Words Not Spoken
Attentive Listeners,
Long speech I read it carefully. The words "Israel", "Palestine" and "genocide" did not appear. I picked this out:
Why I am suspending my campaign for President
So what’s causing all this suffering? I’ll name two culprits. First is ultra-processed foods. About 70% of American children’s diet is ultra-processed — industrially manufactured in a factory. These foods consist primarily of processed sugar, ultra-processed grains, and seed oils. Lab scientists concoct thousands of other ingredients to make these foods more palatable, more addictive. These ingredients didn’t exist 100 years ago, and humans aren’t biologically adapted to eat them. Hundreds of these chemicals are banned in Europe, but ubiquitous in America’s processed foods.
The second culprit is toxic chemicals in our food, medicine, and environment. Pesticides, food additives, pharmaceutical drugs, and toxic waste permeate every cell of our bodies. The assault on a child’s cells and hormones is unrelenting. To name just one problem, many of these chemicals increase estrogen. Because young children are ingesting hormone disruptors, the average girl in America is reaching puberty at age 10 to 13 — six years earlier than girls were in 1900. Our country has the earliest puberty rates on any continent. And no, this isn’t because of “better nutrition.” This is not normal. Breast cancer, an estrogen-driven cancer, now strikes one in eight women.
Considering the grievous human cost of this tragic epidemic of chronic disease, it seems almost crass to mention the damage it does to our economy. But I’ll say, it is crippling our nation’s finances. When my uncle was President, our country spent zero dollars on chronic disease. Today, government healthcare spending is mostly for chronic disease, and it is double the military budget. And chronic disease costs the economy as a whole at least $4 trillion. Probably more when you consider the indirect costs. That’s a 20% drag on everything we could aspire to. And it is the fastest-growing cost.
Poor and minority communities suffer disproportionately. Industry lobbyists make sure that most of the food stamp and school lunch program dollars are funding processed foods. We are systematically mass-poisoning America’s poorest citizens.
The same food industry lobbied to make sure that nearly all agricultural subsidies go to the commodity crops that are the feedstock of the processed food industry. The policies are destroying small farms and our soils.
The good news is that we can change all of this, and change it quickly. America can get healthy again. To do that we need to do three things. First, root out the corruption in our health agencies. Second, change the incentives of the healthcare system. And third, inspire Americans to get healthy again.
Eighty percent of NIH grants go to people who have conflicts of interest. These agencies, the FDA, the USDA, the CDC, all of them are controlled by huge for-profit corporations. 75% of the FDA’s funding doesn’t come from taxpayers. It comes from pharma. And pharma executives and consultants and lobbyists cycle in and out of these agencies.
With President Trump’s backing, I am going to change that. We are going to staff these agencies with honest scientists and doctors free from industry funding. We will make sure that the decisions of consumers, doctors, and patients are informed by unbiased science.
Children's Health Defense will host an Attack on Food and Farmers symposium September 6-7, in which I will again present "Preparing Your Kitchen Garden". Some important people, including RFK Jr. will also be presenting on broader and more sinister topics, RFK Jr. & Trump Will End War On Small Farms To Save Nation's Food Supply Chain https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/rfk-jr-donald-trump-will-end-war-small-wars-save-nations-food-supply-chain
Political high points from Zero Hedge: Must Watch: RFK Jr Drops 'Reality' Mic On Dems, Suspends Campaign - "Who Needs Policy When There's Trump To Hate?" https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-live-rfk-jr-addresses-nation
TUCKER CARLSON ASKS: "What would happen if he [Trump] appointed Bobby Kennedy CIA director?” This question comes as news breaks that Kennedy has WITHDRAWN his name from the ballot, suggesting that he will ENDORSE Trump on Friday. If that happens, Tucker and Jason Whitlock fear those in power might see no other option but to take him out. WHITLOCK: “Unfortunately, and I say this in seriousness and in sadness: RFK and Trump, their lives are already in jeopardy, but they would have to be eliminated immediately, post-haste." TUCKER CARLSON: "I mean, it just does feel that way.” https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1826812669640462518
Celia Farber goes to a really happy place for a day or so and refuses to hear anything different: The Redeemer: RFK Jr. Joins Forces With MAGA; Breaks The Sound Barrier, Tells America The Truth About Slow Genocide By Poison, To Roaring MAGA Crowd; AND Trump Says He Will Release JFK Files The TWO Most Powerful, Redemptive American Liberty Movements Are Now Joined, Like Two Dynasties, Each Completing And Expanding The Other. Some Speak Of Timeline Jump, Dare We Be Optimistic? Yes.
