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Trump pressured, threatened and even tried to hold a bipartisan housing bill hostage for the SAVE America Act. Then the GOP Senate adjourned for five weeks without itand not one senator forced a vote.
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Lazy Caturday Reads: A Blue Bunny Saga, and Other News
Good Afternoon!!
Last Wednesday, and his refusal to end his reelection campaign in light of the multiple accusations of violence against his ex-wife, including holding a gun to her head and throwing boiling hot water on her as well as breaking the collarbone of his 2-year-old daughter. But one of his abusive actions has really resonated with observershis refusal to return his daughters beloved blue bunny.
Danielle Paquette and Amy B Wang at The Washington Post (gift article):
Miller, 37, has faced and allegations for years, most recently from his ex-wife, the mother of his 2-year-old daughter. But no detail has broken through quite like the little blue bunny. Conservative colleagues who previously had avoided commenting on Millers personal life called this week after his former father-in-law, another powerful Ohio Republican, accused the second-term congressman of holding his granddaughters stuffy hostage for 48 hours.
This girl is crying at night because she cant sleep without her little blue bunny, and his answer is, Im just not going to give it to you, Sen. Bernie Moreno told reporters Tuesday.
Miller, who has denied all claims of abuse, posted on X the next day that he said exonerated him. His ex-wifes team had sent the wrong conduit to fetch the bunny, he said, according to the text messages between the two, which delayed the handoff by 14 hours not 48.
She asked him to please just leave it in the mailbox, according to the exchange, which racked up 2.3 million views.
By the wrong conduit Miller meant that his wife had sent a family friend to pick up the bunny instead of her father. So Miller refused to return it. Back to the WaPo:
CNNs Jake Tapper asked the question on so many minds, Did you hold this doll hostageOn this, the internet agreed.
What kind of father wouldnt deliver the bunny himself, knowing that it helps his little girl sleep at night one commenter asked.
This does not make you look better, a reporter for Gateway Pundit, a far-right news site.
There are literally thousands of fathers reading those tweets and thinking: When my daughter lost her favorite toy, I led a search party as if for a downed NATO nuclear warhead. And when that failed, I paid $300 for a replica on eBay, posted David Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush.
Suddenly, the standoff over a toy in Ohio had sparked passionate chatter nationwide.
Everybody gets it, no matter which side of the aisle they are on, said Jon Krosnick, director of the Political Psychology Research Group at Stanford University. The little blue bunny, he added, communicates so powerfully to all of us.
Psychologists call the special toys or blankets that toddlers grow attached to . In our culture, child begin to sleep alone much earlier than in many others cultures. Children here use their blanket or a stuffed animal as an attachment figure. Usually, by about age 6, kids can let go of the special object, but many older children keep it nearby and some even take it when they go away to college. I still recall my blue blankie that I carried with me everywhere as a child.
You can read the rest of the WaPo article using the gift link above.
Edith Olmstead at The New Republic:
At that time, the girl would have only been 1 year old! I said on Wednesday that Miller is monster, and this proves it. This man is cold as ice.Ohio Representative Max Miller has denied holding a little blue bunny hostagebut a series of messages shows the alleged abuser has a pattern of stealing his two-year-old daughters toy.
Miller has been of physically abusing his ex-wife Emily Moreno, daughter of Senator Bernie Moreno, for years. Amid the many abuse allegations against Miller, the lawmaker has taken the time to refute one distressing detail about his relationship with his daughter.
Speaking to the press Monday, Senator Moreno that over the weekend, Miller had refused to return his daughters blue bunny. This girl is crying at night because she cant sleep without her little blue bunny. His answer is Im just not gonna give it to you, Moreno said.
This is the level of total and complete depravity, he added.
Miller withholding his daughters beloved bunny, claiming that hed scheduled it to be picked up from his mailbox through the familys parental coordinator, Dr. Deborah Koricke.
However, a obtained by Mother Joness Abby Vesoulis suggest that Miller has a history of keeping the blue bunny hostage.
