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Diana (Somewhere in Maryland)'s avatar

I have become so jaded I wouldn't put it past this administration to have deliberately sacrificed/put those soldier's in harms way for a reason to instigate a conflict. They are that shady.

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Temcol's avatar

Sadly I was thinking we bombed ourselves too. Just to get something started. Desperately sad we have such distrust of our government leaders.

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Melanie Eccles's avatar

I totally agree, and it doesn't make a difference in terms of "right" or "left" - they all want to remain in their positions of control and all the ones on both side are part of the "war machine" which is extremely lucrative and they likely own stock in some area of the military/industrial complex. War = Money...

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BBS's avatar

Eisenhower warned us about the military inductrial complex more tha 60 years ago.

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CH's avatar

And then JFK tried to make peace with everyone and they killed him.

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Deb's avatar

Daniel Ellsberg

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AJF's avatar

Can we file a FOIA to find out which politicians own stock in weapons manufacturers?

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Mary H.'s avatar

Probably 99 % of them .

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Melanie Eccles's avatar

Great question!

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S.P.H.'s avatar

Seems Brandon is more concerned about these three in Jordan than the 13 in Afghanistan.

And Lindsey is a snake, pure and simple.

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Jaci's avatar

A swishing snake at that...👎🏼

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Debra (Rural & Red Oregonian)'s avatar

His beady little eyes always get me. Do you ever notice how many of them have beady little eyes?

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MaryAnn's avatar

Snake eyes.

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CH's avatar

Pure optics. It is an election year, afterall.

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WP William's avatar

Like allowing a known, identified Jihadist to recon and then return to blow up a crowd ( of OUR Allies and supporters) at Bagram and killing and mangling our dedicated service people and then pretending to hit back by drone-smoking an innocent Afghani and his family, then commenting how well the operation went overall (as they hid behind their desks, podiums, and hired propagandist media dummies) ?

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A.J.'s avatar

I've distrusted everyone in the US war agencies since I began studying WW1 and WW2. There will ALWAYS be people like Edward Bernays hired by President Wilson to do a propaganda job on Americans after "we" reelected Wilson on a platform to stay out of WW1 to get us into it with all sorts of inflammatory propaganda most of it bare faced lies. How convenient the 1913 Federal Reserve Act was passed just in time for the 1914 war kickoff which needed big bank loans to get going and the USA just so happened to enter the war when the WW1 Allies ran out of liquidity for any more war loans from USA banks.

Or how about FDR who knew for weeks thanks thanks to Navy radiomen on Guam that the Japanese had been doing daily and then hourly surveillance flights over that island where Navy contractors were scrambling to build the island's first deep water military port. Yet, no US noncombatant employees were evacuated, no reserves brought in, and instead they spent almost 4 years as POWs working as slave laborers for Japanese companies. When they got home the FBI told each one never to talk abut their POW experiences or they'd be put into Leavenworth prison for life. "There's a Cold War on! We need an occupation agreement signed with Japan the US populace will support!! We need Japan to rebuild fast to fight the boogymen Commies!!!!"

Shall we discuss the Vietnam war or 20+ years in Afghanistan?

Same old, same old. Don't fall for the propaganda lies by politicians and war business operatives who rarely put their own carcasses or those of their children on any battle fronts.

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Diana (Somewhere in Maryland)'s avatar

I only recently started reading more fully the reasons/excuses for WWI. Some of the world's smartest minds were wasted on that unnecessary folly.

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Shelle's avatar

Also, ww1 led directly to ww2 as a result of how they treated Germany at the end. Both wars could have been entirely avoided!

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Deb's avatar

Daniel Ellsberg

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CH's avatar

It makes me sick 🤬

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Garden Lover's avatar

Yeah, I was wondering if this was friendly fire.

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

This is a stupid statement. We didn’t bomb ourselves.

Iran did with Russias support

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Dave's avatar

And you know this because the evil SOBs in US Gov who desperately want to go to war with Iran and Russia told you Iran and Russia did it?

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

Russia has been backing and supporting Iran because they both hate the USA.

I suggest going to Iran and seeing

How fun and nice they are to women.

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Dena's avatar

Review The Gulf of Tonkin incident. Lies that resulted in the TET Offensive & the deaths of thousands.

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Mykool's avatar

Yes and the 911 lie.

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Chevrus's avatar

Chiming in to keep the dying narrative on track...duly noted.

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Mykool's avatar

Actually, it's Benjamin three N's, as in "ninny".

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Renee Marie's avatar

WOW! You’re naive! The “trust my government” ship sailed years ago!

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

It’s pretty

Obvious when we have names and faces of the people who died along with recovered parts of the drone.

If your neighbor has been eyeing your car and the rims on it is your first scrim to accuse

Your cousin in Toledo of stealing them? Why?

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Janis Bombacie's avatar

So glad that someone remembers mothra!

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WP William's avatar

the moth that ate every sweater in Tokyo

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Uncle Juan's avatar

I have some ocean front property for sale in New Mexico too.

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WP William's avatar

Why not Russia-Syria directly? or does Putin want a degree of separation? Assad is their boy and the entire mess of Syria has gone on too long, Biden talks about pulling out so why not a punch to the face to make the decision easier just like in Afghanistan? The doubters-conspiracy postulaters are only being consistent following the Nordstream sabotage narrative, the Afghanistan retreat narrative, the Southern US Border narrative, the CoVid19 origins narrative.....(I don't personally jump to that speculation quite yet myself but i understand the impulse).

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

Russia is tied up in Ukraine at the moment

And is stripping stuff from

Syria to fuel the war in Ukraine.

Putin can’t handle the west and Ukraine ay the same time.

Trump would have been killing

Iranian generals by now.

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WP William's avatar

I appreciate your eyes on Russia and its allies BeNjamiN, keep hold of the rudder no matter the crashing waves, we can't give Tyrants of any stripe a pass on their actions.

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Andrea Leshok's avatar

I'm stumped on the angle of this fed account. Anyone who has insight please share.

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

“Everything I don’t like is a fed psy op!”

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LamedVav disavows all vaxes.'s avatar

Not me. I’m glad we distrust them. They have earned our distrust. Survival requires that we distrust them.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Well, they forced the military to take the covid death shots...so, yeah.

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Anna T's avatar

And don't forget the govt threatened civilians to get the shot or be fired - but thankfully we could submit exemption requests. Although after we did that they forced us to test weekly or then be fired. #Lunacy

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Jaci's avatar

My former church refused to give religious exemptions...how telling is that?

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A.J.'s avatar

"former" [fist bump and salute]

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Anna T's avatar

Yes, "former!"

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Melanie Eccles's avatar

Why do you think they forced the military to take the shot if the insiders knew ahead of time that there was a "signal" for myocarditis? That would have been self destructive???

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Why would the military deny all religious exemptions?

Why would the military kick out over 8,000 military members?

Why is the VA denying disability to any former active duty members who were injured by the covid shots?

This destruction of American institutions is deliberate.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

It was self-destructive to deliberately decimate the military.

This a war between good and evil.

Hard for people to believe.

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GG's avatar

Because we've been propagandized that there is no "good and evil."

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goodnightrose's avatar

Self-defeating is literally the point. When you've embarked on a depopulation event, the fewer the better soldiers who might turn on you if it ever becomes obvious to them and large swaths of society.

Lucky for the Lizard People, so far only a negligible number has arrived at such a conclusion. 🥴

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WP William's avatar

can easily replace USA native-born and raised with lots of incoming NON-FAT male migrants who will get full legal legit citizenship by serving in the ranks

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Renee Marie's avatar

“Destructive” IS the point.

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Fred's avatar

Why indeed, because they did already know the risks...and lack of effectiveness.

