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Perhaps Concerning, Perhaps Not – Donald Trump Jr Will Introduce President Trump’s Vice-Presidential Nominee at RNC Convention

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I’m glad I waited before sharing the following analysis because I’m not as concerned today as I was when I originally read the Guardian article.   Yesterday, The Guardian reported that Donald Trump Jr would be introducing the VP nominee at the RNC convention.  According to them, that could indicate a strong likelihood of JD Vance as the nominee. That would be horrible.

However, what’s really happening is that Don Jr’s speech and intro is really just talking before the VP nominee makes his/her remarks.  The VP will be announced days before the convention itself; so, it’s a sequencing thing.  Maybe not JD Vance, and that’s a good thing.

There is, however, an unfortunate aspect to the articles predictions that is currently surfacing all over the media.

The top 3 finalists, according to a bazillion clickbait articles, are JD Vance, Marco Rubio and Doug Burgum.  I have tried to stay away from the VP discussion because, well, it’s basically a clickbait conversation.  Also, because if Donald Trump has not made up his mind months ago, then we are in more trouble than just the worry of a VP who might impede swamp draining.

If I have any accurate arrows of faith or pragmatic hope left in my quiver, then I am correct in thinking that Donald Trump made this decision a long time ago, and the Vice President nominee has long known exactly what the plan is.  If my “begin with the end in mind” thinking is incorrect; well, then we’re in bigger trouble than 99% of MAGA Americans can fathom.

Every consideration of the VP selection MUST pass through the prism of knowing who the malevolent enemy we are facing truly is, the Intelligence Community, the Fourth Branch of Government.

If President Trump hasn’t/doesn’t game out every step with a thorough and comprehensive understanding of who the enemy is, then the problem will never be solved.

The dangerous Intelligence Community (IC) to be faced is Six Eyes, not Five, with one historically never discussed.

Worse still, they just launched the Seventh Eye in anticipation of Trump winning in November.

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Sundance in my view, which is not exhaustive, has been weird since 10/7 and seems to support the slaughter or at least not criticize it, even gently. At a minimum some disapproval is ethically imperative. In the highlighted paragraphs above, he does provide a hint that he has succumbed to some fear by the oblique reference to a photograph but is not totally defeated. As of right now, the link to one is a photo titled Rick Perry supporting Israel. Obviously Perry himself is not the sixth eye of the IC, so Sundance must be indicating Israel, whose participation if not control of Western IC is beyond a shadow of a doubt. Sundance is one of our best analysts of USA politics, so he knows the consequences. He’s a genius in his own way, so I still read his stuff and support him, but support him even more today since he is being better at speaking the truth, which is hard to do as we all know. There is no question in my mind Western IC is the cabal. What we don’t know for sure is who controls that? ABN

Speech control

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Speech control ‘protects’ only those who are allowed to speak, those who have power or are designated voices of power. Speech control is legally protected narcissism. It protects the lies of those in power and nothing more.

If you think back on how many times you have been offended or badly misled by free speech, you won’t find many if you find any at all. Just pretending there is any need to censor speech is a lie.

As for X, it is a disaster. A waste of time because the algorithms, however they work, curate not just your voice but others as well, so your feed become a small echo tunnel of algorithmic repetition. Musk should have bought Reddit and removed the censorship and algorithms on that platform instead of Twitter, where he has only somewhat curated the curators, not removed them.

Reddit is capable of fostering discussions with clear contexts and promotes links to sources outside of itself, which X does not even allow without causing your voice to be muted. Right now, Reddit can be as bad as FB or X, but in some areas it can be very good. These areas are the ones where elite liars and parasites feel no need to intrude on the people’s voices. Go to any of them and notice how vibrant and informative they can be.

How often are you offended on those subs (typically apolitical)? How often do you see a need for censorship? Never. The only problem ever is a natural hive mind can develop and there can be too much silliness.

The natural hive minds you can see with regularity on Reddit are examples of basal human conformity in action. Elite censorship of speech is entirely designed to funnel people into hive minds constructed by them. The more of us who understand this, the better. ABN

How China Trapped Itself in America’s Fentanyl Crisis

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Central policy and money laundering have created networks that aid traffickers.

A mixture of unintended consequences and indifference has left China playing a significant role in America’s fentanyl crisis. This has become a point of heated contention between Beijing and Washington. U.S. politicians accuse China of deliberately stoking the U.S. drug crisis; China responds that it has done its part and the United States is scapegoating.

But the actual story of Chinese regulation is far more complex and messy—and shows how powerful the profit motive is and how regulatory effects can have unintended consequences. The Chinese government regulates the production and distribution of fentanyl and its precursor chemicals, but stopping the trade is a challenge. Policies aimed at boosting China’s chemical and pharmaceutical development and exports have instead created a vast cottage industry of hundreds of thousands of small chemical plants and active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturers—and with it, a vast money laundering industry that takes advantage of the advanced real-time settlement capabilities of China’s banking system.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer finds pills in a parcel at John F. Kennedy Airport’s postal service facility in New York on June 24, 2019. Dozens of law enforcement officers sift through packages, looking for fentanyl. JOHANNES EISELE/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Understanding how to control fentanyl requires understanding how to make it. Fentanyl has many variants with similar sounding names that are chemically distinct but cause similar reactions in the body; the variants are merely different icing on the same cake.

Since its creation in 1959, researchers have developed at least three different manufacturing methods for fentanyl, each relying on different precursor chemicals as part of the process. Criminals have continued to adapt these processes to use a broader set of more readily available precursor chemicals—like using margarine because you’re all out of butter. The potential manufacturing methods are limitless. Criminals seeking to profit from fentanyl and governments seeking to control its supply are locked in a never-ending competition, with each new countermeasure spurring further innovation to circumvent it.

