, who had become a registered Democrat the month prior. Only two of its charter members—Rick Wilson and Reed Galen—are currently associated with the group, which has grown more radical and outlandish, notoriously engaging in a stunt in which it staged a fake neo-Nazi rally and attempted to blame Trump supporters.

It also has run ads pushing blatant disinformation, such as attempting to suggest that Trump would monitor and arrest people for attempting to obtain an abortion. Trump has repeatedly emphasized that the issue is now at the state level and will remain so if he is re-elected, while noting that he personally favors exceptions for abortions in a set of specific, narrowly tailored circumstances. Moreover, the Lincoln Project has sought to falsely tie Trump to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, which he has repeatedly disavowed and denied any association with. The project launched in April 2023, well before Trump was the presumptive nominee, and was designed as a series of policy proposals for use by whichever candidate prevailed.

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“Maybe it was a warning sign when big pharma and the feds pushed Ozempic as the ‘wonder shot’ to end the obesity crisis..”

Former CDC Director Robert Redfield Praises “Make America Healthy Again” (ZH)

Former CDC Director Robert Redfield, who served during the Trump administration, wrote an editorial in Newsweek praising President Trump’s decision to join forces with Robert Kennedy Jr. to “make America healthy again.” “We know chronic disease is more than 75 percent of the country’s $4 trillion annual health care expenditure. Unfortunately, we have become a sick nation. We’re paying too much for chronic disease, and this must change. It’s time to make America healthy again,” Redfield wrote in the op-ed published on Tuesday. After more than four decades in public health, Redfield believes the former president “chose the right man [RFK Jr.] for the job” to combat the processed foods industrial complex, which has ignited an obesity crisis across the Heartland.

“For instance, obesity in American children has increased dramatically since John F. Kennedy’s presidency, from around 4 percent in the 1960s to almost 20 percent in 2024,” he said, adding, “The causes of childhood obesity are complex, but a primary origin is clearly the modern American diet of highly processed foods.” He explained the causes for this obesity crisis are primarily due to “special interest and corporate influences on our federal agencies.” Redfield pointed out that “Kennedy is right” about the corporate capture problem of federal agencies.

Kennedy is right: All three of the principal health agencies suffer from agency capture. A large portion of the FDA’s budget is provided by pharmaceutical companies. NIH is cozy with biomedical and pharmaceutical companies and its scientists are allowed to collect royalties on drugs NIH licenses to pharma. And as the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), I know the agency can be influenced by special interest groups. Redfield acknowledges that agency capture is a serious issue, highlighting that federal agencies responsible for regulating food and medicine are possibly compromised by the food industrial complex and big pharma. Maybe it was a warning sign when big pharma and the feds pushed Ozempic as the ‘wonder shot’ to end the obesity crisis instead of promoting exercise and safe, clean food.

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Enemies of the Constitution. They will end the country.

“..an explosion of books and articles laying out a new vision of “democracy” unconstrained by constitutional limits on majority power..”

The Assault on America’s Defining Principles (Turley)

Kamala Harris declared in Tuesday’s debate that a vote for her is a vote “to end the approach that is about attacking the foundations of our democracy ’cause you don’t like the outcome.” She was alluding to the 2021 Capitol riot, but she and her party are also attacking the foundations of our democracy: the Supreme Court and the freedom of speech. Several candidates for the 2020 presidential nomination, including Ms. Harris, said they were open to the idea of packing the court by expanding the number of seats. Mr. Biden opposed the idea, but a week after he exited the 2024 presidential race, he announced a “bold plan” to “reform” the high court. It would pack the court via term limits and also impose a “binding code of conduct,” aimed at conservative justices. Ms. Harris quickly endorsed the proposal in a statement, citing a “clear crisis of confidence” in the court owing to “decision after decision overturning long-standing precedent.”

She might as well have added “because you don’t like the outcome.” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) has already introduced ethics and term-limits legislation and said Ms. Harris’s campaign has told him “that your bills are precisely aligned with what we are talking about.” The attacks on the court are part of a growing counterconstitutional movement that began in higher education and seems recently to have reached a critical mass in the media and politics. The past few months have seen an explosion of books and articles laying out a new vision of “democracy” unconstrained by constitutional limits on majority power. Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley law school, is author of “No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States,” published last month. In a 2021 Los Angeles Times op-ed, he described conservative justices as “partisan hacks.”

In the New York Times, book critic Jennifer Szalai scoffs at what she calls “Constitution worship.” She writes: “Americans have long assumed that the Constitution could save us; a growing chorus now wonders whether we need to be saved from it.” She frets that by limiting the power of the majority, the Constitution “can end up fostering the widespread cynicism that helps authoritarianism grow.” In a 2022 New York Times op-ed, “The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed,” law professors Ryan D. Doerfler of Harvard and Samuel Moyn of Yale called for liberals to “reclaim America from constitutionalism.” Others have railed against individual rights. In my new book on free speech, I discuss this movement against what many professors deride as “rights talk.” Barbara McQuade of the University of Michigan Law School has called free speech America’s “Achilles’ heel.”

In another Times op-ed, “The First Amendment Is Out of Control,” Columbia law professor Tim Wu, a former Biden White House aide, asserts that free speech “now mostly protects corporate interests” and threatens “essential jobs of the state, such as protecting national security and the safety and privacy of its citizens.” George Washington University Law’s Mary Ann Franks complains that the First Amendment (and also the Second) is too “aggressively individualistic” and endangers “domestic tranquility” and “general welfare.” Mainstream Democrats are listening to radical voices. “How much does the current structure benefit us?” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) said in 2021, explaining her support for a court-packing bill.

“I don’t think it does.” Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, said at the Democratic National Committee’s “LGBTQ+ Kickoff” that “we’ve got to reimagine” democracy “in a way that is more revolutionary than . . . that little piece of paper.” Both AOC and Ms. Robinson later spoke to the convention itself. The Nation’s Elie Mystal calls the Constitution “trash” and urges the abolition of the U.S. Senate. Rosa Brooks of Georgetown Law School complains that Americans are “slaves” to the Constitution.

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“..many departments have purged their ranks of Republicans, conservatives, and libertarians.”

What Happens if We Hold College and Nobody Comes? (Turley)

In the 1930s, Bertolt Brecht asked “What if they gave a war and nobody came?” As someone who has been a teacher for over 30 years, I find myself increasingly asking the same question as trust and enrollments fall in higher education. Trust in higher education is plummeting to record lows. According to recent polling, there has been a record drop in trust in higher education since just 2015. Not surprisingly, given the growing viewpoint intolerance on our campuses, the largest drops are among Republicans and Independents. There has been a precipitous decline in enrollments across the country as universities worry about covering their costs without raising already high tuition rates. From 2010 to 2021, enrollments fell from roughly 18.1 million students to about 15.4 million. There are various contributors to the drop from falling birthrates to poor economic times.

