By Jack Wisdom

The “big lie” is the name of a propaganda technique, originally coined by Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf (1925), who wrote, “The great masses of the people … will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.”  Sixteen years later, Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, actively promoted the big lie as the key principle of the Nazi propaganda machine.

Sadly, lying has become so commonplace in our society that the truth often appears or is portrayed as a lie, and outright lies are given legitimacy by many of our political leaders, our courts, our institutions of higher education, and our religious institutions.  In short, tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of people are living in a lie-filled and lie-believing state of mind.

There has been a dramatic decline in church and synagogue attendance.  U.S. church membership was 73% when Gallup first measured it in 1937 and remained near 70% for the next six decades before beginning a steady decline around the turn of the 21st century.  It has since been between 63% and 37%, with those not in attendance professing no particular religious preference.  Thus, growing millions of people are now believing the lie that there is no God, or at least have taken the agnostic position.

This is a dismal rejection of the truth that the universe and our world in particular were created by a Supreme Being and that we owe Him worship, honor, and thanksgiving, for the moral law at the very least, and ultimately for the salvation of our souls.

The noticeable emptying out of many churches is evidence that belief in God is on the wane and that denial is a rapidly spreading lie.  Imagine: There are growing millions who believe we evolved from a Big Bang or from amoebae or from primates even though there is not one piece of fossil evidence of an intermediate stage between monkeys and humans.  The creation narrative is deemed a myth because of the general credibility of science based on its achievements, but there is no verifiable paradigm or controlled experiment that can lend any credibility to the creation hypotheses offered by science.  Do I need science to know that a chair is not the floor?  In a parallel cognitive format, do I need science to know the difference between the human self and the One who created that self?  Denial of the latter is a lie.

In a survey taken only two years ago, it was found that 57% of American adults believe that gender is based on the sex “assigned” at birth, whereas 43% say a person could change his gender later in life.  Two in five Americans (40%) think a person should be able to legally self-identify as a gender different from the one assigned at birth, whereas just as many (38%) disagree.  There are political divides as well on the topic of transgender issues.  Incredibly, two thirds (67%) of Democrats believe that a person should be able to legally self-identify as a gender different from the one he was assigned at birth.  Far fewer Independents (33%) and Republicans (17%) share this view.

On this issue, there is a clear biological and scientific standard.  Females all have XX chromosomes, and males all have XY chromosomes.  Males might enjoy dressing up as women or assigning themselves women’s names or taking puberty-blockers, but they remain males.  The same applies to females.  Gender is not assigned at birth, but is a biological reality designated on birth certificates.  Any other basis for “designation” is a lie.  Further, the Bible declares homosexuality a sin and therefore inconsistent with faith in God.

The lie may be the result of a strong delusion, or it may be purposeful or cynical.  But a lie is a lie.  In 2 Thessalonians 3, we read, “For this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie. … Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.”

The acceptance of the distortions produced by gender “identity” has become another sufficiently popular lie that has disrupted U.S. relations with societies around the world by disrupting our credibility.  Insisting on lies is incompatible with leadership, although in the short run, it may have appeal to certain segments of the population.

The final lie to be discussed is the lie that the brotherhood and sisterhood of humanity is denied by the existence of the nation-state.  World government proponents believe that the nation-state defies the inherent unity or oneness of the human race.  Decades ago, this writer was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, and while walking with a chemistry professor, Charles Price, across campus, the professor asked me if I had heard of the United World Federation, which he was president of.  His goal was that the U.N. would become our one world government.

I had read the United Nations Declaration of Universal Human Rights, which was published and signed by the U.N. member-states at the end of WWII, and there was no mention of world government in that document.  Rather, the word “rights” was emphasized in almost every section.  As an American, I had come to understand “rights” as belonging first and foremost to individuals, and that through the U.N., after WWII, the USA was in a better position to share that vision with the rest of the world.  However, after many years, the U.N. changed its focus from rights to world governance in its Agenda 2015, which was updated to its Agenda 2030, where “meeting needs” became a central concept (not unlike the Communist Manifesto of 1848) as well as global governance.

The shift from promoting and enhancing rights to meeting needs as the legitimate basis for government and for world government is another lie promoted to demote and derogate the worth of the individual.  The American principle is that the state is upheld by and exists to promote the worth of the individual.  It is not that the individual exists to justify and uphold the existence and worth of the state.  That reversal is the third lie this essay seeks to expose.  The centrality of the individual is the unique American gift to the world and to Western civilization.  Europe, since the French Revolution, has been drawn to different forms of statism rather than toward individualism, and thus that difference between Europe and the U.S. remains a tension within Western civilization.

If we reject the lies delineated in this article, we will have the basis for moving forward successfully into the future.

