Loading ...I have been silent for a couple of months now, although must confess taking a break from some of the bad news here has not helped at all.
I see that our worst case scenario (another Liberal win) is imminent. And I cannot remain silent any more when it comes to some of the comments I’ve been seeing on this forum. I’m not holding back. For those interested, please see first comment.
Excellent post and I haven’t yet had time to watch the two videos. https://wendywilliamson.substack.com/p/reimagining-america-requires-us-to-face-the-truth?
Another Illuminating tidbit from Jeff Childers…that was not explained properly in any other media outlet including Alt Conservative ones !
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Yesterday, United Press International ran a quiet but very encouraging story headlined, “Hegseth dismisses Pentagon advisory committees.” It was wonderful news. Susan Rice —yes, that Susan Rice— was hit hardest.
CLIP: Susan Rice whines about getting fired from cushy patronage job at DoD (1:09).
https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/1915879454611570912?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
The DoD’s “Advisory Committees” are civilian panels that provide “independent advice” to the Department of Defense on “policy, strategy, technology, personnel, and operations.” They were authorized under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) of 1972, which supposedly ensures transparency (spoiler: it doesn’t) and regulates how advisory groups interact with the government.
You never saw a cronier crony-network. It’s packed with friends of DoD and military contractors, in a grotesque “you rub my back, I’ll rub yours” feedback cycle. Generals used “Advisory Committee opinions” to justify the things they want to do, and military industrial firms got lucrative contracts to build fantastic but practically useless high-tech weapons.
Technically, advisory committee members are “volunteers.” (Hang on a moment till I stop laughing.) They get travel reimbursements (first class, if you know how to fill out the form), daily stipends, and honorary titles that translate into very lucrative MIC gigs. Sit on the Defense Policy Board, for example, like Susan Rice did, and suddenly Raytheon or Booz Allen Hamilton is offering you a $400K “consulting” gig for five hours of “advising” a year.
In the clip above, you can see mega-entitled Susan Rice seething with righteous indignation over losing her patriotic “volunteer” position on the Defense Policy Board— one of the cushiest and most prestigious positions in Washington.
Over the years, DoD Advisory Committees multiplied in the dark like basement fungus. They are a swampy blob that promiscuously overlaps and intermingles. I couldn’t find any source listing the actual totals, maybe nobody knows. But when Pete Hegseth ordered the blanket dismissal of all advisory committee members across the entire Department of Defense, it cancelled the terms of hundreds of advisors and dozens (30-40?) of major committees, plus even more ‘working groups’ and ‘subcommittees.’
Purges of the committees aren’t unprecedented. Trump 1.0 deleted some Obama/Biden holdovers. And Biden axed Trump’s appointees. But Hegseth completely cleaned the Pentagon’s advisory Deep State house, firing all of them in a historic “burn it down and start over” strategy.
Secretary Hegseth says the advisory committees will be re-staffed with people focused on winning wars, military merit, and supply-chain security, rather than patronage, equity, diversity, and keeping the war machine humming efficiently
Another gem from JC today
Yesterday, the Washington Post ran a terrific story headlined, “U.S. attorney for D.C. accuses Wikipedia of ‘propaganda,’ threatens nonprofit status.” The sub-headline explained, “Trump appointee Ed Martin accuses the online encyclopedia of ‘allowing foreign actors to manipulate information and spread propaganda to the American public.’”
In an April 24th letter that somehow quickly made its way to the media, US Attorney Ed Martin wrote the Wikimedia Foundation demanding documents to support its apolitical nonprofit status. In the letter, he criticized the website, basically for rampant retconning. “Wikipedia is permitting information manipulation on its platform,” Ed wrote, “including the rewriting of key, historical events and biographical information of current and previous American leaders, as well as other matters implicating the national security and the interests of the United States.”
He added, “Masking propaganda that influences public opinion under the guise of providing informational material is antithetical to Wikimedia’s ‘educational’ mission.”
In other words, Ed was saying that, to us, Wikipedia looks a lot less like a charity and more like an influence operation. It looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and so it’s yet another Marxist NGO wearing a Daffy costume.
