On social media, Fauci’s congressional testimony reignited many of the same criticisms that had circulated throughout the pandemic. Among his critics, three issues dominated the discussion:

His continued defense of the view that COVID-19 most likely originated in the Wuhan seafood market rather than from a laboratory accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Currently both the FBI and CIA acknowledge that the lab leak is more likely.

His unwavering support for broad vaccination campaigns and masking policies. Critics argued that these recommendations were presented with too much certainty despite evolving scientific evidence and changing public health guidance.

His continued defense of COVID-19 vaccines after it became clear that vaccination did not completely prevent infection or transmission. Critics contended that public messaging should have more clearly acknowledged that vaccinated individuals could still contract and spread the virus.

Jeffrey Sachs, in this interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano , points to a different issue, one that no one else seems to be discussing. That issue is that Dr Anthony Fauci was instrumental in the decisions to pursue gain of function research which lead to a global pandemic.

Jeffrey Sachs main points are that Fauci approved or oversaw funding for coronavirus research that Sachs considers excessively dangerous.

• Fauci publicly minimized the possibility that such research contributed to the pandemic.

• Fauci helped create an environment that discouraged open scientific debate about a possible laboratory origin.

• Sachs believes Fauci should answer detailed questions under oath regarding funding decisions and communications surrounding the early investigation

This author has long believed that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was essentially a bio-weapons lab. The difference between a research lab and a bio-weapons lab is legal and regulatory, but not scientific. Recall that MKUltra was an illegal human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the United States Central Intelligence Agency to develop procedures and identify drugs that could be used in altering human behavior in the 1960’s. They found chemist Sidney Gottlieb, Dr. Louis “Jolly” West , Dr. Ewen Cameron and others who created MK Ultra. In a similar vein, I believe the National Security State, probably via the CIA, wanted to pursue Covid research as a bio-weapon. Dr. Fauci was involved with, and supported this effort from the beginning. I view Fauci’s decisions to support this program to be part of his job description rather than a choice he made, although it is possible that Dr. Fauci could have refused but instead the CIA found a willing participant in the research.

Per ChatGpt:

Gain-of-function research has existed in molecular biology for decades, but the specific debate over enhanced potential pandemic pathogens (ePPP) intensified after experiments on influenza viruses around 2011–2012. In 2014, the U.S. government imposed a funding pause on certain gain-of-function experiments involving influenza, SARS, and MERS viruses, before lifting that pause under a new oversight framework in 2017.

EcoHealth Alliance received funding from several U.S. government agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH/NIAID) and, for separate programs, the Department of Defense through the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). Some Pentagon contracts were related to biodefense and global pathogen surveillance rather than the Wuhan coronavirus research itself.

The United States has also funded or partnered with more than 120 biological research laboratories in over 30 countries including many in China and Ukraine.

Fauci supported risky coronavirus research. Sachs says Fauci, through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), supported research involving manipulation of coronaviruses (”gain-of-function” or related research) despite longstanding concerns about the dangers of creating more infectious viruses.

Thus, Dr. Fauci had little choice when he tried to sell the Covid origin theory that the virus created naturally through the wet market. He was likely required by the National Security State to create an alternate explanation. Saying publicly that this virus was accidentally released from the Wuhan lab simply was not an option. And so the disinformation program began.

It is possible that Dr. Fauci alone is responsible for the insistence that everyone be vaccinated and that everyone wear masks. In retrospect, it would have been easy to allow people freedom in these decisions. It is possible that he and others believed the Covid bio-weapon virus was more dangerous that it actually was, causing him to cling to draconian measures beyond a reasonable expiration date.

Conclusion: I agree with Jeffrey Sachs that Dr. Fauci needs to testify truthfully, but that should focus on his decisions prior to the lab leak which occurred in Dec 2019. It is easy to understand his decision to create another origin theory in this context. It is less clear that his other decisions were influenced by his role in funding or overseeing research that may have contributed to the pandemic.

In a democracy, it is important because the public should be able to have input on the existence of bio-weapon research. The National Security State is well beyond caring about the view of the population, but that fact should not allow Dr. Fauci to refuse to testify as to his involvement in creating the pandemic in the first place.

Inflation in America has become a fact of life, driven in large part by perpetual war. It is impossible to add hundreds of billions of dollars to the military budget without fueling inflation. This administration has shown no ability to restore the nation’s economic health while devoting vast American resources to building weapons and waging wars that kill civilians around the world.

If America still had genuinely fair elections, Republicans would, in my view, face a crushing defeat in the midterms. Instead, our electoral system is under assault by those in power. The most important (three of eleven) examples discussed below are the threat of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at polling places, the SAVE Act, and the dismantling of the Election Assistance Commission.

Donald Trump is many things: a convicted felon, a man found liable for sexual abuse, a racist, a misogynist, and, in my opinion, profoundly ignorant of history and war. Above all, however, he is driven by narcissism. That trait makes it unlikely that he will willingly abandon the conflicts he has escalated or admit failure. He will use every tool available to avoid appearing defeated. For that reason, the threat of further military escalation—including the possibility of nuclear confrontation—cannot be dismissed.

Trump attacked American democracy on January 6, 2021, by attempting to overturn an election he had lost. The Biden administration failed to hold him fully accountable for those actions. January 6 demonstrated his willingness to attack the electoral process itself. There is little reason to believe he will respect legal limits when political power is at stake.

Having observed elections over many years in Columbus, Ohio, as an election observer, I know firsthand that local election officials work diligently to ensure free and fair elections. At the Free Press, we also recognize that elections can be manipulated at higher levels of power. At the local level, however, election workers consistently perform their duties with professionalism and integrity. If elections are undermined, it is far more likely to occur through abuses of political or financial power than through the myth of widespread voting by non-citizens.

If a President of the United States can interfere with elections without meaningful consequences, the authoritarianism now descending upon the country will become firmly entrenched. The world’s most powerful nation risks permanent rule by an authoritarian political class. Whatever label one chooses—fascism, oligarchy, or ruling class—the American democratic experiment will survive only as an idea rather than a reality.

The SAVE Act: What the Bill Actually Does

The SAVE Act Has Nothing To Do With Saving Elections. It’s About Ending Them.
By Dean Blundell

The SAVE Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) would require every American citizen to provide documentary proof of citizenship—such as a passport or birth certificate—to register to vote in federal elections. This requirement would apply not only to first-time voters but also whenever a voter updates a registration after moving, changing a name, or changing party affiliation. Each update would require an in-person visit to an election office with the required documents.

The legislation would also make mail-in voter registration largely ineffective. Although voters could still submit registration forms by mail, they would ultimately be required to appear in person with their documentation before the registration deadline.

Online voter registration, now available in most states, would face major obstacles because the bill provides no practical mechanism for submitting citizenship documents electronically. At the same time, it imposes criminal penalties on election officials who mistakenly register someone whose documentation is later judged inadequate.

Community voter-registration drives at colleges, churches, grocery stores, and public events would also become far less effective. Volunteers could distribute registration forms, but they could no longer help people complete the registration process without requiring them to appear in person with documentation. Critics argue that this would significantly reduce participation in such efforts.

Source: Dean Blundell, “The SAVE Act Has Nothing To Do With Saving Elections. It’s About Ending Them.”

The legislation is opposed by the League of Women Voters, numerous civil-rights organizations, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Opponents argue that it is designed to suppress voter participation by creating unnecessary barriers that disproportionately affect women, married voters who have changed their names, low-income citizens, and other groups.

Additional reading:

• How the SAVE Act Advances a Hidden Agenda

• Oppose the SAVE Act

The Threat of ICE at Polling Places

There would be no practical reason for the administration to announce in advance whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will be deployed near polling locations. Nevertheless, concerns have arisen following public statements suggesting that such actions have not been ruled out.

Critics fear that the presence of ICE agents at polling places—particularly in heavily immigrant or minority communities—could intimidate eligible voters and discourage participation. They also warn that highly publicized arrests near early-voting locations could have a chilling effect on turnout.

The Independent reported under the headline:

“White House’s chilling warning about midterm elections: ‘Can’t guarantee an ICE agent won’t be around polling locations.’”

According to the report, the White House declined to rule out the possibility that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents could be deployed near polling places during the November elections.

The Brennan Center for Justice has also addressed the issue, arguing that sending ICE agents to polling places would violate federal law protecting the right to vote.

Election Assistance Commission

The Election Assistance Commission has effectively been dismantled by the current administration.

According to ProPublica, President Donald Trump removed the remaining members of the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission, leaving the agency unable to carry out many of its responsibilities as the administration moves to reshape election administration before the midterm elections.

ProPublica reported that Trump dismissed Democratic commissioners Benjamin Hovland and Thomas Hicks, while Republican commissioner Christy McCormick was permitted to resign, effectively leaving the commission without functioning leadership.

Other Threats to Election Integrity

Pardons for January 6 Participants

Perhaps the clearest signal that future attacks on American democracy will carry few consequences came when President Trump granted clemency to many of those convicted for crimes arising from the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Whether viewed as pardons, commutations, or acts of political loyalty, the message was unmistakable: those who attempted to overturn a presidential election would be rewarded rather than condemned. Future participants in election interference can reasonably expect similar treatment if their actions serve those in power.

Pressure on the Justice Department

The Department of Justice has historically served as an independent institution responsible for enforcing election laws without partisan influence. That independence is increasingly under pressure. A Justice Department used to investigate political opponents while ignoring violations committed by allies would undermine one of the most important safeguards protecting American elections.

Pressure on State Election Officials

Since the 2020 election, election officials across the country have faced unprecedented harassment, threats, and political pressure. Many experienced administrators have resigned or retired. Replacing independent professionals with partisan loyalists weakens public confidence in elections and increases the risk that election administration becomes a political weapon rather than a public service.

Weakening Voting Rights Enforcement

Federal enforcement of voting-rights protections has steadily declined in recent years. Civil-rights organizations warn that without vigorous enforcement of existing laws, states may adopt policies that make voting more difficult for minority communities, students, the elderly, and low-income citizens.

Election Certification

The counting of ballots is only one part of a democratic election. Certification of the final results is equally essential. The effort to pressure officials to reject certified election results in 2020 demonstrated that the greatest threat to democracy may come after the votes have been counted. Americans should expect similar attempts to challenge legitimate election results in future elections.

Election Security

Election security depends on well-funded local election offices, secure voting equipment, cybersecurity protections, and trained personnel. Weakening those resources leaves election systems more vulnerable to technical failures, cyberattacks, and public distrust.

The Big Lie

Perhaps the most effective attack on American elections has been the relentless promotion of false claims that elections are routinely stolen. Repeating those allegations despite the absence of credible evidence has convinced millions of Americans that election results cannot be trusted. Once citizens lose confidence in the electoral process itself, democracy becomes increasingly difficult to sustain.

Federal Authority During Election Disputes

Constitutional scholars have warned about the possibility that federal law-enforcement agencies or even military forces could be used during periods of election-related unrest. While such authority is intended for extraordinary circumstances, the possibility of its political misuse deserves close public scrutiny.

Independent Election Institutions

The Election Assistance Commission was created after the disputed 2000 presidential election to strengthen election administration and promote bipartisan cooperation. Weakening or disabling institutions specifically designed to improve election integrity removes important safeguards at precisely the moment they are needed most.

Conclusion

The Trump administration does not respect the laws or the tradition of free elections. The SAVE Act, threats involving ICE, and the dismantling of the Election Assistance Commission are only part of a broader effort to control the outcome of American elections. These developments, taken together, reveal a systematic campaign to weaken the institutions that have traditionally protected democratic elections. Once it is established that the government can control the results, the experiment of democracy will have ended

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Recently a good friend told me that he is “thankful to be born in USA”. Once upon a time, so was I. Now I consider myself to be a fierce critic of the American Empire. How did I turn against America?

There were several turning points. The first was my study of political assassinations, which began in 1991 thanks to Oliver Stone’s film JFK. At the time, I was labeled a “conspiracy theorist,” but over the past 35 years, the world has increasingly come to understand that the National Security State killed President John F. Kennedy. This “conspiracy theorist” became a “conspiracy realist.” As I explain my personal transformation here, I also outline the history of what I see as the crimes of the American Empire.

Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Bush (1963–1991): “Belief in America” period

The reasons I believe the National Security State killed President John F. Kennedy include his refusal to rescue the CIA’s failed Bay of Pigs invasion, his negotiation to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis, and he refused to fight the Vietnam War. He was in direct conflict with his military and the CIA. Additionally, Kennedy was not going to allow Israel to have a nuclear weapon, which may have been the most important reason behind his assassination. In June 1963, he delivered his famous peace speech at American University. His enemies included CIA veterans Allen Dulles, James Angleton, William Harvey, E. Howard Hunt and Pentagon Generals Curtis LeMay and Lyman Lemnitzer.,as well as many wealthy oil people such as H. L.Hunt. This is my condensed summary of the extensive historical records pointing to a political assassinations at the hand of the National Security State.

The assassinations of Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X were, in my view, also orchestrated by the National Security State, supported by what I consider to be similarly overwhelming evidence.

From the time of Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 until my first awakening in 1991, several other events reinforced my belief that the United States was pursuing an imperial agenda. The Vietnam War, initiated by President Johnson and expanded by President Nixon, resulted in the deaths of approximately 2 million Vietnamese.

President Carter’s defeat following the Iranian hostage crisis led to Ronald Reagan’s presidency. According to what is known as the “October Surprise” George H. W. Bush, acting on behalf of Reagan’s campaign, made a deal with Iran to delay the release of hostages until after the election, offering improved terms for military hardware. This claim has been reported by Robert Parry (Consortium News) and others.

John Lennon was killed by a programmed assassin because of his antiwar activism, as described in Whelan’s book Mind Games”. The Charles Manson murders contributed to the end of the 1960s hippie movement. The CIA’s mind control program, MK-Ultra, was eventually revealed.

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Gary Webb exposed the CIA’s alleged involvement in cocaine trafficking into American cities to support the Nicaraguan Contras. His book Dark Alliance led to severe professional and personal consequences, including the loss of his career and marriage, and ultimately his death.

The Franklin scandal was a child pedophile ring investigated by Nick Bryant and others. The story broke in 1988. Nebraska chief investigator Gary Caradori and his 6-year old son were killed by plane crash which contributed to a successful cover-up.

Key Events:

• Watergate and the Iran-Contra scandal—though separated by a decade, the CIA was involved in both.

• Civil Rights leaders Medgar Evers, Fred Hampton and others were killed.

• George H. W. Bush led the first Gulf War but chose not to remove Saddam Hussein; approximately 50,000 Iraqis died.

• The U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989 removed Manuel Noriega.

• The Jonestown Massacre during which Congressman Leo Ryan was assassinated.

• John Hinckley Jr. was blamed for the assassination attempt on Reagan.

• The BCCI scandal erupted, leading to the bank’s closure in 1991.

1991-2001 (President Clinton): Belief in America shattered.

During this decade, I studied political assassinations in great detail which lead to the conclusions described above and my changed view of America.

The election of President Clinton in 1992 brought with it the idea of a “peace dividend.” However, the Military-Industrial Complex needed a new enemy, and “terrorists” became the justification for continued expansion of empire. At the time, there was little public enthusiasm for war, and as a result, President Clinton was able to balance the federal budget.

During his presidency, neoconservative influences led to the destruction of Yugoslavia which was the only successful socialist country in Europe. NATO attacked without provocation, resulting in the breakup of the country and thus eliminating socialism in the Europe. Of course, the Empire built a major new Ia military base.

In 1999, John F Kennedy Jr. was killed in a plane crash before he could make his mark on American history. This event was treated by the American press as a tragic accident, though I view it as an assassination.

Other key events:

• The WACO massacre/siege and the killings of Samuel and Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge contributed to the rise of the Patriot movement, composed of individuals opposed to what they saw as government overreach.

• The Oklahoma City bombing, followed by a cover-up of key facts.

• The death of Princess Diana in 1997 under suspicious circumstances.

• Ross Perot’s presidential campaign, including the threats that led him to briefly withdraw from the race.

• The death of Vince Foster, officially ruled a suicide, which raised many questions.

• The plane crash that killed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown’s and 33 others.

• Senator Mel Carnahan‘s death in a plane crash in October 2000.

George W Bush (2001-2008): Disillusion with America

The first event was the stolen election of 2000, when G.W. Bush was given power instead of Al Gore. Gore received the majority of votes nationwide and in the contested state of Florida but the Supreme Court appointed Bush. Dick Cheney practically appointed himself as Vice President.