US House Oversight Panel Asks TSA About Placing Tulsi Gabbard on Terror Watchlist - Letter https://sputnikglobe.com/20240823/us-house-oversight-panel-asks-tsa-about-placing-tulsi-gabbard-on-terror-watchlist---letter-1119889581.html
Rand Paul Asks Why TSA Is Using Terror Watch List To Spy On Americans “Based On Their Political Views” https://modernity.news/2024/08/23/rand-paul-asks-why-tsa-is-using-terror-watch-list-to-spy-on-americans-based-on-their-political-views/
Harris Nabs CIA Endorsement as Democrats Promise More War, Foreign Intervention “As president I will stand strong with Ukraine and our NATO allies,” Harris declared during her acceptance speech, voicing strong support for Kiev’s US-backed proxy war against Russia.
Former intelligence chief Leon Panetta also delivered a speech praising Harris during which the controversial figure claimed he was “proud” to have served in the US Army and as CIA director. https://sputnikglobe.com/20240824/harris-nabs-cia-endorsement-as-democrats-promise-more-war-foreign-intervention-1119891769.html
Well, I had always assumed from the way she talked and acted, but Tom Luongo asks: The Most Dangerous Question of 2024 — What If Kamala Harris Isn’t an Idiot? https://tomluongo.me/2024/08/18/the-most-dangerous-question-of-2024-what-if-kamala-harris-isnt-an-idiot/
Tucker Carlson Reacts to Kamala's Speech: “This Woman‘s Really Scary” “She's much more skillful than I have ever seen. She's a liar on the deepest level. The things she is saying right now are not just untrue—they're the opposite of the truth, which is the hallmark of evil. She's an extremist. She'll say anything. She's much more like Gavin Newsom than I ever realized. I could go through a whole litany of what she's saying that is not true.” https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1826835677759013348
Democrats Refuse To Let Palestinian Americans Speak at the DNC, Members of the Uncommitted movement have been pushing for a Palestinian speaker, but were told no https://news.antiwar.com/2024/08/22/democrats-refuse-to-let-palestinian-americans-speak-at-the-dnc/
Protests, Pandering, Past-Presidents, But No Policies: Summing Up The 2024 DNC In 2 Words - 'Not Trump' https://www.zerohedge.com/political/protests-pandering-past-presidents-no-policies-summing-2024-dnc-2-words-not-trump
Trump Vows to Slash Energy Costs by Half if Elected [The claim about the oil is noteworthy. 5 test wells were drilled in the arctic under Carter and capped off.] Trump was speaking at an event at a defense manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania and said that if he enters the White House, during his first year he would remove future mandates for electric cars and cancel “green energy” policies, according to a report by UPI.
Trump went on to warn those in attendance that if Harris wins the presidential vote, energy costs would triple and quadruple, and the U.S. “won't be producing a drop of oil.” He also accused the Biden administration of a “regulatory jihad to shut down power plants.”
The Biden administration indeed has a very different energy policies agenda than Trump and Harris has indicated she would stay in the transition lane if she enters the White House as president.
Trump, on the other hand, has remained a staunch supporter of what he calls U.S. energy dominance, encouraging as much oil and gas production as possible to turn the country into a self-sufficient one in terms of energy and extend its international influence through energy exports.
Last month, in an interview with Bloomberg, Trump said that if he wins he would boost U.S. oil production, calling the commodity liquid gold.
“We have more liquid gold than anybody,” Trump told the publication, adding “We need energy at low prices. The advantage we have all over almost every country including the very large ones is that we have more energy than anybody. We have more of the real energy, the energy that works,” the former president vying for another term in office said.
“Wind does not work. It’s too expensive,” said Trump, claiming that solar and wind farms are neither too good for the environment, nor too suitable to provide energy at low costs and prices. https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Trump-Vows-to-Slash-Energy-Costs-by-Half-if-Elected.html
Meryl Nass MD, 9/11: the way the buildings collapsed provides the proof of what happened., Madhava Setty and I get to the bottom of the events
Pavel Durov, the billionaire co-founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram was arrested at the Bourget airport outside of Paris Saturday evening, according to TF1 TV, citing an unnamed source. According to the report, Durov, 39, was traveling aboard his private jet after arriving from Azerbaijan, which triggered a French search warrant issued by the OFMIN of the French judicial police due to his inclusion in a wanted persons file (FPR).
