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Link: USCENTCOM Ready to Attack Iran

On 31 Dec 2025, the IDF High Command issued an alert to the citizens of Israel to be prepared for an imminent three front war against the West Bank, Lebanon, and Iran.

Everybody on the planet, from the editors of The Economist.com to the first American Pope, know that Dummkopf Trumpf doesn't care one atom about the Iranian people or the demonstrators killed by their security forces. On the contrary, the sinister Trumpf junta has been deporting Iranian nationals wholesale back to the Islamic Republic, including some LGBTQ people this very week.

~snip~

I'll never understand the hardworking American taxpayer sending billions of dollars every year to a wealthy, nuclear-armed Israel, a country which offers universal world class healthcare to all its residents (unlike the US), enjoys a social security system ranked at "B+" (compared to America which is ranked lower at "C+"), and has a GNI of $52,940, almost exactly on par with wealthy Germany ($54,960).

No wonder Israelis are in the top ten according to the Global Happiness Index (GHI), unlike Americans who rank 24th, because amongst many things they suffer medical bankruptcies every year, are subject to a brutal police state under the nefarious Trumpf junta, and have a Congress unresponsive to the needs of the American people.

Now our young Servicemembers will be in harm's way in the Middle East, led by incompetent US Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth.

Kris Kristofferson - Me and Bobby McGee (1969)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

...
Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar, an ex army helicopter pilot, singer, song writer and a film actor, and a staple in country/folk music since the 1960's has written numerous personal songs about his travels in the US, meeting women and enjoying drinks and drugs.

Bobby McGee is a compilation of some of these woman, including Janis Joplin, whose version made it to the top of the charts after she died in 1971.

Her death had a profound effect on Kris Kristofferson "

Bobby McGee' was the song that made the difference for me. Every time I sing it, I still think of Janis

The song was on his album with same name.

Per the Rolling Stone - "Kris Kristofferson, was inspired to write it after seeing Federico Fellini's 1954 film La Strada, Italian for "the road.""

[Verse 3]
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose
Nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free
...


More from the article ...

... Leavitt was peppered with questions during the White House press briefing about whether Trump agreed with sentiments of Pretti's killing that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller made over the weekend.

That included Noem saying Pretti "attacked" federal law enforcement while "brandishing" a firearm and saying the incident was an example of "domestic terrorism." Meanwhile, Miller referred to Pretti as a "would-be assassin" who "tried to murder federal law enforcement."

Multiple angles of video captured by witnesses of Pretti's confrontation with federal law enforcement Saturday show an officer shooting Pretti in the back after an altercation in which Pretti, filming the officers, sought to help a woman being pepper-sprayed before he was also pepper-sprayed. Video appears to show an officer taking Pretti's gun and walking away before he was shot.

When asked whether Trump agrees with Noem and Miller's sentiments on the circumstances, Leavitt said she has not heard the president "characterize Mr. Pretti in that way."

"However, I have heard the president say he wants to let the facts and the investigation lead itself," Leavitt said.

Leavitt did not give a definitive answer when another reporter asked whether Miller will be apologizing to Pretti's family.

"Again, this incident remains under investigation, and nobody here at the White House, including the president of the United States, wants to see Americans hurt or killed and losing their lives in American streets," she responded. ...


On the other hand, from what I have seen said in the Cabinet meetings, this is apropos ...

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
...



Al Stewart - If It Doesn't Come Naturally, Leave It (1976)
www.youtube.com

OK, here's the usual link to lyrics ...
genius.com

The full lyrics are there at that link.

But the particular lyrics of this song that I like are ...

...
Well nothing that's real is ever for free
And you just have to pay for it sometime
...


x.com

Anyone want to explain where this officers head is. This is one of your pics floating around the internet.

Tangentially related ...

How to Install and Log In to Windows 11 Without a Microsoft Account (2025)
www.tomshardware.com

... Microsoft wants users to sign in with a Microsoft account, for tracking ...


Cont ...

And now, you are have decided that burning down the entire country is worth it if it means your precious illegal aliens get to stay. Your politicians are the ones have actively encouraged the riots in places like Minneapolis and radicalized people into thinking they have a right to obstruct lawful immigration enforcement. Renee good and Alex Pretti are dead because of you.

I, along with 77 million other Americans, voted for a government that promised mass deportations. And that doesn't mean just gang members and criminals. It means every single person who crossed the border illegally or has overstayed their visa. It doesn't matter if they're a murderer or uber eats driver. We voted to get rid of them all because America is a sovereign nation that has the right to deport people with no right to be here in the first place.

So no, I simply do not care about any of the sob stories that you manufacture on a daily basis to emotionally manipulate people against lawful enforcement of our immigration laws. I don't care if federal agents wearing masks triggers you, I don't care about your tug-at-the-heartstrings propaganda, and I especially don't care that your illegal alien "neighbors" feel scared.

