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       All Hail King Trump & J.D. Vance? The stuff of legend,
       mythology and the curse of Tecumseh
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: July 16, 2024, 4:16 pm
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       JULY 16, 2024 By JIM BUIE
       [center]All Hail King
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       />Trump &
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       />J.D. Vance?
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       [move]The stuff of legend, mythology and the curse of
       Tecumseh[/move]
       SNIPPETS:
       “I’m not supposed to be here,” Donald Trump told the NY Post.
       “I’m supposed to be dead,” repeating “I’m supposed to be dead.”
       If he had not turned his head slightly to the right to read a
       chart on illegal immigrants, he would be dead, he told reporter
       Michael Goodwin. The assassin’s bullet only grazed his ear. “The
       doctor at the hospital said he never saw anything like this, he
       called it a miracle,” Trump said.
       The story of Trump’s survival now rises to the level of legend
       or mythology. I’m tempted to re-read Shakespeare’s “Julius
       Caesar” about the emperor who named himself dictator of the
       Roman Empire for insight into this moment. Caesar’s rule lasted
       for less than a year before he was famously assassinated by
       political rivals in 44 B.C.
       The classified documents case against Trump has been dismissed
       by Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee. The other federal
       cases against him also appear to be in jeopardy. It’s now
       certain no trials will conclude before the November election.
       Will these near-death experiences — both literally and
       politically — change Trump? His behavior, and that of his
       supporters at the Republican convention this week, will be the
       first indication. He looked subdued and almost tearful, with a
       patch over his right ear, as he silently greeted the crowd on
       the convention’s first night. ... ...
       Shortly after the assassination attempt on Trump, Vance
       published an incendiary tweet: ... ...
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       />There are
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       />no facts to back up Vance’s assertion.
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       />... ...
       [glow=red,2,300]High Costs Paid &#129402;[/glow] By Other
       Presidential Families
       Robert Todd Lincoln, the only son of Abraham Lincoln who
       survived to adulthood, lamented that during his father’s
       presidency, “I scarcely even had ten minutes quiet talk with him
       on account of his constant devotion to business." Shockingly,
       Robert was nearby or a witness to three presidential
       assassinations — his father’s; that of James Garfield about 16
       years later; and William McKinley in 1901. He later refused
       presidential invitations because “there is a certain fatality
       about presidential functions when I am present."
       Differing Views of Political &#129421; Power
       Drawing from the work of the ancient Greek philosopher
       Aristotle, President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert
       spoke of politics as a noble and honorable profession,
       representing and mediating a myriad of societal interests with
       the hope of making the world, or some part of it, a better
       place. They paid a heavy price — the ultimate sacrifice — for
       involvement in causes larger than themselves.
       [glow=red,2,300]Trump’s (and Vance’s) view of political power
       [/glow]seems similar not to the gentle Greeks who founded
       power-sharing democracy but to the [glow=red,2,300]Romans who
       believed in &#129421; domination and amassing power for its
       &#128520; own sake. [/glow]
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       How might this brush with death affect Trump and his extended
       family? Will he or they foment anger, revenge, and crackdowns on
       political opponents or, like the Kennedys, develop
       [glow=teal,2,300]compassion and empathize[/glow] with
       [glow=red,2,300]others’ pain[/glow]?
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       />... ...
       One wonders about the cost of a stressful public life on the
       families of Presidents Biden and Trump, as well as other
       leaders.
       Who is surprised, given such toxic political rhetoric in
       America, that actual violence has occurred?
       Eras of [glow=red,2,300]Political Assassinations[/glow] in
       America
       The attempted assassination of Trump recalls earlier eras of
       political violence in America, most notably spanning from
       November 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was
       assassinated to March 1981, when there was an unsuccessful
       attempt on the life of President Ronald Reagan. JFK’s murder was
       preceded by the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar
       Evers in June 1963, and followed by the murders five years later
       of civil rights activist Martin Luther King and his brother
       Robert Kennedy, a senator from New York who was running for
       president, in 1968. In 1972, Alabama Governor George Wallace,
       running for the Democratic nomination, was shot and crippled at
       a shopping mall in Laurel, MD. In 1975, two attempts within 17
       days were made on the life of President Gerald Ford, both by
       women. NYT coverage.
