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    Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced that he will step down in September, marking the end of his three-year tenure, which has been overshadowed by political scandals. This decision opens the door for the selection of a new prime minister. During a press conference on Wednesday, Kishida emphasized the importance of public trust in governance, stating, "Politics cannot function without public trust." Kishida also confirmed that he will not seek re-election as the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)

    #FumioKishida #JapanPM #Resignation #PoliticalScandals #LDP #PublicTrust #LeadershipChange #SachTheReality

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    Video】Hideo Shimizu, a former member of #Unit731, the notorious Japanese germ-warfare detachment during World War II, visited the Exhibition Hall of the Evidence of Crimes Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army on Tuesday to testify and apologize in Harbin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

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    unit731
    Japan's General Shiro Ishii led the notorious Unit 731, overseeing some of WWII's most horrific human experiments in biological warfare.

    It aimed to test human limits against disease and starvation.

    Unit 731 led to the deaths of an estimated 300,000 people.

    Sources: New York Times, Guardian

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    Exposure of the content of Unit 731's live experiments is truly horrifying and inhumane! Twenty years ago, the movie "Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre" was released, depicting the atrocities of this demonic unit's "live experiments," which still send shivers down one's spine. In fact, in November 1981, the renowned Japanese author Seiichi Morimura published "The Devil's Gluttony" in Japan. He dedicated over a decade of his life, risking his own safety, to interview former members of Unit 731, even traveling to the United States to uncover classified documents from both the U.S. and Japan. He also went to China for on-site verification, exposing the horrifying truth of the Unit 731's bacteriological warfare and live human experiments, causing great shock in the international community.

    Here are some of the abominable experiments conducted:

    Human-Horse Blood Exchange: Strong individuals had most of their blood drained, causing full-body spasms that several military doctors couldn't control. Then, they injected horse blood and observed the reaction, resulting in the death of all human subjects due to rejection.

    Human-Animal Hybridization: Women were forced to mate with horses to supposedly optimize the genetics of so-called inferior races.

    731 Female Body Experiments: Unit 731, a branch of the Japanese Kwantung Army in Northeast China, used both women and men, even children, as subjects for experiments. Women were subjected to syphilis infection experiments, locked inside tanks and incinerated with flamethrowers to observe their physiological responses. They were also shot with rifles or pistols in lined-up formations to study the penetrating capabilities of firearms. Every experiment was incredibly cruel, as each subject was a living human being. Men, women, children, all were used, with females often chosen for gynecological and reproductive studies.

    731 Maternal Love Experiment: In this experiment, mothers and infants were locked in a room and heated to nearly melting temperatures. The purpose was to observe whether the mother would pick up the child or step on it due to the heat. Additionally, there were gas experiments. A former Unit 731 soldier who personally participated in human experiments in China wrote in his memoir: "In a transparent glass room, a mother and her daughter, only about four years old, were locked in. At the moment when the poison gas seeped in, the little girl suddenly raised her head from her mother's arms, staring around with her big round eyes. The mother seemed to be desperately protecting her child, trying to shield her from the effects of the poison gas as much as possible. However, the potent gas quickly killed both mother and daughter. In the convulsions before death, the mother still held onto her child tightly, unwilling to let go."

    These nauseatingly cruel methods are just the tip of the iceberg. There were even more horrifying practices like the feces punishment, coffin beds, nail shoes, and the invisible killing of the plague. For Japan, facing history and reflecting on wartime atrocities remains an unfinished task. Distorting and concealing history pale in the face of historical evidence. Those who committed these crimes against humanity will forever be recorded in the annals of history. Because the light preserved by truth never extinguishes!
    #unit731

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    beyond disgusting

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    🇺🇸🇳🇿❌⚖️ The Hypocrisy of Power: Kim Dotcom’s Extradition and the Orwellian Double Standards of U.S. Justice

    The recent decision to extradite
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    from New Zealand to the United States is not just a miscarriage of justice; it’s a clear demonstration of the double standards and hypocrisy that underpin the so-called “rule of law” in the digital age. In an era where Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Google are not held liable for the actions of their users, Kim Dotcom is being crucified for the alleged crimes of a few individuals who used his platform, Megaupload.

