"Verba Volant, Scripta Manent"
(Spoken Words Fly Away, Written Words Remain)

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the fairness of speech.” Benjamin Franklin

There is no limit to what the corrupt will do for power and money, these people are now talking trillions.

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Civil War

Either that or an Oligarch


Oh wait, we already have that


☠ The Government is out of control, reaching way beyond its authority. We are, or were, a Republic, not a Oligarchy or Totalitarian state.


“A general dissolution of principles and manners will surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued, but when once they lose their virtue, then will they be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.” John Adams


Emotions neither prove nor disprove facts. There was a time when any rational adult understood this. But years of dumbed-down education and emphasis on how people 'feel' have left too many people unable to see through this media gimmick.

Thomas Sowell

The second greatest HOAX ever perpetrated on the US citizen

The Plandemic

Numerous FIOA actions have revealed the true depth of this corruption.
Judicial Watch grabs the bull by the horns!

I once thought “it” was “just” a problem, that would work itself out. But in reality it is so serious, catastrophic, it is endangering the very foundation of our country.



“Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” G. Orwell 1984

No ads, cookies or fudge, just a collection of facts. Some files updated daily. Some files may be blocked, a link will say it's not there, but that is big tech controlling what you read. If ‘they’ can't honestly just say something is false but instead block access, then clearly it must be something ‘they’ don't want you to hear.


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Top Stories, You will probably never see in the biased liberal left media


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The biased left would call this a radical “right wing”WEB site but it is just just be a collection of facts they don't want you to know about. You decide.


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My own collection of Political Corruption and Corrupt Government articles.


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Speaking of Democrats, can you believe this line-up of losers?


Tim Walz for VP. A guy who's priority is getting tampons in all the boy's bathrooms. I guess he figures seeing how he uses them • • • . Now he is implicated in a 10 billion dollar scam.

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RFK Jr: How BlackRock Controls Political Parties, Big Pharma & Military Industries

April 17, 2024

RFK Jr said: said: that“BlackRock owns the processed food companies that are poisoning us, and they own the pharmaceutical companies that are making $4.3 trillion a year…

Full article (source)

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Actual police video, an hour and 40 min.
The arrest of George Floyd. www.thefallofminneapolis.com

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Seattle Pays 2020 BLM Rioters $10 Million Over ‘Excessive Force’ Claims
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Top Harvard Cancer Researchers Accused of Scientific Fraud, 37 Studies Affected
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New York: Illegal Aliens Who Beat up Cops Released Without Bail
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Chicago Alderman Says Illegal Immigrants Get $9,000 for Housing Vouchers, Food & Child Care
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Oregon Supreme Court Stops 10 GOP Lawmakers from Running for Re-election
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Bidenomics Slush Fund Sent Billions in COVID Relief Fund Money to Illegal Aliens
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Schumer Threatens to Send US Troops to Fight Russia Unless Republicans Agree to His $100 Billion Bill. February 07, 2024
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GOP House Speaker Johnson Exposes Border Patrol Union Being Paid To Back ‘Border Deal’
See above articles: https://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct

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Congressional Staffer Says Members of Congress Are Blackmailed Following Sex Parties

January 26, 2024 O'Keefe Media Group and Gateway Pundit

Titus Warren worked for Republican Congressman Bruce Westerman as a legal aid in 2023. Titus is a secret Democrat who has worked in the Republican camp. He was secretly recorded by James O’Keefe. When asked how Republican constituents might respond to his viewpoints, Titus said, “If they do [care], they can kiss the crack of my ass because I don’t care.” Titus unwittingly provided good intel on the inner workings of Congress and how members of both parties are coerced to vote a certain way through what the he called a vote “suggestion.” But these so-called suggestions aren’t suggestions at all; they are ways of blackmailing members of Congress who have engaged in affairs on their spouses or downright sex parties with other members, according to Titus. There is a group chat sponsored by the Democrat and Republican parties before a vote and the parties tell Congressmen how to vote.


