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Henry Schoenberger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:55:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HlHP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F56e029f0-6d9c-4c51-b440-b49ce04c5d63_1400x788.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HlHP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F56e029f0-6d9c-4c51-b440-b49ce04c5d63_1400x788.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HlHP!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_424, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, 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href="/__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/make-america-a-democracy-again-democrats/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p><p><span>MAKE AMERICA A DEMOCRACY AGAIN &#8211; VOTE AGAINST ALL REPUBLICAN DOMESTIC ENEMIES!</span></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The 5th Estate is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p><strong><span>USC, Article III Section 3: </span></strong><span>&#8220;</span><strong><span>Treason against the United States</span></strong><span>, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.&#8221;</span></p><p><span>In 2016 HRC warned American and the globe: </span><em><span>Trump is Putin&#8217;s Puppet, </span></em><span>which has become self-evident. This is defined as &#8211; &#8220;adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.&#8221;</span></p><p><strong><span>AMERICA&#8217;S DAY OF INFAMY:</span></strong><span> On January 6</span><sup><span>th</span></sup><span>, 2021, the attack on the U.S. Capitol was an attempted COUP to overthrow the U. S. Government constituted &#8220;levying war against them&#8221; &#8211; an act of Treason witnessed in real time by more than 100 million Americans, and billions globally.</span></p><p><strong><span>U.S. Department of Defense (.gov) https://www.defense.gov &#8250; News-Stories &#8250; Article &#8250; Article</span></strong></p><p><span>Fast forward to 2021: In an unprecedented message the members of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff told service members that the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol was an attack on the Constitutional process of the nation&#8230; the chiefs wrote&#8230; &#8216;Any act to disrupt the constitutional process is not only against our traditions, values and oath, it is against the law.&#8217;&#8221; (1/13/21)</span></p><p><span>&#183; War Room - U.S. Army War College</span></p><p><span>https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu &#8250; articles &#8250; oath-of-...</span></p><p><span>Jan 7, 2022 &#8212; &#8220;I </span><strong><span>will</span></strong><span> support and </span><strong><span>defend the Constitution</span></strong><span> of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.&#8221; Words spoken by every </span><strong><span>military</span></strong><span> </span><strong><span>... </span></strong><span>(the Oath I took to attend USNOCS on 19/Sept/64)</span></p><p><span>For a sea change in the Democratic Party&#8217;s historical lack of balls and pragmatism &#8211; Democrats must unite behind a singular policy in recognition of the fact there will be no concern for anything of beneficial interest to the public good as long as the GOP Fascist Coup continues to have its way. Therefore, there must be a unified message:</span></p><p><strong><span>MAKE AMERICA A DEMOCRACY AGAIN &#8211; VOTE AGAINST ALL REPUBLICANS</span></strong><span>, if the truth, the law, human rights, women&#8217;s rights, fair elections, universal health insurance, global warming, science, fair taxes, fair minimum wage, and public education are important.</span></p><p><strong><span>We must overcome the war led by Putin&#8217;s Puppet and his GOP Domestic Enemy Cabal</span></strong><span>. And focus on how this has translated into building net worth for the already rich Fascist GOPs, at the expense of the middle class, and underclasses. SO VOTING IS CRITICAL.</span></p><p><strong><span>That the GOP has become the DEP, the Domestic Enemy Party of sociopathic crooks, is self-evident</span></strong><span>. And, campaigning on decades old homilies like, we are the party of the working class, has not produced results empirically. Nor has breaking ceilings worked. Hence; to retake the Congress and the Oval, as well as State Governments &#8211; Democrats need to play hard ball, and attack what the DEP has done to shred the public good, as well as hammer away at what it has done to protect the widespread grift of the DEP and what lowering taxes has actually done to hurt the working class, and the middle class.</span></p><p><span>DEMOCRATS must educate voters that are ignorant of the fact nothing can be enacted for the working class or the middle, and has not, because the DEP is united against the common good; DEP controls the Oval, Congress,SCOTUS, the DOJ, and too many Red States for any amendment.</span></p><p><strong><span>Progressives must be reminded that our Republic&#8217;s Democratic Process is a 2 party system</span></strong><span>; enacting legislation depends on &#8220;Good Faith&#8221; negotiations between 2 parties to reach a compromise. To view &#8220;establishment Democrats&#8221; as the enemy, because a glass is 30% empty rather than 70% full, is to shoot Democratic elections in the crotch - self-sabotage.</span></p><p><strong><span>For the next Presidential Election we must pragmatically run a savage white man</span></strong><span> like Newsome, who has run the 5</span><sup><span>th</span></sup><span> largest economy on the globe. Stop the criticisms, he can win, US Democracy must get the Oval back. And, we need to attract recovering GOPs and Independents!</span></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The 5th Estate is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[IRAN WAS PUTIN'S WAR WAGED BY HIS PUPPET AT THE EXPENSE OF THE USA!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Iran closed the Strait, the price of Russian oil soared from $20 per barrel to $100, bailing Putin out of a jam due to Russia's failing economy. And, Iran is better off now than before!]]></description><link>https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/iran-was-puntins-war-waged-by-his</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/iran-was-puntins-war-waged-by-his</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. Henry Schoenberger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:08:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pBUE!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F142918a9-e0e3-4d02-bf42-0221c6c0b1f0_128x128.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">FACTS:  When Hillary Clinton, ran for the Presidency in 2016, as a former Secretary of State, she knew and WARNED Americans, as well as the listening globe: "Trump is Putin's Puppet."<br><br>And, in mid 2016 Putin's Puppet, compromised by Vlad decades before with his Cyprus Bank oil $$ by Wilbur Ross, publicly asked Putin to hack away at HRC's campaign to help him win.  Which was of historically unprecedented magnitude...asking a foreign enemy for help to win the Oval.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">On January 5th, 2017 this report:  </span><a href="https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Clapper-Lettre-Rogers_01-05-16.pdf">https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Clapper-Lettre-Rogers_01-05-16.pdf</a> - concluded the hacking of HRC&#8217;s campaign and the DNC by Russian Actors constituted an &#8220;invasion,&#8221; and &#8220;an act of war.&#8221;  <span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);"><br><br>This article is by a Russian journalist - </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/opinion/russia-putin-iran-war.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/opinion/russia-putin-iran-war.html</a><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">  - shows the controlling motivation for the  US foray into Iran was to get the price of Russian Oil up from $20 per barrel to $100, which bailed Putin out of jam, running out of $, in Russia.  Keep reading to read the full article run on the NY Times!<br><br>That Trump is acting under the influence/thumb of his Puppet Master is self-evident!<br><br>If I know this, how can investigative journalists not know and not write about it?  If Putin's reach could do this: Litvinenko had ingested polonium-210, a poisonous radioactive isotope...his body was buried at Highgate Cemetery in North London.  Why not Trump or the leaders of his GOP Domestic Enemy Cabal?<br><br>And, Iran has long been Putin-Russia's strategic ally.  So, ask how could Iran now be better off than before?  The answer is self-evident - this was the plan from the beginning.  </span></strong></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The 5th Estate is a reader-supported publication. 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">This article by a Russian Journalist, run by the NY Times, is the smoking gun:<br><br></span></strong><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/opinion/russia-putin-iran-war.html"><span>https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/opinion/russia-putin-iran-war.html</span></a></p><p><strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">By Mikhail Zygar</span></strong></p><p><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">Mr. Zygar is a Russian journalist and the author of the newsletter The Last Pioneer.</span></p><p><strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">At the start of the year, the </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-future.html"><span>Russian economy</span></a><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);"> looked to be giving way</span></strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">. Under the strain of war and sanctions, revenues were falling, production was shrinking and trade was running low. With rising tariffs, credit was prohibitively expensive and borrowing all but impossible: A wave of bankruptcies was on the horizon. </span><strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">In late January, Russia was forced to sell oil to India at </span><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/ebf1c6d1-bb83-4eed-9aa9-4761294c451d?syn-25a6b1a6=1"><span>just $22</span></a><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);"> per barrel, about a third of the market rate.</span></strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);"> As a symbol of unsustainability, it was hard to beat.</span></p><p><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">President Vladimir Putin has heard such complaints throughout the war. Yet, according to those around him, he has chosen largely not to listen. Officials and business leaders, for their part, understood that the continuation of the war was his absolute priority and that the country&#8217;s economic situation was of little consequence. But in February something shifted. Mr. Putin began, suddenly, to pay attention to the flagging economy. There were even signs he might be changing his mind on negotiations with Ukraine, perhaps seeking an exit from the conflict.</span></p><p><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">Then came the war in Iran. In one swoop, the conditions for conciliation were overturned. Amid buoyant oil prices, Western division and American overreach, the pressure on Mr. Putin to come to terms ebbed away. </span><strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">By a strange twist of history, the start of the war in Iran halted the prospect of ending the war in Ukraine &#8212; at the very moment when Mr. Putin appeared ready to consider it.</span></strong></p><p><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">In February, Mr. Putin seemed ready to change course and overhaul his negotiating team. </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/world/europe/russia-envoy-us-visit-trump-dmitriev.html"><span>Kirill Dmitriev,</span></a><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);"> the Kremlin&#8217;s chief envoy who is widely seen as an insubstantial figure with no real mandate, was reportedly on the verge of dismissal. The leading candidate to replace him was </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/04/igor-sechin-the-epitome-of-power-in-putin-russia-rosneft-economy#:~:text=He%20has%20prospered%20under%20a,company%20that%20owns%20this%20object.%E2%80%9D&amp;text=Sechin%2C%2061%2C%20has%20revealed%20relatively,of%20staff%20in%20Putin's%20presidency."><span>Igor Sechin</span></a><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">, the head of the state oil giant Rosneft. Regarded as Mr. Putin&#8217;s right-hand man, Mr. Sechin previously oversaw Russia&#8217;s relationships with Latin America, as well as the cultivation of close relationships with American oil executives. Here was an indication that Mr. Putin might begin to take talks seriously.</span></p><p><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">At the same time, rumors began circulating of an imminent large-scale reshuffle of theRussian government. If Mr. Putin were to engage properly in negotiations and pursue peace with Ukraine, he would have to entirely rebuild the structure of power. According to people close to the Kremlin, that could include dismissing the current government. Clouds had already begun to gather over Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin: </span><a href="https://www.vedomosti.ru/society/articles/2026/03/12/1182244-genprokuratura-raskrila-ekstremistskuyu-deyatelnost-aleksandra-galitskogo"><span>Individuals</span></a><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);"> </span><a href="https://www.rbc.ru/business/18/03/2026/69ba53339a79473cb7276289?