    The U.S. government’s case against Dotcom is built on a foundation of Orwellian legal gymnastics, where the rules conveniently change depending on who’s in the crosshairs. Despite the fact that ISPs and other online platforms are protected under laws that shield them from liability for the content uploaded by their users, Dotcom is being held to a different, far more punitive standard. The message is clear: if you threaten the power of the Hollywood cartel and their enforcers in Washington, the rules no longer apply.

    Megaupload, like any other platform, had millions of users, most of whom used it legally. Yet, instead of going after those who broke the law, the U.S. government has decided to go after the man who dared to create a platform that democratized access to information. This is not about justice; it’s about sending a message. Dotcom’s persecution is a stark reminder that the U.S. legal system can and will be weaponized against those who challenge the entrenched powers.

    This case sets a dangerous precedent—one where the law is bent and twisted to serve the interests of the elite, while those who dare to innovate are punished for the actions of a few bad actors. It’s not just Kim Dotcom who’s on trial; it’s the very notion of fairness, justice, and freedom in the digital age. How can we stand by as a man is extradited and potentially silenced for providing a service no different from those offered by countless tech giants?

    The reality is that Dotcom’s extradition is less about legal culpability and more about the fear of what he represents—a powerful voice for a multipolar, just world. A world where the hegemony of the American empire is challenged, where forever wars are questioned, and where the elites are held accountable for their crimes. The fight for Kim Dotcom’s freedom is a fight for all of us who believe in a world where truth, justice, and innovation can flourish without fear of retribution.

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    Strange 'Stonehenge' discovered in US lake that's 5,000 years older than the British landmark


    Holley and his team uncovered sunken boats, cars and even a Civil war-era pier while surveying Lake Michigan's Grand Traverse Bay

    There's much we may never know about our earliest ancestors, like why we started to walk upright and how we managed to create structures that seem to defy the engineering capabilities of the time.

    Stonehenge remains one of these great mysteries, with experts around the world divided over why exactly the prehistoric monument was built.

    Now, to add to this age-old confusion, it has emerged that a similarly enigmatic stone structure has been found beneath the waters of Lake Michigan in the US.

    Not only that, but this underwater creation is around 5,000 years older than its British counterpart.

    The site was discovered in 2007 by a team of archaeologists led by Mark Holley, a professor of underwater archaeology at Northwestern Michigan College.

    Holley and his colleagues were conducting a survey of the lake bed when they chanced upon a series of large stones, arranged in a circular pattern, just off the coast of Traverse City, Michigan.

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    This Is One Of The Most Important Videos You Can Watch

    American Farmer says he’s tested his soil and it has 5x the amount of aluminum it used to have. The GMO seeds grow fine, all his heirloom seed crops are all the sudden failing (shows proof)

    Reminder, Bill Gates is creating GMO seeds that grow in aluminum rich soil. I’ve posted the video proof

    We are being ruled by extremely evil people and one day only their GMO seeds will be the ones that grow. Total control of our food supply.

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    https://x.com/SPACEdotcom/status/1824820837423198714


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    Robotic Russian Progress 89 cargo ship docks at ISS with tons of fresh supplies (video)

    An uncrewed Russian cargo ship successfully docked at the International Space Station early Saturday (Aug. 17) to deliver tons of fresh gear, food and other vital supplies.

    The automated Progress 89 spacecraft linked up with the International Space Station (ISS) at 1:53 a.m. EDT (0553 GMT) at the station's Russian-built Zvezda service module as both spacecraft sailed 260 miles (418 km) over the South Pacific Ocean.

    "Contact confirmed, docking confirmed," NASA spokesperson Rob Navias said during live commentary as the Progress spacecraft arrived. "Progress has reached the International Space Station."

