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ransomnote: I became interested in this content based on the 3 minute video excerpt in an x.com post which I will put in post #1. The content intrigued me so I found the whole video (1 hr 11 min), posted the video page description of it and had GROK summarize the transcript (below).TLDR: The midterm elections are framed as decisive. They will determine whether the United States continues shifting toward sovereignty or remains controlled, trapped, and fighting endless proxy wars. Scott Bessent chasing the money behind the Iran war somewhere nobody expected. Mark Carney walking out on Trump. Europe refusing...

John “TIG” Tiegen@TigTiegen·Sep 20They didn’t lose the First Amendment. They lost a badge.They can still speak. They can still publish. They can still cover him. They just don’t get to do it from inside the White House.Nancy Pelosi doesn’t get to lecture anyone about the Constitution.Her gun record: • In Congress since 1987• NRA grade: F. Scores 0–8% for decades• Brady Campaign: 100%• 1994: voted for the federal assault-weapons ban• 1999: voted against cutting the gun-show wait from 3 days to 1• 2003: voted against letting commercial pilots carry• 2003 and 2005: voted against protecting gun makers and sellers from...

Never Forget Dailey@teamreal321·4hThe NVA put a price on his head.He never cashed it in for them.Richard “Demo Dick” Marcinko didn’t just fight in the Mekong. He owned it. Ilo Ilo Island, 1967 — most successful SEAL raid in the Delta. Six enemy boats blown to splinters. A body count the Viet Cong didn’t forget. They offered 50,000 piasters to whoever brought him in. Nobody collected.That same man started as a 17-year-old high-school dropout the Marines already rejected.68 years ago today — September 19, 1958 — he walked into a Navy recruiter and signed up as a radioman. Coal-town kid from...

ransomnote: Click the image of von der Leyen's post below to access her 24 minute public address (English).Paul Walsh@Paul__WalshUrsula von der Leyen announced this week that everyone in the EU must use the official EU age verification app to verify their age before they can log into or post on social media and other digital services.As an expert in online child safety, I'm here to expose the disinformation in each von der Leyen's statements. See below.The EU Kids Act is a pretext designed to enforce mandatory digital identity verification on everyone in Europe. The proposed legislation applies to any digital...

Never Forget Dailey@teamreal321·10h18 September 1944 — PeleliuCol. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, CO of the 1st Marines, greets a Navy admiral at his command post. Shirt off. Coral dust. Heat that could cook a man. Third day of the fight for Bloody Nose Ridge.His regiment landed on White Beach 15 September and took the worst of the island. In ten days they lost more than half their strength. He stayed forward with them.By then he already had four Navy Crosses:Nicaragua, 1930Nicaragua, 1932Guadalcanal, 1942Cape Gloucester, January 1944The fifth came later at the Chosin Reservoir, 1950. Only Marine ever awarded five.Good night, Chesty....

NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依@japan_nobunagaWhen Fukushima exploded, foreign embassies told everyone to FLEE.Commercial planes turned around. Ships steered away as fast as they could.An invisible radiation cloud was drifting across the ocean.And where was the USS Ronald Reagan?STEERING DIRECTLY INTO IT.AT MAXIMUM SPEED.The radiation alarms were screaming on the bridge.Every textbook said: "Turn back. Save yourselves."The Captain and his crew said:"There are Japanese families shivering on rooftops out there. WE DON'T TURN BACK."24 hours a day, in freezing sleet, they ran their desalination plants to the brink of failure.Sailors gave up their OWN fresh water.They stopped taking hot showers.They ate cold rations.Why?To produce tens...

NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依@japan_nobunaga·12hMarch 2011. An entire Japanese island was CUT OFF.Kesennuma Oshima. 3,000 people trapped.No power. No water. Harbor obliterated. Freezing cold.The experts said: "No ship can dock. It's impossible."The US Marine Corps looked at the raging sea and said:"Watch us."They fired up the LCACs.Massive hovercrafts built for storming hostile enemy beaches.Ripping across the debris-choked water at 40 knots.Huge jet engines roaring. Spray flying 50 feet into the air.They didn't wait for a harbor.They rammed right onto the frozen sand.Out rolled bulldozers. Generators. Hot water units. Clean food.Marines jumped into the freezing mud to rebuild the power lines.Why?"Because the children need a...

