Your government is doing things in your name that you don't know about. Marine. Naval Academy. Desert Storm veteran. I have receipts.

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Congress just dishonored every American veteran. I served in the U.S. Marine Corps. I dedicated years of my life to this country, our way of life, and our beliefs. I lost friends. I watched wives hold their babies and choke back tears at my friends' funerals. For that sacrifice, our country recognizes service members. They can proudly say "I served" and carry the title of Veteran. Now Congress wants to grant that same recognition to service in a foreign military, for the sole benefit of that foreign country, in an ongoing military action being investigated for war crimes against civilians. That cheapens every veteran's sacrifice. It undermines the honor of military service. And it dishonors this country. Repost this. Americans need to know. Veterans need to know. The families of service members and veterans need to know. And Congress needs to know we are not ok with this.
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If you get the opportunity, Watch 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫. I did. Even if you think you know what is going on in Gaza, you will be shocked. Forget the propaganda and the arguments about who was where first, or 10/7, or 10/6, or 1948, etc. etc. ad nauseum. Just see what is being done today, and ask yourself if you agree with that. This is the real character litmus of our times. Many people will choose not to see it because once you do, you can't claim you didn't know. And once you know, if you do nothing, you tacitly support what is happening and you are complicit. It's easier to just not know, but it's also cowardly. American Doctor | Official Website |
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Trump signed an executive order in September designating Antifa a domestic terrorist organization. Antifa has no leader, no membership roster, no bank account. It's not an organization. It's a label. Three days later, a separate directive spelled out what actually counts as terroristic now: anti-capitalism, anti-Christianity, opposing the current administration, holding views on family and morality the government doesn't share. None of that is violence. All of it is now on the list. I flew CH-53s in a war against people who actually planted bombs. This isn't that. This is a government defining which beliefs are dangerous based on their party. What happens when the party in power changes again and they redefine the list, and it's your beliefs on the list?
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Which worries you more? 50 Joint Staff officers and civilian officials were polygraphed polygraphed in August, over leaks that U.S. munitions stockpiles were running thin from arming Ukraine and fighting Iran. This isn't Hegseth's first polygraph tantrum. In 2025 he screamed at Adm. Christopher Grady, "I'll hook you up to a f---ing polygraph," over a leaked Musk briefing. His own aides then ran polygraphs on Pentagon colleagues this spring, at least one without Hegseth's knowledge, to undercut internal rivals, not to catch leakers. Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican, has publicly called Hegseth's management destructive and asked Trump to reconsider his position. The leak itself was accountability journalism. Congress and the public learned the U.S. is burning through a finite category of weapons faster than anyone was told. The response to that leak has been fifty polygraphs, a chairman exempted, and a pattern of loyalty tests dressed up as counterintelligence. So, which worries you more: the government hiding how fast it's running out of weapons, or the Defense Secretary running lie detectors on people who tell you it is?
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Ever wonder what $104 Million could buy? AIPAC and its super PAC spent $104.3 million in this election cycle, so apparently that is what controlling congress costs. Yesterday the House paid back their benefactors using your rights as currency. The House passed a bill that strips all federal aid from any university that boycotts Israel, and here's what that actually means. You can organize a boycott against Ford. Against Bud Light. Against Target. Against any American company, against any American state, against any other country on this earth, or even against the United States itself, and the First Amendment protects your right to do so. The Supreme Court in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware said so unanimously in 1982. But if you try that against Israel while touching one dollar of federal money (your tax money), Congress just voted to take that dollar back. No other country gets this. Not Russia. Not Saudi Arabia. Not China. One country in the world has a federal law built specifically to punish American institutions for boycotting it. That's what $104 million buys. The Constitution doesn't have a carve-out for foreign policy lobbies, but our Congress just wrote one anyway. I would ask: “whose interests is that bill actually protecting?” but that is pretty obvious. Instead I’ll ask, how long do we keep letting other countries buy our politicians and allow our rights to be subordinated?