    Russia's space agency Roscosmos launched Progress 89 to the ISS atop a Soyuz rocket on Wednesday from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The spacecraft is carrying 2.8 tons of supplies for the space station's seven person Expedition 71 crew and two Boeing Starliner astronauts also aboard.

    RELATED STORIES:
     — ISS astronauts watch Russian cargo ship burn up in Earth's atmosphere (photos)
     — Soyuz spacecraft suffers 'fairly substantial' leak at space station, cancels spacewalk by Russian cosmonauts
    —  Russia's replacement Soyuz spacecraft arrives at space station


    The supplies aboard Progress 89 include 2,648 pounds (1,201 kilograms) of food, gear and other dry goods, 2,094 pounds (949 kg) of propellant, 926 pounds (420 kg) of water and 110 pounds (50 kg) of nitrogen.

    The cargo ship will remain docked at the ISS for six months before being backed with trash and unneeded items to be disposed of by burning up in Earth's atmosphere, NASA officials said.


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    Article here,

    https://www.space.com/boeing-starlin...tent=space.com
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    “Never give up, no matter how hard life is, no matter how much pain you feel. The pain will eventually subside, nothing lasts forever, so keep going and don’t give up.”
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    I found this video interesting... I didn't know where to put it in... so... here it is...

    Submarine Fleet Strength by Country (2024)


    There are at least 471 submarines in the world, many of them lurking in the world’s oceans right now. We mapped them all.

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    How Soon Before You’ll Need a Digital ID to Access Public Services?

    The Biden administration is drafting an executive order for federal and state governments to speed up the adoption of digital ID — including mobile driver’s licenses — and for the development of a uniform, government-run online identity system to verify identity and age, and access public websites and services.

    NOTUS, a nonprofit news outlet, obtained a draft of the executive order, which states: “It is the policy of the executive branch to strongly encourage the use of digital identity documents.”

    According to NOTUS, the executive order “could reshape how Americans access government services, and potentially behave online.”

    A digital ID system could operate with the use of biometric scans like facial recognition to “help better verify identity online,” NOTUS reported, noting the federal government is working with Apple and Google to build systems that would “allow Americans to carry identity documents on their smartphones and frictionlessly submit them to both government and private sector websites for verification.”

    Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D., author of “The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty: Unraveling the Global Agenda,” told The Defender that, as defined by the World Economic Forum (WEF), “digital identity is ‘the sum total of the growing and evolving mass of information about us, our profiles and the history of our activities online.’”

    Rectenwald said:

    “Digital identity is not merely a new, more handy, lightweight, digital form of identification. It refers to a collection of data that purportedly defines who we are, including what we do both online and offline … and not merely to a means by which we can be identified as such.”

    Alexis Hancock, director of engineering for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told The Defender the Biden administration’s digital ID will disproportionately target the poor and underprivileged. She said:

    “Digital Identity and the standards that dictate them are still very ‘new’ and yet the White House is expediting digital identity for the most vulnerable of populations: people on public benefits.

    “Deploying various technologies on this population to access their benefits, such as facial recognition is not something I’d encourage or advise. Especially with facial recognition being fraught with issues of discrimination.”

    Rectenwald also warned that digital ID can later be expanded to other functions.

    “Even if a digital identity system only serves as identification at first, as the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice notes, digital identities are prone to ‘function creep’” — that is, “they are intended to be used for multiple purposes that are unforeseen when the system is first designed,” he said.

    Tim Hinchliffe, editor of The Sociable, cited vaccine passports as one such possibility.

    “While the federal government wasn’t able to legally mandate vaccination to all U.S. citizens, it went ahead anyway and mandated it to federal employees, and the private sector followed suit. … The same can easily happen with digital identity,” Hinchliffe said.

    The NOTUS report comes just days after revelations that the Social Security numbers and other personal information of practically all Americans stored by a private company, National Public Data, was breached in April 2024.

    Catherine Austin Fitts, founder and publisher of the Solari Report and former U.S. assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said, “Rather than apologize or take steps to make sure that our data is secure, the Biden administration is proposing to create even more centrally controlled databases pushing for a digital ID.”

