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Posted on 04/18/2024 10:57:44 PM PDT by ransomnote
Q has reminded us repeatedly that together, we are strong. As the false "narrative" is destroyed and the divisive machinery put in place by the Deep State fails, the fact that patriotism has no skin color or political party is exposed for all to see.
3038 Mar 12, 2019 2:55:14 PM EDT
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 4fe510 No. 5643022>Decide for yourself (be free from outside opinion).
>Decide for yourself (be objective in your conclusions).
>Decide for yourself (be true in your own beliefs).
>Decide for yourself (be open to following the facts).
>Decide for yourself (be strong in defending your beliefs).
>Decide for yourself (be resistant to blindly accepting fact-less statements).
>Decide for yourself (be free)
Those who attack you.
Those who mock you.
Those who cull you.
Those who control you.
Those who label you.
Do they represent you?
Or, do they represent themselves (in some form)?
Mental Enslavement.
The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding ‘mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but, more importantly, aid in the construction of a vehicle (a ‘ship’) that provides the scattered (‘free thinkers’) with a ‘starter’ new social-networking platform which allows for freedom of thought, expression, and patriotism or national pride (the feeling of love, devotion and sense of attachment to a homeland and alliance with other citizens who share the same sentiment).
When ‘non-dogmatic’ information becomes FREE & TRANSPARENT it becomes a threat to those who attempt to control the narrative and/or the stable.
When you are awake, you stand on the outside of the stable (‘group-think’ collective), and have ‘free thought’.
"Free thought" is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma.
When you are awake, you are able to clearly see.
The choice is yours, and yours alone.
Trust and put faith in yourself.
You are not alone and you are not in the minority.
Difficult truths will soon see the light of day.
WWG1WGA!!!Q
In the battle between those who strip us our constitutional rights, we can't afford to let false divisions separate us any longer. We, and our country, will be forever made stronger by diligently seeking the truth, independence and freedom of thought.
Where We Go 1, We Go All
It’s a proposal attributed to the White House nerd patrol. How late in the term do the Harvard kiddies think they have to collapse the nation into Venezuela, anyway?
The Godless are so far out over their skies already, that nobody is listening. Governor Huckabee Sanders website was found just reporting a heartbeat, of a Marxist regime passing. HA! Trailing. 😁
I enjoyed the Berenson piece so very much. So many brilliant swipes.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/on-the-rising-backlash-against-the
Our interests should be confined to our borders. I like what George Washington said about dealing with foreign countries. Excerpt. My view is respect the soverignty of every nation and if they don’t respect ours, then deal with that. Trying to have a “sphere of influence” or dominate other nations is ruination and proved to be so. Adding some paragraph breaks for ease of reading. His views on political parties are excellent too.
FRIENDS AND FELLOW-CITIZENS:
Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and Morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be, that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great Nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt, that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages, which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its Virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices ?
In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable, when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur.
Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The Nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the Government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
So likewise, a passionate attachment of one Nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite Nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite Nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the Nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained; and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.
As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent Patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practise the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the Public Councils! Such an attachment of a small or weak, towards a great and powerful nation, dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter.
our national interests should be with countries that respect the rights of individuals and not corporations... that use slave labor or kill those worshiping differently.
bend them to our national will.
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What do you mean by “national interests”? Regarding countries that are using slave labor, killing “infidels” or criminal activities that harm other countries, should be dealt with not unilaterally but in conjunction with other nations. In my view. The time of the US being cop of the world, trying to dominate other countries, take out their leaders and so on, is OVER.
BREAKING: Texas Democrat Rep. Who Blasted Biden Over Border Crisis Indicted on Federal Bribery, Money Laundering Charges – Faces 204 Years in Prison
By Cristina Laila May. 3, 2024 2:05 pm
— GP
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Random Excerpts
” Rep. Cuellar, a nine-term Texas Democrat lawmaker who represents an area along the US-Mexico border, previously lashed out at both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for allowing illegal aliens to pour over the border. “
” Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife Imedla Cuellar on Friday were indicted by on federal bribery and money laundering charges. “
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Coincidentally? Otherwise, charges would not exist?
