Failed Black Strawboss Eric Adams MIA at Black Parade amid Rumor He will Drop Out of NYC Mayor Race
/Mayor Eric Adams mysteriously took the weekend off — and even skipped the African American Day Parade in Harlem — as resurrected rumors swirled about him dropping his long-shot re-election bid.
Adams had no public events Saturday and Sunday — as mayor or mayoral hopeful — while his three opponents hopscotched the Big Apple with six weeks to go before November’s election.
The flailing, fourth-place-polling incumbent resurfaced Monday for blitz of morning show appearances, where he tried to downplay his conspicuous absence and angrily dodged questions about him potentially dropping his re-election bid.
“Well, you know, unlike the other candidates in the race, I have a day job,” said Adams, who is running as an independent after skipping a June Democratic Party primary. [MORE]
Boston city government pays $150K settlement to Black men falsely accused of Murdering Carol Stuart, a pregnant white woman
/The City of Boston paid a $150,000 settlement to two Black men who had been falsely linked to the killing of Carol Stuart in 1989, years after Mayor Michelle Wu issued a formal apology on behalf of the city.
The city will pay $100,000 to the family of Willie Bennet and $50,000 to Alan Swanson.
The Boston Herald first reported news of the settlement.
Stuart, a white pregnant woman, was killed by her husband, Charles, in October 1989. But Charles Stuart told officers at the scene that a Black man wearing a tracksuit was responsible for the crime, leading Boston police to frequently stop Black men on the street. [MORE]
MacKenzie Scott Donates $70 Million to historically Black colleges and universities, 'no strings attached'
/MacKenzie Scott, one of the world’s most prominent philanthropists, has just donated $70 million to UNCF, the nation’s largest private provider of scholarships to Black students.
The donation by Scott, whose net worth is currently valued to be around $34 billion, is set to reshape the financial future of 37 historically HBCUs (historically Black colleges and universities), as part of a $1 billion campaign.
The program, launched in 2o21, aims to help HBCUs close a funding gap compared to white or elite institutions, aiming to provide long-term financial stability and a permanent revenue stream for minority schools. [MORE]
Holocaust: 15 out of every 16 people killed by Israel in Gaza since March are civilians
/Of every 16 Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip since Israel broke a ceasefire there on 18 March, almost 15 have been civilians, according to data collected by an independent violence-tracking organisation.
The Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) tracked reports of deaths in Hamas and allied armed groups from the Israeli military, local and international media, statements from Hamas and other sources over six months.
The organisation found that, according to Israel's claims to have killed over 2,100 'operatives' since 18 March, its data indicated the figure is actually close to 1,100 and includes Hamas political figures and fighters from other groups.
ACLED also says that Israel's continued operations "now appear driven more by domestic political and ideological goals than by any realistic plan to free [captives] or secure lasting stability", adding that Israel's weaponisation of aid has worsened civilian suffering without forcing the Palestinian group to surrender.
The report also said that Israel has launched over 3,500 airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, killing over 9,500 people, with the vast majority civilians. ACLED records that at least 40 Hamas commanders and key operatives have been killed during this period, including Mohammed Sinwar.
The organisation also mentions how Israel's military offensive has targeted Gaza's infrastructure, including having destroyed over 230 government buildings and causing "extensive damage" to essential infrastructure, including electricity and water networks, as well as the health and education systems.
ACLED data also revealed that over 1,300 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid from late May to 12 September, either at or around distribution centres led by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the majority of deaths being by the Israeli army.
The organisation also noted the GHF's "poorly organised" deliveries, with boxes being placed in open areas, gates only open for a brief time, and thousands of hungry, desperate Palestinians rushing forward.
While ACLED data has noted a "sharp increase" in aid being looted, there was no evidence of Hamas systematically looting aid. Israel has often accused the Palestinian group of diverting humanitarian aid, without providing proof.
The reports add that if Hamas were to do so, it would damage its reputation among the people of Gaza.
The report comes amid a horrific Israeli invasion of Gaza City, which has involved the systematic destruction of its residential areas. [MORE]
Klanarchy in NY Jail Mistakenly Caught on Video Forces 4 Cops to Plead Guilty in the Brutal Murder of Robert Brooks. 14 Cops Enslaved, Beat Restrained Black Man in a Vulgar Display of Racism/Authority
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ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY
Lynching – the juxtaposition of insensate self-hatred (inferiority complex) and sudden death within the horror-dome of Racism White Supremacy (the expression of the fear of genetic annihilation). For pictorial proof of the Caucasian’s inhumanity to Afrikans (the civilizers of hue-manity), see: “Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America.”
