Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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The big Donald Trump foreign policy question heading into this week looked like it was going to be when and if the US was going to launch military strikes against Venezuela. That’s still a live question, but in the meantime, the president has threatened to attack an entirely different country on the other side of the Atlantic, vowing to send troops “guns-a-blazing” into Nigeria if that country’s government fails to prevent the persecution of Christians.
https://www.vox.com/politics/467256/trump-nigeria-christians-intervent
ion-military
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Asked about Andrew being stripped of his title of "prince," Trump said, "I feel very badly. It's a terrible thing that's happened to the family."
Nothing tugs at his heartstrings as much as rich white men being punished for raping children.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-weighs-in-on-andrew-mount
batten-windsors-fall-from-grace_uk_69086556e4b0ad5446e0a71d
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:What’s a Scandal When Everything Is Outrageous
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up.
Trump’s ballroom blitz is blatantly corrupt. The fact that no one seems to care shows just how low the standards of behavior have fallen in Washington.
By Jonathan Chait | November 3, 2025, 9:50 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/11/trump-ballroom-co
nstruction-corruption/684784/
The revelation that Donald Trump has demolished the East Wing, with plans to rebuild it at jumbo size with private funds, provoked an initial wave of outrage—followed by a predictable counter-wave of pseudo-sophisticated qualified defenses.
“In classic Trump fashion, the president is pursuing a reasonable idea in the most jarring manner possible,” editorializes The Washington Post. The New York Times’ Ross Douthat and The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board have similar assessments: We should all calm down, put aside our feelings about the president and the admittedly flawed process by which he arrived at this project, and appreciate the practical value of the new facility.
Let’s forget questions of proportion and aesthetics and consider the matter solely on the issue of corruption. Trump has funded the project by soliciting donors who have potential or actual business before the government. By traditional standards, this would constitute a massive scandal.
We know this because a very similar scandal occurred about a decade ago. Remember the Clinton Foundation? After the 43rd president left office, he established a charitable foundation to undertake good works: disaster relief, public health, and other largely uncontroversial endeavors.
But the Clinton Foundation became a political liability after reports suggested that it created a potential conflict of interest. Bill Clinton may have retired from elected office, but Hillary Clinton harbored widely known ambitions to run in the future. So the wealthy people and companies that donated to the foundation might have been hoping for access to and gratitude from a potential future president.
Conservatives were not alone in denouncing this arrangement. In August 2016, the Post editorialized that “some donors to the Clinton Foundation may have seen their gifts as means to buy access—and it points to much bigger potential problems. Should Ms. Clinton win in November, she will bring to the Oval Office a web of connections and potential conflicts of interest, developed over decades in private, public and, in the case of her family’s philanthropic work, quasi-public activities.” Similar criticism appeared from the likes of NPR (“I think it contributes to all of the concern about her honesty and trustworthiness,” observed the now-late Cokie Roberts), the Times’ editorial board, me, and others.
Like pretty much any other pre-Trump complaint, all of this sounds quaint today. But the actual facts of the case are at least as damning. The solicitations for the $300 million ballroom (as of press time, the cost continues to rise) are being made not by a candidate but by a sitting president. The money is not going to charity but to a public project that will, in part, underwrite Trump’s luxurious lifestyle. (Imagine if the Clinton Foundation had been building gold-embossed ballrooms for Bill and Hillary to entertain guests in!) While the Clinton Foundation disclosed all its donors, Trump has kept many of his ballroom donors secret.
The greatest difference is that Trump’s moves to benefit his friends and hurt his enemies are out in the open, which makes the quid pro quo element far cruder. If donating to a Clinton charity was like buying your date a nice dinner in the hopes of getting lucky, donating to a Trump charity is more like bringing a fistful of cash to a brothel.
The Clintons’ conflict of interest drove waves of skeptical coverage and hostile commentary. This concern has yielded barely a footnote in the Trump-ballroom story. The Post brushes off the problem in a clause (“Though t
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On the heels of Trump accepting a $400 million jet from Qatar, Kristi Noem, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, decided she needs a new government jet too. Two actually. And not just any jet, but a brand new Gulfstream G700, the latest in billionaire luxury. Reportedly, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos each have one. The price tag for the two private jets is at least $172 million, more taxpayer dollars.
A DHS spokesperson says the current plane Noem uses is old and in need of maintenance, even though a new, but not as fancy, jet was purchased in 2022, with an expected service life of 20 years.
https://angrybearblog.com/2025/10/you-have-done-enough-have-you-no-sen
se-of-decency
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:What’s a Scandal When Everything Is Outrageous
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up.
