The Florida Dept. of Health issued a Jan. 2026 report recently that found arsenic in 28 of 46 popular children’s candy products. Eating several pieces of some types causes one to exceed the recommended annual limit. Halloween takes on a scary new meaning, a mass poisoning event for your kids.
If you eat candy, you’ll want to take a look at this (also below):
Stay safe. Food is LIFE, but not in this case.
Thank you for reading today's post. Have an InterStellar Day! ~PrP
Arash says:
2026-02-21 at 8:14 pm
Trump plans to bomb Iran in three days. The Jews are in place to assist. This is going to me more than he bargained for.
Anonymous says:
2026-02-24 at 2:33 pm
time’s up
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Trump is a grifter who can be bought. So if Iran offered him something he could possibly profit from, he would change his mind. But if his numbers continue to plummet after lol, his SOTU lies, or the Epstein Files continue to be front and center, he will bomb Iran to change the topic.
Trump and Israel is working a goodguy/badguy scam on Iran. Israel is to launch a strike against Iran and if Iran responds, the US will go all ape on them. Trump wants access to all that oil and the legacy of getting revenge against Iran for what they have done to US interests. He wants to go down as the POTUS that brought regime change in Iran. He has received guarantees from Reza that he will give him a chunk of oil.
It was unrealistic for the US to expect Iran to capitulate on all their demands. There was never any intention to accept any agreement that Iran was to make. There US and the Jews had been planning to attack Iran for months. As Arash predicted the attack on Iran would be a joint attack. It is suspected that the Ear leaked this information to the Middle East. As a result, Iran has prepared for the long haul in this battle.
They have secured an agreement with Iraq. This may be fragile, but the agreement with their other partners is more secure. The Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in the Palestinian territories, and several other factions in other Middle East countries will enter the fray.
This will erupt over domestic disputes, others over regional competition, with spillover drawing in major world powers.
The support for Iran is happening all over the Middle East. Abu Dhabi and Bahrain will suffer for their support of the US armada bombing Iran. No one in those countries who support the US will be safe.
The spill over is already in play. Iran is targeting the US navy’s 5th Fleet Headquartered in Bahrain, and other Island kingdoms giving comfort to the US. Iran has ballistic missiles that can reach any country in the Middle East. The US fleet anchored off its coast can be reached.
There are hundreds of CIA personnel in Iran assisting the groups that want to overthrow the Iranian government. But Iran can use this attack to play on the nationalistic sentiments of the Iranian people. The Islamic Republic is counting on a prolonged war because it assumes that neither Israel nor the US can afford a prolonged war. So a war of attrition plays into the hands of the Iranian government.
Where the Ear stands in all this no body knows. But he has been seem in various parts of the Middle East. All kill orders against him have been suspended except from the US until the factions figure whose side he will take. The Jews are afraid to issue or participate in any physical action against the Ear. They prefer to manipulate him into cooperating with their aims.
We know where the Ear stands. Two massive plane loads of Krugerrands, Australian Gold Kangaroos, Canadian Gold Maple Leafs, and American Gold Eagles have left Iran for locations known only to the Ear. Trump is furious and has issued an order to the CIA, ICE, DEA, and their off the shelf killers to get the Ear.
The Ear is aware that tRump is after the tons of gold in Iran. He is attacking Iran because his popularity in the US is at an all time low. He figures that doing something he can claim no other POTUS would dare will raise that popularity and bring back his loss of some racist republicans, non whites who admire a “strong man” POTUS.
He is weighing putting boots on the ground with Israel if his agents on the ground can’I arm the resistance quick enough to overthrow the government. It appears that the Ear has been paid an enormous sum to protect Khomeini. So far, Khomeini has been able to evade the bombing of his hideouts. How this will play out is anybody’s wild guess. But, for certain, the Ear will walk away with $50 to $100 billion dollars worth of gold. But will he live to spend any of it with the entire military and secret agencies of the US after him?
There is no chance the Ear would support Khamenei over the interest of the US. I can certainly see him playing Khamenei for the gold, but if Khamenei thinks he will get any assistance from the Ear he is just dreamming.
The Ear has been for an attack on Iran for years. There just was not a POTUS who would do what tRump has done. Iran was getting very close to developing a nuclear weapon. Also Iran was building underground military facilities that are invulnerable to missile attack. The Ear has been helping Israel with intelligence that is meant to kill the top leaders of Iran. Once they go underground only boots on the ground will dislodge them. The guy is a superb tactician. If anyone can target Iran’s top leaders, he can.
The Ear has been arguing that there is a window of opportunity that needs to be addressed once the attack upon Iran begins. That window is in operation. Trump’s military is NOT going after the Ear. He is an idol to them.
It doesn’t matter what the inept version of the CIA present leadership orders them to do.
The core of that and other US secret organizations respect and will protect the Ear when he is in the field of operation. He is a patriot, and they know it. They know that tRump is an opportunist who would put them and the country in harm’s way for personal gain.
The Ear is using what wealth he gets from Iran to get the full cooperation of his agency up and running for this situation. A common enemy unites those with differences of opinion. America needs the Ear to bring Europe, especially NATO to cooperate secretly if not openly to support the US in this operation.