In one dated March 19, 2025, Emily Moreno begged Miller to return the toy. Can redacted please have her bunny back Shes had it since birth, sleeps with it every night, carries it with her around the house, and sees it as a source of comfort, Moreno wrote.
She also urged Miller not to punish their daughter because he was upset with his ex-wife.
In a from May, Senator Moreno asked if the bunny had been left behind, and Miller replied that the family could go through the parent coordinator to retrieve it. I have no notes or record of what you are referring to, Miller added.
Its the blue bunny she sleeps with, but got it, Moreno said.
In an from August 3 (right after the weekend Senator Moreno mentioned), Morenos attorney reached out to Millers lawyers in an attempt to have the bunny returned. Why must this be a controversy This is totally ridiculous. Please have Max return the bunny forthwith, the attorney wrote.
In another from an unknown date, the familys parent coordinator claimed that Miller adamantly refuses to leave the toy in the mailbox for Senator Moreno to retrieve.
The Miller race could have serious repercussions for Ohio and for Republicans hopes of hold in the House.
Julia Mueller at The Hill: .
The controversy around Rep. (R-Ohio) is complicating the midterm landscape for Ohio Republicans as Democrats build momentum in the Buckeye State, a former battleground thats become a red state in the Trump era.
Miller, who is running for a third term in a competitive House district, is facing calls to step down after of domestic abuse toward his ex-wife, the daughter of Sen. (R-Ohio). He has forcefully denied the claims, but the controversy could make his red seat an easier pick-up opportunity for Democrats in the high-stakes fight for House control.
Ohio is also host to a highly competitive Senate race, where former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) has lodged a comeback bid against incumbent Sen. (R) that could bolster Democrats chances of taking back the upper chamber this fall plus a neck-and-neck race for Ohio governor in the state thats been GOP-led for more than a decade.
In an environment where Republicans have been particularly strong in Ohio, this years environment is going to be much more challenging for them, and this certainly doesnt help things, said Robert Alexander, a political science professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, on the Miller developments.
I think that the fact that so much of the attention is on Republicans is a good thing for Democrats, he added. The more its about Republicans, I think the better that Democrats will likely do.
that a rally that Miller was to appear at had to be cancelled for security concerns amid threats. The rally was to be in support of the SAVE American act.
Miller has also donated $1 million to his campaign, according to the Wall Street Journal. That sounds like desperation. (Apparently Miller comes from a wealthy and prominent Ohio family.)
It so happens that Miller has a Democratic opponent, and he is beginning to draw attention.
Emily Davies at The New York Times (gift article):
Brian Poindexter, until recently a little-known Democratic candidate in a solidly Republican House district, lit a Marlboro cigarette and jammed a screwdriver into the latch of a shed door he had built. He ignored his phone, which had been blowing up in recent days because of a political scandal rocking Ohio.
Its crazy to have him running for Congress, said the candidates father, Bob Poindexter, 68, who had made bolts for a living until he retired last year. He was watching his son work. What would be really crazy is if he won.
That prospect is rapidly becoming less crazy, as the campaign of Representative Max Miller, Republican of Ohio, has descended into turmoil over allegations that he had physically abused his wife and young daughter.
Mr. Poindexter, who turned 47 on Tuesday, is a hard hat-wearing, union card-carrying ironworker. With fresh opportunity given Mr. Millers struggles to win over voters in a Cleveland-area district that went for President Trump by double digits, he is the type of candidate some Democrats believe can claw back working-class voters who have flocked to Mr. Trump in recent years.
This week, he has set out to test that strategy in a Republican stronghold that is suddenly seen as competitive, and that could help Democrats retake the House.
Though he launched his campaign in January, Mr. Poindexter had been largely ignored by Democratic Party leadership until last week, when the fallout from an ugly custody battle between Mr. Miller and his ex-wife, the daughter of Senator Bernie Moreno, spilled into the national news. The district, which stretches from Amish country to the suburban shores of Lake Erie, has been considered comfortably Republican for a decade.
