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Rene Magritte Memory 1948
Let’s hope this gets better now…


https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/1977034079536099833

https://twitter.com/Alex_Oloyede2/status/1977073688555163917

They are..

Russia Accuses US of Planning Coup In Venezuela (RT)

Russian Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia has accused the US of plotting a coup in Venezuela under the guise of an anti-drug campaign.nWashington has deployed marines and warships off of Venezuela’s coast and has carried out airstrikes on alleged drug-smuggling vessels. At least four boats have been sunk, killing more than 21 people. Caracas condemned the move as a violation of its sovereignty and requested an emergency UN Security Council session, warning the operation sought to topple President Nicolas Maduro and threatened regional peace.lAt the session on Friday, Nebenzia said Russia “strongly condemned” the US campaign, calling it “a flagrant violation of international law and human rights.”

“We are witnessing a brazen campaign of political, military, and psychological pressure on the government of an independent state with the sole purpose of changing a regime unfavorable to the US,” he stated, noting that the coup plot is being carried out “using the classic tools of color revolutions and hybrid wars” by “artificially fueling an atmosphere of confrontation.”Washington’s justification for its military action “sounds like a perfect plot for a Hollywood blockbuster” in which “Americans once again save the world,” but in reality it is pure fiction, according to Nebenzia. He noted that the UN Office on Drugs and Crime “doesn’t even consider Venezuela a drug trafficking hub,” as 87% of cocaine entering the US comes via the Pacific Ocean, to which Venezuela has no access.

“Washington must immediately stop escalating under false pretexts and avoid the irreparable mistake of military action against Venezuela,” he urged. Other members of the Security Council also called for de-escalation, but US Political Counselor John Kelley insisted that Washington would use its “full might” to eliminate Venezuela’s “drug cartels.”The administration of US President Donald Trump has long accused Maduro of ties to drug cartels, labeling him a “narcoterrorist” and doubling the reward for his arrest to $50 million. Trump has refused to recognize Maduro’s reelection in 2024 and has openly backed his rival. On Friday, he congratulated opposition leader Maria Corina Machado on winning the Nobel Peace Prize, acknowledging prior support for her cause. Maduro has repeatedly and vehemently denied US accusations of drug trafficking links.

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Not herself.

Guess Who Letitia James Hired As Her Lawyer (Margolis)

New York Attorney General Letitia James, long known for her partisan crusade against Donald Trump, has now hired one of Washington’s most notorious Democratic fixers to defend her from criminal charges of her own. James has hired Abbe Lowell — the same high-powered D.C. attorney who represented Hunter Biden — to fight off a federal indictment accusing her of mortgage fraud. According to the indictment, James falsified loan documents when she bought a home in Virginia, netting approximately $19,000 in savings. Lowell issued a brief statement Thursday, declaring that his client “flatly and forcefully denies these charges.”

Lowell added, “We are deeply concerned that this case is driven by President Trump’s desire for revenge.” Revenge for what? For building her entire career on using her office to target Trump—she literally campaigned on it—and for bringing a so-called “fraud” case that was a farce from day one. Her argument was that Trump exaggerated property values to secure better loan terms, something every developer in America does. As Kevin O’Leary explained, that’s how real estate works: banks don’t just take a developer’s word for it; they run their own numbers, make their own calls, and assume their own risks. The banks James claimed Trump defrauded literally testified in Trump’s defense.

Yet James pushed ahead, demanding a staggering $355 million penalty for a “crime” with no victims — a number that ballooned past $500 million before an appeals court finally tossed it out. Even CNN legal expert Elie Honig called it what it was: “bogus.”James’ case was never about justice. It was about politics — a cynical stunt to take down Trump because “no one is above the law.” She’s learning the hard way that she isn’t above the law either.But I digress.