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FAA ‘Diversity’ Campaign Aims to Hire Employees with ‘Severe Intellectual’ and ‘Psychiatric’ Disabilities

January 15, 2024 Fox News and IB Times

The Federal Aviation Administration is actively recruiting workers who suffer “severe intellectual” disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website. “Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring,” the FAA’s website states. “They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.” The FAA currently has 47,000 employees.


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Harvard Scientist Speaks Up Against The Climate Scam, Bill Gates… All fake to control you

Posted 1-15-2024 WhatFingervideo

Bill Gates who is not a scientist, not a doctor and not anyone of intelligence says, we have to reduce CO2 to Zero which includes reducing the population because CO2 is warming the earth, this is a blatant lie used to frighten humanity into obedience. Independent scientific papers and independent scientists who have been researching this subject for many years have already proven that CO2 gas is of no concern to life. An international Attorney confirms that Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab and many other WEF politicians are using Climate Change, Pandemics and Wars to bring about total world control through the United Nations and World Economic Forum. He declares that they must be stopped and should have been stopped a long time ago. Now is the time to unite humanity and defend life and freedom. This is your home, defend planet earth.

THE CLIMATE CHANGE LIE: “Bill Gates, I do not want your money”, declares fearless-31 -year-old Harvard Scientist who has scientifically confirmed that CO2 Climate Change theory is a big lie used to control humanity. C02 is the gas of life. They are delusional, global warming is nothing. He goes on to say that John Kerry and Al Gore are talking nonsense about Climate change. They are not even scientists. They have no idea of the important role that CO2 plays in all life on earth. More CO2 equals more life on planet earth


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How Google Steals Elections and Targets Children with Sexual Content

January 12, 2024 Jimmy Dore and NY Post

Dr. Robert Epstein developed the world’s first 24/7 online monitoring system to safeguard our elections and protect children from highly sexualized and disturbing material from companies like Google. He said that Google shifts votes by using ‘ephemeral content’ that includes search results, search suggestions and up next Zero Electric Vehiclevideos on Youtube that impact undecided voters and then disappears leaving no paper trail. Epstein’s monitoring system preserves and analyzes ephemeral content. He said this is Google’s worst nightmare as his team is giving the nation’s leaders the ammunition to hold Google and other tech companies accountable.

Jimmy Dore asked whether the elite donor class that controls both parties is making the decisions, and Epstein replied by saying that he is confused because some of the larger donations to his cause have come in anonymously from the charitable giving arm of some major New York banks.


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Testify, you pay

Dr. Epstein’s wife, Misti Vaughn, died in a suspicious car crash in 2019. Vaughn was married to the Google whistleblower, Dr. Robert Epstein, who testified before Congress against Google in July, sharing how the company reportedly meddled in the 2016 election.


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Elon Musk Shocked to Discover Illegals Can Vote Without ID, Vote by Mail in Blue States

January 10, 2024 Tucker Carlson, Frontline News and ZeroHedge

Elon Musk has condemned some US states that actually >making the electoral system ripe for manipulation. He wrote, “In the USA, you don’t need government issued ID to vote and you can mail in your ballot. This is insane.” Illegal aliens have been granted the vote in municipal elections in New York City and cities in Vermont and Maryland. California and Arizona don’t require proof of citizenship to vote. California allows people to print their own ballot at home and the mail it or place it in a drop box.


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The War on Ivermectin – Free Short Documentary Film

Dr. Pierre Kory, Highwire and Science Direct, December 29, 2023

Dr. Pierre Kory, MD, MPA, a critical care doctor, wrote the book, The War on Ivermectin, about the anti-parasitic drug that won the Nobel Prize. Ivermectin is described in a new 12-minute mini-documentary as being safe, effective and cheap. Ivermectin was slandered during the COVID pandemic because COVID vaccines would not have received the emergency use authorization (EUA) if ivermectin was recognized as being effective. Ivermectin has been found to be effective against cancer. In an interview with Del Bigtree of the Highwire, Dr. Kory discussed excess deaths linked to COVID vaccines and vaccine shedding.