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Canada just spent $500 million to lure 48 researchers from Harvard, Yale, MIT, and UMass. They aren't immigrants fleeing poverty. They're tenured professors fleeing their home. Scientists don't run from strength. They run from rot they can see before the rest of us can. 64 scientists total. 48 American. 21 Canadian universities cashing in on research this country trained and funded for decades. Germany's top scientists ran the same way in the 1930s. They didn't leave because Germany got poor. They left because they saw what was coming before everyone else did. Einstein left in 1933. Most of the country didn't understand what was happening until 1939. 64 just ran. Is anyone paying attention?
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Israel just threatened to retaliate against Britain for objecting to new illegal settlements. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar told Israeli media this week: "If Britain acts against the State of Israel, the State of Israel will act against Britain." Israel announced E1, 1,234 illegal housing units as part of a larger 3,401-unit project. E1 would connect Ma'ale Adumim to Jerusalem and cut the West Bank in two. No corridor, no contiguous territory, no two-state solution possible...forever. UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband called it a threat to the two-state solution and promised sanctions within weeks. Prime Minister Andy Burnham called it a red line. Britain isn't a hostile power, and has given Israel decades of diplomatic cover second only to that which the U.S. gave them. Israel's answer to a policy objection from an ally was a threat. Friends that are only friends when you agree with them aren't friends. They're users. The pattern is clear. How long until they openly turn on the U.S.?
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Propaganda isn't even hiding anymore. It's getting applause. Orwell gave us a warning: 'Who controls the past controls the future.' Pompeo just said it out loud as a strategy.
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Full video from Pompeo speaking at the MirYam Institute's Israel Security Briefing on January 13, 2026 A CONVERSATION WITH SEC. MIKE POMPEO — The MirYam Institute
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Michael T. Lester retweeted
Netanyahu appeals to Israeli voters by boasting that he manipulated Trump: “it took a long time to get the US to come to its senses” but I finally got it to attack Iran due to my “influence” over its leaders through “1000 hours on American television”
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History is interesting because it is like watching the same movie plot with different actors and a different set. The storyline is the same and you know what's going to happen. You're just curious to see how they portray it. Iran, 1953 Guatemala, 1954 Chile, 1973 Panama, 1989 Iraq, 2003 Libya, 2011 Venezuela, 2026 Plot synopsis : Leader resists U.S. terms on a resource 🡪 Leader gets recast domestically as a criminal, dictator, or security threat, usually regarding something other than the wanted resource 🡪 Military or covert action removes them 🡪 The U.S. installs a friendlier, more subservient successor 🡪 The new government signs the resource deal the predecessor wouldn't.
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Venezuela already finished the sequel. Nicolás Maduro was captured January 3, not deposed, captured, and shipped to New York on narcoterrorism charges the DOJ built around a cartel label. Delcy Rodríguez took over as interim president. Three days ago she signed the deal: 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil, a 25-year project, and $19 a barrel flowing back to Caracas while a U.S.-controlled joint venture keeps the rest. Marco Rubio called it a win for both countries. Watch the movie again and tell me which country wins more.
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If you haven't seen this one yet, read Perkins' book "Confessions of an Economic Hitman," or mine, "We Are the Bad Guys." Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
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I told you Iran was next. I told you Turkiye was after that. Watch it happen in real time. Israel just bombed an airbase in Idlib, on the Turkish border, over a Turkish troop movement US intelligence says never happened. Syria. Lebanon. Iraq. Iran. Now Turkiye. Netanyahu wants a superpower. He is going to force Washington to choose between a NATO ally and Israel. It will not be pretty.