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F"><span>close</span></a><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);"> to him have recently become defendants in criminal cases.</span></p><p><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">We will never know what might have happened. </span><strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">On Feb. 28, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a joint U.S.-Israeli attack; in the days that followed, everything changed. Oil prices surged above $100 a barrel and, in a major reversal, the United States </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/us/politics/trump-russia-oil-sanctions.html"><span>lifted sanctions</span></a><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);"> on Russian oil. Demand soared for Russian </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-talks-with-russia-belarus-morocco-boost-fertiliser-imports-sources-say-2026-03-19/"><span>fertilizer</span></a><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);"> as the world reeled from disruptions to food supply. All of a sudden, the economic problems bedeviling Russia seemed to evaporate.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">What&#8217;s more, divisions deepened between the United States and its NATO allies, who </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/world/europe/europe-trump-strait-hormuz-oil.html"><span>refused</span></a><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);"> to send ships to the Strait of Hormuz.</span></strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);"> President Trump called it a &#8220;</span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/us/politics/trump-nato-iran-strait-of-hormuz.html"><span>very foolish mistake</span></a><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">.&#8221; For Mr. Putin, whose foreign policy has been built around cultivating disorder in the West, this was welcome. Equally important is the absorption of America&#8217;s attention in the Middle East, pushing Ukraine far from mind. It&#8217;s not just attention that is being diverted: The United States is </span><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/14713f6f-a1a6-4477-bd10-d3780fbc8ab5"><span>burning through</span></a><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);"> weaponry and ammunition that could otherwise be sent to Ukraine.</span></p><p><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">In America, too, the Kremlin spies an advantage. It&#8217;s not hard to see how a protracted conflict with Iran could erode Mr. Trump&#8217;s political standing and weaken the Republican Party, making the upcoming midterm elections especially precarious. This reinforces </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/opinion/putin-trump-russia-america.html"><span>Mr. Putin&#8217;s conviction</span></a><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);"> about the transience of American politics. Mr. Trump, like any American president, is a temporary figure: A new administration will eventually arrive, potentially with a very different approach to Russia. The war in Iran may hasten that shift. In this view, concessions on Ukraine would be pointless.</span></p><p><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">These are all considerable boons for the Kremlin. But the money now flooding into Russia is by no means a guarantee that Mr. Putin will be able to continue the war indefinitely. On the contrary, some close to the government believe that the current situation will be short-lived. By May, many in Moscow expect, the war in Iran could be over and sanctions against Russia reinstated. For the troubled Russian economy, there is no permanent salvation.</span></p><p><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">The situation inside Russia is becoming turbulent, too. Ahead of parliamentary elections this fall, the Kremlin is in a state of near-paranoid anticipation, nervously </span><a href="https://ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/03/09/kreml-otkazalsya-otplanov-usadit-vdumu-150-veteranov-svo-a189162"><span>flip-flopping</span></a><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);"> on plans to stuff Parliament with veterans and </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/blogger-who-criticised-putin-has-been-put-psychiatric-facility-local-newspaper-2026-03-19/"><span>dealing harshly</span></a><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);"> with a pro-regime blogger who publicly turned on Mr. Putin. It has moved to block </span><a href="https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/03/17/russia-was-expected-to-block-telegram-in-april-it-appears-to-have-done-it-two-weeks-early"><span>Telegram</span></a><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">, the country&#8217;s most widely used messaging platform, while internet outages are becoming increasingly frequent in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The rumors of sweeping government reshuffles have not gone away.</span></p><p><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">A level of public discontent that until recently would have been unthinkable is now part of daily life. Before too long, it seems, Mr. Putin will have to make a consequential choice: either agree to some form of de-escalation in Ukraine, potentially including an end to the war, or move in the opposite direction &#8212; tightening controls across the board, even to the point of a new mobilization. It&#8217;s impossible to predict what decision Mr. Putin will make. But a large factor will be whether America continues in its own war.</span></p><p><strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">Draw you own conclusion</span></strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">:   DO YOU THINK PUTIN DID NOT MAKE A DEAL WITH IRAN, 0R THAT HIS PUPPET WAS NOT MERELY CARRYING OUT HIS MASTER&#8217;S ORDERS IN THE STUPID TO THE NTH ATTACK ON IRAN - SUPPORTED BY HIS GOP DOMESTIC ENEMY CABAL?  </span></p><p><span data-color="rgb(54, 54, 54)" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);">Stop bemoaning the Trump give away to Iran to end the &#8220;war&#8221; &#8212;  and follow the money.  This bears repeating:  The &#8220;war&#8221; was a Win Win for Putin, and Iran his strategic ally - and a LOSE LOSE FOR THE USA.</span></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The 5th Estate is a reader-supported publication. 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Nam wrong, and Trump is a Russian Asset at war with the USA.]]></description><link>https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/trump-americans-who-died-in-war-are</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/trump-americans-who-died-in-war-are</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. 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To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[CRYPTO IS FRAUDO, DO DEM SENATORS GET IT?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The key to passing the Senate Crypto bill is a deal on "ethics" language that Democrats want in the bill to address Putin's Puppet's family&#8217;s crypto businesses/criminal enterprises. Trump ethics?]]></description><link>https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/crypto-is-fraudo-do-dem-senators</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/crypto-is-fraudo-do-dem-senators</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. Henry Schoenberger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 13:12:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pBUE!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F142918a9-e0e3-4d02-bf42-0221c6c0b1f0_128x128.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A cryptocurrency bill that has been subject to months of contentious negotiations and a K Street street fight between digital asset &#8220;companies&#8221; (Ponzi markets to launder  bitcoin) is being voted on in the Senate today, May 14, 2026.  And, this day marks the date Senators will overturn securities and commodities regulations to accommodate crypto trading companies to legitimize money laundering for the drug lords, thugs, dictators, and billionaire tax evaders who use bitcoin to launder money in crypto markets that have no fundamental value.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I8MA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90838eac-1af9-47b2-9487-78988fc7e923_170x128.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I8MA!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_424, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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/__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90838eac-1af9-47b2-9487-78988fc7e923_170x128.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I8MA!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_848, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90838eac-1af9-47b2-9487-78988fc7e923_170x128.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I8MA!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90838eac-1af9-47b2-9487-78988fc7e923_170x128.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I8MA!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90838eac-1af9-47b2-9487-78988fc7e923_170x128.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Crypto markets are based on the kind of greed that flourishes in casinos internationally; hence, the avalanche of dirty money seeking to get cleansed can count on the greed of speculators to keep Crypto markets, bitcoin laundries, afloat. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The 5th Estate is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>E. Henry Schoenberger Shaker Hts. Ohio2h ago <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/politics/sec-crypto-firms-trump-investigation.html#permid=147299494">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/politics/sec-crypto-firms-trump-investigation.html#permid=147299494</a></p><p><em>From 5 decades in the securities business, as a series 39, at the level of a regulatory principle, former owner of an NASD member firm, appointed to the SEC&#8217;s Committee of Broker Dealers to submit all proposed rule changes to for comment - the SEC did not do what it should have and could have to a fraudulent Crypto Market &#8220;contrived&#8221; to launder money. To any critical thinker intimately familiar with relevant SEC &#8220;significant&#8221; regulations (significant regs have the rule of law behind them) from extensive personal experience - the SEC dropped the ball from the beginning of Bitcoin - long block chains &#8220;mined&#8221; by &#8220;trusted miners,&#8221; seriously?</em></p><p><em>Think about how the last sentence sounds. And Bitcoin at the source was &#8220;contrived&#8221; for money laundering for dictators, drug lords, global crooks, tax evaders - etc. Bitcoin is backed up by the greed flowing from wild speculation on Bitcoin vectors in Crypto markets, that have the substance of a global Ponzi scheme.</em></p><p><em>Analysis of thousands of court records, and interviews is superficial compared with decades of relevant inside personal experience that creates a penetrating understanding of empirical prima facie evidence that shows crypto markets are MONEY LAUNDRIES.</em></p><p><em>The SEC isn&#8217;t as independent as it&#8217;s mission statement presents - as it has been run by insiders more concerned about profits for their former investment banks and friends than investors. The SEC is supposed to protect investors, not support money laundering markets.</em></p><p>Do<em> </em>Democrat Senators not look past the form of crypto markets to the substance, which is clearly a money laundering geometrically</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Peqb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4f781a1f-2522-4f56-a360-d6b08fa80c44_170x84.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Peqb!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_424, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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And, this constitutes the substance of a Ponzi Scheme which collapses as there is no actual revenue-generating business; hence, requires an ever-growing pool of new speculators&#8217; bets to survive!</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The 5th Estate is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[GERRYMANDERING QUASHES FAIR ELECTIONS]]></title><description><![CDATA[GOP DOMESTIC ENEMIES ARE SCUTTLING SHIP AMERICA! Gerrymandering dilutes the weight of a citizens vote, which is an infringement of a personal right.]]></description><link>https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/gerrymandering-quashes-fair-elections</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/gerrymandering-quashes-fair-elections</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. Henry Schoenberger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 15:42:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pBUE!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F142918a9-e0e3-4d02-bf42-0221c6c0b1f0_128x128.