COMMENTARY / OPINION
Mysterious drones, ‘loose nukes,’ and baseless viral takes JORDAN SCHACHTEL
There is a worldwide epidemic of people without the slightest ability to reason and think rationally.
DEC 16, 2024 – Social media is ablaze with speculation about the apparent mysterious drones flying over New Jersey and elsewhere in the U.S., with some coming to truly bombastic conclusions to explain the situation.
One such commentator, a Kansas resident named John Ferguson, who runs a company named Saxon Unmanned, submitted an explosively viral take on the drone incidents. His video, originally uploaded to TikTok, received hundreds of millions of views across several platforms after it was shared by Joe Rogan, Shawn Ryan, and several other popular commentators. Because of that, it was picked up by lots of media outlets.
I’ll upload it independently below so that you can follow along with me:
After watching the video, I came away shocked and appalled.
Shocked and appalled that so many people would buy into this laughably inconsistent and entirely unsourced narrative of events.
There is a worldwide epidemic of people without the slightest ability to reason and think rationally.
Let me share my thought process with you.
Ferguson begins by establishing his credibility. He runs a company in Kansas called Saxon Unmanned, which, on its webpage, claims to be a “leading solutions provider for unmanned and autonomous remote system technologies for the government, energy, infrastructure, agriculture, and private industry.” Now, after a quick search, it became unclear if Ferguson had any contracts with the government. And he runs a very small shop, with most sites listing him as having fewer than five employees. Nonetheless, he established some semblance of credibility because this is his bread and butter.
Now, he gets right into the meat, which is his claim that there is a missing nuclear “warhead” in the United States.
Wow! That’s a big statement.
Some background: There have long been general concerns about “loose nukes” during the post-Soviet period (a 40-year-old issue), but there is no evidence of his claim that “80 nukes” went missing from Ukraine. He also brings up the notion that this is some kind of ploy to hook us into war with Russia, further complicating everything. For people who can reason, Ferguson’s loose speculation and politicization of what should be a major national security issue should light up major red flags in your head.
It gets even more flimsy.
Ferguson then claims he spoke to “a gentleman” (who does not get a name. RED FLAG) with access to high levels of government. This “gentleman” has told Ferguson, Ferguson says, that the government ignores him. Ferguson says that the “gentleman” has “physically touched” a warhead leftover from Ukraine and that the nuke is being shipped (?) from Ukraine to the United States.
Now, the story is a total mess. Ferguson doesn’t even have first-hand knowledge. And his source remains unnamed.
Bonus info: There are no nuclear warheads in Ukraine, so the geopolitically astute would poke more holes in the story right away. Ukraine agreed to dissolve its nuclear program over 30 years ago.
To recap, Ferguson has no first-hand information. He is unaware that Ukraine doesn’t have any nukes. And we have to trust him that his source is not your local conspiratorial pharmacy tech at CVS.
And speaking of “warheads,” Mr Ferguson is constantly referring to the apparent missing weapon in this fashion. The warhead is the part that contains the explosive mechanism. However, a warhead needs to be mounted on a delivery system to work. Is the delivery system also part of this apparent Ukrainian or Biden plot to throw America into a war with Russia?
Ferguson continues the brain cell eliminator that is his TikTok tale. To back up his scorching hot takes, he baselessly claims nukes went missing a few years ago in Colorado, and they were traveling on a major highway and that drones were looking for the nukes. He does nothing to substantiate this claim.
The self-proclaimed drone expert then pivots to the idea that drones have “no reason to be in the air at night” unless you’re doing military recon work. Again, it’s a completely silly and irrational take. Drones are accessible to anyone with $100 in their bank account. And let me tell you, as someone from New Jersey, we love to troll people for no reason.
The screed is not over. The Kansas man declares that drones have “special sensors that can detect radioactive material.” But so do other devices that are more useful than drones. If a nuke was missing in Jersey, you better believe that they wouldn’t just be flying around drones at night, and only at night, with the hopes of recovering the material.
Ferguson then brings us back to “this gentleman” who says a rogue nuke warhead “left Europe, and now it’s gone” into the continental United States. If only we knew the identity of this all-knowing “gentleman.”
So, based on this conspiracy, he concludes that the drones are “trying to smell something” on the ground, aka, the rogue nuke that somehow found its way to America and got lost in Jersey.
Again, I came away stunned that so many people believe the absolute nonsense coming out of this man’s mouth. His credibility is suspect. His “evidence” is non-existent. He has no first-hand knowledge. All of the information he is supposedly relaying is sourced to an anonymous “gentleman.”
“But Jordan, what is your take on the mysterious drones?”
I’m not sure, but I sure as heck know that there’s nothing credible about the “loose nuke in Jersey” case.
It’s time to make America rational again.
