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How Donald Trump Is Reshaping America in Just 7 Weeks (Victor Davis Hanson)
It Wasn’t a Leak, It Was a Devious “Charlie Foxtrot” (Larry Johnson)
Vance Asked Trump To Fire Waltz – Politico (RT)
Why Did Jeffrey Goldberg Leave The ‘Bomb Yemen’ Signal Chat? (Max Blumenthal)
Trump Puts the System on Trial (RCW)
The Best Response For Developing Countries To US Tariffs: Sell US Debt (Proud)
xAI & X Merger Defuses Musk’s Tesla Share Liquidation Risk (ZH)
Iran ‘Doesn’t Care’ About Trump’s ‘Threats’ – Senior Commander (RT)
Federal Judge Halts Shutdown of Voice of America (ET)
Ex-Italian PM Reveals ‘Secret Mission’ For Zelensky (RT)
Zelensky Is a ‘Demon’ – Ukrainian MP (RT)
EU To Reject Russia-US Black Sea Deal – von der Leyen (RT)
The EU Wants to Use War as an Excuse for More Debt (Andreen)
Joe Rogan Guest Completely Shatters the Vaccine Narrative (VF)

 

 

 

 

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“.. it’s a revolutionary achievement. There’s nobody going across the border illegally, or at least, it’s statistically insignificant.”

How Donald Trump Is Reshaping America in Just 7 Weeks (Victor Davis Hanson)

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. How should we characterize the first seven weeks of the Trump administration because we get so much information and misinformation? Almost a day doesn’t go by where The Wall Street Journal is predicting that we are headed for a recession, that our allies are furious at us, that the economy is on the brink. So, what are we gonna make of all this? I think it’s time to take a deep breath and envision the first seven weeks is something like the following: President Donald Trump is in a race. He’s in a race to enact fundamental, disruptive change, a counterrevolution, and it’s going to be rough for a while, as he pointed out. But the things that he has already done are going to have, shortly or maybe even midterm, fundamental advantages for the United States. The question is, can he message and can he explicate and explain what he’s doing so people hang on? Because the eventual reward will be great.

Now, what do I mean? We’re talking about tariffs, tariffs, tariffs, but even the mere mention of tariffs for all of these countries that have not been reciprocal and have imposed tariffs on us in a way that we would never think of imposing on them, that idea that we might return to parity, it’s had an enormous effect. Some $4 trillion of announced investment from the Europeans, from the Saudis, from the Chinese, from the Mexican government, from the Canadians even. That will create hundreds of thousands of jobs. And that is in the process of working out. When Donald Trump entered office in 2017, we were only pumping about 9 million barrels. When he left, we were pumping 12 million. The Biden administration immediately cut back. And then it decided, before the midterms, “Hey, Americans like affordable oil.” So then they continued the Trump plan and got up to 12, almost 13 million barrels.

Already in just seven weeks, we have increased the amount of oil produced per day in the United States by about a third of a million barrels. And we’re on schedule to get up to about 14 million barrels by the beginning of the year. And that is coordinated with an increase in Middle East production as well. So, we’re going to see a moderation of energy prices, which may explain, already, why the inflation rate was not nearly as high as was predicted. If we look at the border, it’s amazing. We were told that the border problem was unsolvable without comprehensive immigration reform. And there were 10,000 people swarming up per day. We don’t even—nonchalantly, nobody talks about it anymore. But it’s a revolutionary achievement. There’s nobody going across the border illegally, or at least, it’s statistically insignificant.

The big issue right now is the Left is cherry-picking judges to prevent, not the deportation of somebody who’s working, who’s never been arrested, who’s been here for five or six years, but criminals and people who already have been ordered out of the country or pro-Hamas, pro-terrorist supporters. But the point I’m making is, what we’re doing now is Phase Two. The border is essentially solved, as far as security, and in seven weeks. Now, we’re having a difficult task of trying to find out who these 12 million people were that former President Joe Biden deliberately and with intent—malicious intent—allowed to come into the country. But the point I’m making is this is an incredible success.

There’s a final point that I want to make. We hear about Elon Musk is not authentically American. He is a nepo baby. And we hear Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, threatening his person, along with threatening Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. All of this chaos and nihilism coming about Elon Musk and what he’s doing, but what he’s finding out, almost every day, in the Treasury, in the IRS, in the Department of Energy, in the intelligence communities, is a vast unreported siphoning off of hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions, to favorable and mostly left-wing entities, both abroad and here in the United States.

And already, he has cited areas where the Cabinet officers can cut $200 billion. That’s a fifth, only after seven weeks. He’s got a fifth of the way to go. He thinks he can cut a trillion dollars without touching entitlements. I don’t know if he can. But let me just sum up. If Donald Trump is able to fulfill this promise of commitment by foreign entities of $4 trillion in investment—$4 trillion—if he is able to cut a trillion dollars within a year or two, if he’s able to solve the Ukraine war, and if he is able to have a general peace in the Middle East, that will be the most substantial presidency—if he does nothing else—that we’ve seen in 50 years. Final word, everybody, keep calm. There’s events in process that if they are brought to fulfillment and fruition, this country will be a radically different and radically better place.

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They come off as a platoon of newbie nitwits. Run by Israel. Not pretty.

It Wasn’t a Leak, It Was a Devious “Charlie Foxtrot” (Larry Johnson)

Charlie Foxtrot is a polite euphemism for a crude military term — Clusterfuck. That describes the first scandal of the Trump Administration. Somehow, whether deliberate or accidentally, a Zionist journalist by the name of Jeffrey Goldberg was added to a Signal chat by Trump’s National Security Advisor, Michael Waltz, or by someone who worked for Waltz. Goldberg suddenly found himself part of a group chat of Trump’s top defense, diplomatic and intelligence officials. The group included CIA Director Ratcliffe, DNI’s Tulsi Gabbard, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, among other luminaries.

If you are not familiar with Signal, you create a group chat by naming a group and then adding members from your list of contacts. This tells us that Goldberg was part of Waltz’s list of contacts. Goldberg is a particularly slimy character, not because he published portions of the chat, but because he behaved as a political hack instead of a journalist. A journalist with that unexpected access, would have written an immediate story announcing that the US was going to start bombing Yemen just to make an example of it. What did Goldberg do? He waited till the bombing happened and then hoisted the Trump gang on its own petard. He made the story about Charlie Foxtrot, which he published on Monday in The Atlantic magazine.

This was not a leak. This was a gift to Goldberg. While the contents of the chat are not officially classified, the information being discussed was operationally sensitive. The chat exposed most of the Trump team as shallow and dismissive of the military and diplomatic implications of the decision to start bombing Yemen. If Waltz and company wanted to discuss the pros and cons of bombing Yemen, he should have convened a Secure Video Conference, aka SVTC (pronounced, CIVITS). Pete Hegseth’s remarks to the press, responding to the Goldberg article, makes a solid case that he is not qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense. Instead of admitting that this was a fuckup on the part of Waltz, he decided to attack Goldberg. Moreover, he pretends that the US was hitting hardened, military targets. That is a lie:

While I agree with Hegseth that Goldberg is a partisan hack, Goldberg did not insinuate himself into the chat or steal the material. Waltz, or one of his staff, did that. We will have to wait and see if the Trump team has learned anything from this debacle. I suspect Signal will no longer be used for sensitive topics. The portion of the chat that Goldberg published shows that JD Vance is not a Zionist crazy. He at least had reservations about the plan to bomb Yemen. The same cannot be said for the others — Pete Hegseth in particular. The following snippets from Goldberg’s article makes it clear that the decision to bomb was not based on some actual provocation or attack by Yemen. Nope, it was a malevolent symbolic gesture:

“The account labeled “JD Vance” responded at 8:16: “Team, I am out for the day doing an economic event in Michigan. But I think we are making a mistake.” (Vance was indeed in Michigan that day.) The Vance account goes on to state, “3 percent of US trade runs through the suez. 40 percent of European trade does. There is a real risk that the public doesn’t understand this or why it’s necessary. The strongest reason to do this is, as POTUS said, to send a message.” The Vance account then goes on to make a noteworthy statement, considering that the vice president has not deviated publicly from Trump’s position on virtually any issue. “I am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now. There’s a further risk that we see a moderate to severe spike in oil prices. I am willing to support the consensus of the team and keep these concerns to myself. But there is a strong argument for delaying this a month, doing the messaging work on why this matters, seeing where the economy is, etc.”

The account identified as “JD Vance” addressed a message at 8:45 to @Pete Hegseth: “if you think we should do it let’s go. I just hate bailing Europe out again.” “I will say a prayer for victory,” Vance wrote. . . . Hegseth’s counter to Vance’s concern that the American public won’t understand why were bombing the shit out of another faraway country is this: “Nobody [in America] knows who the Houthis are, so [we can just say] Biden failed and Iran funded them.” Well, guess what, boys and girls? Trump failed, just like Biden. The bombings over the last nine days have not deterred the Houthis from renewing their attacks on ships and Israel. And it has put US naval vessels in harm’s way without a good reason. Hegseth gives the game away… this is about blaming Iran.

It is incumbent on Goldberg to release the entire electronic conversation. Maybe I am being too harsh. Maybe Tulsi Gabbard or John Ratcliffe or the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency raised some objections. But it appears that everyone was supportive of the proposed operation. Shameful.

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“Like hell he’d give the liberal media and pearl-clutching Democrats a win..”

Trump’s no. 1 task right now is to stand up for his team. Loyalty.

Vance Asked Trump To Fire Waltz – Politico (RT)

Vice President J.D. Vance and other senior officials “gently offered” President Donald Trump to fire National Security Adviser Mike Waltz during a private discussion about the blunder in which Waltz accidentally included a reporter in a confidential chat about US military strikes in Yemen, according to anonymous insider sources cited by Politico. Two individuals allegedly familiar with the closed-door meeting at the White House on Wednesday night told Politico that Vance, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and personnel chief Sergio Gor advised Trump that it might be time to cut Waltz loose. The president reportedly agreed that Waltz had “messed up,” but ultimately decided against a dismissal.

“Like hell he’d give the liberal media and pearl-clutching Democrats a win,” Politico wrote on Friday, citing one insider as saying the administration “don’t want to give the press a scalp.” The leak, first reported by The Atlantic on Monday, revealed that Waltz had inadvertently invited editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a confidential Signal chat where senior administration officials were discussing upcoming airstrikes on Houthi militants in Yemen. Waltz has taken “full responsibility” for the incident, calling it “embarrassing” in a Fox News interview and attributing the inclusion to a technical “glitch.”

President Trump has largely downplayed the controversy, dismissing the media response as a “witch hunt” and questioning the reliability of Signal. He also emphasized that no classified information was compromised and praised the military operation as “unbelievably successful.” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt voiced the administration’s stance, stating on Monday that “President Trump continues to have the utmost confidence in his national security team, including National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.” Vance, for his part, has publicly aligned himself with the president’s decision. On Friday, he brought Waltz along for a high-profile trip to Greenland, where he dismissed media speculation and defended the national security team.

“If you think you’re going to force the president of the United States to fire anybody, you’ve got another thing coming,” Vance told reporters. Yet Politico claimed that Waltz’s position remains tenuous, citing one Trump ally who said, “They’ll stick by him for now, but he’ll be gone in a couple of weeks.” Other unnamed sources described longstanding personal and political tensions, alleging that Waltz has alienated colleagues by overstepping boundaries and acting more like a principal than a staffer. A spokesman for Waltz, Brian Hughes, pushed back against the narrative, calling the reports “gossip from people lacking the integrity to attach their names.” He emphasized that Waltz “serves at the pleasure of President Trump” and continues to have the president’s support.

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“..a gargantuan empire bombarding a poor, besieged country because it is controlled by a popular movement that is currently the only force on the planet taking up arms to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza..”

Why Did Jeffrey Goldberg Leave The ‘Bomb Yemen’ Signal Chat? (Max Blumenthal)

Atlantic Magazine editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg has won the admiration of his Beltway peers for the conduct he displayed after being accidentally invited into a smoke-filled “bomb Yemen” Signal chat with Trump’s national security honchos and top advisors. “Props to Jeffrey Goldberg for his high standards as a professional journalist,” declared Ian Bremmer, the trans-Atlanticist foreign policy pundit on his Bank of America-sponsored GZero podcast. “When he realized the conversation was authentic he immediately left, informed the relevant senior official, and made the public aware without disclosing intelligence that could damage the United States.” But what exactly did Goldberg do to deserve such high praise?