       The first American political assassination was of President
       Abraham Lincoln in April 1865, shortly after the Civil War
       ended. Little more than 15 years later, President James Garfield
       was assassinated four months after taking office. President
       William McKinley was assassinated in September 1901, seven
       months after beginning his second term.
       McKinley’s successor, Theodore Roosevelt, was shot in the chest
       in 1912 while running for a third term as an independent on the
       Bull Moose Party ticket but was protected by a 50-page copy of
       his speech in his breast pocket. He finished the speech.
       In February 1933, Teddy’s cousin, New York Governor and
       President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt was nearly killed in
       Miami, Fla. The mayor was murdered instead. FDR’s life was saved
       by a woman.
       Legend, Mythology, And Superstition Around Presidential
       Assassination Attempts
       Mythology has been built up around presidential deaths,
       beginning in 1840. William Henry Harrison was elected president
       that year, defeating Martin Van Buren, on a campaign slogan of
       “Tippecanoe and Tyler too.” Harrison was considered the hero of
       the Battle of Tippecanoe in Indiana. The mythology is that
       Harrison’s rival, Shawnee leader Tecumseh, put a curse on him
       and presidents to follow in 20-year cycles. Harrison died in
       office just three weeks after his inauguration. Every president
       elected in the 120 years to follow: Lincoln in 1860, Garfield in
       1880, McKinley in 1900, Harding in 1920, Franklin Roosevelt in
       1940, and Kennedy in 1960, died in office. Ronald Reagan was
       shot but survived and George W. Bush supposedly broke the curse,
       although since he lost the popular vote in 2000, maybe Tecumseh
       didn’t recognize his election. But both Joe Biden and Donald
       Trump would be the oldest presidents elected and might revive
       the curse.
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       [move]A 20-Year
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       />Curse[/glow] on the &#129413; American President?
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       Full article:
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       Selected COMMENTS:
       David Carroll
       Interesting piece. Thanks.
       Actually if you read Victoria Newland’s husband’s Opinion piece
       in the Washington Post 7 months ago he basically calls for
       Trumps assassination in Caesarian terms. Bullseye missed. Matt
       Taibbi writes an interesting story on how the Democratic has
       been out to “eliminate “ the outsider Trump in all ways possible
       in the “Slow Motion Assassination “ a couple days ago. Fittingly
       it starts with Hillary Clinton in 2016. Go figure.
       Let me know what you think. Thanks.
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       Jim Buie > David Carroll
       David, I read Kagan's lengthy piece. There is nothing in it that
       calls for Trump's assassination. He simply outlined the stakes
       in the election. Matt Taibbi too is way over the top. Trump was
       shot by a 20-year-old Republican loner quite apparently acting
       alone. Let's stop accusing "the other" of things for which there
       is no evidence. That's simply paranoia. I do think the choice of
       J.D. Vance could lead to an elevated, substantive debate between
       him and Kamala Harris. Unlike the recent Trump-Biden debate for
       which media reports focused entirely on appearances rather than
       substance.
       AGelbert > Jim Buie
       While you are quite right in making the point, in your
       admittedly erudite and historically accurate article, that Trump
       et al is ideologically all in with the Romans, who believed in
       domination and amassing power for its own sake, I disagree that
       it is "paranoid" to seriously consider the CUI BONO question in
       regard to certain members of the Biden Adminsitration. I don't
       think Retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern is now, or ever has been
       anything but a hard nose reality based student of history.
       Jim, it is time for you to study Secretary of State Blinken's
       record. If you do not scrutinize him and his neocon partners in,
       what cannot be sanitized with euphemistic happy talk, Mens rea
       War Crimes, you will miss the Weimer Fascism Enabling Democratic
       Party Forest for the Full Blown Fascist Trump Tree.
       Sir, Trump GOT to where he GOT to in 2016 BECAUSE Hillary and
       company STOLE the nomination from Senator Sanders. That was a
       CRIME that Schiff sat on for two and a half YEARS!