Klanarchy – rule by the Klan. Klanarchy was practiced at its zenith in the southern states between 1910 and 1955; characterized by such vigilantism as murders, beatings, lynchings, tar-and-feathering, bombing and maiming almost exclusively people of Afrikan descent, and to much lesser extents Catholics and “Jews.” The TRUMP- Bush Klan currently rule.
THE ULTIMATE SLAVERY IS MURDER. From [HERE] Four white state corrections officers pleaded guilty Monday in a Utica courtroom in the fatal beating of a defenseless Black man last year at a Central New York prison.
The corrections officers had been scheduled to go on trial in two weeks alongside their co-defendants in the death of Robert L. Brooks, 43, an inmate at Macy Correctional Facility.
The four white men are:
Nicholas Anzalone. He pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter. He had been indicted for second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter and first-degree offering a false instrument for filing.
Anthony Farina. He pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter. He had been indicted for second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter.
Sgt. Michael Mashaw. He pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter. He had been indicted for second-degree manslaughter.
David Walters. He pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter. He had been indicted for second-degree manslaughter.
Oneida County Court Judge Robert Bauer promised Anzalone and Farina 22 years in state prison in exchange for their guilty pleas. They had faced 25 years to life in prison on the murder charge.
Mashaw and Walters were promised 3 to 9 years in state prison in exchange for their guilty plea. They faced 3 to 15 years if convicted of second-degree manslaughter.
Four guards rejected plea deals in court Monday: David Kingsley, Nicholas Kieffer, Mathew Galliher and Michael Fisher. These are the charges they face:
Galliher: second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter and second-degree gang assault.
Kieffer: second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter, second-degree gang assault and first-degree offering a false instrument for filing.
Kingsley: second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter.
Fisher: second-degree manslaughter.
Nine corrections officers and a prison sergeant were charged in the fatal beating of Brooks. 14 were involved, all are white.
The savage beating — which prosecutors said was the final of three beatings to Brooks — was recorded on video by body cameras worn by four of the prison guards. None had turned on their camera, but 30 minutes of video was passively recorded without audio.
The Brooks family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court claiming state officials oversee a “dangerously broken” prison system that brutalizes inmates. According to the civil complaint:
“On December 9, 2024, prison staff at Marcy Correctional Facility (“Marcy”) repeatedly punched, kicked, and otherwise physically attacked Robert while he was at all times handcuffed, restrained, and completely defenseless. Robert’s fatal beating by the people charged with protecting him—a prolonged beating so severe and grotesque that it shocks the conscience— occurred because of the ongoing tolerance of staff violence against people incarcerated at Marcy and other prisons throughout the NYSDOCCS system. Robert’s attackers systematically and casually beat him to death. Other Defendants assisted in the fatal beating by further restraining Robert when he was already handcuffed and then also later shackled. Still other Defendants simply stood by and observed the fatal beating as if it were a normal and common occurrence at Marcy. On information and belief—it was exactly that.
Robert had done nothing to justify the use of any force against him, much less deadly force. Robert’s killers were unaware that some of their own body-worn cameras (“BWC”s) passively recorded much of the attack on video. As Marcy staff brutalized Robert, they believed that their actions would never see the light of day.
None of the Defendants reported the attack. Instead, after killing Robert, they concocted lies to attempt to cover up their actions and then went about their daily business as usual. 5. The video footage showing Robert’s fatal assault reveals a chilling scene. It depicts several large white law enforcement officers torturing a bloodied Black man who is restrained, helpless, and struggling to maintain consciousness. The perpetrators’ brutality goes on and over the course of roughly ten minutes. It continues past several initial rounds of beatings. It continues beyond one officer hammering Robert repeatedly with the heel of a shoe and another officer lifting Robert by the neck using a chokehold. The brutality continues even beyond Robert losing the ability to sit upright and well after Robert falls into a state of semiconsciousness.