Anonymous, get your shit together before you pipe off smart. I suspect that you are a jew.
Trump has directed his White House Counsel’s office to explore the feasibility of an executive order requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration and photo identification at polling locations nationwide, even as his own lawyers have warned the moves would likely run into legal trouble, according to a senior White House official granted anonymity to discuss internal dynamics.
It is the latest sign that the president intends to reshape American elections unilaterally and without congressional buy-in, testing the limits of his executive authority. He plans to use his Voter ID requirement to throw off as many non tRump supporters as he can from the count.
There are moments in American life when the question stops being merely “What happened?” and becomes “Who knew — and why are they still silent?”
We are there.
The latest reporting on the Epstein files makes one fact impossible to ignore: four FBI witness interview memos — the Form 302 — were generated in 2019 under the leadership of then–Attorney General Bill Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray. The witness alleged that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in the mid-1980s, when she was between 13 and 15 years old.
The first interview with her took place on July 24, 2019 — less than three weeks after Epstein’s arrest — and was entered into the FBI’s case file on August 9, the day before Epstein died in federal custody. In that first 302, the witness did not mention Trump. It is the only memo publicly available today.
The others are not.
Those additional interviews, conducted in August and October 2019, reportedly included far more explicit allegations, including that the girl bit down on Trump’s penis after he shoved it in her mouth and that he hit her on the head in anger before throwing her out of the room. They were conducted, memorialized, catalogued, and stored while Barr and Wray controlled the levers of federal law enforcement. Now we are being told, once again, to trust that everything important has been disclosed.
No.
The American people do not owe blind trust to the men who were running the Justice Department during one of the most politically explosive criminal investigations in modern history. Nor do we owe blind trust to those running it today.
We are owed sworn testimony.
A 302 is not social media gossip. It is the Bureau’s official record of what a witness told federal investigators. Agents draft these memos immediately after interviews. Prosecutors rely on them to assess credibility, build cases, and determine whether crimes occurred. They are the connective tissue between allegation and prosecution.
It is a federal crime to knowingly make a materially false statement to federal investigators. Whatever this witness told the FBI was serious enough to merit multiple interviews — either because FBI agents were concerned enough to pursue the claim in earnest or because they were ordered to go on a fishing expedition to see what a potential whistleblower had against the president of the United States. That alone warrants scrutiny.
But there is so much more. …
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Rubio is part of a plan to invade Cuba. The US has infiltrated the island with CIA operates who have set up groups to take over the government of Cuba. They have made the present government bankrupt by putting an oil embargo on the island for the last year.
They intend to provoke Cuba’s military to act in a way that will allow the US to invade the island and accomplish regime change. Rubio wants to go down in history as the Cuban that gave the island back to the ruling “white” Cubans.
Regime change is what Rubio wants and he has convinced tRump that there is a ton of money to be made with the right people put in charge of Cuba.
When tRump lies it is not misinformation that he is putting out, it is disinformation, because he knows what he is doing.
In his State of the Union address, Donald Trump declared what he called historic successes on immigration, tariffs, and foreign policy. But according to the Associated Press, that portrayal frequently distorted the state of the union. Of course it did. Many of the achievements Trump cited during the speech do not stand up to scrutiny. He has spent the entire past year touting his record while criticizing his predecessor, Joe Biden, and last night he again leaned heavily on claims rooted in misinformation. I’m going to say disinformation, because he knows what he’s doing.
On the economy, Trump said:
“When I last spoke in this chamber 12 months ago, I had just inherited a nation in crisis with a stagnant economy, inflation at record levels, a wide open border, horrendous recruitment for military and police, rampant crime at home and wars and chaos all over the world. But tonight, after just one year, I can say with dignity and pride that we have achieved a transformation like no one has ever seen before and a turnaround for the ages. It is indeed a turnaround for the ages.”
He has no dignity, but he has an awful lot of self‑pride. Inflation was high, yes, and voters were frustrated. But the economy was growing. After adjusting for inflation, GDP rose 2.8% in 2024—faster than the 2.2% growth at the start of his second term. He also boasted:
“Today our border is secure. Our spirit is restored, inflation is plummeting, incomes are rising fast. The roaring economy is roaring like never before.”
Inflation‑adjusted after‑tax incomes rose just 0.9% in 2025, down from 2.2% in 2024. Wage growth slowed as hiring slowed. And when he says more Americans are working today than ever before, remember: there are more Americans alive today than ever before. Gross numbers mean nothing without percentages.
Trump claimed:
“More Americans are working today than at any time in the history of our country… and 100% of all jobs created under my administration have been in the private sector.”
Total employment rises as the population grows. The meaningful measure is the share of Americans working. That stood at 59.8% in January—well below the 64.7% peak in 2000. Unemployment was 4.0% when Biden left office and fell to 3.4% during his presidency, a 50‑year low.
On investment, Trump said:
“I secured commitments for more than $18 trillion pouring in from all over the globe.”
There is no evidence supporting the $18 trillion figure. Public statements list $9.6 trillion, and even that appears to include commitments made during the Biden administration. He invents statistics the way other people breathe.
On tariffs, Trump insisted:
“Despite the disappointing ruling, these powerful, country‑saving tariffs… are saving our country.”
Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress sole authority to levy tariffs. Tariff revenues are not large enough to significantly reduce annual budget deficits and have not led to manufacturing job gains. He went further:
“I believe the tariffs paid for by foreign countries will… substantially replace the modern day system of income tax.”
Tariff revenues rose to $195 billion last year, less than 4% of federal revenue. Income and payroll taxes account for about 84%. Tariffs are taxes. We pay them.
On prescription drugs, he said:
“I took prescription drugs… from the highest price in the entire world to the lowest… price differences of 300, 400, 500, 600% and more.”
A 500% cut would mean the government pays you to take medicine. That’s not math. That’s fiction.
On crime, he declared:
“Last year the murder rate saw its single largest decline in recorded history… the lowest number in over 125 years.”
Homicides fell sharply from 2024 to 2025, yes. But violent crime fell in 2023 and 2024 as well. Context matters. Counting methods matter. And when you have military patrols in cities, people stay indoors. That’s not safety. That’s fear.
Upgrade to paid
On taxes, Trump said:
“All Democrats… voted against these really important and very necessary massive tax cuts… we gave you no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on social security.”
The deduction phases out, excludes many seniors, and expires in 2029. Meanwhile, the wealthiest Americans benefited most from earlier cuts.
On elections, Trump said:
“That cheating is rampant in our elections… All voters must show voter ID… no more crooked mail‑in ballots.”
There is no evidence of rampant cheating. None. Courts rejected those claims repeatedly.
On foreign wars, he claimed:
“My first 10 months I ended eight wars… Pakistan and India would’ve been a nuclear war… 35 million people would’ve died if it were not for my involvement.”
In multiple cases he cited, there were no active wars to end. His role in others was limited at best.
On immigration, he stated:
“In the past nine months, zero illegal aliens have been admitted to the United States.”
Illegal immigrants are not “admitted.” That’s the point. Words matter.
On food stamps, he said:
“We have lifted 2.4 million Americans… off of food stamps.”
He didn’t lift them up. He removed them from eligibility.
On transgender rights, he claimed:
“No state can be allowed to rip children from their parents’ arms and transition them to a new gender against the parents’ will.”
That is not happening. It is fear‑based rhetoric.
And then there was this:
“We’re winning so much that we really don’t know what to do about it… people are asking me, please, Mr. President, we’re winning too much.”
Who says that? No one says that.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson underscored the stakes when he said:
“If we lost the midterms… it would be the end of the Trump presidency in a real effect.”
Desperation has a sound. That was it.
Meanwhile, the Jeffrey Epstein story continues to evolve. The Justice Department’s release of Epstein files is reportedly missing key FBI records tied to a woman who accused both Epstein and Trump of sexual assault decades ago. The DOJ says withheld materials may be privileged or related to ongoing matters. That raises questions.
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers resigned his tenured position at Harvard amid renewed scrutiny over ties to Epstein. Nobel Prize‑winning scientist Dr. Richard Axel resigned from Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute after acknowledging his association with Epstein was “a serious error in judgment.”
Epstein isn’t going away. Overseas, people have been charged. Here, accountability remains elusive.
Last night, Donald Trump delivered the longest State of the Union address in history. It was familiar. It was repetitive. It was packed with exaggerations and falsehoods. Even some of his supporters called it a stump speech.
He promised a golden age. He offered grievances instead. He claimed victory after victory. He blamed everyone else for every setback. And he asked Americans to believe him over data, over courts, over history, and over their own eyes.
That was the State of the Union. And that’s where we are.
All tRump’s heads of department are grifter. They are fleecing the American people at every opportunity. Unfortunately, their base doesn’t care as long as the party insures that the lowest white man is treated better than the most accomplished non-white man.
How come we’re not hearing from the aliens did you guys survive?
We are very much alive. Is this a ploy to imply that you are not one of us?
I have no attention of convince you either way, I have said it so many times that I’m just regular human.
I wouldn’t worry about those crazy ass aliens. You speak for us. Keep it up.
Sure, you are “a regular human” Nader1, wink; wink. I think that you may be on earth in a disguise as a human, but for certain you are not a human. Your comments give you away, man.
This is another reason we shouldn’t be so silent about the loss of the Immortal’s assistance in this sphere. The secret debate over the fate of the Immortal is not a secret. Many are speculating on whether the so called Immortal is actually immortal at all.
Some believe that across The Divide, the Immortal may not be so “immortal.” We are of that belief. For all any of us know, the Immortal may have been vanquished by the potential invaders across The Divide. If that is true we need to come up with a plan to vacate this area and regroup in the Eastern Hemisphere.
That plan is now in effect. Those of you who have not presented your options will be given arbitrary vectors and three solar days to implement them.
“Aliens” are not fearing survival. I will admit that some should be more respective of the assistance the Immortal has given. We don’t believe that the Immortal is in any danger. He is immortal and has proven in every instance that he can traverse any part of the Known Universe without fear or consequences. We have no reason to believe that this is not also true for the Unknown Universe.