American Thinker

Here’s a real picture of a woman recently attacked by thugs in Cincinnati, Ohio, a city run by a radicalized leftist Democrat. There were no police to assist her, even after she was attacked, and no ambulance to come for her. She was going to a friend’s birthday party. The city, like nearly all bigger cities in America, is run by an incompetent Democrat. Actually, he’s quite competent at doing what he’s there to do: destroy his city. He poses as a little bit moderate, but ineptitude of this magnitude is never accidental. It’s the product of a post-radicalized Democratic Party, which began during Obama’s terms. Their destruction of life as we know it is systematic, ruthlessly decisive and utterly predictable in any city run by a Democrat.

ALL Democrats in power are radicalized. No matter what they say, they are out to destroy America. Their route for doing so is destabilizing the country, starting with our biggest cities. New York, Chicago and Los Angeles are lost — possibly forever. Now the radicalized Democrats are going after smaller cities in red states. Ohio, like other red states, voted for Trump in huge majorities last year. No worries, for the Democratic Party. They will destroy us from the ground up. This is war.

The photo was posted on X by Vivek Ramaswamy, who is running for Governor of Ohio. You can find more facts about the incident there. The mayor of Cincinnati should be investigated for criminal charges.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Tulsi Gabbard didn’t assume the role of Director of National Intelligence to play ceremonial dress-up.” —Toresays.com on “X”.

You must suspect there’s some game afoot in this Epstein business. Only days ago, it was “fuggeddabowdit . . . nuthin’ there . . . get over it.” But then, only days later, the second-in-command at DOJ, Todd Blanche, formerly the president’s personal lawyer, was down in Tallahassee deposing Jeffrey Epstein’s second-in-command, Ghislaine Maxwell. (Note: a deposition is testimony outside of court, recorded under oath.) The Deputy Attorney General deposed her for two days, Friday and Saturday, a total of nine hours. You can do a lot of talking in nine hours.

And were you shocked to learn — as has been broadly reported — that through all these years of EpsteinEpsteinEpstein, Ms. Maxwell has never been interviewed by any state or federal law enforcement official or government lawyer? How was that possible? By the way, no government official has interviewed billionaire Les Wexner, Epstein’s chief benefactor, over all these years, either? How is that possible? (Follow the money, as they say.)

Meanwhile, down in Florida, as reported by Brian O’Shea of The Daily Clout, it turns out that the federal district judge, Robin Rosenberg, who just ruled against Mr. Trump’s request to unseal the 2005 — 2007 Florida Epstein grand jury transcripts, is married to one Michael McCauliffe, former Palm Beach County State’s Attorney (equivalent of district attorney, DA), who helped negotiate the special 2008 “sweetheart” plea deal that allowed Epstein significant freedoms, such as frequent travel, including to his Little St. James Island, despite being under house arrest. Are you going, “Hmmmmmm. . . ? Any conflict of interest in that ruling? (Note: Current US AG Pam Bondi did not become Florida AG until 2011.)

So, it appears that there will now be two sets of “Epstein files” to sort out: 1) the DOJ’s file curated under AG Merrick Garland, and 2) whatever follows from never-before asked questions put to Ghislaine Maxwell in late July 2025. One thing you might infer: if the Merrick Garland files contained any defamatory “kompromat” about Donald Trump, wouldn’t it have been used during the election of 2024? Mr. Garland went along with every other ploy used to defame and convict Mr. Trump under color of law. But not that? Ergo, fuggeddabowdit.

Where the Epstein business goes now is anybody’s guess, but you have to doubt that it will go nowhere. Ms. Maxwell’s attorney, David O. Markus, stated to reporters that she “answered every single question asked of her” over the two days, emphasizing that she responded “honestly, truthfully, and to the best of her ability” without invoking any privileges or declining to answer. There is chatter on the Internet that Ms. Maxwell’s testimony affords an opportunity for the FBI / DOJ to open an entirely fresh Epstein investigation, untainted by whatever Merrick Garland was sitting on.

Okay, I reckon that’s enough for you to chew on about EpsteinEpsteinEpstein for today. Let’s turn to the other giant stinking dead carp wafting its miasma over Washington DC: RussiaRussiaRussia. CIA chief John Ratcliffe promised on Sunday to disclose the so-called “annex” files to John Durham’s special counsel report. Mr. Ratcliffe implied that the material is rather serious. He also emphasized that the statute of limitations will not apply in any forthcoming RussiaGate cases because the matter represents an ongoing (until even now) conspiracy. Mr. Ratcliffe, you may recall, before getting elected to Congress, was a US Attorney for the eastern district of Texas (as Chief of Anti-Terrorism and National Security), so he knows quite a bit about prosecuting federal cases.