Lowell is likely most well-known for his defense of Biden, the former first son, in his gun and tax case. While Biden was convicted at a first trial of illegally owning a gun while hooked on drugs — and pleaded guilty in a second case to committing tax evasion — President Joe Biden pardoned his wayward son in December 2024 before leaving office. And Lowell recently defended former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, another prominent Democrat — currently in prison serving an 11-year sentence while he appeals his federal conviction. Menendez was found guilty at trial in July 2024 of taking bribes, including gold bars, in exchange for using the power of his office to serve the interests of wealthy businessmen and the countries of Qatar and Egypt.

Though we may want to laugh about Lowell’s recent courtroom losses, former prosecutor Neama Rahmani told The New York Post that Lowell’s track record reflects the kind of high-risk, low-reward cases he’s willing to tackle — not the quality of his defense work. “Those cases were losers no matter who was defending them,” Rahmani said. “When you’re defending federal cases, you’re expected to lose … Acquittals are the exception rather than the rule/
Rahmani predicted that Lowell is likely to lose this case as well, noting that her claim on official documents that her Virginia home would be her primary residence “seemed false on its face,” as he put it. “I think this is a very tough case to defend.”

Prosecutors charged James with bank fraud and making false statements, accusing her of lying on loan documents for a $109,600 mortgage on a Norfolk, Virginia, home. They allege she claimed the property would be a secondary residence to secure the loan but later reported it as a rental investment on her taxes, collecting thousands in income. If convicted, she faces up to 60 years in prison and $2 million in fineThankfully, Joe Biden isn’t in office to give her a blanket pardo. The government is still closed, thanks to Chuck Schumer and ccdical Democrats who put illegals ahead of Americans. Schumer even boasted, “every day gets better for us,” as millions suffer the effects of his shutdown. They own this disaster. Stay informed—join today with promo code POTUS47 for 74% off VIP membership.

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  • #197330
    Fully_caffinated
    Participant

    Y’all may have missed my late post yesterday, but the punchline was…
    “Blessed are the cheese makers”. DJT

    #197332
    jb-hb
    Participant

    and blessed are the cheese snack makers, for at least, in their artificialness, their hands reached beyond their grasp for cheesiness, the very reason heaven is for, possibly. Blessed are the fake suntanners, for theirs is the kingdom of all things carrot.

    We already know Leftists invert everything.

    That’s how we knew “Law enforcement ONLY wears masks to THREATEN and INTIMIDATE!”

    Meant something reversed, possibly flipped upside down as well. Like – Leftists wear masks solely to treaten and intimidate.

    But no, it was backwards and upside down

    Antifa Is Threatening Families Of Law Enforcement: Homeland Security
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/antifa-threatening-families-law-enforcement-homeland-security

    It meant “Other people wearing masks stop US from threatening THEM and their families”

    What was it, 3 days from the assertion to the obvious, predictable reverse-flip?

    “Nothing is happening”

    Oh, so you won’t mind freeznig the hundreds of millions or billions of funding that isn’t there then. You’ll have zero complaints of non-existent money ceasing to exist? (howls of outrage)

    “It’s a distraction. A minor, irrelevancy”

    Oh, well then you won’t mind the totally minor actions dealing with it. All the actions to dismantle Antifa and the various networks of funding and insurgency and trust fund babies, these too are simply distractions”

    “this isn’t real marxism therefore it is no cause for alarm”

    well, then we call a new rule that this isn’t real eradication of marxism then, so you have no cause to continue your constant objections, you have no grounds to complain about its elimination. After all, you didn’t live in Chile when communists were given one way flights, therefore you have no standing to talk about it now, riiiiight?

