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DesertRose

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The above image re-posted in the Israel thread but one gets the gist #hijackednations.....#nomorewarsforisrael.
Anti-Zionism is not anti-semitism despite what the hasbara promote. #notocolonialism
 
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Thank you for your kind words Awoken! I am just dropping in for now:) Actually trying to take a breather from the news as well, Tis too much even for an optimist who believes the rabid dogs of the current debt and death systems will eventually get checked. In the words of Chris Duane from truthnevertold or the Silver doctors channels on YT:D, " Just cause the world is screwed up your world does not have to be."
P.S I saw a video recently and thought you would be interested in it. Off this topic, excuses to the OP.
Very interesting. I'm subbed to Corbett Report but never get notifications.

A timely re-post came today on gaslighting....this was based on Obama....Trump has took this to a completely new level.

 

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A New York man charged with murdering the alleged boss of the Gambino Mafia family believed he was carrying out a mission on behalf of President Trump, his lawyer said in court documents, according to The New York Times.

Anthony Comello of Staten Island allegedly shot and killed Francesco "Frankie Boy" Cali outside Cali's home in March, which law enforcement initially suspected was the opening salvo in a turf war after decades of relative peace between New York's five major families.

However, according to a filing from his attorney, Robert C. Gottlieb, Comello was not affiliated with the Mafia. Instead, he believed Cali was an agent of the "deep state" and that he was authorized by Trump to arrest him. Gottlieb said Comello had brought handcuffs with him and shot Cali only after he refused to submit to a citizen's arrest and reached for his waistband.

Gottlieb, who sought to prove in the filing that Comello was not liable by reason of insanity, wrote that his client was a subscriber to the "QAnon" conspiracy theory, which claims that Trump is secretly working against a powerful network of pedophiles who control world institutions, according to the Times.

"Mr. Comello's support for 'QAnon' went beyond mere participation in a radical political organization," Gottlieb wrote. "It evolved into a delusional obsession."

Comello reportedly had planned to conduct several citizen's arrests of people he believed to be in on the conspiracy, including New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) on two separate occasions.

Gottlieb wrote that his client also contacted federal marshals at Manhattan's Federal District Court to ask them to aid him in capturing Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), believing they were nearby, according to the Times. Law enforcement confirmed both incidents.



How Comello came to believe the Mafia was also connected to the conspiracy theory, which generally focuses on prominent Democratic politicians or liberal figures, remains unclear, according to the Times.
 

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Very interesting. I'm subbed to Corbett Report but never get notifications.

A timely re-post came today on gaslighting....this was based on Obama....Trump has took this to a completely new level.

Holy crap! This reveals so much. Have experienced this in romantic relationships. Thanks be to God for getting me away from those sick bastards.

Also, yes, Winnie the Pooh could use some pants. Disney is sick.

Plus that bit on GWB and Karl Rove was more than a bit disturbing. Politicians think they create reality.
 
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Holy crap! This reveals so much. Have experienced this in romantic relationships. Thanks be to God for getting me away from those sick bastards.

Also, yes, Winnie the Pooh could use some pants. Disney is sick.

Plus that bit on GWB and Karl Rove was more than a bit disturbing. Politicians think they create reality.
Our biggest enemies are the people who try and change our perception of reality. It's only when you discover this has happened to you, is when you can stop it from happening.
 

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Donald Trump was handed a major victory on his signature issue — building a wall on the US-Mexico border — on Friday, as the US Supreme Court approved the use of $2.5 billion in military funding for the purposes of wall construction.

In a 5-4 decision on Friday, the Supreme Court overturned two decisions by a federal judge that had barred the Trump administration from using military money for the wall. The federal judge had ruled the executive branch could not appropriate money for a purpose not specifically authorized by Congress.

“Wow! Big VICTORY on the Wall,” Trump tweeted in response to the Supreme Court’s decision.

