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    Topcat
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    If Biden didn’t individually determine case by case if they deserved a pardon, then they are all null & void…..

    Contrast that to Trump

    He doesn’t need to issue ‘pardons’

    Cause he doesn’t prosecute anyone.

    Trump always Lies, but always in a Good Way©

    Epstein & Fauci Score Card

    9/10/25

    Grand Juries: Zero
    Indictments: Zero
    Arrests: Zero
    Convictions: Zero
    Sentences: Zero

    #195342
    Topcat
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    “Right now, millions of people are finding out you can become a magistrate judge in many states WITHOUT being a licensed lawyer — Teresa Stokes never passed the bar exam — fully empowered to let repeat criminal offenders roam the streets to murder innocents.”

    Teresa Stokes loves releasing repeat offenders

    #195343
    Topcat
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    #195344
    Topcat
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    #195345
    Topcat
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    Which leaves us with this:

    #195346
    Topcat
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    JB Pritzker, Governor of Illinois, thinks that Illegals aren’t doing anything illegal.

    Hahahaha!

    The Democrats are insane to stand for Illegals.

    It’s a 90-10 issue, and we don’t want them here.

    #195347
    Topcat
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    #195348
    Topcat
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    Culture is UP STREAM from ‘politics’ because it’s more significant

    #195349
    Topcat
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    #195350
    Red
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    WATCH: Audience ERUPTS as Vaccine Lawsuit Expert Aaron Siri TORCHES Democrat Sen. Blumenthal for Pathetic Attempt to Discredit Him — After Siri Exposes Buried Study Showing Vaccinated Kids Face SKYROCKETING Chronic Illness Compared to Unvaccinated Peers

    WATCH: Audience ERUPTS as Vaccine Lawsuit Expert Aaron Siri TORCHES Democrat Sen. Blumenthal for Pathetic Attempt to Discredit Him — After Siri Exposes Buried Study Showing Vaccinated Kids Face SKYROCKETING Chronic Illness Compared to Unvaccinated Peers

    #195351
    Red
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    Looks like Gilligan and the skipper have found another job!

    Major Red Sea undersea cables have been cut

    #195352
    Dr. D
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    South Korean Companies Have Been Playing Fast And Loose With Visas, Won’t Hire American Workers For US Factory Construction
    “They need to build a factory very, very quickly, and it’s very difficult to do that with extreme labour shortages in the US…”

    What the literal f—? We have 20% unemployment AND 20M imported people. Would you like to try again, sir?

    Maybe something about, you don’t want to train people and you don’t want to pay them?

    “Died from the vaccine” How would you prove that? I don’t disagree, but 1:1 proof?

    Gold 25x” — He didn’t say from what base. $250 seems awfully long ago at this point, but that’s $6,250.

    And: Not entirely. Nixon sort of REVEALED what had already existed, the U.S. already was broke due to LBJs Guns and Butter. They spent all this money, lost the support of the people (confidence) yet the market didn’t react…yet. We also know why, since the “London Gold Pool” was completely rigging prices, with full support of government, in true Capitalist fashion: Zero Market, Zero Market signals. That was 1968.

    So then everyone is upset NOT when the crime happens, but only when the Truth comes out.

    “1) Qatar is/was perhaps the no. 1 peace mediator in the area. Will now be Russia?!
    2) The Hamas people are in Doha because the US and others told them to go there (away from Gaza).
    3) So many Americans are in Qatar (huge military base) that Israel must have given the US a heads up well in advance. Can’t risk killing Americans.
    4) Qatar promised to invest $1 trillion in US.
    5) Neighbors, Saudi, Egypt, UAE, Turkiye etc. fear they could be next.
    6) The ‘precision’ strikes didn’t hit their targets. Decision makers are still alive.”

    Jesus Christ. Yes, we know Israel is already dead, but can’t they die a little faster? The death throes of a country are dangerous, as Germany already knew they had lost both WWI and WWII, and the deadliest fighting was after that internal understanding.

    “• Trump Condemns IDF Attack On Qatar (RT)

    Again, death throes. What are you doing to leverage against a Nutsy who will both be killed, jailed at a minimum, AND his whole nation and life purpose will be erased before his living eyes? Go ahead and tell me how you talk to him, I’ll wait. P.S. He has nukes, and everyone on staff longs to use them.

    .they have a $35 trillion currency debt, they’ll move it into the crypto cloud, devalue it, and start from scratch. That’s the reality for those who are so enthusiastic about crypto.”

    These words. They make no sense. Let me try: “GM, they have $35B in debt. They will move that to the US$/banking system, and start over. That’s the reality for those who trust the US$.”

    See the problem now?

    Uh, no, no effect on anyone, anywhere. If you own THEIR debt then yes, but that’s true now. Nothing changed. If you’re saying they’ll default on the French/EU citizens that’s also already true, and been done before. In fact, the digits they defaulted on last time were in a computer back then too.

    US Treasury Secretary Bessent threatened to punch FHFA Director Pulte in the face,”

    I mean, always fun, sell the Pay-per-view, but wtf? And what does that have to do with France? Bessant: aside, the reason he needs FHFA (Freddie, Fannie Mae) is THOSE ARE THE ASSETS ON THE US BALANCE SHEET.

    If he want to either slow-walk it forever, like RFK’s departments did, or LIE about it, like the BLS does for Jobs, inflation, etc, then Bessant NEEDS the REAL, true, honest accounting value of ALL properties in America – which is a f—k ton – in order to say “The US Dollar, and the United States are worth something and not bankrupt at all actually”

    Fannie is critical to the plans because there’s nothing as large, or as real as it is. So if Pulte f’s with it, he’s personally causing a bank run on the US as an open traitor. Because it IS worth something, and we need those numbers PRONTO. This could happen by Friday. Punching him in the nuts is too easy on him.

    “Over time, once part of the US national debt is placed into stablecoins, Washington will devalue that debt.”

    Okay, again: reality. Plumbing. Tether, for instance is backed by US Treasuries. It was all a scam before, but appears to be taken over by the Fed and is real now. Those Treasuries are not in “Cryptospace” they are paper documents at Tether HQ. So the only way to default on Tether is to default on Treasuries. Again, same thing, what’s the difference?

    I mean, this is government, they “Make S—t Up” all the time, never follow the law, but that would be true of paper Treasuries as well and often is. Say…we default only on China because reasons, or bc we’re at war.

    Also there’s no reason to. 1) Europe will collapse giving infinity bond support here 2) We have a zillion assets not listed on our books. Let’s say we’re 150% Debt/GDP. Yeah, if you regulate off half the GDP with EPA/CAFE regulations, then hide 2/3rds of our assets off the books, like ANWR. But you can RE-Add those in 12 hours. Oh and gold isn’t actually $40/oz? Maybe fix that?

    There’s nothing but the world’s best gold and silver mines from the Mississippi > West, ALL of which are shut down, where we could outpace Peru in 5 years. WTF would we default? We could nationalize them, but we don’t even NEED to.

    BRICS Unlikely To Last – Trump Trade Adviser Navarro (RT)

    Dinosaur, proven before. Keep telling yourself that, man. Are there stresses? Yes. And there are no stresses in US/DeGaulle? Germany/Italy? Turkey/Greece? Whatever.

    “• Trump Wants EU To Slap India and China With 100% Tariffs – FT (RT)

    So no one has read his book yet? From 1986? Too soon? I’m sure he DOES want to do that: we need to re-set the entire U.S. Monetary system pronto. By Friday even. We need an all-tariff income, independent of Stocks and Capital Gains. Did anything HAPPEN? Or are we all pretending that thinking and using words is the same as doing WORK again?

    Trump says a lot of things. So?

    Just yesterday, I heard he was dead AND he had already attacked and conquered Venezuela. That was a pretty busy day!

    The Internets is melting people’s brains down, like that scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

    Can he DO it? Also no. USSC may have said no outright, and Ultimately he is not God-Emperor and still needs Congress. “Congress?? What’s that???” everyone says. Ohh, you know, the body that passes LAWS and makes TREATIES. You may need one to have long-term tariff enforcements.