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Canada announced its retaliation Tuesday. Steel and aluminum tariffs double to 50%. New duties hit dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, electronics, close to $20 billion worth of American goods, effective September 8. Carney called it a war. His finance minister called it fairness. Somewhere in Pittsburgh, a steel executive is having a good year. His counterpart in Hamilton, Ontario, is about to have one too, because Canada just doubled the tariff protecting Canadian steel from American steel. The Federal Reserve studied what happens next. Aaron Flaaen and Justin Pierce tracked the 2018-2019 tariffs industry by industry. Steel and aluminum tariffs protected steelmakers. They also cost the broader manufacturing sector 75,000 jobs, net, after counting whatever the steel industry gained. The China tariffs cost another 230,000 manufacturing jobs, mostly through the input costs paid by companies that use steel and aluminum to build things. Carmakers. Appliance makers. Construction. Every company downstream of a protected industry pays more for a basic input and either eats the margin or passes it to you. Now do that twice. Once for the American company that buys Canadian steel. Once for the Canadian company that buys American electronics. Carney already admitted it out loud: the retaliation "will raise costs and reduce choice for Canadians." Nobody on either side of this border is disputing what it costs. They're just deciding who to blame for it. Tariffs aren't free. Someone always pays. Spoiler: it's the buyer, not the seller. This time it's Canadian wine drinkers, American car buyers, dairy farmers on both sides, and every small manufacturer that needed steel and aluminum before this started. Who's it working for?
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Propaganda is a science. I wrote 2,700 words on how it works. This week Israel gave me a case study. Its government just quadrupled its public diplomacy budget to $730 million for 2026, up from $150 million the year before. That's more than Iran's entire annual military budget of $7.4 billion could buy in propaganda if Iran spent a tenth of it trying. It's within reach of what Qatar spends running Al Jazeera worldwide, an entire global news network. The US gives Israel $3.8 billion a year in security assistance. $730 million is roughly a fifth of that number. To be precise, because precision matters here: the hasbara budget doesn't come out of the US aid check. It's allocated from Israel's own state budget. That distinction matters and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. But money is fungible. When one government guarantees you $3.8 billion a year, every year, it frees up your own budget to do other things. Things like spending three-quarters of a billion dollars explaining yourself to the people paying for your weapons. A named budget line inside that spend, reported at over $40 million, is aimed specifically at Republican and Christian audiences in the United States. Israeli researchers say the effort is focused heavily on the White House. You're not imagining it. You're the target market.
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Florida built an ICE detention center that was nicknamed "Aligator Alcatraz." From that, Ben G'vir thought it would be a good idea to build a mote around a Palestinian prison and fill it with alligators The israeli courts halted the plan... Because it might harm the alligators!
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Why do seemingly intelligent people believe things that are obvious lies? That question bothered me for years. Smart people. Educated people. People I served with. So I researched it. The answer: they are not stupid. They are unprotected. Propaganda is a science. It is about a hundred years old, the research is public, and the people using it on you know exactly what they are doing. It is running right now. On September 18, 2025, Trump's former campaign manager registered as a foreign agent for Israel. FARA registration #7649. The contract: $1.5 million a month, 100 pieces of content a month, 50 million impressions a month, and a pledge to influence what ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini tell you. The target was not a foreign adversary. It was the political base of a sitting American president. I wrote an article that traced the hundred years of science behind operations like this one that explains it all and explains why you and I are the target, and how it works. What lie did you used to believe?
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Propaganda works because it doesn't feel like propaganda. It feels like news. Like common sense. Like something you figured out yourself. The techniques haven't changed in a century because they don't need to. Engineering consent. Repetition. The firehose of falsehood. Appeal to authority. Fear. It's always the same playbook because it always works. Want to understand how it's being used on you right now? Full article at the link above.
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This isn't theoretical. It's happening right now. On September 18, 2025, Trump's former campaign manager registered as a foreign agent. For Israel. FARA registration #7649. $1.5 million a month. 100 pieces of content a month. A pledge of 50 million impressions a month. And a commitment to influence what ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini tell you. The target: the political base of a sitting American president. That's section five of the article. The filings are endnotes 28 through 30.
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