Ten months later, the attacks of 9/11 occurred, and were blamed on Osama Bin Laden. As if America was not sufficiently traumatized, the Anthrax attacks followed. The Congress was presented with the Patriot Act which was written long before 9/11. Senior Senator Paul Wellstone opposed the legislation, and so was assassinated by plane crash. The Empire attacked Iraq although they had nothing to do with 9/11, nor did they have weapons of mass destruction as we were told.

I now believe 9/11 was an orchestrated event by Vice President Cheney in order that the Empire could establish military bases throughout the middle east. Whether orchestrated by the National Security State or not, the event was followed by wars which continue to this day. The plans were essentially laid out in The Project for a New American Century which was written years earlier, during Clinton’s Presidency.

Evidence that 9/11 was an inside job is a multiyear study. Most readers know that Conspiracy Realists understand that control demolition was used to demolish the WTC buildings, which is particularly evident in WTC 7. Neither the evidence or science support the official narrative on 9/11. The evidence against the official story is too lengthy for this article.

Predictably, America went to war, first in Afghanistan, then Iraq. In support of Israel, the United States planned to destroy 7 countries in 5 years (Iraq, then Syria and Lebanon, then Libya, then Somalia and Sudan, and back to Iran), as reported by General Wesley Clark. Five major military bases were built throughout the region in the years following the attack.

Torture: The fact America was torturing prisoners in Guantanamo and several black sites was revealed by Seymour Hersh and John Kiriakou. Guantanamo Bay naval base was used to imprison 780 men and boys without legal recourse. The torture was the first well known major violation of Geneva Conventions by the Empire. The Bush administration justified the torture program. America could no longer claim to care about Human Rights or International Law. Senator Diane Feinstein investigated, but the final report was only partially released, and suppressed. Her office was survieled by CIA director John Brennan during her investigation.

In 2004, the Presidential election was stolen from John Kerry by Bush and his people, specifically in Ohio where I and the Columbus Free Press actively investigated this crime. Articles Here and here; Book and book. Mike Connell was the point person for the theft. He died in a small plane crash on Christmas Eve in 2008.

After 9/11/2001 and the 2004 election, I became unwilling to sing the national anthem at sporting events or to participate in any patriotic rituals such as July 4. My belief in America was broken.

2008-2016 (President Obama) Hope soon shattered.

President Obama offered hope and a polished presentation. But he allowed the war crimes (torture) of Bush go unpunished, saying we must look forward, not backwards. He allowed the financial crimes of Wall Street, which resulted in an economic collapse, to go unpunished. Obama then allowed the military to “surge” in Afghanistan in a failed effort to “win” that war. He authorized Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to destroy Libya on thin pretext, which was the second war (after Yugoslavia) initiated without America being threatened with attack. Syria was also under covert attack during this time.

Other Key events:

• The Jeffrey Epstein case gained widespread attention following his 2008 conviction and 18-month sentence for sex-related crimes.

• President Barack Obama played a key role in supporting Hillary Clinton’s candidacy over Bernie Sanders.

• Journalist Michael Hastings died in a car crash under circumstances considered suspicious, following his reporting on General David Petraeus.

• A false flag chemical weapons attack in Syria was cited as justification for efforts to remove President Bashar al-Assad.

• The Boston Marathon bombing in 2014, along with an investigation that left important questions unanswered.

• The Obama administration’s use of drone strikes targeting suspected terrorists.

• Deborah Jeane Palfrey, known as the “D.C. Madam,” died in 2008 in a case officially ruled a suicide, though “suicided” is more likely.

2016-2020 (Trump-Epstein years). America beyond remediation.

This period began with the Ruling Elite preventing a fair primary election which would have resulted in a Bernie Sanders presidency. Hillary was the anointed candidate, but she lost to Trump due to deep state shenanigans via James Comey’s FBI. The voting public was desperately in need of a change, which was represented by Trump’s unorthodox style of promises, bombast and lies, and Clinton was already deeply unpopular.

Other Key events:

• During Trump’s first term, Americans became accustomed to lies emanated from the office of the President often by tweet.

• Government officials denied or downplayed the possibility that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan.

• We witnessed a pathetic response to the Covid pandemic, and so much more.

• We also witnessed Trump’s treasonous attempt to overturn his election loss on January 7^th.

• Seth Rich was murdered.

• Iran General Qasem Soleimani was murdered by the Empire.

• Trump withdrew from the nuclear agreement with Iran negotiated by Obama (JCPOA)

• He withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord.

• The killings of George Floyd, Michael Brown, and others by police sparked widespread protests and national debate over policing.

President Biden trades old war for new war. (2020 to 2024) and my move to Thailand.

Biden was the only alternative we were given to Trump #1. He immediately ended 19 years in Afghanistan in order to provoke a proxy war against Russia, over NATO membership no less. This is thoroughly described in Scott Horton’s book “Provoked”.

Biden ignored the threat from within which was Traitor Trump. Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland did not appoint a special counsel to investigate for two full years (Nov 2022). Too late.

It was during this time that I became a man without a country, and was fortunate to be able to retire to Thailand during the Biden Presidency.

Genocide

After moving to Thailand, Israel activated it’s own false flag on October 7 in order to justify ethnic cleansing of Gaza, in it’s quest for hegemony over the entire Middle East. Israel’s apartheid state and it’s crimes of torture and murder of Palestinians was well known, having begun in 1947. The genocide in Gaza was facilitated by America’s weapons, making the American Empire complicit in genocide.

Other key events:

• Donald Trump repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that the 2020 election was stolen.

• The Epstein blackmail operation became more widely known, though there was a failure to fully release related files or pursue certain allegations involving high-profile individuals.

• The Nord Stream Pipeline was destroyed by sabotage, clearly taken out by the American Empire.

The reign of the Orange King and the End of Empire (?): 2024 to present

The second Trump administration is completely lawless since Trump himself has a long record of breaking the law and getting away with it. This despite his pathetic record during his first term which ended with the treason of January 7^th.

For his second term, he appointed incompetent boot licking fools with little or no expertise. As a result, the failing war against Iran may signal the End of Empire, but it could also result in the first use of nuclear weapons since 1945. An economic collapse is also possible. The lies told by this narcissistic, racist pedophile are too numerous to comprehend, and the damage to the United States Constitution will never be undone. After the deceptive and cowardly decapitation attacks of the leadership during active negotiations, the Empire opened the violence against Iraq by killing 150 little girls.

Elon Musk stole the 2000 election against Kamala Harris. The theft is described here and here. This is documented at Smart Elections and This Will Hold at substack. Or, see my article entitled Trump-cry makes America reluctant to discuss Stolen Elections. The theft is described here and here.

This administration will forever be known for the Epstein cover-up. The FBI was needed to redact Trump’s name from documents and withhold the documents implicating Trump and Israel in Epstein’s espionage operation. Many MAGA celebrity podcasters turned against Trump over Epstein.

Trump also initiated illegal wars against Venezuela and Cuba, and failed to bring the war in Ukraine to an end. Trump’s graft knows no bounds. All while covering himself in gold and genuflecting to himself. Finally, as I write, Trump thinks he can open the Straight of Hormuz by force while Iran prepares to defend against invasion.

Key Events: too many to mention

Elon Musk and Doge attacks the American government.

ICE=gestapo raids; Murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Innocent people imprisoned, deported, or even killed by ICE. Children are imprisoned under horrific conditions.

Charlie Kirk assassinated by Israel, followed by most incompetent coverup in our history.

Venezuelan President Maduro captured and imprisoned in America.

Continuing support of Israeli genocide.

And so many more.

I Stand with Iran

I recently wrote “America: Perpetual War Machine“; saying that I stand with Iran in it’s war against the American Empire. After reviewing all of these events it seems perfectly rational to NOT want the American Empire to rule the world. The current ruler is a psychopath of the highest order, but there was little to be thankful for over the previous 60 years. People who truly want a peaceful word must oppose this violence. I am horrified at the behavior of the American Empire.

CIA Director William Casey said “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete 
when everything the American public believes is false” -1981

Social Security, SNAP benefits, Medicaid, Medicare and all programs meant to benefit the citizens, are under constant attack as a result of the national debt.

Inflation is largely the result of borrowing, so that inflation is similar to a tax on working Americans while having no effect at all on the Ruling Class.

The national debt is a result of one thing and one thing only, which is the cost to maintain and expand Empire through violence (wars) and economic coercion.

On the day that the America/Israeli Empire attacked Iran (2/28/2026) White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett estimated that the war in Iran had cost the U.S. more than $12 billion so far.

It should be noted that Iran has said the cost of ending the war is reparations, as they expect to be reimbursed for the damage done. I am predicting that, rather than accept defeat, the Empire will end itself (and maybe the entire planet) by using a nuclear weapon against Iran.

Since the American people will have to bear the brunt of the inevitable economic collapse via inflation, worldwide recession, and breakdown of the social safety net, I asked ChatGpt to breakdown the costs of the American/Israeli Empire on Iran. The following is the response from ChatGpt, with no edits from this author, although emphasis is mine. (date March 20th, twenty one days into the war)

The True Cost of the U.S.–Iran War: From Billions to Trillions

As the United States’ military conflict with Iran unfolds in early 2026, public attention has largely focused on the immediate costs of missiles, airstrikes, and troop deployments. Early estimates—ranging from $10 billion to nearly $20 billion within the first weeks—have dominated headlines. But these figures represent only a fraction of the war’s real cost.

A broader accounting, incorporating damage inside Iran and the global economic shock triggered by the conflict, reveals a far more consequential reality: the total cost of the war is already trending toward the multi-trillion-dollar range.

Early Military Spending: A Rapid Burn Rate

In its opening phase, the war has proven extraordinarily expensive. U.S. forces burned through billions of dollars in precision munitions and operational costs within days. Estimates suggest a daily expenditure approaching $1 billion, with some analyses placing peak daily costs even higher.

Within the first one to two weeks, total U.S. spending reached approximately $10–18 billion. If current operational tempo continues, near-term costs could rise to between $50 billion and $200 billion within months. Historical comparisons suggest that prolonged engagement could ultimately push total U.S. expenditures into the $200 billion to $500 billion range—or beyond.

Iran’s Losses: Destruction and Economic Disruption

While precise figures remain incomplete, the scale of damage inside Iran is already substantial. Thousands of strike targets—including military installations, energy infrastructure, and industrial sites—have been hit.

Based on comparable conflicts, early estimates place physical destruction between $50 billion and $150 billion. If the war intensifies, total infrastructure losses could climb to $200 billion or more.

Even more significant are the broader economic consequences. Iran faces disruptions to oil exports, industrial production, and currency stability. These pressures, compounded by tightening sanctions, could produce economic losses in the range of $100 billion to $300 billion in the short to medium term.

Taken together, Iran’s total losses—physical and economic—are likely already in the range of $150 billion to $600 billion.

The Global Shock: Where Costs Multiply

The largest and least visible component of the war’s cost lies in its global economic impact.

The conflict has disrupted a critical artery of the global energy system. With oil prices rising roughly 50 percent and key shipping routes under strain, the war has triggered one of the most significant energy shocks in decades.

Economic modeling suggests that a shock of this magnitude could reduce global GDP by approximately 1 percent. Given a global economy of roughly $105 trillion, that translates into a loss of about $1 trillion annually if conditions persist.

Additional ripple effects include:

• Trade disruptions and higher shipping costs, estimated at $200 billion to $500 billion

• Inflationary pressure on fuel, food, and consumer goods, costing households globally an estimated $300 billion to $800 billion

• Financial market volatility and reduced investment, adding another $200 billion to $600 billion in losses

Altogether, the global economic burden of the conflict is likely already in the range of $1.5 trillion to $3 trillion if sustained over a year.

A System-Wide Total

When these components are combined, the scale of the war becomes clearer:

• U.S. military spending: $50 billion to $500 billion (projected)

• Iran’s losses: $150 billion to $600 billion

• Global economic impact: $1.5 trillion to $3 trillion

This produces a total estimated cost of approximately $1.7 trillion to over $4 trillion under current trajectories.

Debt and the U.S. Fiscal Position

The war is also unfolding against a backdrop of historically high U.S. debt. At the outset of the conflict in early March 2026, national debt stood at roughly $38.8–$38.9 trillion. Within weeks, it crossed the $39 trillion threshold.

While only a portion of that increase is directly attributable to war spending, the conflict is accelerating deficit growth and will likely add substantially to long-term debt through both direct expenditures and rising interest costs.

The Hidden Costs Yet to Come

History suggests that early estimates dramatically understate the full financial burden of war. The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, initially projected to cost tens of billions, ultimately exceeded $2 trillion each when long-term factors were included.

Those hidden costs—veteran care, equipment replacement, interest on borrowed funds, and prolonged economic disruption—have not yet fully materialized in the current conflict. But they will.

Conclusion

The visible costs of the U.S.–Iran war—missiles launched and targets destroyed—amount to tens of billions of dollars. The real cost, however, is measured in trillions.

It is being paid not only by governments, but by global consumers through higher energy prices, by businesses through disrupted supply chains, and by economies through slowed growth.

In modern warfare, the battlefield extends far beyond the conflict zone. And increasingly, the largest price is not paid where the bombs fall, but across the global economy that absorbs the shock.

Editor note: $39,000,000,000,000 (39 trillion dollars)

The average salary for an American worker is $100,000

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I had a premonition earlier this week, based on this knowledge.

I watched Trump, Hegseth and his team of psychopaths pretend like they are winning in Iran, acting tough, manly and confident. At the same time as suggesting they might be planning to send “boots on the ground”.

The reason there are no stated objectives for the war is that the objective is to turn Iran into a failed state like Libya and Syria.

When we understand the goal, it becomes obvious that Trump will use a nuclear weapon before he will agree to end the war. Rather than settle, he will kill millions (the population of Tehran is 9,840,100).

I had a premonition that Trump will murder millions of people in Iran rather than lose face.

Israel and the rest of the American Empire are heavily censoring information and flooding the zone with propaganda, I want to share with readers the sources that suggest the war is going badly. There is no offsetting information supporting the idea that the Empire is winning. All one has to do is turn on the TV to find that information. What a fool believes.....

What follows is the best information challenging the Empire’s pro war propaganda.

Iran Blinds US With Unprecedented Campaign of Strikes on Region’s Strategic Radars: (simplicus76 on Substack)

This article covers the situation on the ground in Iran, Iranian;s FM Araghchi NBC interview inviting American troops to invade, rhw destruction of AN/TPY-2 radar and other radar installations, damage to Tel Aviv, the shot-down of American F-15s, Iran attack on USS Lincoln, the emerging energy crisis, the strike on a girls school, and more.

In Iran, Israel’s morbid military cult now has the US fully in its grip by Jonathan Cook (audio file): Breathing life into something that would normally be treated as an antisemitic trope, Rubio argued that the Trump administration had been left with no choice but to attack Iran because, had it not, Israel would have launched an attack anyway, exposing US soldiers to retaliation.

Jonathan Cook reporting “Israel planned this war on Iran for 40 years. Everything else is a smoke screen”

Professor Jiang Xueqin, a Chinese-Canadian educator, writer, historian, and geopolitical theorist based in Beijing, gained attention for a 2024 video prediction the outcome of a US-Iran war.

These from Caitlin Johnstone: The US War Machine Is Run By Deranged Armageddon Cultists and It Is Not Okay For Grown Adults To Believe Infantile Fairy Tales About Iran

Israeli journalist, Alon Mizrahi “We are witnessing history. Iran is, to the surprise of everyone, blowing up US bases so thoroughly and extensively and so decisively that the world isn’t ready to see it.”

In 4 days, Iran has managed to expand its scope of military domination in the region. Iran has destroyed the most precious, most expensive military bases, assets and equipment in the whole world.

American bases in Bahrain and Kuwait and Qatar and Saudi Arabia are some of the biggest military installations in the entire world. These are assets that took trillions to build over the course of several decades. We’re talking a major chunk of military expenditure for over 30 years, going up in smoke.

The following were supplied by Popular Resistance via Mazin Qumsiyeh

International Union of Scientists condemns Israel/USA military aggression on Iran (Link).
The Palestinians and Jewish Unity organization statement (Link).

