Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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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.
Interesting...
At the end of the day, the ultimate goal for everyone in power in 1st world nations that are forward-thinking at all is to find the key to unlock the human brain and so they can plug it into the machine and bypass all those pesky human character traits like critical thinking, willpower and self-determination.
I hate to break it to everyone, but they're going to figure it out at one point or another.
In the meantime, it appears as though we're beyond the point of trying to at least pretend we're all shiny happy people holding hands and it's just going to be one catastrophe after another after another after another to keep everyone beat down and angry and yelling at each other all the time on our best days. Who knows, on our worst.
Until they figure out mind control on an individual level, mass hypnosis is the next best thing. Most folk, on the individual level, really aren't that stupid. Put them in groups though and there's no limit to their stupidity.
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Trump’s Republicanism is deeply pessimistic about America’s role in the world. It sees the United States as one great power among many, no better than the others.
Trump’s Republicanism is radically statist and protectionist, in service to reactionary cultural politics.
And it is above all contemptuous of law and constitutional limits. The very week of former Vice President Cheney’s death, the Trump administration will argue at the Supreme Court in favor of the president’s power to impose limitless tariffs on his sole personal claim that some kind of economic emergency exists, without any right of anybody else to question or refute that claim — meaning that the president has effectively discarded and replaced Congress’s Article I power to tax or refrain from taxing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/understanding-dick-cheney/68
4809/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump’s former trade architect says the president can’t backtrack on tariffs because he’s ‘too committed’ now: ‘That would be a pretty horrific decision’
By Eva Roytburg | November 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM EST
https://fortune.com/2025/11/04/trump-tariffs-supreme-court-wilbur-ross
-trump-cant-backtrack-horrific-decision/
As the Supreme Court prepares to hear one of the most consequential economic cases in decades—the legality of President Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariffs—one of the original architects of his trade agenda says the president has gone too far to turn back.
Wilbur Ross, who, as the president’s commerce secretary from 2017 to 2021, helped design the first wave of Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs during his first term, told Fortune a total defeat from the Supreme Court is unlikely. But even if it comes, Trump won’t walk away.
“He’s too committed to the tariff to give it up,” Ross said. “If they lose, I don’t think he’s just going to say, ‘Well, okay, it didn’t work under this law, I’ll give it up.’ He’s too invested.”
A weaker case—and a bigger gamble
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday about whether Trump exceeded his authority by using emergency powers to levy tariffs on more than 100 countries and nearly every U.S. trading partner. Technically, according to Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, Congress, not the president, has the right to “lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises.” Tariffs, as a duty, fall under the category of requiring congressional approval. However, to surpass that, the Trump administration has invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977, which allows the president during “national emergencies” to take regulatory action, to impose tariffs, though the act does not mention duties.
It isn’t the first time Trump has found a legal workaround to act unilaterally on trade: In 2018, Ross helped Trump craft an exemption under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act to launch the first round of tariffs on China and other countries. Then, Ross said, his team held public hearings, consulted with industries and trading partners, and built a lengthy administrative record anticipating court challenges.
“We were upheld throughout,” he recalled. “That gave a better definition to what the government could do.”
This time, however, Ross noted the administration “didn’t do much” of the same administrative process, meaning Trump’s team is entering the court on weaker ground than before.
“They were in a hurry to get things going,” he said. “That’s taking a bit more risk.”
The stakes are huge. Trump has used the emergency statute to impose tariffs on goods in every hemisphere, upending markets for months and generating approximately $195 billion in revenue for the government, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB). The lawsuits before the Supreme Court—brought by importers and small manufacturers—claim the president’s sweeping use of emergency powers violates congressional authority to tax and regulate trade.
Trump’s lawyers argue the IEEPA’s broad language, allowing presidents to “regulate” commerce during “unusual and extraordinary threats,” gives him wide discretion to act. His critics counter that calling trade deficits an “emergency” stretches the statute’s meaning beyond recognition.
Ross sees the case as a toss-up, but predicts the court won’t overturn the entire program. Striking all the tariffs, he warned, would create global turmoil.
“That would be a pretty horrific decision,” he said, adding it would force difficult questions about who exactly would be repaid: importers, consumers, or companies that passed costs down the supply chain.
He said he believes the justices are more likely to “cherry-pick” a few tariffs that seem politically motivated, while leaving the rest of the system intact. As an example of a tariff he thinks is likely to be struck down, he pointed to the 40% duty on Brazilian imports—on top of a 10% levy earlier in the year—that Trump imposed owing to th
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The Rotting of the Republican Mind - When one party becomes detached from reality.