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Astragale's avatar

We’re ruled by people who engineer bat viruses - which otherwise mind their own business in bat caves - so they can whip around the world infecting humanity within weeks.

I don’t suppose anyone here would be surprised by dirty tricks used as a pretext to start war. We already had the «weapons of mass destruction » - co-ordinated by Bush & a UK democrat leader working closely together.

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Diana (Somewhere in Maryland)'s avatar

I changed after reading Glenn Greenwald's book about Edward Snowden. I had originally bought into the media spin that he was a bad guy and traitor to the country. Not at all. He saw how the FBI and CIA ruin people's lives to clear their cases - he said they even laughed about it at happy hour. Reading about their elaborate set ups to take down someone innocent mind boggling. The movie about Richard Jewell was not a one off circumstance. Killing three soldiers to instigate a war? No problem.

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Credenda's avatar

Me too Diana! The narrative was that he was a traitor and I believed it. Same with Julian Assange. I think they both had courage to go up against the deep state and the globalists. They have both paid a steep price. If Trump gets in I hope he pardons Assange.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Woke Pentagon considers them collateral damage.

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Sharon Wood's avatar

All of humanity seems to be collateral damage nowadays for the end goal.

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Merry McIntyre's avatar

A euphemism for evil deeds of the most high. Collateral damage, my foot!!

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GG's avatar

I have a hypothesis that in order to work in government, your conscience has to be seared.

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Diana (Somewhere in Maryland)'s avatar

My brother in law works at NSA. I couldn't agree more :)

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Emumundo's avatar

Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Gonzalo Lira are heroes. Ukraine should not get one more penny from this country. Crickets from Congress.

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Dena's avatar

The movie “Snowden” directed by Oliver Stone clued me in as well. We’ll worth watching.

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PJ's avatar

And the buildings around the World Trade Center just happened to fall down all by themselves.

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SM's avatar

But wait! We mustn’t question “the science” or else scary things can happen. Shut up and believe.

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A.J.'s avatar

"The $cience!" (trademarked) [snark]

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chuck kutchera's avatar

I haven’t forgotten Bush’s destructive Patriot Act, and No Child Left behind.

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Jaci's avatar

Should be anti patriot act...always the opposite.

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CH's avatar

Well, they will use their successful tactics over and over again if they keep working.

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alongername's avatar

exactly.....

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shayne's avatar

Well said

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Peter 🔒's avatar

Read this. It's deep into the research of Virus or Bacteriophages. At this point it is not easy to tell what is what. Epigenetics? https://charleswright1.substack.com/p/genetic-control-of-mankind-1904-present

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AngelaK's avatar

Is malarky spewing botox biden going to say that his son was one of the soldiers?🙄

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KATHERINE JERNIGAN's avatar

Beau has died so many times, mostly bravely at war 🙄

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Tom's avatar

"Every hour a soldier dies in service of his country. And that soldier is Beau Biden."

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A.J.'s avatar

the military lawyer of cancer?

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CStone's avatar

He will give him the Purple Heart.

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Janet's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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Emumundo's avatar

He could give him John Kerry’s...

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

...at least one of the dead ones.

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Cindi's avatar

Why not think the worst of our “leaders” in deliberately sacrificing our troops? Look what they allowed in Afghanistan. My son is USAF; he’s not in the Middle East but I remain frightened for his future

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CH's avatar

I have a son serving in the Navy and know completely how you feel.

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Cindi's avatar

Prayers for your Navy son, CH. Altho my son is stationed in Japan, his very close proximity to N. Korea, China, Russia is also disconcerting.

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WP William's avatar

yes, and the war talk out of N. Korea has also intensified (since Jan 2021), China and Russia need to throttle the Lil'Kims down hard ASAP; The Free Koreans and Japanese need a non-dementia US leader to curb Commie Korean aspirations and aggression--even CowMala could be an improvement.

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Cindi's avatar

I absolutely HATE that my son is serving under this demonic admin. Knee Pads Harris would not be an improvement, nor Neo-con Nikki

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God Bless America's avatar

I really hated when Ron D. got out of the race… if something happens to Trump… It will be Haley for the nomination… 😱😱😱

Talk about a bullseye on Trump’s back… 🙈😳😳😳 No Bueno!

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CH's avatar

Agree!

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Credenda's avatar

No, she would sell us out in a heartbeat. Probably say it was necessary because of DEI.

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Emumundo's avatar

And laugh and laugh...

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CH's avatar

Oh, that laugh. I want to clock her.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

My prayers every day include our troops wherever they are. These brave young men and women voluntarily give their lives for the safety and security of our nation and citizens yet their leaders and our government see them as disposable assets to accomplish their goals whether it even affects the USA or not. It makes me sick. They should never be put into harms way to fight endless wars overseas to benefit the warmongers in Congress. May God watch over and protect our troops and their families!

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Cindi's avatar

Thx so much, Julie Ann

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daverkb's avatar

This is the problem with lying, and all that 'little boy crying wolf' stuff. In the end, nobody believes anything.

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Leskunque Lepew's avatar

WEF captured MSM.

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daverkb's avatar

I think we all in North America are captured 'citizens' in a captured government bottle. And that WEF, MSM, etc., that these are just tools.

The whole thing is a Grand Illusion of mind control ... and it takes continuous prodigious effort to keep from getting sucked in.

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Politico Phil's avatar

C S Lewis' novel "That Hideous Strength" is a great illustration of this truth... and very entertaining.

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daverkb's avatar

Thanks ... by the way, I sent to you something on Why Men Don't See Evil. And also regarding the Pivot, that too got all knotted up in over-explaining and then scrapped. Just think 'binary oscillation' and 'in the box' by the same suspects monopolizing fantasy money ... and to save themselves. These folks have been playing, stinging us along for centuries. Still, the Pivot is big and new. And the other controlled opposition, the Party of the Woke don't seem to have all caught on, nor that other in name only party.

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Anthony's avatar

I was thinking they just 1984ed 3 fake soldier deaths. Remember, we were always at war with Iran.

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Tom's avatar

Is it time for the Two Minutes Hate yet?

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Jeff C's avatar

There is only one reason for a base in that location and it's to train nutjob Islamic militants to overthrow Assad in Syria. Our intelligence community is out of control.

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Credenda's avatar

We have been supplying ISIS, the Taliban, and their assorted friends with money and weapons for decades now. If the American people were allowed to see the interconnections they would not be so willing to see their sons and daughters be used in such a cynical way. As my man Smedley said “War is a Racket!” Why are we still occupying Syria? It’s all neocon scheming, and our military are just pawns on the chessboard. We have big big problems at home.

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Emumundo's avatar

Because we’re stealing their oil

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WP William's avatar

Yes, regime change worked so well for Obama-Hillary's Arab Spring...how ARE things in Tunisia, Libya, Syria in 2024? At LEAST the Egyptian Military said HELL NO and quashed the militant Islamic "democracy" movement there in short order. We remember all the killings of Westerners and Coptic Egyptians don't we???

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CH's avatar

It would totally not surprise me that it never happened. Our government (specifically the See Eye Aye) have created chaos, mayhem and death all over the world for decades to justify war. There is evidence that the attack in the Gulf of Tonkin never actually happened but it was used to get us into the Vietnam War. There are also declassified documents about Operation Northwoods where these f'ers wanted to create "false flags" to justify going to war with Cuba. These documents say they wanted to kill US troops and have false flag events around the country so they could invade Cuba (they were going to blame all of them on Cuba). It's pretty scary when you think about the implications of this. It is likely one of the reasons why JFK was murdered, but I digress.

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KatLee's avatar

I highly recommend “JFK and the Unspeakable” by James Douglas.