However, there is also an increasing view of higher education as an academic echo chamber for far left agendas. For many, there is little appeal in going to campuses where you are expected to self-censor and professors reject your values as part of their lesson plans. That fear is magnified by surveys showing that many departments have purged their ranks of Republicans, conservatives, and libertarians. In my new book “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I discuss the intolerance in higher education and surveys showing that many departments no longer have a single Republican as faculties replicate their own views and values. One survey (based on self-reporting) found that only nine percent of law professors identified as conservative. Some anti-free speech advocates are actually citing higher education as a model for social media in showing how “unlikeable voices” have been eliminated.

Many of those “unlikeable” people are now going elsewhere as schools focus on degrees in activism and denouncing math, statistics, the classics, and even meritocracy as examples of white privilege. Schools offering classic education are experiencing rising enrollments, but the growing crisis has not changed the bias in hiring and teaching. Despite repeated losses in courts, universities and colleges continue to deny free speech and diversity of thought. The fact is that this academic echo chamber may be killing educational institutions, but the intolerance still works to the advantage of faculty who can control publications, speaking opportunities, and advancement with like-minded ideologues. We have seen the same perverse incentive in the media where media outlets are seeing plummeting readers and revenue.

Journalism schools and editors now maintain that reporters should reject objectivity and neutrality as touchstones of journalism. It does not matter that this advocacy journalism is killing the profession. Reporters and editors continue to saw at the limb upon which they sit due to the same advantage for academics. For reporters, converting newsrooms into echo chambers gives them more security, advancement, and opportunities. Recently, the new Washington Post publisher and CEO William Lewis was brought into the paper to right the ship. He told the staff “let’s not sugarcoat it…We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. Right. I can’t sugarcoat it anymore.” The response from reporters was to call for owner Jeff Bezos to fire Lewis and others seeking to change the culture.

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“I will give you the lowest taxes, the lowest energy costs, the lowest regulatory burden and free access to the best and biggest market on the planet, but only if you make your product here in America.”

Taxes and Tariffs and Trade: Trump’s Plan To Bolster The Economy (JTN)

In a bid to build a broader coalition, former President Donald Trump has outlined a vision of tax cuts, import tariffs, and “reciprocal trade” to preserve and restore American industries. Since coming down the escalator of Trump Tower in 2015, the Republican standard bearer has espoused unconventional trade policies and dragged much of the GOP kicking and screaming toward protectionism. His tenure saw the U.S. renegotiate trade agreements with its neighbors, resulting in the United States, Mexico, Canada Agreement (USMCA), while also waging a trade war with China seeking to curb some of Beijing’s abuses. His signature tax plan, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, saw the doubling of the standard deduction and the reduction of the corporate tax rate to 21%. As he has sought to contrast himself with Harris, Trump has highlighted both elements of his economic plan and doubled down on the tax cuts and tariffs approach.

“So, as your president, here is the deal that I will be offering to every major company and manufacturer on Earth,” he said at a Tuesday event in Savannah, Ga. “I will give you the lowest taxes, the lowest energy costs, the lowest regulatory burden and free access to the best and biggest market on the planet, but only if you make your product here in America.” “It all goes away if you don’t make your product here and hire American workers for the job,” he warned. His message, so far, appears to have resonated with working class voters, notably the traditionally Democratic-leaning union workers. After internal polling showed that its members decidedly favored Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters declined to endorse a candidate, marking the first time in decades that the union had not backed a Democrat for president.

In recent weeks, Trump has unveiled a litany of tax relief proposals, most of which involve either simplifying the system or eliminating taxation on certain sources of income entirely. Speaking at a New York rally last week, Trump vowed to restore state-and-local-tax (SALT) deductions for federal tax returns in an about-face after signing the TCJA, which imposed a $10,000 cap on SALT deductions. “I will cut taxes for families, small businesses and workers, including restoring the SALT deduction, saving thousands of dollars for residents of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and other high cost states,” he said. Earlier this month, he pledged to eliminate all taxes on overtime work as well, saying “[t]he people who work overtime are among the hardest working citizens in our country … It’s time for the working man and woman to finally catch a break.”

Trump has also promised to end taxation on Social Security benefits, a proposal that has drawn broad support from the public across most age brackets, according to recent polling. Among the most notable of his campaign pitches, however, has been a pledge to eliminate taxes on tips, which he announced at a June rally in Nevada in a bid to win over service workers in the critical battleground. Separate from pledging further tax cuts, he has also made the TCJA a central fixture of his campaign. Many of the act’s cuts are set to expire next year and he has begun to focus on the adverse impacts for taxpayers of permitting those cuts to sunset.

Using information from the Tax Foundation, the Trump campaign this month launched a website, dubbed kamalataxincrease.com, breaking down the average cost to tax-paying families by state. The site estimates that a Harris-proposed tax plan would cost families an average of $2,580.57 in additional taxes per year. The TCJA lowered the corporate tax rate to 21%, but Trump vowed to go further in his Tuesday speech, promising a “manufacturing Renaissance” through a “15% Made in America tax rate.” “We’re cutting the business tax from 21% to 15% which makes us the most competitive tax anywhere on the planet, but only for those who make their product in the USA. See, that’s an incentive,” he said. “[P]eople are going to be pouring in. Companies are going to be pouring in.”

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They’re trying to run out the clock. “Massie then called for answers on the matter before Election Day.”

FBI Claims it Doesn’t Have DNC’s Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Footage (HUSA)

The FBI has claimed that it doesn’t have the Democratic National Committee headquarters’ security footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill uprising—footage that would presumably show the discovery of a pipe bomb that was allegedly planted outside the DNC the night before. The FBI’s admission was revealed in a Friday letter from Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari to Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky. In that letter, Cuffari said he asked the FBI to review the DNC security videos from Jan. 6—but was told that the bureau doesn’t have that footage. “On March 18, 2022, the FBI informed DHS OIG that it did not have any video footage from January 6, 2021,” Cuffari told Massie.

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The letter to Massie was revealed Tuesday, the same day Revolver News published a report suggesting that the DNC pipe bomb footage was tampered with. Revolver reported that an unnamed DHS-OIG official viewed the DNC footage, and said that the footage clearly shows the pipe bomber planting a device on the evening of Jan. 5—something that the footage released by the FBI to the public doesn’t show. Revolver also reported that the DHS-OIG official had to go to the DNC to view the footage—raising questions about why the FBI doesn’t have video of one of the most significant crimes from the whole Jan. 6 fiasco. “We can only conclude that either the FBI is lying and did have footage, or they’re telling the truth and for some reason deleted the footage,” Revolver wrote on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris continues to be tight-lipped on the subject, despite the fact that her motorcade drove past the DNC pipe bomb on Jan. 6.

