The 14th Amendment was proposed through a collaborative effort involving several key legislators. Representative John A. Bingham of Ohio and Senator Jacob Howard of Michigan were among the primary figures responsible for introducing the amendment’s provisions. Additionally, other representatives and senators such as Henry Deming of Connecticut, Benjamin G. Brown of Missouri, and Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania also played significant roles in shaping the amendment. The amendment was officially submitted to the states for ratification on June 16, 1866, following its passage by the House on May 10, 1866, and by the Senate on June 8, 1866. (Brave AI generated)
Another major point against a wide-open interpretation of the 14th is it serves as a powerful magnet, attracting an enormous amount illegal immigration. This was never its original intent and this possibility was already remarked on by Senator Howard as seen in the quotation above. ABN
Last night on CNBC Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff hinted that some stunning revelations around expansion of the Abraham Peace Accords would likely surface in the next week. Immediately thereafter, President Trump sent a message of support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, against a judicial effort targeting the Prime Minister.
Today, we start to hear of some rather stunning developments in the region that might explain multiple background stories, including the above and the severity of response from President Trump when he felt that Israel was overreacting to the Iran missile fired during the early hours of the ceasefire.
In a stunning development, Israel Hayom is reporting on the outlines of a peace agreement and long-term solution for the Israel-Gaza conflict. The report might explain why President Trump made bold moves in Syria recently, including the removal of all U.S./western sanctions and the close relationship between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MbS).
According to Israel Hayom, there was a 4-way call (Trump, Netanyahu, Rubio, Dermer) after the Iran strikes. President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to “fundamental principles in general terms” including:
♦ “Gaza hostilities will conclude within two weeks.” ♦ “Four Arab nations (including Egypt and the UAE) will administer the Gaza Strip, replacing the murderous Hamas terrorist organization.” ♦ “The remaining Hamas leadership will face exile to other countries (possibly Qatar and Turkey), while the hostages gain freedom.” ♦ “Multiple nations globally will accept numerous Gaza inhabitants seeking emigration.” ♦ “Abraham Accords expansion will bring Syria, Saudi Arabia, and additional Arab and Muslim countries to recognize Israel and establish official relationships.” ♦ “Israel will declare its willingness for future Palestinian conflict resolution under the ‘two states’ concept, contingent upon the Palestinian Authority reforms.” ♦ “The United States will acknowledge limited Israeli sovereignty implementation in Judea and Samaria.”
It’s new world. If this large peace deal holds, the Middle East will boom. At the same time the world can look forward to a very large wealth increase through robotic productivity and AI. This is a wonderful ’embarrassment of riches’ we all should celebrate. The Trump faction of the global elite has taken us to this point. Possibly by this example alone, Russia, USA and Europe will make a lasting peace based on many centuries of shared religion, heritage, genes, and culture. If Arabs, Jews and Persians can do it, so can white people. ABN
At Sayburç in southeastern Turkey, a few miles from the world-famous megalithic site of Gobekli Tepe, a very ancient engraved stone panel was excavated in 2021. The panel shows, from left to right, a charging wild bull, a man holding a serpent sitting or falling back before the bull, and a seated man holding his penis and flanked by two leopards.
After our flight to Istanbul took off from Baghdad International Airport I opened my laptop and re-read a research paper on the panel by Turkish archaeologist and art historian Dr Eylem Özdoğan. Titled The Sayburç reliefs: a narrative scene from the Neolithic, the paper, was published in the authoritative peer-reviewed journal Antiquity in 2022 and contained a photograph of the eponymous scene which is carved into the vertical aspect of a knee-high stone bench. Dated to around 8500 BC, the scene has the “narrative integrity of both a theme and a story in contrast to other contemporaneous images,” says Dr Özdoğan. Indeed in her view it “represents the most detailed depiction of a Neolithic ‘story’ found to date in the Near East, bringing us closer to the Neolithic people and their world.”1
In the same folder where I’d filed Dr Özdoğan’s paper I’d filed the high-resolution photograph of the complete panel which the photographer, B. Kosker, had kindly released on Creative Commons:2
“Hip-hop visionary, cultural icon and controversial genius YE will perform July 20, 2025 exclusively at the Rubicon Festival in Bratislava. It will be his only confirmed live performance in Europe in 2025 — and ever first show in Slovakia in history,” organizers confirmed on the event’s website on Monday. “Rubicon Festival is raising the bar for European festivals to a whole new level.”
His participation in the festival has sparked anger. More than 3,000 people have already signed a petition asking the festival to cancel the performance of the rapper, who is formerly known as Kanye West.
The authors of the petition point out that Ye has in recent years repeatedly and openly adopted the symbolism and ideology associated with Nazi Germany, having written, for example, “I am a Nazi” and “I love Hitler” on social media platforms.
“He trivializes the crimes of the totalitarian dictatorial regime and the war atrocities that also affected the Slovak population,” the petition reads.
