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    Topcat
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    Happy 4th

    Still reason not to be subjects of “the Crown”

    Mad as a Hatter and just as Sadistic

    #191399
    Topcat
    Participant

    It should be the plural: whores

    #191400
    Topcat
    Participant

    #191401
    Topcat
    Participant

    #191402
    Topcat
    Participant

    #191403
    Germ
    Participant

    Cancer! – it’s what’s on the menu!

    https://x.com/Kevin_McKernan/status/1931739843588927567

    TVASSF

    #191404
    Topcat
    Participant

    #191405
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “”147K jobs! Well ahead of expectations! ”

    waiters, bartenders, lattepushers..

    oh, and then come

    THE REVISIONS.

    same ol’, same ol’…

    it’s so funny; when “your” man is “in power”, y’all never see this, but when its “their” man, it’s all you can see.

    same ol’, same ol’…

    #191406
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “We need more arrests.”

    well, one would be more than zero.

    #191407
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “The jury let him off. ”

    the “jury” let him off.

    #191408
    those darned kids
    Participant

    OXYMORON ALERT!

    “Happy 4th ‘Murica!”

    VERSUS

    • House Republicans Pass Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

    #191409
    those darned kids
    Participant

    here’s a fourth of july picnic in gaza:

    #191410
    Noirette
    Participant

    On Purple, re. article at top post.

    Purple is the color of the Overlords since thousands of years. Yes, literally. It was very expensive to produce, only Royalty, top Elites, Supremos, etc. could afford it. (Search > *Tyrian Purple*)

    A pic of H + B Clinton sporting purple, 2017, concession speech. Vogue.

    (Signalling brave defiance, we will endure, ha ha.)

    https://tinyurl.com/bdfxk7je

    Kamala Harris, 2021. Cosmopolitan.

    (Signalling I’m tops, yes, ha ha.)

    https://tinyurl.com/286wchh7

    Queen Liz. https://tinyurl.com/yc8fakha

    Michelle Obama … many others…

    #191411
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Russiagate = fraud
    Israelgate = not-fraud
    Just saying.

    Some country should lease a nuke to Iran until they make their own.
    World is tired of US and Israeli B/S.

    Bob Ross never had a problem while mixing his purples – imaginary or not.

    #191412
    Topcat
    Participant

    In your face on the 4th Old Blighty!

    #191413
    Topcat
    Participant

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    #191414
    zerosum
    Participant

    NO ONE SHOULD BE ABOVE THE LAW

    The Code of Conduct on Disinformation, “Global Censorship Law,”
    online platforms and search engines to restrict content deemed ‘fake news’ by ….????
    voluntary Code of Conduct on Disinformation, which was integrated into the Digital Services Act (DSA) by Brussels
    obliged to follow EU content rules or face penalties.
    ———-

    It’s time for real consequences.

    https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/02/bombshell-cia-report-exposes-how-obamas-team-framed-trump-n4941393
    Bombshell CIA Report Exposes How Obama’s Team Framed Trump
    Matt Margolis

    Published July 2, 2025,

    A bombshell new CIA review of the Obama administration’s spy agencies’ assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump was deliberately corrupted by then-CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who were “excessively involved” in its drafting, and rushed its completion in a “chaotic,” “atypical” and “markedly unconventional” process that raised questions of a “potential political motive.”

    Further, Brennan’s decision to include the discredited Steele dossier, over the objections of the CIA’s most senior Russia experts, “undermined the credibility” of the assessment.

    The “Tradecraft Review of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment [ICA] on Russian Election Interference” was conducted by career professionals at the CIA’s Directorate of Analysis and was commissioned by CIA Director John Ratcliffe in May.

    https://www.cia.gov/static/Tradecraft-Review-2016-ICA-on-Election-Interference-062625.pdf
    ————
    It’s time for real consequences.

    • MI6 Fueled Ukraine Proxy War And Fabricated Intel On Iran – Klarenberg (RT)

    The UK Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6, has played a central role in spreading false intelligence and engaging in provocative actions aimed at escalating global conflicts, British whistleblower and investigative journalist for The Grayzone, Kit Klarenberg, has told RT.

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    It’s time for real consequences.

    • The Biden Administration Basically Trafficked Migrant Children (Margolis)

    What the Biden administration allowed to happen to these children is unforgivable. Joe Biden and his handlers chose chaos over control, optics over outcomes, and abandoned their duty to protect the most vulnerable to justify their open borders agenda. The result? Thousands of kids were thrown into the arms of predators, traffickers, and abusers, with the federal government playing matchmaker. President Trump is cleaning up a disaster he didn’t create. Again. We shouldn’t forget how we got here — and we damn sure shouldn’t let the people responsible off the hook. Biden’s border policies didn’t just fail; they victimized children. And for that, we should hold every single official who pushed this agenda accountable.