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    House Committee Questions Federal Government's Alliance in the CCP's Unrestricted War Against America
    Kingston Report Karen Kingston
    Aug 21, 2024
    https://karenkingston.substack.com/p..._content=share

    "Serious questions remain about whether the NSC fully understands, or has a coordinated plan to defeat the CCP’s unrestricted warfare targeting American communities, sectors, and the U.S. government."

    In a scathing letter sent today to the head of the National Security Council (NSC), Jake Sullivan, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, James Comer, asserts that while the NSC acknowledges the numerous critical national security threats that the CCP poses, “-such as homeland security, global public health, international economics, climate, science and technology, cybersecurity, migration, and others,” the Biden-Harris administration has not only failed to develop a government-wide strategy to identify, deter, and defeat the CCP’s unrestricted warfare, but Jake Sullivan has openly endorsed the CCP’s unrestricted warfare tactics against Americans.

    House Committee Chair Jame Comer writes;

    “You have endorsed the false narrative that the PRC is simply engaging in mutual ‘competition’ - while admitting that ‘China has to be willing to play its part.’ Yet, it is common sense that ‘competition’ does not include subversive activity, planned infiltration, rampant theft of critical technologies, and strategic efforts to infiltrate and destroy critical infrastructure (unrestricted warfare).”

    “Serious questions remain about whether the NSC fully understands, or has a coordinated plan to defeat the CCP’s unrestricted warfare targeting American communities, sectors, and the U.S. government.”

    House Committee Warns Sullivan that the Federal Agencies are Clueless and that the Biden Administration is Violating Federal Law
    “‘As the President’s principal forum for national security and foreign policy decision making,’ and ‘the President’s principal arm for coordinating these policies across federal agencies,’ the NSC has great responsibility to construct and execute a government-wide strategy to secure the nation from CCP efforts to infiltrate, influence and weaken the homeland.”

    “Yet the Committee’s investigation has uncovered that very few federal officials recognize, understand, or have a strategic to safeguard America from CCP infiltration and influence…many federal officials are unaware of the CCP’s decades-long unrestricted warfare campaign, minimize the threat, and reflexively excuse CCP activity threatening the security and prosperity of communities across our country.”

    “…(the House Committee’s investigations into federal investigations) have already made clear that despite federal law requiring the Biden-Harris Administration to implement a “grand strategy with respect to China,” no serious government-wide strategy exists.”

    Note: Perhaps one of the reasons the FDA is also failing to adhere to federal laws and recall the highly-toxic and often lethal COVID-19 mRNA injections, is because the FDA is featured as one of China’s largest biopharma partners in a promotional video published by the China National GeneBank (CNGB).



    House Committee Warns: US Government-Wide Strategy is Urgently Needed or America Will Lose Our Freedoms
    “The investigation has made one thing particularly clear: our country is in urgent need of a cohesive government-wide strategy to identify, counter, and defeat CCP unrestricted warfare. As detailed below, this warfare is designed to weaken and defeat our country. ….Without a coordinated government-wide strategy, the United States is at risk of defeat in this new cold war.”

    “Only by being clear in public about the actions and intentions of the Chinese party-state, and being publicly accountable for the actions of the US government takes in response, will the United States be able to address Beijing’s challenges while upholding democratic commitment to fair, transparent justice for all Americans.”

    Retired Brigandine General Spalding testified, “today, the Chine Communist Party (CCP) and its proxies wage a global political war to influence the face of human civilization using the tools of stagecraft, business, economics, trade, finance, academia, and especially technology…influence is far easier, less risky, and profoundly more effective than military weapons when conducted our globally connected world.”

    Federal Agencies Must Warn Americans that China is at War with America and to “Prepare to Take Action”
    The House Committee warns the all Americans are targets and must be notified to take action to protect themselves and their communities against CCP warfare tactics.

    The House Committee recommends that President Biden and the NSC develop public messaging that includes the terms “unrestricted warfare, political warfare, irregular warfare, war without boundaries, and cold war.”