Almost as disturbing as the video’s depiction of violence perpetrated on Robert by at least six Defendants is the demeanor of at least nine other Defendants who all stood by watching Robert’s killing. Rather than making any effort to end the inhumane brutality, every staff member who was present casually observed Robert’s prolonged attack as if it were a routine activity. All remained calm and utterly unfazed by what was happening. Some appear bored. Others appear amused, visibly smiling or laughing at what seems to have been a spectator sport to them. The brutal attack on Robert was very obviously business-as-usual for all involved.
The video is frightening and very difficult to watch, but it reflects the dark and dangerous reality that individuals incarcerated at Marcy face on a regular basis. It reveals precisely what Marcy staff do to those incarcerated in the prison when they believe no one is watching. It evidences the rampant abuses that New York prisoners as well as the Correctional Association of New York (“CANY”)1 have reported and warned about for years. As CANY recognized, “Mr. Brooks’s death cast a harsh light on the grim realities of life within our state prisons, realities that have been documented by [CANY] for decades.” For far too long, CANY’s warnings that the lives of people in NYSDOCCS are profoundly at risk and those individuals’ pleas for help and protection have been met with profound silence.”
Specifically, video shows that sometime after his transport van arrived at Marcy, Robert was on the ground outside of a Marcy building with his hands handcuffed behind his back, while surrounded by Defendants Kieffer, Mashaw, Kessler and Kinglsey. According to the civil complaint:
“After Defendants Trombly and Farina approached the group, two of the Defendants lifted Robert off the ground and began moving him toward the Marcy Infirmary Building with his arms extended above his head and his upper torso parallel to the ground. The other four Defendants in the group followed.
Approximately one minute later, at 9:22 p.m., Robert entered the Infirmary Building carried by three Defendants. Defendants Kessler and Anzalone each held Robert by his arms and Defendant Kingsley held Robert by both of his feet, carrying him in a contorted face- down position
The Defendants proceeded to carry Robert into the open door of a medical examination room, in and around which other On-Scene Defendants were already gathered.
On information and belief, the On-Scene Defendants knew that there were no surveillance cameras in Marcy’s medical examination rooms and they deliberately took Robert to that location so there would be no recordings of what they intended to do to him.
Inside the room, with the door left open, Defendants placed Robert on an examination table face down on his stomach. One Defendant used his knee and hands to forcibly restrain Robert’s legs, while at least one other Defendant used his arms to forcibly restrain Robert’s upper body
Thereafter, over the course of approximately ten minutes, numerous On-Scene Defendants continued to viciously batter Robert in myriad ways without any provocation whatsoever on Robert’s part. Robert’s hands remained restrained behind his back the entire time, leaving him no means to defend himself against Defendants’ attacks or soften their blows.
The continued assault on Robert included, but was not limited to, the actions described in the following paragraphs, that were all recorded on video.
Defendant Anzalone repeatedly punched Robert while Robert was on his back on the examination table, leaving his face visibly bloodied and swollen when Defendants then raised his upper torso
Defendant Farina forcibly tried to shove a white cloth into Robert’s mouth while Defendant Kinglsey kept both of his hands grasped around Robert’s neck, impairing Robert’s ability to breathe
When Robert struggled to move his head for breath, Defendant Anzalone grabbed the front of Robert’s shirt and Defendant Kingsley pulled back on Robert’s neck as Defendant Farina rapidly punched Robert in the face and neck or shoulder area, with hard closed-fist blows, at least six times.
After Defendant Farina’s initial punches to Robert’s face made Robert fall back onto the examination table, Defendant Anzalone punched Robert in the groin or leg area at least twice as Defendant Farina simultaneously continued to punch Robert’s face or shoulder area.
Seconds later, Defendant Kinglsey lifted Robert’s upper torso back up off the table with one hand behind Robert’s head, and another hand around Robert’s neck, so that Robert was again in a sitting position on the edge of the table
Defendant Kingsley then proceeded to position both of his hands around Robert’s neck and lift Robert’s buttocks up off the table two consecutive times by pulling up on Robert’s neck
Defendant Kingsley next repositioned himself by placing his right arm further around Robert’s neck, in a chokehold, and once again forcefully raised Robert up off the examination table by his neck (see Figures 8 and 9 below).