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    #191415
    zerosum
    Participant

    Negotiation Results Are Grim
    Heavy Strikes Hit Kyiv
    Russians Begin Kharkiv Offensive MS 2025.07.04

    #191416

    That McKernan video was chilling. Thanks, Germ.

    What’s a little cancer between friends?
    Think of the attention you’ll receive!
    It was really just a means to fiscal ends-
    There’s money to be made from those who’ll grieve!

    #191417

    “…lease a nuke to Iran…”
    I bet Israel would do it (if they haven’t already).

    #191418
    John Day
    Participant

    @Topcat: King Chuck’s fingers are very edematous. His feet are likely worse. His lungs may be full of fluid, too. He has cancer, got the shots, and is still drawing breath, for the moment.
    ;-(

    #191425
    Topcat
    Participant

    @John Day

    And here I thought it was an effect of Chuck drinking too much Adrenochrome from ritually sacrificed trafficked children.

    My bad…

    #191426
    Topcat
    Participant

    Irony oh irony, thou deals the cruelest blow….

    .

    A far better test

    Which indeed…

    #191427
    Topcat
    Participant

    If ya can’t be good, be careful….

    #191428
    zerosum
    Participant

    It’s time for real consequences.

    https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/02/bombshell-cia-report-exposes-how-obamas-team-framed-trump-n4941393
    Bombshell CIA Report Exposes How Obama’s Team Framed Trump
    Matt Margolis

    Review and comments

    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/07/cia-our-trump-russiagate-claims-were-corrupt-our-claims-on-iran-are-.html#comments

    July 04, 2025
    CIA: Our Trump-Russiagate Claims Were Corrupt, Our Claims On Iran Are …

    All claims made by ‘Intelligence Agencies’, independent of having been made in 2016, 2025 or in the future, have be taken with huge loads of salts. Intelligence claims are made to support policies, not because they are truthful.

    #191429
    zerosum
    Participant

    “Trump Derangement Syndrome”,( TDS), perhaps, but scores upon scores of millions of people suffered a severe fracture from reality on the evening of November 8, 2016.
    Many of them remain seriously damaged by that event even to this day, such that any reference to Trump, no matter how oblique, results in reason-destroying psychological distress that they attempt to assuage by clinging to absurd nonsense.

    #191430
    John Day
    Participant

    @Topcat: Could be, but I heard that they mainline the adrenochrome. ;-(

    #191431
    jb-hb
    Participant

    • Hamas Says Ready For ‘Complete End To The War’ – AP (RT)

    #191432
    zerosum
    Participant

    Can’t the lenders see the problems?

    OTTAWA — The Carney government is poised to post a massive deficit of more than $92 billion during this fiscal year, a new report from a well-respected financial think tank projects, almost double what was forecast just a few months ago by a non-partisan arm of the government.
    Spending at the federal, provincial and municipal levels is going from bad to worse.

    Ottawa is making costly commitments, the report explains, without showing key numbers to the public such as how much more tax it expects to gather, the extent of its new spending and what the increased debt will mean for interest payments.

    #191433
    those darned kids
    Participant

    Can’t the WHEELS ON THE BUS see the problems?

    #191434
    John Day
    Participant

    Financial Independence Day https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/financial-independence-day

