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Putin Condemns Israeli Attack on Iran

Russian President Vladimir Putin. ©  Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov

RT

The Russian president condemned the Israeli attack and extended his condolences to Iran, according to the Kremlin press service

Russian President Vladimir Putin has held phone conversations with his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the escalation in the Middle East following the Israeli strike against Iran.

Israel launched a major attack on Iran overnight targeting nuclear facilities and various military installations. The strikes continued into the day, inflicting considerable material damage and casualties on Iran’s top military leadership and, reportedly, high-profile nuclear scientists.

“The Russian president expressed his condolences to the leadership and people of the Islamic Republic of Iran in connection with the numerous human casualties, including civilians, resulting from the Israeli strikes,” the Kremlin press service said in a statement on Friday.

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Via https://www.rt.com/news/619207-putin-iran-israel-talks/

CIA Data Mining Company’s Stock Has Surged Since Trump Took Office

[Source: cnn.com]

By Jeremy Kuzmarov
Palantir is a data analytics company founded with CIA seed money, which employed former Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and former CIA Director George Tenet as consultants.

Its AI software, which journalist James Bamford characterized as “the digital equivalent of weapons of mass destruction,” is used by the Israeli Air Force to strike targets in Gaza and by the Ukrainian military to track Russian troop movements and carry out drone and missile attacks.

Since Donald Trump has taken office, Palantir’s stock price has almost doubled from $70.90 a share to $133.17 (on June 3). This figure is in part the result of a $30 million contract from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to build a platform to track migrant movements in real time. [1]

Wired and CNN have reported that Palantir is being tapped by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to create a master immigration database to speed up deportations.[2]

Overall, Palantir has received close to a billion dollars since Trump’s inauguration, according to The New York Times. The new business has led Palantir’s stock market valuation to climb from $50 billion a year ago to approaching $300 billion today.[3]

A company that few outside tech and national security circles recognized a few years ago is now worth more than Verizon or Disney and nearly as much as Bank of America.

NPR described Palantir CEO Alex Karp as a “tousle-haired 57-year-old billionaire, holding a doctorate in neoclassical social theory, who could be found in his off-hours Nordic skiing or practicing tai chi.”[4]

The son of hippies who spent a lot of time as a kid at political protests,[5] Karp is a longtime Democratic Party donor who gave $360,000 to Joe Biden’s reelection campaign before backing Kamala Harris for president in the 2024 election.[6]

Karp’s true neo-conservatism was apparent in a speech that he gave on a panel at the Reagan National Defense Forum after October 7, 2023, when he criticized corporate America for its “abysmal failure at standing up to people who are anti-American, who are breathing the vapors of a thin new religion at elite schools.”[7]

Karp additionally praised Israel’s achievements in “building a nation from a desert,” which erases the history of Israeli ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in the 1948 Nakba.[8]

NPR contrasted Karp’s support for the Democratic Party with Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel’s embrace of the MAGA right.

Thiel is a billionaire who is one of President Trump’s long-time backers and a sugar daddy of J.D. Vance whom he met while Vance was a student at Yale Law School.[9]

Thiel’s connection to the CIA is apparent in the fact that he was an early investor in Facebook, the “CIA’s wet dream,” since Facebook users voluntarily put information about themselves online.[10]

According to NPR, where Karp and Thiel merge is around a shared devotion for “developing data-analyzing intelligence tools to,” as Karp has put it, “power the West to its obvious, innate superiority.”

These comments reflect on how one of the top Democratic Party influencers subscribes to a world view reminiscent of the era of social Darwinism, formal colonialism and eugenics.

Karp told a Time magazine reporter that he saw the opportunity to fulfill Palantir’s mission to “defend the West” and to “scare the f-ck out of our enemies.”

The Democratic Party—like the Republican Party—is now being financed and shaped by the CEO of a company that is a leading war profiteer and proponent of Western exceptionalism who is helping to create a surveillance state within the U.S. that would make George Orwell sick to his stomach.

A small number of former Palantir employees who rue the company’s close ties with the Trump administration are now speaking out.

They have publicized the fact that Karp has boasted about the company’s tools being used to kill enemies and that he once jokingly said that Wall Street analysts who tried to screw the company should be “sprayed with light fentanyl-laced urine,” according to NPR.

Prominent Silicon Valley investor Paul Graham accused Palantir of “building the infrastructure of the police state,” asking a Palantir executive on X to commit to not building products that could be used to help the U.S. government violate citizens’ constitutional rights.

In August 2024, Palantir hired noted China hawk Mike Gallagher, former Republican representative from Wisconsin who chaired McCarthy-style hearings that promoted alarmism and an aggressive military buildup directed against China.[11]

Gallagher, who has an intelligence background in the Marine Corps, stated that “in Palantir, you have a rare, leading technology company that is unapologetic in its defense of the West and its belief that America is a force for good in this world and worth defending against our enemies.”

Gallagher told Defense One that his priorities at Palantir would include building on the company’s recent string of contract awards—including  the Army’s TITAN (Tactical Intelligence Target Access Node) contract designed to help connect Army units to high-altitude and space sensors—and growing Palantir’s space portfolio.[12]

In May 2023, CovertAction Magazine ran an exposé detailing Palantir’s close ties to the CIA[13] and how it had recently extended its intrusive surveillance practices into Lithuania, a country on the front lines of the war in Ukraine with a right-wing government prone to arresting critical journalists and bloggers.

The article went into Palantir’s history of providing battlefield intelligence for the Pentagon and CIA in Afghanistan and Iraq and how Alex Karp had bragged that Palantir was responsible for most of the targeting in Ukraine, where it had developed a system for managing aerial photographs from a huge network of satellites.[14]

In September 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Jesus “Chuy” Garcia (D-IL) wrote a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission urging an investigation of Palantir before it went public.

One of the many concerns that they raised was incomplete information about investments from In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture-capital arm that partially funded Palantir when it was founded.

A 2008 filing showed that In-Q-Tel owned at least 10% of Palantir, though more information was not available.

The CEO of Palantir Canada, David MacNaughton, who has influence in liberal party circles, worked with Hadron Inc. in the 1980s, a CIA linked firm tied with one of Rupert Murdoch’s company’s, Computer Power Group, which was involved in the theft of specialized software developed by National Security Agency (NSA) employee Bill Hamilton that was used by the CIA to enhance its surveillance and money laundering operations.