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CH's avatar

Thanks. I just found it at the local library (I know I am showing my age)

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KatLee's avatar

I got it as an audible book through my local library although I had to wait weeks for it as there was a waiting list. Another book that I found interesting about our “intelligence” community was Chaos by Tom O’Neill. And The Devil’s Chestboard about Allen Dulles. Such an idyllic childhood I had, only to learn as an adult what really has been going on all of these years.

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CH's avatar

I had an idyllic childhood, too. I came to the realization about our gov about 3 years ago and was depressed for days afterwards but now I am just mad. Thanks for recommending these books. I am going to read The Devil's Chessboard too.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

I love the library and I’m from the 80s! Just don’t think many good books I want are there.

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CH's avatar

I have to admit I love the library and can just browse the non-fiction section for hours. There are tons of books available with various subjects that interest me.

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Garner's avatar

Depending on the local politics some titles have to be ordered through Inter Library Loan but you tend to get a longer read time. :)

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Diana (Somewhere in Maryland)'s avatar

I rule out nothing anymore. They will do anything.

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BBS's avatar

Of COURSE, they did. What's 3 people to them? The 13 in Afghanistan meant nothing. Don't forget how they turned the government -sponsored and Fauci approved Covid Virus loose on us. That killed a million in our country alone, probably 15 - 20 million world-wide. Add to that the neither safe, nor effective "vaccine" which they are still pushing. And even though everyone knows everything about everything, the biolabs are still thriving! Everything the government is doing is designed to destroy us. The 150 plus food plants that have mysteriously blown up or burned to the ground. Pretty hard to convince me those were all accidents or acts of God. They want us to get weaker and dumber and less healthy. They know how to gain control. We showed them how easy it is. We turned on our own parents in our haste to lock down. They want to scare the hell out of us about our Catholic neighbors and they want us to turn on our grandmas. We did. We let grandma die alone in the nursing home. Yes, we showed them how easy that is, too. The Left with untold power and support from MSM, Big Government, Big Pharma, and Big Tech , has F U money and is systematically taking down our country, and with it, us.

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Merry McIntyre's avatar

In a nutshell. Thanks!

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SheThinksLiberty's avatar

The military brass allowed its own headquarters -- under the most heavily surveilled airspace in the world -- to get hit by something on a sunny Tuesday morning back in '01. Cheney, et al. were watching the thing come in toward the Pentagon and did 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑙𝑦 nothing. There were military personnel in the Pentagon that morning that got "vaporized" along with the two 9-ton steel and titanium engines of the passenger airliner alleged to have hit the building.

Kill their own? Sacrifice their own? You betcha.

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Politico Phil's avatar

Out of all the camera footage that covered the Pentagon, only one survives. I watched it and it was no plane. Could only have been a missile coming in a few feet off the ground. There were no plane parts at the Pentagon or at the Towers which clearly pancaked into their footprints as each floor was clearly seen in all video footage to be blown out from the inside. In a word, controlled demolition.

We have been under assault from our own Gov't in an actual kinetic war since at least 2001 and a military psy-ops that keeps us convinced it was foreign terrorism and a viral pandemic. Well, we are awake now.

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Emumundo's avatar

The coroner who showed to the crash in Pennsylvania said there was no plane crash. And there were no bodies. And when did hijackers ever let passengers use cell phones to call loved ones? Let’s roll- hahaha

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Emumundo's avatar

My son asked me once if I thought I was on any government lists. I laughed and said I’m pretty sure I am since I posted “ Brought to you by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld”. On a 9/11 website. As the brave Brandy Vaughn said- if you have the information you have the obligation to speak out. God bless her soul.

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SheThinksLiberty's avatar

Thank you, 47Yinzer. A reminder is unnecessary. I spent a very active decade+ on Sep 11 truth. Others may find that link of interest/use.

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WP William's avatar

how many cameras in and around the Pentagram Building? we got the side view of the jet coming straight in at 15 yards off the street like a guided rocket from the "journalists" covering that part of Bin-Laden's Cave HQ well-executed scheme

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Emumundo's avatar

The exact spot the plane hit was where they were starting an investigation into the two trillion missing dollars. This was announced by Rumsfeld on 9/10.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

That’s absoluetly what I was thinking except worse. I think they did it so we can “go to war” and funnel more $ to politicians pockets.

Someone with more skill should look into Grahams stock holdings and see if he is connected to weapons companies or something else related to war.

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A.J.'s avatar

He's probably been easily blackmailed as a needlessly-closet gay man for decades. And for sure on the insiders' payola schemes. He was what before he became a full time photogenic politician? An Air Force lawyer?

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Lisa Ca's avatar

Probably!

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Michelle Rollinger's avatar

They are trying everything to enter us into WW3. First Ukraine, then Taiwan, then Israel, now Iran. And let’s not forget Covid, racism, and transgender to get us infighting so we’re too distracted to see what’s really going on!

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RU's avatar

My first thought was that Biden himself killed more American soldiers with his ridiculous exit from Afghanistan. Not to mention our allies and their families who were soon hanged or beheaded after we abandoned them. But, a slimy little closet case like Lindsey Graham will keep droning on about war somewhere so he can keep raking in the millions.

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Dena's avatar

Review The Gulf of Tonkin incident. History repeats?

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Hoffmeister's avatar

And who believes that two Seals fell off a boat and were lost at sea? That story stinks too hi-heaven! Why did they have to "loose" them ( injured or contaminated?) For 11 days, then declare them both dead & bodies lost? Plus sink the suspect boat ( standard policy? ,- not true ), where's the photo's, oh drone video? What's the cover-up about on this one???

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Alfred's avatar

All I will say is that the movie Wag The Dog was not fiction. But people still believe what the liars in charge of our country tell them on the TeeVee.

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TriTorch's avatar

"American people don't believe anything's real until they see it on TV" -Nixon

Think about how powerful that makes the Tel-a-vision...

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Roman S Shapoval's avatar

Amazing isn't it? Those TVs carry infrasonic frequencies that make it past our cognitive defenses. Why you should never try to win an "argument with a man whose television is larger than his bookshelf." (anon)

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

If I go into someone's house and do not see any books, I want to go out screaming.

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Copernicus's avatar

We were discussing with our young person the strange phenomenon of one of the neighbor kids who seems capable only of playing video games or watching YouTube. If this kid can’t do those here at our house (say, our young person has used their screen time for the day), the kid leaves. We have plenty of other alternative entertainment.

Our young person remarked that they don’t think that kid’s family has any books in their house. Now, I would imagine they have *some,* *somewhere,* because owning absolutely none just is so unfathomable to me.

However, our young person has never seen any.

Meanwhile we have so many books that we need to buy several more large bookshelves. We probably could pass for an underfunded small town library with all of the books we own. 😆

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Parents got us a Britannica Encyclopedia set (in the 70's).

I read the whole set! Over the course of a year.

But these days books are old fashioned I guess.

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Amy's avatar

Me too! Childcraft, too.

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Jay Horton's avatar

My Sister told me last week that she still has the set my Dad bought us back in like 71 or 72. I could not believe that she has been keeping those all this time.

Later Jay

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Copernicus's avatar

Oh, man, if I could pick up a used encyclopedia set somewhere cheap…. Of course then we need a shelf for it. I’m serious. We have bankers boxes of books, and it’s even worse now that we homeschool, lol. I have the boxes labeled by historical era, or by which field of science they contain….

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CMCM's avatar

My parents got a set of World Book Encyclopedia in the 1950's while we were living in England, where my Air Force dad was stationed. My entertainment was to choose a volume and start reading it. I would choose a different one each day. I loved it, and learned so much from just that particular reading activity. I'm sure I read everything in all the volumes!

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JSR's avatar

I have a book buying problem lol

I tell my family that someday there may not be libraries so I will be ready

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CMCM's avatar

😆 My husband says my book habit is out of control. I'm always trying to figure out where to stash all my books. My many bookshelves are full.