    Michael Hudson, who did international balance of payments analysis for Chase Bank in the 1960s, which showed to be US to be bleeding gold out through Vietnam, as it had through Korea, wrote “Super Imperialism” right around the time Nixon had to default on the gold standard. In that book he observed that the US Treasuries had become the central bank reserve currency of choice, and that as long as oil had to be traded in $US, that could be sustained without drawing down any US reserves, and while funding the expenses of maintaining Imperial military outposts and wars-of-choice globally.
    $US debts grew exponentially from that point, and the US manufacturing economy became increasingly hollowed out, due to the maintenance of $US “value” by paying of interest, by the federal government, and by corporations, instead of investing in US industrial production and exports to support the $US value.
    That hollowing out is now far advanced, and the $US remains global reseerve currency, though the writing is on the wall for its replacement, as it cannot repay debts with value, since manufacturing is so much reduced.
    The $US is being maintained as global reserve currency somewhat through inertia, and established trade frameworks, through short term investment returns (high interest rates), and through harsh threats and punishment for any nation seeking to trade outside the $US framework (Libya, iraq, Iran, etc).
    Since Russia was robbed of $300 billion US, the search for alternatives, still discreet, has become more urgent, but any alternative is attacked by the US/UK/”west”, unless it is controlled. There is talk of a Yuan stablecoin, but the alternative currency which remains viable is gold.
    Other alternatives might arise after the fall of the dollar, but it would require trust, which will take a long time to develop.
    The rest of the world is paying to support western financial imperialism, which keeps poor countries poor, selling resources cheaply to service debts, without developing autonomous industries and agriculture. The west has factory farming, the extractive trade currency, and pushes big IMF and bank loans on countries to keep them in debt bondage in foreign currency. The BRICS+ coalition aims to lessen and weaken this arrangement, which is a threat to $US hegemony, and threats are to be killed in the cradle, to maintain the financial/military arrangement.
    This is the most efficient empoire in that regard, but empires degrade their centers, as has long happened here, and they become weak, and dependent upon the tribute from the colonized lands, and those channels fluctuate, sometimes shutting down. People don’t want to be squeezed unfairly, just as Americans resented the actions of the East India Company corporation in 1776.
    It will be a difficult road to return the US to a primarily productive economy, instead of extracting what still remains. The path to do so remains unclear. Trump is bringing on a crisis in some ways, though the “Biden” admin really threw down the gauntlet to the world by “freezing” $300 billion in Russian assets.
    There will be some crisis in finance. Faith in the system will evaporate. An alternative trade and central banking system, based on gold, will be the default backstop, until something else can be broadly agreed upon, which will take a long time.

    Michael Hudson, The Collapse of America’s Economic Empire
    ​ The fight of de-dollarization is really involves getting rid of the rentier class that these countries have, and also they cannot afford to pay the foreign debt that they’ve run up. Trump’s tariffs prevent other countries from earning enough export returns to earn the dollars to pay the bondholders and banks that have debts owed in U.S. dollars. So they’re going to be huge defaults that turn into a very conscious and deliberate debt repudiation of what are odious debts, because all these debts that have been run up since 1945 as a result of a U.S.-sponsored philosophy of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank on essentially predatory pro-U.S. lines have ended up not helping other countries pay, but preventing them from paying. And if a creditor country will not let a debtor country pay by exporting enough in competition with its own industry, then there’s no economic or moral claim that this foreign debt is a viable debt. It’s unviable.
    ​ So not only is the American empire unviable, but the whole superstructure of debt, the superstructure of monopolies, the superstructure of privatization and financial Thatcherizing and Reaganizing the world economy are unviable. So we’re dealing with a real clash of economic systems. Some people call this a clash of civilizations, but it’s really a clash of economic systems. And you could say it’s between the promise of industrial capitalism as it was developing in the beginning in the 19th century and the disastrous reality of finance capitalism with a single geopolitical center in the United States run increasingly in its own interest in exploitative, predatory fashion.​ https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/07/michael-hudson-the-collapse-of-americas-economic-empire.html

    ​Croatian, Alex Krainer has also lived and studied in the US: Happy U.S. Independence Day… But, independence from whom?
    Britain’s colonial ambitions are still a thing!
    On June 20, 2019, Iran’s Air Defense Forces shot down a US Global Hawk surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz. A segment of the American leadership exerted pressure on President Trump to launch a retaliatory strike against Iran, but to their frustration, he declined to do so…​ Britain’s Ambassador to Washington, Sir (now lord) Kim Darroch … wrote that “we have spent years building the relationships [with certain individuals]; they are the gatekeepers… the individuals we rely upon to ensure the U.K. voice is heard in the West Wing.” Some of these voices included Trump’s National Security Advisor John Bolton who was a frequent visitor to the British embassy along with the former Chief of Staff John Kelly.​..
    ​..The leaked memos also revealed that Sir Kim was calling for “flooding the zone” with Trump whisperers who can influence Trump and nudge him toward opening hostilities against Iran. However, when Trump decided to cancel an attack on Iran on June 21, Darroch fired off a memo venting hist frustration and criticizing Trump in crude language. For example, Sir Kim said:
    ​ “We don’t really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction-riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept.”​ …
    ​..“Anonymous” leaked Darroch’s communications with the Foreign Office in London to show who is maneuvering the US into yet another Middle Eastern war.
    There’s no doubt that Donald Trump was fully aware of what went on and who was the main force behind the Iran war drive.​.. On July 10, Sir Kim Darroch had to resign from his position in disgrace and London had to nominate a different Ambassador.​..
    ​..Russiagate… too, was orchestrated by the agents of the British foreign policy establishment, including Sir Kim Darroch who had a role in selecting Cristopher Steele as the key protagonist in the affair. Others included former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove, Stefan Halper, Joseph Mifsud and Fiona Hill – all of them British intelligence assets.​..
    ​..Two years after the failed attempt to push the US into a war against Iran, in August of 2021, when the US withdrew from Afghanistan, the British political class went utterly hysterical, piling contempt on the US as though American action directly wronged Britain.​..
    ​..Defence Secretary Dominic Raab accused the United States of signalling “to the world that they are not that keen on playing a global role.” For good measure, he added the insult that “The US had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the First World War. They turned up late for the Second World War and now they are cutting and running in Afghanistan.”
    ​ In all, it seems that Britain regards the United States chiefly as the enforcement department for their ambition to restore their former imperial glory. This is why the American independence continues to irritate them as they’ve never given up on dominating their former colony, by hook or by crook. Well, on this 4th of July, the American People should remind themselves of the hard choices and the bravery of their Founding Fathers to claim freedom for their nation.​ https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/happy-us-independence-day-but-independence