    In this letter, and past letters to federal agencies, the House Committee has asserted:

    “As all Americans are targets of the PRC’s warfare, federal agencies have responsibilities to;

    conduct outreach to citizens about the dangers they may encounter, and

    provide appropriate incentives for Americans to proactively protect themselves—their communities, schools, houses of worship, businesses, finances, food, and more—from the threat.

    Federal agencies must prepare Americans to “take action.”

    A United America Can Defeat the CCP,
    The House Committee cites Retired Colonel Grant Newsham in providing a strategy to defeat the CCP and save American’s liberties, freedoms, and values.

    “The CCP knows the strength of the American people, of the American idea, and that’s why China has launched so many warfares to try and weaken us, divide us, and get us to hate ourselves and each other. The way out of this is to rediscover why we are an exceptional country, get to know each other better, and fight side by side.”

    The letter closes with a request for the NSC to provide insights into how the Biden-Harris administration is planning to identify, deter, and defeat the CCP’s unrestrained and unrestricted war on the US government, military, infrastructure, democratic values, and American people, by August 27, 2024."
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    Breaking: RFK Jr. and CHD Get Green Light to Sue Biden Administration for Censorship
    by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.
    August 21, 2024
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    "A Louisiana district court ruled late Tuesday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Children’s Health Defense have legal standing to sue the Biden administration for colluding with tech giants to censor their social media posts, in a decision that listed specific instances of government officials targeting Kennedy and CHD.

    A Louisiana district court ruled late Tuesday that plaintiffs Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Children’s Health Defense (CHD) have the legal right to sue the Biden administration for pressuring tech giants to censor their social media posts.

    The judgment came less than a month after a federal appeals court declined to rule on a preliminary injunction prohibiting the administration from coordinating with social media companies until the district court decided the plaintiffs’ standing.

    Standing is the legal doctrine that requires plaintiffs to show they have suffered direct and concrete injuries and that those injuries could be resolved in court in order to sue.

    Commenting on Tuesday’s ruling in Kennedy v. Biden, Kim Mack Rosenberg, CHD general counsel, said that the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana “reached what we believe is the correct conclusion with respect to standing for CHD and Mr. Kennedy.”

    Perhaps even “more importantly,” she told The Defender:

    “Judge Terry Doughty carefully and clearly analyzed the law and facts and applied the framework from the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Murthy v. Missouri regarding standing. The court also firmly found in plaintiffs’ favor that plaintiffs had not waived — and indeed had affirmatively raised — direct censorship claims in addition to listener claims.”

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    , CHD and Connie Sampognaro have standing in the lawsuit Kennedy v. Biden to continue our case in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

    This means the Biden-Harris Administration may finally be held accountable for its censorship of us via #BigTech.

    Stay tuned for an in-depth article in #TheDefender tomorrow. 👇
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    Facebook admitted suppressing truthful CHD social media posts

    In his decision, Doughty summarized the evidence, outlining a series of specific instances where Kennedy and CHD were censored.

    He also reviewed the three requirements for “standing,” which are that a plaintiff must show that they suffered an injury, that the injury is traceable to the defendant’s actions and that it can be redressed through a favorable decision.

    CHD CEO Mary Holland said Doughty found that the government’s conduct is traceable to direct statements and instructions to social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

    “Further, the judge found that a preliminary injunction, which mandates that the government stop censoring plaintiffs through social media, would redress their injuries,” Holland said.

    Doughty wrote that Kennedy and CHD “were in positions contrary to Government positions on COVID-19, including mask mandates, vaccine mandates, vaccine injuries, lockdowns, etc.,” that Kennedy was identified by the Center for Countering Digital Hate as part of the so-called “Disinformation Dozen,” and that CHD was named as a tool for spreading “anti-vaccine messages.”

    Doughty also reviewed a series of meetings and emails between the White House and Twitter and Facebook, which occurred throughout 2021, in which those companies agreed to de-amplify, place warnings on or fully censor posts containing so-called “vaccine misinformation,” regardless of whether the information was true.

