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A Recycled President - Trumpty Dumpty returns

Julian MacFarlane
News Forensics
Tue, 21 Jan 2025 19:31 UTC
Trump
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The US has a new president! Well, not really new - it has a recycled president. Slightly refurbished - but essentially the same one from before.

The Washington Post and New York Times were quick to welcome him to office - by scapegoating Anthony Blinken--now called the Secretary of War!

Jeff Bezos, who owns the Washington Post, contributed $1 million to Trump's inauguration. Go figure!

WaPo and the NYT are still DNP mouthpieces but...and they have a constituency — but they couldn't exactly throw Biden under the bus after celebrating his presidency as the Second Coming of Christ..

Blinken Idiot
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But Blinken? Why not?

Word is he's starting a rock group with Zelly and Bibi.

Look - they gotta throw somebody under the bus!

At the same time, it pays to be a little circumspect at inauguration time when the guy you never thought could win not only won but won bigly, with support beyond his billionaire and trillionaire backers — that is, with, public support!

The MSM want clicks - so they're going to play nice - for a while at least.

Blinken is click bait.
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Eye 1

The evolution of the militarized data broker

Mark Goodwin
Unlimited Hangout
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00 UTC
data brokers
While often mythologized as having been created to champion human freedom, the internet and many of its most popular companies were directly birthed out of the national security apparatus of the United States.

Today, the world's economy no longer runs on oil, but data. Shortly after the advent of the microprocessor came the internet, unleashing an onslaught of data running on the coils of fiber optic cables beneath the oceans and satellites above the skies. While often posited as a liberator of humanity against the oppressors of nation-states that allows previously impossible interconnectivity and social organization between geographically separated cultures to circumnavigate the monopoly on violence of world governments, ironically, the internet itself was birthed out of the largest military empire of the modern world - the United States.

Comment: Indeed. Not terribly surprising then to learn that Amazon, a data collection service extraordinaire (among other things), has familial ties to DARPA.

See: FBI file on Jeff Bezos' grandfather, a DARPA co-founder, has been destroyed

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Godspeed, DJT

Raúl Ilargi Meijer
The Automatic Earth
Mon, 20 Jan 2025 18:23 UTC
Trump
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I was going to write something happy and positive and optimistic, about a future that looks brighter after spending 4 years out in the wilderness. But then I saw that the Democrats have pardoned the worst amongst themselves, and thereby every single one of them, for everything they've done over these 4 years, and before it. The entire Democratic party has been placed above the law, along with their Republican friends. The USA is now officially a lawless state.

That is something to think hard about. Because why would you still maintain a judicial system, with courts and judges and prosecutors, if that system doesn't apply to a large group of people? I can't think of a good reason. The rule of law in America is now an abstract idea that belongs in the past. What might be good about this is that the Dems have lost any and all future rights to go after any and all Republicans. But it still doesn't sit well.

You can forgive someone for something they've done, but you can't pardon them for what they might have done, or perhaps even still might do. That is literally a licence to kill. And that has to be illegal. Even if you are the President. It also violates the Constitution, and in too many ways to count. Ergo: the US is no longer a constitutional republic. It's now all bananas all the way down.

Biden's pre-emptive pardons have changed the country forever, though of course nobody realizes it at the moment it happens. From now on in, anything goes. Lying to Congress? No problem. Murder? Don't give it a second thought. Just as long as you get along with whoever is President, or who functions as such, you will be pardoned.
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Megaphone

Austin Tice's mom says Trump already offering to help bring him home from Syria— after Biden did nothing

Zoe Hussain
New York Post
Mon, 20 Jan 2025 08:27 UTC
Mother of missing journalist Austin Tice
© AHMAD FALLAHA/EPA-EFE/ShutterstockMother of missing journalist Austin Tice said she is hopeful the Trump administration will help locate her son.
President Trump has already promised to do everything he can to bring home Austin Tice, the Marine veteran who vanished more than 12 years ago while working as a journalist in Syria, according to his mom.

Trump's people reached out even before he re-entered the White House on Monday — while President Biden did nothing during his four years in office, Debra Tice said Sunday.
"I have great hope that the Trump administration will sincerely engage in diligent work to bring Austin home," the hopeful-sounding mom said during her first visit to Damascus since insurgents toppled President Bashar al-Assad last month.

Comment: See also:

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Cell Phone

Biden's border entry phone app was flooded with 166 MILLION appointment requests in just two years

Jason Hopkins
The Daily Caller
Mon, 20 Jan 2025 23:06 UTC
Biden CBP One illegal immigrants
A smartphone app, CBP One, that allows migrants to schedule appointments at the U.S.-Mexico border was shut down by Trump administration officials only minutes after the new president took office on Monday, January 6, 2025.
Migrants reportedly made millions of attempts to secure an asylum appointment through a phone app popularized by former President Joe Biden in just the past two years.