Palantir’s skyrocketing wealth and growing political influence in the Trump era makes clear the urgent necessity of an investigation.

What is especially disturbing about the company is its specialization in AI and surveillance systems of such terrifying capabilities.

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Via https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/06/10/cia-data-mining-companys-stock-has-surged-since-trump-took-office/

Troops and marines deeply troubled by LA deployment: ‘Morale is not great’

[image error] Andrew Gumbel

Several service members told advocacy groups they felt like pawns in a political game and assignment was unnecessary

California national guards troops and marines deployed to Los Angeles to help restore order after days of protest against the Trump administration have told friends and family members they are deeply unhappy about the assignment and worry their only meaningful role will be as pawns in a political battle they do not want to join.

Three different advocacy organisations representing military families said they had heard from dozens of affected service members who expressed discomfort about being drawn into a domestic policing operation outside their normal field of operations. The groups said they have heard no countervailing opinions.

“The sentiment across the board right now is that deploying military force against our own communities isn’t the kind of national security we signed up for,” said Sarah Streyder of the Secure Families Initiative, which represents the interests of military spouses, children and veterans.

“Families are scared not just for their loved ones’ safety, although that’s a big concern, but also for what their service is being used to justify.”

Chris Purdy of the Chamberlain Network, whose stated mission is to “mobilize and empower veterans to protect democracy”, said he had heard similar things from half a dozen national guard members. “Morale is not great, is the quote I keep hearing,” he said.

The marines and the California national guard did not respond to invitations to comment.

Trump has taken the unusual step of ordering 4,000 national guard members to Los Angeles without the consent of California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, saying that the city risked being “obliterated” by violent protesters without them. Earlier this week, he also activated 700 marines from the Twentynine Palms base two hours’ drive to the east, describing Los Angeles as a “trash heap” that was in danger of burning to the ground.

In reality, the anti-Trump protests – called first in response to aggressive federal roundups of undocumented immigrants, then in anger at the national guard deployment – have been largely peaceful and restricted to just a few blocks around downtown federal buildings. The Los Angeles police have made hundreds of arrests in response to acts of violence and vandalism around the protests, and the city’s mayor, Karen Bass, has instituted a night-time curfew – all with minimal input from the federal authorities.

At the largest demonstration since Trump first intervened, last Sunday, the national guard was hemmed into a staging area by Los Angeles police cruisers and played almost no role in crowd control. Since then, its service members have been deployed to guard buildings and federal law enforcement convoys conducting immigration sweeps. The marines, who arrived on Wednesday, are expected to play a similar function, with no powers of arrest.

Newsom has described the deployment as “a provocation, not just an escalation” and accused the White House of mistreating the service members it was activating. A widely circulated photograph, later confirmed as authentic by the Pentagon, showed national guard members sleeping on a concrete loading dock floor without bedding, and the San Francisco Chronicle reported that the troops arrived with no lodging, insufficient portable toilets and no funds for food or water.

A pair of YouGov polls published on Tuesday show public disapproval of both the national guard and marines deployments, as well as disapproval of Trump’s immigrant deportation policies. A Washington Post poll published on Wednesday came up with similar findings, but with slightly narrower margins.

Active service members are prohibited by law from speaking publicly about their work. But Streyder, of the Secure Families Initiative, said she had heard dozens of complaints indirectly through their families. She had also seen a written comment passed along to her organization from a national guard member who described the assignment as “shitty” – particularly compared with early secondments to help with wildfire relief or, during the Covid pandemic, vaccination outreach.

“Both of those experiences were uncomplicatedly positive, a contribution back to the community,” Streyder described the message as saying. “This is quite the opposite.”

According to Janessa Goldbeck, a Marine Corps veteran who runs the Vet Voice Foundation, the feeling was similar among some of the troops being sent from Twentynine Palms.

“Among all that I spoke with, the feeling was that the marines are being used as political pawns, and it strains the perception that marines are apolitical,” Goldbeck said. “Some were concerned that the marines were being set up for failure. The overall perception was that the situation was nowhere at the level where marines were necessary.”

The advocates said it was important to draw a distinction between the personal political preferences of service members, many if not most of whom voted for Trump last November, and the higher principle that military personnel should not get involved in politics or politically motivated missions that blur lines of responsibility with civilian agencies.

“We tend to be uniquely apolitical, as an institution and with each other,” Streyder said. “The military is a tool that should be used as a last resort, not a first response … It does not feel that the tool is being calibrated accurately to the situation.”

The discontent may not be limited to California. In Texas, where the governor, Greg Abbott, called out the national guard on Wednesday in San Antonio, Austin and other cities expecting anti-Trump protests, guardsmen have a history of feeling poorly treated in the workplace if not outright misused, Purdy of the Chamberlain Network said.

After Abbott requisitioned the guard in 2021 to help police the Mexican border – a controversial policy codenamed Operation Lone Star – there were bitter complaints among guard members about the length and nature of an assignment that largely duplicated the work of the federal border patrol. Several guardsmen took their own lives.

The LA operations are also sparking safety concerns because of complications inherent in pairing military and domestic police officers, advocates say, since they are trained very differently and use different vocabulary to handle emergency situations. In one infamous episode during the 1992 Los Angeles riots – the last time the military were called out to restore order in southern California – a police officer on patrol turned to his marines counterparts and said “cover me”, meaning be ready with your weapon to make sure I stay safe.

To the marines, though, “cover me” meant open fire immediately, which they did, unloading more than 200 M16 rounds into a house where the police had a tip about a possible domestic abuser. By sheer luck, nobody was hurt.

CJ Chivers, a New York Times reporter who was with the marines in Los Angeles in 1992 and witnessed the tail-end of this near-calamity, wrote years later of his mixed feelings about the assignment: “The Marines’ presence in greater Los Angeles … felt unnecessary,” he said. “I’d like to say we understood the context of the role we were given … But domestic crowd control had never been our specialty.”

Streyder and the other advocates concurred. “Domestic law enforcement and the military are entirely separate functions, manned by separate people who have been given separate training, who come from different cultures,” Streyder said. “As military families, we rely implicitly on that separation being honored and remaining clear.”

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Via https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/12/los-angeles-national-guard-troops-marines-morale

FBI on ‘frenzied mission’ to redact Epstein files

FILE PHOTO. ©  Global Look Press / Valerie Plesch

RT

Agents have been ordered to put aside national security investigations to aid the effort, according to CNN.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is “frantically” trying to complete the redactions of the files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation before their public release, CNN reported on Saturday.