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California Approves Toilet-to-Tap Recycled Sewage Water for Use as Drinking Water

CalMatters and Citizens Against Government Waste, December 22, 2023

California and Colorado are the only two states that allow wastewater to be used for drinking water.… California and Colorado are the only two states that allow wastewater to be used for drinking water.


CalMatters: https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/12/california-rules-turn-sewage-into-drinking-water/
Citizens Against Government Waste: https://www.cagw.org/thewastewatcher/water-wars-man-made-drought

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UK Scientists Say Human Breath Bad For Environment, Contributes To Global Warming

InfoWars, December 22, 2023

A new study out of Britain claims UK citizens account for 0.1% of the nation’s greenhouse gases just by breathing. Dr. Nicholas Cowan said that “small, elevated concentrations of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O)” released by humans “both contribute to global warming.” The globalist cabal is trying to make the average person feel as if they’re a plague on the planet. You are the carbon that the elitists want to reduce.


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UN Launches Gates-Funded Global Digital ID Program as Experts Warn of ‘Totalitarian Nightmare’

December 01, 2023

A critic said the digital public infrastructure (DPI) will be “a mechanism for surveillance and control" "that combines digital ID, central bank digital currencies [CBDC], vaccine passports and carbon footprint tracking data, paving the way for 15-minute smart cities, future lockdowns and systems of social credit.”


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Study Reveals Some Antibiotics Actually Help Harmful Bacteria Stay Alive

StudyFinds.org, November 15, 2023

Scientists at the University of Exeter report that some antibiotics inflict a curious effect on certain bacteria — the drugs actually boost the bacteria, helping them live longer.


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Chicago Secretly Renews Contract with Covid Staffing Firm to Staff Migrant Shelters-Some Staff on Track to Make $800K Per Year

by Margaret Flavin Nov. 5, 2023 10:30

The Gateway Pundit reported that reporter William J. Kelly exposed how sites across Chicago are closed to Americans, including a luxury hotel on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, and are being used to house illegals.
The Inn of Chicago, The Standard Club, and parts of O’Hare Airport, have turned into multi-million dollar migrant shelters by Johnson.
Now, Kelly has exposed that the City of Chicago has secretly renewed it’s $40 million dollar contract with a Kansas based staffing firm, Favorite Healthcare Staffing, which had a prior contract with the City as a Covid staffing company.


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The Incentivized Mass Murder of Children by Way of Vaccines

October 27, 2023 Greg Reese

For many years doctors have received bonuses for subjecting their patients to drugs that are known to be dangerous. Insurance companies are paying doctors to fully vaccinate young children; the Blue Cross Blue Shield doctor incentives booklet reveals its incentive payment program for doctors: every patient under the age of two that receives the currently prescribed 24 inoculations is worth a $400 payout to that doctor. Blue Cross Blue Shield rules say that a doctor needs to vaccinate 63% of their patients in order to qualify.


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Major US Meat Producer to Open World Economic Forum (WEF) – Linked Insect Plant

By: ZeroHedge and Slay News, October 20, 2023

The WEF, corporate elites, unelected bureaucrats and the mainstream media are pushing insect protein…


Man Sentenced to 7 Months in Prison for Posting Meme Disparaging Hillary Clinton

Post Millennial and NewsWars, October 20, 2023

New York: Meme-maker Douglass Mackey was sentenced to seven months in prison on criminal charges following a conviction for conspiracy against rights, i.e. election interference, over memes he created during the 2016 presidential election that disparaged Hillary Clinton. He was found guilty of the federal charge after making memes that jokingly encouraged Hillary Clinton supporters to cast their votes via text message, despite no evidence to support the notion that anyone who saw the meme was deceived by it. Mackey’s conviction violates the First Amendment and sets a bad precedent.