    ANTIFA’s Mask Slips: Trump’s Roundtable Sends Shadow NGO Network Behind “Riot Inc.” Into Panic
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/antifas-mask-slips-trumps-roundtable-sends-shadow-ngo-network-behind-riot-inc-panic

    To sum up – do not worry:

    –Nothing is happening to your Leftism
    –What is happening is acshully merely a distraction – free your mind!
    –Real elimination of Leftism has never been tried
    –As you’ve never lived through real elimination of Leftism, you have no standing to comment on it now, your perceptions have no validity
    –it was always happening, everyone knew
    –…and that’s a GOOD thing

    an excellent comment on zerohedge

    What we’re dealing with isn’t just ANTIFA or protest groups — it’s a fully developed system. There’s a coordinated pattern playing out across the country, and once you see it, you can’t unsee it. First, the ideology is shaped in universities and think tanks. That’s where the narratives are written — defund the police, abolish ICE, white supremacy in the system — all seeded in academic theory and spread through campus networks. These ideas don’t stay in the classroom. They’re passed into activist collectives and “community organizations” that serve as ground-level organizing hubs.

    Then comes the money. Massive donor networks like Arabella Advisors, the Tides Foundation, and Open Society quietly fund these groups behind the scenes. They move billions through shell nonprofits and fiscal sponsors, keeping their hands clean while fueling chaos. These funds go to groups that organize protests, train activists, bail out violent offenders, and support campaigns to elect soft-on-crime prosecutors. These aren’t isolated acts — they’re funded operations protected under nonprofit status and often supported with public money.

    Meanwhile, media outlets and social platforms act as narrative shields. They downplay violence, elevate the talking points, and silence dissenting voices. Big Tech’s “trust and safety” boards often coordinate with the same NGOs funding the street action, ensuring that any counter-narrative is labeled misinformation or hate speech. The final layer is political protection — local DAs, city councils, and members of Congress who either benefit directly from these networks or are ideologically aligned. These officials refuse to prosecute, cut police budgets, and obstruct accountability while claiming moral high ground.

    This is not protest — it’s engineered destabilization. The violence is the surface. The real operation is financial, legal, and psychological. It’s all connected: the academic theory, the billionaire money, the nonprofit structures, the street unrest, the media spin, and the political cover. Once you see the loop — you realize the chaos is by design, not accident. And it’s not going away until the system funding it is exposed and dismantled.

    #197333
    userzeroid
    Participant

    I am thinking ahead to Christmas time and family + friends. A good idea I have had is for some gifts is merchandise (Yogurt from Spaceballs “Merchandise!” ) I was thinking about supporting a few companies/organs that I love and then thought about TAE. Are there some t-shirts, hats, mugs or anything of this nature that we can get? Some slogans could be perhaps “trolling paid adjutants since 2005″? Or maybe ” Back to the Futurists”. I dunno. Anyway, have a nice Sunday 🙂

    #197334
    those darned kids
    Participant

    my lord, ¿!do you only walk with one leg!?

    #197335
    jb-hb
    Participant

    that’s not a leg

    #197336
    those darned kids
    Participant

    the above is not for thee, zoid. and a happy sunday, too!

    #197337
    jb-hb
    Participant

    happy sunday to you too – it was just too good of an opportunity. you broke the chain though, man. buzz harshed.

    #197338
    Susmarie108
    Participant

    Some comments here are in response to late last night posts.

    (Across) The UNIVERSE – filled with pure potentiality, pure presence. We limit ourselves with full participation in the “experienced universe” here on earth where we, the EGO/mind inhabited human is bound by attachments (memories of the past) and desires (dreams of the future). Endlessly pursuing purpose, place, possibility, probability, promise, practicality, perseverance, prosperity, presents, personality (to name a few) – all possessing and caressing us.

    If attachments bind us to the past and desires to the future – what about the PRESENT? Consider that Truth (redemption/salvation) is present only in the space between the past and future.


    @John
    Day – will ask you later.

    @tdk: heavy stuff for sure (haha – 5 composter job). Since cov19, Dr. Ana Mihalcea’s been seeing very bad things in blood for way too long. The clots are one glump of the puzzle with the self-assembly-bot concept being another. She was moved to ask the Unexplainable Acasualities – “who in hell did this? And why?”. Since the answer cannot be found here, her search went beyond earthly corridors and into the to the universe. This is a good Ana wisdom/quote worth repeating: “A Master never comes to save anyone from themselves because that would violate the divine law of evolution of all spiritual beings. A Master teaches so that his students can become like him and be liberated from the wheel of reincarnation. No being can take over someone else’s Karma. Every human being is responsible for every thought, word and deed in the light of all eternity. Only in self responsibility is the divine nature actualized. Someone who is self responsible and changes their human program is growing up out of slavery into a mature civilization – that is redemption. Self responsibility includes the care of Nature and this Planet.”