Is this a signal of how the Trump Administration plans to chop the NGO beast off at the roots? Tightening up the requirements to prove each group’s charitable, non-political purpose would be a great start. Right now, all you have to do is submit some pretty simple paperwork to the IRS. Practically everybody has a nonprofit or two laying around these days.
Here’s how the scam works: The Democrats invent a ridiculous issue, like transgender rights, that they know conservatives will never support. Then, they direct billions of your tax dollars from government coffers, giving generous grants to brand-new, democrat-controlled NGOs that “support transgender rights.” The NGOs enrich themselves and also donate money to politicians who “support transgender rights,” which is another way of saying Democrats.
It explains so much. Principally, we’ve now learned why there is always another “civil rights crusade” coming right behind the last one. Minority rights, women’s rights, gay rights, trans rights. The engine of new crusades is designed to keep the NGO gravy train moving and getting longer all the time.
Everyone gets the “rights” —i.e., the cash— except you. You get neither rights nor cash. Especially not “white, Christian, cisgender males.”
Anyway, the article quoted a bunch of folks who think Wikimedia is the best thing that ever happened, that Trump hates Wikipedia because he can’t control it, and that US Attorney Ed Martin loves Putin. Yawn. But it also included one unintentionally humorous one bon mot, intended to provoke outrage but which actually provoked LOLs: “In October 2023, Elon Musk, the owner of X, offered to donate $1 billion to the Wikimedia Foundation on the condition that it change the site’s name to ‘Dickipedia.’”
You must admit Elon has a way with words.
This incident is still being downplayed. Noem deserves criticism for being a publicity hound and probably should be more careful about displaying her wealth, but that isn’t the point. How does SS let a stranger who came into the establishment and went upstairs where she and her family were, to not intervene and at least ask for ID. What if this was a nut looking to kill her? https://www.zerohedge.com/political/how-fitting-illegal-alien-arrested-theft-dhs-secretary-noems-purse
GMG and I have talked about this option in the past. It has a lot independence from the rest of the UK.
It is an option for those with a British passport to live or to just make it your tax home.
A British passport may be easier than you think and they most likely will go through a violent revolution in the next few years as the natives are restless. “Stammer” regret is huge.
I don’t want to leave Canada but sometimes there are no other good options.
Off-ramp to US-China tariff war
Alex Christoforou, Alexander Mercouris (14 min)
https://rumble.com/v6smxe7-off-ramp-to-us-china-tariff-war.html?e9s=src_v1_upp
Putin; Kursk liberated, more to come. Trump tells Macron to beat it. Funeral becomes Elensky PR show
Alex Christoforou (43 min)
Trump Ultimatum To Zelensky, Rebuffs Macron, In Tense Rome Talks; Moscow Seeks Victory, No To Truce
Alexander Mercouris (96 min)
MILITARY SUMMARY:
Russian Forces Advance in Sumy Region??Chasiv Yar on the Brink of Collapse?MilitarySummary 2025.4.27
Dima (15 min)
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Behold this morning’s bland, almost boring headline from the New York Times: “Wisconsin Judge Arrest: What We Know.” That’s it! Not, Trump Escalates War With Judicial Branch, or even Experts: Trump Arrests Cause Constitutional Crisis. Just “what we know,” like it’s too soon to draw any conclusions.
Jeff Childers ….
This is a great piece on how the Corporate Media backtracks and walks back the narrative when the fuck up
Paywalled . So here you go
The Times was backpedaling wildly, like a crab with a windup windmill strapped to its back. The article is a hilarious study in narrative reverse-gear. Let’s use it to learn more media manipulation tactics! We’ll start with the story’s three opening paragraphs:
Can you see the psychological inversion? The first paragraph offers a neutral description of what happened, with nearly no slant (except “undocumented,” but that’s an NYT style guide requirement). More importantly, it plainly admitted what the judge did— “directing (him) out of her courtroom through a side door.”
Then the second paragraph —the bridge— primed readers to transition away from yesterday’s NYT narrative of outrage! It was the shortest of the three paragraphs, mentioning “condemnation” and “protests” but did not quote anybody or even say what the problem was.
See how easy it is to hide the stale narrative salami? You just oil across it without getting in the weeds.