       I shudder at the prospect of Trump returning to power, but, as
       it looks now with his polls, Weimer Obama/Hillary/Biden et al
       are fully responsible for helping that low down Facsist Hitler
       wannabe Trump GET THERE by bailing out Wall Street and the
       Bankers, NOT the we-the-people victims of said Bankers,
       fomenting budget breaking wars, supporting Genocide in Gaza,
       denying Medicare for all, denying a LIVABLE minimum wage and a
       PROPERLY, increased for actual inflation, Social Securiity
       pension system. You can argue until the cows come home, but all
       people of good will in the USA KNOW that the "Democratic" (LOL!)
       Party ELITE OWNS the Trump return to the White House.
       It is not "paranoid" to consider the possiblility that a pack of
       War Criminals within our government, who have everything to lose
       if vengeful Trump makes it back into the White House, try to
       "finish the job" some time soon.
       AGelbert > David Carroll
       Well said. The QUESTION Jim Buie has, for some reason,
       studiously avoided asking about this assassination attempt on
       Trump is, as Retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern asks, and I agree,
       CUI BONO? From what he says in the interview below, Secretary of
       State Blinken appears to be the PRIME SUSPECT in the Conspiracy
       to Assassinate Trump.
       McGovern knows the score. He finishes the interview by making it
       clear that he is not suicidal, so if he "dies suddenly", we KNOW
       Cui Bono (Blinken, Sullivan, Biden et al)
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       July 15, 2024
       Ray McGovern on the Failed Assassination of Domald Trump
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       US Democratic Party Politics &#129318;&#8205;&#9794;&#65039;
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: July 21, 2024, 2:33 pm
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       July 21, 2024
       [center]
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       />Joe Biden drops out of US presidential race[/center]
       Snippet:
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       />[glow=red,2,300]Biden[/glow] throws support behind VP
       [glow=maroon,2,300]Kamala Harris[/glow].
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       [center]
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       Read more:
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       />AGelbert NOTE: Kamala Harris is polling LOWER than BIDEN! So,
       Biden's support of Harris is a formality.
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       The corporate elite AIPAC toadies running the "Democratic"
       (LOL!) Party want someone with better polling numbers that is
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       />as [glow=red,2,300]supportive[/glow] of the
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       />IDF Genocide[/glow] in Gaza as [glow=red,2,300]Genocide
       Joe[/glow] or [glow=red,2,300]Killer Kamala[/glow]. Regardless
       of who these [glow=red,2,300]morally bankrupt[/glow]
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       />
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       />[glow=red,2,300]&#128013; AIPAC[/glow] toadies come up
       &#128018;
       with, the [glow=red,2,300]equally shameless
       [color=red]
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       /> Genocide enabler
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       />Trump[/glow] [/color]will probably win the (s)election.
       WHY? &#129335;&#8205;&#9794;&#65039;
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       Trump GOT to where he GOT to in 2016 BECAUSE Hillary and company
       STOLE the nomination from Senator Sanders. That was a CRIME that
       Schiff sat on for two and a half YEARS!
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       I shudder at the prospect of [glow=red,2,300]Trump[/glow]
       returning to power, but, as it looks now with his polls,
       [glow=red,2,300]Weimer Obama/Hillary/Biden et al[/glow] are
       fully responsible for helping that [glow=red,2,300]low down
       Facsist Hitler wannabe Trump[/glow] GET THERE
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       />by [glow=maroon,2,300]bailing out Wall Street and the Bankers,
       NOT[/glow] [glow=teal,2,300]the we-the-people victims[/glow]
       [glow=red,2,300]of said Bankers, fomenting budget breaking wars,
       supporting Genocide in[/glow] [glow=teal,2,300]Gaza[/glow],
       [glow=maroon,2,300]denying [/glow][glow=teal,2,300]Medicare for
       all[/glow], [glow=maroon,2,300]denying[/glow]
       [glow=green,2,300]a LIVABLE minimum wage and a PROPERLY,
       increased for actual inflation, Social Securiity pension
       system[/glow].
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       All people of good will in the USA KNOW that the "Democratic"
       (LOL!) Party ELITE OWNS the Trump return to the White House.