(Coutercurrents independent media) Crusade Against Iran and Conquest of the Arab World (Link)
Tucker Carlson (Link to Video)
A US Marine at the White House in protest -broke his arm (Link to Video)

Phil Giraldi (Link to Video)
Scott Ritter (Link to Video)
Mel Gibson tried to warn us (Link to Video)
Marouf (Link to Video)
Professor Jiang WIII (Link to Video)
Ali Khamenei’s assassination will likely backfire- here is why (Link to Article)
Catching on on Facebook (among millions of similar posts) (Link) .
More on the Ecocide caused by Apartheid Genocidal Israel (Link)
and on voice of Hind Rajab (Link) BBC World Service Life and Death in Gaza (Link).

Israel violates international law by destroying a UN headquarter in occupied Jerusalem (Link to Video).
“Flagrant War Crime”: Investigation Recreates 2025 Israeli Massacre, Cover-Up of 15 Gaza Aid Workers (Link to Video).

“No Traces of Life” by Forensic Architecture (Link).

“Ecocide in Gaza: A War Waged on Farmland and Ecosystems” (Link to Video)

More antiwar articles by David Swanson, Norman Soloman and others at Freepress.org

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I am a patriotic American who despairs at the current state of affairs in America. I hope the American Empire is defeated because I yearn for a peaceful world.

America turned away from peace when the National Security State assassinated President Kennedy in 1963, five months after his American University peace speech. What followed was an effort to continue creation of the American Empire, but there was some restraint. After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was talk of a peace dividend as expressed by George H.W. Bush and Margaret Thatcher. America could finally move towards minimizing the enormous expense of Empire and make Kennedy’s dream a reality.

Powerful people within and outside of government were hell bent on Empire, so they came up with the Project for the New American Century, which involved toppling the governments of 7 countries in 5 years. The countries targeted were Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran. The people involved in this plan were Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Robert Kagan, Victoria Nuland, Bill Kristol, Richard Pearl, John Bolton Donald Rumsfeld and other neocons. When the 2000 election was stolen from Al Gore, Dick Cheney became Vice President, where he was in position to create the greatest false flag attack in history. The attacks on September 11, 2001 became the impetus for the American Empire to build military bases throughout the Middle East, and catalyzed the plan to topple these seven countries, albeit behind schedule.

The date of 9/11 became the date that America became a Perpetual War Machine. Besides these seven countries, Venezuela, Cuba and Yemen have recently been victimized. President Biden ended the 19 year war in Afghanistan in order to provoke yet another proxy war against Russia over NATO membership, with Ukraine and Russia both being victimized. The Empire already has plans to attack China, not because they are a military threat but because the are an economic competitor.

The reasons to hate the American Empire are numerous.

Israel’s psychopathic Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

After the strikes began, Netanyahu told a reporter that he had fulfilled his dream to bomb Iran thanks to Trump. “This coalition of forces allows us to do what I have yearned to do for 40 years,” he declared. Netanyahu has controlled/influenced the American government for years via Jeffrey Epstein’s blackmail operation and the financial contributions thru AIPAC and other political contributions. The Zionist influence has taken out many Senators and Congress persons so that those who want to remain know what they need to support.

Failed States is the Goal

The Empire’s goal is to create failed states as it has successfully done in Libya and Syria. The Empire could not care less about the effect on the residents of these countries, nor does it care how many must be killed to achieve the goals of the Ruling Class. The goals are not the same as the goals of the people as described by Michael Parenti.

America support of Genocide

America’s support of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank is a perfectly good reason to hate the Empire.

America National Debt

America’s debt and deficit have reached staggering proportions ($37.8 trillion dollars) due to the cost of maintaining the Empire. The Orange King recently bragged that he will increase the military budget from a record of 1 trillion dollars to 1.5 trillion dollars. Meanwhile, Americans cannot have universal health care, social security is continually threatened, and there is little money for programs that help average Americans.

Iranian Restraint

Iran demonstrated enormous restraint over the years while being demonized with constant propaganda claiming they supported terrorism. On 3 January 2020, Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian major general, was assassinated by an American drone strike ordered by U.S. president Trump. Iran’s response was minimal. Then, in June 2025 the Twelve-Day War began when Israel bombed military and nuclear facilities in Iran in a surprise attack assassinating prominent military leaders, nuclear scientists,and politicians, killing civilians, and damaging or destroying air defenses. Although Iran responded, it was with restraint, ultimately accepting the loses.

America’s duplicitous conduct continued as it negotiated with Iran right up until the current attack, when the initial wave killed most of the people negotiating for peace, despite the fact that Iran had agreed the terms that the Empire demanded. Not only was the country attacked, but also the negotiators were targeted and killed in the first wave.

After WWII, America and it’s allies created the Geneva Conventions, which put a framework around how wars could be waged. Basically, laws of war were created by America but are no longer followed. Collective punishment (Gaza), torture and assassination of leaders were prohibited but are a defining feature of this Empire.

Murder.

The American government murders people. Leaders of targeted countries, such as Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Qasem Soleimani, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi and many others scientists and politicians were simply murdered. In addition to heads of state, the Empire has no problem murdering fisherman off the coast of Venezuela, or 150 girls in Iran.

Trump’s incompetent administration

The incompetence of the current administration is astounding. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vice President JD Vance, and Trump himself are incompetent fools, which is demonstrated by their inability to articulate a goal or explain how this war will end.

Venezuela and Cuba

The attacks on Venezuela and Cuba are illegal and immoral, as well as threats against Greenland.

Global Warming

The Ruling Class prefers the term “climate change” and then prevents even those words from being used in government documents, but the rest of the world understands what many Americans refuses to believe. This despite the fires and floods, and despite the wars for oil resources. The American Military is the biggest contributor to global warming. It’s very existence forces military competition in the rest of the world, thus compounding the global warming problem.

Jeffrey Epstein

Floating above the fray is the ghost of Epstein, if he is indeed dead (which I doubt).

There are many people in America who understand the danger and the solutions. My favorite is Jeffrey Sachs. I urge all American’s to follow professor Jeffrey Sachs visions for a peaceful world. (here, here and here as well as many more interviews, books and publications).

My criticism of the American Empire precedes the current madness by 20 years. Decent peace loving people should not be shamed into supporting the immoral and violent American Empire. Americans talk of peace but the people are unable to stop the perpetual war machine. Historically, all Empires fall. How will the American Empire fall, when will it cease to exist? The American people will soon feel the additional weight of the cost of Empire.

We must not forget that voting does not solve the problem, as the only candidates allowed to participate are pro war. Antiwar candidates need not apply.

We must demand peace and oppose our evil Empire

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Smedley Butler,in his book “War is a racket”, described his experience at using the military to steal other countries resources. The American Empire attacks Venezuela in order to steal it’s oil, we know that Chevron, and individuals working for Chevron, will benefit. Having always believed that the cost of the theft is borne by US taxpayers, with little benefit, I asked Chat Gpt to analyze. And the answer is:

When U.S. firms like Chevron gain access to Venezuelan oil, how—if at all—do U.S. consumers benefit?

Short answer

U.S. consumer benefits are indirect, limited, and often marginal. Most gains accrue to corporations, shareholders, and specific sectors—not to everyday consumers in a clear or proportional way.

Below is a clear breakdown.

1. Potential consumer benefits (in theory)A. Slight downward pressure on fuel prices

If Venezuelan oil enters global markets:

• It adds to global supply

• More supply can moderate price spikes, especially during tight markets

• U.S. gasoline prices are set by global oil prices, not domestic supply alone

Reality check:
Venezuela’s current export volumes are small relative to global demand, so any price effect for U.S. consumers is usually tiny and hard to notice at the pump.

B. Refinery compatibility benefits

Venezuelan crude is heavy oil, which:

• Matches the design of certain U.S. Gulf Coast refineries

• Can reduce refinery retooling costs

• Helps keep those refineries operating efficiently

Consumer impact:
This may help avoid localized fuel shortages or price spikes, but it does not reliably lower prices nationwide.

C. Energy price stability (not cheap energy)

Access to additional oil sources can:

• Reduce exposure to sudden supply disruptions (wars, embargoes)

• Stabilize markets during geopolitical crises

Key distinction:
Stability ≠ affordability. Prices may be less volatile, but not necessarily lower.

2. Where benefits clearly do NOT goA. Profits do not flow to consumers

Chevron’s gains primarily go to:

• Shareholders

• Executives and employees

• Contractors and service firms

• Financial markets

There is no mechanism that automatically passes these profits to consumers.

B. U.S. energy independence is not increased

Venezuelan oil:

• Is sold on global markets

• Does not insulate the U.S. from global price swings

• Does not meaningfully reduce reliance on international oil prices

C. No direct tax relief or public revenue windfall

Unlike some state-owned oil systems:

• Chevron profits are not earmarked for public services

• Tax contributions are limited by deductions, depreciation, and global accounting practices

Consumers do not receive rebates, lower taxes, or guaranteed public investment.

3. Costs often borne by consumers (indirectly)A. Foreign policy and enforcement costs

Sanctions, enforcement, and military posture:

• Cost U.S. taxpayers money

• Are not offset by lower consumer prices

B. Inflation pass-through still dominates

Even with added supply:

• Oil companies price fuel at what the market will bear

• Refiners and retailers capture margins

• Consumers still pay global prices

4. Net assessment

For U.S. consumers:

• ✔ Possible minor price stabilization

• ✔ Reduced risk of extreme supply shocks

• ✖ No guaranteed price reduction

• ✖ No direct financial benefit

• ✖ No proportional gain compared to corporate beneficiaries

Bottom line:
If there is a benefit to U.S. consumers, it is diffuse, indirect, and small, while the primary, measurable gains accrue to Chevron and related interests.

The founding of the United States did not mark the beginning of these crimes but their consolidation. Genocide and slavery were already well underway, embedded in colonial law, economic life, and social order long before independence was declared.³

Genocide and the Theft of a Continent

European settlers arrived at Plymouth Colony in 1620 and initially relied on Native American assistance for survival.⁴ That period of cooperation was short-lived. As settler populations grew and European weaponry, disease, and military organization proved decisive, Indigenous peoples were systematically displaced, massacred, starved, or confined.⁵

From the earliest recorded massacres in the 17th century through the end of the so-called Indian Wars in the late 19th century, violence against Native Americans was not incidental—it was policy.⁶ Historians identify the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee as the end of organized Indigenous armed resistance, marking the completion of territorial conquest.⁷

Scholars estimate that hundreds of massacres occurred during this period.⁸ Far more devastating than direct violence, however, were starvation, forced displacement, and epidemic disease. Prior to European contact, the Indigenous population of North America is estimated to have ranged between 5 and 15 million people.⁹ By the end of the 19th century, that population had been reduced to fewer than 250,000.¹⁰

This was not an unfortunate byproduct of settlement—it was a prerequisite. The land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans could not be seized and developed without the elimination of its original inhabitants.¹¹

Slavery as an Economic Engine

The second foundational crime was slavery. The transatlantic slave trade began in English North America in 1619, when the first enslaved Africans were brought to Virginia.¹² Slavery expanded steadily for nearly two and a half centuries and was not abolished until the end of the Civil War in 1865.¹³

At its peak in 1860, the enslaved population in the United States numbered approximately four million people.¹⁴ These men, women, and children were legally considered property. They possessed no rights, no bodily autonomy, and no legal protection against beating, rape, torture, or murder.¹⁵

The wealth of the young republic—particularly in the Southern states—was inseparable from enslaved labor. Cotton alone became the dominant American export, feeding textile mills in both the United States and Europe.¹⁶ Modern economic historians widely agree that slavery was not a backward or inefficient system, but a highly profitable one that accelerated American industrial and financial development.¹⁷

Like genocide, slavery was routinely justified by Christian institutions and theological arguments that framed racial domination as divinely ordained.¹⁸

Whitewashing the Past

Despite overwhelming historical evidence, these crimes have been consistently minimized, reframed, or erased from popular memory.¹⁹ That process of whitewashing continues today.

The current administration has openly promoted efforts to sanitize American history, including pressure on cultural institutions such as the Smithsonian to emphasize “patriotic” narratives and downplay historical injustices deemed “divisive” or “offensive.”²⁰ The implicit argument is clear: honest history reflects poorly on white America and therefore must be revised.

State-Enforced Disappearance and Family Destruction

Today, the United States is engaged in what can best be described as state-sanctioned mass removal—a system that blends forced displacement, detention, and family destruction. Whether labeled deportation, enforcement, or border security, the underlying practice increasingly resembles collective punishment rather than lawful immigration control.²¹

The stated goal of the current administration is the removal of millions of non-white immigrants, often framed narrowly as the deportation of “criminals.” In reality, numerous reports and court filings show that many of those targeted have no violent criminal record, have lived in the United States for decades, and in some cases possess lawful status or pending legal claims.²²

The political motive is difficult to ignore: reducing future voters and reversing demographic changes perceived as threatening to white political dominance.²³

Historically, deportation in the United States involved a lengthy legal process, including notice, hearings before an immigration judge, and the opportunity to present evidence.²⁴ Supporters of the current administration frequently cite the high number of removals during the Obama presidency, but those figures obscure critical differences in due process, enforcement priorities, and the treatment of families and long-term residents.²⁵

Detention, Death, and Historical Parallels

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) now operates a sprawling detention system in which individuals are apprehended, transported, and confined—often without timely access to legal counsel. Reports from journalists, medical professionals, and human rights organizations describe unsanitary conditions, overcrowding, lack of medical care, and denial of basic necessities such as clean water.²⁶

Deaths in immigration custody have been documented, and while the United States has not engaged in systematic mass killing, history does not require identical outcomes to warrant comparison.²⁷ The use of a secretive enforcement apparatus to round up a targeted population, detain them indefinitely, and strip them of legal protections bears an uncomfortable resemblance to earlier authoritarian systems such as Nazi Germany.²⁸

Comparisons to Nazi Germany are often rejected out of hand, dismissed as inflammatory or inappropriate. But such reflexive dismissal serves less to protect historical accuracy than to prevent moral scrutiny. The Gestapo was not defined solely by mass extermination; it was defined by its function as a secretive enforcement arm of the state, empowered to identify, apprehend, detain, and disappear targeted populations outside ordinary legal protections.²⁹

Immigration and Customs Enforcement now performs a structurally similar role. It operates with broad discretion, limited transparency, and minimal accountability. Individuals are apprehended without warning, transferred across jurisdictions, denied timely access to counsel, and confined in detention facilities that function as de facto concentration camps—places where large groups of civilians are held indefinitely based on identity rather than individual guilt.³⁰

Historical analogies do not require identical outcomes to be instructive. They require comparable mechanisms of power. The early stages of authoritarian systems are rarely recognized in real time precisely because they are framed as temporary, legal, or necessary. To reject all comparison until the most extreme outcomes occur is not moral caution; it is moral abdication.³¹

Criminalizing Existence

If an individual citizen forcibly abducted another person and expelled them from their home, it would be a serious crime. Yet when the government does so at scale, it claims moral and legal immunity.

People who have lived in the United States for 20 years or more are now being detained and deported. Families are torn apart. Personal property is lost or confiscated. There are documented cases of abuse, including sexual assault, in detention facilities.³² Many of those removed were actively complying with immigration procedures when enforcement actions occurred.³³

These harms are justified by a culture that treats certain lives as disposable—and that culture remains driven by white privilege and racialized fear.

Conclusion

The United States cannot confront its present without naming it honestly. Genocide, slavery, and forced removal are not closed chapters of American history; they are recurring methods of state power. Today, Immigration and Customs Enforcement represents the latest institutional expression of that power. Through raids, detention, and deportation, ICE enforces a system that disappears people from their homes, separates families, and strips individuals of legal and human dignity—often without meaningful due process.

These actions are not merely controversial policy choices; they are morally indefensible and criminal in nature. Were an individual or private organization to abduct people, confine them indefinitely, and expel them from their communities, the law would rightly call it kidnapping. That the same acts are carried out under the authority of the state does not cleanse them of their immorality—it magnifies it.

History shows that societies rarely recognize their crimes while they are committing them. They are justified as necessary, legal, and temporary. ICE operates under precisely these claims. But legality does not equal legitimacy, and enforcement does not equal justice. Until Americans are willing to recognize ICE’s practices as part of a long continuum of state violence—rather than an aberration—the cycle will continue. New victims will replace old ones, new language will mask familiar crimes, and the American state will persist in harming those it deems expendable

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In this groundbreaking book, Kevin Shipp, a veteran CIA agent who worked with all four Directorates of the agency, including protecting the head of the CIA, provides his perspective on how the agency has strayed so far from its original mission to provide accurate intelligence to the American president.