Harris left the Capitol at 11:21 a.m. arrived to the DNC at 11:25 a.m., but the nearby pipe bomb wasn’t discovered until 1:07 p.m. by a plainclothes Capitol Police officer. Some J6 researchers argue that Harris’s silence on the issue suggests that the U.S. government is engaging in a coverup with the pipe bomb case—perhaps because a government asset planted the bombs, or for some other unknown reason. On Tuesday, Massie raised that possibility again. “It’s almost as if they don’t want to know. Can you rule out that there were any confidential human sources involved in the whole pipe bomb thing?” Massie asked DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz. Horowitz said he didn’t “recall” whether any government assets were involved, but he’d have to go back and refresh his memory. Massie then called for answers on the matter before Election Day.

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“Mar-a-Lago is worth $18-26 million”. That alone closes the case.

Appeals Court Seems Skeptical of New York Civil Fraud Suit Against Trump (ET)

Appeals judges in New York fielded multiple questions to the New York Attorney General’s Office on Sept. 26 indicating that they were skeptical of its application of an anti-fraud law to former President Donald Trump’s business practices. The questions came during oral arguments over Trump’s claims that the state Supreme Court erred in handling the civil fraud case, which resulted in a $489 million penalty for the former president. Trump’s attorney in the case, D. John Sauer, told a five-judge panel in the court’s appellate division that the judge and prosecutors flouted time limits on the claims involved. He noted that Attorney General Letitia James’s office pressed an overly broad interpretation of legally punishable fraud and that, regardless, the former president hadn’t committed fraud in his dealings with banks and others. Some of the judges questioned whether the state was acting within the bounds of its authority or had a legitimate interest in bringing the suit.

Justice David Friedman pressed New York Deputy Solicitor General Judith Vale on whether there was any precedent for the attorney general suing over transactions involving sophisticated parties where neither “lost any money. “Every case that you cite involves damage to consumers, damage to the marketplace. … We don’t have anything like that here,” Friedman said. Vale argued that “there was absolutely a public impact and a public interest here.” “There are at least four different public harms from the kind of misconduct here,” she said. Vale also said that “when risk is injected into the market, that does hurt the counterparties and it does hurt the market as a whole.” Justice Peter Moulton asked, “How do we draw a line, or at least [put up] some guardrails to know when the AG is operating well within her broad, admittedly broad sphere of 63(12)?”

Moulton was referring to New York Executive Law 63(12), which is the statute James used in suing Trump. The statute allows the attorney general to apply for court intervention when “any person shall engage in repeated fraudulent or illegal acts or otherwise demonstrate persistent fraud or illegality in the carrying on, conducting or transaction of business.” Part of Sauer’s argument was that the attorney general’s conception of fraud was too loose and noted that no one was victimized by Trump’s conduct. At one point, he told the court that under existing precedent, “there has to be a capacity or tendency to deceive, or atmosphere conducive to fraud.” “And what we’ve pointed out is that you have a situation where there were no victims, no complaints,” he said, also saying that Trump’s business partners did their due diligence.

Presiding Justice Dianne Renwick was skeptical that the statute required some kind of harm in order to prove fraudulent activity. She read the relevant portion of the statute and told Vale: “I don’t read harm or threat of harm in that, but the other side is saying that that is to be read into this statute. “Are there any cases where the language harm or threat to harm limits the scope of the attorney general?” Vale said that there weren’t “as to liability and not in cases like this where what the attorney general is seeking injunctive relief and disgorgement.”

Trump is currently facing a disgorgement of $489 million with interest accruing by the day. During oral arguments, Vale encountered multiple questions about the appropriateness of the disgorgement. Moulton told Vale that the disgorgement amount was “troubling.” “How do you tether the amount that was assessed by [the] Supreme Court to the harm that was caused here, where the parties left these transactions happy about how things went down?” he asked. Vale responded that “disgorgement looks at taking the gain away from the wrongdoer.” Although the amount was high, she said that “there was a lot of fraud … and illegality.”

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Posted the video yesterday. Here’s some backgroud added in.

FBI Specialist Urges Americans to Prepare For Hardship (MN)

A former FBI specialist who was persecuted for questioning January 6 said during a hearing with lawmakers on Capitol Hill that Americans should stock up on food and prepare for hardship. Marcus Allen, a former FBI staff operations specialist, told the Judiciary Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government that he was deliberately targeted by higher ups for asking why there were so many federal informants in the crowd at the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. “The FBI questioned my allegiance to the United States, suspended my security clearance, suspended my pay and refused to allow me to obtain outside employment or even accept charity,” Allen testified The feds came down hard on Allen after he sent an email on September 21st, 2021 which his supervisors claimed contained hyperlinks to “extremist propaganda” from “questionable sources”.

Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who testified alongside Allen, is investigating the FBI’s security clearance and adjudication process, including the targeting of “political conservatives who were seen as loyal to Trump or resistant to COVID-19 vaccine mandates.” “There are no words strong enough to describe the impact the FBI’s lies about me have had on me and my family,” said Allen during an emotional statement. “The stress has taken a toll on our health and our children have suffered, traumatized by the thought of our door getting kicked in or Dad not coming home.” Allen added even more ominously: “This is a warning, to the American people I say.. I personally have no confidence the FBI will reign in its own conduct.” However, it was Allen’s final comments that raised many eyebrows.

The former FBI staffer urged Americans to use their right to vote despite any doubts they may have about election integrity. “My other recommendations are in the natural order,” Allen continued, “Arm yourself and know how to defend yourself, make three to four friends in your neighborhood and promise to come to each other’s mutual aid in times of hardship.” “And during the great depression, people stocked up their pantry, so I think that’s a good practice especially in our economic times, and make sure you have three to four months of food,” he added. Allen also urged Americans to pray and read the bible regularly.

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Boeing can’t afford any of this.

Boeing Machinists on Strike Have a Historic Opportunity (Sawant)

In a potentially game-changing move, 33,000 Boeing machinists in the Pacific Northwest, unionized with IAM District 751, are on strike after rejecting the company’s initial insulting contract offer. A stunning 96 percent of the rank and file voted to go on strike, marking a sea change for the fight of working people at Boeing. For decades, Boeing’s executives and wealthy shareholders have, with the active help from Democrats and Republicans in Washington state and Washington D.C., enforced a decades-long brutal regime that has thrown both workers and safety standards under the bus in favor of short-term profit maximization for themselves. The strike offers an opening for the company’s workers to win historic gains and begin rebuilding a fighting union with a militant, active rank-and-file membership.

