What the Usufruct!? Rick the Wealth Coach Discusses the Thievology of How Government and Banksters Steal Your Property, Money and Labor

According to FUNKTIONARY:

thievology – the study of the application of usury by privileged commercial interests of the Corporate State in their privately owned centrally monopolized economic debt systems and its attendant affliction of suffering on the infected and victimized individual energy systems. (See: Usury, Interest, S&M Banking, “Monetized Debt,” IRS & Corporate State)

Central Banks – private-for-profiteering information and marketing companies created by the global elite and sanctioned by most Corporate States around the world where they legally reside as a means for the invisible transfer and centralization of wealth siphoned from those who produce value, goods, resources and exchange value. The imaginary debt that Central Banks create (as make-believe ‘money’ enforced by legal tender laws) and pretend to “loan” to governments and commercial banks is an ancient con game made more sophisticated over the centuries. Economist John Maynard Keynes indicated one of his books “The Economic Consequences of Peace,” that only one in a million would be able to recognize and fathom the fraud being perpetrated against the people by this insidious yet prestigious fraud. The central banksters control and wield unusurpable power by means of the great power of the purchasing media they create (“money”). The banksters control government(s) with their created money as long as the people obey the government and use it. If people ever figure out the ancient scam being perpetrated upon them the power of the central banksters over the government and commerce collapses—but in the absence of established or burgeoning alternatives, so does the lifeline of economies around the world. Realize that debt (imaginary or real) used as “money” extracts wealth from the producer to the creator of the debt (non-producer). GEO-dollars (government-edict-only) is 100% inflation itself at inception of its creation because it is imaginary demand—unearned symbolic value. (See: Gangbanking, GEO-Dollars, Monetized Debt, Usury, Interest, S&M Banking, LOAN, Inflation, Legal Tender Laws & Dollar)

Gangbanking – the legally sanctioned institution of covert slavery by the intergenerational dynastic banking families and their (pirate fraternity) member bank owners inflicted and imposed upon the subdued captured and domesticated population (dwellers upon the land) all over the world. 2) the centralization of symbolic imaginary debt in the hands of terrortorial gangsters backed by enforced by, and in collusion with an even more ruthless gang, i.e., the Corporate State. 3) the worldwide system of debt-based monetary “creation” in the form of digitized bank credit (ledger entries) stored “in” and transmitted from the memory banks of interconnected banking computer systems internetworked around the globe. Gangbanking is the system and mechanism for the international, intergenerational transmission and maintenance of global economic inequality and resource ownership and power differential. A further consequence of monopoly capitalism, state capitalism and virtual capitalism is that ownership of real assets and tangible wealth is increasingly transferred (appropriated) to banks as a whole, i.e., in the aggregate. Why should “banks” individually and collectively be allowed to collect principal and interest for merely publishing and administrating (via reciprocal clearing) our promises to “pay.” After all, the true creditor gave up property for irredeemable “notes” which are merely published by the "banking" system; and this arrangement certainly denies the true creditor interest, to take, for no more than the cost of tokenizing the debtor’s obligation, first principal equal to that of all wealth ever so financed, and secondly, to perpetually multiply that unjustified taking by interest. In re-borrowing interest, interest is converted to new principal (debt), which, because it exceeds the previous sum of debt, it is unquestionably how much debt increases. A circulation of political money subject to interest inherently and irreversibly multiplies debt in proportion to the circulation, even by inherently greater increments of periodic interest on ever greater sums of debt, until the system collapses under a sum of debt it can no longer service. Gangbanking is the plain and open fraud of officially sanctioned counterfeiting of “money” (i.e., substantive rights or actual claims on real wealth, goods, labor and services) and “lending” these imaginary intangible pretensions (as if they were discrete properties of some physical or scarce item, i.e., the misnomer of notional “real money” itself an oxymoron) at interest.