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In other news, the Senate voted to confirm Todd Blanche as Attorney General, not that anyone is surprised.
AP:
The Senate confirmed as attorney general in a vote early Saturday, cementing the command of President Donald Trumps former personal lawyer at a Department of Justice that Trump has sought to .
The Republican-led Senate voted 50-49 to make Blanche the second confirmed attorney general since Trump returned to the White House last year with a stated desire to use the law enforcement agency to investigate his political enemies. While Blanche has already been leading the department in an acting capacity, his confirmation could free him to pursue the administrations agenda even more aggressively.
Blanche said on social media that he was deeply honored by the trust and confidence President Trump has placed in me, adding that he was grateful to senators for working late to confirm him.
The vote followed a tumultuous confirmation fight that exposed deep concerns from some Republicans as well as Democrats about installing Trumps close ally atop a Justice Department that historically prided itself on its independence from the White House.
In the end, Blanche was confirmed by the narrowest of margins, opposed by two Republicans Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and by every Democrat.
As yesterday, retiring Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy cast the deciding votejust as he did with RFK, Jr.
Alex Nguyen at Mother Jones:
the Senate voted to confirm Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to the official role after Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) caved and publicly backed President DonaldTrumps former personal lawyer the day before.
Blanche was confirmed on a , with almostall Republicans aligning with the president. Thetwo exceptions wereSens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska). In other words, Cassidy, who initially overconcerns aboutBlanche helping Trump prosecute political enemies, pushing the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization slush fund, and exempting the president from IRS audits, capitulatedknowing that his was the deciding vote. He did so shortly after .
In his on the Senate floor, Cassidy raised several reasonable points on why Blanche should not be confirmed: approving the anti-weaponization slush fund, exempting the president from IRS audits, and the aforementioned bringing suits against political enemies.
But the senatorwho recently lost his bid for reelection after being targeted as a by Trumpsummonedperplexing arguments from his familiar playbook: Mr. Blanche has made commitments to be better, Cassidy noted. I have spoken to Mr. Blanche five or six times, he assured his colleagues, and not approving Blanche puts at risk the progress made fighting violent crime, human and drug trafficking, and fraud. The Trump administrations fight on crime and human and drug trafficking has led to significant increases in militarization and , while attacks on so-called widespread fraud have like Medicare and Medicaid.
This isnt Cassidys first rodeo in backing downfrom his principled opposition to a controversial or clearly unqualified candidate. He used similar logic to advance Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s nomination as health secretary as the deciding vote, putting naivetrust in his . And the senator earlier this weekalthough his wasnot the sole deciding voteto confirm , the physician and attorney who wasTrumps pick for CDC director. Schwartz repeatedly on whether she would carry out all of Kennedys policies, even if she believed it contradicted scientific evidence.
What a loser.
Trump got some bad news about his precious ballroom yesterday.
PBS:
A federal appeals court on Friday ordered President Donald Trumps administration to halt construction of its $400 million ballroom at the White House because the project lacks congressional approval.
Trump doesnt have the unilateral authority to build a 90,000-square-foot (8,400-square-meter) ballroom where the White Houses East Wing stood before he ordered its demolition last fall, according to the decision by a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
In a 2-1 decision on the ballroom, the appeals court sided with historic preservationists who sued to stop construction of the massive structure, which has begun to rise aboveground on the east side of the White House, according to the most recent aerial photos of the site. The court said it would stay its ruling for two weeks to give the administration time to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Whether or not a massive ballroom should be constructed is for Congress to decide and is not a matter for Executive self-help, the court wrote.
This holding has nothing at all to do with whether the proposed ballroom is desirable, or not, as a matter of policy. This ruling does not even necessarily mean that the Defendants may not ultimately construct the ballroom.
What it does mean, the court continued, is that the Defendants may not do so during the district courts expeditious litigation without securing Congresss authorization, as the Constitution and laws require.