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>NY Times&#8217; headline shows what&#8217;s wrong with the US &#8220;Free Press;&#8221; and clearly what&#8217;s wrong with so many State GOP Courts, underscored by un-Constitutional GOP SCOTUS decisions.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S1qY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F909a94dc-089f-4d36-afc3-338a39be5a62_259x194.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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/__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F909a94dc-089f-4d36-afc3-338a39be5a62_259x194.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S1qY!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F909a94dc-089f-4d36-afc3-338a39be5a62_259x194.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>&#8220;In Huge Blow to Democrats, Virginia Court Strikes Down House Map</strong></p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>The decision by the state&#8217;s top court is a major victory for Republicans, wiping away a measure approved by voters to allow Democrats to gain as many as four House seats in the midterms.&#8221; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/us/politics/virginia-redistricting-supreme-court.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/us/politics/virginia-redistricting-supreme-court.html</a></p><p><strong>THIS IS A HUGE BLOW TO UNITED STATES&#8217; DEMOCRACY AND THE CONSTITUTION. </strong>It&#8217;s 10 years past the time for any member of the Fourth Estate to acknowledge: what is happening to our Democracy is not about Port v Starboard, but about GOP DOMESTIC ENEMIES SCUTTLING SHIP AMERICA.</p><p><strong>The 9th amendment of the Bill of Rights</strong>: guarantees Free and Fair Election:</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>The enumeration of the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people</strong></em><strong>.</strong> The 9<sup>th</sup> addresses rights, retained by the people not specifically enumerated in the Constitution.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>If there is one SELF-EVIDENT un-enumerated right belonging to the people of any Democracy -- it is the right to a free and FAIR ELECTION. Gerrymandering is both a debasement as well as a dilution!</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;A person&#8217;s interest in participating in the political process through voting and having that vote counted is a right both &#8220;individual and personal in nature.&#8221; Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 561, 84 S.Ct. 1362 [12 L.Ed.2d 506] (1963) as cited in Griffin v. Burns, 570 F.2d 1065, 1072 (1st Cir. 1978). <strong>&#8220;And the right of suffrage can be denied by a debasement or dilution of the weight of a citizen&#8217;s vote just as effectively as by wholly prohibiting the free exercise of the franchise.&#8221; Reynolds, 377 U.S. at 554.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>This bears repeating: Gerrymandering is both a debasement as well as a dilution.</strong></p><p>The right to cast a vote and the right to have one&#8217;s vote counted are both constitutionally protected. United States v. Classic, 313 U.S. 299, 315, 61 S.Ct. 1031, 85 L.Ed. 1368 (1941).</p><p>&#8220;We do not see how an election conducted under these circumstances can be said to be fair.&#8221; Griffin, 570 F.2d at 1076.</p><p><strong>Fair is the controlling issue, and Gerrymandering dilution sabotages a &#8220;fair&#8221; vote.</strong></p><p>In Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479, 493, 85 S.Ct. 1678, 1686, 14 L.Ed.2d 510 (1965), Justice Goldberg, writing in concurrence, noted:</p><p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;Nor am I turning somersaults with history in arguing that the Ninth Amendment is relevant in a case dealing with a State&#8217;s infringement of a fundamental right. While the Ninth Amendment&#8212;and indeed the entire Bill of Rights&#8212;originally concerned restrictions upon federal power, the subsequently enacted Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the States as well from abridging fundamental liberties. <strong>And, the Ninth Amendment, in indicating that not all such liberties are specifically mentioned in the first eight amendments, is surely relevant in showing the existence of other fundamental personal rights, now protected from state, as well as federal, infringement.&#8221;</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>GERRYMANDERING IS INFRINGEMENT OF A CITIZEN&#8217;S MOST SACRED RIGHT, THE RIGHT TO A FAIR ELECTION. Fair Elections are the lifeblood of a Democracy.</strong></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[DEMOCRATS MUST PLAY HARDBALL ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Being Civil in the face of the Russian Asset & his Domestic Enemy Cabal, in their war against the Constitution & We the People, does not work.]]></description><link>https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/democrats-must-play-hardball</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/democrats-must-play-hardball</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. Henry Schoenberger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:26:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KyvJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed633324-51a1-422a-aee4-afe084e91af5_800x800.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>E. Henry Schoenberger </strong>Shaker Hts. Ohio <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/elections/virginia-redistricting-trump-democrats.html#permid=150577720">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/elections/virginia-redistricting-trump-democrats.html#permid=150577720</a> </p><p>The vast majority of Americans doesn&#8217;t get, Republicans have been warring against the Constitution for decades, which is the substance of gerrymandering - gerrymandering dilutes individual votes!  </p><p>The Ninth Amendment states: &#8220;The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.&#8221;  If there is one unenumerated &#8220;certain right&#8221; in any Democracy that is Self-evident, it is the right to a free and fair election.  In Russia there are free elections, but fair?  Gerrymandering in the US renders all elections with votes empiricall</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KyvJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed633324-51a1-422a-aee4-afe084e91af5_800x800.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KyvJ!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_424, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed633324-51a1-422a-aee4-afe084e91af5_800x800.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KyvJ!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_848, 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>y diluted to set the table against certain groups of Citizens unfair!</p><p>Article III, &#167; 3, &#8220;Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.&#8221;</p><p>This is THE moment of truth for all Citizens who care about a Democratic Government for the people versus a Fascist Government for the sociopathically greedy - to become savage defenders of the truth and the US Constitution. Being civil in the face of endemic GOP Domestic Enemies doesn&#8217;t work.</p><p>This is not about Port v Starboard, but righting Ship America. The right to cast a vote and the right to have one&#8217;s vote counted are both constitutionally protected.</p><p>United States v. Classic, 313 U.S. 299, 315, 61 S.Ct. 1031, 85 L.Ed. 1368 (1941). A person&#8217;s interest in participating in the political process through voting and having that vote counted is a right both &#8220;individual and personal in nature.&#8221;</p><p>Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 561, 84 S.Ct. 1362 [12 L.Ed.2d 506] (1963) as cited in Griffin v. Burns, 570 F.2d 1065, 1072 (1st Cir. 1978). &#8220;And the right of suffrage can be denied by a debasement or dilution of the weight of a citizen&#8217;s vote just as effectively as by wholly prohibiting the free exercise of the franchise.&#8221; Reynolds, 377 U.S. at 554.</p><p>It is self-evident that Gerrymandering dilutes the weight of citizens votes. Thank you Virginia!</p><p>Reply Recommend 8</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[PUTIN’S WAR WAGED BY HIS PUPPET: BAILED OUT RUSSIA’S FLAGGING ECONOMY]]></title><description><![CDATA[HRC WARNED AMERICANS & THE GLOBE LISTENING: "Trump is Putin's Puppet." This is self-evident to all not living in a bubble of ignorant bigotry or sociopathic greed.]]></description><link>https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/putins-war-waged-by-his-puppet-bailed</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/putins-war-waged-by-his-puppet-bailed</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. Henry Schoenberger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:30:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pBUE!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F142918a9-e0e3-4d02-bf42-0221c6c0b1f0_128x128.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This NY Times article <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/opinion/russia-putin-iran-war.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/opinion/russia-putin-iran-war.html</a>  makes Putin&#8217;s ulterior motive for his Puppet&#8217;s illegal, ill-fated foray into Iran crystal clear.  Finally, some real insight into the incredibly stupid attack on Iran by the Russian Asset in the Oval, which has been supported by the GOP Cabal of Domestic Enemies, and complicit top military brass. </p><p>So all the journalists analysis, comments and opinions you read or hear are shit if they do not factor in the fact that the Puppet Master controls the Puppet.  And, the disarray to NATO Democracies, and the USA makes Putin very happy, which the leaders of European and Scandinavian Democracies fully understand, which is why they will not participate in helping the Russian Asset in the Oval.</p><p>Not only is the war illegal, but worse, so are all the former Americans who have become DOMESTIC ENEMIES intent on making America a Russki Fascist Satellite. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>It&#8217;s way past time for top military Brass to honor the Oath - which supersedes all other authority - &#8220;TO DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION AGAINST [GOP] DOMESTIC ENEMIES.&#8221;</p><p>We must demand Congressional Democrats to mandate - the military must do its duty to honor and carry out the OATH &#8220;TO DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION AGAINST DOMESTIC ENEMIES.&#8221; The Domestic Enemies are Self-Evident, and this sacred OATH controls and supersedes all other authority.  </p><p><strong>U.S. Department of Defense (.gov)</strong> <strong>https://www.defense.gov &#8250; News-Stories &#8250; Article &#8250; Article</strong></p><p><strong>In an unprecedented message the members of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff told </strong>service members that the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol was an attack on the Constitutional process of the nation&#8230; the chiefs wrote&#8230; &#8216;Any act to disrupt the constitutional process is not only against our traditions, values and oath, it is against the law.&#8217;&#8221; (1/13/21)</p><p>Mikhail Zygar did not put 2 + 2 together to conclude what HRC, as a former great Secretary of State knew, and it&#8217;s possible the Times would not have published his article if he had, however, this article makes it crystal clear what Putin had to gain from either instructing or allowing his Puppet to attack Iran.   And, war criminals like Putin and Netanyahu stick together when their interests are similar.</p><p><strong>MUSSOLINI WAS TO HITLER AS TRUMP IS TO PUTIN&#8230;</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JlJe!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4793fabe-db63-4d3c-b919-fe4c2658537d_299x168.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JlJe!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_424, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4793fabe-db63-4d3c-b919-fe4c2658537d_299x168.jpeg 424w, 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/__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4793fabe-db63-4d3c-b919-fe4c2658537d_299x168.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JlJe!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4793fabe-db63-4d3c-b919-fe4c2658537d_299x168.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>By Mikhail Zygar &#8212; Mr. Zygar is a Russian journalist and the author of the newsletter The Last Pioneer.</strong></p><p><strong>At the start of the year, the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-future.html">Russian economy</a> looked to be giving way.</strong> <strong>Under the strain of war and sanctions, revenues were falling, production was shrinking and trade was running low.</strong> With rising tariffs, credit was prohibitively expensive and borrowing all but impossible: A wave of bankruptcies was on the horizon. <strong>In late January, Russia was forced to sell oil to India at <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/ebf1c6d1-bb83-4eed-9aa9-4761294c451d?syn-25a6b1a6=1">just $22</a> per barrel, about a third of the market rate. </strong>As a symbol of unsustainability, it was hard to beat.