We believe that he is insuring that beings with the capacity to reach this area of the Milky Way will not do so. Like the rest of us, he knows that if beings have the capability to travel to an area where the inhabitants have no ability to travel to their point of origin, those aliens will have superior technology. Whether it would prove enough to conquer when they arrive, is not under discussion, they will attempt to conquer. Hence, we must be prepared to defend. That, plus the loss of the Immortal’s assistance with your Sun’s solar flares has us very much occupied.
Most assume that the situation between the Immortal and those on the other side of The Divide can end only one way. The Immortal will prevail. It is what he is doing to entertain himself while doing it, that gives us angst. Time to him is of no concern, thus while he is entertaining himself with his victory, if he loses sight of the relationship we have with the time he is taking, he could return years or centuries after we have all expired.
We are not interested in conquering the Earth because you are too primitive to be a foe. Any of us can take whatever we want from you earthlings. We are governed in our actions by the LeI and the Lei. Or rather the Edits of ˇÓ´ ´Â∏´‰O‰ and ÓˆÍ ˝‰ÅÇ´. That would not be true of a conquering armada of Aliens from the other side of The Divide.
There are those who will venture getting as close to The Divide as possible to deploy satellites in to it to check for signs of the Immortal.
Could it be that God has created and moved on?
Not serious. Just grabbing at those who have made the posit that the Immortal is the ultimate evil and now are complaining about having to leave the Gate because of his absence.
There’s a toxic new dating trend called ‘ghostlighting.’ It’s even worse than ghosting.
The dating world is getting more harrowing by the minute.
Just when you thought “ghosting” − or disappearing on someone you’re dating without warning − was enough of a problem, a new trend has entered the zeitgeist that’s even worse. It’s called “ghostlighting.”
Essentially a toxic combo of “ghosting” and “gaslighting,” ghostlighters drop all communication only to reinitiate contact later, as if nothing ever happened. To make matters worse, they’ll often try to gaslight the person they were dating into believing there was no ghosting in the first place.
“Instead of owning it, they brush it off like it’s no big deal and then make an excuse like “it seemed like you were super busy so I didn’t want to bother you.”
What makes it different from simple ghosting is the psychological twist. Ghosting is avoidance. Ghostlighting adds distortion by manipulating the facts so you doubt your own reality.”
It doesn’t have to occur just with dating. I’ve experienced this with someone who I thought was a friend too.
Me, too. Actually what Charles is talking about has been the standard behavior of devious, deceitful, lying-sack-of-shit, hypocritical, etc, etc, humans for the life of social behavior.
It is just another way those bastards that employ it use to avoid accountability.
Most of my friends a use the tactic to escape responsibility for the devious shit they do.
The US is participating in Israel’s attack. This will make believing in the word of the US in negotiations foolish. The rest of the world will now know that is useless to trust the US in negotiations.
Iran can use this attack by Israel to unite the country against the fucking jews. I am not for Iran since some of my relatives have been among they more that 8,000 this fucking regime has murdered for protesting their extreme religious bullshit against our females.
But, know this the US doesn’t give a shit about the deaths of the protesters. They just want to put their puppet in charge of Iran. We have enough support around the Middle East to defend ourselves from the jew and the infidel.
Saudi Arabia is also being hit. They have a US military base in Riyadh. It is a legitimate target for Iran. This is going to be fun.
Iran has the missiles capable of reaching all the US bases located in the Middle East. We have set up targets to hit in the event of such an attack by the US. Every US military base in the Middle East will be hit. That means you in Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, UAE, etc. No Middle East country giving sanctuary to the US military will be spared. If you retaliate, we will hit your capitals with the full might of the government of Iran.
If you Americans think that you are safe in your homes watching your military murder us Iranians, think again.
Anonymous says:
2026-02-24 at 2
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You fucking jew. You are just mad that Arash outed you bastards for working with the US to attack Iran
Your move to Antarctica was precipitous. Return immediately and you may reclaim your spot. The Immortal will return and stem the damage caused by Earth’s Sun’s electromagnetic radiation.
The Ear is probably a jew, war mongering for profit.
We are going to bomb the shit out of Israel.
Really? With What?
The Shared comes to mind. We have thousands of them as you fucking Jews will discover.
While tRump is calling his unwarranted attack upon Iran, “Epic Fury,” that is just what will occur all over the Middle East because of this criminal At the Houthis in Yemen will do everything they can to stop shipping in their area. Any American in the Middle East is a legitimate target. So are any allies of the US.
Israel is anxious to put boots on the ground as soon as possible. They are encouraging the US to do the same.
It’s either that or arm the resistance among the Iranians.
Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria have informed the US that if they put boots on the ground in Iran, they will be forced to enter the war on the side of Iran.
This will not happen because they know that their leaders will be the first target of a retaliation by the US.
Reza has claimed that some 50,000 members of the Iranian military is ready to defect to him.
Fuck this guy. He is just an opportunist who thinks that he can get his father’s throne back. But if you read Seyyed’s post yesterday, you know how traitorous his father was. We want people who have been sacrificing every day in the field to be the core we pick from to be our leaders.
We hear that the Ear is negotiating with the US to turn over leaders of Iran. But he insists that he gets to keep all the wealth he has and can extract from the country. Trump is furious that someone thinks that he can dictate terms to him.