With a once in a lifetime opportunity to view and report on high level discussions on the US launching an illegal war on Yemen, Goldberg chose to avert his gaze and leave the scene as soon as he could, apparently because maintaining such unparalleled access would have compelled him to report on discussions that might have complicated a war being waged on behalf of the Israeli apartheid state to which he emigrated as a young man. Instead of exploiting his front row seat to the Trump admin’s war planning – a vantage point that would have yielded countless scoops and a bestselling book for any adversarial journalist – Goldberg bolted and dutifully informed the White House about the unfortunate situation.

From there, the story became a palace intrigue over an embarrassing failure of “opsec,” or operational security, and not one about the policy itself, which entails a gargantuan empire bombarding a poor, besieged country because it is controlled by a popular movement that is currently the only force on the planet taking up arms to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza. In the fourth paragraph of Goldberg’s Atlantic article about the principals’ Signal group, he strongly implied that he supports the war’s objectives, describing Ansar Allah, or the Houthis, as an “Iran-backed terrorist organization” which upholds a belief system that is (what else?) antisemitic. Given Goldberg’s admission that Waltz first reached out to him at least two days prior to mistakenly adding him to the Signal group, it appears the NSC director had been leaking to the Atlantic editor on behalf of the neocon faction in the Trump White House. And it seems clear why Waltz would have sought to cultivate Goldberg.

During the run-up to to the Iraq war, then-Vice President Dick Cheney cited Goldberg’s bunk reporting alleging deep ties between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda during multiple media appearances hyping up the coming invasion. Under Obama, Goldberg served as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s errand boy, churning out tall tales about Tel Aviv’s imminent plan to attack Iran’s nuclear sites – unless the US did it first. Since the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, the once-failing Atlantic has suddenly turned a profit, as Goldberg unleashed a firehose of propaganda against the keffiyeh-clad enemies of the magazine’s Upper East Side donor base. This month, with momentum for a strike on Iran building within the Trump White House, Goldberg was summoned once again move to the neocon message, and wound up with more access than he bargained for.

When asked in a March 24 interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins why he left the Trump principals’ Signal group voluntarily, Goldberg ducked the question. But as Ian Bremmer suggested, he did so out of deference to power and an abiding belief in a US empire hellbent on protecting Israel. And in the culture of Beltway access journalism, that’s considered a laudable trait.

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“..the judges’ resistance is expected—they’re bound up in and rewarded by the system Trump seeks to reform.”

Trump Puts the System on Trial (RCW)

President Trump’s supporters have denounced the federal judges seeking to stall or stop this administration’s government overhaul. But there is at least one person who, despite a show of outrage and condemnation, is neither surprised nor intimidated: Trump himself. The politically appointed judges have ordered, among other actions, that federal agencies reinstate thousands of fired probationary employees; that billions of taxpayer dollars be paid to questionable USAID projects and contractors; and that foreign-born criminals deported to their native countries be returned and granted due process. Regardless of the legal merits, the American people recognize these orders as obstructions to what Trump said he would do if elected, and what voters elected him to do. Yet the judges’ resistance is expected—they’re bound up in and rewarded by the system Trump seeks to reform.

Two-thirds of Americans believe the “system” is broken, but for years progressive politicians and their mouthpieces posited that the system couldn’t be fixed. Intellectuals on the Left, including New York Times columnist David Brooks, said America’s flaws were “systemic” in nature: systemic racism, systemic sexism, and systemic injustice. They whined and preached but offered no solutions for the millions of Americans of all races and both genders struggling and failing to unlock their potential to succeed. When Trump announced his candidacy for president in 2015, he too claimed the system was broken, but not because we are racist or sexist by nature, but because the system itself is old, soft, and corrupt, with leaders grown unresponsive to the people they are supposed to serve. That core belief guided his first term and remains unchanged at the start of his second.

For decades, politicians failed to respond to real problems because their agendas, even their identities, were phony, crafted by consultants and pollsters who aimed not for the truth, but for whichever lies or provocations were most efficacious in winning the next election. But one need not resort to craven and conspiratorial explanations of this sort, which hint that elected officials deliberately ignore the public will. The truth is simpler. They have to ignore voters, if only because they have no idea how to fix the problems we face. In one sense, the elites’ ineptitude is understandable: we have a highly complex society that has undergone a recent, rapid, destabilization brought on by technological advance. But to admit that they simply don’t know how to address any contemporary issue would be to concede that it is only their mere status as “elites” that qualifies them to rule.

Thus, to conceal their befuddlement, they explain their inaction by a vague demand that we address the “root causes” of every issue – which further justifies them in doing nothing. The bad faith inherent to the “root causes” strategy was nowhere more obvious than at the border. For years, establishment voices told us that border security measures would fail without addressing the “root causes” of the problem: central American poverty and climate change. These appeals allowed the political class to avoid doing what they didn’t want to do (securing the border) and to manufacture a duty to do the things they did want to do (diverting American revenue to foreign aid “relief programs” and enacting more restrictive environmental policies). Aside from those interventions, they assured us, there was nothing we could do about the illegal immigration crisis.

Speaking about politicians in 2015, Trump said: “I hear their speeches. They don’t talk jobs. [They] have no competence. [They] don’t know what’s happening.” His message of “America First” was clear and authentic, and it implied real action and solid outcomes: protect jobs, livelihoods, and futures of Americans. The hapless politicians had nothing to counter. “The Resistance” to the first Trump administration was advanced by the machinations of bureaucrats in the vast regulatory state. But with the president rapidly dismantling that apparatus, a new strategy was needed. For the Resistance 2.0, it seems the establishment will depend on the courts to thwart the democratically-expressed will of the people. But there is a higher court in this land, where American voters serve as judge, jury, and executor.

Earlier this month at the Department of Justice, Trump warned of the “violent, vicious lawyers” who persecute the president and bully the American public to get their way. Expect these lawyers to “play the ref,” Trump said, weaving in a story about former Indiana University basketball coach Bobby Knight, who once threw a chair across the court and screamed like a madman at the referees for a call to be overturned. The referee wasn’t going to change the first call, Trump said of Knight’s rationale for throwing the tantrum. “But he’s going to change for the next play. And sure as hell, he did.” Trump understands that activist lawyers and progressive pundits will put heat on the judiciary, and that, on occasion, they’ll get their way.

For 10 years, Trump has confronted the political class, calling out their incompetence and dishonesty, and the voters continue to reward him. Federal judges, egged on by the politically-motivated legal establishment, may try to frustrate the president in his pursuit of long-held promises to build a better country. But Trump is building his case outside the courts – and he’s betting on a sympathetic hearing with the American people, who will note the overt evidence of bias, corruption, and incompetence, whether it occurs in the media, executive branch, or the judiciary. Judges will rule on procedure and technicalities, but the people will evaluate the legitimacy of our institutions and credibility of our leaders.

In 2028, the jury will render its verdict.

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In theory perhaps. But how much US debt do you have to spare?

The Best Response For Developing Countries To US Tariffs: Sell US Debt (Proud)

As President Trump threatens the world with sweeping tariffs, he is trying to change the fundamental laws of economics through force of will. He won’t succeed. Rather than fighting back with reciprocal tariffs, developing countries should sell off U.S. debt. The Austrian American economist Ludwig von Mises once said that ‘the balance of payments theory forgets that the volume of trade is completely dependent on prices.’ The United States has such a gigantic trade deficit, at over $1 trillion each year, because it can buy foreign goods more cheaply than it can produce them domestically. Some countries may subsidise production to lower prices, others might export goods that are further down the value chain compared to what American producers will make.

But, stepping back, the U.S. dollar is so powerful, that it renders American exports more expensive, irrespective of any distortions created by its trading partners. This is part of the exorbitant privilege in which the U.S. dollar acts the world’s leading reserve currency, amounting to 58% of total reserves. Foreign countries put their capital into the U.S. because it is a stable and safe, increasing the price of the dollar on foreign exchange markets because demand is always high. A strong exchange rate makes foreign imports cheaper and that helps to manage inflation in America.

President Trump clearly wants to boost his support in the blue collar heartlands of America, driving job creation in traditional American industry that has been undercut by foreign imports over many years. But he can’t have two cakes and eat them both. He can’t simultaneously slash the huge U.S. balance of payments deficit – helping blue collar workers – while at the same time maintaining the U.S. as the destination of choice for foreign capital. That would be to defy the logic of economics. To oversimplify slightly, America has built its bloated Federal apparatus on the back of cheap imports. The huge current account surpluses that exporting powerhouses like China, India, European and ASEAN countries have built up has produced a torrent of easy capital to prop up the U.S. state.

The U.S. has a debt mountain of around $35 trillion which is roughly the equivalent sum of debt held by foreign investors. Of that debt, around $8.5 trillion is in the form of U.S. Treasuries, literally loans to the U.S. government, with a similar amount invested in corporate debt and the rest largely in equity. That’s why Trump is going in so hard with Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative. He’s desperate to reduce the size of the U.S. state apparatus because he knows that the Federal house of cards is built on fiscal quicksand. He also probably figures that there’s a greater propensity among federal workers – who are facing massive job cuts – to lean democrat, than among factory workers.

That’s why the idea of a BRICS currency is so terrifying to Trump, because BRICS now accounts for 41% of the global economy by purchasing power parity. A BRICS currency poses a longer-term risk of making the dollar less appealing and, therefore, weaker, driving up inflation. Because the real challenge to the U.S. is not the federal debt itself but its ability to service its debt. The exorbitant privilege, coupled with the massively disinflationary tidal wave of the global financial crisis, ushered in a period of historically low inflation and low interest rates.

That era has ended, as ratings agency Moody’s pointed out this week. U.S. interest rates are now higher, at 4.25-4.5% driving up the costs of servicing the country’s enormous debt mountain. The threat to the U.S. right now is inflation and what that means for its debt servicing bill, if interest rates are held or, even, forced higher. There are parallels here for the 1970s, when rampant inflation, triggered by a number of factors including the oil crisis and America’s move to a fiat currency, led U.S. interest rates to soar at one point to 20%. During this period, foreign countries withdrew their investments, and the dollar slumped to 45% of total global foreign exchange reserves. And herein Trump’s challenge. He can’t export more without a weak dollar, and a weak dollar will make U.S. debt harder to service.

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“The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion..” Is that $80 billion together or $133 billion?

xAI & X Merger Defuses Musk’s Tesla Share Liquidation Risk (ZH)

Elon Musk secured a multibillion-dollar margin loan using Tesla stock as collateral to finance his acquisition of Twitter (now rebranded as X). In recent months, Tesla’s share price has been cut in half due to a confluence of factors—slowing EV demand amid high interest rates, shifting electric vehicle policies under the Trump administration, market volatility driven by trade tensions, and pressure from a coordinated NGO-driven color revolution known as “Tesla Takedown,” aimed at crashing the stock to trigger loan repayment obligations tied to Musk’s pledged equity. In short, volatility in Tesla shares left Musk heavily exposed to potential loan repayment thresholds being triggered – which was set to occur at or below $114 according to reports – until now.

On Friday evening, Musk announced the merger of X with his AI startup, xAI, in an all-stock transaction that strengthens his financial position, protects Tesla shareholders, and renders the Tesla Takedown color revolution largely ineffective in achieving its intended goal. Musk outlined xAI’s acquisition of X: “xAI has acquired X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt). Since its founding two years ago, xAI has rapidly become one of the leading AI labs in the world, building models and data centers at unprecedented speed and scale. X is the digital town square where more than 600M active users go to find the real-time source of ground truth and, in the last two years, has been transformed into one of the most efficient companies in the world, positioning it to deliver scalable future growth.

xAI and X’s futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent. This combination will unlock immense potential by blending xAI’s advanced AI capability and expertise with X’s massive reach. The combined company will deliver smarter, more meaningful experiences to billions of people while staying true to our core mission of seeking truth and advancing knowledge. This will allow us to build a platform that doesn’t just reflect the world but actively accelerates human progress. I would like to recognize the hardcore dedication of everyone at xAI and X that has brought us to this point. This is just the beginning.”