At the same time, Defendant Farina threw away the white cloth that he previously tried to shove into Robert’s mouth, removed one of his gloves, and examined the hand he had just used to repeatedly strike Robert (see Figure 8 below). Defendant Farina then opened and closed his fingers and shook out his hand in an apparent effort to relieve the self-inflicted pain caused by his repeated blows to Robert’s face and head.
Defendant Kingsley then forcefully shoved Robert back down to a seated position on the examination table. Defendant Anzalone next proceeded to repeatedly beat Robert in the stomach with the back of one of Robert’s shoes.
Next, Defendant Anzalone and Defendant Kingsley pushed Robert’s head and shoulders back down onto the examination table once again. Defendant Anzalone, Defendant Kingsley, and Defendant Galliher then restrained Robert’s upper torso, while Defendant Farina kicked his foot into Robert’s groin (see Figure 10 below).
Defendant Farina shifted his weight to push his foot deeper into Robert’s groin or lower stomach area for approximately 8 seconds while the three other Defendants surrounding Robert continued to restrain Robert’s upper body.
Defendant Walrath then joined the assault on Robert’s groin area by holding at least one of Robert’s legs to prevent him from closing them to protect himself.
Thereafter, Defendant Anzalone proceeded to punch Robert in the stomach. Defendants Walrath and Farina then forcibly restrained Robert’s legs and feet with their hands as Robert lay on his back on the examination table, while at the same time other Defendants, including Defendants Kingsley and Anzalone, applied pressure to Robert’s upper body area for an extended period, further restricting his ability to breathe.
When Robert’s body began writhing, Defendant Farina punched Robert three times in the area between Robert’s buttocks and upper thighs.
While Defendant Farina was delivering those punches to Robert’s right side, Defendant Walrath delivered multiple punches to Robert’s left side
While Robert remained on his back on the examination table, with his lower ribcage area visibly extended, Defendant Anzalone struck Robert’s stomach twice with his hands, provoking no visible response from Robert.
After being prompted by another Defendant, Defendant Anzalone then gave Robert a sternum rub.2 Robert’s stomach rose up, demonstrating that he was still responsive to pain.
Defendants, including Defendant Galliher, then placed Robert’s ankles in leg cuff restraints (also known as “leg irons”) while Robert remained on his back on the examination table with his hands restrained behind him.
For an extended time thereafter, Defendant Kingsley kept one of his hands on Robert’s neck and his other hand on Robert’s left arm, while Defendant Anzalone used one of his hands to restrain Robert’s right shoulder. During this period, Robert’s body writhed again with his ribcage visibly extended (see Figure 12 below), and Defendant Anzalone intermittently used his free hand to poke the side of Brooks’ stomach and strike the side of Brooks’ ribcage.
Defendant Anzalone then shifted his weight to push his other hand down harder on Robert’s right shoulder. Next, Defendants Kinglsey and Anzalone forcefully yanked Robert upright into a sitting position at the edge of the examination table by pulling up on his shoulders while Defendant Anzalone simultaneously dug his fist into Robert’s lower stomach area.
Defendant Kingsley and Defendant Anzalone held Robert by the back of his neck to allow Defendant Anzalone to deliver a hard, closed-fist punch to Robert’s stomach (see Figure 13 below). Defendant Anzalone stopped supporting the right side of Robert’s body as he stepped away to retrieve rubber gloves, leaving Robert to struggle to hold himself fully upright
Defendant Anzalone approached Robert once again and grabbed the front of the neck hole of Robert’s shirt with his now-gloved hand. Defendants Anzalone and Kingsley then forcefully yanked Robert into a standing position, lifted Robert’s feet and body up off the ground by Robert’s arms and shirt, shoved Robert into a closed window shade in the corner of the medical examination room, and pushed their knees into the back of his legs.
Robert remained in the corner for an extended period, during which time Defendants Kinglsey, Kessler, and Anzalone continued to push Robert into the wall, apparently committing other abuses that are not visible on camera.
Robert was eventually pushed down onto his knees, remaining in that position until Defendant Anzalone wrapped both of his arms around Robert’s torso and violently jolted Robert’s entire body up off the ground.
Thereafter, Defendants moved Robert back to the examination table, where two Defendants removed Robert’s pants as Defendant Anzalone gave Robert another sternum rub, which this time provoked no apparent response.