Agents are “working around the clock” and have even suspended ongoing investigations in order to process the files, it claimed, citing sources familiar with the efforts.

Every FBI division was ordered to provide agents for the task, including those working on criminal and national security issues, the US broadcaster said. Agents were told to put aside ongoing probes, including into threats allegedly posed by China and Iran, to assist the redacting work, according to CNN’s sources.

The redactions have been ongoing for “much of the week” in the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, as well as in offices in New York and Chantilly, Virginia, the report said. Agents have reportedly spent hours making redactions to both text files and videos.

According to the report, the redactions were required under federal law. The US Justice Department (DOJ) still vowed to “deliver unprecedented transparency for the American people” in a statement to CNN.

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order shortly after taking office mandating the release of the Epstein files along with classified documents related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.

The DOJ released what it called ‘The Epstein Files: Phase 1’ in late February. The documents were heavily redacted and contained mostly previously reported information. US Attorney General Pam Bondi then accused the FBI of withholding “thousands of pages” of documents related to the investigation.

The initial release was also criticized by Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna, who leads Trump’s newly established declassification task force. “Get us the information we asked for instead of leaking old info to press,” she wrote on X at that time.

The Epstein case has drawn significant attention due to the late financier’s extensive network of high-profile associates, including former US President Bill Clinton, Britain’s Prince Andrew, billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and numerous other celebrities and business leaders.

Trump also personally knew the convicted sex trafficker but denied ever visiting his private island and maintains that he cut ties with him in the 1990s – years before Epstein’s first arrest for soliciting prostitution in 2006.

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Via https://www.rt.com/news/614641-fbi-frezied-redact-epstein-files/

From Torah to trauma: A satanic child abuse scandal blows up in Israel

FILE PHOTO. © Getty Images / tolgart

By Dr. Mathew Maavak

There’s a coordinated silencing of victims across religious and political hierarchies

There are crimes so profound that words fail to capture them. Last week, several survivors testified to the Israeli Knesset about just such a horror.

The story broke with an investigative report published by Israel Hayom, which unearthed a long-standing pattern of ritual sexual abuse, psychological manipulation, and spiritual desecration occurring not on the margins of society but from within its most sacred institutions. Survivors speak of torment that begins in early childhood and lasts decades, often committed under the guise of religious observance. It is not just a crime of the flesh. It is a theft of the soul.

Israeli children, some as young as infants, were subjected to methodical abuse masked in religious ritual. Survivors describe ceremonies invoking biblically-vilified deities, conducted by members of observant Jewish communities. As a survivor named Noga (all of the victims’ names are changed in the report) recalled: “The gods I remember are Baal Peor and Ashtoreth… our lord Peor and our lady Ashtoreth.” (Note: All these deities are categorically condemned in the Bible).

The culprits are not fringe radicals. These are individuals who keep kosher, celebrate the Sabbath, and adhere to the minutiae of Jewish law even as they engage in acts so depraved that they defy comprehension. Here is snippet from a survivor’s testimonies:

“I remember a pentagram on the floor, usually in red. When the ceremony was in the forest, the pentagram was marked with a hoe and surrounded by lit candles in a circle. The rabbi would bless…they would repetitively read Psalms, like ‘A Psalm of David, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.’ They told me ‘you are special, you are chosen’ and they would insert… I remember a palm branch, Hanukkah candles, a shofar.”

Some of these perpetrators are qualified to blow the shofar on Rosh Hashanah — a high privilege among observant Jews. Family members, most of whom may have once been victims themselves, are often the ones who hand over their little ones to these monsters.

Several rabbis’ names appeared repeatedly in survivor testimonies. Multiple complaints filed at different police stations across Israel were quickly nipped in the bud. Prosecutions leading to imprisonments are rare. Much like anywhere else on this planet. Have any elite members of the Jeffrey Epstein pedophile network – itself rumored to be a Mossad operation – been charged in any court of law?  Have the victims been asked to identify the perpetrators of these wicked deeds during the trial of Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell?

A twisted safari for the elites

Ritual child sexual abuse is a twisted safari sport of sorts for the elite. It combines satanic predilections with congenital moral turpitude. It also serves as a rites de passage for entry into a very select club of global movers and shakers whose inclusivity is dependent on mutual blackmailability. They are motivated by self-preservation and the accumulation of wealth and power foremost even as they dish out copious servings of faux nationalism.

According to the Jerusalem Post, which followed up on the Hayom report, “doctors, educators, police officers, and past and present members of the Knesset were involved in these abuses.” With prominent members of the public engaging in such activities, do not expect justice to be served. Instead, expect international coordination of the most depraved kind, with the United Nations reporting an alarming rise in child trafficking worldwide. What are those entrusted to guard our borders doing? While the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency comes down hard on undocumented immigrants, the dismantling of major child trafficking networks has been sporadic at best.

Evidence – even if it amounts to thousands of files – will be swiftly buried or distorted. This was the case when US Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel contradicted each other over the Epstein tapes. Elon Musk, on his part, alleged that President Donald Trump himself was “in the Epstein files.” Musk conveniently deleted the damning tweet a few days later. One cannot just open a Pandora’s Box involving the most powerful men on earth and expect things to die down.

MK-Ultra redux?

According to Rabbi Dr. Udi Furman, “ritual abuse occurs when a religious, political, or spiritual authority uses their position of power to manipulate victims’ belief systems and thereby control them.” But where does that control lead to? One only has to look up MK-Ultra.

MK-Ultra was a covert CIA program (1953–1973) designed to develop methods of mind control, interrogation resistance, and behavioral manipulation. Children were used in specific subprograms (e.g. Project Monarch, a rumored offshoot of MK-Ultra), often selected from vulnerable populations or foster systems. Sexual abuse, torture, and ritualistic elements were employed not merely for sadism, but for a purpose: to shatter the psyche of the child into dissociated identity fragments (commonly known now as Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly Multiple Personality Disorder). These fractured parts could allegedly be programmed with distinct “roles” (e.g. messenger, spy, seductress, pimp) for use in espionage, blackmail, or other covert operations. This is how the Ghislaine Maxwells of this world are forged.

The core idea was that through trauma-induced dissociation, an abuser could gain unprecedented access to the mind – sealing off traumatic memories, while implanting new behaviors or triggers without conscious awareness. Some survivors claim this created a form of “programmable human.”