Musk privately owns and controls both xAI and X. The transaction is structured as a stock swap, with X investors receiving xAI shares in return. Both companies share overlapping investors, including Fidelity Management, Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Holding Co, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Vy Capital. Musk, also the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, purchased Twitter in a $44 billion deal in 2022. X CEO Linda Yaccarino wrote on X last night: “The future could not be brighter.” Musk’s X post announcing the acquisition stated that the deal was about “blending” the AI startup and social media platform to create “a platform that doesn’t just reflect the world but actively accelerates human progress.” However, the move also eliminates the risk of Musk undergoing a forced liquidation of the $12.5 billion margin loan backed by his Tesla shares.

As we previously described at the beginning of the note, Tesla shares were halved for a number of reasons: Goldman Trading Desk Views “Trump As Bearish For US EV Market”. “Weak Demand”: Goldman Lowers Tesla Vehicle Delivery Estimate For Quarter. And this…”Tesla Takedown Revolutionaries Prepare Mobilization Nationwide, Tesla Takedown Organizers Plan Color Revolution To “Kill” Brand & “Death Spiral” For Investors. Last week, the Democratic Party and their Communist revolutionaries spelled out their sinister plans… “If we kill the Tesla brand” and “drive down the stock price low enough. We can force him to sell his stock to pay back the billions of dollars of debt he took on to buy Twitter.

“This will drive Tesla into a death spiral,” Micah Lee, The Intercept’s former Director of Information Security, explained on a recent Tesla Takedown teleconference with other far-left revolutionaries. Musk’s indebtedness from leveraging Tesla shares to fund the X deal is no longer a concern for Tesla shareholders. This strategic move also renders the Tesla Takedown color revolution funded by rogue Democrats less likely to force a liquidation.

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Irann Doesn’t think the US would be stupid enough. But Israel?!

Iran ‘Doesn’t Care’ About Trump’s ‘Threats’ – Senior Commander (RT)

Iran will not bow to US pressure to resume talks over its nuclear program, a top naval commander has said, stressing that Tehran is ready to strike back in the event of an American attack. In an interview with al-Mayadeen TV channel on Saturday, Alireza Tangsiri, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy, pushed back against US President Donald Trump’s recent ultimatum urging the country to enter new nuclear talks. “I have no knowledge of Trump’s message, nor do I care to analyze it,” Tangsiri said. “I hear his threats, I observe his actions, and I prepare myself to counter them. We have the capability to strike all enemy bases, wherever they may be… No one can strike us and escape. Even if we have to chase them to the Gulf of Mexico, we would.”

Tangsiri also rejected any negotiations over Tehran’s missile arsenal or its backing of groups in the region. “Iran will never negotiate over its missiles or the capabilities of the Resistance Front,” he said. He also emphasized that the Islamic Republic seeks peaceful relations with its neighbors: “We always extend a hand of friendship to the countries in the region. As Muslims, we do not pose any threat to our neighboring countries.” The remarks came in response to Trump’s comments on Friday, in which he confirmed sending a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, seeking to negotiate a nuclear deal. “You’re gonna have to make a decision one way or the other,” Trump said. “We’re gonna either have to talk and talk it out, or very bad things are gonna happen to Iran. And I don’t want that to happen.” He added that if the US has “to go in militarily, it’s going to be a terrible thing.”

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said that while the letter seemed threatening, it still contained “some opportunities” for Tehran. The standoff follows years of tension over Tehran’s nuclear program. In 2015, Iran signed a deal with the US, the EU, Russia, and other world powers in which it agreed to limit its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief. However, in 2018, Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the landmark agreement, calling it “a horrible one-sided deal” that had failed to achieve its goals. Iran has not ruled out indirect talks on the matter but has refused to do so under duress. It also maintains that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.

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$1 billion a year for a woke relic.

Federal Judge Halts Shutdown of Voice of America (ET)

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from dismantling Voice of America (VOA), the government-funded international news service whose 1,200 reporters and employees were placed on paid leave earlier this month. The judge, J. Paul Oetken of the Southern District of New York, on Friday issued a temporary restraining order in favor of VOA employees and their unions. The order prevents the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees VOA, from shutting down the broadcasting network and its associated radio programs. VOA employees filed the lawsuit against USAGM, its acting Director Victor Morales, and special adviser Kari Lake on March 21.

The complaint accused the agency of failing to fulfill its legally mandated missions and violating both press freedom and the separation-of-powers doctrine when it took a “chainsaw” to the outlet, ordering the entire staff not to report to work, turning off the service, and locking the agency’s doors. In his ruling, Oetken stated that VOA was likely to succeed on its claims, noting that USAGM’s actions appeared unconstitutional. He said that Lake lacked legal authority to withhold congressionally appropriated funds or terminate USAGM staff, programming, or contracts. “By withholding the funds statutorily appropriated to fully administer USAGM, VOA, and its affiliates … the executive is usurping Congress’s power of the purse and its legislative supremacy,” he wrote.

The judge did not require VOA to resume broadcasts, but made it clear that employees must not be terminated while the court determines whether the shutdown violates the Constitution or other federal administrative laws. Friday’s order echoed a similar ruling by another district judge earlier in the week, which granted a temporary restraining order to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, blocking its funding freeze. The Trump administration has since stated in court filings that it has resumed funding for these outlets. President Donald Trump and his supporters have been critical of VOA for years over alleged bias against conservative Americans and in favor of America’s adversaries.

In 2020, the White House sent an email accusing VOA of spending taxpayers’ money to “speak for authoritarian regimes.” It took issue with, among other things, a VOA social media post featuring a video of a light show celebrating the end of the lockdown in Wuhan, the Chinese megapolis where the COVID-19 virus first emerged; as well as the agency’s characterization of China’s effort to control the outbreak as a “model” for other nations. “VOA too often speaks for America’s adversaries—not its citizens,” The White House said. “Journalists should report the facts, but VOA has instead amplified Beijing’s propaganda.”

The VOA first began broadcasting in 1942 in German-occupied territories as part of the Allies’ effort to engage Axis propaganda broadcasts with counterpropaganda. In the following decades, it became a staple in the propaganda war against the Soviet Union and other communist regimes. Over time, it evolved into a global news organization, now operating in more than 40 languages. Elon Musk, a tech billionaire and Trump’s top adviser for downsizing the federal government’s spending and workforce, has echoed calls to shut down VOA and its sister networks, arguing that they have outlived their purpose. “Yes, shut them down. Europe is free now (not counting stifling bureaucracy). Nobody listens to them anymore,” he wrote on X, accusing the outlets of being “radical left” and “torching $1B/year of US taxpayer money.”

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“You know, you are the first European who came to talk to us about this. The others are just asking us not to support Russia.”

Ex-Italian PM Reveals ‘Secret Mission’ For Zelensky (RT)

Former Italian Prime Minister Massimo D’Alema has claimed that he undertook a secret diplomatic mission to Brazil and China on behalf of Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky to garner international support, amid fears that Kiev would be abandoned by its Western backers. The revelation was made during a conversation with Italian politician Gianfranco Fini published by La Repubblica on Thursday. According to D’Alema, Zelensky approached him sometime in 2024, expressing fears of a potential catastrophe as Western support waned. “I happened to speak with Zelensky on the sidelines of an initiative on the Balkans. And he told me clearly that his country was at risk of disaster because ‘the Americans will withdraw sooner or later, and the Europeans are not reliable,’” the former prime minister told Fini.

“He asked me to go to Brazil and Beijing to find out if Lula and Xi Jinping could do something,” D’Alema claimed. Neither Brazil nor China has publicly confirmed any visits by the former Italian official. In Brasilia, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reportedly dismissed the initiative outright, insisting that Ukraine is an “American problem.” “I went there, but Lula almost showed me the door, telling me that Ukraine was a problem for the Americans and that, according to him, I should be interested in Palestine instead,” D’Alema said. In China, D’Alema reportedly met with one of the Communist Party’s top foreign policy officials, and discussed the idea of an international peacekeeping force for Ukraine. At the end of the meeting, the Chinese official is said to have remarked: “You know, you are the first European who came to talk to us about this. The others are just asking us not to support Russia.”

The former prime minister also criticized the EU for fueling what he described as unrealistic expectations about the conflict. “Europe has done nothing but repeat that Russia could be defeated, when it was clear to everyone that the war could not be won by anyone,” he said.

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“They want to inspect the holy relics of our saints. They plan to carve them up, to open them up, to break them into pieces. To perform this sacrilege over them. It’s a huge tragedy for the entire Orthodox world..”

Zelensky Is a ‘Demon’ – Ukrainian MP (RT)

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky is waging a campaign of terror against his own people by signing off on a crackdown targeting the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), particularly the iconic Kiev Pechersk Lavra monastery, lawmaker Artyom Dmitruk has said. In an interview with RT on Friday, Dmitruk responded to reports that Ukrainian officials and police have entered the catacombs of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, the nation’s most significant monastery and the final resting place of several Christian saints. During the raid, authorities unlocked doors, broke into the caves, and changed locks. Dmitruk described their actions as sacrilegious and suggested that Zelensky was directly complicit.

“Zelensky is perpetrating genocide of the Ukrainian people. What we are seeing now and what we are witnessing now is the continuation of terror policies of Zelensky’s against [the] Ukrainian people. Zelensky is a demon in the body of a human being. You can call him whatever you want, a godless person, a terrorist, and so on and so forth. The gist of his actions is the same. Zelensky is following a demon’s will,” he asserted. According to the legislator, who claims to have fled the country over the persecution of the UOC, the stated goal of the “inventarization” of the monastery’s possessions is nothing more than a pretext. “They want to inspect the holy relics of our saints. They plan to carve them up, to open them up, to break them into pieces. To perform this sacrilege over them. It’s a huge tragedy for the entire Orthodox world,” he said, recalling that the results of the review would be classified.

“They are raiding the Lavra. They are trying to seize the property of the Lavra… If we speak from a legal point of view, it’s a crime,” Dmitruk stressed. The Ukrainian government has been cracking down on the UOC for months, which it views as having ties to Russia. This effort has included attempts to take over the Lavra, as well as church raids and arrests of clergy. The UOC, the largest religious institution in the country, severed ties with the Moscow Patriarchate following the start of the conflict. Zelensky has defended the move, insisting on the need to protect Ukraine’s “spiritual independence” from Russia. Moscow has condemned the measures, accusing Kiev of suppressing the canonical Orthodox faith and alleging that the West is encouraging these efforts.

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Nobody cares.

EU To Reject Russia-US Black Sea Deal – von der Leyen (RT)

The EU will not lift its sanctions against Russia for as long as the Ukraine conflict continues, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said. During talks in Saudi Arabia on Monday, Russia and the US agreed to move towards reviving the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which, according to the Kremlin, should include the removal of Western restrictions against Russian Agricultural Bank and other financial institutions involved in the international sale of food and fertilizers. In her interview with French broadcaster LCI on Friday, von der Leyen made it clear that Brussels will not support the idea of a maritime truce between Moscow and Kiev put forward by the administration of US President Donald Trump.

“The sanctions are very significant; they are painful; they have an impact on the Russian economy, and they represent a powerful lever,” she said when asked about the possibility of the EU fulfilling Russian demands to lift some of the curbs. According to the head of the European Commission, the restrictions “will remain in effect until a just and lasting peace is established in Ukraine.” However, she noted that “when the war is over, the sanctions might be removed.” Von der Leyen also said that for the conflict to end, “security guarantees for Ukraine” are needed as well as “a solid defense industrial base and a deterrent force” in the EU. The Black Sea Grain Initiative, originally brokered in July 2022 by the UN and Türkiye, envisioned the safe passage of Ukrainian agricultural products in exchange for the West lifting its restrictions on Russian grain and fertilizer exports.

Moscow withdrew from the deal a year later, citing the West’s failure to uphold its obligations. The Americans and Russians now see its revival as a step towards settling the Ukraine conflict altogether. Earlier this week, President Vladimir Putin asserted that the Russian economy has become the fourth largest in the world in purchasing power parity terms after those of China, the US and India, despite a record 28,595 sanctions being placed on it by Washington, Brussels and their allies. According to the Russian government’s data, the country’s economy grew 4.1% in 2024, surpassing the official forecast of 3.9%. Putin previously urged the Russian business circles against expecting the sanctions to be fully lifted, describing them as a mechanism of strategic systemic pressure on the country that the West intends to keep using.

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Eurobonds are a huge threat to every European: “The EU Debt Plan is About Centralizing Financial Control.”

