TRUTH?

Truth is the first victim of war, as the adage goes. Truth tellers are perhaps the first victims of a corrupt injustice system. Julian led the way. Recently Scott Ritter was targeted. Richard Medhurst was arrested as a terrorist in the UK this week for telling the truth about Palestine. Last week Judge Nap was kicked off YouTube for something Pepe said. Tulsi is on the terror watch list. Telegram founder Pavel Durov was arrested in Paris for allowing free speech on his platform. The censorship industrial complex has jumped the shark of late, and narrative control is the goal.

Today's theme is courtesy of Neil Oliver...

‘… a world where the truth is nothing more than whatever the powerful say it is!’ (18 min)
It is 1984 isn't it...complete with two minutes of hate ...directed at Putin, China, Trump...

Ray gives an excellent history of the Russiagate lie which many continue to believe.

Ray McGovern: How Much REAL Expertise on Russia Exists in the West Today? (57 min)

Alex explains TPTB are still using the Russian election interference again! Link cued to the topic. (4 min or so)

Beyond McCarthyism: FBI Promises Continued Crackdown on US Journalists, Dissidents
Civil liberties are under assault in the United States as authorities target contributors to Russian media, suggesting Russiagate will play a prominent role during a third consecutive US presidential election cycle.

Those who attempt to tell the truth are targeted...
Kafka with consequences (12 min)

Journalist Richard Medhurst was bundled off a plane, locked up and denied access to brief or family under the UK terror laws. And he still doesn’t know what he’s meant to have done.

Chris Hedges: My Thoughts on the Arrest of Richard Medhurst

When it comes to war, the lies fly and truth is sacrificed.

The big Ukraine war news involves Ukraine's invasion into Kursk Russia.

President Vladimir Putin has decided on how to respond to Kiev’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region and everyone responsible will undoubtedly be punished, Moscow’s Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov told journalists on Thursday.
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Russia’s Defense Ministry has reported that the incursion has effectively been halted and, while Kiev’s troops still hold a number of territories in the region, they have been experiencing heavy casualties throughout the fighting. Moscow has estimated Ukrainian losses at some 4,700 servicemen as well as hundreds of pieces of heavy weaponry, including 68 tanks, since the start of the incursion.

Pepe discusses the invasion...

Analyst Pepe Escobar exposes the truth about Ukraine's Kursk Offensive and how Putin has laid a carefully constructed trap for Ukraine's Army that has both Kiev and its NATO backers scrambling for a cover up. This video breaks down the major questions of a critical moment in the Russia-Ukraine war, and the critical information needed to answer them.

Scott has his views as well...(33 min)

Russia Unleashes Fury: Kursk Offensive DEVASTATES Ukraine – No More Holding Back! | Scott Ritter

Col Douglas Macgregor also weighs in on the incursion...

Ukraine BufferZone in Kursk? Disaster Awaits (52 min)
He was also with Judge Nap this week...
Col. Douglas Macgregor : Did the US Invade Russia?

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson : Can Ukraine Hold Out Until Election Day? (24 min)

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : US Government in Search of Enemies

I found this to be an excellent interview and analysis...

Martin Armstrong: Why the US Can’t Stop Obsessing Over Russia - The Shocking BRICS vs G7 Showdown!(1.1 hour)
A comment from below the clip -
I’m surprised YouTube hasn’t taken this video down. It’s absolutely mind boggling and eye opening. I watch a lot of this channel, in addition to judge Nap.
This is one hell of a video Nima!

This is also a good interview:
US elections and economic policy /w Chris Martenson (90 min)

Slow Motion Crash: De-dollarization Continues as States Ditch the USD & Trade in Local Currencies (10 min)

"This is the SCARIEST part of America's Economy" US Dollar Collapse Coming (15 min)

As I've often suggested the collapse of the USD might prevent WWIII.

SW Asia...the torture and genocide continue
Ray tells story on Chas Freeman's background in a clip above. I find his level headed analysis insightful.

Charles Freeman : Will Zionists Destroy Israel? (25 min)

EXPOSED: Netanyahu’s TERRIFYING US War Plan (10 min)

David Hearst is editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye

Israel's Unimaginable Defeat: Iran & Hezbollah Bring the Endgame No One Expected! |
Scott Ritter (30 min)

Larry C. Johnson: Israel Falling Apart?! Russia’s Move to Wipe Out Ukraine in Kursk! (35 min)

Are the Israelis fascists?
Dire Warnings As Israel's Fascists Have Taken Over The Rein
Israel may well become a victim of its genocide.

Israeli Expulsion Decrees Disrupt Last Gaza Aid Hub

The Selection Circus

Why Kamala Harris Won’t Sit For An Interview
The US media has once and for all proven that it is in the pocket of the Democratic Party. It continues to fawn over the greatly flawed Kamala Harris while the presidential candidate has steadfastly refused to do interviews or press conferences for weeks. Taking the lead in this media-backed coup d’état is Time magazine, whose latest issue features a powerful portrait of Kamala Harris on the cover bearing the glowing caption “Her Moment.” Unfortunately, it wasn’t ‘her moment’ for a little chat with the media, although it was certainly the perfect opportunity. In one of the only lines of criticism against Harris in the 3,000-word puff piece, Time writer Charlotte Alter admitted that “Harris has yet to do a single substantive interview or to explain her policy shifts.” Shockingly, Harris even refused a single comment to Time, despite offering gratuitous promotion of the vice president.

