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*** USS Gerald R. Ford Aircraft Carrier Group Heading to Middle East; Israel Prepares for War ***

Incredible that a tiny country the size of New Jersey with its own nuclear weapons and universal healthcare for all its residents has the ability to summon two nuclear-powered aircraft groups (ACGs) of a country as large and as powerful as the United States of America.

The millions of Americans in the antiwar bloc, a movement as old as the American Revolution itself, are watching which US politicians support attacking Iran and which aren't.

If the US attacks Iran in a few weeks as the Israeli High Command planned for, Democratic Party candidates that receive AIPAC money or support attacking Iran won't be getting the antiwar vote on Tuesday 3 Nov 2026.

Don't believe Coriolanus?

Don't care.

You will note there are Gold Star Family and Veteran's groups in this "Far Left" bloc.

Source: www.ynetnews.com

List of antiwar organizations in the US:


About Face (formerly Iraq Veterans Against the War)
America First Committee " opposed American entry into the Second World War
American League Against War and Fascism
American Peace Mobilization
American Peace Society
American Writers Against the Vietnam War
A.N.S.W.E.R. (also known as International ANSWER and ANSWER Coalition)
Another Mother For Peace[9]
Anti-War Committee
Antiwar.com
Buffalo Nine
Campus Antiwar Network
Committee for Non-Violent Action (later merged with the War Resisters League)
Committee for Nonviolent Revolution
Center on Conscience & War (formerly known as NISBCO)
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism
Council for a Livable World
Council for the National Interest
Code Pink: Women for Peace
Common Dreams
Direct Action to Stop the War
Friends Committee on National Legislation
Gay Liberation Network
GI Rights Network
Gold Star Families for Peace
Grandmothers for Peace
Iraq Peace Action Coalition
LewRockwell.com
Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives
Military Families Speak Out opposed to war in Iraq
Mennonite Central Committee
Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund
National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam
National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
New York Peace Society " first peace society in U.S., opposed 19th and 20th century wars
No Conscription League
Not in Our Name
Orange County Student Alliance
Peace Action
Peace Alliance
Peace and Freedom Party
People's Coalition for Peace and Justice
People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace " anti-World War I group
Port Militarization Resistance
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
RESIST
Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity[10]
Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice[9]
September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
Students for a Democratic Society (2006 organization)
The World Can't Wait
Troops Out Now Coalition
United for Peace and Justice
Veterans for Peace
Vietnam Day Committee
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
War Resisters League
Win Without War
Women's Peace Party[9]
Women's Peace Society[9]
Women's Peace Union[9]
Writers Against the War on Gaza
Youth International Party (Yippies)

According to newly released files from the US Department of Justice, messages sent between Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon in 2019, reveal Bannon courted the late wealthy sex maniac in his attempts to undermine the former pontiff after leaving the first Trumpf junta.

Bannon had been highly critical of Francis whom he saw as an opponent to his "sovereigntist" vision, a brand of nationalist populism which swept through Europe in 2018 and 2019. The released documents from the DOJ appear to show that Epstein had been helping Bannon to build his movement.

"Will take down (Pope) Francis," Bannon wrote to Epstein in June 2019. "The Clintons, Xi, Francis, EU " come on brother."
Pope Francis was a significant obstacle to Bannon's brand of nationalist populism. In 2018, the former Trumpf sycophant described Francis to The Spectator as "beneath contempt," accusing him of siding with "globalist elites" and, according to "SourceMaterial," urged Matteo Salvini, now Italy's deputy PM, to "attack" the pontiff. For his part, Salvini has used Christian iconography and language when pursuing his anti-immigrant agenda.

Rome and the Vatican have been important for Bannon. He set up a Rome bureau when he ran Breitbart News and has been involved in trying to establish a political training "gladiator school" to defend Judeo-Christian values not far from the Eternal City.


When Steve Bannon shares with Epstein an article about the Vatican condemning "populist nationalism," Epstein quotes John Milton's biblical poem "Paradise Lost," when Satan has been cast out of heaven.

"Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven," Epstein tells Bannon.

Elsewhere in the files, Jeffrey Epstein jokes with his brother, Mark, about inviting Pope Francis to his residence for a "massage" during the US papal visit in 2015.

An FBI report included in the DOJ's release includes a source who claims that an Italian cybersecurity figure described as "Epstein's Hacker" may have held a Vatican City passport.

Jeffrey Epstein had his filthy tentacle everywhere it seems and ICC-indicted war criminal Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu denies that a man who penetrated so many corridors of global power was not a Mossad spy. If that was true, all previous Mossad directors and Israeli PMs should be court-martialed for not recruiting such a valuable asset.


Below, two of the worst blasphemers, miscreants, and reprobates to ever blight our planet are taking a "selfie" in a mirroe. Thank goodness at least one monster is gone forever.