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In my mind, there is NO defense for Russia's predation on Georgia, Ukraine, or anyone else.
As for the US shoving Russia into the arms of China and the Muslims, poppycock. Russia, China, and the Muslims despise each other. A better description would be the Mexican standoff at the end of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly but with all three being bad AND ugly.
You make it sound like the US goaded Russia into attacking Ukraine for our benefit. Horse****! I would much prefer that this whole episode had never happened. Given lemons, I choose to make lemonade even if it is on the sour side.
The US and/or "the West" is not trying, and has NO desire, to rule the world. We had the ability to impose a Pax Americana at the end of WW2. We chose not to and instead ensured that anyone could trade with anyone, freely and safely. This was brought to you by the US Navy. It lead to arguably the best contiguous 80 year period in world history, period. Was it perfect, no. Was it the best anyone had ever seen before, ABSOLUTELY!!!!
Do I think the world is a better place with Ukraine free and the Russian military exhausted, you bet. I would much prefer that Russia and China drift slowly and peacefully slide into demographic non-existence.
SpyNavy
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Suzanne sounds like a very wise woman. A woman can be replaced at her workplace, but there is no replacement for a baby’s mommy. Saddens me so much to see what has been done to little children and to the family.
VICTORY – Biden DHS Disbands Illegal “Homeland Intelligence Experts Group” Including Russia Collusion Hoaxers John Brennan and James Clapper Following Lawsuit Filed by AFL and Former Ambassador Ric Grenell
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) achieved victory in its lawsuit on behalf of former Ambassador Ric Grenell against the Biden Administration’s so-called “Homeland Intelligence Experts Group.” Conceding defeat, the Biden Administration has agreed to disband this illegal Group and provide its records to AFL.
DHS formed the “Homeland Intelligence Experts Group” in September 2023 to “provide advice and perspectives on intelligence and national security efforts.” However, it was not intended to provide unbiased, expert advice to advance the Department of Homeland Security’s mission. Instead, it was a deeply partisan group designed to provide top cover for the Department’s radical agenda under Secretary Mayorkas.
As AFL previously shared when announcing the lawsuit, members included:
John Brennan and James Clapper are two of the leaders in the “Letter of 51” who used their “intelligence credentials” to mislead the American public on the veracity of the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election. They stated that it had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” despite the FBI having validated its authenticity the prior year.
Francis Taylor, a former Obama Administration official who has made at least 650 political contributions, totaling over $32,000, all to the Democrat Party or Democrat candidates for office.
Asha George, Rajesh De, Caryn Wagner, and Elisa Massimino, who have made a combined 179 political contributions totaling $60,000 given exclusively to Democrat candidates for political office. In fact, of the combined political contributions of those named to the group, over 98% went to Democrats. Just 1% went to Republican candidates for office.
Immediately after DHS formed the Group in September 2023, Senators Rand Paul (R-KY), Rick Scott (R-FL), Ron Johnson (R-WI), and Roger Marshall (R-KS) sent a letter to Secretary Mayorkas demanding “DHS immediately rescind the appointments of these known purveyors of disinformation to the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group.”
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) also sent a letter demanding Secretary Mayorkas terminate the group “led by at least three individuals who helped suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story preceding the 2020 U.S. presidential election.” In the House of Representatives, Representative August Pfluger (R-TX) introduced H.R. 5729 to prohibit the use of federal funds in the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group or any other group established to carry out equivalent activities, following a letter sent by Representatives Mark E. Green, M.D. (R-TN) and Pfluger in their capacities as Chairmen of the House Committee on Homeland Security and the House Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence, respectively.
[More at link]
Asked mods to delete, dupe
In my mind, there is NO defense for Russia’s predation on Ukraine.
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If you wanted to learn the facts about this, I have much information. If you want to remain mired in the past which does not exist any more, your choice.