AJ Signal@aj_geo_analysis𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗫 𝗦𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗦𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶 𝗔𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗮'𝘀 𝗣𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗕𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 "𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀". 𝗜 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀. 𝗧𝗿𝘆 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀.First, let me say plainly that I love the desert and the Arab cultures. But it does shape a timeline the media does not understand because they are talking about something they have never experienced.Lots of people on @X are saying the Saudi East-West pipeline and its pumping stations will be back online in days!?!I have worked these deserts, in Saudi Arabia and across the Middle East, and that is not how it goes. Even if it is...

TODAY'S NEWS, September 12-14, 2026 Writer: Larry Schweikart Larry Schweikart 2 hours ago 6 min read HEADLINES: Ds continue extremist drift; Another flight incident; The 51 Spies Who Lied are not permitted in federal buildings now The News of Today is the History of Tomorrow

Jewels Jones ®@JewelsJonesLive1. Trump landed in Dublin this morning and the Irish establishment had spent a week bracing for a disaster that never came. 150 lawyers signed a letter. Protest groups organized. A message got carved into a beach. Here’s what actually happened. 🧵Sep 13, 2026·Jewels Jones ®@JewelsJonesLive·17h2. His first stop was President Catherine Connolly, a progressive who has called his Iran campaign “a deliberate assault on international law” and once described him as volatile and a bully. She greeted him with a military honor guard. He called her “terrific.” That’s how it went all day.Jewels Jones ®@JewelsJonesLive·17h3. She gave...

FREEQs and FREEPERS, we're 2/3 of the way through the quarter and we've only collected 1/3 of the funds, and our Credit Card processor just shut down Free Republic's account!It's almost like someone doesn't like us sharing information.Please support the best information 'watering hole' on the Internet!ImgurJohn Robinson says ***Folks, we're going to need a lot more PayPal and mail-in donations*** Our credit card processor just shut down our account this morning, so I won't be needing anyone's credit card info after all. Credit card donations are gone.This leaves us with PayPal, mail-in, and Venmo. Someone suggested I look into...

(Thailand) The founder of Thai ice cream brand Hawell's is selling his company for 165 million baht (S$6.32 million) as he prepares to leave the business to become a monk. Announcing the sale on Facebook on Aug 21, founder Siripong Akkarasriyuk said he is also offering a 5-million-baht referral fee to anyone who introduces a successful buyer at the asking price. In his post, Siripong said the sale also includes 2.77 acres of land, an office and factory, the Hawell's outlet, trademark, business know-how and ice cream recipes, valued at 165 million baht in total. -Advertisement- Siripong said the decision...

ransomnote: I didn't try all the links, but tested several. I know one link in the list is dead.Sauda Moni@sauda_coder·14h50 websites that can turn a “quick visit” into hours of exploring1. http://zoom.earth — Live satellite views2. http://flightradar24.com — Track planes worldwide3. http://marinetraffic.com — Track ships in real time4. http://windy.com — Live weather & storms5. http://lightningmaps.org — Live lightning strikes6. http://earthquake.usgs.gov — Recent earthquakes7. http://submarinecablemap.com @sauda_coder — Explore internet cables8. http://globalforestwatch.org — Monitor global forests9. http://worldometers.info — Live world statistics10. http://internetlivestats.com — Live internet stats11. http://thetruesize.com — Compare country sizes12. http://oldmapsonline.org — Explore historical maps13. http://davidrumsey.com — Historical map archive14. http://openstreetmap.org...