The EU Wants to Use War as an Excuse for More Debt (Andreen)

The European political and financial elite knows that the war in Ukraine is lost but wants to use it as an opportunity to reach strategic independence from the United States. As the future chancellor of Germany Friedrich Merz said right after his electoral win on Feb 23: “It will be an absolute priority for me to strengthen Europe as soon as possible so much that it gradually really achieves independence from the United States.” Such strategic independence needs money and investment—a lot of it—not only to boost defense but much else, like energy and innovation; areas in which Europe is lagging behind the US and China. In order to have the pretext to implement this spending plan, the idea among the EU elite is to make sure that the war in Ukraine does not end too quickly. That way the conflict can be used to justify artificially injecting much needed money into the moribund EU economies.

First, there was a question of providing €20 billion euros of additional military support for Ukraine and that the EU self-imposed fiscal rules to be loosened using the existing “escape clause” in the event of “exceptional” circumstances, such as the bogus “defense of Ukraine” excuse. As Bloomberg stated, “under this plan, EU nations would be exempt from debt and deficit limits when financing military expenditures. This marks a fundamental shift in EU financial policy, as such exemptions have previously been impossible under EU rules.” Indeed, the EU elite does not want to follow the arbitrary EU fiscal rules: for Paris, the 3 percent limit of budget deficit to GDP is politically painful, and for Berlin, the limit of max 60 percent of GDP in terms of federal public borrowing seems like an artificial constraint.

Then there was a talk of a €700 billion euro defense package. Newsweek stated that: “Baerbock said the package could be worth some 700 billion euros ($732 billion).” French President Emmanuel Macron also confirmed this on March 2, 2025. “We will give a mandate to the European Commission to define our capacity needs for a common defense,” Macron said in an interview published in several French newspapers. “This massive funding will probably reach hundreds of billions of euros.” The official slogan of “help Ukraine defend itself” will give the EU political and financial elite an excuse to turn on the spigots of the European Central Bank at full thrust again; to shower the entire European economy with “free” money, and shore up its fragile economies, like it did after the euro crisis of 2011, with the enormous covid recovery fund in 2021, as well as with the Green New Deal.

This time, the idea seems to be to use joint EU bonds. Reuters writes: “The bigger amounts will have to come from some type of centralized funding, because most budgets in Europe are relatively stretched, particularly in Italy and France.” As was stated in the infamous Draghi Report from Sept 2024: “the EU should move towards regular issuance of common safe assets to enable joint investment projects among Member States and to help integrate capital markets.” Therefore, “common issuance should over time produce a deeper and more liquid market in EU bonds.”

Joint EU bonds are essentially bond issuances against the whole euro economy and would thus entail a low risk and a lower interest rate than country level EU bonds. This is perceived as necessary in order for the EU to hold its own in competition with the US and China that already have unified capital markets, as a speech Draghi gave to the EU Commission last year made clear. There are three main sources of war financing: printing money, increasing taxes, and borrowing. Making available “hundreds of billions” for the EU would likely be based on debt issued from joint EU bonds. Bloomberg noted that, if the spending were funded with tax increases, or cuts in other areas, that could wipe out any positive impact—or worse. Any immediate spending on the military would not help Europe because it would be mostly spent buying US weapons.

Therefore, what the EU elite has in mind now is likely to put in place what F. Merz said; a strategic independence from the US through a huge investment by joint EU bonds, released and used over the long term in order to slowly build up Europe’s industry, not only in the defense sector but also in other sectors. In a sense, this would-be debt plan is just the European Union emulating the United States playbook of using war for crony capitalist benefits, finally “understanding” how to cynically exploit the Ukraine war, just as the US has been doing since 2022 by feeding its military-industrial complex. But, in order for this to happen, the war must not end too soon for the European elite, which is why efforts are made in order to—outrageously—spoil any US peace plans and get the war to continue for now.

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All of a sudden, everybody knows Dr. Suzanne Humphries. Her X followers went from a few hundred to 62,000 overnight.

Joe Rogan Guest Completely Shatters the Vaccine Narrative (VF)

Everything you’ve been told is a lie—especially when it comes to polio. Dr. Suzanne Humphries reveals what really made all those polio cases disappear after the vaccine was introduced. Dr. Suzanne Humphries, former board-certified nephrologist and co-author of Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History, just made a bombshell appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience and what she shared will completely change how you think about vaccines. Most people are told vaccines are “safe and effective” with no real downside. But Dr. Humphries pulled back the curtain on decades of deception, starting with a major turning point in 1986—when President Reagan signed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act into law.

https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1905055320449442103

Before that, vaccine manufacturers were getting hammered with lawsuits. Humphries explained that after the 1976 swine flu vaccine disaster, Guillain-Barré cases were piling up. It got so bad that the companies couldn’t even get insurance. They ran to the government and basically said: “Bail us out, or we’re done making vaccines.” So the government stepped in. First, it agreed to cover the lawsuits. Then came the 1986 law—sold to the public as a way to help injured families get compensation faster, but in reality, it became a kangaroo court system that rarely paid families deserving of vaccine injury claims. Companies like Wyeth (now Pfizer) admitted their vaccines were “unavoidably unsafe,” yet instead of making them safer, they were handed blanket immunity.

Humphries explained that this opened the floodgates for “creativity” by the vaccine makers. They could now play with adjuvants without fear of being sued. Profits soared, and the childhood vaccine schedule expanded rapidly. That freedom also meant cutting corners in safety testing. Most people assume vaccines are tested like other drugs—with placebo controls. But that’s not the case. Instead, vaccines are actually tested against other vaccines, which obscures negative outcomes. “The few studies that exist with saline placebos show how bad the vaccine actually is and how it makes you not only not respond to the disease when it comes around, but more susceptible to it in many cases,” Dr. Humphries explained.

When the conversation turned to polio, Dr. Humphries blew just about everyone’s mind on the internet. She challenged one of the most sacred beliefs in modern medicine: that vaccines eradicated polio. The truth is that polio wasn’t actually eradicated. “Polio is still here. Polio is still alive and well,” Dr. Humphries declared. It’s just that a few sleights of hand made the world believe otherwise. The real change that happened, according to Humphries, wasn’t the vaccine’s impact—it was the definition. “Polio is called different things today,” Humphries explained. “Whereas back in the 1940s, 1950s, the criteria for diagnosing polio were completely different to the year that the vaccine was introduced. The playing field, the goalposts—everything was changed… they were able to show a complete cascading drop of paralytic polio simply because of the way they changed the definitions of what polio is and what could cause it. After the vaccine rollout, cases that would’ve been diagnosed as polio were now labeled as Guillain-Barré syndrome, coxsackievirus, echovirus, or chalked up to lead or mercury poisoning.

https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1905055665367986241

She also pointed to another key factor: environmental toxins. The rise in polio diagnoses, she said, mirrored the use of toxic chemicals like DDT. When the conversation turned to polio, Dr. Humphries blew just about everyone’s mind on the internet. She challenged one of the most sacred beliefs in modern medicine: that vaccines eradicated polio. The truth is that polio wasn’t actually eradicated. “Polio is still here. Polio is still alive and well,” Dr. Humphries declared. It’s just that a few sleights of hand made the world believe otherwise. The real change that happened, according to Humphries, wasn’t the vaccine’s impact—it was the definition. “Polio is called different things today,” Humphries explained. “Whereas back in the 1940s, 1950s, the criteria for diagnosing polio were completely different to the year that the vaccine was introduced. The playing field, the goalposts—everything was changed… they were able to show a complete cascading drop of paralytic polio simply because of the way they changed the definitions of what polio is and what could cause it.”

https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1905056072642998351

After the vaccine rollout, cases that would’ve been diagnosed as polio were now labeled as Guillain-Barré syndrome, coxsackievirus, echovirus, or chalked up to lead or mercury poisoning. She also pointed to another key factor: environmental toxins. The rise in polio diagnoses, she said, mirrored the use of toxic chemicals like DDT. As use of neurotoxic pesticides like DDT, arsenic, and lead declined, so did toxic exposures that mimicked polio symptoms. Fewer kids were bathing in poisons that caused spinal nerve damage, so naturally, paralysis decreased. “The tonnage of production of DDT absolutely mirrored the diagnosis for polio,” Dr. Humphries explained. Even today, she added, “The countries that still make DDT… are where we’re still seeing this paralytic polio situation happen.”

And when it comes to the poliovirus itself? It’s not quite as harmful as people think. Humphries explained that polio is actually a “commensal”—a virus that lives in most people without causing harm. “95 to 99% of all polio is asymptomatic.” Dr. Humphries described a study of the Javante Indians, where “98 to 99% of every person they tested… had evidence of immunity to all three strains of polio,” yet none of the children were crippled. “They were like, ‘We don’t have any of that problem,’” she recalled. Dr. Humphries also cited a chilling story in history. In 1916, a Rockefeller lab in Manhattan set out with “the specific stated goal… to try to create the most pathological, neuropathological strain of polio possible.” Researchers injected monkey brains and human spinal fluid into monkeys.

And that experimentation came with devastating consequences. “There was a big problem with that, which was [polio] released into the public by accident,” Dr. Humphries explained. “And the world experienced the worst polio epidemic on record. 25% mortality.” In short, Humphries argued that polio didn’t vanish because of vaccines. It disappeared under a mountain of redefinitions, environmental triggers, manmade disasters, and a lot of propaganda. Dr. Humphries also raised concerns about a link between vaccines and food allergies. “It’s very well known that the vaccines that have aluminum in them skew the immune system,” she said. Aluminum is added to many vaccines to make the immune system react more strongly. But when that reaction happens, the immune system can mistakenly target other things in the body, like food proteins.

For example, if a baby is exposed to something like peanuts or eggs around the time of vaccination, the immune system might mistakenly tag those foods as threats, potentially leading to a long-term food allergy. “So that’s kind of the paradox there [with vaccines],” Dr. Humphries explained. And then there’s mercury. Did you know that if a mercury-containing vaccine drops on the floor, “the HAZMAT people have to come and take that away”? Yet we inject it into 3-month-old babies.

https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1905056642837643586

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    David Hockney A Bigger Splash 1967   • How Donald Trump Is Reshaping America in Just 7 Weeks (Victor Davis Hanson) • It Wasn’t a Leak, It Was a D
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 30 2025]

    #185183
    tboc
    Participant

    Final day of Ramadan 1446 (2025)

    It is indeed quite a priviledge to have the ability to consider the one who knows enough is enough will always have enough
    and the insight to ask
    What profit?

    #185184
    Topcat
    Participant

    “Everything you’ve been told is a lie—especially when it comes to polio.”

    I would add that includes Religion.

    All religions.

    All the worlds religions, without exception are Lies, Lies, Lies…..Gaslighting…”god” is ‘omnipotent’.. but it’s always your fault whatever goes wrong.

    Pure ‘divine’ hypocrisy.

    Everything you think you know is a Big Fat Lie.

    Always has been.

    Musk points out the birth rate is cratering, Korea in three generations will be 3 to 4% of what it is now. Just simple math.

    Big yawn from TAE and the rest of ‘humanity’.

    This has been brought up over the years at TAE, whatever, what’s for lunch!

    Squirrels!

    At least Musk is doing his part reproduction wise with nine kids.

    The rest of humanity are sad losers.

    Yoa Humans, don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way off the late great planet Earth

    Choke on it losers…..

    .

    #185185
    John Day
    Participant

    tboc elucidated: “Baconian empiricism and the Standard Model do not describe reality as well as The Eight Fold Path.”

    DBS explained: “I think I can summarize a small but remarkable later segment of the long series of escapades and strange occurrences you asked about (1973 is WAY late in the sequence of remarkable events) by briefly but accurately reporting the following:
    In 1973 a mental patient named Paul (and he belonged under care) was evicted without notice from the secure wing of the Missouri Institute of Psychiatry (MIP), where he had spent the past 20 years of his life as a consequence of being found not guilty by reason of insanity, for blowing something up. He was a model patient, so many of those years were spent as a sort of unofficial Trustee Janitor at the Institute where he had free access to all of the Doctors offices, mail, file cabinets and trash bins. He kept himself busy rummaging through their stuff and after decades at it he had collected many boxes of hard evidence proof that the Institute had been doing illegal human trials of experimental psychotropic drugs on the institutes inmate patients.

    It had all been done in exchange for lots of money from Big Pharma companies like Squibb, LaRoche and Geigy. When they dumped Paul, penniless, onto the streets it pissed him off and he sought vengeance so he took the documents to the Rev Fredrick M Rock (Scientologist) who turned the AMAZINGLY well documented crimes into a front page scandal that rocked St Louis for weeks and soon spread to other cities.