    FISA “Behind the J6 Committee Motive to Delete all Investigative Material (CTH)

    This is very legally complicated. However, I’m pretty sure I’d go even further than this guy, so yes.

    This is why I say, like markets, we haven’t followed the Constitution in 100 years. Almost everything they do is illegal. What did you think I meant when I say that? BC type of collection, it’s possible the entire NSA is illegal from the charter.

    “The Fed Caused High Inflation and The Current Jobs Slump (Lacalle)

    Question: if 20 Million people went home, would there still be a jobs slump?
    Question: That’s the Fed’s fault how?

    “Nate Cohn at the New York Times. “With Democrats leading by four points in the national generic ballot polls today,”

    Uhhhhh….you’re fired? Democrats are less popular than cancer right now. In their own party. With a +50% male hispanic vote going to Republicans.

    You can’t just say stuff. Sometimes it has to be true.

    “Lisa Cook has been granted a reprieve after her sorority-sister judge, Jia Cobb, temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from firing her”

    That IS crazy. So, there’s almost no possible grounds for firing at all. She could commit murder on camera, and until the OTHER court confines her to prison after a 2-year trial, she gets to serve and collect pay. Well, I have to admit, that sounds about right when Judges from around here committed crimes. The Governor themselves wouldn’t intervene and they used the STATE pay of 6-figures, to fight the State’s prosecutors in court. …And got off a few times until they committed yet MORE offenses while a judge. Arrested and in court.

    So a judge side-hustle in armed robbery is totally plausible. Not even kidding.

    Meanwhile the Media and Left are looking at Charlotte and saying “We’ve never heard of criminals getting light/no sentences and being released 13 times, if not forever.” Uh-huh. ‘Cause this is so old that Dirty Harry commented on it in 1975? And DEI? But we ain’t never seen/don’t know nuffin’. Shootings in Chicago?? First I’ve heard of it!!

    Boris Johnson Accused of Profiting From Government Contacts (RT)

    English Conservatives: Boris is the literal worst. Worse than any Labor, worse than Blair, as complete traitor to everything, including all England. (I agree, being cautiously optimistic at first) Follow: Farage appears to be trying to outdo Boris, we’re not sure yet. Farage is installing the entire Tory Party. Eg: Against the Digital (Infinite surveillance and censorship act) WHILE hand-picking its architect as one of the first new draft picks and making her the face on TV.

    Yup. Can’t make it up.

    Notice Trump basically won’t talk to him. This is WHILE Farage seems to be trying to Mini-Me Trump, calling for absolutely, unthinking loyalty with no debate. Uhhh….No? That is not Trump at all? That is, in fact, specifically and pointedly AntiTrump? That’s against everything Trump ever done as a leader? Despite all reports that he does this and it’s a cult?

    Trumps way is to hire two people who totally oppose each other, let them yell and punch each other in staff meetings. Then he picks one of the two arguments, or a third. That’s the OPPOSITE of everything being said here. The OPPOSITE of being a dictator, the OPPOSITE of Yes Men, and absolutely the OPPOSITE of never disagreeing in public. Right Elon?

    Also it appears people are able to criticize and even slander Great Leader with zero consequences 99.99% of the time? You might have noticed? Farage is the OPPOSITE of all Trump…and all Populism, for that matter. He’s a mole, personal opinion. Almost rather have Starmer than even TRY him.

    “Everything that preceded the 2020 federal election was a complex system of control by a network of ideologues, federal agencies, allies in the private sector, financial stakeholders and corrupt interests all working toward a common goal.”

    Like gerrymandering, they’ve now used every exploit. And are still losing Bigly. Where to now, Western Man? Raw open violence against everyone the way the Left has long said? I saw this again only this morning, “Fascists are incapable of understanding anything but violence.” Okay then, sold. That means you must kill them on sight, without warning. That is the immediate logical outcome of that view. Is that what you are publicly advocating, sir? I said. He will say no, because they are weaselly liars. That does not comport, is illogical, and does not match their actions. Violence is the ONLY hero, St. Luigi says.

    Well, I think you’ve all hit the high water mark and the U.S. didn’t fall. Completely. You’re on the outs from here. Too slowly.

    “United States Health Secretary calls on the Bill Gates funded World Health Organization to stop injecting babies with mercury.”

    That’s Cray-Cray. Babies LOVE Mercury! Can’t get enough of it! What kid won’t push away a boob to grab some mercury?

    #195353
    Dr. D
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    #195354
    Michael Reid
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    #195355
    John Day
    Participant

    I did not know that Bessent did those trades for Soros that week:

    “Moreover, US Treasury Secretary Bessent threatened to punch FHFA Director Pulte in the face, with additional expletives. That likely burgeoned his reputation in some circles: the man who as a young trader broke the Bank of England for Soros in 1992 arguably now wants to break the international financial architecture, and in the US’ favour.”

    #195356
    zerosum
    Participant

    … WORDS …

    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the Israeli attack as a “flagrant violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Qatar.”

    Now, … what will you do about it.

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    WORD GAMES

    Tariffs/Austerity
    A drastic austerity plan to payback loans …. unable to deal with fiscal deficit
    solve its financial problems at the world’s expense
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    WORD GAMES

    War… control … depopulation … words … lies
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    SYMBOLISM.
    The pic of the week, if not the year or decade, was the Putin, Xi and Modi trilateral handshake: Make Trade, Not War

    • The Eurasia High-Speed Train Keeps-a-Rollin’ (Pepe Escobar)
    • A Tectonic Shift Away from the West (Peter Koenig)

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    WORD GAMES

    • MTG Moves To Block Ukraine Aid (RT)

    US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has proposed removing $600 million in Ukraine support from the draft Pentagon spending bill, arguing that Americans’ “hard-earned tax dollars” should not go to foreign aid.

    The Georgia Republican proposed cancelling the allocation of these funds in the 2026 and 2027 fiscal years to shift priorities toward the US.
    With Donald Trump back in the White House, the US has dramatically cut military aid to Kiev, pausing more than $1 billion in planned funds.
    In a video post on X on Tuesday, Greene said that her amendment would strike $600 million from the defense bill, money that she noted “goes to Ukraine.”
    She argued that the US had already sent “over $175 billion to this war” and that it was “enough of your hard-earned tax dollars.”

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    #195357
    Topcat
    Participant

    White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro is Trump’s “Turd Meister”

    Navarro is a perfect example of Trump’s judgement in the people he surrounds himself with.

    A clueless pompous posturing geezer who thinks he’s an lower-upper management mafioso goon.

    He has done more to unite India and China than a dozen administrations in a row. The Indians of every walk of life and station in Indian society are apoplectic. Better China than the USSA

    Nice, a complete reflection of Trumptard’s utter lack of judgement and finesse, unless of course that is his super secret 7-D checkers goal of double triple reverse psychology of bring World Peace.

    Mission Accomplished

    #195358
    Topcat
    Participant

    #195359
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Benny Johnson video on black crime…

    Betrays the fact that he has no clue about how welfare works in this country TODAY, which is apparently how it has been for the past three decades.

    Women don’t get “paid” for having no father in the home…TODAY. Perhaps it was that way in the far past. But, TODAY, that concept is MALARKY.

    How do I know?

    Because I read the damn policy manual and researched how TANF works in Arizona because there was a time, many years ago, when I made so little money each month that I was *very* eligible for TANF. (Temporary Assistance to
    Needy Families.) I DECLINED to accept TANF because the program had exceedingly strict guidelines. I would have had to put my kids in daycare after school and found a job that paid me much less per hour for many more hours in order to comply with the program. That would not have worked because my level 2 autistic son did not have that diagnosis yet, and no daycare would have tolerated his behaviors. (At the time, I was called to the school once or twice a week — and he was not in a regular classroom, but a “behavior classroom” with extra aids.). My claims that daycare wasn’t a viable option would have fallen on deaf ears because his diagnoses at that time would have meant nothing to “officials.” Plus, it was hardly any money, and only available for a few months. It made no sense to jump through that number of hoops for such a small amount of money for such a short period of time. The trauma that complying with the program would do to my kids was not worth the program. And…although I didn’t realize it then, I was struggling with PTSD and could not handle the stress of a conventional job back then on top of everything else. (I did handle self-employment.)