    @Michael
    Reid: don’t know how you manage to consume all those excellent, one hour plus videos – good thing you have the homestead which demands endless attention outdoors.

    Just like everything else, Imagine has been corrupted, financialized, and mocked. John Lennon was not referencing the WEF, the EU, crypto, Real/Digital ID when imagining the world as ONE. He was pointing to the realm/reality beyond the ego/mind where HUMANity is one Soul “body”. Elon Musk, you are close – please reset your aim.

    Yes, I voted for Trump Watches & Coins because I knew he would show us the full monty. And here we are with MAGA hats in Gaza, the second coming is upon us!

    Happy Sunday indeed!

    LOVE.

    #197339
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    @ userzeroid

    Very nice idea!
    I suspect that RIM does not have the available mental space to lead up such an initiative — especially at the moment. However, there are many sites that create such merchandise where you can put together a branded “line” and then point people to a digital “store” for purchase. If a few here wanted to develop some fan merch and then gave RIM something akin to “admin access” so that he can provide input on the merch and enter whatever financial info is needed so that proceeds go to TAE, and then create an official link on TAE that points there.

    #197340
    Kimo
    Participant

    Does anyone have a link or title to a JAMA piece (study, article, etc.) to the most negative mRNA/COVID position so far? I’ve done a search thru GROK which produced a handful of mild warnings about rare events, but not a slam dunk “cure was worse than the disease”.
    Was there any (yet)?

    #197341
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “Self responsibility includes the care of Nature and this Planet.”

    indeed it does!

    did you know that silver and gold extraction are extremely detrimental ” the care of Nature and this Planet.”?

    #197342
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Regarding universities as think tanks to shape young minds…I see that constantly with my son who is attending ASU. He likes discussing with me the classes that he is selecting for the next semester, especially the ones that are to fulfill gen Ed requirements, as he is trying to find something that interests him or will be of value. We end up trying to figure out the tone of classes from their titles and short descriptions. Some are obvious: “Introduction to LGBTQ Studies.” Others are less obvious — like classes about social justice. Is it going to be about the history of movements that most people see as net positives for Western society, such as the 40-hour work week or granting women the vote or 18-year-olds the vote or the civil rights era? That could be an interesting topic for my son to learn about in more depth. Or, is it going to be about BLM, and the “correctness” of political race theory and white fragility and land acknowledgments? He does not want to be sitting for a class where he is mentally refuting everything said by the professor and at the same time trying to remember it so that he can do well on a test.

    (I’m still trying to wrap my head around the land acknowledgments thing. I mean, on the one hand, sure, we can acknowledge that land historically “belonged,” (a very Western term, to be certain,) to various Native American tribes that inhabited the land. That is simply history. However, the form of land acknowledgments is very ritualistic — it resembles a religious ceremony. Religious ceremonies are ways to teach and shape people’s minds and behavior. This is not necessarily a bad thing — it is a method, and the method can be used for good or ill or neutral purposes. The land acknowledgments seem to be an attempt to divide the current and up-and-coming American people from the land. They emphasize that “we are all newcomers who stole this land,” suggesting that we do not deserve the land that we were born on. The groups that land acknowledgments name are small and have little social power, so it is easy to prop them up and trot them out “for show.” It seems that the design is to engender in the US populace a feeling of “uprootedness,” a lack of feeling grounded. People without strong ties to each other nor to the land can be controlled more easily.)

    #197343
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    TDK

    did you know that silver and gold extraction are extremely detrimental ” the care of Nature and this Planet?

