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    Military attacks aren't the only USA method for killing civilians. The Trump regime is actively blockading and sanctioning.
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    https://www.rt.com/news/641301-us-bl...-commissioner/

    US blockade of Cuba killing children – UN commissioner
    The sanctions imposed on the island nation by Washington are incompatible with international human rights law, according to Volker Turk


    June 10, 2026

    Children in Cuba are dying amid acute shortages of essential medical supplies caused by US-imposed economic sanctions, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has said.

    The island nation has endured daily blackouts and severe fuel deficits in recent months after Venezuela, once Havana’s main oil supplier, stopped crude shipments under pressure from the US in early 2026. This was preceded by the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by American commandos in January.

    US President Donald Trump has since repeatedly stated that he intends to “take” Cuba “one way or another.”

    Turk described the plight of ordinary Cubans as “unacceptable,” warning that “children are dying because doctors lack access to essential medical supplies and medicines,” as quoted in a statement issued on Monday. According to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), infant mortality in Cuba has doubled to 9.9 per 1,000 births, with childhood cancer survival rates down from 85% to 65% since the US imposed a fuel blockade on the Caribbean country.

    “Critical medical services such as oncology, dialysis, and maternal health are under severe strain,” with essential medicines in “critical short supply,” the report warned.

    International humanitarian efforts to alleviate the situation are being hampered by US extraterritorial sanctions, with private companies refusing to deliver such shipments for fear of running afoul of them, OHCHR stated.

    “Such severe sanctions packages that target entire sectors of an economy and produce broad, indiscriminate and harsh effects on populations are incompatible with basic principles of international human rights law,” Turk charged.

    Last month, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla accused the US of meting out “collective punishment” in that Cubans are being subjected to conditions “that violate their human rights and cause pain, suffering, and anguish.”

    Axios, citing several anonymous US officials, reported in late May that the White House was looking to further ramp up the pressure on Cuba in the hope that worsening economic conditions would eventually lead to regime change.

    Russia, China, Mexico, and several other countries have been supplying Cuba with humanitarian aid. Moscow sent a shipment of around 700,000 barrels of crude oil in late March.

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    https://www.rt.com/news/641324-us-is...ng-talks-iran/

    US and Israel seeking to ‘sabotage’ Iran talks – ex-CIA analyst
    Larry Johnson told RT that President Donald Trump’s explanation for the latest escalation “doesn’t make sense”


    June 10, 2026

    The US and Israel have carried out recent strikes in Iran and Lebanon in an effort to sabotage the ongoing peace talks, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson has told RT.

    On Wednesday local time, the US struck Qeshm Island and targets in southern Iran in response to the crash of a US AH-64 Apache attack helicopter off the coast of Oman – an incident President Donald Trump blamed on Iran. Tehran, however, has refused to confirm that it was responsible for the crash.

    Johnson argued that Trump’s rationale for the latest escalation “doesn’t make sense,” especially since both pilots of the helicopter survived.

    “If they are alive, why does Donald Trump launch strikes on Iran when they are supposedly in the midst of peace talks? The only reason I can come up with is that he did it deliberately to sabotage the talks,” he said.

    Trump has been pressured by “the Zionist crowd” and pro-Israel politicians such as Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, Johnson said.

    “They are insistent on destroying Iran. They don’t want a deal with Iran,” he stated.

    Johnson said Israel’s airstrikes on Beirut on Sunday were also aimed at provoking a conflict with Iran.

    “Too much progress was being made during the peace talks for the neocons and for Israel, so they did everything in their power to sabotage it. I think this is going to lead to a new round of escalation that can go on for a week or two,” he said.

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    A bit of fun.

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    Here's Robert Barnes on with Judge Andrew Napolitano for the first time. Barnes knows a LOT, with a whole bunch of high-level contacts in Washington, and I'd gently suggest that everyone might take time to listen to this. Barnes answers, in detail, the question posed in the video title.