Mobster Meets w/Lobster: As Republicrats Pout About Electing a Muslim Mayor, Trump Welcomes an Al-Qaeda Leader Into the Family of Territorial Gangsters- Govt's who Commit Crimes w/ De Jure Authority

According to FUNKTIONARY:

LOBSTER – Lower Order Behavior Systems Terrorizing Everyone’s Rights. 2) Lower Order Bureaucratic Slaves Twisting Everyday Reality. A lobster is a low order behaving MOBSTER, i.e., a territorial gangster with a mindset of eat-or-be eaten. Even if you put lobsters on ice—they still come back to life. CRAB is centralized rogue authoritarian behavior.

territorial gangsters – individuals (masquerading as “the State” so-called) who skillfully use fraud, coercion, and terror to claim “jurisdiction” (so-called) over their victims who happen to be in some geographic territory. Territorial gangsters brainwash their victims (the pixelated populace) so that they will work for them not only like slaves but actually as slaves. (See: Stationary Bandits, Statutory Oppression, Jurisdiction, Allegiance, Involuntary Servitude, Slave & Tyrant-Paradigm)

“Government” – Latinized Greek (“Gubernatio” = control; and from the Latin “mente” = mind; “The control of the mind.” 2) an abstraction (hoax) created for the sole purpose of making theft respectable and mind-control acceptable. 3) the societal manifestation of mass individual psychological reversal, i.e., the statutes, regulations, agencies, and agents (so-called bureaucrats) needed to threaten and shrink one’s comfort zone. 4) a granfalloon. 5) a fiction supported by those who kill on command and steal on demand under the guise of “protecting” their victims. Government is lawlessness (monopolized violence) mindlessly respected and accepted as law (open threats); politics is the way to enable and circumvent the law. The outworking of history consistently demonstrates that government will, in spite of the Bill of Rights, arrogate all power to itself eventually, if the people don’t act to prevent it. You have rights alright, just don’t get caught exercising them, O.K.? “Government” is simply, unequivocally, and always initiation of force or coercion and nothing else. Official “government” is disorganized, politicized; centralized; canonized and revered initiation of force, but it is no less initiation of force and coercion than any unofficial singular action of the same offensive or violent content. “Government” is an abstract infinite entity acting as a possessive noun. There is not a single line in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, or any governmental document that states that a natural person will be left alone as long as she or he does not impose upon another or others. By commission and omission, all official decrees make clear that a human is regarded as owned property or resource of the god called “Corporate State.” It is controlling the lives, energy and property of others that requires coercive force and this is its sole function. Endorsing the lie of an imagined abstract collective interest supports the very concept that gives rise to all covert and overt oppression. “The government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of the way. It does not keep the country free. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.” ~Kirkpatrick Sale. The wayward notion that government redistributes wealth is widely held as sacrosanct as it is patently false. There are redistributes aspects, sure, but that’s as close as it gets. “As long as government is allowed to exist, it will everywhere keep growing and getting worse. Nearly everything that “governments” do (i.e., those with wholly symbolic roles “running” it, and who perform acts in its name) is grounded in fear. Government will cease to exist when people cease to grant it legitimacy—in other words stop believing in it, stop looking to it for solutions to problems in their lives, and stop supporting it.” ~Fred Woolworth. Government has failed at every attempt in 6,000 years of recorded history. Government atrocities—carried out by irrational functionaries, economic hit men, soldiers, diplomats, emissaries, etc., under every possible flavor or form of government—have littered the bloody pages of recorded history. Government is indisputably the greatest purveyor of murder, mayhem, genocide, exploitation, rape, forced starvation, pillage and chaos in the annals of humanity. Government does not need to be abolished; merely rendered obsolete through seeing it for what it truly is—a prime manufacturer of poverty, brutal oppression, violence, coercion, conformity and fear. The monetary genius E.C. Riegel once wrote that petitioning to government is like writing to Santa Claus. Government has created its own necessity by making people (its fictitious subject-citizens) fearful of the violence it creates by the effects of its very existence—in the form of violent criminals and external aggressors. “Government is men and women providing services on a compulsory basis; pay or get shot. To be legitimate they would have to drop their guns and provide their services on a voluntary basis. However, the moment they do so, they cease to be a government. That’s quite the conundrum.” ~Marc Stevens. Government is at the root of the cycle of violence—you run to it for protection and run from it out of fear for your life. The Slaughterhouse is to cattle as “government” is to people. “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.” –U.S. “President” Ronald ‘McDonald’ Reagan. [MORE]

Video Claims Fried Chicken from Popeyes, Chick-fil-A is Not Real Chicken but "Food Technology" that is Engineered to Harm - even the smell comes from Chemicals

Did the Vax Clot Shot Cause Deion Sanders’ Blood Clots? Hall of Famer Afflicted w/Health Issues Since Taking and PropAgendizing COVID Shots Designed to Cause Death, Cancers, Strokes, etc [Detox ASAP]

From [HERE] Video above provides information on how to Detox.

