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"Trump Dumps on NATO Dead in Afghanistan"

Well, he thinks our own troops who died in combat are "suckers and losers."

Why should he hold foreign troops who died in defense of the U.S. in higher esteem?

Here are some possibilities from "What Mental Illness Causes Excessive Talking?" (www.charliehealth.com):
1. Bipolar disorder
2. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
3. Anxiety disorders
4. Schizophrenia
5. Borderline personality disorder (BPD)
6. Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)
7. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

OMB Memo: Review Wash DC and Blue States for De-Funding

"All federal agencies except the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense have been charged with responding to the request.

The memo states that this was a "data-gathering exercise" and "does not involve withholding funds, and therefore does not violate any court order.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington, as well as Washington DC, were targeted by the order.

All of the states, except for Vermont, have a Democratic governor.

In a Michigan speech in mid-January, Dummkopf Trumpf brayed about his plans to suspend federal funding for sanctuary cities and states.

Trumpf has already repeatedly and nastily targeted blue states' federal funding since seizing power on 20 Jan 2025.

The diabolical Trumpf junta went after states that voted for former VPOTUS Kamala Harris in the 2024 election in a wave of funding cuts as punishment for the government shutdown last October. And in January, the junta hit five blue states with a $10 billion cut to childcare and social services funding, lying to the American people by citing alleged fraud concerns. HHS recently slashed $2bn in funding for substance abuse and mental health counseling."

Without doubt, Dummkopf Trumpf is just a petty, soulless, and terrible human being. Period.

Some perspectives on Israel and the Gaza Strip:

Nuclear-armed, wealthy Israel, which offers world class universal healthcare for all its residents (completely opposite of the US), is approximately the same size as New Jersey; the impoverished Gaza Strip is roughly the same size as Philadelphia PA.

In two years, three months, and 14 days (from 7 Oct 2023 to today), the Israeli Death Forces (IDF) killed 71,562 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

That means the IDF liquidated more than the equivalent of the entire population of Greenland (55,793 people).

In Europe's first case of genocide since WWII, from April 1992 to Dec 1995, the Republika Srpska (RS) paramilitary units using small arms fire and artillery, liquidated 25,609 - 33,071 Bosniaks and Croats, including 8,372 human beings slaughtered at Srebrenica; approximately 42,106 total genocidal deaths.

These figures do not include Bosnian military casualties (62,626 KIA).

Moreover, 30,000 to 50,000 Bosnian women were raped and 1,000,000 Bosniaks, Croats, and other non-Serbs were expelled from Bosnia-Hercegovina.

So, it took approximately three years and eight months for the Bosnian Serbs to exterminate 42,106 Muslims. The IDF killed almost twice as many Muslims in far less time: 71,562 in two years, three months, and 14 days.

I hope the Israeli religious Settlers, real estate developers, Bezalel Smotrich, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Benjamin Netanyahu, Dummkopf Trumpf, AIPAC, Dr Sabo Amos, Miriam Adelson, Larry Ellison, Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, the hardworking American taxpayer, and the Board of Peace are all happy with themselves.


@#2 ... Is this what the people of Gaza want for their land? ...

Or, should we just say "OK" to Pres Trump and his billionaire friends exploiting the region for their profit?

A "Two-State" solution seems to be quite needed of late ...

Two-state solution
en.wikipedia.org

... The two-state solution is a proposed approach to resolving the Israeli"Palestinian conflict, by creating two states on the territory of the former Mandatory Palestine.

It is often contrasted with the one-state solution, which is the establishment a single state in former Mandatory Palestine with equal rights for all its inhabitants.

The two-state solution is supported by many countries and the Palestinian Authority.[1] Israel currently does not support the idea, though it has in the past.[2] ...


@#10 ... All the saber rattling was meant to distracted from the Epstein files ...

Mark Epstein: New autopsy report will prove brother Jeffrey was murdered (January 9, 2026)
www.newsnationnow.com

... When billionaire and convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York on Aug. 10, 2019, and pronounced dead soon after, it set off a million conspiracy theories -- and according to Epstein's brother Mark, those theories may just be right.

While the official cause of death was listed as "suicide by hanging," there were many odd "coincidences" that were too blatant to ignore, including:

- - - Epstein had been placed in a special housing unit but had been removed from suicide watch days earlier despite a prior incident in his cell.

- - - On the night of his death, the required 30-minute checks were not performed, and the two guards assigned to monitor his unit fell asleep and falsified records.

- - - Two surveillance cameras near his cell were claimed to be malfunctioning that night.

While the DOJ and FBI have reaffirmed the suicide determination and found no credible evidence of foul play, Epstein's lawyers and family hired independent pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, who argued some physical findings could be more consistent with homicidal strangulation. ...


Trump Pulls Canadian Prime Minister's Invitation to Gaza Board of Peace'
www.newsweek.com

... President Donald Trump said that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's invitation for Canada to join the "Board of Peace" is withdrawn, in a post to Truth Social Thursday night.

The "Board of Peace," launched by Trump this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and intended to guide Gaza's transition out of war, has drawn mixed responses from allies.