    ​ MI6 fueled Ukraine proxy war and fabricated intel on Iran – Grayzone investigative journalist
    The British spy agency is notorious for acting with little to no oversight to escalate global conflicts, Kit Klarenberg has told RT​ https://swentr.site/news/620953-mi6-escalating-ukraine-iran/

    ​ Russia Sends Independence Day Greetings To Trump White House
    ​ Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday issued a formal Independence Day message to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the American people on the occasion of the American nation’s founding.​..
    ​..”I expect that together we can put the relations between our nations on a creative vector, make them stable and predictable based on mutual respect for national interests determined by history, geography, and ‘realities on the ground,’​’ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-sends-independence-day-greetings-trump-white-house

    #191435
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ (The Economist is a Rothschild-owned publication.) Simplicius, Narrative Shift: Israeli-US Strikes Strengthen Iran’s Resolve
    One under-appreciated aspect of the Israeli-Iranian conflict was how it has galvanized the hardliners in Iran, with some believing that it effectively centralized power around the military hawk faction, rather than fomenting discord and disarray as the West had hoped.
    The Economist most recently delved into this​…
    ..As the IRGC gains control its elite is being transformed at speed by Israel’s assassinations. Gone are the veteran commanders who for years pursued “strategic patience”, limiting their fire when their totemic leader, Qassem Soleimani, was assassinated in 2020, and holding it when Israel battered their proxies, Hamas and Hizbullah, in 2024. Now a new generation, impatient and more dogmatic, has taken their place and is bent on redeeming national pride. “The maximalist position has been strengthened,” says an academic close to the reformist camp. He claims the decision-makers in place before the war were debating whether to ditch their anti-Israel stance. But “everyone is now a hardliner”.​..
    ..Most eye-opening was the Economist’s admission that Israel’s strikes on civilian targets had actually served to unite Iranian society. This alone flies in the face of daily narratives we’ve been fed about Iran being in tatters…​ “It’s backfired on Bibi,” says a former official turned dissident…
    ..The U.S. was seriously concerned about a potential blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, Reuters reports, citing sources. Following Israel’s first missile strike on June 13, Iran reportedly loaded naval mines onto vessels in the Persian Gulf…
    ..Israel has outlined its desire for a status quo where it gets to merely bombard Iran at will, any time it chooses, in order to “enforce” the made up regulations it pretends to impose on Iran; i.e. the same status quo now accepted as normal with regard to Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Palestine—where Israel can bomb at its whim…
    ..During Israel’s 12-day war against Iran, Israeli Air Force pilots returning from intercept missions still carrying unused munitions asked to drop them on Gaza instead of landing fully loaded.
    ​ This began as a ‘local initiative’ but quickly became a routine. Pilots dropped leftover bombs in Gaza to ‘support ground forces in Khan Younis and northern Gaza’. Air Force Commander Tomer Bar approved expanding the practice to all squadrons. As a result, Gaza was hit with intensified airstrikes daily, with dozens of jets dropping hundreds of munitions on Palestinians without needing extra deployments. A military official said this strategy boosted the Air Force’s efficiency…
    ..The US appears to be acting out of a greater sense of desperation to restart talks than Iran, which is in no hurry…
    ..The next generation of Americans will no longer support Israel’s domination of the US Congress. Israel will have no choice but to come up with inventive new methods or false flags to keep Americans in line.​ https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/narrative-shift-israeli-us-strikes?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#media-5871141b-e3e3-46e2-852d-a52f20f154a0