More detail from Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein at Politico:
A federal appeals court panel has ruled against President Donald Trumps attempt to unilaterally demolish portions of the White House to build a massive ballroom, saying the unprecedented project requires congressional approval.
Executive actions that take control of that property out of the hands of the peoples representatives while irreparably harming the historical and visual architecture of perhaps the most prominent public building in the United States seriously intrude on the public interest, Judges Patricia Millett, an Obama appointee, and Bradley Garcia, a Biden appointee, wrote in issued Friday.
The appeals court put its ruling on hold for two weeks to allow Trump to seek relief from the Supreme Court. If the high court doesnt act by then, above-ground construction at the site would have to halt.
Trump has claimed that security concerns necessitated tearing down the East Wing and replacing it with a ballroom and other features, such as a rooftop launching pad for drones. In his post Friday, he referred to the planned structure as a Military Center.
But the appeals panels majority rejected the notion that raising security issues meant the courts couldnt enforce federal statutes governing funding for such projects.
The bold assertion that the Executive can act with utter lawlessness, destroying treasured national landmarks and harming the interests of individuals, and that no court can stop it flouts our constitutional order, Millett and Garcia wrote. While this court accords great weight and deference to invocations of national security and the safety of the President, such arguments are not an automatic get-out-of-law-free card.
The ruling is the latest blow to Trumps effort to remake Washington, D.C., in his image. A federal judge blocked his bid to , and his effort to at the base of the Lincoln Memorial has been marred by construction failures and the failed prosecutions of alleged vandals that Trump had blamed for the defects.
Of course he has already wrecked the entire White House complex.
The Iran war still drags on, and the Iranians have issued some demands.
Yeganeh Torbati, and Aaron Boxerman at The New York Times:
A top Iranian national security official delivered a sweeping set of demands on Saturday that he said the United States must meet before the Strait of Hormuz can reopen to maritime traffic, throwing the fate of the critical trade waterway into question.
Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, the secretary of Irans Supreme National Security Council, issued a carried by state media laying out multiple requirements for reopening the strait. He called for the United States to lift its naval blockade and sanctions on Iran, withdraw the U.S. military from around Iran, pay war reparations and release frozen Iranian assets, as well as end attacks on Irans allies in the region and threats against the country.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Irans demands. A previous cease-fire between Iran and the United States, agreed to in June, had said that sanctions would be fully lifted only in the event of a final deal regarding Irans nuclear program. And U.S. officials have that Iran could only access its frozen funds if it committed to giving up its highly enriched uranium first.
The statement from Mr. Zolghadr came as Iran and Oman have been negotiating an agreement on the future management of the Strait of Hormuz, which sits between the two countries. Iran effectively closed the strait in retaliation for being attacked by the United States and Israel in February.
Mr. Zolghadrs list of demands upended expectations that a deal with Oman would soon allow commerce to flow through the strait once more and ease global energy prices. They will likely put pressure on President Trump to consider Irans conditions if he wants to lower consumer prices for Americans, which pose a risk for Republicans ahead of Novembers midterm elections.
Even before Mr. Zolghadrs statement, Iranian officials had hinted on Saturday that the reopening of the strait was not imminent. Hossein Mohebbi, a spokesman for Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, said that reopening the strait was not contingent on the Iran-Oman negotiations.
In comments , an Iranian news outlet affiliated with the Guards, Mr. Mohebbi said that it would depend on the United States fully accepting Irans conditions. He did not specify those conditions, other than to say that the United States must not interfere in Irans ongoing negotiations with Oman or other countries.
Meanwhile, top General Dan Caine is trying to find a way out of Trumps Iran mess.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine is reportedly quietly working toward an exit from Donald Trumps Iran war, even as the president appears to believe more air strikes could force a deal.
As the war enters its sixth month, CNN Friday that Caine has privately discussed the limits of further military action with other top Trump advisers, warning that continued bombing may not be enough to secure a ceasefire.
Caine is looking for an off-ramp, one source familiar with the matter told the outlet.
The 57-year-old general has discussed the matter with CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Vice President JD Vanceall before meeting with Trump to coordinate their message and to emphasize the limitations of certain military options.