John “TIG” Tiegen@TigTiegenFor the next 12 days, I’m going to tell the story of Benghazi.Not just what happened during those 13 hours on September 11 and 12, 2012.I’m going back before that night.Back to the warnings, back to the attacks that had already happened.Back to what was going on in Benghazi months before 4 Americans were killed.Some of what I’m going to share is already documented in congressional investigations and government records.Some of it comes from people who have spent years digging into what happened afterward.And some of it I know for one simple reason.I was there.I was serving on...

Jimmy@mahim_aibriefFrance just wiped Google and Microsoft off 2.5 million government computers.Germany moved 30,000 PCs off Windows. Denmark binned Microsoft Office. All of it in the last 18 months.Here's exactly what they replaced it with, and how to do the same tonight:Sep 1, 2026· Jimmy@mahim_aibrief·11h1/ Swap Out GmailGmail's AI reads your emails by default. There's a class action running over precisely that.Swap to: ProtonMail. Free, Swiss, encrypted end to end. No AI reading it, and outside US jurisdiction entirely.Search "Proton Mail" → sign up → start moving anything sensitive over. Jimmy@mahim_aibrief·11h2/ Swap Out Google SearchEvery search builds your ad profile. That...

TRANSCRIPT Below: Senator Tim Sheehy, a Republican from Montana and former Navy SEAL, delivered a powerful July 2026 Senate floor speech recounting Iran's 47-year conflict with the US. TRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~Senator John Hoeven of North Dakota - Acting President pro tempore: The Senator from Montana Senator Tim Sheehy: “Thank you, Mr. President.“Yesterday, we saw the President of the United States and many others at Dover Air Force Base presiding over a ceremony that is very sacred to those of us who served, and that is a dignified return of remains from the war zone.“That process happens beginning in the war zone,...

F-15 Eagle Vet@F15sRdaBest·23h January 15, 2014. Roughly 45–50 miles off Virginia Beach. Lt. Kegan “Smurf” Gill is flying an F/A-18E Super Hornet with VFA-143 on a basic fighter maneuvers (BFM) training sortie. During a high-speed nose-low recovery (a Split-S type maneuver entered above recommended airspeed), the jet’s flight-control system enters the “G-bucket.” The aircraft incorrectly believes it is carrying bombs that are not actually loaded. This protective software limit reduces available G exactly when he needs maximum pull. The stick is in his lap, the jet stops responding, and he is trapped in a steep dive pointed at the Atlantic....

Hollywood diners got an invitation to leave the dress code at home yesterday, when a South Florida steakhouse hosted an evening where guests could eat dinner in the nude. The concept is being pitched as upscale, respectful and — according to city officials — legal. CLASS Soiree Steakhouse holds its nude dining event on the first Monday of every month, with chef and owner Maurad Ali expecting about 20 guests for the latest installment, WPLG Local 10 reported. Tickets run $250 for men, $150 for women and $300 for couples, making this one of the more expensive ways to discover...

https://x.com/BenghaziNotes/status/2090849855371665574Benghazi Notes@BenghaziNotesIn June of 2020, the US Justice Dept released documents that revealed Obama White House officials including@brhodes and @jakejsullivan joking about who was the bigger liar at the expense of the families of the #Benghazi fallen. Ben Rhodes wrote "At least you’re only a liar. Could be worse – we’re liars and also allegedly leakers. So you’ve got that going for you, which is something." (1/3)Benghazi Notes@BenghaziNotes·Aug 21In response to @brhodes joking at the expense of Americans who perished in #Benghazi, @jakejsullivan said "We’re only lying footsoldiers [sic]. You’re lying masterminds. That’s cooler.”Another Obama WH official added: "There should...

Interesting subject • There IS Life After Death – NO FEAR OF DEATH after this experience of being clinically dead for hours, then coming back. • Thousands of cases documented by doctors & the individual o All across the world not just in certain countries. o Medical records confirm the declared deaths o NO compensation for a person’s recorded interview. o Some can describe the operation that was performed in great detail. o Some described friends and family in the visitation room. o A common description of the other side was how brilliant light is seen, peacefulness, no shadows, a...