</p><p>President Vladimir Putin has heard such complaints throughout the war. Yet, according to those around him, he has chosen largely not to listen. Officials and business leaders, for their part, understood that the continuation of the war was his absolute priority and that the country&#8217;s economic situation was of little consequence. But i<strong>n February something shifted. Mr. Putin began, suddenly, to pay attention to the flagging economy. There were even signs he might be changing his mind on negotiations with Ukraine, perhaps seeking an exit from the conflict.</strong></p><p>Then came the war in Iran. In one swoop, the conditions for conciliation were overturned. Amid buoyant oil prices, Western division and American overreach, the pressure on Mr. Putin to come to terms ebbed away. By a strange twist of history, the start of the war in Iran halted the prospect of ending the war in Ukraine &#8212; at the very moment when Mr. Putin appeared ready to consider it.</p><p>In February, Mr. Putin seemed ready to change course and overhaul his negotiating team. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/world/europe/russia-envoy-us-visit-trump-dmitriev.html">Kirill Dmitriev,</a> the Kremlin&#8217;s chief envoy who is widely seen as an insubstantial figure with no real mandate, was reportedly on the verge of dismissal. The leading candidate to replace him was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/04/igor-sechin-the-epitome-of-power-in-putin-russia-rosneft-economy#:~:text=He%20has%20prospered%20under%20a,company%20that%20owns%20this%20object.%E2%80%9D&amp;text=Sechin%2C%2061%2C%20has%20revealed%20relatively,of%20staff%20in%20Putin's%20presidency.">Igor Sechin</a>, the head of the state oil giant Rosneft. Regarded as Mr. Putin&#8217;s right-hand man, Mr. Sechin previously oversaw Russia&#8217;s relationships with Latin America, as well as the cultivation of close relationships with American oil executives. Here was an indication that Mr. Putin might begin to take talks seriously.</p><p>At the same time, rumors began circulating of an imminent large-scale reshuffle of the Russian government. If Mr. Putin were to engage properly in negotiations and pursue peace with Ukraine, he would have to entirely rebuild the structure of power. According to people close to the Kremlin, that could include dismissing the current government. Clouds had already begun to gather over Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin: <a href="https://www.vedomosti.ru/society/articles/2026/03/12/1182244-genprokuratura-raskrila-ekstremistskuyu-deyatelnost-aleksandra-galitskogo">Individuals</a> <a href="https://www.rbc.ru/business/18/03/2026/69ba53339a79473cb7276289?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F">close</a> to him have recently become defendants in criminal cases.</p><p>We will never know what might have happened. On Fe<strong>b. 28, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a joint U.S.-Israeli attack; in the days that followed, everything changed. Oil prices surged above $100 a barrel and, in a major reversal, the United States <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/us/politics/trump-russia-oil-sanctions.html">lifted sanctions</a> on Russian oil. Demand soared for Russian <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-talks-with-russia-belarus-morocco-boost-fertiliser-imports-sources-say-2026-03-19/">fertilizer</a> as the world reeled from disruptions to food supply. All of a sudden, the economic problems bedeviling Russia seemed to evaporate.</strong></p><p>What&#8217;s more, divisions deepened between the United States and its NATO allies, who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/world/europe/europe-trump-strait-hormuz-oil.html">refused</a> to send ships to the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump called it a &#8220;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/us/politics/trump-nato-iran-strait-of-hormuz.html">very foolish mistake</a>.&#8221; For Mr. Putin, whose foreign policy has been built around cultivating disorder in the West, this was welcome. Equally important is the absorption of America&#8217;s attention in the Middle East, pushing Ukraine far from mind. It&#8217;s not just attention that is being diverted: The United States is <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/14713f6f-a1a6-4477-bd10-d3780fbc8ab5">burning through</a> weaponry and ammunition that could otherwise be sent to Ukraine.</p><p>In America, too, the Kremlin spies an advantage. It&#8217;s not hard to see how a protracted conflict with Iran could erode Mr. Trump&#8217;s political standing and weaken the Republican Party, making the upcoming midterm elections especially precarious. This reinforces <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/opinion/putin-trump-russia-america.html">Mr. Putin&#8217;s conviction</a> about the transience of American politics. Mr. Trump, like any American president, is a temporary figure: A new administration will eventually arrive, potentially with a very different approach to Russia. The war in Iran may hasten that shift. In this view, concessions on Ukraine would be pointless.</p><p>These are all considerable boons for the Kremlin. But the money now flooding into Russia is by no means a guarantee that Mr. Putin will be able to continue the war indefinitely. On the contrary, some close to the government believe that the current situation will be short-lived. By May, many in Moscow expect, the war in Iran could be over and sanctions against Russia reinstated. For the troubled Russian economy, there is no permanent salvation.</p><p>The situation inside Russia is becoming turbulent, too. Ahead of parliamentary elections this fall, the Kremlin is in a state of near-paranoid anticipation, nervously <a href="https://ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/03/09/kreml-otkazalsya-otplanov-usadit-vdumu-150-veteranov-svo-a189162">flip-flopping</a> on plans to stuff Parliament with veterans and <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/blogger-who-criticised-putin-has-been-put-psychiatric-facility-local-newspaper-2026-03-19/">dealing harshly</a> with a pro-regime blogger who publicly turned on Mr. Putin. It has moved to block <a href="https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/03/17/russia-was-expected-to-block-telegram-in-april-it-appears-to-have-done-it-two-weeks-early">Telegram</a>, the country&#8217;s most widely used messaging platform, while internet outages are becoming increasingly frequent in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The rumors of sweeping government reshuffles have not gone away.</p><p>A level of public discontent that until recently would have been unthinkable is now part of daily life. Before too long, it seems, Mr. Putin will have to make a consequential choice: either agree to some form of de-escalation in Ukraine, potentially including an end to the war, or move in the opposite direction &#8212; tightening controls across the board, even to the point of a new mobilization. It&#8217;s impossible to predict what decision Mr. Putin will make. But a large factor will be whether America continues in its own war.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[TRUMP IS A RUSSIAN ASSET: WHY IS THIS NOT PART OF ANALYZING THE ATTACK ON IRAN?]]></title><description><![CDATA[DOJ HAS FAILED TO PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION SINCE 2016. NOW, TOP MILITARY BRASS FOLLOWS ORDERS FROM THE 1ST CIC TO BE A DOMESTIC ENEMY, DISHONORING THEIR OATH & DUTY TO DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION!]]></description><link>https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/trump-is-a-russian-asset-why-is-this</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/trump-is-a-russian-asset-why-is-this</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. Henry Schoenberger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:47:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pBUE!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F142918a9-e0e3-4d02-bf42-0221c6c0b1f0_128x128.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>The NY Times has clearly failed to provide facts that show the Iran attack must be related to Putin&#8217;s Puppet&#8217;s Russki Master. Facts from 2017:</strong></p><p><strong>By <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/by/jo-becker">Jo Becker</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/adam-goldman">Adam Goldman</a> and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/by/matt-apuzzo">Matt Apuzzo</a></strong></p><p>&#183; July 11, 2017</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/es/2017/07/11/donald-trump-jr-informacion-rusia/">Leer en espa&#241;ol</a></p><p>The June 3, 2016, email sent to Donald Trump Jr. could hardly have been more explicit: One of his father&#8217;s former Russian business partners had been contacted by a senior Russian government official and was offering to provide the Trump campaign with dirt on Hillary Clinton.</p><p>The documents &#8220;would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father,&#8221; read the email, written by a trusted intermediary, who added, &#8220;This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government&#8217;s support for Mr. Trump.&#8221;</p><p>If the future president&#8217;s eldest son was surprised or disturbed by the provenance of the promised material &#8212; or the notion that it was part of a continuing effort by the Russian government to aid his father&#8217;s campaign &#8212; he gave no indication.</p><p>He replied within minutes: &#8220;If it&#8217;s what you say I love it especially later in the summer.&#8221;</p><p>Four days later, after a flurry of emails, the intermediary wrote back, proposing a meeting in New York on Thursday with a &#8220;Russian government attorney.&#8221; &#8230; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/us/politics/trump-russia-email-clinton.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=span-ab-top-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/us/politics/trump-russia-email-clinton.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=span-ab-top-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news</a></p><p>Note: The NY Time&#8217;s silence in 2016, like other so-called Lib news sources, WAS DEAFENING IN 2024.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link 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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/opinion/munich-rubio-western-civilization.html#commentsContainer]]></description><link>https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/ny-times-persists-in-running-bret</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/ny-times-persists-in-running-bret</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. Henry Schoenberger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:22:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pBUE!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F142918a9-e0e3-4d02-bf42-0221c6c0b1f0_128x128.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uQJf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe3f29b7-9691-4d07-afc4-d0f69513fc8a_194x259.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uQJf!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_424, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Stevens&#8217;erudite pedantic display of vacuous rhetoric misses the point, no matter how he alleged Little Marco&#8217;s bizarre speech was received. And, this statement shows he still does not get &#8220;woke&#8221; means enlightenment, or acknowledge the &#8220;right&#8221; has become supporters of GOP Domestic Enemies led by Putin&#8217;s Puppet:</p><p>&#8220;The woke left that condemns Western civilization as an instrument of white supremacy is as clueless as the alt-right that extols Western civilization as an instrument of white supremacy.&#8221;</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The 5th Estate is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>If Stevens thinks that the MAGA red hated minions are not white supremacist bigots, then he does not accept that J 6 was an attempted coup by GOP Domestic Enemies warring against the Constitution, or that HRC was warning Americans and the globe that &#8220;Trump is Putin&#8217;s Puppet.&#8221;</p><p>It is self-evident that this administration is a Domestic Enemy Cabal, so how breathtakingly bizarre is this: &#8220;I think, Rubio&#8217;s speech got such an enthusiastic reception, even if the messenger hails from an obnoxious administration. It wasn&#8217;t simply its diplomatic tone and emollient spirit.&#8221; Is Fascism obnoxious, ICE, a Russian Asset in the Oval?</p><p>I believe the audience was not fooled by Little Marco, and also believe Stevens is so steeped in avoidance and denial that he will never think straight. Merely going to Chicago or the London School, or being festooned with heavy credentials does not confer a penetrating understanding of reality or critical introspection.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The 5th Estate is a reader-supported publication. 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Henry Schoenberger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:52:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pBUE!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F142918a9-e0e3-4d02-bf42-0221c6c0b1f0_128x128.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bpl0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8abc776-03ae-4d5f-b60e-8ff010e5df82_205x148.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bpl0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_424, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, 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/__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8abc776-03ae-4d5f-b60e-8ff010e5df82_205x148.