Twofold crime

The goals of ritual child sex abuse are twofold: to violate the body and to distort the spiritual framework of victims. Children are indoctrinated into believing their suffering serves a divine purpose, replete with scriptural justifications.

This is spiritual abuse in its most sophisticated and perverse form. In Israel, the perpetrators manipulate foundational concepts in the Torah to legitimize unspeakable acts. As Noga puts it: “To achieve the great correction, one must suffer, because suffering purifies and advances redemption.” In a macabre parody of mysticism, victims are told they are instruments in a holy mission. Sexual exploitation is reframed as divine service. Trauma becomes theology.

Just what happens when child sexual abuse is perpetrated under religious pretexts? The victims end up hating God. It is hard to overstate the gravity of this spiritual wound. Just as sexual abuse damages trust in people, spiritual injury robs a child of faith. This is why Jesus Christ – the divine embodiment of salvation and forgiveness itself – decreed that it is better for monsters who perpetrate such acts to be drowned by having a millstone hung around their necks (Matthew 18:6). One can heal a broken limb. One cannot easily heal a soul that has been taught to interpret rape as redemption.

This is also about calculated spiritual inversion. Good is called evil; suffering is called sanctity and Satan is celebrated instead of God. Sacred symbols are used to consecrate violence. Some of the ceremonies uncovered by Hayom included cross-dressing, incest, and group sexual acts within family units – all under the banner of spiritual transcendence. They blur boundaries between good and evil, between sexuality and love, and family.

Legal loopholes and enduring travesties

Israeli legal frameworks do address sexual abuse and human trafficking, but they are ill-equipped to prosecute spiritual abuse wrapped under religious performance. This is ostensibly the reason why survivor testimonies have not led to arrests.

In truth, this is part of a well-worn pattern: the same silence that once cloaked clerical abuse across every major religion now shields elite institutions, where power exists to protect itself. Israel is arguably a global epicenter for child sexual abuse and trafficking, and has even provided sanctuary to a number of high-profile pedophiles.

Within religious communities, there is a deep impulse to preserve the illusion of sanctity at the expense of truth and justice. As Orit Sulitzeanu, head of Israel’s Association of Rape Crisis Centers, observed: “The conspiracy of silence within religious society often prevents exposure of severe exploitation and abuse cases.”

Over time, these debauched collusions and derelictions of justice lead to terminal moral decay. Ever wondered why some Israeli soldiers commit acts that defy all norms of human decency, including war crimes that are perpetrated with chilling ease? They are the products of a society where the brutalization of children is disturbingly normalized. As adults, they project the trauma and violations they once endured onto the defenseless. The abused become the abusers. And so, the cycle of violence renews itself – again and again.

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Via https://www.rt.com/news/619022-israel-satanic-child-abuse/

Hidden History: How Ben Franklin and Friends Created Britain’s Industrial Revolution

Who We Are: America’s Fight for Universal Progress, From Franklyn to Kennedy Volume I 1750s to 1850s

By Anton Chaitkin (2020)

Book Reivew

The first and most fascinating section of this book recounts the hidden history of Western industrialization. Contrary to what we’re taught in school, it wasn’t capitalist entrepreneurs who introduced automated manufacturing processes to Britain in the late 19th century. Britain’s ruling elite initially opposed industrialization as a threat to their profitable colonial/slavery-based empire. Britain’s industrial revolution came about largely due to the commitment of American-born patriot Benjamin Franklin and a personal network of British inventors and merchants. Their goal was to increase Britain’s standard of living by harnessing the energy of water and steam-powered machines.

I’ve divided this review into three parts: Part 1 recounts the history of Western industrialization, Part 2 recounts American history from the ratification of the US Constitution to the 1850s and Part 3 recounts the bloody role of British intelligence in the French revolution.

In 1757 when Franklin returned to England (for the second time) as the official representative of the Pennsylvania colony, the former had no roads, canals or railroads and the only way to ship iron or coal was cross by horseback in saddle bags over muddy road. A year later, Franklin and his friends* had set up the first workshops in Birmingham to do experiments in electricity and metallurgy. The first major public project they undertook was to build a network of canals to enable a faster and more reliable method of transporting coal to homes and new manufacturing plants with steam powered machines.

Franklin’s friends Joseph Priestly and Matthew Bolton, James Watt and their sons the first steam powered loom in 1784. In 1790, they began building the first steam powered textile mills. In 1795, they built England’s first manufacturing plant Soho Works (which ultimately built the country’s first steam engines) in Birmingham.

Under close surveillance by the British government, Priestly accompanied Franklyn when he returned to Pennsylvania following the outbreak of war between Britain and the American colonies. That was the same year British intelligence chief (who later served as prime minister) Lord Shelborne commissioned Adam Smith to write the Wealth of Nations. His goal was to attack the nationalist economic model (favored by Franklin and his friends), originally pioneered by Louis XIV’s first minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert. The latter strongly promoted protective tariffs and government promotion (via credit creation and bonuses for new manufacturers). It was via the Wealth of Nations, the British coined the term “free trade,” referring to a system in which they maintained protective tariffs while demanding all their trading partners abolish them.

The moment British general Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown in 1781, the British launched a trade war with the US, flooding the country with cheap goods. This led to a US currency collapse that prevented the Continental Congress from paying their war debts (including arrears owed to revolutionary war veterans).

After Shay’s Rebellion (see Hidden History: Shay’s Rebellion the First Civil War) led to insurrection in Massachusetts, General Washington’s second-in-command Alexander Hamilton and his supporters organized a constitutional convention. Hamilton saw the absolute necessity of enacting tariffs to protect the struggling republic against cheap British imports. However free trade supporters claimed the existing Continental Congress had no power to do so.**

Despite efforts by British intelligence (organized by Albert Gallatin a Geneva ex-pat who reported directly to Shelborne) to mobilize grassroots opposition to ratification, the US Constitution was ratified (by the required 9 out of 13 states) in 1788, and the new republic elected its first national government in January 1799.

Appointed by Washington as the first treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton stabilized US currency by having the federal government assume all the states war debts and restoring the face value of federal war bonds by paying the outstanding interest owed. This enabled them to be traded as currency. His next moves were to  enact tariffs and excise taxes to 1) protect the US against cheap British imports 2) raise revenue finance essential government services and to establish a US national bank to provide government credit to fledgling US industries.***

Thomas Jefferson returned from France (where he served as ambassador) in 1789 and joined with James Madison (who represented Virginia in the House of Representatives) to organize Southern plantation owners to oppose Hamilton’s first finance bill as “debt slavery.” Washington and Hamilton eventually won Madison’s support in Congress by agreeing to move the US capitol from Philadelphia to slave territory.