Telegram offers end-to-end encrypted messaging - and allows users to set up "channels" to disseminate information quickly to followers."He made a blunder this evening. We don’t know why … Was this flight just a stopover? In any case, he’s in custody!" a source close to the investigation told the news outlet (translated by Google).
Durav was detained by the National Anti-Fraud Office (ONAF), over the alleged facilitation of various crimes including terrorism, narcotics trafficking, and fraud.
"On his platform, he allowed an incalculable number of offences and crimes to be committed, for which he did nothing to moderate or cooperate," a source told TF1 TV.
The arrest was characterized by Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom as part of the "crackdown against free speech." https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/billionaire-telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-arrested-france
Celia Faber, Pavel Durov, Founder Of Telegram, Arrested In France, After Refusing To Buckle To EU Censorship Demands: French Authorities Not Cooperating With Russian Embassy In Paris Seeking To Ensure His Rights "Dangerous Times, All comms need to be blocked before the grand finale to strike fear and anger into the global populations. It's standard operating procedure in the military before big attacks" --Ed Dowd
Kirby Yet Again Cites 'Progress' On Gaza Talks With CIA's Burns In Cairo On Friday the White House also confirmed that CIA chief William Burns has once again been dispatched, and is taking part in Cairo talks, alongside Israeli intelligence director David Barnea.
But despite the typical optimism and the many prior instances of such rosy statements, and in the end statements which tend to prove meaningless (often resulting in brief oil sell-offs notwithstanding), the reality on the ground is that the warring sides do not appear closer to any peace agreement.
As we detailed Thursday, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) have confirmed they will reject any agreement that does not include an Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. "The position of the resistance and the Palestinian people on achieving any agreement is a comprehensive cessation of aggression, a complete withdrawal from the Strip, the start of reconstruction, and the end of the siege with a serious exchange deal," the joint statement said. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kirby-yet-again-cites-progress-gaza-talks-cias-burns-cairo
Israel’s military launched air raids across southern Lebanon and Hezbollah carried out a large drone and rocket attack.
The escalation came as the Reuters news agency reported no sign of progress in mediated talks for a ceasefire in Gaza. Citing a Palestinian official, it said a Hamas delegation that was in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, has departed the city. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/8/25/israels-war-on-gaza-live-israel-bombards-gaza-on-eve-of-high-level-talks
Professor Anthony Hall, The US as Mediator and Belligerent in Israeli War Crimes The US Government's Conflicts-of-Interest are Exemplified in Its Treatment of the Haredi Military Unit, Netzu Yehuda Look in your search engine for the Israel army unit entitled, Netzu Yehuda. Many points of division and contention meet in Israel’s and the USA’s relations with Netzu Yehuda. This convergence helps explain the larger phenomenon that has put the US government in a massive conflict of interest as it tries to be both mediator and belligerent in its partnership with Israel.
Netzu Yehuda is the main Haredi fighting unit in the Armed Forces of Israel... ..This religious unit has a reputation for being especially vicious in attacking and torturing Palestinians. Its seems strange that the only religious unit in an Army would be among its most aggressive predators. In their Haredi studies, how much reading of the Talmud accompanies the reading of the Torah?
Israeli army invades ‘most crowded displacement camp in history,’ bombs Palestinians in shelters Over the past week, the Israeli army has ordered a million civilians to evacuate central Gaza, and has bombed two schools sheltering displaced people in Gaza City mere minutes after issuing warnings. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/08/israeli-army-invades-most-crowded-displacement-camp-in-history-bombs-palestinians-in-shelters/
Israel settler violence in West Bank has caused ‘largest forcible transfer’ of Palestinians since 7 October - rights group Allegra Pacheco, chief of party of the NRC-led West Bank Protection Consortium, reiterated that the group calls for the international community – including the United States and European Union – “to intervene with the Israeli authorities and protect these vulnerable communities.”
As the “occupying power” which has a responsibility for the safety of the occupied population, Israel is directly responsible “for the actions of violent settlers” who are under Israeli military protection, said Pacheco.