    Reagan campaigned on ending the “welfare queen.” From what I understand, reform happened in the 1990s and “welfare” — implying cash payments to needy families — collapsed into TANF (a temporary program — hell, it is the first word in the name) — and the Earned Income Tax Credit. With the EITC, you get more money when you work more, up to a threshold, and then it is gradually phased out as the income increases. Neither program has anything to do with whether both parents are in the home — it is about income and household size — period.

    I agree with Benny Johnson that the primary explanation for why black men commit more violent crime is because of lack of fathers in the home. It is my understanding that one of the reasons for the “drug war” was to incarcerate black men for non-violent crimes — a replacement for “Jim Crow” laws. Black men were incarcerated for non-violent crimes, their sons grew up and without proper guidance they tended to commit violent crime — and now we have a terrible, self-perpetuating cycle. I also suspect that the murder of MLK Jr, Malcolm X, and other respectable, black religious and community leaders meant that there was a vacuum of positive black male role models. In fact, being an upright, religious male black role model could be hazardous to one’s health. Instead, we have had male black role models like P Diddy and Barack Obama — smarmy, corrupt men.

    We need to correct this societal ill. However, it cannot be corrected by stopping payments to single-parent households that hinge on there being only one parent in the home, because no such federal program exists. The TANF program has been jiggered to the point that it is only useful for a very small slice of the impoverished that may benefit from its strict guidelines. Also, it is temporary. Most folks don’t even realize that the primary form of “welfare” to impoverished families is the EITC — this is why low income families see “tax day” as “pay day.” It is the one time per year when they have a larger lump sum of money. There are all sorts of businesses that sell things to “the po’ folks” that have modeled their sales around this fact. Foolish people would jump on Benny Johnson’s bandwagon about stopping “welfare payments” and then, when it occurs, they are going to be furiously angry when, as a result, their own tax refund shrinks incredibly.

    #195361
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Divorce, 50/50 custody in Kentucky

    Oh, it is very “fair.” But it means that a parent that is dangerous gets access to the children because it is virtually impossible for anyone who is of lower income (and most parents emerging from a failed marriage are low income) to persuade a court that the other parent is “dangerous.” Sure, alcohol abuse will work. But what about when the problem parent stops using alcohol but continues to self-medicate with a cocktail of prescribed drugs, including SSRI, Ambien, and Xanax? Oh, that is A-OK to the family court, because those are doctor-prescribed, all the concerns about SSRIs and homicide notwithstanding. I actually managed to have a court mandated “custody study” done…it cost $36,000. It found some concerning problems with the kids’ father, recommended a special program for fathers with anger issues, and still recommended 50/50 custody of the children. Then, because of concerns about children being taken from a parent, the court handling protective orders does not want to intervene, even when the child had self-inflicted injuries and her own handwritten journal stated that her angst was due to her father. For that matter, the family court judge also refused to intervene in the same circumstance.. It required the insertion of DCS (AZ’s CPS) into the problem to get the family court to intervene. I suspect that the DCS rep explained to the family court judge that either the judge ordered “no contact” with the father or he would have to put a 15 year old girl into foster care because her mother was prevented by the family court from keeping the girl from harm.

    Yeah, 50/50 custody is great. For some. For others, it is tragic. (BTW – my daughter is doing very well 2 yrs later.)

    #195362
    John Day
    Participant

    ThankYou for the Clarity, Phoenixvoice.

    #195363
    John Day
    Participant

    Shifting Priorities https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/shifting-priorities

    Moon of Alabama comments on a Politico article (shrinking beats collapsing): When The Pentagon Shifts Its Priorities Will U.S. Strategy Follow?
    Is this a sign of a shift in the global U.S. strategy?
    Pentagon officials are proposing the department prioritize protecting the homeland and Western Hemisphere, a striking reversal from the military’s yearslong mandate to focus on the threat from China.
    A draft of the newest National Defense Strategy, which landed on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s desk last week, places domestic and regional missions above countering adversaries such as Beijing and Moscow, according to three people briefed on early versions of the report.
    The move would mark a major shift from recent Democrat and Republican administrations, including President Donald Trump’s first term in office, when he referred to Beijing as America’s greatest rival. And it would likely inflame China hawks in both parties who view the country’s leadership as a danger to U.S. security.
    “This is going to be a major shift for the U.S. and its allies on multiple continents,” said one of the people briefed on the draft document. “The old, trusted U.S. promises are being questioned.”
    The National Defense Strategy (NDS) is written by the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy which currently is held by arch-Realist Elbridge Colby.
    The draft of the new NDS seems to be a contradiction of his previous beliefs:
    Identifying as a realist, Colby believes China is the principal threat faced by the United States. He believes the US should shift its military resources to Asia to prevent a Chinese takeover of Taiwan. Colby supports reducing military aid to Ukraine. During the AUKUS review in 2025, Elbridge pressured Australia to confirm what role it would play in a war with China over Taiwan.
    Colby wants to change U.S. defense policy from concentrating on China, as he had previously argued, to the Western Hemisphere. He may have seen new facts that have moved his opinion.
    The failed attempt by the U.S. Navy to secure shipping through the Red Sea against attacks by Houthi in Yemen may have caused such rethink. As may have the loss of the US/NATO’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.
    Or did he compare videos of the ‘woke’ U.S. military parade in Washington DC (vid) earlier this year with the recent flawless one in China (vid)? The difference was indeed glaring. It demonstrated that the U.S. has no chance of winning in a war against China.
    Trump seems to concede that China is winning: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump – Sep 04, 2025, 22:14 UTC
    “Looks like we’ve lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest, China. May they have a long and prosperous future together!” President Donald J. Trump
    It is difficult to believe though that the Trump administration will be able to change U.S. grand strategy. Any change will typically happen only at a snail’s pace. It would need all party support over multiple administrations. The pivot to Asia was launched by the Obama administration in 2010 and has since has been followed by all later ones.
    More from Politico:
    Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon’s policy chief, is leading the strategy. He played a key role in writing the 2018 version during Trump’s first term and has been a staunch supporter of a more isolationist American policy. Despite his long track record as a China hawk, Colby aligns with Vice President JD Vance on the desire to disentangle the U.S. from foreign commitments.
    Colby’s policy team is also responsible for a forthcoming global posture review, which outlines where U.S. forces are stationed around the globe, and a theater air and missile defense review, which takes stock of U.S. and allies’ air defenses and makes recommendations for where to locate American systems. The Pentagon is expected to release both reviews as soon as next month.
    It is expected that the new global posture review will move U.S. military resources from Europe, and probably also from Asia, back to the States. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/09/when-the-pentagon-shifts-its-priorities-will-us-strategy-follow.html#more

    But none of the big cartels go there: Trump considering strikes in Venezuela – CNN
    The US president is reportedly weighing options to hit drug cartels in the country https://swentr.site/news/624200-us-potential-strikes-venezuela/

    U.S. Deploys F-35 Fighter Jets in Puerto Rico airfield to prepare military operations against drug cartels. https://armyrecognition.com/news/aerospace-news/2025/flash-info-u-s-deploys-f-35-fighter-jets-in-puerto-rico-airfield-to-prepare-military-operations-against-drug-cartels