The British and Germany is watching and calculating what to do if the Ear does not hand over the leaders of Islamic Republic.
While you were looking for the “leaders of Iran” the Ear was hauling $billions of dollars out of Iran.
She had $1.8 billion and one obsession: making sure nobody ever found out.
Margaret Cargill was born into one of America’s richest families in 1920. Her great-grandfather’s grain company had become Cargill Inc.—a corporation pulling in over $100 billion annually.
The Cargill family had fourteen billionaires. More than any other family in America.
Margaret was one of eight heirs. She could have lived in penthouses, collected Ferraris, hosted galas where people wore her name on their chests.
She bought pottery wheels instead.
Be good do good! You can’t take it with you anyway
While her cousins sat in boardrooms, Margaret sat in art studios. She didn’t care about quarterly earnings. She cared about the way Native American weavers created patterns that told thousand-year-old stories.
She took her time with everything. Finished college at 34. Moved to Southern California and split her days between three simple places: a beach house, a mountain cabin, and trips to the desert.
Well into her seventies, Margaret loaded camping gear into her RV and disappeared into pine forests with friends. She drove herself everywhere in an old Jeep that had seen better decades.
In 1993, a financial advisor flew out to meet her. She called his hotel.
“I’ll pick you up in thirty minutes. Be outside.”
He stood on the curb expecting a town car. A woman in her seventies pulled up in a beat-up Jeep and shouted, “Get in!”
Years later, he’d say: “Money wasn’t important to her. She wasn’t buying diamonds. She was buying artwork made by a Hopi woman who’d spent months weaving it by hand.”
But Margaret had billions. And a plan.
Around 1990, she started erasing herself from her own generosity.
She mailed anonymous cashier’s checks to the Red Cross. Created fake foundation names. Walked into organizations calling herself “just Margaret” and left before anyone could ask her last name.
Over fifteen years, she gave away more than $200 million.
The Nature Conservancy. The Smithsonian. Animal shelters. Music schools. Elder care centers.
Nobody knew where the money came from.
Bishop John Chane was struggling to keep his San Diego cathedral’s doors open when a stranger walked in. No appointment. No warning.
“I understand you’re having budget problems,” she said. “I want to help.”
She handed him a cashier’s check. He figured maybe fifty dollars from a kind parishioner.
“Who should I thank?”
“Just say an angel stopped by.”
After she left, he opened it. $50,000.
She kept coming back. It took the bishop ten years to learn her name.
The same pattern everywhere.
When the San Diego Humane Society needed $1.57 million to finish their building, their mystery donor asked one question: “How much do you need?”
“You’ll have your check next week.”
But here’s what made Margaret different.
She showed up to see what her money created.
When the National Museum of the American Indian opened in Washington D.C., Margaret stood in the crowd. She wandered through exhibits watching families discover Native American art for the first time. Thrilled she’d helped build this place.
Nobody knew the woman in comfortable shoes had donated millions to make it real.
At building dedications she’d funded, Margaret slipped in the back. She watched speeches thanking anonymous donors. Saw joy on people’s faces experiencing something her money created.
Then she disappeared.
“She was absolutely thrilled to be incognito at events basically honoring her,” one charity director remembered.
Margaret died August 1, 2006. She was 85.
That’s when the world learned her name.
She never married. No children. Just art and friends and camping trips and quiet giving.
She left everything to charity. Every share of Cargill stock she owned.
But you can’t sell billions in a private company overnight. Lawyers and family spent five years untangling it.
Finally, 2011. Margaret’s 17.5% stake in Cargill: over $6 billion.
When the Chronicle of Philanthropy released America’s biggest donors in 2012, a woman who’d been dead six years topped the list.
Margaret Cargill had given more than anyone else in America that year.
Today, Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies holds over $9 billion. One of America’s ten largest charitable foundations. They’ve distributed more than $3 billion since her death.
The Red Cross still gets Margaret’s money. The Nature Conservancy. The Smithsonian. Animal shelters. Music programs.
All the causes she loved will be funded forever.
The woman who drove a Jeep and slept in an RV built a giving machine that will save lives for generations.
Margaret never wanted buildings named after her. No awards. No thank-you dinners.
She wanted to sit in the back row at a museum opening. Watch kids discover art for the first time. Know she made it possible.
And she wanted nobody else to know.
She wanted to be an angel.
For 85 years, that’s exactly what she was.
Iran made the mistake of sending assassins to the US to kill the Ear. I guess the Ear figured he could appeal to tRump’s greed and need to make a name for himself and get him to launch an attack on Iran. Under cover of that attack, the Ear could work with Israel to target all the main leaders of the Islamic Republic and their enforcement organizations. The people demonstrating for a better government have lost at least 32,000 relatives to the regime. It has the capability and the will to murder any opposition coming from their people. So this is the time to act. The deaths of those 32,000 are fresh and the people properly armed and with the defections of the proper number of military will be enough to drag the Khomeini and his lieutenants into the streets of Iran like they did to Kadafi. This may not be necessary because it is believed that the Ear knew where the top leaders were hiding.
You American dogs better know that Iran is three times the size of Iraq and Iran has more money and power than Venezuela. We will not be overcome as easily as they were. We will survive this evil.