    I was Fred’s assistant, and flogged the story everywhere. It went viral, and the head of CIA at the time (Bill Colby) came to St Louis, personally and spent days in closed meetings with various St Louis big shots to squelch the story and silence Fred. Colby accomplished that objective locally using the St Louis newspapers, TV Stations and business organizations, but by then it was too late. The story had already spread, and the CIA involvement became known. It turned out that the MIP drug experiments were a tiny but well documented part of the now infamous CIA MK Programs. MK stands for Mind Kontrol. The term is slightly Germanized because the perpetrators were WW2 vintage Nazi’s. Eventually the spreading prairie fire ignited the Senator Frank Church Hearings into CIA, and the rest is history.

    Many, if not most, of the still escalating crises today had their beginnings in the expose’ that Fred, Paul and little old me lit back then in 1973, because that was when the CIA started to actually lose control of the secrecy and consequently the narrative. I’ve often wondered why those guys never bothered to shoot Fred or go after me. Too inconsequential to make a difference, I suppose, but I still wonder.”

    Yay Paul!
    Yay DBS!

    #185186
    those darned kids
    Participant

    did the lady with rogan talk about the sv40 contamination in the polio shots?

    these people already knew of the oncological dangers of this nonsense, so they did it again with the mrna poison.

    good thing the fda is fast tracking more mrna and mr kennedy is continuing prep act uea protections until 2029.

    See What YOU CAN DO With MY HEALTHBLASCHTER , FRUIT LOOPS! MWAHAHAHAHA!

    #185187
    zerosum
    Participant

    Perspective.
    How/words are used to say/explain Problem #1 and keep the ruled population from objecting.

    Government over spending
    Spending money you ain’t got
    Leveraged
    Deficit spending

    Hidden detail.

    “Lies and deceit” both refer to acts of misleading or deceiving others, with “lies” specifically involving false statements, while “deceit” encompasses a broader range of misleading behaviors, including omissions and misrepresentations.
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    • xAI & X Merger Defuses Musk’s Tesla Share Liquidation Risk (ZH)

    Pressure from a coordinated NGO-driven color revolution known as “Tesla Takedown,” aimed at crashing the stock to trigger loan repayment obligations tied to Musk’s pledged equity.
    In short, volatility in Tesla shares left Musk heavily exposed to potential loan repayment thresholds being triggered – which was set to occur at or below $114 according to reports – until now.
    ———–

    We hear about what Elon Musk is doing.

    a vast unreported siphoning off of hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions, to favorable and mostly left-wing entities, both abroad and here in the United States.
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    • The Best Response For Developing Countries To US Tariffs: Sell US Debt (Proud)
    Rather than fighting back with reciprocal tariffs, developing countries should sell off U.S. debt.

    ———
    the “system” is broken.

    • Trump Puts the System on Trial (RCW)

    For decades, politicians failed to respond to real problems because their agendas, even their identities, were phony, crafted by consultants and pollsters who aimed not for the truth, but for whichever lies or provocations were most efficacious in winning the next election.
    But one need not resort to craven and conspiratorial explanations of this sort, which hint that elected officials deliberately ignore the public will.
    The truth is simpler.
    They have to ignore voters, if only because they have no idea how to fix the problems we face.
    In one sense, the elites’ ineptitude is understandable: we have a highly complex society that has undergone a recent, rapid, destabilization brought on by technological advance.
    But to admit that they simply don’t know how to address any contemporary issue would be to concede that it is only their mere status as “elites” that qualifies them to rule.

    Thus, to conceal their befuddlement, they explain their inaction by a vague demand that we address the “root causes” of every issue – which further justifies them in doing nothing.
    The bad faith inherent to the “root causes” strategy was nowhere more obvious than at the border.
    For years, establishment voices told us that border security measures would fail without addressing the “root causes” of the problem: central American poverty and climate change.
    These appeals allowed the political class to avoid doing what they didn’t want to do (securing the border) and to manufacture a duty to do the things they did want to do (diverting American revenue to foreign aid “relief programs” and enacting more restrictive environmental policies).
    Aside from those interventions, they assured us, there was nothing we could do about the illegal immigration crisis.
    ———-

    Illegal Immigration
    But it’s a revolutionary achievement. There’s nobody going across the border illegally, or at least, it’s statistically insignificant. (Just like the northern border with Canada.)
    ———-
    This is about blaming Iran.
    • It Wasn’t a Leak, It Was a Devious “Charlie Foxtrot” (Larry Johnson)

    (Charlie Foxtrot is a polite euphemism for a crude military term — Clusterfuck. )

    But it appears that everyone was supportive of the proposed operation.

    A lifetime opportunity to view and report on high level discussions on the US launching an illegal war on Yemen.
    The only force on the planet taking up arms to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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    • The EU Wants to Use War as an Excuse for More Debt (Andreen)

    Therefore, what the EU elite has in mind now is likely to put in place what F. Merz said; a strategic independence from the US through a huge investment by joint EU bonds, released and used over the long term in order to slowly build up Europe’s industry, not only in the defense sector but also in other sectors.
    In a sense, this would-be debt plan is just the European Union emulating the United States playbook of using war for crony capitalist benefits, finally “understanding” how to cynically exploit the Ukraine war, just as the US has been doing since 2022 by feeding its military-industrial complex.
    But, in order for this to happen, the war must not end too soon for the European elite, which is why efforts are made in order to—outrageously—spoil any US peace plans and get the war to continue for now.
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    All of a sudden, everybody knows Dr. Suzanne Humphries. Her X followers went from a few hundred to 62,000 overnight.

    • Joe Rogan Guest Completely Shatters the Vaccine Narrative (VF)

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    #185188
    John Day
    Participant

    Banker’s Wars https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/bankers-wars

    European banking needs war with Russia to justify debt-relief. The US Will Struggle To Get Europe To Abide By Putin’s Demand To Stop Arming Ukraine
    Andrew Korybko, A compromise is possible whereby the Europeans are pressured by the US into stockpiling their Ukrainian-destined arms in Poland and Romania for swift shipment across the border if hostilities re-erupt sometime after a ceasefire, armistice, or peace treaty is agreed to.​ Poland, Romania, and the Black Sea in descending order serve as the entry points for foreign weapons into Ukraine, none of which the US has full control over. It jointly operates the Rzeszow logistics hub in southeastern Poland through which an estimated 90-95% of all weapons to Ukraine pass but this facility can continue functioning even if the US pulls out. The situation is similar with Romania’s newly built “Moldova Highway” for facilitating the shipment of arms from Greek ports to Ukraine.​ The US military only jointly operates local port facilities in Alexandroupolis while having no direct influence over the “Moldova Highway”​ https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-us-will-struggle-to-get-europe

    ​ W​orking for their Bankers in Paris and the City of London: Macron and Starmer’s coalition of the killing amid Europe’s insane war footing
    If there were a prize for Orwellian-named conferences, then the one held this week in Paris would surely be a top contender.​..
    ​..Some 30 nations attended the latest Paris summit, convened by France’s Emmanuel Macron, and entitled “Building a Robust Peace for Ukraine and Europe”.​..
    ​..Europe is being gaslighted to view war as peace and accept that all economic resources must be dedicated to militarism.​..This week, the EU began urging citizens to stockpile emergency rations in their homes. Russia was not explicitly invoked as a threat, but it was palpably obvious that fear of war was being inculcated. While European states are slashing billions in social welfare, their elitist, Russophobic leaders are ramping up billions for militarism. Europe is on a war footing based on paranoia and the pathological fears of a ruling clique.
    ​ Macron and Starmer are also pushing the idea of integrating Ukraine into a first line of defense against alleged future Russian aggression toward Europe. In reality, this is about reconfiguring offense.
    ​ Their pretensions of “building a robust peace for Ukraine and Europe” are a reckless gambit to prolong the war. At its worst, the conflict could explode into an all-out world war.​ https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/03/28/macron-starmer-coalition-of-killing-amid-europe-insane-war-footing/

    ​Crash it: The EU Wants to Use War as an Excuse for More Debt​ https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/03/28/eu-wants-use-war-as-excuse-for-more-debt/

    ​ Russia Says UK & France Behind Latest Attack On Its Energy Infrastructure
    ​ T​here’s been another reported attack on the Sudzha pipeline infrastructure in Russia’s Kursk Region on Friday. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova conveyed to journalists a Russian military assessment saying a metering facility was “de facto destroyed” in a Ukrainian HIMARS attack.
    ​ But unlike some of the prior Ukrainian attacks on the area, the Kremlin is directly blaming the West, going to far as to say that orders for the new strike came directly from European capitals.
    ​ We “have reasons to believe that targeting and navigation were facilitated through French satellites and British specialists input [target] coordinates and launched [the missiles],” Zakharova said, as cited in national media.
    ​ “The command came from London,” she emphasized, describing it as part of a West-backed “terror” campaign meant to degrade and destroy Russia’s energy infrastructure.​ The Kremlin has concluded this demonstrates that Kiev is “impossible to negotiate with,” she explained.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-says-uk-france-behind-latest-attack-its-energy-infrastructure

    #185189
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Paranoia rebranded: The EU is desperate to sell its people more Ukraine war
    Peacekeepers are now a “reassurance force”, rearming is now “readiness”, and citizens should stock up on emergency supplies​ https://swentr.site/news/614919-eu-ukraine-war-rebranding/

    EU Publishes Delusional 72 Hour Bug Out Bag Video In Preparation For War​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/eu-publishes-delusional-72-hour-bug-out-bag-video-preparation-war

    ​ Trump ‘contemptuous’ of Zelensky – The Times
    The US president wants Ukraine to repay all of Washington’s aid with interest, Hugh Tomlinson has said​ https://swentr.site/news/614926-trump-contemptuous-zelensky-times/

    ​ “We Will Not Allow It”: Zelensky Rejects New Mineral Draft That Would Recognize US Support As Loans
    ​”Ukraine received a new agreement project from the U.S. regarding mineral resources, which is an entirely different document from the previous framework agreement,” said Zelensky, adding “Ukraine will not recognize U.S. military aid as debt.”
    ​ “We are grateful for the support, but this is not a credit, and we will not allow it,” Zelensky continued.
    The Ukrainian president also said that they are unwilling to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin “or with someone who would represent Russia”​ [of which he accused Steve Witkoff]. ​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/zelensky-rejects-new-mineral-draft-would-recognize-us-support-loans

    ​ Big Serge makes the case that diplomatic compromise will be impossible. Ukraine: Fighting to the Conclusion​ Russo-Ukrainian War, Spring 2025
    ​ Many might hope for an abrupt course change on the war, or at least a revision of the American position. On the ground, however, things continue much as they have, with the Russians grinding forward along a sprawling front. The infantryman entrenched near Pokrovsk, listening for the whirring of drones overhead, could be forgiven for not feeling that much has changed at all.
    ​ I have never made any bones about my belief that the war in Ukraine will be resolved militarily: that is, it will be fought to its conclusion and end in the defeat of Ukraine in the east, Russian control of vast swathes of the country, and the subordination of a rump Ukraine to Russian interests. Trump’s self conception is greatly tied up in his image as a “dealmaker”, and his view of foreign affairs as fundamentally transactional in nature. As the American president, he has the power to force this framing on Ukraine, but not on Russia. There remain intractable gulfs between Russia’s war aims and what Kiev is willing to discuss, and it is doubtful that Trump will be able to reconcile these differences. Russia, however, does not need to accept a partial victory simply in the name of goodwill and negotiation. Moscow has recourse to a more primal form of power.​..
    ..So long as Zelensky’s government continues to receive western support and the AFU remains in the field – even if it is being steadily rolled back and chewed up all along the front – it is difficult to imagine Kiev acceding to an anticipatory surrender. Ukraine must choose between doing this the easy way and the hard way, as the parlance goes, but this is not really a choice at all, particularly given the Kremlin’s insistence that a change of government in Kiev is a prerequisite to peace as such. Any successful path to a negotiated piece runs through the ruins of Zelensky’s government, and is therefore largely precluded at the moment.​ https://bigserge.substack.com/p/ukraine-fighting-to-the-conclusion