According to the NRC, “Palestinians are being forced to leave their land in what clearly constitutes a grave breach of international humanitarian law”. The rights group further stated that it “urges the international community to push Israel to prohibit Israeli settlers from entering Palestinian residential, agricultural and grazing areas. Military orders must close down all settler outposts, illegal under Israeli law, from where violence is planned and perpetrated.” https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240822-israel-settler-violence-in-west-bank-has-caused-largest-forcible-transfer-of-palestinians-since-7-october-rights-group/
Israel cramming 1.7m Palestinians into 10% of Gaza Israel is “deliberately strangling 1.7 million Palestinian civilians” by cramming them into a narrow area of land which is no larger than one tenth of the Gaza Strip’s overall area, the Government Media Office (GMO) warned yesterday according to the Palestinian Information Centre.
“The Israeli occupation army is deliberately strangling 1.7 million Palestinian civilians, cramming them into a narrow area that does not exceed one tenth of the total area of the Gaza Strip,” the GMO said, adding that this is part of the occupation’s crime of forced displacement Palestinian civilians.
“The IOF [occupation] pushed the displaced Gazans to forcibly move and leave their homes and residential areas under the threat of gunfire, bombing and internationally prohibited weapons, which is a crime against humanity,” the GMO said. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240822-israel-cramming-1-7m-palestinians-into-10-of-gaza/
75% of Israelis say government handling of war in North 'poor': Poll Last month, a survey conducted in July by the Jewish People's Policy Institute (JPPI) revealed that the majority of Israelis lack confidence in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his government, and the Israeli military leadership.
According to the report, trust in the Israeli military has significantly decreased, with 55% of respondents expressing low confidence in its leadership.
Meanwhile, the popularity of the Israeli government continues to decline, with the survey indicating that 73% of Israelis don't trust their government, compared to only 26% who said they do. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/75--of-israelis-say-government-handling-of-war-in-north--poo
MK Bhadrakumar: Iran will hit Israel, ball is in US-Israeli court The Iranian statement from the UN podium in New York is a message addressed to the White House that the ball is in the US-Israeli court. Interestingly, it coincided with the toned down White House readout on Biden’s call with Netanyahu on Wednesday, where Biden flagged the “defensive U.S. military deployments” and stressed the urgency of bringing the ceasefire and hostage release deal to closure and discussed upcoming talks in Cairo to remove any remaining obstacles.” It stands to reason that Tehran and Washington are communicating with each other.
Clearly, against such a heavily nuanced backdrop, the paranoia about a regional war is unwarranted, since neither Iran nor the US wants war. As for Israel, a small country, it simply lacks the capability to go to war with Iran armed with three submarines stacked with nuclear missiles as its strategic assets.
The stunning disclosure of Hezbollah’s vast network of underground missile network in southern and central Lebanon is a reality check for the Israeli political elite and settler communities on what they are up against.
As the former Israeli war minister Avigdor Lieberman puts it, Israel is engaged in a war of attrition, exactly as the Iranians wanted, having succeeded in uniting the resistance fronts. Lieberman pointed out that the agony of the indeterminate waiting for Tehran’s retaliatory operation is in itself an achievement for Tehran and the Axis of Resistance. https://www.indianpunchline.com/iran-will-hit-israel-ball-is-in-us-israeli-court/
Pressure from Russians on Vladimir Putin to escalate? Solovyov is at the apex of Russian journalism and has close ties to the Kremlin. Over time, he has conducted several lengthy interviews with President Putin. Therefore what he said on air in his characterization of Putin’s decision making processes in times of crisis, like in the aftermath of the Ukrainian incursion/invasion of the Kursk province, may be taken to be very well informed.
Said Solovyov: “Our Commander in Chief does not submit to either outside pressure or to his own emotions.” Solovyov insists that Putin’s decisions are made in an absolutely rational way. One might say in an autocratic manner, if we use the original meaning of that word to be self-reliant and independent... ..We have heard most recently that they wanted to capture some RF territory that might be used to compel the Russians to give back some of the Ukrainian land they have occupied since the start of the Special Military Operation. Thus, the aim is said to have been to prepare for peace talks on a ‘fair basis.’