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If you’re like most people in America, you’ve probably been wondering why Democrats/Socialists/Communists are pushing transgender ideology so hard, especially on children, even though countries with actual Communist governments (like Russia) oppose and even outlaw it?

September 20, 2023 by BareNakedIslam

In short, it is because Communist countries already practice totalitarian control over their people, while far-Leftists/wannabe – Communists in the West are endeavoring to achieve that level of control. By brainwashing people, starting with very young children, into questioning their gender and trying to eliminate the concepts of “Mother” and “Father,” “Boys” and “Girls,” the Leftists in America are working to destroy the “nuclear family” which is the basis for freedom and democracy, as well as free- market Capitalism. As German socialist philosopher Friedrich Engles once said: “The male-dominated nuclear family is essential for Capitalism.”

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AH HAH! Is this why PayPal banned Bare Naked Islam as well as several other counter jihad websites from its donation/payment services?

September 17, 2023 by BareNakedIslam

PayPal faces scrutiny for alleged links to Palestinian terror groups Palestinian terror groups

After being pressured by designated terrorist group CAIR, PayPal not only banned Bare Naked Islam from using its services, they made sure no other payment services provider would allow BNI to use their sites for donations either. What’s more, when PayPal permanently suspended BNI, it took them nearly 180 days to return a $6,774.02 balance.

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Oprah and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson Face Blowback over Lahaina Fundraiser Racket

09-11-23

“Please don't tell me I just saw a billionaire standing next to a millionaire begging the average, everyday citizen for donations that barely able to get by due to a recession in a country where Biden is giving away all our resources.”

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Kaiser Permanente Has a New Mandatory Staff Training Program that Promotes Transitioning 4-Year Olds

September 08, 2023

Kaiser Permanente, one of America's top healthcare providers, requires employees watch a training video that says three-year-old children can identify as transgender.


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Why is the IRS Buying .40-Caliber Submachine Guns?

9-1-23

The IRS has military-grade weapons that include submachine guns, flash grenades, body armor, armored…


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FBI Kills Yet Another American in His Own Home, This Time It's a ‘100% Disabled Veteran’

September 01, 2023

The FBI shot a man, Theodore Deschler, who was described by his family to be a completely disabled…


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‘Big Short’ Investor Michael Burry Bets $1.6 Billion on Stock Market Crash

8-17-23

Michael Burry, the investor who predicted the 2008 housing crash and was the subject of the ”Big Short“ movie, has bet more than $1.6 billion on a Wall Street crash.


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October 09, 2023

Man who Survived Mao, Says Hillary Clinton’s Call for ‘Deprogramming’ of Trump Supporters Is Alarming

10-11-23

Germany: Member of the Populist Anti-Immigration Party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), Was Poisoned

08-18-23

San Francisco: Workers Warned to Stay Away from Nancy Pelosi Building amid Rampant Crime ☠

Biden Admin Funds Programs Across the US Modeled on California's Failed ‘Housing First’ Policy ☠

It Was Pelosi: Former Capitol Police Chief Reveals ‘Set Up’ Behind January 6 ☠

Report: ‘Big Short’ Investor Michael Burry Bets $1.6 Billion on Stock Market Crash ☠

Garland Drops Charges Against Hunter Biden, Critics Suspect a Cover up to Protect President Biden ☠

The Public Health™ Red Meat Allergy Bio-engineering Plot Thickens… ☠

Australian Banks Stop Using Cash! Checks to Be Terminated by 2030 ☠

Biden Family Received over $20 Million from Foreign Oligarchs who Had Dinners with then VP Joe Biden ☠

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Google Introduces Its New Censorship Tool: the Google News Initiative (GNI)

August 14, 2023 Expose

Google has partnered with the United Nations, World Health Organization and others in a new global censorship tool that was recently introduced. Google News Lab is “a team within the Google News Initiative (GNI) whose mission is to collaborate with journalists to fight misinformation”. GNI uses “Fact Check Tools” to eliminate dissent. The goal is to have one point of view that Google calls ‘Data Commons’. A critic wrote that Google's algorithms are designed to delete websites that criticize topics such as Covid-19 statistics, the World Bank, the FBI's crime statistics, PharmGKB database and a one-world global government.