You will learn about the founding of the Agency, how the intelligence agencies have manipulated journalists through Project Mockingbird, as well as their new efforts with the Center for Global Engagement and Big Tech interference. Shipp will also give you his up close and personal assessment of how the directors of the agency have contributed to our safety or undermined it. Shipp and Heckenlively detail how the CIA has blocked whistleblowers and the reforms they champion, while also controlling our country through secret alliances with large corporations, Wall Street, Big Media, the drug trade, and blackmail of our political leaders.

Shipp provides his own history with the Agency, both the good and bad, including the Agency’s attempt to ruin his career and life when he turned whistleblower. Perhaps most striking of all, Shipp lays out his plan for a dramatic overhaul of the Agency, likely to win wide approval from other sectors of the intelligence community, restoring the freedom of our country, while also keeping us safe from our adversaries.

Candace Owens

Two years ago Candace Owens would have called me a conspiracy theorist. Two years ago, I would not have listened to right wing MAGA podcasters such as Owens and Tucker Carlson. Charlie Kirk’s assassination has caused an awakening. An awakening! Owens is deeply suspicious of Israel in the murder of Kirk.

She has educated herself, so now I can refer to her as a Conspiracy Realist. In this youtube, she interviews CIA whistle blower and author Kevin Shipp.

Encouraging is the right word. Having experienced the feeling of being dismissed out of hand when discussing any one of hundreds of CIA orchestrated deep state events, it’s been a while since I have heard an interview like this.

Ex-CIA agent Kevin Shipp is interviewed by Owens who is one of the most popular podcasters in America. The two casually talked about the world changing conspiratorial events orchestrated by the Deep State/CIA. For those of us who have studied these events, there is little new information, just a willingness to suggest that the National Security State (CIA, et al) is behind these events.

In rapid fire conversation, they discussed many events, beginning of course with the forces behind the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X in the 60’s. Without hesitation, they discussed many of the inconvenient 9/11 facts, specifically the controlled demolition of building 7, lack of plane debris in PA (flight 93), and the redacted *Saudi Arabia* pages in the official 9/11 report. Then they moved to Charles Manson and MK Ultra, discussed the hypnotizing of Sirhan Sirhan, and the possibility that many mass shooters in America may have been victims of the current version of MK Ultra’s mind control efforts, including mention of Thomas Crooks, the patsy in the fake attempt on Trump this 18 months ago.

Also discussed was John Lennon’s assassination, Jeffrey Epstein’s extortion operation and Tim McVeigh and Oklahoma City. Moving on, they also mentioned is the destruction of the Nordstream Pipeline at the hands of the America Empire. They even went pre-CIA to America’s pre-knowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack.

For the well informed, none of the content is surprising. What is surprising is that she is willing to publicly mention so many of the Deep State crimes against Democracy without reservation or hesitation. I was impressed when Shipp mentioned Fletcher Prouty’s book “Secret Team” and gave a shout out to the books publisher Skyhorse publishing (well informed will understand the reference). Another few minutes and they would have been talking about Mae Brussell and John Judge! I began listening to the book last night.

The show is here:

This author believes there is not one person in America who believes all the lies told to them over the past 62 years. Regardless of political persuasion (left, right, independent, religious, atheist, ) America has been lied to consistently and thoroughly during my lifetime. It is easy to point to the government, but the lies specifically originate at the Central Intelligence Agency, since they are behind most of the nefarious activity of the American Empire. We are all Conspiracy Realists. It is becoming clear that there is another factor behind the deception. Let me explain.

Every person in America has questions or doubts about at least one of the following Deep State events. The assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK, and Malcom X ; the 9/11 and anthrax attacks, Oklahoma City bombing, TWA 800, Watergate, Jonestown massacre; death by plane crash of JFK Jr, Paul Wellstone, Mel Carnahan; and the killing of Harvey Milk, Allard Lowenstein, and Leo Ryan; The origin of the Covid pandemic, the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the attempted theatrical assassination attempt of Donald Trump, the Franklin scandal, and finally, Jeffrey Epstein’s pedophilia and extortion operation.

Some formerly conspiracy theories have been accepted by the government thus giving belief permission to the general population. Two examples are the fact that the government lied about Weapons of Mass Destruction and the origin of the Covid virus as well as many foreign regime change operations and assassinations

For purposes of this article, lies about America’s foreign intrigues are not included, but not because they are not important or illustrative of the point.

The population of the world has born witness to an obvious genocide committed by Israel upon the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Israel has invested heavily in propaganda to convince it’s American benefactors to support the slaughter. The influence of AIPAC and the Israel lobby has been well known but accepted as a necessary extension of the American Empire.

Younger Americans, (Generation Z) have witnessed the genocide daily without any filter, and have rejected the existing paradigm regarding Israel. Charlie Kirk recognized that his following was unwilling to support genocide, and so Kirk turned against Israel’s genocide as well as generous financial support from Jewish donors for Turning Point USA. As a result, Charlie Kirk is dead.

Concurrently, the MAGA movement sprouted and grew as a result of conspiracy theorists named Trump, Patel, Bonlingo, Owens, Carlson, Bannan and others who convinced conservative voters that Jeffrey Epstein ran a perverted criminal pedophilia operation, which they would then expose. It was only six months ago that Attorney General Pam Bondi declared the Epstein files were on her desk and would soon be released. At that point, Trump and his minions found themselves boxed in, and the attempt at a cover-up began.

The Epstein cover-up, the false story blaming the Kirk assassination on another lone nut, and the genocide in Gaza has split the MAGA movement. The effect has been momentous in a more important way, because it is resulting in America turning away from support of Israel’s Zionist genocidal government. At the same time, Donald Trump’s minions are attempting to normalize Gestapo like activities of ICE against hard working brown people. Slowly but firmly, the American citizenry is unwilling to accept this behavior.

Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson.

As a person completely opposed to the politics of Owens and Carlson, I believe that their vehement questioning of Israel’s Zionist government is a turning point for America. Both have openly challenged Israel in a deep and fundamental way. Owens and others are openly challenging the narrative around Kirk’s assassination, as the official “lone nut” conclusion is visually ridiculous. Owens describes the long history of Israeli assassinations, the personal histories of the Zionist supporters at Turning Point USA, and the deep influence of Israeli money and Epstein’s extortion operation on American politics.

Once upon a time in America a person who questioned the lone nut conclusion in all four assassinations in the 1960’s was referred to by a term meant to demean (“conspiracy theorist”). Now, both Owens and Carlson as well as so many others openly dismiss the Oswald did it theory. They both openly question the possibility of Israel in Kirk’s assassination. Both speak of Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty, something never mentioned on public airwaves only 5 years ago. They and others speak of Kennedy’s determination not to allow Israel a nuclear weapon, and point the change in policy resulting from his death, and the possibility of Israel being behind Kennedy’s death.

Both Owens and Carlson have demonstrated a true friendship with Charlie Kirk, refusing to behave as mouthpiece of Empire, and risking their own lives in the process. Israel is nothing if not ruthless.

Having been a conspiracy realist for 35 years (this part of me born in 1991) I know I am not immune to being wrong but I also recognize speculative theories. I also recognize important evidence when I see it.

Today, November 25, 2025, Candace Owens on her podcast openly asked the question, is Epstein dead? I believed he was smuggled out of of prison at the time. Owens has explained the many motives of Israel which may have killed Charlie Kirk. In the case of Epstein, Wired magazine investigated the video which was meant to prove Epstein’s death and concluded that it is a combination of two videos, by a technical evaluation of the metadata. Credit to Candace Owens for bringing the receipts. My three pages of notes were not generated by a talking head running her mouth but rather Owens supplies evidence. I urge everyone to watch this, but as a postscript to this article, I have listed some teasers.

Owens played clips of past comments of JD Vance, Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, and Pam Bondi, demonstrating that their loyalty is shallow, suggesting that they really “hate” the man. She said that “Epstein is Terminal Cancer” to Trumps Presidency. She explained that Americans will never, ever allow this to be swept under the rug. While she believes the people will not ever get comfortable with pedophilia on the part of the rich and powerful, while at the same time she is implicating Israel in all of this.

Israel:

Israel is the number one suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination and Epstein clearly was running an espionage extortion plot on behalf of Israel. Repeat: Israel is the number one suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Epstein clearly was running an espionage extortion plot on behalf of Israel.

The world can see innocent people dying violent terrible deaths in Gaza, the exact kind of holocaust that America/The World/The United Nations was determined to prevent after WWII. NAZI Germany committed genocide against the Jews, just as Israel’s Zionist government is committing genocide in Palestine.

One step down: Open discussion about (1) JFK’s determination to prevent Israel or any country from having nuclear weapon, a policy immediately changed upon his death (2) Open discussion of Israel’s 1967 attack on the US Liberty (3) Wikipedia list of over one hundred Israeli assassination attempts beginning with Israel’s first baby steps as a country (4) Every word spoken by Benjamin Netanyahu, Bezalel Smotrich, and Itamar Ben-Gvir during the genocide (5) Israel routinely bombs Syria, Lebanon, Iran and Yemen.

Regarding JFK’s efforts to prevent Israel from having a nuclear weapon, it has long been known that Israel smuggled the necessary plutonium from Apolo, Pennsylvania. Israel has been allowed to deny the existence of their nuclear weapons, thereby avoiding oversight required of other countries by treaty. They have approximately 800 nuclear weapons but have admitted to none.

James Douglas new book Martyrs to the Unspeakable: The Assassinations of JFK, Malcolm, Martin, and RFK goes into detail on Kennedy’s efforts, Israel’s response, and importantly, the support of the CIA against the policy of John Kennedy at the time. Based on recent documents, James Angleton was in bed with Israel in a deeper way than previously understood.

Concurrently (that word again) Jefferson Morley and others testified before Representative Luna’s committee, clarifying the assassination of Kennedy. I mention Morley because he wrote three books on the individual people in the CIA most likely to have decided to kill Kennedy. “Scorpions Dance” focuses on James Jesus Angletom.

It is well established that Kennedy was killed because he refused to invade Cuba, he negotiated a planet saving solution to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and he refused to fight Vietnam. This American University peace speech in July 1963 sealed his fate.

Another picture is emerging. That is a deeper involvement of the CIA, specifically James Angleton. Douglas’s book leads to the importance of another motive, that being Israel’s determination to get a nuclear weapon.

The Epstein files will be a cancer on Trump’s Presidency but another picture is emerging that goes beyond pedophilia. The files do not only reveal powerful and wealthy Americans engaging in sex/rape with children, but they also will reveal the deep involvement of Epstein extortion operation on behalf of Israel. This is a threat to Israel’s very existence, since they depend on the support of America to exist. It is possible that we might learn exactly what sex act, what video tape, what communication occurred and what was required by Israel of the the compromised American. What exactly was done in exchange on behalf of Israel? The timeline will be fascinating.

Epstein controlled American political decision for 30 years using sex with children as the bait.

Charlie Kirk turned against Israel and remained true to his base as well as America First pledge. Israel is the obvious suspect in the professional murder of Charlie Kirk.

James Angleton had many secrets, some of which are surfacing. He has long been a suspect in Kennedy assassination, and it is long known that he supported Israel. What was not known is the depth of his deception. The Devil is in the details. The possibility exists that Israel, working with Angleton, had more involvement in killing Kennedy that previously understood.

Neither Donald Trump or Israel will go down without creating some major diversion, major “terrorist” event to keep the game going. But Trump has not hired anyone with the skills of Dick Cheney, and so whatever is done will be understood by the watching world.

When the Epstein Cancer finishes Donald Trump, it will reset America’s relationship with Israel. How will nuclear armed Israel respond? Will any American leader insist that Israel lives within it’s borders, and prevent it’s ability to bomb it’s neighbors at will? What will be the ultimate fate of Benjamin Netanyahu?

Is Jeffrey Epstein still alive?

The fingerprints of the Zionist government of Israel are connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s murder or escape, Charlie Kirk’s assassination, John F. Kennedy’s assassination, and James Angleton’s support which likely facilitated Kennedy’s killing. The cancer that will eventually kill Trump’s Presidency will also have a severe impact on America’s support of Israel.

The End

Notes: “Epstein is Terminal Cancer” is a quote from Candace Owens. “Something happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear.” (Song “For What it is Worth”, Steven Stills/Buffalo Springfield)

Candace Owens Podcast:Trump Gone Wild! Is Jeffrey Epstein Even Dead? November 2025

> Wired article indicating that the tape of Epstein death is altered and thus a lie. Photo’s taken as Epstein’s body entered the hospital.

> Shows video. Two views, 8 second apart. Two first responders visible in the first, a third person enters in the second, calmly administering oxygen. 8 seconds.

> Points out that the jail video (not the one above) did not show any prison guards or anyone reacting to his death.

> Asks, why would Epstein kill himself. He got off of more serious charges in his previous arrest, and he was given special housing treatment in prison. He would have every reason to believe he could get away with this, and certainly would not have given up prior to trial.

> Shows timeline: Questions about the NY Post photographer (Farrington) that took the two photo’s of Epstein on stretcher, and asks why was he there, as he would have had to be tipped off. Points out that the NY Post is a Zionist newspaper, and the same journalist who took the photos was the first to photograph Michael Jackson’s death. NT Post first organization to declare Epstein dead. (13:24)

> Video of ABC news Amy Robach interview where she tells the world she had the Epstein story 3 years ago but ABC killed it.

> Shows document pointing to former Attorney General Wm Barr as having visited Epstein in prison, something later denied. Barr’s father was instrumental in Epstein’s rise.

> Points to Laura Loomer post, which Owens views as a trial balloon to see if the Epstein file problem would go away if Pam Bondi was blamed. (26:10)

> Clip of Tucker Carlson discussing the direct connection of these events to Israel, and implicated Israel in the killing of Kennedy (36:00).

> Video clip of former Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, describing Israel’s effort to influence world opinion via editing of Wikipedia articles, and noting his denial of Epstein working with or for Israel.

> Owens discusses Israel’s good luck. Kennedy’s death allowed them nuclear weapons, 9/11 allowed America to disable Iraq, etc.

The walls are closing in. Trump, unable to keep the Epstein files secret, forced his bimbo Attorney General and sleazeball FBI director to scrub the files, using hundreds of FBI agents to mark (redact?) the over 1600 times Trump’s name is mentioned. More attempts to obfuscate the public are certain to follow.

It is doubtful that there is just one Epstein file, rather there are copies of the original documents which were used to create the file. In fact there may be copies of the entire file that was on Pam Bondi’s desk. At minimum, Kash Patel must have a copy. Missing pages, missing documents and redactions result in unanswered questions. Trump is now creating a trail of breadcrumbs.

Many of Trump’s biggest supporters are unwilling to crawl into this foxhole with him. Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Green, and Lauren Boebert are among them. Many Republican’s have been willing to support random deportation of law abiding immigrants (legal or otherwise), his genocide in Gaza, his war against Russia (Trump’s war now), his destruction of the White House, his attack on the United States government on January 6, and so much more, but are not willing to follow him down this yellow brick road, knowing there are photo’s of Trump committing acts of incredible depravity.

As they crawled into bed last evening, what was going through the mind of JD Vance, Pam Bondi, and Kash Patel? JD can see “President of the United States” in his future. Bondi and Patel can see prison and are beginning to see that they are not invincible. The rats will soon begin to abandon the sinking ship. Yet their arrogance knows no bounds.

Meanwhile the entire word watches as some Americans continue to support an obvious pedophile (among so many other negative attributes). The entire world is realigning itself to oppose the United States of America. While governments move slowly away from Trump’s America, the citizenry of the world does not need any more information. To say that America has lost the world’s respect is an understatement.

Having followed the research of so many others on the Kennedy assassination, I know that one document release always leads to another, and another. There is simply no way to cover up crimes of this magnitude.

Trump cannot deflect, redact, or lie his way out of this one. He would be smart to consider the deep disgust that America feels for him. He could discontinue his attacks on immigrants via his use of ICE (Immigration Customs Enforcement) as America’s gestapo, but he is far to stupid and stubborn to do that. The same is true for his support of Israel and his abandonment of “America First”. He could reevaluate the destruction his random economic ideas are causing Americans. Rather than taking actions to improve his image, instead he inspires hatred.