    US-Iran Nuclear Talks To Restart In Oslo Next Week – Trump Willing To Talk Directly​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-iran-nuclear-talks-restart-oslo-next-week-trump-willing-talk-directly

    ​ ‘Like a kidnapping’: How UK police are hunting pro-Palestine activists
    Homes raided, people approached on the street, called from unknown numbers, arrested without warning: how British police are cracking down on activists​ https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-palestine-police-kidnapping-hunting-activists

    ​ What guarantee could they trust? Hamas says ready for ‘complete end to the war’ – AP
    The Palestinian militant group has reportedly expressed readiness for a deal but stopped short of endorsing a temporary ceasefire​ https://swentr.site/news/620908-hamas-israel-gaza-deal-us/

    ​ Trump Expects Hamas Answer In 24 Hours On ‘Final’ Peace Proposal
    ​ However, no details have been given on this particular ceasefire plan. Israel has not confirmed it agreed to any specific conditions as of yet.
    “I hope… that Hamas takes this Deal, because it will not get better – IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE,” Trump wrote. But what will the consequences be if Hamas refuses – more bombing of the Gaza Strip?
    ​ Some details revealed in Israeli media have been presented as follows:
    ​ According to an unsourced Channel 12 report Thursday, Trump has offered a direct guarantee to Hamas that if it agrees to the so-called Witkoff framework — which includes the release of 10 living hostages in two phases and 18 bodies in three phases over the course of a 60-day ceasefire — the US will ensure efforts continue to reach a lasting end to the conflict.
    ​ Israel is also believed to be under heavy US pressure to clinch a ceasefire deal ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip to Washington for talks with Trump next week. The prime minister is set to visit the White House on Monday.
    ​ Trump also said Friday that Gazans have “been through hell” and that “I want the people of Gaza to be safe.” But he didn’t directly answer when a reporter asked if the US is still considering taking any security responsibility over the Gaza Strip as part of the proposed truce plan.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-expects-hamas-answer-24-hours-final-peace-proposal

    #191436
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ US still ‘giving weapons’ to Kiev – Trump
    Washington is “trying to help” Ukraine but prioritizing American interests, the US president has said
    ​ Kremlin officials have also accused Western countries of encouraging their proxies in Kiev to fight to the last Ukrainian in the hope of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia.
    ​ “The fewer the missiles that arrive in Ukraine from abroad, the closer the end of the special military operation,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday. He added, however, that the freeze could be temporary, and could be the result of weapons being redirected to support Israel in the stand-off with Iran.
    President Vladimir Putin reiterated that Russia remains open to peace talks, in a phone call with Trump on Thursday. He added that Russia will not back down until the “well-known root causes” of the Ukraine conflict are eliminated, according to presidential aide Yury Ushakov.​ https://swentr.site/news/620967-us-weapons-freeze-ukraine-trump/

    ​ Kremlin discloses content of Putin-Trump conversation​: The two leaders held a candid, nearly hour-long discussion​
    ​ Vladimir Putin wished Donald Trump success in implementing the changes he envisioned and, naturally, offered greetings for Independence Day, the national day of the United States, which will be celebrated tomorrow.
    ​ At the same time, it was noted by our side that Russia had played a significant part in the establishment of the United States as a nation, including during the War of Independence, fought 250 years ago, and later during the Civil War, which ended 160 years ago. It was stated that our countries are bound not only by their alliance during World Wars One and Two, but also by deeper historical ties. https://swentr.site/russia/620963-putin-trump-call-kremlin-statement/

    ​ Ukraine can negotiate and hold elections: Russian Drones & Missiles “Rained Down” On Kiev In One Of The War’s Most Devastating Attacks Yet
    ​ The Russian drone and missile attack comes just hours after President Trump and President Putin held a call that yielded little to no progress toward ending the years-long war.
    ​ Trump told reporters on Thursday before boarding Air Force One on his way to Iowa that he was “not happy” with the conflict raging on, adding, “I didn’t make any progress with him at all.”
    ​ Earlier in the week, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a pause in sending a shipment of missiles and ammunition to Ukraine over concerns about rapidly depleting U.S. stockpiles.
    ​ Axios noted that President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to speak with Trump later today to discuss the pause of the weapons shipments.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-drones-missiles-rained-down-kyiv-one-wars-most-devastating-attacks-yet

    ​Dima at Military Summary says massive Russian drone strikes on Kiev were retaliation for massive Ukrainian strikes on Donetsk City yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvy893eN8Uo

    ​Nothing new: Zelensky, Trump discuss air defense, joint drone production amid Russian strikes https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-trump-hold-phone-call-after-putins-pledge-to-continue-war-in-ukraine/