    [SPECIAL] Robert Barnes : How Trump Makes Decisions


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    EXPOSED: The British Hand Blocking Trump's Peace in Ukraine and Iran



    Promethean Updates
    June 11, 2026
    Summary:
    00:00 The Midweek Update - EXPOSED: The British Hand Blocking Trump's Peace in Ukraine and Iran - June 10, 2026
    01:52 Zelensky's Poisoned Pill
    05:40 The Hand at the Top
    08:34 The Mideast — Nations, Not Proxies

    Susan contrasts Donald Trump’s stated push for a “stronger than a bomb” deal with Iran and his desire to stop the killing in Ukraine, arguing the common narrative about villains in Tehran or Moscow misses what is actually blocking peace.

    It examines Zelenskyy’s open letter to Putin as a two-part maneuver that undercuts Trump’s Anchorage Summit and calls for Europe and the UK to serve as “guarantors,” followed by Zelenskyy’s meetings in London with Starmer, Macron, and Merz and coordinated messaging from major think tanks. It also highlights a U.S. House vote to keep arms flowing over Trump’s objections, tied to the British-American Parliamentary Group funded by the UK government.

    The script cites UK records on Ambassador Peter Mandelson and reports that King Charles considered canceling Trump’s state visit over Zelenskyy, framing Ukraine and Middle East conflicts as managed proxy wars that Trump’s sovereignty-based approach seeks to end.

    Susan Kokinda, quote "(10:23 minutes) Did you catch that? They (Israel) may like that, they may not. The vice president of the United States just said out loud that Israel's preferences are not the driver of America's policy. And this comes on the heels of the president's leaked fbomb laden confrontations with BB Netanyahu and administration revelations that Israel may be spying on Trump's Iran negotiators.

    So this is different. This is not the stuff of Israel runs the United States narrative which occupies so much of the social media universe.

    The United States has its own strategy now. We're acting in our interests, not off of the old geopolitical playbook. And this is exactly what terrifies them.

    Because if Trump can treat Iran as a nation, not a proxy, and get a deal that's stronger than a bomb, the entire architecture is exposed as unnecessary.

    And that architecture is being exposed in Ukraine where King Charles and Starmer and Mertz and Macron and the think tanks keep their proxy in the game long after a settlement could have been made.

    Trump is setting new rules.

    One where sovereign nations are the principles, not global elites directing their pawns. A world where Iran could function as a nation again, where Russia is allowed to have legitimate interests and Israel functions in the actual interests of its people. "
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    Once again, could we please relegate that "Promethean Updates" channel to the hoaxes section? It keep claiming that Trump has 'strategies', claims that do NOT in any way, shape or form reflect the reality on the ground. Or better yet, relegate it to a psyop thread, if there is such a thing here.

    Ask yourself who benefits from the Trump circus show? The zionist oligarchs, that's who. Of course they'll put out psyops outlining 'backroom strategies' that, in reality, Trump does not even have the mental capability or the morality to comprehend. Meanwhile these zionist oligarchs' wealth has grown exponentially since Trump's 2024 win, and especially since gaming the markets by starting a war against Iran that they're now trying to convince americans they should go fight and die for.

    Did anybody here ever hear Trump say that he's fighting 'the bank of england'? Of course not. Because Trump is in fact serving the bank of england's Rotchilds who created Israel who's sucking USA dry.

    Meanwhile Trump is completely ignoring the terrible hardships suffered by the american people by trying to claim that 'inflation is good'. Trump is definitely harming people around the world with threats, attacks and theft. You know, the bullying stuff that Trump has practiced for decades.

    The Trump supporters (if there's any left at this point) remind me of that old say: Trump's pissing on you while trying to convince you that it's rain. Sorry for the the crude analogy, but it's unfortunately an accurate analogy, because everything Trump has done since January has displayed a gross contempt for the people.

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    Trump says "I love the inflation" because U.S. is "taking" Iranian oil


    "President Trump is weighing in on the latest Consumer Price Index data, which shows inflation rose to 4.2% in May. Mr. Trump said, "I love the inflation," and said oil and gas prices will slump after the war with Iran is over.


    Who believed Trump when he said yesterday that USA had won the war already, and made a great deal with Iran? Trump is now starting WW3, and it's not going to be over next week, probably not next year either.

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    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
    [SPECIAL] Robert Barnes : How Trump Makes Decisions
    I continue to figure that the person appearing as President Trump now is not the same person as we elected in 2016, 2020 and 2024. The current Trump is shorter and temperamentally less well suited to being President. Something changed, perhaps a year ago.