*Matthew Bolton (manufacturer of buckles, buttons and toys), Josiah Wedgewood (potter), Erasmus Darin (scientist and grandfather of Charles), John Wilkinson (iron monger), Joseph Priestly (scientist who first identified oxygen) and James Watt (inventor of steam engine).

**It wasn’t rich New York and Boston bankers who convened the constitutional convention as is commonly claimed.

***The main aim of the first US central bank was to combat speculation by private banks that was destroying the US economy and to establish a source of low cost credit for fledgling industries. The First Bank of the United State was privately owned to avoid political manipulation but subject to presidential and congressional oversight. Foreign stockholders of the bank couldn’t vote their stock or sit on the board. The  federal government initially owned a fifth of the $10 million of stock issued but later sold it.

‘Korean Donald Trump’ emerges from chaos in Seoul

Democratic Party presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung and his wife Kim Hea-Kyung at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, June 4, 2025. ©  Chung Sung-Jun / Getty ImagesBy Konstantin Asmolov The man now in charge of the republic used to style himself after Bernie Sanders but changed his tune – and has won

On June 3, 2025, a snap presidential election was held in the Republic of Korea in which Democratic candidate Lee Jae-myung won with over 49% of the vote.

The election followed an attempt on December 3, 2024 to impose martial law in the country, which led the Constitutional Court to unanimously vote for the impeachment of then-President Yoon Suk-yeol. There were several candidates, but the main contest took place between the ruling conservative People Power Party and the opposition Democratic Party.

Democrats’ affairs

Chairman Lee is a striking and controversial figure. During the presidency of the previous Democrat, Moon Jae-in, Lee led an independent faction within the party and was considered an even more leftist populist than Moon. Moon viewed him as a dangerous rival and tried to remove him via a series of criminal cases. Lee managed to fend off these attacks and eventually became the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in 2022 after all of Moon’s protégés lost the primaries. Although he once called himself the ‘Korean Bernie Sanders’ due to his populist slogans and ideas such as universal basic income, his circle now prefers the term ‘Korean Donald Trump’, as both share a flamboyant style and peculiar reputations.

Even before entering the presidential race, Lee was implicated in several criminal cases involving corruption, abuse of power, perjury, election law violations, and even cash smuggling into North Korea. The accusations were serious – several of Lee’s close associates were imprisoned. He was, however, saved by a series of miraculous coincidences: Five key witnesses in different cases who could testify against him either committed suicide or died from various causes. Though his enemies consider the deaths highly suspicious, police found no evidence of foul play.

The constitutional crisis that led to the snap election began when, on November 15, 2024, Lee received a suspended sentence. Although conditional, the verdict threatened his political career. If upheld by the Supreme Court, Lee would be barred from holding public office for five years. With nearly two-thirds of the seats in parliament, the Democrats intensified their opposition. Yoon attempted to ‘cut the Gordian knot’ by declaring martial law, but the public saw this as a return to military dictatorship, which unsurprisingly failed. After a long deliberation and despite contentious points, the Constitutional Court unanimously impeached the president, as reinstating him would plunge the country into chaos.

Lee easily won his party’s primary with 89.77% of the vote. His opponents were the former independent left-centrist Kim Dong-yeon and ex-Governor Kim Kyung-soo, an ally of Moon Jae-in. Before the parliamentary elections, Lee either subdued or pushed out strong figures from other factions, earning accusations that he turned the Democratic Party into a personal fan club.

Still, Lee’s path to the presidency was not easy. On March 26, 2025, the Seoul appellate court overturned Lee’s conviction, formally reopening his political path. This surprised legal experts, especially conservatives. The reason became clear: The presiding judges were members of a progressive NGO associated with the Democratic Party.

However, on May 1, 2025, the Supreme Court reversed the acquittal and sent the case for retrial. Theoretically, this could disqualify Lee if the outcome was unfavorable, but the Democrats launched protests, calling the court’s decision a coup comparable to martial law. Facing threats of impeachment (parliament can impeach any official, including judges), the judiciary made a ‘compromise’ decision: Lee’s retrial and other investigations would resume only after the election.

Disqualifying Lee would decapitate the opposition, which lacked a viable substitute. But there’s an unusual dilemma: The Constitution states that a sitting president can only be imprisoned for treason or rebellion. Yet, if someone under criminal investigation wins and is later convicted, there is no clear precedent. Democrats are preemptively addressing this: A parliamentary committee has reviewed a law that would terminate all criminal proceedings against an elected president and amend the penal code to decriminalize the charges Lee faced.

Such legal manipulation doesn’t please everyone. Hence, Lee enjoys both the highest approval and disapproval ratings – meaning a sizable bloc could unite under the slogan ‘anyone but Lee Jae-myung’.

Conservatives’ affairs

While Lee achieved party unity, the conservatives have been plagued by infighting. The party has factions – center-rights, Yoon loyalists, and traditional conservatives. Initially, eight candidates entered the race, and a three-stage process narrowed the field.

The first round eliminated four weaker or controversial figures, such as ex-Speaker Na Kyung-won. In the second round, moderate An Heol-su (’the Korean Kaspersky’) and classical conservative Won Joon-pyo – who ran against Moon Jae-in in 2017 and might have been the nominee again if not for Yoon – were dropped. Two finalists remained.

One was Han Dong-hoon, Yoon’s longtime ally from the Prosecutor’s Office, former justice minister and party leader. However, Han opposed martial law and voted against it. After Yoon’s impeachment, Han resigned. Analysts saw in him a fresh conservative image, but he lost the final round.

Instead, the 2025 conservative candidate is ex-Labor Minister Kim Moon-soo. He has two notable qualities: A former union activist repressed under military rule, he later joined the conservatives. And he was the only cabinet member who refused to apologize after the failed martial law attempt. Instead, he argued that Yoon may have erred in methods, but the problem required resolution. Kim became a symbol of uncompromising conservatism. But party leaders worried whether he could attract undecided voters – those alienated by both Lee and Yoon. Fortunately, they had an alternative.