By approximately 9:32 p.m., Robert lay motionless and apparently unresponsive, with his pants removed and his socks hanging halfway off his feet, and Defendants finally ended their beating.
Robert was eventually transported to Wynn Hospital in Utica, New York, where he was pronounced dead in the early hours of December 10, 2024.
The On-Scene Defendants who were not actively beating Robert at any given time casually entered and exited the room where Robert’s assault was underway, posted up in the open doorway of the room, or milled about in the hallway immediately outside the room, while nonchalantly watching Robert’s beating, hearing Robert’s abuse, and engaging in conversation with one another.
In the video footage of Robert’s fatal beating, the On-Scene Defendants at times appeared to be smiling or laughing and at other times appeared to be bored. Notably, none of the On-Scene Defendants in the footage appeared to be at all concerned at any time about what was being done to Robert or about the fact that Robert was plainly deteriorating to a state of unconsciousness.
Despite seeing, hearing, and otherwise knowing that Robert was being beaten to death, all the On-Scene Defendants failed to intervene to stop Robert’s assault at any time, despite having ample opportunity to do so.
All the On-Scene Defendants were likewise deliberately indifferent to Robert’s obvious need for critical medical care that could have saved his life.”
The Brooks family issued a statement after the guard pleaded guilty.
“We are grateful that the special prosecutor obtained these significant plea agreements,” said Robert Brooks Jr., the son of Robert Brooks Sr., “It is important to us to see my father’s killers publicly admit what they have done and face severe consequences.”
“These pleas help us know that some measure of justice is served,” said
Jared Ricks, a brother of Robert Brooks Sr., said the pleas “help us know that some measure of justice is served.” He said the family is eager to see the other guards held accountable at trial.
After the death, Gov. Kathy Hochul named a new superintendent for the facility. She also announced a variety of prison reforms.
Hochul has ordered 18 state employees involved in the beating to be fired. Several have resigned.
Several of the corrections officers are defendants in lawsuits alleging other cases of abuse against inmates, including one contending the Marcy prison has a “beat-up squad.”
The union representing corrections officers, the state Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association, has denounced the actions of the officers involved in the beating.
Brooks had been held in the Mohawk Correctional Facility, records show, but was moved the day of the beating to the Marcy prison. He had been transferred for his “safety,” a state prison system investigator testified, since he had been involved in altercations with other inmates.
The Marcy prison is a medium-security facility, about seven miles west of Utica.
Israeli Terrorcats Shared a Post-Genocide “Business plan” with the Trump administration to turn the Gaza Strip into a “real estate bonanza”
/Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Israel has shared a “business plan” with the Trump administration to turn the Gaza Strip into a “real estate bonanza”.
According to several Israeli news outlets, Smotrich said at an urban renewal conference in Tel Aviv on Wednesday that Israel had carried out “the first phase of urban renewal” by demolishing Gaza, and it was now working on a plan to start rebuilding it.
“We have paid a lot of money for this war. We have to see how we are dividing up the land in percentages,” Smotrich said, adding that “the demolition, the first stage in the city’s renewal, we have already done. Now we need to build.”
He added, “There is a business plan, put together by the most professional people here, that is on President Trump’s desk.”
The far-right minister said the opportunity “pays for itself,” and he has “already started negotiations with the Americans.” [MORE]
Trump is All Talk About Protecting Human Freedom: The Blight House Misses Key Deadlines for Imposing Restrictions on Gain-of-Function Research
/Biosafety hawks were initially optimistic that the incoming second Trump administration would at last place binding constraints on so-called "dangerous gain-of-function" research, in which pathogens are manipulated in laboratories to be more virulent or transmissible in humans.
The administration's picks for top health policy jobs—most notably National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—are both gain-of-function critics who have asserted that this type of research created SARS-COV-2 in Wuhan, China.
In May, the White House issued an executive order creating a broader definition for dangerous gain-of-function research and promising that new restrictions on it would be issued within a few months.
"The conduct of this research does not protect us from pandemics. There's always a danger that in doing this research, it might leak out by accident even and cause a pandemic," said Bhattacharya at the Oval Office press conference when the order was signed. With the order, "the public can say 'no, don't take this risk.'"
But the deadlines for the new restrictions called for in that order have since come and gone without any new policy being released. Meanwhile, there are indications that the NIH is continuing to fund risky virological research.