Just came into my email inbox, I read just enough to know it is a very good overview and summary of the situation.
https://badlands.substack.com/p/a-bright-red-line
A Bright Red Line
Blinken, Burns and NATO’s Bid for Ukraine
From the very outset of the war in Ukraine, when the United States made it immediately clear that we’d be taking primary responsibility for funding and arming the Ukrainians, one question has continued to remain unanswered: why should the American Taxpayer care about who owns what land in Eastern Europe?
It is unquestionable that U.S. funding of this war adversely affects Americans economically, but it is still not entirely clear in what way this war is supposed to somehow be in the peoples’ best interest.
Another question that remains inadequately answered is why Putin decided to invade Ukraine in the first place. As with Iraq, Afghanistan and just about every other war in the last several decades, we are only given the explanation that best suits the Military Industrial Complex and the U.S. Security State.
Should we accept that Vladimir Putin, once described by Bill Clinton and every subsequent president as rational, suddenly turned into a psychopath over night? That he just woke up one day and decided to attack Ukraine for no reason at all, and is planning to march across Western Europe, attacking NATO countries next?
These propagandized, real-life super villains don’t just spring up out of nowhere, for no discernible reason and start wars arbitrarily. There are always motivating factors, and these factors almost always suppressed so that they never reach Western audiences.
[Much more at link including video snips.]
We don't always have the luxury of choosing the circumstances in which we live or what or national interests are and are not.
Matthew 24:6-7
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
To the extent that I have been, and I am able, I will strive to keep these things away from the United States and it's people. To the maximum extent possible, wars should be fought outside of the United States.
To achieve this aim, it may be necessary to enter into the foreign entanglements that Washington warned of. I consider this to be a paltry price to achieve a great aim.
SpyNavy
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
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I hope you are right; however, China fooled our intel experts before, such as Gordon Chang who wrote a book about their imminent collapse 23 years ago. In that case, according to Michael Pillsbury, this was a deliberate deception.
Of course President Trump often gives out hints that support your opinion...hinting of super weapons to be revealed only when necessary. So there is that.
Those swarms of hundreds of drones sent from Iran against Israel? If it were China, it could have been swarms of millions of drones, since they make millions of factory robots there. I expect surprises from both sides.
And I know you are aware of the threat of hypersonic missiles hurtling straight downward at our carriers and other forces at 15,000 mph. Maybe we have adequate defenses, but I have not found anything published that indicates this is the case. (Of course, under no circumstances should it be revealed until absolutely necessary.)
Rita- Speaking of Georgia.... and NATO, NATO, NATO mettling to surround Russia with launching pads:
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History
Moscow’s aggressive reaction to its long-simmering tensions with the former Soviet republic signaled a newly assertive Russia.
BY: SARAH PRUITT
UPDATED: SEPTEMBER 4, 2018 | ORIGINAL: AUGUST 8, 2018
A Russian armored troop-carrier moves with soldiers atop next to a house set on fire by South Ossetian militia on in August, 2008.
DMITRY KOSTYUKOV/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
In early August 2008, after Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili sent troops into the rebellious province of South Ossetia, Russia came to its defense, beginning a five-day-long conflict that ended with Russian troops within striking distance of Tbilisi, the Georgian capital.
Moscow’s aggressive reaction to its long-simmering tensions with Georgia announced Russia’s reemergence as a military power, and paved the way for its controversial dealings with another former Soviet republic, Ukraine, beginning in 2014.
Separatist Issues in Georgia:
The roots of the Russia-Georgia conflict go back to the early 1990s, when both Russia and Georgia were newly independent nations after the dissolution of the USSR. Civil war erupted within Georgia, located to the south of Russia on the eastern shore of the Black Sea, when two provinces—South Ossetia in eastern Georgia, and Abkhazia, on the northwestern coast—sought to declare their own independence.