 The prime minister’s play

After some thought, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo (also acting president post-impeachment) entered the race. Once a leftist and prime minister in the 2000s, he too joined the conservatives. Some see him as a centrist technocrat; others, a political opportunist. On May 2, 2025 – after the conservative primaries ended – Han announced his independent candidacy. He vowed to act as a transitional “technical president” to reform the government and step down, ushering in a “Seventh Republic.”

In fact, all major candidates proposed constitutional reforms. Most advocated limiting presidential power and replacing the current five-year single term with two four-year terms, US-style. Given nearly 40 years since the last constitution, some anti-dictatorship clauses seem outdated.

Han’s resignation triggered a mini-government crisis. Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok, next in line, resigned minutes before a parliamentary impeachment vote against him. The role of acting leader passed to Education Minister Lee Joo-ho.

Han effectively represented the conservative camp. Yoon’s allies saw him as a unifying, rational figure. A split right would guarantee Lee’s win. The party pressured Kim Moon-soo to withdraw for Han, even voiding the primary results. Kim denounced this as betrayal, demanded a new vote – and won again. The old leadership resigned. Han withdrew, urging support for Kim. Meanwhile, Kim softened his rhetoric and leaned toward the center. This showed in debates about whether Yoon should leave the party. While a symbol for conservatives, his presence burdened them with his failures – especially martial law. Ultimately, Yoon left People Power, but might form a new party post-election.

Were there other options?

There were more candidates. Some from truly left-wing parties, as Lee has shifted right – dropping the idea of basic income and even proposing Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. Independents include ex-conservative leader Hwang Kyo-ahn, now ultra-right. But only one got over 5%: Lee Jun-seok, leader of the Reform Party. A center-right former conservative leader ousted for opposing Yoon, Lee is youthful and energetic. Though his party failed to become a ‘third force’, he remains popular. Conservatives wanted him to quit and unify the right. Some party members disenchanted with him have even joined the Democrats.

Presidential promises

Many promises were made by all candidates, and listing them all here is pointless – each of them essentially promises good things and opposes bad things. Beyond key issues such as North Korea-US relations, party platforms differ little. Where they do, differences stem more from factional struggles than ideology. If conservatives say a cat is black, Democrats will insist it’s white – regardless of the truth.

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Via https://www.rt.com/news/618637-south-korean-donald-trump/

South Korea silences loudspeakers in gesture toward North

South Korean soldiers take down propaganda loudspeakers on the border with North Korea, Paju, South Korea, May 1, 2018. © Getty Images / Chung Sung-Jun

RT

Newly elected President Lee Jae-myung has declared that he wants to diffuse tensions with Pyongyang

South Korea’s newly elected President Lee Jae-myung has suspended anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts at the border with North Korea, aiming to ease tensions and “rebuild trust.”

Inter-Korean relations reached their lowest point in decades during the presidency of the recently impeached Yoon Suk Yeol. Lee has pledged to restore ties.

The president has instructed the military to halt cross-border broadcasts as a gesture aimed at “easing tensions” with the North, presidential office spokesperson Kang Yu-jung said during a press briefing on Wednesday.

The measure is intended to demonstrate the new South Korean administration’s “commitment to restoring trust in inter-Korean relations and establishing peace on the Korean Peninsula,” she said. It is also “meant to reduce military confrontation between the two Koreas and open the door to rebuilding mutual trust,” Kang added.

It will also be a “practical step” to ease the suffering of locals affected by the noise, she said.

Large-scale loudspeaker arrays have been blaring propaganda, South Korean news broadcasts, and K-pop since last June, following another spike in tensions between the neighbors. At that time, North Korea began launching balloons filled with trash and excrement southward over the border in response to the South spreading propaganda leaflets over northern territory.

The new South Korean president, who won a snap election last week, has promised to end both the propaganda broadcasts and the leaflet campaigns. His predecessor, Yoon, was impeached in December and indicted on insurrection charges after briefly imposing martial law, citing a looming “rebellion” by pro-Pyongyang forces in the opposition.

North Korea has repeatedly denounced joint military drills between South Korea and the United States over the past years, calling them rehearsals for an attack. The North views the presence of American troops and the integration of advanced weaponry in these drills as direct threats to its sovereignty, compelling it to bolster its own military capabilities in self-defense. Seoul and its key ally, Washington, have technically remained at war with Pyongyang since 1953.

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Via https://www.rt.com/news/618977-south-korea-propaganda-broadcasts/

Open Letter to HHS Secretary Kennedy and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary: Deliver on MAHA Agenda

Solari Report

Dear HHS Secretary Kennedy and FDA Commissioner Dr. Makary,

We are writing this open letter to express deep concerns about recent policies emerging from HHS, the CDC and the FDA: specifically, the omission of the dangerous mRNA injections from the recently released “MAHA Report”; and the reaffirmation of the CDC’s recommendations for mRNA injections. Removal of the mRNA platform from the market is one of the main goals of the grassroots MAHA movement.

Millions of concerned parents set aside partisan differences and identities to embrace the historic MAGA/MAHA alliance. Instead of policy action on these key issues, we, the undersigned, along with many other citizens, see a set of distractions, linguistic misdirections, and watered-down policy announcements that avoid taking serious action on the deadly mRNA injections.

Contrary to what Dr. Makary recently stated, we do not need more data to establish whether the mRNA platform should or should not be recommended. The data are in, from many credible sources, including numerous peer-reviewed publications, the analysis of the Pfizer documents released via Aaron Siri’s lawsuits, VAERS and vSAFE datasets, and data produced by foreign governments. The data show catastrophic levels of deaths and serious damage from the mRNA injections, as well as reproductive damage, including high miscarriage rates.

We do not need more studies to pull the mRNA injections from the market. You do not need Congress nor another election. You do not need a new mandate from voters – your own appointments to HHS and the FDA, and the election of President Trump in the MAGA-MAHA alliance, are the mandate. Indeed, your recent wordplay about “removing” the mRNA injection from being recommended to “pregnant women” and “healthy children” appears misleading, vis-à-vis the actual policy changes published by the FDA and CDC. The published policies reserve the power to “recommend” them for every child except the “healthy”.

Most US children, as you, Secretary Kennedy, have pointed out yourself, have health issues, and healthcare encounters often involve a currently sick child who may be labeled “immunocompromised.” If a child has asthma or allergies, pre-diabetes or is overweight, has a damaged heart or an impaired immune system, that child is not “healthy,” yet that child will now be targeted with an mRNA shot. It appears that you are going to continue to recommend the shots that now have an FDA warning for heart damage, to children with heart damage, and recommend a shot that damages the immune system, to parents of children whose immune systems are compromised.