Newsweek reached out to the White House via email for additional information.
Why It Matters

Clarity on the decision surrounding Canada potentially affects humanitarian operations and diplomatic alignment around the U.S.-driven process for Gaza's reconstruction, where membership terms"including a draft provision offering permanent seats for $1 billion"have fueled questions about governance.

What To Know

In a post to Truth Social, Trump said,

"Dear Prime Minister Carney: Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada's joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time. Thank you for your attention to this matter! DONALD J. TRUMP PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA"

Carney previously told reporters that he had agreed for Canada to join in principle, but details still needed to be resolved. ...


CBS News -- Bias and Credibility
mediabiasfactcheck.com

... Overall, we rate CBS News as Right-Center Biased in this update due to emerging editorial decisions and leadership influence under Bari Weiss that suggest a shift away from its historically left-center orientation.

Due to emerging evidence that CBS News is censoring content unfavorable to the government, we are downgrading its rating to Mostly Factual with Medium credibility, despite its historically strong sourcing, professional reporting, and lack of significant failed fact checks. ...


Climax Blues Band - Running out of Time (1975)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
Ride across the country
I can hear the people call
Some folks, they got everything
And I got nothin' at all

I don't want revolution
I just want a little something
While I sit and do my thing
The revolution's coming

Lookin' for a silver lining
Searchin' for a sign
If we're gonna make it, make it quick
Because we're runnin' out of time

Can't do things I want to
'Cause that's what money's for
I do things I don't want
Gonna cost me even more

Tomorrow is tomorrow
And a million years away
But I serve up every morning
To the mem' of yesterday

Lookin' for a silver lining
Searchin' for a sign
If we're gonna make it, make it quick
Because we're runnin' out of time, yeah

Money's makin' money
It's just the way it always is
People are makin' people
Who've got no way to pay
...


@#1 ... The social video platform company signed agreements with major investors, including Oracle ...

Oracle, a.k.a the Ellison family ...

As Ellison buys out TikTok, U.S. moves toward one-Party media (September 2025)
mronline.org

... Larry Ellison, founder of the software firm Oracle, is the second-richest billionaire in both the U.S. and the world, and for a brief moment was No. 1 in the world (AP, 9/11/25). But for a long time, unlike many of his peers, he was unable to boast that he controlled a chunk of the news and opinion reaching the American public.

On Forbes US list, he is sandwiched between Elon Musk, No. 1, who bought the social media network Twitter and rebranded it as X, and Mark Zuckerberg, who runs Meta, which operates Facebook and Instagram. Jeff Bezos, at No. 4, has the Washington Post. Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Nos. 5 and 6, operate the leading search engine as well as one of the most important news aggregators, Google News. Michael Bloomberg, at No. 13, the former New York City mayor, has Bloomberg and its various outlets.

Ellison seems to have joined the club, as TikTok, under U.S. government coercion (FAIR.org, 1/23/25), is selling 80% of its U.S. operations to an investor consortium that includes Oracle, along with investment firms Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz (Reuters, 9/16/25).

Ellison is a big Trumper, joining in the reactionary denial of the 2020 presidential elections (Washington Post, 5/20/22). Like some of the others in the deal, he is part of the inner circle of Trump's favorite corporate ideologues. This TikTok deal is not just about money. It's about control of the political narrative. ...




Shadow fleet
en.wikipedia.org

... A shadow fleet, also referred to as a dark fleet, is a ship or group of such shadow ships, "...that uses concealing tactics to smuggle sanctioned goods".[1]:311 Shadow fleets are a direct response to international or unilateral economic sanctions. The term therefore more broadly refers to practices of sanction-busting in the maritime domain through the use of unregistered or fraudulent vessels. Goods commonly exported and imported include raw materials such as oil and iron, luxury goods, weapons and defense technologies, etc.

Shadow fleets use a wide range of techniques in a complex layer, aimed at obscuring their activities or keeping plausible deniability. Though those techniques are well documented and are similar across actors, they create enforcement problems for authorities due to lack of coordination, cooperation, or resources and political will. Moreover, shadow fleets operate in legal grey zones, often on the high seas beyond the jurisdiction of coastal states, making arrests and seizures difficult.

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Russian shadow fleet smuggling Russian oil for export has drawn renewed attention. This has led to growing concerns about the geopolitical impacts of such fleets, their significance with regards to sanctions' enforcement and efficacy, and the safety and security risks they create. Indeed, as 'dark' vessels use deceptive practices and often constitute ageing vessels, they "present a serious threat to maritime security, safety and the marine environment".[1]:310

The International Maritime Organization signaled its desire to create new enforcement mechanisms against grey ships, signing a resolution in October 2023 that defined for the first time the term 'dark' ship. It noted that:

a fleet of between 300 and 600 tankers primarily comprised of older ships, including some not inspected recently, having substandard maintenance, unclear ownership and a severe lack of insurance, was currently operated as a 'dark fleet' or 'shadow fleet' to circumvent sanctions and high insurance costs.

- - -IMO, Addressing ship-to-ship oil transfers and tankers in the "dark fleet", 110th session of the Legal Committee (April 2023)[2]

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