Innovation & Safety Are Products of Open Source REBECCA FINLAY, MARK SURMAN
AUG 14, 2024 Tech Policy Press
Rebecca Finlay is CEO of the Partnership on AI and Mark Surman is President of Mozilla.
Once a niche topic in research labs, AI applications are now in the hands of millions across the globe. With the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, generative AI captured the attention of the public, policymakers, and the business community like few technologies before it. Although the exact impacts of generative AI and foundation models on the economy and society are unclear, what is indisputable is that AI in all its forms has already deeply permeated our lives, from how we work and learn to how we entertain ourselves at home.
But while the public has marveled at the growing capabilities of generative AI, there has been a larger debate unfolding over the future of AI and whether the technology should be open or closed. As arguments abound over the risks and benefits of building a technology as important as AI in the open, it is important to remember that today’s AI era would not have been possible without open publication of AI research: the transformer method that undergirds the performance of today’s generative AI applications was published in a 2017 industry paper made accessible to all and not as proprietary intellectual property.
Recognizing the potential impact of AI, the Biden administration released an Executive Order (EO) to drive action on AI across the United States federal government. The EO directs more than 100 actions across dozens of federal agencies, including one which required the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to examine the benefits and the risks associated with making foundational AI models open and widely available.
On July 30, NTIA released its report on AI openness, covering different scenarios, risks, and benefits. Based on the collected evidence, the report shows that the government should keep supporting an open AI ecosystem. It also suggests creating a system to gather important information for making future decisions on AI as it evolves.
We believe the next administration should not only follow NTIA’s recommendations to keep AI open, but also take additional actions that promote open innovation and ensure that the benefits of AI are shared widely across America, not just in coastal tech hubs. First, the government should protect citizens’ privacy and act to reduce the online harms of synthetic media on vulnerable populations. Second, articulate a vision to build and invest in an AI infrastructure that serves the public interest. This includes a commitment to publicly funded research to apply AI to the world’s most challenging questions. It also means providing increased access to computing power and open, high-quality datasets. Third, invest in citizens and communities through worker protections, media literacy and skills development.
These actions would create an opportunity to shift the benefits of the new wave of technological innovation from Silicon Valley to the rest of the United States, creating new jobs and real opportunity for all Americans. Today, we see the power of open-source AI in a huge range of applications, from Mozilla’s open-source Common Voice, which is helping to preserve the linguistic culture of millions worldwide, to Stanford’s Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging, which is working to expand what is already “the world’s largest free repository of AI-ready annotated medical imaging datasets.” Independent organizations like Partnership on AI have openly published tools to advance responsible AI governance.
We, like many others, think that AI is too important to be developed in secret. It must be built in the open, allowing everyone, not just big companies, to contribute to its progress. Open-source technology has proven time and again to be a net benefit for society: A recent Harvard Business School working paper found that open source software (OSS) is, “a global public good that plays a vital role in the economy and is foundational for most technology we use today,” estimating the supply-side value of widely-used open source software at over $4 billion while the demand-side value was estimated to be more than $8 trillion. A Columbia Business School report found “a clear correlation between countries with higher contributions to OSS and the number of new technology ventures founded in the following year.”
And the merits of openness stretch much further than software. Building in public and providing access creates accountability and allows for the wisdom of the crowd to help solve pressing societal issues. Take OpenFold, for example, which is a nonprofit research consortium promoting the development of free and open source software tools for biology and drug discovery. Likewise, OpenStreetMap has embraced open source principles to create real-time and open map data that enables disaster responders to reach those in need.
Rather than debate the nuances of open vs. closed models, the newly released NTIA report underscores the necessity of sustained research on AI’s capabilities and risks. This research is crucial to advance safety and accountability in all model development and deployment. Equally important, the report urges innovative policy ideas to invest in the infrastructure needed to advance AI for everyone.
If governments embrace open innovation and put the right tools, standards, and institutions in place for testing and accountability, companies and start-ups can use AI to drive innovation in all areas – to help solve unique problems and support many different communities. This will enable new voices and contributions to create a whole much greater than the sum of its parts.
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School shooting TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
DEC 16, 2024 – I know nothing about the latest school shooting in Madison but what I do know is that whenever they want to distract your attention from what they are doing – they send in the gun grabbers to murder innocent people or create a patsy and a narrative to do the same.
I have no doubt this is more of the same. EVIL EVIL EVIL. This shooting will hijack the news cycle for days and put fear in the hearts of parents.
Watch them come out over Christmas and call for Americans to hand over their g*ns to the Government to “keep us all safe.” Right.
Below is a link to a three-part series on how they have used school shootings all over the world to confiscate weapons from We the People. It’s worth your time as you watch this story unfold. They will do anything – even murder innocent children.
PRAY FOR THE CHILDREN AND THE FAMILIES THAT LOST THEIR LIVES AND HAVE BEEN SACRIFICED ON THE ALTAR OF BAAL AND MOLOCH.