    #185190
    John Day
    Participant

    Kremlin Blasts EU For ‘Not Wanting Peace’ As It Refuses To Ease Sanctions
    Moscow has blasted the European Union’s declaration that it will not lift sanctions on Russia in the context of the US-backed Black Sea ceasefire deal. The Russian side has made clear that for the deal to be implemented the West must remove sanctions from the state-owned Rosselkhozbank as a precondition​. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kremlin-blasts-eu-not-wanting-peace-it-refuses-ease-sanctions

    Russia unveils laser rifle to combat drones at 500 meters​ https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2025/03/28/russia-unveils-laser-rifle-to-combat-drones-at-500-meters/#google_vignette

    ​ Meloni backs Vance’s attack on EU
    ​ In a keynote address at the annual Munich Security Conference, Vance charged that the UK and several EU nations are failing to uphold free speech and democratic principles.
    ​ “I have to say I agree,” Meloni told Financial Times. “I’ve been saying this for years… Europe has a bit lost itself.” She added that ​she believed the vice president’s ire was directed at a “ruling class,” that imposes its ideology on ordinary citizens.​ https://swentr.site/news/614904-meloni-vance-western-values/

    ​ Putin says US ‘serious’ about Greenland at Arctic conference
    ​ “We are talking about serious plans on the American side with regard to Greenland. These plans have long-standing historical roots,” Putin said on Thursday at the International Arctic Forum in Murmansk.
    ​ “It is obvious that the US will continue to systematically force its geopolitical, military and economic interests on the Arctic,” he added.
    ​ Just one day earlier, Trump reiterated his desire to take control of the semi-autonomous Danish territory, saying, “I think we’ll go as far as we have to go. We need Greenland and the world needs us to have Greenland, including Denmark.”​ https://www.dw.com/en/putin-says-us-serious-about-greenland-at-arctic-conference/a-72064324

    ​ Vance delivers Trump’s ‘message’ to US troops in Greenland
    The vice president has defended the US commander-in-chief’s plan to bring the “extremely vulnerable” Arctic island under American “protection”​ https://swentr.site/news/614927-us-greenland-vance-visit/

    #185191
    John Day
    Participant

    Frosty response to US Vice President Vance’s Greenland trip
    ​ The election result is primarily seen as a sign that the majority of Greenlanders want independence from Denmark. Greenland has been autonomous in many areas since 1979. However, the island’s former colonial power still decides on foreign and defense policy. In view of human rights violations committed against the Inuit in the past, many Greenlanders are keen to finally break ties with Denmark.
    ​ Still, nobody knows if an independent Greenland could survive economically. Every year, Copenhagen transfers the equivalent of around €550 million ($592 million) to the island, which makes up around a third of its budget.
    ​ Despite these issues, very few people are in favor of Greenland becoming part of the USA. According to a survey conducted by the Danish newspaper Berlingske and the Greenlandic newspaper Sermitsiaq at the end of January, 85 % of Greenlanders were against the USA taking over their island.
    ​ Greenlandic member of the Danish parliament, Aaja Chemnitz, also aired criticism on Facebook: “It is clear that the Trump camp does not respect our right to self-determination without outside interference,” she wrote.​ https://www.dw.com/en/frosty-response-to-us-vice-president-vances-greenland-trip/a-72058086

    ​ USA and Russia discuss commissioning of Nord Stream without the EU
    Russia and the US are apparently discussing pumping Russian gas to Europe again through Nord Stream. The EU is not present at the talks and is reacting with dismay.​ https://anti–spiegel-ru.translate.goog/2025/usa-und-russland-sprechen-ohne-die-eu-ueber-die-inbetriebnahme-von-nord-stream/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

    Europe Waves The White Flag: EU Prepares “Term Sheet Of Concessions” For Trump Trade War​ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/europe-waves-white-flag-eu-prepares-term-sheet-concessions-trump-trade-war

    Panama Canal Deal Derailed After Beijing Launches Antitrust Probe​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ck-hutchison-deal-derailed-after-ccp-beijing-launch-antitrust-probe

    SpaceX Offers Starlink To Myanmar, Thailand After 1000 Dead In Massive Earthquake​ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/spacex-offers-starlink-myanmar-thailand-after-1000-dead-massive-earthquake

    #185192
    John Day
    Participant

    ​This is called “national interests”​: US VP JD Vance Admits West Wants Global South Trapped at Bottom of Value Chain​ https://scheerpost.com/2025/03/27/us-vp-jd-vance-admits-west-wants-global-south-trapped-at-bottom-of-value-chain/

    ​ The Tesla dealer near us, that had firebombs last week, had 100 protesters yesterday. ​Auto Tariffs Disrupt Industry, Higher prices and Job Losses Loom
    Tesla is the obvious global retaliation against Trump’s auto tariffs.​ And EV completion everywhere is increasing.​ https://mishtalk.com/economics/auto-tariffs-disrupt-industry-higher-prices-and-job-losses-loom/

    ​ They make Toyota trucks near San Antonio. Japanese Carmakers Face Catastrophic Profit Hit From Trump’s Auto Tariffs
    Ford could also face a less-severe impact than some rivals, with about 80% of the cars it sells in the US being built domestically.
    ​ Others will be less lucky: starting April 2, the new 25% tariffs will apply to all imported passenger vehicles and light trucks, as well as key parts like engines, transmissions.
    ​ Not surprisingly, the tariffs give automakers that heavily source parts in the US an edge, and Trump also allowed an exemption: the new levies will only apply to the non-US share of vehicles and parts imported under a free-trade agreement with Canada and Mexico.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/japanese-carmakers-face-catastrophic-profit-hit-trumps-auto-tariffs

    ​ Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a blistering speech on Thursday, declaring that the era of deep economic, security and military ties with the United States “is over,” after President Donald Trump announced steep auto tariffs of 25% on imports into the United States – which could affect an estimated 500,000 jobs in the Canadian auto industry.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-carney-says-nothing-table-era-close-ties-us-over-delays-tariff-retaliation

    ​ Trump Says Call With Carney “Extremely Productive”, Says They Will Meet After Election
    Carney has not yet commented on the call, and no readout has been issued by the Prime Minister’s Office.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-says-call-carney-extremely-productive-says-they-will-meet-after-election

    #185193
    John Day
    Participant

    Huge factories are needed. Experienced workers are critical. US Office Focused On Shipbuilding Aims To Counter China’s Maritime Dominance https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-office-focused-shipbuilding-aims-counter-chinas-maritime-dominance

    Caitlin Johnstone, notes: Trump Supporters Can No Longer Say Trump Never Started A War https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/trump-supporters-can-no-longer-say

    Caitlin references Tulsi Gabbard’s description of Trump: The “President Of Peace” Just Bombed Yemen 65 Times In 24 Hours https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-president-of-peace-just-bombed

    ​ From JFK to Donald Trump: How the USA Became Wedded to Zionist Israel
    ​Unknown to many people today, JFK supported Palestinian rights and sought a sustainable peace in the region.
    ​ In 1960, when JFK was campaigning to be president, he spoke at the convention of the Zionists of America. In his speech, Kennedy was complimentary about Israel but frankly said, “I cannot believe that Israel has any real desire to remain indefinitely a garrison state surrounded by fear and hate.” That warning, issued when Israel had only existed for 12 years, was ignored.
    ​ Kennedy did not just issue warnings. To the chagrin of the Israelis, JFK established friendly relations with Egypt’s President Nasser. The Kennedy administration provided loans and aid to Egypt.
    ​ The JFK administration supported UN resolution 194 which called for the right of return for Palestinian refugees driven out of their homeland. Although Israel committed to abide by UN resolutions when it was admitted to the United Nations in 1949, the Israelis reneged on this commitment and were hostile to the resolution. The day before JFK was assassinated, the New York Times reported (p 19), “Israel Dissents as U.N. Group Backs U.S. on Arab Refugees” and “U.S. Stand Angers Israel.”…
    ​..John Kennedy’s brother Robert was Attorney General and headed the Department of Justice. For two years, up until the end of 1963, the DOJ made increasingly strict demands that the American Zionist Council (AZC) register as agents of a foreign country. In response, the AZC stalled, delayed, and created the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
    ​ The most intense disagreement between Tel Aviv and Washington was regarding the nuclear site under construction at Dimona. JFK was intent on stopping the expansion of countries which possessed nuclear weapons. Although Israeli Prime Minister Ben-Gurion said the nuclear site was for peaceful purposes, JFK insisted that the US needed to inspect and confirm this. The inspection deadline was December 1963.
    ​ In each of these four areas of contention, US policy changed dramatically after JFK was assassinated and Lyndon Johnson became president. Dimona was never properly inspected, and LBJ did not object to Israeli acquisition of nuclear weapons. The demand that the American Zionist Council register as an agent of a foreign country was dropped.​ https://original.antiwar.com/rick_sterling/2025/03/27/from-jfk-to-donald-trump-how-the-usa-became-wedded-to-zionist-israel/

    ​ NBC Has Film Proving Oswald ‘Couldn’t Have Been The Shooter,’ GOP Rep Claims
    ​ Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna made the jarring allegation in an interview with Jesse Watters on Fox News. Luna is chairwoman of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, a subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform… “NBC actually has a video that’s never been seen before. We’re actually going to be sending a letter requesting that from NBC because it allegedly shows Oswald near the vehicle when the assassination took place, which means that he couldn’t have been the shooter.”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nbc-has-film-proving-oswald-couldnt-have-been-shooter-gop-rep-claims

    #185194
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie Introduces ‘Dual Loyalty Disclosure Act’
    ​ Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie, a noted AIPAC critic, on Wednesday introduced the “Dual Loyalty Disclosure Act” to “require candidates for federal office to disclose both their possession of dual citizenship and also the foreign country in which their dual citizenship is held.”​ https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64889

    ​ Federal Judge Blocks Deportation Of Tufts University Student Detained By ICE
    ​ “To allow the Court’s resolution of its jurisdiction to decide the Petition, Ozturk shall not be removed from the United States until further Order of this Court,” the judge stated.
    ​ The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has accused Ozturk of “engaging in activities in support of Hamas,” a U.S.-designated Palestinian terrorist group that launched the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/federal-judge-blocks-deportation-tufts-university-student-detained-ice

    ​ Israel refuses Egypt proposal for Gaza ceasefire
    Israel is intensifying air strikes on Rafah and surrounding areas near the border with Egypt in an apparent effort to force the displacement of Palestinian residents from southern Gaza. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has rejected all recent ceasefire proposals put forward by Cairo, including a truce initiative that Hamas accepted, as well as a proposal for calm during the Eid holiday.​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250327-report-israel-refuses-egypt-proposal-for-gaza-ceasefire/

    ​ Israeli Strikes on Gaza Kill 38 More Palestinians Over 24 Hours
    Gaza’s Health Ministry said at least 830 have been killed since Israel restarted its full-scale bombing campaign last week​ https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/26/israeli-strikes-on-gaza-kill-38-more-palestinians-over-24-hours/

    4,500 amputations, including 800 children, 540 women, in Gaza Strip​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250327-4500-amputations-including-800-children-540-women-in-gaza-strip/

    #185195
    John Day
    Participant

    Israel kills 103 Gazans, injures 223 others every day: Rights group​ https://www.yenisafak.com/en/world/israel-kills-103-gazans-injures-223-others-every-day-rights-group-3700299

    Israeli Strikes On Beirut Unleash Panic In First Attacks Since November Truce​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israeli-strikes-beirut-unleash-panic-first-attacks-november-truce

    ​ Israeli forces kill two Lebanese in drone strike​ The drone strike targeted a car in southern Lebanon, violating the ceasefire deal despite the Lebanese side’s complete adherence to the agreement so far.​ https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-army-kills-two-lebanese-in-drone-strike

    17-year-old Palestinian dies in Israeli prison infamous for torture​ https://trt.global/world/article/67c8534e0286

    How Berlin police marked International Women’s Day by beating women who stood up for Palestine​ https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/how-berlin-police-marked-international-women-s-day-by-beatin