"US President Dummkopf Trumpf seizing power on 20 Jan 2025 gave European nationalists and hardline conservatives a champion at the head of the world's largest economic and military power; now groups on both sides of the Atlantic want to seize the moment. Their ambition is to repurpose the soft-power tools America once deployed to spread the gospel of liberalism, to expand their reach and power and ultimately rebuild the West in their image " a project both sides call a "civilizational alliance" (AKA white supremacy).

~snip~

This Empty Suit was vetted for his position by mega-oligarch Larry Ellison strictly on his fealty to Israel. The catalog of USSECSTATE Marco Rubio's vile blasphemies are too lengthy for a weblog entry, but we'll do our best here. The vastly underqualified Rubio callously dismantled USAID and removed the State Dept web portal to report war crimes. Rubio fired seasoned diplomats and ambassadors and dimed out El Salvadoran nationals to right-wing President Nayib Bukele in order to deport migrants to his hellish CECOT prison.

This good-for-nothing worked with CIA to undermine Venezuela's government and illegally abduct President Nicolas Maduro. Marco Rubio expedited the transfer of billions of dollars of American taxpayer money to Israel to continue its ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank. Rubio nominated Jeremy Carl, a known antisemite, for a senior position at the State Dept.

Marco Rubio withdrew visas of people who ridiculed hate monger Charlie Kirk. As a US Senator, Marco Rubio undermined the Affordable Care Act by attaching damaging riders to the bill. Marco Rubio is now working on overthrowing the regime in Cuba and making life more miserable for the people there with even more sanctions.


Link:
Marco Rubio is just gross. Blech!

Marco Rubio: An empty human being with zero imagination, diplomatic tact, compassion, or dimension. He is a faux Christian who allegedly reads from the Scriptures every day which he obnoxiously tweets out. One such creepy social post: "As dogs return to their vomit, so fools repeat their folly. Proverbs 26:11." This Empty Suit is going to enjoy a magnificent American taxpayer-funded federal pension after many years of disservice as a Republican US Senator and USSECSTATE, accomplishing nothing to improve the lives of his fellow Americans or to enhance US global diplomacy.



@#17 ... Is this what MAGA really thinks about Pres Trump? ...

Or, maybe this ...

Delaney & Bonnie - Never Ending Song of Love (1971)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Chorus]
I've got a never-endin' love for you (Ee-ha)
From now on that's all I wanna do
From the first time we met I knew
I'd have a never-endin' love for you

I've got a never-endin' love for you
From now on that's all I wanna do
From the first time we met I knew
I'd have a never-endin' love for you
...



@#8

Former Beauty Queen: Contestants Were Forced To Greet Trump Even When Not Fully Dressed (2016)
www.cbsnews.com

... As Miss Arizona, Tasha Dixon, then 18, competed in the Miss USA pageant, which was owned by Donald Trump for 19 years, along with the Miss Universe and Miss Teen USA pageants.

"Our first introduction to him was when we were at the dress rehearsal and half naked changing into our bikinis," Dixon recalled. "He just came strolling right in. There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything. Some girls were topless. Other girls were naked."

She said she and her fellow contestants were put in an awkward position when "the owner come waltzing in when we were naked or half naked in a very physically vulnerable position and then to have the pressure of the people that worked for him telling us to go fawn all over him, go walk up to him, talk to him, get his attention."

Dixon's account is seemingly supported by the Republican presidential nominee himself in a 2005 broadcast on the "The Howard Stern Show." That audio recording was re-released last weekend.

Here is a sample of what was said on the show on April 11, 2005:


Trump: "I'll go backstage before a show and everyone's getting dressed and ready and everything else. And you know, no men are anywhere. And I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant. And therefore, I'm inspecting it. You know I'm inspecting it. I want to make sure everything is good."

Stern: "You're like a doctor."

Trump: "Is everyone OK? You know they're standing there with no clothes. Is everybody OK? And you see these incredible looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that."


Dixon has strong opinions about what she thought was Trump's motivations. ...

@#23

Here's one of many article I found ...

Monetary Cost of Air Pollution's Health Impacts Dropped from EPA Assessments (January 2026)
healthpolicy-watch.news

...The US EPA, whose path-finding work on air pollution's health impacts helped set standards internationally, will no longer put dollar amounts to the human health toll of the most hazardous air pollutants, PM 2.5 and ozone, in the course of setting new regulations or assessing the health harms of potentially polluting energy projects, the agency signalled on Monday.

The sea change in four decades of policy was included in a new economic assessment of new emissions standards for gas turbines, which fine-tunes and strengthens slightly regulations on nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions, but avoids setting explicit limits for emissions of fine particles, PM2.5, widely considered the most health-hazardous air pollutant.

The costs to industry of the updated rule will amount to roughly $22.6 million annually, the assessment states. But it refrains from making any monetary estimate of health costs and benefits, stating:

"The EPA is no longer monetizing benefits from PM2.5 and ozone but will continue to quantify the emissions until the Agency is confident enough in the modeling to properly monetize those impacts." ...