Mikhail Saakashvili and George W. Bush— Photo
PRESIDENT OF GEORGIA MIKHEIL SAAKASHVILI MEETING WITH U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH AT THE WHITE HOUSE IN FEBRUARY, 2004. THE UNITED STATES BEGAN TRAINING 5,000 GEORGIAN TROOPS A FEW MONTHS LATER. (CREDITL TIM SLOAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
“One can track [the 2008 conflict] back, really from the very beginning of the independence of Georgia, when Abkhazia in particular split away, and the Russians backed Abkhazia,” says Mark Galeotti, senior non-resident fellow at the Institute of International Relations Prague and an expert on modern Russian history and security affairs.
A ceasefire in 1994 ended the worst fighting, but tensions continued to simmer in the two breakaway provinces, which remained technically part of Georgia. Home to different ethnic groups, the Ossetians and the Abkhazians, they had been autonomous earlier in the 20th century, after the Russian Revolution, and they wanted their autonomy back.
*Georgia and the West*
Beginning in the late 1990s, the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) expanded their influence in Eastern and Central Europe, formerly a Soviet stronghold. Russia and its new president, Vladimir Putin (first elected in 2000), bitterly resented the loss of this buffer zone between Moscow and the West.
Vladimir Putin
For its part, Georgia was moving further West, even joining the U.S.-led coalition fighting in the Iraq War in 2003. This process intensified after the election of pro-Western President Mikheil Saakashvili in 2004.
“Georgia was clearly embarked on a process of trying to break out of Russia’s sphere of influence,” Galeotti says. “And as far as Russia was concerned, this was an absolute priority. It had to maintain its sphere of influence, and if it let Georgia go, then who could be next?”
Long-Simmering Tensions Erupt Into War
Russian Troops
A CONVOY OF RUSSIAN TROOPS MAKING ITS WAY THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS TOWARD THE ARMED CONFLICT BETWEEN GEORGIAN TROOPS AND SEPARATIST SOUTH OSSETIAN TROOPS ON AUGUST 9, 2008. GEORGIAN PRESIDENT MIKHEIL SAAKASHVILI DECLARED A ‘STATE OF WAR’ AS HIS TROOPS BATTLED IT OUT WITH RUSSIAN FORCES OVER THE BREAKAWAY PROVINCE OF SOUTH OSSETIA. (CREDIT: DMITRY KOSTYUKOV/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
Sakaashvili also attempted to crack down on separatism within Georgia, which brought the long-running conflict in South Ossetia into the forefront again. Georgia’s always-tense relationship with its northern neighbor worsened in late 2006, when Sakaashvili’s government accused Putin, who was Russia’s prime minister at the time, of supporting the separatist cause. After Georgia arrested four Russian military officers for suspected espionage, Russia responded by closing Georgian businesses and deporting Georgian citizens.
With Georgia on the verge of joining NATO, but not yet subject to the organization’s collective defense agreement, Russia saw an opportunity to rein in its neighbor and demonstrate its military strength in the region. As Galeotti puts it: “The Russians built up their plans, built up their forces, and they ensured that their local proxies in South Ossetia needled Georgians enough, knowing that Sakaashvili….would rise to the bait.”
Nevile Chamberlain discovered this principle to his, and Europe's, great sorrow.
The war exists. The question then becomes what is the best way to end it in a way that is in our national interests. Allowing Russia to win is a non-starter. Ukraine is only a speed bump on their way to what Russia considers defensible border. These would be the Bessarabian and Polish Gaps.
SpyNavy
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
If you are interested in having that discussion I'm all ears and eagerly await any proposal you may have.
The very thing Trump told MbS.
Then told the Sauds that they needed to exert influence over the Muslim nations within their reach to avoid Iran’s ambitions.
Yes. Peaceful means. If Americans are not welcome our government should treat them as enemies of the state. But that’s on us for electing them
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I think what you mean is that Russia does not currently have militarist rhetoric.
However, I do agree with you that it was the derps' 2014 "Color revolution" in Ukraine and the country's subsequent conversion to a globalist-spook haven for money laundering, bioweapons, human trafficking and espionage against Russia that caused the current war.
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