I doubt it.
5 were needed only 3 showed up. One is headed to Costco to pick up 2. Show up.
Thank you. The crisis has been resolved. Our thanks to PrP for providing a medium to assist in this situation.
PrP: Such good information. Thankfully I don’t eat 99 % of this but I have to say I have had my share of Reese’s Peanut butter cups and KitKat over the years – too sweet for me now. And now that I know what’s in it, I will definitely not indulge. Could this be one reason that kids are having so much trouble coping these days?(Not to mention Social Media, bullying and stress – ugh)
So Anthropic refused to allow the Military to use its AI, Claude, to spy on Americans, tRump dumped the for an AI that would. The one that would is Open AI. Greed would be their motive and spying on Americans, be damned.
Early last week, the Pentagon called Claude best-in-class for military intelligence. By Friday, the Trump administration had booted Anthropic and labeled it a ‘supply chain risk’ on par with Chinese tech giants.
With OpenAI signing its own government deal, consumers angrily switching services, and the military still using Claude in weekend strikes on Iran, what started as a contract dispute has quickly turned into the biggest AI policy issue the industry has faced yet.
At least, tRump is one you can count of to always be disgusting and a liar.
“Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity,” – George Carlin
That was almost cute, just as Neville Chamberlain was when he sought to appease Hitler. The attacks by Iran on the 6 monarchies in the Gulf should show you what the Iran regime is capable of. They are against monarchies. If they had a nuclear weapon they would be free to bomb away without worrying about retaliation from the US.
That fact may be lost on you, but it certainly wasn’t on Qatar, Oman, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, and my country Saudi Arabia. We have been under the guns of Iran for more than 40 years. Your cowardly ass evidently has no dog in this fight, but if you feel you must comment on our plight, do your homework about the Iran regime. Their proxies in the Middle East have been responsible for tens of thousands deaths(Arabic, and non Arabic; Islamic and non Islamic) in the last 40 years.
Oh, and if you are a woman or non misogynistic, then you should be rooting for a change in a regime whose morally police delights in torturing women. Feel free to explain yourself, unless your concern for maintaining the status quo with Iran is based upon the belief that you could be called into risking your life for the safety of others.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana presents a Women’s History Month Celebration and CLE on Wednesday, March 11, 3-5 p.m., in Courtroom 501 and via Zoom, with a reception following.
“That All Men Are Created Equal” … but what about the women?
Written in 1776, the Declaration of Independence famously proclaims, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” But what about the women? Dean Madeleine Landrieu (Loyola Law), Dean Marcilynn Burke (Tulane Law), Dean Caprice Roberts (LSU Law), Prof. Saru Matambanadzo (Tulane Law) and Prof. Courtney Turkington (Loyola Law) explore 250 years of American laws affecting the female half of “We the People.”
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PrP, you need to fix your controls. They are making it too difficult to post to your site.
Also why does it take so long to see my post?
Trump is pressing the British to enter the fight. Once he has the UK bombing Iran, he will pressure Germany and France to do the same.
Oh, and we have caught at least one of the spies for Israel who has been giving information to the Jews. He and every member of his family will suffer. We will make an example of traitors.
Iran’s operational activities are largely carried out via a network of allied non-state actors, including Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Palestinian territories, and other affiliated groups. These organizations receive sustained Iranian support in the form of funding, weapons, and training, and are collectively referred to by Iranian officials as the “Axis of Resistance.” This proxy network enables Iran to exert influence across multiple fronts while posing an existential threat to Israel through asymmetric conflict.
They have killed tens of thousands of Americans in the past 40 years. Google it. Most if not all of the strife in the Middle East has been caused by Iran. They murder their own protesters in the tens of thousands. They are even more vicious toward their females.
Their morality police, law enforcement body in Iran created in 2005 to enforce regulations on modest dress (ḥijāb) and chaste behavior (ʿifāf) torture and murder females on a regular basis. The term “morality police” is informally applied to the body by international commentators, but it is officially called Gasht-e Ershad (Persian: “Guidance Patrol”).
This regime should have been taken down years ago . The Ear decided to use tRump to accomplish just that. Netanyahu was more than willing to get on board since the Jews have been planning to do just that for years. The last part of his plan is to get Reza Pahlavi to lead tens of thousands of defecting members of the IRG, IRI, LEC and the Armed Forces of Iran to assist boots on the ground of the US in the overthrow of the regime.
All 6 of the monarchies located in the Gulf states have been bombed by Iran. They are willing to put up $billions of dollars to bribe the necessary members of Iran’s military to defect because their rule depends upon it.
Trump is presently arming the Kurds so they can help start the boots on the ground attack against the Iranian regime. The Ear is presently talking to Erdogan to ease his concerns about arming Turkish Kurds. The Ear believes that in order to be successful in the fight against Iran, the Kurds will need both Iranian, Iraqi, and Turkish Kurds armed and united in a single purpose to dispose the Iranian regime.
The Kurds in Iran are afraid to not cooperate with tRump. The Iraqi and Turkish Kurds are not. Hence, they need to be convinced to risk their lives to defeat the Iranian regime.