Doctors for COVID Ethics have been warning about the potential for gene-based COVID-19 “vaccines” to cause blood clots, cerebral vein thrombosis and sudden death

SARS-CoV-2 spike protein binds to the ACE2 receptor on platelets. The subsequent activation of the platelets can lead to disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), i.e., a pathological overstimulation of your coagulation system resulting in abnormal blood clotting, thrombocytopenia (low platelet count) and hemorrhaging

Research shows deaths are 14.6 times more frequent during the first 14 days after the first COVID injection among people over the age of 60, compared to those who aren’t vaccinated. Other data also show that after COVID-19 vaccines were implemented, overall death rates have, with few exceptions, increased

A key problem with all of these gene-based COVID-19 vaccines is that the spike protein itself appears toxic, and your body is now a spike protein-producing factory

Its inherent toxicity may be due to it being a prion protein. If so, we can expect these injections to cause all manner of prion diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) [MORE]

Sasha Latypova: “COVID, The military Operation that Never Stopped”

Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $966 Million to Family of Woman Whose Deadly Cancer Was Linked to Baby Powder

From [HERE] A Los Angeles jury this month ordered Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to pay $966 million to the family of a woman who died in 2021 from mesothelioma, a rare and aggressive cancer linked to asbestos exposure.

The family of California resident Mae More, who died at age 88, sued the company, alleging its talc-based baby powder products contained the asbestos that caused her cancer.

The jury ordered J&J to pay $16 million in compensatory damages and $950 million in punitive damages. It is the largest settlement yet awarded in a mesothelioma case against the company, handed down just days after a South Carolina jury rejected a similar claim.

Trey Branham, a lawyer for Moore’s family, told Reuters he is “hopeful that Johnson & Johnson will finally accept responsibility for these senseless deaths.”

Erik Haas, J&J’s vice president of litigation, said in a statement that the company plans to immediately appeal the verdict, which he called “egregious and unconstitutional.” U.S. Supreme Court rulings have generally capped punitive damages at nine times the amount of compensatory damages.

J&J maintains that its products are safe, do not contain asbestos and don’t cause cancer. However, the company stopped selling its talc-based baby powder in the U.S. in 2020, and ended global sales in 2023 after facing tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging that asbestos in the talc had caused mesothelioma, ovarian and other cancers.

It replaced the talc version of its powder with a cornstarch-based formula.

Internal memos showed that company officials worried for decades that the talc could be contaminated with asbestos, ​​and that J&J ramped up its marketing to African American womenand other high-use groups. [MORE]

Barbara O'Neill: The Childhood Vaccination Program Is Really The Childhood Poisoning Program

UN Report says Systemic Racism against Africans and People of African Descent in Criminal Justice Systems Worldwide is Pervasive [a major goal of RWS is to Put Black People into Greater Confinement]

From [HERE] Systemic racism against Africans and people of African descent in criminal justice systems around the world is pervasive and deeply entrenched, the UN International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement published a new report today.

The report identifies twelve key elements needed for criminal justice systems to eliminate racism and discrimination against Africans and people of African descent. These elements include the elimination of violations such as racial profiling or discrimination in access to bail and parole, and fundamental issues such as adequate training, the use of disaggregated data and the diversity and fair representation of Africans and people of African descent across the justice chain. Other highlighted promising practices include racial and cultural impact assessments, sentence reviews, and restorative justice measures with alternatives to incarceration.

“The overrepresentation of people of African descent in prisons and detention facilities across multiple countries is both a consequence and a symptom of systemic biases in criminal legal systems,” the report said. “Racial stereotypes falsely portraying Africans and people of African descent as inherently criminal not only influence individual decisions by police, judges and prosecutors but also distort entire justice systems.”