The new FDA Covid shot policy claims to be evidence-based. However, no evidence was provided, and none exists to our knowledge, that supports statements that the categories of people marked as “vulnerable” by this FDA policy, would benefit from mRNA injections.

Conflating clearly established risks with automatically assumed benefit from a product that is still legally a poorly-regulated, liability-free EUA Countermeasure under PREP Act emergency declaration, defies scientific reason and common sense.

You stated the shots were removed from the CDC recommendation for pregnant women. But pregnancy remains listed as a “high risk” health category in the revised FDA policy for mRNA vaccines. It is especially troubling that the new versions of mRNA injections are recommended for all pregnant women, without this platform ever having been tested and proven safe in pregnancy. Pregnant women have not been made any safer by your wordplay.

Lastly, there is evidence of the removal of parental rights to choose the health treatment for their children, buried in CDC’s language. Even for healthy children, the CDC insists on parents “sharing the decision” with healthcare providers, including pharmacists who lack authority to treat patients. By stating the decision to inject a child with mRNA is a “shared decision”, while “routine” injections are treated as the “default decision to inject”, a dangerous legal precedent is being set, assigning powers to the Federal government that have legally belonged only to parents.

We object strongly to any more equivocation and prevarication from HHS. We did not fight for you to be in positions of leadership, so that our clearly stated policy goals would suffer a “bait and switch” that rebrands MAHA’s powerful objection to the damaging mRNA platform as a concern about the coloring agents added to Skittles.

MAHA is not the possession of Secretary Kennedy, Commissioner Marty Makary, advisor Calley Means, or Surgeon General nominee Dr. Casey Means. MAHA is the voice of millions of desperate parents, many with injured or deceased children. Those furious parents were active before any of you were in office, and their activism will outlast any administration. The MAHA vote, especially of independent moms, is an historic game-changer. Neither MAGA nor the Democrats could have won without this critical swing vote.

MAHA voters can walk away if we continue to see inaction, let alone condescending non-policy, on our core issues.

And we will.

If you continue to ignore the centerpiece of our policy agenda – taking all mRNA products covered by PREP Act emergency declarations entirely off the market – you will pay a political price. We will run our own candidates at the state level; and we will find other challengers and sponsors, who share our values and get behind our draft bills, at the Federal level, for the midterms and even for 2028.

We ask you to deliver our actual policy goals in the near term, or we advise that you will face the electoral consequences:

1. Ban mRNA/gene therapy-derived technologies for all vaccines, due to definitively demonstrated abject failure regarding safety, efficacy and disease prevention in the real-world setting of over 4 years of deployment and billions of administered doses.

2. Terminate the PREP Act declaration for COVID injections, as there is no emergency.

Extension of this declaration, with its ironclad liability shield for manufacturers and administrators, serves no public health interest whatsoever.

3. Recommend that Congress repeal the PREP Act entirely, due to numerous Constitutional conflicts.

4. Ban pharmaceutical direct-to-consumer advertising, as is the case in every other country except New Zealand.

5. Review and revise current HHS level policies that create perverse incentives for healthcare providers for medical coercion, including but not limited to vaccinations.

6. End conflicts of interest at CDC, FDA, NIH and NIAID.

Sincerely,

NotForSale:

Mary Talley Bowden, MD, Americans for Health Freedom

Naomi Wolf, DPhil, The Pfizer Papers

Shannon Joy, The Shannon Joy Show

Sasha Latypova, Due Diligence and Art

Dr. Henry Ealy, Energetic Health Institute

Brad Skistimas, Five Times August

Catherine Austin Fitts, The Solari Report

Allen and Taylor Martin, Justice For Trista

Contact: Notforsalerelease@gmail.com

Via https://solarireport.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-hhs-secretary-kennedy

Is US on Brink of Civil War?

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

By now everyone is aware of the protests and rioting that occurred in Los Angeles over the weekend, due to ICE arrests and activities in LA starting Friday morning.

I have been monitoring these events through the weekend, but did not want to comment or write anything until today, Monday, June 9th.

The reason I waited is because I wanted to see if these riots would continue into the work week, to judge how widespread and serious they were. It was most definitely serious over the weekend, where protesters shut down the 101 freeway, and set several Waymo self-driving taxis on fire.

And of course, the big news was that Trump was calling in the National Guard to deal with the rioting.

But as of today, it appears that things are mostly back under control, as mass transit systems were up and running, people were driving to work, and all public schools in LA were open today.

This was obviously a planned event designed for a specific purpose, perhaps to try and incite riots that would quickly spread to other cities, such as the George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020, also under Trump during his first presidency.

If this was a “trial balloon” to try and duplicate what happened in 2020, it appears, at least at this point, to have failed.

That also does not surprise me, because we have a much different population in the U.S. here in 2025, than we had in 2020. In 2020 the nation was under lockdown from COVID, with tensions running high.

However, the experimental COVID shots had not yet been deployed under Trump’s Operation Warp Speed. Today, most of the population has been significantly affected by the COVID shots and the injuries they caused, including many neurological injuries, and the public is perhaps much more “sedated” than they were in 2020.

It also doesn’t surprise me that they chose LA to do this, if it was indeed a “trial balloon,” because not only does LA have a very significant illegal migrant population, but it is also home to MONEY, and lots of it, funding groups that will turn out for protests at a moment’s notice, no matter what the cause is of the protests.

Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell admitted as much on Sunday when the protests turned into rioting.

Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said officers were “overwhelmed” by the remaining protesters. He said they included regular agitators who show up at demonstrations to cause trouble. (Source.)

The LA Police Chief on Friday originally said that the LA police department would not help ICE agents in their raids, due to California “Sanctuary City” laws that prevented them from doing so.

But by Sunday they had declared that the protesting was an “illegal assembly”, and LA police began clearing out the protesters, including using live round “crowd-control munitions”.

Trump Actions and Deploying the National Guard

One of the most controversial actions of the weekend was the Trump Administration deploying the California National Guard to the protests, bypassing the California Governor Gavin Newsom in doing so.

Media reports claim that such an action has not happened since 1965.

The last time the National Guard was activated without a governor’s permission was in 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops to protect a civil rights march in Alabama, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. (Source.)

