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07-17-26 savo
Fun Facts About Our Greatest Ally, Israel!
- in 1947 militant Zionist group once mailed a letter bomb to President Truman
- in 1948 Israeli forces poisoned wells in Gaza and Palestinian villages
- in 1954 Israel recruited agents to bomb cinemas, libraries, and Western sites in Egypt, aiming to blame Egyptians and the Muslim Brotherhood
- the CIA requested removal of all mentions of Israel from JFK assassination files. The full unredacted documents released in 2025 confirmed it
- over 93% of US Congress members receive major donations from Pro-Israel PACs. Many sitting members even list them as their top contributor
- pro-Israel donors donated over $230 million (largest single contribution in history) to Donald Trump, including $100M+ from Miriam Adelson
- in 1967 Israeli jets and torpedo boats deliberately struck the USS Liberty, an unarmed US Navy ship, in international waters, killing 34 Americans and wounding 171
- in the 1960's, hundreds of pounds of highly enriched uranium vanished from a Pennsylvania plant and was diverted to Israel’s Dimona reactor via Zionist-linked insiders
- Israel used Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan (with Netanyahu at the front company) to smuggle 800 nuclear bomb triggers out of the US. The operation was called "Project Pinto"
- former Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, met with Jeffrey Epstein between 20 - 60+ times
- Jeffrey Epstein admitted ties to the Rothschild family, including close business dealings and a $25M consulting agreement with Ariane de Rothschild and Edmond de Rothschild bank
- current Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, pushed false claims about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction to justify war with Iraq
- Israel is the only nuclear-armed nation that never signed the NPT and has never allowed a single IAEA inspection of Dimona
- Pro-Israel groups spend millions on ads to defeat US politicians who criticize Israel (example: the attacks against Rep. Thomas Massie)
- Israel has received over $300 billion in American foreign aid. This is more than any country in history and with virtually no conditions on Israel's end
- According to the US State Department website, the recent Iran war was launched at Israel’s request
- in 1963 President Kennedy demanded US inspections of Israel’s secret Dimona nuclear reactor and was assassinated shortly afterward
- Israel’s official policy threatens to launch nuclear strikes across the Middle East (and potentially beyond) if the state faces an existential threat. This protocol is called the "Samson Option"
- a former colleague once publicly stated he witnessed Ben Shapiro receiving direct “tasking” from Israeli intelligence linked to Netanyahu and called for him to register under FARA as a foreign agent
- in 2024, the Maldives banned Israeli citizens in solidarity with Palestine; the country immediately began receiving threats of terrorist attacks afterwards
- in 1940 and 1941, a militant Zionist group twice tried to form a pact with Nazi Germany against the British, proposing a Jewish state based on nationalist and totalitarian principles linked to the German Reich
- in 1946, Zionist terrorists bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people
- in 1985, American Jewish naval analyst Jonathan Pollard was caught spying for Israel, passing over 800 classified documents before being sentenced to life in prison
- on 9/11, five Israeli agents were arrested after being filmed dancing and celebrating while watching the Twin Towers burn. When questioned, they explained that they were there to "document the event". They were later deported amid suspicions of foreknowledge
- after 9/11, our “greatest ally” sent exactly zero troops to fight alongside Americans in Afghanistan or Iraq
- on October 7th, the IDF reportedly activated the Hannibal Directive, which calls for using overwhelming force to prevent captures even if it means killing their own soldiers and civilians
https://x.com/WayneWaldropW/status/2077775336990024085 |
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07-17-26 victor
Trump immediately fires the new court-appointed top prosecutor in Seattle
SEATTLE (AP) — President Donald Trump fired the new top U.S. prosecutor in Seattle on Wednesday less than an hour after the attorney was unanimously appointed by the federal judges in the district, highlighting tensions between the courts and the president over the powerful positions.
Roger Rogoff, a former judge and veteran state and federal prosecutor, was sworn in as U.S. attorney before 8 a.m. at the U.S. courthouse in downtown Seattle. In a phone interview, he said he then went to the U.S. Attorney's Office and asked to meet with Charles Neil Floyd, whose 120-day interim term in the position ended in February.