    The real changes, driven by deeper powers, continue. (If I had RunningDeer's graphical talents, I'd show a smilie of a cow crossing its fingers hooves.)

    The war in the Middle East may be essential, in the view of those deeper powers, to take out the two strongest, globalist controlled, regimes in that region, who have been leveraged since World War II to create endless wars and control vast flows of money and energy, at a control point critical to the world's economy and finances. It might well be useful, to the deeper powers that be, to set up Trump and Netanyahu to take the blame, in the eyes of many, for that war, as a way of providing cover for the real dynamics at play here.

    See The Long Inquisition: How Christian-on-Christian Violence Perfected the Binary and Prepared the Modern Mind for Its Final Enclosure, by E.M. Burlingame, Jun 10, 2026, that I posted earlier today, over at What's happening in China - Post #66 for my current understanding of the Bigger Picture.

    Robert Barnes is a lawyer - a fine lawyer I'd gladly hire, if in circumstances where that made sense. There are other levels to this puzzle, for perceptive analysis of which I look elsewhere.
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    Quote Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)
    I continue to figure that the person appearing as President Trump now is not the same person as we elected in 2016, 2020 and 2024. The current Trump is shorter and temperamentally less well suited to being President. Something changed, perhaps a year ago.
    Dave Hodges, whom I don't usually listen to much, observes that after Trump had been in office for 4 or 5 months (January to May or June) of his current 2025 term (elected Nov 2024, took office Jan 2025), something changed. Trump was serious MAGA those first 4 or 5 months, but then did a Dr Jekyll to Mr Hyde change. Hodges states this starting at the 42:40 mark of Will US Deploy 11th Airborne to Iran? The Kirk Cover--Up and More! (Youtube) with Steven Ben-Nun of Israeli News Live.
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    Robert Barnes is a lawyer - a fine lawyer I'd gladly hire, if in circumstances where that made sense. There are other levels to this puzzle, for perceptive analysis of which I look elsewhere.
    Let me double down on my recommendation of Burlingame's historical analysis, that I linked above.
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    Once again, could we please relegate that "Promethean Updates" channel to the hoaxes section? It keep claiming that Trump has 'strategies', claims that do NOT in any way, shape or form reflect the reality on the ground. Or better yet, relegate it to a psyop thread, if there is such a thing here.
    This is the second time you have called for this. It sounds like your running a psyop as evidenced by you trying to control the narrative on this thread specifically trying to have PU censored, and furthermore constantly bombing this thread with anything negative about President Trump. Struck a nerve have we!!!

    So, "who are you and who do you work for Rizotto?"

    In regards to the video below, hopefully the idea of taking back our countries/sovereignty and rebuilding western countries will not up upset you to much, enjoy.


    REBUILDING WESTERN CIVILIZATION: TRUMP AND AMERICA'S GREATNESS



    Promethean Overviews
    June 11, 2026
    Summary:
    00:00 Introduction
    01:38 The State of the West
    03:05 Jobs, Energy & Industrial Growth
    05:10 Why GDP Isn't Enough
    06:50 Measuring Real Productivity
    08:20 How America Stopped Building
    10:00 The Bering Strait Tunnel Vision
    11:10 Vladimir Vernadsky & The Noosphere
    13:00 America's Civilizational Mission
    14:15 NAWAPA and Thinking Big Again
    15:15 Truth, Logos & Western Civilization
    16:05 Rebuilding America
    16:35 Final Thoughts


    Can Western civilization be rebuilt?

    As political divisions deepen, social tensions rise, and economic debates dominate the headlines, many Americans are asking a deeper question: Is our civilization in decline, or are we simply measuring success the wrong way?

    In this analysis, Mike examines the economic, cultural, and philosophical foundations of national renewal. While many focus on stock markets, GDP statistics, and political battles, the real measure of a nation's health may be its ability to produce, build, innovate, and inspire future generations.

    From rising industrial investment and energy production to the revival of large-scale infrastructure projects, America may be entering a new era of development. But economic growth alone is not enough. Beneath the headlines lies a larger struggle over the future of Western civilization itself.

    Drawing on the ideas of Vladimir Vernadsky, America's tradition of nation-building, the proposed Bering Strait tunnel, and the spiritual foundations of Western civilization, Mike explores what it would take to restore a culture capable of thinking big once again.