Like workers everywhere, Boeing machinists are fighting for decent wages and benefits in the face of the sky-high cost of living. The workers are demanding a 40 percent wage increase, which is the bare minimum they need given the ground they have lost in past sell-out contracts from the bosses, combined with historic inflation levels and high living costs in the region. They are angry at Boeing’s shell games, including the attempt to take away their annual employee bonuses (called “AMPP”), which they were promised in return for being forced to accept higher healthcare costs in a past contract. They are also demanding an end to the intolerable regime of mandatory overtime, which is running rampant at Boeing, denying workers the right to a life outside of work. The machinists are also fighting for a restoration of defined benefit pension, and full and retroactive reinstatement of pension for all workers.

The initial contract offer from the Boeing bosses came nowhere close to meeting these demands. What Boeing touted as a 25 percent raise over four years in the contract offer is, in reality, much less. When coupled with the cost of living and the removal of the annual AMPP bonus, the proposed raises don’t even make up for recent and future inflation, much less the severe blows from past contracts. The offer also fails to restore workers’ pensions.Since the strike began, Boeing has been forced to release a second contract offer, which includes a 30 percent pay increase over the next 4 years, up from 25 percent in the last offer. The strike has also forced Boeing to back down from their attempt to take away workers’ annual bonuses. But this new offer is still far less than what workers have been demanding and what they need, and workers immediately responded both on the picket line and in social media with their strong opposition to this totally inadequate offer, saying they must continue the strike.

The union leadership has now come out with a statement that says as much also, and which condemns the disgraceful way in which Boeing has attempted to undemocratically circumvent the union with this offer. Because of this, they are rejecting this new offer outright.In the Seattle area, a job at Boeing used to be highly sought after — it was a path to decent wages and benefits and relative stability. A common phrase among workers was “If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going.” With the attacks over the last 15 years, many new Boeing workers are instead being paid less than the Seattle minimum wage, and the company has had higher and higher turnover. These attacks on the workforce have gone hand-in-hand with the corporation’s major struggles in recent years with safety and quality control.

The strike comes in the wake of the machinists being sold out in a spectacularly shameful deal made over a decade ago in November 2013 by Boeing executives and shareholders with the Democratic Party-dominated Washington State Legislature, and Democratic Governor, Jay Inslee. The defined benefit pension plan, won by the unionized machinists in previous decades, was eliminated in one fell swoop. A defined benefit plan, which is currently accessible only to a small proportion of the workforce in the private sector and which was won through labor struggle, is a plan that guarantees retired workers a decent income for life. This was replaced by Boeing with a far weaker 401(K) retirement system that leaves workers at the mercy of the ups and downs of the stock market. This dramatically undermines annual retirement income, as well as shifting the risk away from the executives and major shareholders of big corporations like Boeing onto the backs of working people.

The Democratic Party justified this historic attack on both the Boeing machinists and working people statewide by claiming that it was necessary to save jobs. Boeing executives had carried out public extortion, threatening to take away the final assembly of the 777X aircraft out of Washington state, which would eliminate an estimated 10,000 union jobs. State and local Democrats from across the region insisted that the machinists accept the contract, and scandalously told them that if they didn’t, they would be responsible for not only the loss of their own jobs, but also the broader economic repercussions if Boeing were to move future production out of state.

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    Pablo Picasso The bathers 1918   • Ukraine ‘Is Gone’ – Trump (RT) • Trump Agrees To Meet Zelensky (RT) • Trump Pushes Narrative That Iran Is Tryi
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 27 2024]

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    “Mark Cuban: “The Mainstream Media Truly Leans Right”
    “The mainstream media is not who you think it is… and Trump is a socialist”

    This is what happens when words have no definition and everything is a lie. Sooooo…Trump is against private property? Wants to nationalize everything? And the Media is “Right” in that…it works for giant corporations? I mean yes. And those corporations are open about promoting Socialism (Disney) so that they can have a full merger with the State. …Which they already effectively do (CNN). Or were made by the State, from the first dollar, and illegally protected by the State at every turn since really they are a department and wing of the Letter Agencies (Google).

    What a weird thing to say. Doesn’t he know that not sticking to The Narrative™ causes people like me to re-tell this story and look into things in order to close the cognitive dissonance? That is, also known as: to Think?

    “US Navy Modernizing To Counter China’s Military By 2027
    Project 33 sets two key goals: achieving 80% combat readiness for ships, aircraft, and submarines by 2027, and integrating advanced technologies like artificial intelligence and unmanned systems.

    Oh God, now our Carriers won’t work either, and will hallucinate and shoot made-up threats. That’s what we have Congress for!

    “Melania Trump on the Mar-a-Lago raid: “It made me angry.. “

    Huge fail. Couldn’t care less. It’s a Search Warrant. Did they destroy then condemn the house like they do for us? No? Then it’s a search warrant. If there’s anything wrong, it’s not at this end. You look like a Millennial whiner.

    And she had infinity time to work this out and sound relevant and Presidential. Bring the country together “These aren’t our values” etc. Also I don’t understand ppls attraction for her: she looks like an alien. A male one.

    Adams: this is pretty big, but like, the BIDEN administration arrested him? In SDNY? Wall Street’s owned and 100% corrupt court? Biden??? For foreign bribery, like Turkey (or Ukraine). Really.

    Okay, now since all this – most of which is organic – they’re fighting NC and Trump flips NY instead? That’s not impossible, like CA, NY may have been Red last 5 elections. They’re just rigging in NYC and Trump minor upswing there, or poll-riggers getting disgusted and staying home, may overcome the rig in NYC. He’s an insider there, deep insider, he may know, and he’s not going to tell you til after.

    “Joe Biden pretending to kill a bug on a table..”

    “A Lemon, Ate, Donald Trump.”

    President Trump and I are going to stop the mass poisoning of American children.”

    I was down at the car shop, Zoomer mechanics now, all F’d to the nines from bad nutrition. Fat, short, thinking screwy, speech impaired. Why? Same as Blue Liberals city folks made fun of hicks and Ozarks all along: They’re so poor they have literal malnutrition, development illnesses, level just above starving to death. Like “Deliverance”. Pre-natal nutrition, health abandonment. So then we make fun of them, for the money we in NYC stole from THEM, and are using for our beach house. Classy! And we’re Socialists, “Helping the little guy”, “Workers Unite!” Uh-huh. Unless any of that, like not buying Apple iSneakers from Nike who uses world Slavery. Then it’s all, “well, you understand, but we just gotta!”

    What I’m saying: you’re making fun of Americans for being fat, sick, etc, same as you’d make fun of Palestinians for being blown up and missing limbs. Hahaha! So funny! The more you’re poisoned and die, the funnier and more of your fault it is! Stop. Take a breath. THINK about it in RFK’s context of raw, intentional poison here.