Hopefully America has reached a tipping point, and that Trump will be forced to leave office. But since he cannot resign without facing imprisonment, the chaos is about to reach epic proportions. He may declare martial law, start a new war, or use the military to retain power.

One thing is certain. The information in the Epstein files will continue to flow out of Washington DC like a growing avalanche which will eventually bury him.

Americans can no longer expect political power to be changed via elections as envisioned by the founding fathers. Fascists have taken over America, and that no election will remove Orange King Trump. The most effective resistance would be general work stoppage. Americans could stop working until he is removed. A military coup would be supported by the populace. But both solutions are extremely unlikely.

Remember the Arab Spring? The Wikipedia entry reads as follows: The Arab Spring was a series of pro-democracy anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. It began in Tunisia in response to the death of Mohamed Bouazizi by self-immolation. From Tunisia, the protests initially spread to five other countries: Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria and Bahrain. Rulers were deposed: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia, Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, all in 2011; and Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen in 2012.

America needs a general revolt, a revolution, an Arab Spring. Americans must surround the White House and remain until he is gone. We need a protest without end. Millions of people occupying Washington DC indefinitely may be the best or only solution.

Image of Epstein victims (credit World Without Exploitation)

The Orange King has turned America into a hell hole that is intent on punishing the tired, the poor, and the huddled masses. It has become the cruelest of countries, governed by psychotically cruel people. The majority of Americans did not vote for this, and many are protesting vehemently, to no avail. Some pretend that this administration will give up power based on an election which is completely delusional. Unbelievably a large minority of Americans support this as if the victims are criminals.

Just in the past week, one can watch video images of masked ICE officers, sometimes in plain clothes, kidnapping people off of the street. These people go straight to prison, euphemistically called detention. What has been reported is only a small sample of the abuse being administered to these unfortunate people. No one can guarantee that America citizens are being released after a few days or weeks of being abused.

Although the algorithm is against you, one can watch the horrors of ICE arrests all day every day. Here is a very small sample of the headlines or testimonies posted at Tic Tok.

1. Border Patrol agents arrest undocumented immigrant and two US citizens

2. Federal agents crash into car of US Citizen on her way to work, forcibly detain her.

3. ICE agents make arrests on street preparing Halloween parade

4. ICE violently detains US Citizen standing up for his employees and also tackles his mother

5. Horrible image of woman being taken while her two children hold onto her. (Clays time)

6. ICE Raids Chicago school as children scream in terror

7. “They took my kids out at gunpoint. Mom says ICE agents have no sympathy

8. Pregnant woman loses child in ICE custody despite begging for care

9. Gestapo at Graduation

10. Woman screams for help while being arrested in Utah airport

11. Ice agents dragged US Citizen out of her car, then get mad because she wasn’t illegal immigrant.

Headline: No One Is Safe From America’s Abusive Immigration Authorities Anymore: Even legal residents and tourists are being terrorized by Trump-emboldened officers at ICE and CBP.

Paul O’Brien, executive director of Amnesty International, writes that “The American government is abusing immigrants and American citizens that are being disappeared as if they are immigrants, since they are being kidnapped without recourse. Without a trial. Simply sent to inhumane detention centers. How can we allow this to happen?”

O’Brien recently visited an ICE detention center (Krome Detention Center,)— one of the most overcrowded ICE facilities in the U.S. — and documented the truly appalling conditions our immigrant friends and neighbors are facing… who should not be detained in the first place.

• People are being tortured: chained to the ground and caged out in the hot sun at Alligator Alcatraz, and prolonged solitary confinement at Krome

• At Alligator Alcatraz, there is little access to clean water and hygiene, and flooding and hot temperatures are breeding grounds for bugs, with people being attacked constantly by mosquitoes.

• At Krome, we saw disturbing treatment of a man who was placed in solitary confinement because he was on hunger strike, and we heard consistent reports of denial of medical care at Alligator Alcatraz.

USA Today headline: Immigrant women describe ‘hell on earth’ in ICE detention. USA reports that Immigrant women say they were held “like animals” in ICE detention and subjected to conditions so extreme they feared for their lives.

Chained for hours on a prison bus without access to food, water or a toilet. Told by guards to urinate on the floor. Held “like sardines in a jar,” as many as 27 women in a small holding cell. The long article covers specific abuses which are horrible to contemplate.

Modern technology is about to make this situation worse, as Peter Thiel and the other tech Oligarchs will use facial recognition to identify their enemies. Orwell’s 1984 is here. Soon a simple facial scan will allow the officer in front of you to view a summary of your email and social media activity. There will be nowhere to hide. Orwell’s vision was a country always at war, the people (Proletariat) were told who the current enemy was, and expected to support without question. But you know the story...

It is reported that “404 Media previously revealed ICE has a new app called Mobile Fortify, which scans someone’s face and is built on a database of 200 million images. The app queries an unprecedented number of government databases to return the subject’s name, date of birth, alien number, and whether they’ve been given an order of deportation.”

Venezuela

In addition to the crimes of America’s gestapo, America’s lawless government is murdering Venezuelan citizens (mostly fisherman) in international waters. The King is claiming they are transporting drugs into America, even though the boats would have to refuel 5-8 times to reach Miami. The first boat destroyed had 11 people on board, so this obviously was not a drug boat. Eleven people, murdered in the blink of an eye, with no evidence at all presented against them, and no proof given to the American people. The Navy commander responsible for operations in this area resigned rather than be part of the war crimes being committed.

The purpose of the attacks on Venezuela is to gain control of their vast oil reserves. This is a well known fact, repeated by the likes of Jeffrey Sachs, Phil Girarldi, Larry C. Johnson, Ray McGovern, Andrew P. Napolitano, Pepe Escobar, Norman Soloman, Scott Horton and many others.

America wants the oil so badly that they planned a false flag attack that was thwarted by Venezuela.

In another fun AP headline, “US agent secretly plots to turn Maduro’s pilot to capture Venezuelan president” This story states overtly that a CIA agent offered to make the pilot of Maduro’s plane very very rich if he would just divert a flight to Cuba with Maduro on board. The effort continued for 16 months. Once upon a time, CIA activities like this were only revealed decades later.

American History

American’s should not forget their complicity in the genocide being inflicted on the Palestinians in Gaza. Nor should we forget that this is simply a continuation of the death and destruction inflicted upon the Native American population and African slaves in our recent history. Recently, another black man (Trey Reed )was hanged in Mississippi. It is estimated that 3.8 million people were killed by the American war machine in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Between 200,000 and 1 million people were killed in the invasion of Iraq. Millions more were killed in Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, Chili, Indonesia, El Salvador etc.

We must recognize the similarities between ICE procedures and those used by the NAZI Gestapo prior and during WWII. Despite the feeling of helplessness, we must stop these abuses.

I will explain my hatred of Trump by considering 3 categories: Character, Domestic policy, Foreign policy.

Character: The entire world knows that Trump is a narcissist, a racist, a misogynist, and a pedophile. We also know that he lacks empathy, and is cruel beyond imagination. He is a stupid man, not well educated, not well read, not a student of history. He may be the only person in America who has never visited a National Park, with the exception of photo ops at Arlington Cemetery. He is simply a clueless, bumbling idiot.

It should be obvious that Trump has no intention of releasing the Epstein files, since his name is contained therein, hundred of times. Trump has spent his entire life as a sexual predator. His rich and powerful friends are also compromised by Epstein. The Epstein operation was a blackmail and extortion operation intended to maintain America’s unwavering support for Israel.

While millions (5 million at minimum) of citizens took to the streets in protest, Trump treats them as enemies rather than engaging in dialogue or changing his policies. His response was to shit on them symbolically. On the same weekend, he shit on America again by tearing down the East Wing of the White House, something he recently promised not to do.

Trump has never respected the law in his own interactions with the world, and now as King of America. Trump committed Treason on January 6th, 2000. Joe Biden allowed him to get away with it. Trump committed treason again when he took classified documents to Mar-a-Lago. The law no longer applies in America, as I predicted in January in an article titled “Goodbye to the Rule of Law”.

Domestic Policy:

This Orange King has established a National Gestapo by expanding Immigration Customs Enforcement under the direction of racist white supremacist Steven Miller. He is paying generous salaries and recruitment bonuses. ICE agents, including the worst white nationalists in America, are in the ranks and are in the field with little or no training,. The purpose is to deport 5 million (yes, that is the goal) people because they are potential voters. Rather than deport criminals, he is deporting hard working, rent paying residents, often breaking families apart. ICE has zip tied non white children who are citizens.

In his white supremacist mindset, black and brown people are still a threat. The same mindset that allowed white Americans to genocide Native Americans and support slavery is at work as these racists work to remove non white Americans.

In an effort to make America white again, Trump has attacked Los Angeles, Chicago, Memphis, New York, Washington DC and Portland. Since the ICE goons were not making enough progress, he has sent the National Guard and the United States Military to support ICE, against many laws (posse comitatus) and against reason. Trump is the first America President to attack an American city, and he is just getting started.

The images of ICE kidnapping activities are horrible to watch in their cruelty. They included parents separated from their children, including children being left unattended on the street. People have been arrested at the courthouse who are following the correct procedures. American citizens are included in the random arrests. A thirteen year old girl was thrown to the ground the the ground by large uniformed masked men in uniform. There is no trail by jury. About 200 people were housed in Alligator alley have been disappeared. (it appears the administration is abiding by a judicial decision in this one case) No one outside of Trump’s minions know where they are. So far ICE is responsible for around ten deaths that we know about.

Recordings of those calls, obtained by ProPublica, captured some of the terror residents felt as they watched masked men ambush people and force them into unmarked cars. In some cases, the men wore plain clothes and refused to identify themselves. There was no way to confirm whether they were immigration agents or imposters. In six of the calls to Santa Ana police, residents described what they were seeing as kidnappings.

Meanwhile, ICE is enjoying a windfall in resources. On top of its annual operating budget of $10 billion a year, the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill included an added $7.5 billion a year for the next four years for recruiting and retention alone. As part of its hiring blitz, the agency has dropped age, training and education standards and has offered recruits signing bonuses as high as $50,000.

Trump has made the entire government subservient, including especially the Department of Justice, the and the FBI. This means that we will never see the Epstein files, we will never know anything more about Thomas Crooks, and we will never know who shot Charlie Kirk. The mad King will continue to attack his critics and using all aspects of the Federal government. No one should feel safe in Trump’s America.

Transfer of wealth: Although it is obvious to everyone that most of the wealth produced in America by Americans is going to the ruling class, Trump decides that the ruling class needs even more money, so he is doing this by taking health care and food assistance away from the neediest Americans. Even the dumbest Americans should be able to understand this.

Tariffs: Americans struggling to buy groceries and gasoline will get no relief from the Mad King. So far they pain is inflicted on individuals without recourse, but also larger influential groups like soybean farmers, beef farmers and the construction industry. Farmers are now asking for and getting socialist handouts from the government to cover their losses. Over the next 6 months we can expect to see massive negative results from the tariffs.

Firing Federal Workers: The Musk “Doge: efforts succeeded in terminating many thousands of good government jobs. Wherever possible, minorities were targeted. Now, with the government shutdown at his direction, he is threatening to terminate even more good government jobs.

Finally, the Trump administration intends on gutting social security, as described in Project 2025 and by the Heritage Foundation. Younger Americans have long expected to be screwed in this way, older Americans hoped to outlive it. The reality looms. The retirement age will be increased by the end of Trump’s reign of terror.

Foreign Policy:

Although I hoped Trump could end the American Empire’s proxy war against Russia via Ukraine as he promised, Trump was unable to accomplish that. There is little hope that he will ever accomplish this goal, given his administration is filled with incompetent people trying to implement a incoherent policy.

His policy of supporting Israel in the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is most abhorrent policy. Although he claims a ceasefire, Israel has not abided by the terms for even one day. Not only does the killing continue, so does the refusal to provide food and other aid.

America has been attempting to gain control over Venezuela’s oil resources since the year 2000 if not before. Trump is attempting to draw Venezuela into a war by murdering it’s citizens using the thinly veiled excuse that the people they are killing are running drugs. Of course, there is no evidence for this claim. As usual, it is all about the oil.

Iran: After each attack on Iran, the Iranian response has been muted, although after the most recent attack Iran proved that Israel’s Iron Dome, and thus Israel itself, is quite vulnerable. More attacks on Iran can be expected.

Every country in the world: Trump threatened Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Panama, China along with the usual enemies. And he refuses to support the European Union, the United Nations, and NATO. Obviously, even our remaining allies can not trust the American government.

New York City, Portland, Chicago, Memphis. Who could have ever expected that Trump would wage war on his own country?

Below is a link to an article titled “The #Liz48 Plan: This Is How We Remove Them—Legally, Quickly, and Nonviolently‘ The way to get rid of Trump—and his entire corrupt, inept Administration—is to cut the line of presidential succession. The author describes a ten-step process which is absolutely impossible. Fantasy land. But it proves that Trump will continue to wreck havoc on the country and the planet as long as he breathes. Democracy has died.

Conclusion: Trump has already destroyed the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave into which I was born. Instead, there is a new reality. A White Supremacist Empire has been born, willing to inflict the same cruelty as dispensed to Native Americans and African slaves. The Empire is collapsing economically. The collapse of the Military Industrial Complex would be a welcome development. It is the instigator of most if not all of the conflicts in the world. It is the reason that America lacks resources to spend on productive endeavors. However, the American people will be starving before the military spending decreases, and the Empire is already risking nuclear war in order to survive.

In addition, I have written (here) that the Covid vaccine is not particularly effective and too dangerous for general use. I have also written (here) that I do not believe the medical consensus that vaccines do not cause autism. The system is driven by a medical research complex that values profits more than science. Steve Kirsch's work (here) is compelling.

When the government's scientists began to realize that the vaccine was neither preventing disease acquisition nor preventing transmission, the reaction was more vaccines (boosters). I suspect the boosters were at best minimally effective.

I firmly believe that there are precious few long term studies designed to study long term vaccine injuries (autoimmune disorders) and long term side effects.

I think most people would agree that our food contains additives and impurities that should not be allowed.

However, I am changing my mind about RFK Jr. Like the rest of America, I am horrified that the Trump/Musk minions terminated so many Federal Government employees, mostly targeting them by loyalty and race (blacks and Mexicans need not apply). In addition, Kennedy's demeanor when explaining his actions is almost as narcissistic and idiotic as Trump himself.

Kennedy 's first mistake may have happened before his feet hit the ground. Musk's minions attacked the Federal government before Kennedy and other Cabinet secretaries could object. However, the terminations since then are beyond my comprehension. I believe that he needed to terminate some people because of their association with the Pharmaceutical industry but that does not justify the massive disruptions to science and to existing research. Just as Trump did, RFK Jr. continues to use a sledgehammer when a scalpel is needed.

Kennedy plans to cut approximately 10,000 federal HHS staff, shrinking the department from 82,000 to about 62,000 employees.

• FDA: ~3,500 job cuts

• CDC: ~2,400 job cuts

• NIH: ~1,200 job cuts

• CMS: ~300 job cuts

  Kennedy's father, Robert F Kennedy Jr, would be horrified by his terminations of Minority Health and Health Disparities Offices. These were particularly hard hit. Entire staffs—including directors—at offices across HHS agencies such as CMS, CDC, FDA, HRSA, SAMHSA, and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) were reportedly fired.

Kennedy has terminated key personnel. Hannah Anderson, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, was fired on July 16, 2025, as was Heather Flick Melanson, Chief of Staff. Susan Monarez, CDC Director was fired after she refused to resign under pressure from Kennedy, reportedly due to policy disagreements. Her firing triggered resignations of other senior CDC officials. Dr. Vinay Prasad – Director for Biologics Evaluation and Research, FDA was dismissed following pressure from right-wing activists; however, he was reinstated two weeks later after Kennedy intervened with the White House.

Kennedy could have released the critical data that Steve Kirsch and others have been asking for. If he did, he could prove some of his points by using science. However, there has been little or no scientific justification for most of his actions. Specifically, Kirsch argues that this level of transparency (raw, record-level, government-held data) should be matched by other countries, including the U.S., thus implying they are withholding comparable data.

Senator Ron Johnson then asked for this data in Sept 2024:

• One-year and two-year mortality rates after the second dose for Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, broken down by 5-year age categories.