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Emumundo's avatar

Books are important. Ebooks can just disappear at the whim of Amazon. I had a book disappear once when Amazon banned it and even scrubbed it from peoples libraries. Buy books. You’ll always have that knowledge.

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LamedVav disavows all vaxes.'s avatar

Books are better than gold.

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Lynn Faulkner's avatar

That's my excuse too.

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BBS's avatar

Just curious. Why do you say "young person" instead of son, daughter, niece, nephew, 17 year old neighbor etc.

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Copernicus's avatar

Someone somewhere suggested it as a term of respect, referencing the personhood of the son, daughter, etc. As an alternative to “child.” That’s all.

I have no problem with the other terms, although in this public forum I preserve as much anonymity as possible and so do not refer to our son/daughter with gendered terms, no to myself or my spouse with gendered terms. I assume you all can understand that. Given the age of our child, who is growing out of childhood, I sometimes refer to them as a young person. That’s all. Nothing complicated about it.

Same reason for not identifying the sex or age of the neighbor. Protect and respect privacy and anonymity.

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My Favorite Things's avatar

I just asked the same question before reading your post. It’s bizarre liberal speak.

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Copernicus's avatar

How is it liberal speak? Genuinely curious.

I don’t even use it all the time.

Someone somewhere suggested it as a term of respect, referencing the personhood of the son, daughter, etc. As an alternative to “child.” That’s all.

I have no problem with the other terms, although in this public forum I preserve as much anonymity as possible and so do not refer to our son/daughter with gendered terms, no to myself or my spouse with gendered terms. I assume you all can understand that. Given the age of our child, who is growing out of childhood, I sometimes refer to them as a young person. That’s all. Nothing complicated about it.

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MayBella82's avatar

I agree that is liberal speak.... it reminds me of preferred pronouns. I personally thinks it de-values the person you are talking about. It also distracts from what you are trying to say... because it sounds so weird.

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My Favorite Things's avatar

Paranoid much? It’s liberal speak. You could have said son, daughter, niece, nephew, cousin etc. and not given your identity away. A few years ago, that’s what you would have said son or daughter.

Now I know you have at least one child. So what? Millions of people have children. I have two children. Please tell me who I am with only that information.

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CMCM's avatar

When my daughter was 5 in 1975, I remember going to a used book store and getting her an armload of books to read (she already liked to read at 5!). When I was paying for the books, the woman who was doing the transaction commented how rare it was for moms to come in to buy books for their children. She said women usually bought romance novels, but rarely a book for the children who were there with them. I grew up without TV, and when our kids were young we didn't have one either. By choice. We were all voracious readers, which has continued to this day with not only me, but also my three siblings.

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Copernicus's avatar

Most of the books I buy are for our kiddo. Not for myself. 😆

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Roman S Shapoval's avatar

Thanks for sharing that Copernicus. Hey, you never know! You just may have to bail us all out and become that library when no one knows anything anymore.

Ever see the movie The Book of Eli?

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My Favorite Things's avatar

Is your “young person” gender neutral? Why can’t you say son or daughter? Asking for a friend.

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Copernicus's avatar

It’s called protecting their privacy and our family’s anonymity.

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Anecdotal Anonymous's avatar

Worked out of the country for quite a while, all involved spoke very general about home relationships. Until you understand targeting and the way it works, allow the unenlightened to live the binary dream. The best security practices are the ones you use, not the ones that are odd to others...speaking for a friend.

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CStone's avatar

You would love my house, then. Almost wall-to-wall books. Books in bookcases. Books on tables. Books, usually on the kitchen table.

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Lynn Faulkner's avatar

Friend: "You have a book problem."

Me: "Storage! I have a book storage problem."

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MayBella82's avatar

lol... I am going to use this one. I have books all over the place.

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rolandttg's avatar

My now deceased best friend was an every day dope smoking (even at work) bolshevik. I asked him one time why he considered us friends, as one Halloween party he hosted I went as Reagan . He said "you are the only friends I have who read books. He was a huge war between the states reader, and WWII. I have heard that from others. Books bolshevik pundits and politicians write don't sell because their faithful don't read.

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Becky's avatar

Books! Five years ago I received an email from a gentleman who was starting a local chapter of the G.K. Chesterton society. As a fan of Chesterton, I had joined the national organization, and they had given this gentleman their mailing list for our zip codes. I attended the first meeting and all I can say is that leaving that first meeting, I knew I had found my tribe. Overthinkers willing to discuss ideas of all sorts, yet remain curious, cordial and mirthful. We read and discuss Chesterton’s books. It took us almost a year to get through “What’s Wrong with the World.” No one ever stalks out or shouts over someone else, but rather everyone remains attentive and thoughtful. It’s a haven of sanity. GKC himself said, "The success of argument is to disagree to agree. The failure of argument is to agree to disagree.”

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MayBella82's avatar

Love this... I would love a group like this. His books are so thought provoking and I love going down the rabbit holes too!

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Becky's avatar

Perhaps there is a chapter near you. If not, you can start one!

https://www.chesterton.org/local-societies/

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Agent 1-4-9's avatar

We have over two thousand books, with a bookshelf in every room except the dining room. 😁

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Lynn Faulkner's avatar

I lived on a sailboat for years and my then husband would complain because any time he had to work on something, he'd have to first remove bags of sealed up books.

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Dee's avatar

You wouldn’t see any books in my house because the hard copies are in my private home office, not visible from the doorway (I’m mostly minimalist in the common areas). But you might spy one of my three kindles.

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Roger Beal's avatar

Remember the film, "Fahrenheit 451"?

At what temperature does a Kindle ignite? (Asking for the future fascicts).

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CMCM's avatar

As a lifelong book lover, I just don't like reading on Kindle or a tablet. I gave it a try with a few books when it first came out, but I quickly abandoned it. Give me a book every time!

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SadieJay's avatar

Me too!!! And, sometimes they do have books and the spines are to the wall. Arrrrrgh!!

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AB's avatar

For decoration. I don’t get it. It’s the most ridiculous thing

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My Favorite Things's avatar

I use books as decorations. I collect antique books and they’re beautiful. However, I also read them. I think more people should read antique books like “The World’s Greatest Orations.” George Washington in his farewell speech predicted everything that’s happening in our country right now.

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Copernicus's avatar

But, the spines are the interesting parts…

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Copernicus's avatar

Wha????!!!

How does that even make any sense. They obviously do not read them.

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SadieJay's avatar

Exactly. I like the home reno shows, but when they build a beautiful library room with so many book shelves and even a ladder and place all the books with the spines in, it just killed me.

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Susan Clack's avatar

Perhaps they’re afraid some sharp-eyed viewer will be able to read the titles and find offense at the books that were put on the shelf...or else the authors might receive an unintended endorsement, getting an HGTV sales bump or something...don’t we see people on various shows who have to put tape over their clothing’s corporate logos so as to avoid paying a royalty or whatever it might be? 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️I dunno...

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Copernicus's avatar

Someone did that?

That is downright bizarre. Why have a library???????

Maybe for the show, if it was my library, and I didn’t want the world seeing all of my shelves full of dissident literature…. 😆 But I would just leave them empty and shelve my books later because who wants to turn them all back around. Except I guess maybe if they paid me enough money for my renovation to be on TV. Lol.

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SadieJay's avatar

It would have been a beautiful room with all the books put out the right way. All show no go. Stupid is as stupid does. Dissident literature! Right on baby. See you in the gulag. Haha. Funny? Not funny? Ugh!

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JenMcK's avatar

I mentioned that to my son as bizarre and he brought up that there might be copyright issues with them being on tv? So easier to turn the books around to show how the library would be set up and the books get turned back around later?