The money in question comes from the Pentagon’s budget; it had been initially approved for military personnel and training purposes. In two separate cases earlier this year, US District Court Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. of Oakland blocked these funds from being reappropriated and put toward building a border wall. The administration argued that such redistribution of government funds was allowable given the president had declared a national emergency at the border in February.

The cases heard by Gilliam were lawsuits brought by the ACLU on behalf of the Sierra Club and Southern Border Communities Coalition, something that became key to the Supreme Court’s decision. In its ruling, the Supreme Court found that private groups are not appropriate parties to challenge the allocation of federal dollars.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas ruled in favor of lifting the Gilliam’s injunction. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor supported the lower court’s decision.

Justice Stephen Breyer supported neither side, and proposed a compromise instead, suggesting the court clear the administration’s path in setting up contracts for construction without allowing it to start building anything.

Litigation over the funding will continue; the case will return to an appeals court. In the meantime, the Trump administration will be able to tap into these funds and begin construction on the wall, reports the New York Times.

The ruling followed an emergency filing from the administration at a time when the Supreme Court is typically on summer recess. The filing stated that a decision needed to be reached so that the Trump administration could spend the money it wanted to appropriate before the federal government’s fiscal year ends in September.

All told, the government plans to divert $6.7 billion from federal agencies, including the US Treasury and the Department of Defense, to construct the wall.

In a statement on Friday night, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi criticized the decision.

“The Supreme Court’s decision tonight to allow President Trump to defy the bipartisan will of the Congress and proceed with contracts to spend billions of dollars on his wall undermines the Constitution and the law,” she said.

The court cases were about immigration, the environment, and the Constitution

The construction of a wall along the US-Mexican border has been a signature policy since the earliest days of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, and challenges to the wall’s construction have been making their way through various US courts for years.

Recent lawsuits argued by the ACLU on behalf of the Sierra Club and Southern Border Communities Coalition have asserted that the wall would “irreparably” harm the environment, and have made the case executive branch appropriations for the wall represent a misuse of military funding.

The second argument moved the wall debate beyond immigration and environmental policy and into the realm of how separation of powers is outlined in the Constitution. Judges were asked to consider whether the executive branch, overseen by the president, can bypass funding decisions made by Congress. Traditionally, Congress has had to approve the appropriation of funds; this role was outlined in Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 of the Constitution, which states: “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.”

Congress had previously allocated about $1.4 billion in border funding; the administration requested $6.7 billion. To get around this difference, the Trump administration announced plans to use other federal funds for the wall, arguing that the fact the president had declared a national emergency allowed for the appropriation of funds.

The money at the heart of Friday’s Supreme Court decision — which stemmed from the lawsuits brought by the ACLU and Sierra Club — came from the executive branch’s “reprogramming” of funds earmarked for the military.

In the lower, federal court, federal judge Gilliam twice found that the Trump administration had illegally planned to use misappropriated Congressional funds for the purpose of building the wall.

In June, Gilliam ordered that work be stopped on a stretch of the wall between California and Arizona. Vox’s Gabriela Resto-Montero reported that the $1.5 billion in financing for that 79-mile portion would have come from “military pay and training accounts through a Department of Defense counterdrug program.” In May, Judge Gilliam ruled that a stretch of wall being built between Arizona and Texas likewise could not draw upon reprogrammed $1 billion in Army personnel funds.

Taken together, these two cases blocked access to $2.5 billion of the $6.7 billion that the Trump administration hoped to appropriate for its border wall. Gilliam rejected the argument that the national emergency allowed for the appropriations, and ruled that Congress still had to approve the redirection of funding.

At the time, he wrote that the public interest would be “best served by respecting the Constitution’s assignment of the power of the purse to Congress, and by deferring to Congress’s understanding of the public interest as reflected in its repeated denial of more funding for border barrier construction.”

Friday’s decision reverses that decision, effectively freeing up a third of Trump’s requested border wall funding. The environmental groups that brought those challenges were deemed inappropriate parties to bring a lawsuit about transferring federal funds, an argument put forth by U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco.