    “130,000 To 280,000 completed ballots for the 2020 GENERAL ELECTION were shipped from Bethpage NY to Lancaster Pennsylvania”

    And they’re Republicans, so they will never do anything. Gosh, good thing you told us! Now if only we could get this to lawyers, or to Congress…Oh wait: that’s YOU???

    BREAKING: Someone just hacked a voting machine within seconds live on PBD’s podcast.”

    But only since the 1st voting machine on the first day, 2000. We’ve known this for 25 years. Problem is, they’re all crooked, and Republicans don’t care. The only thing they can’t do is act. That would mean raising your hand and saying “Aye”, and that’s just too much work for any (Red) man.

    “• Ukraine ‘Is Gone’ – Trump (RT)

    Winter is Coming. Everything in the article. They CAN rebuild, and nicer, if they want to. It’s not possibly half a million, it’s easily and has to be over a million. Sooo….they are conscripting 16 year olds because no one has died in Ukraine? Only a couple, ten towns of 20k? ….Uh, no, the conscription itself demands that over a million have died. And: Joe Biden’s Slavic Genocide.

    ATM looks like they are NOT going to get Poland to commit suicide anymore though. A huge loss. I mean, Britain is their closest friend and ally, and if Britain can’t get them to die to the last man so Limeys can stay home and eat beans, well, what’s really the point? Obviously everyone needs to die but me, that’s “friendship” with a bow. Ask any Indian: Always trust the Anglos.

    ““All of us in Ukraine want to end this war with a just peace. And we know that without America this is impossible to achieve.”

    That’s why YOU’RE going to fight the whole war for us. For free. There is no NATO. “NATO” doesn’t have 20 soldiers. It’s all the United States. (In theory, we may have more than 20 soldiers, but maybe 2,000? Not 200k per wing sustained for 4 years we would need.)

    “Not a very high level of credibility. Who feeds him this? Warmongers?!
    • Trump Pushes Narrative That Iran Is Trying to Kill Him (Antiwar)

    Agree. WTF, you sound like a moron. I mean, more than usual. Does Iran want to shoot him for Solemani? Probably, but they have self-control and wouldn’t do it right now. He’ll probably get away with it.

    Meanwhile, of five assassination teams, one of which is Ukrainian, they instead pick up a schizophrenic from the Rez. Which is probably not a legitimate threat (or he would have just drove there already).

    “The report acknowledged there was no evidence Crooks was linked to Iran,
    “The Times report also said there was no evidence that Iran was connected in any way to Ryan Routh,”

    Oh my God, the stupid. My brain hurts. But BOTH were connected to the Secret State, FBI, etc. That totally doesn’t matter, but to Iran it does.

    What is this, because even Trump isn’t this retarded. Remember Lisa Rice, etc, Comey or someone? Like 20 highest-level people, in a very competitive career, are all CIA from Iran. We’re like “Iran? The Iran that was taken over in 1979?” Yes. And Yes, tell me more wtf, that’s crazy. …Yet true.

    So he’s talking to these guys, who are NOT Iran, but a faction inside the CIA Derp-de-Derp State, saying he now knows they are the ones who signed off on these assassinations. We got your number. Okay, fine: then who are these retards at his rallies who nod their fat heads and don’t notice? Iran: stfu.

    But I don’t know the inner factions of this Satanic Secret State, so I can only guess what goes on in there. And don’t need to: the only thing I need to know is their story is fake bulls—t. And the “Iran hacked on behalf of Harris” too. No. They did not.

    ““The mechanisms allow payments to arms manufacturers and permit weapons to be drawn directly from American military stockpiles..”

    Great, now we’re helpless. What does that mean? Well for one thing, the only viable, preeminent army in America is now the People and some deer hunters. It’s now functionally impossible for the Army to take us, as we know they had a mind to under Obama. They lost 60-40 then, and their power is devastated since then. Over 70-30 now? 80-20? Seems high. So if the Blues want to corral the cities and use the US Army to shoot up the countryside, as we know they had a mind, aching, longing, rubbing themselves with baby oil to do, to keep getting free stuff from Cleetus in the Ozarks while their kids die of malnutrition, well now too bad, they can’t. This mostly takes the John Titor future off the table. “The He/She election”, after all this hard pushing, out of the range of that parallel reality. (Which was probably the output of some of the very first AI secret military supercomputer scenarios, late 90s)

    “• US Congress ‘Happy to Be Lied to’ in Service of American Imperialism (Sp.)

    Yes but they’re paid to, which is a constant, serial, daily felony in several ways. Might start with that. I mean, we’re all discussing and the robber is still in the bank pointing guns at the teller. Stop THAT, and we can discuss later, yes?

    ““Maybe it was a warning sign when big pharma and the feds pushed Ozempic as the ‘wonder shot’ to end the obesity crisis..”

    From their behavior, I’m quite sure it will kill everyone.

    Headline here is Newsweek said Trump is right. Stop the presses, hell has frozen over. What’s the Obesity Epidemic?” Duh and wtf duh, SAME AS THE RESERVATION. They beta tested killing everyone with same carbs, drugs, welfare, obviously, then rolled it out on the rest of us, same as always. You didn’t care about “Them” and now “Them” is YOU. “Gosh why R the Indians so stupid, lazy, violent, and drunk? Well, aside from the efficiency gene, exactly the same as y’all’s 10x increase in their Type II diabetes, meth use, etc from despair, no jobs, using the state and sanctioned child rape — and/in state schools — to break the families.

    ““Americans have long assumed that the Constitution could save us; a growing chorus now wonders whether we need to be saved from it.”

    As I say as a reporter every day: WHO? Who specifically? A junkie hallucinating on the sidewalk? You’re fired. “Some Say”. There is no “Some say” in journalism. If we print “Some say your mother is a whore” WE get sued and lose, 100 year old law. That’s libel. Everything WE print is as if WE say, support and believe it. So the “Growing chorus” is and can only be YOU. Legally.

    ““..many departments have purged their ranks of Republicans, conservatives, and libertarians.”

    Nobody’s going to like it, and it’s illegal and wrong, but they have now created two classes: one soft, stupid, useless, and lazy, of Democrats. And one hard, working, smart, clever, cagey, of Men and Republicans (but statistically, I repeat myself) That is, the only useful, working people in all America are now male and conservative, Republicans. Aaaaaaaand, you expect to hold on to power under that condition how exactly? You’re just going to stay stupid, hallucinating, wrong, lazy, and rich forever? And they’re not going to take your stuff?

