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Writes Ginny Garner:

Lew,

Reaction of the Mary Ferrell Foundation from its president Jefferson Morley on X:

Here’s the statement of the Mary Ferrell Foundation from me, the vice president of the foundation, about today’s file release.#JFKFilesRelease #JFKRecords @InfoMferrell

“The first JFK files release of 2025 is an encouraging start. We now have complete versions of approximately… pic.twitter.com/Ptq4qf1a1D

— Jefferson Morley (@jeffersonmorley) March 19, 2025

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Last night.

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See here.

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Gail Appel writes:

But they don’t pay their NATO obligations, prohibit the most popular party from holding sway, continue flooding Germany with those who align with the Islamist Supremacist terror regimes and JD Vance is the Nazi.

Yet were expected to protect Germany.

Trump is right. The hell with the EU.

See this.

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Zoltán Kottász

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John Smith wrote:

Lew,

This is revealing.

“Nathan Miller, a spokesperson for MTF and former Director of Speechwriting for Israel’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, did not respond to multiple requests for comment asking for details about Adelson’s day to day involvement with MTF, whether MTF had any contact with the White House or State Department regarding the attempted deportation of Khalil, whether MTF had any evidence to support their claim that Khalil is a “Hamas supporter” and “came to the US to promote chaos and destruction,” and why the Facebook page targeting American campus protesters and universities is partially managed by individuals in Israel.”

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The Future of Freedom Foundation.

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Robert Barnes in one of his best and most insightful interviews. Comprehensive and authoritative in tracing and outlining the systemic sources and backgrounds of these corrupt nefarious actors over time. He remains the brilliant attorney/political analyst who shines the disinfecting light of illumination and clarity upon understanding the tragic, chaotic world in which we live.

That is why key observers across the political spectrum recognize that Barnes is not only a master litigator and top-notch attorney but one of the most in depth, articulate, well read and street-smart experienced political analysts in the nation. Whether it involves the institutionalized criminal machine cartels of the Democrats and Republicans or the deep state, he is a true polymath reminiscent of Murray N. Rothbard in his power elite analysis of Realpolitik.

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The US is bombing Yemen again after Houthi leaders announced that their blockade on Israeli shipping would resume due to Israel’s siege on Gaza.

Trump could have used Washington’s immense leverage over Israel to force Netanyahu to honor the ceasefire agreement and allow aid into Gaza. Instead he let the IDF lay siege to Gaza and started bombing Yemen for Israel, because he’s a warmongering Israel cuck.

Trump is bombing Yemen for Israel, rushing weapons to Israel despite its flagrant ceasefire violations, and rolling out authoritarian measure after authoritarian measure to stop Americans from criticizing Israel. Because that’s what you get when you vote for America First.

Do you want to know how much of a pathetic Israel lackey Trump is? Earlier this month his nominated hostage envoy Adam Boehler went on CNN and proclaimed that the United States is “not an agent of Israel”. Days later, the White House withdrew Boehler’s nomination.

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Known things:

1. Trump is a servant of Israel.

2. Trump is on the Epstein flight logs.

3. Epstein worked with Israeli intelligence.

4. Epstein was running a sexual blackmail operation.

5. Trump is obstructing the release of the Epstein files.

Question:

Exactly how many kids did Trump rape?

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It’s cool how Republicans are finally dropping that phony “We’re populists fighting the Deep State” schtick and returning to their authentic “Anyone who opposes authoritarianism loves terrorists, let’s fight more wars in the middle east” roots.

Trump supporters would wipe their asses with the US Constitution and deport their own mothers if doing so would help their government send one more 2000-pound bomb to Israel.

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The other day I shared a report about Israel continuing its insanely evil practice of murdering children in Gaza with sniper drones, and I got multiple people in my replies commenting “Release the hostages!” as a response.

Israel supporters are the worst people in the world.

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I have no sympathy for Israelis, nor for Israel supporters who say they “feel unsafe”. This isn’t because I am uncaring, it’s because I know any sympathy I might point in that direction will be harnessed and used to murder Palestinians, start wars, and destroy free speech rights.