• Mortality rate ratios for both vaccines during high vs. low COVID-19 months, including 95% confidence intervals and explanation of how they were determined.

• Clarification on whether the agencies are certain that Moderna and Pfizer are equally safe—and, if so, on what data or studies that conclusion is based.

• Any determination of COVID-19 mortality or other effectiveness differences between the two vaccines, with methodological details.

Kirsch has also been vocal about a broader “death-vax record-level” dataset, meaning individual-level linkage of vaccination records with mortality outcomes. In a February 2023 post titled “A worldwide call for data transparency: Show us the data!”, he laments that health authorities have withheld this data in every jurisdiction and urges states to release it, calling it the key to ending debate on vaccine safety.

Kirsch claims that claims that COVID vaccines have reduced life expectancy (or increased mortality), pointing to Czech data, New Zealand data, VAERS-based data, survey based data, and analysis of Medicare data.

So my question for RFK Jr. is, where is this data?

Freedom: I believe that those who want to be vaccinated should have that option. Kennedy's decisions regarding Covid vaccine have resulted in lost insurance coverage resulting in a out of pocket cost of around $200 for some. People should have the freedom to accept or refuse the Covid vaccine. Many American's objected to forced vaccinations for an experimental Covid vaccine. I now agree with them although I was supportive at the time. People should have freedom to choose either way.

One of my earliest concerns happened when he hired Dr. Mehmet Oz. Although I am aware that Oz has been unfairly smeared in the same way as RFK Jr, I also know he is a salesman not a scientist.

If you cannot find someone more qualified than him, then you are barking up the wrong tree.

Kennedy is credited with terminating 22 mRNA vaccine projects, but terminating research projects is not my idea of good management. Ensuring that the results are not financially influenced by Pfizer, Moderna, and other entities is good management.

Those supporting RFK Jr point to these successes.

1. COVID-19 shot no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant women

2. Removes all 17 members of the CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel

3. Pulls 8 billion dollars in U.S. funding for Bill Gates’ vaccine cartel GAVI.

4. Blocks WHO “Trojan Horse” emergency powers treaty.

5. Signs thimerosal ban in all U.S. flu shots

6. Removed American Academy of Pediatrics and several other major medical organizations from CDC vaccine work-groups..

I agree with the first point as explained before. The current Covid vaccine should be limited to high risk individuals. It has not been proven to increase life expectancy.

The CDC vaccine advisory panel is now populated by seven new members, with more to follow. It appears the new members have minimal association with the vaccine industry but this is very difficult to quantify, or compare to the past members.

It is unclear whether 8 billion dollars has been withdrawn from Bill Gates’ vaccine cartel GAV, as it is unclear if this is current or future funding. This will mostly affect children in poorer countries. This is ironic because those countries benefit the most from vaccine availability. As far as I know, these countries are not coerced into participating, but rather find value in Gate's efforts.

The WHO “Trojan Horse” appears to me to be a over-reaction as the treaty explicitly states that nothing in it authorizes the WHO Secretariat or Director-General to direct, dictate, or override national laws or policies, including actions such as lock downs, vaccine mandates, school closures, or border controls. Sovereignty remains intact.

The thimerosal ban is meaningless, since thimerosal had already been removed in 95% of shots. It only exists in multi-dose vials.

Kennedy removed these organizations from the CDC vaccine work groups: American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). It is impossible for me to view this as a positive development.

• American Medical Association (AMA)

• Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)

• American Academy of Family Physicians

• American College of Physicians

• American Geriatrics Society

• American Osteopathic Association

• National Medical Association

• National Foundation for Infectious Diseases

I find portions of John Oliver's take down of RFK Jr to be compelling, while other parts are simply a professional smear campaign. In one segment he ridicules Kennedy for having questions about 9/11! You can watch Oliver here.

John Potash Youtube, “Shots” is informative, as is his books on this subject. John Potash is the writer, director and producer of the new film, Shots: Eugenics to Pandemics, now available for free on Tubi TV, ad-less on Google Play and on DVD at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other outlets. Potash formerly wrote and produced the books and films, Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA’s War on Musicians and Activists, as well as The FBI War on Tupac Shakur: State Repression of Black Leaders from the Civil Rights Era to the 1990s. John Potash did his graduate studies at Columbia University and has been featured on C-Span’s American History TV, The Reelz Channel, RT, and on the A&E television networks. He has also appeared on hundreds of radio programs and is a regular contributor to Covert Action Magazine. He has worked as a psychotherapist for over 30 years.

In the event of another pandemic, I would hope that the government attempts a more nuanced approach. Outdoor venues such as parks should remain open. Schools should not have been closed as children were not dying. The government should not have attempted to guilt trip the country into vaccinations based on the goal of “herd immunity”, or force any reluctant person to accept an experimental vaccine.

Conclusion: Robert F. Kennedy is on the right track but his methods are counterproductive. He would have been removed from office by now had not a fascist government taken power in America. At the same time, he may have disrupted the influence of the medical industrial complex (pharmaceutical industry) on the governmental agencies that are intended to protect us. Bottom line is that I believe Kennedy has the right instincts but the wrong approach.

A "come-to-Jesus moment" refers to a pivotal point in someone's life when they confront an important truth or realization, often leading to significant personal change or a decision. This phrase can be used in both religious and secular contexts to describe moments of clarity or intervention.

While the initial reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk was for the political right to blame the left, it is possible that his assassination will unite deep thinking Americans against Israel.

This author is not the only Conspiracy Realist who immediately questioned the official story, as it is developing. Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Max Blumenthal, Larry C. Johnson, Philip Girardi, George Galloway, Steve Bannon, Michael Savage and many others are demanding real answers. In general these people do not trust the government under Trump or Biden. We will now witness the effectiveness American law enforcement represented by the trio of Pam Bondi, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino.

The background to the assassination will introduce to the American public many questions about Israel's control over the American government.

Charlie Kirk's organization Turning Point USA has been heavily but not exclusively funded by the Jewish Lobby including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (APIC) but more importantly by one hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman.

Kirk has been supportive of Israel's right to commit genocide in Gaza as well as every other crime committed by Israel. Here I refer to the assassinations executed recently against Hezbollah, Hamas in Iran, and the attempted assassination of the Hamas delegation in Qatar. However, Kirk met with Trump in the White House prior to the Israel/American attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, where he argued against it. America first, he argued.

In addition, Kirk has been lobbying for release of the Epstein files. Trump and Company's attempts to sweep that under the rug was effective on some right wing pundits like Ben Shapiro, but failed to land with Kirk, Tucker Carlson, Candice Owens and others.

One could easily speculate that, besides implicating Trump himself, release of the Epstein files would destroy American's support for Israel, as the documents would certainly lead back to Israel's blackmail and espionage operation that spanned over 20 years.

Given Israel's obvious motive and ability, Prime Minister Netanyahu was asked about possible involvement. His response was to point out that everyone hates Israel and oh, by the way, the holocaust. (Seriously, he mentioned the holocaust in his answer!)

As everyone knows, Kirk was shot in the neck on September 10^th while speaking in front of a large crowd at Utah Valley University. Video of the alleged shooter emerged immediately. We see a man in dark clothing running across the rooftop, climbing/jumping down, as well as video from before and after. After a lengthy manhunt, we are told his father notified law enforcement. One version has the shooter (Tyler Robinson) turning himself in and that he is in custody but not cooperating. We are also told that the rifle was found fully assembled and in a box, covered by a blanket.

The first problem with this scenario is that it is not easy to break down the Remington 30.06, but the shooter appears to be running from the moment of the shot. The image of Robinson dropping down from the roof shows no visible weapon. We are told that he broke down the weapon, put the barrel into his pant leg, and the rest into his backpack. Why not leave the weapon? Later we see image of Robinson walking through the parking lot with a limp, which would support the idea of the barrel in his pant leg. But we are also told he “blended in” with the crowd in the immediate aftermath with a long gun concealed in his pants (?).

A post on Twitter/X said “Private Jet That Took Off From Utah After Charlie Kirk Assassination Disappears Mid-Flight Sparking Suspicion”, suggesting a possible escape by the real shooter. This is mentioned by several of the reporters mentioned here, as well as in depth at MSN, here. This will be an interesting aspect, because it should be easy to find an airplane via American Military.

There are varying accounts that seem to indicate he changed his clothes three times, unless there was a similar looking man that was mistaken for Robinson. The FBI most certainly has the ability to determine where and how often he changed his clothes, and if there is rifle residue in the pants he was wearing. There are also dozens of cameras so there are videos we have not seen.

The obvious thing for Robinson to do was leave the weapon behind. Furthermore, why would he reassemble the rifle and place it in a box? One version is that he messaged someone one his Telegraph channel to pick it up. No matter how these actions are interpreted, they are bizarre and are difficult to believe.

There were two people arrested and released. It remains unclear (to me) who these people were, but observers are suspicious of the older man who seems to have invited his arrest. There were two people near the stage, facing away from Kirk and towards the shooter, apparently giving hand signals. Unless this was for hearing impaired, it does look suspicious. Also, one young man turned towards the roof in apparent celebration.

A post on Twitter/X said “Private Jet That Took Off From Utah After Charlie Kirk Assassination Disappears Mid-Flight Sparking Suspicion”, suggesting a possible escape by the real shooter. This is mentioned by several of the reporters mentioned here, as well as in depth at MSN, here. This will be an interesting aspect, because it should be easy to find an airplane via American Military.

So far we have an obvious motive for Israel, and many unanswered questions.

This is Candace Owen's most recent show titled “They Are Lying About Charlie Kirk”. It is the most comprehensive that I have seen to this point. Excellent video.

Max Blumenthal from Grayzone is well respected journalist with excellent connections. His comments are here. Blumenthal is one of my favorite reports covering Gaza, Ukraine, and the dysfunctional American Government.

Judge Andrew Napolitano (Judging Freedom on youtube) does several interviews each day with well known people such as Blumenthal, Aaron Matte, Ray McGovern, Larry C. Johnson, Pepe Escobar and others. It is fair to say all of his guests have unanswered questions.

Liberty Vault goes into all of these issues while breaking down comments from George Galloway. George Galloway is a British politician, broadcaster, and writer. He has been leader of the Workers Party of Britain since he founded it in 2019. He is a fierce critic of the Netanyahu government. The person challenges some of Galloway's thinking but the program is quite informative. (The name of the person interviewing on Liberty Vault is unknown to me, and not readily visible on youtube or his Patreon).

Larry C. Johnson and Philip Girardi are both retired CIA. Johnson is knowledgeable about guns and discusses the (un)likelihood that the gun could be broken down quickly in addition to the other questions. He is a frequent guest of Napolitano and writes at substack, here. This one is titled “Is There Something More Nefarious Behind the Murder of Charlie Kirk?”

Phil Girardi served in Turkey for over a decade. He writes for Unz.com, and re-printed at the Free Press. He is a vocal critic of Israel and is well aware of every aspect of the Israeli government. He has questioned the narrative so far privately to me and via some FB comments.

To understand billionaire Bill Akerman, one must read Blumenthal substack reporting this “A month before Charlie Kirk’s killing, billionaire pro-Israel moneyman Bill Ackman arranged an intervention in the Hamptons during which sources say he and others “hammered” Kirk for the conservative leader’s growing criticism of Israeli influence in Washington. Kirk came away fretting about Israeli “blackmail,” sources say, as he contemplated a Catholic conversion.

Michael Savage of Savage Nation fame might take first prize for being most angry and most unwilling to believe his government. This one is titled CHARLIE KIRK; THE CULT OF DEATH STRIKES AMERICA. He is also an expert on weapons, questioning the story that Robinson broke down the gun on the roof.

Tucker Carlson has openly challenged Israel since he escaped the shackles of Fox. He is advocating for the release of the Epstein files, and with Kirk opposed bombing Iran. He is doing a live show in 10 hours, which should be interesting.

Candace Owens also did not go along with Trump on the Epstein file release. One of her shows on Epstein is here.

I did not view all of Steve Bannon but I did see some “shorts” so I know he is angry and not believing. His show on Charlie is here.

As a firmly antiwar critic of the American Empire, I oppose the genocide in Gaza and thus have negative view of Israel. So many netzins, pundits, and citizens want to make this a divisive issue, pitting the right vs the left, and leading to the real possibility of a modern civil or race war. But conservatives in America have a longstanding distrust of the Jewish government, displaying their antisemitic views openly at Charlottesville.

Hopefully those on the left will not immediately dismiss Owens, Carlson, Johnson, Blumental et al and decide to call it conspiracy theories, thereby allowing questions about Israel to fade away in the manufactured chaos of social media.

This is the event that could and should crystallize the American Right and Left against Israel. This appears to be happening and might continue even if Robinson was indeed a lone nut killer. This government, so accustomed to lying from the CIA and up, will have difficulty convincing us of that. Even if there are no tentacles reaching towards Israel, the demand for the Epstein files will continue. America's support for Israel will plummet as people become aware of Kirk's efforts to “put America First” and withdraw support of Israel, as Kirk, Bannon, Carlson, and Margery Taylor Green will not reverse course.

The world needs to understand Israel's threats and leverage over Charlie.

It is possible that the assassination was intended to reverse the trend against Israel, and that the hope is that Bannon, Carlson, and Margery Taylor Green will back off. Conservatives have been completely subservient to Trump, but I suspect they will not be bought or otherwise silenced by Benjamin Netanyahu. There was an is a core belief that this government was expected to represent as America First.

You can bet the powers that be at AIPAC and Bill Ackman are working overtime creating propaganda (spin). The effort to create and sell an acceptable narrative is in full swing. Will Netanyahu sleep well tonight? Might everyone come together and demand a break with Israel in a meaningful way?

Could this be America's Come to Jesus Moment regarding America's relationship with Israel?

However I will name them as coming from the planet Sane in the galaxy Faraway. I do not know if these places are known to planet earth. They call themselves

ฆ่ากันทําไม

This translates into kill each other why. Their nickname is “Aa-Rai” which translates into “why”. They are extremely friendly and are confident that they can enforce a peaceful planet while admitting that no other planet needs a course correction like planet earth.

It is necessary to describe the motivation, traits, and abilities of the Aliens. First, their motivation is simply to save human beings from destroying themselves. As explained to me, they don't care what happens to human beings but they do care about animal life and so are aware that as people destroy themselves, they will also kill all life on the planet. For example, my best friend among them has an affinity for elephants and cobra snakes. Several aliens have pet dogs and cats.

Having visited our planet many times over the millennia, they have technical capabilities beyond our wildest imagination. They have already disabled all nuclear weapons on the planet and they have the ability to disappear people and read minds. However, they cannot stop bullets so my life will be in danger, thus the temporary need for security to protect this new government. My goal is to give the government back to the people.

As I write this, our silver circular vehicle is landing in Washington DC. The current Orange Inhabitant and his minions have been captured but will be released into a typical American prison shortly. I will be inaugurated with the support of Congress, as the opponents have been neutralized. The alien rescuers have approved my plans to create a peaceful planet.

As President the people of the World can expect the following:

1. I will meet with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, as soon as possible to dismantle the military of the each country (and all countries) with the exception of small arms (to be eliminated later).

2. The United Nations and the International Court will be fully mobilized to create peace. Each country's military must remain within it's borders, which will cause America to close over 800 military bases, removing the main source of international conflict. America will no longer have veto power over the rest of the world at the United Nations.

3. The covert action arm of the Central Intelligence Agency will be eliminated immediately. In time, the National Security Administration itself can be eliminated. CIA bio-weapons labs, such as the lab in Wuhan China that was responsible for the Covid pandemic, will be dismantled.

4. Every Presidential directive signed by Trump is immediately reversed. DEI programs will be established as before. Certain judges appointed by him will be removed. All damage done to the country will be reversed. The government will be fully funded and staffed. National Parks will be a high priority. Colleges and Universities will no longer be under attack, and college tuition will soon be free.

5. Jeffrey Sachs will be the most important person in America. He is in charge of Department of State but will be the defacto President. I worship Jeffrey Sachs, there is no better person to lead the government. In this role he will make peace with the world according to well thought out positions on every subject and documented on youtube and elsewhere. This administration will incorporate his wisdom as an economist on creating world financial structures that works together for the betterment of the people. Jeffrey Sachs, President of the United States!

6. The current Orange President will be imprisoned along with Benjamin Netanyahu, Stephen Miller, Elon Musk, Tom Homan, and a few to be named later. I have plans for these people.