    This is doubled as the only group having children is the same. Sooooo….voters? 20 years +9 months from now? Yeah, Democrats killed all their children, so now they cease to exist, self-select. Congratulations, you win.

    “• Taxes and Tariffs and Trade: Trump’s Plan To Bolster The Economy (JTN)

    But Britain and “Experts” say that’s silly. Although it’s worked 100% of the time it’s been tried and even though Economists are always wrong.

    “• FBI Claims it Doesn’t Have DNC’s Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Footage (HUSA)

    Well, that’s odd because WE have that footage. We the Public have it but you don’t? Huh. Venn Diagram, “FBI” is a subset of the “Public” superset?

    “Boeing Machinists on Strike Have a Historic Opportunity (Sawant)

    Boeing with every lying, cheating, stealing deal, in FULL MERGER WITH GOVERNMENT. Oh, reminds: Biden’s first act was to prevent all US Rail from striking, hiring, Overtime, causing deadly derailments, as he broke the Rail Worker’s strike …forever. Nothing has been fixed, and you’d have to be a moron to be hired there. Same as health care, another no-strike, government-run area.

    Storm Surge: who is this for? People who are anywhere near, anywhere affected have lived through 100 storm surges. This is fear porn for people who watch TV, far away, unaffected. Example: on that coast, there are often swamps with few houses (or owners expect to be flooded out regularly) for MILES from the coast. Yeah, it’s a storm surge, but the first road is 10 miles in from the waterline. The mangroves, etc take it all because that’s what they’re for, and that’s why we are where we are, having lived through 40 years of hurricanes over and over and over. I wouldn’t go stand on the first mangrove root, facing the water, but if you were out there, you’d already be on a boat. Respect it, but they’re all experienced in it. That’s like telling ship captains to fear the ocean. I mean, yes? And No. Thanks! For you, immature idiot, never dun anything or been through it, telling ME, a ship’s captain, how it be.

    This is just people in Brooklyn explaining how everyone in Georgia and Florida is a moron who doesn’t know better without Mommy’s help.

    …Or more likely, a PSA for Citiots from Jersey who only just moved to the panhandle and we’re just politely telling them how not to be killed. Should we, though?

    #169848
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “OMG. Seriously, America…We have officially hit rock bottom with the DNC putting this woman up for President.”

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    #169849
    Oroboros
    Participant

    TRUMP: “I saw Eric Adams (NYC Mayor) speaking about illegal migrants hurting our city. I said ‘Watch, he’ll be indicted within a year.’ I was exactly right.”

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    #169850
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Keeping this around. Unlike all Democrats. All Republicans. All Church People. All New Age people, Yup! We need to give up, erase the United States and all it stands for rather than re-add those two days in Civics /History class where we explain the Constitution. Just give up! Throw in the towel, it’s all over.

    Hey, uh, when P Diddy got going, suddenly all the rap becomes Gangster, no one else can get air, which destroys the Blacks. All the TV purges anything good, “Firefly” whatever, that people love and watch. “Defenders” taken off TV one episode after they show drugged kids in cages, being blood-milked and harvested. All moves to “Reality TV” all sex, Kardashin, mind-bendingly stupid, cooing over going to Diddy parties, then all trans.

    …Totally, totally organic, of course. …As TV viewership utterly collapses and people would rather spend an hour watching Ben Shapiro instead of Disney. ‘Cause, totally organic, Capitalism: giving the people what they want. Uh-huh. But I am a coincidence theorist and that is not suspicious at all.

    Orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, we could just RE-introduce the values that made the country work, and NOT throw up our hands, give up on it? Crazy, I know! I mean, when anything happens, who doesn’t give up immediately but goes to work? Far right white supremacist nazis, I hear. Working, being on time: Robin DiAngelo tells me those are WHITE values that Black people just don’t have, being lazy, stupid, and illiterate. That’s called ANTI Racism, and it’s well, well funded, even to Race Segregation I hear! She and Ibram X say you ust HAVE to allow crime! Because Black people are all criminals, it’s their culture! — I — don’t say this: THEY do. This is their core, religious belief.

    Anyway, what COULD we add, re-add, that we already did, and everyone loved it? Here’s one from the back-canon of “The Lone Ranger”, 1950:

    “I believe that to have a friend,
    a man must be one.

    That all men are created equal
    and that everyone has within himself
    the power to make this a better world.

    That God put the firewood there
    but that every man
    must gather and light it himself.

    In being prepared
    physically, mentally, and morally
    to fight when necessary
    for what is right.

    That a man should make the most
    of what equipment he has.

    That ‘this government,
    of the people, by the people
    and for the people’
    shall live always.

    That men should live by
    the rule of what is best
    for the greatest number.

    That sooner or later…
    somewhere…somehow…
    we must settle with the world
    and make payment for what we have taken.

    That all things change but truth,
    and that truth alone, lives on forever.

    In my Creator, my country, my fellow man.[15]”

    You KNOW he’s racist because it’s shot in black and white. And his best friend is a Mohawk Indian. Hate, hate 4evah.

    Yeah, um, don’t go nuts, just UN-do the thing? Just STOP putting poison in Cheetos? Just ADD that class on phonics, math, and the Enlightenment you removed? It’ll take about 3 minutes of your time, thanks.

    …Or give up the country. Your choice.

    “We shall surrender in the mountains! We shall surrender in the beaches! We shall always, always surrender!!!” That’s how I remember it, don’t you? I took an oath to the Constitution and that’s what “oath” means, right?

    #169851
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Not too smart, just sayin’

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    Duh-feminists

    Ya gotta love’m

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    #169852
    Oroboros
    Participant

    More-of-the-Same

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    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #169854
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Comedy Break

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    #169855
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Make Duh’merica ,well, Dumber

    Demonrats, pushin’ that Project De-Population® by creating as many new Morons as possible.

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    #169856
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Meanwhile AI is Blazing Trails like Blazing Saddles!

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    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #169858
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The younger woketurd generation are such flaming hypocrites

    Drinking an $9 cup of coffee typing on a $1300 iphone how “oppressed” they are.

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    #169859
    zerosum
    Participant

    Survival decision makers.
    Smell of death.
    Garbage in, garbage out.
    Disruptors – Helene and/or war.
    Blind mice.
    Lies or illusions.
    Lucky.
    Critical thinking.

    #169860
    kultsommer
    Participant

    “I will give you the lowest taxes, the lowest energy costs, the lowest regulatory burden and …..

    They already have that and in addition to, as real prize, dirt cheap labor the reason that they unbolted machines and moved out in the first place.
    Interesting to see how the threat of having the tariffs imposed on their products will play out – but that’s meddling with the “free market rules” that Multinationals made for the self benefit..