In other words, SHUT THE FUCK UP, CHICKEN LITTLE.
Yes. I've been telling you that every day for 10 years now.
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Quote:You Might Be A Nazi If You Have Any Of These Traits:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:What’s a Scandal When Everything Is Outrageous
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up.
In other words, SHUT THE FUCK UP, CHICKEN LITTLE.
Yes. I've been telling you that every day for 10 years now.
Cult of the leader: While the leader is of course indispensable, his supremacy and dominance would be impossible to maintain without the sycophancy and unquestioning obedience of millions of members of the national community.
Anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and feverish emotion: These traits best express themselves in a hatred of universities, science and learning more generally, and a superstitious embrace of faith, intuition and gut feelings.
Misogyny: This is the flip side of obligatory machismo, whereby women are not equal to men; their only value lies in conceiving and nurturing the chosen race.
Hatred of minorities: Fascism lacks a rationale and focus for its followers’ emotional intensity without an insidious internal enemy.
Cultural pessimism and an obsession with culture in general: This relates to fascism’s false nostalgia and its discomfort with the pluralism and nonconformity of liberal society.
Economic nationalism: This leads to a preference for tariffs and autarky in manufacturing, both as a symbol of strength and to isolate the country from foreign commercial and cultural influence.
More at https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-regime-isn-t-fascist-clai
ms-leading-intellectual-it-just-looks-that-way/ar-AA1PCE0I
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Tariffs, Trump’s solicitor general declares, “are necessary to rectify America’s country-killing trade deficits.” (The solicitor general is out of his teeny-tiny mind)
The Key Filing in the Supreme Court Tariff Case Could Have Been Written by Trump Himself
By Mark Joseph Stern | Nov 04, 2025 4:30 PM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/11/supreme-court-tariff-case-
trump-kavanaugh.html
The surest indication that the Trump administration has no good legal defense of its global tariff regime comes from the last place you might expect: a brief filed by the United States solicitor general to the Supreme Court. The solicitor general’s office has a long-standing reputation for integrity, humility, and sober analysis—but under John Sauer’s control, its arguments have become increasingly indistinguishable from President Donald Trump’s partisan harangues. Sauer’s brief in the tariff case is proof positive: Rather than offer persuasive legal reasoning, it pummels the justices with Trumpian campaign rhetoric. Tariffs, the solicitor general declares, “are necessary to rectify America’s country-killing trade deficits.” With them, “we are a rich nation” barreling toward “unprecedented success.” Without them, “we are a poor nation” facing “ruinous” and “catastrophic consequences.”
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-1287/375365/2025091918290
6186_24-1287ts_Govt_IEEPATariffs_final.pdf
“One year ago, the United States was a dead country,” Sauer writes, directly quoting Trump. “Now, because of the trillions of dollars being paid by countries that have so badly abused us, America is a strong, financially viable, and respected country again.” A good rule of thumb: When the solicitor general is effectively copying and pasting from the president’s Truth Social posts, the law probably isn’t on his side.
Will the Supreme Court, which hears arguments Wednesday in what has become one of the biggest cases of the term, care? The New York Times’ Linda Greenhouse is surely correct that if the Republican-appointed justices have an ounce of principle, this will be an easy case. These justices spent Joe Biden’s presidency demanding explicit congressional authorization for any major new policy; consistent application of that principle would compel them to strike down Trump’s tariffs. Consistency, however, is not the supermajority’s strong suit when it requires a ruling against Trump. So this conflict presents the GOP appointees with something of a hack test: If they find a way to uphold the tariffs, they will all but announce that the rules they enforced so zealously against a Democratic president are suspended the moment a Republican takes the White House.
The tariff cases, grouped together as Learning Resources v. Trump, revolve around the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. That 1977 law gives the president certain powers during an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to the nation’s “national security, foreign policy, or economy” that originates abroad. Among other things, the president may “regulate” the “importation” of “any property in which any foreign country or a national thereof has any interest” to “deal with” this “threat.” Until now, the executive branch has wielded the IEEPA to impose sanctions, freeze assets, and implement embargoes against hostile foreign states and individuals. Past presidents have invoked the IEEPA in response to genuine emergencies, including the Iranian hostage crisis, 9/11, and the current Russian siege of Ukraine.
Trump now seeks to use the statute very differently: to establish an entirely new tax regime without congressional approval. No previous president has ever attempted to impose tariffs—that is, taxes on imported goods—under the IEEPA. Yet Trump insists that it serves just this purpose. And he defends his creative interpretation of the law with several layers of reasoning that make little sense alone and none in combination.