Dunno about you, but I would like to know a little bit more about Christopher Wray’s activities regarding both Epstein and RussiaGate during his long tenure, seven years and five months (2017 – 2025) as FBI Director. In previous testimony before various committees of Congress, Mr. Wray, uniformly invoked “ongoing investigations” as the reason for not answering any germane questions about, well, anything and everything. Does he not deserve a session or two of interrogation with Kash Patel’s FBI agents, or depositions under oath with lawyers from the DOJ now, without the shield of protecting investigations of an agency he no longer runs? He has a lot to answer for, including the J-6 business and associated pipe-bomb matter — both of which might be construed as part of an ongoing conspiracy against a sitting president (and three-time candidate).

Is all this some “conspiracy theory”? No, an actual conspiracy as spelled out in the federal statutes: Conspiracy under Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, Conspiracy to defraud the United States. . . 18 U.S. Code § 241, Conspiracy against rights. . . and 18 U.S. Code § 242, Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law.

Add to that: perjury under oath, obstruction of justice, lying to the FBI. It’s a pretty rich menu. Someone, maybe more than a few someones, will be going to jail.

James Howard Kunstler

Once upon a time, there was a rock-ribbed conservative U.S. senator who tried mightily to get an über-conservative law passed but was met with great resistance by his liberal colleagues.  This went on not for months, but for almost two years.

But he was so persistent and determined that those same resistant colleagues — and their lapdogs in the left-wing media — started to call him “bulldog” — even, at times, Senator Bulldog!

Then, one beautiful spring day, he was both astounded and delighted to learn that he had enough votes to pass his proposed law.  The vote was to be taken shortly after the Senate came back from lunch.

As the senator walked along Constitution Avenue to his favorite lunch spot, The Capitol Hill Club, enjoying the gorgeous sight of the wisteria and magnolias and cherry blossoms in bloom, he felt ebullient and redeemed and also proud that his persistence, and the righteousness of his cause, would finally see the light.

There he was, Central Casting, walking tall in his blue suit, white shirt (with cuff links!), red tie… the perfect symbolic colors, he thought, for this milestone day in his life.

Hello, Senator!

As he strode along, another Central Casting figure came up to his side — tall, handsome, also dressed to the nines.

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“Hello, Senator.  How are you today?”

The senator, long in public service, was accustomed to people he had never met greeting him, saying hello, wishing him well, or advising him on political matters.  And, of course, insulting him.

At this presumptuous, ridiculous, insulting, and bizarre remark — at the very idea that he would vote “no” on the legislation he had worked on assiduously for almost two years — he turned to the strange man and asked, with irritation in his voice, “Do I know you?”

“Well, no, Senator,” the stranger replied.  “We’ve never met.  But I do know that your daughter just got an off-campus apartment in Virginia.  Have a nice day, Senator!”

With that, the stranger jumped into a dark sedan that at that moment had conveniently pulled up to the curb, and he was gone.

Fact or Fiction?

I shared the above imaginary scenario with a few “inside D.C.” Democrat and Republican people I know — two acclaimed journalists, a hugely prominent Democrat politician, a longtime aide to an influential member of the U.S. Congress, and a high-ranking military official — and asked them if they thought my introduction rang true, was plausible, or was not at all credible.

To a person, they said it was all too plausible.  “Don’t change a word,” one person wrote.

That was no surprise to me, because it is now clear even to skeptics and cynics that what the American public has known, or strongly suspected, for decades is that the D.C. swamp — meaning the government that We the People elected — is a virtual cesspool of corruption, malfeasance, grift, payoffs, bribes, and the very definition of criminality.

But is it also the very definition — as the above scenario suggests — of murder for hire?

The V.P.?

Even after 62 years, the question of who assassinated President John F. Kennedy in 1963 remains undecided, with theories ranging from a cover-up decision by the Warren Commission, which blamed the 46-year-old president’s death on the “lone gunman” Lee Harvey Oswald, to author Rob Morrow’s contention and conclusion that the entire tragedy was conceived, choreographed, and carried out by JFK’s V.P., Lyndon Baines Johnson.  The latter recommends these two resources as proof: LBJ: Mastermind of the JFK Assassination by Phillip Nelson and this scholarly article by Jeremy Kuzmarov for Covert Action Magazine, which indicts LBJ for JFK’s death.

No Exit Wound?

Vince Foster served as White House counsel during the first six months of the Clinton administration.  According to The Washington Post, although Foster had risen to “the pinnacle of the Arkansas legal establishment,” he was unhappy at the White House and became depressed.  In July 1993, 48-year-old Foster was found dead of a gunshot wound to his mouth in Fort Marcy Park.  Although five official government investigations ruled his death a suicide, conspiracy theories persisted, including that there was no exit wound; that the way Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff, Maggie Williams, handled Foster’s files and documents immediately after his death was fishy; and that the Clintons themselves were involved in his death.  Strangely, in 2004, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that pictures of the scene and autopsy should not be released.