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bpl0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8abc776-03ae-4d5f-b60e-8ff010e5df82_205x148.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Thomas Jefferson said: &#8220;the role of government is to protect the public.&#8221; Implicit in this statement is that in a Democracy a government must be structured so that citizens have the right to &#8220;pursue liberty, justice and happiness&#8221; without interfering with the right of each individual to do the same. And to maintain a Democratic society requires Citizens to be willing and able to engage in open Socratic discourse to make certain their government is protecting the public good - and not protecting the power and self-interest of people in government.</p><p><strong>Hence, the ethic of &#8220;we don&#8217;t talk about politics&#8221; has created the silence which enables and breeds Fascism &amp; Prejudice. [Putin&#8217;s Trump &amp; the KKK]</strong></p><p><a href="/__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/American%20Heritage%20Dictionary%0dhttps:/www.ahdictionary.com&amp;nbsp;&amp;#8250;%20word%20&amp;#8250;%20search%20&amp;#8250;%20q=revea...%0d">American Heritage Dictionary</a></p><p>n. <strong>A religion founded on belief in divine revelation</strong>. The American Heritage&#174; Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright</p><p>a. <strong>The belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers</strong>, regarded as creating and governing the universe</p><p>Modern Religions share the major characteristics of Stone Age Religions: myths, magic and deities.</p><p>Senator Barry Goldwater, &#8220;Conscience of a Conservative.&#8221; said: &#8220;never let the goddamn religious right into the Party.&#8221;</p><p>Quotes from the religious right, note &#8211; the religious right includes the Federalist Society that selected the Catholic&#8217;s who populate SCOTUS:</p><p>&#8220;Any country that accepts <strong>abortion</strong> is not teaching its people to love one another, but to use violence to get what they want.&#8221;-Mother Teresa</p><p><strong>&#8220;The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion</strong> because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me?&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;If it&#8217;s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.&#8221;</p><p><strong>&#8220;The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby</strong> but to deal with the mother&#8217;s values and her attitudes toward life.&#8221;</p><p>Aug 30, 2013 &#8212; &#8220;<strong>You know how to stop abortion? Require that each one occur with a gun</strong>.&#8221; Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show, January 16, 2013.</p><p><strong>From the deeply religious family values people who voted for the convicted rapist in the Oval. These are the people who care about birth but not about kids or families:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.protectourcare.org/premium-disaster-watch-gop-health-care-price-hikes-are-fueling-voter-stress-powering-democratic-campaigns/">Premium Disaster Watch: GOP Health Care Price Hikes ...</a></p><p><a href="https://www.protectourcare.org/premium-disaster-watch-gop-health-care-price-hikes-are-fueling-voter-stress-powering-democratic-campaigns/">https://www.protectourcare.org &#8250; premium-disaster-wat...</a></p><p>2 days ago &#8212; ACA enrollment is dropping in red and blue states alike as families are priced out of <strong>care</strong> and have to go uninsured.</p><p>Across the country, families are feeling the pain of rising health care costs after Republicans <a href="https://www.protectourcare.org/statement-when-the-clock-strikes-midnight-republican-premium-hikes-hit-the-nation/">ripped away</a> the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits, <a href="https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/aca-marketplace-premium-payments-would-more-than-double-on-average-next-year-if-enhanced-premium-tax-credits-expire/">causing premium prices to skyrocket</a>. 2/11/2025</p><p>This bears repeating: a. <strong>The belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers</strong>, regarded as creating and governing the universe</p><p>So how has the ethic of not talking about Politics or Religion served the human condition? Is the SHEEPLE SYNDROME working?</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[TRUMP ADIMINSTRATION MEANS: DOMESTIC ENEMY CABAL]]></title><description><![CDATA[News sources refrain from reporting the unfolding Fascist Coup that is underscored by Putin in full control of his puppet in the Oval, and his Oligarchs' bribed GOP Congressional leaders.]]></description><link>https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/trump-adiminstration-means-domestic</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/trump-adiminstration-means-domestic</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. Henry Schoenberger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:39:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pBUE!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F142918a9-e0e3-4d02-bf42-0221c6c0b1f0_128x128.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>E. Henry Schoenberger </strong>Shaker Hts. Ohio &#183; 10h ago <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/us/judge-blocks-kelly-punishment-hegseth.html#permid=148861040">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/us/judge-blocks-kelly-punishment-hegseth.html#permid=148861040</a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bd_y!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff1866e35-94f7-4597-991b-b9f635258263_259x194.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bd_y!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_424, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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/__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff1866e35-94f7-4597-991b-b9f635258263_259x194.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bd_y!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff1866e35-94f7-4597-991b-b9f635258263_259x194.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p> </p><p>If one thing is crystal clear, it is that Hegseth is a leading member of Putin&#8217;s Puppet&#8217;s Domestic Enemy Cabal - which should not be referred to as an &#8220;Administration.&#8221; And this must now include the DOJ.</p><p>Someone should remind Domestic Enemy Hegseth, and his fellow GOP Congressional Cabal members of the Nuremberg Trials, as history is now, tragically, repeating itself. But &#8220;i was just following orders,&#8221; is no defense, the past is prologue.</p><p>19 Recommend</p><p>Words matter, and to continue to apply normal words to Domestic Enemies, interferes with mutual comprehension.  There is a vast distinction between a Presidential administration, and a CABAL, as well as a critical crucial distinction between a US President and a Russian Asset.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[CONCENTRATED MEDIA POWER IS METASTASIZED CANCER INSIDE THE FOURTH ESTATE]]></title><description><![CDATA[Learn why the Free Press is MIA - this bears repeating from a 2016 article on my my dormant blog, the5thestate.net.]]></description><link>https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/concentrated-media-power-is-metastasized</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/concentrated-media-power-is-metastasized</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. Henry Schoenberger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:02:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pBUE!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F142918a9-e0e3-4d02-bf42-0221c6c0b1f0_128x128.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1></h1><p>Posted in <a href="https://www.the5thestate.net/Political,Economy,Financial/politics-2/">Politics</a> by <a href="https://www.the5thestate.net/author/ehenry/">ehenry</a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XTj4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8099ccea-5b3f-453e-957c-3e384771ffaf_30x20.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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/__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F39c4d0f1-9e16-4828-bd7c-57475e8c74ad_277x182.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lXKv!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F39c4d0f1-9e16-4828-bd7c-57475e8c74ad_277x182.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The concentration of media power is metastasized cancer inside the Fourth Estate. The root cause: the FCC and Congress allowed the &#8220;Rule Against Cross Ownership&#8221; to be destroyed. This metastasized cancer presents itself as: neutral (about the truth?) and balanced (providing a platform for over talking liars to lie). The effects of the concentration of power are visible and audible 24/7, and constitute the leading cause of Hillary being considered untrustworthy. This disease is further evidenced by Trump and his vicious &#8220;political hit people&#8221; being allowed to spew forth overt lies that require no fact checking, but are not shut or shut down. On CNN and on MSNBC Trump and his paid supporter&#8217;s lies are termed &#8220;controversial statements.&#8221; Really?</p><p>The FCC kicked off getting rid of these rules in 1975 &#8211; https://www.wcl.american.edu/journal/lawrev/26/dillon.pdf &#8211; and this was followed by years of lobbying to get rid of any restraints on cross ownership power &#8211; culminating in an article from the Heritage Foundation (always against the public good) in May 2008, praising the demise of Rules Against Cross Ownership. The only sentence to remember from this article: &#8220;&#8230; cross-ownership is still presumed to be contrary to the public interest &#8230;&#8221; http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/05/the-fccs-crossownership-rule-turning-the-page-on-media</p><p>Overt liars require the silencing of the liar&#8217;s microphones &#8211; shut them down! The lack of the will and courage of all the hosts who do not silence the liars and call out the lies is unforgiveable, as it is destroying the fabric of our Republic. The media/Press&#8217; disingenuous abhorrent lack of defending truth is a material controlling issue in Washington&#8217;s gridlock, in allowing 47 Senators to attempt to ruin a Deal with Iran to stop work on their nuclear bomb, and in providing a platform for bigots of any stripe to fulfill their new mission of &#8220;balance.&#8221;</p><p>This fallacious fictitious disingenuous dangerous crap about balance has given life to all the Republicans who vote in lockstep against the public good &#8212; because all the KKKristians have been against the sitting President of the USA due to his complexion. <em>Obama ruined America</em>, is their shill cry. How? Merely by sleeping in the KKKristian nation&#8217;s white house.</p><p>And then there are the misogynists against a woman becoming President. So do not think The Great Birther&#8217;s slogan &#8211; &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221;&#8230; is not code for: NO BLACKS OR WOMEN IN THE WHITE HOUSE and fodder for all the bigots of every ignorant stripe.</p><p>If the media/Pres fulfilled its role in our Republic as envisioned by our founding fathers which they protected in the Constitution then the goal of the Press would be to: &#8220;OBJECTVELY CREATE INFORMED PUBLIC OPINION.&#8221; And the money unleashed by Citizens and the lies would not be as consequential, as the public would be better informed and less confused by all the lies. Lies must be called out as they occur and the liars removed from access to public airwaves.</p><p>Restoring <em>Rules Against Cross Ownership</em> is more critical to the survival of our Republic than getting rid of Citizens. Restoring the Free Press means getting rid of the concentration of the power of the few (who are essentially sociopathically greedy Republicans and one Brit), to get rid of the personal slants of 6 men that own about 90% if all media outlets.</p><p>If more independent journalists could operate from within their own principles and not be subservient to their owner&#8217;s unfettered, unmitigated sociopathic self-interest &#8211; and not live in fear of being dismissed for not towing the line, knowing there was nowhere else to work, the pundits who have been a conduit for liars would be confined to Fox.</p><p>Or &#8211; the new Trump network staring Donnie Fraudster; featuring: Bannon, [Breitbart -anti Semitic misogynist KKKristian Bigot]; and Ailes, [serial molester]; along with his 2 Harvard inveterate lying lawyer bimbos &#8211; Kelly Ann and Kayleigh.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[ICE = SS]]></title><description><![CDATA[Putin's Puppet's GOP Congress, Cabinet & SCOTUS serve the Russian Asset as a CABAL of DOMESTIC ENEMIES. And, Generals must follow their OATH TO DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION AGAINST DOMESTIC ENEMIES.]]></description><link>https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/ice-ss</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/ice-ss</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. Henry Schoenberger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:34:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pBUE!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F142918a9-e0e3-4d02-bf42-0221c6c0b1f0_128x128.