Brass musical instruments crafted once by American artisans in Ohio will now be made in China.

Wow.

Last century I remember being aghast at seeing a Japanese grand piano for the first time.

But is sounded and felt perfect, like a Steinway.

Then we need more of these "fortfishers" whoever or whatever they are.

The Muslim population of Texas is approximately 313,000 people or 1.1% of the state's total population; 1.34% is the total Muslim population in the US. By average the Lone Star State has less than the rest of the US.

The Islamophobia is out of control.

Faux News, AIPAC, One America News Network, Larry and David Ellison's CBS, Laura Loomer, et al and ad nauseum have done a remarkable job of hatemongering.

Well, gotta keep the weapons and money flowing to Israel somehow, I guess.

All the Republicans in Texas seem to take AIPAC money, some way more than others.

House Democrat Jasmine Crockett (TX 30 CD) takes no AIPAC money but votes to send money and weapons to Israel every chance she gets. Why she has no compassion for the 72,000 killed in Gaza is anyone's guess.

The masses outnumber the mega-oligarchs by the hundreds of millions.

The elites are culling the herd in a Malthusian manner.

That's why the Trumpf junta is against vaccinations.

Start with the darker people first.

USAID was dismantled and Dummkopf Trumpf withdrew the US from WHO.

This Malthusian strategy marries up with Vladimir Putin's desire to demographically shrink America's larger and healthier population.

Let disease, malnutrition, substance abuse, and firearms violence attrit the American population every day.

The Republicans are on board with this agenda: look at the legislation and Trumpf cabinet picks.

Last century, the white minority government of Suid-Afrika used diseases to target only black people to help "cull the herd" and make apartheid easier for them to maintain. The Afrikaaners and English were greatly outnumbered.

This operation was called "Project Coast."

For disclosing this information willingly to the public at the post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission, none of the BOSS intelligence operatives or biological weapons researchers were prosecuted.

**** USCG Veteran Handcuffed and Paraded Around Cruise Ship by ICE Thugs ****

"ICE agents boarded a cruise ship docked in Miami and detained a USCG veteran in a case of 'mistaken identity.'

Jose "Joey" Martinez and his wife, Tammy Verhas, were "dead asleep" in their room when federal agents dressed in all black burst into their room at around 6:30 a.m., the veteran recalled. It was about two hours before the Carnival Cruise Line guests were scheduled to disembark from the ship and go through customs in Miami, Florida.

"We were woken to a loud banging on the door and then suddenly three men entered our room with flashlights, screaming," Martinez said. "They said Jose Martinez,' and they ordered me out of bed. I didn't know who they were. I couldn't see anything because the lights are shining in my eyes."

US CBP agents ordered Martinez against a wall and handcuffed him, Martinez said, adding that he "did exactly as instructed because I didn't want anything to escalate." He told them he was an American citizen. Agents "paraded" him through the boat "in front of other guests" off the ship and placed him into a holding cell, he said."

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) pledged that he would order the NYPD to arrest ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu should he step into NYC jurisdiction. NYPD detectives would take the INTERPOL Red Notice for Netanyahu which is diffused into the NCIC/NLETS system to a judge who would then issue a bench warrant for his arrest in accordance with international law. If NYPD detectives go to a federal judge, the same process applies, except the US Marshal Service or other federal agencies would then effect the arrest should the magistrate sign the bench warrant.

Mayor Mamdani pledged the same treatment would apply to ICC-indicted war criminal Russia President Vladimir Putin. Canada PM Mark Carney also stated he would order the arrest of these two international malefactors should they step foot onto Canadian soil in accordance with international law.

~snip~

On 12 March 2025 in Albany NY, then-NYS Assemblyman and NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani shouted at the repugnant Tom Homan, "border czar," over the Trumpf junta's inhumane crackdown on illegal immigration and the unlawful detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student and pro-Palestinian Samaritan.

"How many more New Yorkers will you detain? How many more New Yorkers without charge?" the Bronx High School of Science yelled.

"Do you believe in the First Amendment, Tom Homan?"

Zohran said the obnoxious lickspittle Homan smirked at him when confronted.

Below, wafer-thin Zohran Mamdani tries to get past burly New York State police troopers while rebuking the cheap fascist who took a tawdry $50,000 bribe from someone seeking a contract with the Trumpf junta. (Albany, 12 March 2025)

Principle, character, and morality matter.

"Destroy the left?"

Isn't the role of the Attorney-General of any state to uphold the laws of his/her commonwealth, protect all its citizens from harm, and seek justice for victims?

FTA

"The former Justice Dept apparatchik for the nefarious Trumpf junta has fantasized about wearing "OAG emblazoned windbreakers" while raiding any public institution "pushing tranny insanity," "run out all Kwanzaa-aligned elements poisoning our state," and launch "counter-jihad" against Muslim groups. Reitz recently threatened to revoke House Democratic leader Rep. Gene Wu's citizenship, and sparked pushback for his comments on the "invasion" of Indians to Texas."

~snip~

The Honorable Judge F. Dennis Saylor of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued the attached preliminary injunction barring ICE agents from raiding certain churches except in a "true emergency."

*** Owners With a Conscience Won't Sell Their Texas Warehouse to ICE ***

"God answered our prayers," Hutchins Mayor Mario Vasquez said after learning of the company's decision.

After reading some of the Jeffrey Epstein files, Congressman Tim Burchett (R-TN) said Ghislaine Maxwell would receive an involuntary injection of five lead projectiles into the back of her head if she was ever released from prison.