The news comes as Trump, who has long criticized articles he doesnt like, at weapons shortages as a result of his war, which he had said would only last a few weeks.
The Washington Post reported that during a Cabinet meeting last Friday, Trump, 80, accosted Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth for being ill-informed about the shortages, which Trump thought had been fixed.
The shortages were primarily of long-distance guided missiles and interceptors, according to the Post. This was reportedly one reason there were fewer missile strikes over the past week.Hegseth, 46, denied the story.
Caines discussions with other top officials about war prospects, one source told CNN, is just his way of protecting the military.
Thats all I have for today. Thoughts What else is on your mind
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Phew, its lucky the war was won on the first day !!
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Todd Blanche es confirmado como fiscal general de EU es exabogado deTrump
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The executed a search warrant at on in 2022, pursuing former Pres. for and theft of materials (including nuclear ones). They recovered 13,000 files. Trump was indicted but let off due to the election.
Il Fatto Quotidiano: Pensavo che fosse facile risolvere la guerra in Ucraina, invece si rivelata la pi difficile: cos Donald Trump ai giornalisti
Ho risolto otto guerre, pensavo che questa sarebbe stata una delle pi facili e invece si rivelata la pi difficile. In una conferenza stampa alla Casa Bianca, il presidente degli Stati Uniti Donald Trump ha riconosciuto di aver sbagliato valutazione sulla guerra russo ucraina . molto violenta ha aggiunto C davvero molto odio tra i due leader. Ma ci stiamo lavorando, si stanno facendo progressi
L'articolo Pensavo che fosse facile risolvere la guerra in Ucraina, invece si rivelata la pi difficile: cos Donald Trump ai giornalisti proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.
I thought it would be easy to solve the war in Ukraine, but it turned out to be the most difficult: thats what Donald Trump told journalists.
Ive solved eight wars, I thought this one would be one of the easiest and instead it turned out to be the most difficult. In a press conference at the White House, U.S. President Donald Trump acknowledged having misjudged the Russia-Ukraine war. It is very violent he added There is really a lot of hatred between the two leaders. But we are working on it, progress is being made.
The article I thought it would be easy to solve the war in Ukraine, instead it turned out to be the most difficult: thus says Donald Trump to journalists comes from Il Fatto Quotidiano.
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"Sollen sie doch Burritos essen": Wie US-Hardliner den Realittsbezug verlieren
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Hace falta mucho valor para admitir que has arrastrado (o te has dejado arrastrar) a tu pas a una guerra que se est perdiendo estrepitosamente, y que no sabes cmo salir de ella
Il Fatto Quotidiano: Trump replica alla richiesta di Zelensky: Missili allUcraina Servono anche a noi. Biden gliene ha gi dati moltissimi
Servono missili anche a noi. Biden ne ha forniti moltissimi allUcraina. Ha dato a Zelensky armi per un valore di circa 300 miliardi di dollari. Lo ha detto il presidente degli Stati Uniti Donald Trump, rispondendo a una domanda di un giornalista che gli riportava le affermazioni dellomologo ucraino Volodymyr Zelensky sul disperato bisogno di sistemi di difesa aerea Patriot. Parlando con i cronisti, il tycoon non ha nascosto le preoccupazioni relative alle risorse militari americane, sempre pi ridotte a causa della guerra con lIran e dellimpegno in medio oriente.
L'articolo Trump replica alla richiesta di Zelensky: Missili allUcraina Servono anche a noi. Biden gliene ha gi dati moltissimi proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.
Trump retorted to Zelenskyy's request: "Missiles to Ukraine Theyre needed for us too. Biden has already given him lots of them.
We need missiles too. Biden has supplied many to Ukraine. He has given Zelenskyy weapons worth approximately $300 billion. This was said by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, responding to a question from a journalist who reported to him the claims of his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the desperate need for Patriot air defense systems. Speaking with reporters, the tycoon did not hide his concerns regarding American military resources, increasingly reduced due to the war with Iran and engagement in the Middle East.