    #169861
    John Day
    Participant

    Suge Knight Claims Diddy Holds ‘Blackmail Material’ on Barack Obama https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/suge-knight-claims-diddy-holds-blackmail-material-on-barack-obama/

    #169862
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    “Total F*king Chaos!” (‘Stralian girls at it once again, … satire.)

    #169863
    zerosum
    Participant

    One more report on f16
    https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/missile-strike-f16s-ground-ukraine
    Missile Strike on Ukrainian Airbase Takes Out F-16s on the Ground – Reports
    Eastern Europe and Central Asia , Aircraft and Anti-Aircraft
    Military Watch Magazine Editorial Staff
    September-26th-2024

    #169864
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Blackmail material doesn’t have to be blackmail material. It could just as easily be material evidence.

    The difference depends on whether the material is being held by a blackmailer or a jury.

    If you don’t get to see it then it’s blackmail material.

    #169865
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    Loverboy – Turn Me Loose – Live

    “I gotta do it my way…or no way at all!”

    #169866
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    re: storm surge

    Denninger has written extensively (and sharply!) about those beach houses. TLDR, folks who built them usually know the score, but suckers buy them if they’ve got a bit o’lipstick.

    #169867
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    The difference depends on whether the material is being held by a blackmailer or a jury.

    You know better.
    No one is that naive.
    The referee, er ah, the judge decides “the materiality” of any evidence and the “request to enter into evidence” any material, testimony is submitted by opposing counsel. So, “evidence” is first sifted by lawyers.

    Ex. (D it is an abbreviation for example)

    Opposing counsel, unidentified entity at WA State Labor and Industries, and an identified UW Medicine Registered Nurse introduced evidence CLAIMANT “had an examination in Cincinnati Ohio by Dr. Lisa Nguyen” and the BIIA Judge cited that “material fact” in 6 page decision in CLAIMANT’S favor.

    Neither claimant definitely nor Dr. Lisa Nguyen (I bet) have ever been to Cincinnati and certainly not together ever.
    Yet and now 89 months since the assault n battery that set off this saga, all my numerous and my attorney’s requests for “the Cincinnati Ohio exam by Dr. Lisa Nguyen” have been met with the same reply by Opposing Counsel.

    Opposing counsel: “I want those records too. My client wants those records too. I demand Dr d Rich give the court those records now”.

    The case possesses an obvious element of systemic and systematic corruption, doesn’t it?
    1. Who would fabricate physical evidence in such an “trivial case” (their words)?
    2. Who would fabricate testimony in such a case?
    3. Who would use fabricated evidence as the foundation to conduct a private investigation that by virtue of the fabrication would guarantee there would be no medical treatment documented to further undermine the claim?
    4. A falsely premised investigation would guarantee evidence of absence. (Don Rumsfeld)

    Answer: is found in Law School 101
    A Hearsay Witness,
    an RN hearsay witness,
    an RN hearsay witness the Judge determined to be “materiel”,
    the RN hearsay witness UW Medicine’s attorney “attested” to,
    an RN hearsay witness the claimant still hasn’t met or seen or heard after these past 89.5 months and counting.

    Blackmail versus “Materiel”, there’s no difference except the obnoxious imprimatur of the court, referee, judge.

    #169868
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    QE is coming again says ZH.

    Free money for insolvent big boy banks and other inept financiers but no debt forgiveness for you, white deplorable.

    Capitalism!!

    #169869
    Noirette
    Participant

    Robert Redfield (from post up top > Zero Hedge):

    “We know chronic disease is more than 75 percent of the country’s $4 trillion annual health care expenditure. Unfortunately, we have become a sick nation. We’re paying too much for chronic disease, and this must change. It’s time to make America healthy again.”
     
    https://tinyurl.com/bdrydnps

    Note in the Booby Kennedy vid in a prev. thread, he quotes Cov-19 vaccination rates re Haiti (under 2%) and the USA (87%) and sort-of compares ‘Covid times’ deaths (13 p.million in Haiti to 300 in the USA) to then conclude that Americans died of Covid because they are ‘sick’ – with diabetes, obesity etc. just as the CDC said (which he quotes.)

    And he is anti-vax? Was I missing something there? Just an ‘extract’ which does not give the full story or is somehow misleading?

    Redfield mentions ‘agency capture’ – Fed agencies that ‘regulate’ being ‘captured by Corps’ – well that is a step in the right direction, it points to ‘over-Gvmt’ (too much legislative + advisory power concentrated on a small node) combined with ‘subservient Gvmt’, aka a circle of *Corruption* between Gvmt. and Corps. It hints, suggests, that some ‘re-arrangement’ is needed. Yes…

    But then what?

    How to create it, in function of what ideals, principles, guiding lines?

    Crickets.

    Trump and Kennedy may have some plans, I of course don’t know about that. But it looks very much like “Make America Healthy Again” is a kind of feeble offshoot of MAGA, which is in itself merely a rallying slogan.

    #169870
    tboc
    Participant

    i now care as much about your life as you have cared about mine
    i worry about unlawful immigration into the US as much you were worried about unlawful US emmigration
    i collapsed early you should have planned better

    Trump and Iran, haters gotta hate. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

    Do you really believe that Trump, Gabbard and Kennedy believe the pasture enrichment they are spreading? Do you?

    Just exactly where is the capital to reindustrialize the US to come from? Just exactly where are the raw materials going to be mined? Just who is going to fund the education projects? With the global south now industrialized and supply chains in place who is going to create the alternative supply chain and fund the logistics infrastructure? Where did all of the BS about robots and AI go? Where are the self driving autonomous trucks and ports? Everything will have to be electric because we have no complex carbon chain crude to distill diesel. Ooopsy the grid is to flawed to support an electric econnomy.
    Just exactly who is going to import or buy any goods that are produced at some multiple of existing global pricing? The fellow in the sandwich meme posted above?

    You’re going to believe all of the bullshit again just like you have your entire adult life. As Frank sang in the 60’s “Go Cry On Somebody Else’s Shoulder”. Wilkerson says there was a Pentagon coup last week and no one interrupted the regularly scheduled programing to point it out. Then again do you think the Pentagon has the balls to take on the CIA? Just remember the CEO and CFO of every defense contractor’s Only Duty, ONLY DUTY, is to the share holder. Guess WhoTF that is. The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States. You know, the boys Carlin spoke off, the ones Who Own You.