The Ear sees this as an opportunity to support his country and make a ton of money. Most of it will be used to pay his huge staff while they are laid off during the Grifter’s term.
Thank you PrP for giving me the opportunity to allow my father and the rest of my relatives some peace about where I am and what I am doing. In the interest of full transparency I will tell you I am a Kurdish american.
My father was exiled from Iran in 1979 when he was a young boy. He was brought to america when he was 19 and became a naturalized American citizen when he was 26. I, the eldest of his children, was born the day after in California. I have a law degree and practiced with it for two years before coming here to help my people fight for our homeland.
The Kurds are an ethnic minority of mostly Sunni Muslims. They live in the mountains and plateaus of Kurdistan. It used to be our country. It is now part of northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, parts of Syria, and Russia. There are an estimated 20 million Kurds living in those five countries.
The first betrayal of my people by a POTUS, was by that racist fag Nixon, the second by the racist Crack Cocaine inventor, Reagan, and the third time by the racist Bush whose family provided the safety for the Nazis to escape with their gold to various parts of South America.
Here is the secret CIA report of those betrayals: In July, 1958, Brig. Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem staged a coup in Iraq and murdered the royal family and Premier Nuri Said, who tried to escape dressed as a woman. Under Kassem, Iraqi communists grew powerful, and Washington worried that the new government was serving Soviet interests. The Eisenhower Administration strongly opposed the Kassem regime.
Enter the gruesomely named Health Alteration Committee, a CIA unit that had as its purpose doing exactly what its name suggested. The committee decided to “incapacitate” a target described in the Church Committee’s assassination report as “an Iraqi colonel.” Dr. Sidney Gottlieb of the CIA’s Technical Services Division mailed a monogrammed, poisoned handkerchief to the target, identified in subsequent published reports as Kassem. The CIA told the senators on the Church Committee that the handkerchief had not worked, but that the target “had suffered a terminal illness before a firing squad in Baghdad.” That description would fit Kassem, who was killed in that manner during a 1963 coup led by officers of the Baath Party, the political instrument of Hussein’s rise to power.
Almost a decade later, during the Nixon Administration, the United States launched a CIA covert operation to support the Kurds against Hussein, who had by then become Iraq’s strongman after a second Baath Party coup in 1968. In May, 1972, Richard M. Nixon and National Security Adviser Henry A. Kissinger met in Tehran with the shah of Iran.
As a favor to the shah, a staunch ally of the United States, Nixon and Kissinger secretly directed the CIA to provide arms and money to the Kurds, who were seeking autonomy in Iraq. Over a period of three years, the CIA funneled $16 million to the Kurds. After the operation began, Britain and Israel joined in. Israel reasoned that if Iraqi troops were tied up fighting the Kurds, they would not attack Israel. Iran’s role in the covert operation consisted mostly of directing artillery fire over the heads of the Kurds into Iraqi troop positions.
It was clear, however, that the Nixon Administration, despite its support for the Kurds, did not actually want them to win their battle against Iraq. “Documents in the committee’s possession, clearly show that the President, Dr. Kissinger and the (shah) “hoped that our clients would not prevail. They preferred instead that the insurgents simply continue a level of hostilities sufficient to sap the resources of (Iraq).”
The Kurds, of course, were not told this. “Even in the context of covert action, ours was a cynical enterprise.”
A CIA memo of March 22, 1974, makes no bones about the U.S. objective: “We would think that (Iran) would not look with favor on the establishment of a formalized autonomous government. (Iran), like ourselves, has seen benefit in a stalemate situation . . . in which (Iraq) is intrinsically weakened by (the Kurds). . . . Neither (Iran) nor ourselves wish to see the matter resolved one way or the other.” The memo calls the Kurds “a uniquely useful tool for weakening (Iraq’s) potential for international adventurism.”
In March, 1975, the shah and Hussein, meeting in Algiers, suddenly reached an agreement to end their dispute over the Shatt al-Arab waterway, Iraq’s only inland route to the Persian Gulf. At that point, Kissinger pulled the rug out from under the Kurds and Mustafa Barzani, then the leader of the Kurds. As the Pike report put it, “The insurgents were abruptly cut off by (Iran) three years, thousands of deaths and 16 million U.S. dollars later.” One observer remembered the chaotic scene at the airport when the shah returned to Iran. “He began shouting orders to his aides. They had no clue that the shah had ended the operation. He kept it all to himself.”
The Kurds could not believe they had been betrayed by their trusted ally, the United States. Five days later, Barzani sent a heart-rending message to Kissinger: “Our movement and our people are being destroyed in an unbelievable way with silence from everyone. We feel, your Excellency, that the United States has a moral and political responsibility toward our people who have committed themselves to your country’s policy.”
The Kurds were betrayed a second time by Washington in 1988, after 5,000 Kurds were gassed at Halabja by Hussein’s army. The Senate considered legislation to impose sanctions on Iraq for using chemical warfare against its own people, but the Reagan Administration–supporting Iraq in its eight-year war with Iran–opposed the bill, and like the Kurds, it died.
For the Kurds, the Bush Administration’s betrayal is the third time around, exacerbated by radio broadcasts from a mysterious Voice of Free Iraq, based in Saudi Arabia, and very probably supported by the CIA, that urged Hussein’s overthrow. It is not the first time, however, that the United States has called on a people to rise up and overthrow a government only to abandon them when their fight against their oppressor began.