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When you proclaim that anti-Zionism is antisemitism and then Zionism murders tens of thousands of children, you are naturally going to see a rise in “antisemitism” as you have defined it. That’s all this whole “antisemitism crisis” narrative has been from the very beginning.

Zionism is not a religion, it’s a fucking political ideology. It’s always legitimate to criticize a political ideology. Saying it’s evil forbidden speech to express disdain for Zionism is the same as saying it’s evil forbidden speech to express disdain for white nationalism. Zionism is the political ideology which supports the west’s decision to drop an apartheid ethnostate on top of a pre-existing population and maintain that apartheid ethnostate by any amount of violence and abuse necessary.

You can’t butcher children by the tens of thousands with the backing of the most powerful war machine on the planet in the name of supporting this political ideology and then legitimately cry victim when people have something to say about it. That’s not a thing.

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People tend to bluff the opposite of whatever hand they’re holding; newbies do it in poker, and everyone does it with their ego. Conservatives are afraid of everything, so they posture as hypermasculine tough guys. Liberals are bootlickers who act like heroes of social justice.

You see this dynamic everywhere, on the personal level as well as political. The person who feels small acts big. The person who feels dumb acts like a know it all. You see some bloke acting like he’s better than everyone else and think “That guy needs to be brought down a few pegs,” but really he’s only doing that because he feels inferior to everybody; you can’t bring him down any lower than he’s already brought himself. They’re all just bluffing the opposite of the hand they believe they’ve been dealt.

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Have you ever wondered what makes a person snap? What causes a normal, quiet, everyday citizen, loving mother, or doting father to lose it all and fight like a caged animal? What can cause a small village to rise up and rebel against an oppressive police force and start killing them? What is the switch that gets flipped that causes a city to pour two million people into the streets, chanting and demanding to be heard by their government?

Lately it feels more and more as though we are on standing on the edge of some yawning precipice peering over the crest into darkness. What is more troubling to me is that we have been down this path before. The sense of unease is almost palpable to me sometimes; it is more evident if you are paying attention. If you are able to eliminate the white noise of the world for a minute; hit the pause button on the playlist of daily life for a while and look around, listen, you may start to recognize that you too are caught up in events that will soon change all our lives.

For several years I have felt an unsettling sense that we need to be prepared, that life is going to throw us a big, fat, greasy curve ball soon and we better not be caught napping. To try and proactively address that warning voice I started planning and taking steps to prepare my family to be able to weather events in the future. I am certainly not alone in this concern as you can easily see by the tremendous growth of the prepper movement. In the spectrum of probable events, there are a lot of potential scenarios. Natural disasters and emergencies occur every day all over the world, but you have to broaden your gaze and look to current events and history as well. One of the things that I think is a valid potential event to consider is a collapse of our way of life which leads to an authoritarian oppressive government.

Are we reaching a tipping point?

We have seen in recent events, by now almost too numerous to mention, the effects of a rising frustration with the way things are. It isn’t necessary to go into all of the individual reasons, but as a society there are more and more outpourings of frustration on a global scale. There are increasingly tightening restrictions against people. There is a manipulation of markets and the economy. There is a great increase in the loss of freedom and there is a more open antagonism and almost outright animosity by Government towards their people.

Governments exist either because they have come to power through force and violence or they have been elected and given power by the people. The force and violence crowd usually have their roots in the military and we like to call them Dictators. There have been a ton of them throughout history; Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Kim Jong iL and now his son, Saddam, Gaddafi, the list goes on and on. Dictators don’t care about the people and usually kill anyone who gets in their way. It is a fact that government has killed more people than any other cause, disease or reason.

The other side of the coin is what is usually called Democracies. I am lumping a lot of governments in here I know, but the democracies are usually elected and formed with the consent of the people with the noble goal of securing rights or protecting the people over whom they govern. Almost without fail however, Democratic Governments eventually do not want to answer to the people and at some point they most certainly will not be told what to do by the people to the point of ignoring the will of the people (for the people’s own good of course). Now these governments that are supposed to secure the liberties of their people are becoming more openly hostile to the same people they have sworn to defend. Funnily enough the democratically elected governments now seem to want to hang on to power with the same methods of force and violence as dictators. How else can you explain arming themselves with ammo, ignoring the constitution, purchasing assault vehicles and preparing to confiscate firearms?