CIA, Mind Control & MKUltra: Part One TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
OCTOBER 27, 2023
On October 25, 2023 a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine killed 18 people and injured 13. The alleged shooter, Robert Card, 40, was pictured with a “long gun.” The suspect was caught on camera (although the pictures look different from shot to shot) – went on the run – and the motive remains unclear. Details about his “
Populist Conservatism and Constitutional Order Kevin D. Roberts, President, The Heritage Foundation
OCTOBER 2024 | VOLUME 53, ISSUE 10
The following is adapted from a talk delivered in Christ Chapel at Hillsdale College on October 23, 2024, as part of the Drummond Lectures in Christ Chapel series.
The top-down, elitist brand of politics that has dominated the United States since the end of the Cold War—under Republican and Democratic administrations alike—has failed. Yes, we are materially richer than we were in 1991, and our largest corporations are more profitable. But we are militarily and strategically weaker, fiscally endangered, and spiritually enervated. As a result, public trust in the vaunted institutions that our elites control—political, scientific, journalistic, educational, religious—has evaporated. And populism—especially on the conservative Right—is on the rise.
Although I will focus on the U.S., this rise of populism is widespread. From Argentina to Italy to France to the United Kingdom to Hungary, there are similarities. The new populism tends to be economically and politically nationalistic. It tends to be culturally patriotic and socially conservative. It tends to sympathize with workers over corporations. It is also self-consciously, defiantly—often mockingly—anti-establishment.
It is not a coincidence that so many of the West’s populist leaders—Javier Milei, Jair Bolsonaro, Viktor Orbán, Giorgia Meloni, and Donald Trump—have, shall we say, colorful personalities. Their political swagger may threaten elite politicians almost as much as their policy agendas do, because it punctures the bubble of credentialed, institutional authority that insulates elite power from public scrutiny.
With few exceptions, the Left as we know it today has rejected populism out of hand, embracing instead Big Government, Big Business, Big Banks, Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Labor, Big Ag, Big Media, and Big Entertainment. For the most part, today’s Left is hard at work fortifying the power these institutions wield against the rigors of democratic accountability.
Thus the only hope for a sustainable, democratically legitimate populist reform movement today is on the Right. The question is whether the leaders of the movement can harness the highly negative energy from which the populism emerges and channel it toward a coherent, positive politics of national renewal and reform.
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To see what today’s populists are reacting against, think back to 1991. The end of the Cold War appeared to be a great victory for the Washington establishment—never mind that most leaders of that establishment opposed Reaganism, which was instrumental in bringing down the Soviet Union. Regardless, this victory earned Western institutions a high level of public trust unimaginable today. In November 1989, for instance, when the Berlin Wall fell, President George H.W. Bush’s public approval rating hit 70 percent and would climb to 80 and even 90 percent in subsequent years.
With the Cold War over, one would have expected a recalibration of American foreign and domestic policy. It should at least have been a time for a national debate about those topics. For four decades, we had strung tripwires for nuclear war around the world to contain a foe that suddenly no longer existed. Working families who had invested two generations of blood and treasure during what President John F. Kennedy called the “long, twilight struggle” were ready to focus on problems closer to home.
But the Washington establishment had other ideas. President Bush himself, in the lead-up to the first Gulf War, pledged allegiance to a “New World Order” that would be governed by the United Nations and policed, at its behest, by the U.S. Between that tin-ear approach and his backtracking on conservative economic policies, Bush squandered his popular support so badly that he suffered an embarrassing electoral defeat in 1992.
President Trump – Beware of HTS and the Moslem Brotherhood Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger
December 16, 2024
*The success of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) terrorists to topple the Assad regime is traumatizing all pro-US Arab regimes, which, for decades, have had the machetes of Iran’s Ayatollahs and the Moslem Brotherhood at their throats.
*Contrary to some Western policy makers, journalists and academics, the pro-US Arab leaders do not take HTS’ moderate statements at face value. They are aware of the fanatic, religious vision, which has guided the HTS, and are familiar with the Middle Eastern gap between the talk and the walk, and with the Islamic tactic of Taqiyya (dissimulation). Taqiyya was also employed by Bashar Assad upon assuming power in 2000, when his moderate talk led US legislators (e.g., Senator John Kerry), Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and NYT’s Tom Friedman to view him as a potentially peaceful leader. It was used by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1978/79, ahead of assuming power in Iran, convincing President Carter and the State Department that he would be “an Iranian edition of Ghandi…. preoccupied with tractors, not tanks.” The Houthis issued moderate pronouncements that led to their delisting from the list of terror organizations in 2021 by President Biden. Also, Arafat issued peaceful statements upon concluding the Oslo Accord, which won him the Nobel Prize for Peace, and led Tom Friedman to wonder: “Who’s Arafat? Is he Nelson Mandela or Willie Nelson?”). Etc.