By the third paragraph, the Times was ready, even eager, to throw in the towel. It did quote someone, the Attorney General, and placed in skeptical quotation marks the very same words it had just quoted as fact in the first paragraph (“escorting (him) out a back door”). It was not accidental that those critical narrative-framing paragraphs were bookended with the same repetitive statements of fact.
There were just enough differences between the two to give cover for journalistic neutrality. What Bondi called “escorting,” the Times corrected to “directing.” What Bondi labeled “a back door,” the Times primly revised to “a side door.” And of course, Bondi properly called him a “criminal defendant,” which the Times laundered down to “undocumented immigrant.” (That one was especially annoying, since the whole reason Flores-Ruiz was there was on account of his criminal case and not for any immigration matter. But never mind.)
Anyway, by the time the reader finished the third paragraph, everyone understood what the judge did, as an uncontroversial truth, as though it were not a hotly debated fact about ten minutes ago. Whatever— having wrapped that failed narrative in chains and sunk it in the Hudson River, now the Times could get down to putting out the flames its pyromaniacal reporters started yesterday.
The next paragraph, below an ad, quoted FBI Director Kash Patel’s tweet that “no one is above the law.” So —don’t miss this— the Times published the Administration’s complete position before quoting anybody else on the other side. It could be the first time this has ever happened. That’s how bad their error was yesterday, and they obviously know it.
The next seven paragraphs —still without quoting a single opponent— described what happened on the day Judge Dugan sealed her fate. Astonishingly, the Times described it straight. While the paper took pains to minimize what the judge did (she only “directed him out a side door”), it also reported helpful facts, like how the Clerk of Court had already told the arrest team it was okay to do it in the hallway outside Judge Dugan’s courtroom.
Following that was about twenty paragraphs divided into two sections. The first section was headed “Who is Judge Dugan?”, and the second (naturally) was titled “Who is Flores-Ruiz?” Twenty more paragraphs later, there was still not a single peep from anyone protesting the arrest. The persistent reader, having made it thus far, enjoyed no hint whatsoever as to what the controversy was all about.
The article described Ruiz’s criminal charges clinically and minimally, but honestly. “Mr. Flores-Ruiz got into a fight with his roommate,” the Times explained, “who had asked him to turn down the music he was playing. The roommate said Mr. Flores-Ruiz struck him about 30 times and also hit the roommate’s girlfriend and her cousin.”
Sounds like a delightful individual.
The article also mentioned —drily, but it was there— Ruiz’s previous 2013 deportation and his illegal re-entry to Milwaukee, where he’s lived off the books for twelve years. By this point, any reader who wasn’t an all-out open borders fanatic would pretty much side with the INS. Flores-Ruiz should be on the next plane to El Salvador.
And still not a single word from the Times about what is the controversy?
Finally, at long last, we reached the concluding section, blandly but thoughtfully titled, “What are some potential implications of the arrests?” Don’t skim by the word “potential” too fast. That’s a psychological nugget designed to stealthily hollow out any worries about dictatorships or autocracies springing up in the White House rose garden. In other words, right now, what we know is that the dangers remain “potential.”
And, they aren’t even dangers. They’re just implications. Implied stuff.
As the paper finally moved into the merits, it discovered a rare equanimity and balance that almost never appears in its pages. I defy you to find another example of the Times being this even-handed. Behold:
It then tossed around a few quick ideas about how this could affect other judges, and then, finally, at long last, the “condemnations” teased in the article’s second paragraph appeared —forty paragraphs after its debut.
Ready? It quoted only two concerned citizens, and no “Democratic leaders.” One of the quotes was not even a full sentence. It must have been humiliating for the Times, and thus is so delicious for we observers.
The first quote was from Ann Jacobs, a random Milwaukee lawyer, a local barrister whose only qualification was that she’d appeared before Judge Dugan once. According to the Times, Ann said, get ready, that Judge Dugan’s arrest was so “profound and unheard-of” it was difficult to foresee how it might affect judges’ behavior “and the court system at large.”
In other words, nobody knows yet. That’s hardly controversial.
The next and final quote was, confusingly, another Ann. This one was Ann Rohrer, 62, who is a health care worker from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Wauwatosa Ann joined a handful of elderly protestors defending Judge Dugan outside the courtroom on Friday. Why? The Times said Ann worries that “our democracy, our country is under attack.”
And that’s it. That’s the whole “controversy.”