The Infamous Laundry List

Well, what a coincidence!  The following year, 1993, the Clinton Body Count List made its debut, asserting that both Bill and Hillary Clinton  had secretly had their political opponents murdered, often making it look like suicides.  At the time, the list totaled 50 victims, but since then it has ballooned, with political consultant and lobbyist Roger Stone asserting that the Clintons were responsible for the deaths of dozens of people, including Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and John F. Kennedy, Jr.

A Bullet Hole?

On April 3, 1996, Ron Brown, 54, a lawyer, former Navy captain, politician, and lobbyist who was the United States secretary of commerce during President Clinton’s first term, and before that the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, was killed, along with 34 others, in a 1996 plane crash in Croatia.  The Air Force attributed the crash to pilot error and a poorly designed landing approach, but conspiracists suspected a cover-up because Brown was under investigation for corruption and because doctors conducting an autopsy found a circular wound on top of his head, which they discounted as a bullet hole, but others theorized to the contrary.

Murdered?

After helping The Huffington Post and The Drudge Report get off the ground, conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart founded Breitbart News, which was credited with exposing the Anthony Weiner texting scandal and the alleged vote-rigging of ACORN, among other blockbuster news events.

Previously left-leaning, Breitbart changed his political views, describing himself as “85% conservative and 15% libertarian.”  He took on liberal icons like Nancy Pelosi, and hours after Sen. Ted Kennedy died in August 2009, Breitbart called him a “villain,” a “duplicitous bastard,” and “a special pile of human excrement,” adding, “Sorry, he destroyed lives.  And he knew it,” referring to Kennedy’s actions during the Chappaquiddick incident, the Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination, and the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination.

On February 29, 2012, Breitbart collapsed on a street near his home in Brentwood and died the next day at the age of 43 of heart failure, according to an autopsy.  Eerily, just a couple of weeks later, the coroner who worked on Breitbart’s body died by poisoning.

In the International Business Times, journalist Amanda Remling wrote in an article entitled “Andrew Breitbart Cause of Death: Was He Assassinated?” that “right before the blogger’s death he claimed to have videos that showed President Obama’s ties to radicals in the 1980s.  The videos are going to come out, Breitbart had said.  The narrative is going to come out that Barack Obama met a bunch of silver ponytails back in the 1980s like Bill [Ayers] and Bernadine Dorhn who, equally radical, said ‘One day we’re going to have the presidency.’”

Punished?

On July 10, 2016, at 4:18 A.M., Seth Rich, an employee of the Democratic National Convention, was shot two times in the back and rushed to a nearby hospital, where he died at the age of 27.  According to writer Mark Oliver, “rumors and theories started to spread about why a young man in the prime of his life had met his end on a dark street in Washington, D.C.  The police said it was an attempted robbery gone wrong, but hard evidence discounted that theory.  However, stories soon started to spread that Seth’s death was planned, and that he was the man who had leaked the Democratic Party’s e-mails to Wikileaks,” a website cofounded by Julian Assange, whose past and present involve both creativity and imprisonment.  According to this website, “Wikileaks has never officially said that Rich was the source of their leak, but they have done pretty much everything they can to suggest it.”

The Grace of God

And they still haven’t found out who ordered the hit — twice! — on President Trump!

Target?

A wealthy and educated European-born and raised socialite, Ghislaine Maxwell moved to New York in 1990 after her father, media mogul Robert Maxwell, bought the New York Daily News and chose her to act as his emissary.  She is famous for collaborating with the financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on his island home in the Caribbean.  In court documents, Epstein’s accusers allege that Maxwell acted as a recruiter, an instructor, and in some cases a participant in the abuse he practiced.  In 2021, she was found guilty of child sex–trafficking and other offences and sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment.

Now the House Oversight Committee and the U.S. Department of Justice has summoned Maxwell to testify.  But mmmmm…House breaks early when the Epstein issue comes up!

If there is no Epstein client list, as Attorney General Bondi and President Trump have pronounced, Maxwell can waltz into D.C. with no bodyguards and no worries.  But if there is a list, we have to ask ourselves: What could possibly go wrong?

As I’ve said in many articles, this is the short list.  But it makes you wonder, doesn’t it, if all the lofty verbiage our politicians express about their intentions to better our lives is simply a glib cover-up for the criminality they routinely engage in.

Joan Swirsky is a New York–based journalist and author. Her website is www.joanswirsky.com, and she can be reached at joanswirsky@gmail.com.

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“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

There you have it, Republicans. It’s now or never. Either you push back against the shadow of totalitarian rule coming over America; or it’s over, and the blood will all be on your hands.

