The elites, the rich and special interests gamed our democracy and political institutions to make it work for them. Now we must game it to transfer power back to We the People.

Congress and Government (Fedzilla) are Broken. The American People are FED UP and ANGRY, and they have every right to be because the American people have been deluded into believing that We the People elect the government to represent our interests. The government that lords over us is in fact a totalitarian liberty slashing sledgehammer. Republicans and Democrats are the same and Americans are waking up to the stone cold reality that the R and D Uniparty is the great delusion forced upon us.

I will start with what primaries and elections are supposed to be because this issue is the root cause of why We the People are politically POWERLESS.

If primaries and elections are supposed to be a We the People thing to nominate and elect public officials, then only We the People money should be funding them and certainly not the Military Industrial Complex, Wall Street, Big Bad Tech, Israel, AIPAC, Big Pharm, Big Food, Big Ag and the Big National Security State etc.

In America, election outcomes are 100% controlled by donor money aka special interest money. The DNC and RNC machines are nothing but legalized money laundering operations that collect the special interest money from corporations and the rich; the money is doled out to the candidates the establishment Uniparty hand pick to impose a specific legislative agenda.

BOOM, that’s it. It’s how America defines elections, voting and democracy.

Politics is always messy, ideologically complicated and getting folks to agree on a basket of idea is difficult and very challenging because folks really do have their defining issues. BUT, I believe that with some common sense and practical but doable strategies that we can maneuver around these landmines so long as our only goal right now is to DEFEAT THE REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRAT UNIPARTY.

America used to be the envy of the world…a peaceful nation where free people could work hard and prosper. We are no longer that shining city on a hill. We’ve transitioned from Pax Americana to Pox Americana dedicated to endless wars of empire. Of course everybody knows this but everbody also has their own reasons why America is now a nasty failed nation approaching bankruptcy, dollar destruction, monetary collapse, economic collapse and totalitarian tyranny.

On one side we have the communists and socialists who demand that all wealth be seized and redistributed according to their vision of who gets what. This is based on the Communist mantra of “From each according to his abilities, and to each according to their needs”. Of course, only slaves are subjected to such nonsense because they get precisely what their masters allow them to have which ain’t much!!

On the other side, we have the folks believing that capitalism as is currently practiced in America is the path back to a Pax and Prosperous Americana. This is a big fat lie because America is NOT a capitalist country and hasn’t been for a very long time. America is a corporatist nation controlled by crony capitalists, fascists and oligarchs. They just masquerade as legitimate capitalists. I had previously blogged about the failures of communism/socialism while addressing how true capitalism, which once delivered an abundance of prosperity, transitioned to corporatism and crony capitalism.

What Exactly is Capitalism and Why Does Capitalism Work While Socialism, Communism and Statism Fail? It’s a valid question. There is nothing wrong with wanting broad prosperity for everybody and an end to human suffering.

The focus of this post is not to sell capitalism or socialism or communism but to merely state that any moral economic system must deliver prosperity across a broad spectrum of the population from producers to consumers, to workers and families. These are legitimate issues that must be debated. However, we can’t get to that debate because the current political system won’t allow it. Debate is healthy and necessary even if it’s emotional, rancorous and intense, as it should be. Healthy debate is how we arrive at reasonably sane decisions that promote peace, liberty and prosperity. DECISIONS must benefit EVERYBODY except warmongers, control freaks, fascists, oligarchs, corporatists and totalitarian thugs. America needs to be FAIR and FREE.

There is only one basic political platform that will start restoring We the People power and it involves getting the communists, socialists, Libertarians, capitalists and folks of all political stripes to coalesce around one starting point: firing the Republican and Democrat Uniparty. Accordingly, we must postpone those issues that we disagree on and focus on the super critical issues that we do agree on.

We need to make America work again and work for EVERYBODY. I understand that folks are focused on their issues. For some its abortion or the environment or healthcare or education or crime or big pharm or big food and YES the basket of issues is huge but that doesn't mean that we can't agree on some core principles to advance a platform that will appeal to many as a solid starting point on what needs to be achieved to restore power to the people along with accountability and transparency for the public sector.

Restoring We the People Power to America starts with demolishing and outlawing the very things that facilitated the concentration of raw and absolute power in DC. The RNC, DNC, Republicans and Democrats are masters at maintaining power. It’s time we learn how they do it and what needs to change.

1. We Scream CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM, CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM AND CAMPAIGN FINACE NON STOP 24-7

Campaign finance reform is an issue that everybody ignores. In fact, I’d rank it as the #1 most important thing in restoring We the People power simply because it literally controls most political money. Americans like to believe that We the People have primaries and elections to nominate and elect our public officials. That’s not how the system works. Under the monopolistic RNC and DNC fundraising machines, We the People have been marginalized because our political system has been hijacked by the donor class (corporations and rich individuals) and special interests. Does it matter that these rogue interests are the Military Industrial Complex (MIC), AIPAC, Israel, Big Pharm, Big Food, Big Ag, Big National Security State etc. They all must be banned from buying political power at the expense of We the People. Big special interest money crushes We the People, as intended.

Campaign finance is legally complicated. In fact, its so complicated that there are lawyers who specialize in it. There are a ton of ways for special interests to legally feed the R and D money laundering operations...soft money, hard money, dark money, dirty money, clean money and other types of money. Political power is ALWAYS about MONEY; nothing matters except the money because it’s the money that buys POWER. It’s power and money that fuels and feeds the District of Crime aka DC. The simple truth is that fundraising is a well organized money laundering operation.

What if American primaries and elections were only funded by citizens who vote? We’d have a radically different political landscape and We the People would be a whole lot more engaged.

2. BALLOT ACCESS

Along with Campaign Finance Reform, there are other related issues that destroy We the People Power.

The dastardly, tyrannical, destroyers of election competition have been very successful in denying BALLOT ACCESS to competitors. The state R and D parties are always filing lawsuits to banish any election competition. This is clearly an egregious abuse of power but they get away with it because Republicans and Democrats seem to own the judges at the state level that rule on the issue.

Without REAL election competition, We the People stand no chance of ever having fair, free and legitimate elections and certainly not when the RNC and DNC rig ballot access laws to shut out competion.

3. Foreign Policy: Make Foreign Policy Work for We the People and not Defense Contractor Profits

Nothing eats up taxdollars more than foreign policy which is at least $1.5 trillion a year and rapidly climbing. What is even more repulsive is that America has clearly transitioned to a miserable, ruthless empire that murders folks all over planet earth for defense contractor profits. However, US foreign policy is far more sinister than the horror of murdering folks for defense contractor profits, we also murder so we can steal natural resources for the donor class that controls corporatist America.

There is NOTHING about US foreign policy that benefits the American people. In fact it hurts us badly. It creates inflation, it has deployed precious resources to a multi decade global killing spree, it has sacrificed our human treasure on the alter of empire and the empire destroys civil liberties and prosperity at home. What America does to folks in foreign countries is Crimes Against Humanity.

Before a war ends, the next war has already been planned by think tanks that are primarily funded by defense contractors. America’s evil foreign policy machine has a lot of moving parts but the top 3 are Israel, Foreign Aid and Sanctions/Tariffs.

Israel

The GOP controlled House of Representatives recently passed a bill integrating the militaries and intel of the US and Israel; this should not even be legal or constitutional because it constitutes a total sellout of US sovereign to a foreign nation. It’s definitely TREASON! This was done deliberate by Jewish and Christian Zionists. With a majority of Americans opposing Israel’s well documented genocide, ethnic cleansings, land thefts and crimes against humanity in Gaza, Lebanon and the West Bank, funding for Israel was becoming an issue. To permanently remove that issue and guarantee that Israel and its crimes will forever be funded, the Republicans and Israel concocted a hideously vile scheme to REMOVE any funding of Israel from Congress and public debate. It will be guaranteed in the annual NDAA, the National Defense Authorization Act, a monster of an annual bill that funds our war machine. Even more repulsive is that the Zionist sociopath Speaker Mike Johnson banned all debate on the bill which of course is a monstruous abuse of power because the function of any legislative body is to DEBATE the issues before them BEFORE they vote on them. Johnson destroyed that basic function of Congress.

Disclosure: I 100% oppose Jewish and Christian Zionism because it’s clearly pure concentrated evil. America’s Dispensationalists and Warvangelicals totally support subservience to Israel, its crimes and the Greater Israel project that calls for liquidating all human beings in the geographic areas claimed by Israel and anybody who opposes Israel’s agenda of genocide. The Greater Israel Project:

As a Libertarian leaning antiwar and human rights activist, this is EVIL and it’s being done in the name of Christianity and Judaism. Let me be clear, many Christians are NOT Zionists and many American Jews are not Zionists. Zionism is a DISEASE and a deadly cancer.

America desperate needs a divorce from Israel and the Republicans are so fanatically tied to Zionism that they’d rather lose elections than honor the will of the American people.

I do not hide my utter contempt for Israel because I’ve seen too many horrifying photos and videos of dead Palestinians, children without legs and arms, bombed out cities and communities, Israelis sitting on hills celebrating the bombings of Gaza and blowing up human beings. They admit that THERE WILL BE NO PALESTINIANS IN GAZA. What Israel is doing in Gaza they plan to do in many more places. Why do they do such things? They literally believe they are God’s Chosen People and that God has empowered them to liquidate any and all human beings they don’t like or perceive as an enemy of Israel. I’ve blogged about these Christian and Jewish Zionists who are really nothing but murderous savages.

HUMAN BEINGS DON’T DO TO OTHER HUMAN BEINGS WHAT ISRAEL AND ZIONISTS ARE DOING TO THE PALESTINIANS.

Christian and Jewish Zionists use the Old Testament to Justify genocide and ethnic cleansing. They believe that murdering people was in fact commanded by God in the Old Testament.

FALL FROM GRACE. America’s religious right is in a state of hypocrisy, moral confusion and theological conflict over Christian Zionism as the GOP’s religious right voting base fractures.

The human organ trade of Israel and Ukraine is real and requires an investigation.

Yes, Israel is a biggie for a ton of very valid reasons but we have other foreign policy issues that are also important because they promote wars and tyranny at home and abroad.

Foreign Aid is another related issue that must be addressed because most foreign aid is a defense contractor subsidy. Let me be clear: America doesn’t aid anybody except defense contractors and related industries. Therefore, all foreign aid needs to be suspended. Moreover, it’s been well documented that foreign aid doled out by the State Department and Pentagon props up tyrants and dictators, and mostly in situations where US corporations want to get its hands on a nation’s natural resources at a dirt cheap price. America also bribes corrupt leaders of foreign nations to allow military bases on their soil. The US military empire must be dismantled along with all the 800 or so military bases stretched around the world.

Sanctions are another evil component of US foreign policy. We sanction everybody who doesn’t bow down and lick our boots. Sanctions always hurt innocent civilians by denying them things critical for survival like food and medicine. Former Secretary of State Madelaine Albright bragged on 60 Minutes with Leslie Stahl that killing half a million Iraqi children and babies was worth it. In what universe is killing children and babies in the name of foreign policy worth it? Well maybe if you are raging power mad psychopath.

BOTTOM LINE ON MAJOR FOREIGN POLICY issues and a summary.

Make foreign policy work for the American people and definitely not defense contractors and Israel.

End endless wars

Defund Israel

End all foreign aid

End all sanctions because they are an act of war that results in profound human suffering of civilian populations.

4. TERM LIMITS

The issue of term limits go hand in hand with with Campaign Finance Reform, Ballot Access and Foreign Policy. For starters, our founders NEVER intended for a permanent political class to be birthed from the Republic they created. Public service was viewed a civic duty….you served and went back home as a private citizen. Fedzilla has grown into a voracious elected bureaucratic monster with lifetime employment. Because of ballot access laws and RNC/DNC treachery that rigs elections to deny election competition, incumbents are very rarely voted out of office. The longer they stay, the more powerful they become as tethered monuments of corporate donors.

Old politicians are definitely becoming an issue. When Senator Diane Feinstein passed at the age of 90 in 2023, she really wasn’t there…hadn’t been coherent for several years. That didn’t stop her Democratic Party caregivers from wheeling her wheelchair to the Senate floor to vote hours before she was finally declared dead. It’s clear that Joe Biden was suffering from dementia and didn’t know where he was most of the time, couldn’t even read the teleprompter, babbled incoherently and frequently with angry outbursts. Anger is a typical symptom of dementia because the patient understands on some level that they can no longer function and so they lash out in frustration. Which brings us to Donald Trump, a man who is clearly deranged, unfit to serve and is stricken with serious competency issues besides his typical megalomania and malignant narcissism. The murderous monster seems determine to nuke Iran and anybody else included in his insane social media rants. And then there is the 84 year old Mitch McConnell who some believe died on 6/14 when the 911 call reported him as non-responsive. McConnell has been unfit to serve for years (falls, confusion etc.) and needs to be replaced now and should have been replace years ago.

Term limits would solve a ton of problems, breath new life into our legislative decay and end the never ending parade of senile geriatrics who REFUSE to resign or retire.

Back in 2017, a Washington, DC pharmacy sounded a very LOUD alarm when it disclosed that it delivered dementia and Alzheimer’s drugs to members of Congress.

Perks for the powerful: DC’s oldest pharmacy delivers drugs to lawmakers including alzheimer’s meds!

Yes, folks take drugs for a variety of health conditions like treatment for high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer etc. However, members of Congress spend money ( the Trump 2027 budget is estimated at $8 TRILLION), they FUND wars and military interventions, they fund corporate welfare, they fund genocide and ethnic cleansing and they make laws. If these folks are mentally impaired in any way, don’t the American people have the right to know? Importantly, shouldn’t there be a procedure to retire impaired legislators and, more importantly prevent them from becoming geriatric fixtures as useless as a statue?

Term Limits BABY. Term Limits NOW.

5. IMMIGRATION AND OPEN BORDERS

Immigration is a huge problem in America. I’m not anti-immigrant but it makes no sense to import and/or allow entitlement dependent folks into America. My immigration plan is simple and will work:

Deport the entitlement dependent and criminals (some criminals are probably too dangerous to deport and need to remain in US prisons), then let’s sort through the rest as many will make great, hardworking Americans.

Hardliners on immigration who demand the deportation 5, 10, 15 million folks are clueless. Take a look around, America runs on legal and illegal migration. Many if not most come here to work and they actually work and work hard. Many are decent law abiding citizens and human beings.

Also, there is the contentious issue of the H1b Visas. Corporations claim they can’t find qualified American born talent and can only find what they need in foreign countries. Many Americans claims they have been fired and replaced with foreign workers. There is a truth somewhere so let’s find it.

America needs sane immigration policies and not open borders or invasions of hoards of welfare dependent folks. Immigration must work for America and the American people, and certainly not the cheap labor lobby (Republicans) or the cheap votes lobby (Democrats).

6. Winner Take All

Winner Take All (WTA) is one of those things that folks aren’t even aware of but they should be because it’s super critical to Republican and Democrat control; WTA vastly strengthens the two party monopoly by effectively rendering third party candidates irrelevant. Winner Take All is used in primaries and general elections. Only 2 states, Nebraska and Maine, apportion the electoral vote (presidential elections).

A group called Second-Rate Democracy addresses this issue.

Winner-Take-All Elections: A Formula for Unfair Representation

Most Americans are unaware that the way we vote – how we cast our ballots and choose our winners – is inferior to the voting systems used by most other major democracies. We continue to use a voting system invented several hundred years ago, while other countries take advantage of newer, fairer, and more democratic systems. Our antiquated system of winner-take-all voting is a major reason our legislatures are not truly representative and also why they pass legislation that often mis-represents the public will. Winner-take-all voting is also a significant cause of a number of other serious political problems discussed on this website: it encourages gerrymandering, helps maintain the two-party monopoly, and discourages voter turnout. If the U.S. were to adopt a more modern voting system, like proportional representation, this would go a long way toward eliminating these problems and making our government more democratic and more responsive to the public."

Voter turnout in America is becoming a huge problem. About 90 million Americans don’t even bother to vote in presidential elections which have higher turnouts than midterms and local elections. Why? Because they know their votes don’t matter. Also, gerrymandering is another huge problem that absolutely does constitute an egregious abuse of power by the Republicans and Democrats.

Consider this: all nine members of the Massachusetts delegation to the U.S. House are Democrats, even though more than one-third of Massachusetts voters cast their ballots for the Republican candidates.

Both political parties gerrymander and gerrymandering is just another scheme for the dominant ruling party to impose controls that guarantee they will be in power for as long as they can squash the competition and fair elections.

All these problems of gerrymandering, low turnout and representation need to be addressed because they are serious problems that do in fact nullify We the People Power.

Bottom line: Winner Take All effectively shuts out election competition. Proportional representation energizes election competition resulting in more vibrant and participatory voting. These issues will need to be addressed and debated at the federal, state and local levels.

FINALLY

For America to survive as a free and prosperous nation, MIC power must be destroyed, the endless wars must end, Israel must be defunded and all decisions involving the use of the military force including foreign interventions, must be approved by Congress with a RECORDED vote. Congress Critters love voice votes because they get to claim I DIDN’T VOTE FOR THAT. Recorded votes makes them accountable!

Yes, I’m only covering 6 issues here but they are just the start. It’s where We the People BEGIN to take back our power. Once We the People seize the power that is rightfully ours than the hard work of debating the REAL issues begins, issues like healthcare, education, the environmental, energy, foreign policy, immigration and well, that list goes on and on. Yes, it will be contentious, adversarial and tempers will flare but that’s how democracies are supposed to work. Open debate is healthy, backroom deals are dirty and sinister.

It’s like a baseball game. We can’t score until we get past bases 1, 2 and 3. Right now the left, right, Libertarians, progressives, conservatives, independents etc. campaign on their issue but they NEVER get to first base. This is guaranteed by the rigged Republican and Democrat Uniparty system.

And we can’t get to first base until we dethrone the policical class of their raw and absolute power. To summarize, 6 critical changes are needed to invigorate voters and raise our dead, failed democracy from the grave:

1. Campaign Finance Reform because so long as corporations, special interests and other foreign nations control most or all campaign money, We the People are POWERLESS.

2. Ballot access because election competition weakens the RNC and DNC election monopoly.

3. Foreign Policy because the rich really do make a ton of money off of wars, death and destruction, and at our expense.

4. Term Limits because term limits are common sense because they restrict the ability of an entitled and entrenched political class to maintain power.

5. Immigration because open borders will destroy the sovereign nation state just as easily and quickly as bad foreign policy.

6. Winner Take All because it guarantees political monopoly.

To conclude, this is where I want to start because until we start fixing the rot, filth, decay and corruption that has infested our election system and democracy, we’re DONE and the Uniparty wins. Of course I welcome the ideas and suggestions of We the People.

We can do this, we really can!

There is definitely a crisis of faith among America’s Christians. The fissures are so deep that Christians are even questioning their own faith, especially among Evangelicals.

Before diving into this topic, I want to clarify a few critically important issues:

1. I do not HATE or CONDEMN all Christians because of Christian Zionism; many Christians reject it and condemn it.

2. I do not HATE or CONDEMN all Muslims because of 911. I choose NOT to hate Islam and believe that Christians, Muslims, Jews and people of other faiths need to learn to respect each other and live in peace.

3. I do not HATE or CONDEMN all Jews because of Jewish Zionism. Many Jews are not Zionists and many Jews have been condemning Israel’s crimes for years.

I also want to scream IT’S NOT ANTISEMITISM TO OPPOSE GENOCIDE AND ETHNIC CLEANSING. In fact, it’s our duty as human beings to vigorously oppose evil and YES I am sick of the Zionists accusing human rights activists and real journalists of antisemitism.

With that out of the way, let’s begin.

As an antiwar activist and an advocate for peace among the world’s religions, I find it heartbreaking that many of America’s Christians have renounced Christianity by embracing Christian Zionism. REAL Christianity and Christian Zionism are not the same religion nor are they even compatible; Christian Zionism really isn’t Christianity at all. Of course, it’s a serious situation since Christian and Jewish Zionists seem to dominate the Republican Party, Evangelical and Baptist pastors, and definitely the Trump Administration. As Donald Trump is exploding the world into what could be WW III (possibly already started) with his murderous war on Iran, a war believed to be ordered by Israel, many of America’s Christians stand with him and Israel. They are actually cheering a bloodthirsty monster who is committing genocide and loves targeting women, children and babies.

Besides cheering Trump’s insane war on Iran, many Christians have shockingly and maybe not so shockingly endorsed Israel’s genocide, ethnic cleansing, land theft, rapes, sexual abuse, deliberate starvation of the Palestinian people, denial of medical services, denial of clean water, bombing of hospitals, arrests and even murders of doctors and medical professionals, blowing up ambulances and rescue workers and other horrific crimes against humanity. These things are routine in Gaza and Lebanon and occur on a daily basis.