Gain-of-function critics who were optimistic that this research would finally be put back in the box are now concerned that the Trump administration will fail to implement meaningful restrictions. [MORE]
The Charlie Kirk Ministry of Truth: Proposed Law Would Allow Government to Control Speech as Trump-Bush Seeks to a Create Fear-Based Silenced Citizenry Managed by Their “Synchronized Stupidity"
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From [HERE] The proposed “Charlie Kirk Act” would give the U.S. government sweeping new powers to decide what does and does not constitute propaganda and untruth and administer penalties accordingly.
It’s probably worth flagging the fact that the president of the United States is promoting the establishment of a Ministry of Truth to restrict speech in a suggested law called the “Charlie Kirk Act.”
President Trump’s Truth Social account posted a viral video from TikTok on Saturday in which a Trump voter named Elly May blamed the assassination of Republican political operative Charlie Kirk on the press, urging the president to push for legislation which would make “news corporations accountable for lying to the American people and spreading propaganda instead of truth.”
May frames the idea as a revisitation of the Smith-Mundt Act, but then goes on to describe authoritarian measures which have nothing to do with Smith-Mundt.
“President Trump, as a supporter who voted for you 3 times, I am hoping and praying that you will revisit what Barack Obama and Joe Biden got rid of back in 2013, which is the Smith-Mundt Act, which held news corporations accountable for lying to the American people and spreading propaganda instead of truth,” May says, adding:.
“I think instead of bringing it back as a Smith-Mundt Act, you name it the Charlie Kirk Act, make it a law, and you make it damn near impossible for these people to continue to lie to the American public, which has brought chaos, hatred, division, and anarchy all across this country. Fines out their ass which will damn near bankrupt their companies should they lie to the American people ever again.”
“Because of their constant lies, a man lost his life, because of the constant hateful rhetoric of calling him a fascist, and a Nazi, and a white supremacist, and a bigot. I think this would be a great legacy for him to have a law named after him to force journalists to finally start telling the truth and having the integrity that they have lacked for over a decade.”
“We are on a dangerous path right now with the constant lies and the propaganda,” May says. “And that doesn’t end just at news journalists. It needs to go to content creators who consistently spread lies and propaganda and half-truths across the internet. This needs to end, and people need to start being held accountable for baseless claims over absolute abysmal things.”
“Get this in front of Congress, get this passed as a law, and start holding these news corporations—be they right, left or center—accountable for their behavior,” May concludes.
May has been promoting a Change.org petition to “Enact the Charlie Kirk Act to Restore Media Accountability,” which as of this writing has tens of thousands of signatures.
“This amended act will hold media outlets, radio stations, educators, and content creators accountable for the false narratives and erroneous information they spread deliberately or irresponsibly,” the petition reads, proposing heavy fines for those deemed to be in violation.
A couple of issues with this.
Firstly, the Smith-Mundt Act had nothing to do with holding “news corporations accountable for lying to the American people;” it was a Cold War-era law which prohibited official U.S. government propaganda created by institutions like the State Department and the USAGM [U.S. Agency for Global Media] from being disseminated domestically.
This law was controversially revised under the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 in the name of combatting Al Qaeda propaganda campaigns in the United States.
Returning Smith-Mundt to its original iteration would be a fine idea. American right wingers tend to make a much bigger deal about the changes made under the Obama administration than is actually warranted — anyone who remembers the lead-up to the Iraq invasion knows the U.S. government had no trouble getting immensely consequential propaganda circulating throughout the American press prior to 2013.
But anything that inhibits the U.S. government’s ability to disseminate propaganda to Americans might be somewhat helpful, and couldn’t hurt.
But that isn’t what this “Charlie Kirk Act” push is advocating. Smith-Mundt placed restrictions on what the U.S. government is allowed to do with regard to propaganda, while the proposed “Charlie Kirk Act” would give the U.S. government sweeping new powers to decide what does and does not constitute propaganda and untruth and administer penalties accordingly.
One limits the U.S. government’s ability to manipulate public information, while the other explicitly expands it. Nobody anywhere is claiming that propaganda generated by the U.S. State Department or USAGM projects like Voice of America got Charlie Kirk assassinated by calling him a Nazi; they’re talking about creating a new law to stomp out the free speech of “media outlets, radio stations, educators, and content creators.”