The 2024 DNC In 2 Words – ‘Not Trump’
Objectively, if prediction sites can be trusted in any way (perhaps more so than biased polls), the last four days of speeches, musical performances, and delegate celebrations were a ‘failure’ of sorts for the Democratic Party as during the DNC, Kamala Harris odds of success in November dropped while Trump’s improved (though we note the incumbent VP remains a favorite)… Perhaps, ‘we the people’ realized that the goal of the whole week was for party lawmakers, community leaders, past presidents, and cultural figures to convince Americans that Kamala Harris is not Joe Biden… and has not been in The White House for the last almost-four-years… is the not the lowest-approval-rated VP in history… and is not in any way responsible, or tied to any of the policies that left the vast majority of Americans questioning the direction of the country just a week or two before the mainstream media anointed her ‘Mamala’

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CIA Endorses Harris as Democrats Promise More War, Foreign Intervention
A former chief of the controversial intelligence agency voiced his support for the vice president at the Democratic National Convention Thursday. US Vice President Kamala Harris signaled she would continue her predecessor’s hawkish foreign policy in Gaza and Ukraine Thursday as an ex-CIA director publicly endorsed the Democratic presidential candidate. “As president I will stand strong with Ukraine and our NATO allies,” Harris declared during her acceptance speech, voicing strong support for Kiev’s US-backed proxy war against Russia. Former intelligence chief Leon Panetta also delivered a speech praising Harris during which the controversial figure claimed he was “proud” to have served in the US Army and CIA director. US military aggression throughout the Middle East during the so-called “War on Terror” is estimated to have caused the deaths of at least 4.5 million people while the CIA has been implicated in numerous human rights violations.

End of Hoaxes
So, the deed is done now. The odious “Joe Biden,” fake president, is dumped in the ditch of history, and a mighty operation is mounted to put over Veep Kamala Harris, who ignored “JB’s” incapacity to head the US government for four years, carrying out no duties meanwhile, hiding from the public, answering nothing, going nowhere, abetted by a treasonous news media bent on hiding her as she drank away the months in the old Naval Observatory. The conventions are over and the contest is on. Have you heard enough of their fake war-cry: “defending our democracy?” From a party that has tortured the law to jail and silence its critics and scrape its challengers off every ballot. The pretense is perfect. Their “democracy” is actually a colossal “spoils” system — to the victor goes the spoils! — a grotesque political machine funneling trillions of federal dollars to their client voter groups, and especially to the non-profit orgs and NGOs that form a sinister secondary bureaucracy accountable to nobody.

I Throw My Support Behind Donald Trump – RFK Jr
“Democrats have become the party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big ag, and big money wanting to abandon democracy by canceling the primary to conceal the cognitive decline of the sitting president. I left the party to run as an independent… The DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for VP Harris based upon nothing. No policies, no interviews, no debates. Only smoke and mirrors.””A Chicago circus that is based on NOTHING. Who needs a policy if you hate Donald Trump?” “How did the Democratic Party choose a candidate that has never done an interview or debate during the entire election cycle?” Kennedy asked. “We know the answer: They did it by weaponizing the government agencies. They did it by abandoning democracy. They did it by suing the opposition and by disenfranchising American voters.
“... we are aligned with each other on other key issues like ending the forever wars, ending the childhood disease epidemics, securing the border, protecting freedom of speech, unraveling the corporate capture of our regulatory agencies, getting the US intelligence agencies out of the business of propagandizing and censoring and surveilling Americans and interfering with our elections.” “Suspending my candidacy is a heartrending decision for me. But I’m convinced that it’s the best hope or ending the Ukraine War and ending the chronic disease epidemic that is eroding our nation’s vitality from the inside and for finally protecting free speech.” “I feel a moral obligation to use this opportunity to save millions of American children above all things.”

Robert Kennedy Jr.’s highly anticipated speech on Friday was much more than the third-party candidate bowing out of the race and endorsing Trump. Kennedy laid waste to the deep state, big pharma, big food, the military-industrial complex, Democrat censorship, and how most, if not all, of these institutions may be working together for sinister reasons. Kennedy apologized for taking the stage 40 minutes late and then immediately jumped into action. “I attended my first Democratic convention at the age of 6 in 1960, and back then, the Democrats were the champions of the Constitution, of civil rights,” Kennedy stated. “The Democrats stood against authoritarianism, against censorship, against colonialism, imperialism, and unjust wars. We were the party of labor, of the working class. The Democrats were the party of government transparency and the champion of the environment.
Our party was the bulwark against big money interests and corporate power. True to its name, it was the party of democracy. As you know, I left that party in October because it had departed so dramatically from the core values that I grew up with.” That was the nicest thing Kennedy would say of his former party. “It had become the party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big AG, and big money. When it abandoned democracy by canceling the primary to conceal the cognitive decline of the sitting president, I left the party to run as an Independent.”