The pulpit has always been a place of the good, the bad, the ugly and the very ugly but Christianity has taken a very dark turn. Christian religious leaders wasted no time blaspheming God to achieve POLITICAL power, wealth and theological control. The lunatic fake Christian who is also Trump’s spiritual advisor, Paula White, is so obviously deranged she probably belongs in an institution for the criminally insane.

Like most religions, Christian flocks are easily led by frightful creatures claiming to know the will of God and the Bible, and they do it with extreme energy and emotions which of course fires up the believers as a passionate connection to God. But these believers are also drawn to Christian charlatans and purveyors of corrupted Christian theology.

62% or 160 million Americans claim to be Christian and denominations are roughly broken down as follows: Protestant 40% of Christian adults, Evangelical 23% and Catholic 19% according to Religion in US Statistics 2026.

The bigger question is: what percentage of America’s Christians are Zionists? I don’t know so I asked Grok who responded with:

”Estimates for the number of Christian Zionists in the United States typically range from about 20–50 million, with many sources citing figures around or above 30 million.”, link here.

Yes, that is a ton of voters but it’s also the heart and lungs of the GOP’s voting base; Trump got 77 million votes in 2024. The Christian Zionists are chasing other voters away from the GOP including the non-Zionist Christians, Libertarians, antiwar activists and small government advocates. The bottom line is that while the number of Christian Zionists in America is estimated to be significant, it’s still not a big enough number to win general elections. Christian Zionism will be the death of the Republican Party.

Overwhelmingly, it’s the Baptists and Evangelicals, aka Warvangelicals, who dominate political power within the Republican Party. Most but not all of these folks vigorously endorse the worship of Israel and even its crimes against the Palestinians that include genocide, ethnic cleansing and land theft to achieve the Greater Israel Project. They also support the war on Iran, a totally innocent nation that has done NOTHING to deserve being bombed. The Greater Israel Project is indeed a reality being pursued by Zionists and it absolutely requires that non Jews in areas Jews are claiming for Greater Israel be liquidated or relocated. Israel has been clear: it has ZERO intention of co-existing with non-Jews in the Middle East. Yeah, this is racism, religious fanaticism and a murderous ideology on steroids.

I used scratch my head in bewilderment trying to understand why so many Christians stand with Israel, a nation I view as the most evil, depraved and murderous nation on planet earth. Human beings do not do to other human beings what Israel, Jewish Zionists and Christian Zionist do to the Palestinian people. While the Palestinians are mostly Muslim, there are also Palestinian Christian victims of Israel.

My frustrating in trying to figure out American Christianity was significantly clarified in a Tucker Carlson interview with theologian JD Hall. Hall basically divides Christianity into two groups: Covenant Theology and Dispensationalism. Hall is clear that Dispensationalism is fake Christianity because Dispensationalism focuses on Israel while Covenant Theology (real Christianity) focuses Jesus. It’s a fascinating discussion and well worth the time.

Origins of Christian Zionism, How It Corrupted American Christianity and Why It’s Finally Collapsing

Hall also exposes the Scofield Bible, published in 1909, which is widely used by Baptists and Evangelicals. Many others who study American Christian theology are well aware of the Scofield Bible, its orgins and how it got imbedded into American Christianity. Dispensationalism and the Scofield Bible go hand in hand but the Scofield Bible also overturns nearly 2,000 of Biblical doctrine and re-writes it.

The book that turned America’s Evangelicals Zionist: The Scofield Bible

I am not a Christian theologian nor do I profess to be one. That said, I am a Roman Catholic in the context that I was raised Catholic and attended Catholic schools. Although I do not attend mass and may in fact be the worst Catholic on planet earth, I still consider myself Catholic because my connection to God, morals and values are etched in my Catholicism.

Generally, Catholics are opposed to the Zionist wars celebrated by Baptists and Evangelicals and yes, you can find a few Zionist Catholics who endorse the horrors of genocide and ethnic cleansing but they do NOT represent the views of most Catholics. The Pope is on record opposing Trump’s wars. Coincidentally, Catholic conversions are on the rise in America.

Catholic conversions rising: Inside the Catholic Church’s quiet revival

For more than two decades, the numbers told a story of decline. Adult conversions to Catholicism had been falling steadily since the early 2000s, according to data compiled by Georgetown University. Weddings, baptisms, and even funerals registered fewer and fewer Catholic participants. The church appeared to be losing its hold on American life.

Then something shifted.

Since around 2022, dioceses across the country have reported a reversal of that trend, with growing numbers of Americans — particularly Millennials and Gen Z — choosing to join the Catholic Church. This past Easter, some archdioceses recorded their highest number of new Catholics in two decades.

What I believe is happening is that Americans are increasingly disgusted with the Baptists and Warvangelicals and are rejecting Zionist Christianity and Dispensationalist theology. They long for a Christianity where you don’t have to be a homicidal genocidal maniac as a condition and stipulation of faith.

Since confession is a defining characteristic of Catholicism, I must confess:
My hands are dripping in the blood of the innocent because I voted for Trump multiple times. This is a shame and guilt that I can never shed or hide. Am I done voting Republican? You better believe it unless I can vote for Thomas Massie or Marjorie Taylor Greene or someone endorsed by them. Moreover, I can never vote for Democrats because the Republican and Democrat parties are nothing but the Zionist Uniparty of endless wars, death and devotion to Israel. The Zionist controlled Uniparty is a pox upon civilization and America that prevents Pax Americana!

On X, I have seen images and videos of what Israel is doing to the Palestinians. I want to cry and vomit at the same time because the images are so gruesome and I know that American taxdollars paid for it. Israelis especially loves targeting women and children because dead women won’t be giving birth to more Palestinians and dead children won’t grow into adulthood. As if the horrifying deaths and destruction so well documented in Gaza and Lebanon are not bad enough, the images of those who survived Israel’s bombings are gut wrenching…children without arms and legs and much worse as they suffer and starve in Gaza. It has been reported that Israeli snipers use Palestinian kids as target practice and aim for headshots, yes, the IDF is that sick and depraved.

US Doctor Reports Numerous Palestinian Children With Headshot Sniper Wounds

The inhumane terror that Israel has been inflicting on the Palestinians since 1948 is FINALLY beginning to get noticed. It’s not just that America’s Christians are starting to wake-up, the entire world is taking notice of Israel’s crimes against humanity. While the complicit Zionist controlled US media uses censorship to stop the truth, the truth can never be destroyed or silenced. It’s like the sky, look up, its there and it’s never going away.

Reproductive genocide is another critical component of the Greater Israel Project.

Israel is carrying out ‘reproductive genocide’ against Palestinians

Israel has for decades carried out a “reproductive genocide” of the Palestinian people, obliterating medical institutions, executing women and children and degrading the lived environment to such a point that it results in infertility, a new report says.

This practice, the Palestinian Feminist Collective report contends, has accelerated since Israel’s genocide in Gaza began following the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October 2023, with the intention of making it impossible for Palestinian life to continue.

Last week, the UN’s top investigative body on Palestine and Israel concluded that Israeli forces had deliberately targeted Palestinian children as a central element of their assault on Gaza.

The UN’s report examined the full scope of harm inflicted on children, from precision shootings by snipers and drones, to torture in detention, reproductive violence and the destruction of schools and hospitals.

Israel has killed more than 21,000 Palestinian children since October 2023, with a further 5,160 children estimated to be buried under rubble, according to the UN report. As of October 2024, at least 15,000 children had lost their mothers.

While all of the above discussed horrors are just a tiny fraction of the depth of the human carnage Israel continues to get away with, my own heart vacillates between anger/hate and the challenges to my own religious beliefs. As bad as I want to hate the evil people and their evil deeds, I must fight becoming one of them because it takes a ton of anger and hate to do what Jewish and Christian Zionism have unleashed upon humanity, and all in the name of a deity.

As this post winds down, I will include another post that I researched on why the Israelis are so damn murderous. Well, it turns out it’s an interpretation of their religion and theology and NOT the Jewish religion and theology of anti-Zionist Jews.

Christian and Jewish Zionists use the Old Testament to Justify genocide and ethnic cleansing. They believe that murdering people was in fact commanded by God in the Old Testament

REAL Christians must rise up against the fake Christians Zionists who solidly endorse Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing. We did this because Israel could not have done this without our bombs, warplanes and taxdollars.

Going forward, my dream as a Christian, antiwar activist and human rights activist is for the entire world to rise up against Zionism and Israel. The Israelis have zero humanity, zero compassion and zero respect for non-Jews; we are viewed a goyim scum. The Israelis sit on Israel’s hills, party and celebrate as they watch the bombs drop on Gaza. These are not human beings, they are freaking savages.

Zionism is a curse and disease.

The human organ trade is not new and has been going on for decades. Much has been written about China’s illegal organ trade and it’s well documented; it’s important to understand that the organ trade is a profitable global business but some nations including China have targeted minorities that they routinely persecute and even kill for their organs. China’s Muslim minority, the Uighurs, are victims of the organ trade.

China Making Billions By Illegal Organ Trade By Exploiting Uighurs, Claims Australian Report

A new low has been reported in China’s alleged persecution of the minority Uighur Muslims in the country's Xinjiang region. Beijing is allegedly harvesting organs of vulnerable minorities by force and later selling them on the black market
A report carried by the Australian Herald Sun says Beijing is earning a whopping $1 billion in annual sales of harvested organs. The report adds that a “healthy liver fetches around $160,000” on the black market.

It’s also true that the poor everywhere voluntarily become victims of the organ traders; they are desperate and the organ traders know they are willing to sell their body parts and organs for money. It’s also critical to understand that a lot of harvested organs are not voluntary.

Israel has been identified as the global leader in the organ trade. Obviously, it’s NOT speculation that many of the Palestinians that Israel routinely murders are indeed murdered for their organs.

Exposed: Israel’s History of Organ Harvesting and the Global Demand Driving It

A growing body of disturbing evidence is driving renewed international calls for Israel to be investigated and prosecuted for war crimes, following allegations that its military and medical institutions have engaged in the illegal harvesting and trafficking of Palestinian organs—without consent. The charges, long dismissed as conspiracy theory by mainstream media, are now backed by reports from respected human rights organizations, medical witnesses, and findings by the European Parliament itself.

Palestinians in Gaza, enduring what the UN has described as a “hell on earth,” liken daily survival to a deadly game. “It’s like Squid Game,” said one mother. “A green light means you can get food. A red light means you get shot.” At aid distribution points, green lights signal civilians that they may approach—but those who step forward after the signal turns red are reportedly shot by Israeli snipers, turning hunger into a potential death sentence.

But the suffering doesn’t end there. Human rights monitors have documented deeply disturbing reports that dozens of bodies have been seized by Israeli forces and returned to families with missing organs. Gaza hospitals report receiving corpses missing corneas, cochleae, and vital organs. A coalition of Palestinian doctors and nurses has testified to widespread organ theft, and a major international rights organization has called for an independent tribunal to investigate.

Documented Cases of Organ Theft

These are not unsubstantiated rumors.

Israel has years of experience in the organ trade. This article documents what the Israelis were doing to the Syrians in 2012.

Israel Is the Organ Harvesting and Human Trafficking Capital of the World

A COUPLE YEARS ago I wrote an article on the growing global problem of human trafficking and the sex slavery trade. Another related ongoing shameful practice that’s also increasing globally is the harvesting of human organs from war victims and selling them on the black market. This presentation will focus on this deplorable crime being committed regularly on each of the current warfronts and beyond, who the profiteering perpetrators are and the beneficiary nations where organs are trafficked.

With the war in Syria still raging in its fifth year, the Damascus university medical doctor heading the newly formed Medical Forensics department Dr. Hussein Nofal estimates that at least 18,000 Syrians have had organs removed during the war thus far. Since the outbreak of war in 2012, 6.5 million people have been displaced within Syria and another 4.8 million have become refugees forced to flee to neighboring countries like Turkey and Lebanon or 10% have migrated to Europe. With another 386,000 estimated dead, that’s 11.7 million humans in Syria who have violently lost their lives or homes — stunningly over half the total prewar population of 22 million Syrians.

All this tragic human horror only occurs because of an overly aggressive, imperialistic US-Israeli foreign policy creating a path of chaos and destruction across the Middle East and North Africa….

What is even more disturbing is the fact that Israel does not just use its wars as an excuse to harvest the organs of the Palestinians, they do it all the time and it’s a well documented business model.

Deadly Exploitation: Israel and the Persistent Claims of Organ Harvesting

The Israel ongoing wars to subjugate the Palestinians are often viewed through the lens of military operations, territorial disputes, and political deadlock. However, lurking behind these events may be a darker dimension where the vulnerable bodies of the oppressed are commodified for the organ trade industry.

Allegations that Israel has harvested organs from Palestinian detainees and victims of war for use in the international organ trade market or has become a hub for organ tourism have been longstanding. These claims are not limited to times of conflict but suggest that Palestinians’ bodies are commodified even in times of peace, adding a chilling and disturbing perspective to the ongoing human rights violations in the region.

Organ trafficking in conflict zones is not a new phenomenon. War zones, where law has collapsed, and human life is devalued, provide fertile ground for illegal activities. The removal of organs from war victims has been documented in conflict areas worldwide, including the Balkans and Sub-Saharan Africa. In this context, the United Nations Human Rights Conventions and the Geneva Conventions have established clear rules for the protection of civilians during conflicts. However, Israel has not ratified the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, which mandates respect for the dignity of the dead and prohibits the looting or mutilation of bodies.

If Israel’s genocide, ethnic cleansing, land theft and organ harvesting isn’t bad enough, Israel organ harvesting operations extend into Ukraine. Precisely because Israel is so depraved and indifferent to human life, expanding its profitable organ harvesting was a business venture in other nations. Israel was harvesting the organs of Ukrainians as early as 2009 (possibly before) and before President Obama’s insanely stupid 2014 regime change op in Ukraine which was effectively a US proxy war on Russia. Over a million Ukrainians have died in this senseless and totally unjustified war but Israel was there to harvest organs before the war started in 2014 and the organ harvesting probably still continues to this day. Israel even targeted children, brought them back to Israel ostensibly to adopt them but used them for spare body parts.

Ukrainian Kids, New Victims of Israeli “Organ Theft” 2009

An international Israeli conspiracy to kidnap children and harvest their organs is gathering momentum as another shocking story divulges Tel Aviv's plot to import Ukrainian children and harvest their organs.

The story brings to light the fact that Israel has brought some 25,000 Ukrainian children into the occupied entity over the past two years in order to harvest their organs. It cites a Ukrainian man's fruitless search for 15 children who had been adopted in Israel. The children had clearly been taken by Israeli medical centers, where they were used for 'spare parts'.

The account was unveiled five days ago by a Ukrainian philosophy professor and author, Vyacheslav Gudin, at a pseudo-academic conference in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. Gudin told an estimated 300 attendees of the Kiev conference that it was essential that all Ukrainians be made aware of the genocide Israel was perpetrating.

The conference also featured two professors who presented a book blaming "the Zionists" for the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s, as well as the country's current condition.

Israel has always stood with Ukraine and Zelensky in the US proxy war on Russia via Ukraine.

If the above isn’t horrifying enough, it gets worse. Bodies without their organs are easily identified after harvesting and doctors were reporting on the dead bodies with missing organs so Israel sent crematoriums to Ukraine to hide its organ harvesting operations and burn the evidence.

How ‘Israeli’ mobile crematoriums help hide Ukraine’s Kosher Nostra mass sale of organs to the EU

In early 2022, German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht declared that Ukraine would receive a field hospital and crematorium in support.

Among the units of the Ukrainian armed forces stationed on the line of contact with the Donbass republics, the news caused panic. Cases of desertion and suicide among soldiers, kept secret by their commanders, began to accumulate. But their fears are based on true stories that originated back in 2014.

The fact is that at the beginning of the conflict in southeastern Ukraine, a lucrative organ trade business was set up with EU countries, the USA and Israel, under strict supervision of employees of the Ukrainian secret service. Even then, reports circulated that Ukrainian so-called “black transplantologists” were harvesting organs from people who were still alive and cremating them afterward.

Most of the donors were soldiers of the Ukrainian army who were brought to the military hospitals from the line of contact with the Donbass in an unconscious state. Also sold were organs of captured members of the Donbass People’s Militia, as well as civilians – most of them women and kids.

The media in the US and Europe are complicit in covering up, hiding and denying Israel’s crimes as well as the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. One thing is certain:

Israel is the most evil nation on the planet right now. Human beings don’t do to other human beings what Israel does to the Palestinians. The fact that Israeli-Mossad spy Jeffrey Epstein was connected to all this should not be surprising. As the debauchery of Epstein and his VIP guests is laid bare with the Epstein Files fiasco, it’s safe to assume that releasing ALL the un-redacted Epstein Files will probably bring down most western governments starting with the good old USA. Those who visited his now infamous sex palaces include presidents, members of congress, high ranking public officials and the media. The elites in government, banking and business flocked to Epstein’s protected rape and sex palaces in the Bahamas, New York City, New Mexico and other places. What is becoming clear is that the US, Britain, Europe, Australia and other western nation are nothing but a gang of elected perverts and pedophiles who lust for young female flesh. Epstein understood how easily they could be bribed/controlled and Epstein himself loved raping little goyim girls.

Epstein Victim Maria Farmer Exposes jewish Supremacist Child Rape Gang

Maria Farmer is very open about the jewish nature of the child rape gang and how they view the lowly "goyim," which is why the mainstream media wouldn't touch her story.

Epstein and his partner in crime, Ghislaine Maxwell, had specific orders from their Israel-Mossad handlers. They were tasked with filming presidents, congress, the media and high ranking public officials in sexually compromising situations to bribe them into giving Israel total control of the US Treasury and US foreign policy! Epstein and Maxwell operated in the US for decades although the US government, its intel agencies and the CIA all knew precisely what they were doing and why. Whatever Israel demands, Israel gets and this is a pox upon America and human civilization.

I wonder how the American people feel about being a BIG nation conquered by the most evil little nation on planet earth? Israel is only about the size of New Jersey but Israel and Zionism are conquering the world at a rapid pace. They must be STOPPED.

The above image is Gaza; as far as the eye can see it’s death, destruction and bombed out Palestinian communities that have existed for thousands of years. NO, human beings don’t do this to other human beings, and I absolutely blame Joe Biden and Donald Trump for this horror. There is no way that Israel could have committed such atrocities and crimes against humanity without literally having the ability to rob the American people of hundreds of billions to facilitate Israel’s crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing. American taxpayers provided the bombs and military equipment knowing full well that Israel fully intended to use them to commit genocide on a massive scale.

It’s generally believed that folks embrace religions as paths to nourish our souls and feed our hunger to be better and more compassionate human beings in a cruel world that has gone mad. Religions have the potential to do a lot of good but they’ve also been used to justify evil. Believing in a deity or religion is a paradox because so much hate, death and destruction has been facilitated by religious fervor, fanaticism and even sacred texts.

Humans have been deity obsessed for, well, FOREVER. Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus and other believers cling to their religious beliefs because they fulfill a deep spiritual human need but spirituality, especially under the control of an organized religion, can easily go amuck and transition to violence in the name of a religion or deity.

Yes, things are indeed very ugly in Gaza these days and the human suffering inflicted upon innocent human beings is cruelty on an industrial scale, all approved by the US, Europe and Israel. The ceasefire is FAKE and Israel continues to slaughter the Palestinians with US weapons and permission. The Palestinians are denied aid and are dying of the cold, disease and hunger as they are forced to reside in tents. The death toll and denial of life saving aid is as staggering as the destruction.

The savagery of mankind and its religions is a nasty pox upon humanity. The religious war being waged by Israel against Arab Muslims is the direct result of the collision of Judaism, Christianity and Islam as fanatical believers are willing to fight to death to control a patch of dirt they all believe was deeded to them by God. The horror of Israel committing genocide and ethnic cleansing of Christians and Muslims in Gaza has gone global and while most human beings justifiably condemn Israel for its horrific crimes against humanity there are Zionist Christians and Jews who solidly stand with Israel; they applaud these horrors as the will of God. This is not only ripping the Republican Party and Trump Administration apart because of its lunatic support for Israel’s crimes, it’s also ripping Christianity apart and a lot of it is attributable to the Old Testament and Biblical literalism.

More importantly, there is also the issue of the creation of the modern state of Israel by the United Nations in 1948. Arabs were tossed from their ancestral homeland by colonizers who continues to expand territorial claims. It’s a long and complicated issue birthed by European and Christian guilt over the WW II Holocaust but the western lust to control Biblical Israel predates WW II; understand that the West and especially the British have been intervening in the Middle East since the 1700’s, another complex piece of history.

Anyway, Westerners soothed their collective Holocaust guilt by just creating a non-European homeland for the post WW II surviving Jews (they didn’t want the Jews) and the only homeland the Jews wanted was their Biblical homeland. The decision to create Israel in 1948 by the newly created United Nations (1945) spawned a Jewish and Christian Zionist fervor and many Evangelicals believed that Jesus could only return to earth to fulfill End Times prophecies IF lands known as Biblical Israel were restored to Jewish control. Frankly, there can be no doubt that the Christian world also viewed the creation a new Biblical Israel as a sovereign nation with legal borders as an opportunity to wrest the Jewish Christian Holy Land from Muslim control, even though the Muslims had pretty much controlled it for most of Islam’s 1400 year old existence.