    Alex Krainer, Of empires and famines
    British Empire used famine as a weapon of war dozens of times. It will continue to do so until it is defeated and quarantined from the rest of humanity. The unbearable, yet persisting blight on humanity today is the deliberate starvation of the two million Palestinian people in Gaza, or however many are still left alive. The figure is probably closer to 1.5 million. It may seem like the worst thing humanity has witnessed since who knows when except that, unfortunately, it’s only the most recent and most widely reported example of the empire’s monstrous misdeeds…
    ..The true nature of the Western empire has been carefully concealed from us behind the glossy façade of the Western “civilization.” Today’s empire is a reincarnation of the undead British Empire, whose DNA it still carries. The more we learn about this empire, the uglier it looks. As an example, it seems that many, if not most of the famines recorded in history weren’t natural disasters nor consequences of wars but results of deliberate policy aimed at subjugating populations and forcing them to accept colonial control and slavery.
    This may seem like an exaggeration, but British statesman and Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli explicitly said as much himself. He explained that the objective of the British Empire was to
    “Gain and hold territories that possess the largest supplies of the basic raw materials. Establish naval bases around the world to control the sea and commerce lanes. Blockade and starve into submission any nation or group of nations that opposes this empire control program.” (Knuth, E.C. “Empire of the City,” 1946, p. 57) …
    ..Are things any better today? Perpetrating a genocide may be a matter of necessity, reserved only for the unruly, uppity subjects, but as we can see, it is still practiced, even in full light of day. Indeed, the empire’s DNA and its mindset never changed, and this is who rules over us to this day.
    In April 1974, Henry Kissinger, then Nixon’s Secretary of State and National Security Adviser sent out a classified memo to select cabinet officials. The title of the memo was, “Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for US Security and Overseas Interests,” and it was commissioned on the recommendation of John D. Rockefeller III and came to be called, more famously, NSSM 200, for National Security Study Memorandum 200.
    In it, Kissinger addressed the difficulty of controlling resource rich areas of the world against the social pressures borne of growing world populations and went on to suggest the kinds of coercive measures the US should consider. He bluntly stated that food aid should be considered as “an instrument of national power,” and that the US should ration food aid to “help people who can’t or won’t control their population growth.”
    The NSSM 200 made depopulation in foreign developing countries an explicit, if secret, national security priority of the United States for the first time. In that, the policy of the British Empire was simply grafted onto the US foreign policy…
    ..In July of 2022, the UN published an article titled, “The Benefits of World Hunger,” by one George Kent. Kent is a university professor, of course. He argued that, “hunger has great positive value to many people,” which might be correct. In particular, it would have great positive value to people like John D. Rockefeller III and whoever pays Mr. Kent’s tenure at the University of Hawaii.
    Kent explained why hunger is so very beneficial: “… it is fundamental to the working of the world’s economy. Hungry people are the most productive people, especially where there’s need for manual labour.”…
    ..What the Israelis are doing in Gaza (and in the West Bank and south Lebanon) today, may really seem unique and unprecedented in its unhinged savagery, but sadly, it isn’t. The collective punishment of an entire people, indiscriminate killing of tens of thousands and forced starvation of all others is the Empire’s long established modus operandi. Israel, which is the creation of that Empire, is implementing it faithfully. https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/of-empires-and-famines

    #195364
    John Day
    Participant

    US In ‘Very Deep Negotiations’ With Hamas To End Gaza Conflict, Trump Says
    Trump reiterated calls for Hamas to release all of the remaining hostages in a bed to end the carnage.
    “We said let them all out right now. Let them all out, and much better things will happen for them. But if you don’t let them all out, it’s going to be a tough situation. It’s going to be nasty. That’s my opinion. Israel’s choice, but that’s my opinion,” the president said during a White House press briefing. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-very-deep-negotiations-hamas-end-gaza-conflict-trump-says

    Hamas Accuses Trump Of A Set-Up In Doha, After 5 Leaders Killed In Israeli Strike
    Hamas has claimed in an official statement that Israel failed in its attempt to assassinate the group’s negotiations team; however, it acknowledged that five of its members were killed in the Tuesday Israeli aerial attack on Doha, including the son of the group’s chief negotiator Khalil Al-Hayya.
    There’s been some back-and-forth on whether the US greenlighted the operation ahead of time, but reports say the White House was informed once the operation had already been ordered by Netanyahu. Trump officials then quickly informed Qatar. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/explosions-rock-doha-israel-targets-top-hamas-leaders-assassination-operation

    Middle East Eye is purportedly CIA-linked, so CIA discredits Trump even more?: Trump ‘blessed’ Israeli strikes on Qatar, sources say
    US ambassador’s official residence is in the same vicinity as the area targeted by Israel during strikes on Doha
    US President Donald Trump “blessed” Israel’s attack on Doha, Qatar which targeted senior Hamas officials, US and regional officials have told Middle East Eye. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-blessed-israeli-strike-qatar-sources-say

    Yoram Hazony, the Israeli agent Benjamin Netanyahu dispatched to control the nationalist right in America and Europe, opened his speech at NatCon25 on Tuesday by declaring, “We’re in power.”
    “I think that the Trump administration is the best administration I’ve ever seen,” Hazony told attendees at during his plenary address at his event in Washington, DC. “I get up in the mornings and I’m happy, and my wife knows, like, I’m never happy.”
    “We’re just … 10 years after the Trump movement, 10 years after Brexit, and we’re in power,” he boasted. https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=65026

    INTERVIEW: ‘Most barbaric atrocities’: Palestinian journalist, British surgeon testify to Israel’s genocide in Gaza https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/interview-most-barbaric-atrocities-palestinian-journalist-british-surgeon-testify-to-israels-genocide-in-gaza-3707502

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    ‘Leave or die’ warnings trigger new Gaza City displacement https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250906-leave-or-die-warnings-trigger-new-gaza-city-displacement/

    Netanyahu boasts Israel bombed 50 Gaza high-rises in 2 days, vows more
    Israeli PM says demolitions are a “prelude” to a major ground operation in Gaza City; Hamas condemns remarks as “criminal sadism”. https://trt.global/world/article/be6fcbf92778

    Attacks against Palestinians by Israeli forces, illegal settlers up 39% in West Bank: UN https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/attacks-against-palestinians-by-israeli-forces-illegal-settlers-up-39-in-west-bank-un-3707497

    Israel turning prisons into ‘torture grounds’ with new weapons: Palestinian group https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/israel-turning-prisons-into-torture-grounds-with-new-weapons-palestinian-group-3707521

    Israel’s top court says government is not giving Palestinian prisoners enough food
    Justices rule state is legally obliged to ensure ‘basic level of existence’ and orders authorities to improve nutrition https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/07/israels-supreme-court-says-government-is-not-giving-palestinian-prisoners-enough-food

    #195366
    John Day
    Participant

    UNICEF: Near-total collapse of Gaza’s health sector
    UNICEF announced that Gaza’s health sector is facing a near-total collapse, with only 18 out of 36 hospitals operational and a severe shortage of medicines and supplies. https://hawarnews.com/en/unicef-near-total-collapse-of-gazas-health-sector

    Israel’s Smotrich Says West Bank Villages Should Be Destroyed Like Cities in Gaza After Jerusalem Shooting
    Smotrich also said the PA must ‘disappear from the map’ even though the PA condemned the attack, which killed six Israelis https://news.antiwar.com/2025/09/08/israels-smotrich-says-west-bank-villages-should-look-like-destroyed-gaza-cities-after-jerusalem-shooting/

    Global Day of Action: Over 300,000 march in London to demand justice for Gaza https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250906-global-day-of-action-over-300000-march-in-london-to-demand-justice-for-gaza/

    890 arrested at London protest in support of Palestine Action, say police https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/890-arrested-at-london-protest-in-support-of-palestine-action-say-police/3680733

    Police arrest RAF veteran protesting genocide as UK prepares state visit for Israeli war criminal
    The UK government is preparing to host Israeli President Isaac Herzog later this month, rolling out the red carpet for the head of state of a country formally accused of genocide by the International Court of Justice. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250908-police-arrest-raf-veteran-protesting-genocide-as-uk-prepares-state-visit-for-israeli-war-criminal/

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    Participant

    Israel paid Google $45m to help cover up Gaza starvation
    Israel reportedly paid Google $45 million for a six-month advertising campaign to convince people that UN reports of famine in Gaza were ‘lies’. https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-paid-google-45m-help-cover-gaza-starvation

    Israeli Attacks and Starvation Kill 71 More Palestinians in Gaza Over 24 Hours – At least six Palestinian, including two children, died of malnutrition due to the Israeli siege https://news.antiwar.com/2025/09/08/israeli-attacks-and-starvation-kill-71-more-palestinians-in-gaza-over-24-hours/

    Tens of thousands of protesters draw the Red Line for Gaza in Brussels https://www.euronews.com/2025/09/07/tens-of-thousands-of-protesters-draw-the-red-line-for-gaza-in-brussels