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Bandit's avatar

How ugly. Also would make it hard to remove the books from the shelves for reading. ☹

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CH's avatar

I guess they like the way it looked when they saw it on HGTV. 🤦‍♀️

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Amy's avatar

My personal pet peeve is when books are color coordinated. I was a cataloging librarian for 25 years.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

That's when you know the books are just for show, not reading.

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Roman S Shapoval's avatar

hahahahahaah! Does People magazine count?

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SusanMc's avatar

Confession. Back in the day I subscribed to. Liked the personal stories of non-celebrities; backstories of crime stories, & yes, even celebrity ones. Liked letters to editor. Then the mag started changing.... when Ellen & her “bride” appeared one cover. End of People mag for me. Never bought or read another copy.

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PamelaZelie's avatar

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”

Jane Smiley

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WP William's avatar

I get ill with seeing OBAMA books, OPRAH, CLINTON, CLAPPER, all sort of B.S. or the converse; GW Bush President of Faith, Trump and Jesus, Boebert's Guide to Christian Mothering. C'mon man what a waste of paper and ink! Talk about Books that SHOULD be Banned

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Lynn Faulkner's avatar

Unless it's the library at the retirement center where I live, that contains endless rows of cheesy romances.

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Heterodox Introvert's avatar

I have been in a couple of those houses. It's jarring, and frightening.

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Fla Mom's avatar

Ours are mostly in our home library, with floor-to-ceiling shelves, not in the living areas. (And our books are shelved spines out, of course; it's a *library,* so we can see and use the books.)

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MaryAnn's avatar

My place is small so only a few essential books (bibles) but my e-reader is chock full! 😊

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Joseph Kaplan's avatar

I was a real estate broker for over twenty years. One of things I enjoyed was touring houses and looking for what people were reading. Years ago most homes had some kind of library. In recent years more and more homes had no books at all. This became very depressing. Grant a lot of people, myself included are using kindle, but that’s not the whole explanation. To me it explains the gross ignorance we displayed everyday in this country.

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Roman S Shapoval's avatar

It's great that you at least noticed the trend! Shows the importance of paper. Many old recipes that our elders have will never be on the interwebs, right?

Plus kindle has blue light, which at night lowers melatonin and can destroy our growth and testosterone hormones: https://romanshapoval.substack.com/i/107636609/blue-light-affects-our-hormones

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Susan Clack's avatar

@Joseph Kaplan...Winner, winner, chicken dinner....💥💥💥👏👏👏🔥🔥🔥⚡️⚡️⚡️🎯🎯🎯😫😫😫

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Becky's avatar

I love to look at interiors on Zillow, and whenever there’s a bookcase I zoom in to see what the people living there like to read. Same with magazines. I’ve been known to get out a magnifying glass to read the titles. In this way I’ve learned about and read many books I otherwise wouldn’t have known existed.

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TriTorch's avatar

Indeed. Fun fact, television can hypnotize you and this fact was mainstream news in the beginning: https://bitchute.com/video/8tnyaSGArZFt [32mins]

Given they've had nearly a century of practice to perfect this subtle mind control, do you imagine that they've gotten better or worse at it?

Something interesting was hidden in 1960s TV signoff: https://bitchute.com/video/VQpW81naCuDb [3:27mins]

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Merry McIntyre's avatar

I haven’t watched tv for over 14 years. Now when I am around a tv that’s on, I either have to leave the room or turn it off. It feels so dissonant that my brain is in danger of exploding. 🤯Especially with the ads. More especially the pharmaceutical ads. TV puts you in a hypnagogic state where you are easily controlled. The toilet paper psyop during covid was a trial run. Very successful.

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TriTorch's avatar

I feel the same Merry. It's like stepping into a room full of discord.

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Roman S Shapoval's avatar

Imagine what phones can do? A good reason why we should abandon them, and stick with our hardwired desktop + computer glasses.

Thanks for the links - I'll try not to watch them on my samsung monitor later tonight (: seriously tho thanks.

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TriTorch's avatar

Agreed, I look at smart phones as kyroponite to everyone but especially children. Screens and speakers radiating bad information and ideas into their soft minds all day every day.

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Cathy's avatar

Why is hardwired any different than blue tooth? Could you explain?

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Roman S Shapoval's avatar

Good question Cathy. Blue tooth is wireless radiation, the same as our Wi-FI, which operates at 2.45 Ghz (our brian hears a pecking/pulse sound 2.45 billion times per second) whereas our brains were meant to only hear background noise at 8-50/60 times per second.

Hardwiring eliminates wireless radiation from bluetooth and wifi, which is a class 2b (probable) carcinogen

https://romanshapoval.substack.com/p/how-airpods-cause-brain-damage

Does that help clarify?

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Cathy's avatar

Yes! Thank you.

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Roman S Shapoval's avatar

Ok good! Thanks for letting me know Cathy.

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Emumundo's avatar

That’s terrifying. I wonder how many times I watched that.

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rolandttg's avatar

So true. Saw an excellent documentary on the Tell A Vision. What's on the TV? Programming. Bastards don't even hide what they are doing to us.

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TriTorch's avatar

rolandttg, Do you happen to have a link for that documentary? Or even a name? That would be very beneficial for my archive

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Tom's avatar

It occurs to me that TV was invented by Philo Farnsworth, who "got" the idea while plowing a field as a boy.

The last few days, the idea of "inspiration" coming from a "Muse" has been bouncing around my head for some reason. What is a Muse? What is inspiration? What is the etymology of those words?

I mention in passing that Farnsworth was a Latter-Day Saint.

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Roger Beal's avatar

"The inspiring goddess of a particular poet":

https://www.etymonline.com/word/muse

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Tom's avatar

Exactly.

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Jan Dickmeyer's avatar

I don’t believe anything is true if it’s on tv. Why can’t all of these drum beating war mongers just move to their own island and beat the hell out of each other. No money in it. Lindsey needs just one more war.... cmon guys.. just one more. Same thing Peters says about ice cream cone ops. Just one more.

Thanks for getting into the Godzilla weeds Jeff. Looking forward to more .

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AngelaK's avatar

That is VERY TRUE and sadly, for many, if not most, that means mainstream propaganda media.

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devoalan's avatar

Tale a vision. Fixed it for ya.

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Maureen ODH's avatar

Te LIE Vision....

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PamelaZelie's avatar

Oh, I like that one!

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CH's avatar

It is a "program"

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SB's avatar

Think how many still watch and believe MSM news sources

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SM's avatar

Hilariously, they watch each other’s stations and believe themselves 😂

Endless entertainment for the endlessly ignorant and offended consumers!

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WP William's avatar

The Deep State was ALL Over the fratricide in Yugoslavia and profiting off the misery they incentivized there. Where was the UN, EU, and NATO to stop criminal oligarchs and the uniformed murderers from the brutality? Now it's all forgotten, swept under the rug, and clean(sed).

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RU's avatar

Maybe not the most popular idea, but let's face it, you're right...and it's not the TV's fault. It's the fault of the people who can't think for themselves or regulate their own emotions and behavior, and so have become dependent upon the TV. All the problems always come back to the same underlying issue: too many dumb / lazy / greedy / undisciplined people. Taking away or replacing the TV (say, with the Internet, which is basically a gigantic electronic book) only shifts the problem in a different direction. The problem still exists as-is.

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Janice P - Words Beyond Me's avatar

A prayer adapted from Psalm 37:

Dear Father,

Let us not fret because of evildoers, nor be envious toward wrongdoers, for they will wither quickly like the grass and fade like the green herb. Let us trust in you and do good, to dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.

Lord, thank you for your promise that when we delight ourselves in you that you will give us the desires of our hearts.

May we commit our way to you, Lord, and trust in you. As we are faithful and because you are faithful, we believe that your righteousness in us will shine brightly as the noon day sun.