*The vision of the HTS is not limited to Syria. It aims to topple all national Islamic regimes, and establish a universal Islamic entity, as prescribed by the precepts of the Moslem Brotherhood, which has pursued its goals through politics, education, social welfare and affiliates, splinters and offshoots that engage in terrorism.
*The initial strategy of HTS, as suggested by their name (al-Sham = the Levant) is to “liberate” the Levant, which was “Greater Syria” (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Cyprus and Turkey’s Hatay province), then the entire Middle East, the “Abode of Islam,” and finally the “Abode of the Infidel,” preferably via peaceful means, or militarily, if resisted by the “infidel.”
*The Moslem Brotherhood is inspired by the HTS’ success in Syria, to be replicated in additional Moslem countries. Therefore, the Muslim Brotherhood branches in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and other Moslem countries have congratulated HTS for achieving the first goal of the Sunni Islamic revolution, expecting a robust tailwind to bringing down additional national Moslem regimes.
*HTS considers the toppling of Jordan’s pro-US Hashemite regime as a top priority, as does a chief enemy of HTS, Iran’s Ayatollahs. Both have intensified subversion, terrorism and drug trafficking in Jordan, leveraging the presence – in Jordan – of 2 million refugees from Syria and Iraq, a solid operational foundation of the Moslem Brotherhood, the presence of Palestinian terror organizations, and the intra-Bedouin animosity.
*The HTS’ success in Syria is inspiring the Moslem Brotherhood in its attempts to topple the pro-US General Sisi regime in Egypt, which is the 1928 birth site of the Moslem Brotherhood. In 1949, the Moslem Brotherhood assassinated Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmoud Nuqrashi; in 1954, the Moslem Brotherhood failed in its attempt to murder Egyptian President Nasser; in 1981, the Moslem Brotherhood’s offshoot, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, murdered Egyptian President Sadat. The Islamic Jihad merged with Al Qaeda.
*Prof. Albert Hourani, a leading Middle East historian, Oxford University’s St. Anthony’s College, noted the following tenets of the Muslim Brotherhood (A History of the Arab Peoples, pp. 445-446): “A total rejection of all forms of society except the wholly Islamic one…. The true Islamic society…regarded the Quran as the source of all guidance for human life…. All other societies were societies of Jahiliyya (ignorance of religious truth), whether they were communist, capitalist, nationalist, [followers of] false religions, or claimed to be Muslim but did not obey the Sharia…. The leadership of Western man in the human world is coming to an end… The turn of Islam has come….Those who accepted [the Muslim Brotherhood] program would form a vanguard of dedicated fighters, using every means, including Jihad… The struggle should aim at creating a universal Muslim society…. The Western age is finished…. Only Islam offered hope to the world…. [The Muslim Brotherhood] were prepared for violence and martyrdom.”
*The Muslim Brotherhood, just like the HTS, have been very skillful in obfuscating the West through Taqiyya and a two-pronged operation: the religious, educational, social and political screensavers, as well as the operational (subversive and terroristic) modes. In fact, the Muslim Brotherhood poses the following proposition: Submission to Allah and the Koran, or else…!
*Before embracing the Muslim Brotherhood’s and the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s moderate talk, Western policy makers are advised to study the following observations by Sir John Jenkins, a top specialist on the Moslem Brotherhood and the Middle East, and former Executive Director of the British International Institute for Strategic Studies – Middle East branch:
“[The West] should resist the temptation to seek to understand the Muslim Brotherhood through our own cultural or epistemological [knowledge] categories…. [The Muslim Brotherhood] continues to threaten the constitutive basis of most contemporary Muslim majority states…. Some may still be tempted to hope that when a malign or otherwise unsatisfactory regime is overthrown the subsequent trajectory must be progressive. [Middle East] experience suggests the reverse…. Authoritarianism is not weakened in such circumstances: it recurs….
“[Hassan Al Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood] urged his followers to scorn life; claimed that ultimate martyrdom could only be attained through death in the service of the divine; articulated a doctrine of armed physical force…. The writings of Sayyid Qutb – its most significant and protean ideologue [who was executed in Egypt in 1966] – remain central to Brotherhood thinking everywhere and continue to be used to justify multiple forms of Islamist violence….”
“The Brotherhood… gives little space to tolerance, choice and individual freedoms…. no commitment to democratic choice…. It is constitutively antisemitic and homophobic….”
Everything in the Middle East Means the Opposite by Daniel Greenfield
The easy way to make sense of Syria, Gaza, Lebanon and Israel
December 16, 2024 at 4:00 am
- After saving Syria from Assad, who will save it from the saviors?
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is going on a tour to persuade the Turks and their Jihadis to establish an “inclusive” government in Syria. But inclusivity now means Sunni Jihadis, backed by Turkey, repressing and killing everyone else. This will be a fundamental liberating change from the old order, in which Shiite Jihadis, backed by Iran, repressed and killed everyone else.