“The historical origins of many legal and law enforcement institutions – established during colonial rule or rooted in racially oppressive systems – continue to shape contemporary practices,” the report said. “These disparities are part of a pattern of institutional racism rooted in the enduring legacies of colonialism, enslavement and segregation.”

“All these violations are at high risk of continuing to increase in the current global context. We call on all States to implement these recommendations. We need to work together to overcome systemic racism against Africans and people of African descent in the criminal justice system,” Akua Kuenyehia, the Chair of the Expert Mechanism said.  

LA County DA Charges 13 L.A. County Employees with Stealing Over $430,000 in Unemployment Benefits

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has charged 13 Los Angeles County employees from seven different agencies with felony grand theft for stealing a combined $437,383 in state unemployment benefits between 2020 and 2023.

“As government employees, we have an obligation to uphold the public’s trust,” Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said. “When a civil servant steals from the government, that trust is broken. The scale of fraud in these cases is shocking, spanning seven different County agencies, including employees whose very job was to help the public determine whether they were eligible for public benefits. Most egregiously, these individuals allegedly claimed to be unemployed during the COVID pandemic when millions of Californians were legitimately in need of unemployment benefits. I thank Los Angeles County Auditor-Controller Oscar Valdez for his partnership and commitment to holding government employees accountable. Today, we are putting all government employees on notice: If you steal from taxpayers, you will be prosecuted.”

Each of the 13 Los Angeles County employees was charged with one felony count of grand theft and one lesser included misdemeanor offense.

While working for Los Angeles County and receiving County paychecks between 2020 and 2023, the defendants allegedly submitted fraudulent unemployment insurance claims to the California Employment Development Department in which they falsely claimed, under penalty of perjury, that they earned less than $600 per week during each two-week claim period. In fact, the employees earned more than $600 a week, making them ineligible for unemployment benefits. [MORE]

Rep Thomas Massie Claims the Capitol Police Planted the Pipe Bomb Outside the Capitol on January 6th and Implies that FBI and CIA are Covering it Up

Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) challenges the FBI’s silence regarding allegations that Capitol Police officers were involved in planting pipe bombs on January 6, 2021. Massie emphasizes the need for accountability, stating that the FBI, CIA, and Capitol Police are implicated in this controversy, and he criticizes Trump administration figures, including FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi, for their lack of response to the claims three days after the report emerged.

Massie’s remarks spotlight the intense scrutiny surrounding the events leading up to and during the Capitol riot, with forensic evidence suggesting a Capitol Police officer may have planted the explosives before resigning months later. This new information raises serious questions about the actions of law enforcement agencies and their oversight during a critical national incident, prompting a call for further investigation and transparency. [MORE]

First Steps Taken to Vote on Discharge Petition to Release Epstein Files. Blight House Probot says Supporting It "Would be a Hostile Act"

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., the conservative firebrand who's clashed with Donald Trump and other GOP leaders, filed a discharge petition Tuesday to force a floor vote compelling the Justice Department to release all the files from the Jeffrey Epstein case.

It's one of the first House actions as lawmakers return to Washington from their five-week summer recess. And the issue is sure to dominate Capitol Hill this week, as sexual abuse survivors of Epstein — the convicted sex offender who took his own life in prison in 2019 — met with key lawmakers Tuesday and plan to hold a much-anticipated news conference Wednesday.

Massie and his Democratic co-author, Rep. Ro Khanna of California, said they will begin collecting signatures for their Epstein resolution starting Tuesday. They need at least 218 signatures — half the members of the House — to force a vote, and Khanna told NBC News he is certain that all 212 Democrats will sign on, along with at least six Republicans.

If they can secure the requisite 218 signatures, there is still an additional waiting period of seven legislative days before a vote can happen. Then the House speaker has two legislative days before he must call up the measure for a vote on the floor. So, the earliest a final vote could happen would be in two weeks.

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and other GOP leaders are opposed to the push, arguing that it’s not needed because the House Oversight Committee is investigating the matter and is in the process of reviewing a tranche of Epstein records.

But the discharge petition allows a majority of the House to circumvent leadership's wishes.