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       [move]Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody
       men: In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of
       bribes. -- Psalm 26:9[/move]
       #Post#: 2196--------------------------------------------------
       The Democratic Party, especially under Bill Clinton and Biden,
       became largely indistinguishable from &#128024;
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: July 22, 2024, 6:31 pm
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       July 22, 2024 By [glow=green,2,300]CHRIS HEDGES[/glow]
       [center]My Thoughts on &#129421;[glow=red,2,300] Biden[/glow]
       Dropping Out[/center]
       Joe Biden was discarded by the same billionaire class he
       assiduously served throughout his political career. Barely able
       to stumble his way through the words on a TelePrompter and not
       always cognizant of what is happening around him, his
       billionaire supporters pulled the plug. He was
       &#129430;&#127913;
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       />[glow=red,2,300]their &#128520; creature[/glow] – he has been
       in
       federal office for 47 years - from start to finish. He was used
       as a foil to defeat Bernie Sanders in the 2020 primaries and was
       anointed as the candidate in 2024 in a Soviet-style primary
       campaign. [glow=red,2,300]The
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       />billionaire class[/glow] will now anoint someone else.
       Democratic Party &#128018;&#128053; voters
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       />are stage &#128509;&#128521; props in this
       [glow=red,2,300]political farce[/glow]. &#128127; Donald Trump,
       unlike &#128013; Kamala Harris or any other &#129421;
       apparatchik the billionaire class selects as a presidential
       candidate, has a genuine and committed base, however
       [glow=red,2,300]fascistic[/glow].
       In Hitler and the Germans, the political philosopher Eric
       Vogelin dismisses the idea that Hitler — gifted in oratory and
       political opportunism but poorly educated and vulgar —
       mesmerized and seduced the German people. The Germans, he
       writes, supported Hitler and the “grotesque, marginal figures”
       surrounding him because he embodied the pathologies of a
       diseased society, one beset by economic collapse and
       hopelessness. Voegelin defines stupidity as a “loss of reality.”
       The loss of reality means a “stupid” person cannot “rightly
       orient his action in the world, in which he lives.” The
       demagogue, who is always an idiote, is not a freak or social
       mutation. The demagogue expresses the society’s zeitgeist.
       Biden and the Democratic Party are responsible for this
       zeitgeist. They orchestrated the deindustrialization of the
       United States, ensuring that 30 million workers lost their jobs
       in mass layoffs. As I write in America, The Farewell Tour, this
       assault on the working class created a crisis that forced the
       ruling elites to devise a new political paradigm. Trumpeted by a
       compliant media, this paradigm shifted its focus from the common
       good to race, crime and law and order. Biden was at the
       epicenter of this paradigm shift. Those undergoing profound
       economic and political change were told that their suffering
       stemmed not from[glow=red,2,300]rampant militarism and corporate
       greed[/glow] but from
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       />a threat to national integrity. The old
       [glow=teal,2,300]consensus that buttressed New Deal programs and
       the welfare state[/glow] was attacked as enabling criminal Black
       youth, “welfare queens” and other alleged social parasites. This
       opened the door to a faux populism, begun by &#128520; Ronald
       Reagan and &#128520; Margaret Thatcher, which supposedly
       championed family values, traditional morality, individual
       autonomy, law and order, the Christian faith and the return to a
       mythical past, at least for white Americans. The Democratic
       Party, especially under &#128520; Bill Clinton and &#128520;
       Biden, became largely indistinguishable from the establishment
       &#128024;&#128127; Republican Party to which it is now allied.
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       The Democratic Party refuses to accept its responsibility for
       [glow=red,2,300]the capture of democratic institutions by a
       rapacious oligarchy, the grotesque social inequality, the
       cruelty of predatory corporations and an unchecked
       militarism.[/glow] The Democrats will anoint another amoral
       politician, probably Harris, to use as a mask for outsized
       corporate greed, the folly of endless war, the facilitation of
       genocide and the assault on our most basic civil liberties. The
       Democrats, tools of Wall Street, gave us
       [glow=red,2,300]Trump[/glow], and the 74 million people who
       voted for him in 2020. They look set to give us
       [glow=red,2,300]Trump again[/glow] &#128556;&#128543;.
       [glow=teal,2,300]&#9757;&#127995; God[/glow] &#128591;&#127996;
       [glow=green,2,300]help[/glow] us.