    The breakdown:

    • Why stock market performance is not a measure of civilizational success
    • America's manufacturing and industrial resurgence
    • The importance of productivity, energy, and physical economic growth
    • How decades of war and financialization changed the nation
    • The proposed Bering Strait tunnel and the return of grand infrastructure projects
    • Vladimir Vernadsky's vision of humanity as a creative force in history
    • America's legacy of nation-building and continental development
    • The NAWAPA project and the tradition of thinking big
    • Plato, St. Paul, and the philosophical roots of Western civilization
    • Charlie Kirk's influence on a rising generation
    • The connection between faith, culture, science, and national renewal
    • Why rebuilding America requires more than economic reform

    From jobs reports and energy production to philosophy, infrastructure, and the future of Western civilization, this analysis explores why America's greatest challenge may not be economic decline—but recovering the confidence to build again.
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    Political analyst Trita Parsi is a Swedish citizen, holds a green card, and has lived in the USA for decades.

    Trump Admin Looks To Deport Trita Parsi For Iran War Criticism

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    Playing the on and off pretence that a deal with Iran is close, gaming the stock market with insider trading, then bombing Iran has consequences for one's credibility.
    'Is President Trump like Nero, fiddling while Rome is burning? No, he's like Bernie Madoff.' (Douglas McGregor quoting a Wall Street financier.)

    "President Trump called off the strikes against Iran tonight because a deal is close that many parties have come to this agreement on a deal and that it could be finalized within the next 2 to 3 days"

    (However, the Iranians made it clear there is no deal.)

    "This all about to collapse and Trump knows it" Col. Douglas Macgregor

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    Here's what is so glaringly obvious about 'Promethean Updates' (PU) being a psyop is that they never acknowledge that USA is run or controlled by Israel. A fact that's really obvious to the rest of the world. PU is set up as a big distraction, stringing along Trump disappointees with hopium.

    For example, in BMJ's #2865 post on the PU, a claim is made that USA is now shaping its own strategy, not Israel's. Claims that misrepresent the obvious reality are not only insults to our intelligence, but highly suspect of hidden agendas.

    It's well known by now that Israel has set up troll farms online to discourage criticism of zionism & Israel. They certainly try to also discourage criticism of Trump, because Trump is Israel's main tool at this time. The pay is pretty good, something like $7,000 a post. Could be much higher for hopium distraction channels like PU.

    I admit that I've never had the patience to watch a whole PU video, because after 5 minutes of the cumulative absurdity of their non-factual claims and word salads, it's just way too irritating. Same thing for flat earth claims. The absurdity hurts. These psyops are designed to derail online conversations, and waste everybody's time.

    So, here's an idea. Since PU isn't making any concrete statement of what Trump is actually saying, but only theories of 5D strategies behind the scenes, without any concrete proof whatsoever, then these PU videos don't belong on this thread. Because this thread is about what Trump is actually doing in the real world, now. So just create a new thread for posting these PU videos, that could be titled something like "Promethean Updates Theories".

    As for what Trump is actually saying and doing, here's one more illustration of where he's at now:
    Trump derails on Fox News, hosts can’t believe it
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    Quote Posted by BMJ (here)
    "Promethean Updates" channel
    The Promethean Updates channel is one of my most trusted and valued sources.

    I agree that it is a trusted and valued source - looking at a deeper, bigger picture - - - a deeper, bigger picture of the ongoing Trump Presidency - that's actually very educational -

    and @Rizotto - bottom line - you don't have to watch or read any posts involving Promethean Updates etc if they disturb you and your world view - but they are on topic in regards to looking into the Trump Presidency - IMO -

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    Genius level: Surgical Manuever

    Trump weaponizing a must-pass $350B Pentagon reconciliation package untouchable defense funding as the Trojan horse to ram through the Save America Act.

    It forces Democrats into a corner: block military funding or swallow sweeping domestic reforms (debt restructuring, election integrity levers, financial reset tools).

    Pure legislative jujitsu turning opposition’s sacred cow into the delivery system for the Republic’s reclamation.

    No debate. No filibuster theater. Just raw, bundled dominance.

    The machine never saw the freight train coming.