    44 Nations in the Global Sumud Flotilla: The Largest Civilian Mission to Break Gaza’s Siege in Over a Decade https://www.telesurenglish.net/global-sumud-flotilla-gaza-2025/

    ‘This is a sign of awakening’: Italian MP Arturo Scotto to join Global Sumud Flotilla https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/this-is-a-sign-of-awakening-italian-mp-arturo-scotto-to-join-global-sumud-flotilla-3707596

    #195368
    John Day
    Participant

    Italy vows to protect citizens on Gaza flotilla as Mandela’s grandson joins aid mission
    Italian PM Giorgia Meloni pledged protection for Italians on the Gaza flotilla as Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla joined the mission to break Israel’s siege. https://www.newarab.com/news/italian-pm-vows-protection-citizens-joining-gaza-flotilla

    Aid flotilla activists say determined to reach Gaza despite ‘drone attack’ https://www.arabnews.com/node/2614618/middle-east

    One year on, family of US citizen killed by Israel still seeking justice
    Aysenur Ezgi Eygi’s loved ones say they will continue to pursue accountability for her 2024 killing in the occupied West Bank. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/6/one-year-on-family-of-us-citizen-killed-by-israel-still-seeking-justice

    UAE, Jordan, Arab Parliament condemn Israeli calls for displacement of Palestinians https://www.arabnews.com/node/2614366/middle-east

    Trump threatens UN visa ban for Brazil amid anger over Pro-Palestine diplomacy https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250907-trump-threatens-un-visa-ban-for-brazil-amid-anger-over-pro-palestine-diplomacy/

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    WES
    Participant

    Feminism:

    My read on extreme Feminism is that most of these women have fatally lost the understanding of the true meaning of life.

    Feminists are being rather shortsighted, as they will all simply be replaced by women who want children.

    Right now that seems to be Muslim women.

    If I was a twenty year Christian man now, wanting to get married and raise a family, marrying a Muslim woman might be my only option in today’s reality.

    Note even back in the 1980s, it took me until I was 40, to find a deaf woman who wanted to get married and raise a family.

    So it was very tough even back in the so called “good old days”.

    For a traditional thinking man, the thought of living in a Muslim world verses living in a Feminist’s world doesn’t seem so bad.

    Brainwashed Feminists are surely on track to make their kind go extinct.

    Feminists are committing genocide, willingly, and nothing can stop them.
    Trying to change their minds is sadly futile.

    It certainly isn’t the world I would prefer to have to live in.

    Maybe the “Year 2525” song lyrics were right?
    Test tube babies, anyone?

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    John Day
    Participant

    Report: Congress moves to block Turkey’s F-35 purchase over support for Palestinian resistance https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250908-report-congress-moves-to-block-turkeys-f-35-purchase-over-support-for-palestinian-resistance/

    ​Israel just gets another warning from everybody… Trump condemns IDF attack on Qatar
    The strike on a close US ally was Israel’s “unilateral” decision, the president has insisted​ https://swentr.site/news/624391-trump-israeli-attack-qatar/

    ​ After Israel’s strike on Doha, is Moscow the last mediator?
    A Russian expert explains how Moscow and Beijing can help solve the unresolvable war between Israel and Hamas
    ​ On Tuesday evening, Israel conducted a “precision strike” against the “senior leadership of Hamas” in Doha, Qatar. Along with the US and Egypt, Qatar has led several attempts to end the Israel-Hamas war, while also serving as Hamas’ headquarters outside of Gaza for years. Despite Qatar being regarded as an important US ally and hosting the huge Al Udeid airbase used by the US Air Force, West Jerusalem still claimed the strike to be an action against terrorists and nobody else.​ https://www.rt.com/news/624381-after-israels-strike-on-doha/

    Escape Key traces the history: A Marshall Plan for Ukraine – From conditional aid to conditional governance
    The Marshall Plan didn’t just rebuild Europe — it installed a new operating system for governance. What began as conditional aid (money for compliance with planning requirements) evolved into today’s global architecture where access to finance, trade, and legitimacy depends on performance against expert-defined metrics.
    This system now operates through six enforcement rails: accreditation, finance, credentials, audit, data, and procurement. Ukraine demonstrates all six rails operating simultaneously under emergency conditions, serving as a live prototype for planetary governance.
    The 2025 convergence of the WHO Pandemic Agreement and UN Emergency Platform creates a standing switchboard to activate these mechanisms globally during future declared ‘complex shocks’…
    ..Sovereignty itself is not technically abolished — it is routed through dashboards packed with arbitrary metric frameworks such as the SDG indicators, WHO Health Indicators, and Aichi biodiversity targets. States retain symbolic sovereignty while decisive authority migrates to expert networks managing global indicators and controlling financial penalties for non-compliance…
    ..Michel Crozier (2007/2008) — ‘Recursive Governance: Contemporary Political Communication and Public Policy‘ provides a foundational analysis of how modern policy systems have evolved from linear command structures into multi-loop communication systems that continuously rewrite their own rules…
    ..Computational ethics research explores how normative constraints can be formalised into algorithmic decision-making systems. This work provides the conceptual bridge from ‘standards and audits’ to algorithmic enforcement of compliance requirements, showing how ethics frameworks can be converted into machine-readable protocols that operate automatically within procurement, finance, and access control systems. This research shows how the enforcement rails can operate as ‘moral machines’ that embed value judgements into technical infrastructure…
    ..A common response is that rather than opposing this system entirely, we could propose procedural checks that preserve its coordination benefits while preventing authoritarian drift — because ‘the system really does address genuine issues’…
    ..Granted, these steps would progress us towards making the system democratically accountable. However, they wouldn’t technically stop adaptive management. Yet, none of these will be up for debate for the very same reason it has never been debated in the first place: You’re not supposed to know…
    ..Bailey’s tradition identified 2025 as the year of ‘externalisation of the hierarchy’ — when esoteric principles would surface through world institutions. The convergence of the WHO Pandemic Agreement and UN Emergency Platform can be read as the institutional materialisation of that forecast: what Bailey framed as enlightened world government appears, in practice, as adaptive governance systems that continually adjust themselves through expert oversight and algorithmic feedback…
    ..This framework clarifies why technocratic governance feels constitutional rather than merely bureaucratic. Each enforcement rail operationalises a fundamental archetype of legitimate authority — power, wisdom, intelligence, harmony, knowledge, devotion, and order. The system’s effectiveness lies in its ability to invoke these deep patterns of legitimacy while at the same time inverting their expression into control mechanisms that operate beyond democratic oversight. https://escapekey.substack.com/p/a-marshall-plan-for-ukraine

    British Court: Migrants Officially Supplant Natives in ‘Hierarchy of Rights’
    Home Office lawyers told the Court of Appeal that Yvette Cooper had a duty as Home Secretary to prevent asylum seekers from being made destitute under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and so they should continue to live at the Bell Hotel.
    They claimed this responsibility trumped the council’s powers to close the hotel, which has been at the centre of protests in recent weeks after an asylum seeker living there was accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old schoolgirl. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-09-05/british-court-migrants-officially-supplant-natives-hierarchy-rights

    #195371

    From Huffpo (!!) via a comment on zh, a little tale of flu statistics that’s pretty interesting.