Lord, help us rest in you and wait patiently for you. Do not let us worry because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who carries out wicked schemes. Help us cease from anger and forsake wrath. Remind us that burning anger leads only to evildoing and that evildoers will be punished.

Thank you for your word that reminds us that those who wait for you will inherit the land and delight in abundant prosperity.

May we be faithful, joyful, and patient.

In Jesus’ name, amen.

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Freebird's avatar

Thank you Janice. I love this Psalm, especially this verse….

I have been young and now I am old,

Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken

Or his descendants begging bread.

PS 37:25

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ChrisB's avatar

This is...so wonderful. Thank you, Janice. You read the room exceptionally well!

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Janice P - Words Beyond Me's avatar

Had it in a note on my phone and landed on it at 4:30 this morning. God doing His thing . . .

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Juliann's avatar

It never ceases to amaze me -Janice; finding the exact, calming scripture needed. Thank you for this prayer.

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PamelaZelie's avatar

Thanks, Janice.

“Rejoice in the Lord always. I shall say it again: rejoice! Your kindness should be known to all. The Lord is near."

–Philippians 4:4-5

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Julie Ann B's avatar

Thank you Janice. As always you put life in this evil world in perspective. Come Jesus come! We need you right now!

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Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

Thank you Janice that was perfect 💕

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Trisha Burgeson's avatar

Thank you Janice

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MaryAnn's avatar

I started reading Ps 91 on Jan 2, 2022. I read it every day and have it commited to memory, which I have found very comforting. There is a verse, “Just open your eyes and see how the wicked are punished.” It has occurred to me that I do not personally know anyone who is ‘wicked’ so I have not seen the wicked punished. But, God knows each heart and I trust him to fulfill this by punishing those he knows are wicked. I am glad he has them!

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Corkey's avatar

Do NOT rule out False Flag as a reason for Jordan attack. Remember. It’s been done before multiple times especially when you are dealing with a group of totally corrupt and immoral traitors like we have today.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Gulf of Tonkin.

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Corkey's avatar

USS Liberty

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LamedVav disavows all vaxes.'s avatar

LBJ down in his basement playing war, with his toy soldiers and toy ships. LBJ deliberately sent liberty into the line of fire, where he had been specifically worn not to go.. LBJ killed those soldiers deliberately. An evil man who also murdered JFK so he could be president.

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Leskunque Lepew's avatar

And many more. Remember the Maine!!!

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Throw in the Lusitania too.

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

And Pearl Harbor

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The Cactus's avatar

I was about to say Tower 22 is probably somewhere near the Gulf of Tonkin.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

...or make a right past the Gulf of Tonkin, then make a left past the USS Liberty.

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chuck kutchera's avatar

Or tower 7.

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CH's avatar

I just said that about the Gulf of Tonkin to another comment. We think alike girl!

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Jpeach's avatar

Direct U.S. military involvement against Iran, was probably part of the plan, when the October 7th operation was cooked up. The Peters Regime and the CCP want to spread the U.S. Military so thin, that it collapses.

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Leskunque Lepew's avatar

Oct 7th is revealing itself as a very well thought out operation with more to come.

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Corkey's avatar

And Israel too. Nutsandyahoo wants to stay out of jail. A wider war saves him along with Joe Buy-Him.

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CMCM's avatar

Our government has been messing with Iran since at least 1953 when we helped overthrow Prime Minister Mossadeq. The Shah of Iran (Mohammed Reza Shah) was "helped" to power by the U.S. and others in 1941, supposedly because his father was a Nazi sympathizer. When the Shah outlived his usefulness it looks like the U.S. again helped him "leave" power and helped usher in the theocracy of the religious fanatics we see today. President Jimmy Carter was once quoted as saying something about how Ayatollah Khomeini was a "good religious man". Was Carter naive or deceived? In December 1977 Carter visited Iran, and I saw him drive past my home in Tehran (with the Shah in an open car!!). I already knew Tehran was crawling with CIA operatives...in fact, one of them got assassinated the day I arrived in Tehran. As a teacher, my Iranian students were telling me in early 1978 about the fiery, revolutionary tapes by Khomeini being played in all the mosques. We Americans would question the U.S. embassy about what was going on and they feigned ignorance about any of it. Either they were grossly incompetent or they were in on it all, not sure which one. Eight months after Carter's visit, violence was breaking out and martial law was implemented. Slightly more than a year after Carter's visit, the Shah fled Iran and the mullahs took over.

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A.J.'s avatar

Thanks for the Tehran ground report. Carter was, sad to say for someone who recently died, a notorious female rear end pincher, so bad after his first staff party in the White House no male Secret Service agents would bring their wives to the next staff party. Easy to verify with official White House photos.

Carter was not dumb. He made it into Rickover's Navy submarine program. But naive? Self-centered? Easily deceived? Easy to blackmail? Yes.

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MayBella82's avatar

Our government has no problem using our service member as cannon fod for their agenda. I hated it when I was on active duty ... had people I knew who died because of their agenda.

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Corkey's avatar

I know an Army Ranger who quit because he no longer believed in the mission. Probably saved his life.

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Carol's avatar

911. 2 planes - twin towers plus Building 7. Doesn’t add up.

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Carol's avatar

Yep, it’s quite obvious it was an inside job if you do the least bit of research and why it was done is also obvious. But MSM never mentions Building #3 so most don’t ever put 2’n’2 together. James Corbett does great reporting on 911 and all the other false flags and he’s focusing more on solutions now. CorbettReport.com

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Corkey's avatar

Streaming live now. The Judge and Ray McGovern.

https://www.youtube.com/live/bxJ6aFbWD_U?si=EWCStwRX0HH2_5s4

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on the doss's avatar

Graham has never been married and has no children, so has no skin in the game. He can send your children to war to be killed and wonded as he sits in D.C snug as a bug. If politicians do not have anything to lose in war ignore their calls. They can make all the corrupt money they want but no skin no war.

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Jpeach's avatar

Graham, the esteemed Senator from Raytheon, never misses an opportunity to help his constituent.

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AJF's avatar

I'd like to file a FOIA on which politicians own stock with weapons manufacturers!! There's your reason to keep "wars" going! Evil. The love of money is the root of all evil.

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Sunnydaze's avatar

🎯 🎯 Expose all of their “investments”. That will give us all the information we need. Follow the money. Always.

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Karen Walby Ph. D.'s avatar

Put Nikki Haley in that group as well.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

There has to be a way. That and companies that make planes that fly in military.

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CMCM's avatar

I just looked up Lindsay Graham's net worth: $86 million.

Supposedly his congressional salary is $206,000, but his annual income is $13 million. Lobbying: $5 million. Business profits $3 million. Real Estate assets $29 million. Stocks $15 million. Cash in bank: 9.2 million.

Source: https://www.caclubindia.com/wealth/lindsey-graham-net-worth/

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AJF's avatar

Thank you!

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Jeff C's avatar

Agree with everything you say except that still doesn't explain his bloodthirsty death mongering. There are plenty of people that don't have kids who don't cheer for the wholesale slaughter of fellow humans.

So is he just a Raytheon patsy, an Israel shill trying to get the US to fight their war, a Christian Zionist looking to bring on Armageddon, or a Satanist ghoul who just loves death? There aren't many other choices that I can think of, but clearly the man is deranged. And he doesn't have years in a North Vietnamese prison camp to explain his repulsive death mongering like fellow ghoul John McCain.

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CH's avatar

Most likely Graham is being controlled because he has some nasty skeletons in his closet. I am even more convinced many of them are controlled after the Kari Lake incident last week.

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rolandttg's avatar

Graham is a Khazarian minion. They need a real war to blame the coming financial collapse on, and provide cover for all of their genocide, not the least of which is the scamdemic. Also an excuse for for marital law, or at minimum, cancel the elections.