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       #Post#: 2218--------------------------------------------------
       MICHAEL HUDSON &amp; JILL STEIN ON lSRAEL HEADING TO WAR WITH
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   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: July 31, 2024, 10:07 pm
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       [move]&#128367;&#65039; [glow=green,2,300]MICHAEL HUDSON[/glow]
       & &#128509;&#128330; [glow=green,2,300]JILL STEIN[/glow] ON
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       />[glow=red,2,300]lSRAEL[/glow] HEADING TO
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       />WAR[/glow] WITH
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       /> HEZBOLLAH AND IRAN AS
       [glow=red,2,300]
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       />U.S. EMPIRE BURNS[/glow][/move]
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       &#128308; MICHAEL HUDSON & JILL STEIN ON ISRAEL-HEZBOLLAH WAR,
       NATO VS. RUSSIA & CHINA: UNTHINKABLE IS HERE
       &#128308; MICHAEL HUDSON & JILL STEIN ON ISRAEL-HEZBOLLAH WAR,
       KAMALA HARRIS VS. TRUMP: WWIII LOOMS
       #Israel #hezbollah #iran #nato
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       The hard truth that we-the-people FAILED to FACE in 2020, but
       MUST FACE NOW!
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: August 10, 2024, 12:14 am
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       AGelbert
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       />REMINDER:  Jeremy Scahill has repeatedly warned Democrats
       about
       the &#128181;&#127913;&#127820;&#9760;&#65039; political and
       economic system (SEE: DUOPOLY) that the Democratic Party Elite
       SERVES. Here is a four year old article by him that turned out
       to be painfully accurate in predicting [glow=red,2,300]Biden's
       morally bankrupt M.I.C War profiteering, Genocide supporting
       DESPICABLE policies[/glow] (emojies by &#129312; me):
       &#65279;
       &#65279;INTERCEPTED
       &#65279;October 21, 2020 with &#128367;&#65039;&#128509; Jeremy
       Scahill
       &#65279;SNIPPET:
       From the very beginning, Donald Trump’s entire schtick about
       standing up for the downtrodden, the hard workers, the ordinary
       people of this country was a scam. One nonstop four-year
       &#128520;&#128176; grift. &#129408; Trump has used his political
       career and his time as president to enrich himself and his
       cronies. But more than that, he has served as a Pied Piper for
       the most [glow=red,2,300]extreme anti-worker, anti-poor
       agendas[/glow] of the Republican Party. And he dug deep into the
       well of the most [glow=red,2,300]vile [/glow]aspects of U.S.
       politics and history to win power. It was this weaponizing of
       [glow=red,2,300]hate[/glow] that allowed Trump and his allies to
       manufacture the state of grave danger that so many poor and
       working people now find themselves in in this country. The
       [glow=red,2,300]extreme economic injustices [/glow]of the past
       four years were produced on the rhetoric of white nationalism,
       xenophobia, racism, sexism.
       &#65279;
       &#65279;But simply voting Trump out of office will not wipe any
       of this away. Many of these factors, while intensified during
       this administration, have persisted through both Democratic and
       Republican administrations. Both parties are beholden to
       corporate interests, even if one is more brazen and successful
       at producing dividends for the ultra-rich.
       &#65279;
       &#65279;The hard truth we must all face is that the
       [glow=red,2,300]&#128181;&#127913;&#127820;&#9760;&#65039;
       political and economic system[/glow] Trump has exploited and
       utilized [glow=red,2,300]will continue on in perpetuity[/glow]
       unless the people of this country &#128509; bravely muster the
       collective will to challenge its very existence.
       &#65279;
       &#65279;American Mythology: The Presidency of Donald Trump (Part
       Six: The [glow=maroon,2,300]Looting[/glow]
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       />of the Nation)
       &#65279;10/21/2020 30 min
       Full &#128266; Podcast or article:
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       The Real &#128520;Elon Musk Revealed:
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: August 10, 2024, 2:54 pm
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       Wednesday, August 7, 2024
       [center]The [glow=red,2,300]Real[/glow] [glow=red,2,300]Elon
       Musk [/glow]Revealed:
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       />AGelbert COMMENT:  &#128023; Musk is, like most U.S. &#128055;
       Bilionaires, a Government &#128520; WELFARE &#128053;&#128176;
       QUEEN.