    #191437
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ The war over what America First means will soon move to a new theater: a battle over the fate of the Office of Director of National Intelligence. ​ ​ Two MAGA heavyweights will shape the outcome.​
    ​ Tulsi Gabbard, a skeptic of foreign intervention and President Trump’s current director of national intelligence, has already cut the ODNI workforce by 25% and finalized plans for additional reforms. Sources familiar with that effort tell RealClearPolitics that Gabbard is moving quickly but methodically not only to change the agency but to “set the example for all IC elements to emulate.”
    ​ Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, the hawkish chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, introduced legislation last week to shrink the size of the agency…
    ​..“They don’t want to reform the ODNI the way that Tulsi Gabbard and President Trump want to reform it,” said one senior intelligence official who complained that the Cotton bill would “just give the CIA more power.”
    ​ “This long predates Tulsi Gabbard being DNI. [Cotton] has been on the committee for 10 years now. It is a long time coming,” countered a Senate aide…​ ..“Prior DNIs were the head of the IC only on paper and were routinely accustomed to yielding IC actions and decisions to the preferences of the CIA and other agencies,” John Ratcliffe said ​…
    ​..The responsibility of reforming the ODNI now falls to Gabbard. When Elon Musk was marching through the administration in search of waste, fraud, and abuse, she was cutting staff and eliminating entire departments at the ODNI, such as the Intelligence Community Human Capital office which she dismissed as a “slush fund” for diversity, equity, and inclusion. “Find another agency who has reduced 25% of their workforce in less than 5 months,” the intel official bristled.
    ​ Gabbard will soon release her plan to overhaul the office further…
    ​..The administration has dismissed the idea that there are any rifts among the president’s national security team. Steven Cheung, White House communications director, told RCP last month that assertions otherwise were simply “efforts by the legacy media to sow internal division.”
    ​ And when the headlines implied that Gabbard seemed like she was in the barrel, Vice President JD Vance told RCP, unprompted, that that the opposite was true. “She’s an essential member of our national security team,” Vance said of Gabbard, who shares his skepticism of foreign wars, “and we’re grateful for her tireless work to keep America safe from foreign threats.”
    ​ Gabbard, a former Democrat who represented Hawaii in Congress for four terms, would normally have been an unorthodox pick to be the top intelligence official in a Republican administration. But she shares Trump’s rejection of “forever wars” and skepticism of intel agencies. Those characteristics seemed to make her straight out of central casting for a non-interventionist president eager to realign the right on foreign policy. They have also invited controversy.
    ​ Citing “the sheer volume of unrelenting attacks against her,” a senior administration official told RCP that “You can tell Tulsi touched the third rail.” This was not unexpected, they said, adding, “Of course, the deep state was going to fight back against being reduced and their power being decentralized.”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-maga-turf-war-over-national-intelligence

    Bombshell CIA Report Exposes How Obama’s Team Framed Trump
    ​ Former CIA Director John Brennan, former DNI James Clapper, and former FBI Director James Comey took “unusual” and direct control over the infamous Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that became the cornerstone of the Russia collusion hoax…
    ..These men didn’t just oversee the process—they commandeered it, sidelining career intelligence professionals and shutting out 13 of the 17 intelligence agencies from the assessment. Brennan handpicked the analysts, ensuring only the most compliant voices had a say. The National Intelligence Council, the body normally responsible for such crucial reports, was shoved aside. Why? Because the outcome was predetermined: manufacture a narrative that Trump was a Russian asset, no matter how flimsy the evidence.​..
    ..“The rushed timeline to publish both classified and unclassified versions before the presidential transition raised questions about a potential political motive behind the White House tasking and timeline.”
    ​ The review found that Brennan directed the compilation of the ICA, and that his, Comey’s and Clapper’s “direct engagement in the ICA’s development was highly unusual in both scope and intensity” and ”risked stifling analytic debate.”​ …
    ..John Ratcliffe, the former Director of National Intelligence, put it bluntly: “This was Obama, Comey, Clapper and Brennan deciding ‘We’re going to screw Trump.’” They manufactured the collusion narrative, stamped it with the authority of the intelligence community, and then classified the details to keep the public in the dark. It was, in essence, a soft coup—a direct assault on the will of the American people.​ https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/02/bombshell-cia-report-exposes-how-obamas-team-framed-trump-n4941393

    ​ A ​huge business operation ;-( The Biden Administration Basically Trafficked Migrant Children
    Under Joe Biden, the federal government didn’t just lose track of unaccompanied minors; it actively handed them over to criminals, abusers, and traffickers, putting these kids directly in harm’s way.​ https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/02/the-biden-administration-basically-trafficked-migrant-children-n4941383