    #185196
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ “Content Agnostic”: EU Official Denies Anti-Free Speech Policies In Bizarre Letter To Congress
    ​(House Judiciary Chairman Jim) Jordan correctly raised the concern that the DSA could “limit or restrict Americans” constitutionally protected speech in the United States by compelling platforms to crack down on what the EU considers “misleading or deceptive” speech.
    ​ In her response, Virkkunen bizarrely describes the DSA as “content-agnostic” while insisting that the DSA “applies exclusively within the European Union.”
    ​ That is not what EU officials previously said or what the law itself allows. Articles 34 and 35 of the DSA require all sites to identify, assess, and mitigate “systemic risks” posed by content, including any threats to “civic discourse”, “electoral processes,” and “public health.” It is up to the EU to define and judge such categories in terms of compliance.
    ​ The act bars speech that is viewed as “disinformation” or “incitement.” European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager celebrated its passage by declaring that it is “not a slogan anymore, that what is illegal offline should also be seen and dealt with as illegal online. Now it is a real thing. Democracy’s back.”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/content-agnostic-eu-official-denies-anti-free-speech-policies-bizarre-letter-congress

    USAID Officially Shuttered After Court Victory​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doge-win-judge-rules-musk-can-resume-dismantling-usaid

    ​ xAI & X Merger Defuses Musk’s Tesla Share Liquidation Risk
    ​ Elon Musk secured a multibillion-dollar margin loan using Tesla stock as collateral to finance his acquisition of Twitter (now rebranded as X). In recent months, Tesla’s share price has been cut in half due to a confluence of factors—slowing EV demand amid high interest rates, shifting electric vehicle policies under the Trump administration, market volatility driven by trade tensions, and pressure from a coordinated NGO-driven color revolution known as “Tesla Takedown,” aimed at crashing the stock to trigger loan repayment obligations tied to Musk’s pledged equity.​ In short, volatility in Tesla shares left Musk heavily exposed to potential loan repayment thresholds being triggered – which was set to occur at or below $114.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/did-musks-xai-x-merger-neutralize-tesla-takedown-color-revolution

    Communist Revolutionary Arrested In Connection With Vegas Tesla Firebombing Attack​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/communist-revolutionary-arrested-vegas-tesla-firebombing-attack

    Millionaire Fitness Coach Charged For Keying Tesla In Washington​ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/millionaire-fitness-coach-charged-keying-tesla-washington

    #185197
    John Day
    Participant

    Nancy Pelosi Refuses to Condemn Domestic Terror Attacks on Teslas, Dealerships​ https://conservativefiringline.com/video-of-the-day-nancy-pelosi-refuses-to-condemn-domestic-terror-attacks-on-teslas-dealerships/

    ​ Fmr. GOP lawmaker sentenced for traveling to Europe to ‘sexually exploit children’
    Former North Dakota State Senator Raymon “Ray” Everett Holmberg, a Republican, was sentenced on Wednesday to 10 years in prison after repeatedly traveling to Europe and paying to “sexually exploit children.”​
    ​ In a Wednesday press release, the U.S. Department for Justice announced that court documents showed the 81-year-old lawmaker traveled to Prague in the Czech Republic roughly 14 times between 2011 and 2021. During the former lawmaker’s trips, Holmberg “paid for sex acts with boys” while staying at a brothel that “catered to men looking to engage in commercial sex with adolescent boys.”​ https://americanmilitarynews.com/2025/03/fmr-gop-lawmaker-sentenced-for-traveling-to-europe-to-sexually-exploit-children/

    ​ FBI whistleblowers, including one with info on Strzok, want bureau to review their cases
    FBI agents lost their security clearances and jobs after blowing the whistle on the Biden-era and Chris Wray-led bureau. Now their lawyers are asking the Trump FBI, led by Kash Patel, to address their complaints.​ https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/fbi-whistleblowers-including-one-info-strzok-want-bureau-review-their

    “Reducing Bureaucratic Sprawl”: RFK Jr. Cuts 10,000 Jobs From Health & Human Services Department​ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/major-restructuring-rfk-jr-may-cut-10000-health-jobs

    Utah Becomes First State to Ban Fluoride in Public Drinking Water​ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/utah-becomes-first-state-ban-fluoride-public-drinking-water/

    #185198
    John Day
    Participant

    When and how much to vaccinate your kids was​ once just a decision, not a religion. Joe Rogan Guest Completely Shatters the Vaccine Narrative​ Dr. Humphries pulled back the curtain on decades of deception, starting with a major turning point in 1986—when President Reagan signed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act into law.
    ​ Before that, vaccine manufacturers were getting hammered with lawsuits. Humphries explained that after the 1976 swine flu vaccine disaster, Guillain-Barré cases were piling up. It got so bad that the companies couldn’t even get insurance.
    ​ They ran to the government and basically said: “Bail us out, or we’re done making vaccines.” So the government stepped in. First, it agreed to cover the lawsuits. Then came the 1986 law—sold to the public as a way to help injured families get compensation faster, but in reality, it became a kangaroo court system that rarely paid families deserving of vaccine injury claims.
    ​ Companies like Wyeth (now Pfizer) admitted their vaccines were “unavoidably unsafe,” yet instead of making them safer, they were handed blanket immunity.​ https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/joe-rogan-guest-completely-shatters

    ​ ‘Long-overdue Crack in the Dam’: RFK Jr. to Create CDC Sub-agency Focused on Vaccine Injuries
    Vaccine safety advocates hailed HHS Secretary Kennedy’s plan to create an agency within the CDC focused on vaccine injuries and also long COVID and Lyme disease. In an interview with Chris Cuomo, Kennedy also revealed that when he asked an HHS agency for patient data, he was told he’d have to purchase it.​ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-hhs-secretary-cdc-sub-agency-vaccine-injuries/

    ​ Vaccine Guru Peter Marks Resigns From FDA
    FDA Director of Biologics Evaluation and Research writes vaccine catechism resignation letter after purportedly being told to beat it.​ https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/vaccine-guru-peter-marks-resigns

    ​ Moringa: Reducing Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) and Tumorigenic Cytokines
    In addition to inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 replication, Moringa (MOL) may ameliorate the Spike Protein’s carcinogenic and fibrotic abilities.​ https://wmcresearch.substack.com/p/friday-hope-moringa-reducing-epithelial

    #185199
    John Day
    Participant

    ​Known since the late 1970s: Exercise Boosts Brain Function Across All Ages, Massive Study Confirms​ https://www.sciencealert.com/exercise-boosts-brain-function-across-all-ages-massive-study-confirms

    New data reveals US food companies’ biggest fear is Americans wanting to be ‘healthy​ https://revolver.news/2025/03/new-data-reveals-us-food-companies-biggest-fear-is-americans-wanting-to-be-healthy/

    ​Kyle Young, It’s Time to Talk About Flying on Commercial Airlines https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/its-time-to-talk-about-flying-on

    With nano-aluminum, which burns to Aluminum oxides, like in chemtrails. Hybrid-organic metallized jet fuel https://techlinkcenter.org/technologies/hybrid-organic-metallized-jet-fuel/348f38b6-f5d4-4ed8-8bf8-f7b14f4860ac

    #185200
    those darned kids
    Participant

    nano aluminum for freedom!

    #185201
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    “Yay”??

    Small correction:

      “They come off as a platoon of newbie nitwits. Run by Israel. “

    Should be:

      Vance comes off as a platoon newbie Yale, inexplicably, guy run by Israel

    JD combat Correspondent E-4 ((at least he showed some self-deprecating humor about it at Quantico recently let local howling commence)) was and is far more the embodiment of “platoon newbie” than the bonafides Hamel Vance sees brought to the table by Waltz. Every, Single, Day.

    Ouch!
    Narcissistic Injury stings.

    So it’s Palace Intrigue 101.
    No more no less
    Before today None of those ppl were loyal to Trump remotely to the degree Rudolph Giuliani, Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell showed pre and post January 6th
    Look how the the Great Man rewarded them for a commitment that should never be confused with JD Vance BLANTON Bowman Hamel brand of Fealty.
    Or as acknowledged on these electronic pages, Miriam Adelson’s money and that of Israel but never a Jewish Our People MAKE the difference.

    Money to Trump means more than substantive bite

    JD’s ego can’t stand the internal comparison with Waltz……among others.

    Fecklessness Forme Fruste in gentle action:


      Vice President J.D. Vance and other senior officials “gently offered” President Donald Trump to fire National Security Adviser Mike Waltz during a private discussion about the blunder in…
      Vance charged that the UK and several EU nations are failing to uphold free speech and democratic principles. because UK and EU have arrested more ppl and taken more folk off the street than Marco Rubio the SoS has for anyone supporting Palestine and criticizing Israel and Our People

    Wtf is JD smoking?

    Unctuousness for lunch anyone?


      f you think we should do it let’s go. I just hate bailing Europe out again.” “I will say a prayer for victory,” Vance wrote

    Why do these ppl attach so much weight, the gravity of Sun’s worth of value to fealty and its lesser horse of the Apocalypse unctuousess when these behaviors amount to nothing?
    I mean JD gets away with it because that’s his schtick, as D would say, raison d’etre and Peter Thiel handsomely rewards him for it

    #185202
    zerosum
    Participant

    Embedded Israel journalist breaks rank and tells all.

    #185203
    those darned kids
    Participant

    i wonder if they’ll put up a statues of prime minister vance and president trump in sa’ana

    like they did for mr clinton in pristina.

    #185204
    zerosum
    Participant

    Critical thinking is not necessary to find the escape words.
    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/zelenskyy-orders-election-planning-after-full-ceasefire-eyes-july-2025-the-economist/ar-AA1BWSy0?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=dbb258c459f042ab812959f6da61c995&ei=30

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has instructed to organize elections

      after a full ceasefire is achieved.

    These elections could reportedly take place as early as July 2025, informs The Economist.

    Government sources revealed that last week, Zelenskyy convened a meeting to

      instruct his team to organize elections following a complete ceasefire.

    A Bloomberg publication also mentions that the US believes a ceasefire could be reached in Ukraine by Easter, April 20.

    The Economist writes that the first confirmation of the elections could come on the eve of, or directly on

      , May 5, the final deadline for parliament to vote on extending martial law, which expires on May 8.

    The cancellation of this provision is the first necessary step for the election process to begin.

    Opinions among sources vary regarding the exact timing, but most say that Zelenskyy is reportedly aiming for elections this summer. This is because the law requires at least 60 days for campaigning, meaning the earliest possible date for the elections would be early July.

    However, some sources state that the campaign will need to last

      three months. This is the amount of time election bodies will need to update voter rolls, as reported to parliament.
    #185205
    those darned kids
    Participant

    hey, look! i bet these places are full of ¿¡devout muslim girlfriends!? of devout muslim top missile guys ready to be excellented to freedom and democracy.

    we need F-19s for these suckers, armed with CreditorXPS* rendezvous-seeking missiles.

    *© 2025, Trumpcore Armaments, LLC and shit.

    #185206
    Just Some Randomer
    Participant

    “However, some sources state that the campaign will need to last

    three months. This is the amount of time election bodies will need to update voter rolls, as reported to parliament.”

    I suspect the voter rolls are a LOT smaller than they were in 2022 and there will consequently be huge sensitivity around that given that the official Ukr losses of 50k or thereabouts are understated by a factor of at least 20. Never mind the millions that have fled abroad.

    How can the government possibly produce an accurate voter roll without also admitting that they’ve killed a million men is pursuit of a lie?

    #185207
    Topcat
    Participant

    #185209
    Dr. D
    Participant

    bag

    Too soon? Did I call him Cheeto too early?

    According to the commetariat, that means I love him and want to have his baby.

    Article after article on Democrats loving arson, murder, firebombing, all sorts of examples by representatives, Congressmen particularly. Now this may not be Party-wide, and not nationwide, but there’s a dedicated core of mass-murderers of like +20%? And they’re getting further and further away from the Overton Window and regular Americans. But they are not from that one Named Political movement although they each and every say that they are. Ask them. “F– Capitalism” on greeting is their Zieg Heil.

    “In a newly released video from 2004, Baraka is shown applauding and embracing Farrakhan as he calls for violence and denounces White people as “demons.”
    Those “demons” compose roughly 52% of the state”

    But I’m sure they mean to deal with those demons justly, honestly, and compassionately. Like they do in South Africa.

    Federal Judge Blocks Deportation Of Tufts University Student Detained By ICE
    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has accused Ozturk of “engaging in activities in support of Hamas,”

    Again, weasel words. “In support of”, “Adjacent to”, so legally, “Support” now means you read a brochure? The other guy – and to make as much polarity as they can refuse to report it – TOOK OVER A BUILDING. I don’t know that you’d call that kidnapping or what not, but I don’t want anyone doing that to my house, and it’s clearly a crime. Let’s just say the bar for free speech is set very, very high, as high as possible.