The article "Trump responds to Zelenskyys request: Missiles to Ukraine We need them too." comes from Il Fatto Quotidiano.
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Agi: Zelensky: "Raggiunto l'accordo con gli Usa per fornitura mensile di missili"
AGI - Gli Usa forniranno all'Ucraina, con cadenza mensile, intercettori di difesa aerea Patriot, essenziali per contrastare i missili balistici russi.
I due Paesi hanno raggiunto accordi in merito, secondo quanto annunciato dal presidente Volodymyr Zelensky.
Il presidente ucraino: "Non sono sufficienti contro la Russia"
"Chi possiede missili e sistemi antimissile Gli Stati Uniti ne sono i principali produttori. Possono aiutarci Ci stiamo lavorando. Ci forniranno missili mensilmente S. Abbiamo accordi in merito", ha dichiarato il capo di Stato in una conferenza stampa congiunta con il presidente serbo Aleksandar Vuicic a Belgrado.
Zelensky ha poi sottolineato che, tuttavia, queste forniture non saranno sufficienti a difendere completamente il Paese dagli attacchi russi. Washington non ha ancora commentato le parole del leader ucraino.
Il presidente Donald Trump ha di recente dichiarato che gli Stati Uniti stessi hanno bisogno di missili Patriot, le cui scorte si sono ridotte significativamente a causa della guerra contro l'Iran.
Zelensky: An agreement has been reached with the US for monthly missile deliveries.
US - The United States will provide Ukraine with Interceptors for the Patriot air defense system on a monthly basis, essential to counter Russian ballistic missiles.
The two countries have reached agreements regarding this, according to announcements by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Ukrainian president: They are not sufficient against Russia
Who possesses ballistic missiles and anti-missile systems The United States is the main producer. Can they help us We are working on it. Will they provide us with missiles monthly Yes. We have agreements in place, stated the head of state during a joint press conference with Serbian President Aleksandar Vui in Belgrade.
Zelenskyy then emphasized that, however, these supplies would not be sufficient to completely defend the country from Russian attacks. Washington has yet to comment on the Ukrainian leaders words.
President Donald Trump recently declared that the United States itself needs Patriot missiles, whose stocks have significantly decreased due to the war with Iran.
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The Persistence of U.S. Strategy, Anthony Fauci, and Limited Hangouts
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August 8, 2026
Throughout all the news cycles over the years, you can count on a continuity in U.S. government/media propaganda and strategy. Make a time capsule, fill it with todays news, hide it away, and pull it out in five, ten, or fifteen years, and while many details (tactics) will have changed, the underlying themes will remain. Or do it in reverse.
Assuming the world miraculously escapes a nuclear war of annihilation, when the criminal Donald Trump is long gone from office, replaced by a Democrat or Republican, the United States will still be waging war against Russia and China and any country that stands in its and Israels way in the Middle East. The people who own and run the U.S. will still be waging information war against the American people. Their tactics may have changed but not their long-term strategy. MKUltra, the CIAs former mind-control and torture program, is now fully digitized and nearly co-terminus with the Internet.
The continuity of agenda from one American president to the next is striking. Because Trump says and does openly what has often been done insidiously by American presidents, he shocks by his audacity. He commits crimes at home and abroad as if he were smirkingly firing some contestant on his former Reality-TV show. Some people find this perversely honest to justify their support for an obvious madman versus the covert kind. Such is the double-binding trap, the fake binary, that Simon and Garfunkel once set to music with their song, Mrs. Robinson:
Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon
Going to the candidates debate
Laugh about it, shout about it
When youve got to choose
Every way you look at it you lose
While Ronald Reagan could routinely call Nicaragua a totalitarian dungeon, and use the Contras to try to overthrow its legitimate government, Trump, while using similar language about Venezuela, simply bombed the country and kidnapped its President Nicols Maduro and his wife.