    #195372
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Anybody but the US Navy: Elite UK divers likely behind Nord Stream sabotage – Putin aide
    Ukraine lacked the expertise to bomb the Baltic Sea pipelines, Nikolay Patrushev has said​ https://swentr.site/russia/624259-elite-uk-divers-likely-behind/

    ​ At least mentions Sy Hersch: Why is Germany covering for the terrorists that attacked it?
    The worst act of eco-terrorism in recent history has become a surreal exercise in convenient blame-shifting​
    ​ Fed with that nonsense, we are also asked to believe that the US had nothing to do with the attack. Never mind the revelations of Seymour Hersh, star US investigative journalist, and the fact that America had a perfect motive, as had Germany’s friendly neighbor Poland (in both cases a combination of clear and brutal financial interests and cold-blooded geopolitics). https://www.rt.com/news/624234-germany-nord-stream-terrorism/

    ​ Trump cutting military funding to NATO countries bordering Russia – The US president has insisted European member states spend more on their own defense​ https://swentr.site/news/624191-trump-military-funding-europe-nato/

    ​ US lawmaker moves to block Ukraine aid
    American funds should not be used for “foreign wars” while the country faces $37 trillion in debt, Marjorie Taylor Greene has claimed​ https://swentr.site/news/624332-us-ukraine-funding-cut/

    That might be close enough… Zelensky claims ‘victory’ is avoiding total loss of Ukraine
    Moscow has repeatedly stressed it has no intention of seizing the neighboring country​ https://swentr.site/russia/624264-ukraine-winning-putin-occupation/

    #195373
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    Participant

    Maybe Turkey or Hungary? Zelenskyy rejects Putin’s proposal to meet in Moscow and offers to talk in Kyiv https://www.euronews.com/2025/09/06/zelensky-putin-may-come-to-kiev

    But not the ones who armed Ukraine: Russia has no desire for revenge – Lavrov
    Moscow is open to welcoming Western businesses back, with certain conditions, the foreign minister has said​
    ​ “When our former Western partners come to their senses… we will not push them away. But we… will take into account that, having fled at the order of their political leaders, they have shown themselves to be unreliable,” the minister said. https://swentr.site/russia/624293-russia-no-desire-revenge-west/

    ​ I think he is writing himself out of the script as ordered, to survive and go away: Zelensky has insulted Trump. Is he suicidal?
    The Ukrainian leader risks alienating the only power besides Moscow with a realistic approach to ending the war​ https://swentr.site/news/624279-zelensky-insults-trump-suicidal/

    ​ UK, France and Poland still want Ukrainian resources & territory: Orban outlines EU security ‘guarantee’ plan
    The Hungarian prime minister says Ukraine should be split into areas controlled by Russia and the West, separated by a buffer zone​ https://swentr.site/news/624278-orban-eu-guarantee-ukraine/

    ​ De-dollarizing “threat”: ‘Blackmail’, ‘trade war’ — Brazil, China, India denounce US tariffs in emergency BRICS summit
    BRICS members Brazil and India are among the countries hardest hit by US President Trump’s tariffs, while new sanctions against Russia over Ukraine war are expected.
    ​ The virtual meeting, which lasted 1-1/2 hours, brought together leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, and Ethiopia, Brazil’s government said in a separate statement.
    ​ The group discussed the risks posed by the resurgence of unilateral measures, particularly in international trade, and explored ways to strengthen mechanisms for solidarity, coordination, and trade among BRICS nations, the statement said.​ https://trt.global/world/article/066530b364a2

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    ​ A Murder That Says So Much About U.S.
    Slaughter of a Ukrainian girl on a Charlotte, NC light rail train shows what a shabby horror show U.S. cities have become.​ https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/a-murder-that-says-so-much-about

    ​ Charlotte Pocketed $3.3M From Left-Wing NGO To Empty Jails For ‘Racial Equity’
    It’s now widely known that Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, Zarutska’s killer, had been previously arrested 14 times in North Carolina for crimes ranging from assault to firearms possession, and whose own mother admitted he was schizophrenic and should never have been allowed back on the streets, was recently released on cashless bail (before he killed Zarutska) by a progressive magistrate judge despite a two-decade violent crime spree.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/woke-kills-ngo-machine-pushed-jail-cuts-north-carolina-county-monster-stabbed-ukrainian

    ​ Trump comments on knife murder of Ukrainian woman
    The US president has accused the Democrats of letting “a mentally deranged lunatic” roam the streets​ https://swentr.site/news/624310-trump-ukrainian-woman-stabbing/

    “We Have To Respond… We Have To Be Vicious”: Trump Rages After Charlotte Subway Stabbing​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/blmers-launch-gofundme-subway-stabber-charlotte-mayor-urges-video-censorship

    ​ Alex Berenson, On black violence, woke lies, and right-wing rage
    You’ve seen the photo.
    ​ A man stands behind a woman, his arms raised in a frenzy. She sits, focused on her phone, oblivious to the danger behind her. He is about to slash her neck and leave her to bleed to death.
    ​ The man is black. The woman is white.
    And their races are no coincidence.
    ​ Black men commit a huge amount of violent crime in the United States.
    Every statistic confirms this fact. Black people made up almost 47,000 of the 81,000 murder suspects whose race was known to police in the last five years, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Most of those killers are men.
    ​ Put another way, black men, who make up about one-fourteenth of the American population, commit over half of the homicides.
    In some cities, the disparities are so stunning as to nearly defy belief. St. Louis has about the same number of black and white people, about 130,000, along with 40,000 Asians and Latinos. So far this year, St. Louis police have identified 83 murder suspects. None are Asian or Latino. Three are white.​ The other 80 are black, 73 men and seven women.​ https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/on-black-violence-woke-lies-and-right

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    Participant

    FBI Director, Transportation Secretary Investigating Charlotte Stabbing Murder​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-director-transportation-secretary-investigating-charlotte-stabbing-murder

    Democrats ‘Hate’ Trump More Than They ‘Love’ Their Communities, Homan Says​ https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/08/watch-democrats-hate-trump-more-than-they-love-their-communities-homan-says/

    ​ I’d write “Joe Biden”, myself: Was Joe Biden Worse Than Jeffrey Epstein?
    Did Joe Biden’s border policies enable exploitation on a scale that makes Epstein look like a small-time operator?​ …
    ​..Now, thanks to President Trump’s commitment to cleaning up this mess, we’re getting our first real look at the carnage Biden left behind. According to an exclusive report from Fox News Digital, the Trump administration has assembled a dedicated team to track down these missing children, and what they’ve found should haunt every American parent. So far, they’ve located over 22,000 children and arrested more than 400 sponsors.
    ​ Authorities sadly found that 27 children died from murder, suicide, or drug overdoses.
    ​ But the living children may have suffered even worse fates. “We found children who have been raped,” says John Fabbricatore, senior advisor at the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement. The team has uncovered cases of debt bondage, where children work as virtual slaves to pay off trafficking debts. They’ve found minors “treated like sexual slaves,” and discovered children in homes where sponsors are heroin dealers, leading to overdose deaths.​ https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/09/06/was-joe-biden-worse-than-jeffrey-epstein-n4943413

    70% of ICE Arrests Are Charged/Convicted Criminals​ https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/09/06/70-of-ice-arrests-are-chargedconvicted-criminals-n4943406#google_vignette

    ​ Time is money. They bring construction teams they can rely upon: South Korean Companies Have Been Playing Fast And Loose With Visas, Won’t Hire American Workers For US Factory Construction https://www.zerohedge.com/political/south-korean-companies-have-been-playing-fast-and-loose-visas-wont-hire-american-workers

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    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Another Tremendous Supreme Court Victory for Trump!
    The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a major victory on Monday, greenlighting his push for tougher immigration enforcement in Los Angeles. In a 6-3 ruling, the Court lifted a lower-court injunction that had barred federal agents from conducting raids without what the judge had called “reasonable suspicion.”​ https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/09/08/another-tremendous-supreme-court-victory-for-trump-n4943454#google_vignette

    ​ Tick, tick, tick … The Gamechanger: Merz Plunges Germany Into A Debt Crisis
    Political chaos in Berlin, including early elections and failed budget negotiations, delayed the adoption of the federal budget this year. On Friday, the Union parties reached agreement with the SPD in the Budget Committee on the final budget. Germany will spend €502.55 billion over the course of the year, continuing its fiscal record chase – year after year, the political circus demands ever-increasing allocations.
    ​ There is no talk of austerity or structural consolidation of state finances, despite the deep economic depression in the private sector. Still, on Friday, the term “gamechanger” circulated in coalition circles with regard to the budget.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/gamechanger-merz-plunges-germany-debt-crisis

    ​ Nuclear-armed, like Israel: French government collapses
    Prime Minister Francois Bayrou has been ousted by the National Assembly in a no-confidence vote​ https://swentr.site/news/624286-french-government-collapse-bayrou/