Asylum seekers made 166 million attempts to secure an appointment with U.S. immigration officials through the CBP One App in the past two years, according to internal documents obtained by CBS News. The CBP One allowed nearly one million foreign nationals to enter the United States before President Donald Trump followed through on a campaign promise Monday and immediately shut down the app.

First established in October 2020 with a very limited scope, the Biden administration greatly expanded the use of CBP One in January 2023. The app has since enabled migrants to schedule appointments to obtain exemptions at ports of entry and permits them to submit biometric data to federal immigration authorities in order to apply for travel authorization and obtain parole.
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TV

Left devours its own: 'SNL' skewers MSNBC's Trump obsession in fiery takedown of host Rachel Maddow

Chris Nesi
New York Post
Mon, 20 Jan 2025 22:41 UTC
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© NBC / SNLThe "SNL" skit parodying MSNBC featured imitations of Joy Reid, Rachel Maddow and Stephanie Ruhle.
This weekend's Saturday Night Live roasted MSNBC in a skit ridiculing the left-wing cable news network about everything from its hysteria-prone coverage of President-elect Donald Trump to its anchors' personalities and appearances.

The segment featured Sarah Sherman as Rachel Maddow — complete with the host's signature close-cropped hairstyle and thick-rimmed glasses — who introduced herself warning that dads watching at home had "better hide their older, bookish-looking lesbian daughters."

Sherman then introduced the panel, whom she described as "basically like 'The Avengers' for your aunt" and which included cast members mimicking network regulars including Ari Melber, Joy Reid, Stephanie Ruhle and Chris Hayes.

Comment: The screeching harridan that is Rachel Maddow & Co., has been ripe for satirical targeting for years, especially over her hyping of the Russiagate hoax. Apparently it's finally politically safe to do so.

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NPC

Therapists suggest group crying, 'forest-bathing' for liberals to deal with 'sense of hopelessness' on Trump Inauguration Day


NY Post
Sun, 19 Jan 2025 20:42 UTC
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As President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration approaches, some Americans are "dreading" the Republican's return to office and experiencing increased anxiety, a new report says.

Time Magazine reported Friday about 11 "science-backed" activities people can try on Monday to cope with their "sense of hopelessness" about the incoming administration.

Psychology experts and therapists suggested a variety of activities that could help those emotional about Trump's return take their focus off their anxiety and gain a new perspective.

Emiliana Simon-Thomas, a psychology expert and science director at the University of California at Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, recommended exercising, doing a creative activity, showing an act of kindness, smiling at strangers, and going to see a performance. These activities can boost your mood, help you regain a sense of control and feel connected to others, she said.

Comment: What are these people going to do when they are hit with actual adversity?

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Pharma spends billions on drug ads, fears Trump Administration will try to ban them

Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.
Children's Health Defense
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00 UTC
drug ads
Drug companies report their biggest concern with the incoming Trump administration is the fear that the government will try to ban direct-to-consumer drug ads, according to a new report from The Lever that examines the industry practice.

Companies said such a ban would "almost certainly" lead to a drop in drug sales, according to a recent report by industry research firm Intron Health, which claims the return on investment for drug ads is as high as 100%-500%, depending on the drug.

The U.S. and New Zealand are the only two countries that allow drug companies to advertise directly to consumers.

When President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.), was running as a presidential candidate, he promised to ban the ads through an executive order on his first day in office.
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Microchip

What will you do when you can't buy or sell anything on the internet without your UN-mandated digital identity chip?

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00 UTC
digital id
Imposing mandatory digital identification on every nation on the entire planet has become a primary goal for the global elite. It isn't going to happen tomorrow, but eventually the plan is to get virtually everyone in the world into the system. If the global elite get their way, a time will come when you will not be able to buy or sell anything on the Internet without logging in with your UN-mandated digital identity chip. You won't be able to go to school, get a job or open a bank account without your UN-mandated digital identity chip either. In essence, you will become a complete and utter outcast from society.

Data protection software

I have been astounded by what I have discovered. Leo Hohmann and a few others have been writing about this, but the general population has no idea what the global elite have planned. All the way back in September 2018, the United Nations established the "UN Legal Identity Agenda Task Force"...
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MIB

The "Monkey Wrench" sabotage of America - does it beg for an authoritarian response?

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00 UTC
monkey clanging
Accidents and crime happen, all the time in fact, and generally the American public barely takes notice of the number of such events that occur on a monthly basis. The reason for this is because the vast majority of incidents don't lead to economic and infrastructure damage on a large scale. A disaster has to be pretty extensive to get the attention of the public and usually that attention doesn't last long because most people are still able to go on with their day without much inconvenience.

But let's say you are a villain; a terrorist or a social engineer (same thing). Let's say you are a person or group with malicious intent and you have deliberately set out to destroy a country, or a society or a civilization. Do you try to do this with a single elaborately planned event? Probably not. Instead, you would coordinate and encourage thousands of smaller acts of sabotage that go largely unnoticed by the population until infrastructure breaks down and the country is in ruins.
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