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Debra S Heard's avatar

He needs his bank and tax records accounts to be audited.

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MayBella82's avatar

All of them in the senate and congress should be audited every year.

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LamedVav disavows all vaxes.'s avatar

Something is wrong with Lindsey Graham.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

The Americans were attacked in their base in Syria, not Jordan.

The woke media are carrying water for the lying US officials trying to hide our illegal base.

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-12824-us-troops-suffer-fatalities

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Holly Champaign's avatar

Agreed, as the Syrian bases are illegal occupation of another country, which only the rules-based order guru's can ignore, as they protect our oligarch's property/profits.

And the question not being asked, who were those soldiers protecting? Maybe some three-letter operatives who like to teach their skills to willing terrorists?

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rolandttg's avatar

Remember Trump ordered the military to get out of Syria. They flat out disobeyed that order.

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Emumundo's avatar

Our military lied to a sitting president- the commander in chief about the number of troops in Syria. No one was charged with treason.

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AB's avatar

That’s interesting information!

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Holly Champaign's avatar

Here's John Helmer's take on this attack on the base. Maybe our air defense system was ineffective as the Ukrainian war has provided the other side ample time to study and develop effect strategies to defeat them

https://johnhelmer.net/the-tower-22-strike-in-jordan-triggers-us-israel-into-all-front-war-the-arabs-and-iran-are-ready-the-russians-too/

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WP William's avatar

TOWER 22; so we can assume there are a minimum of 21 other ominous Towers defending democracy planted in remote areas where only the Senate-Military-DeepState-Media Complex knows? The only Towers this batch hates are Twin Towers and Trump Tower. Would it really be a stretch that Russian-Syrian-Iranian-Houthi alliance is hitting back to finally end the "Arab Spring" in Syria?

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TB's avatar

Or perhaps the location is somehow identified by number as "22" (map grid? some other system?) and they decided to build a radio tower there and thus "tower 22". Or the guy who picked the base name has read "catch 22" and is taking a subtle jab at the brass, for all we know. It's risky to speculate based on code-names.

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WP William's avatar

yes, could be anything but i like to take the name at face value from our Gvt-Media spewers of "truth". Looks like we may need one of these Tower-Bases about every 100 km, along our borders although Operation Trojan Horse has already been carried out it appears. Maybe it's called Operation Open Arms?

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Chevrus's avatar

Yes the base in Al-Tanf is not really a mystery. This has been a jumping off point for decades. High time it got a bit of its own medicine for a change.

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TimeIsNear's avatar

I found the so-called Tower 22 in Jordan on Google Earth. Link is below. I don't trust anything our media or government has to say about the ME. They lied to our team while we were over there. I deployed 3 times and moved throughout the region. We have many bases surrounding Iran and it makes you wonder why. It's obvious they are wanting to expand the war and bring Iran into it which will cause Russia and China to enter it one way or another. Everyone needs to call them out on their lies. No more banker wars.

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.3139881,38.7017499,1425m/data=!3m1!1e3!5m1!1e1?authuser=0&entry=ttu

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rolandttg's avatar

We are not the only ones in serious financial trouble . China is in a bad way too.

Huge news Evergrande ordered to liquidate.

https://www.businessinsider.com/evergrande-ordered-liquidate-china-real-estate-property-crisis-2024-1

and their entire economy is in deep dookie.

https://www.newsweek.com/china-economy-2024-stock-market-1862754

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Bank runs coming.

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Dena's avatar

Check out “The Great Taking “ documentary on Rumble. Also the book is a free download from author David Webb who wants the information available to everyone.

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AB's avatar

My husband talks about this too. But I wonder if we really know anything that’s going on in China. The government / media complex could totally make this up, no?

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SB's avatar

Yep. Employer was recently courting a Chinese company for investment funding. They had to walk away, said they have too many financial problems of their own. Unemployment rate for college educated 20 something’s is over 20%. I’ve been reading news about Chinas economy being in the toilet for a few years.

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Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

How much farmland, does China own here in the Usa. soon they will control our food supplies.

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SB's avatar

Yep been reading about that at least a decade. Some states in recent years have put laws in place to stop them

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char's avatar

Nikki. China--And how much farmland owned by gates? By other countries?

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Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

I don’t know, that’s why I am asking. If I took a guess it would be more than 100k acres for each . I think that is a conservative #.

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Roger Beal's avatar

The Evergrande judicial order? May be resolved by Xi clamping down on the HK judiciary. HK since 1999 has been a "subsidiary" of China.

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

Yay! I hope it doesn't turn into some sort of J6 setup

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

FBI will use geofencing...put your phone in a Faraday pouch.

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

Or just don't take it. Use another form of communication. But then there are other surveillance options (traffic cams etc. I wouldn't put satellites out of the realm of possibility). What has become of this country? Better question: where do we go from here?

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Feds will use facial recognition.

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WP William's avatar

Not on border crossers of course, just on all those who Constitutionally, Legally, with God-Given Freedom would dare to vocalize and Lawfully assemble to protest the Open and Assisted INVASION of OUR Nation. This is what the War against White Nationalists looks like...the beginning of it.

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Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

Only American citizens will be targeted

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

While the rest of us get groped by TSA and can't have a full bottle of water.

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devoalan's avatar

We all decide at the same time we’ve had enough,and take the Capitol by force of arms?

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Nah...look what happened to the J6ers.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

The J6ers didn't bring arms.

One reason you can't call their effort an Insurrection.

Clearly just a protest.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

It really was a FEDsurrection...with innocent people ending up in the DC gulag.

Gonna get worse with the DOJ planning to arrest more people who never even entered the building, but just outside on the grounds.

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Chevrus's avatar

When being groomed and guided by federal assets one can not be said to have participated in an insurrection

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Lisa Ca's avatar

I’m surprised Jeff didn’t talk about this today. This to me is bigger good news than the LGBT stuff.

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Diana Barahona's avatar

Watch #TakeOurBorderBack Convoy on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz73N2NpxEA

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TIM's avatar

Our brave, warmongering politicians, who've never stepped jnto the "Sh*t." Let them and their bloodline be the first to step in the hot zones..

Says this 20yr veteran

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Valerie's avatar

My kid is deployed in the hot area right now. I’m not a worrier by nature, but you can bet I’m praying a lot right now, more than normal for sure.

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MoM's avatar

I pray for your child and all children in uniform. May God watch over your baby and bring him back safely. Sincerely, MoM

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Valerie's avatar

Thanks, I pray for all of them too. It’s a terrible time to be in the military with this idiotic administration that’s letting the entire world catch fire.

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Anna T's avatar

Prayers for all in harm's way.

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Susan In Kansas's avatar

My son’s friend is in “Syria” right now. So your son is in my general prayers too.

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gigiRN's avatar

My prayers join yours

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Valerie's avatar

This is the BEST group, thank you so much for your support! I feel like you’re all a big group of friends.

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SadieJay's avatar

My daughter and her hubs are in the military. Base they are stationed at has soldiers that were deployed in Jordan. I was surprised we had a base there when I heard about it last fall. Let's just say I think it was a fairly new venture. LG is a warmonger and seriously needs a booster. One that is not saline.

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Christy's avatar

I have one stationed in Germany. Praying it doesn’t go “hot” over there💜💜💜

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Astragale's avatar

I live in France. In my view, young Europeans are really not interested in going to war for the criminal ´leaders’ of the EU.

In the UK, authorities are telling ALL Brits they may be called up in the next few years, which is absurd!

Social media is stuffed with young Brits saying, in so many words: « Er, no. We won’t be going to defend Ukraine’s border or get killed by Russians. Nope. NO! »

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Christy's avatar

Yep. I would love to banish all war mongering politicians!!!!