       &#65279;
       &#65279;What makes him and his elite scum &#128061; ilk
       [glow=red,2,300]dangerous[/glow] to we-the-people is not so much
       his his brazen Empire cheerleading, rampant greed and calloused
       disregard for employee adequate wages and working conditions,
       but the [glow=red,2,300]IDEOLOGY[/glow] he shares with those in
       our DUOPOLY CORRUPTED GOVERNMENT.
       &#65279;
       &#65279;They are ALL [glow=red,2,300]Social Darwinists[/glow].
       Altruism, equity, empathy, inclusion are ALL actions and
       behaviors CONDEMNED as "STUPID" by these morally inverted Social
       Darwinist BASTARDS! That is why they can continually come up
       with fresh outrages and not bat an eye when we are aghast at
       their in-our-faces malice aforerthought. If this is hard for you
       to wrap your head around, just think of their world view as,
       'Orwellian Mens rea'. Yeah, they actually think is is "socially
       destructive" to NOT be [glow=red,2,300]DOG EAT DOG SOCIALLY
       DESTRUCTIVE[/glow]!
       &#65279;
       &#65279;So, you are wasting your time if you think you can
       appeal to the "better angels" of [glow=red,2,300]Musk, Harris,
       Biden, Blinken, Trump, Netanyahu, christo-fascists (and any
       other brand of fascist, Zionist or not), etc., [b]et al[/b].
       [/glow]
       &#65279;
       &#65279;&#65279;Social Darwinists believe that ethics based
       principles are 'limitations pretending to be virtues'. To them,
       ethics are 'feel good illusions' that humans invented to pretend
       our species has empathy. To Social Darwinists, empathy is
       irrefutable evidence of inexcusable weakness. To them, all who
       are guided by ethics are deluded fools that should be eliminated
       from the human 'apex predator' gene pool for the "good" of our
       species.
       &#65279;
       &#65279;Social Darwinists believe that the dictum, “survival of
       the fittest” (a term coined not by Charles Darwin but by
       sociologist Herbert Spencer), means that only the "fittest"
       should survive. Darwin's book published later ("Descent of Man")
       made it clear that Darwin completely supported
       the[glow=red,2,300] morally bankrupt[/glow] views of Spencer.
       &#65279;
       &#65279;The ideology of the Social Darwinist is
       indistinguishable from the despicable ideology of NAZI Germany,
       clearly exemplified in their brutally enforced morally bankrupt
       concentration camp law: [glow=red,2,300]“Eat your own bread, and
       if you can, that of your neighbor.”[/glow]
       &#65279;
       &#65279;[glow=red,2,300]Netanyahu[/glow] is the most OBVIOUS
       poster boy for the [glow=red,2,300]Social Darwinist
       Ideology[/glow], but he is NOT a statistical outlier within
       [glow=red,2,300]TPTB "club" that Musk belongs to[/glow].
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       [center]
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       />the
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       /> [glow=maroon,2,300]Social Darwinism[/glow], stupid!
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       />
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       #Post#: 2301--------------------------------------------------
       The Racket | Presidential Candidate
       &#128367;&#65039;&#128509;&#128330;&#65039; Jill Stein on
       Fighting The US War Machine
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: August 26, 2024, 10:25 pm
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       [center]
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       [center][glow=red,2,300]The Racket [/glow]| &#129413;
       Presidential Candidate
       &#128367;&#65039;&#128509;&#128330;&#65039;
       [glow=green,2,300]Jill Stein[/glow] on
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       />Fighting The
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       />
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       />[glow=red,2,300]US War Machine[/glow][/center]
       [center]
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       [glow=blue,2,300]A/POLITICAL[/glow] 7.81K subscribers Aug 23,
       2024
       In the third episode of The Racket, Journalist and Author Matt
       Kennard speaks to American physician, activist, and Green Party
       presidential candidate Jill Stein &#8234;@JillStein2024&#8236;.
       They discuss US foreign policy, corruption and empire, renewed
       fears of Nuclear war and Julian Assange & Edward Snowden's place
       in The White House.