Jimmy has a couple of good clips about the RFK campaign suspension in swing states.

RFK Jr. SUSPENDS Campaign & Endorses Trump! (18 min)

Did you see RFK's short speech at the Trump rally in AZ?

Crowd Goes Nuts For RFK Jr. At Trump Rally!! (29 min)

Will it make a difference? RFK's endorsement may add a percent or two to Trump, and that might be enough to get him over the line. Much depends on the honesty of our election. Too bad US elections are less secure than Venezuela's. We'll see what we see.

Did you Catch who RFK Jr Said was Advising Donald Trump Now!!!? — Calley Means! The SISTER of Casey Means, who was Recently on Tucker Carlson's Show (2.3 hours)
Calley & Casey Means: How Big Pharma Keeps You Sick, and the Dark Truth About Ozempic and the Pill
If you did not watch that interview, you have done yourself a disservice… this woman, her sister, brother, along with RFK Jr are going to END CHRONIC ILLNESS in America!
• Less than two hours after Donald Trump was shot, he contacted RFK Jr and asked to enlist RFK Jr in his administration to tackle the Chronic Disease Epidemic… “and OTHER SUBJECTS”…
• Calley Means has been advising RFK Jr for a long time.. RFK Jr said he was surprised to learn that Calley Means was ALSO advising Donald Trump.
• RFK Jr met with Trump a few times, and discovered they aligned on more issues than not.
—— Trump recommended they join as a unity party, and they spoke about Abraham Lincoln’s team of Rivals…
“That arrangement would allow us to agree publicly, privately, and furiously if need be…”

RFK Jr. & Trump To End War On Small Farms, Save Nation’s Food Supply Chain
Between RFK Jr’s special announcement earlier Friday and his speech at Trump’s packed campaign rally in Glendale, Arizona, the liberal with millions of supporters nationwide appears to have made a deal with Trump to join the campaign with a shot at waging war against corrupt federal health and food agencies, resetting the nation’s poisonous food supply chain, and launch a crusade against big pharma if the Trump team wins in November. RFK Jr. informed journalists at his special press conference in the early afternoon of Friday that America’s health crisis stems from ultra-processed foods pushed by giant food/pharma companies that have corrupted various federal agencies: “Autism rates were about one in 10,000 in my generation – in my kids Generation 1 in 34. I’ll repeat in California 1 and 22. Why are we letting this happen? Why are we allowing this to happen to our children? These are the most precious assets that we have in this country, how can we let this happen to them.
About 18% of American teens now have fatty liver disease, that’s like one out of every five – that disease when I was a kid only affected late stage alcoholics who were elderly. Cancer rates are skyrocketing in the Young and the old young. Adult cancers are up 70 79%. One in four American women is on anti-depressant medication. About 40% of teens have a mental health diagnosis and 15% of high schoolers are on Aderall, and half a million children on SSRIs. So what’s causing this suffering? I’ll name two culprits first and the worst is ultra-processed food. About 70% of American children’s diet is ultra-processed that means industrial manufacturing – these Foods consist primarily of processed sugar, ultra-processed grains, and seed oils. Scientists who, for many of them, formerly worked for the cigarette industry, which purchased all the big food companies in the 1970s and 80s, deployed thousands of scientists to figure out chemicals new chemicals to make the food more addictive, and these ingredients didn’t exist a 100 years ago.

I've advocated for local grown food most of my life. Those that regularly read this column know I think what we eat determines our health and the USDA recommendations are very misleading. Just look at America's health outcomes.

Pharma, Food and Big Ag: Working Against Your Health
Big Food, Pharma and Medicine have all failed in their responsibilities to be good and caring entities. They have knowingly conspired to make people chronically addicted and sick. They have specifically targeted children too in their quest to create life-time customers for their crap products and symptom-masking services.

Here's how I think we get out of this mess...replicate farms like this across the country...

The Farm That Inspired a Food Revolution (Polyface Farm) - 57 min

Joel Salatin is a name that everyone knows in the homestead, small, regenerative farm space. He has been in magazines and articles, countless videos, and written many books. But I was curious, what's the difference between homesteader and farmsteader? After a walk down memory lane where I learn just how Polyface was built, I get to ask him my most pressing question. But his answer might surprise you.

Joel has his own channel as well...
Farm Like A Lunatic with Joel Salatin

The danger I see is the stifling of ideas and conversation through censorship, suppression, and outright arrest of those who speak wrongthought.

Are we to the point where discussing the "truth" is illegal. It's the ministry of truth propaganda or jail? Without honest conversation, gathering real data, airing differences of opinion, and exchanging view points there is no chance of discovering "truth". That's the beauty of this community...all ideas are allowed and discussed. The track record of this community on COVID, wars, elections and so on have been more accurate than most sources.

I hope you'll keep the conversation going in the comments below!