Both Christian and Jewish Zionists lavishly quote the Old Testament to justify violence against the Arabs occupying Biblical Israel. The Old Testament is full of what is perceived by Christian and Jewish Zionists as direct orders from God to murder folks whose only crime is occupying their ancestral lands that Zionists claim to be deeded to the Jews by God. They also believe that killing innocent civilians without mercy is commanded by God and yes, they will happily quote Scripture to prove it. Murdering women, children and babies are Biblically justified according to Zionists. It’s important to explore these disturbing Biblical passages because they explain a lot of Christian and Jewish Zionist behavior.

It must also be recognized that not all Christians embrace the Old Testament and Zionism, and many believe that the New Testament was a new covenant with God that supercedes the Old Testament; hence the Old Testament is generally theologically irrelevant except in the context of being just documented history and NOT necessarily a valid sacred scripture. We are currently bearing witnessed to explosive fractures in Christianity as Israel continues with its brutal genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Many people of faith are not only questioning Israel’s slaughter of the innocent in Gaza, they are also horrified by Israel’s brutality in the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria as the senseless killing goes on and on. It’s also important to know that not all Jews are Zionists who support Israel and its crimes. Many Jews reject Zionism, Israel and are appalled by what Israel is doing to the Palestinians. I follow many of them on X (formerly Twitter).

The savage Israelis have gone MAD and ordinary Israelis are beating and brutalizing Palestinians for no reason and are doing it on a daily basis. Scenes like this are common and Israel’s violence against non-Jews is well documented and well beyond Gaza.

Video: Extremist Zionist settlers brutally attacked an elderly Palestinian woman during olive harvesting in Ramallah

Yes, Israel and Israelis are committing horrific violence on an industrial scale.

Israeli Jews not only seek to massively expand its land holdings by exterminating/evicting its current occupants from their ancestral homeland of thousands of years, they are also lusting for majestic land grabs as part of a grand scheme to restore Israel to what is perceived as its Biblical borders. Some Christian and Jewish Zionists have gone so far as to define Israel’s legitimate Biblical borders as extending to the Nile in the West and the Euphrates in the East.

It’s more than just a land issue and it all starts with Zionist Jews and Christians believing that the Jews are God’s chosen people and as such, Jews are above all other human beings on earth.

“For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.” King James Bible Online, Deuteronomy 7-6.

But what does it mean that the Jews are God’s choosen people? The Old Testament is perfectly clear in its advocacy for savagery, mass murder, genocide, the shedding of blood and even killing women and children. The Old Testament is ruthless, horrifically violent and explicit in its commands and according to the Old Testament there are no innocents when it comes to slaughtering folks NOT being among God’s chosen people. This raises the issue of collective punishment; a human being is not judged by his deeds but by his genes and the wrong genes is a death sentence. This is precisely what Christian and Jewish Zionists believe.

According to the Old Testament, you will be cursed if you hold back the sword.

“Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.” Jeremiah 48.10.

Another biblical passage that advocates for the killing of little children is extremely disturbing as it commands Jews to smash little children against stones to kill them. Only homicidal genocidal maniacs could find happiness smashing children to death.

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. Psalm 137:9 KJM

If Jesus was the Prince of Peace, how does a Christian reconcile his/her faith with such violence? The passages below are what Jewish and Christian Zionists cling to as justification for slaughtering the Palestinians; they believe these are God’s commandments that are just as valid for use against the Palestinians as they were when the ancient Israelites executed their neighbors in cold blood. Frequently, these enemies were not combatants but just folks who peacefully surrendered to the Israelites. Make no mistake, the Israelites of the Old Testament had ZERO intention of even showing mercy to those who surrendered or were conquered.

Modern Israel and Zionists rely on the Old Testament to justify the slaughter of non-Jews even though the Zionist Christians are non Jews. Frankly, the Jews could justify killing the Christians who support them.

“Then the LORD said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I wouldn’t help them. Away with them! Get them out of my sight! And if they say to you, ‘But where can we go?’ tell them, ‘This is what the LORD says: Those who are destined for death, to death; those who are destined for war, to war; those who are destined for famine, to famine; those who are destined for captivity, to captivity.’ “I will send four kinds of destroyers against them,” says the LORD. “I will send the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, the vultures to devour, and the wild animals to finish up what is left. Because of the wicked things Manasseh son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem, I will make my people an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.” (Jeremiah 15:1-4 NLT)

TRANSLATION: Every non Jewish human being on earth is viewed as a subhuman who has no right to exist and all people are to FEAR God’s superior chosen people.

I will make Mount Seir utterly desolate, killing off all who try to escape and any who return. I will fill your mountains with the dead. Your hills, your valleys, and your streams will be filled with people slaughtered by the sword. I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. Then you will know that I am the LORD. (Ezekiel 35:7-9 NLT)

My angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites; and I will wipe them out. (Exodus 23:23 NAB)

Make no mistake, the Old Testament is loaded with tales of violence and murder by the Israelites against innocent folks who just happened to be occupying their land and homes at the wrong time in history. But what is really chilling is that these stories of slaughter, death and destruction are taught to Christian and Jewish Zionists; Zionist Christians typically get their dose of God’s commands to commit genocide from their Zionist pastors and Bible study groups. They all believe that they are doing God’s work by slaughtering anybody perceived an enemy of Israel.

The passages below are more of what the Israelis and Christian Zionists cling to as justification for genocide and ethnic cleansing; they absolutely believe that bloodshed and genocide are a sacred duty and obedience to God because it’s all commanded by God in the Old Testament. These grotesquely inhumane theocratic Nazis have convinced themselves that the shedding blood is justified because there are no innocents, just the perceived enemies of Zionism and Israel.

The book of Joshua is loaded with wars and genocides that left no survivors.

Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid or discouraged. Take the entire army and attack Ai, for I have given to you the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land. You will destroy them as you destroyed Jericho and its king. But this time you may keep the captured goods and the cattle for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the city.” So Joshua and the army of Israel set out to attack Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand fighting men and sent them out at night with these orders: “Hide in ambush close behind the city and be ready for action. When our main army attacks, the men of Ai will come out to fight as they did before, and we will run away from them. We will let them chase us until they have all left the city. For they will say, ‘The Israelites are running away from us as they did before.’ Then you will jump up from your ambush and take possession of the city, for the LORD your God will give it to you. Set the city on fire, as the LORD has commanded. You have your orders.” So they left that night and lay in ambush between Bethel and the west side of Ai. But Joshua remained among the people in the camp that night.

Early the next morning Joshua roused his men and started toward Ai, accompanied by the leaders of Israel. They camped on the north side of Ai, with a valley between them and the city. That night Joshua sent five thousand men to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city. So they stationed the main army north of the city and the ambush west of the city. Joshua himself spent that night in the valley. When the king of Ai saw the Israelites across the valley, he and all his army hurriedly went out early the next morning and attacked the Israelites at a place overlooking the Jordan Valley. But he didn’t realize there was an ambush behind the city. Joshua and the Israelite army fled toward the wilderness as though they were badly beaten, and all the men in the city were called out to chase after them. In this way, they were lured away from the city. There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not chase after the Israelites, and the city was left wide open.

Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Point your spear toward Ai, for I will give you the city.” Joshua did as he was commanded. As soon as Joshua gave the signal, the men in ambush jumped up and poured into the city. They quickly captured it and set it on fire. When the men of Ai looked behind them, smoke from the city was filling the sky, and they had nowhere to go. For the Israelites who had fled in the direction of the wilderness now turned on their pursuers. When Joshua and the other Israelites saw that the ambush had succeeded and that smoke was rising from the city, they turned and attacked the men of Ai. Then the Israelites who were inside the city came out and started killing the enemy from the rear. So the men of Ai were caught in a trap, and all of them died. Not a single person survived or escaped. Only the king of Ai was taken alive and brought to Joshua.

When the Israelite army finished killing all the men outside the city, they went back and finished off everyone inside. So the entire population of Ai was wiped out that day – twelve thousand in all. For Joshua kept holding out his spear until everyone who had lived in Ai was completely destroyed. Only the cattle and the treasures of the city were not destroyed, for the Israelites kept these for themselves, as the LORD had commanded Joshua. So Ai became a permanent mound of ruins, desolate to this very day. Joshua hung the king of Ai on a tree and left him there until evening. At sunset the Israelites took down the body and threw it in front of the city gate. They piled a great heap of stones over him that can still be seen today. (Joshua 8:1-29 NLT)

The above story is definitely about military strategy, something the ancient Israelites and modern Jews pride themselves in because it involves planning, deception and cunning. The Jews believe they are smarter and more capable than anybody on earth because as God’s chosen people they are blessed.

Joshua on Jericho:

When the people heard the sound of the horns, they shouted as loud as they could. Suddenly, the walls of Jericho collapsed, and the Israelites charged straight into the city from every side and captured it. They completely destroyed everything in it – men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep, donkeys – everything. (Joshua 6:20-21 NLT)

While it may be hard to accept that in the 21st century, some religious folks are permanently stuck in 1400 BC when Moses died and his disciple Joshua succeeded him in leading the Israelites to the Promised Land, a Promised Land drenched in blood, it is quite gruesome to glorify genocide as the will of God but that is exactly what the Old Testament does.

The men of Israel withdrew through the territory of the Benjaminites, putting to the sword the inhabitants of the city, the livestock, and all they chanced upon. Moreover they destroyed by fire all the cities they came upon. (Judges 20:48 NAB)

That night the angel of the Lord went forth and struck down one hundred and eighty five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. Early the next morning, there they were, all the corpuses of the dead. (2 Kings 19:35 NAB)

(Moses) stood at the entrance to the camp and shouted, “All of you who are on the LORD’s side, come over here and join me.” And all the Levites came. He told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Strap on your swords! Go back and forth from one end of the camp to the other, killing even your brothers, friends, and neighbors.” The Levites obeyed Moses, and about three thousand people died that day. Then Moses told the Levites, “Today you have been ordained for the service of the LORD, for you obeyed him even though it meant killing your own sons and brothers. Because of this, he will now give you a great blessing.” (Exodus 32:26-29 NLT)

This story involves the Israelites getting their enemies to slaughter their own kin in exchange for their lives.

Then, with Micah’s idols and his priest, the men of Dan came to the town of Laish, whose people were peaceful and secure. They attacked and killed all the people and burned the town to the ground. There was no one to rescue the residents of the town, for they lived a great distance from Sidon and had no allies nearby. This happened in the valley near Beth-rehob.Then the people of the tribe of Dan rebuilt the town and lived there. They renamed the town Dan after their ancestor, Israel’s son, but it had originally been called Laish. (Judges 18:27-29 NLT)

Why all this violence, murder and genocide in the Old Testament? The Israelites believed that God intended for the Israelites to leave Egypt and occupy the Promised Land, the Land of Milk and Honey, and that anything they did to achieve that goal was God’s will.

Old Testament violence goes on and on and it’s also what propels Israel to commit horrific violence against the Palestinians; it’s something Israelis view as their duty and the Israelis have nothing but utter contempt for the Palestinians. Of course, Old Testament violence has been vigorously debated by both Jews and Christians. Some will state that the Israelites had no choice…it was kill or be killed but this has been proven wrong. Most of the genocide inflicted by the Israelites upon non Jewish people were NOT kill or be killed situations. Then there is the issue of Jewish and Christian Zionists having no problem worshiping a God that commands genocide.

Some have also argued that the Koran is violent; it is and the Koran does indeed contain violent passages and advocacy for the slaughter the enemies of Islam. Anybody can engine search VIOLENCE IN THE KORAN and will find Koranic passages just as violent as Old Testament violence. Muslim apologists do the same thing that Christian apologists do….they affirm that Koranic mandates to commit violence are all taken out of context. OUT OF CONTEXT is a common wimp response to violence and genocide in religious texts. Or you get the Zionist interpretation to confirm that Islam is the enemy of Judaism and Christian and must be eradicated. The common answer to religious violence sanctioned by the Koran and Bible typically rests on the dubious assumption than neither Islam or Judaism or Christianity are violent and that criticism of religious violence is all taken out of context….basically misunderstood. BUT not everybody believes that Biblical violence and genocide is OUT OF CONTEXT. Modern day Zionists are proud of it and preach it.

While many believe that the New Testament did in fact shed Old Testament violence, this is simply not true. The New Testament is also loaded with violence or advocacy for violence and genocide.

Violence in the New Testament

When people imagine an angry male God, dishing out punishments and inflicting suffering, they might identify Him as the God of the Old Testament. When asked to consider stories about inflicting harm, even death, upon others in God’s name, again, they might think they are in Old Testament territory. But the New Testament has its own share of violence committed by both people and God. Christians have sometimes assumed that the ministry of Jesus reflected a radical shift in the nature of God towards peace and love, and away from anger and wrath. Yet, depending on context and point of view, New Testament texts might depict God, and God’s people, as peaceful, or violent, or both….

The final judgement is imagined in particularly violent terms in the New Testament, with the book of Revelation serving as Exhibit A. Revelation’s pages burst with gruesome scenes of cosmic battles, plagues, and bloodshed. Consider, for instance, the birds who gorge on human flesh at God’s banquet (Rev 19:17-21). While Revelation is often treated as an outlier, it is better to understand this book as fully at home within New Testament apocalyptic longing for God’s violent judgment against non-believers.

Religious texts are flawed because they are NOT the word of God but merely an interpretation of the will of God by flawed humans and frequently ungodly humans who use religion as a tool of control for nefarious purposes. However, religious texts are definitely histories of people, their culture, their politics and their spiritual beliefs at a specific time in history. Moreover, they definitely open the debate on morality and the blueprint for moral human behavior. Furthermore, they must be viewed in the context of the times and especially the time of their creation whether it be Judaism 4,000 years ago, Christianity 2,000 years ago or Islam 1,400 years ago when the world was pretty much scientifically unknowable as a result of the lack of knowledge. Earthquakes, volcanos and natural disasters were perceived as a warning or punishment from an angry deity for defying him. Science has changed lot including challenging long held superstitions, ingrained culture and even the validity of religious beliefs.

Everyone wants to believe that their God is the only REAL God and that all others are imposters. Being a Biblical or Koranic literalist in the 21^st century and accepting ancient texts as the precise will of God is NOT what most folks believe and it’s not because they are ungodly Satanists but because they recognize human flaws. Herein lies the fatal flaw of religious scripture; it resides in a time warp even thought there is much beauty, wisdom and knowledge that can be derived from sacred scriptures. Tragically, humans haven’t learned to just take the best and leave the rest when it comes to understanding our past, well definitely not when it comes to religions.

There are roughly 2 billion Christians and over a billion Muslims on planet earth. Globally, there are only about 16 million Jews with about 7 million in Israel and 7 million in the US. If religious wars continue and accelerate, these wars would substantially depopulate the earth and vaporize huge swaths of humanity. This is unacceptable because it’s morally wrong, quite savage and definitely ungodly. We need for humans to embrace the good of religions, reject the evil including genocidal wars, and strive for a humanity that respects religious diversity and fosters peaceful co-existence. That is our challenge because the alternative is just too horrifying to contemplate.

Disclosure: I was raised Roman Catholic, believe in God, study religions and am perpetually baffled by mankind’s inhumanity, especially the variety triggered by religions. I reject religious violence as a solution to any problem. That said, I’m also an antiwar activist.

I Voted for Trump Multiple Times and Let me be clear: REAL MAGA and REAL America First folks voted in 2024 for FAR less government, FAR less spending, FAR less tyranny, FAR less government at all levels and FAR less wars. We loved Elon Musk and DOGE who were promptly run out of the District of Crime aka DC! We were lied to and the bullying, bloated, bloviating orange haired monster that we put in the White House has turned on us BIG TIME. I’m not surprised because I understand how the Republican Party manipulates those conservatives who want REAL change. They just lie and punish. Republicans may campaign as if they were Thomas Massie, Rand Paul or Marjorie Taylor Green but once elected they vote and govern like Pelosi and Schumer. It’s all part of loyalty to the Republican and Democrat Uniparty con.

Anybody who has been suffocating in the political sewer for a while absolutely remembers how Mitch McConnell and the Republican Party CRUSHED the Tea Party so badly that the base that screamed for change dutifully bowed before their GOP masters.

As a Ron Paul fan, this Libertarian leaning Constitutionalist profoundly understands the dangers that America faces. It’s as if America and the power obsessed political class are accelerating their quest to utterly destroy one of the greatest and most successful experiments in human history…FREEDOM FOR WE THE PEOPLE and the creation of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, a nation birthed in liberty. When is a nation ever birthed in liberty? Check your history books because is would be nearly impossible for find one. America was very unique and very out of the box in affirming the sovereignty of the individual and his/her rights.

Moving ahead to the here and now, the prognosis for America is grim.

After 10 months of Donald Trump as president, it’s clear that Trump’s actions have been an unmitigated disaster for just about every issue except securing the border and reigning in DEI racism.

My top issue is always foreign policy because it murders folks all over the world and is largely responsible for our mountain of unsustainable debt. Trump has been a big fail on foreign policy:

Trump has refused to end the Ukraine War despite promising to do so. Even worse, he seems to be threatening Putin with a more expansive US war on Russia.

The Biden Administration’s proxy war on Russia via Ukraine has not gone well for America’s neocons. It’s been estimated that over million lives have been lost in this destructive war. This nightmare is the direct result President Obama, Victoria Nuland and the CIA engineering regime change in Ukraine in 2014. They tossed the last legitimately elected government and the goal was to purge Ukraine of all Russian speaking Ukrainians. Understand that this means GENOCIDING them. The Obama Administration installed psychopathic neo-Nazis in power in Kiev and groups like the murderous Azov Battalion proceeded to murder Russian speaking Ukrainians in the East. Quite naturally, this justifiably enraged Vladimir Putin who was forced to intervene to stop the genocide of Russian speaking Ukrainians and save lives.

Things quieted down in Ukraine during the Trump 1.0 years as Trump wisely made the decision to avoid war with Russia BUT he did feed MIC profits by continuing to arm Ukraine while sending lots American taxpayer cash to Zelensky. When the Democrats and Joe Biden took over on January 20, 2021, it was WAR, WAR and MORE DAMN WAR on Russia, and Biden proceeded to vastly escalate his war on Russia. Dementia stricken Joe Biden wasn’t metally fit to call the shots and we really don’t know what crazy Obamaites were running the FAKE Biden presidency. Keep in mind that the Biden Crime Family had huge financial interests in Ukraine, made millions in Ukraine and it’s entirely possible that a chunk of US foreign aid, our taxdollars, was laundered back to the Bidens.

I blogged about that US intervention in Ukraine.

The Ukraine Mess in a Nutshell…President Trump is now tasked with cleaning up a mess authorized by Obama in 2014. Will he pursue peace or stand with the rabid warmongering necons in the Trump White House?

Moving on to Israel: Like Biden before him, Trump continues to be a rabid supporter of Israel and 100% endorses its numerous war crimes. American taxpayers are FORCED to fund Israel’s crimes that include genocide and ethnic cleansing of the folks in Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East. What is America to Israel? We are nothing to Israel except its personal ATM machine that delivers the cash and weapons to wage wars of annihilation against the Palestinians.

Trump waged an unauthorized war on Iran on the orders of Israel, and while the regime change op failed and turned into a humiliating rout for Israel as Iran fired back and did some very serious damage to Israel, Trump continues to be focused on another attack on Iran, a nation of 90 million folks who did NOTHING to deserve being bombed. Iran’s sin according to Trump and Netanyahu is that it has the blazing audacity to legitimately defend itself against US/Israel aggression aka REFUSE to SURRENDER its oil and sovereignty.

Trump is very close to militarily invading Venezuela based on lies. Venezuela is not a narco nation and Trump is blowing up Venezuelans in their boats, killing innocent folks and thereby banning them from even proving that they are not drug dealers.
Even worse, Trump’s obsession with Venezuela has nothing whatsoever to do with drugs and Trump is on record affirming that he seeks to just seize Venezuela’s oil. Venezuela is #1 in proven global oil reserves.

2023 Trump boasts he wanted to take Venezuela’s oil after overthrowing its government

Former US President Donald Trump boasted at a Republican Party rally that he wanted to “take over” Venezuela, and “we would have gotten all that oil”. This confirms the sinister motives behind Washington’s 2019 coup attempt to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro and install Juan Guaidó.

Trump has hinted that he may use military force to seize the Panama Canal and even Greenland.

Meanwhile, Trump remains the world’s bully as he promises to use military force against any perceived or imagined threat to his monstrous ego. Trump is also addicted using sanctions and tariffs to punish nations that refuse to bow before Emperor Trump.

Trump and Vance campaigned on peace; turns out both are liars.