    ​ Trump should ‘knock the f**k out’ of EU disinfo law – ex-State Dept official
    The US president should use “every tool in the hardball diplomacy toolkit” against Brussels, Mike Benz has said
    ​ The formerly voluntary Code of Conduct on Disinformation, which was integrated into the Digital Services Act (DSA) by Brussels earlier this year, became mandatory as of July 1. Under the law, major online platforms and search engines, mostly owned by US tech firms, are obliged to follow EU content rules or face penalties.
    ​ Benz, who worked on cybersecurity and internet policy at the State Department during Trump’s first term, took to X on Wednesday to warn that the likes of YouTube, X, Facebook, and Google would “now get whipped by huge EU fines.”
    ​ The Code of Conduct on Disinformation, which he described as a “Global Censorship Law,” had been the “secret weapon” of Brussels for a long time, but is now “fully unleashed,” the head of the self-described pro-free speech website Foundation For Freedom Online said.​ https://swentr.site/news/620925-eu-disinformation-code-trump/

    ​ Loyal ​Brown-​Shirts​ Needed, Apply ​Within: Professor Warns UK Government Is Preparing For Civil War, Using Russian Invasion Threat As Cover
    ​ “The fact of the matter is there is a great distance between us and Russia… we are not militarily threatened in a direct way on the ground by any obvious external enemy, even Russia,” Betz outlined.
    ​ “Which isn’t to say there aren’t things which Russia could do to attack the UK should they wish to, but one of those is not occupying the village green with Russian soldiers, that simply, frankly, is a rather bizarre assertion,” he contended.
    ​ “What they’re concerned about is domestic conflict, and they perfectly understand this, but that’s completely politically toxic for them to say so publicly, hence the convenience of saying ‘we need to develop… a citizen’s militia for the protection of critical infrastructure’,” Betz further noted.​ https://modernity.news/2025/07/02/professor-warns-uk-government-is-preparing-for-civil-war-using-russian-invasion-threat-as-cover/

    #191438
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ British PM Starmer could be on way out – Sky News​
    Labour lost ground to Reform UK in local elections in May, after the ruling party experienced a plunge in public support.
    ​ The prime minister could lose his position if Labour performs badly in the next vote across Wales, Scotland and London…
    ​..“I am hearing from ministers in government that Starmer might have to go in months,” the outlet’s deputy political editor Sam Coates said, describing “unhappiness and despair” in the Labour Party.
    ​ A day earlier, a controversial welfare bill proposed by the government passed in a watered-down form, after a number of Labour MPs rebelled against proposed cuts to social benefits.
    ​ This latest U-turn undermined the prime minister’s authority after a series of similar flip-flops in June, the BBC wrote on Wednesday.
    ​ Last month, Starmer bowed to pressure and ordered a national inquiry into the police handling of the massive Pakistani grooming gangs sex abuse scandal. Just months before, his administration had insisted the prior seven-year investigation into decades of systematic rape of young, vulnerable girls in the UK had been sufficient.​ https://swentr.site/news/620962-british-pm-could-quit/

    ​ Andrew Korybko, Why’d Erdogan Decide To Expand Turkiye’s Sphere Of Influence Eastwards?
    Assad’s downfall set into motion a fast-moving sequence of events that now threatens Russian influence in the South Caucasus, the Caspian Sea, and Central Asia; i.e. its entire southern periphery.
    ​ The latest developments in the South Caucasus are connected to the expansion of Turkiye’s sphere of influence eastwards towards the Caspian Sea and thenceforth Central Asia.​ https://korybko.substack.com/p/whyd-erdogan-decide-to-expand-turkiyes

    ​He signed it with great flair and no bomb went off: Watch Live: Trump Signs ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Into Law During Independence Day Event https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-live-trump-signs-big-beautiful-bill-law-during-independence-day-event

    Vinegar’s not working​. ​Try honey: Trump Sends Tariff Letters Threatening Up To 70% Levies, Sparking Fears Of Delayed Trade Deals​ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trump-sends-tariff-letters-threatening-70-levies-sparking-fears-delayed-trade-deals​

    ​ mRNA MANIA: Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex Convenes to Advance Global Genetic Manipulation Agenda
    Inside the 2025 Global Vaccine Forum, where microneedle patch “vaccines,” replicons, and AI-engineered injections took center stage—and plans to accelerate mRNA worldwide were unveiled.​ https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/mrna-mania-bio-pharmaceutical-complex