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    Because this thread is about what Trump is actually doing in the real world
    My view is that this thread is not just about what Trump publicly says or does, but more extensively about what his Administration is doing, publicly or otherwise. That's a more complex, and often apparently self-contradictory, topic. When one finds oneself in a discussion that extends beyond where one thinks it should, or that considers views that one thinks are wrong, to the extend that participating in the discussion is frustrating, then sometimes one has a choice of letting the discussion be as it is anyway, or of separating from the discussion, or of asking the discussion to occur elsewhere. If the discussion persists in such a manner and place, despite your requests otherwise, and if it's not your final authority to decide the matter, then one might best recognize and accept that sometimes things don't go down the way you'd like.
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    Once again, could we please relegate that "Promethean Updates" channel to the hoaxes section?
    Quote Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)
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    "Promethean Updates" channel
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    Default Re: Day 1 of Trump's Presidency... and all the days that follow

    I maintain that Trump's appointments of Tulsi and RFK Jr to their posts, and their accomplishments after, were among the highlights of this term.

    https://x.com/DNIGabbard/status/2065...423944607?s=20



    DNI Tulsi Gabbard

    @DNIGabbard

    Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.

    In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.

    https://odni.gov/index.php/newsroom/.../4163-pr-10-26


    https://x.com/drawandstrike/status/2...882293725?s=20




    Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit
    @drawandstrike

    Looking over Tulsi's latest declass and remembering why the first Trump impeachment was all about UKRAINE.

    They **claimed** they impeached him over 'threatening to withhold military aid unless Zelensky investigated the Biden family!', which is a lie.

    They manufactured a case to impeach Trump for 3 main reasons:

    1. asking about the DNC server now being in Ukraine and which rich Ukrainian oligarch now had it, thereby placing their fake Crowdstrike report in jeopardy
    2. They were preparing a WW3 scenario with Russia using the biolabs and they didn't want Trump interfering there
    3. The neo-Nazi units launching war crime attacks into the Donbas were CIA-backed and they did not want Trump sticking his nose into that either.

    Catturd ™
    @catturd2
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    4h
    Remember when Mitt Romney said that her mentioning this was treason.


    https://x.com/phantompain1984/status...042092833?s=20




    Phantom Pain
    @phantompain1984
    Biolabs are finally being exposed.

    Now ask the forbidden question:

    Why did Isræli U.S. Attorney Sigal Chattah’s office drop charges against Isræli biolab operator Ori Solomon?

    And why did Pentagon raise Isræli espionage to “critical” right after?


    This is urgent.

    Watch clip then read🧵

    @phantompain1984

    Isræli False Flag at the Pentagon — Failed?

    Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: “Hell, I don’t run my building. Moššad does.”

    Then watch him says:

    “I watched Moššad take over the Pentagon in 2002.”

    From USS Liberty in June 1967 to the Pentagon hazardous-materials incident in June 2026, the same doctrine keeps reappearing:

    Isræli action.
    American exposure.
    System protection.
    Buried witnesses.

    Nevada exposed the legal gate:

    Isræli Sigal Chattah’s office dropped the Isræli biolab case and let an Isræli predator flee back to Isræl after an FBI sting.

    Then came the Pentagon chain:

    Isræli espionage raised to “critical.”

    Pentagon hazardous materials.

    Trump calls Netanyahu “f*cking crazy.”

    Bibi pushes toward Iran war.

    Watch the short investigative documentary.

    Then read the thread for the full timeline and receipts. 1/5🧵

    Full timeline:
    0:00 — Opening Montage: The Pattern Before the Timeline

    1:38 — Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: “Mossad Took Over the Pentagon”

    2:27 — Saagar: Pentagon Raises Israeli Espionage Threat to “Critical”

    3:16 — Fox News: Hazardous-Materials Incident at the Pentagon

    4:00 —
    @krystalball
    : Why Deeper U.S.–Israeli Military Integration Is Dangerous

    5:18 — Ana Kasparian: Israeli Predator Tom Alexandrovich and Biolab Operator Ori Solomon

    6:09 — KTNV Las Vegas: Israeli Sigal Chattah Ruled Unlawfully Serving

    7:26 — Ana Kasparian: Federal Charges Dropped Against Israeli Ori Solomon

    8:20 —
    @RepThomasMassie
    : USS Liberty Remembered on the House Floor
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    Default Re: Day 1 of Trump's Presidency... and all the days that follow

    https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/...017514173?s=20




    Clandestine
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    Here’s the new information from DNI.