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Cindi's avatar

Thoughts w/ your son & family, Valerie

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Renea Buchholz's avatar

Praying right now

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Annie's avatar

Agree 💯

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Fred's avatar

Thank you all for your service from dtr of WWII vet and bro of Army vet.

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TriTorch's avatar

True conversation that took place in the press room about the razor wire on the border after the Supreme Court decision to remove it:

Doocy: Does razor wire work?

Kirby: Does it work for what? Does it work for the border patrol to allow them to have access they need to better process people that are trying to get across the border? I don't think so...

Source: https://tritorch.com/degradation/!!InvasionKirbyTellsDoocyCuttingRazorWireIsToHelpBorderPatrolKafkaesqueOrwellianMaxJanuary2024.mp4 [3:04mins]

We're on our own folks, time to get independent & seize the day! Here are 14 ways to find and capture water: https://primalsurvivor.net/ways-to-find-water

Once captured, here are ten ways to purify it: https://youtu.be/cfqrg_hSbjw [8:26mins]

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

John Kirby is our own Baghdad Bob.

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TheQueen'sgranddaughter1's avatar

I was told that if razor wire is cut, it wraps around anyone in the immediate area.

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Janet's avatar

It looks springy. A sure thing there is rapid rebound when snipped and It doesn’t look anchored to the ground. Maybe the first row is then the other layers get stretched onto that, holding subsequent rows in place. I’ve only seen it in photos. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Kayli's avatar

Good for Utah. I recently found myself alone in a bathroom with a fully bearded man... Who identified as a woman. I was in a nursing stall feeding my baby when I heard a very loud belch coming from a bathroom stall. I thought it was very unladlylike. Well, when my baby and I were walking out, I saw this person washing their hands. I actually felt physically unsafe. I told my husband when I got home that I want to start carrying a weapon.

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Kayli's avatar

Two things I should mention: 1) the nursing stall had a curtain for a door. 2) I waited outside the bathroom for about five minutes waiting for the person to leave so I could confront them. They never left so I got a staff member to check - after the staff member escorted the person out of the bathroom, she came back to me saying, “well, that person said they were a woman but they had a full beard and no boobs.” She shrugged as if there was nothing she could do.

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Marsali S.'s avatar

Sorry that happened to you. I would have felt the same.

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Kayli's avatar

Thank you. Unfortunately, it’s a sign of the times.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

I’m so sorry. And I agree you should carry!

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Just_Henry's avatar

Outpost 22 was a location occupied by Kaos on Get Smart. Go get ‘em Agent 86☠️

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rolandttg's avatar

One of my favorites. When I was doing a project in Buenos Aires in 1981, they had dubbed Get Smart reruns on . Almost all dubbing is monotone, "I wish I was doing something else" but the man who did Maxwell Smart was a real fan, who used his voice inflection in his translations. it eats great ( I speak Spanish, so I always compare the translations. Sometimes in movie theaters I would laugh, but no one else would. Then I looked at the translations, and thought "I get it". That's not what was said at all"

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Flavia's avatar

So we went to a celebration of life for A 50 year old EOD friend who died suddenly last Monday. Highly decorated and retired veteran. I'm sure he was bullied just like all the other veterans about getting the clot shot. Sucha shame. So we heard also about the drone bombing n we decided that the US gov is gaslighting us into another conflict because if real war breaks out, elections won't matter.

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Annie's avatar

It's a crime and a shame. Our veterans deserve better.

While I feel bad for anyone duped into taking these shots, the Queens politician was part of the unconstitutional and criminal cabal that was harassing and forcing their fellow citizens to take the bioweapon. So he reaped what he sowed.

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LamedVav disavows all vaxes.'s avatar

He reaped what he sowed. Justice.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

VA still pushing covid shots on veterans.

Even after safety signals were triggered for myocarditis after the 1st Pfizer shot. A VA doc emailed the CDC with concerns.

VA never warned veterans.

VA still forced their employees to take the shot.

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Flavia's avatar

I applied for a VA job and on part of the job requirements was getting the shot. No thanks.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Smart move.

Not sure if you saw one of my earlier posts on some Substacks.

In May 2021, a VA doctor emailed the CDC because safety signals were triggered for myocarditis after the 1st Pfizer shot. This was 6 months after the shot roll out.

The VA and the CDC never told anyone. No one was warned.

The Epoch Times did a story about a week ago. The information was obtained from FOIAs.

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Flavia's avatar

I also caught the story from Epoch. This shit is crazy and it's still a job requirement.

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Anna T's avatar

Curious that my ex-hub, who was living in the Corpus Christi TX area and went to VA clinics down there, said the docs were not pushing the shots and told the vets they didn't need them. Wonder why different VA locations had different policies?

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CMCM's avatar

We're in Northern California. They haven't really been all that pushy here, although during the worst of it they would ask if you wanted the shot. They did a lot of telemedicine for a couple of years so not many were actually seeing doctors in person. After things eased up, they still ask but when my husband says "no way" that's it. Thank goodness they haven't been pushier than that!

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Dr Tara Slatton's avatar

My husband’s VA doctor asks multiple times a visit if he wants the shot but that’s only because he’s senile and losing his mind and doesn’t remember he already asked. The quality of care at our VA leaves much to be desired but like yours there wasn’t much of a jab push.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Signs still up all over the Pittsburgh VA pushing the covid shots. Not one of my providers told me that I didn't need the shot.

VA website telling us that we can get the covid shot and the flu shot at the same time. Like they are doing us a favor. "One visit. Two vaccines."

https://www.va.gov/initiatives/covid-flu/

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Flavia's avatar

I'm glad no one pushed ya. Are people still wearing masks up there in healthcare settings?

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

The largest hospital system in my area, UPMC, started requiring masks in their healthcare settings about a month ago.

It states right on the box that masks do not prevent covid....so how can you trust them about anything else?

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

At the Pittsburgh VA, masks are only required in certain areas like the ER and some areas that have highly vulnerable patients.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

Maybe east coast near Virginia is more lefty-buying military being close to DC?

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Flavia's avatar

Some places pushed it hard, some didn't. Another of my buddies was so adamant in his refusal... but they always tried.

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MayBella82's avatar

How long ago did he retire? The EOD Commander pushed heavy for the jab ... and those who put in a religious exemption (only 22 out of 20,000) were called by the Force Chaplain to talk them out of it. I know because I was one and he called me into his office to talk me out of it...though he didn’t not believe in the jab. He was following orders.

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Flavia's avatar

He retired in 2016... he had been blown up a lot in Afghanistan so VA Healthcare was a big deal to him...

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Maggiedidjaknow's avatar

Good Morning CnCers!

Viva la counter revolution

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Beth Bart's avatar

Happy Good morning! 🌞☕️🐣

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daverkb's avatar

Language Matters. There is nothing 'adult' about 'Adult Language'. How about Foul Language? The more we use watered down words, the more we become aiders and abettors.

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TB's avatar

I had a similar thought. Though on reflection I think it's short for "language that shouldn't ever be used around children" (but many adults also don't wish to hear it).

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daverkb's avatar

You are right in what 'they' mean. But seventy or more years ago people looked down on people using filthy language and there was almost none it at all in films or everyday speech. Standards have been deliberated lowered everywhere and across the board, so far that we are now living in a garbage can society where people barely know how to read, write and talk properly.

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BigT's avatar

Living in Utah, Cox is a progressive in conservative sheep’s clothing, as is John Curtis, who was a liberal mayor (Provo) who switched sides in order to get the vacated House seat. It seems Cox is forced here to allow the bills Jeff wrote about to pass, as he has no choice but suffer a humiliating veto-busting vote. This is a man who announces his “preferred pronouns” to school children before speaking to them.

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