Treason is treason. It’s not politics. It’s the obliteration of our freedom, our prosperity and all that decent people hold dear. Traitors have to be taken off the stage.

Abusers never stop. The kind of person who would initiate force against another is not curable. The kind of people who tried to destroy America are not reformable or redeemable, not in any way. They don’t change, because they don’t think anything is wrong with what they’re doing. It’s the same with all totalitarians. Democrats in power are totalitarians. If we keep talking about holding them accountable without ever doing so, they will have no fear of us. They will not learn their lesson because they know they are right, better than us, and entitled to rule every crevice of our lives and make millions in the process. Totalitarians left free are left free to keep harming us. They will, at some point, destroy us. Unless we lock them up first.

If Obama were convicted of treason but his “presidential immunity” saved him from a serious sentence, then it appears that some Americans ARE above the law. If hard, smoking gun evidence of treason verified by our CIA Director (herself a member of Obama’s party until recently) isn’t enough to counter “presidential immunity,” then we might as well scrap the Constitution and shelve it for a more deserving population in the future who might be willing to defend the rights of man.

Michael J. Hurd

Whenever government officials decide to commit government spending for a particular project or activity, members of the public should insist that the government officials provide details that explain and justify that government spending. Why? Because (1) government officials are accountable to the public, (2) no government has unlimited funds, unlimited personnel, or unlimited time, and (3) government is expected to provide or support a variety of public services (e.g., roads and bridges, police and fire protection, water treatment, public schools) that require the exercise of sound fiscal planning to ensure (a) adequate funding without losses to fraud, waste, or abuse, and (b) no undue burdens on taxpayers. 

When promoting or justifying government spending for a particular project or activity, state and local government officials often say the cost of the project or activity is “an investment.” Although the word “investment” may sound like a reasonable justification, it is uninformative. Why? Because it fails to actually explain or justify the use of government spending for a given proposed project or activity. Calling government spending “an investment” without elaboration or explanation is at best uninformative, at worst evasive. 

Government officials are trustees of public funds and have (1) no right to be careless or cavalier about spending public funds, and (2) no right to fail to explain to the public their reasons for decisions involving the use of public funds. Government officials have an affirmative obligation to explain to the public the reasons why the commitment of government spending for a particular project or activity is justified — not just provide a glib, uninformative label that fails to provide any meaningful explanation or justification. Government officials do not fulfill their obligation to the public by calling government spending “an investment” without providing any meaningful explanation or justification. 

If a business makes poor choices with its investment decisions, it loses money, risks losing customers, and faces the possibility of going out of business. In contrast, taxpayers — not government officials or government bureaucracies — foot the bill for any bad or poor choices made regarding the expenditure of public funds. In the private sector, customers generally have the option of seeking alternatives to doing business with a badly or poorly run business. In the public sector, taxpayers and other members of the public have limited options because paying taxes and complying with government-imposed laws, regulations, and mandates are not optional. 

What follows are suggestions about the kinds of questions about government spending that members of the public should ask and insist that government officials answer by providing relevant and specific responses. Some suggested questions could include the following: 

What are the specific goals and objectives of government spending? How are those specific goals and objectives weighed and evaluated with respect to other goals and objectives competing for government spending? Has the government weighed the costs and benefits of proposed government spending against possible alternative allocations of government spending?

What assumptions are made to justify the government spending? Are those assumptions relevant and reasonable? 

Are there any risks or uncertainties associated with government spending? If so, what are they, and how serious are they? Has the government considered ways to avoid, reduce, or mitigate those risks or uncertainties? 

What is the projected time frame for realizing expected results or benefits from the government spending? Is the projected time frame realistic and reasonable? 

Are the projected benefits and gains expected from the government spending realistic and achievable? If so, are they worth the cost? Are they achievable in a cost effective manner? 

What are the opportunity costs of the proposed government spending? Are those opportunity costs worth the projected benefits and gains expected from the proposed government spending? Do those opportunity costs detract from the fiscal needs of other, necessary public services? 

What are the total costs of the particular government spending, including transaction costs? How are the costs distributed among things such as capital costs for buildings, equipment costs, operating and maintenance costs, staffing and other personnel costs, and costs to deliver services or benefits to intended recipients? Is the allocation of various costs practical and reasonable? 

Are the transaction costs of the government spending reasonable? Is the administrative “overhead” reasonable or excessive? Are the total life-cycle costs of government spending reasonable or excessive? 

Have the costs, risks and benefits of similar government spending in the past been evaluated? If not, why not? 

Has the government learned any lessons from its successes and failures with respect to past government spending? If not, why not? 

Has the government made any efforts to detect or avoid any financial losses or operating deficiencies due to fraud, waste or abuse? If not, why not? 