    ​ The precipice of UNINVEST​ABILITY: France headed for ‘black hole’ – financial expert
    PM Francois Bayrou’s government lost a no-confidence vote in parliament amid attempts to rein in the country’s ballooning sovereign debt
    ​ Financier Charles Gave said that should the Fitch credit rating agency downgrade France’s rating from AA to A, it would prompt institutional investors to sell off its government bonds.​ “There are a number of institutions, [such as] central banks and insurance companies, that cannot invest in something that is below AA,” he clarified.​ https://swentr.site/business/624380-france-financial-black-hole/

    ​ How soon? French debt a danger to Eurozone – DW
    Paris has little chance of reining in its finances amid ongoing “political destabilization,” the German state media network has reported
    ​ France has one of the highest national debts in the EU, currently standing at €3.35 trillion ($3.9 trillion) — about 113% of GDP. The ratio is expected to climb to 125% by 2030. Its budget deficit is projected at 5.4–5.8% this year, well above the bloc’s 3% limit.
    ​ Friedrich Heinemann of the ZEW Leibniz Center for European Economic Research in Mannheim, Germany, told the outlet in an article published on Saturday “we should be worried. The eurozone is not stable at this point.”​ https://swentr.site/news/624294-dw-france-debt-poses-threat-euro-zone/

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    John Day
    Participant

    ​ A Shove Off the Cliff: Trump wants EU to slap India and China with 100% tariffs – FT
    Washington would “mirror” any penalties imposed by Brussels, a US official has claimed​ https://swentr.site/news/624387-trump-eu-india-china-tariffs/

    ​ Sacre Bleu Monday​ By Michael Every of Rabobank
    As expected, the French government collapsed yesterday, leaving the country in political chaos just as it needs to deal with massive economic and national security challenges. President Macron has ruled out a snap election.​..
    ​..Moreover, US Treasury Secretary Bessent threatened to punch FHFA Director Pulte in the face, with additional expletives. That likely burgeoned his reputation in some circles: the man who as a young trader broke the Bank of England for Soros in 1992 arguably now wants to break the international financial architecture, and in the US’ favour. While many in DM who don’t see it, those in EM do – albeit in exaggerated form.
    ​ Putin advisor Kobyakov just stated: “The US is now trying to rewrite the rules of the gold and cryptocurrency markets. Remember the size of their debt – $35 trillion. These two sectors –crypto and gold– are essentially alternatives to the traditional global currency system. Washington’s actions in this area clearly highlight one of its main goals: to urgently address the declining trust in the dollar. As in the 1930s and the 1970s, the US plans to solve its financial problems at the world’s expense, this time by pushing everyone into the “crypto cloud.” Over time, once part of the US national debt is placed into stablecoins, Washington will devalue that debt. Put simply: they have a $35 trillion currency debt, they’ll move it into the crypto cloud, devalue it, and start from scratch. That’s the reality for those who are so enthusiastic about crypto.”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/sacre-bleu-monday

    ​Treasury needs the Fannie & Freddy Mortgage numbers to collateralize the $US, PRONTO: US Treasury secretary threatened to punch official in his ‘f***ing face’ – media
    Scott Bessent reportedly had a heated clash with housing regulator Bill Pulte at a private Trump-aligned dinner
    ​ Omeed Malik, co-owner of the club, reportedly intervened to prevent further escalation. Malik separated the two men after Bessent told him, “It’s either me or him. You tell me who’s getting the f* out of here. Or we could go outside.” When Pulte asked, “To talk?” Bessent responded, “No, I’m going to f*ing beat your ass.” The two were then seated at opposite ends of the dinner table, the outlets said.​ https://swentr.site/news/624355-bessent-pulte-wild-tirade/

    ​ The Debt Surge Ahead​ Haven’t we just passed by a dead end sign?​
    ​This banking system of ours is a Ponzi scheme on epic proportions. Any interest rate above 0.0% guarantees that loans (and therefore the money supply) will eventually spiral out of control — except for a debt jubilee, or at least discovering another habitable planet chuck full of resources every once in a while.
    ​ Other than these two options, debt levels will eventually run out of control — and this is a mathematical certainty, not an opinion.
    ​ So to answer the questions posed by the departure of energy prices from already too high debt levels: another surge in the debt to GDP ratio seems highly unlikely. If it were to happen, the resulting (hyper-)inflation would kill the economy and “force” central banks to raise interest rates significantly (and thereby kill raw material and energy supply).
    ​ If debt levels remain the same despite growing energy prices, on the other hand, households and businesses alike will become unable to pay for energy and other critical material inputs, leading to a crash in consumption and quite possibly a combination of deflation and economic decline. Well, damned if you do​; damn​ed if you don’t. Honestly, what did we expect? Infinite growth to last forever?​ https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-debt-surge-ahead

    He Protesteth: “Not A Jobs Recession”: Bessent Doubles Down On Tariffs, Predicts Economic Surge, Slams Goldman & Moody’s​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/not-jobs-recession-bessent-doubles-down-tariffs-predicts-economic-surge

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    John Day
    Participant

    Financial elites​ see the crash coming and are tightening every ​police-state screw on public speech in anticipation: Britain’s Spirit of Freedom Is Dying​ https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2025/09/08/britain-the-land-that-taught-the-world-liberty-now-punishes-free-speech-n4943458

    Unraveling​ the “Biden​ “legacy: BREAKING BIG: Marjorie Taylor Green Sends Formal Request to DOJ and FBI to Investigate Georgia’s 2020 Election​ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/breaking-marjorie-taylor-green-sends-formal-request-doj/

    ​ US Justice Department opposes release of names of Epstein associates who received large payments
    Agency asks judge to keep secret names of 2 associates paid $100K, $250K in 2018​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-justice-department-opposes-release-of-names-of-epstein-associates-who-received-large-payments/3680295

    ​ BREAKING: FBI Official FIRED, Escorted Out of Building After Leaked Audio Released of Him Claiming “There’s Something Being Covered Up” in Epstein Case – “A Lot of Powerful Democrats” Are on Epstein List
    ​ The O’Keefe Media Group on Monday released leaked audio of Mitch Rosas, an FBI Senior Paralegal Specialist, confessing there is “something” being covered up in the Epstein case.
    ​ Rosas also said the FBI won’t release all Epstein files until “this Administration is over.” He also suggested a lot of powerful Democrats are on the Epstein client list.​ “None of the people that are in a position to answer the questions are willing to do it because it’s clear that they’re covering something and protecting someone or some people,” Rosas said.​ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/leaked-audio-fbi-senior-paralegal-specialist-theres-something/

    ​ O’Keefe recording: FBI LEAKED AUDIO: FBI Senior Paralegal Specialist Confesses “There’s Something Being Covered Up” in Jeffrey Epstein Case, Claims FBI Won’t Release All Epstein Files Until “This Administration Is Over,” Speculates “A Lot of Powerful Democrats” Are on Epstein Client List https://okeefemediagroup.com/fbi-epstein-coverup-mitchell-rosas/

    #195379
    John Day
    Participant

    You Will Forget Reading This: Full Spectrum Surveillance Lies Behind the J6 Committee Motive to Delete all Investigative Material
    The J6 Committee used interfaces with the NSA database and pre-existing portals with aligned DHS Social Media databases (including Twitter, see prior “Twitter Files”), as research and evidence gathering mechanisms for their investigations.
    ​ The J6 targets were identified through a collaboration between the legislative research group and the FBI. [That’s unlawful by the way – but that’s another matter]. The FBI contracted Palantir to identify the targets using facial recognition software and private sector databases.
    ​ Once identified, the targets were then searched in the NSA database for a fulsome context of identity. All subsequent electronic metadata of the targets was retrieved and utilized in prosecution; however, no one ever discovered this was the collaborative method. That has not come out yet.
    ​ Ultimately, the J6 Committee hiding and deleting their files and operational techniques was due to several issues. They really didn’t have a choice given the unknowns of an incoming republican majority.
    ​ First, the collaboration with the FBI is unconstitutional. Legislative officers are not law enforcement officers. There is a separation of powers issue.
    Second, ultimately – and most consequentially – all of the participants did not want the American public aware of the mass surveillance techniques that were carried out as part of the ’round up.’​…
    ..The modern application of the fifty-year-old concept around FISA as a constitutional mechanism to search the private papers (data) of American citizens, is a fraud, a complete ruse.
    ​ The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, FISA, represents the method used by the intelligence apparatus of the FBI to conduct surveillance. It was purposefully designed, as a method to avoid the problems with 4th amendment protections. However, the modern application of the FISA justification has no lawful basis.
    ​ CONTEXT – Beginning in/around 2012, after the Dept of Justice National Security Division was created by President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, the use of FISA warrants were extended to include electronic searches of captured information held within the National Security Agency (NSA). This was the database into which former NSA employee Edward Snowden was creating the search engine software…
    ​..Currently, almost every American interfaces electronically with some system that captures their data. In the private sector that data is then assembled, attributed and used for consumer product micro-targeting, i.e., all data is commercially monetized.
    ​ Local and state governments also interface with the federal government database. As a consequence, all data eventually flows to the NSA capture points where searches of the total assembly are possible.​ https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/09/09/full-spectrum-surveillance-lies-behind-the-j6-committee-motive-to-delete-all-investigative-material/#more-275818

