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@ John Day
“Los Angeles County has declared a state of emergency over ongoing ICE raids – and will provide rent relief for tenants who have ‘fallen behind as a result’ of the enforcement actions targeting people living in the United States illegally. ”Tucker Carlson recently interviewed Alex Jones who talks about, among other things, the Podesta Plan. Podesta was President Clinton’s chief of staff. He also served as a counselor to President Obama.
michael hudson and glenn diesen explain neoliberal economics and why it’s called the new feudalism or neofeudalism.
Matt Taibbi comments on Katie Porter.
https://www.racket.news/p/note-on-katie-porterWell, this is fun. From last month. Black Lives Matter, aka BLM, is suing the Tides foundation over a missing $33 million dollars.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/30/us-news/black-lives-matter-suing-soros-backed-tides-foundation-over-missing-33m/I wonder if the rent-a-riot cadres are useful idiots for the big money men to rake in more grifts… er… ‘donations to the cause’, or to destroy competitors businesses, for example. There are several money angles possible.
Here’s a different take on the reason for the continuing govt shutdown. Both sides want the shutdown to continue.
Jeffrey Tucker.
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-coup-the-calamity-and-the-conspiracy/A website specializing in data visuals offered a helpful graphic on global inflation, 2020-2025, with no other comment about how or why this happened. The results are eye-popping and amazing, and a reminder that hardly anyone has fully come to terms with what transpired over five years.
That’s a technical description that obscures what actually happened. The measures by which most people in the world hold the liquid part of their worldly possessions – the money they earned through hard work and saving – was robbed by a quarter and more.Where did it go? After all, the wealth didn’t sink in the ocean. It was transferred from one group to another. It went from the poor and middle class to the elites in well-connected industries and government. It was simply sucked away from one sector to another, achieving in a matter of a few years what would have been impossible in normal times.
This is the first day of the US govt shutdown, brought to you by Senate Dems who are throwing the most vulnerable people under the bus as leverage to get their way. They will, of course, blame Trump for the pain. That’s the Dems m.o. Create mayhem, blame the other guy. (No wonder their mascot animal is a jackass. They just call it a donkey.)
Taibbi’s Senate testimony on surveillance.
https://www.racket.news/p/my-senate-testimony-on-surveillanceJames Clapper testifying to the Senate in March, 2013Last year, former Hawaii Congresswoman and Presidential Candidate Tulsi Gabbard was placed in a surveillance program called Quiet Skies by the Transportation and Security Administration. Across eight flights she was subject to intrusive searches, followed by bomb-sniffing dogs, and trailed by three Federal Air Marshals per flight, who if they were following procedure were attempting to listen to her conversations, following her to airport exits to see who if anyone met her, and even recording how often and at what times she went to the bathroom.
To cover the story I contacted the TSA. They no-commented the main question – “TSA does not confirm or deny whether any individual has matched to a risk-based rule,” they said – but they added, as if in mitigation: ”Simply matching to a risk-based rule does not constitute derogatory information about an individual.”
In other words: “We can’t say if Ms. Gabbard was in the program, but if she was, don’t draw conclusions, because we do this even to innocent people.”
Before Quiet Skies was discontinued by this administration, it was a symbol of the steep decline of federal enforcement since 9/11. The government spent $200 million a year following up to 50 people a day for a program that in its history never once led to an arrest, or thwarted a single criminal act. Despite its demonstrated inutility and grave civil liberties concerns it was re-funded year after year because this is what our government does now: it gathers information on its own citizens as an end in itself.
In a week in which the question of whether federal security officials always tell the truth to Congress is back in the news, it’s worth noting that it’s been 13 years since then-National Intelligence Director James Clapper answered, “No, sir,” and “Not wittingly” when Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon asked, “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions of Americans?”
Clapper later explained that he’d responded in the “least most untruthful manner.”
That episode solidified the principle that if you lie about mass surveillance programs in America, even under oath, you not only get to keep your job, you get to be hired as a professional truth-teller after retirement, a National Security Analyst for CNN. If you try to tell the truth about the same issues, your options are prison or leaving the country forever.
In those 13 years since, Americans became numb to surveillance. It was once a core principle that government couldn’t or shouldn’t spy on citizens without predication. Now much of the country accepts as inevitable the idea that every move we make is being recorded and analyzed.
We know emails and phone conversations are being collected passively, via programs of dubious legality, and the mountains of data we leave behind as our lives move online– from geolocations of cell phones to GPS tracking to travel, banking, and medical records – are increasingly fodder for overt and covert acquisition by federal analysts. As Google admitted last week, federal officials partnered with companies not just to monitor speech but to suppress it on a grand scale.
A lot of these changes have their roots in War on Terror programs that exchanged predication for a pre-crime theory out of Minority Report. Quiet Skies was the paradigmatic example of a program that could take endless liberties with the Constitution because it was secret. When you gather information with no intention of going to court, as the TSA did with Quiet Skies, you never have to justify yourself to a judge. This leads to a lot of what one court called “the exact sort of ‘general, exploratory rummaging’ that the Fourth Amendment was designed to prevent.”