When governments will steal money outright from the citizens in order to pay bills that were not incurred by the people we have a problem. When government spies on its people and uses that information against them punitively we have a problem. When Government uses the force of the military that was supposed to defend the people that was paid for by the people, for the purposes of killing the people, we have a big problem. When someone brings to light crimes by the government and is labeled as the one who is a danger, we have a problem.

The problem is that governments around the world are viewing their people as the problem and there really seems to be only one way throughout history that this is ever rectified. My fear is that we are already set on a course that won’t be changed with laws, great political leaders, or a return to the values of a golden age in time long past.

The Fine Line – The Straw that breaks the camel’s back

The fine line between someone who is a law-abiding citizen and a murderer is one that exists purely in our souls. There is nothing physical that is different from a person who follows the rules and someone who breaks them. The urge to pull the trigger isn’t something you can see and it isn’t a trait to test for, so it must be our own individual sense of right and wrong. Of good and evil.

I know that some will argue that a psychopath is definitely recognizable by character traits and maybe even brainwaves or chemistry. That may be true, but you can be a psychopath (clinically) without ever hurting anyone. By the same token, you can take a life while being perfectly “sane”.

If you hold a knife in your hand, you are just as capable of using that to stab or cut someone as the murderer in the next town, but that thought never enters the mind of an overwhelming majority of people. A baseball bat in your hands can easily be swung with great force connecting it to the back of a skull, but this thought never appears in our heads; that is unless we are forced into a corner. When a person is in desperate fear for their lives, the unspoken rules of right and wrong are broken. The processes that we follow every day are overridden in the cause of rage or self-preservation. What was unthinkable before is now very real, necessary and even righteous with the right circumstances.

When the right buttons are pushed, anyone can lose it. When the fear of dying or of losing someone you love is so overpowering, the “fine line” that has been keeping us sane, law-abiding and good is easily shattered. When this happens, all bets are off.

We as a people, a country are still rather firmly attached on the good side of this line. We have not yet completely been driven to abandon all hope and lash out. We have not yet been so harmed, have not gotten to the point that we have nothing to lose and are ready to lose it, but this may be coming in the future.

The force and violence that is being used now to quell the dissatisfaction of people globally is increasing. The methods to cease the complaining of the rabble has been relatively minor with some exceptions. Tear gas, rubber bullets, mace and batons only work up to a point though. When the time comes that people can no longer abide, there won’t be enough police to stop them using riot control techniques. The military doesn’t have enough people to stop the entire population unless those people peacefully agree to surrender, so what will they do? Do you believe any government will quietly step down and admit that they are obviously not speaking for the people anymore? No. They will resort to more force and violence and people will die. Either that or you have a coup like they had in Egypt and guess who took over to “restore order”? Yep, the Military.

What will be the inevitable response by the authorities?

The Chinese people who started to revolt against the police in their town did so because the authorities were “placing restrictions on their culture, language and religion”. China is no picnic compared to America and we clearly know they have lived through far worse oppression than we have, but this was the straw that broke the camel’s back for them?

The protests which turned into an estimated two million citizens of Brazil had started simply enough with a protest over a rise in the rates of public transportation.

In America, what will be the trigger that causes people to rise up and say we aren’t going to take this anymore and more importantly what will happen when/if we do?

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“America should side with the rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo,” says Michael Rubin, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a beltway conservative think tank.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), formerly known as the Congo Free State, the Belgian Congo, and Zaire, is the second largest country in Africa. It should not be confused with the smaller Republic of the Congo. According to the CIA’s World Factbook: “The territory that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo has more than 200 ethnic groups that trace their histories to many communal organizations and kingdoms.” The country has suffered from poverty, civil wars, armed conflicts, and economic and political instability for decades.