    It will surely lead to the release of the Balroc.

    #197344
    userzeroid
    Participant

    Hey @phoenixvoice you’re starting to think like the almighty Yogurt there! Just imagine the advertising possibilities.. Lunchboxes, pencilcases, you name it. Ha!

    #197345
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    CJ Hopkins, Hugo Fernandez, & I Discuss the America Road Trip Project with Jefferson Public Radio’s Mike Green

    https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/our-jefferson-exchange-interview

    #197346
    userzeroid
    Participant

    Phoenix, regarding your son’s university course tests, we’re all having to deal with these agendas as well. Some have greater exposure (think of poor old jb-hb in his numerous corporate jobs) and those in government and in education are likely exposed quite heavily – however, “training” in all of this nonsense occurs in all fields, from union representation in blue collar jobs, through to the armed forces, right on through to healthcare human resources officers implementing these legal/social “changes”.

    Unfortunately, unless one is wealthy enough to turn down work on principle, we all have to find a way to make it through this madness or else one will become empoverished by loss of income. I attempt to steer my work toward less of this stuff but is not always possible.

    Your son would do well to develop a sense of humour and a healthy cynicism in order to process it in a somewhat healthy manner. Having the influence of a wiser mother figure such as yourself will certainly give him a good head start.

    On the last subject of the land acknowledgements, this is all wrapped into the same plot. Some of the tech Bros (Bezos in particular re his Amazon employment policies) made it standard to hire a “diverse” workforce. This was done on the basis of the workers being unable to unionise. Think of the same policy being implemented in numerous countries around the western world and that resistance towards this ensured that you were deemed “xenophobic” or “racist” or “far-right”. All of this is by design. A divided house cannot stand.

    #197347
    maryballon
    Participant

    The land acknowledgments seem to be an attempt to divide the current and up-and-coming American people from the land. They emphasize that “we are all newcomers who stole this land,” suggesting that we do not deserve the land that we were born on….

    This ritual is happening here in BC also and it is profoundly unnerving! There are deep philosophical questions about the origins of my families. We are now four generations removed from the UK. And they chose this land. And then we acknowledge that people from China and India also chose this land!! Then we notice that WASP people could become a minority! oops.

    #197348
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    There are basically two, and only two, categories of politicians. Populist and Depopulist. Telling them apart is way easier than most people say or think it is. All that’s required is to count corpses.

    #197349
    Topcat
    Participant

    it’s not going away until the system funding it is exposed and dismantled”

    Nope

    Not gonna happen.

    #197350
    Topcat
    Participant

    Smucks waving that word Democracy around like a bloody shirt.



    Warming your hands with the Strawman

    Nice

    #197351
    Topcat
    Participant

    Double Dunking on the racistracistrcist knee jerk crowd…..

    #197352
    Topcat
    Participant

    Being an Attention Whore© is harder than you think.

    #197353
    those darned kids
    Participant

    peace deal!?

    piecemeal

    please feel

    appease wheel

    applause cause

    applied laws

    supplied lies

    peace dies

    #197354
    Topcat
    Participant

    Staged Contrition

    What a great idea!

    #197355
    Topcat
    Participant

    #197356
    WES
    Participant

    Serving Canadian Thanksgiving turkey for supper tonight!

    Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

    #197357
    aspnaz
    Participant

    https://www.swentr.com/news/626268-israeli-girlfriend-murder-witness-suicide/

    The effort to reverse the decline of the Israeli genocidal maniacs is in full gear. All over the internet, shit about how badly the Jews suffered, how they were so badly wronged on Oct 7th. Nothing about the IDF whistleblowers who told us they were told to stand down before the attack, or the people who told about the IDF using the Hanibal directive.

    In two weeks the majority of the public will have forgotten Gaza, the Jews will be accepted again and will continue to rule America without anyone complaining. Only a matter of time before the war for Greater Israel will start again; it is their religion.