? There were no quotes from oleaginous Adam Schiff. No quotes from the cackling congressional coven of Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren, and AOC. No quotes from ‘legal experts.’
Most telling of all— there were no quotes from any judges.
It’s like an indefinable controversy sprouted thin roots in the story’s second paragraph, but then dissolved back in melting Milwaukee snow by the time readers reached the Spring thaw of the article’s conclusion fifty paragraphs later.
And there you have it. This is how the malevolent media tries to frantically reel back a failed narrative when it realizes it’s leaned too far out over its skis. They bury it in confusion and “potential” problems, and hint that “we don’t know everything yet,” showing a kind of prudent reserve that, like a rare flower, only appears in its storied pages once in a decade.
The next step is to memory-hole this story. It’s about to disappear entirely. Mark my words.
They can make the Judge Dugan and Judge Cano stories go away, but they can’t resurrect their now-dead deportation narrative. Not to say they’ll try, of course, but two arrested judges later, everything is different.
Apart from that lone “What We Know” story, guess what was completely missing from the Times’ website? Any headlines or op-eds about deportations. Just like that, in three days, Trump squashed the narrative.
10 different pollsters all have almost exactly this same result
DOGMEAT SINGH DESTROYED HIS NDP PARTY AND AS A RESULT OF HIS VOTERS MOSTLY MIGRATING TO LIBERAL HE DESTROYED THE COUNTRY…EVEN THE BLOC VOTERS ARE MOVING TO LIBERAL
THE OVERIDING REASON FOR THIS RESULT IS …THESE RETARDS ARE CONCERNED CONSERVATIVES ARE CANADIAN VERSION OF MAGA…POILIEVRE IS MAPLE TRUMP…IT DOESN’T MATTER THAT THE LIBERALS DESTROYED THE COUNTRY FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS….DUE TO THE FACT THAT CANADIANS STILL OVERWHELMINGLY GET THEIR NEWS FROM MSM …THE SWING VOTERS HAVE SWUNG LEFT
THE ONLY POSITIVE FACTOR IS THE YOUNGER VOTERS ARE VOTING PRIMARILY CONSERVATIVE BUT THEY ARE OVERWHELMEND BY AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF BOOMERS VOTING AGAINST TRUMP ESSENTIALLY
I was looking back for something else and knowing it was April 2020, but didn’t remember the exact day. I was surprised to see it was exactly five years ago today that I joined and made my first post.
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1916221992992444429
Eye-opening (understatement) — no wonder these new generation(s) feel totally f*d over!
Christian women driven by love for Texas have been bullied off their own Capitol steps by a group with documented ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
This is the America CAIR wants — and Texans must reject it.
Two grassroots organizations, Accountability Matters and Defending Our Republic, had planned a peaceful April 29 protest to demand that terror-linked CAIR be banned from holding “Texas Muslim Capitol Day.”
It may not be the message that Canadians want to hear, but at least the BQ is up-front about it ‘s hatred for Canada and their desire to simply abuse the Parliamentary system to gain maximum benefit towards separation. They aren’t hiding their intentions from the Canadian public but are open and clear about their expectations to leave on their own terms!
Putin in a Saturday video address thanked Russian service members “who took part in defeating the neo-Nazi groups” who for over six months held hundreds of square kilometers of sovereign Russian territory. He declared the utter ‘failure’ of the invasion attempt.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-announces-kursk-region-fully-liberated-ukrainians
Dhillon kicked the hornet’s nest last week – issuing a series of memos outlining the shifting priorities, which include (gasp!) “Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports,” and “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling.” “These documents appear to have been created in a vacuum completely divorced from reality,” the former official continued. “The division can only enforce statutes that have been passed by Congress, and these orders seem to contemplate division attorneys’ executing on work that fundamentally departs from the division’s long-standing mission.”
“Each new administration has its own priorities, and allocates resources accordingly,” said Dhillon. “The Trump administration is no different.
How can someone express an opinion or send a message – without speaking or even saying a word – and without retribution?
ARCHBISHOP VIGANO
“The Church of Rome, after these twelve years of tyranny, is devastated by scandals, corruption, violations of human rights – I am thinking of the Agreement with the communist dictatorship of Beijing – and by a failed management on all fronts,” he added.