More on Foreign Policy and its Destructive Outcomes

America is basically a military dictatorship controlled by the Military Industrial Complex (MIC)….well, controlled by the MIC and Israel. Those 3 and 4 star generals only dream of one thing: keeping the wars going to grow their power. Few Americans are willing to accept that America murders for defense contractor profits but it’s true. The Vietnam War was triggered by the false flag attack known as the Gulf of Tonkin episode.

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident and the Art of American False Flags

False flag tactics – i.e. acts or threats of violence designed to look like they were committed by someone else to justify aggression, have been a key tool of American foreign policy going back well over a century. Here are a few of the most notorious examples of US policymakers’ use of false flags, starting with the Gulf of Tonkin incident.

The names of over 58,000 Americans are engraved on the Vietnam War Memorial in DC. We not only slaughtered millions of Southeast Asian peasants in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, we also doused their lands with the poison Agent Orange. Vietnam was NEVER a national security threat to America BUT a ton of profits were made off that war and the bodies of millions.

A foreign policy of blood money profits is immoral and unacceptable.

We need to take foreign policy out of the closet and put on the table for a real debate like WHAT CONSTITUTES LEGITIMATE NATIONAL DEFENSE. Here’s the real issue distilled to its essence: America the Empire is barrelling toward a CRASH and BURN ending as we murder the peaceful and prosperous republic created by our founders. Let that sink in.

Civil Liberties, J6, Russiagate and the Abuse of Power

Civil liberties turned dark in America under Biden and the Dems and YES, civil liberties have been hanging by a thread in America ever since September 11, 2001 and probably before that. With Trump’s election, the restoration of civil liberties and accountability for outright crimes and abuse of power by the Biden Administration was expected; however, the Trump Administration and the Trump DOJ have done NOTHING or close to nothing.

The J6 folks are victims of Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Party, FBI, DOJ and federal agencies who led the January 6, 2020 Fedsurrection. The J6 Committee flatout committed massive perjury, evidence tampering, witness tampering and destruction of evidence. Trump needs to create a Special Counsel to investigate the egregious abuses of power that put innocent and peaceful protesters in prison just because they were Trump supporters. The J6 folks are definitely political prisoners. This isn’t vengeance, it’s justice and only by implementing necessary justice by holding the offending politicians and bureaucrats accountable for their criminal behavior can we restore justice. For America to be a country based on justice, nobody is ABOVE THE LAW because true justice demands EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER THE LAW.

Russiagate is another egregious abuse of power that went all the way up to President Obama, Hillary Clinton and CIA Director John Brennan, and they engineered a scheme to rig the 2016 presidential election. Perjury and election fraud are felonies.

Remember the guy who tossed a freaking sandwich at a federal officer? If locking up REAL criminals is the goal of the Trump Administration, Pam Bondi’s priorities are skewed. Hilariously, Trump’s DOJ tried to indict sandwich man on assault charges but the Grand Jury refused to indict. It then prosecuted him anyway and he was found not guilty.

Federal Spending is OUT OF CONTROL

America is a walking default with a $38 trillion mountain of debt that grows exponentially. President Trump and Congress absolutely must stop deficit spending and be forced to live with the tax receipts they collect. In other words, their credit cards must be revoked.

I understand that this is a tough order for a man who is addicted to debt….Trump did add $7 trillion to our debt during his first term. Trump is no fiscal conservative and is apparently addicted to not only spending other peoples money but making debt slaves of our children; ditto for all the Democrats. The interest on the national debt is already approaching trillion bucks a year.

As more and more revenue is eaten up by interest expense, it’s important to understand what will happen and has happened before. There is no better example than the 2008 financial collapse of Greece. Greece had so much debt that nearly all revenues were used to service the debt. Greece was forced to make deep cuts in social services: pensions, healthcare, education and much more were drastically cut as the garbage piled up in the streets. BUT the Banksters got paid! A monetary and economic collapse will likely trigger a bloody civil war in America and YES, this is indeed too horrifying to contemplate. Some believe the civil war has already started with so much violence in our streets.

Americans are probably the most delusional folks on the planet because they refuse to believe that what happens in other grotesquely mismanaged nations could ever happen here. SO WHAT they scream, Uncle Sam has a print press and will magically print everything we need to keep our fake prosperity afloat. No, this won’t end well.

The Trump Economy

The Trump economy has been a big fail and this is largely triggered by punitive tariffs, sanctions and obscene spending; no president has done as much as Trump to impede free trade. Peaceful trade among nations is the life blood of prosperity. Even worse, Trump seems to believe that rule by the oligarchs is the way to go. He hangs out with his billionaire donor class pals while letting Main Street rot. Flip flopping Trump is so unstable on the economy that businesses can barely even function; hiring decisions and expansions are postponed because of uncertainty as consumer confidence nosedives. As the cost of nearly everything continues to soar, Americans are struggling just to pay the bills and put food on the table.

Which Brings Me To My Final Thoughts on Trump

As the American people and American families struggle to survive and achieve the basics, Donald Trump continues in his attempt to transform the US presidency into a Trump monarchy of sorts and maybe he’s even crowned himself Emperor of Planet Earth. He’s already threatened to run for a 3rd term and I have no doubt that this madman is plotting to stay in power. It’s not going to happen and at the rate the Republican Party is suiciding itself under Trump, the Republicans just may be forced to join the Democrats and IMPEACH this lunatic because suriving over 3 more years of Trump is bad for future election victories.

No matter how bad presidents are, the one good thing is that they leave the White House when their term is up. They just go away and leave the White House and DC as they found it. BUT NOT TRUMP! He’s already decorated the White House with so much gold it’s resembling an imperial palace. If that isn’t obnoxious enough, he’s demolished part of the White House to construct a revolting gold ballroom where Trump and his oligarch pals can celebrate their victory over We the People. To add insult to injury, Trump is also considering a Trump Arch De Trump in DC.

Donald Trump is determined to make sure that America never forgets him which is why I 100% endorse demolishing all monuments to Trump’s ego when he leaves office…get rid of the gold, the gold ballroom and everything else bearing the stamp Trump.

Yes, America can and will survive Trump but only if we end this post exactly as I started it by accomplishing what MAGA, America First and America really need:

REAL MAGA and REAL America First folks voted in 2024 for FAR less government, FAR less spending, FAR less tyranny, FAR less government at all levels and FAR less wars.

Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in a federal prison in NYC on August 10, 2019. While his death was ruled a suicide, few believed it and the Internet immediately became flooded with memes screaming JEFFREY EPSTEIN DIDN’T KILL HIMSELF.

Here’s what is known about Epstein. He was a very rich man with mansions in the Bahamas, Palm Beach, New Mexico, New York City other places. There is ZERO documentation relative to the source of his vast weath and nobody knows how he earned his billions. He didn’t work and had no businesses; in fact it’s fairly well documented that he was a sex obsessed playboy his entire life and especially lusted for young female flesh. But Epstein was also very well connected with powerful folks in the US and globally. He partied with them, provided them with young hot females and nutured enduring relationships with them.

It was well known for decades that Epstein entertained prominent folks at his lavish mansions and that those parties included sex with young females. It was no secret that Epstein was probably a pedophile and serial sexual abuser of females but in 2006 Epstein was criminally prosecuted in Florida for solicitation of prostitution. It was a nothingburger of a charge and the plea bargain allowed Epstein to be free during the day so long as he checked into the Palm Beach Jail at night to sleep to serve a 13 month sentence. Epstein always has powerful friends in high places.

This brings us to 2019. Many were furious that Epstein literally walked on serious charges like human trafficking and the sexual abuse of minors. The stench of Epstein and his massive client network just wouldn’t go away. However, Epstein reportedly was far more than a sex obsessed billionaire. He and his partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, were believed to be Israeli/Mossad spies tasked with filming presidents, congress critters, the media and other high ranking officials in business and government in sexually compromising situations. This is something they did for decades and it also raises serious questions on Epstein’s mysterious wealth. Did it come from bribery and shakedown operations because he had the goods on his victims who were always rich and/or powerful? Nobody could sniff out money and power like Epstein and Maxwell.

Which of course brings us to the now infamous Epstein Files and Trump’s refusal to release them despite promising voters that he would release the files. Everyone is asking WHY and the answer is obvious. The Epstein files either directly implicate Trump OR Trump is protecting somebody or both. I personally believe that Trump is implicated in the Epstein nightmare and that he is also protecting Israel who obviously doesn’t want anybody to know that Epstein was sending salacious data back to Israel for decades, data that documents and implicates so many powerful folks in government that it could literally bring down the entire corrupt to the core US government. This is further complicated and supported by Israel’s massive financial support of so many in the White House and Congress and it’s fair to state that Israel has literally bought presidents and congress through AIPAC. There are damn few in the entire US government that aren’t Israel owned, bought and paid for.

You can look up anybody in Congress on the Track AIPAC website and see the enormous amount of money that Israel and Israel’s supporters spend buying Congress. It also includes many Democrats.

For those who follow Israel’s influence and control over our government, presidency, congress and media, none of this is suprising or shocking as it’s been going on for decades.

Where things and events get even creepier is the decision of the Trump Administration to arrest and jail Epstein on July 8, 2019. Jeff Berman, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, released the following statement:

Remarks of United States Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman On The Indictment and Arrest of Jeffrey Epstein New York, NY – Monday, July 8, 2019

Good morning. I’m Geoff Berman, US Attorney for the Southern District on New York.

Today we announce the unsealing of sex trafficking charges against Jeffrey Epstein.

The charges allege that Epstein sexually abused young girls by enticing them to engage in sex acts for money.

Epstein was arrested this past Saturday evening at Teterboro Airport aboard his private jet which had just landed from Paris, France. Epstein was taken to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in NYC. Later today he will presented before a Judge in the SDNY. Our Office will take the position at that presentment that Epstein should be detained pending his trial.

Epstein is charged in a two-count Indictment – first, conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, and second, the substantive crime of sex trafficking of underage girls.

Beginning in at least 2002, and continuing until 2005, Epstein is alleged to have abused dozens of victims by causing them to engage in sex acts with him at his mansion in New York City and at his estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

The victims—all underage girls at the time of the alleged conduct — were given hundreds of dollars in cash after each encounter, either by Epstein or one of his employees.

The underage girls were initially recruited to provide Epstein with massages, and often did so nude or partially-nude. These massages became increasingly sexual in nature, and would typically include one or more sex acts, as specified in the indictment.

As alleged, Epstein also paid certain victims to recruit additional girls to be similarly abused. This allowed Epstein to create an ever-expanding web of new victims.

This conduct, as alleged, went on for years. And it involved dozens of young girls, some as young as 14 years old at the time they were allegedly abused.

As alleged, Epstein was well aware that many of his victims were minors. And not surprisingly, many of the underage girls that Epstein allegedly victimized were particularly vulnerable to exploitation…..

Yes, this is shocking on many levels because because there is no way that Trump didn’t know that his own DOJ was doing this as the Epstein mess was a high profile criminal case with a ton of publicity and understandable public outrage. The big question is WHY WOULD TRUMP UNLEASH THIS CAN OF WORMS knowing that he is also vulnerable with ties to Epstein?

On July 8, 2019, Epstein was arrested and charged with sexual felonies, was jailed and was declared dead by suicide a few weeks later on August 10, 2019. Things just aren’t adding up.

It’s getting weirder. The British tabloid, The Daily Mail, published a piece on Nov. 13, 2025 titled Epstein wrote disturbing email to himself before suicide. Epstein reportedly sent a rambling email to himself dated February, 2019 and he seems to be pissed off at Donald Trump.

The disgraced pedophile billionaire claimed that the President had often visited his home in Palm Beach, in the email sent to himself in February 2019.

‘[REDACTED] worked at Mar-a-Lago. Trump knew of it, and came to my house many times during that period,’ Epstein wrote, six months before he was found hanged at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.

‘He never got a massage,’ the financier said.

Epstein appeared to be spiraling as he was facing new charges of abusing dozens of girls following a bombshell investigation by the Miami Herald in 2019. It came more than a decade after he was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution in 2008.

Apparently Trump, Epstein and everybody else thought the Epstein case was done, dead and buried UNTIL 2018. In a fascinating turn of events, Miami Herald reporter Julie Brown wouldn’t let the Epstein case die and she doggedly pursued it and blew it open in 2018 which reportedly triggered the arrest of Epstein on new and more serious sex charges in 2019.

Miami Herald reporter wins lifetime achievement award for breaking Epstein story

Brown has been with the Miami Herald since 2005. It was her investigative reporting in 2018, revisiting the Jeffrey Epstein case, that broke the story open after a decade of dormancy — and that ultimately led New York federal prosecutors to reopen the case and charge Epstein with sex trafficking charges in July 2019. Epstein was found dead in his New York jail cell a month later. His death was ruled a suicide by hanging….

In months of painstaking reporting, Brown turned the focus back on Epstein’s victims, managing to identify 80 of them, track down 60, and persuade eight to talk for her stories.

There is no way that Trump or Epstein were NOT aware of Miami Herald’s Julie Brown’s blockbuster investigative reporting. I’m guessing that since Trump and Epstein were pals and Trump was now president that he could just make it all go away for Epstein. I’m also guessing that Epstein was SHOCKED when he was arrested at the Teterboro, NJ Airport on a return flight from France. He obviously never would have returned to the US had he known he would be arrested and tossed in jail. Therefore, it’s easy to speculate that Epstein felt betrayed by Trump by allowing federal criminal changes against him to proceed and to ever authorize his arrest. Moreover, imagine the shock when US District Judge Richard Berman denied Epstein bail and ordered him detained in one of the worst federal prisons in America. The Metropolitan Correctional Center was known for gun smuggling and other crimes.

In 2019 Trump was obsessed with reelection and the last thing he wanted was the label of protecting a pedophile. The Epstein issue was just too much of a hot potato election nightmare for Trump to bury knowing full well that extending a helping hand to Epstein could cost him reelection in 2020.

However, the murky issue of Epstein in jail was a huge problem for Trump and Israel. Epstein fully expected to be sprung from prison one way or another. He was facing 45 years in prison, here, if convicted and it’s not likely that a jury would acquit him. Besides, there was a simmering fury over the politically negotiated sweetheart deal that he got 11 year earlier. The case screamed THE RICH ARE ABOVE THE LAW.

Pampered 66 year old billionaire Epstein was hardly a candidate who could easily survive prison for the short term let alone for the rest of his life. Yeah, he’d say or do anything to get out of prison which of course made him a liability for Trump and Israel. Israel could not bear being exposed as the mastermind behind it’s most extensive and successful honey pot trap for the exclusive benefit of Israel and one that literally lasted decades and involved high ranking public officials.

The federal Metropolitan Correctional Facility was a secure federal prison and high profile prisoners received extra security. So when Epstein convienently ended up dead and allegedly strangled by suicide on August 10, 2019 along with the flimsy lie that the security cameras has miraculously failed, this clearly raised a ton of questions. Nothing about Epstein’s death was believable.

Maybe we need to start with: Who wanted Epstein dead and why? Well, that list starts with Israel and Trump. Sometimes even useful idiots outlive their usefulness.

It’s not easy gaining access to a secure federal prison to murder a prisoner and such a decision would have to be organized and authorized at the highest levels of power.

The Trump hating Daily Beast flatout accused Trump of murdering Epstein and it’s even more shocking that Trump isn’t suing the Daily Beast over such an outrageous accusation.

Trump Rages About Claim He Killed Epstein: Author…The president has denied any involvement in the sex trafficker’s death, biographer Michael Wolff says.

Michael Wolff, a leftist journalist who communicated extensively with Epstein also wrote four books on Trump, here. As with everything with Trump, it’s always a media circus and Trump makes himself a highly visable target. Yes, it’s speculated that Wolff and Epstein were conspiring to hurt Trump but Trump is never just an innocent victim. He’s got a long and sleazy history of dirty deals; Trump is a guy who cheated with the porn star Stormy Daniels just weeks after his wife Melania gave birth to their son Barron.

Anyway, the Michael Wolff angle is interesting because of Wolff’s close relationship with Epstein.

Who is Michael Wolff, the journalist who emailed with Jeffrey Epstein about Donald Trump

Wolff has written four books about the Trump presidency, most recently “All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America,” published in February, on Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. His first book on the Trump presidency, 2018’s “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” drew pushback from the White House over what it claimed was false and possibly defamatory information on Trump. The publisher defended the accuracy of the reporting.

Wolff is also behind a Substack newsletter, Instagram account and podcast devoted to coverage of the president. He made headlines last year when he shared audio on his podcast, “Fire and Fury,” from a conversation he said he recorded with Epstein in 2017….

On Wednesday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released two email exchanges between Epstein and Wolff. They were among three newly released emails from a batch of more than 23,000 documents the committee recently received from the Epstein Estate in response to a subpoena.

“I probably have 100 hours of Epstein talking about the inner workings of the Trump White House and about his long-standing, deep relationship with Donald Trump,” Wolff said on the episode.

While I neither like or trust Trump, I did vote for him multiple times; yeah I was conned by America’s most notorious con man. However, I’m in no way implying that Trump murdered Epstein or ordered his murder as such accusations may have motive but lacks EVIDENCE. But if he did, it was on the orders of Israel and if Trump carried out the assassination of a federal prisoner on the orders of a foreign nation, well that is seriously serious shit. It would also imply that Israel was sitting on some very damning information on Trump which is why he’s so easily controlled and manipulated by Israel.

As the Trump-Epstein saga marches on, it’s raising far more questions than believable answers. Somehow it’s the convergence of the absurd with tabloid trash that brings light to the dark and America is definitely in a very dark place these days. The media refuses to do its job and the only real media is all the truths, untruths, facts and lies that happily percolate uncontrolled by the government’s censorship machine as the Internet, social media and independent journalists are still ferociously and doggedly digging for truth and justice.

Truth is always an uphill battle in America but we need to get to the truth of a lot of things: Trump, Israel, the J6 nightmare where innocent Trump supporters were jailed because of how they voted, the Russiagate horror that goes all the way up to President Obama, Hillary Clinton and other high ranking Obama officials as well as Biden and Trump censorship efforts. Many problems within the FBI and DOJ haven’t changed as the same folks who engineered the DC fake pipe bomb attack to trigger false terror accusations at Trump supporters are all abuses of government power that are beyond the pail.

Without truth, disclosure and justice, America cannot survive as a free and open nation.

Then there is the issue of the mysterious death of Charlie Kirk. Again, the official story has more holes than Swiss cheese while anybody who questions it is automatically labeled an antisemite and Nazi.

A nation reduced to name calling doesn’t have much of a future and a nation without it’s We the People sovereignty is doomed if the nation has been captured by a foreign power.

I am reposting (copy and paste) an article from Mercola.com that is banned by X. Elon Musk and X are so controlled by Big Pharm that they are censoring anything that isn’t a Big Pharm fix for a health condition. I am not a doctor nor am I endorsing this; I am merely providing information and advise folks to research the issue.

Banned Link https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2025/11/07/reversing-alzheimers-forgotten-causes-treatments.aspx?ui=94ef3da0b2a5b2fadf2e45917dc041d094f6cd19e02dd52e43ecea1f03ef4198&sd=20120305&cid_source=prnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20251107_HL2&foDate=true&mid=DM1836857&rid=428434827

Story at-a-glance

• Due to Alzheimer’s research focusing on a symptom of it (amyloid plaques), rather than its actual cause, Alzheimer’s has remained “incurable” for decades

• Rather than being a single disease, Alzheimer’s has multiple different subtypes (e.g., those due to insulin resistance, nutritional deficiencies, inflammation, infections, or concussions), each of which requires a different treatment

• Impaired blood circulation to the brain and lymphatic drainage from the brain are often the primary trigger that initiates the degenerative process seen in Alzheimer’s disease. Factors which impair this circulation (e.g., poor sleep) hence roughly double the risk of dementia, while treatments which improve this circulation frequently produce remarkable improvements for cognitive decline and dementia

• DMSO is an effective treatment for brain injuries like strokes, and well-suited to address many of the root causes of dementia and reverse the degenerative state that dying neurons get trapped in. Because of this, there are many reports of it reversing dementia and clinical trials in both humans and animals corroborating these improvements

• This article will review the actual causes of dementias like Alzheimer’s and the forgotten therapies many have successfully used to cure them

Alzheimer’s dementia is one of the most significant medical challenges our country faces (e.g., it places an incredible burden upon society, e.g., last year it was estimated to cost the United States 360 billion dollars).¹ Yet, despite spending billions for research each year, cures remain elusive, something many believe results from the flawed belief that eliminating the amyloid plaques associated with Alzheimer’s will fix it. In turn, as I showed here:

•Decades of amyloid therapies have never produced a beneficial treatment.

•The newest “breakthrough” amyloid-eliminating monoclonal antibodies, at best slightly slow the progression of Alzheimer’s while simultaneously causing a host of side effects, including brain bleeding and swelling in over a quarter of recipients.

•The entire amyloid industry rests upon a fraudulent study no one wanted to retract due to how much was invested in the amyloid hypothesis.