    ​ Lisa Cook Can’t Be Fired – For Now: Judge
    Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has been granted a reprieve after her sorority-sister judge, Jia Cobb, temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from firing her – allowing Cook to remain on the job amid allegations of mortgage fraud.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/lisa-cook-cant-be-fired-now-judge

    Global Mail Disruption Deepens As U.S. Tariffs Trigger International Postal Shutdowns​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/global-mail-disruption-deepens-us-tariffs-trigger-international-postal-shutdowns

    ​ Meryl Nass MD, Monopolization of agriculture: A handful of corporations control the inputs and outputs of American farmers
    The Expose wrote up my really important discussion with Joe Maxwell on the monopolization of essentially all food and agriculture industries. Gives me a chance to feature my slides with USDA data.​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/monopolization-of-agriculture-a-handful

    ​ Jim Kunstler, Days of Thunder​
    “If we hadn’t won this election we would have all been vaxxed to death and censored so no one could hear our dying screams” — Mike Benz on “X”
    ​ Looks like it will start this week with Robert F Kennedy, Jr., announcing the suspected culprits in the great autism question. That will rock the pharma industry to the very hairs on its roots. They have been trying since the 1980s to bury that idea that autism comes from anything they do. Next, the nation will have to ask: why did it take Mr. Kennedy only seven months to arrive at a plausible answer to the decades’ long autism mystery? Maybe because it was not such a difficult mystery to solve. Just that nobody wanted to collate and assemble the information. The answer was too ugly. So, they buried it on-purpose.
    ​ That set of revelations will segue soon enough into the reveal of facts, data, studies retrieved from the thought-to-be hidden files of the CDC, FDA, and NIH as to just how damaging the Covid-19 vaccinations really were. . . which will lead to answers as to how the various agencies under HHS (and likely the Pentagon, too) conspired to materialize the Covid virus in the first place, and that means the names and titles of actual persons who did it: the deputy secretaries of this and that, higher-ups, folks in dark NGOs. . . and all that will combine with new information about the supremely messed-up election of 2020, and so on down the long line of the many related, serial coup operations.​ https://www.kunstler.com/p/days-of-thunder

    #195380
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Peter McCullough MD, US Senate Hearing Announcement: How the Corruption of Science has Impacted Public Perception and Policies Regarding Vaccines, Tues Sept 9, 2025 Senate Hart Building, SH-216, 2 PM ET, HSGA PSI https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/us-senate-hearing-announcement-how

    ​ The long-hidden smoking-gun study​ (can we also remove junk food now?): BREAKING: Henry Ford Birth Cohort: Vaxxed vs. Unvaxxed, Reported Vaccinated Kids Had 453% More Neurodevelopmental Disorders — 57% Rendered Chronically Ill
    ​ The largest vaccinated vs. unvaccinated birth cohort study in U.S. history (n=18,468) tracked children for 10 years — and revealed staggering increases in chronic disease among the vaccinated.
    ​ In his sworn testimony, Siri revealed the results of a long-hidden study from the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, MI.
    This is the largest vaccinated vs. unvaccinated birth cohort study ever conducted in the United States (n=18,468). Children were tracked from birth over a 10-year period. The data were drawn directly from electronic medical records — the gold standard for real-world health outcomes.
    ​ The study’s official title: “Impact of Childhood Vaccination on Short- and Long-Term Chronic Health Outcomes in Children: A Birth Cohort Study.”​…
    ​..Compared to unvaccinated children, those who received one or more vaccines had dramatically higher rates of chronic illness:
    329% more asthma
    ​ 203% more atopic disease
    496% more autoimmune disease
    ​ 453% more neurodevelopmental disorders
      • including 228% more developmental delays
      • and 347% more speech disorders
    Siri testified that all of these findings were statistically significant.
    ​ Even more striking: in conditions where unvaccinated children had zero cases (brain dysfunction, ADHD, learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, and tics), there were hundreds of cases among the vaccinated group.
    ​ After 10 years, the bottom-line numbers were devastating:
    57% of vaccinated children had at least one chronic health condition (often multiple).
    ​ Only 17% of unvaccinated children had any chronic illness. ​ https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-henry-ford-vaxxed-vs-unvaxxed

    Holy shit…. Trump just dropped a red-pill nuclear bomb on Truth Social. He posted a video showing NIH Geneticist and Biochemist outlining that vaccines have toxic chemicals like Mercury in them, and can cause autism. Trump just called vaccines “poison”…​ https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1965106937030492417

    ​ Celia Farber: Donald Trump Posts Video On Truth Social Of An NIH Geneticist Saying Thimerisol Is An Extremely Dangerous Toxin And Used At Every Stage Of Vaccine Production: “They’re All Poison. Every. Single. One.” https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/donald-trump-posts-video-on-truth

    Attacking the funding for pharma and propaganda: Trump Announces Crackdown On Drug Ads On TV, Potentially Disrupting Billions In Ad Spending https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/trump-announces-crackdown-drug-ads-tv-potentially-disrupting-billions-ad-spending

    #195381
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Now, … what will you do about it.”

    Nothing. They are trying anything to triangulate and smash Trump between the Scylla of no war and the Charybdis of Total Israel. Among his base. Here. That’s the entire, whole point. They will nuke a nation if necessary to take Trump out on this issue, so don’t start helping Israel and the Globalists now.

    Speaking of, cause I’m that kind of guy, Rich’s deranged conspiracy theory yesterday was that Trump is a DEMOCRAT, and all the Democrats support him now and always have. They are his major base, defend him at every turn, and always have back to 2015.

    How do I know?

    Because THEY all had the Epstein Files in question, from Obama, right back to Clinton, and including Biden. And Trump was not only “Best Friends” with Epstein, but recently here, I’m hearing he arranged the whole thing! Every single child, that busy guy! Welp, that’s what happens when you’re the only guy in America! So this about Trump kicking Epstein out, and being an FBI informant, — where we know for a fact he helped the civil suits when ZERO other billionaires would including every Democrat, and Dershowitz who claims he’s innocent now — well that all happend BEFORE 2000.

    …And certainly every. single. fact. Was FBI reported by 2015, since Jeffy was in prison by then…on weekends anyway.

    Therefore EVERY Democrat is a DEEP, PASSIONATE Trump supporter, And we can quite certainly arrest every one of THEM, every DoJ, every FBI agent, director, President, Congress, State governors…the list is infinite! Because EVERY ONE knew that Trump invented and ran it all, and Epstein was his patsy, but every DEMOCRAT made sure never, ever to whisper so much as a word, keeping Trump in office the whole time.

    Yup. That scans. I see no logical problems here.

    But since no other humans exist in America, we can’t actually arrest thousands of Democrats all of whom were easily-proven accessories to Felony, can we? Nope. There is only ONE man in America, and he has done ALL known human actions for the last 78 years.

    That’s why Democrats named him God-Emperor, and obey his every whim slavishly, never saying so much as a cross word.

    Right? That IS the argument, yes?

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