For many years, Chinese regulators attempting to uphold the country’s traditionally strict anti-drug policies faced a challenge as new variants of fentanyl emerged faster than they could be administratively added to the list of controlled substances. Between 2012 and 2015, only six new fentanyl variants emerged, but there were 63 new variants in 2016 alone. In response, the Chinese government placed all variants of fentanyl on the controlled substances list as of May 2019.

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AT&T says ‘nearly all’ of its customers’ call and text data has been leaked in massive security breach

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AT&T suffered a massive data breach that saw data from ‘nearly all’ of its customers’ accounts illegally downloaded, the company has confirmed. 

The compromised data included records of calls and texts of 110 million wireless subscribers and landline customers over a five month period in 2022, making the hack one of the biggest breaches of private communications data in recent history.

Although the exposed data did not include customer names, there are ‘publicly available online tools’ capable of connecting numbers with people’s identities, the company said.

AT&T admitted it first learned about the hack in April, but is just now notifying former and current customers who were impacted. 

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How to get the plebs to hold their tongues. ABN

US Anti-Semitism Czar Applauds Meta for Censoring Criticism of ‘Zionists’ as ‘Hate Speech’

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US Anti-Semitism Czar Deborah Lipstadt on Tuesday applauded Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta for enacting new rules to censor criticism of “Zionists” on Facebook and Instagram and appeared to take credit for the move.

Meta announced earlier in the day that claims of “Zionists” “running the world or controlling the media” would be censored as “hate speech” going forward on both platforms.

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Top virologist says long covid is real – and it’s caused by the vaccine

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DR ROBERT Redfield was at the helm of the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in 2020 when the covid crisis hit. He resigned his post in spring 2021 at the height of the vaccine rollout after disagreeing with policies. Now he confirms what we have been screaming for the last three years: covid vaccines can harm, natural immunity does offer protection, lockdowns were government overreach, mRNA vaccines are immunotoxic, the virus was not natural in origin and, more counter-intuitively, that long covid is real and is caused by vaccine injury.

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This is newsworthy not because it’s new information but because Redfield is on the edge of mainstream. The plandemic was not a pandemic. It was a government psyop to seize power & money. The vax was and is a bioweapon until proved otherwise, which it won’t be. The Hamas raid on 10/7 was fully known about beforehand by Israel and USA and allowed to happen. Biden is senile. Trump was a normal conservative American president who emphasized energy, manufacturing, borders, no war. Climate change is a scam not much different from the massive healthcare scam that was the plandemic; and likewise is designed to seize power & money. It is retarded to not know these positions and take them seriously even if you disagree here and there. It’s also obvious to anyone with a brain that USA and the collective West has been entirely taken over by a destructive parasite that hates this civilization and, like commies, intends to ‘remake’ the human mind in its own demented image. ABN

What do air conditioner settings – closed, fresh air, and vent – mean?

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Air conditioner settings – closed, fresh air, and vent – refer to the different modes or positions of the air vent on your air conditioner unit. Here’s a breakdown of what each setting means:

  • Closed: This setting means the air vent is fully closed, and the air conditioner is not drawing in outside air. This setting is typically used for maximum cooling or heating, as it allows the unit to focus on circulating conditioned air within the room or space.
  • Fresh Air: This setting means the air vent is partially open, allowing a small amount of outside air to enter the room or space. This setting is useful for introducing fresh air into the space, which can be beneficial for air quality and odor control.
  • Vent: This setting means the air vent is fully open, allowing a significant amount of outside air to enter the room or space. This setting is typically used when you want to bring in cooler outside air to supplement the air conditioner’s cooling or heating capabilities.

It’s worth noting that some air conditioner units may have additional settings or modes, such as a “fan only” mode that allows the unit to circulate air without cooling or heating.

The Great British Betrayal: The Rise of Britain’s Rentier Regime — Keith Woods

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Since the election of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government in 1979, Britain has undergone a great experiment. Economically, the UK became the exemplar of neoliberalism in Europe. Politically, the UK has quietly transitioned to a postnational state, undergoing one of the greatest demographic transformations in the West.

Although the landslide victory of Tony Blair’s “New Labour” in 1997 may have seemed like a return to the model of European social democracy that Britain exemplified after the Second World War, Blair’s “Third Way” represented rather the embrace of neoliberalism by the establishment Left, summed up nicely by their spokesman Peter Mandelson’s declaration that “we are all Thatcherites now”.

Under the leadership of both the Conservative Party and New Labour, Britain has transitioned from a traditional industrial and manufacturing powerhouse to a highly financialised rentier economy. The effects have been profound. The average Briton is considerably worse off and entire regions have been left behind at the same time London has become a booming centre of international finance. The UK has been denationalised by decades of mass-immigration and cultural leftism, and has become the prime example of “anarcho-tyranny”, where the state punishes minor offences and acts of dissent against the liberal consensus with extreme force, while serious crime runs out of control in major cities.

The Rentier Regime

The fundamental transformation in the British economy since the 1980s is the movement away from an economy that made things to an economy that made money . Up to then, Britain’s economic might had been centered on its manufacturing. Britain was the birthplace of the industrial revolution, and the dual expansion of its colonial empire and rapid advances in engineering allowed for the creation of a vast trading network, where colonies provided the raw materials and markets for British manufacturing. Northern English cities like Manchester, Sheffield and Newcastle became manufacturing powerhouses serving the world.

…The graph below demonstrates the explosion in London-based financial services in delivering growth for the British economy

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UPDATE: This is an exceptionally good article. It covers much more than even a longish sample can convey. I highly recommend reading it. It has clarified and altered my understanding of the UK. ABN