       The Racket is a series of interviews based on the book The
       Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire by Matt Kennard,
       available to purchase via Bloomsbury:
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       The series examines the power of the US empire around the world
       and its attempts to control nations via war and economic
       strangulation.
       Throughout Matt Kennard and guests will investigate the violent
       colonial beginnings of the most powerful nation in history, the
       tightening of its global stronghold post World War II, the
       crushing of dissent via CIA interference and its various ongoing
       wars around the world from a range of perspectives.
       Matt Kennard is co-founder and chief investigator at
       Declassified UK, a news outlet investigating British foreign
       policy. He was a fellow and then director at the Centre for
       Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in London. He has worked as a
       staff writer for the Financial Times in Washington DC, New York,
       and London. He is the author of three acclaimed books: Irregular
       Army (2012), The Racket (2015) and Silent Coup (2023).
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       Democrats to Palestinians: Drop dead
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: August 28, 2024, 7:35 pm
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       &#128073; Emojies by AGelbert. &#128072;
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       27 August 2024 &#128367;&#65039; Michael F. Brown Power Suits
       [center]
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       />[glow=red,2,300]Democrats[/glow] to &#128509; Palestinians:
       Drop
       dead[/center]
       [center][img
       width=640]
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       Vice President Kamala Harris rejected protesters’ demand outside
       the Democratic National Convention that the US stop arming
       Israel’s Gaza genocide. Carlos Berríos PolancoSIPA USA
       SNIPPET:
       There is a stark recognition among many anti-genocide protesters
       that Democrats are responsible for the worst of what humans can
       do to fellow humans. [glow=red,2,300]Democrats[/glow] will now
       be associated with
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       />genocide for a whole generation of young people and
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       />protesters.
       Democrats walked all over delegates trying to get more public
       recognition of the horrors faced by Palestinians. There is,
       however, much greater anger at what the Democratic leadership is
       doing to Palestinians – knee-deep in genocide as Biden and
       Harris are – than Democrats negotiating with the Uncommitted
       Movement encountered in Chicago.
       “For a Palestinian to address the Democrats in the middle of the
       [glow=red,2,300]Democrat Holocaust in Gaza[/glow], is like a Jew
       addressing the Nazi Party in the middle of the
       [glow=red,2,300]Nazi Holocaust[/glow],” Abunimah
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       />wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
       He argued that demanding a Palestinian speak at the DNC – and
       thus burnish the Democrats’ false image as the party of peace,
       love and diversity – was a diversion from the only demand that
       matters: ending the flow of weapons to Israel from the
       Democratic administration in the White House.
       Full article:
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       #Post#: 2322--------------------------------------------------
       Orwell PREDICTED The Malice Aforethought &quot;Rules-Based&quot;
       International WAR for Profit &quot;Order&quot;
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: September 2, 2024, 7:30 pm
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       [center]
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       --- Quote ---
       >
       The[glow=red,2,300]
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       />international
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       />order[/glow] is an interlocking series of agreements, tacit
       understandings, explicit understandings, and clandestine
       understandings about how the most
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       />i[glow=red,2,300]mportant structures [/glow]
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       />"keep the world free of war"
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       />SEE: ORWELL) and keep
       &#128181;&#127913;&#127820;&#128061;&#128520; markets
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       />
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       />There has been a [glow=red,2,300]system in
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       />place[/glow], whether understood explicitly or behind the
       scenes
       or implicitly, that says the [glow=red,2,300]purpose[/glow] of
       the [glow=red,2,300] two American parties [/glow]is to &#128013;
       prune the field of populist
       &#128367;&#65039;&#128509;[glow=teal,2,300]&#128330;[/glow]
       candidates so that whatever two candidates exist in a faceoff
       are both acceptable to [glow=red,2,300]that
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       />world order[/glow].
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       When [glow=red,2,300]it[/glow] has a chance to
       [glow=red,2,300]run like this[/glow], infinite
       [glow=red,2,300]war[/glow] and
       [glow=red,2,300]destruction[/glow] on a
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       />planetary scale are [glow=red,2,300]empire’s natural and only
       instincts[/glow]. [glow=red,2,300]It has no goodness left in
       it[/glow] to release when left unchecked.