Viganò detailed that “a subversive lobby” aiming to carry out an “anti-Christian and Masonic plan of the Revolution” has taken over both governments and institutions. To carry out this “global coup” the lobby needed the collaboration of “corrupt government officials … politicians, doctors, judges and teachers.” According to Viganò, even after the Second Vatican Council, many in Rome “remained firmly anchored to certain non-negotiable principles” and thus still presented an obstacle to the globalists.
“leftist 101.” they will never pick a good guy to champion. it’s always killers and thieves and crackheads, rapists and goons. this pattern is so clear that the memes basically write themselves.
There’s a Tesla in my neighborhood with a bumper sticker that seems to be begging people not to key the car. “I bought this car before I knew that Elon was crazy,” it says. Fascinating message there. Is it a protest, plea, or both? The car is brilliant, obviously and the guy loves it. But these days, driving a Tesla comes with implied messaging, due entirely to Musk’s political actions.
Elite liberals were buying this car for years as a status symbol of their love of the planet. Then everything changed. Now they are experiencing something like an existential crisis. That’s because a movement has emerged among elites who have turned against it. Then began a campaign of violence against property. These violent actions, however, go far beyond a buyers’ boycott. No one in a free enterprise system objects to declining to buy. It’s another matter to lash out at others for their decisions.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/thankless-life-elon-musk
This was the era when corporations began outsourcing western manufacturing to third world countries. This is when the dollar was fully decoupled from gold. When the IMF introduced the SDR basket system. When the decade long stagflationary crisis began. (W)hen the World Economic Forum was founded. The Club of Rome and their climate change agenda. When numerous globalists started talking within elitist publications and white papers talking about a one world economy and a one world government (under their control, of course). By the 1990s everything was essentially out in the open and the plan was clear: Their intention was to destroy national sovereignty and bring in an age of total global centralization.
I see this messaging as a kind of crude rough draft for the theatrics to come. They haven’t fine-tuned their story yet, but they have the fundamental pieces in place. The allegation is that national sovereignty is a threat to “democracy”; not freedom, but democracy. And the globalist notion of democracy is progressive rulership in the name of a subjective greater good that they can’t really define.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/europes-anti-american-shift-now-globalists-are-saviors-west
“Unfortunately, Ukraine and other conflicts prove that this is no longer the case. And that we really have to prepare ourselves to continue living in peace and security. If you are not prepared, then you are not doing well,” he said.
Such a rearmament means the Netherlands must rebuild its defense industry, the monarch continued, adding, “It really needs to be able to start producing for a conflict again.”
Zelensky UK/EU Leaders Chase Trump In Rome; Starmer Coalition Disintegrates; US Russia Moscow Talks
Alexander Mercouris (88 min)
No suit, Pope Francis funeral. Elensky meets Trump. EU/UK/Ukraine demand Russia (and US) capitulate
Alex Christoforou (38 min)
Why the UK/EU fights Russia
Alex Christoforou, Alexander Mercouris (24 min)
https://rumble.com/v6slvqx-why-the-ukeu-fights-russia.html?e9s=src_v1_upp
MILITARY SUMMARY:
A New Group Of Forces Joins the Fight – Today, All Roads Lead to Rome – Military Summary 2025.04.26
Dima (15 min)
Thunder – Trump Changes His Mind – Russia Has Fully Secured Kursk Region – Military Summary 2025.04.26
Dima (21 min)
He mentioned selling a few gold buffalos and wouldn’t you know it, the cover story and picture of today’s “Barrons” is gold. How did you know to lighten up before a likely takedown? LOL
This has been used in Taiwan in the past to make it appear that support is for pro China candidates.
We will not know the true polling until the results of April 28 come in.
Recent polling suggests that the Liberals and Conservatives are within a few points in favour of the liberals.
I have no info on the outcome but it could be close or it could be a majority for one party over the other.
Early polling is usually for change and people want to come out in advance in case Election day lineups are overwhelming.
Imagine another Supply agreement between the Liberals and NDP to cling to their evil Globalist agenda. I would not put it past them. Polling also suggests Singh may not win his Burnaby seat.
Jeff Childers on The Judge Arrests …Judgegate
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/it-begins-saturday-april-26-2025?