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p></p><p><strong>E. Henry Schoenberger </strong>Shaker Hts. Ohio6h ago</p><p>The DHS is now acting as the USA&#8217;s SS. And, for Congressional Republicans to allow this to continue, makes the magnitude of empirical evidence showing they are Domestic Enemies, self-evident. 257 Recommend Share</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4MHl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F06d05654-dff4-4610-bfcd-09745a954a23_316x159.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4MHl!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_424, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F06d05654-dff4-4610-bfcd-09745a954a23_316x159.jpeg 424w, 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/__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F06d05654-dff4-4610-bfcd-09745a954a23_316x159.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4MHl!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F06d05654-dff4-4610-bfcd-09745a954a23_316x159.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/us/dhs-cities-bush-sept-11.html#permid=148167719">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/us/dhs-cities-bush-sept-11.html#permid=148167719</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[NEWS SOURCES PARSE TRUMP SHIT'S STENCH, NOT THE CONTROLLING ISSUE ]]></title><description><![CDATA[That the Russian Asset, supported by a GOP Cabal of Domestic Enemies, is turning the USA into a Russian Fascist Satellite is SELF-EVIDENT, and the SILENCE IS DEAFENING.]]></description><link>https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/news-sources-parse-trump-shits-stench</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/news-sources-parse-trump-shits-stench</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. Henry Schoenberger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:28:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pBUE!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F142918a9-e0e3-4d02-bf42-0221c6c0b1f0_128x128.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Henry Schoenberger</strong> | Shaker Hts. Ohio<br>It is astonishing how opinion columnists as well as readers parse the surface of the ice berg&#8217;s tip, and avoid going to the controlling issue. HRC was not kidding when she warned America and the globe listening to US Presidential candidates: &#8220;Trump is Putin&#8217;s Puppet.&#8221; The Fascists coup, begun on J6, is unfolding, and still there is no acknowledgement of the fact Trump et al are waring against the Constitution - which is made crystal clear under USC., Art. III, Sec. 3, Treason. The &#8220;Trump Administration&#8221; is best described as a Domestic Enemy Cabal. To characterize what came out of the Puppet&#8217;s mouth as a disquisition, is a disservice to TRUTH. A prudent person would conclude anything out of the Puppets mouth, at best, is double speak. The USA is devolving into a Russian Fascist Satellite, and news sources prefer to parse the surface which amounts to the silence that breeds FASCISM.</p><p><a href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/sZpsE9dox3zHHysdTjsWGQ~~/AAAAARA~/zdBSAmLy8gK4HsXwcy7CIo86j2cq4kCYEf9DJhppi8ounwciG2eLuK9dSj2f6lJ2mHUhQjQvBASF7ysNvoKT_vKIJEfdon_u4IuDfdS1gQ_0NiSU2LyrUq6-ZC5y948zIdM8c-YsBLFYPd14qI4_rvizhYn-sBT9X0jG6oNlTTLxxF84UM_5rrw5CBze1xNyqDIbIoNZ-nc_smcxIzJbcT3vzYOiY6M9kWmnFzZp1CKa_e0DtlK1Zvj9jfGeoZLdc4qO3Z9nbemel6s0VZfzrib358ESUMFZe5NszXOPs-9SwnN843RtT2dckbRIofOsIKM897G42GWnmp0XVMZwqA~~">View your comment</a></p><p>If you&#8217;re having trouble viewing your comment, please copy and paste this link in your browser: <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/opinion/venezuela-maduro-trump-oil.html#permid=147911714">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/opinion/venezuela-maduro-trump-oil.html#permid=147911714</a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" 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/__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46c1887f-8bbd-4ebc-a09b-c71c72e60349_259x194.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kgjt!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46c1887f-8bbd-4ebc-a09b-c71c72e60349_259x194.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>PARSING TRUMP/GOP DROPPINGS, IS A DISTRACTION, NOT A UNIFYING MESSAGE.  BUT WHAT PARSING THE STENCH OF INTOLLERABLE SHIT IS WHAT OPINION WRITERS DO, AND THIS CREATES A BANDWAGON FOR, SUPERFICIAL COMMENTS. To be against the SS ICE, destroying the West Wing, invading Venezuela, Epstein, grift to the Nth, etc&#8230; IS TO NOT FOCUS ON HOW ALL OF THIS IS UNDERSCORED BY USC., ART. III, SEC. 3, TREASON.</p><p>USC ART. III, SEC 3. &#8220;Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.&#8221;</p><p><a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title10/html/USCODE-2011-title10-subtitleA-partII-chap31-sec502.htm#:~:text=87%E2%80%93751%20substituted%20%E2%80%9Csupport%20and,faithfully%20against%20all%20their%20enemies">Enlistment oath - U.S.C. Title 10 - ARMED FORCES</a></p><p>87&#8211;751 substituted &#8220;<strong>support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;</strong> that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same&#8221; for &#8220;bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America; that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies ..</p><p><strong>U.S. Department of Defense (.gov)</strong> <strong>https://www.defense.gov &#8250; News-Stories &#8250; Article &#8250; Article</strong></p><p>Fast forward to 2021: In an unprecedented message the members of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff told service members that the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol was an attack on the Constitutional process of the nation&#8230; the chiefs wrote&#8230; &#8216;Any act to disrupt the constitutional process is not only against our traditions, values and oath, it is against the law.&#8217;&#8221; (1/13/21)</p><p>&#183; War Room - U.S. Army War College</p><p>https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu &#8250; articles &#8250; oath-of-...</p><p>Jan 7, 2022 &#8212; &#8220;I <strong>will</strong> support and <strong>defend the Constitution</strong> of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.&#8221; Words spoken by every <strong>military</strong> <strong>... </strong>(the Oath I took to attend USNOCS on 19/Sept/64)</p><p>That Silence breeds the Fascist overthrow of US Democracy and the GOP from the Oval down are warring against the Constitution - is SELF-EVIDENT; yet where is the persistent relentless outcry against TREASON? Is the military following the OATH?</p><p>Treason is &#8220;levying war against them.&#8221;  Them is our Republic&#8217;s Democracy.</p><p></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The 5th Estate is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI IS PHONY SHIT-FOR-BRAINS]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Globe will suffocate in AI Chatbox manure, while Silicon Valley makes hay. Simply tried to confirm Carrier Roof Top Unit specs - got back creepy lobotomized algorithm crap.]]></description><link>https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/ai-is-phony-shit-for-brains</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/ai-is-phony-shit-for-brains</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. Henry Schoenberger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:33:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pBUE!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F142918a9-e0e3-4d02-bf42-0221c6c0b1f0_128x128.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KMJr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F54efdd2c-21b7-4b61-93b8-9fd27865e647_220x291.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KMJr!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_424, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, 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To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>You</p><p>confirm specs for Model- Rt-ge 5t 230/3 Hh Ms / Serial- C251405325</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_424, 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/__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png" width="192" height="192" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:192,&quot;width&quot;:192,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Pearl Chatbot&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Pearl Chatbot" title="Pearl Chatbot" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_424, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_848, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Pearl Chatbot, HVAC Technician&#8217;s Assistant</p><p>I understand you&#8217;d like to confirm the specs for your Carrier furnace, model RT-GE 5T 230/3 HH MS with serial number C251405325. Thank you for providing the model and serial number. Could you let me know the approximate age of this unit?</p><p>You</p><p>new</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_424, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_848, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png" width="192" height="192" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:192,&quot;width&quot;:192,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Pearl Chatbot&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Pearl Chatbot" title="Pearl Chatbot" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_424, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_848, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Pearl Chatbot, HVAC Technician&#8217;s Assistant</p><p>Thanks for letting me know your Carrier furnace is new. Are you seeing any error codes or indicator lights on the unit?</p><p>You</p><p>just send specs</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_424, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_848, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png" width="192" height="192" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:192,&quot;width&quot;:192,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Pearl Chatbot&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Pearl Chatbot" title="Pearl Chatbot" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_424, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_848, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Pearl Chatbot, HVAC Technician&#8217;s Assistant</p><p>Thank you for sharing the details. The Appliance Technician will help with your request for Carrier unit specs. Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll tell them:</p><ul><li><p>You want specs for Carrier model RT-GE 5T 230/3 HH MS.</p></li><li><p>You need details for your new unit only.</p></li></ul><p>Is there anything else the Appliance Technician should know before I connect you?</p><p>You</p><p>why is this a big deal...DON</p><p>You</p><p>DO NOT NEED TECH...JUST SEND THE SPECS</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb763131d-9b27-43d0-81ec-d09fc8a827fb_192x192.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4TE0!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_424, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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Henry Schoenberger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:10:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C7ED!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bcbe1ac-513f-48bd-9948-5c8a91195557_810x541.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><strong>The New York Times: yada-yada-yada, the former leader of the Free Press: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/03/world/trump-united-states-strikes-venezuela &#8212; </strong></p><p><strong>Where is this headline:</strong></p><p>Putin&#8217;s Puppet&#8217;s Master Ceded South America to His Puppet &#8212; which inures to his benefit. Russian commentators, state controlled, have foreshadowed Putin&#8217;s order to take out Maduro, and take charge of the oil and rare minerals.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/putin-russia-us-foreign-policy-venezuela">The &#8216;Putinization&#8217; of US foreign policy has arrived in ... &#8212; Russian commentators have frequently suggested that Latin America lies in America&#8217;s domain &#8211; </a></strong>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/putin-russia-us-foreign-policy-venezuela </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/vlad-ceded-so-america-to-trump?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/vlad-ceded-so-america-to-trump?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7bcbe1ac-513f-48bd-9948-5c8a91195557_810x541.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;RUSSIAN BILLBOARD FROM 2020: VALD'S PUPPET&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7bcbe1ac-513f-48bd-9948-5c8a91195557_810x541.jpeg&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p><strong>F</strong>rom: Why does Russia support Venezuela? By Roberto Garc&#237;a Alonso 6 May, 2023: &#8220;Russian oil companies are involved in major exploration projects for oil and mineral resources in Venezuela, including valuable rare earths&#8230; Russian investment and loans have been crucial to keep Nicol&#225;s Maduro in power and continue to be so in the run-up to the 2024 presidential elections. Nonetheless, Venezuela&#8217;s large debt with Russia, the default on its payments, instability and the deterioration of the political situation are negative factors for the status quo and could affect the allocation of resources. Despite this, for now, a slight improvement in relations with the United States and the war in Ukraine seem to have eased the tension in Nicol&#225;s Maduro&#8217;s government&#8230;.