- Turkey bombing and displacing Kurds in Syria is considered “inclusivity”, but Israel bombing Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists in Gaza and Lebanon is termed “genocide”.
- “Genocide” is another of those many words that have different meanings in the New Middle East Dictionary. Amnesty International has come under fire for changing the definition of “genocide” in order to be able to accuse Israel of it.
- War becomes genocide. But only in the case of Israel. Meanwhile, actual genocidal efforts by Hamas on October 7, 2023, and by Turkey in Syria to target ethnic groups, are redefined as “liberation”.
- Over 1 million tons of food have entered Gaza since October 7, 2023. That’s half a ton for every terrorist supporter. Half a ton of food for every man, woman and child is… “starvation.”
- The Arab Spring redefined Islamist takeovers as “democracy movements”.
- When Muslim Jihadis commit genocide, it becomes liberation. And when anyone fights back against them, it’s genocide.
- Redefinition makes everything in the Middle East factually opposite, to make it morally opposite.
Even as Islamic Jihadists are taking over Syria, ethnically cleansing Kurds and terrorizing Christians, the media is hailing the new “inclusive” regime which “liberated” Syria.
The regime is indeed inclusive if you consider bearded men with assault rifles to be the measure of inclusivity. And terrorizing minorities to be the exciting new diversity.
“This victory, my brothers, is a victory for the entire Islamic nation,” Abu Mohammad al-Jawlani, the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a former Al Qaeda and ISIS-allied group, declared in the Umayyad Mosque. The mosque is a symbol of the old Caliphate, and it echoed the speech given by his old friend, the former ISIS Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in Mosul’s Great Mosque of al-Nuri, declaring his own caliphate. But it will no doubt be a most inclusive caliphate.
As Jawlani had previously said:
“some people limit the issue of implementing the rule of the sharia to just imposing some of the Hudud punishments, chopping off hands, stoning whomever, whipping someone who drinks alcohol, and so on. But this is a very basic part of the very big concept of implementing the rule of the sharia.”
There’s a lot more to Sharia Islamic law than just chopping off hands, but you have to work on the basics of hand-chopping before going big.
Syria’s newly appointed Prime Minister Mohammad al-Bashir appeared in front of a white Jihadist flag with the Islamic declaration that rejects all other religions except Islam. Bashir’s credentials include a degree in Sharia Islamic law and membership in the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Syrian Salvation Government.” After saving Syria from Assad, who will save it from the saviors?
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Operation Drone Invasion, the DoD, and Doomsday DR. PETER AND GINGER BREGGIN
Something incredible is going on….
DEC 15, 2024
Something incredible is going on, not just in the world of drones gone wild, but in the minds of most Americans. Almost no one seems able to care enough to hide or stay at home, or to respond in any meaningful way to these bizarre threats to our security.[1] Nor do they feel overwhelmed by this latest seeming catastrophe. Have we all become too apathetic or numb to respond anymore?
In the beginning, the government denied the existence of the drone displays and incursions, some of which breached military bases and others of which appeared in Washington, DC. Then, on December 12, 2024, John Kirby, White House National Security Advisor, gave a dithering press conference about the mysterious drones. He said essentially nothing other than any security threat was “minimal.” He did tell us that President Biden would, if concerned, let the military know.
So President Biden allegedly wants to reassure us that he is in charge and we are safe, regardless of what we see in the sky. But the truth is that the President of the United States, even when Donald Trump was in office during his first term, does not tell the DoD what to do. Instead, the DoD tells the President what to do or simply acts without his permission. Later in the column, we will remind you that it turned out that the DoD, and not President Trump, was wholly in charge of Operation Warp Speed![2]
Here is what Trump had to say about the drones on TruthSocial on December 13, 2024:[3]
President Trump, we know that you, as the President-Elect, are receiving daily security briefings and we can see that you are unfazed by the drone displays. Please do not be taken in again by the Deep State as they hoodwinked you into pushing Operation Warp Speed on yourself and us.[4] Do not believe anything your daily briefings tell you about the drones or their purposes. Everyone in the U.S. Government must be treated as your enemy and ours until proven otherwise.
We believe we have nailed down two very specific purposes of the drone displays and the indifference shown by the government to any threat.
First, the power-driven DoD controls the drones. As an arm of the global predators,[5] the DoD wants more capacity to use its military forces on American soil for the purpose of controlling Americans and is playing helpless over the drones.
The DoD’s seeming helplessness in the face of the drones is a scheme to give them more control over domestic drones and hence more control over American citizens. The globalists need our nation more under the control of the military in order to crush America on its way to increasing its world governance. Right now, the DoD is pushing for new legislation to allow it to more closely monitor and to shoot down drones, which will give the military a greater foothold within the nation itself. Think of how 911 and the anthrax attack in DC were used to push forward the Patriot Act which became a huge weapon against freedom in America.