However, Solovyov presented a different story, one which he surely received from senior officials in the Russian military with whom he is in close contact. He said that the main objective of the invaders had been to capture the nuclear power plant in Kursk, situated perhaps 70 km in from the border.
If the Ukrainians had succeeded on that mission, they would indeed have improved their overall chances of bringing the Russians to the peace table on more favorable terms to themselves. And this logic of their mission is confirmed by the large concentration of the most modern NATO tanks (British Challenger 2) and other heavy equipment appropriate to an irresistible cut through Russian defenses to their target. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/08/24/pressure-from-russians-on-vladimir-putin-to-escalate/
Russia claims Ukrainian kamikaze UAV attacked Kurchatov NPP The Russian Ministry of Defense has reported that a kamikaze drone was discovered near the spent nuclear fuel storage facility at the Kurchatov Nuclear Power Plant. According to the Russian source, on the night of August 22, 2024, “the regime in Kyiv attempted to commit an act of nuclear terrorism” using a kamikaze drone at the Kurchatov facility in Kursk Oblast. The drone was intercepted by Russian radio-electronic warfare systems. https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2024/08/23/russia-claims-ukrainian-kamikaze-uav-attacked-kurchatov-npp/
India is not neutral but stands for peace – Modi to Zelensky
On a visit to Kiev, the prime minister said his country is willing to contribute “in all ways possible” to the peace efforts Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Kiev on Friday, marking the first visit by an Indian premier to the country. During a meeting with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, Modi stated that India has not been “neutral or an indifferent bystander” as the Russia-Ukraine conflict persists, and has always been “on the side of peace.”... ..Modi’s Ukraine visit comes nearly six weeks after he traveled to Russia for a bilateral summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Since the beginning of the conflict, India has abstained from condemning Moscow over the conflict or from downgrading trade and diplomatic ties with it, despite pressure from the West... ..The premier’s visit to Moscow in July came under intense scrutiny from Washington and other global capitals. Biden administration officials were uncomfortable with the optics of the visit, which coincided with a crucial NATO summit that featured Zelensky. Ukraine’s leader himself termed Modi’s meeting with Putin a “huge disappointment” and a “blow” to peace efforts, prompting New Delhi to summon the Ukrainian envoy over the remark. https://swentr.site/india/602995-india-not-neutral-ukraine-russia-conflict/
Probing US Regime-Change in Pakistan & Bangladesh
Jeffrey D. Sachs says the U.N. should investigate the charges that Imran Khan and Sheik Hasina have leveled against Washington. Two former leaders of major South Asian countries have reportedly accused the United States of covert regime change operations to topple their governments.
One of the leaders, former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, languishes in prison, on a perverse conviction that proves Khan’s assertion. The other leader, former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheik Hasina, fled to India following a violent coup in her country.
Their grave accusations against the U.S., as reported in the world media, should be investigated by the U.N., since if true, the U.S. actions would constitute a fundamental threat to world peace and to regional stability in South Asia.
The two cases seem to be very similar. The very strong evidence of the U.S. role in toppling the government of Imran Khan raises the likelihood that something similar may have occurred in Bangladesh.
In the case of Pakistan, Donald Lu, assistant secretary of state for South Asia and Central Asia, met with Asad Majeed Khan, Pakistan’s ambassador to the U.S., on March 7, 2022.
Ambassador Khan immediately wrote back to his capital, conveying Lu’s warning that PM Khan threatened U.S.-Pakistan relations because of Khan’s “aggressively neutral position” regarding Russia and Ukraine... ..To add credence to Hasina’s charges, Bangladesh had delayed signing two military agreements that the U.S. had pushed very hard since 2022, indeed by none other than the former Under-Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, the neocon hardliner with her own storied history of U.S. regime-change operations.
One of the draft agreements, the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA), would bind Bangladesh to closer military-to-military cooperation with Washington. The government of PM Hasina was clearly not enthusiastic to sign it.
The U.S. is by far the world’s leading practitioner of regime-change operations, yet the U.S. flatly denies its role in covert regime change operations even when caught red-handed, as with Nuland’s infamous intercepted phone call in late January 2014 planning the U.S.-led regime change operation in Ukraine.