As he waited in a lobby, Rogoff said, he received an email from the Trump administration informing him he'd been removed. He is consulting with other lawyers about suing over his firing, he said.
Presidents normally appoint U.S. attorneys, the top federal prosecutor in each judicial district. The positions require Senate confirmation, except in temporary appointments. When temporary appointments expire before a nominee is confirmed, the judges in a judicial district can name a U.S. attorney.
But under Trump, the Justice Department has sought to leave unconfirmed prosecutors in their positions indefinitely, often through novel personnel maneuvers.
"District court judges can appoint a temporary U.S. Attorney, and POTUS can fire them," Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a social media post Wednesday. He added that the judges who appointed Rogoff "abandoned the time-honored process of consultation with the administration so that the selected U.S. Attorney is qualified to serve in the administration."
Trump named Floyd, who previously served as an immigration judge, interim U.S. attorney last October but never forwarded his nomination to the Senate. When Floyd's time as interim U.S. attorney expired, Trump simply shifted his title, a tactic the administration has also tried in other federal judicial districts: It named him first assistant U.S. attorney, while leaving the top post empty.
In May, a U.S. appeals court panel expressed skepticism that the maneuver was legal. The federal judges in the city decided to take applications for the position, and it appointed a bipartisan panel to review the applications.
On Wednesday morning the court — comprising 17 active and senior judges appointed by five presidents — issued its unanimous order naming Rogoff the U.S. attorney for western Washington.
Democratic Washington U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, who had opposed Floyd for the U.S. attorney job, blasted Rogoff's quick firing.
"Throughout his career, he has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to public service, and he was appointed legally by the federal judges in the Western District of Washington," the senator said in a written statement. "This administration doesn't want to deal with advice and consent—they just want to install cronies to carry out a corrupt political agenda."
In December, Alina Habbaresigned as the top federal prosecutor for New Jersey after an appeals court said she had been serving in the post unlawfully.
Lindsey Halligan, who pursued indictments against a pair of Trump's adversaries, left her position as an acting U.S. attorney in Virginia after a judge concluded her appointment was unlawful and that indictments she brought against James and former FBI Director James Comey must be dismissed.
The judges there named James Hundley, who had handled criminal and civil cases for more than 30 years, but the administration fired him. It also fired a court-appointed U.S. attorney in northern New York.
Rogoff, who spent 20 years as a state prosecutor and six as a federal prosecutor before becoming a state judge, said he knew the administration might fire him immediately. But he said he had no qualms about the potential conflict he was walking into. Being U.S. attorney is "the best job there is" for a prosecutor, he said.
"I'm really proud of my career," Rogoff said. "The fact that the judges of this district — most of whom I've spent my career appearing in front of, or trying cases against, or working with — believed that I was the right person to do this work is just really humbling and amazing."
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07-17-26 victor
Kuwait’s Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy says one of its electricity generation and water desalination plants was targeted by Iran in the latest attack, resulting in fire and damage to the site.
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07-17-26 victor
The Hormuz Letter
BREAKING: Iran calculated $9 billion in profits from market manipulation by "individuals close to Trump," mainly Kushner and Witkoff, and formally requested $4.5 billion of that sum be allocated to Iran through intermediaries, adding that "the exchanged texts will ultimately become part of the historical record," a senior Iranian official tells Drop Site.
Iran sent a private message to Vance during the Switzerland talks warning that Kushner and Witkoff were "abusing" the negotiations, "more interested in exploiting insider knowledge to profit in financial markets than reaching a deal."
Iran also expressed concern about repeated leaks from Kushner to Netanyahu, since Witkoff and Kushner “talk almost every day to Netanyahu” and the head of Mossad. |
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07-17-26 victor
so..
dt has been unable to get nato, or any country, to attack iran..
no fees to transit.
europe has managed to stay out of this, so far.