The other issue is of course that giving the government the authority to penalize propaganda and lies means giving the government the authority to determine what constitutes propaganda and lies.
They could decide it’s a lie to say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, for example, or that it’s propaganda to say the U.S. shouldn’t be waging a proxy war in Ukraine.
The “Charlie Kirk Act” is being pushed in the name of fighting propaganda, but it would actually be giving the U.S. government unprecedented authority over what Americans are permitted to say on any platform. [MORE]
Media Complicit as Trump Bait and Switches Freedom with FreeDumb; ‘The Regime Says one thing while doing the opposite, It Claims to Protect Freedom While Destroying It’ – Ron Paul
/From [HERE] What we are witnessing is not a government of the people, by the people, and for the people; it is a government over the people.
Call it what it is: political gaslighting—the regime says one thing while doing the opposite, and insists on the citizenry’s trust while dismantling the very checks and balances that make trust possible.
So when the powers-that-be claim to be protecting the Constitution, they’re dismantling it at every turn. In this way, the mechanisms of constitutional government—separation of powers, federalism, due process, and the Bill of Rights—are being hollowed out in plain sight.
Although this dismantling did not start with President Trump, it has accelerated beyond imagining.
What was once a slow bleed is now a hemorrhage—and it is not random. The damage is unfolding on two parallel tracks: a steady, methodical, bureaucratic erosion (rule changes, executive orders, new databases) paired with shock-and-awe surges (National Guard deployments, mass round-ups, headline-grabbing prosecutions).
The words may say “freedom” and “order,” but the deeds smack of tyranny.
Attorney General Pam Bondi vows to punish “hateful” speech even as the administration normalizes hateful rhetoric and violent imagery. Vice President JD Vance promises to “go after” those with a “leftist” ideology while preaching free-speech absolutism for allies.
The Trump administration denounces “hate speech” even as it excuses and downplays the Jan. 6 riots; pledges fiscal restraint while shoveling billions into surveillance, prisons, and domestic deployments; wraps itself in law-and-order while tolerating lawlessness by cronies; sermonizes about faith and morality while normalizing cruelty as governance; and peddles outrage over waste while spending lavishly on the trappings of office.
Rights are framed as absolute for friends and privileges for critics. That is the opposite of constitutional government, which holds everyone—especially those in power—to the same rule of law, applied evenly.
If the government can police ideas, deploy troops at home, run dragnets by algorithm, disappear people into distant prisons, build spectacle cages, and amass power in one office, then no American is safe—including those who cheer these efforts today.
If you believe in limited government, equal justice, and due process—whatever your party—these double standards should alarm you most, because the precedents being cheered today will be wielded against you tomorrow.
What follows is a running ledger of the gaslighting playbook and its constitutional costs. [MORE]
During Trump-Bush’s Unlawful, Involuntary Takeover of DC, Helicopters Hovered Over and Surveilled Law Abiding People Day and Night, Destroying Freedoms to Make Citizens Feel Safer
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During President Donald Trump’s month-long anti-crime surge in D.C., U.S. Park Police helicopters circled or hovered over the city seven times as much as they did during the same time last year, and they did so at lower altitudes, according to a Washington Post analysis of flight data. That activity accounted for about half of nearly 40 hours helicopters from local and federal law enforcement agencies spent flying in those patterns, maneuvers that frustrated and annoyed many residents who opposed Trump’s surge.
The Post analysis identified helicopters that were hovering or circling in the 30 days after the surge began on Aug. 7., and excluded those flying only from one location to another. The analysis includes only helicopters that broadcast their locations, known as an “ADS-B signal.” This signal is sometimes turned off for high-level dignitary matters or national security reasons. The Post compared helicopter activity from USPP, D.C. police and Prince George’s County police to the same period last year. [MORE]
Psyopsy: A Moving Bullet, Rubber Hands and Fake Blood; The “Charlie Kirk Show” Should be Presumed a False Flag Until Proven Otherwise. Analysis Shows Gov and Media Used CGI, Real People and Actors
/Due to the contrived nature of the evidence teh Charlie Kirk Assassination feels synthetic and should be presumed to be as a false flag operation conducted by the government and massa media until proven otherwise. If Crimethinc would create fake vaccines for the purpose of genthanasia and biocide then surely It would have no problem fake shooting this young white man who was well connected to elites. [MORE]
FUNKTIONARY explains:
false flag – staged psychological operations by government operatives and shadow elite orchestrated and perpetrated against the civilian population. False flag operations does not necessarily mean that oftentimes real people don’t die.