Rubin, a former Pentagon official who defended Bush’s Iraq War, laments that European and American policymakers often “automatically or arbitrarily castigate rebellions and insurgencies as counter to freedom and U.S. interests.” He concludes that the United States should not “side with a corrupt Congolese government that cultivates China and whose dictator seeks an illicit third term,” but should “recognize that what the rebels in eastern Congo face are the same groupings that perpetrated genocide or now cheer it on” and work with the rebels “to build their capacity and help them govern freely and fairly.”

So, whom should America side with: the government of the DRC or the rebels?

America should side with no one.

It doesn’t matter what violations of rights that either side has committed. It doesn’t matter how many murders either side has committed. It doesn’t matter how many rapes either side has committed. It doesn’t matter what atrocities that either side has committed. It doesn’t matter what war crimes either side has committed. It doesn’t matter how many innocent civilians either side has killed.

It is terrible that any other these things have happened. The world can at times be a terrible place. But not only can the United States not right every wrong, stop terrible things from happening, or correct every injustice in the world, it should not even attempt to do so. What is happening in the DRC is simply not the concern of the U.S. government. A foreign policy of neutrality and nonintervention is not only the policy of the Founders, it is a sane, moral, and common-sense policy as well. It is not the job of the United States to be the policeman, fireman, mediator, or social worker of the world.

If someone in the United States is concerned about anything that is happening in the DRC, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Sudan, Gaza, Myanmar, Syria, Yemen, Haiti, or any other place where there are armed conflicts, human rights abuses, or terrible things, then he is perfectly free to use his own resources and enlist others to help him undertake regime change, support one side in a civil war, protect civilians, rescue children, right wrongs, remedy injustice, or kill the bad guys. What he should not do is expect the U.S. government to pick his favored side.

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During the Biden regime, Trump criticized the Democrats for dropping bombs on Yemen.  You don’t have to do that, Trump said, you can talk through problems over the telephone.  Now it is Trump who is bombing Yemen.

Those few who think about foreign affairs chalk it up to another Trump favor to Israel.  Even so, it makes no sense.  It doesn’t help to stop the killing in Ukraine to start the killing in Yemen and to continue the killing in Gaza and the small remnant of the West Bank. Is Trump for peace or just partly for peace depending on location?

Trump’s bombing of Yemen could turn into something bigger. Trump’s national security advisor said that Washington might begin bombing Iranian warships.  He didn’t explain the point of it or address the consequences.  The bellicosity emitting from the Trump regime calls into question Trump’s sincerity about peace in Ukraine.

Indeed, the way Trump took up the Ukraine negotiations struck me as either thoughtless or calculated to inflame the situation.  The Ukraine conflict is Washington’s proxy war with Russia, and this is the way Russia understands it.  A successful negotiation has to take place between Trump and Putin.  Instead, Trump negotiated with Zelensky a temporary cease fire and then threatened Putin if he failed to agree.  By so doing, Trump presented Putin with a fait accompli, hardly a way to build trust. As Putin surely knows, it is not an agreement if one side is coerced into it.

Elsewhere on the Trump front I see what look to me to be puzzling mistakes.  Before issuing all those shutdown and firing orders, Trump should have first let DOGE uncover and publicize the fantastic uses of the federal budget for unwarranted purposes.  Then with the case made, it becomes difficult for federal judges to try to overturn the remedy.

Yesterday a Senate vote underlined the danger of acting in advance of persuasion.  26 Republicans, including the Senate Majority Leader, voted with Democrats not to include in the spending cuts those Trump ordered for USAID.  When nearly half of the Republican Senate prefer to continue funding transgender comic books in Peru and DEI training sessions in Serbia despite their concern with the budget deficit, proper groundwork is missing.  In domestic fights assaults must be as carefully prepared as military assaults.  

The sound and fury emitted from the Oval Office provides the presstitutes with much to misrepresent and use as weapons against Trump.  Hopefully, the presstitutes will further discredit themselves rather than Trump. 

In the meantime Trump should take a break from talk and action and figure out how to get his war for America’s renewal  better organized.

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