“Interests in hiking, birdwatching, and fishing in designated drug-smuggling corridors do not outweigh the harm to the public from halting the government’s efforts to construct barriers to stanch the flow of illegal narcotics across the southern border,” Francisco said.

The Supreme Court apparently agreed.

The decision is the latest in a series of immigration wins for Trump

Trump heralded the decision as a victory on Twitter:

It’s one of several recent wins for his administration’s immigration agenda. A deal with Mexico — announced in June but reached in March — has led to an increased presence of Mexican security forces along that country’s border with Guatemala in order to reduce the number of migrants coming north from Central America. That agreement came after Trump threatened to impose steep tariffs on Mexican imports that would have damaged the nation’s economy.

Border crossings also appear to be on the decline, following Mexico’s changes to its immigration enforcement, and arrests at the border dropped by 28 percent in June.

Another win came on the same day as the Supreme Court decision. Earlier on Friday, Trump signed a deal alongside Guatemalan president Jimmy Morales that will direct Central American migrants seeking asylum in the United States to first apply for asylum in Guatemala instead.

The Trump administration has long pursued such a deal with both Guatemala and Mexico; Mexico has made it clear it has no plans to sign such an agreement. Guatemala had refused to sign the deal as well, until relenting under economic pressure Friday.

The Trump administration hopes the agreement will curb asylum applications from Honduras and El Salvador, the Central American countries that neighbor Guatemala and countries from which the bulk of asylum-seekers at the US border originate.

As Vox’s Jen Kirby has reported, this policy “would, with few exceptions, make it extraordinarily difficult for anyone not coming from Mexico or on a plane to be eligible for asylum in the US.”

Despite the Supreme Court’s decision, court challenges to the US-Mexico border wall remain

The wall was one of Trump’s signature campaign issues; he has said that it will curb trafficking and illegal immigration at the southern border. Opponents, including Congressional Democrats, say the wall is immoral — and pricey.

Fights over the wall have been ongoing since Trump took office, and Congress has repeatedly declined to provide wall funding. Notably, this resulted in a partial government shutdown that began in December of last year and lasted for 35 days.

In April, House Democrats said they would sue the Trump administration over his use of a national emergency to try and free up funds. They lost that case, but have signaled they plan to file an appeal.

And that case isn’t the only one the Trump administration faces. Despite Friday’s Supreme Court decision, opponents to the border wall will continue to challenge its construction in the courts. In fact, the ACLU and Sierra Club cases will continue to be litigated in lower courts.

“We will be asking the federal appeals court to expedite the ongoing appeals proceeding to halt the irreversible and imminent damage from Trump’s border wall,” Dror Ladin, an attorney with the ACLU, said in a statement. “Our Constitution’s separation of powers will be permanently harmed should Trump get away with pillaging military funds for a xenophobic border wall Congress denied.”
If there was that much expendable money to be found in these agencies 1) that’s a problem 2) why the hell did we increase the military budget again?
 

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President Nixon’s Accomplishments in Protecting the Environment Are Being Destroyed by the Trump Regime

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/08/15/president-nixons-accomplishments-in-protecting-the-environment-are-being-destroyed-by-the-trump-regime/

excerpt:

"Americans blame presidents for their own failings. Democracy requires an alert citizenry. Democracy fails when the citizens are insouciant. A country with an inattentive population and a media hijacked by interest groups cannot hold government or interest groups accountable.

Additionally, US elections seldom depend on policy issues. We have a politics of name-calling and smears. The Democrats’ case against Trump largely rested on claims from porn stars and prostitutes that they had sexual affairs with Trump and on the Russiagate hoax. The manner in which the United States functions politically is a very bad advertisement for democracy.