@#13 ... Hey DJ LampEasy, ...

Since your current trolling alias mentioned that, allow me to post another song ...

Is this what MAGA really thinks about Pres Trump?

Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Verse 1]
I think I'd like to go back home and take it easy
There's a woman that I'd like to get to know, living there

[Chorus]
Everybody seems to wonder what it's like down here
I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around
Everybody knows this is nowhere
La la la, la la la la
Everybody, everybody knows, everybody knows (La la la, la la la la)
Oh yeah

[Verse 2]
Every time I think about back home, it's cool and breezy
I wish that I could be there right now just passing time
...



Trump pushes voter ID 'whether approved by Congress or not!'
www.politico.com

... President Donald Trump insisted Friday that voter ID requirements will be in place for this year's midterm elections regardless of congressional approval, escalating his push for sweeping changes to how Americans vote.

"There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!" the president wrote on Truth Social. He also said he "searched the depths" of legal arguments on the issue and would be "presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future," though he did not specify what legal rationale he would rely on.

"If we can't get it through Congress, there are Legal reasons why this SCAM is not permitted," Trump wrote in a separate lengthy post shortly after, adding that he would present his justification in the form of an executive order. ...


OK, I would like to proffer.

I am not against Voter ID to vote. Here in Connecticut I have have to show identification for decades in order to cast my vote(s).

My concern on this current issue is --- what are the hurdles that Pres trump is trying to put into place to prevent legal voters from being able to obtain the ID needed to be able to vote?

imo, that is the crux of this issue.

U.S. Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina's Voter ID Law (2016)
www.npr.org

...The appeals court noted that the North Carolina Legislature "requested data on the use, by race, of a number of voting practices" -- then, data in hand, "enacted legislation that restricted voting and registration in five different ways, all of which disproportionately affected African Americans."

The changes to the voting process "target African Americans with almost surgical precision," the circuit court wrote, and "impose cures for problems that did not exist."

The appeals court suggested that the motivation was fundamentally political -- a Republican legislature attempting to secure its power by blocking votes from a population likely to vote for Democrats....

[emphasis mine]

Georgia's GOP House Speaker says vote-by-mail system would be 'devastating to Republicans' (April 2020)
thehill.com

..."... a multitude of reasons why vote by mail in my view is not acceptable," [Georgia state House Speaker David] Ralston went on, before adding "the president said it best, this will be extremely devastating to Republicans and conservatives in Georgia." ...

"The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you ever agreed to, you would never have a Republican elected in this country again," [fmr Pres] Trump said...


imo, one of the best songs of the Moody Blues ...

Moody Blues - Dream Sequence (1969) (it's a 12 minute tune)
www.youtube.com

Back in the progressive music days when multiple songs were continuum of music.

OK, here's the first song of that musical amalgam ...

genius.com

...
Spoken:

When the white eagle of the North is flying overhead
The browns, reds and golds of autumn lie in the gutter, dead
Remember then, that summer birds with wings of fire flaying
Come to witness spring's new hope, born of leaves decaying

As new life will come from death, love will come at leisure
Love of love, love of life and giving without measure
Gives in return a wondrous yearn of a promise almost seen
Live hand-in-hand and together we'll stand on the threshold of a dream
...


Yeah, they don't write lyrics like that anymore. :)


... A review of the riskier apps to use when it comes to protecting personal data finds Instagram and Facebook ranking first ...

Then there are things like this ...

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com

... In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature's release. ...

Five years ago, Facebook shut down the facial recognition system for tagging people in photos on its social network, saying it wanted to find "the right balance" for a technology that raises privacy and legal concerns.

Now it wants to bring facial recognition back.

Meta, Facebook's parent company, plans to add the feature to its smart glasses, which it makes with the owner of Ray-Ban and Oakley, as soon as this year, according to four people involved with the plans who were not authorized to speak publicly about confidential discussions. The feature, internally called "Name Tag," would let wearers of smart glasses identify people and get information about them via Meta's artificial intelligence assistant. ...


Moody Blues - Question (1970)

www.youtube.com

non-orchestrated version, one of the first times it was performed

Are There More Bacteria on Computer Keyboards Than Toilet Seats?
www.center4research.org

... We all try to keep our kitchens and bathrooms clean and bacteria-free. But how clean are our offices, computers, and keyboards? Most of us spend many hours every week typing at a computer, but rarely think to clean it. How dirty can our desks get?

Keyboards and Bacteria

Research from the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia studied the amount and type of bacteria on personal faculty keyboards and shared keyboards and other surfaces around the university. They found that keyboards can have high levels of bacteria on them and that shared keyboards tend to have more bacteria than those used by only one person.[1]

Even more disturbing, research by University of Arizona researchers also found that the average desktop has 400 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat. ...


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