This is a betrayal not just of the public but of people we trained at taxpayer expense to do real and important work. Former Marshal Robert MacLean put it best when he said “The air marshal’s job is to protect the cockpit and the pilots. Let somebody else do the intelligence.”
Similarly in the last decade current and former FBI agents – fellow witness Tristan Leavitt’s firm has represented a number of them – have talked about how since 9/11, the FBI spends less time building cases but does more generalized spying, much of it political. One agent I interviewed said “The distinction between people who believe bad thoughts and people who do bad things” has been “completely lost” on our government since 9/11.
Once you start down the road of collecting information on innocent people, it creates the intellectual justification for doing it again and again. From a contracting perspective, this is the proverbial self-licking ice cream cone, a spiral of endless expense. Morally, all this information-gathering reverses the natural political order, giving elected officials undeserved and unearned power over their bosses – the voters. These programs all need to be reevaluated. A lot of them have to go. People who lie about them in this chamber need to be fired.
Let’s hope the elimination of Quiet Skies is just the beginning. Thank you.
Matt Taibbi.
Not Only Tulsi: Three Members of Congress Also Spied On In Quiet Skies Program
Exclusive: new Senate documents show members of Congress, others placed under an intrusive surveillance for dubious reasons under now-defunct TSA program
https://www.racket.news/p/not-only-tulsi-three-members-of-congress
Ahead of Tuesday hearings on the subject, the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) obtained documents showing three members of Congress, all Republicans, were followed under the TSA’s just-discontinued Quiet Skies program, which became infamous last summer when whistleblowers revealed bomb-sniffing dogs and Air Marshals were assigned to follow former Hawaii Congresswoman and future National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard.The realjesseonfire video replays the guy in the brown t-shirt touching his shoulder at the moment of fire. The thing about the brown t-shirt guy that’s bothered me from the first time I saw it is this: He looks at Kirk and he is smiling as he touches his should, and in the half second it takes for the crowd to realize what happened and react the brown t-shirt guy doesn’t change expression at all. He turns to look at the crowd, still looking like he’s smiling.
And why was Bibi the first one out of the gate to ‘mourn’ for Kirk’s assassination. Even before Trump. Then Bibi goes on his American “It wasn’t me” tour. Sort of like OJ Simpson looking for the “real killer”?
Thanks for the Musk youtube video. I’m not particularly a Musk fan. In fact, I have a lot of disagreements with many of his views. On this issue, though, I think he’s exactly right. I do not divide myself from my neighbor based on their political views precisely because they are my neighbor. They are the friends I trade gardening tips with, picking up mail for them and they for me when they or I are on vacation, working with at the town level to help implement or try to block some city hall idea, working with on school board issues. Musk put into words things that have been rattling around in the back of my mind for a long time.
The invention of the internet and social media has had the same effect that the invention of the printing press with movable type in the late 1400’s had on society. More people had access to more information. Ideas could be transmitted farther and wider. How many presses were smashed to stop the Reformation, for one example?.
From a Wiki assist ai: “Yes, for a long time, it was illegal to print the Bible in any language other than Latin, and those who defied this law often faced severe punishments, including death. This was particularly true during the Reformation when figures like William Tyndale were executed for translating the Bible into English.”
Today, the EU leaders think it’s necessary to ban certain speech. I think it’s another way of smashing the press. It’s a ‘heresy’ for people to say what they think if what they think disagrees with the official narrative.
Mike Benz talking about the UN’s effort to create a worldwide censorship program.
https://sayerji.substack.com/p/mike-benz-exposes-the-machinery-ofFrom Meryl Nass.
Good News: UN Bemoans that it is $4 TRILLION short per year to achieve the “Sustainable Development Goals”
And they don’t have their international rules-based order either, sob sob.
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/good-news-un-bemoans-that-it-is-4
From Devex, reporting from the UN General Assembly:
One of the central questions this year is, where will the aid money come from? The cash is drying up just as global cooperation frays, and defense spending is at record highs — $2.7 trillion in 2024, the steepest jump since the late 1980s — while aid budgets are shrinking fast. Official development assistance, or ODA, is expected to plunge another 9% to 17% this year after sharp cuts in 2024, leaving a $4 trillion annual gap for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. As U.N. disarmament chief Izumi Nakamitsu warns, “Rising global military expenditures are not delivering peace.”
Rather than calling on governments to step up, many leaders gathering this week — from Barbados’ Mia Mottley to the United Kingdom’s Gordon Brown — said it’s time to look elsewhere.“In the absence of an international rules-based order, we are no different from children on a playground running from the bully and hoping that we can get through lunch time without somebody taking our food,” Mottley said during a private roundtable at The Rockefeller Foundation yesterday. “We potentially face a moment where numbness is the order of the day.”