What does the vile billionaire Thomas Pritzker deserve?

Then those subpoenas are absolutely meaningless and worthless.

"Super-billionaire Thomas Pritzker sniveled that he has "regret" over his connection to the notorious Jeffrey Epstein and his disgusting accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

Epstein plead guilty to state criminal charges related to soliciting prostitution, including one charge involving a minor, in Florida in 2008. In 2019, he allegedly killed himself in nearly impossible circumstance in a federal prison cell after being arrested for federal child sex trafficking charges.

Recently released files show Pritzker and Epstein exchanged friendly emails after the disgraced financier's 2008 plea deal. Being part of the release of thousands of documents and photos does not imply any wrongdoing.

"I exercised terrible judgment in maintaining contact with them, and there is no excuse for failing to distance myself sooner," Pritzker whined. "I condemn the actions and the harm caused by Epstein and Maxwell and I feel deep sorrow for the pain they inflicted on their victims."

In a legal deposition, the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre accused Thomas Pritzker of serious sexual allegations, naming him as one of several men she was trafficked to have sex with. In her book Nobody's Girl, Virginia wrote about "Billionaire One" and "Billionaire Two," but omitted their names out of fear for her mortal life and the lives of her family. Thomas Pritzker is one the wealthiest men on the planet and cousin to JB Pritzker, the Democratic governor of Illinois.

Mega-oligarch Thomas Pritzker, who never worked a day in his life, inherited a massive fortune, attended the best schools, ate the finest foods, and traveled the world in First Class or Concorde. This good-for-nothing reprobate lavishes himself with a net worth of $3.1 billion dollars.

Below, the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre when she was an underage sex slave for Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. One of Virginia's last wishes was that the monstrous Ghislaine Maxwell never see the light of day again.

why is a two-month old infant being detained?

WTF?

We are a nation of monsters now.

The Iranian regime and their nuclear program today is what it is thanks to the West.

Huh?

Iran is a multi-ethnic country (Persian, Azeri, Turkmen, Kurd, Armenian, Baluch, Assyrian) that is a predominantly Shia with a Sunni minority and smaller Christian, Zoroastrian, and Jewish communities.

To keep this oil-rich, post-World War Two artificial construct a viable pro-West country together without ethnic fracturing required an authoritarian system.

When a socialist won the national election in 1953 and threatened to national the oil industry for the benefit of the Iranian people, CIA and the UK overthrew Mohammad Mossadegh and installed the Shah of Iran.

This puppet now sitting atop the Peacock Throne then stylized himself as the "Kemal Ataturk" of Iran and underwent a modernization program for his country.

But Kemal Pasha was not an installed satrap of Turkiye like the Shah. Ataturk was a beloved war hero ("ghazi") who saved the country from dismemberment by the Allies and the Greeks. Ataturk's later repressions against occasional flare-ups by the Zazas, Whirling Dervishes, or the Kurds were easily forgiven by his own people.

So from 1953 to 1978, the US looked away from the Shah's brutal intolerance of dissent. He had seen Ataturk do the same in neighboring Turkiye, but to a lesser degree. The US and the Mossad trained his secret police, the SAVAK. This is why the Mossad and the IRGC-QF knew each other quite well.

The SAVAK's crushing of dissent from 1953 to 1978 led to a vacuum of academics, socialists, and civil society intermediaries, leaving only religious leaders intact. One firebrand was previously exiled to France named Khomeini. When the decrepit Peacock Throne finally collapsed, only theocrats were around to replace the Ancien Regime and the Ayatollah arrived in Tehran on 1 Feb 1979 (from memory).

The Iranians have a nuclear program?

How did that happen?

The US Atoms for Peace initiative.

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My dear Falstaff, pray throw your eye upon these letters and come away heavier in heart, but gently enlightened.

Thanks for the info, Corky.

History is always interesting to discuss.

Your blue collar New York comrade on this side of the continent sticks to three main books for inspiration:

In the SDNY document, plaintiff "prays" for relief from the Court, not the more common "seeks" relief from the Court.

Wow.

Some judges in SDNY and EDNY preferred certain language or terms, which might be the case here.

Attorneys and AUSAs know the USDJs they are dealing with.

There are some lawyers on drudge.com who can address this issue better than me.

The Bible, like the "Meditations" of Marcus Aurelius, were collected posthumously.

Whether any debates occurred about Marcus Aurelius' thoughts during collation after his death, I don't know.

But the Bible certainly was edited and adjusted through the centuries.

One early version of the Bible taught that Lilith was Adam's first wife, not Eve. See bottom.

Lilith was eventually was taken out and she became part of what has been called "the apocryphal Bible."

The Council of Nicaea may have been where that was decided and Lilith would no longer be mentioned in the New Testament as the first woman. That honor would then go solely to Eve.

Once that Eve was cemented as the first woman, the next adjustments to the Bible would come with the Protestant Reformation.

I wonder how many female military officers or intelligence personnel were implicated in the Epstein files?

"I am one of the white supremacist idiots that on Tuesday 5 November 2024 voted for Dummkopf Trumpf, a silver-spooned geriatric morbidly obese draft dodging swine and pedophile who has decimated the American economy and turned oligarchs into mega-oligarchs while I'm forced to shop at the Dollar Store for food."
Signed,
Any Republican Voter

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) incorporated women in combat roles decades ago.

This also becomes a morale improver on those boring nights in the lonely barracks.

An IDF veteran I knew years ago had a couple of great stories about this.