A White House official commented on the discharge petition Tuesday night, saying that supporting it would be viewed as “a hostile act.” [MORE]

The IsrAlien Holocaust Only Stopped in The Spectacle: The Media Conceals Reality as Gaza Endures Daily Bombings a Month into 'Cease Slaughter'

Israel’s two-year genocide is far from over.

On the ground, Israeli attacks and the humanitarian crisis they have caused continue.

Almost daily, explosions demolish large swathes of homes across the Gaza Strip. Shelling and gunfire continue to kill and wound people, while drones hover overhead broadcasting disturbing recordings.

Meanwhile, essential food items and medical supplies remain scarce amid an ongoing Israeli siege. 

“The genocide has only stopped in the media,” said Jendiya. 

“They’ve stopped talking about it, but for us, it’s still ongoing.” [MORE]

According to FUNKTIONARY:

The Media – the Spectacle-Cabal who love freedom of the press, but abhor freedom of speech. The Media is the Fourth Estate of Government (created, owned, administered and controlled by Pathocrats). It is one of the most essential arms of “government.” They couldn’t give you their Matrix Reality without it—likewise they couldn’t keep you imprisoned in it without it. The News Anchor holds down the Ship of State at the Port of Lies. How is it that shareholders of Media conglomerates also sit as anchors and bring you their master’s views as if it could ever be objective or news? “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” ~ Malcolm X. (See: Television, Perception, MEDIA, Senses, CON, Normal, Pathocracy, NEWS, Corporate Media, Control, COG & Pixelated People)

The Spectacle – a constructed reality; the concrete inversion of life; via the autonomous movement of the apparently non-living. 2) the mirrorization of the noumenon into the phenomenal universe without understanding or overstanding it as such an objectivization in duality. The Spectacle is not a collection of images but a social relation among people mediated by images. The Spectacle is a theoretical construct—a tool for explaining many things about society; how people live vicariously through the dominant images of production, consumption and power relations. It is the thoughtforms in which people create, contemplate and consume mediated by images of what-life-is, so that they will forget how to live radically for themselves. It is the totality of images and illusions that alienate people from living, its the primary production of modern societies. It is ideology materialized. It is the social relations that are mediated by the mass media; it is what makes people apathetic and reduces them to inactivity. It is what prevents people from realizing what their collective problems are and dissolving them. It is what perpetually absorbs people into activities that prolong their misery. It is the mediated stream of unreality that channels desire-energy against itself, producing a separate world, a pseudo-world apart form one’s self-history—from all those powerful institutions of Self-actualization. It is what motivates people to live a pseudo-life in submission to products and machines, basking passively in the acceptance of oppression, to blindly do what is manifestly against their own self-interest, to pollute the land they love and the air they breathe—it is a fundamental sickness of modern societies superimposed over and aided by the “Rolebots” (clones and drones) of Corporate State. It is the mass media and the propaganda from the pure war machine and the military prison industrial police state complex. It is Doggy, the double-bind of not knowing real from unreal, (hypereal) or what you say from what you want. It is the mass objectivization and unholy marriage (union) of the Beasthood with the Syndrome, leaving people fragmented, separated, isolated, alienated, fascinated, pixelated, dilated, intimidated, exasperated, mediated, concatenated, weak, docile, dependent, submissive and uncritical. “The Spectacle is the ultimate commodity in that it makes all others possible.” ~Scott Bukatman. “Without the slightest hint of suppression or intolerance, the spectacle ensures that the appearance of real dissent precludes its real appearance.” ~Sadie Plant. (See: PIC, Commodity, Screen, Maya, Pseudolife, The Passing Show, Rolling Mirror, MEDIA, Materialism, Funktionalize, F-Prime, Meta-Frame, Naïve Realism, “Dream,” Trance, Emergency, Consumers & Doggy)

Massa' Media Complicit in US/Israel Genocide

Trump Sold the Votary on "America First" but Governs on a Neocon Agenda for His Masters: Expanding Empire in the Middle East, Nigeria, Mexico and Venezuela - Discarding MAGA Whenever a Conflict Arises

From [HERE] "I would say yeah, I think so, yeah,” Trump responded when O’Donnell asked if Maduro’s “days were numbered.” So much for “no new wars.” That was the campaign trail; there’s not much that any of us naive voters can do about it now is there? Time to buckle up, sit back, and enjoy three more unyielding years of the new neocon cinema. 