7. The country of Palestine will be established and recognized. The state of Israel will be required to fund reconstruction. Palestine will have an airport and the ability to defend itself. The millions of people maimed or injured by Israel will be cared for by the world. The personal fortune of the Orange King will be given to the Palestinian government.

8. The Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights will be the law of the land. Free speech, the right to protest and due process will be returned to the people. We will diversify the media which is controlled by two few oligarchs. We will fund public television. Much of the propaganda problem will evaporate when the CIA is eliminated.

9. The second amendment will remain, but the requirement of a “well regulated militia” will be enforced. Weapons of war will not be permitted outside of a “well regulated militia”. (Obviously, these weapons are useless against our WHY saviors anyway).

10. Every person who was removed from the United States by the Trump administration will be returned and will be paid reparations. Most of the January 6^th insurrectionists pardoned by Trump while the will be returned to the prison from which they left.

11. Every piece of information on Epstein's pedophile ring will be released, along with documents around other similar cases that have been hidden such as the Franklin scandal. Everyone who raped little girls via Jeffrey Epstein are destined for prison in El Salvador.

12. I will summon the wealthiest people on the planet to Washington DC, where they will remain until they agree on a plan to distribute their wealth, where it will be used for universal health care, combating climate change, and feeding the poor, among many other long overdue reforms. This list includes Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Peter Theil, Miriam Adelson, Ruppert Murdock, Eric Prince, others, and hundreds of hedge fund managers. The plan will provide a blueprint for the worlds governments to control the oligarchs. Impossible without our alien friends.

13. All officers currently working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement are terminated and disarmed. They will be allowed to work in food kitchens across the country, without the masks.

14. The finances of the United States will be restored to sanity simply be eliminating the cost of Empire. We will no longer pay for weapons, weapon development, military bases, or nuclear weapons. Veterans will be fully supported.

15. Cabinet appointments: Dennis Kucinich and Scott Horton will be assigned to dismantle the War Department (which was called the Department of Defense prior to today), replacing Hegseth.

16. Other cabinet members will be Bernie Sanders, Aaron Good, Norman Solomon, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Scott Ritter, Max Blumental, Aaron Matte, John Kirakou, Sibel Edmonds, Julian Assange, and Edward Snowden. Every person in my cabinet will have a history of opposing war and Empire.

17. Barack Obama will be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

18. Any religious establishment that engages in political activity will be taxed. The fact that there are aliens who can save the planet will hopefully eliminate the need to believe in mythical “Gods” and will free people from having to worship, pray, and give money.

19. The truth will be revealed with respect to 9/11, Oklahoma City, TWA 800, Watergate, and anything else the people want to know. With the elimination of the CIA, records will be made available that will shed light on these events. Of course, the remaining documents on JFK, RFK and MLK assassinations will finally be released.

20. The United States, via World Bank and International Monetary Fund will no longer impose economic sanctions on other countries. The American Empire no longer exists and cannot punish other countries at will.

This government will be staffed by decent people with highest morals. America must atone for the death and destruction it visited upon on the planet since 1945 but more importantly look to a bright future rather than a future threatened by climate change and nuclear weapons.

We will need to find military members who are willing to dismantle the killing machine. We will have to interview for those positions, as this will be the most difficult part of the project. Military people will be immediately employed by a government funded jobs program if necessary. The military will continue to exist with the only mission to defend the borders of the USA. Geographically is an easy project.

The future will be much different that the 75 years since the end of WWII. Wars will be eliminated as FDR envisioned when establishing the United Nations. The International Criminal Court will control international disputes, without the Empire's veto power. America will no longer dominate the globe militarily but we will lead the world in compassion and morality. We will now be able to complete economically with China and both countries together can build up poor countries, particularly in Africa. Young people can go to college for free. Americans will have universal health care. The giant, powerful industries of weapons manufactures and health insurance companies will be eliminated. The time has come for a minimum wage and a 32 hour work week. Social Security will be expanded to cover dental, mental health, and other non-covered health issues. Children will no longer be hungry. People in America and across the world can still become “rich” but their will be limits imposed by aggressive progressive taxation and other means. This can and will be done within the confines of a balanced budget, easily accomplished when the military industrial complex is dismantled.

The elimination of the military industrial security complex and the health insurance industry will require a short term government funded jobs program. These efforts will focus on technology development such as green energy and high speed rail, National Parks, Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), educating the population and providing housing for the homeless.

Some may think that China and Russia will now attempt to rule the world. My response is to ask America to witness the reaction of the populations (and their leaders) to the announcement that the American Empire is no more. Watch the world celebrate.

The American Empire is now replaced by the country of America with it's Constitution and it's rich tradition of commitment to equality, human and civil rights, highest regard for the law, and commitment to voting and democracy.

Photo: Jeffrey Sachs helped Poland renegotiate its debt after Solidarity assumed leadership. (Photo: John Feffer)

Basically I have reversed my opinion on Russia-gate. I once believed it was obvious that Putin supported Trump's election in 2016 by hacking the Democratic Party server and releasing information damaging to Clinton's campaign as well as using social media to break away Bernie Sander's supporters by amplifying our hatred of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic party elite. I certainly believed it without reservation during the impeachment trial.

At the time, although I respected Ray McGovern, I dismissed his opinion that Russia-gate was a contrived event. I disagreed with Joe Lauria on this subject until he blocked me on FB. Later, when Matt Taibbi reported his findings as a result of a deep dive into the Twitter files, I dismissed him as most dedicated leftists did at the time. I dismissed heroic Glen Greenwald, who mirrored Taibbi's reporting, for the same reason.

In considering this question, I became troubled by the realization that any President or Presidential candidate who wanted to reverse the American Empire's lust for war would face exactly what Trump faced during his first term. He faced the fact that the Empire has decided that Russia must be America's enemy, and the deep state...then and now...will not allow peace to break out. I realized that the forces supporting the perpetual warfare state easily dismantled the possibility of peaceful coexistence before the idea could even be birthed in 2016.

After some reading and research regarding Russia, I learned that upon taking power Putin wanted a reset in Russia's relationship with the Europe and with the Empire. I learned that he was very serious about this, while at the same time opposing the expansion of NATO into former Soviet bloc countries. Reagan/Bush had promised that NATO would not be expanded, but what good is it to have an Empire if you cannot unilaterally break treaties and change course? After 9/11, Russia offered to cooperate with the Empire in the war against terror, but GW Bush and his neocon administration nixed this possibility. I learned that Russia did indeed cooperate with the Empire in defeating ISIS, while at the same time protecting Assad's regime in Syria. My point being that Russia and America did work together briefly and successfully under the Obama administration on this problem.

After reading Scott Horton's important book “Provoked” which described how the Biden administration provoked Russia's attack on Ukraine, the Empire's quest for war became obvious. Briefly, Biden immediately discarded the Empire's investment in Afghanistan (19 years, 2.3 trillion dollars, 2500 American deaths) in order to confront Russia. I learned that the Empire sent Boris Johnson to scuttle the Minsk II peace talks which were on the verge of success. Ukraine was told to end negotiation and to fight instead, with the promise that the Empire would support Ukraine. Neocon thinking in Washington understood fully that Ukraine could not defeat Russia but that Ukraine could weaken Russia, using young Ukrainian men to further that goal.

Horton's book “Provoked” explains in detail American Empire involvement in the 2014 Maiden revolution that replaced Ukraine's fairly elected leader to be replaced with an Empire friendly government, in order to further the goals of regime change in Russia.

I decided to learn about Putin's thinking and behavior prior to the invasion of Ukraine, so I decided to read “War with Russia?: From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate” by Stephen F Cohen. Cohen was an American scholar of Russian studies who wrote for the Nation Magazine. The book in a collection of articles which challenged America's prevailing attitude and behavior toward Russia. Cohen challenged the vilification of Putin in real time, as he realized that Putin and Russia wanted peace, but the Empire wanted war and conflict. As far as I recall, I was not aware of Cohen's writings at the time.

The American political left, of which I include myself, reacted poorly to Matt Taibbi's reporting, as he correctly reported that the Clinton team created the Russia-gate narrative in order to offset the negative news cycle regarding Clinton's illegal server and her deleted emails, as well as her behavior which prevented Bernie Sanders from any chance of begin the Democratic candidate for President. At the time Taibbi was revealing these facts, he was also revealing the efforts of the Biden administration to silence critics of it's Covid policies and it's support of the experimental mRNA vaccine, which I have written about at the Free Press and Substack. I did not want to hear this from Taibbi but I did expose myself to his writing on some level.

As an aside, Clinton and her supporters including John Brennan understood that Trump was a threat to democracy itself, and so they amplified the information in the famous Steele dossier. They blamed Russia for the hack of the Democratic server although the evidence was lacking. I may have done the same thing if I were her.

As a severe critic of the American Empire and having firm antiwar beliefs, I began to realize how impossible it is for anyone in America to stop the war machine. Michael Flynn resigned in light of reports that he had lied regarding conversations with Russian ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak prior to the election. I failed to consider that all candidates for President communicate with other countries and that there was not necessarily anything nefarious in this. Along those same lines, Paul Manafort's behavior could be construed as efforts to establish a working relationship with Russia, which could result in peace, not war. However, in both situations, the behavior is nefarious if one assumes that Putin is an intractable evil enemy who wants to conquer the world.

In the middle of this 10 year process of changing my mind, America exploded the Nordstream II pipeline at Biden's direction. The Empire, aware of how the American public is uninformed and easily manipulated into believing almost anything, actually floated the idea that Putin blew up his own pipeline. While this is beyond ridiculous, and while Seymour Hersh reporting indicates that the Empire is responsible, a simple google search shows that this is still in dispute. This despite the overwhelming means, motive and opportunity of the Empire, as well as Biden telling reporters prior to the event that Nordstream II would be destroyed.

Even prior to the Empire's proxy war against Russia, I believed that Putin was a much more rational actor on the world stage than the American Empire. In my mind, there is no doubt that that the nexus of American Empire/Israel is the most likely entity to initiate a nuclear war. Every other country on the planet is in a defensive posture as the ever expanding military Empire encroaches.

I hope that the reader understands the process of demonizing the leadership of another country in order to feed the voracious war machine, as was done to Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Manuel Noriega, Bashar al-Assad and others. It is important because it is currently happening as the great Jeffrey Sachs describes here. At about 5 minutes in Sachs refers to a 2015 article by ambassador Robert Blackwell for CFR which openly says that America's goal is primacy, and it suggests military intervention in order for the Empire to achieve economic dominance. Repeating for emphasis, the paper suggests a military intervention not as a reaction to a military threat, or even a human rights violation, but instead suggests the response to China's economic success should be a military intervention. The entire report is here. The American Empire loves to kill people.

Imagine an attack on China. The Empire could bomb high speed rail, or this bridge or that one, the largest damn in the world, the largest glass elevator in the world, their AI technology centers or any of these 10 projects, or some future projects, Imagine the glee from American psychopaths as they celebrate this destruction.

Sachs notes that it does not really matter who the President is, none can stop this.

Today, the Orange King retreats from his meeting with Putin having achieved nothing. The war party will respond by amplifying the perceived threat and working to extend the conflict at the expense of Ukraine.

Meanwhile, we must recognize that the reason China is defeating the Empire economically is that the military industrial complex war machine is bankrupting the country, creating conditions for it's own economic failure. It plans to mitigate the economic failure with bombs, death and destruction.

Conclusion: I no longer believe that Russia made significant efforts to influence the 2016 due to facts learned over ten years. I also recognize how this is another in a long line of self initiated conflicts designed to prevent peace. I believe this is important because the American Empire intends to attack China in the long term, as ridiculous as that sounds. Observers should watch as the Empire works to foment a military conflict with a country that is defeating them economically and is not in any way a military threat.

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Here are some reflections on my experience during Covid. Although not a thrill seeker, I am also not prone to panic. I vaccinated two nursing homes before vaccinating myself. Neither myself or my wonderful team at Walgreens Pharmacy (Mansfield, Ohio) took any days off, and I was happy that my work life went on uninterrupted. I recall watching people wear gloves to pump gasoline, people who wore masks while driving alone. I objected to closing of public parks and other outdoor activities, especially playgrounds. On the other hand, I called a former associate who entered the nursing professions at the onset of Covid, who found herself holding hands with 40 year old otherwise healthy men as they died. I made an extra effort to obtain vaccine for my ex wife who was in a high risk situation.

My sister suffered from Bell's Palsy immediately after the being vaccinated. This is a well known side effect, which resulted in a 3 month recovery time.

I recall the Sturgis motorcycle gathering, and expecting and hoping it to cause a wave a Covid in red states. But this did not happen. I remember my brother questioning the vaccine, and agreeing with my sister that he was making a mistake. I remember a young woman asking me if it could prevent future fertility, and my efforts to reassure her.

I was fully vaccinated when I traveled to Thailand in the summer of 2022, when travel restrictions were lifted.

The Covid lock down began in March 2020 and the first vaccine was authorized in December 2020. In August 2021 boosters were authorized.

The federal government did not force school closing, but states decided to close schools beginning in March 2020. Very few children were dying from at it's peak, and natural immunity persists much longer than artificial vaccine protection. Schools should not have been closed.

In May 2021, the CDC announced that vaccinated individuals could still be infected and in August 2021 – A PBS analysis emphasized that mRNA vaccines weren’t designed to block all upper-respiratory infections, making infection by SARS-CoV-2 still possible even when vaccinated .

In May 2021 the CDC said that vaccinated people could not transmit the disease, but this was reversed. On July 27–28, 2021 – the CDC, with rising Delta variant cases, both the CDC and OSHA updated guidance acknowledging that fully vaccinated individuals could transmit the virus. They recommended indoor masking in high-transmission areas to prevent spreading COVID-19 to others. This resulted in Covid boosters with the idea of having to adjust for variants of Covid-19.

During this time, it became apparent that Covid injections barely qualified as a vaccine, since they did not prevent acquisition or transmission, but we were told that the disease would be less severe, and still worth the risk.

Scientifically, the vaccine provides protection against the virus for a very short time, while natural immunity lasts much longer. In fact, it appears that the vaccine may prevent a person from developing natural immunity.

Having studied the lies of the American Empire for decades, I did not ever believe the official story of the origin of Covid, supposedly from a “wet market” in Wuhan,China. Today, the CIA admits that the origin was the bio-lab in Wuhan, which was financed via Eco Health Alliance. This was one of many bio-labs operating overseas during that time, with others in China and many more in Ukraine. This fact was not officially admitted until the lock down had ended. During that time, the government of the United States Empire actively worked diligently and effectively to suppress “conspiracy theories” regarding the origin of Covid.

The reason the government refused to acknowledge the obvious is that a bio-lab is actually a bio-weapons lab. Scientifically, there is no difference. The difference is regulatory and legal, not scientific. Since the CIA funded bio-weapons research funded via Eco Health Alliance with government contracts officially from the Pentagon, and since the CIA did not want the American people to demand closure of bio-weapons research, it was necessary to lie about the origin of Covid.

In my opinion, the lies about the origin contributed to the population beginning to protest the mask mandates and forced vaccinations. The lies of the CIA secret government have persisted since November 22, 1963, so most Americans were suspicious, thus contributing to suspicions of the effectiveness and necessity of forcing people to be vaccinated. The population was confused and concerned but not convinced.

In March of 2023, the FBI declared the lab leak theory “most likely”, but the government did not fully acknowledge this fact until April 2025.

Many Americans believe that Dr. Anthony Fauci should be prosecuted for his contribution to the government response to Covid. My view is that Fauci was aware and fully supportive of the CIA bio-weapons programs. He did not have a choice, but like many American doctors before him that ran the CIA MK-Ultra mind control program, he would have convinced himself that supporting bio-weapons programs was the patriotic thing to do, and he was not about to resign because of it. Essentially, it was part of his job description. This put him in the awkward position of lying about the origin, and dragging his feet when admitting to the other failures of the vaccine (acquisition and transmission). I suspect also that the government suspected that the Covid-19 virus would kill more people than it did. In short, they panicked. I agree that the deaths from Covid at it's peak warranted some level of panic.

I continue to blame my brother for encouraging me to read Robert Kennedy Jr's book “Fauci” which raised many questions. I do not recall when I began following Steve Kirsch, but it was before I joined Substack in November 2024. I find his work to be very convincing, and relatively easy to understand. Recently, he points out that overall mortality rates were unaffected by the vaccine. That is, being vaccinated does not prolong life. On a complicated subject, this requires few data points and is easily understood.