Will any “lessons learned” about successes or failures associated with similar government spending in the past be incorporated in the planning and implementation for current and future government spending? If not, why not? 

When claims are made that additional or supplemental funding is needed for a previously funded project or activity, there is need to ask: (1) is the claimed inadequacy of budgeted funding due to changing circumstances or unforseen adverse events? (2) is increased funding needed to compensate for increased operating costs and expenses that should have been anticipated and budgeted for in the initial planning? (3) is increased funding needed to correct or compensate for failures or inefficiencies with respect to the use of originally budgeted funding?

The suggested questions should not be considered exhaustive. Readers may think of other relevant questions about government spending that they would like answered. Regardless of what questions about government spending that members of the public might consider pertinent, they should not simply accept at face value any unexplained or unelaborated claim that government spending is “an investment.”

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Emilio Jaksetic

The one area the Government and the legacy media intentionally ignore is the significant roles played by Foreign Intelligence Agencies, particularly British Intelligence, in the Russia Hoax Conspiracy. The newly released 100 pages of declassified documents by Director of National Intelligence Gabbard and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) report implicated President Obama and Obama-era officials in an election interference scheme. What is conspicuously absent from their reports is the roles Foreign Intelligence Agencies, particularly British Intelligence, played in the Russia Hoax Conspiracy.

Let’s begin by looking at the origins of the Russia Gate Conspiracy and the roles played by those within the Foreign Intelligence Agencies’ “Five Eyes Intelligence Network,” specifically British Intelligence, who started this whole cabal by constructing the “BIG LIE,” a deliberate and misleading narrative, and THE MYTH THAT TRUMP AND HIS CAMPAIGN TEAM HAD SECRET TIES TO THE RUSSIANS, a false accusation that has had profound and far-reaching consequences.

ORIGINS OF FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE IN U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

The origins of the myth began in 2015, when the Five Eyes Intelligence Network, a cooperative intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, specifically British Intelligence, was monitoring Russian Communications through Signals Intelligence and Cryptography (SIGINT) of conversations between Russian Officials discussing then-presidential candidate Trump.

The allegations that Trump had secret ties to Moscow originated from SIGINT intercepts of Russian Officials by British Intelligence, which became the basis for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) intelligence probes and investigations into the Trump campaign, claiming that Trump had secret ties to Moscow.

Anonymous sources within the National Security agencies leaked false narratives to the media that some of the information in the Steele dossier about Trump was corroborated, claiming the information came from intercepts of Russian officials. The facts from Special Counsel (SC) John Durham’s investigation determined that the information for the the Steele dossier came from associates within the Clinton and DNC orbits, not the Russians, as part of their Machiavellian plan of making the Russians the responsible party to hide their criminality in framing Trump and his team for crimes they didn’t commit. 

John Seaman

If you can arrest a former president named Donald Trump, you can arrest a former president named Barack Obama.” — Peachy Keenan on “X”.

Don’t you think it’s time for The New York Times to stop using the cliché “baseless” when referring to allegations — now, actually, official accusations— of the seditious conspiracy to run President Trump out of office after the 2016 election? Of all the fake “journalistic” blurts emanating from this bastion of degenerate sell-outs, “baseless” is the fakest, as if the word printed in a headline were so magically potent, the sheer assertion of it can make all your problems just — poof! — go away.

It’s the thought process of wicked children who fail to develop a sense of true or false, right or wrong, who grow into adults specially licensed, by some new perversion of the social contract, to get away with anything. And those wicked children have become America’s managerial class, the elite who are supposed to do your thinking for you op-ed style, the credentialed experts, such as Tony Fauci, “economist” Paul Krugman, DEI avatar and NPR honcho Katherine Maher, Harvard law prof Lawrence Tribe. . . the list is interminable, but you get the picture.

This class is also the owner / operator of America’s political Deep State, which by 2016 had grown into a colossal racketeering operation, money-laundering gazillions of taxpayer dollars into NGOs dedicated to the country’s cultural and political destruction while it processed campaign donations into fantastic fortunes for people officially earning less than $200-K a year. The racket also managed to pay for the support of multitudes allergic to working for a living, as long as they were available for riots and ballot-harvesting drives.

It was working at such a high pitch by the end of Barack Obama’s two terms, with the most stupendously privileged creature in the Boomer bestiary ready to take her “turn” in the Oval Office — after amassing a $300-million-plus fortune serving as US senator (salary, $174-K / year) and Secretary of State (salary $199,700 / year, then) — that you must imagine the mighty freak-out at the prospect of one Donald John Trump, outsider vulgarian extraordinaire, promising to step in and drain the whole massive, putrid, necrotic, parasitical nepo-infested quagmire of predatory grifters, leaving them gasping for their lives on the stinking Potomac mudbanks like so many grunions dying on the beach at Redondo.