In fact, the Trump Administration called a meeting with military leaders, whom Trump said included “generals and admirals”, at Camp David Sunday night, which he claimed was a more secure place to meet than the White House.

He held a brief impromptu press conference with just a few reporters before heading to Camp David, and responded to one reporter that they were planning on deploying military troops  “everywhere” in the United States.

Upon arriving back at the White House earlier today, the New York Times reported that Trump has now started using the word “insurrectionists” to describe the LA rioters, perhaps as a prelude to invoking the “Insurrection Act.”

President Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday that the protesters in Los Angeles “are insurrectionists,” a term that several of his aides have been using as well, in what may become a rationale for him to invoke the 1807 Insurrection Act.

Invoking the act would give Mr. Trump broad authority to use the United States military to deal with violent protests in California and possibly elsewhere.

“The people who are causing the problems are bad people, they are insurrectionists,”

Mr. Trump told a small group of reporters after he landed on the White House lawn Monday. He arrived by helicopter from Camp David, where he had attended a meeting Sunday night. (Source.)

Most people will remember that this is not the first time that Trump has wanted to invoke the Insurrection Act, as he threatened to do so at the end of his first term as well just after the elections when Biden was declared the winner.

He was opposed by military leaders back then, as well as his own Secretary of Defense, whom he promptly fired.

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Not surprisingly, military leaders and legal scholars today are also opposing the idea of invoking the Insurrection Act.

Trump LA protest response risks turning US military into political force, veterans warn

The Trump administration’s deployment of national guard troops to Los Angeles to intervene in civilian protests in the face of opposition from the Californian governor is a major escalation that risks the politicisation of the US military, armed service veterans are warning.

Former top military figures have told the Guardian that the decision to put up to 2,000 troops under federal control and send them into the streets of LA is a violation of the military’s commitment to keep out of domestic politics in all but the most exceptional circumstances. The last time a US president federalised the national guard against the wishes of a state governor was in 1965, when Lyndon Johnson deployed them to protect civil rights marchers in Alabama.

“This is the politicisation of the armed forces,” said Maj Gen Paul Eaton.

Eaton, who commanded the training of Iraqi troops during the invasion of Iraq, predicted that the LA deployment would lead to the eventual invocation of the Insurrection Act. The 1807 law empowers the president to deploy the full US military against insurrection or armed rebellion.

“We are headed towards the invocation of the Insurrection Act, which will provide a legal basis for inappropriate activity,” he said.

Trump’s move in the absence of a genuine civil emergency has sent alarm through military circles, which have long prided themselves on being above politics.

“This deployment was made counter to what the governor wanted, so it seems like a political forcing – a forced use of the military by Trump because he can,”

said a retired senior US army officer who requested anonymity in order to preserve their lifelong non-partisanship.

Trump’s memo federalising the national guard for deployment in LA is written in sweeping terms, in effect casting it as a nationwide mobilisation.

It says that regular military troops, as well as national guard forces, can be employed by the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, to protect federal functions anywhere in the country where protests are occurring.

Most troublingly, the memo also acts pre-emptively – an action never seen before in the US – authorising the military to be deployed against anticipated protests.

It says that troops can be sent to

“locations where protest against [federal] functions are occurring, or are likely to occur based on current threat assessments”.

On Sunday, Trump signaled that LA was just the start of a much wider deployment.

“We’re gonna have troops everywhere,” he said. (Source.)

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Like many of Trump’s actions so far this year, this will probably end up in the courts, as Newsom said earlier today he is going to sue Trump over his deployment of the California National Guard.

I should also note that the Trump administration suffered a legal loss on one of its immigration actions when it admitted that they wrongly deported a Maryland man to El Salvador, but then refused to bring him back.

Well, they finally complied with court orders and he is back now, where he will face criminal charges, with full due process of law. (Source.)

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But Americans need to stop looking at news events from partisan glasses. We can all agree that illegal immigrants who are criminals in the United States need to be rounded up and deported, without agreeing to all of the Trump Administration’s actions, which may lead to a Civil War and disaster for the American people.

If there is one thing we have learned from this administration so far this year, it is that they have no problem lying in public to the American people to accomplish their goals.

Was the Trump-Musk “Divorce” Fake or Real?

The recent social media war of words between two billionaires, Donald Trump and Elon Musk, has brought about a lot of speculation about how and why that happened, with many in the Alternative Media, especially among the MAGA crowd, stating that it was all fake.

I, for one, have been predicting this since the inauguration, stating that two egotistic billionaires could never share the public spotlight, and I never thought it would take this long.

What we saw last week was real, like two spoiled children having temper tantrums.

Musk clearly has the most at risk here, because Trump has the full force of the federal government to use against Musk, and he has threatened to cancel many of his government contracts.

Some are also wrongly speculating that this could be a break in Trump’s cozy relationship with Silicon Valley. Such a view is very short-sighted, because people in the Tech world, including myself, know full well that Musk does NOT represent Silicon Valley, and has many enemies.

He is also a newcomer to Right Wing politics, and only started supporting Trump in 2024, spending millions to help get him elected.

Other Silicon Valley rich billionaires, however, have been in Right Wing politics for years. One of those is Peter Thiel, who has supported Trump since at least 2016. He was the one who hand-picked J.D. Vance to be Vice President, for example.

Also, his company Palantir Technologies has richly profited from contracts with Government intelligence agencies, including the CIA and Mossad, for years now.

Articles about Palantir developing a database that tracks everyone in the U.S. have gone viral lately in the Alternative Media, but this is actually OLD NEWS, as it has already been happening for years now, but is accelerating now with the new LLM AI search tools.

These Technocrats do not need anything from Elon Musk, as they are becoming a big part of American culture now and the “New Right”, which includes Evangelical Christianity, as I have previously reported.

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In conclusion, to answer the question in my headline, are we on the brink of civil war?, I am not sure yet. I think the Trump Administration wants one, but whether or not the masses in American culture are up for one, is not so certain at this point. At the time of my writing this, no major riots like what we saw in LA this weekend have spread to other major U.S. cities, yet.

Also, with this being the focus of the current news cycle in the U.S., it is drawing attention away from other news stories that might actually be more important, such as the escalation of the war between Russia and Ukraine/NATO, the ongoing conflicts in Israel and potential outbreak of war with Iran, and the U.S. economy which still has not seen the full impact of Trump’s tariffs.

[…]

Via https://healthimpactnews.com/2025/is-the-united-states-on-the-brink-of-civil-war/