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       />the
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       /> [glow=maroon,2,300]Social Darwinism[/glow], stupid!
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       />
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       #Post#: 2327--------------------------------------------------
       Dr. Jill Stein “... there is no lesser evil. You have two
       genocidal candidates, ...&quot;
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: September 4, 2024, 7:20 pm
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       September 4, 2024
       [center]Campaigning Against [glow=red,2,300]Genocide[/glow]
       [/center]
       [center](w/ Dr. Jill Stein
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       />& Butch Ware
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       This interview is also available on Rumble and podcast
       platforms.
       “Genocide is the moral imperative of our era,” declares Green
       Party presidential candidate Jill Stein in this episode of The
       Chris Hedges Reports as she continues her campaign for the U.S.
       presidency. Joined by running mate, Professor Butch Ware, the
       two make their case as to why they should earn the vote of every
       disenfranchised American, stuck in the woes of personal domestic
       struggles and the atrocities committed abroad on their behalf by
       a self-serving empire.
       Stein’s view is clear when looking at how the election is
       shaping up: “Forget the lesser evil, there is no lesser evil.
       You have [glow=red,2,300]two genocidal candidates[/glow], one
       conducting genocide right now and the other promising to finish
       the job.”
       Stein and Ware hammer down that while the military-industrial
       complex may seem like a foreign policy issue, tackling it is key
       to unlocking solutions at the domestic level. Stein says the
       bloated defense budget, which reaches into the trillions of
       dollars when all expenditures are accounted for, is one of the
       primary obstacles she aims to take down. “This is why we are not
       providing for the health care, the housing, the education,
       getting people out of debt, dealing with the climate emergency,
       ending the carceral state and having a restorative system of
       justice and addressing the issues of poverty and hopelessness,
       which drive crime in the first place,” she explains.
       Ware remarks that the dynamic between Americans who feel trapped
       into voting for Democrats out of fear of Trump is deeply toxic,
       fueled by the narcissism of the candidates themselves. “As soon
       as you sign on the dotted line, they get right back to business,
       murdering people with your tax dollars, putting it in their
       pocket, letting your neighborhoods dissolve and break down,”
       Ware tells Hedges.
       Ware makes clear that there is a choice for resistance and
       dissent on the ballot in November: “We have to end this toxic
       cycle of abuse, because they have people spellbound into
       thinking that there is no way to resist, but you absolutely can
       resist right now by voting [glow=limegreen,2,300]&#128330;
       Green[/glow].”
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       />COMMENT:
       AS a [glow=blue,2,300]Christian , I am bound by my FAITH in
       CHRIST's &#128330;&#65039; Matthew 7:12 &#9757;&#127995;
       COMMAND[/glow], to clearly state that Jill Stein and Butch Ware
       MUST be voted for. The Democratic Party AND the Republican Party
       are [glow=red,2,300]VICIOUSLY GENOCIDAL[/glow],
       [glow=red,2,300]Vulture[/glow] Capitalist
       [glow=red,2,300]MIC[/glow] front groups.
       NOTE: YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS (You will want to save the following
       info. You never know when TPTB will try to erase it).
       EVERYTHING repeated ad nauseam about Hamas "atrocities" on
       October 7, 2023  IS A COMPLETE MORALLY BANKRUPT FABRICATION to
       "justify" GENOCIDE, cynically and maliciously rebranded as
       "Israel has a right to defend itself".
       NEWS FLASH: The IDF is [glow=red,2,300]ATTACKING[/glow] civilian
       men women and children in Gaza and the West Bank, NOT
       "defending" squat!
       Below is the link (after removing the spaces placed to get past
       the link censor) to the DETAILED TRUTH about who did what and
       who killed who during the October 7, 2023 Military Operation by
       Hamas.
       SNIPPET:
       On the 7th, it is crucial to understand that there were no
       direct attacks on civilians, only collateral damage. Out of the
       1148 total names on Haaretz dataset, 473 military and 675 were
       civilians.
       Read more:
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       This is relevant:
       Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, May Golan and Netanyahu are ALL birds
       of a feather.
       The Chris Hedges Report
       The War on Gaza – 3.12.24 August
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