First, there’s the matter of the emergency: What foreign “threat” allows him to reach for the IEEPA in
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You Might Be A Nazi If You Have Any Of These Traits:
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Originally posted by second:Quote:What’s a Scandal When Everything Is Outrageous
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up.
In other words, SHUT THE FUCK UP, CHICKEN LITTLE.
Yes. I've been telling you that every day for 10 years now.
Fuck off, idiot.
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Mel K, someone I've never heard of before, was interviewed by the Duran on the topic "What is the deep state?"
Listening was like trying to drink from a firehose. She did what I call a "brain dump": a high speed jumble of events, dates, names and inferences, impossible at this point to sort out. But she did trace it back to, first, the formation of The Fed, and secondly to the creation of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) in Switzerland.
The Dulles brothers come up, over and over again, in relation to the BIS, the formation of the CIA, Operation Paperclip (a secret program to shield Nazis from prosecution, and to recruit them instead) and MK Ultra- the CIA's brutal experiments in mind control.
The Dulles Brothers, Harry Dexter White, Alger Hiss, and the Fate of the Private Pre-War International Banking System
https://apjjf.org/2014/12/16/peter-dale-scott/4109/article
Operation Paperclip: Pivotal Role of Allen Dulles in Shielding Nazi War criminals
https://ahrp.org/pivotal-role-of-allen-dulles-in-shielding-nazi-war-cr
iminals/
The CIA's Appalling Human Experiments With Mind Control
https://www.history.com/mkultra-operation-midnight-climax-cia-lsd-expe
riments
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The point is that Mel K has a a whole different set of info, and a VERY different view of politics and history than most of us. She put a whole different spin on the formation of international organizations, not as spontaneous and separate efforts to facilitate international money transfers (BIS), reduce conflict (UN), control globe-straddling pandemics (WHO), promote development (IMF, WB) or deal with climate change (COP), but as SYSTEMATIC and CONSCIOUS moves towards globalization.
In her view, this was all set in motion by the BIS just before and after WWII to facilitate, protect, and generate profitable opportunities (which handled looted WWII Nazi gold. Just saying.) thru constant wartime -style profiteering. Hence the cold war, the war on terror, and other efforts at manipulating us into paying for their get rich quick schemes.
Again, in her view, Trump (who -she claims- is actually well-read in history) is the ultimate disruptor of these globalist organizations.
In that different view, by rampaging around the world and introducing military, trade, and financial chaos wherever he goes, Trump is making the UN, WTO, WHO, etc. irrelevant. If nothing else, all of the tariffs and sanctions are making hash of the WTO and various "free trade" agreements.
I'm not sure that is an intended result, or just an unintended consequence of Trump's chaotic mind. But it sure is an interesting POV and I expect that if I delve into the formation of the BIS and the Dulles brothers I'll learn a lot more than I knew before.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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As we shall see, Harry Dexter White, backed by Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, had his own candidates for treasonable behavior: above all Allen Dulles’s friend and former OSS agent, Thomas McKittrick, the American wartime president of the Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland.5
The BIS had handled Nazi looted gold when other banks had refused to do so, and at the war’s end McKittrick was “arranging deals with Nazi industrialists to guarantee their profits after the war was over.” 6 In contrast, the Morgenthau-White Plan for postwar Germany called for the country to be deindustrialized and the power of the German cartels to be broken. The pre-war banking system linking American bankers to those who had backed Hitler was also to be demolished: the meeting of Allies at Bretton Woods in July 1944, organized largely by White, had passed a resolution calling for the dissolution of the BIS “at the earliest possible moment.”
A version of the Morgenthau-White Plan was approved by Truman in May 1945 as JCS (Joint Chiefs of Staff policy) 1067, which directed the U.S. forces of occupation in Germany to “…take no steps looking toward the economic rehabilitation of Germany.”7
But both McKittrick and Allen Dulles had a quite antithetical vision for Germany – that its economy should indeed be rehabilitated, and eventually made the underpinning for a more united Western Europe.
Thus “Dulles and others began to campaign against…JCS 1067,” and for its replacement by what later came to be known as the Marshall Plan.8
On one level this was a conflict between powerful individuals: White in Washington (Morgenthau soon retired), versus the banker McKittrick and the lawyer Allen Dulles, both of whom returned after World War II to Wall Street. But it was also an institutional conflict between Washington and Wall Street, because each center was initially united behind conflicting visions for the future of Germany, and also for the future of the pre-war international banking system uniting Germany and America – at the heart of which was the BIS. Another way to say this is that it was a contest between the conflicting visions of the state (Washington) and the deep state (Wall Street).
https://apjjf.org/2014/12/16/peter-dale-scott/4109/article
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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