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Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency is reporting on comments from the Hormozgan Province Governorate, saying that US air strikes have hit five bridges in the southern Hormozgan province.
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07-17-26 pillz
What Bloomberg Strategists Say...
“Chip-stock price action has not been terribly encouraging. This magnitude of decline is likely to herald more selling pressure from levered ETFs, even though the AUM of products like SOXL is considerably lower than it was a few weeks ago.” |
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07-17-26 carib
| https://www.abc.es/internacional/eeuu-ultima-plan-multimillonario-ayuda-elecciones-venezuela-20260715015509-nt.html |
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07-16-26 savo
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07-16-26 carib
| BTW: any comment on the ABC article? |
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07-16-26 carib
| Savo: I bought GLD @1.300$ per ounce, not as a "speculative move" so I have plenty patience. But I should have sold @5.400$ per ounce, and maybe buy back more @4.000... |
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07-16-26 savo
carib... that must be the case... but remember that gold moves spasmodically ...brutal sell offs followed rallies.
There is also a political element... Trump could not go to war and have gold spiraling to 20k... so the FED must have intervened and it is costless to do in the paper market.
In any case all that is happening right now is bullish for gold. patience required.
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07-16-26 carib
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07-16-26 carib
Savo: what about the simple explanation that some investors in gold merely took out a part of the profits they were sitting on?
Gold has no yield, but only a potential future gin in terms of fiat currencies or income producing real assets.. |
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07-16-26 savo
carib.. i do not understand why you concoct so much to find a reasonable wealth tax...
a) anything bipartisan is by definition bad... lowest common denominator...
b) QE and Fed set interest rates benefit the few that can access cheap capital and make the majority that ends up holding the inflation bag more poor creating the need for the State to help them.
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07-16-26 savo
bad news for the evil psychopath
El Gobierno de Estados Unidos expresó este jueves su respaldo al anuncio realizado por la Asamblea Nacional de 2015, presidida por Dinorah Figuera, y el Gobierno interino de Venezuela sobre la puesta en marcha de una agenda conjunta que comenzará el próximo 1 de agosto, con el objetivo de avanzar en la estabilidad, la democracia y la recuperación nacional del país.
A través de un comunicado oficial, Washington calificó la iniciativa como «un importante paso adelante» dentro del proceso de reconciliación política venezolana y destacó que esta da continuidad al encuentro sostenido el pasado 18 de junio entre representantes de ambas instancias.
https://albertonews.com/principales/ee-uu-respalda-la-agenda-conjunta-de-la-an-de-2015-y-el-gobierno-interino-para-la-transicion-democratica-en-venezuela/ |
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07-16-26 savo
Spot gold fell 1.8% to $3,987.38 an ounce
Devastating.....
BREAKING: The largest US gold-backed ETF, $GLD, has recorded -$14.4 billion in outflows since March 1st.
This is 50% more than the -$9.6 billion in outflows seen across all Bitcoin ETFs since the October peak.
In March alone, investors withdrew -$8.5 billion from $GLD, the largest monthly withdrawal on record.
This was followed by -$1.7 billion in April, -$872 million in May, and -$3.2 billion in June.
Meanwhile, outflows have eased in July, with withdrawals tracking at -$46 million month-to-date.
Is the gold market setting up for a comeback?
https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2077751610126512490 |
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07-16-26 carib
Remove the malign and pernicious effects of social media, IMHO.. and the natural split of the electorate would sill be around 2/3 holding moderate views, and 1/3 extreme views of both kinds.
But we live with distorted public opinion induced feelings.
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07-16-26 carib
| PS: obviously, 85% Dem support is likely to mean 55% overall support: i.e. a majority support. |
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07-16-26 carib
Panas: Politics based on fear and hatred for the opposing side normally produce very bad outcomes.
What matters concerning a specific new law, is not if one side strongly supports it or opposes it.. but rather if the law is likely or not to be adopted, what are the consequences, and what comes next.
