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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)
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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)
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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
...



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