    They admit that the US built and fund/support, over 40 labs in Ukraine, which house dangerous pathogens, which Russia claim are being used for bioweapon development.

    They are kind of admitting Putin and Russian MIL were right, to a degree.

    To me, I think this is the beginning stages of public disclosure about Covid being a US-funded experiment, and it very well may lead back to the labs in Ukraine. Some of these US-funded labs were studying bat coronaviruses in Ukraine, as early as 2014 via USIAD Project PREDICT.

    We have to tell the world that COVID was man-made, and we have to tell the world who made it. I think that process is now underway.

    It also tells me talks with Russia must be in a good place, because any deal with Russia, Putin is going to address the biolabs in Ukraine, as it has been one of Russia’s main talking points at the UN. I think this disclosure is related to a peace deal between Russia and the US/Ukraine.




    https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/...272397748?s=20



    Clandestine
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    The reason the Biden admin, the Intelligence community, the global MSM, etc., smeared me and covered up the US-funded biolabs in Ukraine, is because this trail leads to who created COVID.


    They panicked for a reason.

    Crimes against humanity.


    https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/...837464116?s=20


    Clandestine
    @WarClandestine

    People forget just how insane the “fact-checkers” and MSM were during all this.

    They gaslit the world and blatantly lied about the existence of US-funded labs in Ukraine, and claimed I was spreading “Russian disinformation”.


    USA Today STILL has not corrected this.

    @USATODAY





    Clandestine
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    For those who are unaware, I’m the guy that the media crucified in 2022, for reporting on the US-funded biolabs in Ukraine.

    Fact-checkers and dozens of MSM outlets, like WaPo, claimed I was an “extremist” and “QAnon figure”, for accurately reporting on these labs, which they said did not exist whatsoever.

    In other words, the US government, in conjunction with their lapdogs in the media and social media, coordinated together to censor and smear me, for reporting on completely accurate information. I had my life ruined and spent the last 4+ years living in absolute hell. Meaning my Constitutional Rights have been violated by elements within the US intelligence community.

    Attached is a thread I made when Elon let me back on Twitter, with a sample of some of the many defamatory articles written about me. I don’t know how or when, but one day, I will be compensated for the wrong that was done to me.

    I will have justice.

    https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/...034679242?s=20




    https://x.com/CFWBers/status/2065478690696237207?s=20



    Clinton Foundation Whistleblowers
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    I am compelled to redraw attention to Judge Gustafson response👇🏻dated 6-16-20 in light of info released re:
    - Dr. Fauci connection to Intel community + Covid cover-up,
    - DNI Director Gabbard revealing of US government funding for more than 120 Biolabs in 30 countries inc Ukraine
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    Default Re: Day 1 of Trump's Presidency... and all the days that follow

    Tucker Carlson commenting on Trump's dealings with Iran:
    'Since March 2026 there have been 38 instances of Trump claiming an imminent agreement with Iran', all of it untrue, and USA is always back to bombing Iran.'
    'If you're announcing a deal 38 times, but the deal doesn't materialize, then you're not a dealmaker.'
    Carlson outlines the reasons why USA has far less control over the global markets than what Trump is claiming.

    We Are Not in Control…


    Personally I'm amazed that there isn't a stronger outcry on the catastrophic consequences of the Trump-Netanyahu war on Iran. If these two deliberately wanted to demolish western concepts of democracy, to be replaced by their ill-conceived oligarchies, they couldn't not have done it better than by starting this war.

    Obviously, the Trump regime couldn't care less about rising prices everywhere, unaffordable housing, demolished countries & massacred civilians in the middle-east, and the very high likelihood of widespread famine. Who can be blamed for concluding that the Trump-Netanyahu regime is part of the cabal seeking major world instability and depopulation.

    Do the american people hold the key to stopping this catastrophy? If they don't revolt en masse now against the Trump oligarchy, by means of organized country-wide protests, they may be unable to effectively do so in the future as total surveillance and censorship apparatus is being installed as we speak. Perhaps what's holding many people back is the (dwindling) hope that Trump has a helpful plan up his sleeve. Fact is, Trump doesn't care about the people, he's said it himself on TV.

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