Trump’s take on Venezuela was only part of a string of interventionist comments that the 47th president made during his short interview with O’Donnell. Trump praised Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling him a “very talented guy” who wasn’t being treated appropriately. Trump added that Netanyahu is under trial, something he characterized as “very unfair,” before noting Trump and the U.S. government would “be involved” in helping Netanyahu however they could. 

That’s right. Netanyahu, a man responsible for overseeing one of the bloodiest campaigns of the modern era, is the one who is getting “very unfair” treatment. Trump made no mention of the Palestinian people or the nearly 70,000 human beings estimated to have died in the Gaza Strip since Netanyahu began his nonstop campaign of starvation and death after the Hamas attack that ruthlessly snuffed out the lives of 1,200. 

It’s worth pointing out that one wrong does not make another wrong right. Both Hamas and Israel have blood on their hands, but our president has chosen to only wash clean the blights of one fighting group while consistently attacking the other. This has made the U.S. and all 350 million of its citizens complicit in a war that is not our own. And Trump’s rhetoric has squarely placed our country on the side of the Israelis, despite public opinion running counter. “If they don't behave, they're going to be taken out immediately,” Trump said of Hamas during his 60 Minutes interview. No such comments were uttered about Netanyahu or the state of Israel. 

As Americans, our greatest battles lie here in the heartland, thousands of miles from Jerusalem, Tehran, the Gaza Strip, and the rest of the chaotic world out there. We, the people of America, have little interest spending our days debating the crimes against humanity perpetrated by Israel or Hamas or the ulterior motives of the mullahs and crown princes of the Muslim kingdoms. We have enough issues here, in Pennsylvania, Idaho, Missouri, and California. It is here, not in the Middle East, where Americans are struggling to afford rising grocery prices and unaffordable housing costs. These United States are where Trump and his administration’s aims should be focused, not between the Golan Heights and Tehran.  

And yet when asked about such apparently trivial domestic issues by O’Donnell, Trump merely waved his hand and claimed that grocery prices, despite what our eyes and pocketbooks clearly tell us, are, in fact, falling; even if they aren’t, it is all President Biden’s fault. Nice. Nothing like a healthy dose of partisanship as the winter approaches. That’ll help the Walmart caste. Such is the MAGA that we have received: a shadow of the MAGA promised. A man who probably hasn’t visited a grocery store in decades, who has his run-around help do the shopping for him, lectures the rest of us about what reality in Middle America looks and feels like. And if you think I’m exaggerating the bleak outlook on the domestic front, look no further than essentially every major pollster not named Rasmussen, all of whom are suddenly finding Trump severely underwater on most issues, especially inflation and the economy. 

In a CBS News/YouGov survey released Sunday that sampled 2,124 U.S. adults interviewed October 29–31, 2025, Trump posted personal record lows on the economy and inflation. On the economy, 62 percent of those surveyed disapprove of Trump’s handling of issues and 66 percent disapprove of his management of inflation. 51 percent of respondents said they felt “worse off” financially since Trump took office in January while only 18 percent responded that they felt “better off.” 

During an appearance with the CNN host Jake Tapper on Sunday morning, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent did little to ward off those startling numbers from CBS. “There are sectors of the economy that are in recession,” Bessent said after admitting that the U.S. economy is “in a transition period.” Bessent argued that any worrisome data is the result of the Trump administration scaling back spending from the Biden years. But data from consumer-facing stocks finds large segments of the American economy down 20 percent on the year as only the hype behind AI companies continues to drive the Dow Jones Industrial Average into record. [MORE]

Trump/Bush's Language of Confronting Evil Abroad has become a Cover for Expanding State Power, Enriching Defense Contractors and Normalizing Surveillance

From [HERE] The U.S. government says its “war on terror” protects freedom. In practice, every new intervention narrows the perimeter of freedom at home. The language of confronting evil abroad has become a cover for expanding state power, channeling public money to defense contractors, and normalizing surveillance that would have been unthinkable a generation ago. The pattern is familiar: the more expansive the mission overseas, the more elastic the constraints on government at home.