Second, DoD is conducting a psychological operation or PSYOP to break America’s resistance to manipulation and to obscure what is really going on in the world.
Yep – Still the Smartest Guy in the Room By Joan Swirsky
December 15, 2024
How did President-elect Trump become a billionaire?
How did Donald J. Trump, billionaire businessman, bestselling author, mega-successful TV star, become President of the United States in 2016?
How did President-elect Trump defy, confront, and prevail over a malevolent Deep State cabal, an American government steeped in collusion, a craven leftwing media, and a mountain of lawfare attacks to win––overwhelmingly––his second bid for POTUS?
I always called him the smartest guy in the room. And I suspect that most people would answer those questions––either proudly or grudgingly––by agreeing that his intelligence and also his drive, instincts, charisma, and sheer bravado are the magic ingredients of his blazing success.
BUT…UH-OH!
So, why are some sophisticated, knowledgeable and longtime devoted Trump supporters, including seasoned conservative journalists, now suspecting that Mr. Trump is either:
- A closet Democrat.
- Controlled Opposition, essentially playing on the same team as his globalist opponents.
- A guy who values loyalty to a fault… overlooking clear conflicts-of-interest and potential moles and saboteurs in his midst.
Why these questions? Because of the great number of people he has appointed to high positions in his upcoming administration who have longtime leftist connections, have themselves played for the other team, and have eye-raising suspicions about their backgrounds or associations.
Journalist Kelleigh Nelson, a rock-ribbed conservative, questions most of President-Elect Trump’s appointee choices, starting with Susie Wiles as Chief of Staff.
Wiles, Nelson says, funded Trump antagonists Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush and John McCain; was co-chair at Mercury LLC, a global leader that promotes the Deep State narrative; has spoken openly about being in favor of open borders, and was a source of information for Jack Smith’s special counsel investigation of Donald Trump’s role in the January 6th “insurrection” and his alleged mishandling of government records.
In a follow-up article, Nelson documents highly incriminating information about Pres. Trump’s co-appointee for DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) Vivek Ramaswamy, who went to Yale Law School on a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, as well as Marco Rubio for Secretary of State, Doug Burgum (Governor of North Dakota) for Interior Secretary, Kristi Noem (Governor of South Dakota) for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence, and Congressman Michael Waltz for National Security Adviser, among others.
And yet in a third article, Nelson clearly objects to the nomination of Pam Bondi for Attorney General, and Scott Bessent for Treasury Secretary… a guy who was a partner at Soros Fund Management for decades, as well as Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for Surgeon General, a woman involved in a massive Medicare scandal, who described the COVID vaccine as a “gift from God” and who also served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Advisory Council.
In addition, Nelson questions the appointment of Dr. Mehmet Oz, who holds dual citizenship in Turkey and the United States, to be the administrator for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Nelson calls him a “Big Pharma shill” and adds: “Many of Trump’s choices are questionable, but Dr. Oz takes the cake.”
Clearly, writer Janet Levy agrees, adding her own shocking laundry list of objections to the Oz appointment, including conflicts of interest and this damning quote from the American Medical Association’s Journal of Ethics, which called Dr. Oz “a dangerous rogue unfit for the office of America’s doctor.”
Then there is journalist Yudi Sherman, who practically eviscerates the President-elect’s choice for Surgeon General, emergency room physician Dr. Janette Nesheiwat.
And that is not to omit journalist Cherie Zaslawsky who asks: Who will vet the vetters?
“Ultimately,” Zaslawsky writes, “it may hardly matter whether the spate of questionable appointments President-elect Trump has recently announced is due to Wiles and/or other members of Trump’s retinue attempting to undermine the MAGA agenda or is largely the result of putting a number of well-meaning novices in the position of suggesting candidates they are ill-equipped to properly vet. Yet some choices reek of intentional trickery.”
WHEELING & DEALING
It is probably true that businessman Trump’s decades in dealing with the cut-throat unions in New York City and all the Dons who run the Mafia in New York and throughout the country did not prepare him for the malevolent treachery of the liberal Democrats in Washington, D.C., but he does strike me as a “lessons-learned” kind of guy.
Meanwhile, the President-elect, with his signature ebullience, has de facto begun his tenure, jet-setting to Paris to meet with President Macron to visit the refurbished Notre Dame Cathedral and also to receive a floridly flirtatious look from First Lady Jill Biden…I bet she voted for him!
And there he is again, speaking on the phone to Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, about the border; hosting the feckless Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, at Mar-a-Lago; threatening the mass-murdering terrorists from Hamas to free the hostages before he is sworn in or there will be “Hell to Pay” and describing the tariffs and border wall and end-of-war actions he’ll be taking in about 36 days.
That includes not only the raging wars in Israel and Ukraine, but also Yemen, Darfur, and Myanmar, all of which did not exist four years ago when he was president!