While Reagan, like Trump, was constantly saying that the Russians were always disseminating propaganda, disinformation, and managing the news, he always failed to mention that he and his staff, with the help of an obeisant media, regularly managed the news and lied to the world. In this they were typical presidents.
People may forget that Reagan, like Trump, was a master fabricator. Such examples are legendary. On two occasions he told Israeli prime Minister Yitzak Shamir and Simon Wiesenthal, the Nazi hunter, that he had personally assisted in the liberation of the Nazi death camps. The truth is that Reagan never left Hollywood where his war service consisted of work in the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Corps at the Hal Roach Studios. Reagans, like Trumps, false claims were so innumerable and outrageous that only a media and a populace inured to falsity would allow him to get away with them in the 1980s.
But thats the way it was and is and will be in the U.S.A. Trump is a flipped version of Reagan, whose great admirer was Obama, under whose aegis the U.S. intelligence carried out the coup in Ukraine in 2014, setting the stage for the ongoing U.S./NATO war against Russia via Ukraine, blah blah blah. Its a small club, said George Carlin, of those who own and run the country, and you and I dont belong to it. Yes, Every way you look at it you lose.
Now that the Chrisopher Nolan film, The Odyssey, has had it place in the sun dominating the news for weeks, a modern trickster named Anthony Fauci, the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022, a man of many Trojan Horses, pops up like a weasel from the music box to grab the headlines once again.
Or I should say someone turned the crank and .
Since the diaries that he kept during the Covid-19 days were revealed (diaries very oddly put on government servers and not on his private laptop or in a paper diary), we know from the horses mouth how famous and celebrated he was and how giddy his celebrityhood made him feel as he was lying to the public about Covid-19. Since the recent congressional hearings in which he was called to testify and where he pleaded the Fifth Amendment more than a hundred times, we can feel good knowing that covid probably came from the Wuhan lab in China and not from some bat or monkey who was chasing a weasel. Maybe, or could be, or probably, as Republican Sen. Rand Paul and many commentators concluded, while Fauci was mum.
Presumed to be so smart, why did Fauci put his diaries on government servers
We know that Fauci was quite verbose back in the day when he trashed those including the three authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, respected doctors Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, and Sunetra Gupta who dared to offer a different take on Covid-19. Whenever anyone questioned the science, as he termed the official narrative of covid, its statistics, the validity of the PCR tests, the effectiveness of masks, the six foot rule, the experimental vaccines produced and approved at record speed, the horrible consequences of the shutdowns that were destroying economies, killing people, forcing people to despair and committing suicide, creating traumatized children and pushing along the new normal digital screen world, bankrupting small and medium-sized businesses for the sake of enriching the richest, etc., Fauci and his corporate media sycophants mocked such dissidents as conspiracy nuts aiding the invisible viral enemy. This was so even when the dissenters were highly respected doctors, scientists, and intellectuals who were expressing their First Amendment rights of free speech. Fauci ridiculed them all and many lost their jobs, their medical licenses, couldnt travel, and were categorized as lunatics.
He didnt advocate any First Amendment Bill of Rights for dissenters, as he does now for himself with the Fifth Amendment. No equal rights and no colloquy with others. And no shaking hands ever-ever-ever again as he told Time Magazine: I dont think we ever should ever shake hands ever again, to be honest with you.
Isnt it a shocking truth to finally know that Fauci didnt tell the truth about the alleged origin of Covid-19 Can you believe it That a top government official was lying to protect our enemies the Chinese when they really released the virus from their Wuhan lab We should say by accident. But accidents happen as everyone understands, and enemies usually work together to develop biological weapons to use on each other. Ha! Ha!
The media are going wild about this revelation that Fauci revealed in his accidently discovered dear diaries that were accidently left on government servers that revealed Faucis opinion that the Chinese probably accidently released a covid virus from Wuhan. Catharsis feels great. Accidents happen. Like shit.
The only problem is that this revelation tells us nothing of importance, even if true. It is what is called a limited hangout, an old trick of the intelligence trade where you reveal a so-called truth to conceal deeper ones when they are threatened. This happens within a framework of deep state trickery where even the public faces of the exposures may not know that they are being played.