The contradiction is starkest in Gaza. U.S. officials condemn terrorism but continue to arm and shield an ally whose campaign has killed tens of thousands and devastated the territory. Humanitarian agencies report mass displacement, widespread hunger, and a crippled health system. In the diplomatic arena, Washington has repeatedly vetoed U.N. Security Council resolutions calling for an immediate ceasefire even as it advances fresh weapons packages.

This moral blind spot is not confined to one conflict. During the Cold War, Washington funneled support to the Afghan mujahideen – a decision memorialized in official records – only to confront successor movements in later decades. In Syria, Kurdish-led forces became the principal U.S. partner against ISIS even as NATO ally Turkey labeled affiliated groups terrorists and pressed military campaigns against them. Definitions shift with alliances; the underlying violence does not.

The Iranian exile group known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) offers another example of strategic elasticity. The group’s history includes attacks that killed U.S. citizens in 1970s Tehran, a fact acknowledged by U.S. government sources. Decades later, after an intense and well-funded lobbying effort, the State Department removed the MEK from its Foreign Terrorist Organization list in 2012.

Endless war feeds on fear, and fear consolidates power. Drone warfare was sold as precise and surgical, yet senior commanders themselves warned that killing civilians can be counterproductive – the “insurgent math” that every innocent death creates new enemies. The broader empirical record is mixed, but even the optimistic studies concede a pattern of backlash risks and strategic tradeoffs that should caution against routine reliance on force. [MORE]

‘Congress = the Invertebrate Branch;’ Ralph Nader says GOP Puppeticans Created a Dictatorship by Surrendering Their Powers to Trump. Do Nothing While He Commits Murders

From [HERE] Dear Majority Leader Thune and House Speaker Johnson:

Under your leaderships, the wholesale surrender of constitutional powers of Congress to the White House has been appalling. You both took oaths to defend and preserve the Constitution under Article VI. In violation of your oaths, you are destroying the Constitution by dismantling the separation of powers—a structural bill of rights to arrest executive tyranny—in favor of limitless presidential authority indistinguishable from monarchy or Der Fuhrer.

You cannot claim ignorance. Among other assertions and actions, President Donald Trump proclaimed on July 23, 2019, “Then I have Article 2, where I have the right to do anything I want as president.” If there were any doubt about Mr. Trump’s belief in lawless presidential omnipotence, it should have been dispelled by Mr. Trump’s skepticism about honoring his oath of office on May 4, 2025. During an interview with NBC News’ Kristen Welker, Trump was questioned about a potential mass deportation program. When Welker asked, “Don’t you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?” Trump responded, “I don’t know.”

On your watch, Congress has surrendered the war powers to Mr. Trump. It has surrendered the power of the purse to Mr. Trump. It has surrendered the treaty power to Mr. Trump. It has surrendered the oversight and confirmation powers to Mr. Trump. It has surrendered the power to legislate to Mr. Trump, including limitless discretion to jettison his constitutional obligation to take care that the laws be faithfully executed instead of being auctioned off to the highest bidder. Mr. Trump’s refusals to enforce the congressional ban on TikTok, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the federal prohibition on extortion, the Anti-Deficiency Act, the Hatch Act, or the Leahy Amendments are some examples of his serial violations of law. Indeed, Mr. Trump has turned the United States into a police state in which any criticism of his stewardship of our liberties is treated and prosecuted as a felony.

You both have idled as Mr. Trump has flouted the Domestic and Foreign Emoluments Clauses of the Constitution, putting the White House up for auction and lately, unlawfully paying for a giant ballroom with private contributions. You both have acquiesced while Mr. Trump has daily flouted the First Amendment’s protection of free speech and association, pressing to make American journalists echo chambers of his administration in the manner of Russian President Vladimir Putin and RT and Radio Sputnik.

Would you have acted as Mr. Trump has as President of the United States? Can you accept behavior that you would not tolerate if you occupied the White House?

You have turned Congress into a laughingstock as the Invertebrate Branch. We have no confidence that you will respond to our constitutional peril by impeaching and removing President Trump from office. Your entire careers betray the treacherous earmarks of the “summer soldier and sunshine patriot” as historians will highlight.