In short, the money behind this juggernaut has caused research into the real causes of Alzheimer’s to be suppressed. For example, here I highlighted how coconut oil MCTs (safely) do more than any of the costly amyloid drugs — yet virtually no one knows this.²

Dale Bredesen’s Discovery

Many are also unaware of a 2022 study that should have revolutionized the entire Alzheimer’s field:³

That protocol was based on Dale Bredesen’s insightful realizations that:⁴

•Amyloid protein is a protective mechanism the brain uses to protect itself from stressors that endanger brain tissue — making attempts to treat Alzheimer’s by eliminating it are doomed to fail.

•The brain is designed to be able to adapt to the needs of life, so it is always creating or pruning neural connections and brain cells. Alzheimer’s results from the loss of signals that sustain brain cells and the dismantling of neural connections, outweighing the formation of new neural connections, a process that gradually compounds over the decades.

•Rather than there being one type of Alzheimer’s, there are actually multiple types that each require different treatment approaches.

Note: Beyond the 2022 trial, which showed individually targeted therapies could shift the brain’s momentum from neurological degeneration to regrowth,⁵ a 2018 report of 100 patients from numerous providers also showed it treated Alzheimer’s,⁶ as did a 2024 case series of patients with remarkable results,⁷ and there are now neurologists around the country administering Bredesen’s protocol with success.

The 6 Types of Alzheimer’s Disease

As this understanding of Alzheimer’s has produced tangible results, this suggests the causes of Alzheimer’s that Bredesen identified indeed play a key role in the disease — particularly since many other datasets corroborate their contribution to Alzheimer’s. They are as follows:

•Type 1 — Inflammatory — This form is driven by excessive inflammation, often metabolic or infectious in nature. Chronic activation of the immune system — due to factors such as insulin resistance, a poor diet, a leaky gut, or latent infections — leads the brain to engage in protective downsizing by removing synapses and neurons that are less essential for immediate survival. It often presents with classic Alzheimer’s memory loss and typically develops in the sixties to seventies.

•Type 1.5 — Glycotoxic — This subtype arises from insulin resistance and chronically elevated blood sugar. It leads to both inflammatory and trophic deficiencies, and is driven by glycotoxicity and the accumulation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs), which impair cellular function and synaptic integrity. It typically appears in the late fifties to sixties.

Note: Chronically elevated insulin promotes amyloid formation, as the enzyme the body uses to break down insulin is the same enzyme it uses to break down amyloid plaques.⁸

•Type 2 — Atrophic — This type is caused by deficiencies in key nutrients, hormones, and other factors that provide trophic (supportive) signals to brain cells, which then triggers a similar downsizing mechanism seen in Type 1. Type 2 tends to emerge about a decade later than Type 1.

Note: We find these nutritional deficiencies can result from poor circulation reducing existing nutrients reaching brain tissue, and hence often focus on improving circulation rather than extended supplementation.

•Type 3 — Toxic — This subtype results from exposure to toxic substances that directly damage neurons. Common culprits include biotoxins, chronic infections, heavy metals, and industrial or household chemicals. Causative infections (discussed further here) include Cytomegalovirus, Human Herpesvirus 1 or 6, Lyme disease, dental bacteria that can travel to the brain (e.g., P. gingivalis), and various fungal infections (as mold toxins are notorious for causing cognitive impairment at all ages).

Type 3 uniquely causes widespread and often unpredictable neuronal death, occurs earlier in life — often between the forties and sixties — and is less strongly associated with genetic risk factors. Cognitive decline in this type is frequently accompanied by psychiatric symptoms, sensory changes, or executive dysfunction (e.g., difficulty with math, organization, executive tasks), rather than the more classic early Alzheimer’s memory loss.

Note: Some of the most important neurotoxins to avoid are pharmaceuticals, and when I meet elderly individuals who have preserved their mental clarity, many report having largely avoided pharmaceuticals throughout their lives.

Some of the most common problematic medications for brain health include certain high blood pressure medications (because they lower cerebral perfusion), statins (as they inhibit the production of compounds essential for brain function), acid reflux medications (which interfere with the absorption of vital brain nutrients — making it critical for everyone to have adequate stomach acid), antidepressants, antipsychotics, benzodiazepines, antihistamines (since, like many sleeping pills, they block restorative sleep), and anticholinergics (such as those prescribed for incontinence).

•Type 4 — Vascular — In this form, chronic restriction of cerebral blood flow from existing vascular diseases leads to gradual neuronal injury and cognitive decline. Type 4 often appears in the seventies or beyond) and may overlap with other subtypes. It tends to affect processing speed, attention, and executive function rather than memory alone.

Note: Rapid cognitive decline frequently followed COVID vaccination, and significantly overlapped with this type.

•Type 5 — Traumatic — Severe head traumas or repeated concussions (e.g., in professional football players)⁹ set off a cascade of chronic degenerative processes that cause cognitive and emotional dysfunction to appear years or decades after the injuries — making it critical to prevent these injuries and seek appropriate treatment when head traumas happen.

Note: There are a variety of causes of dementia, many of which are frequently (roughly half the time)^10,11 misdiagnosed as Alzheimer’s. In many cases, these respond to the same treatments which reverse Alzheimer’s, but in other cases, require different treatments.

Healthy Fluid Circulation

Many practitioners I know who’ve successfully treated dementia with a variety of methods (listed here) all concluded it resulted from impairments of blood flow to the brain and lymphatic or venous drainage from it. For example:

•Zeta potential provides the disperse force which keeps constituents within fluids from agglomerating and clogging the circulatory vessels (e.g., vaccines frequently trigger detectable microstrokes by causing blood cells to clump together).

In a myriad of illnesses, we find restoring the physiologic zeta potential (discussed here) is pivotal for restoring health — particularly those associated with aging, as zeta potential worsens with age (due to declining kidney function). In turn, one of the physicians who inspired my medical path did so because his practice revolved around treating zeta potential and he repeatedly achieved significant cognitive improvements for his aging patients.

Note: Impaired zeta potential will also cause proteins (e.g., amyloids) to misfold and clump together.

•China recently developed a surgery (detailed here) to increase the lymphatic drainage from the brain. Due to its low cost, it is being rapidly adopted nationwide. In parallel, an American procedure was developed to increase venous drainage from the head and reported to greatly improve multiple sclerosis along with other chronic neuroimmune disorders (which distant colleagues witnessed).

Note: I have seen many other circulatory enhancing therapies (listed here) also improve cognitive decline and dementia.

Furthermore, beyond blood being vital for neuronal survival, the proper clearance of waste products from the brain is as well. Unfortunately, due to how limited space is for the brain within the skull, robust lymphatic vessels do not exist, and instead, lymphatic drainage is created by astrocytes creating temporary lymphatic vessels around blood vessels during deep sleep.

This system, in turn, is highly vulnerable to disruption, and numerous studies have now linked impaired glymphatic drainage to dementia¹² (e.g., TBIs impair glymphatic drainage¹³ and adequate glymphatic drainage is required to eliminate amyloid from the brain)¹⁴ — which likely inspired the Chinese surgical procedure for dementia.

Due to the fragility of this system, disruptions are quite consequential (e.g., a poor zeta potential thickens and slows the drainage of glymphatic fluids). For example, as glymphatic drainage only occurs during deep sleep, inadequate sleep has been extensively linked to dementia¹⁵ (e.g., one study found sleep disruption increased dementia by 104%,¹⁶ another by 22% to 50%,¹⁷ and a third saw a 139% increase¹⁸ — along with another finding that sleep disruption caused a 71% increase in mild cognitive impairment).¹⁹

Likewise, disrupted sleep was recently shown to accelerate the accumulation of amyloid plaques,²⁰ and in another study, to mitigate the cognitive impairment created by Alzheimer’s plaques.²¹ Unfortunately, the pathologic proteins in Alzheimer’s have been shown to directly disrupt restorative sleep²² and to take away the ability to recognize one is suffering from impaired sleep²³ — demonstrating why it is so important to restore your healthy sleep before the momentum of dementia has entrenched itself.

Note: Sleeping pills block restorative sleep, and have a variety of issues (e.g., they make users 2 to 5 times as likely to die^24,25). Regarding dementia, multiple studies have found that sleeping pills increase the risk of it by 17% to 84%.^26,27,28,29

The Life of Cells and Neuroplasticity

One of the things I continually marvel at about nature is not only the ability of a species to genetically adapt to its environment, but the inherent adaptability each organism has within its own lifespan to adapt to its own environment. Within the human body, there are many systems that are designed to change based on the needs of one’s environment (e.g., this is why weight training creates larger muscles), and among the most adaptable is the nervous system.

So, at any given moment, neural circuits that support certain activities are reinforced, while other circuits are pruned and eventually disabled, a process that allows the nervous system to adapt to the complex needs of its environment. At the same time, many complex neurological and psychiatric disorders arise from a momentum being established where dysfunctional neurological circuits perpetually reinforce themselves.

For these disorders to be treated, momentum must instead be built around a healthy circuit (for those interested, this is the best book I have seen on the subject).³⁰ This momentum is a key reason why it is so important to have healthy thought patterns and regularly actively exercise your brain (another core component of programs for preventing Alzheimer’s).

If you do the opposite (e.g., watch TV all day), dysfunctional patterns can become established habits, while neurological damage occurs as parts of the brain you need but under utilize are pruned away.

A key way the brain accomplishes this adaptability is by eliminating neurons that are no longer deemed essential. Bredesen’s theory of Alzheimer’s is that it results from the balance between preserving and eliminating neurons being shifted towards removing them,³¹ which inevitably will result in cognitive decline.

Within Bredesen’s model, the amyloid protein plays a key role in this process,³² as when it is initially formed as the amyloid precursor protein (APP), it can then be split into two or four parts. If it is divided into two parts, those parts protect the neurological function in the brain. In comparison, if it is divided into four parts, the neurological function of the brain is damaged, and brain cells are eliminated.

Interestingly, its splitting into four parts causes future APPs to be split into four parts as well (creating a downward spiral). As a result, Brenden’s approach focuses on regaining a healthy momentum towards the two-part splitting while also providing the signals cells within the body require to survive.

The Cell Danger Response

When cells are exposed to external stressors, they often enter a primitive defensive metabolic cycle where they partially or fully “turn off” (e.g., mitochondrial respiration and protein synthesis within the cell decline) to protect themselves. Many chronic diseases, in turn, result from cells being trapped in this degenerative cycle (which often leads to cell death) rather than exiting it and resuming their normal function. Likewise, many therapies in regenerative medicine work by removing cells from this frozen metabolic state.

Because of this, many complex illnesses (e.g., COVID vaccine injuries, fibromyalgia, or autism) can only be treated if the underlying trigger for the cell danger response is removed. Then a regenerative therapy is provided which signals cells to exit the CDR. Similarly:

“The principle that blocking protein synthesis prevents long-term memory storage was discovered many years ago. With age, there is a marked decline of protein synthesis in the brain that correlates with defects in proper protein folding. Accumulation of misfolded proteins can activate the integrated stress response (ISR), an evolutionary conserved pathway that decreases protein synthesis. In this way, the ISR may have a causative role in age-related cognitive decline.”

In turn, much as treatments for the CDR often facilitate dementia treatment, therapies that inhibit the ISR have been found to restore the structure and function of brain cells and improve a variety of age-related memory deficits.^33,34

DMSO

Dimethyl sulfoxide has a variety of unique therapeutic properties that allow it to treat a variety of diseases (e.g., it is miraculous for strokes and brain injuries), and in the year since I began publicizing this forgotten therapy, I have received thousands of remarkable reports of it treating numerous “incurable illnesses.”

Much of this results from DMSO’s ability to restore normal circulation, protect cells from lethal stressors, and revive shocked cells trapped in the CDR. As such, since the start of the series, in addition to receiving many reports from readers who saved themselves or a loved one from a disabling stroke with DMSO, many have also shared stories like this:

“My uncle’s wife has dementia and has been unable to speak for over a year.³⁵ My mom recently visited them and told them about DMSO. He began to give his wife DMSO orally. After two weeks she began to talk again.”

Numerous studies (detailed here) have corroborated DMSO’s ability to treat dementia. These include:

•When cerebral blood flow was permanently reduced in rats, one study found DMSO prevented the neuronal and memory loss that otherwise resulted,³⁶ while another found DMSO given afterwards treated it.^37,38 Similar benefits have also been seen after Alzheimer’s was induced by injecting toxins into the brain,^39,40 Likewise, in mice (or nematodes) engineered to develop Alzheimer’s, DMSO has been repeatedly shown to prevent the expected neurological damage.^41,42,43

•DMSO has also been shown⁴⁴ to prevent the neuronal damage from experimentally induced Parkinson’s and preserve the cognitive function of mice bred to rapidly develop severe degeneration of the cerebellum and brainstem.^45,46

Note: IV DMSO is one of the few therapies I have come across which can halt Parkinson’s. To some extent oral DMSO helps as well (e.g., see this reader’s comment).⁴⁷

•DMSO has also been shown to treat scrapie (a neurodegenerative prion disease from abnormal protein aggregates) in hamsters,⁴⁸ to increase the activity of ALP the intercellular enzyme which eliminates cellular waste (including misfolded proteins),⁴⁹ and in a large number of studies, to treat amyloidosis (pathologic accumulations of pathologic proteins.

In humans:

•18 patients with probable Alzheimer’s after three months, DMSO caused a significant improvement in memory, concentration, communication, and orientation to time and space.⁵⁰

•In 104 elderly adults with organic brain disease from the common causes (e.g., strokes, atherosclerosis, Parkinson’s, or head injuries), DMSO greatly improved their psychic and somatic function.⁵¹

•In 100 patients with cerebrovascular diseases CVD, many of whom were senile, over 50 days DMSO caused almost all to have a significant improvement in their CVD, along with significant improvements in mood, mobility, and speech.⁵²

Conclusion

Medicine revolves around finding unique molecular targets for which disease specific treatments can be patented. Unfortunately, this model frequently fails in chronic illnesses, leading to grotesque situations like the one described here, where natural therapies, which can address the actual causes of devastating illnesses are sidelined to protect each disease’s lucrative “treatment” market.

This needs to change, and for the first time in my lifetime, thanks to MAHA, the political will at last exists to begin addressing the real reasons why there continues to be so much chronic illness in our society. The opportunity to make cognitive decline no longer an inevitable aspect of aging is finally here — if we dare to seize it!

Author’s Note: This is an abridged version of a longer article which discusses the actual causes and treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and the cognitive decline which precedes it. That article, along with additional links and references, can be read here. Additionally, a companion article on how DMSO treats neurological injuries (e.g., strokes, brain hemorrhages, traumatic brain injuries, spinal paralysis, and developmental delay) can be read here.

A Note from Dr. Mercola About the Author

A Midwestern Doctor (AMD) is a board-certified physician from the Midwest and a longtime reader of Mercola.com. I appreciate AMD’s exceptional insight on a wide range of topics and am grateful to share it. I also respect AMD’s desire to remain anonymous since AMD is still on the front lines treating patients. To find more of AMD’s work, be sure to check out The Forgotten Side of Medicine on Substack.

Before I get into my analysis on why the Democrats won bigly last night, I want to dislose my own personal political identity. This independent, Libertarian leaning, Constitutionalist and antiwar activist rarely votes Repubublican but I voted for Trump multiple times. Yeah, I’m done voting R unless the candidate is Thomas Massie, Rand Paul or Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Republicans got crushed on Nov. 3, 2025 and the victors were clearly the CIA (now runs Virginia), socialists, commies and statists. I attribute the humiliating defeat to Donald Trump whose arrogant asshole antics have been turning off voters for quite some time. Every time Trump opens his mouth, people cringe! Also, all the weak, cowardly and worthless Republicans who stand with him are a huge problem.

On a note of irony, Trump won bigly in 2024 because a ton of folks who neither liked or trusted him voted for him just to rid the country of Biden/Harris and the Dems; I was among them. Now the game is GET RID OF TRUMP and the TRUMPIES as blind loyalty to Trump carries a stiff price. Yes, all those independents and Libertarians who voted for Trump are sick and sick of Trump. There are many issues where Trump and Gang are a BIG FAIL but here are a few.

FOREIGN POLICY: Endless wars include Trump’s vigorous endorsement of Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing. He’s about to militarily invade Venezuela just to steal its oil. Trump refuses to end the Democrats proxy war on Russia started by Obama in 2014, and he continues to put the world at risk of a nuclear war. Trump can’t resist threatening any nation that defies him.

Remember this, what a freaking joke:

Trump is the most dangerous foreign policy president in a long time because he’s an unhinged bully and definitely no diplomat or statesman. He’s crude, vulgar and condescending to all who disagree with him.

ISRAEL: Like many Americans, I once blindly supported Israel because I believed that Israel was the victim. Well, that has definitely changed and many Americans share my view. After witnesssing the genocide, massive bombing destruction and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, all supported by Trump and our tax dollars, the American people are sick of Israel, sick its crimes and sick of Israel literally having the keys to the US Treasury. We are also learning that AIPAC buys Congress and those who cannot be bought/bribed like Massie and Greene are targeted by Israel and AIPAC to be removed from Congress.

Image of Gaza and what America taxdollars did: death and destruction as far as the eye can see:

TRUMP ECONOMY and DOLLAR DESTRUCTION: Trump’s Tariffs have been such a disaster that American businesses are suffering and closing. All these horrors are compounded by Trump’s Big Beautiful bill that adds trillions to our mountain of debt while fueling inflation and dollar destruction. The Trump economy sucks and voters expressed that view in exit polls. Trump doesn’t seem to care about We the People or domestic issues and is exclusively focused on massively funding his war machine which seems to be his top priority.

CIVIL LIBERTIES: Trump’s draconian assaults on free speech are horrifying as he and his administration are solidly Israel First and are viciously silencing any and all criticism of Israel’s crimes.

IMMIGRATION: Yes, many Americans want curbs on immigration but locking up American citizens because they are Hispanic, calling them illegals, and rounding up illegals just working to feed their families was grotesquely stupid and absolutely backfired. Most Americans are compassionate folks who were appalled by Trump haphazardly rounding up and hauling immigrants off to prison tents in Florida surrounded by alligators. Many Trumpies cheered this horror and even bitched that they had cable TV, Internet and were being fed good food.

WHITE HOUSE and DC: One of most loved things about the White House is that presidents move in an out without leaving much of a trace...literally gone and hopefully forgotten. The White House is a rather simple building and hardly ornate like typical imperial palaces. Trump is changing all that as he plots to leave a vile and monstrous TRUMP footprint on the president’s house. From decorating the WH with gold to bulldozing part of the White House to accomodate his hideous Gold Ballroom to designing an obnoxious Arch De Trump are all symbols of grandiosity and an ego on steroids. NO, America does not need an Imperial City let alone a Trump Imperial City.

GENERAL: As many Americans struggle financially and economically, Trump and Gang are oblivious to the plight of ordinary working class Americans, their suffering and challenges. Trump’s economic vision is clearly corporatist, fascist and statist. As Trump recklessly spends, he’s also threatening to cut off 40 million folks from food stamps. I’m all for reducing entitlements but the timing is just not right to deny folks food. While the Trumpies live in the delusion that food stamps are used by illegals and folks who refuse to work, I personally know several retired folks who depend on them to eat. Food stamp use is accelerating among fixed income folks; the cost of living goes up but their incomes don’t.

Also, Trump reneged on just about every campaign promise he made and this will drive independents away from the Republican Party, a party we never really trusted and now a party that mocks us.

The bloviating BS artist occupying the WH along with his policies will haunt the GOP for a long time. Trump has brought dark days upon America.

Well, that is damn accurate observation and it was facilitated with federal revenue sharing and grants to the states which resulted in the states losing their sovereignty and America losing our republic. Once the states could implement welfare programs with federal dollars that it could not tax its citizens to fund, the foundation for socialism was laid. The states went crazy spending federal dollars.

As is clear in the above map of federal revenue sharing/aid, state budgets are dependent on federal funding for whopping percentages of total spending.

As the federal government grows, individual liberty shrinks accordingly. The massive increase of raw and absolute power in DC has forced the states to transition from the sovereign entities envisioned by our founders to beggar states who hire expensive lobbyists to bribe Congress Critters for funding.

Republicans will blame the Democrats for a lot of this very hot mess but Republicans are just as guilty as the Democrats. While the Democratic Party has been called the Party of Cheap Votes, the Republican Party has been called the Party of Cheap Labor. Businesses fill the campaign coffers of both parties because they LOVE cheap labor, labor so cheap that workers are eligible for welfare benefits. As corporations pay (bribe) Congress Critters to offload the costs of hiring employees (healthcare, pensions etc.) to the taxpayers, it’s clearly a form of corporate welfare because corporations get a competitive advantage from cheap labor. Yeah, firing American workers and hiring cheap immigrants absolutely lowers their costs!

Federal revenue sharing and grants didn’t start out as open border and cheap labor schemes, and actually started out as a form of vote buying but businesses could clearly see the advantage of massive federal welfare programs.