If we postulate that Fauci publicly lied about his funding for gain of function research at the University of North Carolina and Wuhan, so what So Americas Doctor, the most famous man in the world, a man beloved by celebrities and CNNs Jake Tapper, et al. is a charlatan, an ego-maniac and a liar like Trump or the other presidents he served under. Is that a great surprise or important
What the media are all agog about is a diversion. We learn nothing about Faucis connections to the CIA and gain-of-function research being conducted in the U.S. and all across the world with 40 or so labs in Ukraine alone. We learn nothing about why medicine has been weaponized, the use of biological weapons, the so-called vaccines, the false statistics, etc. Nothing useful. Only that Fauci lied.
How many people have contracted Lyme Disease and ever made a connection to U.S. biological and animal warfare research and its connection to a Nazi scientist
Covid-19 was a con-job from the start. The official operation was launched on March 11, 2020 with worldwide lockdowns that destroyed economies while enriching the super-rich and devastating regular people. It was a propaganda achievement carried out by intelligence and military apparatuses in conjunction with Big Pharma, the World Health Organization, the World Economic Forum, etc. and promulgated by a vast around-the-clock corporate media disinformation campaign.
It was the third fundamental turning point following the 1963 CIA assassination of President John Kennedy and the attacks of September 11, 2001 with their connected anthrax attacks originating from a U.S. government bioweapons lab in destabilizing the economic, social, and political life of all nations while undermining their sovereignty. It was based on false science in the interests of further developing a biosecurity state. The intelligence agency planners who had conducted many germ wargame simulations leading up to COVID-19 referred to a future arising out of such attacks as The New Normal. A close study of these precedents, game-planning, and players makes this evident. The aim was to militarize medicine and concentrate power. Check the 2010 Rockefeller Report,, and Agenda 21, among other places.
The use of the PCR test to detect the virus and create cases and death numbers was a lie from the start. The American Nobel Prize winning scientist who developed the test, Kary Mullis, made it clear before his sudden death in December 2019 that the PCR is a process. It does not tell you that you are sick. It is a process to make a whole lot of something out of something, but it cannot detect a specific virus..
The belief that it can so test began with the unscientific PCR Corona protocol created by Christian Drosten (Faucis colleague) in Germany in January 2020 that became the standard method for testing for SARS-CoV-2 worldwide. I am sure this was preplanned and part of a high-level conspiracy. This protocol set the cycle threshold (amplification) at 45 which could only result in false positive results. These were then called cases: An act of fraud on a massive scale. If one had been diagnosed as a case via the PCR test, and subsequently died of any cause a heart attack, cancer, old age, etc. that person was recorded as having died from Covid. Fauci, Drosten, and others engaged in a game about the origin animals, the wild, perhaps a lab, etc., all the while knowing how the biological disease weapons were being tested and funded.
And why Which is of course the fundamental issue.
Biological and germ weapons of war and the medical establishments part in it are the crux of the matter. This involves their use over the past decades, now, and in the future. There is no doubt that they have, along with nuclear weapons and space based weapons, been at the forefront of U.S. research and development.
The late Professor Francis Boyle, the man who authored the 1989 Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act for the U.S. government, claimed that the covid vaccines (mRNA injections) were bioweapons and Franken-shots synthetic biological weapons of mass destruction. His expertise on biological weapons research and development but few have heard of him. is an introduction that should induce one to explore his work and claims.
The continuity of agenda from one American president to the next is striking. For media commentators to focus their attention on whether Fauci lied about the origins of Covid-19 is to miss the deeper issue, whether accidently or on purpose.
It is a limited hangout used to avoid something truly evil and rotten at the heart of the government of the United States, a diabolic continuation of business as usual.
Reprinted with the authors permission.
Copyright Edward Curtin
Edward Curtin is a writer beyond a cage of categories. His new book is At the Lost and Found: , (Clarity Press)
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