During that time, I read some of Matt Taibbi's work on the Twitter files. He revealed the extent of government efforts to silence people on social media. This is something I find particularly offensive. In a land that is known for freedom, how can such a thing be fair? Recently a documentary has been allowed on YouTube called “Follow the Silenced” which cements the unfairness of the governments suppression of freedom of speech on this issue.

Conclusion:

> The government definitely lied about the origin of Covid.

> Bio-weapons programs run covertly by the CIA must be terminated.

> For too long, the CDC and WHO lied about the effectiveness of Covid vaccines.

> Schools and outdoor activities should never have been prevented.

> Vaccine injured people should not have been silenced.

> No person should have lost a job or suffered other harm due to refusal to get an experimental vaccine.

> MRNA vaccines are, by design, far too dangerous for widespread use.

1. Russia-Ukraine: King Trump promised to end the American Empire's proxy war against Russia, which he correctly blamed on Biden. Putin, cognizant of the facts that Russia is overwhelming Ukraine on the battlefield and that Trump's hates Ukraine's Zelensky, has refused to stop. Trump has only strengthened his hand. Meanwhile, King Trump has proved to be untrustworthy, meaning that to agree to stop the fighting with the necessary agreement that Ukraine would remain neutral is worthless under this King. Russia requires that Ukraine never be allowed in the Empires Military Alliance (NATO) and will require relief from economic sanctions. The Empire's promises have always been worthless, broken with each change of administration, but Trump cannot be trusted to keep his promises even in the short term since he can't remember what he said yesterday. Thus, Trump has failed on this major promise to MAGA.

2. Jeffrey Epstein and Trump: One of King Trump's prominent campaign issues was that there was a pedophile ring involving important people, and he would end that by releasing the Epstein files. Any voter with any sense at all knew that Trump was one of the main pedophiles involved in the Epstein files, but with his usual bombast and effective lying, he actually convinced many that he would end this. Stupidly for him and his administration, the kept up the lie. Attorney General bimbo Pam Bondi proclaimed that she had the Epstein list on her desk, and that they just needed to go thru the documents to protect innocent perps (innocent perps?) who traveled with Epstein but did not have sex with little girls. Obviously, there was no way to remove the videos and other evidence of Trump's depravity, so the decision was made to tell the world that nothing existed. On this issue, the MAGA faithful are in open revolt. Nobody is stupid enough to believe that. (except Ben Shapiro but I digress)

At least temporarily, this betrayal of MAGA seems to have put a dent in his armor. Ghislaine Maxwell remains in prison, while none of the men involved has been touched. Since she will want a retrial, it has now become necessary for her to hang herself in prison. The camera will stop operating, the guard will fall asleep, and she will hang herself despite the fact that there is no way to affix a noose to the ceiling. Oh, wait, that method has already been used, so what new method will be used to kill her?

3. Israel's genocide: Although he made vague promises to do something about the genocide in Gaza, he clearly has no viable plan. The MAGA crowd hoped that he would at least take control of the situation, rather than bend the knee to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu . It appeared for a short window in time that Trump indeed did have the upper hand. King Trump may have thought that, after he appeased Netanyahu by the unprovoked bombing of Iran, he would then control the situation. Clearly, that did not happen, as the genocide continues and the flow of American money and weapons to Israel continues.

4. Epstein and Israel: The unfulfilled promise to end Israel's genocide is likely connected to the Epstein story. Certainly, Netanyahu has the goods on Trump, which explains why Netanyahu, not Trump, holds the winning hand. Trump has floated some absurd proposals to relocate 2 million people, the ones that Israel has not killed by bombs, bullets or starvation. So the slaughter continues, no end in sight. Clearly the King has is no viable plan.

5. Attack on Iran: The Empire spends $180,000,000 to bomb Iran with little effect. This was not on the MAGA bingo card.

6. Immigration: America has been growing uncomfortable with uncontrolled immigration for many years. This includes MAGA but extends beyond that crowd. Trump would have been met with applause and support for removing criminals from the country, but unfortunately there were few who fit that description. Most American's would have supported removal of anyone who came across the border during the Biden administration. But instead, the King Trump put racist NAZI Stephen Miller in charge of deporting everybody and anybody. He sent people to an El Salvador prison, a first in American history. He immediately began building a prison in the swamps of Florida, certain to be a hell hole. People are being sent to South Sudan. Miller's gestapo is sending masked men to kidnap people without due process or much recourse. And certainly, without remorse. Not even the most virulent MAGA supporter expected to see this.

The Posse Comitatus Act is a U.S. law that limits the use of federal military forces in domestic law enforcement, aiming to prevent military interference in civilian affairs since 1878. In violation of Posse Comitatus , he is trying to turn the American Military against it's own citizens, and creating chaos in the largest cities in America, in the fields of rural America and in the slaughter houses in Nebraska and Arkansas.

Those traditional liberals who turned to the King Trump to solve the immigration problem did not count on this, and most of the MAGA faithful were hoping for a more targeted, reasonable approach.

7. Tariffs: King Trump decided he could solve America's financial problems via tariffs, something which he barely understands. This of course tanked the stock market, causing him to reverse course, while acquiring the TACO label “Trump Always Chickens Out”. The tariff increases that he will successfully implement will certainly result in inflation, while any potential benefit in improving America's manufacturing capability is many years in the future. The rest of the world is resisting, and the administration has no allies. None, not even Canada and Mexico.

8. Musk and Doge: King Trump's attempt at taking a chainsaw to the Federal Government via his buddy Elon Musk and Doge resulted in many good people losing good government jobs, and was wildly unpopular. Doge projected savings were at best 17% of the goal. The Musk-Trump bromance soon collapsed, but the effects will be felt for years to come. His cuts to FEMA already resulted in the loss of dozens of young girls in Texas. The cuts to air traffic controllers has resulted in people dying horrific deaths in plane crashes. There are certainly more deaths and pain in our future.

9. Health care for Americans: If all this is not bad enough, King Trump is taking away Medicaid from an estimated 7.6 million people, as well as taking SNAP (food benefits) from needy Americans. The effect of this will be more gradual, but will be felt by the MAGA crowd in red states, who will soon be without rural hospitals. Nursing home patients will soon be coming home. Not addressed in the bills “work requirements” is the fact that 92% of medicaid recipients already work, but their employers do not offer health care. Robust companies like Walmart basically off load health insurance onto the government. Why not just force them to insure their workforce?

10 thru 20. Firing Federal Employees: The Veterans Administration was decimated but is already in the process of some hiring people back. Hopefully the same is true throughout the government. But the damage will not be fully reversed. Similar damage has been done to FEMA, Department of Education, Health and Human Services, the IRS, Social Security, National Parks and down the line. One could go thru the list of government agencies to add to the list of tragedies about to be inflicted on the tax paying public, thus 10 thru 20.

21. Debt and Deficit: And then there is the debt and deficit. While promising an efficient government (what was DOGE for, anyway) King Trump is adding 5 trillion dollars to the budget deficit. Independent voters who decided to ignore the instigator of the January 6th insurrection were not counting on a 5 trillion dollar deficit. The current national debt is $36,627,020,456,912. (7/10/25 at 6 PM).

Conclusion: Conclusion: It appears that America did not vote for a mad, Orange Fascist King but he has taken power. Even the MAGA crowd did not vote for THIS. But the fascists are in charge, and will not be easily dislodged from power. With or without Trump, the fascists are in control.

There is not an alternative political party that will save us, just weak kneed Democrats who gave us war hawks Clinton and Biden. Democrats ignored their progressive base which included wildly popular Bernie Sanders who was twice prevented from taking on the Ruling Class. And they are still doing it; witness the Democratic response to the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City. The Democratic Party has left us with a firmly entrenched Oligarchy lead by Mad Orange King Trump who should be locked up on Epstein Island.

American democracy is dead.

Image credit: Charles Girod: Benito 'Caesar' Mussolini auf dem Titel des EULENSPIEGEL, Juli 1928 (creative commons)

The American people are desperate for financial relief. During the last election cycle, they were told that one candidate would relieve their struggles by bringing down the cost of eggs. The other candidate pretended that the economy was in good hands, and the population should ignore the cost to themselves of American support of genocide in Israel and the cost of the proxy war against Russia (via Ukraine). The candidate known for lying even promised to balance the Federal budget.

The American middle class has been under attack since Ronald Reagan. The income inequality exploded, college is no longer affordable without borrowing costs, wages are stagnant. We all know this, we all feel it. Since Reagan, only one prominent politician, Bernie Sanders, has addressed income inequality but the Ruling Class representatives within the Democratic Party disallowed his candidacy via the use of “Super Delegates, a propaganda onslaught and other methods.

During each election cycle, candidates decry the debt and deficit. The last President who balanced the budget was Bill Clinton. Always dishonest, Trump's campaign promises failed to mention that the big beautiful bill will add 2.4 to 3.3 TRILLION dollars to the national debt. Voters who hoped that Trump would stop the impending financial catastrophe are about to be feel the heat.. While adding to the deficit Trumps big beautiful bill will reduce federal Medicaid spending by $793 Billion over ten years for the neediest Americans.

Shall we take a look at the cost of Empire?

The cost of domestic spending is $759 Billion dollars, which is 12% of a 6 trillion dollar budget. Each year since 2000 the percentage of the total budget allocated to military increases, while the percentage of domestic spending decreases.

To assist the reader, I will write “million”, Billion, and TRILLION.

$1,000,000: one million, $1,000,000,000 one Billion, $1,000,000,000,000 one TRILLION

The two charts below, from ChatGpt, considers military spending as discretionary when it is anything but.

Major Budget Categories (2024 est.)

Category Amount % of Budget

Mandatory Spending (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.)$4.1 trillion ~64%

Discretionary Spending (includes defense) $1.7 trillion ~26%

Net Interest on Debt $870 billion ~13%

Discretionary Spending Breakdown

Discretionary spending (~$1.7T) is split between:

Category Amount

Defense (DoD base budget $842 Billion

Other Security (e.g. DHS, nuclear weapons via DOE) $100 Billion

Non-Defense Discretionary (domestic) $759 Billion

A different breakdown from USAspending.gov is that the total amount the government intends to spend in this fiscal year is 6.02 Trillion dollars. The three largest categorizes are National Defense ($848.33 Billion) Net Interest ($698.43 Billion) and Veterans Benefits ($236.43 Billion).

Military spending (including nuclear weapons) is $942 Billion while domestic non-defense spending is $759 Billion (According to ChatGpt). Currently Trump's is proposing the first one trillion dollar defense budget, another 13% increase.

US Department of Defense : As of 11 March 2024 the fiscal year 2025 (FY2025) budget request was $849.8 Billion . This does not include the cost of nuclear weapons, which will cost a total of $946 Billion over the 2025–2034 period, or an average of about $95 Billion a year, according to CBO estimates.

The top 10 costly weapons systems from ChatGpt..

1. SSBN 826 Columbia Class Ballistic Missile Submarine

   > Weapon cost, FY2024: $5.9 Billion per acquired submarine

2. SSN 774 Virginia Class Submarine
   > Weapon cost, FY2024: $5.3 Billion per acquired submarine
   > Requested acquisition, FY2024: 2 submarines= $10.6 Billion

3. DDG 51 Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer
   > Weapon cost, FY2024: $2.3 Billion per acquired ship
   > Requested acquisition, FY2024: 2 ships = $4.6 Billion

4. AS(X) Submarine Tender Replacement
   > Weapon cost, FY2024: $1.7 Billion per acquired ship
   > Requested acquisition, FY2024: 1 ship

5. FFG(X) Constellation Class Guided Missile Frigate
   > Weapon cost, FY2024: $1.1 Billion per acquired ship
   > Requested acquisition, FY2024: 2 ships= $2.2 billion

6. T-AO 205 John Lewis Class Fleet Replenishment Oiler
   > Weapon cost, FY2024: $967.6 million per acquired ship
   > Requested acquisition, FY2024: 1 ship

7. MQ-4C / RQ-4 Triton/Global Hawk/NATO AGS
   > Weapon cost, FY2024: $255.0 million per acquired drone
   > Requested acquisition, FY2024: 2 drones= $510 million

8. MQ-25 Stingray
   > Weapon cost, FY2024: $249.7 million per acquired drone
   > Requested acquisition, FY2024: 3 drones= $750 million

9. KC-46A Tanker
   > Weapon cost, FY2024: $192.2 million per acquired plane
   > Requested acquisition, FY2024: 15 planes
   > Acquisition spending, FY2024: $2.9 Billion— #7 most expensive

10. NSSL & RSLP Launch Enterprise
    > Weapon cost, FY2024: $190.8 million per acquired Launch service
    > Requested acquisition, FY2024: 15 Launch services
    > Acquisition spending, FY2024: $2.9 Billion— #8 most expensive

11. NSSL & RSLP Launch Enterprise
    > Weapon cost, FY2024: $190.8 million per acquired Launch service
    > Requested acquisition, FY2024: 15 Launch services
    > Acquisition spending, FY2024: $2.9 Billion — #8 most expensive

Cost of Weapons for Israel genocide:

• Between October 7, 2023 and September 30, 2024, the U.S. approved $17.9 Billion in direct security assistance to Israel, the largest annual military aid package in its history

  • Additional U.S. operations in the region (e.g. naval deployments, strike missions in Yemen) cost at least $4.86 Billion during the same period

  • A more recent estimate places total U.S. spending (aid + regional operations) at $22.8 Billion .

Bottom line: At least $17.9 Billion in weapons plus related military operations since October 7, 2023; rising to about $22–23 Billion including regional deployments.

Weapons Supplied to Ukraine Since Russia’s Invasion (Feb 2022)

• According to the Kiel Institute:

  • The U.S. delivered $69 Billion in military aid (Feb 2022–end of 2024)

• Broader Western support:

  • More than $250 billion in combined military, humanitarian, and economic assistance as of early 2025

  • One breakdown reported €114 Billion ($125 Billion) from the U.S. and €132 Billion ($145 Billion) from the rest of Europe, totaling ~€246 Billion (~$270 Billion) by end-2024 .

• Other reports add nuance:

  • Official U.S. figures show $67 Billion in military aid, with total congressional appropriations reaching $120 Billion, of which about $175 Billion was authorized overall.

Bottom line:

• U.S. military aid alone → roughly $60–70 Billion.

• Total Western (military + broader) → around $250 Billion.

The secret CIA budget was about 65.7 Billion in 2022. (Wikipedia).

The surprise attack on Iran: A low estimate of the cost of the June 21 attack on Iran to the United States taxpayer was $180,000,000, or 180 million dollars.

$180 million overboard: The US Navy aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman lost of three F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets to a string of mishaps while confronting the Houthis which are estimated to cost roughly $60 million apiece.

Trumps pathetic military birthday parade: The military parade is estimated to cost between $25 million and $45 million, with the latest estimate being around $40 million. This cost includes expenses for the parade itself, but does not cover potential cleanup or damage to city streets.

Doge: As of May, DOGE says, it has saved $170 Billion in federal spending. This amounts to only 17 percent of the $1 trillion goal, and 8.5 percent of Musk's $2 trillion "best-case” outcome. But there is a cost to the cuts. An estimate from a nonpartisan research and advocacy group estimating that DOGE's actions will cost $135 Billion this fiscal year., which means the actual cost savings will only be 35 Billion of a 6 TRILLION dollar budget.

According to the Pete Peterson foundation, defense spending by the United States accounted for nearly 40 percent of all military expenditures by countries around the world in 2024. In 2024, the United States spent $997 Billion on defense, which is more than the next nine countries’ spending combined. In comparison, China, which is the second biggest defense spender, spent only $314 Billion on military expenditures in 2024.

Of course, America can expect another surge of homelessness if Trump's bill becomes law as expected. One high estimate of the cost of providing housing to everyone in America, based on average median cost of rent, is only $30 Billion, the cost of one KC-46A Tanker.

None of this includes the damage that Trump's team intends to do to Social Security, based on implementation of Project 2025.

The desperate American people can expect to see many more citizens suffering from homelessness, lack of medical care, and lack of food. Military spending must be decreased to prevent a very ugly collapse of the American Empire, but since we know that military spending will continue at the expense of the populace, we should understand that we have entered an age of despair and destruction.

Photo Credit: Ed Yourdon