IMAGINATION TIME
Can’t you just picture the conversation he had with Joe Biden on his visit to the White House a few weeks ago
DJT: Joe, you’ve been talking about a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas/Hezbollah for about a year, but no luck there.
JRB: Well, what are you gonna do…. you’re dealing with Arabs. You’re dealing with Jews.
DJT: Listen, Joe, I can talk to Bibi. We get along. I can get that ceasefire, and you’ll get all the credit. How does that sound?
JRB: Sounds great! Ya think it will work?
DJT: It’ll work. And it will give me leverage with Putin when I tell him to stop that crazy war…I’ll give him a slice of Ukraine and he’ll be happy.
Well, whadaya know? A day later, or was it two or three? Poof!…a ceasefire is announced in the Middle East!
STILL THE SMARTEST GUY IN THE ROOM
My take is that President-elect Trump has attracted all these potential saboteurs––many of them lifelong Democrats like the formidable RFK Jr.––to his side, his thinking, his vision, his mission, his goal, which is simply to Make America Great Again!
Not one of these appointees has forgotten Mr. Trump’s most prominent and visible role before he became POTUS in 2016, which was as the star of the wildly successful, long-running TV show, “The Apprentice,” or his world-famous pronouncement: YOU’RE FIRED!
His appointees are well aware of that non-negotiable dictate and know to follow his vision or receive that order, while millions of leftists worldwide are now on anti-depressants, anti-anxiety medication, in long-term therapy, or on suicide watch.
As they say, all good.
Joan Swirsky is a New York based journalist and author. Her website is www.joanswirsky.com and her e-mail is joanswirsky@gmail.com.
Israel’s Elite Open ANOTHER Front Against Israel’s Voters | Caroline Glick In-Focus [52:24]
December 15, 2024 JNS TV – The Caroline Glick Show
“If you can’t beat them, sue them…” or so seems the modus operandi of Israel’s legal elite.
Just as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the people of Israel begin to see light at the end of this long war, Israel’s permanent class has declared lawfare to accomplish what they can’t do at the ballot box.
Radiation-Detecting Drones over New York and New Jersey? JOHN LEAKE
U.S. Department of Energy press release in 2023 offers possible clue about identity of flying objects in the sky over New Jersey and New York
DEC 15, 2024 – It strikes me as extremely unlikely that the DoJ, FBI, CIA, and FAA do not know the identity of the flying objects spotted over New Jersey and New York City. According to multiple news reports, the FBI claims to be investigating these sightings, with an official acknowledging public concern while suggesting there might be a “slight overreaction.” The Pentagon has repeatedly stated the drones are not of foreign origin.
I believe it is a reasonable assumption that at least some members of these federal agencies know the identity of these flying objects, but are, for some reason, unwilling to disclose it to the public.
An October, 31 2023 press release issued by the U.S. Department of Energy—Radiation-Detecting Drone Soars Over Portsmouth for Collaborative Testing—may yield a clue about the flying objects spotted over New York and New Jersey.
Is the Department of Energy or some other federal agency using the drones to try to detect radiation? To phrase the question in a more alarming way: has some federal agency received intelligence that a radiation emitting device has been planted somewhere in the greater New York City area?
On a highly personal note: For some time now I have worried that at least some of the puppet masters now running the Biden administration are extremely nefarious actors who may be tempted to stage a false flag attack in the United States in order to blame it on Russia so that the U.S. government will declare full scale war on Russia before Trump is sworn in on January 20, 2025. This could also serve as a pretense for declaring martial law before Trump is sworn in.
Though I am certainly NOT predicting it, I would not be surprised if a so-called “dirty bomb” combining conventional explosives with radioactive material is detonated in the greater New York area, with Russia (or Iran) blamed for it.
As All Else Fails: PSYOP-UFO [VIDEOS] 2ND SMARTEST GUY IN THE WORLD
DEC 15, 2024
Nazi war criminal and former NASA director Wernher von Braun on several occasions admitted, “we had help (from extraterrestrials).” At the end of his life he also warned that a fake alien invasion hoax would at some point be used by governments as a psyop in a bid to further control their populations.
…when PSYOP-SCAMDEMIC, PSYOP-WW3 and PSYOP-CLIMATE-CHANGE all fail to sufficiently induce mass societal fear, then the final NWO globopedo fraud will be activated in PSYOP-UFO, thus ensuring that the government can yet again provide the “solution” (think: “free” “vaccines”) to the “problem” they are themselves perpetrating as the public overreacts, or so that is the hope for these technocratic Great Reset sociopaths.
Given all of the recent drone sightings across America, with the X social media platform instructed to trend hashtag UFO, it seems that this latest government fraud is now in play.
It is also important to remember that way back in 1952 this repurposed clandestine aerospace technology was flown around the White House, as the Air Force blamed the weather (it’s always the weather’s fault); the actual “UFO” footage:
Let us revisit what Nazi war criminal and former NASA director Wernher von Braun said about PSYOP-UFO:
…the last card is the alien card. We’re going to have to build space based weapons against aliens.’ And all of it, he said, is a lie.