Barack Obama, apparently, Darth Vadar-ized himself and was handed a light-saber (Hillary’s Steele dossier) by John Brennan, Grand Duke of Planet Intel. . . and the rest should have been history — but instead festered in the US body politic for more than ten years like an inflamed tuberculoma and is now bursting out of the Beltway’s peritoneal cavity in a spectacular spray of ordure, sticking to everyone and everything like a thousand tails pinned on the everlasting Democratic donkey. Alas, Babylon-on-the-Potomac. . . .

Also: “baseless,” my a[**]. . . . The basis for all this mischief is in the process of having proof supplied by the one figure, DNI Gabbard, in a position to retrieve the evidence, in writing, from the various heavily ring-fenced agencies over which she is the ultimate overseer, which has not been done before, especially back in the crucial weeks of late 2020 when John Ratcliffe was in that position. The reason Tulsi succeeded this time where Ratcliffe did not is probably due to newly available A-I systems which make collation of cross-searches much easier through the countless servers of the many intel agencies. And so, now it pours forth day by day.

That’s where things stand and the dust has not even begun to settle, with former President Obama seemingly hoisted on the petard of his own making back in December of 2016. Whether or not all the declassified info can be crafted into prosecutable cases is not yet determined, but you might imagine it will come together soon enough, if at all possible. It may not add up to treason per se, but there are plenty of other serious charges generally proceeding from deprivation of rights under color of law (18 U.S.C. § 242), to seditious conspiracy, i.e., overthrow of the president (18 U.S.C. § 2384) to stuff a number of former officials into orange jumpsuits behind bars.

I doubt, though that we have reckoned the worst damage done by the perpetrators of RussiaGate and the serial crimes it entailed, which is how it drove half the population of our country plumb batsh[**] crazy. Once RussiaGate was put over, any absurdity was force-fed to the increasingly delusional opposition to Donald Trump largely aggregated under the “Democratic Party” banner. You were suffered to believe such patent nonsense as men can become women, that riots with arson were mostly peaceful protests, that the US/Mexico border could not be controlled without vast new legislation, and that a demonstrably corrupt and obviously senile Joe Biden was an able, functioning chief executive.

The Covid-19 op was the coup de grâce for the Left’s mental health — while it was also a silver bullet to get rid of Mr. Trump in the 2020 election. There is even reason to believe that the mRNA vaccines, with their spike protein payloads, delivered physical brain injury by way of induced vascular disorder. Millions who took them may never recover their senses — but so far that is just hypothesis.

If cases are brought against those who acted in the long-running coup, and are proven in court via an honest and upright process, we’ll find out whether half the country can recover enough rationality to accept the outcome. The signs for now are discouraging, as they seem to veer deeper into delusion, nominating outright jihadi communists for important offices and continuing their lawfare campaign to disable all and any actions by Mr. Trump’s executive branch.

The ultimate goal, for those interested in continuing the project of this American republic, will be to see if it’s possible to restore a workable consensus about a common culture and the common good on principles that are anything but baseless: equal protection under the law, fair play, the rights of property, and respect for verifiable truth.

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William Howard Kunstler

The emotional problems of these leftists run deeper than politics. Their choice of totalitarian collectivism in politics betrays a combination of intellectual superficiality, ignorance and an immature desire to be part of the p

In the world of elites who are (in truth) nothing to envy. Granted, those are emotional problems. But the leftists’ sense of martyrdom and victimhood allies them with the woke narrative that oppression is a virtue. They feel a need that’s so ferocious to be known as victims because, in their warped sense of life, martyrdom is the only proof of virtue and achievement.

I can’t prove it, but I’d bet money that Colbert relishes his opportunity for victimhood in his present situation. The more he lashes out at Trump, the more approval he receives from others in his circle, and the more worthwhile he feels. Among other things, this faulty thinking (Freud labeled it “defense mechanism”) prevents Mr. Colbert from having to feel anguish over the fact that President Trump had nothing to do with his show’s cancellation. Mr. Colbert’s declining number of viewers did.

This is the kind of thing libertarians, conservatives, small government people have been warning about for a long time: that the intelligence community has so much power that, put into the wrong hands, incredible injustice could occur,” Paul said.

“And I think that’s what happened here. I’m proud of Tulsi Gabbard for bringing it forward.”

-U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, on the smoking gun evidence of Obama’s treason.

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Will they really do it?