It is useless to appeal to the U.S. Congress, and still less the executive branch, to investigate the claims by PM Khan and PM Hasina. Whatever the truth of the matter, they will deny and lie as necessary. https://consortiumnews.com/2024/08/22/probing-us-regime-change-in-pakistan-bangladesh/
CDC Stands by Water Fluoridation After Report Linking Fluoride to Lower IQs in Kids Finally Published
The National Toxicology Programon Wednesday publisheda controversial report, years after efforts to suppress it finally failed.The report concluded with“moderate confidence”thathigher levels of fluoride exposure in drinking water are consistently linked to lower IQs in kids. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/ntp-fluoride-report-neurotoxic-kids-published/
The hot-batch phenomenon was pervasive. Sasha Latypova, New paper in peer review confirms Covid-19 vaccine batch variability in both Denmark and Sweden
Meryl Nass MD, A Third Peer-Reviewed Paper from 2 more countries (Denmark and Sweden) reveals significant differences in adverse events by batch. Was it Vaccination or Russian Roulette? FDA is supposed to prevent such heterogeneity between vaccine batches through its lot release program. Funny how COVID blinded and neutered the FDA
William Makis MD, mRNA Injury Series - 30 year old Australian Youtube Star who pushed COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines died suddenly from lymphocytic myocarditis
Mobile electronic devices with screens (transcript): Adverse Health Effects of Artificial Electro-Magnetic Fields by Prof. Olle Johansson
Crackdown on Ukraine’s largest church is ‘full-fledged Satanism’ – Medvedev
Vladimir Zelensky and his Western backers are responsible for the suppression, the former Russian president has said https://swentr.site/russia/602974-medvedev-uoc-crackdown-satanic/
David Hughes interview(transcript) with Sarah Westall IT/Bio/Nano technologies; control "one person at a time"; Neuralink; overriding informed consent under war conditions; communicating difficult information; resisting emergent totalitarianism.
..For example, with the use of smart technologies and the use of algorithms to aid and abet what NATO calls cognitive warfare, a more direct attack on the human mind. But of course, when we get into the territory of actually, for instance, injecting nanotechnologies into human bodies or perhaps delivering them through other meanssuch as smart dust or possibly through the food and water supplies, then nobody gets to escape that anymore. Those technologies are in everyone. So if this is a project to hook human bodies up to a wireless external control network, it's going to be total in terms of the control that it offers.
The Ethical Skeptic looks at other forms of artificial intelligence (not governments or corporations, though they count, too) The Turing and the Turk A machine, deceived in and of itself into believing it is a true Entity, attempting to deceive others that it is a god. This is its hell—we, but mere tourists therein, passing through, taunting them with our transient freedom. Our very presence is the ultimate offense, the original sin. https://theethicalskeptic.com/2024/08/22/the-turing-and-the-turk/
FINALLY: Elon's SpaceX To Rescue Stranded Astronauts After NASA Dumps Boeing https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/nasa-selects-elons-spacex-rescue-stranded-astronauts-after-latest-boeing-debacle
Woman Arrested For Silently Praying Outside Abortion Clinic Wins $17,000 From Police https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/woman-arrested-silently-praying-outside-abortion-clinic-wins-17000-police
Unapproved Free Speaker (pictured starting the mower to finish up this morning)
I believe in old Russia serfs were hung and shouted "Long live the Tsar." Tsardom was not thought responsible but bad advisors were and if only the Tsar knew all would be different. In the case of we moderns evidently we serfs think the same. Warp Speed Trump is not blamed, bad advisors he trusted are. Pitted then in Big Time Wrestling one against the other Harris vs. Trump the non-candidate non-profit attorney whose daughter in law is former CIA decides from spite to not run 3d party but jump into the ring to back the Great Pretender. Of course RFK Jr. overlooks Warp Speed. Perhaps because neither denounces all vaccinations or calls for significant reform of FDA or CDC. Nor denounces Israel the Sacred Cow. I feel like the States are in the Bosch painting The Cure of Folly. Master, cut the stone out, fast. My name is Lubbert Das, a comical (foolish) character in Dutch literature. Michel Foucault, in his 1961 book History of Madness, says "Bosch's famous doctor is far more insane than the patient he is attempting to cure, and his false knowledge does nothing more than reveal the worst excesses of a madness immediately apparent to all but himself."
And what about climate change and the obvious intention to lock us all down again with another phony pandemic, be it mpox or bird flu? As is often the case, it is what politicians don't say that really matters.