cover-stories – headlines that provide cover (hiding and distraction) for the real untold and undiscussed stories behind the one’s they are really (deliberately) not covering, undressing or addressing at all. 2) planted actors and/or provocateurs providing misinformation immediately after a false flag operation—like 9-11, Sandy Hook and the Boston Marathon bombing. The methodology: Sell the lie with authority, then change the subject to something emotional. For example, the cover stories about whether or not “well-intentioned” public officials (on oxymoronic characterization itself) made “mistakes” in not paying attention to obvious warnings of so-called Al-Qaida operations inside the territorial United States posed by the mock 9-11 Commission mockery. The whole thrust behind the cover-story was to specifically avoid treating the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and the fields in Pennsylvania as actual crime scenes—to avoid the contradictions in the official stories with physical evidence to the contrary, to totally ignore the blatant anomalies regarding the well-planned, orchestrated, and executed sophisticated operations (hoax) that happened and didn’t happen on that fateful day. (See: Underlying, MEDIA, Tyrant-Paradigm, Pixelated People, West-Wingers, Oklahoma City Bombing, Nine- Eleven, MEDIA NSA Position, Bush Family Crime Syndicate, Pentagon Murders, Killer-Jet, CIA, Israelians, NSA, King TUT, RUN—GMC & The OCTOCON)
Israeli Strikes Pound Gaza in Ongoing Holocaust, At Least 83 Palestinians Killed Over 24 Hours
/The Israeli military launched heavy strikes against Gaza City on Thursday as its ground forces expanded operations in the area. Israeli bombs hit near two hospitals in the city, killing 19.
Medical sources reported to Al-Jazeera that 83 people were killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours. The heaviest bombardment occurred in Gaza City, where the Israeli military was attempting to take full control.
The Israeli battle plans call for a three-phased operation. Stages one and two of the operation call for the largest ever bombing campaign in Gaza. One Palestinian in Gaza described the Israeli operations as never-ending. “There is artillery fire, airstrikes, quadcopter and drone gunfire. The bombing never stops,” they said.
Israel has ordered an evacuation of Gaza City, but residents say they have nowhere safe to go and cannot afford transportation out of the city. A Palestinian explained, “The world doesn’t understand what is happening. They (Israel) want us to evacuate south – but where will we live? There are no tents, no transport, no money.”
The armed wing of Hamas says it is prepared to fight the invading Israeli soldiers. “We are ready to send the lives of your soldiers to hell, and we have prepared for you an army of martyrs,” the group said in a statement. “Gaza will be a cemetery for your soldiers.” [MORE]
"US First?" The Blight House Is Preparing a $6 Billion Arms Package for Israel
/The White House informed Congress that it is preparing a massive arms sale to Israel, including attack helicopters and military vehicles. The weapons will be paid for with US military aid.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the total value of the weapons deal is $6 billion. The sale is $3.8 billion for 30 AH-64 Apache helicopters and $1.9 billion deal for 3,250 infantry assault vehicles.
Washington will pay for the arms with foreign military financing. The US provides Israel with at least $3.8 billion in military aid annually. Washington boosted assistance to Tel Aviv following the October 7 Hamas attack. In the first year of the Israeli onslaught in Gaza, the US sent Israel nearly $18 billion in aid. The weapons will begin arriving in Israel in two to three years.
The report of the package follows Israel’s attempt to assassinate Hamas leadership in Qatar. The strikes angered Doha, a major non-NATO US ally. Qatar has also committed to investing $1 trillion in the US economy and gifted Trump a luxury aircraft.
Additionally, the assassination attempt prevented Trump from initiating talks to end the war in Gaza and free the Israeli hostages. The strike occurred as the Hamas leadership was meeting to discuss a proposal sent by Trump. Qatar said the attempted assassination ended any chances of reaching a hostage agreement.
The White House has pushed Congressional leadership to endorse the sale even after the Israeli strike in Qatar. [MORE]