&#8221;</p><p>Written by a Columbian Professor in 2023, this article implied Biden made strides in dealing with Maduro &#8211; but also shows the strong interest Russia had in a large debt in default, as well as oil and rare minerals. As HRC warned America and the globe that Trump was, indeed, Putin&#8217;s Puppet &#8211; where is the analysis of how the Puppet Master is pulling the strings? What about the ostensible falling out between Putin and Maduro?</p><p>Putin said he would not invade the Ukraine, and Dec 11, 2025 - In a phone call on Thursday, Putin &#8220;expressed solidarity with the Venezuelan people,&#8221; the Kremlin said in a read-out.</p><p>Think 1984 Double Speak!</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[TRUMP'S PRESIDENCY IS NOT IMPERIAL, BUT TREASON]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's nothing imperial about Putin's Puppet in the Oval under the influence of a foreign enemy - supported by a GOP Cabal of Congressional, Cabinet & SCOTUS DOMESTIC ENEMIES.]]></description><link>https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/trumps-presidency-is-not-imperial</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/trumps-presidency-is-not-imperial</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. Henry Schoenberger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:40:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pBUE!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F142918a9-e0e3-4d02-bf42-0221c6c0b1f0_128x128.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>ENDEMIC GOP TREASON has nothing to do with &#8220;the nations long history of expanding presidential authority&#8221; as Baker&#8217;s article would have you believe</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KWrH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89a41fb9-c397-45f6-b46d-98171e3bd423_299x168.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KWrH!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_424, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89a41fb9-c397-45f6-b46d-98171e3bd423_299x168.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KWrH!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_848, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89a41fb9-c397-45f6-b46d-98171e3bd423_299x168.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KWrH!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89a41fb9-c397-45f6-b46d-98171e3bd423_299x168.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KWrH!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89a41fb9-c397-45f6-b46d-98171e3bd423_299x168.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KWrH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89a41fb9-c397-45f6-b46d-98171e3bd423_299x168.jpeg" width="299" height="168" 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/__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89a41fb9-c397-45f6-b46d-98171e3bd423_299x168.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KWrH!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89a41fb9-c397-45f6-b46d-98171e3bd423_299x168.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>.<em><strong>Trump Takes America&#8217;s &#8216;Imperial Presidency&#8217; to a New Level </strong></em>https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/us/politics/trump-imperial-presidency.html</p><p>In his first year back in the White House, President Trump has greatly expanded executive power while embracing the trappings of royalty in ways not seen in the &#8230;</p><p>&#8220;&#8230;it all speaks to a personal aggrandizement and accumulation of power with meager resistance from Congress or the Supreme Court.&#8217;</p><p>Presidents have been pushing the boundaries of power going back to the early days of the republic, most aggressively during wartime&#8230;</p><p>Russell Riley, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia&#8217;s Miller Center, acknowledged the nation&#8217;s long history of expanding presidential authority&#8230;&#8221;</p><p>Gutless Peter Baker wrote this on the formerly august New York Times, is this analysis or supine acquiescence? And this fallacious crap, loaded with misleading references to a past that IS NOT PROLOGUE TO THE GOP TREASONOUS FASCIST COUP which began on J6th -- makes Baker empirically complicit in the SILENCE THAT BREEDS FASCISM &amp; PREJUDICE.</p><p>Learn more: <a href="/__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/silence-breeds-fascism-and-prejudice">https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/silence-breeds-fascism-and-prejudice</a></p><p>And, &#8220;it all speaks to&#8221; ENDEMIC GOP TREASON. And this has nothing to do with &#8220;the nations long history of expanding presidential authority.&#8221;</p><p><em><strong>Trump Takes America&#8217;s &#8216;Imperial Presidency&#8217; to a New </strong></em><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/us/politics/trump-imperial-presidency.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/us/politics/trump-imperial-presidency.html</a></p><p>In his first year back in the White House, President Trump has greatly expanded executive power while embracing the trappings of royalty in ways not seen in the &#8230;</p><p>&#8220;&#8230;it all speaks to a personal aggrandizement and accumulation of power with meager resistance from Congress or the Supreme Court.&#8217;</p><p>Presidents have been pushing the boundaries of power going back to the early days of the republic, most aggressively during wartime&#8230;</p><p>Russell Riley, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia&#8217;s Miller Center, acknowledged the nation&#8217;s long history of expanding presidential authority&#8230;&#8221;</p><p>Gutless Peter Baker wrote this asinine &#8220;analysis&#8221; on the formerly august New York Times - is this analysis or mute supine acquiescence? And, this fallacious crap, loaded with misleading references to a past that IS NOT PROLOGUE TO THE GOP TREASONOUS FASCIST COUP which began on J6th -- makes Baker empirically complicit in the SILENCE THAT BREEDS FASCISM &amp; PREJUDICE.  [See, Hitler&#8217;s rise to power]</p><p>Learn more: <a href="/__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/silence-breeds-fascism-and-prejudice">https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/silence-breeds-fascism-and-prejudice</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[CRYPTO IS FRAUDO]]></title><description><![CDATA[Place Your Bets in Crypto Money Laundering Casinos With the Substance of Ponzi Schemes]]></description><link>https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/crypto-is-fraudo</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/crypto-is-fraudo</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. Henry Schoenberger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:13:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pBUE!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F142918a9-e0e3-4d02-bf42-0221c6c0b1f0_128x128.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cci-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f7f4f23-a085-42fd-babc-28e28c5d2ebf_170x82.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset image2-full-screen"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cci-!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_424, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, 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/__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f7f4f23-a085-42fd-babc-28e28c5d2ebf_170x82.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cci-!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f7f4f23-a085-42fd-babc-28e28c5d2ebf_170x82.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cci-!,w_5760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f7f4f23-a085-42fd-babc-28e28c5d2ebf_170x82.jpeg" 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/__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f7f4f23-a085-42fd-babc-28e28c5d2ebf_170x82.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cci-!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_848, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f7f4f23-a085-42fd-babc-28e28c5d2ebf_170x82.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cci-!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f7f4f23-a085-42fd-babc-28e28c5d2ebf_170x82.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cci-!, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f7f4f23-a085-42fd-babc-28e28c5d2ebf_170x82.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>E. Henry Schoenberger </strong>Shaker Hts. Ohio Dec. 17</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/technology/trump-crypto-unleashed.html#permid=147364511">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/technology/trump-crypto-unleashed.html#permid=147364511</a></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The 5th Estate is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Beanie babies had more substance. The &#8220;Crypto industry&#8221; is nothing but money laundries that clean &#8220;digital assets&#8221; (long block chains, how nuts does this sound) so they can be turned into bankable $$$ to avoid being labeled money laundering. And this is great for banks that love deposits, especially big ones that do not have to be reported to the Feds as money laundering. The SEC had significant rules with the force of law to have nipped this in the bud, but historically it has exhibited amazing tolerance toward establishment investment bankers who are former colleagues and friends. It is the apotheosis of greed, and the zenith of Ponzi schemes.</p><p><strong>Doesn&#8217;t the following sound like flaming BULL SHIT?</strong></p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/crypto-is-fraudo?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading The 5th Estate! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/crypto-is-fraudo?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/crypto-is-fraudo?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><p><strong>&#8220;What is Bitcoin?</strong></p><p>Bitcoin is the most well-known digital currency <strong>created in January 2009, after the concept was published in a white paper by the mysterious and pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. </strong>Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies at large are touted to lower transaction fees when compared to traditional online payment methods, and unlike traditional government-issued currencies, it is operated by a decentralized authority. <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/cryptocurrency-4427699#:~:text=What%20is%20Bitcoin%3F">https://www.investopedia.com/cryptocurrency-4427699#:~:text=What%20is%20Bitcoin%3F</a> </p><p>Schwab is among the plethora of firms pushing Crypto, this is from Schwab:</p><p>&#8220;CRYPTOCURRENCY INVESTING: Explore the world of crypto with confidence.</p><p>Access spot bitcoin funds, spot ether funds, and other select crypto-linked products with no account minimum and no transaction fees1&#8212;all from a brand you know.</p><p>Tap into the blockchain trend with Schwab Investing Themes&#8203;<sup>&#8482;</sup>.</p><p>Choose from 40+ themes, each with up to 25 stocks, including Blockchain, which focuses on the developers and adopters of distributed ledger technology like cryptocurrencies. Explore the Blockchain theme and more, like Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, on our innovative platform. Trading minimum of $250 applies.&#8221;</p><p>From 5 decades inside the securities business, licensed at the level of a principal regulatory officer, and formerly appointed by the SEC to its Board of Broker Dealers to submit all proposed rule changes to for comment --- the SEC has been MIA from the beginning of Bitcoin is 2009.</p><p><strong>Section 10(b)</strong> (codified in<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/78j"> 15 U.S.C. &#167; 78j</a>) is the primary anti-fraud statutory provision. The SEC primarily enforced this anti-fraud provision under<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/rule_10b-5"> Rule 10b-5</a>, which <strong>prohibits the use of any &#8220;device, scheme, or artifice to defraud.&#8221; </strong>Rule 10b-5 also imposes liability for any misstatement or omission of a material fact, or one that investors would think was important to their decision to buy or sell a security.</p><p>Schwab is not the only investment firm recommending the wild risk as well as overlooking the total lack of fundamental value by investing solely in vectors. And the money betting on Crypto or Bitcoin vectors provides the funds for a liquid back door out of Bitcoin which has the unmistakable acrid stench of money laundering. Putin&#8217;s Puppet and his favorite Domestic Enemy Cabal members are mining money from Crypto.</p><p>There is no factual way to argue that Crypto is not Fraud. And the SEC as well as the NASDAQ have regulations with the force of law behind them which makes this unlawful &#8211; but why kill a goose that is the ultimate grift.</p><p>CRYPTO MARKETS ARE GLOBAL MONEY LAUNDRIES</p><p>E. Henry Schoenberger Shaker Hts. Ohio3h ago <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/world/asia/cambodia-money-laundering-huione.html#permid=140820030">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/world/asia/cambodia-money-laundering-huione.html#permid=140820030</a></p><p>There is no reason to go to Cambodia to expose fraud aimed at the hopelessly naive that bite on manifestly apparent scams - when the real money launderers are the crypto markets turning &#8220;block chains&#8221; into bankable US dollars - bitcoins from drug lords, dictators, global thugs &amp; tax evaders.