We're sick of being told we're bad people for objecting to the hordes of third-world illegals that you brought here without our consent. The moment you decide that Americans matter more to you than protecting illegals is the moment the chaos and death comes to an end. But you won't because all you are useful idiots for a machine that seeks to make Americans poor and miserable in the country their ancestors built

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I just saw this at a site called Twitchy

" To my leftist friends:

I do not care that a leftist agitator got himself killed because he decided to arm himself with a gun and venture out to resist ICE, nor the other one who sped her car at an ICE agent while fleeing arrest, nor do I care about the little kid who was detained with his illegal alien father.

And neither do you, because all you care about are turning people-- whose deaths never would have happened if you people didn't have a psychopathic opposition to lawful immigration enforcement-- into martyrs who can be used to justify ending deportations, which you want because it's the biggest threat to Democratic political power.

What I do care about is the fact that there are millions of illegal aliens that have invaded my country. Your party are the ones who spent the previous 4 years importing as many of them into America as possible-- allowing millions of foreign military-aged men to cross the southern border and resettling them all around the country with our tax dollars.

You didn't give a crap about the thousands of unaccompanied children that smugglers dropped off at the border-- nor the thousands that went missing-- in one of the biggest child trafficking operations in the world that happened because of your party.

You didn't care about real victims like Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, and Rachel Morin-- not agitators trying to obstruct law enforcement-- but innocent people who were minding their own business when they were brutally murdered by criminal illegal aliens that Biden released into the country.

But you people have decided that it's imperative that these illegals be able to stay. That somebody fresh over the border from Honduras is just as American as the rest of us. That somebody with such disrespect for our country that their first contribution to it was breaking our immigration laws should be given the same rights as every American. That they should be allowed to continue stealing jobs, driving up housing costs, and mooching off American taxpayers.

And you want this for one reason and one reason only: Because it's the only way you can continue winning elections. You don't actually care about any of these people. You just want to give them citizenship so they can vote for Democrats and count them in the census so that blue states have more electoral votes than they deserve.

All you want is to import as many foreigners as possible and give them a stake in the political future of our country so that Democrats can rule forever without the consent from actual Americans who you couldn't give two craps about.

And you of course don't actually want to deal with the consequences of mass immigration. The places you live are not the ones where massive demographic changes have happened almost overnight. You'll continue living in your majority-white affluent communities while working class Americans deal with the influx of your new class of voters.
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Cont ... .

Top US defence official hails 'model ally' in South Korea talks
www.nbcrightnow.com

... The Pentagon's number three official hailed South Korea as a "model ally" as he met with local counterparts in Seoul on Monday, days after Washington's new defence strategy called for reduced support for partners overseas.

Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby arrived in South Korea on Monday and is seen as a key proponent of President Donald Trump's "America First" foreign policy. ...


A new source of electricity?
en.wikipedia.org

... Single-wire earth return (SWER) or single-wire ground return is a single-wire transmission line which supplies single-phase electric power from an electrical grid to remote areas at lowest cost. The earth (or sometimes a body of water) is used as the return path for the current, to avoid the need for a second wire (or neutral wire) to act as a return path. ...

From the sub-summary ...

... American farmers, who once fed the world, face a volatile global market with diminishing federal backing ,,,

Maybe those farmers should buy more Trump digital coins, as Saudi Arabia seems to have done?

NYT: UAE Chips Deal Linked to $2B Investment in Trump Family Cryptocurrency Firm (September 2025)
www.democracynow.org

... A New York Times report has revealed how a member of the ruling family of the United Arab Emirates invested $2 billion in the Trump family's cryptocurrency company just days before the UAE received access to rare artificial intelligence chips. ...


ICE Shootings Are Freaking Out the GOP. They're Afraid to Tell Trump.
www.politico.com

... To cover the Republican Party in the age of President Donald Trump requires a grasp of cryptology.

Because of the unflinching personal loyalty he demands, and punishment he'll administer on public dissenters, leading GOP officials speak in rhetorical code.

And in the aftermath of the second killing by federal agents of a protester in Minnesota, there's been a stream of statements, comments and sound bites from party lawmakers that beg for translation.

Before we get to the private and public messages being transmitted, however, a word on what top Republicans actually believe about what has become a deepening crisis for the White House, based on my conversations over the last two days.

They are concerned more protests to the bloodshed may beget additional incidents, have little faith in DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and, from a raw political standpoint, worry the party has squandered the best issues it had when voters were otherwise frustrated with the cost of living: the border and public order.

Immigration, broadly, as one veteran senator granted anonymity to speak candidly told me over the weekend, is for the GOP what health care is for Democrats -- a "home game."

Yet with viral images of Americans being shot in broad daylight replacing migrants stampeding across the country's border, that advantage is quickly dissipating.

So what are Republican elected officials doing to address what could prove calamitous, for the country and their political fortunes? ...

[emphasis mine]

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