The concept of federal revenue sharing has been around since the 1930’s. Grok explains:

Origins and Conceptional Development

The concept of federal revenue sharing in the United States emerged in the mid-20th century amid growing concerns about the balance of power in American federalism. During the New Deal era of the 1930s and the Great Society programs of the 1960s under President Lyndon B. Johnson, the federal government expanded its role through categorical grants—funds allocated for specific purposes like education, health, or infrastructure. These grants came with strict conditions, leading to criticisms that they created bureaucratic inefficiencies and encroached on state and local autonomy. By the early 1960s, state and local governments argued that the national government was gaining too much policy-making power at their expense.

In 1964, President Johnson appointed a Presidential Task Force on Revenue Sharing, which proposed distributing federal funds to states with minimal conditions attached. Although no immediate action was taken, this laid the groundwork for future reforms. During the Johnson administration, elements of revenue sharing appeared in legislation like the Partnership for Health Act of 1966 and the Safe Streets Act of 1968, which allowed states some flexibility in spending federal funds on health and law enforcement. These were precursors to "special revenue sharing," where funds were targeted but with broader discretion than traditional categorical grants.

Enactment Under President Nixon

The idea gained traction under President Richard Nixon, who championed "New Federalism" to devolve power back to states and localities. In 1969, Nixon proposed General Revenue Sharing (GRS), a program to provide unrestricted federal funds based on population, fiscal capacity, and tax effort. Despite congressional objections—such as federal deficits, loss of spending control, and potential diversion of funds from needy urban areas—the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972 (P.L. 92-512) was signed into law. This marked the formal launch of the U.S. GRS program, the most prominent example of federal revenue sharing.

Under GRS, funds were drawn from general federal tax revenues (primarily individual and corporate income taxes) and distributed with few strings attached. Recipients could use the money for priorities like police and fire protection, health services, highways, libraries, or public building renovations.

https://x.com/i/grok?conversation=1967321345122861470

Federal revenue sharing and aid exists in many forms and is now merely labeled federal grants to states and local governments. It’s growth has been dramatic and in recent years aid to the states has been a trillion or more for the last 4 years according to Grok. In fact, Grok claims that the federal government aka federal taxpayers doled out to the states in 2023 $650 billion for Medicaid, welfare programs called income security $200 billion and education/transportation $150 billion.

Medicaid spending is exploding and out of control. Since folks cannot afford subsidized Obamacare or other health insurance, they are increasingly eligible for Medicaid, a program with severe problems but growth on steroids. However, Medicaid was always intended to be a GROWTH industry as well as a backdoor to socialized/nationalized healthcare.

SKYROCKETING MEDICAID WELFARE SPENDING DRIVEN BY WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE

Over the fiscal year 2025 - 2034 period, the Congressional Budget Ofce (CBO) projects $8.2 trillion in Medicaid spending.

After the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, annual Medicaid spending increased by onethird, growing from $302 billion in FY 2014 to $409 billion in FY 2019.

Throughout and even after the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government paid states to keep millions of ineligible individuals on the Medicaid rolls. The Biden administration then implemented the "Maintaining Enrollment in Medicaid Rule" to restrict states from cleaning up their rolls and verifying eligibility.

This year, Medicaid welfare spending is expected to be $656 billion. By FY 2034, annual Medicaid spending is projected to reach $986 billion.

We aren’t even talking about federally funded Medicare or medical benefits for the military and their families. For now I’m just focusing on what the federal government sends to the states to fund state programs that probably wouldn’t exist without federal funding.

For years Democrats have been screaming that illegal immigrants do not collect welfare but when the Trump Adm. started taking steps to cut off welfare for illegals, the Democrats went nuts. Yes, a lot of states give Medicaid to illegals along with other benefits.

More states extend health coverage to immigrants even as issue inflames GOP

A growing number of states are opening taxpayer-funded health insurance programs to immigrants, including those living in the U.S. without authorization..

States can easily afford to give illegals taxpayer funded benefits, benefits that are partially paid for by hardworking Americans. Some call it ‘growing socialism’ but it’s also taxpayer funded vote buying.

A lot of the federal money has been used to fund legal and illegal immigration along with numerous entitlement programs for immigrants. So when Democrat controlled states like CA and NY scream for open borders, taxpayers in those state are not footing the entire bill. Hardworking Americans who pay federal taxes are. Now it’s also important to understand that not all federal grants go to immigrants. Federal government accounting and grant money is complicated and funds a lot of things besides Medicaid and welfare for citizens and non citizens.

Let’s look at California. I asked Grok: How much federal aid and federal revenue sharing does California get.

Grok responds:

Federal Aid to California: Federal aid (often referred to as federal funding or grants) to California encompasses a wide range of expenditures, including direct transfers to state and local governments for programs like Medicaid (Medi-Cal), education, transportation, and welfare, as well as funds for federal employees, contracts, retirees, and veterans in the state. This is broader than just grants to state/local entities.

Most Recent Comprehensive Data (FY 2022): California received approximately $609 billion in total federal funding. This includes COVID-related funds; excluding them, the figure drops to about $566 billion. Of this, around $161.7 billion went directly to state and local governments (e.g., 59% for public welfare like Medi-Cal and TANF, 21% for other purposes like education and infrastructure).

FY 2023/2024 Trends: Preliminary data for FY 2023 shows California receiving about $78 billion less in federal spending than taxes paid, implying total aid around $614 billion (based on taxes paid of $692 billion). For FY 2024, federal funds flowing through California's state budget alone are projected at $174.6 billion (one-third of the state's total budget), primarily for health/human services ($136.6 billion, including $119.3 billion for Medi-Cal). Total aid is likely similar to 2022 levels ($600 billion), adjusted for inflation and ongoing programs like the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

New York is another Democrat controlled state that advocates for open borders and taxpayer funded benefits for illegals but New York citizens also benefits from a lot of federal money. Grok reports:

New York is another Democrat controlled state that advocates for open borders and taxpayer funded benefits for illegals but New York citizens also benefits from a lot of federal money. Grok reports:

SFY 2025 (April 2024–March 2025): $96.7 billion in federal funding, representing 38% of New York's total state revenue of $249 billion. This supports critical services for nearly 3 million residents via programs like SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) and funds 4.7% of state employees (9,009 full-time equivalents).

FFY 2022 (latest comprehensive USAFacts total, including state and local governments): $117.5 billion in federal transfers to New York state and local entities. Of this, 58% ($68.15 billion) went to public welfare (e.g., Medicaid and TANF), 20% to other categories like education and transportation.

Red states also clean up with the Federal government dollars but they aren’t screaming for open borders and more illegals, well not openly anyway because red states also have their campaign coffers filled with corporate money addicted to cheap labor and government welfare programs.

When we look at the monster that DC aka Fedzilla has become, it’s clear that the transfer of raw and absolutely power from We the People to DC was not only the end of our republic but also the beginning of a massive federal government addicted to spending on wars and other slop while placating the restless voters with socialism. It all started with revenue sharing.

Of course, if we had sound money instead of the Federal Reserve’s license to print fiat money to fund all this insanity, America would still be a solvent republic instead of a failed empire collapsing under the burden of $37 trillion in debt.

Meanwhile, Americans can ponder this chart.

In 2014, #PresidentObama, #VictoriaNuland and the #CIA engineered regime change in Ukraine, tossed the last legitimately elected government and installed Russian hating thugs in power in Kiev, many of whom were murderous neo-Nazis.

The goal of Obama, Nuland and the CIA was to ethnically cleanse aka murder the Russian speaking folks in the East. In pursuit of this goal, Obama authorized the arming/funding of Russian hating groups including deadly Nazi groups like the #AzovBattalion. As the civilian death toll of Russian speaking Ukrainians piled up, #Putin intervened on a humanitarian basis to save the lives of Russian speaking folks. The US accused Putin of an act of aggression by invading Ukraine. This is NOT true as there are profound differences between a humanitarian intervention (Putin) to save lives and a murderous intervention to kill an ethnic group (US).

#Crimea is another piece of the US created mess in Ukraine. However, the Crimeans and Putin outsmarted the US and Obama neocons. As the Russian speaking Crimeans witnessed the US engineered slaughter of the Russian speaking folks in the East, the Russian speaking Ukrainians held a referendum and voted (over 95%) to become part of Russia. Russian protection was the critical motivating factor because the alternative was becoming a sitting duck for US aggression, and death and destruction by US bombs.

Under President Trump, things were quiet in Ukraine although Trump continued to arm Ukraine. Trump the Salesman loved being the chief salesman for the MIC and defense contractors. When Biden was installed in the White House, Biden and the #Democrats ignited a full fledged proxy war on Russia. The Ukraine War has consumed over a million human lives.

Ukraine was also the playground of the #BidenCrimeFamily and #HunterBiden...they made millions in illegal pay to play schemes.

This is a very volatile situation that can trigger a global war between 2 nuclear armed nations. The sheer insanity of US foreign policy is a murderous nightmare that puts the world at risk of mushroom clouds.

As President Trump meets with Putin in Alaska on August 15, there is no doubt that Trump and Putin negotiators have been hammering out some kind of agreement for months. They aren’t meeting to negotiate but to announce something.

While it’s clear that Putin wants a permanent and enduring peace deal, I fear Trump will just reject Putin’s goal and instead op for a ceasefire to hammer out more details that will continue this never ending war. Of course, Putin knows this and he also knows that Trump is no partner in peace given that Trump the Bloviating Bully keeps increasing sanctions and tariffs on Russia while aggressively punishing Russia’s oil customers with obscenely punitive tariffs.

Trump has effectively crowned himself Emperor of the Planet and seeks to control all resources and all for the benefit of the American Military Empire of course. Those who refuse the genuflect before America will be severely punished. Yes, the world HATES what America has become.

Meanwhile, the world desperate needs PEACE. The Ukrainians want peace. Americans want peace and everybody wants peace because agitating for an escalation of a conflict between two nuclear armed nations is quite horrifying.

The ball is definitely in Trump’s court…it’s his opportunity to shine as a man of peace. NO, I’m not holding my breath that Trump will deliver but I hope I’m wrong!!

More information on Ukraine and Crimea:

What Americans Need To Know About Ukraine, Crimea and Who Started This Horror That's Killed A Million Or More. Everything the US media has fed the American Public is a big fat lie. Neither Russia or Putin started this war.

Ukraine and Crimea - A US Foreign Policy Disaster That Could Trigger a NUCLEAR World War if the Democrats, Neocons and the MIC have their way. Triggering a world war with a nuclear armed nation is deadly, dangerous & threatens poisonous mushroom clouds for the planet and its people.

Ukraine, The Corrupt Country With Strong Biden Ties That Is Being Used To Trigger WW III With Nuclear Armed Russia…Crimea Is Another Piece Of the Neocon Geopolitical Plan..What is Going On and How Did We Get Here?

The mess in #Ukraine in a nutshell: in 2014, #PresidentObama, #VictoriaNuland and the #CIA engineered a regime change op, tossed the last legitimately elected government and installed Russian hating thugs in power in Kiev, many of whom were murderous neo-Nazi groups. It was the beginning of America’s proxy war on Russia.

The goal of Obama, Nuland and the CIA was to ethnically cleanse aka murder the Russian speaking folks in the East. In pursuit of this goal, Obama authorized the arming/funding of Russian hating groups including deadly Nazi groups like the #AzovBattalion. The slaughter of Russian speaking Ukrainians and the destruction of their communities was horrific.

As the death toll of America’s brutal war on Russian speaking Ukrainians piled up, #Putin intervened on a humanitarian basis to save the lives of Russian speaking folks. The US accused Putin of an act of aggression by invading Ukraine. This is NOT true as there are profound differences between a humanitarian intervention (Putin) to save lives and a murderous intervention to kill an ethnic group (US).

#Crimea is another piece of the mess in Ukraine. However, the Crimeans and Putin outsmarted the US and Obama neocons. As the Russian speaking Crimeans witnessed the US engineered slaughter of the Russian speaking folks in the East, they held a referendum and voted (over 95%) to become part of Russia. Russian protection was the critical motivating factor because the alternative was becoming a sitting duck for US aggression, death and destruction by US bombs.

Under President Trump’s first term, things were quiet in Ukraine although Trump continued to arm Ukraine BUT he refused to escalate into a far more dangerous confrontation with Russia. When Biden was installed in the White House, Biden and the #Democrats ignited a full fledged proxy war on Russia. Ukraine was the playground of the #BidenCrimeFamily and #HunterBiden...they made millions in illegal pay to play schemes. Hundreds of billion of US taxpayer dollars have gone to Ukraine, all approved by Congress of course. Ukraine is so corrupt that the general perception is that it’s the money laundering capital of the world. It’s also been alleged that US taxpayer dollars were somehow laundered back to Democrats and organizations controlled by Democrats who were the ringleaders of Ukraine money laundering schemes and scams.

This was a very volatile situation that held the potential to trigger a global war between 2 nuclear armed nations. However, a much needed miracle occurred on November 5, 2024 when the American people elected Donald Trump president….a staggering and shocking defeat for the Dems who lost all 7 swing states.

Trump campaigned on ending the Ukraine War and he’s working to deliver on that promise. Trump Administration officials and Putin Administration officials have already met in Saudi Arabia to open peace negotiations. Both Trump and Putin are committed to achieving a lasting peace in Ukraine and finally ending this war.

https://www.russiamatters.org/news/russia-ukraine-war-report-card/russia-ukraine-war-report-card-feb-19-2025

Trump is fed up with Zelensky who is pretty much irrelevant at this point, as evidence by Trump’s blistering February 19th tweet:

I believe that President Trump and President Putin will hammer out a peace deal, although it will be difficult and very challenging. America’s neocons and especially the Dems are already accusing Trump of being Putin’s puppet but that’s nothing new. Republican neocons, Democrats and European leaders are prepared to wage a full blown war on Russia and explode planet earth into a nuclear holocaust.

Only two men are prepared to stop this horror. Trump and Putin.

As Americans become increasingly aware that the US government is a primary source of censorship, disinformation and misinformation, we are left scratching our heads wondering HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?

The US government’s raw and absolute power over the information pipeline of MSM in the US finally exploded sensationally and came to light in the First Amendment case known as Murthy V. Missouri (originally Missouri v Biden) that reached the Supreme Court. The plaintiffs challenged the power of the Biden Administration to censor them on the basis that it was a violation of their First Amendment rights. In a shocking 6-3 ruling in June, 2024, SCOTUS ruled that government censorship cannot be challenged because the plaintiffs lacked standing. If the government censors you, you have no legal standing to even fight for your First Amendment rights! Welcome to Gestapo America.

”In a stunning 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Biden Administration’s policy of deleting, suppressing, and deplatforming specific people, topics, and ideas is immune from suit, leaving no one able to challenge it in court.”

Supreme Court Rules Horribly on Most Important Free Speech Case in a Century — Murthy v. Missouri

With the government free to lie and control all big media information, the Supreme Court absolutely reinforced its repugnant totalitarian stripes. After all, the First Amendment was once considered SACRED in America but not anymore. It’s quite arrogant of the highest court in the land to unconstitutionally nullify the First Amendment contained in the Bill of Rights and all without a Constitutional amendment. The Divine Nine who occupy SCOTUS are mostly arrogant judicial supremacists. The law and Constitution are whatever they say it is and the Court’s disdain for the Constitution and liberty is indeed appalling.

We didn’t get to this sorry place suddenly. It’s something that has been festering and advancing for decades.

A lot of it starts with a 1948 law known as the Smith-Mundt Act that actually outlawed the right of the government to flatout lie to the American people. The US was spreading massive propaganda and lies through the Voice of America and other government funded media that focused exclusively on foreign operations, with particular emphasis on Russia and Eastern Europe. The law specifically banned the US government from using its vast powers to spread propaganda and lies in America.

President Obama is responsible for gutting the Smith-Mundt Act. He didn’t actually repeal the Smith-Mundt Act but he amended it and to the point where it became a useless toothless paper tiger as a ban on government lies to the American people.

Obama repealed this 1948 act so he could flood our media with endless propaganda…

Peeling back the layers of the Obama era is like opening Pandora’s box and finding out it’s deeper than we thought. Obama might have slithered out of the White House without a flashy “legacy” tag, but he sure did leave a mess. It’s as if he was the Dems and Deep State’s MVP, playing a long game we’re still trying to wrap our heads around. He wasn’t just about making policy changes; he was on a mission to infiltrate every corner of our sacred institutions and flip them inside out for his—and their—advantage. Just look what he did by weaponizing the intel community, churches, health care, and so much more. But if you think Obama had nothing to do with the wild turn our media took, guess again. Obama had a hand in turning our media into a progressive propaganda machine.

How did he do it? Well, back in 2013, he made a move to ditch the Smith-Mundt Act, basically rolling out the red carpet for propaganda in our national media. This wasn’t just a small change; it was a game changer for how stories are told and sold to us to this day.

Here’s more information on the Smith-Mundt Act and Smith-Mundt Modernization Act that gutted its core provisions.

"In 2013, it was legalized in the United States to propagandize its citizens." A closer look at the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act

The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act: From Propaganda to Censorship to Tyranny

…in 2013 President Barack Obama signed into law the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act (H.R. 5736), making it legal for government-produced media—such as was broadcast overseas by Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and other outlets throughout the Cold War—to be directed toward U.S. citizens themselves. Needless to say, such government-penned narratives spin the news so as to reflect favorably upon the United States. To understand the sheer power of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act, it suffices to do a quick Google of the name of this piece of legislation to see how it has generated a logical quandary befitting of Orwell’s Nineteen Eigthy-Four. For if it is true that the American people are being propagandized by the U.S. government through its control of the major media outlets and tech giants, then any assertion to that effect will be countered—and ultimately defeated—by yet more government propaganda.

The fact that the complete negation of the original Smith-Mundt Act was deceptively labeled the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act marked the first stage in what might be termed the Orwellian turn. Unsurprisingly, a lengthy list of articles calling out the alleged piece of “disinformation” that “Barack Obama legalized government propaganda against citizens” appears at the top of the Google search results. Among the critics who warned about the new Act was now-deceased investigative journalist Michael Hastings, who also, it is worth mentioning, expressed concern about the dangerous influence of the Pentagon’s “public relations” wing, which already by 2009 employed 27,000 persons full-time as war marketeers. A number of other notable figures who sounded alarms about the dangers of government propaganda and overreach are now dead, imprisoned, or living in exile.

The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 (signed into law as a part of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013) arguably set the United States on the path toward the erection of a full-fledged Ministry of Truth and the consequent shrinking of citizens’ liberty.

Moving right along to the activities of DOGE, Department Of Government Efficiency, under President Trump’s second term, much has been disclosed about the massive #USAID budgets which are indeed accompanied by what appears to be an extraordinary Abuse Of Power. In recent years, tens of billions a year were approved by Congress to fund USAID projects. Since USAID has been in existence since 1961 and its widely believed to be CIA controlled, it’s probably safe to assume that TRILLIONS of our tax dollars have been approved by Republicans and Democrats in Congress to fund nefarious CIA activities including GeorgeSoros, NGO's, OpenBorders, HumanTrafficking, woke causes that facilitate rape and violent crimes, ElectionFraud, regime change ops and other horrors. USAID has also been funding leftist, globalist and woke media all over the world.

It’s also becoming well documented that USAID has lavishly funded big media everywhere including America’s Politico and the British BBC. Is there a major media outlet out there that isn’t on the USAID dole as a corporate welfare recipient? No wonder the ratings at CNN, MSNBC and other state controlled media are lower than whale shit.

USAID scandal just took another wild turn—did you know they’re funding ‘fake news’?

Ever wonder how some of these progressive, trash news orgs—who do nothing but churn out regime-approved fake news—manage to keep the lights on? Well, it turns out they’ve got a little help from USAID. Every time we turn around, there’s another scandal tied to the world’s piggy bank, better known as USAID. And today, we’ve stumbled across yet another doozy.

Of course liberty activists are thrilled with the very recent USAID disclosures by DOGE but they are not shocked or surprised. It just confirms/documents what they’ve suspected all along. What has been dislosed in just a few days is just the opening salvo or tip of the iceberg in what is highly likely to be the biggest scandal in US history. But it’s also Deep State/CIA/Establishment Republicans and Democrats vs. We the People/MAGA/MAHA who have a right to demand disclosure, accountability and transparency from the government.

Every decent American regardless of political affiliation should be very angry that Republicans and Democrats have lavishly funded USAID for decades, no questions asked.

It’s also probably true that USAID was illegally disbursing our tax dollars to people and projects long before President Obama gutted the Smith-Mundt Act in 2012.

Where do we go from here and how do we nullify this DC crime syndicate government and restore the precious liberty bequeathed to us by out founders? I don’t know but DOGE has taken the first step for We the People. Yes, we are a long way from victory and maybe the answer lies with Congress and the Trump Administration. But who will stand tall, at least as tall as our founders stood when they ended the Declaration of Independence with this sentence:

Who these days has HONOR and the courage to do the HONORABLE thing? I guess we’ll find out.