    For example, in one email Clark Humphrey, a member of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 response team, requested Twitter remove one of Kennedy’s tweets. The tech giant complied.

    “Facebook admitted that although the CHD’s posts did not violate its policies, it would suppress content that originated from CHD,” Doughty wrote.

    He cited reports written by organizations, such as the Virality Project, which named Kennedy and CHD specifically, flagging them with “tickets” to report COVID-19 misinformation to the social media giants.

    He also cited the fact that Kennedy’s Instagram account was suspended and CHD continues to be deplatformed from Instagram, Facebook and YouTube — showing that CHD faces ongoing injury, a requirement for standing.

    “There is not much dispute that both Kennedy and CHD were specifically targeted by the White House, the Office of Surgeon General, and CISA [Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency], and the content of Kennedy and CHD were suppressed,” he wrote.

    Given censorship of the Donald Trump presidential campaign on social media, and evidence presented in a declaration by Brigid Rasmussen, the chief of Kennedy’s presidential campaign, stating that content favorable to the campaign had been censored on social media, Doughty ruled that Kennedy faces a “substantial risk” that government defendants will restrict his speech in the future.

    Doughty ruled that the third plaintiff in the case, Connie Sampognaro, a Louisiana healthcare professional, who argued she was deprived of the “right to listen” to censored organizations did not have standing. Doughty said Sampognaro did not show specific instances of content moderation that caused her harm.

    ‘Undisputed that CHD has satisfied its burden of showing injury’

    In June, the Supreme Court struck down a similar injunction against the Biden administration in a related case, Murthy v. Missouri.

    The court ruled the plaintiffs — two states and five social media users — did not have standing because they couldn’t show “specific causation” for any instance of content moderation tied to the government.

    The court also said the plaintiffs couldn’t demonstrate a substantial risk that “in the near future they will suffer an injury that is traceable to a Government defendant and redressable by the injunction they seek.”

    The injunction issued in Kennedy v. Biden was granted on Feb. 14 by Doughty, who also issued a stay until 10 days after the Supreme Court ruled on the injunction in Murthy v. Biden.

    After the Supreme Court overturned the Murthy v. Missouri injunction, the Biden administration appealed the injunction in Kennedy v. Biden to the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, citing the same argument they used in Murthy v. Missouri — that the plaintiffs lacked standing.

    The 5th Circuit sent the case back to the District Court to rule on standing. In its ruling yesterday, Doughty wrote:

    “This Court finds that there is significant evidence showing Kennedy was directly censored in the past, and there is likely a substantial risk that Kennedy’s content will be restricted in the future because of the actions of at least one of the Government Defendants. …

    “It is undisputed that CHD has satisfied its burden of showing injury in fact for much of the same reasons that Kennedy has.”

    Only one plaintiff needs to have standing for a case to move forward. The case will now proceed to the 5th Circuit, which will rule on the preliminary injunction.

    The Defender on occasion posts content related to Children’s Health Defense’s nonprofit mission that features Mr. Kennedy’s views on the issues CHD and The Defender regularly cover. In keeping with Federal Election Commission rules, this content does not represent an endorsement of Mr. Kennedy who is on leave from CHD and is running for president of the U.S. as an independent candidate."

    Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., is a senior reporter for The Defender. She wrote and taught about capitalism and politics for 10 years in the writing program at Duke University. She holds a Ph.D. in human geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master's from the University of Texas at Austin.
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    ---19 min--22 Aug 2024 #TheJimmyDoreShow
    'RFK Jr.’s running mate Nicole Shanahan has been doing the media rounds lately, lighting into Democrats for all the roadblocks the party has erected to derail the Kennedy candidacy — avenues notably NOT pursued by Republicans. As a consequence, she says, she and RFK may drop out of the race entirely and throw their weight behind getting Trump elected.

    Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss all the anti-democratic ways the Democratic Party operates to sabotage third party candidates as well as upstart candidates within the part'

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