On July 4, 1776, nearly 250 years ago, the 56 signatories to the Declaration of Independence signed their death warrants to secure unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness under attack by King George III and his powerful military forces. President Trump has bested the King’s tyranny. He is exercising the power to assassinate any person or organization on the planet as a putative enemy of the United States. Trump’s assassinations may have started with suspected drug traffickers. His dress rehearsal was assisting Israeli assassinations throughout the Middle East. Mr. Trump has articulated no limiting principle that would preclude assassinating political opponents, active or retired, including Members of Congress. “Immunity, immunity, immunity,” in the words of Justice Sonya Sotomayor dissenting in Trump v. United States (July 1, 2024). The only uncertainty is where Members stand in the queue, unless impeachment is forthcoming by Congress without tarry. [MORE]

Trump Repeats the Myth-Information that 25,000 American Lives Are Saved for Each Boat That’s Bombed [assuming the attacks actually occurred]

From [HERE] President Trump on Wednesday claimed that for every boat the US bombs in the waters of Latin America, 25,000 American lives are saved, a blatant lie he’s used to justify the US bombing campaign in the region and push toward a regime change war in Venezuela.

“Every boat that we hit kills, think of this, if it gets through, kills 25,000 Americans plus … every time we hit a boat, we save 25,000 American lives,” the president said at the American Business Forum in Miami, Florida.

Trump and his top officials have justified the strikes and the extra-judicial executions at sea by pointing to overdoses in the United States, which, according to CDC data, killed 80,391 Americans in 2024, a decrease of 26.9% from the 110,037 deaths estimated in 2023.

The majority of the overdose deaths, 48,422, were caused by fentanyl or other synthetic opioids. While Trump has previously claimed the strikes are targeting fentanyl, the Pentagon has told Congress that all of the boats it has hit were allegedly smuggling cocaine, though the Department of War has not provided any evidence, either to the public or to Congress, to back up its claims about what the vessels are carrying.

Another false claim pushed by the Trump administration to justify the bombing campaign is the idea that the boats being targeted in the Caribbean were attempting to bring drugs to the US, but a US official has told Drop Site News that many of the vessels that have been struck “do not even have the requisite gasoline or motor capacity to reach US waters.”

A report from The Washington Post cited officials from the US and other countries who said the route the US was targeting near Venezuela is mainly used to smuggle cocaine and marijuana to Trinidad and Tobago, and from there, cocaine is shipped to Europe and West Africa.

Since the US began the bombing campaign in early September, it has blown up 17 boats, including nine in the Caribbean and eight in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, and has killed 66 people. The US has also continued its military buildup in the Caribbean, and according to The New York Times, Trump is considering several options for launching a war with Venezuela. [MORE]

Senate Votes Down Resolution to Block Trump from Starting a War With Venezuela

From [HERE] The Senate on Thursday rejected a resolution to stop President Trump from launching an attack on Venezuela without authorization from Congress.

The resolution, led by Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Adam Schiff (D-CA), failed to pass the chamber by a vote of 49-51, with just two Republicans, Paul and Lisa Murkowski (AK), supporting the bill.

Ahead of the vote, Trump administration officials were telling lawmakers that they currently didn’t have plans to bomb Venezuela, part of a strategy to discourage Republicans from supporting the War Powers Resolution. According to CNN, during the briefings, Trump officials still didn’t rule out potential future military action.

The Trump officials also said they currently lacked a legal justification to launch strikes on land in Venezuela, but a US official told CNN that the administration is seeking one from the Justice Department and doesn’t plan to ask Congress for authorization, a clear violation of the Constitution, which requires congressional approval for the Executive to launch a war.

President Trump has sent mixed messages on the potential for a war with Venezuela, and according to The Wall Street Journal, he has expressed reservations over the idea of launching strikes on the country. But the massive US military buildup in the Caribbean continues as a US aircraft carrier and its strike group are on their way to the region, and the administration has continued its illegal bombing campaign against alleged drug-running boats.

The New York Times reported on Tuesday that President Trump is considering potential major escalations that could lead to a full-blown war with Venezuela. They include bombing military targets inside the country, sending special operations forces to kill or capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, or sending a much larger force to capture airfields and oil infrastructure. [MORE]