Speaking of mendacity and utter fraud, here is PSYOP-MUSK’s deliberately irreverent X post:
The Fall of Syria: What You Need to Know by James Corbett
DEC 15, 2024 THE CORBETT REPORT
In case you haven’t heard yet, the world has just changed irrevocably.
After 13 years of battle, the alphabet soup of foreign-financed, foreign-armed, foreign-trained terrorist insurgents in Syria have finally accomplished their goal: the overthrow of Assad.
There are many questions to ponder here. What happened? How did a years-long military stalemate turn into a government-toppling checkmate seemingly overnight? And what does this mean for the future of Syria? For the future of the Middle East? For the future of the world?
Let’s find out.
The Story So Far . . .
If you only recently started turning off the nightly news and tuning in to reality, chances are you never really knew what this whole Syria kerfuffle was about or why it’s important. And, if that is the case, you have some catching up to do.
Luckily, I’ve been covering the Syrian debacle since it kicked off in 2011, and I have literally dozens of hours of media on the topic in the archives. If you want the one-hour summary, though, I invite you to check out my recent podcast on the subject, A Brief History of the War on Syria.
Dr Mordechai Kedar on RT about Syria, December 9 2024 [10:24] Dr. Mordechai Kedar – English
[Ed.: But Syriously!]
Droning On TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
DEC 14, 2024
I don’t know what’s going on with the drones and I haven’t spent much time on it. Here’s a few views and they all point to the theory the Obama-Biden-Kamala administration is orchestrating this or allowing this to happen to mess with our heads and the peaceful transfer of power. That’s what they do.
GLOVES OFF! Israel Makes Boldest Moves Since 1967 [50:19]
27,669 views • Premiered Dec 12, 2024 • The Quad
The past 14 months have seen a total realignment of powers in the Middle East, and the past week has been no different. Following the upheaval in Syria over the weekend, Israel quickly moved to destroy former President Bashar Assad’s entire arsenal out of fear of it falling into the wrong hands.
JNS senior contributing editor Ruthie Blum—a former adviser at the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office—joins “The Quad” for a heated discussion on everything that’s been going on inside the Jewish state and on its borders.
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Democrat Strategy to Entrench Power in Trump’s Administration @AMUSE
DEC 13, 2024 – The Biden administration is actively seeking to sabotage Trump’s second term by filling every federal agency with Democrat activists. Known as “burrowing,” it involves turning political appointees into permanent civil service employees just before an administration leaves office. Concerns about burrowing first gained widespread attention during the Reagan administration, as outgoing Carter officials sought to solidify their influence by converting political appointees into career roles. This practice has since become a recurring issue during transitions between administrations, particularly when power shifts between parties. This maneuver allows partisan operatives to secure long-term positions within agencies, where they wield significant influence shielded by civil service protections. While the media often brushes this off as routine staffing, the reality is a deliberate attempt to embed ideological allies deep inside the government, ready to resist future policy changes.
To borrow a phrase from the late William F. Buckley, we must “stand athwart history yelling stop” before this administrative rot solidifies any further. Reports suggest that Joe Biden, whose presidency has become a caricature of cognitive decline, has already nudged over a thousand political operatives into career roles within federal agencies—with almost none being properly reported as a result of a glaring loophole. Some expect that number to eclipse 3,000 by the end of his term—a grim milestone even Obama, the patron saint of bureaucratic entrenchment, failed to reach.
The Strategic Design of Burrowing
This isn’t mere happenstance; it’s a deliberate siege of the federal bureaucracy. Career positions were designed to insulate governance from the whiplash of elections, preserving nonpartisan stability and continuity. Yet the Democrats, ever adept at exploiting these safeguards, have turned the system into a weapon. By embedding loyal operatives into “neutral” roles, they create a policy firewall impervious to political change. This will be the most formidable challenge for Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team, led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Musk, a proven innovator with experience dismantling bureaucratic inefficiencies in industries like space exploration and electric vehicles, brings a disruptive mindset essential for tackling government bloat. Ramaswamy, a sharp entrepreneur and vocal critic of the administrative state, combines policy knowledge with a relentless commitment to reform. Together, they represent the outside-the-box leadership needed to confront a federal workforce entrenched with partisan loyalists. The burrowers will smile and nod as the DOGE team introduces reforms, then quietly deploy every bureaucratic and administrative trick in the book to stymie their efforts. From endless procedural delays to obscure rule interpretations, the burrowers will exploit the machinery of government itself to obstruct change. Biden’s administration clearly understands what Trump learned too late in 2016—burrowers aren’t passive placeholders. They’re partisan operatives who wield their positions to resist, obstruct, and sabotage any incoming conservative reform.
