a hundred years ago when i was a school boy we were taught how to recognize commie propaganda. in this post you can get a re-run of that lesson in how the empire sells its programs, like russia, ukraine, israel and so on. this entry makes it clear by not exactly doing so, cause east is west and north is south and these chocolate covered cotton balls sure do taste good, major major;

  

Firstly, the presentation of “settler figures” is a subtle way to shift responsibility away from the political arrangement in Israel and conjure up images of civilian crazies, even though numerous government ministers responsible for Israeli policy, including Ben Gvir and Smotrich, are settlers! (And of course the headline demands you accept the underlying premise that not all Israelis are settlers.)

The presentation is intended to create the impression of a few extremist bad apples within a legitimate government, a “coalition,” no less, a deliberate insertion intended to convey a messy political situation in which there is a divide between extremists and non-extremists. A divide which in reality doesn’t exist. In reality there is no distance between “settler figures” and the Israeli government. They are one and the same.

And how about “cement gains?” The “gains” the headline refers to are the illegal expansion of West Bank settlements, expansion which is happening because the entire Israeli government has created the legal framework to enable it, supported by the military. The “gains” are the de facto annexation of West Bank territory, an expansionist policy illegal under both international law and the 1948 UN partition agreement.

If the Guardian had any integrity and wasn’t simply a soft mouthpiece for empire dressed in progressive clothing, the headline would read “Israel advances illegal annexation of West Bank.” It certainly would if they were writing about Russia, which is another clue about the intention here. Can you imagine the Guardian soft-balling it like this over Ukraine?

“Russian government figures seek to cement Crimea gains.”......more........

 the cbdc onslaught is still on the way but the central bankers have gone into silent mode; 

 

During the 2020 pandemic hysteria there was a mad rush by globalist institutions like the WEF, IMF, BIS and numerous national central banks to speed-run the concept of “CBDCs” (Central Bank Digital Currencies) into the mainstream consciousness. The idea of digital currencies rooted to a blockchain ledger was presented as a solution to the pandemic. A number of globalists asserted that digital exchange would be necessary because “paper money carries the covid virus.”

This was, of course, complete nonsense. There was zero evidence that shifting to digital would prevent the spread of the virus in any way. But, as I’ve said for years now, covid was their big play. It was intended to become a nexus point for a global coup; the “New World Order” takeover. The elites figured the population was so terrified that they would agree to anything without a logical reason.

They were wrong, at least in the long run. The virus was a dud (which seemed to catch them by surprise) and the death rate was minimal (0.23% median IFR). The public eventually woke up to the deception and the agenda was forced to dissolve, largely due to nearly half of all US states blocking the mandates. If Americans could live just fine without restrictions, then the rest of the world was going to follow.................more.................

 pcr says here what all of us see and believe about 'our' government;

 

Dear American: No One in Government Represents You

Paul Craig Roberts

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie, Tucker Carlson, Candice Owens, and a few others who have access to media exposure, including myself,  agree that Washington does not represent the American people.  Neither do the state or local governments.  Conservatives used to claim that the closer government is to you, the better it represented you, but that is not my experience. 

Marjorie Taylor Greene says, correctly, that you cannot go against a party position or they will come after you.  In other words, leadership within the parties to bring change cannot arise.  The money interests that finance the elections are the ones that benefit from government. https://reason.com/podcast/2026/06/29/marjorie-taylor-greene-youre-not-being-represented/?mc_eid=b0a2efcaec&utm_source=Reason+Magazine&utm_campaign=20a7ecd1ea-reason_brand|new_at_reason|2026_06_29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_31d7ef7f57-20a7ecd1ea-589981256 

She says it would be possible to beat the system, but it “requires the American people fully getting engaged. And the American people just aren’t fully engaged.”

She is correct.  I have been trying since 1975 when I entered the Congressional staff to get Americans involved before the net closed over them.  I have not been very successful.  

My main success was as Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury getting the Reagan reduction in tax rates passed and the income tax brackets adjusted for inflation in order to prevent inflation from pushing nominal incomes into higher tax brackets.  I was able to do this because this was the task I was assigned by President Reagan, and I had tremendous support from President Reagan and Treasury Secretary Don Reagan, from members of both parties in the House and Senate, and from Bob Bartley, the editor of the Wall Street Journal. If I had not succeeded, every American taxpayer today would be in the top 50% bracket financing with their work and income America’s wars for the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel and the Democrats’ agenda of a multicultural America...........more.........

 pcr thinks the putin isn't serious enough about the war and i agree; 

 

President Trump and NATO Have Declared War on Russia and Putin Is Oblivious

Paul Craig Roberts

John Helmer believes that Putin’s strategy of being toady to Trump and relying on Trump to solve the Ukraine conflict for him has failed and that Putin will have to abandon his naïveté for realism or be removed.  https://johnhelmer.net/the-nuclear-option/ 

Putin’s inability to understand that Russia is at war with the West and that his prevarication for 4.5 years has vastly widened the war and totally changed its character has created the opinion among Russia’s patriotic elements that “Putin is a lost cause.”

That has been my conclusion for some time.  Putin is still thinking and acting as if the conflict is limited to Donbas and that Russia is on the verge of winning as hardly any of Donbas remains in Ukrainian hands.  Putin recently told Trump that the Europeans are a war party because they don’t understand that Putin’s “Special Military Operation” has succeeded in clearing Donbas of Ukrainian forces. Putin mistakenly thinks that the war is over and all that remains is the settlement. Putin dismisses the increasingly effective attacks on the Russian motherland as “terrorist events.”

Putin’s extraordinary blindness to reality is difficult to understand.  The conflict is not a special military operation.  It is a war with the West that has moved far from the Donbas front line to deep within Russia with successful Ukrainian strikes guided by US and NATO targeting systems on Russian refining capability, fuel depots, airports, and civilians.  Putin is so out of it that he is immune to the humiliation that Russian patriots are experiencing from having to suffer increasing successful attacks on their homeland while their leader, advised by two Russian traitors Kirill Dmitriev and Elvira Nabiullina, relies on Trump to save the situation for Russia and for business deals for Russia’s oligarchs...........more..........

 one minute with the force and vw;

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 gregg allman sings melissa on david letterman, sitting on the guest couch, acoustically;

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 dean martin and jerry lewis were partners for some time. dean speaks about jerry in this eighteen minute video;

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