Americans seem to be obsessed with tariffs and to the point of delusionally believing that they will magically jumpstart economic prosperity. In fact, history teaches us that tariffs do nothing for prosperity and the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act magnified and prolonged the economic suffering of the Great Depression because tariffs are effectively protectionist, result in higher costs of goods/services for consumers and feed the destructive power of monopolies. Tariffs benefit a few at the expense of many.

What Is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act? History, Effect and Reaction

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 raised U.S. import duties with the goal of protecting American farmers and other industries from foreign competition. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act is now widely blamed for worsening the severity of the Great Depression in the U.S. and around the world.

Formally called the United States Tariff Act of 1930, the law is commonly referred to as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff or the Hawley-Smoot Tariff. It was sponsored by Sen. Reed Owen Smoot (R-Utah) and Rep. Willis Chatman Hawley (R-Ore.).

Global trade plummeted, contributing to the ill effects of the Great Depression.

The initial focus of the Smoot-Hawley legislation was to increase protection for U.S. farmers, who were struggling to compete with agricultural imports from overseas, particularly from Europe. Soon, lobbyists for other sectors of American industry began demanding similar protection for their own products.

Free markets greatly benefit consumers and also grows worker prosperity at all levels and on a global scale. Using tariffs as a tool of economic punishment is up there with sanctions as cruel methods to inflict economic harm on other nations. Tariffs and sanctions hurt people, not governments.

Americans were so furious with inflation and higher costs of everything that they elected Donald Trump president in a very angry display of their displeasure with Bidenomics and the Democrats. Inflation was a huge factor in Trump’s victory and CNN even reported in May, 2024 that 65% of Americans are worse off because of inflation.

High inflation made finances worse for 65% of Americans last year

Inflation is a two headed monster that is driven by government spending/debt (another big issue) and economic policies that drive up the cost of consumer goods and services, policies that include tariffs and sanctions.

Trump likes tariffs and I fear his use of them will will harm trade and by extension a much needed prosperity reboot for the American people. Make no mistake, if Trump slaps tariffs on nations he doesn’t like, those nations will slap tariffs on US goods. This is how we get to trade wars. The brilliant economist Bastiat warned that if goods don’t cross borders, armies will. Trade wars have a way of becoming shooting wars.

Trump’s first term did in fact experiment with tariffs and the results were not good…typical tit for tat actions in response to punitive tariffs.

Tariff War

Trump announced that the U.S. government would apply tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese imports. That led to back-and-forth tariff announcements as the Chinese government retaliated in early April 2018 with a 15% or 25% tariff on imports from the U.S. that included 94 different U.S. foods and agricultural tariff lines. A tariff war is designed to hurt the other country economically, as tariffs discourage the citizens of the importing country from buying the exporting country's product by raising the total cost of those products…..

As of September 2019, President Trump imposed tariffs on $550 billion worth of Chinese goods, with China lashing back at $185 billion of U.S. products. Trump promised more to come on Oct. 1, 2019, though he delayed some of those new tariffs until Dec. 15, 2019, to avoid hurting the Christmas shopping season. As a result of the tariff war, the manufacturing sector of the American economy saw factory output drop, tipping it into a recession….

Tariffs have hurt American farmers so much that President Trump, in collaboration with Congress, had to give them aid in the form of economic subsidies to ease their economic suffering. Perhaps realizing that this was mutually destructive, U.S. and China agreed to a trade deal that was signed on Jan. 15, 2020.

Before and after the historic November 5 presidential election, Trump talked tariffs, tariffs and more tariffs. Let’s hope that his economic team doesn’t pursue this route because it will fuel the very inflation that pissed off voters so much that they elected Trump.

Tariffs lead to other problems. Trump’s tariffs really hurt America’s farmers and to the point that Congress passed economic aid for them which of course is corporate welfare. Tariffs create these self feeding doom loops that grow corporatism and corporate welfare in addition to raising the cost of goods and services for consumers. So long as businesses can buy protectionism in DC, the motivation for free market competition vanishes. Meanwhile, selling tariffs to voters is foolhardy and provides a false solution to a problem that is better solved with free trade and free markets.

We do not need this. Our economy is indeed fragile and there are no quick fixes for big problems, problems all created by the government, Republicans and Democrats.

As an independent voter who mostly votes Libertarian, I did vote for Trump in 2016 because Hillary Clinton aka the Hildabeast needed to be defeated. I was generally unhappy with Trump’s presidency and especially his handling of COVID. Trump outsourced his POTUS power to Fauci, Birx and Big Pharm, and nuked the global economy with lockdowns. I was also furious with Trump for indicting Julian Assange and his generally authoritarian views. In defense of Trump, I was happy that he didn’t start any new wars which is a biggie for me because foreign policy is my top issue.

Anyway, I’m not going to get hung up on all my beefs with Trump and I do believe that election fraud was a factor in Trump’s 2020 defeat. Because I remember how the Tea Party took off and then collapsed I personally despise the Republican Party for the same reasons I despise the Democratic Party. The R’s and D’s unified as the Uniparty to deceive and stiff the American people with monstrous propaganda while they filled their campaign coffers with special interest money from the Military Industrial Complex, Wall Street, Big Pharm, Big Food and other special interests. It’s all a legalized system of bribery that is a crime in most nations but in America it’s all just a legal campaign contribution. America definitely needs MAJOR campaign finance reform which is a complex issue for another day.

Had Trump won in 2020, it would have been another Trump/Pence victory and Trump’s 2nd term would have been loaded with the same neocons and big government statist Republicans, Swamp Creatures and Deep State operatives that I despise as the enemies of peace and liberty.

Now this is where things get fascinating. The perpetually insecure Democrats so fear We the People that they embarked on a insane agenda to permanently destroy Trump and MAGA.

1. The Dems impeached Trump TWICE despite knowing that he would never be convicted in the Senate and removed from office. No president has ever been removed from office via impeachment.

2. The Dems and Hillary Clinton promoted the Russian Collusion lie. They even convened a Special Counsel under former FBI Director Robert Mueller to head up the committee that would remove Trump from office. After spending $32 million, here, Mueller’s Trump hating hit team found no evidence of Russian collusion by Trump or his campaign. This is verified by CNN, hardly a Trump friendly source. Mueller did not find Trump or his campaign conspired with Russia

3. The Democrats had Trump indicted and/or planned to indict him in Florida, DC, New York and Georgia on a variety of fake lawfare charges. With a crooked judge and rigged jury the Dems convicted Trump on 34 felonies in NY. He’s scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 26. According to CNN “Trump faces between 1-1/3 to 4 years in state prison on each count, which is capped at 20 years.”. Will the Dems sentence Trump to prison now that he’s defeated Kamala Harris in a blowout and is about to be inaugurated as America’s 47th President on January 20?

4. The Democrats rounded up hundreds of the the peaceful J6 folks, prosecuted them and imprisoned them. Families were destroyed and deprived of their breadwinners, elderly non-violent folks who were sick with cancer and other serious diseases were also imprisoned.

The Democrats and Nancy Pelosi labeled these folks insurrectionists when the real truth is that Pelosi and the Dems are the REAL insurrectionists.

When Democrat operatives, Antifa and other groups committed REAL violence in the summer of 2020, they were viewed as heroes on the right side of history…just mostly peaceful protestors.

5. After following in the footsteps of Hillary Clinton, the Dems continued with their lies and demonization of conservative voters. From Deplorables to Nazis to Garbage, the Dems and the media they controlled continued to assault MAGA with vicious lies.

The media reinforced their hatred of Trump with even bigger lies. Trump would toss people of color into concentration camps. Trump would nullify all interracial marriages. The lies of the Dems and media were so outrageous that they were laughable! Few in America were stupid enough to believe them.

FIVE BIG POINTS TO NEVER FORGET.

These are just a few of the evil things that the rat bastard Dems did to DESTROY Trump. Guess what? It all blew up in their lying faces. Folks didn’t believe that Trump committed impeachable offenses or that he colluded with Russia or that he commited any felonies let alone enough felonies to imprison him for hundreds of years or that he led an insurrection on January 6, 2021 or that Trump and his supporters are deplorables, Nazis and garbage.

If anybody is responsible for Trump’s astounding 312 electoral votes that includes winning all 7 swing states, it’s the Democrats. They did more to deliver victory to Trump than anybody! Also, I must extend hugs and love to the American voters for seeing through the lies, treachery, misinformation, propaganda and disinformation. They were bombarded with leftist Dem shit 24/7 and proved that they weren’t stupid or deplorable garbage. They voted as sovereign citizens in full possession and control of their mental faculties, hearts and minds.

But it gets even better. When Trump realized that he was backstabbed in his first administration by folks he trusted he seemed to propel himself back into the Drain The Swamp mode, only this time for real. Trump once played nice with Republican rino backstabbers but going forward it’s NO MORE MR. NICE GUY. Trump knows who the traitors are and all they did to destroy him and MAGA by colluding with the Dems.

Things got even more beautiful when Elon Musk bought Twitter and closed on the deal on October 27, 2022. Free speech is powerful and Musk restored it to Twitter, now X. I had been permanently banned but got reinstated in February 2023 along with millions of others.

With free speech birthing its beautiful offspring, Donald Trump was finally able to grasp something that was now truly within his reach after years of frustration. With the right folks, he could have enough real power to wage a necessary and long overdue war on the Deep State, it’s operatives and expose the corrupt media.

What massively contributed to triggering things falling into place in a big way is the campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. This is the train I was on….Bobby was my hero who was getting my vote. The Dems were smug and rightfully concluded that there were not enough MAGA (Trump) or MAHA (RFKJr.) voters to deliver victory to either so they banked on that division delivering victory to the Dems.

Then the unthinkable happened. RFKJr. had announced his run for the presidency as an Independent, left the Democratic Party and then he endorsed Trump and suspended his own campaign. This was the mother of all game changers! The marriage of MAGA and MAHA was so extraordinary in so many ways because it united Trump supporters, Bobby supporters, independents, Libertarians, pissed off Republicans, pissed off Democrats, antiwar activists, Bernie Sanders supporters, Ron Paul supporters and other voting constituencies.

The Deep State and the elites have NEVER faced a force this formidable or such a powerful We the People movement that threatens their very power and existence because they depend on the media controlling the narrative.

Finally and LOL, I’d have to thank the Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, Biden Administration and the propaganda media for laying the foundation for an astounding We the People victory.

Had the Democrats not impeached Trump twice, unsuccessfully used a Special Prosecutor to remove him from office on fake charges of Russian collusion, indicted Trump in several states with the hope that he’d be in prison by election day, severely persecuted and prosecuted the J6 folks who were just strolling around the Capitol exercising ther 1st amendment rights and continued their rants that We the Ordinary People are deplorables, Nazis and Garbage, then Trump, MAGA and MAHA may not have won.

Yes, justice definitely avenges itself!! America is a better place because Trump lost in 2020. The globalist elitist agenda has been exposed and is threatened for the first time ever.

Let’s also thank all the African Americans, Hispanics and Arab Americans who rejected the lies and stood with Trump. There is no place in America for HATE and LIES.

We proved it on November 5, 2024.

This is the face of UNITY. It’s Team Unity and it’s so BEAUTIFUL! It’s also the biggest multi-racial political tent in US history! The love and tolerance is real!

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, renamed the Russian Federation after the collapse collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, is a fascinating study on why socialism and communism fail and consisently fail as a economic model. They didn’t just fail spectacularly, they failed in a cloud of death, tyranny and destruction as at least 100 million folks perished under communism and socialism, and mostly by the horror of starvation which is an agonizing way to die. The death tolls of communism and socialism are well documented.

100 Years of Communism—and 100 Million Dead…The Bolshevik plague that began in Russia was the greatest catastrophe in human history

In theory, socialism and communism sound kind of utopian, warm and fuzzy. It was promised that human deprivation, hunger and suffering would finally end based on the ideology of “from each according to his abilities and to each according to his needs”.

What went wrong? While workers in capitalist leaning nations were wallowing in rising prosperity, buying nice homes, cars and enjoying an abundancece of food and consumer goodies, the residents of Soviet styled socialism were lining up at a government store in the hope of getting a loaf of moldy bread to take home to their dreary concrete housing cube after a long day of working in a government factory.

In the Soviet Union, there were no slackers and everybody worked even if it was forced labor but what they got for their labor was nothing compared to what workers were getting in countries with those capitalist pigs!

The #1 reason why communism and socialism fail is simple: human nature. There have been many experiments in what has been known as the Tragedy of Commons or humans laboring and sharing under a system of state control of natural resources, production and land, also known as collectivism.

Communism and socialism were not the only experiments with collectivism. Many utopian communities were founded in America and elsewhere by folks seeking to DO GOOD. One of the most famous failed utopian communities was New Harmony, Indiana. Robert Owens, a wealthy industrialist from Scotland, invested his entire fortune in a socialist collective known as New Harmony.

New Harmony failed for the exact same reason that communism and socialism failed along with various other collective experiments. HUMAN NATURE is what it is. Folks did show up at New Harmony to work while others showed up to consume what hardworking folks produced. Collective communities are a magnet for the lazy.

America’s most famous socialist in Congress, Sen. Bernie Sanders, was literally kicked out of a commune for being lazy…he refused to work for his food and shelter. LOL, Bernie was a classic freeloader.

“Lazy Bernie” Was Once Kicked Out of Hippie Commune

Life consists of givers and takers, producers and moochers and yes, that is human nature which is never going to change.

While some collectives were self governing with their own rules, nearly all government controlled collectives like the Soviet Union were ruthlessly managed and controlled. Government officials decided what folks would do with their lives, if they got food, what they ate, where they lived and well, every facit of the human life was government controlled by central planners.

Let’s get back to CAPITALISM. The clearest way to explain capitalism is to understand that capitalism requires capital. WHAT IS CAPITAL? Nothing explains capital better than understanding agriculture. Humankind transitioned from being hunter gatherers to staying put with agriculture.

The farmer plants seeds to grow food to eat. Sounds pretty straightforward but it’s not. If the farmer consumes all his food and fails to save seeds (capital) to grow during the next growing season, he will starve. His life depends on saving seeds which becomes his capital.

How about the cattle farmer, chicken farmer, egg farmer, dairy farmer etc.? The same principle applies. If they eat everything they produce and don’t plan on reproducing their livestock for the future, they starve.

Agriculture was the beginning of capitalism. Agriculture failed when it was a collective and for the exact same reasons that all collectives fail. Human nature consists of producers and moochers.

Agriculture expanded and improved over time and especially with the creation of secure and enforceable property rights. Folks were not inclined to produce on property that they didn’t own because the product of their labor could easily be stolen by criminals or even a criminal government.

I lived in Texas for 10 year. A lot of roads were named FM with a number. The FM stood for ‘farm market’ from the days when farmers would simply followed the road to the market to sell and/or trade what they produced.

Capitalism isn’t just about producing as the other critical component is trading. Trade opened up a whole new world of markets. The veggie farmer could trade his veggies for meat, dairy, eggs etc. and other things. Markets became far more efficient when old fashioned bartering was replaced with currency. Currency has been around a long time and has been many things but that’s a complicated issue for another day.

If we’re looking for a current relic of the past in how producers and markets work, the Amish and similar communities are a fascinating study. They work/produce and have trading days or going to the market days to sell what they produce. Sunday is always their day of rest.

The Amish and similar communities have grown very diverse in what they produce; they produce furniture and lots of woodworking products because they are damn good carpenters and they produce other things as well. The entrepreneurial Amish and similar communities are sophisticated and they cooperate with each other to keep the supply chains and markets moving. I make my own tomato sauce and am always looking for lots of roma tomatoes in August. The Amish women at one of my favorite farm markets whips out her iPhone and makes a call to see if she can round up some roma tomatoes. Yes, they use technology and they are not backward country bumkins as many label them. They are smart, industrious and very hadworking. They are what America is supposed to be!!

What is so unique about the Amish and their success? They are NOT collectives. The Amish and similar communities are capitalists. The Mises Institute had a great article on the Amish.

Economic Lessons from the Amish

Most third-world countries are also agrarian societies, mired in a state of misery, reflecting the primitiveness of their economies. What they don't have, that the Amish in America do, is economic freedom, secure property rights, a well-developed system of trade, legal protections, fairly reliable money and access to the fruits of capitalist society. Yes, Amish do go to the store to purchase some things that make their lives simpler and more pleasant. They rely on cars and busses to transport them long distances. They use telephones when necessary. Trucks bring their milk to market.

Modern society is highly dependent on the division of labor, on vast networks of traders, on information and communications.

The Amish have always been hardworking, stellar producers. It’s important to note that in a capitalist society the producers produce what folks want, need and will pay for. This results in vibrant markets and the freer markets are, the more effective they are at producing wealth simply by fulfilling needs and wants.

If you really think about it, capitalism and free markets are absolutely and unequivocally the ultimate form of voluntary human cooperation and the only economic system that promotes abundance.

Now suppose the government or Bernie Sanders or socialists come along and tell the Amish that they can no longer produce what they have been producing and can only produce what the government allows them to produce? What if the government or Bernie Sanders, a man who never produced a damn thing in his long life on the dole of taxpayers, seizes what the Amish have produced and gives it away to those who are too lazy to produce?

Well, you just defined government and under such governments, we get corruption, scarcity and an abundance of human misery instead of the abundance produced by capitalists or in this case hardworking Amish styled capitalists who produce FOOD and other things that we humans need and want.

This is precisely why communism and socialism killed over 100 million folks by starvation. Governments and their administrative goons are incapable of producing or even facilitating the production of anything including critical necessities like food. In the former Soviet Union, black market were common and people were forced to sustain themselves with underground free market capitalism. A lot of folks were industrious and clever, even in a totalitarian police state like the Soviet Union. It’s called SURVIVAL! Folks who escaped socialist/communist strongholds and migrated to freer nations with economic opportunities can absolutely attest to the fact the socialism and communism are big fails that resulted in massive deaths and human misery.

Capitalism subsequently unleashed and delivered all kinds of consumer goodies, technology, cell phones, big screen TV’s, computers and a slew of things that have made our lives easier and fun.

Folks criticize capitalism because it makes capitalists rich. Well, it has and that is true but it’s really free markets and consumers that made industrialists very rich. They produced products and services that people wanted and the people rewarded them by buying what they liked at a price they were willing to pay and that is a win-win for everybody. It’s the ultimate voluntary cooperative among people.

It’s also critically important to understand that everything this is produced from veggies to meat to computers and complex technology all require CAPITAL. In its rawest form, capital is basically savings like the farmer saving his seeds. Investor Peter Schiff has said that America needs to get back to producing and saving…yeah, it’s what we once did very successfully. However, that paradigm has been ruined for a lot of complicated reasons spanning over a century.

Workers in dreary socialist strongholds woke-up to socialist lies. Many socialist nations are so horrifying that folks will risk death to escape; indeed this happened in East Germany as desperate folks were shot dead trying to escape to West Germany. In North Korea, it’s been reported that food is so scarce and malnutrition is so rampant that folks are reduced to eating noodles made from tree bark.

However, it’s also been reported that North Korea’s dictator and top officials eat and drink the finest imported foods and booze. They don’t care that folks are literally starving to death. The face of socialism/communism is anything but humane.

Venezuela is another case study on the horrors of socialism because it was once the richest and most prosperous country in South America, here, until the folks foolishly voted to put a socialist in power. Hugo Chavez proceeded to destroy Venezuela but being a classic socialist, he skimmed off enough weath to make himself and his family filthy rich. The daughter of Hugo Chavez is living lifestyles of the rich and famous, is reportedly worth over $4 billion and she doesn’t give a shit about the suffering of the folks in Venezuela.

Hugo Chávez daughter is the richest individual in Venezuela, report claims

This is pretty much the true face of socialism as it benefits a tiny minority that hold raw and absolute power at the expense of the majority. Conversely, capitalism delivers to the majority what it wants with voluntary production and trade. It’s a classic case of We the People voluntarism vs. statist tyranny.

But back to capitalism. In America true capitalism has been abandoned and what we now have is a highly bastardized form of capitalism or to be more precise, a system of corporatocracy, oligarchy, crony capitalism, fascism and essentially rule by a tiny minority of elites who managed to seize absolute power.

The destruction of capitalism and true free market in America commenced in 1913 when we got the Federal Reserve and Income Tax or 16th Amendment. Both facilitated the explosive growth of government power, bankster power, MIC power (endless wars and murdering for defense contractor profits), big pharm, big food, the evil national security state and much more but those are big issues for another day. Meanwhile, it’s reasonable to conclude that free markets and capitalism didn’t kill capitalism but capitalists surely did when they used their wealth to buy power that resulted in the biggest horror of all: the marriage of big business and big government.

Finally, I’d like to add that the evil forces of government and corporatists are also seizing and destroying our seeds and seed capital that we desperately need for future survival needs.