    Second part: When they come here, it’s been the 50 year understanding that you don’t get yourself arrested, but DO have essentially equal rights to citizens. Free Speech, travel, etc. That may be a courtesy, but it makes things easier to understand: do what they other kids do. Act like an American. So you can’t one day just retroactively decide the rules are changed. Like after a 50 year break, the police come and arrest for the old sodomy laws that are still on the books.

    “Rep. Masssie Pushes For Nationwide Right To Carry Firearms Without Permit

    As totalitarian, tyrannical fascists do. Next thing you know they’ll open up their platforms for free speech!

    “EU Publishes Delusional 72 Hour Bug Out Bag Video In Preparation For War

    Just yesterday I was a terrorist for doing this. Make up your mind.

    “New German Government Wants To Ban “Lies”: The paper from the CDU and SPD indicates that “disinformation and fake news” threaten democracy…”

    That is, it’s illegal to be wrong. …So let’s arrest the NIH, WHO, ECB, CNN, BBC, all Global Warming advocates…

    “The COVID pandemic has shown that the added value of acting together in solidarity, in coordination, in the European Union …makes us more efficient, makes us stronger,”

    You know, that was not my takeaway from that. It makes YOU stronger, at our expense. What’s really happening here? They want some food to steal, but can’t afford it. So they’re going to make YOU buy it, keep it at your house, and steal it later. Watch.

    sin
    Pure poison. Don’t take it, gurl.

    ““.. it’s a revolutionary achievement. There’s nobody going across the border illegally, or at least, it’s statistically insignificant.”
    • How Donald Trump Is Reshaping America in Just 7 Weeks

    Homan is unfunded. Right now all that is voluntary, no one is really being deported. Why?

    “They come off as a platoon of newbie nitwits. Run by Israel. Not pretty.”

    They have the gravitas of high school kids cutting class. Let’s blow up some frogs.

    “But one need not resort to craven and conspiratorial explanations of this sort, which hint that elected officials deliberately ignore the public will. The truth is simpler.”

    The simpler truth is that It’s that it’s their stated GOAL. It’s not like they’re hiding it. They’ve written +100 books in +100 years saying so.

    “They have to ignore voters, if only because they have no idea how to fix the problems we face.”

    No, because FIXING it requires NOT ignoring voters, but ignoring PMC apparatchiks like themselves. Firing all of them for being a swarm, overpaid, doing nothing. Too much? What’s this quote: “”multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.” At all familiar?

    “In one sense, the elites’ ineptitude is understandable: we have a highly complex society that has undergone a recent, rapid, destabilization brought on by technological advance. But to admit that they simply don’t know how to address any contemporary issue would be to concede that it is only their mere status as “elites” that qualifies them to rule.”
    No, that’s totally false. They say THEY cannot solve it, perhaps that’s true; but that doesn’t mean it can’t be solved. They would have to ABANDON THEIR STATE RELIGION and hand back control, and Freedom, to the people. Then, as they say, they wouldn’t be “Elites” getting paid to ruin everybody’s day for sheer malicious profit.

    But don’t take my word for it, listen to far Leftist Jon Stewart and Ezra Klein: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd3AGl681Ts

    Suddenly!! Lo! A miracle happened! These EXACT policies they advocated for a lifetime, shouting down all comers as hateful bigots, making life “Safe” for everyone, safer than Dolores Umbridge, suddenly notice: What??? You can’t get anything DONE in these conditions! ZERO of the Democratic plans are even STARTED, and NONE will be finished. Ever. This one is 5 years to finish the Pre-Planning, for the PLANNING, for Maybe hooking up, one guy to the Internet. Which Comcast can do in 5 days.

    That’s that “Complex technical society” he claims here can’t possibly be solved. Funny: Comcast, Apple, seem to be able to solve it in minutes. New Hampshire can solve it in no time. Only BLUE areas and BLUE policies seem to have this problem.

    …Because the problem is the RELIGION, the paradigm of “Helping” itself. Inserting itself into the process over and over again infinitely, like a Orobouros x Tribble.

    “Thus, to conceal their befuddlement, they explain their inaction by a vague demand that we address the “root causes” of every issue – which further justifies them in doing nothing.”

    The “Root Cause” is they don’t wanna. It’s against their religion, and we can’t have a glorious eternal (mass murdering) revolution unless the people are pissed off, everyone is made desperate, and literally nothing works. Because: Capitalism, as I see said constantly. So stopping Capitalism is perfect for stopping Capitalism. We blame Capitalism whenever it’s not allowed to “Capital” enough. I mean, every day here for one. Government involved, corruption in Congress, no market discovery, competion outlawed? That’s “Capitalism” whatcanyado?

    “As President Trump threatens the world with sweeping tariffs, he is trying to change the fundamental laws of economics through force of will. He won’t succeed.”

    “Real Tariffs have never been tried.” Oh wait: they have!! And they worked just fine, thank you! Apparently “Laws of economics” doesn’t occur with 100-200 year swaths of history. “Well that was in PRACTICE that it worked, not in THEORY. Theory is where it’s important.” Acktshully.

    They are a package deal. To do this he needs all the different pillars re-installed, that were all purposefully removed one by one. That’s POSSIBLE, which is more than I can say for their economic plans.

    “That’s why the idea of a BRICS currency is so terrifying to Trump, because BRICS now accounts for 41% of the global economy by purchasing power parity.”

    There is no BRIICS currency. Doesn’t look like there will be one soon. Trump is taking measures to make it even harder for one, as he reverses the reasons to dump the US$.

    “The threat to the U.S. right now is inflation”

    As we pump oil and open Russia back to world markets. While we have $10 Trillion in prospective foreign investment lined up? While we’re cutting $2T in budget that will actually SPEED business? This guy’s talking the past here.

    “• Zelensky Is a ‘Demon’ – Ukrainian MP (RT)

    As you know the good from the bad, the Bad can never, ever, ever, just leave people alone. It’s possible to suffer from neglect, but boy is it a lot harder and easier to take.

    “• EU To Reject Russia-US Black Sea Deal – von der Leyen (RT)

    Effortlessly making Trump’s point that they don’t want peace and we must leave. Never stop, kids.

    “• The EU Wants to Use War as an Excuse for More Debt (Andreen)

    As this, and how about that England? $1B/mo for Ukraine, raising taxes and in a debt spiral at home. Raising taxes = no revenue > Business slows > Deficit widens > More taxes > Economy tanks > Deficit widens + People need more services….

    Genius! Never stop! If at first it fails, then fails every time, everywhere it’s been tried, do it MOAR!

    But definitely, definitely, be sure to be seen on the Telly every hour, showing England you only care about Ukraine, that’s where all your time and their money is going. Literally nothing else.

    …Which leaves the problem: what CAN he tell them? That they leveraged the entire nation on stealing Ukraine an illegal foreign war and now they’re going to go bankrupt because of their feckless and traitorous leaders and Aristocracy?

    A: YES. That is EXACTLY what you tell them if you want to live. Denying it is how you dig a hole.
    Nothing can be fixed until someone tells the Truth.

    “• Joe Rogan Guest Completely Shatters the Vaccine Narrative (VF)

    Strong case, Polio = DDT. This was noted with farm families. If you had a pond (that you swim in) you’d get polio. Huh, that’s odd. Viruses read topo maps? They stop at the borders, won’t cross a room if you paint a line there.

    Blue Anon: RFK has a major scandal brewing this time, honest! Blackmail all the way down. Apparently he was SEXTING adult women consensually, then also having SEX with them. You know, monogamous, consensual, heterosexual relations. That’s how they GOT ‘im! Guys? Not saying there isn’t something or everyone’s not been blackmailed, but you’re putting out 30min vids with NO DETAILS, all innuendo, which is the hallmark of NOTHIN’, GRS, Guilt, Shame, Rumor of mean girls controlling each other bc they’re psychopaths. PUT UP, or shut up, that’s why we have news, courts, process. For the love of God almighty at least NAME the crime! Nope. It was “Something bad”. Ooooooooh, skary.

    https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-exact-words-of-the-text
    Have to get more than halfway through it. Maybe even skip the narrative intro, but then becomes fun and interesting.

    #185210
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    AIPAC.

    Canary Mission.

    Notice the absence. Or not.
    1. Where are they, Canary Mission, while armed undercover immigration sevice agents remove the greater threat to my liberty and prosperity from streets than f*cking H1b Hindus infiltrating the VA medicine here and elsewhere?

    2. Where did they, AIPAC, go amidst the Armed Assault on speech freedom?

    The answers:

    1. US Gov’t does the dirty work as cover for the self-entitled immigrant overlords by prioritizing H1b status over 10-point Veteran preference for so that whatever preference anyone thinks exists for Tulsi’s, JD’s, or Waltz’s military service is in fact rendered moot, invisible, negligible. Well, I guess unless you got that Natonal Guard on your resumé.

    2, Again, US Gov’t does the dirty work on The First Amendment by observing Secretary of State Marco Rubio create a whole religion Judaism and a whole country Israel of Marco’s “Our People” prioritized for protection from wordy criticism while creating a separate people Palestinians and Hamas as deserving the worst possible ltreatment.

    Bribes and Blackmail are the new Justice and Leaderships.

    #185211
    citizenx
    Participant

    A few serious pointed questions…

    Charlie Foxtrot is a polite euphemism for a crude military term — Clusterfuck. The chat exposed most of the Trump team as shallow and dismissive of the military and diplomatic implications of the decision to start bombing Yemen.

    Bombing Yemen is the clusterfuck far more than the signal “leak” fuck up…

    At any rate…

    1) Why (and for who) is the U.S. bombing Yemen ? Pretty obvious isn’t it ?

    Pete Hegseth’s remarks to the press, responding to the Goldberg article, makes a solid case that he is not qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense.

    2) How long has it been since anyone in the U.S. govt has been “qualified” to run anything ?
    Our entire Govt, has been a total clusterfuck for decades- I at least give Trump team kudos for trying to unclusterfuck… better than Tampon Tim/ Kamalalala, but what is the actual standard based on precedent “quallified Govt teams ? It ain’t pretty.

    3) Who runs and controls the U.S. Govt? Seriously.
    Does the U.S. have any control or influence on Israeli policies? No
    Does Israel have influence, control or blackmail on (or in) U.S. policies? Yes, definitively yes.

    If you are not willing to acknowledge the obvious then you will never ask why is it happening.
    Why is Trump bombing Yemen and for who?

    4) A seriously bad cultural trend that I find incredibly disturbing-

    Make a general critique on just about anything, and you will be personally attacked. Social critic, point out a flaw, make a general statement that something does not “sit well’… and the trend is now to be fully personally attacked.

    Criticize-
    Israeli policies = anti-semitic nazi
    Democrats = Maga nazi
    Republicans = anti American non patriot
    Trannies drag show for children = homophobic
    mrna experimental vaccine = anti science
    question anything non mainstream = conspiracy theorist

    Society has severely devolved to where any thinking or critiquing results in being personally attacked for contemplating ideas. We are at a very dangerous point in human societal development, or regression, pending on your thinking awareness perspective.

    Those cows are cute…confused about the big screen TV ?

    Better to have and ask questions than to be so sure of everything ?
    Examined Life, less unnecessary suffering.

    #185212
    citizenx
    Participant

    Stumbled on this yesterday-

    Sure it was for “entertainment” , but Casualties of War, the Truth supposedly the first, makes me ponder where humanity is going as I look at the mass insanity all around me.

    Talk about clusterfucks-
    Just finishing reading HUE 1968 by Bowden (who also wrote Black Hawk Down Somalia), Part way into ‘This Kind of War” Korean war Fehrenbach.

    Interesting war clusterfuck- The U.S. was basically funding the French Vietnamese War from 1945-54.
    The French were defeated in 1954 by the Vietnamese, that were using captured U.S. artillery weapons from the Korean War captured by Korea/China.

    Incredible documentary btw-

    Korean War MASH

    #185213
    citizenx
    Participant

    Also regarding that Vietnam War doc I linked-

    It covers LBJ quite a bit, knowing what was hinted at that LBJ and Israel murdered JFK makes it more relevant.

    Most significantly the Documentary covers Laos and Cambodia post 1975 fall of Saigon, including Pol Pots rise to power thanks to US Govt policies,,,

    #185216
    those darned kids
    Participant

    czech

    #185217
    those darned kids
    Participant
    #185218
    those darned kids
    Participant

    it’s obvious mr trump is the “peace” president.

    piece of this, piece of that…

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