    #197358
    aspnaz
    Participant

    https://www.unz.com/article/trumps-sham-peace-plan/

    Trump is controlled 100% by the Zionists, so this ceasefire is obviously due to Netanyahu, which means that he will eventually revert to the policies that keeps his political allies happy; genocide. Maybe the political pressure to get the Israeli hostages back was dividing Israel too much, so ha agreed on the ceasefire in order to get them back and resume the genocide later. Looks that way at the moment. He certainly would not have sacrificed so many Jews in Gaza to then give up his plans.

    #197359
    aspnaz
    Participant

    https://www.swentr.com/news/626212-trump-thanks-putin-nobel-prize/

    The longer Putin sucks Zionist cock, via Trump cock, the less I believe that he was not in on the whole Ukraine coup back in 2014. Looking at his “Kill the Nazis” PR against the Ukrainians, it now looks so fake given his support for Israel and its large number of Russian Jews who are worse than any Nazis, he is in on the game. My only interest in this is how it will impact China. Is Putin part of the crowd that will try to neuter China when the time is right? I am sure the Chinese government have considered this. Putin is a snake in the grass.

    #197360
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    If you see covid and clotshots for what it is, an IQ test, the results are in. A submissive West, 80% followers., which greenlights everything. Hit the gas and go into Gaza. 2 years of human sacrifice because these dumbfucks believe anything we tell em. They want you just as dead, just by different methodology for faggots who don’t stand up for themselves. Too chickenshit to name their own killers.

    #197361
    WES
    Participant

    Fridays Crypto Madness:

    In far away Keiv, an Ukrainian Crypto trader blew his brains out after losing his and his client’s money playing the can’t possibly lose Crypto game

    One step closer to the last Ukrainian.

    #197362
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Dear Susmarie108,

    Presently I understand:

    Nature is god.

    Rebirth seems to be wishfull thinking.

    Recently I am considering events in nature that have ended civilizations.
    These events have occured many times on earth.

    Knowledge is lost.
    Some may have access to lost knowledge.
    Stories are told.
    Some appear as gods.

    Truth exists at present and at all times that occurred in the past.

    Determining truth is near impossible.

    #197363

    How we have wandered from where we could be!
    How we are blinded to what we could see!
    We travel on tracks that are going to hell,
    Built by caretakers who don’t wish us well.

    Some recall their feet and jump the track
    And go their own way, never looking back.

    Good sleep, RIM.

    #197364
    Fully_caffinated
    Participant

    I can assist with setting up a merch site I have WordPress with store plugins and a domain name to use, even if it just a list of products created by you the dear reader on other sites. Also a comment section where designs slogans etc can be posted for anyone to use

    #197365
    Fully_caffinated
    Participant

    @benton Smith in response ti your comment regarding Optimus as RoboCrim…

    Surely Musk has massive contracts in place for the RoboCop Optimus version…

    “Ill buy that for a dollar!”

    #197366
    Fully_caffinated
    Participant

    I am currently in timezone CEST, will be in EDT from late Oct to early Dec, then GMT

    Just so y’all can expect response times to messages etc

    #197368
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @Michael_Reid

    Determining truth is near impossible.

    Well, you could always go with the tried and true(-ish) Trial & Error method. A bit messy at first, but it does eventually get you really close to specs, “close enough for government work” as the old saying goes.

    #197369
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @Fully-caffinated

    Ya know, watching that video clip it occurred to me that Robo-Cop and Robo-Crim are the same damned Robot. The only difference is in WHOSE goods they’re “protecting” and which “offenders” they’re “arresting”. Moral of the story, I suppose, is to buy your own robot and let them fight it out to see who’s gonna be the Boss. My bet goes to the guy with the most and biggest robo’s, which does not bide well for owners of Mom ‘n’ Pop enterprises like the one in that clip.

    #197370
    zerosum
    Participant

    WHAT HAPPENED!

    WHAT COMES NEXT!?

    KEEP WATCHING.

    #197371
    zerosum
    Participant
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