The petition refers to Ye’s latest track, “Heil Hitler,” which was released on May 8 — the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
The song references the Nazi salute which was used while Adolf Hitler was in power. The single’s artwork resembles a swastika, and the song ends with a lengthy sample from a Hitler speech.
As the petition also mentions, the song is banned in Germany.
Aannnd, who controls the British Imperial System? The video provides a good overview of the world Trump is dealing with and why he acts as he does, but left me wondering who controls this British imperial hegemony? It decidedly does not appear to be the British. ABN
Get the ball rolling and be proud for 1,000 years. If the Irish pull this off, I’m gonna love it. This is a moral battle and it requires men who feel it as well as think it. ABN
Russia fears China could annex part of its Far East region, including the port city of Vladivostok, and beyond, according to a leaked document from Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).
The eight-page internal FSB document, obtained by The New York Times, reveals that despite Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s outward projection of warm ties with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, he fears Beijing is “trying to encroach” on Russian territory.
Vladivostok was ceded to Tsarist Russia in 1860 under the Treaty of Peking, which established the border between China and Russia along the Amur and Ussuri Rivers, as indicated on Newsweek‘s maps in this article. This agreement granted Russia control of Vladivostok, a key port city in the Russian Far East.
Per the FSB, China has sought to bolster its historical claims in the Russian Far East by researching traces of “ancient Chinese peoples” in the region. In 2023, China’s Ministry of Natural Resources mandated that new maps use the Chinese names for Vladivostok and seven other cities in the region. The document suggests that China may be trying to influence local opinion to support its narrative.
The FSB memo also alleges that Chinese intelligence agents are interested in the Arctic and the Northern Sea Route, which is located by the northern coast of Russia. The route, which significantly reduces shipping time between Asia and Europe, would allow China to export its goods more efficiently.
Until then, Musk’s criticisms of the president had been confined to relatively measured arguments against the deficit.
…Trump was handed the dossier on Isaacman just moments before a televised send-off for Musk in the Oval Office.
The president tempered his rage through the farewell but when the press were gone, he confronted the SpaceX boss.
He began reading some of the donations aloud, shaking his head.
‘This is not good,’ Trump told him.
The world’s richest man begged the world’s most powerful to reconsider.
But the president, by now growing suspicious of the deficit hawk DOGE chief, wouldn’t hear it.
‘I don’t care, this guy is gone,’ Trump said.
…Trump pointedly addressed the decision during an Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz last Thursday as Musk’s attacks on X spiraled out of control.
‘I didn’t think it was appropriate,’ Trump told reporters. ‘He happened to be a Democrat, like, totally Democrat. And I say, you know, look, we won. We get certain privileges. And one of the privileges is we don’t have to appoint a Democrat. NASA is very important.’
People had high hopes that the new Sheriffs in town, Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, would finally and honestly answer many of the burning questions that have lingered about Epstein et al. Unfortunately, Bondi and Patel have turned out to be LIARS, too.
On July 6, 2019, Epstein was arrested at New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and the sex trafficking of underage girls. The FBI wasted little time opening his New York’s mansion extremely large safe, which had the dimensions of a closet.
According to a July 8, 2019, New York Times article, federal authorities seized “hundreds—possibly thousands—of sexually suggestive photographs of girls who appear underage, as well as hand-labeled compact discs with titles like ‘Girl pics nude,’ and, with the names redacted, ‘Young [Name] + [Name].’”Judging by the titles on the discs, Epstein was a purveyor of child abuse material. The latter disc named by the New York Times is perhaps an indication of blackmail? Moreover, Business Insider reported that an FBI agent later divulged that “hard drives” were also taken from the safe.
Fast forward to February 21st of 2025: Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the Epstein client list was “sitting on my desk” for review. On February 26th, she proclaimed on national television that the “Epstein files” would be released the following day: “What you’re gonna see tomorrow is a lot of flight logs, a lot of names, a lot of information.” But when the highly anticipated tranche of documents was released, her words had been much ado about nothing. She served us a nothing sandwich.
When the documents provided no new revelations, Bondi then declared that she had been bamboozled by the FBI’s New York field office. Regardless of how we slice Bondi’s actions, she has to shoulder the blame for the fiasco, because either she lied on national television, or she didn’t diligently review the documents on her “desk.” I’m a charitable person, and I initially ascribed her doublespeak to incompetence instead of mendacity.
But then she further tarnished her credibility when she said that federal law enforcement has a “truckload of evidence” on the Epstein case, and only matters related to “national security” would be redacted from the documents. So, now she has to explain the nexus between the most prolific child trafficker ever acknowledged by US law enforcement and his ilk of child molesters and national security.
Patel has been playing words games by referring to there being no ‘tapes from the island‘ while ignoring the trove of tapes we know were in the safe in NYC. Bondi, Patel and Bongino seem to have gotten their jobs because the deep state knows they are not a threat for one reason or another. Bryant recaps the procession of their foolishness since taking office, thus providing a coherent overview of their misfeasance. ABN
American Buddhist Net 