BlackRock , the world’s largest asset management company — they own significant shares of almost every publicly traded company — and it leader Larry Fink were one of the earliest and strongest pushers of DEI; companies that ignored the new demands from BlackRock would find their shares bought less and their market value reduced. Except, it didn’t work. Or maybe it did work. Take the case of BudLite beer and the Dylan Mulvany ads. People stopped buying the beer. Share prices dropped precipitately. BudLite brand owner got rid of Mulvany and the ad manager that pushed it. Then Bill Gates or the Gates Foundation bought the shares for a song, I read. Now BudLite shares are back up in price. Someone or many someones made a lot of money from that DEI psyop, in my opinion. Da boys in da club did well. The public, not so much. Now the public has turned against the psyop.
And just like that, BlackRock says they’re dropping DEI since Trump made it impossible to make money from by threatening companies for failure to implement.
https://fortune.com/2025/02/28/blackrock-diversity-dei-new-team/@ phoenix voice
” Prior to DEI, it could be presumed that, for example, a black pilot or a female pilot was likely more qualified than the average white male pilot, as the individual had to not only prove merit but also overcome implicit biases in order to obtain the position of pilot. ”
I wonder if DEI is the new spelling for CIA? Chaos creators.
Dem Rep. Crockett sounds like she’s trolling for chaos. Not the first ridiculous thing she’s said. Her donors must like what she says. Who are her donors? Asking for a friend.
Is Larry Klayman trolling for chaos? Martial Law makes the Constitution’s guaranteed protections of civil rights – the Bill of Rights – null and void until such time as Martial Law is lifted. Of course, Obama passed a law in (forget what year) that says the military can hold and imprison civilians on the President’s order without any due process. Sounds kinda tyrannical to me. Klayman wants Trump to act like Obama? Go one better, or even worse, than Obama. What an idiot. He and Schumer should get together and compare notes.
Rubino clip mirrors something Catherine Austin Fitts has been saying for a while: Some people want to bring on political chaos for their own tyrannical ends. They both imply there are bad actors in both parties. It’s not a ‘left or right’ thing. It’s something other than and outside of US politics as usual.
So Chuck Schumer wants the Dems to shut down the govt if they don’t get their way?
He has a short memory. Newt and the GOP did that in the 1990’s and people were p.o.’d the govt was shut down for several weeks. The GOP lost big time in the next election.Go ahead, Schumer. Make most of the people in the country see the Dem party as the party that doesn’t care about regular people. Sounds like another winning strategy. (idiot).
@ Celticbiker
Substitute the words “the mega rich” or “the world economic forum” for “the jew” and you could be on to something. Catherine Austin Fitts thinks Kirk’s murder was a psy-op. She explains:
@ John Day
““Just himself, not Clinton or Gates, NOBODY ELSE”: ‘Who Did Epstein Traffic Women To?’ House Oversight Grills FBI Director During Tense Testimony ” -zero hedge
I wonder if Kash Patel was getting serious death threats ahead of his testimony. After the Kirk assassinaton any death threats would have added menace. If Kash got death threats.
From Ivor Cummins. Explains how we got here. I’m thinking of what happened Dutch and German farmers being driven off their land by govt to ‘preserve nature’. It all looks like a scam.
More questions than answers
https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/why-does-tyler-robinson-look-nothing
Why does Tyler Robinson look nothing like the pictures of Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer?
Ricky Hale
and Council Estate Media
Sep 15, 2025Over the past 24 hours, we have seen viral claims that Tyler Robinson has confessed to killing Charlie Kirk, but we are now being told this is not the case. Utah Governor Spencer Cox has stated that Robinson is refusing to cooperate with investigators and has explicitly denied involvement.
The guy who carefully giftwrapped the murder weapon and left it in the woods for investigators to find, and then went home and confessed to his father, is not admitting to anything. Interesting…
At this point, I’m not remotely convinced that Tyler Robinson is the killer, but I’m having as hard a time as anyone piecing everything together. The one bit of compelling evidence against Robinson is the apparent confession he made to his father, but that is now disputed, and as I pointed out in my last piece, nothing seems to be adding up.
(If you’re new here, I have previously written two pieces that you can find here and here, so please read those, if you think I haven’t covered everything today.)
One bit of weirdness is how AI-enhanced images of the alleged killer look nothing like Tyler Robinson. This does not mean the originals are not images of Tyler Robinson. It could be they have been badly reconstructed by AI, in which case it highlights the pointlessness of using AI.’
@ Topcat
TAE is still a beacon in the dark. I posted Farber’s essay as a compilation of what’s going on ‘out there’.
Celia Farber.
https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/charlie-kirk-guilt-trip-grid-as-of
Charlie Kirk Guilt Trip Grid As Of Sept 14, Late Evening, EDT. Bottom Line, Whatever You Wonder Or Research Can And Will Be Held Against You As Conspiracy Battles Form Anew