    Massie and the FBI whistleblower meet plausible deniability.
    Over men and horses hoops and garters
    Lastly through a hogshead of real fire!
    In this way Mr. K. will challenge the world! – Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite

    remember the phrase “Ugly American”? Maybe the US will be able to murder a few more thousand human beings today so your gasoline price will be manageable tomorrow,
    “…..and then they came for me”

    and finally the 27 childhood immunizations and a total of 70 by age 18. Child’s play, i know people who watch television every effin day.
    Peculiar, not funny, watching, listening to and reading citizens of the US who are too pooly eductated to know they are poorly educated while all of them are doing a Kamala knock off without realizing it. Damn good thing this ain’t HMS Bellipotent and i’m not Taggert.

    just so everyone will know how stupid I am, I thought white was a color. Also thought caucasian was an obsolete racial classification originating among the blood thirsty savages of Western Europe. Just one more article of BS believed by the poplulations of those castles of horror.

    Man!! and to think that i am even dumber than those of whom i speak? you know only those of lesser social value engaged in the occupation in which i endured. Welcome to the largest and fastest growing social segment of the US, The Useless Eater.

    warming up to my new year’s resolution, wear your scarlet letter with PRIDE

    #169871
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Health Sick Care in Duh’merica

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    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #169873
    Oroboros
    Participant

    My Mother’s instruction to me before I went out as a kid was always the same:

    “Dinner is at 5:00 and try not to kill yourself or get arrested.”

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    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #169877
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    “Can-Do Spirit” creativity

    When your generator powered LCD projector doesn’t have a good screen.

    Improvise

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    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #169879
    citizenx
    Participant

    Not a very high level of credibility. Who feeds him this? Warmongers?!

    “Trump’s campaign said they were briefed on the alleged Iranian threat by officials from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which is led by Avril Haines. ”

    Um, Who ? Why its the tiny hat jews, again.

    “we can report that at least five Jews will serve in top positions in the new administration: Ronald A. Klain as White House Chief of Staff; Antony John Blinken as Secretary of State; Janet L. Yellen Secretary of the Treasury; Alejandro N. Mayorkas as Secretary of Homeland Security; and Avril Danica Haines as Director of National Intelligence.”

    Biden Appoints Five Jews to Top Posts, Boy, Are their Mothers Proud

    Biden- Zionist
    Trump- Zionist
    Harris- Zionist
    US Regime cabinets- Zionists
    Maza Mazel tov- Make America Zionist Always

    Still perplexed?

    Zelensky- Zionazi Jew Dictator
    Bibi- Zionazi Jew

    Highway to Hell.
    Tough question- who controls American Zionists?

    The View- speaking of Liberal maggots. Rumors swirl that the show may soon be renamed “The Stench”

    Ewww that smell, can’t you smell that smell? Their stench is all around ewwwwe.
    Libtards- an odiferous stench of insanity-

    Blendering babies, man-dating poisonous worthless vaccines, raping children daily is the Lib motto.
    My body\ my choice right Liberal Hypocritical retards?

    #169881
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @citizenx

    “Tough question- who controls American Zionists?”

    Ans: Not ppl affiliated with the Jewish faith.

    I gleaned that answer from yesterday’s dialogue

    Amiright???

    #169882
    zerosum
    Participant

    tboc and all

    Loneliness

    After your critical exposes of our societies, I don’t feel all alone as I travel the road of life.

    #169885
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @DrDRich

    “The difference depends on whether the material is being held by a blackmailer or a jury.”

    You know better.
    No one is that naive.

    The referee, er ah, the judge decides “the materiality” of any evidence and the “request to enter into evidence” any material, testimony is submitted by opposing counsel. So, “evidence” is first sifted by lawyers.

    I’m not naive, I’m sarcastic. You kinda missed the point. The point is that if the investigators (FBI, cops, etc), or the judge, or the prosecutor, or any of the other gatekeepers PREVENT YOU from seeing the “material” then the material is being held by blackmailers and is therefore BLACKMAIL material. The “material” doesn’t become “material EVIDENCE” until we get to SEE it. Which is usually never, as you pointed out.

    You and I have at least one thing in common. We’re both more than a little bit cynical. Maybe we can build a civil relationship on that common ground.

    #169886
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @DrDRich

    @citizenx

    “Tough question- who controls American Zionists?”

    Ans: Not ppl affiliated with the Jewish faith.

    I gleaned that answer from yesterday’s dialogue

    Amiright???”

    Now we’re getting somewhere. But first we should clarify a differentiating point. The point is that there is a very important difference between being “affiliated” with any particular faith and being “of” that particular faith. Zionists affiliate with the Jewish faith (and usually even loudly proclaim themselves to belong to it) but they are not OF the Jewish faith. To be of the faith they would have to sincerely believe in the God of the Bible, and Zionists do NOT.

    They are either hard core atheists or outright Satanists. ALL of them. They display the trappings of faith as COVER, so that they can accomplish two things in one lie. The subterfuge enables them to pervert and divert the organization’s wealth and power to accomplish evil ends, and it also cloaks who and what they really are. They are either secular sociopaths, or they are Satanists, or they are both. The worst of them are both. The vast majority of them claim to be Jews. They’re lying, but they are expert liars, experienced well trained professional liars, and so most people believe them.

    #169887
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://x.com/TVFreePalestine/status/1839700256935522729

    “The Zionists bombed 6 residential buildings with 15-20 missiles in the Harat Hraik neighborhood in Beirut. The explosions were so strong they were heard in Mt Lebanon and no trace of the buildings remain.”

    “Israel has radically changed the rules of engagement with today’s strike. This time Hezbollah will feel entitled to strike back in the heart of Tel Aviv, as many civilians are expected to be among the dead in the massive bombing of several buildings in Herat Hreik.”

    expert liars, experienced well trained professional liars, and so most people believe them.

    #169888
    John Day
    Participant

    @tboc: Maybe Trump will tap the secret Alaskan oil. He can make hydrocarbons cheaper, and it will do some of what he says, and he can route them to US industry instead of exporting so much.

    #169889
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    The corruption of the United States has followed the same pattern as the corruption of Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Catholicism, etc and by the same method. Criminals recognized how the success of those institutions could be used as both “cover” and “agency” to acquire wealth and power, because good things are what people flock to, contribute to, pay for and fight to protect. If you’re a criminal looking to benefit by subverting a thing it only makes sense to subvert something that’s successful. Nobody ever tried to infiltrate and steal from a rotting corpse, or claim innocence by masquerading as a deranged killer.

    Learning how to deal with, and survive, that aspect of human nature is the price of freedom. Ain’t exactly easy, is it?

    #169890
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    The Satanic Cabal has just 6 more weeks to start full-on WW3 Globalized Civil War, so you can expect their provocations to become far far worse and outrageously ugly as that deadline approaches.

    Their targets (Russia, China, Iran, and the civilian populations trapped within North America and Europe) are either unable to take the bait or too smart to take the bait. But that won’t stop the Cabal from using all of the resources still at their disposal (which is shrinking fast).

    It’s going to be a wild 6 weeks.

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