Nov. 26, 2020
www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/opinion/republican-disinformation.html
In a recent Monmouth University survey, 77 percent of Trump backers said Joe Biden had won the presidential election because of fraud. Many of these same people think climate change is not real. Many of these same people believe they don’t need to listen to scientific experts on how to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
. . . Much of the Republican Party has become detached from reality. . . . Millions have come to detest those who populate the epistemic regime, who are so distant, who appear to have it so easy, who have such different values, who can be so condescending. Who use words like “epistemic”. . . . (epistemicmeans relating to knowledge or to the degree of its validation.)
People in this precarious state are going to demand stories that will both explain their distrust back to them and also enclose them within a safe community of believers. The evangelists of distrust, from Donald Trump to Alex Jones to the followers of QAnon, rose up to give them those stories and provide that community. . . .
For those awash in anxiety and alienation, who feel that everything is spinning out of control, conspiracy theories are extremely effective emotional tools. For those in low status groups, they provide a sense of superiority: I possess important information most people do not have. For those who feel powerless, they provide agency: I have the power to reject “experts” and expose hidden cabals. As Cass Sunstein of Harvard Law School points out, they provide liberation: If I imagine my foes are completely malevolent, then I can use any tactic I want.
Under Trump, the Republican identity is defined not by a set of policy beliefs but by a paranoid mind-set. . . . The internet is an ideal medium for untested information to get around traditional gatekeepers, but it is an accelerant of the paranoia, not its source. Distrust and precarity, caused by economic, cultural and spiritual threat, are the source.
What to do? You can’t argue people out of paranoia. If you try to point out factual errors, you only entrench false belief. The only solution is to reduce the distrust and anxiety that is the seedbed of this thinking. That can only be done first by contact, reducing the social chasm between the members of the epistemic regime and those who feel so alienated from it. And second, it can be done by policy, by making life more secure for those without a college degree.
Rebuilding trust is, obviously, the work of a generation.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Rotting of the Republican Mind - When one party becomes detached from reality.
Mamdani was elected last night.
Nobody wants to hear it out of you.
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Quote:6ix, are you sure you are not a Nazi? Because Nazis hated that kind of person with that kind of religion and beliefs about Capitalism.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
The Rotting of the Republican Mind - When one party becomes detached from reality.
Mamdani was elected last night.
Nobody wants to hear it out of you.
Trump regime isn’t fascist, claims leading intellectual: It just looks that way
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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Donald Trump promised not just to reduce inflation but to bring prices way back down. Trump didn’t have a plan for how to accomplish this. Instead, he imposed tariffs and began deporting immigrant workers, both of which raised prices.
So prices haven’t come down; instead, inflation has accelerated. And the job market has gotten worse. Many Americans believe that they were misled. But Trump and his minions keep insisting that everything is great, that there is no inflation and the economy is booming.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/which-party-is-in-trouble-again
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Fire commissioner resigns after Mamdani wins New York City mayoral race
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/11/05/fire-commissioner-resigns-afte
r-mamdani-wins-new-york-city-mayoral-race/
The fire chief gave his resignation after pro islamic anti-Israel marxist jihadi apologist Zohran Mamdani was declared the mayor-elect of New York City, according to a report by New York Daily News and other news outlets. Tucker informed New York City Mayor Eric Adams that his last days as FDNY commissioner, according to an email obtained by the newspaper.
“Between now and then, I will continue to lead the greatest fire department in the world and will ensure an orderly transition,” Tucker said in his letter to Adams.
While Tucker’s reasons for resigning were not immediately made clear, an FDNY source told New York Daily News that the fire chief — a Jewish philanthropist and businessman — felt he wouldn’t mesh well with the incoming mayor and his team.
Mamdani — a self-proclaimed socialist who has repeatedly refused to say that the terrorist group Hamas should lay down its arms
Lebanon or Londonistan 2 point zero in coming?
the Longest Shutdown...yeah so that record is a change
and as usual the GOP, Maga, Republican party have been doing too little too late to win anything outside of the main Presidential election
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The Government population clock still has us gaining 1.5 Million people in 2025 despite the fact they say while one person is born every 9 seconds, another person dies every 10 seconds.
There's also an immigrant (not specified as legal or illegal) coming in our country every 22 seconds.
I thought we got the illegals down to zero. Is that not true? Or are we still letting in 1.5 Million people per year legally then?
https://www.census.gov/popclock/
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