The proposed California "billionaire tax" is IMHO bad essentially for three reasons:
1) it's unlikely to be a "one off, but more likely to be a first step;
2) it is easily avoidable, bu moving to the opposite side of Lake Tahoe, or to Austin or Miami;
3) it targets "billionaires" but can be easily be expanded later on to "millionaires".
The reasonable approach, IMHO, is to avoid state level additional taxes, to set constitutional limits to wealth taxes at federal level.. and to introduce very low rate wealth taxes exclusively to compensate parallel reductions in income taxes, with a neutral revenue balance. All the above politically implies an unlikely bipartisan agreement, and is thus going to remain wishful thinking.
The economic and financial case for a form of wealth tax to replace in part income taxes is very easy to make:
if I live in California and my salary or income increases by 1 million dollars, over half of that amount goes to federal and local authorities, but if the value of my company or my investment portfolio goes up by 10 million dollars, and I do not sell, but borrow 1 million dollar against it, my net cost is likely to be zero, and my life-quality benefits will be the double of the fellow who get just 1/10 richer.
That is patently unfair, and a reasonable reform would be an improvement, IMHO, provided the objective is NOT increased total taxation, but rather a fairer distribution of the tax burden, with significant efforts to increase the quality of public spending (meaning doing more with less cost).
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07-16-26 panasonic
| Carib, according to Regan support by democrats in 85%, so when you add republicans and agnostics probably total support falls to 55%? |
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07-16-26 carib
Panas: according to the FT the California billionaire tax proposal on the ballot has 55% voter support. But it might be mooted by a concurrent proposal on the same ballot exempting personal savings from taxation. In case both pass the one with most favourable votes prevails on the other.
IMHO california taxes are too high, not too low.
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07-16-26 pillz
| Spot gold fell 1.8% to $3,987.38 an ounce |
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07-16-26 savo
so.. what is it? The fox news sounds like the typical MCM operation.
El presidente estadounidense calificó como positiva la relación actual con las autoridades venezolanas y destacó el trabajo conjunto entre ambos gobiernos.
“La gente de Venezuela, el liderazgo ha sido fantástico, y estamos trabajando con ellos”, dijo Trump, al señalar que existe una “gran relación con el liderazgo” y que ambos países han trabajado “muy de cerca”.
https://albertonews.com/principales/trump-afirma-que-petroleras-estadounidenses-estan-haciendo-fortuna-en-venezuela-y-elogia-al-liderazgo-venezolano/ |
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07-16-26 savo
and his war crimes
for which he is protected by? |
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07-16-26 panasonic
Vic, my pessimism on who controls the Dems party remains intact.
You should check Dave Regan, President of SEIU-UNW, he is the one proposing wealth tax.
According to data that Regan handles, Dems party is not fractured, 85% of his party supports his proposal. |
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07-16-26 victor
More than 100 House Democrats voted to block billions of dollars in military aid to Israel — an ultimately unsuccessful effort that highlighted the growing division in their party on the issue.
On Wednesday 103 Democrats voted in support of an amendment to block aid that had been proposed by GOP Rep. Thomas Massie, a persistent critic of President Donald Trump who has been skeptical of US support for Israel. One Republican also signed on. But the measure ultimately failed 104-314. 98 Democrats voted against it and 10 voted present, meaning they did not weigh in on the issue.
Even the top three lawmakers in House Democratic leadership split on the issue. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar voted against it, while House Minority Whip Katherine Clark voted for it.
Progressive Democrats celebrated the seismic shift in their party where, for the first time, the majority of House Democrats voted to block billions in military aid to Israel. Two years ago, only 37 Democrats voted to block aid to Israel when presented with a similar vote.
“Think about this just for a moment. Starting today, a majority of Democrats in this building refused to vote to send billions of dollars in weapons to the Israeli military,” Democratic Rep. Greg Casar, the leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said following the vote. “That sends a strong message to Netanyahu that the days are over of an unaccountable blank check to his wars and his war crimes, at least from the Democratic Party”
He added: “Nothing will be the same on this issue ever again I think after this vote.” |
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