Globalists who move America’s jobs offshore and neoconservatives who attempt to implement US hegemony have undone President Reagan’s accomplishments of restoring the economy and ending the Cold War. Now it is the environmental protections put in place by the Nixon administration that are being overthrown. With the Constitution overthrown by the “war on terror,” the outlook for Americans is dismal. Their insouciance has cost them their country."
 

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-16/trump-s-interest-in-buying-greenland-met-with-dismay-in-denmark

(Breakfast table at Trump towers)

Melania: What do you mean you want to buy Greenland!?!?)

Trump: It's the world's biggest island....Epstein has an island....I'm gonna get a bigger island.....nobody is gonna out island meeee!

Melania: But it's not for sale you dimwit!

Trump: EVERYTHING is for sale....if the price is right.....I remember the day you told me you wouldn't marry me for ten million dollars....got you for 12 though......ha!

Melania: (under her breath) that's peanuts compared to what the divorce will cost you.

Or it could just be the Trumpsters latest conspiracy theory.

Headline reading... Trump wants to move to Greenland to avoid worldwide apocalypse!!!
 

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Absolutely predictable to finish Trump’s first term by trying to make the spying program a permanent fixture in America. At this point, I’m not confident he will have a second term, but who knows. Either way, I would love to hear there is another side of this, but I don’t think there is. I think this just solidifies that trump was always part of the establishment. It was always theatre and a temporary endorphin rush to think he wasn’t.

“Civil liberties groups and privacy advocates raised alarm Thursday after the Trump administration called on Congress to reauthorize an NSA mass surveillance program that was exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The New York Times, which obtained the Trump administration’s request to Congress, reported that “the administration urged lawmakers to make permanent the legal authority for the National Security Agency to gain access to logs of Americans’ domestic communications, the USA Freedom Act.”

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/trump-nsa-spying-snowden/
 

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Yeah and he’s “cutting payroll taxes” to compensate for the mess his tax cuts and trade wars have caused to the economy as well. So that down the line real soon they can see “oh sorry have to cut grandmas benefits, can’t afford them”

Worst. President. Ever.
 

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Trump slammed for saying any Jew voting Democratic is 'disloyal'
Amid ongoing attacks against Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, Trumps calls majority of Jews in the US uninformed.

Activists, politicians and many within the American Jewish community slammed US President Donald Trump on Tuesday for saying any Jewish person who votes Democratic shows "either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty".
He made the comments despite recent polling, which shows that a majority of Jews in the US identify as Democrats.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/trump-slammed-jew-voting-democratic-disloyal-190820205832592.html

(thank God ! ..... I feared he would say 'Anti-Semites" )
 

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Yeah and he’s “cutting payroll taxes” to compensate for the mess his tax cuts and trade wars have caused to the economy as well. So that down the line real soon they can see “oh sorry have to cut grandmas benefits, can’t afford them”

Worst. President. Ever.
Where is Obama when you need him? I miss wars and fewer jobs. If Trump is the worst president ever, who is the best? As if we have choices since Kennedy ....
 

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Please stop with that tired shit... I was never a fan of obama, but he inherited a recession he didn’t cause it and we came out of it before trump, only to apparantly be slammed back into another because of him. Also I haven’t seen the end to any war... it’s the same now as it was.

Don’t know who’s the best since Kennedy. They all suck, in different ways to different extents. But this guys the worst During my lifetime. It’s not like I have a whole ton of choices.
 

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Trump inherited war and a bad economy, so not sure how he is worse than Obama. Some could argue he inherited what was turning into racial problems as well, people forget that those problems were ripe under the 8-year president as well but the republicans were not acting like babies when they lost. Heck, republicans were dead until Trump came along. What was Obama's legacy? And why is he not the worst president ever? Do you really think Trump is worse than Bush? Bill Clinton was a good one too. LOL Trump is not all that but he is not the worst president we have had unless you are all in on MSM. And just yacking not trying to incite you. I thinl Trump saved us from full-on PC Culture or at least slowed its crawl. And some will hate the sitting president no matter who he is.
 
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