The worst evil that has descended upon America is a government that is destroying our prosperity, dollar purchasing power and liberty by pursing the Evil Empire, even at the cost of destroying America. It doesn’t get anymore evil than a government committed to globally delivering this:

Is anti-Zionism the new battle cry for anti-Semitism? Does Israel have the right to exist? It’s the only issue on the table when it comes to the Israeli-Gaza and Arab Muslim nighmare. Folks tend to fall into two camps: Israel has no right to exist, must be purged of Jews and Israel must be restored to Muslim control or Israel is here to stay, so deal with it and accept that the US and Israel will vigorously defend Biblical Israel whatever the cost. Negotiating a peace deal is never part of the equation simply because none of the parties are willing to compromise for peace.

Let me be clear: I don’t stand with Israel or the Jews or Hamas or the Arab Muslims. All parties have committed atrocities and neither party wants peace or anything remotely resembling a peaceful co-existence. That said, what Israel is doing to the Arab Muslims in Gaza is Crimes Against Humanity, a Genocide and War Crimes. As of 12/27 Al Jazeera reported “In Gaza, at least 21,110 people have been killed and 55,243 injured in Israeli attacks since October 7. The death toll from Hamas’s attack on Israel stands at 1,139.”

Many of the dead and wounded are women and children. The suffering of the folks in Gaza is horrific…no food, no power, no communications and nothing but devastation and death. Hospitals have limited to no supplies or medicines as severely injured folks are left untreated. Israel is even bombing hospitals.

What is happening in Gaza has been allowed by the Biden Administration but both Democrats and Republicans have blessed off on this senseless slaughter. Believe me, Israel doesn’t fart without US permission because it’s so dependent on US arms to carry out its slaughter of the Arab Muslims.

All over the world, protesters have taken to the streets condeming Israel, even praising Hamas with signs like like Gas the Jews, From the River to the Sea, End Zionism etc.

As an antiwar activist for many decades as well as a Ron Paul and Rand Paul supporter, I ferociously oppose US foreign policy and its endless wars. I also applaud anybody who oppposes US foreign policy and the death and destruction that follows it. Israel could not kill the folks in Gaza without US support and weapons. Before Obama left office, he signed a bipartisan bill to give Israel $38 billion in foreign aid; Israel has the keys to the US treasury and gets whatever it demands because, well, the Israel lobby is that powerful. That our tax dollars are feeding military industrial complex profits is indeed nauseating; murdering folks all over the planet seems to be our calling card and it’s disgusting and morally reprehensible.

Antiwar activism has been rare since the Vietnam War era when America actually had robust antiwar activism. So I’m thinking: is antiwar activism finally real because it sure is long overdue!

NO, it’s not real. But yes it’s real in the context of Israelis killing Arab Muslims.

Take Yemen, one of the poorest nations on the planet where folks were dying of disease and starvation BEFORE President Obama joined Saudi Arabia and other Arab Muslim nations in their war on the Houthi in Yemen that started in 2015. Nearly 400,000 Houthi in Yemen have died because of the US and Saudi war on this severely impoverished nation. It’s really a Muslim religious war as Saudi Sunnis feel threatened by the Shia Houthi in Yemen which borders Saudi Arabia.

Yemen war deaths will reach 377,000 by end of the year: UN…New UNDP report projects that the number of those killed as a result of Yemen’s war could reach 1.3 million by 2030.

The US role in the Yemen horror is indeed disturbing and while President Obama authorized it, it’s also important to note that Presidents Trump and Biden also stood with Saudi Arabia in murdering the Houthi in Yemen and once again, US foreign policy continues to ratchet up huge body counts. Even a former Obama Administration official questioned US foreign policy in Yemen.

Obama aide: how we got it wrong in Yemen

The Obama administration gave Saudi Arabia too much backing to prosecute its war in Yemen and should have scaled back military support much earlier, a White House aide from that period told TRT World.

Comments from Robert Malley, then US President Barack Obama’s point man on the Middle East, come at a key moment in US politics, with lawmakers trying to end US military assistance for the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen.

“The Obama administration didn’t cover itself in glory when it comes to Yemen. To a certain extent, and despite our best intentions, we covered ourselves in shame,” Malley, now president and CEO of the International Crisis Group, a think tank, told TRT World.

WHERE WERE THE ANTIWAR ACTIVISTS WHEN A MUSLIM COUNTRY WAS KILLING MUSLIMS WITH US SUPPORT? NOWHERE TO BE FOUND BECAUSE NOBODY WAS PROTESTING THE KILLING OF THE HOUTHI AND A DEATH TOLL IN THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS. NOBODY WAS TAKING TO THE STREETS TO PROTEST THE MASSIVE DEATH TOLL IN YEMEN.

Two of the most vocal haters of Israel in Congress are Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, both Muslims. They have a long history of attacking Israel but neither ever opposed US foreign policy as it relates to other nations. Both Tlaib and Omar voted to fund the Biden Administration’s proxy war on Russia via Ukraine, a situation that has the potential to explode the world into war with two nuclear armed nations.

The US war on Russia via Ukraine has been a big fail that has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians.

Ukraine Has Lost At Least 400,000 Troops In Its War With Russia, As Casualties Mount

Things are so bad in Ukraine that Ukrainians are hiding or trying to flee Ukraine to keep from being conscripted and sent to the frontlines, known as the meatgrinder, to die for nothing more than US defense contractor profits and threatening the world with nuclear annihilation.

Tlaid and Omar, and others were OKAY with this US funded genocide.

Between Yemen and Ukraine at least 877,000 folks are confirmed dead. The death and devastation to Yemen and Ukraine is grotesque and far worse than what the Israelis are doing in Gaza.

I’m in no way defending Israel as its level of savagery is morally reprehensible, cruel, disgusting and criminal. I’m just trying to point out the hypocrisy. Apparently, not all genocides are equal when it comes to Palestinian antiwar activism!

Moving along, the US War on Terror is another nightmare that killed millions, mostly Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Libya and other nations. Brown University’s Institute of Internationals and Public Affairs has an incredible website titled Cost of War. It extensively documents the cost of US wars and death tolls (the website is definitely worth exploring). A summary, link here:

SUMMARY OF FINDINGS

Some of the Costs of War Project’s main findings include:

At least 940,000 people have died due to direct war violence, including armed forces on all sides of the conflicts, contractors, civilians, journalists, and humanitarian workers.  

Over 432,000 civilians have been killed in direct violence by all parties to these conflicts.

An estimated 3.6-3.8 million people have died indirectly in post-9/11 war zones, bringing the total death toll to at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting.

Over 7,050 U.S. soldiers have died in the wars….

Where were the protesters when millions of Muslims were being killed in the US War on Terror? Where are the protesters to protest the deaths of nearly a million folks in two countries, Yemen and Ukraine, that are epic genocides funded by the US?

While this antiwar activist is thrilled to see any antiwar activism I’m anything but convinced that it’s real antiwar activism. Is it just an excuse for every anti-Semite to sound off and commit violence with round after round of Jew bashing?

While the hypocrisy about the Israel hating pro-Palestinians is indeed deafening, it’s important to understand what is really going on in Biblical Israel; it’s an ongoing religious war: Judaism and Christianity vs. Islam. Biblical Israel is a tiny piece of land about the size of the American state of New Jersey but it’s perceived by Jews, Christians and Muslims as being a Holy Land deeded to them by God. To control that Holy Land, they are willing to fight and die for it. Many but not all Christians view Biblical Israel being restored to Jewish rule as a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.

We are dealing with a very messy situation with little to zero hope of sanity ever prevailing. Religious fervor always overcomes reason.

I personally have but one goal: Abolish all US foreign aid to all nations including Israel and Ukraine because US foreign aid is really just a defense contractor subsidy. By NOT funding homicidal genocidal wars, our hands will no longer be dripping in the blood of the innocent. Folks in foreign countries need to work out their own problems. Without US weapons, there will be powerful incentives to negotiate peace.

I had previously blogged about Israel and the Middle East and it’s a long and complicated history.

Does Israel Have a Right to Exist?

With Charity Toward None, A History of Israel

Creating the Modern Middle East

Meanwhile, the killing field known as Biblical Israel can’t go on forever. Mankind and its religions are a deep shame and stain upon humanity.

A nation without DEFENDED borders is not a nation. It’s just a patch of dirt open to invasion by the entire world. The Biden Administration and Democrats have allowed over 10 million folks to illegally cross our non-existent border. Nobody knows who these folks are as they aren’t being vetted, although it has been disclosed that many are from nations known to train Islamist terrorists.

Over 10 Million Illegals Have Crossed US Border Under Biden - Report Claims

Some sources claim the number of invaders is 6 million or 8 million but nobody really knows but it’s generally believed that the number is between 8 and 10 million. The cost to American taxpayers is staggering as the invaders are getting free smart phones, free housing, free medical care, free food and well, free everything. Suffering American taxpayers are paying for an invasion they neither want nor can afford.

Migrant crisis has US taxpayers on the hook for up to $451B, House GOP report says

I’m not anti-immigrant and in fact absolutely believe that legal immigration benefits America. America is a nation that was built by hardworking immigrants who arrived with nothing, got nothing and only wanted the freedom and opportunity to achieve their dreams. It took a lot of courage for folks to pack up and just leave their native countries but the potential of a better life for them and their families in a foreign country known for liberty and opportunity was a call they couldn’t resist.

America supposedly has tens of millions of illegal immigrants. Most just want to build a better life and future for their families and these are folks who share our values and love of freedom. Then we have floods of violent and murderous MS13 gangs and there are bad immigrants who are criminals and immigrants who literally hate us.

The solution to our invasion/immigration nightmare is simple and only 3 powerful steps. ZERO WELFARE FOR ALL IMMIGRANTS…no welfare, no food stamps, no free healthcare etc….NO NOTHING.

DEPORT THE ENTITLEMENT DEPENDENT AND CRIMINALS. Some criminals are so dangerous, like MS 13 and other gangs, that they cannot be deported and must remain in prison.

Temporarily CLOSE THE BORDER until America is restored to sane ‘rule of law’ immigration policies and open borders is outlawed as an assault on the sovereignty of We the American People in the United States of America. We need time to sort out who is here, who deserves to stay and who needs to be deported.

A government that that abolishes our borders is a rogue, criminal and illegitimate goverment. Actually, the Constitution specifically mandates the that it is a constitutional responsibility of the Federal government to protect our borders.

Article 4, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Repubublican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion…

That’s pretty damn clear. Exactly how the federal government, aka Fedzilla, gets away with nullifying our borders and reneging on their constitutional mandate to protect us from invasions at the border is not only puzzling but also reeks of treason and treachery.

Finally, I absolutely believe that America is and always has been a nation that welcomes immigrants and precisely because we are a nation of immigrants. Most immigrants are good and decent folks who only want to be law abiding American citizens. However, there are vast difference between immigration (a legal and orderly process of welcoming LEGAL immigrants) and open border invasions.

A nation that is chronically addicted to importing the entitlement dependent third world folks is destined to become a third world country.

The American people are not hostile to immigrants but the government is making them hostile to immigration by forcibily loading up our cities and communities with millions of entitlement dependent immigrants at a time when the American people theselves are struggling economically. Deploying precious resources to invading foreigners at the expense of Americans in need of help is one nasty bitch slap to Americans. The Democrats and Biden Administration are literally giving us the middle finger while laughing their asses off!

This is UNACCEPTABLE!

I do not stand with Israel or Hamas or the Jews or the Arab Muslims; they’ve all committed wars crimes, atrocities and crimes against humanity. We are dealing with folks who are willing to die for control of what they perceive to be a Holy Land deeded to them by God. Actually, it’s more complicated than that when you factor in the REAL situation, namely Judaism-Christianity vs. Islam for control of Biblical Israel. This isn’t about the just the Jews and Zionism, it’s also about Christian Zionism which happens to be a formidable force, especially in America.

A lot of folks are critical of RFKJr. for not taking a strong position against the Israeli genocide of the Arab Muslims in Gaza and the West Bank. As of today (12/17/23), the death tolls is just horrifying and continues to rise according to Al Jazzera, here.

The latest death toll stands at 19,076 Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank with around 1,200 people killed in Israel since October 7.

Gaza

Killed: At least 18,787

Including at least: 7,729 children and 5,553 women

Injured: More than 50,897, including 8,663 children and 6,327 women.

Missing: At least 8,000

West Bank

Killed: At least 297, including 69 children

Israel

In Israel, officials revised the death toll from 1,405 to “around 1,200”

Israelis killed: About 1,139 and at least 8,730 injured.

It’s also important to note that none of this would have happened had Hamas not attacked Israel on October 7, an event that clearly triggered this horror. Still, none of this justifies the massive destruction and death toll inflicted upon the Arab Muslims by Israel because of the Oct. 7 attack.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tweeted on October 7, 2023

Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr

This ignominious, unprovoked, and barbaric attack on Israel must be met with world condemnation and unequivocal support for the Jewish state’s right to self-defense. We must provide Israel with whatever it needs to defend itself — now. As President, I’ll make sure that our policy is unambiguous so that the enemies of Israel will think long and hard before attempting aggression of any kind.

I applaud the strong statements of support from the Biden White House for Israel in her hour of need. However, the scale of these attacks means it is likely that Israel will need to wage a sustained military campaign to protect its citizens. Statements of support are fine, but we must follow through with unwavering, resolute, and practical action. America must stand by our ally throughout this operation and beyond as it exercises its sovereign right to self-defense.

RFKJr. clearly defended Israel’s right to exist and by extension its absolute right of self defense to fight an enemy committed to destroying Israel. He was immediately attacked as a Zionist by anti-Semites and those who believe that Israel has no right to exist.

On the same day, another independent candidate for president tweeted a difference reaction.

Cornel West @CornelWest

The escalation of the barbaric violence in the Middle East must stop! The vicious Israeli occupation and the ugly Palestinian retaliation results in the killing of precious innocent people on both sides! We must have a lasting peace based on justice! #TruthJusticeLove #Israel #Palestine

West is a decent guy who is appalled by the violence. While he refers to the ‘Israeli Occupation' and clearly advocates for a totally legitimate desire for a lasting peace based on justice, this is where massive confusion starts.

There are folks who flatout deny Israeli’s right to exist and demand that the nation state of Israel be obliterated along with the Jews. This is not a fringe movement. After the October 7 Hamas attack, folks held rallies all over the world with slogans like GAS THE JEWS or FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA or FREE PALESTINE or SMASH THE ZIONIST SETTLER STATE and there were lots of images like this.

You have to understand that those who reject the right of Israel to exist also refused to condemn the killings of any Israelis by Arab Muslims. The condemnation of the Hamas attack by defenders or the Arab Muslims to control Biblical Israel from the River to the Sea was close to ZERO. For these folks, it’s not genocide to kill Israelis because killing a foreign occupying force constitutes legitimate self defense. It’s only ‘genocide’ when Israelis kill Arab Muslims.

This ugly situation has been festering intensely for decades, and really since the end of WW I and the death of the Ottoman Empire. There is no doubt that Israel is a police state and that Gaza is a high density ghetto of severely impoverished folks with no hope and no future; they are literally prisoners in an Israeli open air prison. They are not free and they cannot move freely. Israel has them boxed in with land and sea blockcades.

Some have argued that a two state solution is the only viable option but it really isn’t because way too much bad blood exists between the Jews and Arab Muslims. Besides, leaders of Arab Muslims nations in the region are inclined to REFUSE to intervene on any level. Every Arab leader profoundly understands the Arab Street and the Arab Street screams KILL OR EVICT THE JEWS from Muslim lands. Egypt’s Anwar Sadat signed a peace deal of sorts with Israel as a first step in diplomatically resolving the conflict and he was murdered in 1981. Then, there are the famous 3 NO’s from the Arab world in 1967 in what is known as the Khartoum Resolution: NO to peace with Israel, NO to negotiating with Israel and NO to recognization the right of Israel to exist.

The Jews don’t want to leave a land that screams HOME after a long absence from the lands that birthed Judaism. Christian Zionists demand that they stay because the return of the Jews to Biblical Israel signals the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy and the return of Jesus. Christians really don’t care about the Jews but believe them to be a vital stepping stone for Biblical prophecy to play out.

The Muslims invaded Biblical Israel soon after the Prophet Muhammed died in 632 AD and exclusively controlled it for nearly 1,400 years except for a brief period (about 100 years) when the Crusaders captured it but the Muslim leader Saladin militarily defeated the Christians and restored it to Muslim control.

Well, the end of WW I also resulted in the demise of the Ottoman Empire. The Christian world viewed the collapse of the Ottoman Caliphate as an awesome opportunity to once again restore it to Christian-Jewish control. That’s pretty much how the modern nation state of Israel came into existence, well, that and also Christian guilt for its role in the Holocaust that killed 6 millions Jews.

Anyway, back to RFKJr. There are two lobbies in America that are so powerful that they absolutely will destroy you if you oppose them. One is the Military Industrial Complex or MIC lobby and its war machine and the other is the Israel lobby; they work together as soulmates. The Israel lobby is one of the most powerful institutions in America and it’s fanatically supported by the MIC (defense contractors getting rich off of Israel’s genocide machine), Zionist Christians and rich Jews and Christians.

After the October 7 attack, RFK knew he had to take a strong position on the Hamas attack or his POTUS campaign would be OVER. Most Americans were horrified and vigorously defended Israel. Those who did not were louder and more vigorous in condeming Israel but not Hamas. When Rep. Thomas Massie, my favorite member of Congress, voted NO on aid to Israel, the Israel lobby immediately launched an attack on him. The Israel lobby controls all major US media and op eds with titles like ‘Massie Stands With Hamas’ were launched. Others who opposed Israel’s genocide of the Arab Muslims as well as the massive destruction of Gaza were viciously attacked by the Israel lobby. Nearly all members of Congress live in fear of the Israeli-AIPAC lobby and for damn good reasons. They are vicious propagandists who have churned nearly the entire US government into Israeli Firsters.

Of course, it’s perfectly legitimate and sane to argue that NOBODY, not the MIC or the Israel lobby that includes AIPAC, should ever have so much power over our government. But they do and diminishing the raw and absolute power of certain special interests to literally buy/own/control an entire government including most elected members of Congress and major federal agencies is indeed a serious problem that destroys democracy and our republic.

Meanwhile, RFKJr was left with two choices: Stand with Israel no matter what Israel does or suffer the consequences of a ferocious Israel lobby attack you if you DARE to question anything that Israel does.

RFKJr is the most electable independent candidate in a very long time….he is directly challenging the R and D duopoly or the Uniparty and can win. There are other independent candidates and while they may be R or D spoilers, they are not electable.

So RFKJr decided NOT to kill his campaign by challenging Israel. I believe that RFKJr is a decent human being who is appalled by the violence and Israel’s response to the Hamas attack. The simple truth is that he was powerless to do anything to change the outcome. I’d like to believe that as president, he would pursue a diplomatic resolution to this ongoing nightmare. RFKJr has vigorously opposed America’s endless wars and our foreign policy that has replaced traditional diplomacy with gunboat diplomacy or DO AS I SAY or American will destroy you with sanctions and bombs.

Also, as one who has been studying Biblical Israel mess for many years as it relates to Jews, Christians and Muslims, it’s hard to believe that a peaceful solution is even possible. The Jews don’t want a two state solution and neither do most Arab Muslims who flatout refuse to give Israel one inch of what they believe to be Muslim lands illegally occupied by the Jews.

There are 9 million folks living in Israel and 7 million of them are Jews, with most of the rest being Muslims. While the Israeli Arabs aren’t exactly happy living as second class citizens in Israel, many also dread being ruled by violent fanatics like Hamas. Despite being a police state, Israel is still a civilized place with a high standard of living when compared to other places in the region.

Should America consider welcoming 7 million Jews? I wouldn’t have a problem with it. Biblical Israel is about the size of the state of New Jersey with much of it being a desert and it’s a tiny speck of land in the massive Arab landmass.

No, Israel cannot continue to fight off its hostile neighbors forever, not even with unlimited access to US weapons. At some point, the Arab Muslim world will rise up and militarily attack Israel until every last Jew is dead or gone. Meanwhile, Hamas styled attacks will continue and intensify every time Israel rains bombs, death and destruction upon Arab Muslims. Everything Israel does only inflames an already severely inflamed situation. The Arab Muslims will continue to fight and fight and fight until every Jew is dead or gone.

Perhaps it’s time to name the situation in Biblical Israel for precisely what it is…a religious war consisting of Judaism-Christianity vs. Islam for control of their Holy Land. With 2.5 billion Christians in the world, 2 billion Muslims and and a paltry 16 million Jews (7 million in Israel and 6 million in America), do we really want a perpetual religious war over Biblical Israel?

I understand that Biblical Israel is sacred to Jews and Christians, and giving it up would be painful and even unacceptable for many. But what if it’s the only viable option that will end this bloody nightmare of perpetual war?

Meanwhile, I will continue to pray that a merciful God just dumps Biblical Israel into the Mediterranean Sea so nobody can ever again fight over it. Shaking my head in deep sorrow as mankind and his gods magnify the inhumanity of man.