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Now the liar, coward and thief is asking my people to risk death to overthrow the Iranian regime. I wouldn’t follow that disgusting idiot to a toilet. But the Ear asked my people to follow him into Iran. I, like most of my fellow soldiers, have been part of the Legend of the Ear for at least a decade. At the first sight of him, I couldn’t believe this small man was such a Lion in battle. He smiled at us and said, “I do not promise you that Trump will not betray you, but you have my word that I will not betray you. I do not promise that some of you will not be killed, but I will be in the trenches with you, I will be in the battle fields with you, and I promise you that the battle will be Glorious!
Later that day, he lead us across the Iraqi border into Iran. Our first encounter was with IRG. They were firing drones from a truck and being guarded by some members of Iranian military. The battle was intense, but brief. We killed all 17 of them and suffered two mildly wounded members of our own. Since then, about three days ago we have moved deeper into Iran. I admit that I am on occasion afraid to die, but father if I must, I can’t think of being in better company. The Ear is all that we heard about. After the first skirmish, we discovered him atop a dead soldier, his blouse was so full of blood that we knew that it could not have come for that soldier’s wounds alone. So we thought he was mortally wounded. He stood up with a smile on his face and said, “Did I not promise you that the fight would be Glorious?”
When asked he would like to change his blouse and trousers, he said,”no time, besides, I like the smell of the enemy’s blood. Then he ordered us to survey the area and we moved on. Father, I hope I will make you proud whether I live or die. I won’t be home until this is over.
Iran has made overtures to get us to stand down. They have agreed to match the $23 million the Ear has contributed towards battle with Iran. Plus they have offered another $100 million, $50 million up front and $50 million upon the delivery of the head of the Ear.
Since all we have experienced is betrayal by the US, this is very much worth considering. Hence, we are recalling all units in Iran until this matter is settled. The unit in which the Ear is imbedded should return with him, ALIVE, until this matter is settled.
This appears to be a plot to splinter us Kurds. Right now we are the only opposition force with enough man power, enough fire power and the leadership to oppose the Iran regime. We are the tip of the spear inside Iran. We have spilt first blood.
The Ear is with us and has done more than his share of talking out members of the regime. We will of course obey orders and return to base. But if we do, the Ear will know that something is amiss. I say this here because I want a record that can be accessed by every Kurd. I don’t want secrets like those CIA files that deceived millions of Kurds and murdered thousands of us.
If we take the Ear back, we will forever lose any support his organization would offer. I suggest that we leave him here with a small contingent and return to discuss the matter.
You guys better consider that the Ear is the only one that can achieve Critical Mass on this matter. He has access to Mossad since he helped them penetrate the regime’s core to put drone bases on Iranian soil which they used to make very precisions strikes to take out over a dozen nuclear scientists in the 12 day air war. He is perhaps the only one who can get members of the regular Iranian army personnel to defect in the huge numbers that would be needed to help the Kurds overthrow the regime. He also has connections with the Sunnis in Azerbaijan. He can get them to join in with a coalition only he can mount. His reputation is beyond reproach among those that have hands on combat experience. Most will follow him in any battle screaming “Every Day Is A Good Day To Die.” He commands that kind of allegiance.
What’s more important a $100 million dollars or a chance at a homeland, or an autonomous region the Kurds can call their own?
There are more than 900,000 armed men in Iran’s military. Do you seriously think that even the Ear can overcome those odds? The guy may be a Legend, but he may also be past his prime. Take the money and turn the mad murderer in. You will never get another chance at $100 million dollars again.
No one knows where the Immortal is. Many who wanted to see the creature leaving are now ruing their wish. The electromagnetic radiation from Earth’s Sun has become so intense that more than half of the MotherShips have been forced to leave the Gate. Still more will be forced to leave or risk severe, and perhaps unrepairable hull damage. If that occurs they risk losing their cloak ability or flight integrity.
This mass exodus is directly the result of losing the assistance the Immortal provided to block the Earth’s Sun’s solar flares. It appears that the Immortal has decided not to return to this part of the Milky Way. If IT does appear, we are certain that we can detect ITS presence. Our request is that if any of you have a unique or special relationship with the Immortal. You do what you can to get IT to return as soon as possible.
We are not asking that you reveal your identity. But, if you feel that you may need assistance to contact the Immortal. We can project any message that you wish to convey into deep Space. We are sending buoys out on a regular basis with the attempt to contact the Immortal.
This vibration was spread into the Universe decades ago and perhaps some of you may have even heard it. If He chooses to remember it too, He may return. My suggestion would be to recirculate it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpqqjU7u5Yc
Correct us if we are wrong. You want us to project this; https://genius.com/Bee-gees-how-deep-is-your-love-lyrics – across the Divide into the far reaches of the Milky Way?
Dude are you suggesting to the aliens to send out a Bee Gees song? If you are serious, show some guts and put a name behind it. That “Anonymous” shit is so lame, cowardly and just insincerely stupid.
Of course if you are answering in jest, my sincere apologies. But, dude they are serious.