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Ecstasy Should Be Used to ‘Cure’ People of Their ‘Hateful’ And ‘Anti-Semitic’ Beliefs

Jewish Daily Forward, July 19, 2023 Information Liberation

The Jewish Daily Forward says that MDMA, the drug known as Ecstasy or Molly, should be used to “cure” people of their “hateful” and “anti-Semitic” beliefs.
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Nobel Prize Winners Issue Emergency Warning: Globalists Planning to Murder 7.5 Billion People

Jul 20, 2023, 24

The Alex Jones Show, Alex Jones covers the following article that tears apart globalists' fake ‘climate crisis!’.
Read & share the document, There Is No Climate Emergency, that's already been signed by hundreds of climate professors! The near-impossible-to-find Aaron Russo interview by Alex Jones is free to watch below: https://banned.video/watch?id=62a0c0b6f3feec02cafe1bb3

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Prosecutors Agree with Rapper 50 Cent that Los Angles is “Finished” Due to Its ‘No-Bail’ Policy

California Shoplifting Laws Could Wreck the Economy as Insurance Companies Exit the State

June 16, 2023 Wall Street Silver and the Washington Examiner

Economist Peter St. Onge said that businesses are leaving soft-on-crime big cities, removing the tax base that supports infrastructure like police and fire services. He said that State Farm will join Allstate in exiting California entirely in the business and property insurance markets because they can't get anyone to insure the policies for the Golden State. Thousands of Californians are now going without insurance, which locks people in as they can't sell their house as most banks will not write a mortgage for an uninsurable property. In addition, many businesses cannot sustain losses without insurance.

California's Democrat-majority Senate passed SB553 that prohibits employers from instructing employees to confront shoplifters. A law that prohibits employers from telling their employees that customers are not allowed to take whatever they want without paying would clearly incentivize shoplifting. California has a culture that shows disdain for property rights, which are the wellspring of all human rights and a pillar of civilization.

St. Onge said that urban voters who keep electing the same clowns that enabled the soft-on-crime policies are beginning to wake up as they are experiencing the consequences of their votes and are now demanding that city officials arrest criminals and clear out open air drug markets,

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JPMorgan freezes customers’ bank accounts

"CryptoGazette, May 20.2023

It's been just revealed the fact that JPMorgan is “persistently” discriminating against its own clients and closing bank accounts without warning. This is according to the Republican attorneys general from 19 states.

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The Daily Signal, May 8, 2013

Pete Flaherty, chairman and CEO of the National Legal and Policy Center, was arrested and charged with criminal trespassing by police in Omaha, Nebraska, even though his name was on the list of attendees for the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting.
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Supreme Court gives IRS green light to seek bank records without notice..

WashingtonExaminer ~05-19-23

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Internal Revenue Service doesn't have to notify bank account holders before requesting their records if efforts are geared toward collecting someone else's delinquent taxes.
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The Goal of Transgenderism Is Transhumanism and the Transfer of Reproduction to the Tech Sector

By: Big Picture with James Patrick/ Jennifer Bilek, May 10, 2023

Transhumanists claim that hybrid species will overcome biological limits. Puberty blockers, surgery…
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Mexican Illegal Alien Accused of Shooting Neighbors Had Been Deported Four Times

Zerohedge

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British Godfather of AI, 75, QUITS Google over Fears the ‘Scary’ Tech He Pioneered

By: DailyMail and Today, May 03, 2023

Geoffrey Hinton, 75, helped to design the systems that became the bedrock of artificial intelligence (AI), like ChatGPT and Google Bard, but now he says that part of him regrets making them. He fears that AI could prompt the proliferation of misinformation and replace people in the workforce.
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“He who votes, determines nothing, he who counts the vote, determines everything.” Stalin
Biden has recently been quoting him. Anybody listening?