    #191439
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ A Midwestern Doctor: The Secret Campaign To Stop RFK Jr.
    A leaked document exposes the vast public relations operation we’ve fought for the last four years and shows why they’ve worked so hard to divide us​ https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-secret-campaign-to-stop-rfk

    ​Sasha Latypova thinks the opposition is all captured: MAHA-FDA are working their tushes off to make market$ for pharma!: It’s not the Epstein files https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/maha-fda-are-working-their-tushes

    Meryl Nass MD: “We’ve Become Serfs On Our Own Land”: The USDA Trap, Foreign Land Sales, And The Collapse Of American Farming 77 family farms vanish every day in the U.S. But what’s really killing them? A CHD.TV interview with rancher and Beef Initiative policy fellow Breeauna Sagdal reveals the trap: USDA regulations, monopolized meatpacking, foreign land grabs, and debt-servicing farmers who aren’t allowed to feed their neighbors.
    ​ In a wide-ranging Children’s Health Defense interview with Dr. Meryl Nass – a physician, biowarfare expert, and outspoken critic of pandemic-era overreach – Breeauna Sagdal of The Beef Initiative lays out how America’s farmers are being regulated, indebted, and squeezed off the land. From USDA slaughter restrictions to foreign land sales and monopolized meatpacking, the system isn’t broken—it’s rigged. And Sagdal says the only way out starts with shaking your rancher’s hand.​
    ​ Negative Income and the Two-Job Farmer​ … “I can’t even legally sell what I grow on my farm to any of my friends, family, or neighbors,” Sagdal says. Why? Because of USDA slaughter rules. With few exceptions, unless meat is processed at a USDA-inspected facility, and labeled with a USDA stamp, it’s illegal to sell. An issue compounded by the fact that just four companies have monopolized the few meatpacking plants that still exist. ​ https://www.zerohedge.com/food/weve-become-serfs-our-own-land-usda-trap-foreign-land-sales-and-collapse-american-farming

    ​ Big Maybe, ​about half of what’s eaten, and ​how ​might one ​facilitate this? Gut microbes could protect us from toxic ‘forever chemicals’
    ​ Scientists at the University of Cambridge have identified a family of bacterial species, found naturally in the human gut, that absorb various PFAS molecules from their surroundings. When nine of these bacterial species were introduced into the guts of mice to ‘humanise’ the mouse microbiome, the bacteria rapidly accumulated PFAS eaten by the mice – which were then excreted in faeces.
    ​ The researchers also found that as the mice were exposed to increasing levels of PFAS, the microbes worked harder, consistently removing the same percentage of the toxic chemicals. Within minutes of exposure, the bacterial species tested soaked up between 25% and 74% of the PFAS.​ https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gut-microbes-could-protect-us-from-toxic-forever-chemicals

    #191440
    aspnaz
    Participant

    AI is interesting, not because it can pretend to be thinking, but because of the challenges it presents to the elites. The whole world is ruled by consent – populations far outnumber rulers and their armies, populations could wipe rulers out with very little effort – based on individuals having too much to lose.

    The “too much to lose” principle is used everywhere, it is ubiquitous whenever there is an authority trying to control minions; work, play, prison, army etc etc. For example, on death row the individuals have hope that their appeals will get them out of the death sentence; without those appeals, far more prisoners would kill themselves with the blame being put squarely on the government. Another example, work managers will very rarely make decisions unless there is something in it for themselves. Everywhere, people calculate what they have to lose and will act on those selfish instincts.

    Given that AI will take away everybody’s jobs – if the tech elites have their way – the people will be impoverished, so how will they instill obedience through you having too much to lose? Manufacturing consent will not be possible if you are giving the people nothing; the people will instead eat you alive.

    Consequently they know they have to provide the people with something. Obviously, being greedy cunts, the elites will provide the plebs with as little as possible – that is their track record – so I assume we will be given food and drink, electricity etc in return for manual work that AI cannot yet do. I assume that Trump is getting rid of the illegal cheap labour so that he can turn white American labour into legal cheap labour.

    Along with the food and drink package will come the Palantir solution of surveillance. You will be watched and eventually, once your money has run out, you will live in a massive dormitory designed for plebs; Concentration camp style. How will they punish you? Well, I assume that they will take away your electricity, then your food, and if that does not work, you will be sent to the camp’s Gaza section.

    Technology making this a better world. Until they publicise their plans, I assume that the above is what the elites plan to impose.

    #191452
    zerosum
    Participant

    @ aspnaz
    Technology making this a better world. Until they publicise their plans, I assume that the above is what the elites plan to impose.

    First … What will they do with aspnaz?
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