Does anyone have the backbone to arrest Obama? Trump absolutely does. He has been through more insanity than ANY political figure in all of American history. That includes Lincoln. Because they didn’t get him, Leftists now must face a President Trump with absolutely NOTHING to lose. That’s precisely why millions of us voted for him. And he is delivering. Now, does anyone else other than Trump have the backbone to arrest Obama, Hillary Clinton and so many others? I have no idea. I am concerned. We the people must do all we can to let Trump know we support him on this. Hopefully that will give the Pam Bondis the backbone they need. It’s truly our last chance. Because if we let these people like Obama go, and they return to power at some point (which they will) — everything is over. They will spare nothing, and nobody. We are in more of a moment of truth than any of us can truly grasp.

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Now it gets interesting. As I predicted, the media and state-run capitalism and far left academic-media Establishment have responded as if Trump isn’t a real President and his supporters (even if a majority) do not count. Yet the reality remains that there still IS an American government. And just a year ago, when Biden was President, you were treated as an insurrectionist and “enemy of democracy” for daring even to criticize the demented puppet sitting in the White House and his wildly unconstitutional edicts.

You can’t have it both ways, Leftists. But we know you think you can. Arrogance and hubris do not begin to describe your psychopathology and uninhibited, rotten-to-the-core lack of character. You believe that money can buy you a totalitarian dictatorship and immunize you from your own claimed standards even when you’re out of power. We will soon find out if you are right.

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From Ken Blackwell :

“BREAKING: President Trump just said what millions of us have known for years: “The leader of the gang was Obama. Barack Hussein Obama. He’s GUILTY. This is TREASON!”

And he’s absolutely right.

Obama is not some bystander. He is not a clueless figurehead who got dragged along for the ride. He is the one who lit the match, gave the orders, and built the machine that tried to destroy Donald Trump and rig the system against the will of the American people.

He ran the most corrupt administration in modern history and walked out like a celebrity instead of a criminal. That ends now.

The Russia hoax? That was Obama’s operation.

The spying on Trump’s campaign? Obama knew and signed off.

The fake dossier, the FISA fraud, the lies to Congress, the media leaks? All of it ran through his people.

He didn’t just watch it happen. He helped plan it.

This wasn’t politics. This was a coup attempt.

They tried to erase an election. They tried to destroy a sitting president. They tried to silence every voice that dared to support him. And they did it from within the government. That is treason.

And yet Barack Obama has faced zero consequences. Not one subpoena. Not one hearing. Not one serious investigation.

Meanwhile, Trump supporters get dragged into court for memes, hit with gag orders, indicted over nonsense, and bankrupted for questioning the system.

Rudy Giuliani gets slapped with a $140 million judgment for calling a rigged election what it was. But the man who corrupted the FBI, CIA, DOJ, and IRS for political gain? He’s on Netflix. He’s throwing birthday parties with celebrities. He’s still running the show from behind the curtain.

The double standard is not just obvious. It is sickening.

The Department of Justice works overtime to crush Trump and anyone who stands with him, but they cover for Obama like their lives depend on it. Maybe they do.

This country cannot survive much longer if we keep letting the real criminals walk free while the truth-tellers get punished. We either have equal justice, or we have no justice at all.

Trump is right. Obama must be investigated. Now.

No more excuses. No more silence. No more pretending the real threat to this country isn’t coming from inside the house.

Barack Hussein Obama led the operation against Trump. He abused his power. He betrayed the Constitution. He tried to overturn an election. That is treason.

The American people see it. Trump sees it. And history will not forget it.

Investigate Obama.

Expose the whole rotten operation.

And bring justice down—hard.

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More from Ken Blackwell :

“If this man never faces justice, then the rule of law in America is dead.
Not wounded. Not limping. Dead.
Because when the system protects the powerful while punishing the rest of us, it’s not a system anymore. It’s a racket.
We’ve watched Americans thrown in jail for far less. Parents labeled extremists. Veterans locked up. Whistleblowers silenced. January 6 protesters sentenced like terrorists.
But Barack Obama?
He used federal agencies to spy on political opponents.
He presided over a cover-up in Benghazi while Americans died.
He backed a lie that dragged this country through four years of chaos and division—the Trump-Russia hoax—and let his inner circle weaponize intelligence to try to overturn an election.
And he walks free.
Smiling for cameras. Signing book deals. Running the Democrat Party from the shadows.
Enough.
This isn’t about partisanship. It’s about survival. A republic cannot stand if justice is applied based on status, party, or media protection. If people stop believing the law is fair, they stop following it. That’s not speculation. That’s history.
Every time the system lets someone like Obama escape scrutiny, it sends a message to every American: the law is only for the little people.
And that message is poison.
We either fix it now, or we lose everything this country is supposed to stand for.
Justice must be equal. Or it means nothing.
If we still believe in this country, we have to prove it.
Start at the top.
Start with Obama.
Do it for the rule of law.
Do it for the country.
Do it before it’s too late.”

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