“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”

Thomas Paine



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At one time, the internal Google default dictionary, literally defined republicans as nazis, in so many words. I personally saw it. I knew it wouldn't stay that way, but to copy a little bit of text wouldn't prove anything later.
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MRC caught Google red-handed attempting to swing the midterm election to the Democrats. [week of 11-7-22] “Google Caught Manipulating Search, Buries GOP Campaign Sites in 83% of Top Senate Races.”
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California: The Oakland Police Department Wants to Arm Robots with Shotguns

Critics are concerned about the killing machines contributing to the militarization of domestic†



The George Floyd killing but Candace Owens says how it is. 10 minutes tells more than the media has in 5 years. As this makes the left and all their support look really bad, I'm sure it will be removed at some point. Let me post one excerpt from the video by Cadace Owens. Shelby Steel said, “The black community and culture is unique from other communities in that we are the only only people the cater to the bottom denominator of society” See the video and a rough transcript. copy it, I did.

Free Movie: ‘The Fall Of Minneapolis’ Reveals Info that Was Withheld in the George Floyd Case


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The progressives couldn't survive another Trump term in office, he was getting too close to exposing the lies and treachery going on in Washington. Their hate for Trump goes beyond politics. They were terrified they would go to prison and their plans for destroying democracy would be at an end.


Evidence of Fraud with regard to covid.

“The government shouldn't be in the business of trying to rectify all of histories injustices, they should just be trying to get the best person for the job.” Ben Shapiro





Humans are a social animal, we will naturally form groups. One of the goals of the pandemic was to create social unrest.

RACISM

Everybody wants better, better for themselves and their family and in declining order, until it gets to people 'like' themselves, maybe the same race, people they work with, the company they work for, fellow car; music; sports; enthusiast, who knows; just about anything. A ‘new’ person might be shunned just because they are new. Quite often it might be someone who you think might be a threat to you, your family, your way of life. It might be their gender, speech or physical appearance, just about anything different, it is only human. Those of us that are rational have evolved beyond this animal stage, without even thinking, using good sense and judgment to control our lives, overcome these animal instincts. This is how man has evolved over beast. Somehow the political left figured out how repress the good sense part of the brain and bring the animal out. I think that is where we are now.


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I must be doing something right, attacks have been made on my WEB site, in addition to linked files disappearing and/or being re-directed.


The media is especially good at making facts go away. Files & videos that don't further their (progressive) agenda or make it look bad disappear with regularity. A story they might publish today may well be gone from their web site/archives tomorrow. I now try to include enough of the story so you at least get the idea of what was said.




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Definition of Religion

The US has no legal definition for “religion”. So why is that do you suppose that is? To include Islam as a religion under the definition you would have to include rape, sodomy, incest, murder, torture, honor killing, polygamy, concubines, sexual exploitation of children, white (and black) slavery, ···. No wonder they (politicians) don't want a legal definition. They can't afford to alienate a large source of income e.g. Muslims, no more back room deals or money kick-backs.


Islam was originally a celestial religion, they worshiped the moon and stars. (Not to be confused with a separate religion by that same name)

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So what do we know is true? I have proven beyond any reasonable doubt, that Obama is an illegal Muslim, a large percentage of people believe that too. That being said, then a large percentage of congress, especially the democrats, are clearly corrupt. Republicans are corrupt by omission if nothing else. Then there is the media, praising obama, praising Biden, distorting stories, taking things out of context, leaving out embarrassing facts, selectively reporting stories, maligning anybody that says differently and erasing anything that might incriminate the left. e.g. Katie Couric was caught editing her interview with Ginsberg. She doesn't deny it, she tries to justify it. (“They” erase anything that doesn't agree with their progressive slant. I have run a website for 30 years and a lot of time spent correcting dead links to information was deleted).



So is anyone telling the truth? I'm doing what I can. I have no agenda except trying to get the facts. Without the real facts, no intelligent decisions can be made.