</p><p>Where does the cash come from to exchange bitcoins into real cash - from gamblers betting on the vectors of bitcoins who speculate with after tax cash to buy bitcoins from the drug lords, dictators...etc., who can&#8217;t bank nefarious funds until they are scrubbed clean in crypto markets.</p><p>Think critically about why grifters like the Russian Asset and sociopathically greedy billionaires are behind crypto markets that have no foundational value that exist to turn illicit cash into blockchains (&#8221;mined&#8221; by trusted miners) to sell/cleanse in crypto markets/laundry casinos.</p><p>As the former owner of an NASD Broker Dealer who the SEC appointed to its Committee of Broker Dealers to submit proposed rule changes to for comment, I know substance is supposed to control form, but in the case of crypto markets the SEC allows form to control - which is wrong. And bitcoin/crypto is larger to the Nth than transparent scams contrived in Cambodia to fleece the hopelessly naive.</p><p>Reply 116 Recommend Share</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The 5th Estate is a reader-supported publication. 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Henry Schoenberger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 20:41:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5a1ddfd9-0bfa-4693-94d7-12709bd4cf75_300x168.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/trump-ishas-been-vlads-stocking-horse?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading The 5th Estate! 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To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>&#8220;In everything we do, we are putting America First,&#8221; Mr. Trump wrote in a foreword to the document, which he called a &#8220;road map to ensure that America remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history.&#8221;&#8230; [&#8220;America First&#8221; &#8211; straight from the KKK&#8217;s slogan.]</p><p>&#8220;We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf">33-page document</a> says&#8230;</p><p>The document accuses the European Union and other &#8216;transnational bodies&#8217; of undermining liberty and sovereignty, censoring free speech and trampling on basic principles of democracy to suppress political opposition.&#8221; [More Double Speak]</p><p><strong>In Orwellian, Double Speak is OPPOSITE SPEAK: war is peace, lies are truth, Trump is a Patriot and Republicans protect the Public Good.</strong></p><p><strong>Putin&#8217;s Puppet&#8217;s history of attempting to quash NATO during his first Presidency:</strong></p><p>&#183; <strong>The making of a Russian Asset: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/23/wilbur-ross-russian-deal-bank-of-cyprus-donald-trump-commerce-secretary">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/23/wilbur-ross-russian-deal-bank-of-cyprus-donald-trump-commerce-secretary</a> :</strong></p><p><strong>Wilbur Ross.compromised Trump with Putin&#8217;s crime family&#8217;s Bank of Cyprus: .. </strong>&#8220;&#8230;Ross, a billionaire investor who made his fortune turning around bankrupt companies, led a 2014 rescue of the Bank of Cyprus. He became the vice chairman of the bank&#8217;s board of directors. He still held an 18 percent share in the bank when he was nominated by Trump, <a href="https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article121981259.html">according to the McClatchy news agency</a>, whose reporting was cited in the Senate Democrats&#8217; letter&#8230;.Booker, who signed the first letter, <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/340204494/2-24-17-Letter-to-Wilbur-Ross-on-Russian-Ties-FINAL-SIGNED">asked for additional details</a> about Ross&#8217; history with the bank and his travels to Cyprus and Russia. &#8216;The list of Russian businessmen elite with ties to both President Putin and the Bank of Cyprus is startling,&#8221; Booker wrote.&#8217; &#8230;Booker homed in on two additional connections. <a href="https://rollcall.com/2017/02/27/last-of-trump-nominees-with-russian-ties-set-to-sail-through-confirmation/">Dmitry Rybolovlev</a>, a Russian billionaire and &#8220;significant co-investor&#8221; in the bank, bought a Palm Beach house from Trump in 2008 for $95 million&#8230;&#8221;</p><p>&#183; <strong>NATO:</strong></p><p><strong>London</strong> (<strong>CNN</strong>) &#8212; &#8220;At the outset of <strong>NATO&#8217;</strong>s 70th anniversary meeting, which was meant to promote the unity of the alliance, no one doubted President Donald Trump&#8217;s ability to disrupt, and he didn&#8217;t disappoint, taking his tactics to a new level. &#8230; Trump laid into two leaders who theoretically should be among the US&#8217;s closest allies, dissing French President Emmanuel Macron by calling his comments about NATO experiencing &#8220;brain death&#8221; &#8220;very insulting&#8221; and confronting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by demanding he say how much Canada spends on defense and calling him &#8220;two-faced.&#8221;</p><p><strong>The Guardian, Dec 2, 2019</strong> &#8211; <strong>Trump Re-election Could Sound Death Knoll for NATO: </strong>&#8230; he has cast doubt on US commitment to its obligations under article 5 of <strong>Nato&#8217;s</strong> founding document, the Washington Treaty, under which an ...</p><p><strong>Washington Post:.</strong> <strong>Dec 4, 2019</strong> - <strong>NATO </strong>is on life support &#8212; and Trump&#8217;s the one who put it there.</p><p><strong>NATO&#8217;s mission</strong> is to protect the freedom of its members. Its targets include weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and cyber-attacks. THIS MEANS PROTECT AGAINST RUSSIA.</p><p><strong>TRUMP TRIED TO DESTROY NATO FOR PUTIN: On 1 April 2014, NATO unanimously decided to suspend co-operation with the Russian Federation, in response to the </strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_crisis">Ukraine crisis</a></p><p>&#183; <strong>Congressional GOPs support the Russian Asset, because they have been rented by Russians, ie., Traitors bribed to be in complicit support &#8211; the tip of the Cabal&#8217;s iceberg:</strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/03/gop-campaigns-took-7-35-million-from-oligarch-linked-to-russia/">https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/03/gop-campaigns-took-7-35-million-from-oligarch-linked-to-russia/</a> GOP campaigns took $7.35 million from oligarch linked to Russia: </strong>Donald Trump and the political action committees for Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, Lindsey Graham, John Kasich&#8230; accepted $7.35 million in contributions from a Ukrainian-born oligarch who is the business partner of two of Russian president Vladimir Putin&#8217;s favorite oligarchs and a Russian government ban..(<em> Editor&#8217;s note: Ruth May wrote this column in August 2017. <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/12/15/putins-proxies-helped-funnel-millions-gop-campaigns">Click here for an extensive update</a></em>)</p><p>Where are the right NY Time&#8217;s headlines and articles?</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The 5th Estate is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[GUTLESS NY TIMES “REPORTING” ON GUTLESS DEMS & SOCIOPATHIC GOP DOMESTIC ENEMIES' SHUTDOWN]]></title><description><![CDATA[Takeaway this: Americans will die, GOP promises akin the Hitler&#8217;s treaty with Chamberlain. and this is not GOP v Dems, but GOP v Democracy]]></description><link>https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/gutless-ny-times-reporting-on-gutless</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/gutless-ny-times-reporting-on-gutless</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. Henry Schoenberger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 21:58:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f88cef98-19ec-4b4a-9865-9490b25d9251_540x281.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The 5th Estate is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/gutless-ny-times-reporting-on-gutless/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/ehenryschoenberger.substack.com/p/gutless-ny-times-reporting-on-gutless/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p>Two controlling issue takeaways: These Senators are not Washington, Lincoln or Ike. What if Washington was so worried about casualties he lost sight of the objective, or if Lincoln let the South succeed, or if Ike had avoided confronting Nazi&#8217;s on D-Day --- or what if Americans had the lack of Dems balls to tell Washington, Lincoln or Ike to shove it? So the shutdown accomplished nothing &#8211; and the Domestic Enemy Party (DEP) continues to have its way with the feckless Dems who do not get this is war for the &#8220;soul of America&#8221; as Biden correctly noted, and pressure from Citizens on the Dems caused them to lose sight of the goal &#8211; to stop the Fascist DEP Traitors from destroying health insurance depended on by more than 20M Americans!</p><p>The New York Times, does not have either the guts or intent to properly inform Americans, this is not merely a historically long shutdown, but the act of Sociopathic Domestic Enemies intent on destroying all social welfare of beneficial interest to the public good.  Think about how often GOPs have tried to destroy ACA, and now Democracy.</p><p><em><strong>Six Takeaways From the Senate Deal to End the Shutdown </strong></em><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/us/politics/takeaways-senate-democrats-shutdown.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/us/politics/takeaways-senate-democrats-shutdown.html</a>   </p><p>Excerpts: </p><p>&#8220;&#8230;The group of moderate senators who broke from their party said they could no longer hold out on a deal while Americans suffered the consequences of a shuttered government. And they cited a commitment from Senator John Thune of South Dakota, the Republican leader, that they would at least receive a vote on the tax credits sometime in December&#8230;</p><p>(The Senate deal to end the government shutdown would extend funding through January and promise Democrats a <strong>vote</strong> on <strong>health care</strong>. CBS)</p><p>&#8220;This bill is not perfect, but it takes important steps to reduce their shutdown&#8217;s hurt,&#8221; Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat, said in a statement explaining why he backed the deal&#8230;</p><p><strong>(Durban&#8217;s excuse for no balls, which is clear from his record)</strong></p><p>Since Republicans passed a domestic policy package earlier this year that included steep Medicaid cuts, Democrats have focused their attacks against Republicans on the issue of health care, particularly as they eye the midterm elections next year&#8230;&#8221;</p><p>This is not about Democrats attacking Republicans, but about Republicans attacking Democracy and the public good, which shows empirically the GOP has become the DEP, the Domestic Enemy Party. And the writer of this article for the Times focuses on mid terms (fucking seriously?) v Democrats are the only party DEFENDING THE PUBLIC GOOD.</p><p>The Oath taken by all members of the Military (and members of Congress) makes it clear what must be done to stop Putin&#8217;s Puppet and his Congressional Cabal of Domestic Enemies:</p><p><strong>U.S. Department of Defense (.gov)</strong> <strong>https://www.defense.gov &#8250; News-Stories &#8250; Article &#8250; Article</strong></p><p>In an unprecedented message the members of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff told service members that the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol was an attack on the Constitutional process of the nation&#8230; the chiefs wrote&#8230; &#8216;Any act to disrupt the constitutional process is not only against our traditions, values and oath, it is against the law.&#8217;&#8221; (1/13/21)</p><p>&#183; War Room - U.S. Army War College</p><p>https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu &#8250; articles &#8250; oath-of-...</p><p>Jan 7, 2022 &#8212; &#8220;I <strong>will</strong> support and <strong>defend the Constitution</strong> of the United States against all enemies, foreign and <strong>domestic</strong>.&#8221; Words spoken by every <strong>military</strong> <strong>...</strong></p><p>I took this Oath to attend USNOCS on 19/Sept/64. It is self-evident the Oath authorizes the military to act in defense of domestic enemies! This Oath supersedes the orders of any domestic enemy, including a President who is a self-evident Domestic Enemy warring against the U.S. Constitution.</p><p>When will it be acknowledged and reported by prominent news sources the GOP is the DEP &#8211; and the DEP, led Putin&#8217;s Puppet &#8211; are conducting war against the Constitution, Democracy and the Public Good. The bottom line: Sociopathic GOP Domestic Enemies are Traitors levying war against them&#8221; - the USA.  And this is crystal clear from USC ART. III, SEC 3. &#8220;Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.&#8221;</p><p>Thomas Jefferson said: &#8220;the role of government is to protect the public good.&#8221; Putin&#8217;s Puppet and his GOP Domestic Enemy Cabal are tearing it down.</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>